Huggins Leads Locals In 24-Point Win
Concord Middlesex defeats Wakefield 32 to 29 at Hunt Memorial Gym. Huggins scores 18, Sprout and Ver add 11 and 10. Concord reaches .500, third place tie with Wakefield, final game of the season.
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1950
Page
10
Concord Middlesex defeats Wakefield 32 to 29 at Hunt Memorial Gym. Huggins scores 18, Sprout and Ver add 11 and 10. Concord reaches .500, third place tie with Wakefield, final game of the season.
The Concord Rod and Gun Club purchased 932.5 acres off Barretts Mill road near Angier’s Pond, most of it from the late John E. Forbes. The site will be cleaned up and stocked. facilities built for fishing, picnics and outings. Proceeds from this year’s first annual sportsmen’s show benefit a new clubhouse. The show runs March 10–12 at the State Archery in Concord.
Coach Skin leads Concord era of entries for the Greater Boston Inter scholastics to be held next Saturday at 11 am at East Newton Street Armory. Finals set March 4 at Boston Garden with New England meet. Lyle and Dick Ryan to run the dash as Brookline withdrawal reshapes lineup.
The Concord High basketball team plays in the annual small-school tournament at St Malde Hick's gym against Wareham yesterday afternoon. A win would set up a Frank Tieneon final on Saturday. Concord is in Class B with 14 schools.
A Mrs. Knapn cracked an egg to find it crowded inside with two yolks and another egg complete with shell. The odd discovery turned up a quirky kitchen mishap in a domestic scene.
The calendar lists Met League relays on Thursday at East Newton Street Armory Boston with Concord High among participants. Friday to Sunday feature Middlesex School squash and basketball at Middlesex and Dedham venues, plus private school league games, and Hunt Gymnasium badminton sessions for senior boys and girls.
The national cherry festival in Traverse City Michigan drew about 100000 visitors with no rain during all 18 events this year.
Belmont captain Concord-Dick Watson topped the Middlesex League scoring with 231 points and 16 in the latest game, ahead of Melrose’s Dick Jones. The list of leaders and points totals includes Lovey 278 in 1947 and Crawford 197, with Watson also surpassing 1948 captain Tom Cain.
Concord high hoopsters tie for third in the Class B Middlesex League after a win over Wakefield giving them a .500 season mark the best in Concord since 1938. Captain Jack Pierce missed the season but 154 points last year underscore the team’s strength.
Concord residents debate pollution of the Sudbury and Assabet rivers feeding the Concord river. Henry S. Drinker Jr. heads the Concord River Improvement Association urging reduced sewage effluent and more membership to influence state and town planning.
Concords William K Walters assistant cashier at Concord National Bank is appointed area treasurer for the 1950 Easter seal drive of the Bay State Society for the Crip pled and Handicapped Inc. Campaign begins March 9 to raise 275000 for crippled and handicapped programs across Massachusetts with state leaders on the campaign committee.
A grocery chain promotes pre packaged meats and shares a Sunday Dinner Braised Beef Burgundy recipe. The dish uses beef stew meat onions bacon fat and seasonings simmered with Burgundy wine carrots potatoes and mushrooms for six servings finished with parsley bay leaf thyme and a chiffon apricot pie and coffee.
Rev John A. Miller of the First Baptist Church Boston spoke at the Concord Rotary Club lunch last Thursday noon at Howard Johnson's. He discussed Winged Victory. Chester Smethurst introduced him and the Talent Night program was announced for Friday.
Indianapolis reporters covered a small blaze just outside the press room door. The fire started from a lighted cigarette and was quickly controlled.
Salter, a Tufts graduate and Air Corps cadet, earned a U S Naval Training Corps commission this month. Fractions of the ceremony include congratulatory notes from Lieutenant Connor of the NROTC and mention of Salter’s wife, a schoolteacher, as part of the honors.
A local event in Concord with a focus on fruit growing and agriculture in Middlesex County. A speaker from the county agriculture department discusses small fruits including strawberries and blue berries before a service at the schoolhouse.
The West Concord Woman's Club held American Home Day last Friday afternoon after its business session led by president Mrs. William T. Magoon. Tea was served. The next meeting is Friday March 10 with a planned joint meeting with the Concord Woman's Club on Monday March 27.
Concord Walden Royal Arch Chapter plans a gathering Monday February 27 at 7 30 PM in the Concord Masonic Temple. High Priest Ernest R Flach will preside and the program will be announced.
Nine year old Joseph Seliga told a judge to go to hell during an equity hearing in Eherisburg Pennsylvania. He faced no serious consequences and the incident was described as not affecting the case.
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