Winslow High School - Eskimo Yearbook (Winslow, IN)

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1924 The Champion W. H. S. THE SEASON'S PLAY-QCOntinuedJ in their favor. They were confident but we wanted that trip to Blooming- ton. So we came back with the old-time fight and passwork about the basket that put us in the lead again, which we kept till the end. Richard- son and J. Wood divided honors with five goals each. The Smith brothers and Couts played wonderful basketball in this game. We won, 26-21. On to Bloomington! For the regional at Bloomington We were fortunate enough to draw the future state champions, Martinsville, and were pleased to play them the kind of game we did. In the beginning we were playing as good ball as they were. We led at the ten minute period. Our shooting slumped but our scrimmage Work help up to form. They out-shot us. The half ended 20-11. The last half of play was nearly even, 8-7 in their favor. We ran the score up to 18 in the second half before they scored. The score was 20-18 in their favor at that time. We seemed to play in spurts against them or we might have been more effective, even against the state champs. The final score was 28-18. - We wish old W. H. S. a successful season next year. Signed, GARTH and JOHN. rf . ..i-1.-- Y BASKIQTBALL SQUAD 51

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W. H. S. I The Champion 1921, TI-IE SEASON'S PLAY-fflontinuedj for Mt. Carmel. The second half told a different story. We won, 16-12. They certainly were sick after that defeat. But they were real sports and well coached. Feb. 9 and County Tourney! We drew Algiers for the oepning game which was forfeited to us, 2-0 because they did not show up. We took a little practice and it seems that we sure needed it that afternoon. Our next and final game of the tourney was with Union. We went on the floor with plenty of confidence, with the result that we were defeated, 26-23. Hurrah for Union, the only Pike County team that could stand the grind. J. Wood led our scoring with six. Otwell won from Union in the final game of the County Tourney. We met Reitz on our floor, Feb. 16, the next date after the county tourney. We redeemed ourselves at Reitz' expense to the tun of 42-9. Both offense and defense were strong. Dude led with eight field goals. We went to Princeton for the final game of our schedule. They started off like a storm and secured a twelve-point lead in the very start. Couts was sent into the game at this point and did good work. The Princeton lads were large and extra rough. We fought hard but lost the game, the final score resulting 26-25. Sectional tourney came Feb. 29 and March 1 at Oakland City. We drew Ft. Branch. We lacked confidence but still had fight in our system. Our slump had been hanging on since the county tourney. Once we hit our old stride the jinx would be oi. All is well that ends well! After that game the beds at our rooming house were too small and some of our gang had to sleep on the floor. But at that they had childish dreams. One of our boys walked backwards to the room from the gym that night, so afraid was he that he would be vamped by admiring fair maidens. Even our coach was a general favorite and girls tried to flirt with 'himl But Couts started the game off with a pretty shot from the middle of the floor. The slump was off. We held Ft. Branch to 3 field goals. We secured fifteen and our subs played through a big part of the game, showing up to good advantage. J. Wood led with seven field goals. The score was 33-10 in our favor. Our second game with Patoka in her second game of the tourney. The playing in this game was a repetition of that with Ft. Branch, even to the score. We treated them both alike, defeating both by the score 33-10. B. Wood showed good form in this game. Richardson led the scoring with six field goals. Our third game came at three o'clock Saturday afternoon with Mt. Olympus. She had defeated the strong Princeton aggregation in her last game, and had high hopes of stopping us. But our machine was running smoothly, after the beginning of the game. We led them from there on through. The scoring was even with J. Wood, Dude and Red, each mak- ing four. The final score was 29-16. ? 4 Hazleton came next for us in the final. They had eliminated Owens- ville in the afternoon in an over-time contest. Richardson opened the game with three field goals in rapid succession, in less than five minutes. We did not hold this lead, however, very long, for Hazleton passed us within a few minutes. J. Wood dropped in two baskets but the half ended, 14-10 50

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. S. y Tlte Champion W M1924 BASKETBALL SQUAD W. H. S. BASKETBALL TEAM First Row-Darrell Conder, Byron Wood, Coach Sahel, Leo Wcolscy, Wil- liam Farley. Second Row-Eugene Smith, Elwood Smith, Garth Richardson Ccaptainj John Wood, Henry Couts, Alva Barnett. 52