Newburyport High School - Enaitchess Yearbook (Newburyport, MA)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORD I5 until the final relapse. ecl out. His death was a great blow to All in all, Sanborn was one of the all those who knew and associated with greatest athletes that N H S ever turn him In Utopla What could be more pleasant Than a land where one could dwell Wlthout thought of sm or secant Or the ring of a perlod bell If there IS such a place on earth That s where I wlsh to go For l value more the joys of mirth Than those which seem so slow If l could be rld of stupid math Solld eometry and trlg l d thmk l cl walk the crooked path If lt led me to the brig George Noyes 20 The Dlarv of a Freshman My Aunt gave me thls oshderned book and made me write ln t Sh sa d that rf l dldn t l would get licked so l suppose l shall have to l will be gm w1th the list of presents l got for my blrthday Aug 25 l recelved two dollars but my father made me put lt ln the bank Say what s the good of having money lf you have to put It in the bank5 l al so got three books one dandy Wells Brothers The Youn Cattle Km s The second was about the adventures of a boy on a long trip to sea For the most part it was dry although there were some exciting parts The other book was a story of two old maids Think of lt' And a love story at that all about how they both fell in love with the same man and Oh l wlsh somebody had some sense around here Aug 28 Went out to Devil s Den to day and almost fell down the cliff We tartecl out early in the morning and took our lunch We went 1n swlrnmmg at Four Rocks and then we went up to the Den After a while we began to feel hun ry o we built a fire and roast ed some spuds When we had finish ed our dlnner we went down to the swimmln hole a am as we found that lt was only half past ten After we had gone in swimming twice more we de clded to head for the Basin We went up the wron road and when we finally noticed it we had gone so far that we thought we had better keep right on Then the funniest thlng happened We came to a sprln and were just going to et a drinl when we aw a bl fat worm in the bottom of it Brll Jones came up and leaned way over to see the worm O v , . . 1 y 0 Z v . . . .. . ,. 1 , . o . U H Z ' 7 1. e , . . . . . . . . 1 , S - , , g s - . . . y , , , - ' cr cv C3 3 7 .. . , , 1. . . ,. . . . . G C7 Y - V 5 5 ' - K 1 O . - D . - . . . ' , , , . , f g gl . , 3, , g T Q A . , ,

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORD LOUIS A QANBORN ATHLETE The passmg of Louls A Sanborn on Feb 24 was a great blow to all who knew hum He was one of the best athletes ever turned out by the N H S Loule not only made reputation here ln Newburyport but brought fame to hlmself by hls wonderful pn-xvzng at Tufts College Sanborn mp amed the N H S football 1n l9l3 He was rl ways the mamstay of the nam pnylng rovmg center He would smash up play after play whether lt be an Q 1d run skxn tackle or through center A more conslstent and aggressxve and tue less player IS yet to be found A lzttlc mcldent whlch shows Sanborn s xalue to hls team can be clearly seer m the game between Haverhlll and Newbury port hlgh ln 1913 HaVCTlllll at that tlme was considered the best team IH ln the first perlod and en caxo ed to plle up a blg score ann would have donc o had lt not been or the wonder ful defenslve of Sanborn H broke up all kinds of plays but ln doing o played hlmself out Near the close of the second half Louxe was so badly used up that he was taken from th game 1n an unconscious condltlon l was then that Haverhlll llf l up .1 blg score and won SI 0 This goes to prove Sanborn s great value as a foot ball player After graduatmg from Newburyport hugh Sanborn entered Tufts College Coach Whelan soon recogmzed the great possxbllltles of the Newburyport boy and when Tufts llned up for lts first game Sanborn had made the team He was one of the few men who make the varslty ln their freshman year ln the early part of the Harvard Tufts game Loule tackled the Harvard quarterback so hard that he broke his own jaw partly paralyzmg hum so that he could hardly talk It was not untxl the game was over that the coach learn ed of hls 1n1ury At the close of the season Walter Camp mentloned San born as a possible cholce for All Amer lcan end Not only was Sanborn 'x grldlron star but he was also a classy dxamond performer Playlng both first base and shortstop Sanborn earn ed the name of Blg Slx He was a heavy hltter and hls defenslve playlng was always a feature ln the track meets Sanborn could al ways be counted on as a pomt gamer He stlll holds the N H S record for throwmg the shot Although a terror on the grndlron and a fearless athlete l..ou1e was a ready to help ln any undertaking that would benefit hls former school San born never lost hls love for N H S Even after hls fame at college he was always ready to help m any way possl ble to put Newburyport on the map IH athletlcs When Unlted States declared war on Germany Sanborn answered the call by enllstlng ln the medlcal corps l was while ln thls branch of the SCYVICC that hls health falled hum and after ser Vlng somewhat over a year he was glv en a medical dlscharge Although ln 111 health for a long txme he made a great comeback He even played bas ketball for the State C-uard and played baseball the followmg summer ln the lndustrlal League But once again his health failed frm and he was forced to we up athletlcs forever Hls condxt lon gradually went from bad to worse . so .' y , u y ' 1 n 1 he ' ' ' ll I U! u I 3 . a , - T- ' 1 Y . ce It ' - I , . . . . 4 E - ' ' . tj i .6 . n , - , ' 33 . . . . . . . n l l , , ' . . : '- K ' . , the state. Haverhill opened right up quiet, unassuming chap, and always . . Q, . . 7.1 5' 7 f, L 1 ex ' S f - , - ' . . . ' . e ' , . , . . D S . .- , . . . . . 1 t 1 ' . a v T A ' 4 I k 4 1 . t y - r ' . L- ' . ,, . - : f ,

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORD when the board slipped and he went ln head first Hrs head stuck m the mud and we had to pull hxm out by the hoofs He was all soaking wet andmad We looked ln the sprmg but the worm was gone Poor thrng he never drd Bull any harm so why should he be so cold blooded Sept 2 We had to go to school to day Everythmg IS all mrxed up and you don t know where you re at Sept 5 Nothmg domg now Have to go to school all the mormng and tudy all the afternoon when I am not practrcmg on the vlolm Gee I can fiddle Sept 8 I was slttmg ln school today trylng to wrlte a story when I heard somethmg go spat spat spat I d1cI nt know what lt was as lt seemed to come out of the wall Then I began to thmk of somethmg I had read abount Infernal machmes that ran by clockwork and lmmedlately the nolse sounded exactly Irke the trckmg of a clock I Jumped up and hollered that there was a bomb rn the room Everybody Ilstened and the treks kept gomg faster and they all made for the qurckest way out of the room I don t know how rt was but the teacher got there Hrst He Jumped out m the hall and yelled Flre Rrght away there was a not wlth all trymg to push thelr way to the door One door was broken off and rn another one the glass was cracked The prmclpal went mto the room where rt was but he couldn t hear anythmg Several of the teachers came cautlously ln when the norse began agam The prlncxpal went over to the corner of the room and what do you thmk he found3 There was a leak rn the roof and the water ran through and dripped down Anyway Sept 28 I was playmg baseball this mormng When I came up to bat I hlt the ball a great clout I made a home run but the ball went through a wmclow m room 7 The teacher asked everybody who drd lt When she came to me I sald I cannot tell alle I dld lt She told me to report for afternoon ses slon every day thls week Lucky lt IS sday Oct 3 We got our report cards to day I got E. m deportment I won der why George Hubbard 23 The Marshes Ye marshes how candid and slmple Tolerant plams that suffer the sea and and nothmg wnth holdmg and free the rams and the sun Ye bubllsh yourselves to the sky and Ye spread and span like the cathollc offer yourselves to the sea' man who hath mlghtlly won God out of knowledge and good out of mflmte pam And slght out of hllndness and purity out of stam I6 . , , . , . ' Y I ' ' Y 1 . . . . . ' 1 . . . , S . , produce some awful squeals on the old it sounded like a bomb. , . Y 1 ' Y -- . . , - . . . . 1 W , , ,