Racine High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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as well as of the season was played Satur- day evening. hladison University High furnished the opposing team. Our men played hard. and, considering the fact that Unavitch and Harris were out, it was the best game of the season. The score at the end of the first half was 9-3, with Madison in the lead. In the second half the Racine fellows fought as they never had before, but could not overcome the 6 point lead of the Madison five. Racine netted nine points to X1adison's five during the second half making the final score 16 '12, in favor of our adversaries. The results of the tournament were as follows: Superior 1st, Neenah 2nd, h1adison 3rd, and Racine 4th, A great deal of credit for the success of the first team was due to the strong line- up of the second team, and to the excellent coaching of Mr. Cox. The Basket 385111 Team 1919 gl 920 Unavitch. Johnny utterly bewildered his opponents with his famous pivot. Part of our success was due to his leader- ship, and the fellows elected him captain for next year. Grover. Uur notorious 'Lfusserf' en- couraged greatly by applause from the gallery, played a hard game at center. Olson. Herb', by his fast passing and accurate basket shooting did much to win our games. He will be a very valuable man on next year's team. Harris. Jack, the formidable guard, defended our basket with splendid tenac- ity, and when in possession of the ball always advanced it. He impressed more than one fair damsel with his marvelous playing both at Racine and in hlilwaukee. Gebhardt. 'CDon played a good steady game at guard. Our opponents found that it was almost impossible to keep the ball in Don's territory. It is to be re retted that we lose him because of 55 . graduation. Hunting. Hunting played an unusually consistent game at guard. He was a regular in the last part of the season. He will not be in our happy midst in 1920-21. Davies. '4Our scrappy little dark- haired Californianf' showed ability to be wondered at in almost any position on the team. VVhen he appeared on the floor, many flattering comments about him were made by all. Siewert, our sub-guard, played a good game whenever given a chance. He will no doubt be a regular next year. Boyak. Vlihen put in, lioyak managed to shoot a few baskets. lt is hoped that he will uphold the reputation of Racine High next season.

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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,

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,oc y, , , Girls' Qtbletits PLAY Houk Jfislh EBay After an interval of several years, the girls of Racine High School resumed their athletic activities last spring at the High School Field Day. Compared to the number of girls in school, only a small proportion came out. However, those who came were enthusiastic and made the day a success. The event of the day was a baseball game between the Indigo and Cardinal teams. The excitement ran so high that the umpireis life had to be guarded. The Indigoes succeeded in winning by a small margin. Other, events were tennis singles and doubles. a baseball far-throw, potato race, fifty-yard dash, half-mile relay race, croquet game, and a golf two- some and foursome. For each event the winning side was given a certain number of points. The Indigoes totaled the larger number for all events. The girls are looking forward to the Field Day this year with much more en- thusiasm than last. A larger number has come out, for practice and many more have expressed interest. The events will be similar to those last year. iblap Zbuur An inovation was made at R. H. S. this year. At the Stephen Bull gymnasium on Friday, hflarch 26, a Play Hour was held, open to all high school girls and faculty women. The grand march began at 7:30, after which such games as Dodge Ball, Black and White, and Basket Ball relay were played. The evening proved to be so successful that several similar events have taken place. Basket Ball This year the girls of Racine High School found much pleasure in playing basket ball. Each class had a team, and after several months of practice a class tournament was held toidecide the class championship. The Sophomores out- played the Freshmen, and the Juniors won from the Seniors in the preliminaries. The two winning teams met for the finals before an enthusiastic and interested audience. The game was close from beginning to end, butfthe Juniors came out victorious and were awarded the class championship. All girls who had played during the year gave a spread in honor of the Juniors, Friday, April 24. There were games, laughter, and best of all-good eats. All the girls felt that the basket ball season had been a great success and all of them hope that it will be possible to make the game a permanent one at R. H. S.