Houlton High School - North Star Yearbook (Houlton, ME)

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f-M4 'Wu A 1 THE BASEBALI. SQUAD Front. left to right: Mason. Ifldwards. K. Taylor. XVatson. II. Taylor, Berry. Logan. Back. Lambert. Gardiner. NVard. Downie, Ayotte. Capt. Tomilson. Albert, Mgr. Thompson. Baseball Baseball prospects in Houlton High for the 1939 season could hardly be called bright. considering the long list of veterans lost through graduation last spring. Vernon Titcomb, Hal Bossie. Fred Monahan. Gordy Bither, Bob Ruth. Ralph Hodgdon. and Henry Cameron will be sorely missed in this year's lineup. Nevertheless, a scrappy and enthusiastic array of underclassmen is working hard under Coaches Tibbetts and Peabody to make them forget their loss. Captain Earl Tomilson. Reggie Downie. Phil Mason. Buck Logan, Ken Taylor. Paul Ayotte, James XVard, Everett Gardner, and newcomers Bob Huggard and Jim VVatson will probably see plenty of action this year. After losing two p1'eliminary practice games with Oakfield, our boys lost to Fort Fairfield and won from Presque Isle in the first two Aroostook League games. At Fort Fairfield, the feature of the game was the effective pitching of Reed, the Fort pitcher, who held our inexperienced boys to five hits, winning 5-2. At Houlton, Presque Isle was surprised by the airtight pitching of our Captain Tomilson, who pitched a threee l1it game, winning 541. This game was feat- ured by the heavy hitting of Houlton in the last three innings, particularly by Mason and Ayotte. Because the team is almost entirely a new one, built largely of sophomore and freshman material, it will be a miracle if we do better than break even in the league games. Yet, as we go to press, it begins to appear that our young team may justify its new uniforms by doing that, or more. The boys, fired with a fine eager spirit, are trying hard and learning fast. Coaches Tibbetts and Peabody very likely have the makings of another championship cluster, if not in 1939, then in 1940. V 1

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AROOSTOOK LEAGUE CHAMPIONS Front. l. to r.: Bates. Lambert. Donovan, Hawkins. Rear, l. to r.: Anderson, .lat-kins fMgr.J, Coach Wood, Kearney, Bither. Girls' Basketball The 1932-39 Houlton High sextet re- cently established somewhat of a record in girls' basketball with a seventeen-game Aroostook League winning streak which stretched over a period of three years. This long string of victories came to an end at the hands of a strong VVashbnrn team. who defeated the locals. 24-22. in an overtime period in one of the most exciting contests ofthe past season. Thisloss proved to be the only league defeat suffered, and in spite of it, they successfully defended their Aroostook League title for the second consecutive year. ' The Seasons Record Houlton 21 Merrill High 17 Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Houlton Total Y 26 30 16 18 34 16 14 27 24 IS 22 20 34 2.1 23 369 Patten Academy Stearns Stearns Hodgdon Fort Fairfield Presque Isle Washburn Mars Hill Paribou Fort Fairfield Washburn Presque Isle Mars Hill Caribou Hodgdon 22 28 24 14 18 15 13 12 15 11 24 6 18 16 23 276

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THE TENNIS TEAM Left to right, front row, Martin, Hawkins, Captains Frances and Tom Donovan, Jackins, Lambert. Second 1'ow: Grant, Pomeroy, Crawfo1'd, Hallett, Gartley, Titcomb, Macllroy. Third row, McGowan, XVard, Taggett, Popham, Rogers, Spaulding, Russell, Hatfield. Fourth row: Jackins, Coach Sherman, Mooers, Coach Saunders. Tennis For four years now. our racket wielders have yet to drop a single match in high school competition. With all due respect for the recent two-year winning streak compiled by the girls' basketball team, this thirty-three match record made by the tennis team has yet to find its equal. Last season marked the third consec- utive league championship for Houlton's un- defeated and untied aggregations, Although last year's championship team lost many of its men stars such as Don Mason, Ralph Kelley, George Roben, Bob Macllroy, James Milbery. and Clair Bell through graduation. the entire girls' team, with the exception of Jeanette Berry, who was lost via the grad- uation route, will be back with Frances Donovan, Del Martin, Joyce Lambert. Jean Jackins. and Dot Hawkins combining with such boys as Captain Tom Donovan and Al McGowan to attempt to uphold the title of Aroostook County's perennial champs. This year's schedule is by far the most attractive yet drawn up, with two matches scheduled with the Maine Frosh, two with Bangor High, and others with schools in the southern part of the state such as Deering High School of Portland and Cony High of Augusta. XVith the other Aroostook teams eyeing our long string of victories and growing jealously. it will be more diffi- ever to maintain the pace we so long. As this goes to press, the match with the University of Maine has been played and lost, 9-l, This decisive defeat. though no disgrace in losing to coll- ege players, may be laid largely to the extremely late Aroostook spring, so late that oui' boys and girls had practically no outdoor practice, being forced to train in the cramped quarters of the gymnasium. As summer moves in on us and autoinat- ically puts our courts in shape, we may expect results more in line with our reputation cult than have held record-with other high schools, of course.