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1924 (Click postcard once or twice to read more easily.) Hall of Famer Lizzie Murphy was playing in Quebec for Carr's All Stars of Boston when she wrote to Mrs. Howard DeWolf. The DeWolf house, on the northwest corner of Main and Baker Streets, later served as the home of the Warren Preservation Society. (DeWolf's Pharmacy was the predecessor of Delekta's Pharmacy.) (Lizzie is also a member of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.)
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1924-1925 Warren High School Girls Basketball. Standing: Florence Delekta; unidentified; unidentified; Coach Constance Whitman; Jane DeWolf; unidentified; and Dorothy Delano. Seated in middle: Lena Pare; Gladys Mickle; probably Mildred Holgate; unidentified; and unidentified. Seated on floor: Louise Cutler and Majorie Hoar. The five unidentifieds most likely included Sheila Crowe, Irene McLarren, Celise Parsons, Katherine Pinkos, Doris Sipple, and Fanny Smith. (Jane DeWolf later trained sled dogs for Admiral Richard Byrd's expeditions to the South Pole in 1931-1933, while Gladys Mickle defeated Marjorie Hoar for the Warren Women's Tennis Championship of 1936.)
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1925-1926 Warren High School Boys Basketball team split the season series with "powerhouse" La Salle. Standing: Pete Vitecha; Richmond Maxwell; Bob Hunt; Manager Charles Healey; Joe Muccino; Joe McCann; and Al Mercier. Seated: Julio Medeiros; Howard "Terry" Martin; Art "Red" Kilroy; and Eddie Steenstra. (Kilroy, who starred for Coach Frank Keaney at Rhode Island State College-later URI, and Martin are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.)
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1926 Eddie Steenstra, Warren High School basketball star, was the student on the left. He later attended the University of Maine. (We have no idea what the bucket and shovel were used for and we're afraid to guess.)
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1926 Warren High School Baseball team played Sullivan's All-Stars in Warren in early May. Later in the season Coach Jim Sullivan took Jake Healey, Bob Hunt, "Red" Kilroy, and Terry Martin to see Boston University take on Holy Cross. (Kilroy and Martin are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.)
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1926-1927 Warren High School Boys Basketball team won the Bristol County Championship, downing Barrington and Colt Memorial in all four games that were contested. Standing: Angelo Pannone; Coach Jim Sullivan; Pete Vitecha; Lou Bernardo; John "Jake" Healey; Arthur Jannitto; and Al Mercier. Seated: Richmond Maxwell; Art "Red" Kilroy; Bob Hunt; Joe McCann; and Charlie Burdge. (Burdge, who later coached Warren High School to multiple baseball and football championships, and Kilroy are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.)
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1927 Natale Andreozzi of Warren was the come-from-behind winner, by a matter of a few feet, of the ten-mile modified marathon that was run from Providence's Outlet Department Store to Riverside's Crescent Park. (Because of either anti-Italian discrimination or the inability of the press to properly spell Italian names, he usually raced under the name of Nate Andrews.)
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1929 Warren High School Class B Basketball Champions went undefeated in league play. Seated: Coach Jim Sullivan; Captain Al Mercier; Al Vitullo; and Manager Bickford Martin. Standing: Leo Crowe; Ulderic "Sheik" Dallaire; Charlie Burdge; leading scorer Tom O'Brien; and Lou Bernardo. Their only two losses were to the number one team in the state, Mt. St. Charles, and the Rhode Island State College (later URI) freshmen. (Burdge and Dallaire are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame, as is the team itself.)
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1929 American Legion Baseball Division Two Champions and State Runners-up. Standing: Mack Dyman; Charlie "Hoot" McCanna; John Makara; Frank Polak; Charlie "Horse" Millard; and Eddie "Lefty" Polak. Kneeling: Keyes Larivee; Leo Lapane; John Vitecha; Biddy Fish (actual name Leo Poissant); Tom Borniger; and Eddie Delekta. Sitting: Pony Millard and Louis "Duke" Abbruzzi. (Abbruzzi, McCanna, and Charlie Millard are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.) (Charlie Millard is also a member of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.)
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