Central High School - Caldron Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Basketball Season Central hit a hot night in their next game and the far superior Auburn team, led by Dave Williams, was barely able to snare a close one-point victory from the Tigers, 7.4-2.3. The Tigers continued their hot streak the next week to defeat Winamac, runner-up in the state tourney last year. By virtue of a last three-minute rally the Bluffton Tigers broke the Central Tiger's successive chain of victories to win by three points. Still retaining their hot streak, the Tigers next beat Decatur, the 1931 Sectional Champs. At this point it looked as though the Tigers were not merely on a hot streak but actually playing in championship form. This is in fact mostly true as they were not playing race horse basketball, but methodical and precise basketball. The Tigers lost this form during their next two city-series tilts and lost both by large scores. The next week, the scrapping team took all the sting out of their poor seasor1's showing. They beat South Side!! They not only beat them, but with the aid of a new zone defense fairly trounced them by eleven points. After losing a slow game to Warsaw, the Tigers forced the Washington of East Chicago's Senators to go to their limit to win the game. ln the final game of the season the scrapping Central Tigers went down to a superior Elkhart quintet led by Patnelle. Fighting with their boots on, when the fray closed, the curtain dropped on the 1939.-1933 season for Central High School basketeers. Page 0

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Basketball Season Central High School's Tigers played through a very erratic off-on 1931-1933 basketball season. Although they lost eleven of their regularly scheduled games they featured hot nights and beat highly touted lives one night, and lost to inferior quintets the next night. The Tigers went through their season in true tiger-like form, however, and were much admired because they fought with fury even when the minutes to go were few and they were hopelessly behind. The season uncovered unusual ability in some of the Tigers and as all of the varsity five, except Burton, will be back next year, their future outlook is very encouraging. In the initial start of the season, Central gave the Portland Panthers a seven point trouncing on the Friday of December 1, only to bow to a humiliating defeat on the next day at the hands of the powerful Hartford City five. Central lost her first city series tilt to North Side at the Northern gymnasium. The Tigers, then, played three games the next week-end and after warping Columbia City, took on Garrett and Frankfort in a double-header. They managed to nose out the Railroaders in the first game but were completely outclassed and outscored by the Hot-dogs in the night-cap. During the Christmas holidays the team bowed down to Central Catholic, losing by iive points. The Kendallville Comets were the next to defeat the Tigers but had plenty of trouble doing it as it was a fast, hard-fought contest. The Tigers clashed with the South Side Archers in the annual charity tourney and fell before the well-oiled, smooth- working, Southern quintet to lose 7.1-18. 1110 1141119

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The 1933-34 Season Central's basketball outlook for the 1933-34 season is exceed- ingly bright with Bollman, Warfield, Neat, Grimme, Hayes, Hostler, and Menze of the first team left to carry on for the the Tigers. They will be assisted by Buckmaster, Altekruse, Schawkey, McKee, Carl Hayes, Steve Sitko, and Kabish of the present reserve team. The basketball team suffers the loss of such sterling men as Freddie Burton, john Sitko, Cliff Swift, Ed Trott, and Law- rence Romano by graduation. All of these have played basket- ball for three years on the reserve and varsity team. Bill Bollman, Joe Grimme, and Lyle Neat are the polished ball players, although none are six feet tall. Neat is the sharp- shooter of the quintet, hitting the basket from all angles of the floor. He is also an exceptional defensive man. Grimme is a strong guard and delights in long shots from the center of the floor just before the gun sounds. Bill Bollman is the stylist of the team. He shoots from any angle with comparative ease and is a star on defense. t Warfield ,supplies the jumping ability of the squad. Although he is only 5 ft. II in. he can take the tip with consistency from a man well over 6 feet, Neat and Warfield are sophomores, Bollman and Grimme juniors. These men are fairly sure of positions on next year's squad, but the rest of the men are all evenly matched and there should be a battle for the remaining berths on the varsity. Ijlt