West Salem High School - Neshonoc Yearbook (West Salem, WI)

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Onalaska VS Salem Returning to the hardwood floor here at Salem, Coach Nelson and the Orange and Black swamped Onalaska 31 to 14. Don connected for six field goals and a pair of gift shots. The hous really played a good brand of basketball. Holmen VS Salem In order to share in the Coulee Conference title Sslem had to defeat Holmen. But the task proved too great and Salem went down to defeat. Anderson and Olson of Holmen broke through our defense repeatedly to score. Bony led the locals with 5 points. Final score Salem 16 - Holmen 23. Mindoro VS Salem In a game which resembled more a football game the Salemites were victorious over Mindoro 21-16. The referee called the boys of each team in a huddle twice and told them to take it easy. Don led for the victors with 11 points. Trip to Reedsburg It was on Thursday, March 5, when the basketball team left for Reedsburg to compete in the District Tournament held there. Though the boys went to their studies, their minds were on bigger and better things soon to come. At approximately 11:55 the train pulled out of Salem, pulling Coach Nelson, Higgy Weingarten.Mgr. A1 Blackburn, and nine players. Though the train bumped like a lumber wagon, we arrived at Reedsburg safely, after changing onto a different track at Elroy, where some of the boys lunched. We had expected to change cars, but different arrangements had been made.In the Cafe the boys told Bony Olson that he'd better rush into the car and get his baggage, for the train was just going down the line. He used his elongated legs to good advantage,and soon caught the car, where a kind conductor told him that the car was only being switched to another track. We got to Reedsburg a little after two, and immediately went to Hotel Huntely, where the rooms were dished out. Normy, Don, and Norbert Boemeke got room 38; Coach Nelson, Art, Al, and Inky got No. 43 and Bony, Rudy, Lorny, and I got 41. There was one lemon among the three rooms, and the last four got that one.There was one small window, and faced to the inside. The mattresses in the beds were lined with slabs of granite, and the gold bars fell out of the rails of the bed at every move. Queerly enough some of these same bars disappeared during our stay there. The rugs in the hotel were very thick, and every time you touched a bed, water faucet, water, or someone else you'd get a big shock. It was a common sight to see boys running down the halls, and then touching a water-pipe, making sparks several inches long. The only time the sparks failed to work was one afternoon, we wore out the rugs, our shoes but ne'er a shock did he get. We played our first game at four in the afternoon with Soldiers Grove an we won, 24-18. We celebrated at supper, eating a swell steak dinner .though the meal was spoiled for some when prunes were brought in for dessert. We went to bed early that night. Bony Olson slept with Lorny, and had quite a time, for Lorny seemed to think he was climbing a tree, said tree being Bony. The rest slept fine, though Nuts got a glass of water in his ear from some unknown source. The next morning we went through the Appleton Woolen Mills, which proved very interesting. In some departments girls were working,and we had quite a time keeping Higgy moving. At one place I heard everybody yelling at me but before I knew what was up, a big package of wool hit me on the head. I had been standing under a chute. That night we had a small supper, beoause of our game at eight. Vfe lost to Norwalk in a thriller, 27-29 in the last 15 seconds.Vfe probably would have won if we had had an assistant Coach like Bangor had. -24-

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Galesville VS Salem Friday night Salem defeated Galesville in a return game, played at Galesville.With the score at the half 15-4 in our favor,Coach Nelson substituted frequently. Final score was 26-12. Onalaska VS Salem In our first conference game the Salem quintet was victorious over Onalaska hy a score of 26-19. The first man to go out on fouls was Bony Olson, who went out in the fourth quarter. Normy and Don led for Salem with 10 and 8 points respectively. Galesville VS Salem Our second conference game was played at Salem with Galesville. We were again victorious, the score being 23-12. Art Kengelt led for Salem with 8 points. The game was slow and draggy with Salem in the lead all the time. Galesville was held to 4 field goals. Alumni VS Salem In one of the fastest and cleanest games ever played in this gym the Orange and Black five edged out a 26-17 victory over the Alumni.Normy and Con led for the High School with 8 and 7 points respectively, while Klos lead the Alumni with 8. Bangor VS Salem Bangor High gave Salem its first conference defeat in a game played at Salem.lt was a hard fought game with the winners never far ahead and with the final 3Core 16-22. Art and Normy led for Salem with 6 points. Holmen VS Salem With Holmen came the second conference defeat for the Salem five,the score being 21-15 in favor of Holmen.This defeat put Salem in third place in the Coulee Conference. Normy led for Salem with six points.while Knut-sen connected for 14 points to pace the winners. Norwalk VS Salem Norwalk having won its game was paired against Salem in the second game. Getting off to a fast start Salem led at the end of the first period, 14-4. Durirjg the later part of the game Norwalk shortened this lead, and with only 15 seconds of play left, Kannel, Norwalk's center, sank the winning basket. Nelson had 9 points to lead the Salem scorers. The final score was 29-27. This defeat eliminated Salem from the tournament .

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No one hit the bed till about 11:30 that night. The boys had a candle parade thru the halls of the hotel in their pajamas, and did several more spectacularC?) stunts. They had plenty of company, for the teams from Eol-men,Bangor, Soldiers Grove, Spring Green, etc., were on the same floor.They did one particularly clever stunt that didn't appeal to Scott Huntley, who ran the hotel, and he called a cop. The cop saw the funny side of it,and all he did was warn the boys that he'd stick them all in the jug if it were bigger. Scott foamed at the mouth till they gave him a shower. He' didn't remember the old saying, Boys will be nuts, or whatever it is. Me made lots of new friends. The Soldiers Grove team had a goofy manager (even worse than ours , and they kicked him out of their room and the poor guy was a man without a room. Me took him into our humble abode,and bade him abide with us until the next morn, and (you guessed it), he slept in bed I was in, making three of us on that one rock. About two o'clock this mgr. whom we called Touchy.decided to read a magazine, but Rudy and Bony made him quit. Our mattress(?)was always sliding off,so this ingenious guy straps it down with Bony's garter,and every time one of us moved,the garter stretched up and down. Bony finally rescued his garter,for as he said, he didn't care to wear it around his stomach. The light in the hall bothered us by shining in thru the transom;so Touchy climbed up on the railing of the bed and lab-ourously hung towels over the transom. He was almost done when the light went out in the hall. He took off the towels and jumped down. Of course the lights went on again. Then, Scott Huntley, mgr. crawled out into the hall and turned out the light. Until after four I was awake,trying to figure out what key those guys were snoring in. All I knew was that it was double fortissimo . The next day went by like all days do. That night we cheered for Soldiers Grove, and consequently they won the Consolation bracket. Then, wonder of wonders, we cheered for Bangor, and they won too.Inky was so horse after the game that he couldn't talk. Me sat in the hotel lobby till l:30;then we went to a restaurant and ate pie, ice cream, soup, ete.Me went to the depot, with out even saying good-bye to good old Scott. Me almost wore out our thumbs before a train finally stopped. On the way, we were tempted to ask the conductor to stop the train and fix the flat tire on our car. There must have been several, the way it Jolted! Me hit Salem about 5:30, and most of us spent the day in bed, dreaming about the swell time we had had. Forward Mgr. A1 Center Sub. Guard Sub. Forward Coach -25-