Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Basketball Team Standing—Robert Decker, Manager. Gordon Howe, ictor Carr. Mr. Chamberlain, Coach. Scaled—Ernest Doty. Arthur McLaughlin. Willis Henry, Milton Punnett. Captain. Thomas GalTney.

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Soccer I'rom the first day of practice Char- lotte’s Soccer squad looked like a winner. Gordon Speares and Charlie McLaughlin, the two fullbacks of last year’s squad showed that they were better than ever. Punnett was changed from his old posi- tion at wing, to center halfback. This change made an almost impenetrable de- fense. Newcomb and Keeler were chosen to fill the other two halfback positions, with Art McLaughlin in goal. It was evident that a forward line must be developed. Hughey was put at center forward. It proved to be a good choice berause Jim” was the highest scorer in the league. Vaughan and Lewis, of last year's squad were given the wing position while Henry and Gaffney completed the line. Fickett. Howe, Halbleib and Carr were held in reserve. On the Herald first team. Captain Speares was selected for fullback, with Art McLaughlin. Charles McLaughlin. Hughey, Vaughan and Punnett being chosen from their respective positions on the second team. The Democrat selected Speares for the first team and C. McLaughlin and Vaughan on the second team. On thp Times teams. Captain Speares was awarded a first team berth and Charlie McLaughlin a second team job. The Journal also placed Speares and Charles McLaughlin in its first and second teams respectively. Charlotte attempted this year some- thing that has never before been at- tempted. They decided to take a three day trip to Syracuse playing Manlius on Fri- day afternoon and the Syracuse Univer- sity Freshmen on the following morning. The trip was a success, our boys winning both games. Season's Summary Charlotte 3 Kodak 1 Charlotte 0 ... Lima 2 Charlotte 3 Canandaigua 4 Charlotte 0 Last High 2 Charlotte 3 Shop School 0 Charlotte 2 West High 2 Charlotte 1 Lima 0 Charlotte 2 Canandaigua 0 Charlotte 0 East High 5 Charlotte 1 Shop School 1 Charlotte 3 West High 2 Charlotte 2 Manlius 0 Charlotte 3 Syracuse Frosli 2 Charlotte 8 Manlius 2 Won 9 Tied 2 Lost 3 The season was closed with a banquet given bv the Chi Delta Chi girls in the din- ing room of the school. Mr. Butterfield was toastmaster, and toasts were responded to by Cuddy Speares, Mr. Bird. Mr. Chamberlain, “Jim Hughey and Red Maher. Everyone enjoyed this treat. As is traditional the election was held for next year. Arthur McLaughlin was chosen captain, and “Owl Keeler assist- ant captain for our 1924 eleven. The dinner was followed by dancing in the gym which was enjoyed by everyone espe- cially the newly-elected vice-captain. This team was the best soccer team that has ever played for C. H. S. They were gentlemen every minute of the game. They put everything they had into the game and they exhausted every fair way to win. What more could they do, and what more could we expect? John C. Karl. 33

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r Basketball “1 Basketball pot off to a fly in start this season. Our team looks good, and has plenty of ability. They have won five games and lost hut one at this writing. This is a very fair start. The season opened on November 30th, against Webster High School, our tradi- tional opponents on opening night. The game was a good workout for our boys, who won handily. 39 to 9. Webster was able to score but two field goals during the entire game, and these were of the “sieve variety in the closing minutes. The second game with Phelps Acad- emy. proved to be another walk away for the Green and White. Phelps was able to garner but one field goal in the forty minutes of play. We won. 51 to 7. The Shop School game showed more action. Our Technical rivals were out to show us that they could play basketball, too. They were not quite good enough, however, for we won. 26 to 15. The return game with Webster was hard fought and furious. The narrow Webster court bothered our boys con- siderably. and many fouls were called. Again we won. 32 to I 1. in spite of the fact that we were forced to play the clos- ing minutes of the game with four men. as the rest of the players were sent ahead to catch the last train out of town. We struck a snag at Lyons. Unde- feated up to this time, our fellows evi- dently under-rated the Lyons club. We were defeated 25 to 1«. in a game that the Lyons supporters called “thrilling. We, ourselves, got the biggest thrill in the dressing room after the game—Ask the referee, the Lyons coach. Mr. Cham- berlain, or “Patsy Rotundo. Against our Alumni, on January 1th. the team pulled a great “come-back, and for the first time since 1918, and the second time ever, we trimmed our “old grads.” 28 to 18. The basketball team looks good, very good. With such players as. Captain Punnett. Doty, Howe. Cronin. Gaffney. McLaughlin. Henry. Carr and Lewis, we look forward to the balance of the season with anticipation of many victories. One thing that is lacking so far. is the whole-hearted support of the student body. A few loyal backers arc out to every game, rain or shine, but by far the larger part of our spectators consists of students of the other high schools, par- ents. and people at large. I his is too bad! We admittedly have a team that should even better the record of last year’s championship aggregation. 11 RN OUT AND SUPPORT THE TEAM, and show the folks uptown that the good old CHARLOTTE SPIRIT is still very much alive! Ernest Doty. kr- 35