Arms Academy - Student Yearbook (Shelburne Falls, MA)

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BASEBALL Q Arms is fortunate in having seven returning veterans from a successful 1938 team which finished second in the league. The pitching staff is well fortified with two experienced moundsmen in Harper Gerry and Alvin Pratt. with Peter Giacapuzzi, Howard Marble. Leo Tetreault. Robert Goodnow, Everett McCloud. and one or two freshmen in reserve. Henry Giguere is behind the plate for the second year: a near veteran infield has Don Alden at first, Gerald Shippe at short. Harold Mills at third, and Leverett Doore. letterman in football and basket- ball, plugging the hole at second base left by the graduation of Armondo Paoletti. Archie Ainsworth is holding down center field with Hale starting in right field. and Gerry or Pratt altemating in left. Baseball practice was hampered considerably by cr late spring. with the accompanying cold weather. The first game on the schedule with Orange was postponed because of the unusual cold. In the second game. Arms got away to a good start in the league by defeating Amherst 4-0. Gerry pitched air tight ball. allowing only four hits and fanning fourteen Amherst batters with a good fast ball and a wide, sweeping curve. Arms gathered seven hits Amherst pitcher, triples by Ainsworth and Gerry featuring the batting. The schedule for the 1939 season follows: April 26 Orange High School May 17 Amherst High School 28 Amherst High School l9 Hopkins Academy May 3 Hopkins Academy 24 Sanderson Academy 5 Orange High School 26 Smith School 10 Deerfield High School 31 Deerfield High School 12 Smith School lune 2 Sanderson Academy 13 Deerfield Academy Seconds 24 Alumni Richard Mitchell. Manager off the Page Forty-Five

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BASKETBALL Easily the highlight of the 1938-1939 basketball season was the surprising 24-21 victory which Arms captured from South Deerfield High in the opening contest of the Hampshire League. Arms had won three straight games before this, all non-league, but was credited with little chance against an experienced Deerfield five who many believed were the potential league champions. Deer- field led at half time 13-9, but Arms came back in the second half to wrest the lead away from their opponents and to stay out in front by a narrow margin during a thrilling last quarter. It was the first basketball victory over South Deerfield in many years. The Arms team kept up the good work by taking over Orange in the next game 25-20. These league wins were especially pleasant from the standpoint of the two previous lean league campaigns. Hopes soared for a successful showing in the league on the evidence of these victories. but a machine-like Hopkins team dropped Arms in the next game 24-13, and Smith Academy followed with a crushing defeat. 57-15. Arms rebounded from these defeats to pin Amherst down at home, 31-15. Smith School defeated Arms at Northamp- ton, 33-23, and South Hadley came out on top 34-29 in a wild game at home to finish the first half of the league season. Arms finished in a tie for fourth place with South Hadley and South Deerfield, all with three wins and four defeats. The second half of the league schedule proved a disappointment. Arms had only one victory to show for six defeats. SEASON SUMMARY December lanuary 16 Arms 22-Williamsburg 27 Arms 23-Deerfield Academy 20 Arms 26-Alumni 31 Arms 20-South Deerfield 22 Arms 26-Charlemont February Ianuary 3 Arms 25-Orange 4 Arms 24-South Deerfield 7 Arms 16-Hopkins 5 Arms 25-Orange 10 Arms 23-Smith Academy 10 Arms 13-Hopkins 14 Arms 29-Amherst 13 Arms 15-Smith Academy 17 Arms 21-Smith School 17 Arms 31-Amherst 21 Arms 17-South Hadley 20 Arms 23-Smith School 28 Arms 49-Sanderson Academy 24 Arms 29-South Hadley Page Forty-Four Winfield Peck, Manager

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TIDACIY For the second consecutive year Arms won the Class B track championship at the Greenfield Fair. Arms came out on top over South Deerfield, Orange, and Charlemont, in contrast with the 1937 meet which included only Arms and Orange in Class B. The point gathering started in the first event when Peter Ferrari took first place in the novice 100-yard dash. At the half way mark Ferrari was quite far back of the leaders, but he put on a surprising finish to pass everyone. In the 100-yard open dash, two backiield men from the football squad showed their speed, as Henry Giguere and Harper Gerry finished first and second respec- tively in an eyelash finish. Alvin Pratt added another first place by leading the half milers home, running an Orange rival into the ground in the last fifty yards. Deerfield High had been keeping pace with Arms up to this stage, but a second place in the running broad iump by Gerry, and second and third in the shot put by Don Alden and Art Tumer, and a tie for third in the high iump by Giguere and Gerry, added enough points to give Arms the meet be- fore the final event, the relay. To make the day complete, the relay quartet coasted home in first place. Giguere and Gerry figured in a triple tie with a Charlemont iumper for third place in the high iump, but as they had both accumulated medals in previous events, they passed up any claim on the medal, and it was awarded to Charlemont. Armondo Paoletti, Manager Page Forty-Six