Starting the season with a brilliant display of teamwork, skill, and sportsmanship, the Gilbert baseball team anticipates a successful season this year. The Yellowjackets are being coached again by Carl Coleman and his able assistant, Charles "Spud" Fecto.

This year Gilbert's baseball team is competing for the title in the Naugatuck Valley League. The strongest of its kind in the state, it is composed of such top teams as Naugatuck, Ansonia, Wilby, Crosby, Leavenworth, Torrington, and Gilbert. Besides several league encounters, Gilbert will again play many of the strong, independent high school teams in the state. During the past years, Farmington, Canton, Plainville, and Simsbury have encountered the Gilbert team.
Now, with a considerable number of schools adopting lighting systems on their fields, it will be possible for the Yellow jackets to play a few night games.

Althought there are many holdovers from last season's team, Coach Coleman will still have to fill several vacancies from a host of tryouts-and many men are reporting this year. A total of twenty-one games is now scheduled.
At present, the Gilbert tearn has won two out of four games; namely, those with Leavenworth and Naugamck. Gilbert defeated Regional, 13-2, and Ansonia, 7-5. The squad lost, however, to Farmington, 4-3 and to R.I. State, 8-3.
Although six games had been scheduled up to this time, two were not played because of inclement weather.
In the past, Gilbert baseball tearns have flourished as strong, independent teams in the Valley League. It is now their hope that they will do so again Our aim is that the caliber for Gilbert teams in the future will continue to remain as high as those of the preceding years. Whether, though, they win or lose, they will give a good account of themselves.