Davis High School - Davinois Yearbook (Davis, IL)

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- ---------' -ww 'rr-In navuwors mm- -'-------- - Rolland Ditzler Requartte Tracy Booty Ditzler played forward during the greater part of the season. He was noted for his hard fighting from the start of the game until the final whistle blew. Captain Tracy, guard, was the only surviving reg- ular of last year's team. Rex was a power on defense. He was an able leader and no better choice for captain could have been made. Marsden Hoover Marvin Meier Mars started the season at forward but for lack of defensive power he was later shifted to guard. He played both positions equally well. i Marv was not a large man but played a good con- sxsteint game through the year. He showed up best at for- war . Page Thirty-Nine

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1' n n n AV 1 N Q I s F. Walton J ones Milton Phillips Melvin Kurtz Coach Jones came to D. H. S. from Illinois State Normal University at Normal, Ill. He gained the respect of all candidates for the entire season. While the mater- ial was few in numbers he built up a fairly good team with the available timber. Tillie the forward played under the disadvantage of size. He made up for it in the excellent manner by slipping through the opposing guards and coming through with the necessary basket. Page Thirty-Eight Joseph Andres Emerson Hofmeister Scooge played a fierce game from the start of the season to the finish. He stuck to his man and caused his opponents a lot of trouble. Joe Andres, known on the team as H. R. was a hard player and played the positions equally well. He had a gqord eye for the basket and he was a good man to play w1t . Emp Hofmeister, or Hoff , started the season as center. He had the size and proved to be a good man all around with an excellent eye for the basket. .

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'r H E n Av 1 N 0 I s Basket Ball When the call for candidates for the basket ball squad was made, eight players responded and remained through- out the entire season. Mr Jones was again chosen for coach, while the fol- lowing players composed the present team, Requartte Tracy, fCapt.J Marsden Hoover, Rolland Ditzler, Melvin Kurtz, Milton Phillips, Joseph Andres, Marvin Meier, and Emerson Hofmeister. The only regular of last year's team was Requartte Tracy, so our team was inexperienced, several of the players not playing a game before. We also competed against schools much larger than our own and conse- quently they had the advantage in weight and size. Al- though not winning the majority of ourgames, we fought hard under disadvantages, always playing a clean and sportsmanlike game which denotes the character of our school. After practicing for several weeks we opened the season on Friday Nov. 30, by playing the Alumni. Al- though inexperienced we forced them to do some fast playing and the outcome was in doubt until the final whistle blew. Final score H. S. 20-Alumni 28. We then encountered a team known as the Freeport Seals, composed of several Freeport H. S. stars and they proved too strong for us as they trimmed us 15-48. The next Friday we journeyed to Winslow and they seemed to have their usual good team for we went down to defeat by the score of 11-34. We, played under the disadvantage of a low ceiling and slippery floor. Pecatonica was the next foe and they, having the best team in their history, together with the small fioor dealt us our worst defeat of the season 3-37. The following night the Baracca Sun- day School team of Freeport invaded our city. The teams Page Forty were evenly matched and the score being close all the way through. But just as the gun cracked a lucky basket was made giving them their hard earned victory 11-12. Jan. 4 we boarded the east bound train and found ourselves in Rockton to engage .in another confiict. But Rockton dis- played and unexpected attack and before we could pull ourselves together they had a large lead on us. Final score 6-32. The Dakota High School Quintet then gave us a visit and returned somewhat later smarting under a 24-6 beating. The Davis,boys started on a jump and were never in any particular danger. The return engage- ment with Dakota proved quite a contrast with the first. Several of our players were absent with the mumps. The result was a 11-28 setback. Pecatonica then came down and decided to wallop the lives out of us. Up to this time Pec. had lost but one game, and it looked for awhile like they would have two games in their lost column. The first half ended 6-4 in our favor, but we could not continue the fast pace set in the first half resulting in a 12-26 victory for the visitors. Rockton again proved our supe- riors as they administered the Orange and Blue another defeat. Final score 16-32. The D. H. S. tossers invaded the Pearl City aggregation and failed to keat the locals as they returned with a 10-27 defeat. The speedy Wins- low cagers again tackled us and won out by the score of 9-20 in a hard fought game. We were entirely off form when we met Pearl City, for the second time. We should have had an easy time of disposing of them but the dope was upset when we lost 6-14. The final game of the season was played at the dis- trict tournament held at Freeport. We drew the strongest team in our class but the outcome looked very favorable until the final minute. The final score was 9-15. E. H.