Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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THE OOLDEN-ieOD Reason of lf)08 Base-ball WHILE the baseball team as yet has not made a very satisfactory sl owing, there still remains to be played a majority of games, and these are on the home grounds. We have struggled under various difficulties, h irst of all was lack of material and practically a new team had to be developed. But now with a sufficient amount of practice.and hard experience ly play- ing several fast teams, the boys are rounding into mid-season form, and we hope to make a de- cided gain from now on and overshadow the past defeats. Again, we have played most of our games away from home, and as it is to be expected, we can not show to advantage the hard work that is being done by the boys. But now that we are on our home stretch, we hope to give the fans a different specimen of ball. Therefore, putting all these things together (you will find it is no easy mathematical pro- blem) we have fought an up hill fight and the true result will be shown before the season closes. So we trust the school will not lack confidence in the team and, by patiently waiting will find out its true worth. So just wait and WATCH. T. A. K. ‘08 Basket-ball Season ALTHOUGH this was the fust season in basket-ball at Quincy, the school team made a record of which we may well be proud. A strong squad of players who had learned the game at the Y. M. C. A. were available at the very beginning of the season, and the team was very successful from the sounding of the referee’s whistle in the very first game. Lack of team practice was noticeable in the early game, and this fault was never eradicated. All games lost were to teams far superior to our own in team play. The clock-like precision of the teams from Weymouth, Brockton and Malden showed us clearly the weak-point in our team. This is a fault which must be remedied in another season. Too much individual work and a glaring dis- regard for the fundamental rules of training were the two faults most apparent in this team. In individual brilliancy, plucky endeavor,and loyalty to the school our team was the equal to any tcamaround Boston. In two places.at least, we had worthy candidates for positions on the Interscholastic team. Another element of strength in this year’s team was the constant good feeling and loyalty to one another evident among the members of the team. Fortunately for the school, also, a large pro- portion of this year’s team will be available at the beginning of next season,and we can expect even better results next year. Surely a word of commendation is due to the student body at large. The team was supported most loyalty,and this support did much to ensure its success. The “Knocking,” so evident in previous years, was noticeable alone by its absence. This is as things should be. It takes a very small sized individual to knock his own side. May such, hereafter, be ever lacking in Quincy. 'I'he scores of the various games were:— Quincy 3d Braintree 4 4 i 65 Rockland 1 4 4 45 Brockton 18 4 i 13 Melrose 13 4 4 52 R. C. High 24 4 4 28 Milton 19 44 15 Weymouth 25 4 4 16 Everett 15 4 4 40 Middleboro 8 4 4 24 Everett 14 4 i 22 Milton 14 4 4 26 Brockton 41 4 4 27 Abington 14 32 Reading 10 4 4 32 Brookline 12 4 4 20 Malden 61 Total 12 games won, 3 lost, one tie. Track and Field Sports FOR the first time in the history of the school a regular track team has been organized this season and the members of the team have already participated in a triangular meet with Powder Point and Allen School. The Meet was held at Duxbury on the Powder Point grounds and was won by the latter school, Quincy coming in second, and Allen School third. Our team was seriously crippled by the dis-

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THE CiOLDEN-ROD arc under the care of efficient coaches and train- ers. The gymnasium is open daily, and by the generosity of the alumni, an admirable athletic field with modern improvements.including dress- ing rooms, showerbaths and a large grandstand supplies the needs of out-door sports. Besides the athletic organizations of the col- lege, there are the usual musical and dramatic clubs, and the debating teams. The students support a paper, published twice a week, called the “Dartmouth” and a monthly magazine. All these organizations are open to the student body, and the members are chosen in competitive trials. I realize that this account of Dartmouth is very general, but I hope that it may give you some idea of the college, and I should be very glad to see any of the students of the Quincy High School in Hanover at any time, and to show them the college. Rathburn E. Sprague Athletics THE aim of the undergraduates and faculty of every school and college should be to develop athletics and scholarship as near to the ideal as possible without sacrificing one to aid the other. This, it seems to me, is the state which Mr. Cleveland is successfully endeavoring to approach. His methods alone have made possible the rapid rise in the standards of scholar- ship and athletics that has been apparent dur- ing the past year. Quincy High School Quincy The football season started with fair success and after receiving a little coaching from the graduates the team immediately showed great improvement. At its best the team was able to cope on even terms with any of the high schools in the vicinity of Boston. The splendid new gymnasium made it possible for HigirSchool to enter another field of sport— basket-ball. In this the school was represented by as suc- cessful a team as it will probably ever have. From the start the fellows showed noi only brilliant individual playing but also fine team work—two things which rarely go together. The school is to be congratulated on such a success- ful start in a new sport. Another sport, while not a new one to the school in one sense, is in another by the fact that for the first time track athletics of the High School are organized. The fellows who have competed have done ex ceedingly well and will become very successful {f they will keep at it. )ol Football Scores In baseball the team lias been weakened by 1907 the loss of fellows who are too lazy to keep up 0 Revere G in their studies. Under such circumstances no 5 Bridgewater 19 team can have a good record. However, several 0 Medford 11 members of the team will return next year and 0 Somerville 17 with their experience should form a nucleus for 14 Wellesley 1 a strong team. 34 Dedham 0 The final step in the organization of Q. H. S. G Melrose 0 athletics will be taken when a permanent coach 18 Brookline 6 for the teams is secured. Then and only then 0 Everett 22 will the High School have, year after year, very 6 Camb. Latin G successful teams. G Brockton 14 H. F. Miller Jr. 0 Dorchester G Q. H. S.. ‘03

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riiE GOLDEN-ROD qualification of several members because of low- scholarship. In spite of this handicap Quincy scored 27 points through the good work of four men, and received much praise for the spirit shown under such adverse circumstances. Walker secured first in the 100 yard dash, with Hull taking second. In the 220 yard event the positions were reversed; Hull first, Walker second. Hull also won second place in the 440 yard run,and a third in the high jump. Murray won the broad jump, and R. Blake won second place in the half mile. White “Q’s” have been awarded to three men by the Athletic Board. More men are needed for the track team, es- pecially in the weight events. Such candidates should train for the approaching inter-class meet early in June. Track athletics should be boomed at Quincy because they represent the finest type of amateur sport. Plenty of grit, sportmansliip and clean living are necessary for the successful trackman. Girls’ Basket-ball VERY FEW GIRLS have taken the advan- tage of the fine opportunity offered them to enter the first indoor Basket Ball game ever Senior Team Grace Larkin K Imogene Livermore F (capt.) Catherine Gay C Alma Reed G Blodweu Walters G Gladys Howe Sub Harriet Ruggles Sub played in Q. H. S. but of those who have, all will be glad of a chance to thank Miss Guild and Mr. Cleveland through the Golden-Rod, for the good time they have given us. Practice started soon after the boys’ games had commenced so that we could have the use of the gymnasium only on Wednesday afternoon. No freshmen showed up and the question of whether they considered themselves too strong to combat with such weaklings as the Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores, has never been solved. About the first of April Captains were chosen from the different teams and every one looked forward to the tournament games. A few games were played when Miss Guild was called home by the death of her father. This left us without an umpire and the games, much to the sorrow of the Seniors,who could have easily proved them- selves champion Basket Ball players, had to be cancelled. The games that came off resulted as follows 1908— 6 1909—fi 1909— 13 1910—6 1908—22 1909—6 1908—10 1910—6 Sophomore Team Sally Baker F Ruth Bppes F Bertha Given C Isabel Thomas G (capt.) Minnie Giles G I. H. L. '08 Junior Team Hazel Dewherst F Bessie Brooks F Ruth Parker C (capt.) Lois Kendall G Dorothy Packard G Mabel Anderson Sub Ruth Page Sub