St Georges High School - Lance Yearbook (Middletown, RI)

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the water fast and as quietly as a fish. The whale-boats purchased by the school had just been built for a New Bedford Whaler and came to us as carefully constructed as the keen eye of a whale-ship captain requires. lfVe have to-day in the boat-house logger heads that were part of their original equipment, which goes to show their genuineness. For purposes of distinction the whale-boats were painted the school colors, one red and the other white, and named after the two school clubs, Sakonnet and Sachuest. To serve as tenders for the111, two large skiffs were built, and, to avoid confusion, painted to match the whale-boats. It is the custom for the crews to overhaul their respective boats early in the Spring, and for the first and second Sakonnet Club crews to practice rowing Monday afternoons when their Hag fiies over the boat-house. The Sachuest Club crews have the use of the boat-house on Tuesday afternoons. On Monday there is Sachuest Club base-ball practice and 011 Tuesday there is Sakonnet base-ball practice, thus making it possible for a boy to be on both his club team and crew. As the school base-ball team games are usually played on Wednesday, there is not ordinarily boating on that day, 11eitl1er is there on Thursday when the club base-ball teams have their matches, but Friday afternoons are reserved for boating, when club races are in order and often closely contested. E. S. RJ ' HI - , ffgqfymrigmmllil aiflliiilill1.:g3j.S 2 : - rog

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s 'be J X.. ei BOFIT ll I . 'gnqlul l I I , i' F 3. i all pl, . T. GEORGElS SCHOOL is particularly fortunate ill overlooking the ocean and having within a short distance the protected waters of Narragansett Bay. With such possibilities for boating it remained only to ascertain what would be tl1e most desirable form for this sport to take and to raise funds for the purchase of boats, the first consideration being tl1e safety of the boys, many of whom might be expected to come to the school from inland places. Accordingly very early in the history of the school, while it was still in Newport, there was purchased by general subscription a large and seaworthy life-boat, which was christened tl1e M?l'lkCVlZ Lzigkfs. This boat had been in use at the Brentonls Reef Life Saving Station, and after purchased by the school was kept in Newport Harbor, and frequently manned by twelve school boys and rowed about among tl1e yachts and battleships. VVhen the school was moved into Middletown, the Third Beach was found more convenient, being nearer than Newport harbor, and the moorings were placed there. As interest continued to grow in boating, the need of more boats and a boat-house became pressing, and through the generosity of several parents of boys at the school both were made possible. While tl1e large roomy boat-house was in process ,of construction two New Bedford whale-boats were purchased. This type of boat was selected on account of its strength, seaworthiness and remarkably easy and graceful lines, all of whicl1 have been the outcome of actual experience in tl1e pursuit of whales, from which a particularly desirable model has developed. Then too, these boats have the added advantage of being equipped with center-board and hinged mast-step, whicl1 permits of their being quickly rigged with mainsail and jib. Hence they can be sailed as well as rowed, and with a free sheet slip through IOS

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P. C. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1 908 1909 1910 IQII 1906 7 1907-8 1908-9 1909-10 1910-11 1911-12 Glaptaina nf Zllurmrr Grams Foo! Bal! B. K. Potter H. Congclon, jr A. Glazier . S. Morgan C. Darling . W. Johnson . T. Alger . T. YVall, Jr. . Walker . K. Sclloepf . S. Frost Baskfl Ball VV. E. Wilder R. T. Alger H. L. Fenner G. C. Bnel1,jr. W. H. Hoslcier P. WV. Foster, Ir. IIO 1902 IQO3 1904 1905 IQO6 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1904- 1907- 1908 IQII Base Bal! W. S. Glzier J. H. Congdon, jr. H. N. A1'1'OXVSlllltl1 F. Forclllleinler, Jr W. W. Philles W. B. VVate1'man H. L. Fenner H. L. Fenner A. T. Wall, jr. R. B. Swain P. S. BllSll Iahzckcy 5 C. H. Palmer 8 H. L. Fenner 9 J. G. lfVrigl1t IO J. G. Wrigllt II R. B. Swain 1909- 1910- -12 D. G. Buchanan