Wallaceburg District Secondary School - Actiana Yearbook (Wallaceburg, Ontario Canada)

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CASE OF FRENZIED B. BALL COACH . . . The world's championship basketball game between undefeated C.C.I. and W.D.H.S. starts in less than an hour, and Wallaceburg's first line has been kidnapped. Mr. Wallace, the coach, calls in our hero, J. Edgar Heifer, detective Cprivatel to take the case. As the start of the game approaches, Wallace is getting frantic. He knows that if J. Edgar Heifer doesn't soon find his first stringers he will have to play the second line, which consists of Crooks Cooper, Sure Shot Suth- erland, Goose-on-the-Loose Labor, Easy Ed Davies and Simp the Fluke . And the coach has about as much in them as John K. Burnett has in the stu- dent council. Meanwhile, Mr. Thompson, the junior coach is viewing the proceedings from the gallery, when Bannister Bill Norman comes puffing toward him and says, Man, I'm pooped! I've been running around the gym for three hours! Well, the game's going to start right away, sir. Do you think Wallaceburg has a chance? Sure! replies Thompson. Watch and see. By this time the game is in progress and Wallaceburg heads 2-0. The Fluke fluked. That basket is all Wallaceburg needed to get under way, be- cause at half-time the second stringers head C.C.I. 43-0. Meanwhile, J.Edgar Heifer, private bull is still looking for the lost first line. Time marches on, and finally, our hero finds the lost players, who hadn't been kidnapped at all, but were in the visitor's dressing room, eating their oranges. By the time they got dressed and into the gym, there are only four min- utes left to play, and Wallaceburg leads by a score of 78-0. Wallace rushes the first line into the game and benches the second stringers. With the first line playing, the score quickly changes, and C.C.I.'s basket with three seconds of play puts them ahead 79-78. Wallaceburg calls time out. Mr. Wallace uses stfategy now, and puts in the second string again. It is Wallaceburg's ball at their end line. Goose-on-the-Loose passes it to Easy Ed , who whips it to Gooks Cooper who hands it off to Sure Shot and Sutherland lets one go! It soars up and through the basket at the other end, just as the buzzer sounds. W.D.H.S. defeats C.C.I. for the world's championship, 80-79! V Ken Simpson Qi . '44 if ix 92311 t . f,', E ' C 'X 5 X -J. I A my Ng sl g . JZ - 59 -

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GIRUS BASKETBALL .... SR. BASKETBALL TEAM .... EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT. WE'VE GOT A TEAM AND WE'RE 'GONNA' SHOUT IT! In spite of the fact that everyone once thought the senior girls' basketball team would be a flop, we, the senior team of '54-55 have come to the conclusion that we are a good team Knot the best, but a good teamb. We could not have come to that conclusion without the help of Efficient and Effective Elaine , our coach, who put up with us, disregarding our child- ish ways and trying to develop our grown-up skills. The senior team consists of 'Creamy' Campbell, 'Rough' Ruth, Anchor' Ayres, 'Muscles' McGaffey, 'Sim- ple' Sondra, 'Brainy' Burgess, 'Sure-shot' Stevens, and 'Muggs' McDonald, as forwards and 'Lanky' Lok, 'Limpy' Linda, 'Easy' Emma, Grabby' Glasgow and 'Hoopy' Hinnegan as guards. The above mentioned managed to play well enough together to beat Blen- heim, Ridgetown, C.V.S. and C.C.I. to win the Kent County Championship. The game that determined the Kent County Champs was played in Dresden, neutral grounds, with W'Burg and C.C.I. participating. W'Burg won by the score of 45- 26. Our next competitor was Essex whom we had to defeat in order to enter the W.O.S.S.A. playoffs. As everyone knows, they beat us 68-67 so we must con- tradict the foregoing statement and say that they are one point better than we are. We played Essex twice, with total points counting. Essex beat us when we played down there 31-35, but when they came to W'burg, we beat them 36-33 but the sum of the two games put Essex one ahead of us. The game in Wallace- burg was the best game of basketball ever witnessed in the gymnasium of WDHS with W'Burg scoring a basket and then Essex, throughout the game. Both teams agreed it was the hardest and fastest game they had ever played. It was a hard game to lose but as they say, May the better team win! and we guess it did. We shed a few tears after the game but you can hardly blame us for that. f In conclusion we want to thank all the students and teachers for suppor- ting us whether we won or lost and our coach, Miss Ough, whom we all love, for putting up with us. Incidentally, Anchor Ayres was the high scorer with 85 points, Creamy Campbell second with 83 points and Muscles McGaffey third, with 62 points. We'll be back fighting next year! JR. BASKETBALL TEAM .... The junior basketball team and their coach, Mrs. Helene Thompson de- serve a lot of credit and praise. They may not have done as well as the seniors but there is quite a bit to take into consideration, such as: it is the first time the majority of the girls have ever played on a team and in some cases the first year they have played basketball. They played a total of 8 games and won three of them. They played against Ridgetown, Blenheim, C.V.S. and C.C.I. High scorer was Gail Hunter with a total of 20 points and Yvonne DeBruyne was second with 18 points. -58..

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SR. BOYS BASKETBALL .... Front Row - Donald Daley, Doug MacKenzie, Mr. Wallace: Coach, Gerald Henderson. Iames Suth- erland. Second How - Gary Cooper, Eddie Davies, Peter Ayres, lim Glasgow. Gerald Ayres, Nelson Labor. Dave Domanski, Ken Simpson. JR. BOYS BASKETBALL .... yy Front Row - Albert Schmidt, Bob Lewis. Mr. Douglas Thompson, BJ... fCoachJ. Craig LaPointe. 1CaptainJ. Terry Milner. Second Row - Gordon Webb, Bruce Hunter, Gordon Langstaft, Peter Hensel. Eddie Dewar, Iohn Miller. Tom McLaughlin. - 60 -