Charles W Baker High School - Lyre Yearbook (Baldwinsville, NY)

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At the first meeting of the council its officers were chosen as follows: Vice-President ...................................... Curtiss Butler Secretary ........................................... Beatrice Myers Treasurer ............................................ Arthur Schaff Arthur Schaff was replaced by Arthur Welden as treasurer upon the former’s leaving school. The Association, as a whole, backed the football team very well. It never lacked funds. By means of a movie” benefit held toward the end of the season and by the proceeds from the Athletic Association Banquet, a very comfortable balance was left in the treasury for the beginning of the 1923 baseball season. THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION—1923 About the middle of February, a new Athletic Association was formed with a membership not quite so good as that of the preceding term. How- ever, they made up in spirit what they lacked in numbers. At a meeting of the whole Association officers for the coming baseball season were chosen as follows: Manager of Baseball.......................Curtiss L. Butler Assistant Manager of Baseball............De La Vergne Mills Cheerleader ................................ Francis Carroll Assistant Cheerleader ........................... Isabel Mills The following representatives were chosen to the Athletic Association Council. Seniors...................Dorothy Smith and Albert Johnson Juniors........................Bruce Root and Arthur Welden Sophomores ............................................ Lester Schaff Preshman ................................. Albert Falardeau As usual, at the first meeting of the Council its officers were chosen. Vice-president .............................. Arthur Welden Secretary .................................... Dorothy Smith Treasurer ................................ Albert Falardeau Although the membership was small I cannot remember a season dur- ing which more spirit has been shown. I think its effect is shown by the percentage of games won and lost by the team as you can see by reading the account of the baseball season given on another page. FOOTBALL—1922 For the first time in many years Baldwinsville High School secured the services of a paid coach for football in the person of Donald Moyer. Everyone must know Don” as he is familiarly called, and his ability as a football player. Because of his starring at Alfred University as an end” and back field man a few years ago and because of his thrilling the specta- tors with terrific line plunges while playing fullback on the All-Bald- winsville eleven, nearly everyone can testify as to his knowledge of foot- ball. Coming to Baldwinsville High School to build a football team he had a leal task before him. He had to build a team from practically green men, men who, though they had played football before, were hardly better tnan beginners. Beginning with rudimentary football, Don” began to whip a team into shape. He spared no effort; patiently teaching the men -° tevkle, block, fall on the ball, get down on the line, etc. • t vfn • instilled some of the fundamental principles of football into the minds of those who were trying to make the team, then came 12

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Lois Warner has gained world-wide fame by her latest article entitled “Benefits Derived by Her Who Earns (Ernst).” Morris Decker, the wireless wizzard, is now leading the wireless world as the head of the wireless research laboratories of the United States. Mary Louise Socia has reached her long desired position—that of an old maid. Well, Mary Louise was inclined to be more or less “Loveless” in her younger days. Ah! here comes the future of Ilda Rice. Immediately following her High School course, Ilda retired to the abbey at Whitby. What an isolat- ed life it must be! Well, I suppose her great devotion to the “Abbott” drove her there and “Love ’in this case would do anything. Mamietta Minnoe has become a great vegetarian, living wholly on “Hubbard” squashes. And here’s Ethel Preston! What can she be doing? Ethel always did have a great ambition to do something big in this world. And here she is—manufacturing a new kind of talcum powder from the “Orris” root. Virginia Oppleton is the great novelist of the day. Her last book, “Love—a Career?” is the best seller of the year. Dorothy Kratzer—a celebrated naturalist—spends long hours commun- ing with Nature by the side of the “Brooksbank.” Beatrice Guernsey is equalling Irene Castle in fame all through the in- troduction of her famous “Guernsey Tango.” Laura Loveless now has her name in the “Who’s Who” all because she invented the wonderful perpetual talking machine. Russell Smith is now head of the poultry department at Cornell Uni- versity. It seems to me Russell was interested in chickens but not always in those of the feathered variety. “Kind Fairy,” I asked, “what is my fate?” She smiled, as she held out a rose leaf to me. But alas! I drew a blank. Turning to thank her, I awoke and found everything had been a dream. Still I was rejoiced to think that I had solved the future of my classmates. BERTHA PATCHETT. THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION—1922 Shortly after school opened in the Fall of 1922, the campaign for mem- bership in the Athletic Association was begun. A good membership was secured. A new method of electing officers was proposed. The Seniors and Juniors were to nominate the various officers while all members of the Association were to be present at the election. This plan was carried out. The following officers were chosen. Manager of Football...........................De La Vergne Mills Assistant Manager of Football ....................... Bruce Root Cheerleader ...................................... Marion House Assistant Cheerleader .......................... Francis Carroll Representatives to the Athletic Association Council were chosen from the various classes, two from each of the two upper classes and one from each of the two lower classes. The following representatives were chosen: Seniors......................Beatrice Myers and Curtiss Butler Juniors ..................... James Gifford and Arthur Welden Sophomores ...................................... Arthur Schaff Freshmen ................................... Ralph Carrington Both the Sophomore representative and the Freshmen representative upon their leaving school were replaced by Francis Carroll and Albert Falardeau, respectively. 11

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work. Every night from the close of the school until dark the team was made to work until it was hardened and trained so that it was working as a unit. When this hardening process had progressed until Don thought he could prove the worth of his work without injury to any of our pros- pective football players, he arrayed himself in football togs and tried out the stability of his creation. I think many of the men can explain why Donald Moyer has been called the “the hard hitting fullback.” However, these methods builded a football team which, though in games won, it wras not so very successful, still earned and well deserved the name of being a real football team. The High School had joined the Onondaga County Football League at the beginning of the season. Besides the games of the League, the team played two outside games. The team went through the season winning but one game in the League and one outside the League though outplaying, outfighting, outplunging every team except one it played. A Nemesis of hard luck seemed to dog its footsteps. Game after game was lost by the hasty decision of a referee or by a “break” of the game. The scores were always close. The hard work which the coach had insisted upon, told, for Baldwinsville was in better condition physically than any of the other teams which it came in contact with during the season. When “Pete” Dwyer picked an all scholastic eleven from the teams of the Onondaga County League, one of our men, William Giddings, secured the position of end on the first team with Bruce Root and Harold Green both securing positions as tackle and guard, respectively, cn the second team. One of our backfield men, David Veeder, was also mentioned, al- though not placed on either team. These four men, however, are not the only ones who deserve credit. Every man on the team deserves credit for each one did his very best at all times. So to name those who secured block letters is to name those who deserve credit for having done their best on the gridiron during the season of 1922. The following received block letters for having played football during the season: Bruce Root, William Giddings, Richard Loveless, James Fuess, Curtiss Butler, James Gifford, Cely Bocchino, Albert Falardeau, Thomas Reeder, Alexander Jones, Francis Carroll, Harold Green and David Veeder. CURTISS L. BUTLER, Editor-in-Chief. BASEBALL—1923 The season of 1923 has been one of the most successful baseball seasons that B. H. S. has seen for some time. Of last year’s team six or seven men reported for practice at the beginning of the season. Some new mater- ial appeared from the Freshmen class. The team as it went into the first game was really a new team, since only two players of last year’s team held the same positions that they had held in 1922. As the season went on more changes were made in the team. Our catcher and our third baseman both left school. We had an experienced player on third but absolutely no experienced catcher. We tried out two or three before we found a regular. We have had no coach for out team this year. Although the Athletic Association hired a coach at the beginning of the season, he was able to help us out for only about two weeks as he had to work at the time we practised. He gave us good help while he was with us. Indeer, during the whole season we have been profiting by his advice. All the coaching had to come from the captain and the manager and those who were inter- ested in the team and helped us. This year, as before, we joined the Onondaga County Baseball League, in whch we were assigned to the Western Division. In this division were 13