Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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C. J. FREW, The Florist, State St. Ixxal Phone 281 15 C. H. S. Line Up Memorial. Smith...................R. F............ Hawke-Welch Childs..................L. F................ Sanders Good-Laughlin............C.................... Barker Davis...................L. G............... Polayggi Leach...................R. G................. Conley Owing to the score keeper (Pat White) getting suddenly hungry and swallowing the score book, we are unable to give further particulars. C. H. S. STOPPED BY J. H. S. On Jan. 12 the C. H. S. journeyed to the neighboring village of Jefferson .fully determined to show the Jefferson boys a few angles in the game of basketball that they had never seen before, but the fates decreed otherwise. Owing to the smallness of the floor the C. H. S. quintet were greatly handicapped. The game 'was fast and rough, a great number of fouls being called. It was these same fouls that beat Conneaut, as both teams cage 1 the same number of baskets and, when the whistle blew, the score stood J. E. I. 26, Conneaut 20. C. H. S. Line-up. J. E. I. Laughlin-Smith. .'.....R. F................. Topper Childs.................L. F..................Miller Good....................C................... Mullen Davis..................L. G............... Spafford Leach..................R. G............... Chambers Baskets—Miller 3, Mullen 2, Topper 2, Childs 3, Leach 1, Laughlin 1, Smith 1, Davis 1. Fouls—Miller 4, Topper 4, Mullen 3, Leach 5, Davis 1. One point awarded to Jefferson. Referee and Umpire, Alternating—-Smith and Talkington. Timekeepers—Neave and Smith. ’BULA HARBOR HI SWAMPED, FRIDAY, JAN. 27. C. H. S. handed to the Harbor lads the most decisive defeat ever presented to a visiting team by a C. H. S. quintet. The Harbor lads were outclassed from start to finish. The poor boys must have been out the night before or got the idea into their heads that the C. H. S. Athletic association paid their expenses to Conneaut and back merely for the purpose of using them as statues to ornament the hall with. Anyhow when the wreckage was pulled away there was a small package found which contained a few shattered hopes and three points. This package was addressed to Ashtabula Harbor High School. Another package was found addressed to Conneaut High School 'which contained fifty-five points. It was estimated that one thousand people were present at the game. Childs..................L. F............... Burrell Laughlin................R. F............ Espey-Poad Leach....................C.................. Nelson Smith...................R. G.............. Jeffries Davis...................L. G.............. Harfward Summary—Baskets from Field—Childs 10, Davis 5, Smith 6, Leach 3,

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14 THE TATTLER a member of the committee, and by Prof. Smith, who helped coach the football team. From all reports the meeting was a very stormy one. The principal topic up for discussion was the awarding of the football championship. After much wrangling, pro and con, it was decided that no football championship would be awarded, inasmuch as Conneaut did not play Geneva at that place. The question of patching up the athletic differences existing between C. H. S. and Geneva high, which terminated after the football game here, by C. H. S. severing all athletic connections with G. H. S. was taken up. All the squabbles were gone over and talked upon. And it is reported that the local team, although having almost the entire committee against it, was well represented by its executive. But although (no doubt) the committee acted wisely, it can hardly be believed that the local school was fairly treated. It was denied a fairly won football championship. But if Conneaut had not acquiesced to a patching up of relations with Geneva, there is not much doubt that a move would have been made to put C. H. S. out of the association. C. H. S. VICTORIES. On Friday, Dec. 22, the C. H.‘ S. quintet succeeded in taking the fast Memorial Gym team into carhp. The game was fast and interesting from start to finish and the boys showed flashes of team work that fairly took the Gym boys off their feet. Both sides played a clean snappy game but owing to .the Gym boys’ inability to cage the ball and the C. H. S. boys’ ability to cage it the score when the-whistle blew stood C. H. S. 34 and Memorial 9. C. H. S. DEFEATED. Although the H. S. team was not up to its usual form, having had no practice for a week on account a! the holiday vacation, the management decided to take a long chance and play the Gibbs-Hawes Seconds on New Year’s night. The game was as fast and snappy as could be expected on the Armory floor. Pearce and Childs were the bright and shining lights of the game, Pearce’s passing being perfect. Childs, beginning to feel hilarious and thinking he was a basketball player, caged six beauties, much to the dismay of the G.-H’s aggregation,—'but all for naught, for when the trumpet sounded at the end of the fray the score stood C. H. S.' 24, G.-H’s Seconds 26. But 6uch is life. C. H. S. VS. MEMORIAL GYM. On the night of Dec. 30, a bunch of rubes that toss the B. B. around so as to hold up the honors for old C. H. S. in athletics, played a return game with the Memorial team, but owing to the smallness of the floor, it came very near costing them a defeat. Although rough, the game was fairly fast, both teams playing as clean a game as was possible on so small a floor. When the gong sounded at the close of the second round the score stood C. H. S. 16—Memorial Gym, 15.

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If) THE TATTLER Laughlin 1, Burrell 1. Goals from Foul—Burrell 1, Leach 4, Davis 1. Referee and Umpire, Alternating—C. Smith and Hardy. Time of Halves— 20 minutes. C. H. S. SECONDS VS. MAZDA LI ERS. As a preliminary to the High School and Ashtabula Harbor High School game, a game was played by the C. H. S. Seconds and the Mazdaliers. The game was rough, fast and exciting from start to finish. At the close of the battle it was found that the High School team was leading by the score of 17 to 15. C. H. S. Line-up. Mazdaliers. Good L. F Eagles R. F Stone C Hubbard L. G W.and N. Dunn . . . R. G Referee and Umpire, Alternating—Smith and Bunk. Halves—15 minutes. ASHTABULA VS. CON NBA UT. Our great rivals A. H. S. journeyed to our fair city on Feb. 2 with the sole purpose in view of wiping our gymnasium floor with the sturdy warriors of C. H. S. However, the crusade was a pitiable failure. The game was fast and exciting from start to finish. During the first half the passing of the locals was very ragged. Another fault was the slowness of the locals under their basket. The caging of fouls by Leach in the first half and the basket shooting of Eagles in the second half were the features of the game, I each getting five out o fsix fouls and Eagles getting six baskets. The game ended with the score 30 to 15 in favor of Conneaut. SMITH—11. VARSITY—34. On Thursday, Feb. 8th, the Smith and Varsity Literary societies clashed. The game was fast, furious and rough, and when the whistle blew everyone had enough including the spectators, and especially the faculty. It was nip and tuck until Eagles was removed for being just a trifle too rude. After which the Smith’s lost not only their team work but also the game. One of the scorers lost her gum and in her effort to recover the same, the game was forgotten so we are unable to print the individual records. The night was dark and breezy, Carlyle’s hands were almost freezing, To a party he was bound, Leota had one arm around, Not a duty for a girl to fill. But Carlyle’s hands had become chilled.