West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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BASKET BALL I i ■ , i J With a team absolutely devoid of letter men from previous years, Capt. Groodsell from the start, a star, surprised us all by covering Bay City Eastern with a 45 to 39 game. The work of the players in this game indicated the future record of the team, and the work of Good sell, Brooks, well there I go — naming the whole team. The nextgame (swallow) with Dort Night School was a 49 to 28 defeat. But we take pride in the 26 to 22 result with the Saginaw High that put forth an elaborate display of ' shining stars which ne- cessitates ditto marks under the stars already named, i. e., the whole team. Carrying out the custom of alternating victory with defeat, we lost the next game to Bay City Western by a score of 43 to 33. ■Then forgetting to alternate we lost the game the following week to Alpena but made up for lost reputation by beating Flint by a score of 89 to 13. Proceeding again on the pendulum plan, we had a relapse the next week and Bay City Eastern piled up, 51 points to our 21. We recuperated sufficiently to come back the next week with a 64 to 17 victory over Lansing, and to put one over Bay City Western in a game which put us within one victory of the Valley cup, we had only to beat Bay City Western again — nothing to do till tomorrow. This meant an awful fight, for the score of the game that put us in line was 26 to 25, and each team had played a strong game. The next game we played, a little training match for the play off with Bay City, we won by netting 41 points to 40 marked up for the Michigan School for the Deaf. The night came for the cup game, which was to be played on the floor of the Flint Y. Both teams were in ship shape tho from the resulting score it would seem that Bay City was in the shipper shape than we were. We were on the top-next rung of the golden ladder ; for a whole season we had climbed and slipped until now we were with- in slipping distance of the Valley Cup, also slipping distance — ? x x Bay City Western 47— Arthur Hill 15. We base our hopes for next year on the victories of this year and those lines from Tennyson : Victor from vanquish ' d issues at the last, And overthrower from being over thrown.