Clear Lake High School - Echo Yearbook (Clear Lake, WI)

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 C. L. H. S. ECHO next year are bright. Although we lose four, of the first team by graduation, the seconds together with Booth and Anderson of this season’s team ought to develop into a strong and fast aggregation. This year’s team: Name. Age. Wt. Pos. Year. Brcdt, R. H... .19 135 L. F. Sen. Peterson, L. E. .18 140 R. F. Sen. Lowry, C. L... .17 160 C. Sen. Booth, J. C.... .17 140 R. G. Soph. Johnson, A. E. .19 147 L. G. Sen. Anderson, H. G .17 135 G. Jun. RECORD. Barron 23, Clear Lake 11 Chetek 23, Clear Lake 16 Hudson, 19, Clear Lake 6 Chetek 18, Clear Lake 5.1 Glenwood 60, Clear Lake 10 Downing 23, Clear Lake 11 Barron 19, Clear Lake 20 Cameron 25, Clear Lake 7 Downing 12, Clear Lake 25 Cameron 32, Clear Lake 17 Spooner 33, Clear Lake 18 River Falls 48, Clear Lake 11 Hammond 10, Clear Lake 30 Spooner 24, Clear I ake 13 BASEBALL. The prospects for a strong baseball team are very bright this spring. Most of last year’s team is back and some very promising new material will be out this year. We are somewhat handicapped by not having a good or rather any place to practice so that we may develop tihe team. A schedule of games is being arranged and we hope for a successful season. Bast season we played three games losing two to New Richmond high and winning from Amery. The battery work of Lowry and Brodt featured last year’s team and as we still have them with us this year much is expected from them. Very little can be said in regard to the work of fine team this year in the “Echo” as the book goes to press before the season opens. REVIEW OF THE GIRLS’ BASKETBALL SEASON The 1915-16 basketball season was a very successful one in all respects. All the games played last year were limited to our own teams, but this year we have played other school teams. The games played were all close and very interesting. Our first game was at Downing January 15. This meant that we had to catch the early morning train, which we all did with more or less difficulty. The trip down was a very pleasant one and we could feel in our bones that we were going to win. The game was played before a large crowd, who persisted in taking an active part in the game. Though most of the cheering was against us, by good playing we won the game by a score of 11 to 9. We did not stay very long at Downing but went to Glenwood the same evening. While there—!!! The Turtle Lake girls played us here the 28th, the game resulting in another victory for us by a 12 to 9 score. The school spirit at this game proved a decided help to the players. • On February 11 Downing gave us a return game which was again a victory for us, the score being 15 to 10. After the game we did our best to show them a good time. The last game of the season was plaved March 3 at Turtle Lake before a small crowd. We were victorious by a score of 16 to 7. The Turtle Lake girls were a fair and square sort and we will not forget the admirable treatment that we received at their hands. The prospects for a girls’ team next year are very bright as the same players will be back with the exception of two seniors. The line up was as follows: Olga Boeris ......C......Sophomore Louise Knight ..LF.......Junior Signe Olson ....RF.......Freshman Marie Holmes ...IjG......Senior Mabel Johnson ..RG.......Senior Mary Cronk .......G......Freshman Lettie Hannon ....G......Junior Abbie Westgate. ..G......Freshman Minnie Holliday...F......8th Grade lllillll!

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 C. L. H. S. ECHO pilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllffl were to play in an old Summer Chautauqua building with a ground floor and large upright supports that had to be dodged while trying to play the game. In spite of these conditions we held them to the close score of 23 to 16. The next week the strong Hudson High School team defeated our boys on our floor 19 to 6. The boys played hard to win but again experience defeated us. This game was played without the services of Brodt which broke up the team work of our boys consider-| ably. On January 7th, Chetek played a return game on our floor. Although they had defeated us earlier in the season, we came back and decisively defeated them by a score of 51 to 18. Our boys completely outclassed their opponents in every department or tne game and demonstrated that they could iplay the game well under norm- al conditions. The next week the team went to Glen wood City and Downing. The least said the soonest forgotten. Barron played a return game here on Jan. 21, and went home with the short end of a 19 and 20 score. This was by far the most exciting game we played. Clear I ake led all the way until the last ten minutes of the game, when Barron with a new man in the g game tied the score. Shortly after, a foul was called and Barron went into the lead by one point. With less than thirty seconds to play, Brodt dribbled the ball from the toss up and scored a field basket and thereby winning “ the game for Clear Lake. This was a fast, clean game all the way through, and the school spirit was fine. Clear Lake was again defeated the next week bv the strong Cameron team by a 27 to 9 score. The game was fast but rough. If there had been less roughness the score would have been much closer. The passing of the Cameron boys was almost perfect, but their basket shooting was mainly luck. Our return game with Downing was played at Clear Lake on Peb. 11. In this game neither of the Downing forwards secured a basket due to the good guarding of Johnson and Booth. This was one of the fastest games played and resulted in a victory for Clear I ake by a score of 25 to 12. “ll Clear Lake was again defeated by the strong Cameron team on their home floor by 32 to 17. Our boys held them to a tie score the first half, but in the second half, Cameron’s rougher tactics were too much for our boys. Both Brodt and Peterson were injured in this game. On February 23 a fast team from River Falls High School and Normal came up and defeated the locals by a decisive score of 48 to 11. This was the roughest game of the season, and also the most uninteresting one. The team went to Spooner February 25 and through the inability to score baskets when they had chances lost the game by a score of 23 to 18. Hammond High School team came here the 4th of March and were easily taken into camp by the locals with a score of 30 to 10. The last game of the season was played with Spooner at Clear Lake. This game was very fast with Calhoun starring for Spooner and Peterson and Lowry for Clear Lake. The game ended with Spooner taking the long end of a 24 to 13 score. A reception was tendered the Spooner boys at the school house after the game. The season was a success financially due to good support given the boys by the people of Clear Lake and vicinity. We appreciate this support very much and hope that it may continue in the future. We believe in clean athletics and that they ought to be supported. We have made them self supporting this winter and hope to be able to do so again. Much credit is due the second team for the practice they gave the first, and although very light, they were fast and ought to make a first class team next season with the experience they have had this- year. They were faithful in practice and came out every night almost without exception. They had a successful season, winning three out of five games played. They easily defeated the Turtle Lake first team twice by scores of 58 to 9 and 41 to 14. They divided honors with the Clayton first team by losing the first 8 to 11, and winning the last 34 to 8. They were also defeated by the Barron seconds 28 to 8. Prospects for a successful season IIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM

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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM C. L. H. S. ECHO ■................. ■ A LESSON IN PENMANSHIP. Harry Parker was an ambitious young boy who was attending the Brookville Business College. He was the son of a poor farmer who wanted his son to receive an education. Harry’s mother had never had a chance to attend any school. She could read and write very little, and she wanted her son to become a man with a profession. Harry and his roommate, Tom Walton, intended . to work their way through college. Tom was a boy well liked by everybody, and he was Harry’s most faithful friend. One morning Harry went down to the Post Office. The Postmaster handed him a letter, and the rude handwriting he recognized at once as being his mother’s The shaky scrawl had attracted the attention of a rough looking student named Jack Dudley. He was a wayward young boy who worked in the summer and spent all his money, besides that which his father sent him. He became so lost in the pleasures of the world that he forgot all about his home, and father and mother. He never wrote to his parents except when asking for money. As Harry went through the doorway, Jack remarked about the poor handwriting and said, “I don't see how you can ever read such scrawly writing.’’ This was enough for Harry, and between Jack and himself thev decided to fight it out fairly after school. At noon Harrv went to his room and reread the letter which cheered him greatly. His roommate came in and Harry told him of his morning's adventures and of his evening engagement. Tom listened attentively all the while and then said, “Why don’t you do as I do?’’ “How is that?’’ asked Harry. “Get a dozen or more stamped en-velopes at the Post Office and address them all to yourself and then send them all to your mother.’’ Harry thought for a moment and said, “I might do that, and it seems to be a good plan, yet I’m not ashamed of Mother’s writing.” “I know you are not, and you have no reason to be,” answered Tom. Jack is now one of Harry’s most faithful friends all on account of some scrawly handwriting. Jack often says, V “Think what a lot of trouble it is for her to write. If she is like my mother, 1 know just how it is. First she has to find an envelope. Maybe it is in the writing desk, or in the sewing machine drawer. She looks for it and finds it in a place she never thought of looking before. Next the pen. She had it when she started, but it’s gone now and she finally finds it on the window sill. She sits down and is ready to begin, but where is the address? She knows it is either 648 or 684 Madison St. The address is in the last letter sent home, but that’s upstairs in the bureau drawer. She goes up stairs and feels around in the dusk for it. She knocks father’s shaving mug on the floor and it breaks into a thousand pieces. She lights a lamp and there is the letter. The address has been torn off and she remembers now that she tore it off and put it under the clock so that she would be sure to know where it was when she wanted it. She goes down stairs and finds it under the clock just where she left it, and she makes one more attempt. She writes the address, and on looking over her work, she drops some ink on it and she finds her work is very crooked. She turns it over and finds the flap on the bottom which means that she addressed the envelope upside down. She puts a stamp on it and gives it a pound with her hand, then heaves a sigh of relief. New, isn’t that the way it is, Harry?” “I think that is about right, and I guess I’ll try your plan,” said Harry. That nieht after school, Harry and Tom went down to the Post Office and Harry bought fourteen stamped envelopes. Tom promised to typewrite the addresses on them which he did later. As they went through the door they saw .Tack Dudley coming around the corner. He came up to Harry and said, “ I’m glad it happened, as it set me to thinking. I never used to write home to mother, but I have done so since I saw you this morning.” When Harrv and Tom reached home Harry said, “The queerest things do happen so suddenly, and I’m sure that I never thought that mother’s handwriting would ever lead a wav ward boy to see his own mistake.” “That surely was a good lesson in penmanship.” EDNA GRAHX. 4802000000010200020100020253020253532353534853234853232348532348534823020053010248485348000200000101020102020053024802010101020102020002000202020101534853535353235323234848234848532323535348535348 530053485353024848024853025353024848232348532300535302484853234853530248230201020000010200000202480000010102024853024853232300535353235353484853530248485323485323005353020200535302484802485323230001