Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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10 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Htbletfc Wotcs On Monday. September 11. Captain Commins is- sued the call for football candidates. About thirty men reported for practice at 1 .roadway field, nine of whom have heretofore won their S.” The new material is also good, and. with Coach Cuddy again in charge of the players, Somerville looks like a winner. The line is fully as heavy as last year's, and al- though the backfield has not been as heavy, it will make up in speed what it lacks in weight. The daily work consists of tackling the dummy, signal practice, and a short scrimmage with the second eleven. The second team has organized, and has elected McLaughlin captain. Assistant Manager Whitnev is managing the second, and Bergen Reynolds is in charge of the first team. Leo II afford assisted Coach Cuddy during Sep- tember. His work, most of it. was devoted to the second eleven. At the annual meeting of the Interscholastic League at Young's Hotel September 30. II. F. Stone was re-elected secretary; George Hosmcr, Latin, and Mr. Stone. English, were elected gradu- ate members, and Bergen Reynolds, Latin. ‘00, was elected undergraduate member. Those who have not yet joined the Athletic As- sociation ought to do so soon, at least before Thanksgiving Day's game. The many Somerville friends of Stacey and Blair turned out to see the llarvard-Bowdoin game, in which both of these old Somerville stars partici- pated. Blair directing the Bowdoin team from quarterback, while Stacey played a good game against the famous Brill. The fact that a number of schools have canceled their games with us has caused the management much uncalled-for trouble and annoyance. It cer- tainly doesn’t show the true sportsmanlike spirit. Do your share toward striving for the pennant. Attend the games! To quote a certain Boston paper, our football captain is a sterling leader. Follow your leader, boys, and the championship is ours. ----------------------------- athletic association The annual meeting of the Somerville High School A. A. was held September 20 at the Latin School. The following officers were elected: President. Russell Freeman, K..'0(5; vice-president. Malcolm Fillmore. L., '0(5: secretary, Seward Jarvis. L.. '00; treasurer, H. L. Jones; faculty members. G. Y. Hosmcr, L.. and H. F. Sears, K.; graduate members, Chester Harts, L.. and Herbert Stone, E. Richard Keves, E., '()(». was elected manager of the baseball team for 1000. and Lawrence Bowlby, L., '07. was elected assistant manager. --------------------------- ©Iris’ J5asl;ct Ball TEeam The candidates for the girls’ basket' ball team were called out during the latter part of October. The girls are again in charge of Miss Thayer, who coached them so successfully last year. At this writing, however, no captain had been elected. A number of last year’s team have graduated, leaving many positions open to new aspirants. It is the wish of the coach and others in charge that all the girls who play or wish to play would come out to practice at once, as a number of challenges have already been received from teams in the vicinity. -------------------------------------- Somerville, 14; B. C. fl rcp. S., 0 September 27 Somerville opened the football sea- son by defeating B. C. Prep. School on Broadway field, 11-0. Somerville’s fumbling at crucial points of the game accounts for her comparatively poor showing, as Prep. at no time was able to gain hci

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 9 gail was a “peach, and he was glad she was going to stay all summer. Sydney.” said his mother, how on earth do you know all about Abigail?” Oh, the kid's been watching Mrs. Cook scrub her back porch. And I want to meet Abigail. he ended. Mrs. Jones chuckled. She'll probably come over to my house for eggs in the morning, and if you'll happen over I'll introduce you. Fine and dandy! I'll he there. What time? “ ’Bout half-past six. and she chuckled again. “Won't she stay to breakfast, too?’’ If you can't get up early one morning, you don't deserve to meet her, and I shan't say one word about you. And Mrs. Jones went down the steps laughing. At the gate she met Mrs. Cook, and they walked down the road to Miss Maria’s yard together. Sydney Barker has seen her niece already, and he thinks she’s terrible pretty. said Mrs. Jones in a stage whisper. Land sakes! What’ll his mother say? an- swered Mrs. Cook. I don't know. said her neighbor darkly, and started across the street to her own house. There! she said, as she started to get her din ner. '1 suppose I shouldn't have done that, but it's temperance meeting this afternoon, and they’ve got to have something to talk about.” However. Monday afternoon lie walked home from down town with Abigail, and then the fun began. It had happened this way: Abigail was coming home carrying a box of berries and a jar of cream, with mail and other bundles. Now. how- ever well berries and cream may be on the supper table, they arc awkward things to bring home. Just outside the village, in a wild effort to keep the cream from falling. Abigail had dropped her let- ters. Sydney was just behind, and he picked up her mail, relieved her of the cream, and walked on beside her. lie kept tight hold of the cream, so there was nothing she could do. Presently they met Mrs. Cook driving with a stout, loud-voiced woman, behind a fat old brown horse. Mrs. Cook’s face assumed a complacent air. and both women bowed delightedly. Mrs. Cook called on me this morning. said the girl. Poor thing! Did she have to wait all day yes- terday?” said Sydney. I guess she made up for it. I can’t think of anything I didn’t tell her. But. said he solemnly. Mrs. Cook is nothing to the person she was with just now. That was Mchitable. and whereas Mrs. Cook will simply re- port the fact that we were walking together. Mc- hitable will be able to repeat our conversation. Oh!” laughed Abigail. I hope it will be inter- esting. “It will be. and when I hear it I'll come and tell you. he said. Miss Maria met her niece in the hall. How du. you meet Sydney Parker? she asked. Oh! and Abigail remembered. '1 he cream started to fall, and in her attempt to catch it. Miss Maria forgot her question. That evening Mrs. Cook went to call on the Parkers so early that they were still at dinner. She sat down in the sitting room to wait, selecting the chair whence she could see the reflecting doors of the china cabinet in the corner of the dining- room. When they were through, she saw Sydney and his elder sister start for the kitchen door, and she called. “Sydney! Remembering the glass doors, the young man turned and came back into the sitting room. “I saw you walking up with Miss Maria’s niece.” She spoke t the son. but she kept her eye on his mother. Neither showing any signs of emotion, she tried again. She’s a real pleasant girl, I think. Mrs. Cook, she is the nicest girl I ever met in my life, and I am going to call on her as soon as my mother will let me. That was cream and the mail I was carrying for her to-day. There was Miss Maria's Congregationalist and the Chronicle, but the letters fell wrong side up. He stopped for breath, and his mother hastily changed the conver- sation to the new minister. Mrs. Cook admitted to herself that she had gained little by that call, but to the neighbors she said that Sydney’s mother would not let him call on Abigail. Wednesday Sydney heard that, before MchitabL could tell her sister what he had said to Abigail, Mrs. Cook had unwittingly said they couldn't hear a word of it. That night lie called on Abigail, and wisely included her aunt in the call, so that before many days he was doing Miss Maria's errands, and she was saying how college had improved him. So affairs went on all summer, and Sydney had even taken Abigail to a band concert, which was very significant. Daily Mrs. Cook reported the sorrows of Mrs. Parker, till it was getting to be an old story. Suddenly, to the consternation of all. a young man appeared at Miss Maria's. It was on a Thurs- day. and Mrs. Cook was on her weekly visit to the. nearest town. So for once it was Mrs. Jones who reported what he was. Abigail had come over for extra eggs, and confided to her that it was her fiance, and he had come to go home with her Sat- urday morning. Affairs were complicated now. in- deed. The younger part of the neighborhood in- sisted on a duel, and went around listening for a pistol shot. Friday night they saw Sydney go in Miss Maria’s door, but they heard only the sounds of the old piano protesting against rag-time. Saturday morning, when the village hack drove up to Miss Maria’s gate, every woman in the neigh- borhood was in her yard or on her steps shaking rugs. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Parker came out on the sidewalk to say good-by to Abigail. After she had gone, they stopped for a few moments to talk, and the little Parker girl came out and called to her mother. Say. mother, Mary says she won't keep Syd- ney's breakfast another minute, and lie simply won't get up.”

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 11 distance, and never held the home team for downs. After the first few moments of play, the offence got together, and. the ball being advanced almost to the goal-line, Feeley was pushed over for a touch- down. Hall kicked the goal. Somerville soon had the ball near the goal-line again, where, after a se ries of fumbles. Baldwin was sent over for a touch- down. Hall again kicked the goal. In the second half Somerville played nearly a new team. When within scoring distance, they lost the ball on a fumble, and Landrigan, attempt- ing to punt out. was nailed behind the line for a safety. Groton, 12; Somerville, 0 October 4 Somerville played the strong Groton team at Groton, and. after putting up one of the poorest exhibitions of football that a Somerville team could, was defeated. 12-0. Somerville kicked off to Groton on her 30-vard line. Watcrbury fumbled on the next rush, the ball going to Somerville, who. however, was not able to gain, and the ball went to Groton on downs. Groton was held, and punted outside. After a minute of play, Somerville fumbled on her 20-yard line, where Thayer, on the second rush, carried the ball over for a touchdown. Bacon kicked the goal. The rest of the half Groton played a kicking game. Somerville inevitably losing the ball on downs or fumbles. Twohig was hurt in a fierce scrimmage, and had to leave the field, Henderson taking his place. The second half Groton kicked off to Commins, but Somerville lost the ball on downs. Groton punted to Jarvis, who dropped the ball. Groton se- curing it. Groton then worked a trick play that completely fooled Somerville, and carried the ball around for another touchdown. Bacon again kicked the goal. The rest of this half was the repetition of the last part of the first half, Groton twice punting behind the goal-line for touchbacks. The game ended without any more scoring. For Groton. Watcr- bury and Thayer played the best game, while Som- erville’s work as a team was conspicuously off color. The line-up:— GROTC) N. SO MER VILLE. Crocker, l.c................r.e., Rice (Freeman) Harding, l.t.....................r.t.. Commins Marvin, l.g..........................r.g.. Hall Haddon (Barber), c..........c.. Graves (Ireland) Bacon, r.g...........l.g.. Fernandez (Buttimer) Forster, r.t.............l.t.. Baldwin (Merrill) Peabody, r.e...............I.c.. II. Henderson Rogers, q.b.................q.b.. Cuddy (Jarvis) Frothingham. l.h.b.....r.li.b., Bowlby (Sharry Thayer, r.li.b...l.h.b.. Twohig (W. Henderson) Watcrbury. f.b..............f.b.. Young (Feelcy) Touchdowns—Thayer (2). Goals from touch down—Bacon (2). Referee—Charles Cuddy, em- pire-—Mr. Peabody. Timekeepers—Mr. Abbot and Mr. Jones. Linesmen—Mr. Richardson and G. Cuddy. Time—Two 15-min. halves. Somerville, IS; Uauflbn “prep.. 5 October t Somerville played and defeated in a ragged game an aggregation known as Vaughn Prep.” Cuddy received the first kickoff and ran it forty- five yards. He carried the ball over for a touch- down on the next play on a quarterback run. He kicked his own goal. Vaughn punted after Somer- ville's kickoff, and steady plunges by the backs brought almost to the line, where Sharry took it over. Cuddy again kicked the goal. Somerville punted after Vaughn's kickoff, and in the midst of a scrimmage, a Vaughn man secured the ball and made a touchdown, which was allowed by the ref- eree. a Vaughn man. The second half a number of substitutes were put in. Somerville, however, was able to make another touchdown, from which Cuddy kicked the goal. Somerville, IS; flDecbanic Hrts f)l(jb, 0 Our next game was with M. A. II. October 11.. whom we defeated. 18-0. This school had a sup- posedly strong team, but Somerville played a good game against them. After the first few minutes of play. Somerville began to tear up her opponent's line, and Commins went over for a touchdown. Cuddy kicked the goal. The next touchdown was made by Young, after Mechanics had lost on a bluff punt and Bald- win had run fifteen yards. Cuddy kicked the goal. The only feature of the second, in which Somer- ville was penalized a number of times, was Jarvis’ 25-vard run for a touchdown. Hall kicking the goal. The line-up:— SOM. HIGH. MECHANIC ARTS. Rice (Freeman), l.c......r.e.. Dresser (Murphy) Commins, l.t......................r.t.. O’Brien Buttimer (Hall), l.g..............r.g.. McClay Graves (Ireland), c.......c.. hales (Townsend) Fernandez, r.g.................l.g.. Robertson Baldwin (Merrill), r.t...l.t., Seaholm (Amsden) Henderson, r.e.........l.c., Dougherty (Sibley) Cuddy (Fillmore), q.b... .q.b., Killduff (Hayward) Bowlby (Jarvis), l.h.b............r.li.b.. Kenar Sharry ( Y. Henderson), r.li.b......l.h.b.. Hall Young (Feeley). f.b.......f.b., Rosatto (Small) Score—Somerville. 18; M. A. H.. i». Touch- downs—Commins. Young. Jarvis. 'Goals from touchdowns—Cuddy (2). Hall. Umpire—Hinck- ley. Referee—Joe Story. Linesmen—Parker, Hall. Time—15-min. halves. Somerville, 17; CambriOcie Xntln, 0 The strong Cambridge Latin team met their Waterloo at Somerville October 14, to the tune of 1 i-0. It was Driscoll’s initial appearance, and he made good with a vengeance. From Cambridge’s kickoff. Driscoll soon took the ball over for a touchdown. Hall kicked the