Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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THE TOOT 15» BASEBALL 1928 Under guidance and coaching ot William Schmidt who is Athletic coach of all sports of C. H. S., the baseball team won three games and lost six. Although this record is no. what we wished it to be we accom- plished something by forming a team for the coming season. As we only had four men with experience on t ie team we considered it a good season, and the players who were working with Coach Schmidt every day found that he was a coach that appealed to ail of the fellows and for this reason the fellows gave all they had. His mo to seemed to be “Everything to gain and nothing to lose.” The fellows w io will return next year are all willing workers and with them we expect to have a strong team on the field. Those who will return for next sea- son are: “Holly” Gardinier, our old reliable right hander and “Lefty” Shaffer, Spadafora, Catcher; Gustaf- son, Armstrong, Bertelero, CappareUi, Grilli, and Damico for the infield. For the outer gardens Ken Clark, Ayers, Coleman. Pretta. One who will be missed is Harry “Lefty” Carman who pitched good ball for the team but had hard luck thru the season. The feature game of the year v« s with Cazenovia Seminary; We wron this game after a battle for eleven innings. Gardinier pitched nice ball all the way thru the game. The game ended 7 to 6 in our favor. Cazenovia used three pitchers but all fell to the licking of the local boys bats. We have one more game to play and that is with the Camden High School at Camden, and we are going to fight to the last to win. With Coach Schmidt back for next year and eight regulars Canastota looks for a great year on the diamond So we all take our hats off to Coach Schmidt and the boys for a great sea- son. —H. Moore The following is the schedule for (he past season: Away, Cazenovia Sem. 9, Canastota 3 Home, Rome Free Academy, 18 Can- astota 10 Home, Cazenovia Sem. 6 Canastota 7. Home, St. Aloysius 11, Canastota 0, Away, Minoa 3 Canastota 8. Home, St. Aloysius. 11 Canastota 0. Home, All-Canastota 3 Canastota Hign 1. Home, Minoa 2 Canastota 12. Block Letter Men include the follow- ing players: H. Moore, H. Carman, F. Gustafson, H. Armstrong, V. Grilli, C. Ayers, C. Capparelli, Capt. K. Clarke. R. Dew, F. Rommel, Manager. BASKET BALL Of the twenty-three games played on the court. C. H. S. emerged vic- torious in ten. This is not an envi- able record by any means. We hail everything that is essential for a winning team a gymnasium that is second to none in this vicinity, plen- ty of talented players and last but not least a fine coach, yet we could not reach the five hundred mark. There was one force working against us that prevented our winning many more games than we did and that force was indifference. I hope tb- t next year this factor will have dis- appeared along with all petty differ-

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18 THE TOOT The C. H. S. Orchestra Due to the persistent efforts of Miss Goettel, C. H. S. Orchestra has been successfully organized again this year. It now consists of the fol- lowing members: Miss Goettel, Director; Emerson Welch. Grace Reed, Piano; Martin Gruber, First Violin; Edward Nich- ols, First Violin; Harlow Gardinier, Richard Rommel, Second Violin., Harry Carman, Evelyn Smith, Flute, Chester Ballard, Sherry Wood, Trum- pets; Merrill Smith, Cornet; June Braun, lone Robertson, Kenneth Eddy, Saxaphone; Gerald Shaffer, Carl Dentler, Drums. The orchestra has had several en- gagements during the term. It has played at practically all of the enter- tainments given in the new auditor- ium. It has also played for the Odd Fallows, The Exchange Club, The Fortnightly Club and several tint's at Ihe Methodist Church and closed a successful season at the Alumni banquet. Miss Goettel has spared neither time nor effort to make this orches- tra a success and she feels that she has not altogether failed. It is hoped next year that orchestra rehearsal may take place during school hours and credits given for this subject. The Canastota High Larkin Band The Canastota High Larkin Bund was organized about two months ago under the supervision of Mr. Fraser, the director who is a representative of the Larkin Music Company of Binghamton. The organization of the band was rather difficult at first because the students did not seem interested enough to come to room 15 and chose Ihe instrument that they wished to play but with the help of Miss GoeGo and Mr. McLean who were anxious to make musicians out of every mem her in High school, a small ban! consisting of about twenty-five p01, sons was finally brought together. It is really remarkable to see how rapidly these students have advanc- ed in such a short time. They started in playing the scale and before we knew it, they were playing hymn ? and now they are playing marches. Among the clarinet, cornet, alto and saxaphone players are two experts, Gene Lamp a clarinet player and Charles VanZandt, a cornet player. These two expect to be asked to join the village band when it starts giving concerts. It is expected that a great mar.' more sudents will be added to the band list when practice begins again in the fall. What You Pay h0r Patient (nervously)—“And will the operation be dangerous, Doctor? Doctor—“Nonsense! You couldn’t buy a dangerous operation for forty dollars.”—Life. Not So Harsh! Sam—“Do yuh refuse to pay me dat twro dollahs I lent you?’” Rastus—“Oh, no, sah. Ah don’t re- fuse. Ah, jes’ refrains.”-—Boston Tran script.

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20 THE TOOT ences and animosities. For when one engages in sport of any kind lie must lay these aside and fight for common cause. I am writing this with one idea foremost in my mind, and that is the value of cooperation and unity. If I can impress this up- on the 1928-29 basketball team I can rightly feel that I contributed to their success though absent. The team next year will be built around C. Cappai- reli and Wm. Dew and the flock of substitutes coming up from Junior High look very good to me. In clos ing I hope that success may be en- joyed by both players and coach for 1928-29. —Arthur C. Fritz. Block Letter Men 1928-29, Divencen- zo, Captain; Capparelli, Moore, Fritz R. Dew, W. Dew, Sayers, Robison, Klock, Gustafson, Kneeskern, Mana- ger. BASKET BALL RECORD C. H. S. 13 .............Hamilton 16 C. H. S. 12 Most Holy Rosary 17 C H. S. 11 ....Nottingham High 15 C. H. S. 11 .... Morrisville Aggies 30 C. H. S. 18 ...............Alumni 17 C H. S. 17 ...Morrisville High 27 C. H. S. 14...Cazenovia High 20 C. H. S. 27 ...National Guards 6 C. H. S. 10 ........Sherrill High 19 C. H. S. 30 ....Chittenango High 8 C. H. S. 20 ......Sherrill High 30 C H. S. 38 ...Cazenovia High 18 C. H . S. 21...Morrisville High 23 C. H. S. 20 Morrisville Aggies 13 C. H. S. 14 ..Rome Free Academy 12 C H. S. 16 ......Nottingham High 10 C. H. S. 28 Chittenango High 13 C. H S. 22 ................Alumni 21 C. H. S. 13 ..Cazenovia Seminary 29 C. H. S. 23.. .Cazenovia Seminary 26 C H. S. 19 ................Holy Name 20 C. H. S. 26 ...............Holy Name 18 C. H. S. 20 ..Rome Free Academy 30 Totals 433 Totals 438 FOOTBALL Last September about twenty-two candidates reported for football. Most- ly raw recruits and considering the material at hand Mr. Schmidt cer- tainly rounded out a very fine team. We have to take our hats off to “Pinky.” Some of the boys showed up fair- ly well the first two weeks and the outlook for the hard schedule ahea:t wasn’t so bad. The first game of the season took place with our ancient rivals Oneida. The game was played in Canastota and a large crowd attended the game. For the first half the ball see-sawed back and forth across the field with neither side having any advantage ov- er the other. The half ended with the score 0-0. In the third quarter Oneida blocked one of our punts and scored a touchdown. We were unable to score the remainder of the game and it ended 6-0 with Oneida on the big end. After the Oneida game our squid dwindled down to about fourteen un- der these conditions we were forced to complete the strenuous schedule. Some of them were forced to play with injuries because there was no one to take their place and in this manner the team derived the name of “The Iron Men.” In order to tell just how good the team was last fall we will compare it with the games between various teams in our schedule. Oswego beat Oneida by a score of 26 to 0 and Ful- ton beat both Oneida and Oswego who were conquerors of the strong R. F. A. team. The prospects for the team next fall are rather bright and in about two more years I think that Canastc ta will have one of the finest teams. The block letter men for the pa'd year are: Torrey, Cady, Fazio, Rob-