Hart High School - Hartian Yearbook (Hart, MI)

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-Q- I I I I I I I I I I S I I I 1 l L 1 L L l L l L L ! I I 5 I ? 1 I I I I I I I I I I ,I 'I' Q ATHLETICS i OUR FAIR After much delay, due to 'various opinions as to the advisability of girls participating in such a strenuous activity, basket ball practice was started some time in January. About twenty girls came out for practice and they were there for work. Not much time was giv- en for getting ready and the first game came off the latter palt of the month. It was with our annual antagonists from the watery town, Pentwater. However, Pentwater was on the warpath and Hart was defeated. She was also beaten again by the same team later in the sea- son. Then the Junior and Senior girls inet and fur flew. The Seniors won. Then they play- ed another. Again the Seniors won. How cmne? tWe suspect, however, that the Junior Misses realized that this was the last year the Seniors had in Old Hart High, so they did not do any killingJ But the fair ones nearly met their match when they came up against the fairer faculty. However, they were able to win by a narrow margin and great was the joy therefrom. Later on, in two games with Mon- tague, Hart won-and lost, one. And that endrd the season. BASKETEERS Captain Lydia Brandel, together with Hel- en Fuller, did some basket shooting of which they might well be proud. Miss Blandel is :gn exceedingly efficient forward. Helen is not to be despised and is one of the hardest players we have as yet seen. Tall Dorothy Gilliland, as jumping center, is a wonder and so is little Phyllis Joslin. Phyl- lis is small in stature but not in her basketball capacities. Leave it to Dorothy to start the ball going and to Phyllis to keep it going. The subs, Althea Brooker and Olive Os- born, were at allvtimes ready and willing to get into the fray and showed themselves worthy of the trust placed in them. They will shine next year. Miss Brown was the coach. Nothing we can say will do full credit to her abilities in that line. She was always teaching, explaining and trying to build up a better team, not only for the present year but for times to come. To her is due the foundation of a future team as well as the success of the present one. May the coming teams be as successful and may they have as good chances as the team of '22,

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.l.........................................................-................-.......-...........-....-..--..-..-.- - - - - .........., -. ATHLETICS BASKET BALL Successful as Hart has always been in athletic sports, and always will be, we hope, this year more than ever she has made a partic- ularly good record in basket-ball. Never in the entire history of the High School has a bet- ter, faster or more efficient team been putt out. Fifteen games were played including tour- nament games. Three were lost. The ones in which Hart failed to win were with teams from schools many times the size of Hart. Captain of the team was Cad Spitler. One of the best players for his size and age that has ever been on the local floor, he at all times played a'fast, clean game, fairly sure of his shots and on the average an exceptional for- ward. Chet Mack, right forward, fast and slip- pery as an eel to guard is an all-round favorite, and a veteran of last year's quintet. It 'takes him to drop in the long shot. He is a player to be feared and at the same time, admired. Here's Tex Buchen, tall, broad-shoulder- ed and award-looking, he has fooled many an opponent and won game upon game by his un- excelled guarding and ability to break up op- posing combinations. What will we do with- out him? It will be like losing a pillar from some old Greek temple. Dress needs no introduction. Watch him in action in some game matched with someone twice his size, and you can readily mee why he is so greatly liked by his team-mates and looked to for encouragement in any hard struggle. For a guard he is developing great ability as a basket shooter, and he bids fair lo iaise his record of fame in the future. Big Hackett, Dress's team mate fit guard, is a worthy partner. Leave it to him to break or force his way through any defense that ever existed. The aspect of his features and his actions in a hard game would often give one the impreision that he was in a very high temper. V.'e are rorry to say that at times he is, but it only seems to better his playing and on the whole he is a peaceable, likable fellow, and a player who will be sadly missed. Big Hackett has a little brother, Dutch Hackett, who is fast developing wings as a basket-ball shark. He is the one that won everlasting fame in foot-ball. Stub Fuller, the big blonde Swede from the Golden city, is another one of this winning group. He plays a good game at guard and were it not for his graduating this year, would make a favored candidate for next year. Hart always pulls down a stack of compli- ments about a mile high on the method and quality of her playing. And it is true that among the few teams in the state that hold at record of clean, straight playing, Hart is among the leaders. Much as we will miss the departing :nem- bers of this year's team, we can remember Fxow they did their best for Old Hart High and help- ed to teach others to carry on her glory. Dick Shiun. IIASKET-BALL STORE t Place Team Score Hart Ludington Ludington 35 Hart 4 .udington 40 Reed City Reed City 18 Manistee Manistee 14 Hart Montague 54 Hart South Haven 24 Montague Montague 56 Hart American Legion 20 llart Calvin College 2.5 Hart American Legion 26 Hart Muskegon 35 Hart Manistee 2:1 Mt. Pleasant Ithaca 20 Mt. Pleasant Alma 19 Mt. Pleasant Greenville 19