Prophetstown High School - Prophet Yearbook (Prophetstown, IL)

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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

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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 TRACK This year, for the first time, the school has organized a track team. While the squad is small it is a beginning and we are already entered into meets. Those out for track are: Curry, Weekley, Peters, and Burdsall. BASEBALL Another organized sport which is making it's debut this year is baseball. It has a better following than the track team and there are some promising players out for practice. Catcher, Burdsallg Pitchers, Waite, Curry, Johnson, Infield, Adams, Mathis, Fritsch, Peters, Lewis, Mabel, Fadden, and Lester Burdsallg Outfielders, Egbert, Woodward, LaDine, Dingman, Gibson, Prichard, and Sund- berry. SUMMARY This year has been a year of development in all lines of Athletics. Many men have shown up who need only practice to make top notch players out of them. While the loss of Curry and LaDine will be deeply felt, we have some promising men for their places and we are glad that we do not lose more than two such valuable men. With the majority of the football team left, basketball with its strong following, and baseball and track in their infancy, P. H. S. has every reason to look forward to a successful season in all branches of athletics in the year of ,23 and.'24. 1923 Forty-,raven