Burlington High School - Rarebits Yearbook (Burlington, Ontario Canada)

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RAREBITS A57 Zgazkrihall Editor-MARY SHEPPARD Probably the greatest interest ever taken in any team that Burlington High School has produced, has been shown this year in the Senior girl's basket ball team. The reason is, of course, because they were a winning team and the first to gain as much honour for themselves as this team did. They started off with a clean sweep of the local group and had little trouble in beating the teams from the Hamilton Normal, Dundas and Waterdown schools. ln home and home games with Grimsby they won the semi-final in the Niagara district and until they encount- ered Ridgeway had little opposition. On their own floor the B.H.S. girls were victorious. At Ridgeway, however, Helen Smith was taken off in the first quarter with four personal fouls and things looked rather blue for the local girls, but after a hard fought battle they managed to tie-up the score and thus won on the round. They were now winners ofthe Niagara District. ' . .' Later they met the winners of the other districts in the C.0.S.S.A and after beating Barrie C. l. on Friday, GIRLS' RELAY TEAMS IUNjOR- tBack rowj-Patricia Middleton, Helen Lapington, Elsie Hodsdon, Nevada Milligan. V l M tS th H l h INTERMEDMTE-tCentre Rowl--Grace irtue, lean Hys op, argare mi , e en Smit . SENjOR-tFront RowJDorothy Tuck, Annie Smith, Alice Eaton, Mary Sheppard. A

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56 RAREBITS S GIRLS' IUNIOR BASKETBALL TEAM Back Row-Helen Lapington, lean Hyslop, Alice Barrett, Phyllis Stainer, Miss Martyn tcoachj Marg'aret Green Nina Edwards, Annie Borisuk, Clare Tory. Foreground-Betty Galashan, Kathleen Sheppard, Jeanne Coutts. Zluninrz iluniur 'dleam Although the junior teams have made a finer showing in other years than the Seniors, this year they fell down in the local grouping and after beating Dundas twice and Normal once, they lost to Normal in the last game. As Normal had also only one loss to her credit two more games were necessary to determine the winner and Normal won out on the round. The local Iuniors, however, had one more chance to win fame when they were given the right to meet Grimsby in the semi-finals of the Niagara Dis- trict. Although winners by a thirteen point lead on their own floor, Grimsby turned the tables at Grimsby and the local girls lost out. Yvhen Normal played off with Central, winners of Hamilton district, they were victorious and Burlington and Central then had to play off for the consolation cup. As this cup had previously been donated by Mr. Bates it was hoped that our girls would win it but from the game played on our own floor, chances looked rather slim. The final game fulfilled the premoni- tory hint of defeat for Burlington and the cup will reside with Hamilton Normal. I. Kathleen Sheppard- Kay - de' fence. Captain of the Iuniors, whose legs are so long and feet so big that she has worn out all the running shoes in the school which are over size six. Margaret Cireen- Maggie -defence Best natured player in the school. .Phylis Stainer- Phyl''-defence. Who could get away in practice with more overguarding than was good for her. Alice Barrett or Barette -forward. A new player and a good one. lean Hyslop-''Hessyu--forward. Can play anywhere on the team. Betty Galashan- Bett -lump cen- ter foward. A good player and fine sport. Although six foot two she is maybe a little too polite at times. Nina Edwards- Glasses -forward. Stick to it, Nina. Iean Coutts- feet -defence. Keep up the good work, Iean. Claire Tory- Blondy -forward. Best shot in practice but never gets a chance. Annie Borisuk - Forward -Played in first games. Helen Lepington-Forward. Played in the last game of the season.

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58 RAREBITS they beat Napanee on the following Saturday. Both these games were played in Toronto on neutral floors. These games made the local girls Champions of the Central Ontario second ary schools and gave them the right to meet the champions of the Eastern, Northern and Western districts, also Hamilton and Toronto districts. The Northern, Eastern, and Toronto districts however, withdrew from the finals and as Burlington defeated Brantford, the winners of the Hamilton district to determine the holder of the Lockett shield, there was only Kennedy Col- legiate, VVindsor, winners of the Yves- tern district left to beat. As Windsor again had exactly the same team which won the Ontario championship last year, chances of Burlington being victorious looked rather slim, and thus, in the entire league, they met their first defeat at Windsor on VVednesday, April the firstp The fol- lowing Tuesday, Windsor came to town and although victorious the Burlington team was unable to overcome the lead previously gained by the Kennedy girls. And so with only one loss to their credit and runners-up for the Qntario cham- pionship the Senior girls basketball team ended one of the greatest seasons in the history of the school. A great deal of the honour gained by both teams this year is due to Miss Martyn, the coach who worked faith- fully to practise the teams to cham- pionship style, to Mr. Bates, the prin- cipal, who arranged the games and made it possible for us to meet Yvindsor, to the people who so kindly drove their cars to the out-of-town games, to the students who went to the games to cheer and to the support of the community in general who, by coming to the home games, greatly increased the treasury. SENIOR TEAM Sally Loree- Sadie or Sarah. - lump centre forward and captain. The biggest on the team but the one who suffers most. Evidence-Her rosy, dimpled knees. Florian E. Loree- Fay -forward. Who along with her sister, Sally would put the locusts out of business with their password sis , Helen C. Smith --Prince -forward Star forward of this year's team who 1 never got one personal foul but always three or four. Dorothy Sanderson-'fSandy -d e - fence. Who also seems to have escaped with many offences-in games. But as the old saying goes, What the referees don't know Won't hurt them. Evelyn H. Stewart-H S t e W -d e - fence. The only player who has lost twenty-five pounds since September and who wonders why her clothes don't fit. The morning after the Windsor game, Evelyn conducted a lesson in outdoor cooking. Helen MacDonald-''Macn-defence. Lots of freckles and plenty to do. 'tithe Grip in minhsnr By MARGARET GREEN Everybody was looking forward to Tuesday, Aprill. Why? Because the Senior Girls' Basketball team was going to Windsor. The blue and gold aggre- gation, ribbons flying, finally found themselves in the Windsor train. When we came to London we got off to breathe for awhile. Here We encountered our first reminder that this was April lst. Mrs. Teasdale kindly presented Miss Martyn with two boxes of candy, one for the team and one for Miss Martyn. The team was delighted and opened the box as soon as they got back on the train. Inside were three large cakes-of soapl The time passed rapid- ly but our gay spirits defied the gloomy scene without-gray sky, gray fields, rain everywherel At last the train pulled into Windsor where our team was met by Miss Hamilton, coach of the Windsor team, and some of the girls on the team. Our journey back to the collegiate could not be termed speedy, owing to the fact that the girl drivers were not too anxious to get back to school. Our team was taken through the school and then to Windsor Court , where we were to stay and rest till supper time. Restl Everybody in the hotel seemed to be inspired with the desire to walk heavily, ponderously up- stairs, down stairs. Then to top it all, the janitor started to sing Walkin' My Baby Back Home tWe hope his baby appreciated it more than we didl. Finally after a frugal supper, we went out to meet our Waterloo. Over that tragic