Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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26 THE TARGET TRACK NOTES. On Friday, May 11th, the annual field day was held on the University field. The first place was Avon by Edison with a score of 98 5-6. Wil- lard came second, gaining a total of 91 5-6. Garfield had 81 1-3 points and won the rooting cup. Our boys did excellent Avork and the folloAving contributed to our honors: G. Taka- hashi, R. Gaw, L. Dougherty, H. Kenny, R. Kanzee, T. Matthews, S. McKendrie, J. Bennett, C. White, O. Cameron, K. Paine, N. Taggard, G. Pearce, F. Hall, R. Moody, F. Plate. BASEBALL. The Willard baseball team has played a successful series this spring with LeAvis Bush for captain. Fol- loAving are the players according to their positions: Pitcher, Frank Hall; catcher, Clarence Texdahl; first base, Fred Plate; second base, Taylor Matthews; third base, Oscar Cam- eron; shortstop, LeAvis Bush; center- field, Gerald Pearce; right field, Wil- lard Garrison; left field, Everett Wood; substitutes, George GaAv and Edgar Connell. The boys defeated Garfield tAvice with a 3 — 2 and -1 — 3 score. Bur- bank beat them once, 7 — 3. Edi- son also won one 5 — 4 game. The finals Avere played AAuth Edison and Ave Avon the Berkeley intermediate basket-ball championship. BASKETBALL. Basket-ball has been an important game this term because of the oppor- tunity the boys have had to practice. Unfortunately the first team has lost a majority of its games, though all Avere close and Avell fought. The first game, Avith Gar- field, Avas 19 — 17 in their favor. Bur- bank yielded to us Avith a score of 2 — 0. The match Avith Edison Avas fought the hardest and Avon by them, 22 — 18. The semi-final game, with Garfield, resulted in their victory, 26 — 18. Our players for the season

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THE TARGET 25 “Well, well; I must practice in or- der to live up to my reputation of being the best croaker in the land.” When the day of the party dawned, Croaker could hardly wait to put on his shiny new green dress suit. Finally the appointed hour arrived, so he gathered up his music and hopped off to Fluff’s house where guests were rapidly assembling. After exchanging greetings the whole merry crowd trooped off to the big oak. Here they saw, to their great delight, that the fairy carpen- ters had put up a wonderful dancing platform by order of the Fairy Queen, who just loved to spring pleasant surprise on her friends. They decided to hide under the platform and pop out suddenly on May as she passed by. Soon May ar- rived in her chariot drawn by but- terflies. She was simply overwhelmed by the delightful surprise. After greetings the dance was on. Croaker never had such fun in his life. He danced every dance though he became somewhat winded at times. At sundown they set out for Dew- drop Inn, where they had delicious refreshments consisting of butterfly sandwiches, elder-berry wine, huckle- berries with blueberry sauce, and frozen honey garnished with candied violets. It was so dark when they finally stared for home that the Queen or- dered her fireflies to light the paths for them. Mr. Frog, whose croak was more fascinating than ever, es- corted several ladies home and went to bed so happy, that he dreamed sweet dreams of all that had hap- pened during the day. BARBARA H. AMES. Miss Hartley in L. 9Music: “Go back to Heaven.” TROUBLE AHEAD. One night just before a certain train pulled out of the station, the engineer, who was noted for being very superstitious, told the crew that he had a feeling that something dreadful was going to happen. The men paid no attention to him as they had heard him express such fears on other occasions ,and laugh- ingly boarded the train. After traveling several miles, the engineer noticed that from time to time a flickering shadow suddenly appeared, kept a pace with the train, and just as suddenly disappeared again. He became very worried, as he could not account for it in any way. After the third occurrence he became so alarmed that he was un- able to run the train. Calling the crew together he told them what had happened. They tried to seem in- terested, but judging from the smiles on their faces it was evident that they did not take the matter seriously. Two of the trainmen, who knew the engineer’s failing, gave no heed at all to his words, and walked around a bend in the road to smoke. In a few seconds they came running back, shouting at the top of their voices, “The bridge is broken!” The engineer called back, “I knew it, I knew it. I told you something was going to happen.” When the excitement over this dis- covery was at its height, behold! the shadow appeared again. At this, the terror-stricken engineer lost control of himself entirely, but his more practical fellow-workers began an investigation of its cause, and found — a little moth caught in the head- ] ' g h t- ETHEL ALLEN. Mr. Beardsley: “President Taft is good in his way and he weighs a lot.”

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THE TARGET BASEBALL TEAM were Frank Hall, Edgar Connell, Fred Plate, Lewis Bush, Gerald Pearce. The second team won two out of four games played, winning from Burbank and Edison and losing to Garfield. The semi-final was in Edison’s favor. Taylor Matthews, Joseph De Bonis, Harold McAneney, Clarence Texdahl, Fred Swan, George Knoop and Gerald Pearce represent- ed the Willard School and did good work. The boys aren’t the only ones who enjoy athletics. At McKinley the girls had basket-ball games and ten- nis tournaments. We all know that it is hard to get an athletic field but the girls could either play some- times on the boys’ court or else have one behind the school. If the poles were erected, the girls would soon wear off the grass and we would have a fine basket-ball field. There would be no question as to the enthusiasm as almost all the girls want either basketball or tennis. YEAR AND HIS EMPLOYEES. Year was just moving into his of- fice building, which was in World Block. He expected to do a thriving business, but he was starting with only one employee. His employee’s name was Miss January. She was very cool and collected, but some- times she would get rowdyish when she was with Mr. Blizzard. It was at the end of the month when Mr. Blizzard had come to visit Miss Jan- uary that they were talking and she was neglecting her work. Suddenly Year came in. “You are discharged,’’ he cried. “I won’t have lazy employees around