Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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flics, and is a good hitter. Beansie Hall and Jazukawiz have improved greatly since last year and are going good. Corcoran, Sullivan, Mullen, Grant, Drugan and Burns are doing good work and will help win many games. Drugan and Burns are Sophomores and should be heard from in the future. It looks like a good season for the team with the championship of the Mystic Valley League in sight. Although we expect a hard fight, wc feel sure that we have a team just as good as the best in the league and by hard work we can bring the cup to Wakefield High. Much credit is due Mr. Dower for his ceaseless and untiring work for the boys. His knowledge of human nature enables him to get the best work possible from the men, and the team is with him to give all they have in them to win for Coach Dower and Wakefield High. (Signed) CAPT. MAEONEY. Capt. Maroney at 3rd base, is a hard work- ing phiyer, and the team is doing well under his leadership. He is a very good catcher, but he was changed in order to balance the infield. His presence on the field adds more confidence to the players, and their work is naturallj ' of a high order. A good player, a good sport, a good fellow — we wish we had more like Johnny. W. J. I. CROSS COUNTRY The following clipping was taken from the Wakefield Daily Item and tliis gives an ex- cellent review of the Cross-Country Season: The W. H. S. harriers were awarded the New England Interscholastic Championship by tlie Harvard Athletic Association. There was no Harvard Interscholastic meet this year and for this reason the championship was awarded according to the total number of points scored by the various teams and in accordance with the reputation of the col- lege teams they ran against. The Wake- field boys scored 115 points against their op- ponents ' 112, and they ran against Harvard and New Hampshire State Colleges. The championship was also awarded to Wakefield because of the records they made. The local team ran two colleges and two academies with the following results: W. H. S. 29 — Worcester Academy, 26; time, 19 min., 9 2-5 seconds; distance 3 1-2 miles. W. H. S., 18— St. John ' s Prep, 40; time, 20 min., 3 2-5 seconds; distance, 4 miles. W. H. S., 30— Harvard College, 25; time, 16 min., 1 4-5 seconds; distance, 3 miles. W. H. S., 38— New Hampshire State Col- lege, 21; time, 22 min., 5 4-5 seconds; dis- tance, 4 miles. None of these meets were run over the lo- cal course. Jazukawiz established a new rec- ord at Worcester; Patterson and Jazukawiz ran a tie race, establishing a new record at Dan vers; and Patterson smashed the record over tlie Belmont course. The team did remarkably well, considering that they were without a professional coach. Tliomas Jazukawiz, who was captain and man- ager, did all of the coaching. THE TRACK TEAM The Wakefield High School Track Team participated in sis dual meets the past sea- son with the following schools: Lowell, Mai- den, Medford, Brookline, St. Johns, Boston College. We were also represented in the B. A. A. games. Greater Boston Schoolboy meet. We succeeded in winning two of our dr.al meets, one with Lowell, the other with St. Johns. We were defeated by Medford by a large score, but considering they are the State champions and we ran them on their own track, we did fairly well against them, the score being 51 to 15. We also were de- feated by Maiden, a large score was piled up against us, but as in Medford we were running on a bowl shape track and our men cannot seem to run on this kind of track. Another great handicap was that we had to run all the races by time trials. The track would only accommodate two men at a time. Wc cliallenged Maiden to run us again on our track, but they would not accept the challenge. We were also defeated by Brook- line by a score of 32 to 26. This was consid- ered one of the best meets of the year at the Armory as the Wakefield and Brookline men seemed to work well together. The meet was in doubt until the last race. In our next meet with Boston College we had a stiff opponent. We were defeated by our rivals. The largest crowd that had ever turned out to a track meet in the Armory was present that night. There was quite a lot of arguing that marred the meet, but the people certainly saw a fine exhibition of run- ning given by Cavanaugh of B. C. H. When he was running, our men did not have a, 17