Cooksville High School - Talisman Yearbook (Cooksville, IL)

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GIRLS' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY HALL

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BASEBALL Another year has rolled around 5 a new coach greated the young men of Cooksville High who had aspirations to play baseball, lt seemed that the school was short on young mem: only eleven boys reported for the first practice. The new coach, Mr Hirst, started practice the day school began, andthe new baseball season was launched. The first game of the season , with Anchor, turned out to be a defeat, only after a hard struggle. Bob Garmon proved to be big gun in the Cooksville attack, driving out two hits and pitching a good game. The visitors finally came out ahead by a score of 11 to 5. ln the second game of the season, Garmon had a calling to distant parts and an ihx efiencea pitcher had to be used. Mr. Stone of Arrowsmith seemed to be' up to par, ang after seven innings the final score was 16 to 1. A victory was in the bag when Cooksville team came home from Ellsworth Strong pitcher and good support gave them a well deserved victory. With light hearts full of confidence the team set about practice for the third game. Bellflower made its appearance on the Cooksville diamond September 25 to play one of the best games of the season. Although Bob Garmon, star pitcher for the Cooksville nine, gave up only two hits, the support was week, and in the second inning Bellflower was able to push four runs across the plate because of four errors. The lone Cooksvills run came in the fourth inning, when three walks and an error let one man in. The final score read 5 to 1 in bellflower's favor. September 27, 1945 dawned dark and dreary. The band of Cooksville players drove to Saybrook in a steady downpour. After falling down in the mud .of the diamond a few times, we decided to postpone the game, which later at the request of Saybrook was cancelled. Cooksville played the last game of the season on its diamond, with Towanda furnish- ing the competition. After two scoreless innings, Cooksville began to hit that ball and drove in nine runs. By mutualggreemeni, only five innings were played, because of the wet diamond. The final score 9 to Z gave Cooksville a decisive victory. Thus another baseball season came to a close winh a record of two wins against three losses. We can ,gay that although we lost several games, the season was a success by helping to mold young men and to develop good sportsmen ship. BASKETBALL The Bluebirds shook the dirt from their spikes, and hung up their baseball uniforms for another year. Basketball was calling to them, and the following boys reported: Kenny Smith, jerry Herman, Marvin Dean, Robert Garmon, Iuniorsg Willard Wiedner, and Clifford Vawter, Sophomoresg and Arthur Spencer, Bill Crook, and David Stockle, Freshmen. Bob Garmon became eligible at the second semester. , ' The first game of the year was with Arrowsmith on our own floor. Two games were played with only nine men. The second team game was won in a thrilling finish by a score of 17 to 16. In the varsity game Arrowsmith had too much Stone and Won easily by a score of 36 to 8. Lloyd Stone, Scored 32 points.