Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-31
HIGH SCHOOL HAS
Good SPORT YEAR
Rock Island Makes Best showing dn
Track, Taking Several tirsts
in 1915 Events,
BASKETBALL TEAM Is STRONG
Prospects for 1915 Even Brighter, Is
peeiaIIy On the Gridiron --in-
creased Interest Shown.
(BY ROBERT OLMsTED.3

A most successful athletic year at
he local high school has passed.
starting with basketball at the be-
Ginning Of the year. after that track /
md basketball, and ending during this !
.ehool year with a successful, though
Unfortunate, football season the his
.orv of sports at the high school has
been T. series Of triumpbs Of good.
rlean school spirit. The prospects for
the next year are. however, even
brighter. as Ia many ways the sports
viii then be somewhat more settled
than they have been this year. Both
the basketball and football teams have
suffered considerably from disruption. /
often at q most critical moment. but !
at present II seems that no such un-
fortunate occurrences will happen dur /
ing the next year
The basketball season started very
auspiciousiy in January with Fay
Reeves as captain. and three more n. +
|, basketball men. Gleasan, Rinck and
flinkiey on the team The alumni
team, one OF unusual strength was
taken into camp IN the first game, the
faculty followed meekly after and then
the squad met its first defeat at the
hands of the Sterling aggregation. Al
ter this the team settled down and
played better every game New men
continued 60 develop from the abuud-
ance Of raw material. so that when the
boys went to Galesburg 10 the district
tournament they had men for two
teams that could beat any other team
on the floor This gave Them the right
to represent The district al the state
tournament at Decatur Az the end 0F
the FIRST game they were ie with
Springfield and In the extra two-mln-
ute period their opponents made TWO
points beating the locals Springfield
took second place in the finals of the
state tournament. The review of the
season shows q total OF IA games won
and four lost one OF Che best basket
ball records that has been made by the
school in years
The track season though successes
ful. was one place where Rock Island
showed the white feather his wear.
Sol Butler. the coIorcd star, was bv
far the strong man, and the rest of the
school was much inclined to lct him
do al the work. As a consequence the
prospects In this line are not as bright
for next year as they might be. very
few experienced men being in line for
the season Thomas. Barker. Nichols.
Norris and Kohb are practically the
only ones who may he counted on for
good showing the coming year.
Thomas is the one or whom most
hopes are pinned, as he is a veteran
and will probably be Rock Islands
star man.
Show Well On Track.
In the four events of the past year
in track, the northwestern indoor meet.
the seventh annual big eight inter
scholastic meet, Rock Island won first
place in the first event second in ihe
next two. and tied West Das Moineg
for second in the last The point win
ners for Rock Island were Butler.
Thomas, Culley Clark. Miller and
Stauduhar. while In the last event
the mile relay team. consisting OF Mil
Ter, Thomas, Clark and Jones, wUa
first place.
Track was the last interscholastie
sport Of the school year, but inter
class baseball was a popular game
during May. School closed in the last
of May and everything was over until
the football season in the fall.
Grid Team Starts Wen.
The football season started out most
promisiugly In the alumni game. the
FIRST OF the season. the team fought IL
the long end OF a y to 0 score against
such old-time stars as Mcintyre. Salz-
mann and Tremann. The next week
however. gloom reigned in the school
for EllinwoOd, the piucky little guar
terback and Hendron star tackle
were found to be ineligible. Even so
the disorganized team met the fast
Clinton team the following Saturday
and held them to 4 20 10 0 score. Lucb
seemed against the locals after that
and they did not record their next vic.
tory until they met Ottawa. where the,
won 20 to 7 score. The next Satur.
day the team went back once more
being defeated by Moline by a score o!
Is TO O.
The real surprise Of the season
came, however. when the undefeatet
state champlonsh Of Iowa, the boastet
Davenport team. came across the rive,
for victory Of bur six points. Tbs
last game Of the season was with III,
Princeton lads who were sent HON,
with Al points against them and zert
mark In their favor.
For the football season. Whistler q
fallback. Ackley and Morris az half
Thomas at quarter, and Nichols an(
James in the line PLAYED the stellaf
games, while Dempsey, next year.
captain, played hard and If 1t had no
been for his broken arm would hav.
been OF great value to the team. Til,
football prospects fer next year, witt
the greater part OF the line In tn
ranks, with Ellinwood at quarter ans
sieimbeck at full, are perhaps the hes
OF any athletic branch. Rock Islam,
may expect great things on The grid
iron. the basketball floor, and 70
great extent on the track field mex
season.