Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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H.B.KURTZ, “Hallmark” Store, Quality Jewelry ball from his throbbing head. He pitched into Bob Martin with blinded fury and the two had exchanged several blows before the coach and other players had time to separate them. The coach suspended them for the rest of the week. After a cooling shower Jimmy felt ready to shake hands with Bob, at the coach’s request, hut Boh felt gingerly of his rapidly swelling eye and growled something under his breath. It was during this forced session of hostilities that Jimmy, walking moodily home from school, saw his rival walking ahead of him with a girl. lie did not pay much attention to them at first, but as lie passed he saw that it was his blue-eyed friend. That was the final straw, for Jimmy who was used to strenuous exercise every evening, could not sleep until the small hours for disposing of his rival. At the end of the week Jimmy and Boh stood on the sidelines and watched Glenville win an easy victory and go into a tie for the county championship. It proved to he a costly game for Glenville. In the first quarter the right forward, and captain of the team, fell and hurt his knee. The accident did not seem serious at first and the sub finished the already won game. But the knee began to swell and by Wednesday it became apparent that Boh and Jimmy who were again in the game would have to play forwards in the game which was to decide the championship. Tn vain the coach tried to get them to play together. Basketball is the fastest game played and in a fast game a lot of the passing is done by instinct. No matter how fast their work was when playing with another forward, their playing became slow and uncertain when playing together, and quite often they would take difficult long shots when they could have passed to the other in a better position. The coach gave it up in despair and did his best to develop a sub to fill the captain’s position. Two forwards, who cannot play together, no matter how fast, are an absolutely useless combination on a basketball team. The gymnasium of Glenville High was filled an hour before the game began. They waited impatiently while a preliminary game was being played. A high cheer greeted the squads of the two teams, that were to play for the championship, as they ran out on the floor to get warmed up a bit before the game. A new basketball had been bought for the game and a famous referee from a college was to officiate. Jimmy went into forward for the first half as usual, with the sub playing the other injured captain’s place. A Hart Sehaffner Marx Suit is the bestrri-.,i r investment we know of. You can’t lose. M. Whitney Co.

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H. B. KURTZ Diamonds - Watches - Jewelry This was only the beginning of their rivalry. All through the football season they fought grimly from end’s position and when the season had ended both had played an equal number of games, each was dissatisfied with the showing he had made, and their rivalry had turned to hatred. After the football season was over, athletics were forgotten for a few weeks. It was a few days before Christmas vacation as Jimmy was hurrying from a class that he first met the girl. He was coming from the Science class and just as he reached the door he turned to look back into the room. He did not see the tall, slender girl entering. He ran into her solidly and instinctively he reached out to steady himself. It was his steadying arm that saved the girl from falling and for an instant Jimmy looked into a pair of startled eyes bluer than the skies. He held her a minute and stepped back and offered a gracious apology. It was one of his peculiarities to never get embarrassed. She looked at him with a smile and muttered some unintelligible acceptance to his apology and passed on. He did not inquire her name, but the incident separated her, in Jimmy’s mind, from the rest of the girls. Whenever they met in the halls they always exchanged a smile and after a few weeks of this acquaintance, Jimmy seized a golden opportunity and had a little chat with her. The basketball season opened and the old rivalry between Jimmy and Bob broke out anew. Both were out for the only vacant position on the squad. Four positions were held by veterans but left forward was open. Gradually the nine men out were weeded down until Jimmy and Bob were left. Every evening they were the first into their suits and the last to get off the floor. Every evening a grim struggle took place to get on the first team in the final scrimmage. Bob Martin’s superior weight and reach were offset by Jimmy’s nimbler mind and speed. Again, as in the football season the coach used them in an equal number of games. Jimmy would usually play the first half as he was a faster man, and Bob would go in for the last half. The season was coming to a close when their rivalry broke into an open fight. Bob had made the first squad for the final scrimmage of the evening and Jimmy, ill-temepCred because he had missed a few easy shots earlier in the evening, was playing the whole second team game himself. After carrying the ball down the floor several times on a fast dribble he saw Bob coming across the floor to head him off, he threw the ball over his opponents head and tried to dodge by him. A hard, bare elbow caught him in the face and drove all thoughts of basket- WHAT YOU BUY-WE STAND BY. The G. M. Whitnev Co

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“Ilallmark”—means Quality H. B. KURTZ The game was fast from beginning to end. Old players who witnessed tlie game claimed that it was the fastest that had ever been played in the county. Jimmy played brilliantly but the inexperienced substitute went to pieces and played poorly. In the end of the half the score, was eight to five in favor of Alberta High, and the Glenville High rooters began to get nervous of the outcome of the game. In the second half Bob Martin went into Jimmy's position and the last half started in a deafening roar of cheers. Alberta High rooters went into a frenzy when their team had caged two field goals in the first minute of play. After a couple more minutes they got another and Ihe score stood 14-5 in favor of Alberta. The Glenville High center stopped the game and called a conference. The cheering stepped and everything was as quiet as a tomb. “Why don’t you play?”a girlish voice inquired. Jimmy Connels. bundled in a sweater, turned and saw that it was the tall, blue-eyed girl speaking to him. “Oh, 1 can’t play on the same team with that long-eared, homely grouch,” he answered bitterly. “Who do you mean?” she ashed, puzzled. “Bob Martin, of course,” he answered. “Well, you have a good opinion of my brother,” she said slowly. There was an icy look in her eyes when he looked up in surprise. “And I’ve got a fine opinion of a fellow that will stand by and see his school lose a championship, just because he’s on bad terms with a team mate.” Jimmy opened his mouth to protest, but what was the use of arguing with her. She would not listen to him if lie tried to tell her that they could not pass correctly when they played in the same team. The blood was racing madly in Jimmy’s veins when the Glenville High team took their places again. The ball was tossed up at center and the Alberta’s center knocked it to bis left forward who shot it back to the other forward, and lie dropped it into the basket before Glenville had realized what happened. Jimmy pulled the sweater off his shoulders and ran to the coach. “I’m going in,” he said, and without waiting for a word ran across the floor and reported to the timekeeper and referee. He ran up to Bob, and Martin, thinking he was going out of the game, started for the sidelines his shoulders drooping dejectedly. Jimmy took him by the arm and said, “Bob, I'm going in for the other forward. We’ve got to win this game and we can do it. Let’s show them something.” The Sweetness of Low Price Never Equals the Bitterness of Low Quality. 1 he (i. M. Whitney Co —8—