Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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'Che Spectroscope GLENN CURTIS Director of Physical 'llraining in the Schools of Martinsville. Mr. Curtis tliig noyp has just completed his second year with us. Wfe think him the best basket ball coach in the State. Although in both State Meets his teams were defeated in the first game we still think they were the best in the tournament. As well as being a good basketball coach, he has proved he can turn out some good trackmen. Last year his thinly clads defeated Manual lligh School of Indianapolis in a dual meet, a feat which has not been done by any other track team in lndiana for several years. He has very little old material this year but he will have a good team in the end. lle is a good sport and is continually playing pranks on the boys. tile is just an overgrown boy hiniselfj Mr. Curtis has received oHers to come to other schools but we believe we can keep him--at least we hope so. His success is due to his untiring and ceaseless efforts as well as his great amount of patience and continual good humor.

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the Spectroscope Tournaments Come and Tournaments Go, But Martinsville Doth Likewise After playing through an extraordinary hard schedule with only four defeats registered against us we entered the final stage, full of hope and high expectations. As was predicted we had little trouble winning our sectional, defeating Emin- ence in the final game 31 to 8. The next step toward the championship was the regional held at Bloomington, March the twelfth. Here we were pitted against Garfield fTerre Hautej a team of unknown strength. The first few minutes Gar- field stepped out and ran her score up to 8. Then our boys suddenly awakened to the fact that we must win this game to be represented in the finals, started a bombardment which netted us 38 points. Meanwhile Garfield had added only II points to their original 8. The Finals held at the State Fair Grounds in lndianapolis were witnessed by more people than ever before collected under one roof to watch High School Boys fight it out for a basket ball championship. Martinsville, Anderson and Franklin were touted as the three strongest teams in the state, therefore a great crowd as- sembled Friday morning before nine oiclock to watch F. H. S. and M. H. S. start the ball rolling. Playing without the services of Hunt our regular back guard we got away to a poor' start in the first half. However, Franklin was running true to form and at half time the score read Franklin I6 Martinsville 7. In the next period M. H. S. played the champs off their feet and with only a minute to go Nash tied the score at 24 all. Then came the deciding break of the game. Tudor fouled and Vandiver scored one. A moment later Friddle dropped one thru from the field and the game was over. However the defeated Martinsville is sure proud of her team and her reputation that no state tourney is complete without a team from M. H. S. So here is to the squad of 1921-2g NGO get 'em gang, eat 'em up. After our defeat Franklin eliminated Rochester, jefferson fLafayettej and Anderson successively, thereby keeping a clean slate and winning the much cov-- eted prize. Comment of game. QFrom Indianapolis News, March 18, IQZID. It was one of the greatest battles in the history of Hoosier basket ball, Mar- tinsville making one of the most remarkable comebacks ever registered on a bas- ket ball floor.