Kenmore High School - Kenmore Eighty Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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MIL U9 . U 1! In 1918 Basketball Season Kenmore High School began her 1918 season of Basketball with two new eoaches. a number of new players and a new gymnasium. The team have received splendid support throughout the entire season. At each home game there were as many as could bc accommodated, and a large number of rooters went along with the teams on each trip abroad. Our Hrst game of the season was a double header with Springfield. These teams proved to he about the best that Kenmore was to meet during the entire season. Kenmore girls won but the boys did not seem to be able to find the basket and lost their first game. On January the fourth Kenmore boys' team accepted an invitation from Newton Falls. This was Kenmorc's first Athletic relations with Newton Falls. and was the beginninv of what may be a very pleasant series of Athletic events between Kenmore andigtlewton Falls. Newton Falls is much in need of a suitable place to play Basketball. The Kenmore boys are ready to wager that of all the floors that Basketball was played upon in the State of Ohio. Newton Falls' floor would take the lead for lack of room and the number of obstructions in the way. Kenmore did not feel discouraged when they lost this by three points. Spike cried because he did not get into the game and one of our boys had a narrow escape. when the stove pipe fell down. On the way home Kelley amused the crowd by playing street car conductor. The tide began to turn in favor of Kenmore in the third game of the season when our boys defeated a delegation from YVest High of Akron. Both the boys and girls sufiered a reverse at Springfield in the fourth gamc of the season, this being the only defeat met with during the entire season by Kenmore girls. At the end of the first half Kenmore boys were rather certain of victory, rather too confident in fact. The score at the end of the garlic was a valuable lesson' to the boys on the need of consistent team work. when the coach came into the dressing room after the game, he found a little scene being inacted that had better not be described. The team was stuttering the agonies of defeat. For addi- tional information ask Kime. The fifth game of the season was a double header with Uniontown on the home floor. This was the beginning of a series of victories for Kenmore. The Basketball Fans of Kemnore were compelled to witness but one defeat on the home floor during the entire season. The Uniontown center was the outstanding feature of this game. But it was again proved that one man cannot win a game. On February the first ,Kenmore made extensive preparation to go to Hudson. You eonld hardly imagine a more disappointed group than was assembled in the Union depot at Akron. when it was learned that the train would not stop for the team and rooters. Miss Billiter collected tickets and returned money to about thirty disappointed Junior High pupils. The long-to-be-remembered incident of this game was the argument between Coach Shade and Meeker. The air was blue with words, neither knowing what the other was talking about. But things were finally settled without any serious damage. Kenmore won both games, the train stopped and every one came home happy. 42

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a1i !.ilH53 it Greensburg High School brought two teams to Kenmore. neither of which gave the Kenmore teams any trouble. This was Kenn1ore's first Athletic relations with Greensburg High School. It will be many days before the Kenmore boys and girls will forget the trip to Rittman, February 8. 1918. Manager Deselms made arrangements for the teams to be hauled from Wadsworth to Rittman in School wagons. You can imagine the surprise of the Kenmore delegation when they filed out of the street. ear at Wadsworth and were met by a horseless-we were going to say earriage- but it happened to be bob sleds drawn by four large mules. After a few minutes of discussion and hesitation, the teams and routers decided to embark. A short distance out of Wadsworth it got dark: it began to pour down rain: the iee on the road became thinner and thinner and the Ike spots more frequent. The drivers furnished a good supply of blankets which were spread like umbrellas over the heads of as many as they would cover. After a time the blankets became soaked and began to leak. The players sang all the songs they knew and yelled ixll tlic yells they knew over and over. The drivers said that they were a plueky anne 1. A few minutes before eight o'eloek they arrived in sight of the lights of Ritt- man, About this time the sled slid into a large ditch at the side of the road and all passengers were compelled to get out. The boys stayed out and walked into town. In a few minutes all arrived wet and hungry. The teams hastened to a restaurant- where they warmed up, filled up, and dried out. Ask Mr. YVeaver for details, The next game was with Cuyahoga Falls on the home fioor. This was the first visit of Cuyahoga Falls to Kenmore and we hope that they will feel like coming again. Visitors said that it was worth the price of admission to see their center play. Look for l1is pieture in the Annual. One of the fastest games of the season was with Richfield at Kenmore. The game finally resolved itself into a battle between Richfield's red-headed forward and Spike Kenmore girls won with a large score. the Richfield team going home with a c-lean sheet. Hudson next eame to Kenmore and received a double defeat from the Ken- more boys and girls. - The Kenmore boys got vengeance on Newton Falls when they defeated them with a good margin in the next game. Both teams sojourned to Uniontown and closed the season with a double victory in what were fast exciting games. There is no question but that Athletics does much to keep up the spirit of a sehool. lt also gives the very best opportunity to tcaeh rules of playing a square game. May Kenmore always stand for clean square Athletics. JXN Eve Wrrzmss. 43