Winslow High School - Eskimo Yearbook (Winslow, IN)

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W. H. S. The Champion 1924 ABRAHAM LINCOLN-CContinuedJ coln City, Lincoln's brave young mother died. The boy of nine helped his father, a cabinet maker by trade, to make the rude coffin in which his mother was buried. To his mother who urged him to learn all he could, and be of some account in the world, and to his step-mother, with her sympathy and insight, he owed much in the shaping of his character. Lincoln spent twenty-one years with his father, helping to clear the land, splitting rails, and building their home. Then he set out on what was destined to be the career of one of the greatest men in history. Everything that Lincoln did or said was simplicity itself. The Gettys- burg Address, one of the greatest speeches ever uttered, was so simple and direct that the people who were fortunate enough to hear him, did not fully ralize its greatness until they saw it in print. Lincoln himself felt that he had made a failure, and it was only when he had assisted a man who was in dire straits that he learned how truly great had been the speech. It was mainly on the strength of the influence of this speech, that he was re-elected. Six weeks after he delivered his second inaugural address. the man in whose homely form were first gathered the vast and thrilling forces of his ideal governmentg charging it with such tremendous mean- ing, and so elevating it above human suffering, was shot by Booth, an actor. Though infamously aimed, martyrdom came as a fitting crown to a life consecrated from the cradle to human liberty. THINGS THAT ARE NOTICEABLE Adron Leighty's shiek tie. Mr. Buechele's love affair. The Ball Team's sweaters. Vila Garland's ability to act. Ransom's and Dymple's courtship. D Miss Whitten's frequent trips to Mt. Olympus. Ray Richeson's ten cent magazines. Chester Ashby's singing. Delmas Hostmeyer's piano playing. Muriel Ward's History lesson. John Bonenberger's yell leading. Mr. Sakel's watch chain. Miss Falls' specs . Vernon Lyden's flirty ways. The hat Mr. Abbott wears UD The Domestic Science girls' ability to boil water without scorching it. The pupils' ability to study. John Bonenberger's Nick Carters. Loren Powel1's Chevrolet. 46

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W. H. S. The Champion 1924 THE SEASON'S PLAY Our season opened October 26 with a victory over West Baden, a new team on our schedule. We knew nothing of them, except that they had not been defeated and it was their fourth game of the season. The score was 38-19. R. Smith led in the scoring, with five field goals. Bryant, a for- ward on our team, was never eligible for play after this game. Otwell was our next victim. They came with plenty of confidence for they had not lost a game and they had played some of the strongest teams of this section. But we doubled the score on them easily, 24-12. The offi- cial, Rose of Huntingburg, was very unsatisfactory in this game. Richard- son led in the scoring, with five field goals. We took Mt. Olympus into camp next on her own floo1', a great handi- cap to our boys. Brick walls were used for side-lines and ends and the floor was small. The score, 32-14, was pleasing to us under these conditions. J. Wood led in the scoring with seven field goals. Ft. Branch came next. Our subs played in a large part of this game and showed their ability to play ball. Layman's work, as referee, was ex- cellent and was in large part responsible for the clean playing of all teams on our floor, as well as our own play throughout the season. In this game R. Smith and Richardson tied for the honors in six field goals each. Our journey to Washington resulted in the first defeat of the season. They had a snappy, hard playing team of big fellows as well as the fight that carried the ball through for goals. Their gym was small and had old- fashioned baskets with braces at the sides that handicapped our squad somewhat. Eugene and Garth were the only ones to play real ball for us in this game. R. Smith and J. Wood failed to score. Barnett put up a good defense at back guard. The final score was 33-22 for Washington! Owensville, an old rival, was given a drubbing at our hands in the next game. Owensville showed the cleanest sportsmanship of all this year's op- pfments. Their girls, however, were somewhat responsible for our low score as they kept all our boys, excepting Richardson, so nervous that they could not hanlde the ball. Richardson was the outstanding star of the game by making ten field goals. Final score, 39-22. The strong Washington quintette came here and we had sweet revenge for the drubbing they had given us earlier in the season. The game was one of the fastest and hardest fought of the season. Layman's excellent work, as official, was a feature of the game. The score at the end of the firts measure was 14-13 in our favor. Tleere Wm mm X D0ints betxvefwi -11 ,i....-..,. iz.. N. ---- -'-'st one 'llil New the o 'ie1' lii '7' We lead. ff 'cvs iiewicl real basketball form, winning 23-21. Ritfiardson led with four fifld goals. Our next game was a hard-luck affair. No one of our boys could hit, excepting J. Wood, he making six field goals. Adams, cf Patoka, made eight. The final score was 28-22 in our favor. Next came Mt. Car'mel, the first team out of the state eve fehofli-'cl by W. H. S. They cfme with a reil record, llflV.llg won the c'i mpions'1i i of the Mississippi Valley the year previous. They came with lots of confi- 48