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

Page 13 text:

Page Ten • SENIOR BASKETBALL MR. A. B. HARRISON, ( Coach) “PAT” PATTERSON JOHN BALEN PHILIP MERSCH STEVE SOBOCAN TOM DOCHERTY JACK PROCTOR JOHN KOLYVEK LINDON WHITED RUBY DALDIN “SCOTTY” BISSETT JOHN FAZEKAS TOM JACOBS PAUL “Speedy” .MACRO Senior Basketball— The Senior Basketball schedule opened for us with a game against the defending champions, the Patterson Pan¬ thers. We put up a lively fight, but in spite of the uod scoring of Fazekas (61 and Baumgartner (4), we lost by 33 23. In the next game, we changed horses and defeated Riverside to the tunc of 32-23. These horses, however, let us down in the next lift, this time against Walkervillc Tar¬ tans. The game ended 32-26 in their favour. In the fourth game we met St. Joseph’s High. Anxious not to let our lost column get the advantage of our win column our team played an exceptionally good game. We were able to leave victorious (35-23). With the gleam of the last victory in its eyes, our team next played the Kennedy Clippers. It was the most exciting game of the season and was anybody’s game almost to the last when we moved ahead to 32-29. Our winning streak was finally snapped when we faced Sandwich, and we lost to the tune of 46-36. The jinx was on and we were defeated in turn by Assumption, Pat¬ terson, and Riverside. In the last game of the season, we again met Walker- tile. Determined not to end the schedule with a defeat, our Rough Riders sank the ball 36 times to their 26. The high scorers for the season were Sobocan, Fazekas, Kolyvek, Baumgartner, and Proctor. The coach, Mr. A. Harrison, should be congratulated for the splendid job of coaching the boys. There were fewer baskets scoied against our team than against any other in the city. Junior Basketball— Our Junior Basketball team, under the supervision of Mr. J. Murray, started the season by defeating Sandwich 39 to 24. The next game was played at Assumption; there it set Assumption back by beating them 36 to 24. It met its first defeat when playing against the powerful Patterson team, Patterson 39—Vocational 34. The season ended with a terrific game against Walkcrvilte in which our team won by 30 to 27. Although our team did not come out on top. it battled hard to gain third place in the eastern division. It ended the season with six wins and four losses. • JUNIOR BASKETBALL JACK SIDDLE BOB WILLIAMS DON SCOTT MR. J. C. MURRAY, — (Coach) RCN HARRIS ED. KOCHELEAU AMIR. PARKER JOE SOBOCAN RAY TRUANT FRANK ABRAMOV1TCH JOHN VlLLMAN RAY KUROSK1 GORDON SCRATCH PAT MA1LLOUX

Page 12 text:

Page Nine • HOCKEY TEAM I. J. ASH E. SKOV R. DALDIN G. SKOV G. BISSETT N. BEND1CK 2. MR. F. BARNES C. MAXIM J. REICH M. ABRAMOVITCH M. ZORZ1T MR. S. ROSS 3. W HUMEN1UK B. BROWN S. PALMER B. CORE R. BENDICK Boys ' Sports i HOCKEY— The Hockey season opened on January 12, 194S, with our team lined up against Kennedy. G. Skov made the first official goal of the sea¬ son; in fact he scored both goals for the night. The game ended 2-0 in our favour. We continued as we had started out and eliminated Sandwich, Patterson, Walkerville, and Assumption, in the four succeeding games to the tune of 3-1, 3-2, 14-3 and 13-0, respec¬ tively. W.S.S.A. Semi-Finals— After winning every game in the season, our Rough Riders started in the Semi-Finals lined up against the Pat¬ terson Panthers which we defeated by the “narrow margin ’ of 12-1. The next rime wc met the Panthers, we enlarged the score to 20-1, and thus won the Semi-Finals Series. Provincial Play-offs— On March 19, the Rough Riders arrived at Kingston to compete for the Provincial Cup. W ' c drew Kingston as our opponent. We lost by 3-0, and since it was a sudden death game, we were eliminated. The game was far from dull for our boys kept up their brilliant brand of hockey which made them the W.O.- S.S.A. Champs. Unfortunately our team had an off night and the ice was very slow. Congratulations are in order to every member of the team and to the coach, Mr. F. Barnes. W e know you did your best and we are proud of you. “We lost the Series, but wc certainly were not out¬ classed. W e had as good a team as any on the ice.” said Mr. Barnes, when interviewed about the game. W.O.S.S.A. Series— The first game against Stratford was played awav from home. In spite of the trip, our boys chalked up a victory of 9-5 and wiped out their defeat from the last year. When the Stratford team came here for the final game, on March 16, we welcomed them—but defeated them to the tune of 7-4. The game produced sparkling hockey and our team did plenty of fancy skating before the final whistle blew. The star of the afternoon was “Gunzo” in the nets. Defencemen Maxim, Zorica, and Abramovitch did an ex¬ cellent job. The goals were scored by G. Skov 1), Core (2), Reich (1), E. Skov (I), Palmer (1). D. Bendick (1), and Maxim and Zorica each got one assist. W.S.S.A. Finals— The Rough Riders and the Purple Ra ders were lin d up for the W.S.S.A. Finals. The first of these games was much the better one. Little Ron Bendick took care of our net as “Gunzo” H.imeniuk was absent. In the third period. Core and Palmer lucked away three pucks. In the final game, our team was at full strength and really got gliding. They slipped the puck past the Assump¬ tion goalie eleven times. This game definitely proved our superiority over the Purple Raiders. The teamwork was excellent with plenty of hard checking and excellent sniping. Our defence Had its opponents baffled, although they did manage to sink four goals. This ended the W .S.S.A. Series and put the Rough Riders in line to attack the team from Stratford.

Page 14 text:

Page Eleven • GOLF TEAM LOUIS HORVATH RUDY CHERNIAK MR. W. P. AUGUSTINE (Coach I EMIL BRESCHUK PETER SALICH LARRY HORVATH. (Absent from Photo) Golf Team— The annual W indsor Secondary School golf tournament was held at the Dominion Golf and Country Club on Satur¬ day. September 20. 1947. Our team took fifth place, sixty strokes behind the top team—Kennedy. Our golf team is coached by Mr. Augustine, who has done an outstanding job coaching the team for 15 years. Below are the scores each coy made at the tournament: LARRY HORVATH ... . 84 EMIL BRESCHUK .... . 92 LOUIS HORVATH .... . 95 RUDY CHERNIAK .... .. 96 PETE SALICH . . 100 567 A Sport Story— By BOB CONROY This is a story of an ordinary boy who loved sports. He toved to pliy baseball best of all. He loved all kinds of sports, but baseball was his favourite. There was only one thing that stopped this boy from becoming a star in the sports world he loved so much. What was that thing? It was his eyesight. This was a great handicap. He used to stand and beg h ? s fellow playmates to play first base. They let h : m, but it was hopeless. Ho could not catch the ball because he didn’t know it was com¬ ing until it hit him. His playmates w ' ere nice kids, however, so they gave him a job that suited him to a tee. They let him be um¬ pire; a job he fitted so well. This boy had his beginning at that job. For you see. this fellow ' who was making small, but serious decisions is now making very large and very important decisions that effect a large and powerful nation. For this boy who couldn’t see to catch a baseball is now the leader of a prosperous nation—The United States of America. He is Harry S. Truman, President of the United States. Swim Meet— The swim meet of the Secondary schools was held at Kennedy Collegiate on March 24. Although we have no swimming pool, we entered ihc Junior and Senior boys’ events. X hen the splashing was over we had IS points for the Seniors and 12 points for the Juniors. Vie finished in fourth position in both Sen.or and Junior. In the Junior contest Ken Coon came in second in the individual championship. Good going team and coach.