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

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flhr Sri. Cbvnrgrfa Svnrieig In the fall of 1911 a society was formed which was then something of an experiment but has since justified' its existence by its results and the interest manifested in it. Its membership includes the entire student body, no 'members of the faculty taking part in the meetings. The St. George's Society meets every Sunday night to talk over the serious interests of the boys' school life. The meeting opens with a hymn, and is addressed by one of the boys, appointed as leader, on some such topic as the following: Friendship, Influence, Loyalty to our Parents, Honesty, Cheerfulness. The meeting closes with prayer and a hynm. It has seemed to those who have followed it closely that its result has been to deepen boys' interests in the best side of school life, to influence the tone of tl1e School for good and to intensify school spiritg and so to be making for itself a permanent place in the life of the School. r OFFICERS I9lI-l9l2 EDWARD BARRY XVALI4--P1'f.s1h'a1zl SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER, jR.-If?'a4-Pmszdefzl GRAHAM B. I3LAINE-Sec1'c!ary-Y1'cnsurc1' , 80

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Haut Emu Hearn in Athleiira THLETICS have been steadily progressing during the past two years at St. George's. The football 5 :ig A team of 1910 can hardly be termed a success. Of the seven games played, two were victories, !l 1 two were ties, and the remaining three, defeats. Among theselast were the Milton and Middlesex L 5 Mg--,N games, which were lost by the scores of 15-o and I2-3 respectively. Save in the Roxbury Latin ii r'?'1 game, which was won by the score of I7-O, the team showed little or no aggressive power. During ' -' 5 -4 the season it showed no evidence of having improved. In the Milton game it was clearly outplayed and seemed to be in the throes of a severe slump. By the time of the Middlesex gallle it had par- tially recovered from this and held its opponents in check for two periods, at the same time scoring a field goal, however, in the third period our rivals scored two touchdowns in quick succession and St. George's had lost the game. In the Club series of this fall, Sachuest had distinctly the better team and gained a substantial lead for the cham- pionship. After the football season was over, soccer football was played and it proved a greater success than usual, as some organized coaching was obtained. During the winter term Mr. McLean turned out the most successful basket ball team in the history of the school. Unfortunately, its schedule was marred by illness, but in spite of this the team succeeded in showing excellent form and winning a greater part of its games. The hockey team managed to obtain more practice than usual owing to an extremely early winter, developing quite a good deal of speed. However, it was defeated by Milton in the one important game of its schedule, the score being 3-o. ln baseball, the team turned out was undoubtedly the best we have ever had. Of the thirteen games played ten proved to be victories. At the beginning of the season the team was without a pitcher, but Capt. Swain stepped into the breach and, though his regular position was short stop, he proved to be one of the best pitchers St. George's has ever seen. Not only did he pitch his team to eight victories, but he also won several of these by his timely and powerful batting. He broke up many games by his hitting, making no less than 20 hits in 42 times at bat, among these being three home-runs and two three-base hits. He was ably supported by the rest of the team. Some of the players devel- oped marked hitting ability towards the end of the season. The most exciting game of the season was played on May 82