Potter School - Shield Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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4 I i l Q ! I I 1 5 s i I i ll all 'i z 3 1 1 9 l 5 l S 2 E l S i i 1 I ll e I 5 3 l l 1 1 4 2 l THE POTTER SHIELD uard, and shot a good many baskets. H. Fleishhacker showed improvement at g Lermen in his first season at least showed that he could dribble lwellohalthough weak at shooting. Company E, with probably the weakest personne in e eague, and further weakened by the absence of Hirschman and Whitalier, did manage to t er bad or win two games. The trouble with the team was that no one on 1 was v y ver f good. Company G dragged along at the tail end all season, and has the proud 5 . record of no victories and ten defeats. Acting Captain Sutro deserves credit for trying hard in the face of very discouraging circumstances, and never giving up hope of winning. He shot most of the baskets and practically did whatever good playing was done by the team, although Captain Newbauer managed to show a flash of form in the last few minutes of the closing games. The team would have done much better if its larger members had shown the same spirit as the smaller ones. The free-for-all games, at the conclusion of each day's schedule, were attended by a little company of the faithful and afforded good practice and sport. It was gratifying to see so many of the smaller fellows sticking around, for it is their efforts that will make or mar future teams, and they owe it to the school to keep up in interest. Right now it is to be hoped that the school can look back on the season of 1919 with some satisfaction, and can hope' for better things for 1920. Basketball deserves a respectable position in the school calendar, and the boys have it in their power to place it there. Basketball-World's Series After the regular season was completed, the champions of each battalion met in the World's Series Contest, the pennant being represented by a party at the Orpheum. Company D and Company F were the contestants, as predicted by some of the wise experts at the start of the season, and of these experts, those who had picked Company D to win the championship were gratified, as the team won the title in two straight games. Both games were closely contested and hard-fought all the way. After the first contest, which Company D won by the narrow margin of 24-19, Captain Fuller predicted victory for his team, basing his alibi for the defeat on the fact that Gibbons was handicapped by. injuries, and that Gump participated in only part of the contest. The second game, however, also went to Company D, this time by a score of 23-15, and in an exclusive interview with a SHIELD representative, Captain Fuller declared, The best team won. Captain Knight refused to comment on the play of the team, except to say that the players had trained conscientiously and were looking forward to breaking training. A few members of beaten combinations were magnanimously included in the party at the Orpheum. lnterclass Games The season was rounded out by a few interclass games that were used to fill breaks m the sports schedule when rainy weather interfered with drill or early base- ball practice. In this way the first class defeated the second, the second defeated the third, the fifth defeated the fourth and sixth, and the Sixth Won from the seventh. Seventy The inimst . - F: , -iLTilmt'l1'Ji Ing :.i' -41 Ultra-ggiqq Briana xi,- Wlirr wiizif H invent- wi, admit iz .Ms ffn-s ' x - N2 hlflhli' am.. n. Y svlirillyyf. H5 N i lla X1'u..Q,i 2 1 .ru 3.1-bT1flljgmg.x. ul time i ik rf. up Q ...I an .ri -i ' .54 Eu Tir plwz, W- ' . 'nz s .. X' ' u --r .1 1 ihivi i n J! . fgsll. A 2-lil. -,dn v il- I .W Y -.V qlr. - ,E L-t1Y11.,- , 'A i yu. -KJ., .l -11-.r ..,,,, x --A, '4 1112.1 . 51. 1. ,ig L V

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