Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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VM,K FOriri ' KKX THE W. II. S. DEBATEll and to Captaiu Connelly for niakintj ' it possible for us to have an indoor traek team. Time trials were hek) eacli week for the relay team. Captaiu Duitfyau, Paul K. Guillow, Harold Moucrief, and Wilfred Moncrief made the team as regulars and Earl Gliddeu and Robert Philbrook as substitutes. This team ran iu the B. A. A. Irish-Americau and at the Armory. At both games Wakefield came iu third and at the Armory meet they beat Stoueham High. On February 19, the track team held an athletic meet in the State Armory. The main features of this meet were the relay races between Huntington School, Maiden, Stoneham, and Wakefield, and Co. K and Co. A. rhis meet was a big success. The proceeds en- abled a track coach to be hired for the spring. The work is not, however, without its drawbacks. The school session, which lasts from eight o ' clock in the morning until four-thirty iu the afternoon, makes practice in regular squads almost impossible, except in the evening. The absence of any playgrounds or proper field for track comi)etitiou is also discouraging. Lack of fuuds is also another drawback. Despite all this, the men under Captaiu Duggau are training faith- fully) and will be ready to give an account of them- selves when the opportunity is offered. Meets with Peabody, Melrose, and Hindge Technical schools have been arranged, and teams representing the Wakefield High School will be sent to the games at Peabody, Arlington, Harvard, and Worcester. The fellows out for track are Captaiu Duggan, H. and W. Moucrief, Maxwell, Barry, Eaton, (tuIIIow, Gliddeu, Dignan, Drugan, Winslow, Sexton, Philbrook, Coakley, Dillaway, C. and J. Kirk, Zwicker, Goodwin, and Collinsou. Paul K. Guillow, 1915. INDOOR TRACK V EET OUTDOOR TRACK ueeT THROUGH the efforts of Faculty Manager , John Sawyer, Student Manager 31ilhird @@a Thresher, and the track squad, a very suc- cessful Athletic Meet was held at the State Armory, Friday evening, February 19. As additional features, the relay teams of Huntington School, Maiden High, Stoneham High, Co. A, and Co. K, were invited to comijete. A military drill, led by Major Ralph lielmore, opened the program. The cadets gave a fine account of themselves and were well received by the crowd. The greatest surprise of the evening was the victory of Maiden High over the Huntington ScIkjoI in llie relay. Wakefield High had little trouble iu defeating Stone- ham High, beating them by half a la]). w AKEFIELD High opened itt i outdoor track season Th defeating ursday afternoon, Peabody High, April 29, by WM 44-28, on the park. Score : Wakefield Peabody 100 vds. 3 i 2-20 yds. 3 6 880 yds. 6 3 Mile 8 1 Pole vault 5 4 Running broad 4 5 Running high 6 3 Shot put 9 Totals 44 28 Paul K. Guillow, 1915. M neiRose ueeT ELROSE defeated WakefieM in a dual track meet, 45 to 27, at Melrose, May Itj. Wakefield faile l to land a point in the 100 yd. shot put or broad jump. The score : Me Irose W akefield 100 yds. 9 220 vds. 6 3 Half-mile 1 (S Mile 3 (J Pole-vault 2 7 Shot-put 9 Broad-jump 9 High-jumi) 6 3 Total. C.VPTAIN Fred Reid called out the baseball candidates the last week in March. About a thirty boys resi)()nded and after three weeks ' ]iractice. Coach dleorge Melouey cut the scjuad to eie en men. The veterans ' back, besides Captain Fred Reid, 1 b, ]), are Frank Reid, rf, .Malcolm Ealon, 2b, Thomas Dignan, cf, j), Morris Donnevan, ss. Earl (ilidden, cf, Thomas Murray, p, cf, Eugene Sullivan, if, aiul Gibbons, c. Raymond ( assidy, 3b, Daniel Galviu, c, and Huestis, c, are the new members of the team. C issidy is i)ut- tiiig u]) a line game at third. ' I ' his is the first time lie has come out for the team. It is also (Jalvin ' s first try, aiul he is making good fast. The substitutes are Burke, ]). rf, Lukciii c, rf; Branch, fielder. Sexton, cf, Bar- rett, 2b. 1 ' aul K. (mm, low.

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THE W. H. S. DEI5ATER PA(iE TinirrEEN 1 I I TRACK T ' HE prospect for a good track team this sprinjj. was very bright. For the first time iu the history of the scliool we could turn out a team cai)able of doing- creditable work in competi- tion with other high schools of (Greater Boston. jack Gordon, with a faithful few, and without any encouragement from the student body, training- faith- fully without any coaching, made the start that enables us to have a team this year. Inspired by their success, Captain Joseph Duggan started a cross-country team last fall. A dozen boys reported and from these a fine team was picked. Runs were arranged with Peaboily, Stoneham, and Woburn. The team finished second in the Mystic League, and fifth at the meet hehl under the auspices of Worcester Academy. Captain Joseph Duggan, George (4ood vin, and Charles Kirk were our most cousistent runners, and for their faithfulness and good work they were rewarded with W ' s . (4eorge Goodwin finished first iu every run, except at Worcester where he finisheil third. He broke the rec- ord of the Mystic League by two minutes. Much of the success of the team is due to ] [anag:er Millard Thresher. As a result of the fine showing-, interest in track work ran high and when Captain Duggan called out the candidates for the indoor relay team, about thirty fellows responded. Maiden High School offered us the use of its outdoor track for any afternoon in the week after four o ' clock. Later in the season Captain Connelly of Co. A allowed us to practice evenings in the Armory with the Co. A track team. We are very grateful to the INIalden High

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THE W. II. S. DEI ' ,ATEH PA(4E FIFTEEN TWO VIONTHS OeFORe TH6 AST MY ability as a uarrator being widespread airioug ' my t ' ellownieu, I have receutly been ap- S preached by differeut intimate friends, urg-iug- me to write a short account of a voyage, which I am known to liave t ken in my youtli, and whicli I did not then have the ability to write out. Deeming myself now capable of recounting my exploits, I have settled down to the task with the help of my invaluable diary, which I faithfully kept during the voyage. ]My thirst for the sea having overcome the objections of ray ever thoughtful parents, I was at last permitted, in the thirteenth year of my life, to embark on the sea. My father secured a berth for me as cabin boy on the five masted schooner, ' Margaret Haskell , the captain of which was my father ' s friend. Thus it was on July 13, 1911, I went on the steamer to 8earsport, Me., where the schooner then lay at anclior. I wore all the clothes I needed, the old were under the new. The cai)t ' iiii met me at the pier with the launch, but before going al)oard, he went to town, so I liad a few minutes to roam around. I fouml the i)lace a tyi)ical Maine coast town, the natives depending upon summer residents for their liveliliood. We lay in this ))ort three lays, waiting for a favorable wind. When this tinally came, the refrigerator was stocked and the lanler tilled. On the morning of July 17. I was awakened by the noise on deck, and going up, found a tug boat i)utting away, starting us on our way to Norfolk, Xi . We soon passed out to sea, and from tlieu until our arrival at Norfolk, little enough happened which would interest a boy. My duties were very few, the most im- portant being to amuse the cai)taiii by pranks played ou the sailors. Nothing ai)pears in my iliary except little jottings like the following: fSaw a whale, ' Passed Cape Cod, ' Saw a school of porjjoises, Caught seven fish while anchored, and the like. However, I remember several additional incidents. Once, on a wager of a quarter, I climbed the spanker mast on the loops. At another time we were within hailing distance of another schooner, ou which was a boy about my age. He was from Ceorgia, and when I said I was from Massachusetts, he immediately challenged me to a fight. Such is the brotherly love between the North and the South. As we were silently sliding by a doz- ing whale, I borrowed the captain ' s 8S repeating ritie, and emptied it into the vvhale. It jumped as you would if someone stuck a pin in you when half asleep. We reached port on v ugust 7. We passed Capes Charles and Henry in the early morning, and were in Hampton Roads at sunrise. At the coal wharves I watched the loading of the vessel. Large chutes similar to those used by men in a cellar window, only about ten times larger, are pointed into the hold, with the upper end ou the cars, which are elevated. Trap doors are oi)ened, and the coal roars down. When the car is empty it is switched over, and another takes its place. In this way the largest steamers are filled in three or four hours. Later in the day, I visited Norfolk, which is almost as black as Pittsburgh, not because of the smoke, but the people. I arrived when the watermelon season was in its prime. Such watermelons ! We don ' t get them in the North ; the South keeps them for itself. After remaining at Norfolk three days, waiting for winds and tide , we again set sail on August 10, and were soon at sea. It was on our return trip that I caught a large dogfish, which required several bats from an oar before it would give up the ghost. We made a fast return trip, passing through a storm, when I saw real waves rise over our heads on the deck. By this time I had learned the use of the chart, and was plot- ting out the nearest course home. We reached Stars- port on August 24, two weeks after our departure from Norfolk. I took the steamer home the same night, and thus my Two Months Before the Mast completely (juenched my thirst for sea water. DiLI.AWA V, ' 15. THe HIGH SCHOOL BATTALION ' — — HE annual prize drill of the battalion was held at the town hall May 28 1915. Considering 1 the short time allowed each week to military T drill, the showing was remarkable. The regu- lar drills, and i)r()gram of battalion formation, company and individual evening parade, with the awarding of commissions and medals by Mr. Howe, was carried out as usual. The companies were very evenly matched, and both the Senior and Junior competitive individual drills were very closely contested. A new medal was given this year by Capt. George F. (-Jarduer of Co. A, 1914, for the first sergeant of the winning company. The winners of the p rizes were as follows : in the Senior drill: 1st, Sergt. William McLeod, Co. C. ; 2d, Sergt. Carl Belmore, Co. C. ; 3d, Sergt. (ieorge Wal- lace, Co. B. In the Junior drill : 1st, Priv. Everett Wilkins, Co. B. ; 2d, Priv. Edson Tredinnick, Co. A. ; 3d, Priv. Cyrus M. Dolbeare, Co. B. Orderly medal given for the greatest improvement in the manual of arms and for good behavior at the drills, Cyrus M. Dolbeare, Co. B. The company drill was won by Co. A., Fred (i. Keid. The first sergeant medal of the winning comjiany, went to Clifford Sawyer. Ma.iok Raipii E. Belmore.