Monroe High School - M Book Yearbook (Monroe, WI)

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BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHTS Getting off to a lively start, the Cheesemaker basketball squad went through the season making up for their unsuccessful football attempt. Starting early in the season,Monroe looked a little clumsy, but nevertheless, the boys v ent out on the floor and licked New Glarus in the first game of the season, 37 to 13. The following week at Evansville they lost, but looked a lot better than they had in the first game. Then came one of the most exciting games of the season in which Monroe lost to Edgewood here, 21 to 24. These three games having been played had not yet started the Southern Six season, so the hopes for a real team were gaining with each week as the team showed much improvement over each previous game. At last the season arrived and Monroe emerged the victor against Watertown by a score of 33 to 28. This win made the fans take notice and the old basketball spirit once again seized the spectators. Then, in the next three weeks, Monroe defeated Stoughton, 29 to 23, Fort Atkinson, 34 to 22, and Edgerton, 36 to 19. By this time Monroe had yet gone undefeated in the league wins, four straight wins and no losses, which, of course, led to the belief that Monroe would have a very good chance of copping the Southern Six title. But as luck would have it, Wisconsin High, the cellar team, was the host the first half. In the second half the team made a fighting comeback but couldn't quite made the grade and lost a heartbreaking game, 19 to 14. After this Monroe lost three more games: one to Stoughton, 34 to 20, to Water-town, 34 to 29, and to Fort Atkinson, 20 to 13. Things were really beginning to look gloomy by this time and everyone wondered if there was any hope of beating one of the weaker teams in the Southern Six, Edgerton. A turn for the better took place and the boys swamped Edgerton, 36 to 20. Following this, they came back and trimmed Wisconsin High, 34 to 23. THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT In the first night's games at the Class C Tournament held at Stoughton in which four teams, Monroe, Evansville,Stoughton, and Wisconsin High competed, Evansville defeated Wisconsin High. In the second game the Cheesemakers lost their most exciting and best game of the season. Excitement ran high when, with only thirty seconds to play and Monroe in the lead by one point,Stoughton pushed a bucket through the hoop. Monroe seized the ball and in went another,only this time placing Monroe in the lead again. Then, with hardly five seconds to play, Stoughton shot for the basket---in went the Pill and off went the gun. The score: 26 to 25. Evansville defeated Stoughton the second night, thus winning the district championship. Clair Mitchell,Captain 25

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BASKETBALL TEAM Edmund S. Brown, Coach Bottom Row, Left to Right Herbert Goecks, Kov ard Higgins, Glen Schwartz, Captain Clair Mitchell, Elmer Germann, and Alfred Leiser. Top Row, Left to Right Mgr. John Halverson, Glen Hoff, Arthur Brown, Warren Redman, William Johnson, Arthur Butts, and Coach Edmund Brown. BASKETBALL AWARDS MAJORS Clair Mitchell Glen Schwartz Arthur Brown Warren Redman MINORS William Johnson Herbert Goecks Howard Higgins Alfred Leiser Elmer Germann Glen Hoff MANAGER'S MAJOR ALL SPORTS 24 John Halverson

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TRAVEL CLUB OFFICERS: President - Leon Rabe V. Pres. - Bernard Lee Treas! Florence Maddrell Sponsor - Viola Norton When we went to California last year, we took a southern route and visited some places in Mexico. It was very Interesting. Well, I guess I'm not a3 lucky as you. I've never been East or West, but I have always had the desire to travel and to know what places are worthwhile seeing. Bits of conversation, such as this, may be heard each Tuesday as the members of the Travel Club, sponsored by Miss Viola Norton, meet to discuss the beautiful and historic places of interest in the United States. Various members of the club, as well as outside speakers, present talks on places of interest which they have visited, and slides are shown. The national parks of the United States that have been discussed and slides shown, are Glacier, Yellowstone, Messa Verdi, Grand Canyon, Bad Lands and Elack Hills of South Dakota, Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and Yosemite in California. Information concerning the rock formations of the parks and why the parks are famous is also presented. Talks have been given on New Orleans, and points of interest in the Eastern United States, among them sections of Maine, New York City, Washington, D. C. and also Quebec, Canada. Besides these, talks on the above mentioned national parks,places in the West and Alaska have also been given. One, two and three day trips by auto to scenic places of interest in Wisconsin and surrounding states are planned, as well as one to two week trips. Each member of the club has a map on which he routes out the entire trip, marking places of historic and scenic interest that may be visited on the way. The first objective of the Travel Club is to acquaint the members with the places of beauty and historic value in their own state and the United States where they may travel. The second one is to teach them how to recognize the beauty of the country through which they travel. 26