Hammond Central School - Spotlight Yearbook (Hammond, NY)

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1930 BASKET BALL TEAM Front Row—Cedric McDougall, Vincent Felt, Cyril McDougall, Donald Ellsworth, Arthur Howie. Second Row — Harold King, Prin. A. D. Northrop,. Rev. W. H. Campbell, Coach; Floyd Allen. Back Row —Donald MacLachlan and Donald Dunham -------------. .. —

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HAMMOND HIGH HAPPENINGS are thankful for small favors. Our basket ball team sticks to the end. This was shown by the way the boys “stuck” to the car coming from Morris- town last winter, during a big snow storm, while a road was being shoveled for them. —Erva McLear. POPULAR SONGS THAT APPLY Bashful—Kenneth Storie. Little Pal—Doris Schermer- horn. Lonely Troubadour — Jos- eph Hague. Smiling Irish Eyes—Florence Nicol. The Guy Who Invented Whoopee—Delbert Sayles. Paddlin’ Madolyn Home— Madolyn Smith. Do, Do Something—Ella Mae Carter. Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares—Lana Cuthbert. Pass Around the Bottle— Ada Allen. Mickey, Pretty Mickey— Miss Fay. Old Man Sunshine—Mr. Nor- thrup. Happy Days Are Here Ag- ain—Miss B. McClelland. Those Wedding Bells—Miss E. McClelland. Where Do the Holes go in Doughnuts—Howard Allen. Button Up Your Overcoat— Maurice Maloy. I’m a Dreamer—Crosby Cat- lin. I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Fall- ing—June Hunter. You Were Meant For Me— Bessie Miller. Roll, Roll, Rolling Along— Winona Slate. O, Helen, Please Be Mine— Helen Nelson. My Fate is in Your Hands— Esther Jeffers. Go ’Long Mule — Donald MacLachlan. POPULAR NICKNAMES “Schwartz”—Donald Ells- worth. “P a r s o n”—Donald Mac- Lachlan. “Bananski”—Floyd Hunter. “Gander”—Floyd Allen. “Gosling”—Howard Allen. “Net”—Jean Stiles. “Dot”—Dorothy Conger. “Beatrice”—Roscoe Pilger. “Cy”—Cyril McDougall. “Hank”—Harold King. “Clara”—Vincent Felt. “Boob”—Marshall Tyler. “Windy”—Wendell Nicol. “Dubby”—Delbert Sayles. “Ginny”—Virginia Rodger “Bill”—William Massey. “Jeff”—Julia Merritt.

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HAMMOND HIGH HAPPENINGS H. H. S. ATPILETICS Our basket ball season of 1929-30 has been unsuccessful as far as winning games has been concerned. We occupied the cellar position from start to finish, without even a close competitor. Dishonor, however does not rest on the losers as long as they are good losers. The season opened on our home court with Waddington as our first opponent. We lost the game after a hard struggle, and the following week we dropped another to Richville at Richville. The third game was a contest with Heuvelton and resulted in an- other defeat. From then on, our team ran the gauntlet, los- ing games at every turn. The teams belonging to the St. Lawrence Valley League were as follows: Waddington, Rensselaer Falls, Richville, Heuvelton, Brier Hill, Morris- town, Madrid and Hammond. In a tournament held at Og- densburg Heuvelton won the cup as champions of the Val- ley League and Rensselaer Falls captured second place. Morristown and Brier Hill al- so participated the first night of play but were rooted out by their superior opponents. Our team was coached by Rev. W. Halbert Campbell, who worked faithfully with the boys. However, he was unable to bring out a winning team, due to the fact that he had no experienced or veteran players to serve as a nucleus around which to build a strong .aggre- gation. Nevertheless, we feel that’ we have been winners in more ways than one. We have had. a good time,- seen some clean, fast basket ball, and received some good lessons in sports- m ansh i p. We are not h ard losers as has been shown by the spirit of our team, which fought desperately to the last, even in the face of overwhel- ming defeat. With our present experience and with the larger and better hall being constructed by the Knox Class, we expect to pre- sent a stronger team next sea- son. :i Little can be said about, our baseball activities, as little had been done at the time our paper was sent to the press. It would seem, however, that Arthur Howie is our only hope for a pitcher, and he now- promises to be second only to the great Walter Johnson.