Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Athletics THE LINCOLNIAN Page 15 THE BASEBALL TEAM THE FOOTBALL ELEVEN. Lincoln High had lost all interest in sports since 1912 , until this year when the spirit broke out new and the boys asked some of the teachers to help them organize a football team. After hard and earnest work they man- aged to get Mr. Westmoreland as coach and Mr. Cook as manager. Then they gave a dance and got money to buy their uniforms. The team began to train as soon as they got their coach, although the training was hard because sometimes the boys would almost fall from exhaustion, but they would keep on, for the coach had told them that they had to stand almost anything to be good football players, and that was what every boy on the field wanted to be. After Mr. Westmoreland got the team arranged the best he could, we then voted for a captain. For this important position, Mr. Ruben Curry, our fullback, was elected and the team was as follows : Ruben Curry, captain and fullback; James Pryor and Lemuel Williams, right and left halfback; Maceo Williams, Vernon Page, Clarence Porter and Vassal Tolbert, ends; Edward Pryor and Thamon Hayes, tackles; Leonard Fields and Walter Page, guards; Roland Bruce and Edward Fladger, centers. Our first game was with Western Univer- sity on their grounds. Although our boys and the W. U. boys were not evenly matched, because some of the W. U. boys had been playing for four or five years and were experi- PAUL1NE RONE Can’t she talk? Playing tennis CECIL PENISTON Rare femininity Going to Kansas

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Page 1 4 THE LINCOLNIAN yllhletics VIOLA KINNELL Pretty big proposition Cocking 1916 Members Their Charaderi ics and Chief Delight EARL FOWLER He hath a lean hungry look St a 1 ling prof. Crosthwait A THLE TICS The athletics of the Lincoln High School have ceased to be on the decline. To say they were developing rapidly would be putting it “mildly.” We may well say that the “old enthusiasm” was kindled by the boys of the football team. Since then we have had stars in a variety of different sports including basket-ball, sprint- ing and baseball. The latter of which has created greater enthusiasm and school spirit than has been manifest in the history of the school. Baseball Results. Lincoln wins the opener by out-classing Western University. Score 6 to 3. Lincoln 13, Sumner 6. Sumner proved an easy victim for Lincoln in their first game. Burns kept the home team’s hits scattered while the Lincoln boys pounded the two Kansas pitchers hard. W. U. 9, Lincoln 2. Loose playing and poor hitting caused Lin- coln’s defeat at Quindaro. W. U. 8, Lincoln 1. Lincoln showed no speed and lost a seven inning game with Quindaro. Lincoln 3, Liberty 5. Burns stars again; though in a defeat. This may well be called the hardest and fastest played game of the season. Lincoln Makes it Two Straight from the Inde- pendence Club. Burns showed fine form in both games. The team was greatly weakened by four of the regulars, Ed. Pryor, Reuben Currry, Fred Graham and Vernon Page in the second game. Nevertheless they pounded the home team’s pitcher hard, winning by a score of 14 to 10. The team has made great progress under the leadership of Wendell Pryor (captain), and Manager T. B. Steward. We are closing with the hopes that next year will bring more glories in the field of athletics. There is a wide field in basket ball, tennis, (for girls as well as boys), and a fast track team. M. T. WLLIAMS, T6. Line-up. Chauncey Smith Short-stop Fred Graham Left-field Maceo Williams Third-base Vernon r’age First-base (Jriando Brown Second-base Edward Pryor Center-field Thayman Hayes Right-field Leroy Burns Pitcher Reuben Curry Pitcher Wendell Pryor Catcher Vassel Tolbert Catcher Leonard Fields Fielder Flenry Monroe Fielder

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Page 1 6 THE LINCOLNIAN jiihletks LOUISE UNTHANK This rose blushes not unseen Slopping the boys teasing 1916 Members Their Charadteri ics and Chief Delight IRMA FRAZIER Boisterous snd Noisy Talking to Leo in class THE FOOTBALL TEAM enccd players and also they were much heav- icr, but with all the disadvantages our boys played them a hard game, although we lost The second game was with Liberty, a stronger team than W. U., because Libert} had not and did not lose a game the whole season, and too, they had beaten W. U. a few weeks before, although we played them and showed great improvement since we played W. U. The third game was our equal in weight. This game was with Sumner High of Kansas City, Kan., and we were so used to playing teams over our weight and equal that we fairly ran away with Sumner, 39 to 0. Our fourth and last game of the season was played Thanksgiving day in St. Louis, Mo., against Sumner High School. We again went out of our equal and weight, although we never backed out because we were always ready to take a’ trial with any team once. Afternoon came and about time for the game it began drizzling rain which lasted almost the whole game through. The ball was kicked off, the old gold and blue crashed with the white and maroon and the game was on. The shouts from the grand- stand could have been heard for miles away. Lemuel Williams was hurt in the third quar- ter and this was another defeat to add to our list, because with the great difference in Y. eight and experience we were defeated.