West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The following composed the 1909 team : Catchers—Armatage, an Duzzee (captain). Pitchers—Gage, Tumy. Infieldcrs—Bright, Owen, Newman, Ayers, Walker (captain). Outfielders—Lees, Ash, Xewmire. Roy Walker, Captain, ’09. LAST HOWL. The primary object of this last “howl from a departing rooter captain is to call the attention of succeeding generations to the size of crowds which turned out at every one of the games last year and to what they accomplished. West High was a new school last fall and many who came here left good friends behind. Under these conditions one might naturally expect a certain amount of skepticism. But there was not one bit of it. Every one of you opened your hearts and adopted West freely and for all time. When that first mass meeting was called in the Auditorium, there was a grand response and at the game a better. Remember that all this was not done by the hovs. for the girls fully equalled the boys. Well, we lost that first game, but that didn’t make a bit of difference, you turned out better than ever next time. And so it was all thru the year. Now the point is this. Last year was the first year of West High and you were expected to set an example. You did it. Now if you made a great showing last year, and the team lost in the championship race, what are you going to do next fall when you have a seasoned team from which not a member was lost bv graduation. a team from which you may rightfully expect big things. Now they will do their part if you will do yours. It’s up to you. The following are some of the yells: Green—White—Green—White We do—do fight Sis-boom-ba—Sis-boom-ba West Side High School Rah-Rah-Rah. Rah-Rah-Rah-Rah-Rah-Rah-Rah-Rah-Rah W-E-S-T—West! Tiger! Nigger, nigger, hoe pertater Half-fast alligator Ram-Ram-Bully nigger Chick-a-wa-da! West Side High School! Rah! Rah! Rah! Twenty-nine

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West in Baseball. bask ball team, i yoi . CR baseball team of 1909, although handicapped by rules of eligibility and delay in obtaining uniforms, are doing all that can be expected to at least make a favorable showing for a school in its infancy. The first game with Central, although played fairly well considering the meager school support, was the signal of our initial downfall by the score of 10 to 3. The following week South handed us a 13 to 0 defeat. After a week’s hard training the team again met South, and. in spite of the fact that they played an aggressive game, were beaten by a score of 5 to 4. redeeming themselves somewhat for their poor showing the week before. North was our next opponent and won a 6 to 4 victory from us. We have yet to play several different high schools of the Twin Cities and on June 5th the team will journey down to Owatonna to meet the fast Pillsbury Academy team of that town. Next year, without any doubt. West will make a stronger showing and fight for the championship of the interscholastic baseball league. When that season comes let the student body be ready with enthusiasm. The team will do its best. Twenty-eight

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West in Debate Brown Frost Bowers Camp Campbell EST High, though newly organized, neglected none of the ’ activities which mark the rounded development of a school. Our High School entered the League, organized in 1908, among.the high schools of Minneapolis. By withdrawing from the State League, and by this new formation, the various high schools can more effectively develop the art of debate among its members, since the city league gives an opportunity for prolonged practice in the four successive debates which each high school must enter.- It is safe to predict that this new organization, “The Debating League of the Minneapolis High Schools, will stimulate interest in debate to a point where the rivalry between the schools will be as keen as in athletics. This is desirable in every way, for debate will then take its true place among high school activities, greater numbers will compete for the honor of representing the school and the standard of the work done in the respective high schools and among them will, undoubtedly, be greatly raised. The record of West High School’s first year in debate is hardly surprising. We did not win the decision of the judges in any of the four debates. This is due, in a large part, to the very late organization Thirty