Manchester High School - Somanhis Yearbook (Manchester, CT)

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SOMANHIS EVENTS © ATHELETICS The baseball season of South Manchester High School has not been very successful. This is due chiefly to the fact that some of the players were not up to standard in academic work; many, also, did not come out to practice. The scores ars as follows: STEN bist Sos seat ere I EGopnssbnStitute vos...cc.00' 5 beast hate 31 EXTAGEO Wedetedetacs 6 ecérivs is oo -53-ep6 5 yc ee. ri divayrin tetas 5 eee eee ae | Pa dateha ioe ;atscoe 7 EVAPELOIO Gavsectstitae vine: ais oot 8 | ya Evele teres cs RROSHIVE wicca caterers atheist oo. r pater Nakenye dacs 8 TOM Stony decease es.s 5) PARMAR weos.3 3 St. Thomas’ Seminary .... 6 Seswiaie asp torent echawe 6 ROSARY Mrcearcicny sais seeess tate sre vate ata ores § 12 BTIStOL, 0.5. se harotnaners carcuiis 5 The game with Hartford High was the most exciting. In every inning up to the eighth we tied them up. In the eighth, Hartford made a change in pitchers: Wolfe took Dodge’s place. It was in this inning that they scored the run which won the game for them, and the new pitcher held S. M. H. S. down in the last inning. 1918-1919 SOMANHIS BASKETBALL TEAM.

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22 SOMANHIS EVENTS and the uproar on the field gave way to a painful silence. Then across that sudden calm swept the first notes of the “Star Spangled Banner.” Sailors and soldiers stood at attention, and the crowd was hushed while our National anthem was. being played. It seemed, indeed, a fitting close for the American game played by American soldiers and sailors. The newspapers reported that the English thoroughly enjoyed their Fourth of July baseball game. The Japanese are getting to be great baesball fans. The game was intro- duced into that country about twenty years ago, but it never gained a real foot- hold there until about eight years ago. Japanese teams have visited the United States to play our teams, and Chicago teams have played return games in Japan. In 1913 we heard that a Chinese club was coming over to play our college clubs. When the games were played, it could be plainly seen that the Chinamen had not much to learn from the Americans about baseball. The game has been used as a civilizing force in the Philippines. It has been said that “Baseball is the melting pot of all sports.” It is played in France, and England, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Japan and China. Here in our own America, men of all nationalities are playing it. The time is nearly at hand when we shall have bigger championship contests than the world has ever known; for baseball is the coming international sport. But, why is baseball so popular? Why is everyone interested in it? Why do crowds of men, women and children stand in the heat of the broiling sun on a warm summer’s day and yell themselves hoarse while they watch a group of men send a little ball back and forth across the field? What is there in baseball that fascinates everyone? Did you ever stop to think? In the first place, a great portion of those who attend the games, have at one time or another played baseball. Then, baseball is made up of the right proportion of action and inaction, and excitement is furnished for the players as well as for the spectators. Besides this, the “Sporting Blood” of America demands something that cannot be decided in a hurry, but yet contains thrills of expectation all the way through. In 1859 we chose baseball for our national sport. The Americans since then have responded heartily to the choice. Young and old are enlisted in its favor while the little tots show their approval by acting as a menace to autos and other vehicles because they find the street not at all a bad place for a game of ball. America, you may not have a national literature, you may not have a na- tional art, but you have a national game and you're proud of it! Hannah J. Moriarty, ’19.

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24 SOMANHIS EVENTS 1918-1919 MANCHESTER HIGH BASKETBALL TEAM. The game with St. Thomas would have been an exciting and also a close one, if the umpire had worn glasses. As it was, he was somewhat near-sighted on “close plays’—always, however, against Manchester. In the Athletic Association meeting on June 2, it was voted to support a tennis team. Leonard Johnson, ’19, was elected manager. Matches are now being played to select the best material. It has also been decided to buy sweaters for the fellows, who are graduating, who played on the basket ball team. The batting averages up to date are as follows: Winton Sine ioisrctctdntraseh store nce seetchyatets, cher esetrietete A32 (SrOGKett! Jpn caWhteave ints staelels on, siete erodes om atahaattee 412 BAUISIODGT, . croyate sate atte ciotin ke eee eis ae B35 PO SAIGI: 12 carpe rare aa 18.s, Spero epahen ene ete evarer siete tererency = 332 BC CCHler Gei-ycya chen te: ce seieis oto oot 1 2 PEO oaahe 310 Mig GULLS Vics tga Pes Rois) 3rcie ial s che iva tel ots Wher tet eel cuapa co 66 309 SATGEN foe teree rete os ineo cae Mata Gus 4 a's eee oe 279 EEUTINOCOM: %.... -assrcis)-agae hate ore tpaiesaaeis oe aioe 243 TRO Stee Ros, Crore etter tad stoneea te Pousits taco e ray yas 81 Gis ofers 200 RODS sie ots io eekateS shat cedars Genie Maton s ecoieute seen 200 PIRNCOAN Siresctois spresertersp seers eco, Celeele 182