Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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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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C THE MISKODEED 'AU A BIT CDF A BALI. CLUB F V0K By OTHA RAMSEY ANY basketball fans consider that a team has had a successful season if it has won a majority of the scheduled games. Taking this point of view in looking at the record of M. H. S. in number of games won and lost, one sees that our squad won II and lost 9. This, how- ever, is not a true sportsman's point of view. A real sports lover asks first, did the boys play cleanly and give everything they had to give, then perhaps comes the question of the num- ber of games won and lost. Anv follower of the Cavemen will readily assert that our team played hard, and always tried their best to play cleanly. fAfter all what more can one do, if he tries to do his best?j The team won three and lost four of their conference games coming out in a tie with Riley for third place in the conference standing. Although Mishawaka had only an average team during the last season, loyal supporters may look happily ahead to next year, for nine of the first twelve men will be back with us. l1Then, too, perhaps next year an attack of influenza will not lay siege to the Cavemenls camp, causing the coach to have to start a dif- ferent formation in almost every game. At one time during the season, four out of the first Five were sick. This fact alone would have been enough to discourage many coaches, but not so with Mr. Shake: he merely went about trying to prevent this disease from spreading further and trying to cure the sick players. Coach Shake tried to call off the Riley and Elkhart games, Coach Forbes readily agreed to cancel the game with Riley, but Coach Longfellow of Elkhart refused to cancel that game, saying that the Blue Blazers always played a scheduled game. The Maroons were forced to play this game and were snowed under by the Blue Avalanche 18 to 9. At the beginning of the season, the Maroon squad looked fairly strong, and there was a no- table improvement in their style of basketball up to and including the game with Elkhart. This game apparently was the turning point, for Dame Fortune seemed to desert them for the rest of the season. A noticeable fact of this season was that the squad seemed to play bas- ketball in spurtsg when they won a game on Friday they usually won again on Saturday, and when they lost on Friday they seldom won on Saturday. This is unexplainable except that every team has its off nights, and Mishawaka's seemed always to come together. If On December 2, the Maroons were defeated by a crack Nappanee five, before a capacity crowd, 41-34, in their Hrst game with the Bull Dogs. The offense of both quintets was so fast that the official scorers had to call time out in several instances so that they could ca-teh up

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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,