Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 37 due to old man Sickness and as a consequence the team felt the loss of their regular pivot man. In front of Carley on the for¬ ward wall for the Redshirts there could be found such basketeers as Hunt Leishman, Tom Pendlebury and the Gold Dust Twins—Art Ho¬ gan and Bob Padgett. The com¬ bination of these trick y forwards proved a thorn in many of the op¬ posing guard departments. Wal- kerville evidently must be accus¬ tomed to generating hoopsters since Carley and Leishman hail from that nearby town. Leishman is small and wiry with plenty of spring in his shoes which enabled him to out jump any of bis taller adversaries. Andy also proved to be a mean geomitrivian since he could readily pop counters from all angles of the court. In Pendlebury was found a nat¬ ural born court artist and it is rum¬ ored that when only six months of age Tom used to play in a basket. His tricky pivoting and his dead- eye shots added to the Red and Blue offensive although he excel¬ led in denting the meshes from the charity lane. Next we have Art (Cyclone) Hogan, who hails from Assumption College. The red¬ headed Irishman has displayed to spectators that he knows what a basketball is for and has given in- i dilutions of making Paddock and Nurmi look like statutes. Last but not least there is Bob Padgett, who graduated for last years interme¬ diate team to a berth in senior com¬ pany. Bob is unselfish with the leather and has proved to be a dogged and determined player with beau coup de fight. The area in front of Tech’s bas¬ ket was carefully patrolled by Aif Iloole, Ken Swan and Dave Harris, who form the guard department for the Red and Blue team. This was Houle ' s second season as a re¬ gular on Tech’s quint and as a con¬ sequence was a great asset to the team. His ability to make sudden sallies into the enemies’ territory and his canny eye for caging the tanned-skinned pellet brought words of praise from the opposi¬ tion’s bench. Sometimes Alf filled in very capably on the forward line. Ken Sw ' an, the “smiling sheik” of the tribe halls from Walkerville and therefore plays basketball. Ken camps on the heels of his man and can readily dear the ball from the backboard. “ Tiny” Harris, the last of the trio, bobbed up for last years Intermediates and filled in at rear guard with satisfaction. Another player who decorated our team as a regular, prior to Christmas, was Frank Hull, but since has departed on a cruise in the business world about town. Frank was a great asset to the team and his loss was keenly felt by the team. Then there is the big man of the squad, Frank Swack- hammer, who proved to be a cap¬ able assistant to the coach in the capacity of manager, trainer, scor¬ er. reporter, cheer leader, etc. Re¬ ference should also be made re¬ gards the capable handling of the games afforded the team this year in the person of Geo. Clive, of De¬ troit, who ranks among the best on the Southeastern Michigan Board of Referees. The team had a very large sche¬ dule this year and made several journeys to Detroit, faring better with the American schuuls than they, did in the Wossa group. They scored a double victory over the University of Detroit High both at home and on a foreign court. Wal¬ kerville took us into camp in our initial Wossa encounter. A week later Tech lost the fastest and most exciting battle of the season to W. OX by a smalt margin, 12-11. Tech was handicapped by the loss of Hoole and Leishman due to the flu. Mr. Clive describes that game as his best game for the year. An¬ other trip to Detroit added further laurels with a win over Rosary Central High. Tech split even with Si. Agnes and St. Anthony’s of the Dynamic City.

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The Windsor-Walker vil|c- Technical School Year Rook BOYS’ BASKETBAIIi Although they did not have such a successful season, the basketball squad was one of the best, in ma¬ terial, that has ever represented the Technical Towers. They seem¬ ed to lack horse shoes ami although they gave all the leaders of tilt; district a big scare, they could never manage to emerge on the large end of the score. UfWfWrt Fotfwftqn ) The leadership of the school’s ball tossers was entrusted to Cap¬ tain Cy Carley who is a veteran at Dr. Naismith’s pastime. Cy is one of the fastest floor men that ever graced a Tech uniform and play was centred about him. During a couple of frays Carley was absent

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38 The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book In the Wossa Tech was outclass¬ ed in the final game with Assump¬ tion, but in the others at no time did the scores differ by more than six points. This should give Tech a great deal of credit since the teams of these various schools were decorated with more veteran material than our coach had af¬ forded him. FRANK SWACKHAMMER, C3B -o- THE INTERMEDIATE BASKETBALL TEAM In passing, we cannot fail to say a few words regards our Interme¬ diate Basketball team. They are the reserves for our Senior and enough cannot he said to extol their qualities since it is their op¬ position that makes our Senior team work in practice. Then there are some that portray potentiali¬ ties which may become actualities and as a result may find the eye of the coach and a berth on the Senior five. The players that com¬ prise the Intermediate are: For¬ wards. Cyril Pope, Henry Zwarzly, Tom Hart, Geo. Brown. Centres, .Joe McKechnie, Bill Begley. Guards, Leddell, Johnson, Trotter, Atkins RUGBY TEAM Back Rmv—Roy Jewell, Geo. Getldis, Reg. Morgan, Jack Trotter, Ken Christian, Gerald Halliday. Mr. C. H. Montrose (Coach J. . Middle Row—Lawrence Langlois, Dave Harris, Boh Padgett, Weldnck Walker (Lap tain), Art Hougan. Front Row—Vaughn Courrier, Fat Rouchka, Phil Padgett, Clark Levis, Jos Zade.