Prophetstown High School - Prophet Yearbook (Prophetstown, IL)

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THE PROPHET being Joslyn and Osborn. At Joslyn a Ford sedan was seen in the street and at Osborn we needed a magnifying glass to find the station. just out of Osborn a large white duck was seen in the yard and for the beneht of the Erie team Winn said: Whyl there's old Coach johnson from Erie I wonder why he doesn't get on the train? We got off at Rock Island and walked three blocks to the Como Hotel. We were assigned rooms and after taking our grips upstairs and washing we went down to supper. This hotel was somewhat different than the one at Atkinson. After supper we went to Augustanna to watch some games. On the way home we stopped at a drug store to get some ice cream and Vernon Lawrence bought a couple of boxes of consolidated or compact powder. We were all weighed on the penny scales and found Pete to be the lightest one. He weighed one hundred forty pounds, so we had a fairly good sized bunch. The next morning Pete and Lawrence got up and went over to the room where Winn, Burdsall, LaDine, and Curry were. Hotchkiss and Woodward were not out of bed yet so they were not there. Lawrence called up their room and a con- versation something like this followed: Hellol Is this Mr. Hotchkiss F Yes , Is Mr. Woodward there? Yes',. Pd like to speak with him, please. Wood- ward comes to the phone. Is Mr. Hotchkiss there P Why you were just talking to him. I was, I misunderstood the name. Hotchkiss comes to the phone. Hellol Hellol Is this Hotchkiss? I'm INIr. Clark the Tournament manager and I'm looking for dope on the games for this afternoon. We'er going to win. Have you any money to back it with? How many games have you won? We'er all betting on Erie. Well we're going to win any way.', Your coach must not be any good. Yes he is. Then you must have a poor bunch of players. No.,' Well, goodbye. A few minutes later Pete and Lawrence went to their room and found the bunch quite elated and were told the whole conversation with Clark. We all went downtown and got a shoe shine, which was badly needed and then VECIII back to the hotel to rest until time to go to Augustanna, for our game with ' rie. Some Rock Island girls held our pennant over our basket to entice our ball into it, but in spite we had the short end of ten to fifteen when the ofhcials began to suspect crooked work on the part of Erie. And for once Prophetstown was lucky. Pete identified the men in question and thus won the game. It was decidedly dangerous for Pete around there for a few minutes and he lost his desire to visit Erie. Before the game Winn said that if we won he would give us a big supper. We had that to look forward to as we had had no dinner, but we couldn't eat any supper on account of playing Cambridge. We tried to keep VVinn away from the Y. W. C. A. but about six thirty he got away and just got back in time to catch the car for the gym. The Rock Island girls held the pennant this time, but it didn't do much good. Lawrence and Pete both played in this game. Pete just got in and got located when something happened, he says he got tripped, Budd says he got run into, but any- way it threw him off his feet and about six feet into the air. When he lit his knee made a dent in the fioor. After the game, we watched the games of the evening the best being the Rock Island game. That was the best game I ever saw. We went back to the hotel and waited a while for Winn and then after he got back we had our big feed. P 1923 Forty-fire

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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

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Forty-,fix THE PROPHET Peters and Curry came home Saturday, but the rest stayed to watch the games and came home broke Saturday night. INTER-CLASS TOURNAMENT The first interclass tournament in the history of the school was held March 21, 22, 23, in the Congo Gym. The Seniors and Juniors did not have men enough for a team and so they went together and formed one team and the grades entered a team. The strongest rivalry was between the Sophomores and the Junior and Senior team. For example, Budd was making up rhymes and speeches and writing them on the black boards. One in particular was a parody on the Gettysburg Address and to the effect that all Juniors and Seniors were born victorious. The Sophls made answer in poetry form and reserved most of their efforts for the evening when they met the Junior and Senior team in the opening game of the tournament. That night was a double victory for the Soph's. The girls won over the Fresh- men and the boys over the Juniors and Seniors. The Sophomore victory was due to two reasons. First, the fact that the Junior and Senior team had three men who never handled a ball before and second that the Sophomores had five men all of whom had had first team experience. The next day Budd was singing: Ohl they ripped and they tore and they beat us 33 to 4. just as loud as he had been singing against them the day before. In spite of the uneven score the game was fast and the unexperienced men put up a good fight which showed that if they had been used to the game it would have evened up the score. The next night the Freshies played the Grades. The game was so slow that the little fellows were unable to make the Freshmen work because of size. However some good material for future High School teams were seen. Score 24 to 16. Gibson played stationary guard for the Freshmen and stationary was the best part of his game. Friday night the tables were turned on the Freshies when they played the Sophomores. They were the little fellows now and were unable to stop the scoring of the heavier five. They were unable to get through for any short shots, they scored mostly on well placed long ones, and Fadden was their high man. He made seven clean baskets off of the region of the center of the floor. This game was fast however and also rough. The Freshmen were weak on centers having four of their five men playing that position at different intervals of the game, while the Soph's played the same man all the time in both games. The score was 46 to 26 leaving the Sophls the champions of the school and in undisputed possession of the banner. In the girls' tournament the teams were more evenly matched and consequently played closer and more interesting games. Of course the boys' games were inter- esting to the Sophomores but that is about all. 1923