Anson Academy - Anchor Yearbook (North Anson, ME)

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THE ANCHOR 15 WVhenever I go gunning, It's William liufus that I shoot. And when I get n dollar, It's like the Jewish taxes loot. If I go out to play foot ball, King Edward kicks :1 goal: I can not tell which Edwnrcl 'tis- I c:ln't to save my soul. Then there's the House of Commons, The Lords and Clergy too, The Pope and dean' old Henry Sth, 0 .K 'u O Vi'hose wives were none too few. Next comes Mary. bloody Mary: Uh! the shivers up my back! I feel like grabbing up my book And hitting her one good crack. Now friends, l could go on and on. And never stop I guess: A I think from what I've said you'll learn English Histm'y's a mess. Arthur W. Andrews. '19 1 . NN Athletics Oi' Anson Academy-Girls The conditions had been such that the school took very little interest in Athletics until the month of Feb- ruary. We were delayed a long time for the lack of nets for the sides of the hall. The nets were kindly presented to the school by the Hon. F. W. Bunker during the month of January. Then Mr. Williams en- deavored to secure the Carrabassett Hall at a reasonable price. This be- ing done the school provided for two basket ball teams, the boys' and the girls'. The number out to practice has been very large and we have practiced twice a week. Along with the basket ball we have been having physical training in the hall. The first game played by the girls was between the Blues and the Reds, both of A. A. Then the man- ager, Miss Norma Berry, scheduled a game with Skowhegan H. S. second team, to be played at North Anson, Feb. 14. This being the first real game of the season, Skowhegan won. The score was seven to six. The line- up was as follows: Bernice Bailey R. F. Eleanor Mitchell L. F. Norma Berry C. Alice McLean S. C. Mabel Clark L. G. Ethel Smith R. G. On the evening of Feb. 21 the sec- ond team of Watenville H: S. came to North Anson. This ended in a vict- ory for us. The score was 21 to 14. This game called dnt a much greater number of spectators than the other games had. Ouri next game was

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16 THE ANCHOR played at Skowhegan. The score was seven to six in favor of A. A. The date was Feb. 28. We now took a trip to Solon. We played a hard game the score being eighteen to seven in favor of North Anson Academy. Our last game for the season was played March 521. The Madison High School- girls came to North Anson and as they had not played for three years we beat them. The score was thirty-four to one in favor of A. A. tAs we could have .the hall only during the month of March our basket ball games are over, so lar as we know. We were in hopes to play the return game with Waterville H. S. but they cancelled it. Athletics 01 Anson Academy-Boys Owing to the fact that we have only a few boys in the Academy our athletics have not been very success- ful in the past year. We began the year with about fif- teen boys and when school had been going only a week we picked the best men and played the Solon H. S. base- ball team at the Embden Fair, and were badly defeated. Two weeks later with almost no practice we went to North New Portland Fair and played Kingheld H. S. This was a close game in which we showed much im- provement, altho we were defeated. The school being closed on account of the induenza epidemic this was the last game we played. We expect to start. again this spring and have prospects of a good team as a number of boys have en- tered the Academy during the winter and there are now over twenty boys in the school. But here we wish to make an ap- peal to those students who do not take an interest because they do not make the first team. We will never have a successful team unless they come out and practice because we can not have a good first team with- out a second team and also if a fellow comes out and hustles he may beat out the first team man. Early in the Winter we decided to have a basket ball team. We were also hindered in this by the epidemic but managed to have the hall fixed up ready to practice when school o- pened the last week in January. We were saved a great expense by the Hon. F. W. Bunker, who presented the basket ball nets to the school. And I am sure that the teachers and students of Anson Academy appre- ciate this act very much. Up to this date we have played four games, all of which we have lost on account of the greater size of our opponents. After four nights of practice.we met Solon H. S. at North Anson and were defeated by a score of 26 to 13. In the next game, which was with Madison H. S. in our own town, we were handicapped by the absence of Andrews, our best player, and were defeated by a score of 56 to 6. We next played Solon in their hall and were again defeated 30 to 19. March 12 we played with Oakland at North Anson. The game was won by the visiting team. Plans also have been started toward forming a Northern Somerset County Interscholastic League consisting of Bingham H. S., Solon H. S., Somerset Academy and Anson Academy. The object of this league is to have a goal to accompish, viz: the Cham- pionship of the League, and thus cause more interest in Athletics. We have also devised a system of honoring a boy or girl who played in two full games or four halves of bask- et ball or who wins a point in track or who makes the debating team, by ,awarding them an athletic or intel- lectual A, Alumni, townspeople and under- graduates we earnestly solicit your support in the athletics because to carry out our plans for Athletics in the future more funds will be neces- sary and any Hnancial aid from the alumni or friends of the Academy will be gladly received. John Pratt, '21