Western Canada High School - Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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Page seventy YEAR SENIOR BASKETBALL TEAM Jessie Lees, Ena Youngblood, Nora Williams, Rae Porteous, Catherine White, Betty Blaek. Smiur iBaafeptball uli ' am R. I’ORTEOUS Once more Western Canada’s Senior team has contested for the inter¬ scholastic basketball honors. The girls put up a good fight and played excellent games, and though the championship went to C.C.I., our girls deserve a great deal of credit for their hard work. Jessie Lees, our star player, made for us more than one-half of the points scored in all of the games. Senior Team, 1932: Centre—Betty Black, Kay White. Forwards—Jessie Lees, Ena Youngblood, Maxine Fox. Guards—Nora Williams, Rae Porteous. Games: The first Senior game of the interscholastic basketball season was played against C.C.I. at the Original Oil Exchange. C.C.I. won victory over Western by a score of 14-11. At the close of half-time the score was 9-5 in favor of Western, but the C.C.I. team showed great speed toward the end and concluded the score 14-11. The next game was played against Crescent Heights at Crescent Heights. Jessie Lees showed her sterling qualties and helped to bring the score to a tie, (Continued on Following Page)

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BOOK Page sixty-nine ®rark ®paut - 1531 DON. A. EBSWORTH Following- the example set by the 1930 track team, our team quickened the pace in 1931 and brought home three class shields and the Alex Martin shield, emblematic of interscholastic sports supremacy. Two of the boys also brought home the individual class championship medals. Cheered on by a larger crowd of more enthusiastic students than ever before, the supporters of the “red and green” came set out to show the other schools, as well as the public of the city, what a school with real spirit could do if they set themselves to the task. Four records were broken and one was equalled during the afternoon. West¬ ern Canada set three of these new records and accounted for the one equalled. In “D” class our honors were well upheld by Jack Moore, A1 Imrie and “Blimey” Hutton. Moore secured first place in the hundred yards dash by equal¬ ling the record of 10 3 5 seconds. During the afternoon, Moore gained two second places and a third. Imrie received two first honors by breaking the high jump record, going 5 ' 5?i and winning the half mile run. Hutton placed second in the 880 yards run, while the Western’s “D” class athletes carried off the prize for the relay race. Freddie Mills and Bruce Wilson carried our standards to victoi’y in “C” class. Mills established two new records in the running broad jump and in the hop, step and jump. He also received a third and a fourth place and took home the D. E. Black “C” class medal. Wilson received two second places and a third, while Western’s relay team worked hard to gain second place. Although Western did well in “B” class she lost the shield to East Calgary. Stewart, Mahood, Robb and Phil Collier were her representatives. Each of the first three chalked up a third place while Collier struggled bravely to gain first place in the 660 yards run. Western’s relay team came third. The final trump was scored in “A” class by Burke Besen and Thornton “Funny” Gregg. Beson scored three firsts while his colleague, Gregg, gained three at second place. Western’s team won the “A” class relay. A glance at these results show us that with just a little more support from “B” class we may hope to possess all shields in the future. Let us hope for a little stronger support in all classes in future and let us all make it our aim to obtain all shields, or, as we might say, die fighting for them. Capt. Ferguson—“You college men seem to take life pretty easily.” Mr. Stanley—“Yes, even when we graduate we do it by degrees.” Ebsworth was brought to an abrupt halt, while speeding down Seventeenth Avenue, by the sound of a siren close behind him. When asked his name, he re¬ plied that his name was Smith. “Give me your real name,” the officer ordered. “Well,” said Ebsworth, “put me down as William Shakespeare.” “That’s better,” the officer replied. “You can’t fool me with that Smith stuff.” Paul—“Honey, I’m knee-deep in love with you.” Reba—“All right. I’ll put you on my waiting list.’

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BOOK Page seventy-one INTERMEDIATE BASKETBALL TEAM Marjorie Bagnall, Isolena Rogers, Helen Webb, Betty MacMillan, Mafty Kerluke, Sarah Goodman, Anne Marks, Connie Hickson, Carmen Johnson (Coach). Jlntrimriitatr Uaakrlltall Sram C. LYNN The Intermediates had some tough luck this year. They started off with a bang and kept up the good work. They entered the semi-finals and came off at the long end of a 17-14 score; in the final against East Calgary they met their downfall losing the trophy by the slim margin of 19-15. The game was fast, but the East Calgary girls showed their experience by piling up a score before West¬ ern found the basket. Helen Webb, defence, and Mafty Kerluke, sharp-shooting forward, were the only members of the team who had had experience in the game before. The rest, capably managed by Carman Johnson, showed they had good stuff in them and will no dqubt form an excellent Senior team next year. Team: Centre—Connie Hickson. Guards—Helen Webb, Betty MacMillan, Isolena Rogers, Helen Hairsine. Forwards—Mafty Kerluke, Marjorie Bagnall, Sarah Goodman, Anne Marks, Hilda Clarke. THE SENIOR BASKETBABLL TEAM (Cont’d) Our third game was lost to Commercial by a score of 21-19. Western put up a strong fight and for awhile the play was for us, but we lost out in the last few seconds when Commercial put in a perfect long-shot. Our next game was played on C.C.I.’s floor against C.C.I. Western played a tough game. Jessie Lees and Betty Stevenson were good matches for M. Tojl- ington of C.C.I. A game of great combination and defence was played although it led to the defeat of Western, the score being 26-12. The best game of the season was played against Crescent Heights at the Oil Exchange. Western had only six players, but they made up for the missing ones by their strong playing and excellent defence. Western lead the score through the whole game and ended up with a good score of 19-9,