St Georges High School - Lance Yearbook (Middletown, RI)

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-,rf-wr'-Y 4 sv-Wy -, ---v--1-f. Un Saturday, lfebruary 15, the VVorcester Trade School beat us in a Close hard-fought game by a score of I8--13. St. Georgelg was foiieed to .play with an incomplete team as de Sibeur was sick anal, though his substitute played well, his absence was felt throughout the game. A On February 26 St. George's won a brilliant victory over the Second Regiment team from the Training Station, beating them .80---39. lt was a hard, well-played flilllwi especially when'the visitors put in a professional in the last half, but our shooting ability won us the game by a large margin. The following Satur- day, lllarch 1, we won a game from the Galahad Club of New- port. This time the best playing on the part of the visitors came in the first half, but in the second period we, forged ahead and won 5-lf-17. ' ' On bfiarch 5, before the largest crowd that has ever attended a game here, St. Georgels defeated Regex-is High School in one of the fastest and most exciting games ever seen in Auchinelosg Gymnasium. Rogers brought out a large following of girls and boys and the cheers of these, combined with our own, kept the game going at top speed. From start to finish there was hardly a moment's pause, the floor work and shooting of both teams being remarkable. At the end of the first half the score stood I8 to l-l in our favor and Rogers refused to allow us to increase this lead. In fact several times during the last half of the game the score was tied, but our forwards always brought us ahead until at the end the score was 32 to 28 in our favor. N Three days later, on March 8, we played a return game with Rogers on their own floor, the last game of our long season. Great interest was taken in this game by both schools and the night of the contest the large gymnasium was packed with basketball enthu- siasts. The game' was as hard and as 'fast as the one before, and, though our team put up an extremely fine game, we went down to defeat I6 to 9. The floor was verb' Stfillwie to us, beiI1LE lined on each side by rows of spectators, and the baskets were quite a little higher than those we were accustomed to using. ln spite of this there were several bursts of brilliilllf Plilving by both sides and often it seemed that St. George's would make a winning rally, but there was comparatively little scoring as both tives spent most of their energies subduing dangerous opponents. This closed a long and most successful season in basketball. The few defeats we -suffered were either at more experienced teams or when we were team on 'the Hoor. The final summary shows that we outscored our opponents no way were our defeats discreditable to member of the team played hard, clean entire season, one of the best seasons St. ' 9 Y .IQ an 1 !P', v ! ' X 1 'Ji QQ s ,01'Ff,' ' 9:9 ?l 5 . ,, jp. , '.'F w- l F . eVA i 'a'oNQ Q gv ii g g lq '1 94 ' 9 N izwfgi' 4' I UU . the hands of older and unable to put our best of the comparative scores a large margin and in the team or coach. Every basketball throughout the Georgeys has ever had. H. G. L. by

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,, ,,l,...gVN Y 4 Qleuimu nf the Eaakrihall Swann nf 1519 LTHOUGH only one member of last year's team was back this year, we had a most successful season in basketball. 'Fhroughout the winter term fifteen games were played with strong outside teams, and of this number only four were lost. Coach Harvey was with us again and great praise is due to him for the excellent instruction he gave the team during the season. As a result of his efforts our team was considered one of the very best schoolboy teams that had ever been seen in Newport, par- ticularly in regard to the accurate shooting of our forwards. The week after Thanksgiving Captain de Sibour called out a squad of about twenty players. After il fCW Pl'1lCtiCC Scrim- mages this was cut to the twelve most promising candidates, and the real work of getting in trim for the first game began. Unluckily the school was broken up early on account of influenza and the two games scheduled for December had to he cancelled. About a week after we returned from the Christmas vacation we won the first game of the season against a team representing the soldiers stationed at Fort Greble. The following Saturday. January ll, marked an easy victory over the Army and Navy Y.lXfI.C.A. of Newport. ln both of these games the accurate shooting of de Sibour and Duane showed that they were Capable of running up the score very quickly unless carefully guarded. On January I5 St. George's won a hard-fought contest with the lVIedical Department from the Naval 'liraining Station. At first it seemed that the victory would be easy, but as soon as the visitors got accustomed to the floor both teams were very evenly matched. ln the second half the shooting of the llledicals was greatly improved, but St. George's lead in the first half proved too great and we won with the score 32-28. A wt-Ck later St. George's won from the First Regiment, another training station team. By this time the team had devel- oped into a smoothly running machine and, while the game was as visitors as the one previous, the irk of the home team carried off an easy well played on the part of the team play and head wr victory. 1 On -fmmm-V 25 we suffered our first defeat at the hands of the Newport Y.lVI.C.A. This was due to the absence of our captain and the superior guarding of a heavier team. However, profiting by this loss, we won the next three games in swift succession. On Februarv 1 we beat the Richmond Athletic Club by the decisive score of 37-I-l-. From the beginning there was no question as to who would win and throughout the entire game our forwards scored again and again on signal plays and on long shots from the Hoor. The following VVednesday, February 5, we defeated a team calling themselves the Silent Five, being composed of graduates of Rogers High School. This was undoubtedly the hardest game so far encountered and the score was very close at first, but in the second half our guards solved their very swift system of short passes and we won 2-l-18. Three days later we again beat Fort Greble, this time on their own floor, which was very different from our own, having a low ceiling, but our accurate shooting stood us in good stead and we won by one basket. A fast Dean Academy team came down from Franklin on February 12, and beat us by a considerable score. Their accuracy on a strange floor, as well as their team work throughout the game, was remarkable and, though our team played well and put up a good fight, they outclassed us and clearly deserved the victory.

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