Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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 RkouLii a Success. VOL. I. APRIL, 1912 NO. 4 EDITORIAL STAFF. Robert Smith..............................................EJitor-in-Chief Clark Matson..............................................Literary Editor Sajito Leach..............................................Athletic Edito. Ralph Stone ...............................................Society Editor Clarence Metzker ............................................Comic Editor Russell Tobin..........................................Advertising Editor Carroll Wright........................................Subscription Editor Guy Huston.....................................................Art Editor NOTE. The editorial staff wish to express their appreciation to Mettie Hunt and May Clark for their aid in arranging the material preparatory to the printing of this edition. AX ATHLETIC FIELD. There has always existed in Conneaut and especially in the circles of “Old C. H. S.” a long felt and ever increasing want. It is this same want, which, if realized, would stimulate that slowly dying enthusiasm in Athletics to a new life. It would revive that old sporting spirit, of which Conneaut boasted so proudly in the past, in the days when that famous aggregation called the “Red Socks” sought to maintain the honor of Conneaut on the Athletic field. This want is none other than an Athletic field. Equipped or unequipped it makes no difference. All that is demanded of the people of Conneaut is a field suitable for Athletic purposes.

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CALVIN T. NORTHROP. Calvin T. Northrop was born at Staffordville, New York, on May 17. 1858. When but three years of age he was left an orphan with his little brothers, his father having been killed in one of the earliest battles of the Civil war. Laih of the brothers was adopted into a different family and each one changed his family name of Schoonoven for that of his foster parents. Calvin was adopted by Alonzo Northrop, of Worcester, Oswego Countv. N. Y. In the public schools of his home town he received his early education and later attended the academy of that place. In preparation for his life work of teaching, he studied at the Albany Normal School, and afterward graduated at the Illinois Wesleyan College. His education was interrupted at intervals by the necessity of earning the money for his college course, and this he did by teaching at various schools. He taught in the district schools in Otsego at the age of sixteen afterwards at Portlandville and Decatin, N. Y„ and finally was cal’led to act as the head of the schools in his boyhood home, where he had gaine 1 the rudiments of his education. For eleven years, he was superintendent of the schools at Garretts-ville, Ohio, resigning this position to accept the superintendency of the schools of Conneaut, which position he held until his death.

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4 THE TATTLER Would not the football team of 1911 have appreciated a field of this sort? Would it not be appreciated by the future track, football and baseball teams? We may well look with envy upon our sister city, Ashtabula, who is the proud possessor of two fully equipped Athletic fields, besides a Y. M. C. A. Yet let us hope that before many more generations have passed we may have an Athletic field which shall be as good as any in the county. BASEBALL. The basketball season of 1911-12 has drawn to a close and baseball now demands our attention. This year a departure from the former plan of playing the games will be made. Each team will play but one game with each of the other county teams. Following this plan games will be scheduled up to May 25, at which time the four teams having the highest percentage will play together. The teams to play against each other will be determined by lot. The winners of these two contests will then play a championship game which will take place at Ashtabula. It is hoped by all that when this championship game is pulled ofT C. H. S. will be one of the contestants and they surely will be if they continue to show that same spirit which has been exhibited in the past football and basketball season. The question of umpires has also been provided for. Each team is to submit the names of two men, who will act as umpires, to the chairman of the executive committee. The chairman will then assign the umpires to the various games, taking care to have neutral umpires for each game. The expenses of these umpires will be taken out of the treasury of the County Athletic Association. Our schedule is as follows: April 13—C. H. S. at Kingsville. May 11— C. H. S. at Jefferson. April 20—Harbor at Conneaut. May 18—Austinburg at Conneaut. April 27—C. H. S. at Geneva. May 25—C. H. S. at Ashtabula. May 4—Andover at Conneaut. the Max and his shoes. How much a man is like his shoes! For instance both a soul may lose, Both need a mate to be complete, And both are made to go on feet. With shoes the last is first; with men The first shall be the last, and when The shoes wear out they’re mended new, When men wear out they’re men dead too: They both are trod upon and both Will tread on others, nothing loth. Both have their ties and both incline, When polished in the world to shine, And both peg out. Now would you choose To he a man or be his shoes?