Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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THE PHILLIPIAN 21 P. G. S. BASKETBALL Front row, left to right: A. Guerney, R. Dodge, W. Davenport, A. Campbell, R. Harnden Second row: L. Toothakcr, Coach'E. Eustis, R. Beal We tried to persuade our visitors and the referee that this second tied game should be played off, but we were advised to wait until another year. Our games with Strong and Rangeley were close and interesting, but we were not quite good enough. We played four games with the town team. Both teams were evenly matched but we won all of them by close scores. Dot Toothaker, one of our star players, helped us through a good many hard spots during the basketball season. She has now left us and gone to Dexter N. Y. A. School. Kid NVilbur, our captain and star for- ward, will be leaving us in Iune. We have lost Ruth Gile. and Nat U Edwards gradu- ates this year. Prospects for a good team another year seem good. We wish you all luck next win- ICI. P. G. S. BASKETBALL SEASON When our basketball season ended last year and we saw our best players graduating we felt that a good team next year was too much to hope for. At our first practice this winter there were fifteen boys on the floor and although some of them were a little green, our spirits rose. After a little practicing we went to Farming- ton and took on the second high school team. This was the first time we ever played on that large floor but we started scoring at once and it was a very good game. The next week we went down to Wilton. We started very slowly and NVilton built a lead, but as the game ended Campbell and Dodge were scoring and their lead was growing smaller. We vowed that the next game would be different and sure enough, when they came up here we showed them how to play ball. At the end of the first quarter the score was

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20 THE PHILLIPIAN GIRLS' BASKETBALL Front row, left to right: M. Staples, M. Voter, Captain M. VVilbur, O. Seeley, I. Wilbur Hack ruw: N. Iidwards, P. Weston, M. Dunham, A. Wilbur GIRLS' BASKETBALL The lineup for the girls' basketball this year was as follows: llurris Tootliakei' Dot - C.F. Maxine Staples Macky - L.If. Myr Lyn NVilbur Kid - R.F. Myrtle Voter Tinli - L.U. Ruth Gilt- Garbo - R.G. Olin- Seeley Twitter 7 CII. Substitutes: Pauline Weston A' Polly Nathalie lidwards Nat Iris Wilbur Touts Atliilie Wilbur Pee Wee Marie Dunham Marilyn Wing Ruby liicltford Dimples Mayo Larry Coach Mitchell called the squad together for the first practice early in December. For several weeks it seemed doubtful whether we would be able to play many games or not. The day before the Kingheld trip the ban was placed on all pleasure driving. We were not quite ready to ride bicycles to King- Held, but we did keep the telephone busy un- til we finally persuaded Mr. Keay J to drive through lhillips and take six of us to King- field. With no coach and no substitutes we played one of the best games of the season. The score was tied several times during the game and at no time was either team more than four points in the lead. When the final whistle blew the score was all tied up. Two weeks later the Kingfield girls vis- iied Phillips. VVe felt that with our coach and substitutes we would have little trouble. But the teams started in right where they left off in Kingfield. At the end of the quarter Kingheld led by one basket, but we evened the score at the start of the second quarter. And from that time on it was close to the end of the game. When the final whistle blew it was 22-22.

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22 THE PHILLIPIAN 15-9 in our favor. At the half we had doubled the score 22-ll. The rest of the game was close with the whole team playing a good game. lay High second team came up the next Friday night and although they had some very large men it was a close game all the way. Campbell and Dodge were the high scorers for us. Our two games with Rangeley Grammar School were very close, the first, a low scor- ing game 8-12 and the second 21-24. In the first game up there, Bill Davenport was high with four points while Lym Toothaker scored almost half the points in the second game. Farmington Training School came to Phillips and played us the next Monday night. They had a good defense the first half, in fact, Bob Beal was the only one who could score for us. The next half was differ- ent, however, but we lost to a very good team. Our last game was with Farmington in their hall, and we had one of our OE nights. We had a new coach for that game, and nothing seemed to go right. We scored only four points but had a lot of fun playing them. The Franklin County Grammar School Basketball Tournament was held at Wilton on Saturday, March 13. The teams compet- ing were Farmington, Wilton, Chisholm, Rangeley, and Phillips. We started the day off by playing Farmington. All of the boys were going fine and we kept several points ahead of them until the last few seconds of the game. Then they crept up on us and dropped a couple in the basket. That put them ahead of us. They froze the ball and won 16-17. lt was disappointing but we came the closest to beating Farmington. In the afternoon we drew Chisholm, the team that took the tournament last year. We led them the First three quarters but we couldn't hold them and they won 13-14. Davenport, Campbell, Beal, Dodge, Tooth- aker and Richards played in the tournament. Earl Eustis, our coach, was unable to go with us so Monty Toothaker took his place. After we played, Rangeley beat Chisholm by five points. Later they played again and tied twice. Finally Chisholm won. Farm- ington playcd Wilton and doubled the score on them. In the evening the first game was between Rangeley and Wilton. In this game Range- ley doubled the score. The second game was between Farmington and Chisholm, playing for First place. Farmington won it. Chisholm placed second. Rangeley won third place. That ended the season for the PHILLIPS GRAMMAR SCHOOL BAS- KETBALL TEAM. Our team during this year follows: FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Toothaker -- L.F. Dodge - R.F. Davenport - C. Beal - L.B. Campbell - R.B. Harnden - L.F. Gil: - R.F. B. Rollins - C. Guerney - L.B. McLain - R.B. All of the boys mentioned above played very well, and even though we didn't win all the games we played, all of us boys had a lot of fun. We wish to thank Earl Eustis and Cole- man Mitchell for their fine coaching during the year. Next year we start with only two of our first team but watch us go.