Tome High School - Trail Yearbook (North East, MD)

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K , . 1 :Nl N d 'l n I l O Basketball ITH CAPTAIN JENNESS and Jack Scott returning from last year's team, and a wealth of new and promising material reporting, Coach Ollie Klee seemed destinedtto produce a highly successful quintet for 1929. However, ineligibility, sickness, and inyu- ries took their usual roll, and although the great majority of the games on the schedule were won, four important games were lost, including one of the traditional tussles with Gilman. Herby Heyn, ineligible last year, and Lou Dunlay were the main cogs in the Tome offense, ably assisted by Easy Pickens. Captain jenness played a great defensive game during the entire season. Tome opened its season on January 12th against the Elkton A. C. The starting lineup for Tome consisted of Heyn and Lucid, forwards, jenness, center, and Pickens and Scott, guards. The game was slow and uninteresting, Tome cashing in an easy victory. Heyn caged eleven points and Pickens scored eight, boosting Tome's total score to 37 against Elkron's 17. The team showed flashes of fine coordination and good pros- pects were foreseen for the harder games to come. The following Wednesday Beacom College invaded Port Deposit only to return on the short end of a 32-17 count. The Tome offense during the first half completely dazzled the Wilmington boys, Easy Pickens being in one of his scoring moods and bringing up thirteen counters to his credit. Heyn played a fine offensive game as did Simonson. Welsh and Harley showed up best for Beacom. Peddie next visited Tome for the first major game of the season, and the Tome cagers came up against their first real opposition. The Peddie outfit was fast and clever with a snappy passing attack. The Tomesters never had a look-in, and lost by the score of 30-18. Heyn and Pickens were outstanding for the Blue and White, while Collini and Austin excelled for Peddie. With the appearance of Lou Dunlay in the Tome line-up Wesley Collegiate was overcome. Dunlay and Heyn each sank four field goals in a rather slow game, ending with Tome leading, 35-19. In a most exciting contest Princeton Prep lost a close one to Tome by the score of 26-22 on Saturday, January 26. Dunlay led in the Tome offense while jenness prevented many opposing baskets. The play was closer at all times, the lead continually changing hands and the winner not being known until the final moments of play. The following Wednesday Overbrook High School, of Philadelphia, fell before the Tome attack in an interesting game. The Tomesters clearly showed their superiority but One Hmzdred and Thirteen

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The 1929 TRAIL 'gd-Y . C also showed lapses in which sloppy basketball prevailed. Dunlay and Heyn again led the scoring, giving Tome a 38-36 decision. Minsky scored fifteen points for Overbrook. It was on Saturday, February 2, against their ancient rivals from Gilman, that the Tome Basketeers reached the height of their form. Gilman never had a chance from the opening whistle, Heyn, Pickens, and Dunlay finding the basket time and again to ring up a 32-14 score at the half. Tome continued its high class brand of play through- out the remainder of the game, and although Samuels, Gilman's diminutive forward, scored fourteen points, the Blue and White rolled up 53 points to Gilman's 32. Washington College Freshmen were the next victims of the Tome passers, losing to the tune of 36-18. Tome assumed the lead early in the game, and was never headed. The freshmen showed little or no coordination and the game was nothing more than a practice session for Ollie Klee's charges. Running up a sixth straight victory, Tome downed Emerson Institute on Saturday, February 9, in a close tussle by the score of 27-26. Dunlay and Hawrin led the Tome attack with aggressive basket approaches and superior passing. Busher starred for Emer- son, collecting four field goals and three fouls. Tome had little trouble the following Wednesday in downing the Delaware junior Varsity. The Tomesters loafed through the first half, but speeded up in the last frame to win by 47-27. Dunlay was the star of the game, giving a fine exhibition of basketball and scoring 21 points. The winning streak of Ollie Klee's passers came to an end on February 16 as they journeyed to Woodberry and were submerged under a 31-20 score. The Blue and White played a listless game, losing many opportunities to score, while Woodberry played its characteristic fighting game, to make the outcome never in doubt. The Tome- sters were over-confident and, although Dunlay and Heyn showed some good basketball, the honors all go to Woodberry. The team revived its winning form temporarily in beating Wenonah Military Academy 43-30 in a spifitless game. The Tome outfit was much better than the score indicates. Dunlay, with 20 points, was high scorer of the game, while Bream was Wenonah's outstanding player. Tome met defeat the day following the Wenonah game, traveling to Baltimore to engage Gilman in the second game of the series. The Tomesters played aggressively and managed to keep pace with the determined spirit of the Gilman team. At the end of the game the score was tied at 34 all, but in the extra period which followed Tome was buried under a barrage of field goals by Samuels and Purnell, all of them long shots. Tome could do nothing in the way of scoring, and the game ended 42-34. Concluding the season Tome dropped a thrilling battle to Wilmington High School. It was a free scoring affair with Tome playing inferior basketball the first half. Dunlay was high point man for Tome, while Ritter was outstanding for Wilmington. The Blue and White speeded up during the second half, but Wilmington did likewise, maintain- ing a safe lead throughout. The game ended 60-51. Following the Wilmington battle, Freeman Hawrin was chosen by his teammates to pilot next year's team, and J. D. Cheek was elected manager. Captain jenness, Captain-elect Hawrin, Heyn, Dunlay, Lucid, Pickens, Simonson, Nichols, and Scott were awarded letters. One Hundred and Fourteen