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

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four hundred Racine rooters were at Klilwaukee to see Racine put on the map. Altho there had been unusually large crowds at the games Thursday and Friday nights to cheer the fellows on to victory, the Saturday night attendance from old R. H. S. surely broke the record. They were not only there but they yelled. As had been anticipated the strong Columbus five was the opponent. Columbus was the first to score. They had made three points before Racine started. As in the previous games our five-man defense broke up everything that came down the fioor. The fellows certainly were playing basket ball. It was a good game and Columbus fought every minute. How- ever, our fighting spirit was up and the machine of Racine High came off with the honors. The final score was 30-ll and Racine played hard for every point. After the game the silver loving cup was presented to the team by Klr. Downet. Cnavitch received it amid the cheers and yells of the Racine rooters. The in- dividual players were given splendid gold watch fobs in token of the good work that they had -done. There was consid- erable noise in that little old gym, since it was the second time that Racine had ever won the sectional basket-ball tour- nament. CARL Scutmz Hiott or Cmoxoo On Friday night March 12th the team played Carl Schurz High of Chicago at the Y. Rl. C.A. C. S.H. was supposed to have an exceptionally good team since it had won Cook County and City of Chicago championship last year. It was claimed that the school had the same team this year and everyone looked for- ward to a tight game. The team was either out of luck or 'fsomebody lied be- cause it had no effect on our quintet. The final score was -15 l8-and had Ra- cine boys done their durndest it would probably have been 100-18. This A game was played as a means of raising Racine Highis quoto for The Armenian Relief Fund. The desired result was certainly attained. Over X-100 was raised by this means. The game also served as a practice to keep the fellows in trim for the state tournament which came off the following week. Basins Takes jfuurth Blaze in State Tournament The State Tournament games were played at Madison on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of hfarch. Racine played its first game on Friday night. Its opponent in this game was the Eau Claire five. Al- though the ljau Claire quintet was reputed to have an exceptional amount of ability, the score at the end of the first half was 8-1 in our favor. The fellows certainly had hard luck, in that two of them were seriously injured. Unavitch, having wrenched his knee, was carried off the fioor in the third quarter. Harris sprained his wrist but played the entire game. The peculiar thing about the game was that two of our men wereinjured, while in all the former games of the season no such thing had occured. The team entered the second game greatly handicapped. -lohnny and Harris were unable to play. Vie were pitted against the strong Neenah team and were defeated for the first time, having won fifteen straight victories. Since two of our regular men were out we were forced to try for long baskets. One could easily see that the short, swift passes that were characteristic in former games, were miss- ing. The fellows naturally could not make enough long shots to win the game. The final score was 20-8 in favor of Neenah. There isn't any doubt in the minds of the R. H. S. fans that with the regular five playing we could have beaten Neenah as well as our opponents in the following games. The last game of the State Tournament,