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

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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.

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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-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 39 RUGBY Reported by Frank Swackhammer The fine showing of three wins, one tie and one loss was not quite enough to carry us into the finals but for a team having only three players who had played the game before, speaks well for Ihe material vvo have here at Tech. The team was fortunate in hav¬ ing very capable directors. The po¬ pular choice of Weldrick Walker for captain is largely due to the wonderful spirit of unity which was predominant at all times. The grit to go, the pluck to light to the end was shared by all. When the call came for a quarter-buck ev¬ eryone agreed that there was hut one — Bob Padgett : and what a general he was! a director and a hard player combined. Space does not permit us to pay a personal tribute to the efforts and abilities of the i ndivi dual boys on the. team but may we briefly mention Ihe stellar barkfield led by Ray Lauzon. the “galloping ghost ,” whose long runs turned the tide of battle many times; Kerr Christian, with his elusive dodge; Omar Drouiflard with liis steady handling of punts; Frank Hull and Dave Harris with their sure tackl¬ ing and long runs. In Roy Jewell at centre we see pride taken in a job well done, lie could not make a bad pass. The combination of speed, alert¬ ness and sure tackling makes the position of outside wing on a team one of the hardest to fill. But while we had Jimmie Zade, the boy vet¬ eran, and Art. Hogan following down under kicks this position was very ably filled. On relief John Ross, Alex Todd. Lawrence Lang- lois, Frank Olski, Mike Teron and Metro Skaleski gave valuable as¬ sistance. The stone wall from be¬ hind which all plays must be start¬ ed is not so much in the lime-light, yet it is tlu back bone of the whole team. Weldrick Walker, George Geddes, John Trotter, Clark Levis, Reg Morgan, Tom Harte, Gerald Halliday, Vaughn Courier, Fred Bailey and Bill Roucka formed the blue line that was just as hard to go through as was the thin red one of history. As trainer Phil Padgett galloped across the field at the call of “Time Uni the question was “would there be any water left in the pail when he arrived?” THE TECH CADET CORPS “Practice makes perfect” may be an old proverb but the accuracy of the statement no one will dis¬ pute. It is well exemplified in the excellent showing that our Gorps made in June last on its annual inspection. Meriting increased praise from the Inspecting Officer each year since its organization in the Fall of 1923 and first inspection in June, 1924, our Corps has finally achieved that end which is the aim of every corps, viz. the winning of the Shield awarded for General Proficiency in M. Dist. No. 1. This is all the more remarkable as the Shield was won on the fourth in¬ spection of the Corps, in the face of exceedingly keen competition from the other organizations of the district.