Raleigh High School - Excelsior Yearbook (Raleigh, IN)

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Athletics in Raleigh School DA- .t .. - ,, .,.. -- NE month after the beginning of the 1914 term ot' school there were two tennis courts and eight racquets in possession ot' the high school boys. liavon Hall and Dwight Brooks start- ed the game by making the first court early in the fall bcforc school began. Every bov wanted to play and they were also willing to make another court so we set to work. The enthusiasm over ten- nis grew rapidly, and even the teachers entered into thc game which proved to give them great sport. Dwight Brooks ventured to play the alumni and we held a tournament here. Hassel Sweet and Ray White composed the alumni team. Although White was a Muncie Normal Institute player, the Raleigh team was too much for l1in1 and his partner. The high school won the doubles in straight sets. The score was 6 to Jig 6 to 35 6 to Ii. Raleigh is too fast for her alumni ill tennis. After the 0I1ll1llSl?lSIl1 over tennis subsided, basket ball was taken up. I 'ag e twenty-flve

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French. The conditions of the neighborhood may be understood from a single incident. Miss Addams was appointed garbage inspector, which resulted in her discovery of a pavement eighteen inches under- ground in a narrow street which no one remembered ever to have been paved. This and other improve- ments reduced the death rate of the ward from third to seventh among Chicago wards. That Hull House was established to improve the poor is portrayed in a little incident when the manufacturers oiered Hull House 350900, enabling it to become a large institution, if the poor of that district would cease asking for shop reforms. Was it received by Jane Adams? No. She answered that she and her friends were not interested. in exalting Hull House, but that they were interested in protecting their wretched neighbors from un- desirable working conditions. To know the real work of Jane Addams, one must visit Hull House and get an insight into the changed environments and lives which sl-e has up- lifted, and the thousands whom she has touched. That all Chicago loves Jane Addams was shown in 1913, when a banquet was held for her just before her departure for a four months' vacation in Egypt and Italy. Twelve hundred guests assembled at this banquet. At the close of the banquet, twelve hundred voices sang to the tune of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean : Jane Addams sails over the ocean, Jane Addams sails over the sea, VVe're glad she's to have a vacation, But bring back Jane Addams to me. Page twenty-four HNVe'll lend hcl' to Greece and to Egypt, Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome, We'll lend her to Europe and Asia, So long as we get her back home J The Peace Dove will perch on her shoulder, All Europe will dwell in accord, The Turks will go back to rug-making, The Balkans will put up the sword. What abeautiful life is hers, and how well she has fulfilled her mission. LEONA MULL. 3 li

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Despite the unfavorable conditions here, we de- veloped a promising first team. The players were Lavon Hall, Captain and guardg Emory Bean. guardg Dwight Brooks, centerg Glenn Pom-r, for, wardg and Orville Morgan, forward. The team played well, and they could handle the Lewisville second team. On the night ot' February 13th, Ral- eigh's first team journeyed to Lewisville to meet their seconds. The game was one-sided from begin- ning to end. Raleigh team won. After this en- gagement, we organized a second team andnon the night of March 12th, both teams ,journeyed to Fair- view. Again the Raleigh crowd won. The teams improved very fast and on the night of March 26th, both teams went again to Fairviewg their second time in one season to play their first and second team. At this time Raleigh did not meet with so good success, for both teams were defeated. Both games were rough. Fate was against us, two of our boys being in no shape at the beginning of the games, and another being knocked out by their roughness, they won by a rising score in the second hal . R. H. S. Others. At Lewisville . . . . . . 34 5 At Fairview .... .... 2 5 13 At Fairview .... .... 1 0 7 At Fairview .... .... 2 0 48 At Fairview .... .... 1 0 22 Page twenty-six