North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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BASKETBALL N'ORTH'S basketball team has had a fair season, winning nine games and losing eight. The team had one veteran player, and the remaining men were new. YVitl1 all the team graduating this year, there is some doubt as to what the next year's team will be like. promising record of six wins, but then defeat reared her ugly head and the next six games went with the wind. Basketball is a very fast game, de- pending a great deal on team work and eo-ordination. To win nine games from evenly matched opponents is a feat worthy of praise. Anyone who B112 lllullarkey coached the team as usual and its captain was Tom Under- Wood. Like the football team, the basketball team started off with the Page 18 l has tried to flipa basketball into a basket which seems to have the power to sidestep the ball while some excited lad tries to confuse the issue with

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CHEER LEADERS EST before the football season every year, almost every afternoon for a week, North's gym rings with cheers. No, you're wrong. It's not peope cheering at a turtle race. It's Xorth's cheerleaders. These peppy girls and Cheaven forbid that we should forgetj boys, are the mainstay of athletic events. At exciting mo- ments one hardly knows whether they're on the ground or off it, the way they leap in the air and in the dull moments they keep the rest of us poor hoarse spectators on our feet cheering for Fight, fight, Team, fight. These cheery fooh, pun!j lads and lassies are under the direction of Blr. Harold Forrest. He, on some fine September afternoon, with in- finite patience, watches the young hopefuls go through back-breaking and skirt-splitting exercises in the gym and then with much relief selects the best and starts in on the next bit of fun-training them to be all that they are and hope to be. However, all kidding aside, this group does a GRAND piece of work, we'd be lost without them, and right now they're the ones who deserve the cheers. BOWLING THE days have long since past when bowlers wore their brass knuckles to the alleys, and bowling is rapidly becoming one of the most popular sports, enjoyed by all. Here at North there are some boys and a large number of girls who have formed a team under the sponsorship of hir. Sylvia. On three evenings during each week they practice diligently. The group is too large to be accomodated in less time. At the bowling alley they call into play all of their skill, each one hoping that some day he may reach that mythical three hundred, the highest score in the game. In April the team participates in a Bowling Tournament, where they will be given a real chance to show their wares. That will be the day for our experts, with their hook-balls and their strikes, and we hope they carry off due share of laurels. Page '17

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rapidly flailing arms will appreciate the previous statement. In any ease tliev did their iob well, piling up as lngli as .12 pomts in one game: and so another basketball season. the last for many of ns at North. is but a memory. X7- QWQ71- f 1:4 'tl V ,v A 1. .gi ' st. shooting such sport. You never know what you have till it's too late to make a change. l'nlike a football or basketball game. a shooting match docs not seem to draw spectators, which is probably just as well. There is little to sec, and THE RIFLE TEAM HIS year marks the first that our rifle team has won a place for it- self among the varsity sports. Mr. Beede has undertaken the task of managing the team. This is a job requiring patience and time. The boys started out with the idea of hav- ing a delightful time blasting away government ammunition at a small cost to themselves. The results were much the same as if we had manned a cannon with grapeshot instead of using a rifle. Once we had tasted the bitter pangs of inglorious defeat at the hands of the boys in blue and white, the team began to settle down to the task at hand. Soon the effects were notice- able. At one match, the North team burst forth with a seore which to say the least amazed all. linfortunately what goes up must come down, and so did the team, but that is what makes our nerves are generally pretty jumpy without the aid of an audience. It is none the less, a fine sport, and the team sincerely hopes to become a credit to North. ARCHERY SHOT an arrow into the air: it fell to earth I know not where. How very descriptive of the new eomers to North's archery club. In September Hr. C'lark is kept busy instructing llis new girls in the rudiments of archery. The air is thick with the errant arrows sprung from the bows of would-be archers, and if any arrows at all hit the target it is by accident. Later in October the club, driven by the cold, retires to the indoor gallery at the Quincy school. There, hid from the eyes of the world, a goodly amount of earnest effort is put towards improvement. Page 19