Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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Ifi «|V Vil IH BASEBALL LETTER MEN. BOOTH, COLLIER, NUFER. GILL, R. S. JONES, WALTHALL, YOUNG, SHEFFIELD, ROPER, ELLIOTT, Capt. ' JORDAN, HEATH, Manager. A review of the baseball season shows eleven games played, eight defeats and three victories. At a glance it would be pronounced a disastrous season, but we do not consider it as such. The discouraging showing made by the team may be attributed to three facts: the failure of the High School to turn out a base-ball team last year the element of hard luck which the team played in, and the failure of the student body to support the team. The High School had no team last year, and the team this year had only two letter men on it, — Elliott and Young. All other members of the team were new men; this, of course, was a very great drawback. Our team played in hard luck; only one game was played during the entire season in which every regular man was on the field. The continuous change in line-up hurt the team to probably a

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THE MISSILE. 25 Miss D. (III. B English): “Give me the dates for Pope.” Miss P: “1688 to 1644.” Franklin makes the statement that the sale of five Poor Richard ' s Almanacs procured for him a sufficient amount to supply him with some solid pudding. Mr. T. of II. B raised the query as to what became of the pudding. He was evidently thinking of lunch time. Tommy. “Pop, can a sewing bee sting ?” Tommy’s Pop: “No, my son, but it can do a lot of buzzing.” A bachelor, upon reading that “two lovers will sit up all night with one chair in the room” said that it could not be done unless one of them sat on the floor. Such ignorance is painful.. We take this opportunity when The Missile goes to press for the last time this year, to extend our thanks to Miss Theresa Bain of III. B, who has so accommodatingly played for us at our many assemblies. We wish also to thank the Daughters of the Con- federacy for the subscription for another year to The Literary Digest, which they kindly gave to our school library. On Tuesday, April 21, quite interesting exercises were held in the 7 B Class, when three beautiful pictures, “Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson,” “Signing of De- claration of Independence,” and “A Prairie Fire,” were presented to that class. The girls gave the pictures, while the boys made the frames and furnished the glass for them. Duncan Pleasants presented them, and Supt. R. R. Jones accepted them for the school. Then the Rev. Mr. Hassell, of the Third Presbyterian church, made a short address, after which the school sang Virginia, Stanewall Jackson ' s Way, and America. Mr. Sharp pre- sided.

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THE MISSILE. 27 greater extent than anything else. The student body did not support the team as it should. Only a mere hand- ful, mostly girls, came out to see the games; this lack of support, of course, affected the team a great deal. Every- thing considered, we do not look upon the season as a failure. Nothing but the highest praise can be given the men who composed the team, and the Athletic Association bestowed upon them the highest honor in its power, — a P. H. S. monogram. The team stuck together amid the very adverse conditions, and put up a hard fight through- out the season. Although playing without the support of the school and most of the time with a crippled team, they put up an excellent article of ball and are deserving of all the praise which can be given them. Only one letter man will be lost this year by gradua- tion, — Young. With the old men as a nucleus a winn- ing team should be developed next year, and let every- one come out and support the team which represents the best school in the State, old P. H. S. The following are the scores of the various games played during the season which ended with a 2 to i vic- tory over the strong Ashland High School in the best game we played this year: — P. H. S. 2 — Emporia High School 10 P. H. S. 23 — Chester High School i P. H. S. 9 — Farmville High School 14 P. H. S. o — Blackstone Academy 10 P. H. S. 4 — Emporia High School 5 P. H. S. 4 — Richmond Academy 13 P. H. S. I — Ashland High School 3 P, H. S. 5 — Emporia High School 4 P. H. S. 2 — John Marshall High School ii P. H. S. 7 — Farmville High School 9 P. H. S. 2 — Ashland High School i P. H. S. 60 — Opponents 81