Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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THE MI88ILE 21 Spring has come and, with it, has come BASEBALL. The b,aseball prospects for the coming season are indeed very bright. Nearly all the members of last year’s team are back at school and are expected to report for practice. A great number of new) candidates, also, are expected. Our pitching staff of last year was very weak, but this year it is hoped that it will be strengthened. Harvey Baxter, who was our best pitcher last year, is back at school and it is expected that he will occupy the mound in a great number of the coming games. Besides Baxter, we have a new candidate, Morris Spooner, who hails from Portsmouth. He is a “South- paw” who pitched for Portsmouth High School last year. We are counting on his making a record here. Barksdale, also, is a very promising “slabman.” Captain Pollard, who will, undoubtedly, hold his own at short stop, is very enthusiastic over the prospects for the com- ing season year and hopes to turn out a winning nine. Manager Andrews with assistance of Young has been at work for a good while and is arranging a very good schedule. On the night of Feb. 23rd the girls’ Basket Ball Team of the Petersburg High School was defeated by the Southern Female College Team. The game was played in the S. F. C. gymnasium, and this put the High School girls at a very great disadvantage, as they had done all of their practicing out-of-doors, while the College had the advantage of playing on familiar grounds. The baskets, also, were not the same height as those which the High School girls had become accustomed to, but, notwithstanding their disadvantages, our girls put up a “game” fight. The “line-up” for the teams was as follows: P. H. S. ■ S. F. C. M. LeMoine Left Forward R. Altman M. Jones Right Forward P. Walson M. Lawrence (B. Coleman) . Center F. Crawford K. Jones Left Guard G. Christensen M. Banks (E. Dillard) . . Right Guard C. Davis

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Athletics Robert Butcher. Well, I should say that the boys did get busy in organiz- ing a track team ! They started to train on one Saturday and by the following Saturday night each one of the boys repre- senting the Petersburg High School at the indoor meet at Richmond had received a silver medal for winning the i,ooo yard relay from McGuire’s School and Richmond Academy. Each one of the Petersburg boys had his opponents out- classed. Petersburg won the toss, thereby getting the inside track. The pistol cracked, and Pollard jumped about two feet ahead of his opponents, but, at the beginning of the second lap, McGuire’s man passed Pollard and got a lead of about 3 feet. Pollard, howlever, was not out the game by a long shot, for, on the last piece of straight, he put on all his steam and gave Booth about 4 feet lead on McGuire’s and about 2 yards lead on the Academy. From then on the race was won. Booth increased his lead a great deal, Barksdale did likewise, and Kinsey broke the tape with a lead of 10 yards over his nearest opponent, McGuire’s. Again we are indebted to Mr. Herbert Gilliam, who coached, picked, and carried our team to Richmond. It was his patience, carefulness, etc., that made our team bring in another victory for P. H. S.

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22 THE MISSILE ?Exrt;attg? 9r)iartmfnt Bbatrice M. Coleman, Editor We are glad to welcome the “Raquet” among our ex- changes. The Mary Baldwin “Miscellany” is numbered among our new exchanges this month. It is one of our most attractive and interesting magaines. The prize story “The Survival of the Fittest” is deserving of merit and we impatiently await its conclusion. We hope you will continue to exchange with us. “The Focus” from the State Normal School maintains its former standard. The stories are good. Each department is well balanced. We are pleased to welcome to our exchange des k the “Randolph-M ' acon Monthly.” It is a very creditable maga- zine, and its poems, essays, stories, and notes are excellent. This magazine bids fair to be a winner. We hail with delight the arrival of “The Messenger” from the Richmond College. As usual, it is up to its stand- ard of excellence. Among the stories we read with delight was “The Return,” written by an alumnus of P. H. S. The views of Ah Fong Yeung, a native of Canton, China, now a graduate student in Columbia University, are well worth the reader’s praise and attention. “The Cadet,” a weekly paper published by the V. M. I. students is a new addition to our exchange table. It is a very interesting paper and we welcome it heartily. “The Virginian,” from the Norfolk High School, is a small paper considering the size of the school from which it comes. Having looked through this magazine, one would think its contributors had fallen asleep. Wake up editors and get to work; remember “Work wins.”