Prattsburgh Central High School - Franklinite Yearbook (Prattsburgh, NY)

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FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 27 a cold. This naturally lesse11ed the team's efficiency very greatly, and Painted Post found us easy to defeat o11 january 26th. They simply fall away with a 48 to 26 victory, and wrecked all Prattsburgh's CllaIlC6S for league leadership. Haverling then defeated Prattsburgh twice, once by a11 18 to 38 score and again 24 to 33. Ill the last game Prattsburgh led nearly all the way through, but our failure to put the final and very necessary s11ap into the game, a11d Bath's good playing cost us the game. Painted Post came to Prattsburgh on March 2llCl expecting a11 easy 811313, but instead they received a rather warm reception. In spite of the fact that we did llOt win, we made them Work for their victory, which came i11 the form of a score of 30 to 22. Hammondsport was more or less of an easy mark during most of the second game with us, although a spurt at the last minute nearly gave them the game. As it was, Prattsburgh won, 34 to 33. Corning Northside was rather easy for Prattsburgh, and we wo11 21 to 18 from them. Now came the big surprise of the season! Hornell High School had only to win one more game in order to have the championship secure. Having led the league list for some time, their team confidently invaded Ollf small camp with the fixed idea of playing a forty-minute ru11 away. Something seemed to go wrong, though, for instead they experienced forty minutes of hard-fought battle, without a 11lllllltC,S slump. Thomas outscored the veteran Buck four to two, and Prattsburgh won the game I7 to 18. Of course, this was a terrible and unexpected blow to Hornell. Two days later Addison High School came up and wo11 from our team 20 to I7 in a very exciting a11d well-played game. Thomas was i11- jured in the last half and consequently slowed up a bit. It was then that his opponent got three baskets, which were his only o11es during the game. I11 the next game, Corning Northside, triumphed over Old Franklin by the close score of 16 to 17. Weakness in shooting baskets featured tl1e game for Prattsburgh. Ill all abbreviated game a few days later, our team defeated, Cwith a score of 40 to 27,3 a pick-up town team composed of Hatch, Cook, R. Thomas, Brown, Kennedy and Palmer. While Reg Thomas played well, he was still no match for his brother Alto11. On March 3oth, Hornell High defeated Prattsburgh SI to 14, thus gaining sweet revenge. The game was nevertheless a fine affair, and fast throughout i11 spite of its being one-sided. Thomas held Buck even, which was considered rather a remarkable feat on Buck's ow11 court. The last two games were never played, but Canisteo forfeited one game 2 to nothing to Prattsburgh. Tl1e other was canceled by mutual COIISCUI of the interested parties. Thus closed tl1e most interesting basket- ball seaso11 with which Prattsburgh High School was ever COIIIICCtCd. Last, but very far fro111 least, the team wishes to thank every person who has contributed to 111aking the past SCHSOII the success that it was. Especially we extend our hearty thanks to those who voluntarily carried the team around in the worst possible winter weather. VVe realize how greatly we are indebted to them, ll0t only for this but also for the unlim- ited encouragement and support that we received through the entire sea- so11. We liked the feeling of having friends behind us, 11ot only whe11 we won, but when we lost, and we tha11k them now for their l1elp in 111any a11d various ways. -- Vrooman Higfby, 'ay

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26 FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL The substitutes, Clark, Keyes, Angus, and Putnam, practiced faith- fully and served well when called upon. In them rests the hope for the coming season's team, and we know from experience that they will make us proud of them. 0f the nineteen games played, ten were victories. Of these nineteen games fifteen were County League games, and of these fifteen games six were victories. This record is not really startling, but it is good, decid- edly, when we realize that this was Prattsburgh's first appearance in the League. On November 24, 1922, Prattsburgh defeated Rushville at Rushville by a 23 to 16 score. The game was Prattsburgh's all the way through, with a score of I2 to 8 for Prattsburgh at half time. The second game, also with Rushville, was played at Prattsburgh, and Prattsburgh was the victor again, 25 to 6. The game was a little too one-sided to be really interesting, as there was never any doubt as to the outcome. The first League game was a dashing affair with Hammondsport. The game should have been a local victory, but the idea that it was the first game of importance seemed to shake Prattsburgh's confidence. Ham- mondsport won by a 23 to I7 score. Frank Connable refereed in a very able manner. On December 15th, Prattsburgh suffered the first real slaughter of the season, when Addison High won a 66 to I7 game at Addison. Thomas and Olney were the only scorers for Prattsburgh, as Donley was handi- capped by a sprained finger. Otherwise Prattsburgh might have gotten a few points more, although the outcome would have been almost the same, as our boys were played around quite obviously. The fifth game, which was at Prattsburgh, featured a real surprise party, with Corning Free Academy as the victim. The Academy had made a splendid showing up to this time, but apparently over-confidence weakened them as it did Hornell later, and Prattsburgh was easily victor, at a 36 to 18 score. A Prattsburgh High School Alumni team was next taken on and taken down, 44 to 16. The Alumni played a good game, but lack of prac- tice, and consequent lack of team-work worked for their undoing. Reg Thomas was used at center for the Alumni, Alt Thomas jumping against him, with disastrous results to the Alumni. - In the meantime, Corning Free Academy had vowed vengence on our small town team, and confidently expected to annihilate us when we played in Corning in january. As it turned out, however, Prattsburgh once more upset their plans and succeeded in getting a I9 to 20 victory. These two victories for Prattsburgh put Free Academy out of the cham- pionship race. However, in spite of their disappointment, the Academy players were extremely good losers. Prattsburgh then fell into a streak of losing. I Regents exams worked havoc with the team's practice, and in addition to that, for a month fol- lowing the Regents, nearly every member of the team was half sick with

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28 FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNIHXI. Base-ball Team .S'lu11a'z'11gA, ld? la rzlgflzl. Olney, 3rd haseg Conine, lst haseg Bailey, Held, suhstituteg Clark, coach: Putnam, right field, suhstituteg Angus, ce11ter held, Higliy, Mgr. Srul1'a', 11172 in l'ljLf'hf.' Crossmon, left field: Thomas, catcher, Clark, captain and 2IlCl haseg Ilonley, pitcher, Keyes, shortstop, Ringrose, Knot shown,J right field. BASIC-BALI, NOTES At the time this paper goes to press, the haseehall team has not fin- ished its schedule in the Steuben County League. Of the seven games played to date, three have been victories, one of which was a league game. Lacking practice and coaching, Prattshurgh High School was defeat- ed I4 to o on April 21st hy Corning Free Academy. On May 5th Corning Northside defeated us again. The score was 4 to 1 and the game was slow and well hlled with errors, while on May Iitll, the Hornell High School was the victor hy a score of I2 to 3, in spite of I'rattshurgh's lead throughout the early stages of the game. On May 19th, Cohocton High won a 6 to 2 game from us, hut we were revenged in a non-league game a week later hy winning a 2 to 0 victory. On Decoration Day, a picked- up town team was defeated I1 to 7, and two days later Prattshurgh High won its first league game by defeating Hammondsport High at Pleasant Valley, 4 to 3. --I'm0111u11 lllfgrblf, '2,,f.