Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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8 THE MISKODEED I-IAII., DEMOSTI-IENES! By CLAUDINE CULI' IRED with ambition, Dcmosthenes in Athens placed pebbles in his mouth and loudly pro- claimed his oratory above the booming waves of the sea to the world. While in Mishawaka High school young Demosthenes, fired with keen interest and delight, pledged to boost their newest organization, the Speech club. W The club, introduced by Mr. Robert Huber, who as teacher of English is a newcomer in Mishawaka, has for its purpose the promotion of interest in and the teaching of the principles of the various speech activities, which include debating, oratory, general speech making, oral reading, and dramatics. Everyone who cares to learn of speech work is given a chance to de- velop his talentsp the aim of the club is to teach all who join, so that any student who has the desire to develop his powers of thinking, who has the desire to develop his personality may, do so by learning the theory of speech making and by actual practice lbefore :i group. W All those debaters who were interested and wished to go attended the Purdue Debate con- ference in December at Lafayette, Indiana, to hear the debate between Notre Dame and Pur- due on the high school debate question, and to hear the discussions by the heads of the eco- nomics department and Engineering school or various phases of the debate subject. At noon speeches were given by the president of Wabash college and by Dean Ralph Dennis, dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern univer- sity. The day was a full one, full of swift and intense consumption of debate principles and fundamentals and full of fun for all who went. It was not long until the debate squad was cut to twenty-one people, it was these twenty- one who took part in the non-decision debate tournament on Saturday, January 7. The Speech club invited schools throughout Indiana to at- tend the tournament at Mishawaka High school, for the purpose of gaining experience for their debaters at a minimum cost. Each debater had the opportunity to debate two times, the topic was the state league question, resolved: That all hydro-electric power in the United States should be owned and operated by the govern- ment. l'A trip through the hydro-electric plant in Mishawaka was an outstanding feature of the day. The debaters saw turbines, dynamos, and electrical equipment about which they would be talking throughout the year. Superintendent P. C. Emmons welcomed the debaters at a rousing banquet luncheon in the cafeteria, and there were short talks by George Beauchamp, president of the Indiana State De- bate league, and Mr. Coyne, the debating coach from Notre Dame. VThe twenty-one persons who took part in the tournament were George Asher, Clem Can- field, Harold Cook, Margaret I-Iambright,

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OF THIRTY-THREE with the play. The Bull Dogs, taking advantage of the Maroon's peculiar defense, counted most of their points on sleeper set-ups and short shots from around the foul circle. Mishawaka worked a clever short passing attack that left a man open time and again. Un Ianuary 6, in a game that was not decid- ed until the hnal gun, Mishawaka gained sweet revenge from Nappanee in the Bremen barn be- fore a large, peppy crowd, by defeating the Bull Dogs, 35 to 31. The score was knotted ten times with neither quintet holding more than a five point lead at any time. Pepple starred for the losers with five baskets to his credit while Mose Young showed up best for the victors, sinking eight field goals and two foul shots. The game was not rough, but both teams guarded so close- ly that thirty-five personal fouls were called. ll On December 16, in their first N. I. H. S. conference game of the year, the Maroons shat- tered their nine game losing streak with Goshen that began in IQ26 by a brilliant 32 to 22 vic- tory. The crowd which attended this game was one of the largest and peppiest of the year, and fans were amply rewarded for braving the sub- zero weather by seeing a very well played bas- ketball game. Getz led the scoring for the Redskins, while Young and A. Meuninch fairly evenly divided the Maroon scoring. The Shakemen were supe- rior in shooting fouls, sinking eight of fourteen, while Goshen scored only six out of sixteen attempts. ll On February 4, in the second meeting of the season with the Redskins, the Cavemen again upset the Goshenites by a score of 27 to 26. The game went into an overtime period with the score tied 24-24, and was won when Palsce pushed in a field goal with less than half a minute to play. Young made the foul point that assured Mishawaka of victory about one minute before Palsce's spectacular shot. The game was a thriller all the way through with the lead changing time after time, but with neither team able to gain a very large lead. On December 17, Mishawaka gained revenge for the defeat handed her by the South Bend Central football team by trouncing the Bears' basketball team, 24-18, in the Y. M. C. A. ice-f box. The Benders put up a much better fight than was expected, but Mishawaka seemed to have things well under control at all times. The 7 Maroons led at the half, 12-10, but pulled away to a safe lead as the game progressed. If Mishawaka's Cavemen skinned the Central Bears for the second time during the season by a score of 30 to IS in Mishawaka's gym on February 3. After Bykowski, who scored all of Central's points during the first half, was removed early in the second quarter because of four fouls, the outcome of the game was never in doubt. The victory, a conference game, gave Mishawaka a tie with Riley for third place in the standings. C. Meuninchis shot just before the end of the quarter gave the Cavemen a 7 to 6 lead, after the Bears had led almost through- out the first period. ln the second period Mish- awaka chalked up seven points and held Cen- tral scoreless. Although outscored 6 to 3 in the third quarter, the Maroons took turns scoring in the last period to double the Bears' score, 30 to 15. This is the first year in the history of the school that three tournaments have been held here. This year a blind invitational tourney was held in our gym in which Riley of South Bend, Central of South Bend, Nappanee, and Mishawaka participated. Riley defeated Misha- waka in the final game. VThe sectional tournament was held in the Mishawaka gym on March 3 and 4. The Ma- roons were defeated in their hrst game of the tournament by an underestimated squad from Plymouth. The Cavemen led all the way except in the final quarter when the Pilgrims pulled away to a safe lead, the final score being 35-25. Mishawaka led at the half by a score of 19-14, but could not hold the pace in the final quarter. Riley and Plymouth played in the finals of the Mishawaka sectional. The game was very close, but the crippled Plymouth team finally collapsed, and Riley was able to win by the dangerously close score of 34-32. ll The four teams that took part in the regional tournament were Wakarusa, Winamac, Riley, and Rochester. Wakarusa defeated Riley 29-23, in the initial game of the tourney, while VVina- mac defeated Rochester 24-20, in the second game. Wakarusa then met and easily defeated Winamac by the score of 31-21. The defeat of Winamac by Wakarusa came as a surprise to most of the fans, for the Indians were favored as the team that would probably play in the state tournament.

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UI THIRTY-TII Rlflf Henry Heintzberger, Margaret Kizer, Bill Ma- grane, Charles Mcliinnis, Bill Miller, lames Miller, Eunice Palmer, lsadore Rosenwasser, Eldon Schalliol, Norman Smith, Charles Stine, Iacob Swartz, Clare Verseeg, Iulia Versceg, Wylie Voorheis, lohn Wolf, and Robert Zim- IUCFIHLIII. It was then Mishawalta began to debate with other schools. ln non-decision debates, her op- ponents included H1lll1l110Dd, Wiley of Terre Haute, Huntington Township, anti Plymouth. Then there was a non-decision debate tourna- ment at Bourbon, Indiana. 11011 january 17, the school double debated Concord Township and the following Saturday traveled to Hammond and Washington, East Chicago. By this time the team was picked and lim- ited down to six people, they were Margaret Kizer, Eldon Schalliol, and Wylie Voorheis, who composed the affirmative, and Jacob Swartz, John Wolf and Henry Heintzberger, who made up the negative. l1On Ianuary 27. the team traveled to North- side of Fort Wayne for two double debates. After staying all night, they contested the state champions of Churubusco the next day in a double debate. That afternoon saw them in Huntington for another double debate. They spent the evening at Manchester college where they had dinner. lt was a wonderful trip for all. 9 On Ianuary 24, there was a debate with Elk- hart's negative and the following day with their affirmative. Warsaw brought the non-decision debates to an end. Mishawaka's team was then ready to take part in tournament debates: they had their first judge's decision on February 2, when Mr- Coyne of Notre Dame decided in favor of Central of South l3end's affirmative against Mishawaka's negative. The following day was the debate with Riley's negative there. Apodaca of the eco- nomics department of Notre Dame gave the decision to Riley. V011 Feb. I4 were two debates with l-aPorte. Our aHirmative team won, negatives lost. Stoner of Plymouth gave the decision to Mishawakzfs negative against Riley's affirmative when they debated here on February 23. llThe last debate was with Central's negative team, which we lost. This closed the debate season for Mishawalia. A record of four losses and two wins does not show up very well on paper, but when one considers that this team of only a month's ex- perience had to COIDPCKC with debaters of two and three years' experience, one feels rather satisfied at the outcome. V With this one year's experience, having lost only one detbater, Mr. Huber has hopes for a fC0m'luded on page 712