Milwaukie High School - Maroon Yearbook (Milwaukie, OR)

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BASEBALL. Every one in High School looked eagerly forward to baseball this year and even went so far as to organize class teams and for those not able to take part in these a team was formed. A captain of each team was elected and a schedule was marked. The captain of each team was: Arthur Johnston, Freshmang Edward Keeler, Sophomore, Harold Dedman, Juniors and Seniors, and Mr. Goetz, Independents. As the Maroon goes to press a game between the High School and the Gram- mar School is to take place at Crystal Lake Park. The teams will probably ex- change batteries as they did last year. This is the sum of the M. H. S. baseball season as the league was suspended from the county for the time being and therefore no league games could be played. Also several of our best players enlisted at the call to arms and no effort wasadvanced to form a team. TENNIS. A great deal of interest has prevailed in Tennis this year. The president of the M. H. S. Student Body appointed Dorothy Wissinger, manager of the Tennis Association, and with the aid of a few of the boys, she put the court in A-1 shape. Again as the Maroon goes to press, a tournament is to be played between several of the High School students to determine the champion of the school. Mr. Perry, of the Perry Pharmacy, will present a five dollar racquet to the winner, as he did last year to Ben Alexander, who won from Wm. Merriot, giving him the racquet. -LeRoy Edwards, ffthletic Zllrznager. Happiness is a by-product of hard work well done. Q Q 3 Money savers are often shrewder than money makers. . 3 Q Q The race is not always to the swift-and never to the loafer. -- -'Q Q. Q Are you blazing away without aim or have you picked out some certain achievement for your bull,s-eye? 3 Q. 3 Men who tell hard luck stories generally have lots of hard luck stories to tell. 24

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ln the latter part of the season two excellent games between the Sophomores and the Freshmen, of the High School, were played. These games gave the Freshmen and Sophs who were unable to take part in the first team a chance to play. These games were a series of exciting events from the start to the finish and gathered a larger crowd than any of the first team's games. The first game ended in a score of 0 to 0 and was played at the length of five quarters. The second game, played at the regular length ended in a score of 6 to 0 in favor of the Freshmen. The lineups of the teams were as follows: Changes being made in the sec- ond game. A Freshmen. 3 Sophs. Blackman and W. Moore ..... ..... F ullback ..... .......... B lue and Keeler Reynolds and W. Moore .... .... R ight half ..... .................. R oach Johnston ................ .... L eft half ..... .... E nghouse and Fox Hansen and Blackman ..... .... Q uarteri . .. ........... Edwards Baker and Mottal ........ .... C enter. L , . . .... Thos. Saunders Mottal and MacDonald .... ...... L eft guard .... ..,......... A lexander Mottal and Green ......... ..... R ight guard .... .... K lipple and Morgan Bumgartner and Green ....... Lefttackle .... ................ J ahn Norton and MacDonald ..... Right tackle .......... .. Morgan Raabe and Hansen ...... ..... L eft End .... .... H utchins Fisher ................ .... R ight End . .. .... Oetkin BASKETBALL. Extensive interest and enthusiasm has been manifested by both the boys and girls in basketball this year. A surprisingly fast team has been organized by Mr. Goetz and our success is mostly due to the coaching given by him, and this surely shows his worth and ability along that line. The boys have faithfully turned out to practice and great success has been shown. Claude Buckner was appointed captain and played guard in every game. Clyde Davis, at guard, also played an excellent game. Leslie Blue, playing for- ward, threw many excellent baskets. He, later in the season played center and his work helped the team greatly. William Miller, at center, played an all- around good game. He also played forward. Louis Shindler, at guard, was the find of the season and played a star game. Boyd Gibson, star of the team, played center and forward. His weight and long passes helped to raise our side of the score card to a great extent. Ernest Keller, at forward, threw some of the best baskets of the season. Shorty', Edwards played forward and thref most of the free baskets, for fouls made by our opponents. During the Christmas vacation a game took place between the Alumni of the High School and the High School. This being the first time some of the boys had ever played, a rather large score was marked against us, being 48 to 6. On March the first, the Oregon City Athletic Culb played Milwaukie and a worthy fight for the winning side of the score card ended at the score of 35 to 7 in favor of Oregon City. March the thirteenth marked the date of another game between Milwaukie and this same team, the game lending at the score of 26 to ll, our opponents winning. On the twenty-seventh of March, the Commercial All-Stars of Portland played us, the game ending to the tune of 36 to ll in favor of the All-Stars. This was our last game and considering the fact that it takes at least four years to turn out a good finished team, we did very well. Had it not been for the kindness of the school board, in giving the High School the privilege of using the Grammar School Gym, basketball would have been a missing innovation in our field of atheltics, and I am sure every one in the Milwaukie High School, who has used the gymnasium, boy or girl, lfeel very grateful to the school board. zs , e'

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Eehating Several students of the High School have been working very hard on debating. Last term Milwaukie won the cup and this term the debating society has been working to keep it. Mr. Grubbs, our faithful debating coach, has spent much time in drilling the students for the interscholastic debates. The question for the first interscholastic debate was: 'fResolved, That Ore- gon should adopt a health insurance law embodying the essential features of the Standard Bill of the American Association foriLabor Legislationfl The follow- ing teams for this debate were: Affirmative, William Miller Qleaderj, Boyd Gibson, and Clyde Davis, negative, Rolfe Skulason Qleaderj, Edward Keeler and Charlotte Merriott. 1 Our negative team went to Estacada and Oregon City's negative came to Milwaukie. Very interesting debates were carried on at both places, showing excellent work on the part of the students. The decision of the judges at Esta- cada was unanimous in favor of Milwaukie. We were not as successful at home for the affirmative was the weaker side of the question and the arguments which were presented by our team were not as good. The decision was 3 to 0 in favor of Oregon City. The second interscholastic debate was scheduled for April 6, but the Canby team, which was to have debated our affirmative, was unable to debate at the set time, so the debate was postponed. On the same night our negative team went to Colton to debate their affirmative. The team was as follows: Edward Keeler Qleaderj, Arthur Johnston and Charlotte Merriott. We were defeated in this debate by a score of 2 to l. The debate which was postponed between Canbyys negative and Milwaukie's affirmative was held a week later. The question for this debate was: Resolved, That Industrial Disputes should be settled by Compulsory Arbitration. Mil- waukie won in this debate, the decision being Z to 1. The speakers on the team were: William Miller Qleaderj, Clyde Davis and Bernice Fisch. Ralph Keeler was the third speaker, but because of enlisting in the Naval Militia he was unable to be at the debate. Miss Fisch read the speech which he would have given if he could have been present. The last of the interscholastic debates for this term was held April 28th. Our affirmative team debated Coltonls negative at Milwaukie and our negative team went to Canby. The teams for this debate were: Affirmative, William Miller Qleaderj, Clyde Davis and Ralph Keeler, negative, Edward Keeler Cleaderj, Charlotte Merriot and Arthur Johnson. The decision of the debate at Milwaukie was 3 to 0 in our favor, at Canby 2 to 1 in favor of Canby. Owing to the fact that each school in this debating contest won the same num- ber of debates, the committee had to resort to totaling the number of votes cast for each school by the judges. ln this way Milwaukie High School was declared the winner. l The final results of the debates were: Milwaukie, 93 Canby, 8, Colton, 7. lldilwaukie thus winning the cup for the second year. 25