Prophetstown High School - Prophet Yearbook (Prophetstown, IL)

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THE PROPHET door, to the sill between the transom and the door at the other side of the hall. Those who were up went across the street and got some candy and brought it back to eat. When this was eaten they went over and got some hamburger sandwiches and brought them back, causing them to vanish in less time than it took to get them. Winn got up about eight and we went down and watched games till noon. We had to pay for our own dinner so the ones who had tickets were lucky. Pete got by without handing his in and later in the afternoon treated some of the fellows to ice cream on it. We were eating and kidding Budd because he forgot his buns and a waitress asked which one was Budd. Upon being told she said Poor Budd, I'll get him some . She did and the stunt worked on another waiter also. Some other interesting events of the dinner were the hiding of ice cream, salads, and Budd's trick on Pete. Budd said, Say Peters what is that building over there, a church?', and so on. Finally when Pete looked back half of his pie was gone. We watched a few more games and then about three o'clock we started home and got into town just as the six o'clock whistle blew. THE WEST BUREAU TOURNAMENT Friday night, February 23, the team from Prophetstown High School set out by train for their second tournament. Woodward was unable to attend so those who went were:I-Ioward Burdsall,Vernon Hotchkiss, Warren Curry, Budd LaDine, Gerald Peters, and Lester Burdsall. A certain young lady from Prophetstown was on the train, and soon after the train started Curry took out a little book and started to readg in about five minutes he went up and sat down with the young lady for a quiet conversation. He would have enjoyed it too, but for the fact that the other boys kept telling him of the sights out of the car windows which it seems he was not interested in. The most disturbing occurred just the other side ofTampico when Budd and Howard saw a striking likeness between a mule fight and Curry breaking up a five man defense. We had to get off at Walnut and take cars to the schoolhouse. The young lady got off also and was going to Manlius. She offered Curry a ride as she and her Cousin were going right past the schoolhouse, but he declined as he likes to ride with boys better than with girls. We arrived at Bureau about five o'clock and were assigned to a room that had just been fumigated for scarlet fever, and did that stuff smart the eyes and nose? No, it was worse than that. As we were going to play our first game that evening we were given scalded milk and toast. Poor Budd! he doesn't like milk in any form much less scalded and toast, well he likes that at the other end of the table. And after the game he didn't get any supper for there was no candy in the building. Wyanet beat us and we took that rather hard at first but our bunch can't stay down-hearted so we soon recovered our spirits. After the first game of that night the Superintendent of the High School told us where we were to stay. Winn went to a place by himself, LaDine and Howard 1923 Forty- thru

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F orly-two THE PROPHET TOURNAMENTS The boys attended three tournaments this year. Through the courtesy of one of the players we are able to give you a detailed account of each of them. THE ATKINSON TOURNAMENT February sixteenth, six players and Coach Winn started to Atkinson in a Ford sedan. The players were LaDine, Curry, H. Burdsall, Peters, Hotchkiss, and Woodward. We got to Atkinson about nine forty-five. The only notable things that happened were the continual scrapping in the back seat to see who's lap Hotchkiss was going to set on and the time when the car jumped out of a rut just as we were approaching a bridge, the car missed the bridge by about two feet due to the careful driving of Mr. Winn. We changed our clothes and went on the floor to get badly beaten by Geneseo because of our lack of practice in basket shooting. Also the backboards were set farther from the baskets and we could not get the right toss to the ball. We re- turned to our dressing room and rested a while and then took our meal tickets and went down to the dining room where we partook of a very good meal with plenty of water as the waitresses were kind enough to keep our glasses filled until they finally struck because Peters drank four glasses full in succession. After dinner, Woodward was going to take the car up town to the garage and get some pennies. He cranked the car about five minutes and then Curry went down. Curry was cranking for all he was Worth when his feet slipped out from under him and he was sitting with his feet under the car, looking at the radiator. They finally got started and when they came back we flipped pennies a while and then went down and watched games until time to change our clothes for the Anna- wan game at four o'clock. We lost for the same reason that we did in the morning, but Budd was given charge of Boyd, who is usually their high scorer, and Boyd didn't get a basket. After losing this game we were eliminated. Again we held places at the table. After the games that night we were sent to the hotel and given rooms on the third floor. We were shown up by a man Who was proprietor, usher, bellboy, clerk, and chief cook. It was so cold in those little cracker boxes that the water was frozen in the pitchers. We used our ovlercoats for covers as there were no more covers on the beds than the law allowed for summer time. Winn used his overcoat, his clothes, rugs, and a spare pillow for covers. Thus it was that we slept, or you might say passed the night. About seven o'clock one of the Hills- dale players, their team was also camped there, woke Pete up in trying to arouse some of the Hillsdale players. Pete got up, dressed, woke up Woodward and Went off to wake up the rest of the bunch. He woke up Hotchkiss and Budd, who did not get up, and was beginning to open the door to Howdy and Curryis room when a shoe hit the door with a Bang', and he decided to stay out. VVinn was so sound asleep that a battle would not have aroused him, so Peters went downstairs and visited with the Hillsdale fellows. Upon returning he found that Hotchkiss and Budd were up and that they and Woodward had tied Winn in his room with the knotted fire escape tied to the 1923

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THE PROPHET together, Curry and Hotchkiss were bunkies, and Peters and Lester Burdsall went to another place. Talk about luxury, everything was swell. At the place where Mr. Winn spent the night there was such a high phonograph that he had to stand on tiptoe to put the records on it. His bed was so soft and springy that when he got in it he went clear out of sight and then sprung up again. They did a thing next morning which was next to impossible. That was to get him up early and have him at the school house at seven o'clock. When Les and Peters went to bed Les tried to get in alone but because of the many feather beds Peters had to pick him up and put him in. The rest of the boys fared well but were not routed out so early in the morning. Winn, Lester and Peters were the first ones at the school house the next morning. They were standing in the hall talking when a Walnut girl came out of the rest room and said: Has either of you boy's a comb F Mr. Winn had such an article and willingly lent it to her. She turned out to be the VValnut Cheer Leader, and talk about noise, she had Dorothy Brown backed off the map. Another girl that was noticed was the one who lived where Mr. Winn stayed. Winn showed her to Curry when we were watching the game and I'll bet ten dollars that if you had asked him after the game who won he would not have known. Peters who was leaning over so he could see all parts of the floor happened to straighten up between quarters and promptly received a hit on the side of the head. Upon investigating he discovered that his head had gotten in Curry's line of Ivision and while in that position the girl could not see Curry when he winked at er. One thing that we appreciated was that our meal tickets were for any amount we wanted. By showing our player tags we could get a lunch between meals. That night we motored back to Walnut, stocked up on candy, and proceeded to wait for the train. We passed the time by eating candy and talking about how strict we would have to observe the training rules the following week to be in shape for the Rock Island Tournament. We arrived home about nine olclock very tired and the next morning no one could have been up by eight o'clock. THE ROCK ISLAND TOURNAMENT On the first of March the Prophetstown Basketball Team started for the Dis- trict Tourney at Rock Island. Vernon Lawrence had studied hard for a long time and was eligible to play for the first time this season and thus another valuable player was added to the squad. School was dismissed early and nearly the whole student body went to the train to see us off. There were seven players and the coach. lNIiss DeGaris and Mr. Bates volunteered to risk their cameras and snapped a few pictures which turned out well considering the subjects. A valuable accessory to the ball bag was the handle attached to it which would enable Peters to hang on to it, but unluckily we had to take the case off for the game so Pete couldnlt play. We took the train for the next city Denrock and changed trains for Rock Island. At Erie their team got on and were given several yells, but they can't out yell the Old P. H. S. crowd. We passed through several large cities, the largest 1923 Forty four