Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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BASEBALL TEAM C. Washer. Barnes. Smith. Green. E Washer. Zener. Moore. Shaw. Cole.

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OUR NEXT BEST PIG SKIN CHASERS. DID you see us on the other page? If not, look again. We arc the first—the second—the first second team to break through the line of yearly drawbacks. When it comes to grit and determination we are right there. It is with mingled joy and pride, with a conglomeration of bruised arms and battered shins that we hang out our record of numerous victories and one little defeat. Read on. Was it the first game that you asked us about? Well, we were game; but really, we wouldn’t have done a thing to the Westports if they hadn’t changed rules on us. As it was, the score was only six to five. The next side-splitting contest was with the Beacon Hill team. Here we got tied up, as the score was five to five. Ah, how sweet is revenge! In the second game with Westport we knew we were up against the real thing. Here’s where we cheated the barbers and the dentists. We beat these undefeated champions by a score of seventeen to six. Our fame preceded us, and a trail of glory followed. Only two more teams dared to tackle us and they tackled too high. The Brooklyn’ Heights were downed two to nothing; and the Kansas City, Kansas, jays had surely seen better days before they swallowed that score of twelve to nothing. Thus endeth the career of one mighty. In all the Annuals of Time will our names be forever remembered. The Second Football Team. Woodford Taylor ....Left—End—Right.................Eugene Rider Pat Dougherty....... Left—Tackle—Right....Everett Williams Isadore Anderson.....Left—Guard—Right .......Roszell Hunt H. Van Eman..........................Center............. Warren Kendall....................Quarter-Back.......... John Long..........Left—Ha’f-Back—Right...............Lee Shippey Ed Lovejoy, Capt....................Full-Back........... -39- Something to kick about.

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 BASEBALL. Vt n rr iWBKKKKMj RULY, ever since athletics was introduced into the band of philosphers at high school, all the base ball and foot ball scrubs and in fact everything pertaining to athletics, has been hobbyized and petrified by individuals, and the teams have not been, speaking honestly for once, high school teams. But this year, through the dying efforts of several of the boys, and also with the.aid of many of the bleacherite teachers, the Kansas City High School Athletic Association, U. S. A., was established for several purposes. These were to teach the school how to fight in elections, form a gym, where paper darts could be thrown and dummies killed, and to control and sustain baseball, football, and other bully teams. Through the efforts of this organized body of wooden men, the base ball and track teams were manufactured. As a result of this, both teams are strictly high school, in sentiment, as well as in personal (as evidenced on field day). John Moore, a prominent member of last year’s football team, was elected captain of the baseball bums. lie immediately commenced training and rubbing the boys, and as a consequence had a good team ready to compete against the Manual on field day. But we lost a very hotly contested game, owing to the fact that one of our most influential members was sick, and had been so for a week prior to the game. Anyone will admit, we think, however, that the nine did very well, considering that the captain was not able to participate in the struggle to death, and that the team had had practically no practice at tiddledy-winks for a week before field day. The team, however, is not soured by this defeat and is working hard for several other games which they intend to play this year and possibly to retrieve its honor by' another game with the Manual fat boys. For the Athletic Association has laid the stone, iron, and brick foundation on which Central in future may' contest and win in athletic games from any and every high school academy in this grand state of Mizzouree.