Johnson St Paris High School - Parisian Yearbook (Saint Paris, OH)

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GT H lb IP A Rd I cT 1 .9 1 H CO Sitting—Jack Heaston, Ralph Brecount, Roger Procter, Charles Apple, Alonzo Clem, John Hunt, Loren Melnturff. Standing—'Robert Purk, Kermit Kite, Robert Goode, Harold Howard, Garner Stradling. Varsity “S” The Varsity “S” Association of Johnson-St. Paris high school was organized in May, 1926, by Superintendent J. M. Turner and Principal E. L. Harshbarger. The Constitution and By-laws were formed and a Standard sweater, letter and service stripe were selected and voted upon by members These laws have been carried out to the fullest extent and the significance of the letters have remained to their highest standards in these following years. 34-13 21-25 53-0 25-17 44-14 41-14 31-28 31-20 23-20 31-17 Basket Ball Nov. 29, Westville at Westville 17-11 Dec. 7, Lena-Conover at L. C. 33-9 Dec. 14, Spfld Soph, at Spfld 32-10 Dec. 21 Rosewood at St. Paris 48-6 Dec. 28, Alumni at St. Paris 29-17 Jan. 1 Westville at St. Paris 35-11 Jan. 4, Urbana at St. Paris 23-10 Jan. 11, Spfld. Bus. Col. at St. P. 24-10 Jan. 18, Jackson at Jackson 19-7 Jan. 19, Anna Station at St. Paris 60-20 Jan. 25, Concord at Urbana C. C. 31-17 Jan. 26, Urbana at Urbana C. C. 23-18 Feb. 1, Jackson at St. Paris 30-6 Schedule Feb. 8, Concord at St. Paris Feb. 9, Piqua at Piqua Feb. 16, Salem Tp. Tournament Feb. 16 Westville, Tournament Feb. 23, N. Lewisburg, Tournament Feb. 23, Rosewood, Tournament Springfield Tourney March 1, Bradford March 2, Xenia March 2, West Liberty District Tourney March 8, Eaton 39

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 T H Fo 5Z IP A Rp I g 3 1 .9 f 11 County Tournament Saturday, February 16, the St. Paris boys took their first firm stand in the coun- ty tournament when they met and defeated Kings Creek. The outstanding feature of this game was the score which ended 53-0. According to the officials we established a world’s record, only permitting the opponents to have seven attempts at the basket during the entire game. Brecount was high point man. The second game was not so easily won as was expected. Westville always gives plenty of opposition and things looked pretty bad for a while. The ending of the game with a score of 25 to 19 brought about a shorter and softer route to the finals for the following Saturday. In the finals the jinx was any place else but with the St. Paris basket ball teams in county tournament. The third game which was played with North Lewisburg, proved to be a very interesting game and no time except the first quarter was there any danger of being the victim of defeat. Score 44-13. The final match for county championship was by no means a match at all. Rose- wood was outplayed from the first shriek of the refree’s whistle to the final crack of the gun and St. Paris was once again county champion by a score of 42-14. REGIONAL The Regional tournament held at Springfield this year is the first tournament of its kind to be played in this district. It was held for the purpose of elminating some of the teams that formerly went to Dayton.Four teams were eligible from this elimina- tion to go to the district tournament, St. Paris being one of the four by winning from Bradford, Xenia East and West Liberty. The Bradford game played at 8:00 o’clock, Friday morning was a hard fought one all the way through. The first half St. Paris did not have much trouble penetra- ting Bradford’s defense. The score at the half was 20-11. The Bradford team came back strong in the last half to out score St. Paris by six points but it was not enough to keep the Yellow and Black from winning by a score of 31-28. The next game of importance for St. Paris was the Xenia East high school, Satur- day morning. This team was made up of colored boys who were fast and accurate in their shooting. Sometimes people think that a colored team is out to win and does not play fair even if they use foul means. However, this team was one of the cleanest St. Paris played against all year. Xenia did not threaten at any time during the game. So the Yellow and Black came through with anther victory by the score of 31-20. The last game Saturday night with West Liberty naturally was the most impor- tant one for St. Paris. The first half was a battle. It seemed as if St. Paris couldn’t get started for they were not playing their usual style of game in this half. West Liberty got in the lead at the beginning and the score at the half was 12-9 in favor of West Liberty. In the last half West Liberty came back just as strong as they had left the floor. Still St. Paris did not play the style of game they played all season. The third quarter ended 20-11 in favor of West Liberty. In the last quarter, St. Paris came back determined. Heaston got ten points, Ap- ple two and Howard one, to West Liberty’s nothing. Again the Yellow and Black came from behind to win by the score of 2 3 to 20. District Tournament The team we drew for our first game at Dayton was Eaton. We played at 7:00 o’clock Friday night. This proved to be our Waterloo. The first half of the game was hard fought. Eaton was ahead by a few points at the half but not too many for St. Paris to overcome. However we were not able to accomplish what we wished—adding more points to our score than our opponents. So for the second time in twenty four games the Yellow and the Black went down in defeat, 31-17. 38

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6T H I19 P A R3 I of I . ?! N Sitting—Helen Arbagast, Pauline Mick, Martha Prince, Ethel Boyd, Margaret Tomlin, Clara Howard, Edith McClimans. Standing—Linda Mae Turner, Evelyn Pence, Geraldine Williams, Moree McMorran, Coach Miller, Nancy Jones, Gladys Clem, Catherine Steinberger, Florence Leasure. Girl’s Basket Ball Much interest has been shown in former years in girls’ basket ball of St. Paris high school, but this year the girls exceeded all expectation and won the re- spect of their followers. The girls’ team finally reached the high goal which they have striven to attain in these former years by winning the county tournament. The first game of the season, the team journeyed to Westville, where they were defeated by the score of 49 to 9. As this was their first game of the season, they had no picked team and thus it re- sulted in this bad defeat. Next game they visited Lena-Conover, where the brilliant plays and passwork of the team caused them to bring home vic- tory with a score of 27-16. The third game was played at home with Rosewood and our girls won an easy victory of 30 to 7. Westville again made their appearance against our girls on New Years and proved to be the superior team by defeating them with a score of 25 to 1. Two more victories are to be credited to S. P. H. S., where they beat Springfield Business College 12 to 14 and Jackson at Jackson, 7 to 23. The next game they journeyed to Ur- bana and beat the strong Concord sextet by a score of 25 to 15. The following Friday, Jackson played at our school and they again suffered de- feat by our maidens with a score of 8 to 17. The last game of the season and the last one at home was played between Con- cord and our team. Here the girls again showed their superiority over Concord with a score of 10 to 21. The following week every one of the players observed the training rules and went through such hard practice for it was the week preceding the tournament. Through the drawing, the girls’ first opponents were the Rosewood maidens and showing the same fight they have had all year, Rosewood was defeated by 12 to 27. In the afternoon of the same day they played Urbana Twp. and also took (Continued to page 60) 40