Granite City High School - Warrior Yearbook (Granite City, IL)

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Athletic Assn. basket i3ail T HE Basket Ball Team made a great showing at the Western division tournament at Jacksonville winning all the games they played among the twenty best teams iy W r est Central Illinois and bringing home a loving cup as well as a banner to show for their work. The tournament was pulled off ou the elimination plan, the loss of one game eliminating a team. First Edwards ville High School tried their hand with Granite but fell easy prey to their antagonists, the passing of the Granite City boys having them “up in the air” as to where the ball was most of the time. The boys in this game saved themselves and as a result the score was only 34 — 26 favor Granite. Going on the plan that “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,” the boys sought peace in slumber at about 9 o’clock that night, February 26. Next morning they drew as to who would play on Friday, and Granite drew Bluffs H. S. and it certainly seemed as if the game was a tending his flock and finally succeeded in gettl9. Coach Robertson acted much as a sheperd more sleep. The next day was Granite ' s strening everyone in their rooms at about 9:30 for bluff Granite easily winning by a score of 53 — nous time, they drawing two hard teams to play in the afternoon and evening, namely, (Quincy and Canton. Everyone played as if his life depended on these games and even after an accident, causing one of the regulars to be thrown out, and a substitute put in, Granite won both games, Canton receiving 21 points to Granite’s 28 and Quincy piling up 24 to Granite’s 35. Finally, in the evening, it was found that Granite and Springfield played for 1st and 2nd place and Pittsfield and Jacksonville for 3rd and fourth. In this game everyone played as if possessed by a demon, Wms foul shooting and everyone ' s pass work being the best, Jacksonville High declares, ever seen on their floor. As a result Granite piled up 32 points to Springfield’s 27. giving Granite the Championship. After the final game the following star team was picked: F Schneider Springfield; G. Williams, Granite City; F. Lewis, Granite City; G. Wilson, Quincy; C. Allen. Pittsfield. (Track T HE meet of 1913 was one of the most exciting ever held in Madison County Alton and Collinsville, as well as Granite City, came fully prepared to win the meet at any tost. Granite City had captured the banners both of the two years previous and the other teams were determined they should not win again. In this meet the local boys showed their class and as a result the meet turned out in favor of Granite City. The points were awarded as follows: G. C. II. S. 46; Collinsville il N. 42, Alton H. K. 42: and Edwards- ville H. S. 5. On the Granite City team Lewis ' 13 and Elmore ' 14 starred in the dashes, finishing first and second respectively in the 50 and 100 yard dashes. There was some disagreement over the 50 yard dash and it was run four times before a decision was given. Collinsville had several fast men. but they failed to “show up,” when compared to the Granite City duet. Lewis 13 won second in the high-jump and first in the running 1 toad jump. 1 1 is total number of points, 19, being the greatest number scored by any individual. He also ran on the winning relay team. Elmore, besides placing second in both the 50 and 100 yard dashes, also came out second in the 220 yard flash, lie was the “finish man on the relay team. His total number of points was 11. Plato, Granite’s weight man won the shot-put, discus throw, 3rd in the ball-throw, and 3rd in the pole-vault. The total number of points scored by Plato was 12. The relay race was the deciding event of the meet. Granite City won the race with the nearest man 30 yards behind. The local RELAY TEAM was made up of the following ath- letes: Lewis, Williams, Baechtold, and Elmore. 26

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la s t UK a k y W l 1 II Miss Randall at tin- head of the English Depart- ment again this year the Literary Societies have done some good work. It is a rather shameful confession to say that during our period in high school the Literary Societies have not kept themselves up to tic standard established in those “good old days of County Oratorical contests, etc. We look forward to the day when something along the lines of those old contests will again cal! forth the flowery tongued orators, and the fiery-actioned declaimers and bid them compete for honors. This year, however, we have appreciated, very much, the fact that in some minor details, the programs presented were a little better than the average program staged during the last three years. The dialogues were thoroughly enjoyed. The debates were on questions of more or less interest to the audience. Extemporaneous speeches were again indulged in hv the more talkative members of the two societies. All in all. the programs were better. 27