Racine High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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five-man defenseg but Racine with its passes broke down the foe's guard. Wie led at the end of the first half 12 fO. The final score was 4042. VVHITEWATER The following day our fellows played Vivhitewater in the latteris gym. and won by the close score of Z3f2l. The team made a wild attempt to get some sleep in Klilwaukee the previous night and rode several hours on Saturday in order to reach iivhitewater in time for the game. These things of course tired the fellows out, and they couldn,t display their best ability. As our forwards were carefully guarded during the entire game, Grover was necessarily the point getter. The score at the end of the first half was 11f9 with Racine on the short end. VVhen the second half started, the fellows showed that they had made up their minds be- tween halves as to just what was going to happen. Davies took Harrisis place in the second half and quite unconsciously dropped two neat baskets from the middle of the fioor. The final play left the score in our favor. TQENOSHA The next game was played in Kenosha. For a while it looked as if Kenosha had done considerable practicing since its defeat by Racine some weeks previous. Racine, however, used all it had for a few minutes just to make things lively. They rolled up a nice-sized score, thereby win- ning the game. Something should be said of the crowd that turned out for the Kenosha game. It certainly was a whopper and part of it tried to suffocate on the special cars. EAST CHICAGO The following day Racine played ljast Chicago at Racine. This was tooted to be one of the best of the season since the ou t-of-town fellows had a reputation down in Indiana. The fellows had saved their pep for this game instead of using it all Q at Kenosha and the score certainly showed it. The final score was 37e9 with R. H. S. in the lead. XV ATE RTOWN The next week Watertown came to Racine with the general idea of giving us a drubbing. They were forced to think again. The game looked good for the first few minutes but the Racine quintet started things humming. Harris's eye was in working order and he dropped H points for Racine. Watertown took home the small end of a 40-12 score, while Racine had a good count with which to end the season. Basins wins Jfirst Blaze in bentinnal Zlliuurnannznt Our fellows went to the tournament with a great deal of confidence and back- ing. However, the first game we played was booked with Sheboygan who also had a clean slate. Sheboygan started things by dropping the first basket. The first quarter ended 4f2 and it looked like a hard game. The team got to going after this and rolled up a score of 26 against Sheboygan's 5. This was the highest score of the first round of games played at the tournament. In the second game of the tournament in which Racine participated, 'Whitewater was the opposing team. Since we had beaten them by only two points in the previous game at Vkhitewater everyone looked forward to a hard fought game. This time, however, the teams were play- ing on a neutral Hoof and, 'tho the game was not a walk-away, the quintet from R. H. S. made YVhitewater feel rather foolish when the final score showed 298 in favor of our fellows. By winning the first two games Racine earned the oppor- tunity to play in the finals. This meant that we couldn't get anything lower than second place. lt was on a Saturday night that about