Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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18 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL 12th game Hinesburg 41 30 This game came the night after our Gym burned and our boys had been up practically all night, After three hours in snow drifts our boys finally arrived, cold and in borrowed uniforms—but they heat Hinesburg on a small floor by eleven points. 13th game Beeman’s Academy 50 25 Our boys went to Beeman’s and returned with a 25 point lead. 14th game Bristol 42 16 The boys were all keyed up for this game. Bristol has always been our rival and our boys were set on beating them. After a short argument about rules our team went on the floor and piled up a lead of 26 points. 15th game Essex Junction 32 22 Essex Junction was very proud of its record. They had amassed a long string of consecutive victories (including V. H. S.) and were still winning, until Yergennes stepped in and spoiled their record. Our boys had to beat Essex Junction in order to get into the Tournament and they certainly won the right. 16th game Essex Junction 28 24 Our team had to beat Essex Junction again in order to play Bradford. For the second time in four days our boys beat the invincible Essex Quintet. 17th game Bradford 31 13 Now all our team had to do was to beat Bradford to make the Tournament. Bradford proved to be an easy victory, and our boys were in the Tournament. The Tournament 18th game St. Michael’s 23 20 The first game that we had to play was with St. Michael’s of Montpelier. Although St. Michael’s proved a very hard game, our boys came through and won the first game of the Tournament. 16th game Orleans 13 28 Yergennes lost in the Semi-Finals of the Annual Junior Tournament to Orleans by a score of 28-13. The Orleans team was later winner of the Tournament by virtue of their 26-16 victory over Bethel. The Vergennes boys, fatigued by playing five games within eight days, could not hold the pace set by the Red Raiders of Orleans except in the first and third quarters when the scoring was: Vergennes 4. Orleans 5; 3rd period, Yergennes 7, Orleans 2. After the Tournament our boys finished off the season by beating Bristol (27-13) and the Vermont Industrial School (29-27). Ralph Booth was selected as All Tournament Guard for the second team. After the season was over the Merchants of Vergennes joined and gave the boys a banquet. At the banquet each member of the team was presented with a miniature gold basketball. The team has been admirably well supported both when losing or when winning. At each Tournament game many people went many miles over ice and snow to support the team. BASEBALL SEASON 1st Beeman’s April 28 10 to 9, favor of Beeman’s 2nd Middlebury May 1 18 to 17. favor of V. H. S. 3rd Bristol May 4 10 to 8, favor of Bristol

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BLUE AND WHITE 17 Inga’ Atljlrttra Russell Kingman, ’34, Editor 1st game Industrial School 24 2t Of course we didn’t have Vasseur or Levlock but our boys forged ahead just the same to win by a slight four-point margin. 2nd game Hinesburg 29 18 The new defense seemed to work perfectly. The Hinesburg quintet spent most of their time trying to get through, but the V. H. S. boys were too much for them. 3rd game Middlebury 36 4 The first Middlebury game was our first big game with all of the odds favoring Middlebury. The game was probably the outstanding guard game of the' year as Middlebury only scored four points. All of the four points were scored by foul shots. Booth and Martin covered their men perfectly, preventing any short shots, while the other three men held their men to a few hurried shots from way out in the court. 4th game Alumni 32 24 The Alumni game nearly went down in history as a defeat. Early in the last quarter a substitution was made which nearly cost the game, but Ralph Booth began to see red and sank two in a row to send the game into overtime periods. The Alumni team made a shot which was tied by Levlock. This meant another overtime period. Chas. Ryan pulled his usual stunt and scored four points to win the game for V. H. S. 5th game St. Mary’s 20 22 The St. Mary’s team seemed to be a jinx to our boys. They won both games by long shots. The game at Vergennes was very close, being tied at the end of the last quarter. This swung the battle into an overtime period. St. Mary’s scored two points, which put the game on ice for them. 6th game Proctor 18 23 Everyone was surprised to see how close our boys held the strong Proctor team. Proctor was the winner of the Southern tournament and was in the finals of the State Senior Tournament. 7th game Middlebury 31 26 The second Middlebury game was a different story from the first. Vergennes was behind 5 pts. at the half but Lady Luck was right at our side. With approximately one minute and 26 seconds of time left our boys came through with ten points. Booth made one of his famous back court heaves, and Alec made one of his equally famous long shots. Chas. Ryan came through as usual and made three long shots in a row. At the end our boys came off the floor with a lead of 5 points. 8th game Essex Junction 13 31 Our star center, Vasseur, was unable to go to Essex and we had to play on a small floor. Due to these two reasons our boys were easily taken over by the strong Essex Junction five. 9th game St. Mary’s 15 24 For the second time of the year our boys met their jinx and were taken over by St. Mary’s. St. Mary’s was the only school to beat our boys two games. 10th game Waterbury 20 16 Waterbury insisted on a game and finally our coach consented to play. They came with high hopes but our boys proceeded to crash these hopes and came out on the long end of the score with four points to spare. 11th game Beeman’s Academy 53 13 Beeman’s were taken over by a 40 point lead. This game helped a great deal to improve our boys’ style.

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BLUE AND WHITE 19 Exdranyp Elaine Beach, ’35, Editor “What sort of paper are you interested in—the ‘Burlington Free Press,’ ‘Rutland Herald,’ or—?” “Oh no, said the lad who had just entered a certain bookstore, “I would like something full of stories, poems, sports and jokes.” “Ah,” replied the clerk, “I have exactly what you want. You will probably be interested in some magazines I have to show you because they are published by different schools. No doubt you-are still in school?” “Oh yes,“ replied the lad, “I’m in the graduating class.” Withdrawing to a nearby shelf the salesman picked up a trim-looking periodical upon whose cover was the title, ■“Lasell Leaves.” “This,” he said is a booklet published by the Junior College of Auburndale. You will notice, as you look through the book, that the literary department is very complete. The poem entitled ‘Faith,’ by Elizabeth Snow, is strikingly impressive. I’m sure you would enjoy reading about ‘Lasell in the Old World.’ ” “And then,” the clerk continued, “we have something different from the book type. That is—a newspaper.” He showed the lad a copy of the “Signboard” from Bay Path Institute. “In this paper you see the news is well organized. There is an especially good editorial, ‘Getting Along With Other People.’ I know you will find many laughs in the section entitled ‘Bits O’ Humor.’ The ‘Alumni News’ seems quite complete. You see, this must be an ideal type of newspaper for there is such a long list of exchanges.” “We have another newspaper, 'The Banner’ from Ludlow. However, I think this is perhaps a little too ‘newsy.’ You probably prefer more poems and stories with a few jokes to stimulate the interest.” The lad suddenly remarked, “I’m very interested in French also. Have you anything in that line?” He picked up a copy of “The Hi-Spirit” from En-osburg Falls. “Well.” said the clerk. “ ‘The lli-Spir-it’ is quite a clever paper in that there is a ‘Who’s Who’ section, but I’m sorry to say they have no ‘Parlez-Vous’ department.” “Here is a copy of the ‘Benham Hi’ from Benham, Kentucky. I imagine you would like more short stories in it, wouldn’t you?” The boy nodded “Yes.” “And,” he added, “a French Department.” “The Spaulding Sentinel” from Barre next caught the lad’s eye. “I see,” he said, “there is quite a bit of poetical talent in this booklet. There is also a good exchange department which speaks well for any school paper.” “What do you think stands out in this paper?” the clerk asked, holding out a copy of “The Sutherland” from Proctor. The lad replied, “Editorials! My! There are so many!” “Yes,” the clerk replied, “and it would help anyone to read ‘The Best Policy’ in the Literary Department. It is indeed clever! “Here is a copy of ‘The Lakonian’ from Laconia, New Hampshire. “I admire their courage in publishing this paper bi-weekly. “Probably you are in a hurry to look at ‘The Peopleonian’ from Morrisville. There is an especially good joke section. You ought to read ‘Life’s Yardstick.’ The idea expressed in it is quite delightful. “I know I am showing you quite a few to pick from,” the clerk continued, “but as there are so many types of papers and magazines, I feel that you will be benefited in the end.