Mount Sidney High School - Sidney Hi Yearbook (Mount Sidney, VA)

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Girls’ Baseball This year Alt. Sidney High School was represented by one of the best girl teams in the county. So far this season we have won most of the pames played. We have a record for girls baseball, winning every game played for four successive years, except tbe game against New Hope several years ago, and a game again this year which was our second lost this season. 1 he team is featured by its good pitcher, Moore, who for several years has been tbe outstanding player and also a hard hitter. The team will regret the loss of this great player, who has won much honor. Click, the catcher, who has to be good to catch Moore, because of her fast speed ball, is another heavy hitter and also a very nice player who deserves much credit for the team this year. We are sure she will keep up her good work in the next two years to play. Cline, playing first this year and hitting the old ball hard, has added very much to the team, and always keeping up the old team spirit. The team is also sorry to lose her by graduation, and wish her a good future. Huffman, very small, but all agree that she could cover the hot corner and swing the willow stick to hit the ball rather hard. We hope in the coming years she will make the team a valuable player. Hulvey, a newcomer, has proven to be a ball player, and that she will in the future help to keep up the good record established by her team-mates. Hawkins, Link, and Weaver, the outfielders, have all played excellent hall, and in the batting list they were always among the best. Wine and Stogdale, the substitutes, are left in the future a great work and record to keep up. I.he team loses most of its best players by graduation. Cline, Moore, Hawkins, and Weaver are all who played regular the whole season and who will be greatly missed in the future.

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Boys’ Basketball OUNT SIDNEY HIGH SCHOOL commenced their basketball season with three regulars—Austin, Wil- berger, and Sutton. The coach had a little trouble in filling the vacancies for the future team. Mr. Cox, the coach, began to realize from the be¬ ginning that speed would be the only way in which lie could prepare a winning team. Although the boys were small, we depended upon their speed, in order to overthrow their opponents. The opening games looked very unfavorable, but the team kept up the “Old School Spirit,” and were from then on right there in all the games they played. Wilberger, center, played fine ball throughout the year. He was always on the alert. Austin, who was with us the year before and considered one of the best stationary guards in the county, was back as usual, holding his place. Sutton, one of the forwards, was not with us in every game, and when he was not, our team was found to be weakened. He accounted for most of our points. Craun, this being his first year and having very little experience, also played good ball and helped win what games we won. Another guard who surprised all of us, was Wine. We had no player who could get off the floor as he did. Resides the regulars, Depoy, Garber, E., and Garber, V., who sub¬ stituted, played good basketball in all the games, and each showed good prospects of making next year’s team. Mt. Sidney loses only three of their players through graduation.

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Boys’ Baseball This year Alt. Sidney High School was represented by one of the best teams we ever put in the field. So far this season, we have won fifteen straight games, thereby taking the championship of the district for the fourth time in succession. We won also the county championships this year, from Craigsville, 12-4 and 10-6. We lost the deciding game to them last year by a score of 1-0. Sutton pitched the most wonderful game of his career, striking out seventeen batters and allowing three hits. We got five hits. Last year ' s team was a green one that was whipped into shape by Mr. Cox, but this year they are a very much improved organization. Our team was strong on the defensive, mostly because of the stellar pitching of Sutton, I )epoy, and Furr, who held the opposing teams to a 2-2 run average, while on the defense we were unusually strong, averaging 14.5 runs to the game and collecting fifteen home runs, thirteen triples, and twenty-six doubles. Sutton, while not pitching, played shortstop. He was the mainstay of the team. Depoy pitched good ball and developed into a finished first baseman. Furr served well as a utility man when not pitching. McAllister again proved to be the best high school catcher in the county. Leach begins to show the points of a coming receiver. Austin was there at second and did well as sacrifice man. Eagle, at shortstop, showed improvement, especially in batting. Ryan will develop into a good ball player. Wilberger, Cleveland, and Wine make up the best high school out¬ field in the Valley. In hitting and fielding, they are good. Hulvey, Craun, and Driver served as substitutes. The team will feel the loss of Sutton, Wilberger, Cleveland, and Wine through gradua¬ tion, holes which will be hard for Mr. Cox to fill, but we are looking toward our fifth championship.