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

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 45 Salina Allen—Our peppy little guard produced at Tech, for Tech’s benefit, proved her mettle in all our games. Jean Gent met—A steady player who uses her head. She came here from Walkerville C.I. Her accur¬ ate shooting helped to build up our scores. Elsie Smith—A guard with lots of pep and an accurate pass. She has proved herself a reliable unit of the guard line. Winnie I ' olts—Is that depend¬ able little forward who has clone so much by her accurate passing and shooting to help our team !o hold their own. Jennie Robertson — Worked in very well in the guard line when our other guards left. Jennie was handicapped, not having had the practice with the first team in the early part of the season. Verna Utidiing — A splendid guard, left us just after Christmas. Fern Fisher — Another good guard who left us at Christmas. Our subs also deserve credit. They played well when called upon. Alfreda Begbie, Angela Ouelette, and Dorothy Gatacre formed a strong support for the forward line, while Ellen Cutts, Ellen Rourke and Georgina Begley did the same for the guards. INTERMEDIATE GIRLS’ BASKET-BALL TEAM Standing, left to right—Greta P,ake, Ethel Blundel. Mis.« formerly, Edith Timm, Miss Beasley (Coach), Jean Hughes, June D’Cou. Seated, left to right—Ellen Cutts, Salt Robertson, Eileen Rourke. GIRLS’ INTERMEDIATE BASKETBALL TEAM Our Girls’ Intermediate team was a snappy little team. Through- Mien, Dorothy Gatacre (Captain). Jenny out the season they played close games. The first game of the season was with Sandwich at Tech, Sandwich

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44 The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book SENIOR GIRLS’ BASKET-BALI, TEAM Standing, left to right -Angela Ouellette, Dorothy Gatacrc. Miss fminerty. Miss Beasley (Coach), Jenny Robertson, Salma Allen. Seated, left to right—Ellen Outts, Jean Gemniell, Florence Clark (Captain), Alfmlu Bcgbie, Elsie Smith. i SENIOR GIRI S BASKETBALL Tech’s senior girls’ basketball learn was one of the best we ever had. Four of last year’s team were back, and with the addition of Jean Gemmel from Walkerville C. I. and Florence from Windsor C.I., and with the working in of Fern Fisher, Elsie Smith. Salina Allen and Jennie Robertson. Tech was able to put a first class team on the floor. This team won three out of five hard-fought games. Wo played home and home games for the group play offs. Our first game was with Walkerville, at Walkerville. We were successful, with a 22-13 score. Our next group game was with Windsor here. A- gain our team won. the score be¬ ing 18-16. We then played Wind¬ sor, at Windsor and lost 22-18. The following Friday we played Walk¬ erville at Tech and won 23-17. As we were now a tie with Windsor for first place in our group, we played off in General Byng gymna¬ sium. Tech girls led all through the game, but lost out in the last, few minutes. Windsor won by a 34-40 score. Senior Girls’ Basketball Team Personnel Florence Clarke—Came to us from Windsor C.I.. bringing her snappy left hook to help us through the season.

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The Wmdsor-Walkervillc Technical School Year Book 4C won, the score was 21-12. The next game was with Walkerville at Walkerville. Tech was success¬ ful by an 18-16 score. The inter¬ mediates next tackled Windsor in Windsor’s gym. and won by a score of 17-15. The next game was the return game with Sand¬ wich, played at Sandwich. This time Tech beat them 16-14. The return game with Walkerville was the next on their program. Again they were successful by a 10-17 score The next game was Tech’s first against John Campbell, and they lost it, the score being 11-10. Then came the return game with Windsor. This time Windsor won 21-17. This game concluded the games for the intermediate group. Our intermediate team was com¬ prised of: Dorothy Gatacre, Greta Bake, Jean Hughes, Claire Ouell¬ ette, Effie Blundel, on the forward line; Salina Allen, Ellen Cutts, Ei¬ leen Rourke, Jennie Robertson. Vera Rudinkaif, Ann Snyder, on the guard line. Teacher (taking class in chemistry) — What flees sea water contain besides sodium chloride that we have already mentione d ? Tom Simpson (In the back of room) - Fish, sir, John (searching for knowledge) — Wluit keeps us from falling odf the earth when we are upside down, sir? Teacher — The law of gravity, my bid. John - Well, how did people stay on before the law was passed? GIRDS SOFTBALL Our girls’ softball team wont through the season of 1928 with¬ out a defeat. The players on this successful team were: — Muriel Smith, catcher; Eva Green, pitcher; Edna Smith, 1st base; Marjorie Cosham, 2nd base; Verna Rudling, 3rd base; Leta Knight, left short; Gladys Parent, right short; Jewel Delong, left field; Alfreda P.egbie, centre field; Margaret Horton, right field. o GIRLS’ TRACK TEAM We held our field day on the premises of the school the week previous to the intercollegiate field day. The girls track team showed skill in all the events. Those who were successful in different events were as follows;— Dorothy Gatacre, Jean Smith, Mary Taylor, Marjorie Varah, Helen Stelding, Louise Heaton, Ellen Dubois, Ellen Cutts, Anna Turton, Anna Krivo.shein, Doro¬ thy Barnhart, Doris Massey, Claire Ouellette, Angela Ouellette, Alfreda Begbie, Margot Burrows, Helen MacNamara, Mary Beautein, Rose Tar no. Ellen Dubois and Ellen Cutts were senior champions for our own field day. Margot Burrows was junior champion. ALFREDA BEGBIE