West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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BASE BALL - i - -| — - l - - i - - ■■ ■ - Gapt. Benway and Coach Orowly, after a few days work out on the field of the grammar school days, transported their bunch of stale yet promising prospectives from the round house to Merrill Park, and began work in earnest. By the time the suits were washed, mended and patched, a base- ball team was picked, and we were ready for the first game. Some of the players were green, and most of the letter men were playing new positions, with the exception of Brooks, who continues to serve the stuff from the mound. This first game, in consistency with tradition, was with ,;the alumni. We defeated the College Boys — even injured one. The first real game was with Flint, and so was the score — 3 to 2. The next week Lansing took a whack at us with 17 to 13 score. We fol- lowed this by another defeat at Bay City 3 to against us. The following, Saturday we solved the problem and sent this team on to the field in new suits. Saginaw was amazed, in fact overwhelmed with both the team and the new suits and we beat them in a game, which reads 8 to 9. The suits are working fine, and the fellows in them; we beat Bay City Eastern by a score of to 4. This game probably ends this season. Moral : It pays to buy suits.

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TRACK •■■• Mm mmm mm i Artluir Hill track men got an early start on track work at the Y and consequently were ready for a meet the very first of the season, an inter-class meet, was held in the gymnasium of the Y. The Juniors won ovtr the other classmen, for the first time in the history of the school. The Seniors followed, and the Sophomores were only saved from the last place by the Freshies taking it. A few weeks later we had an in-door meet with Saginaw High, and were badly beaten, yet not so badly when one considers the fact that we had only about eight men at the meet to compete with their whole track squad. Later in the season the Sophomores took the Junior honors from them in a second inter-class meet. Then a few weeks ago we had the first out-door track meet of the season, and of the six or seven men entered to represent four classes, the Seniors were the victors. But the Sophs were without representation and the fresh- men had a one man team, so the victory was not worth as much as it sounds. Last week the A. H. track men took part in a triangular meet along with Bay City and Saginaw and came out winners by orTe point, Saginaw getting second and Bay City third. Considering the condition of the track, good records were made, and Arthur Hill ' s prospects were fairty good for the Valley meet. The Valley Meet was held at Alumni Field Saturday, May twenty-ninth, 1915, under the auspices of Arthur Hill High School. Fine weather favored the athletes, the track being in a good condition. Alpena with a majority of her 1914 track men back, was picked as a winner with Arthur Hill of Saginaw second. The meet was hotly contested. Arthur Hill and Alpena running about even in the first half of the contest. A little later Alpena broke away and cinched the meet. Arthur Hill took second place, with little difficulty, Saginaw drawing berth number three. Bay City Eastern and Bay City Western tied, for fourth place, fifth place falling to Flint. Arthur Hill showed unexpected strength and made a fine show- ing, even capturing the first three places in the broad jump. The point winners were Captain Jerome, Walter Stark, Jay Orr, Harvey Spaulding, Elmer Spaulding. Wilbur Richter, and Roy Benway. Much credit for the rounding into form of the track men is dne to Mr. OUie Richards. Mr. Richards offered his services and as a result we have an aggregation of which we can well be proud.