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

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The baseball season just finished is still fresh in the minds of the Baldwinsville fans. The team won six straight victories to win the championship of the West Section, the la3t of which was the over- whelming defeat of Solvay at Solvay. In the Championship game with North Syracuse, undefeated East Section winners, B. H. S. won its sev- enth straight victory and the county title. The percentage of games won in all sports throughout the school year is high and one of which we can be proud. The prospects for next year are not especially bright. In football nine of eleven regulars will be gone. In boys’ basketball three of five will be gone. In baseball Marshall Stevenson, Pierre Montague and Kenneth Tice will leave an immense hole in the team. The girls’ bas- ketball team is the one bright spot in the future, for not only the team, but most of the squad will be back next year. With a continuation of the interest and competitive spirit displayed in the building of teams, I felt that no matter how poor the prospects may seem, B. H. S. will have a team worthy to represent it in every sport when the time for the opening game comes around. W. A. GETMAN, .. Director of Athletics. GLEE CLUB The Glee Club for the year 1 925-1926 has enjoyed a very successful fear. At our first meeting the following officers were chosen: Presi- dent, Blanche Weldon: Vice-President, Charlotte Heaton: Secretary and Treasurer. Blanche Patchett. Our initiation party was held in the gymnasium on November 23, 1925. The refreshments were prepared in the Domestic Science room and served in the library. The new members, as usual, were forced to lose their dignity and to make themselves ridiculous by such stunts as rolling in barrels, and bands tied behind their backs, eating juicy berry pie from the floor. In December the long steady pull of preparing for the minstrels be- gan and was finished with the “best ever” on February 25th and 26th. The club made enough to purchase a flute, trombone and new music for the orchestra whose members are honorary members of the Glee Club. We also presented the Parent-Teachers with $150. The Parent-Teachers’ Association showed its appreciation by giving a party to the club and members of the orchestra. Every one enjoyed them- selves immensely. Members of the club have sung at Parent-Teachers, assembly, prize speaking contest; also on several other occasions. Our orchestra has become popular and well-known. It has been called into service by the Parent-Teachers Association, Masons, American Legion, Prize Speaking contests as well as providing the main means of keeping the students or- derly while entering assembly every Tuesday morning. 20

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BASEBALL BLOCK LETTERS Four Years (Gold Baseball)) Marshall Stevenson. Third Year—Pierre Montague. Second Year—Walter Doran, Nickie Conci, Edward Berrey. First Year—Howard Jones, Kenneth Tice, Paul Donahue. Clarence Montague. BASEBALL SCORES 1920 Baldwinsville Academy. . 20 Jordan . . . 0 Baldwinsville Academy. . 21 Warners ... 3 Baldwin8ville Academy. . 12 Skaneateles . . . 5 Baldwinsville Academy. . 29 Camillus . . . 0 Baldwinsville Academy. . C Marcellus . .. 1 Baldwinsville Academy. . 10 Solvay . .. 1 Baldwinsville Academy. . 5 North Syracuse . . . . . 3 Total 103 13 The only men to make the four ville Academy. Major Sport Teams of Baldwins- POUR LETTER MEN Football, Baseball, Basketball, Track. Marshall Stevenson, Theodore Vader, Alexander Jones, Pierre Montague. THE ATHLETIC PROGRAM The athletic program of 1925-26 has been more extensive than in any other year. The school has been represented by teams in football, bas- ketball (both boys and girls), and baseball. The County League did not sponsor a track meet this spring, so that no attempt was made to develop a track team and no opportunity given to defend the track title won last year. The teams have, as in former years, competed in the County League. In football Baldwlnsville placed second, suffering only one defeat. Four contests with non-league teams were played. Phoenix and Onon- daga Valley were defeated and Cortland and Herkimer were victorious against us. The team’s work against Herkimer and Cortland was no doubt the most outstanding of the year. Herkimer, a sectional cham- pion, and Cortland adjudged the best H. S. team in the state, won hard- earned victories in which the margin of difference between the teams was but slight. The boys’ basketball team finished second in the West Section of the County League. Besides the League games the team played almost as many non-league games in which it was fairly successful. The Girls' basketball team after a poor start, made a splendid up- bill fight to win for the third consecutive year the Championship of the West Section. In the play-off they emerged second best in a game in which an overtime foul shooting contest was needed to determine the victor. 19

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One of the Club’s members won first prize at the local and county prize speaking contests. Members of our club sang at the local contest and also the circle at the time of the minstrels was comprised wholly of the girls from the special chorus. Because of the fact that Miss Elizabeth Roth, assisted by Miss Bridge, has been our instructor, the Glee Club has had a most profitable year. We wish to thank them both for their interest and assistance. We who are about to graduate will feel the loss of such an organization in our lives but we sincerely hope that the coming year will be as great a success if not greater than the past years. RUTH OSBORN. PUBLIC SPEAKING During the year 1925-26 Baldwinsville Academy continued its inter- est in various forms of public speaking and won several victories in in- terscholastic contests. At assemblies and at public school entertainments various students took parts which did much toward the enjoyment of the audiences and gave the participants valuable training for future public appearances. Being challenged by Jordan High School to debate the question: Resolved, That Capital Punishment Should Be Abolished, a team was prepared to uphold the negative side of the subject. On March 12th the Jordan team came to Baldwinsville and an interesting debate was held. Baldwlnsville’s speakers were Helen Brown, Marie DeSerio. Sanford Weeks and Virginia Conklin. Their arguments and method of presen- tation were so strong that the judges gave a unanimous decision for the negative. The Bigelow Prize contest was held April 30th with five girls and five boys taking part. Sanford Weeks, speaking “Spartacus Address to the Gladiators, ’ was given first place with Sydney Cooper second and Richard Sears third. As Sanford Weeks had already been a winner in the contest, he was not eligible for the Bigelow prize, his reward being the honor of representing the school in the County Contest, while the Bigelow- prizes went to the boys placed second and third. For the girls, Ellen W’ilkinson was awarded first place, her selection being “Ole Mistis,” while Virginia Conklin was second and Evelyn Baker third. Virginia Conklin was a previous first prize winner and therefore ineligible, the second prize going to Evelyn Baker. The Western Section League Championship was won by Ellen Wil- kinson, competing at Warners against five other high school representa- tives in the sectional contest held May 7th. This brings another cham- pionship cup to Baldwinsville. Sanford Weeks was a close contender for first place at Solvay in the League contest for boys held May 14th. He was aw-arded second honors, the first prize going to Solvay's representa- tive. The American Legion conducted an essay and declamation contest during the latter part of the year, each student of the high school writing an essay on the general subject of the American Legion. The four essays judged to bo the best were delivered at a public meeting held in 21