Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-01-27
JUST OVER THE WAY

/ Last Saturday night the local high
school basket ball team journeyed to
West Allis to receive a strongly con-
tested drubbing of 20 to II. The Wau-
wautosa team was greatly handi-
capped by the size of the gymnasium
IN the new high school building at
| West AlliS, for our own is very small
IN comparison, and yet must serve for
all our practice and local games. West
| Allis has always been Wauwatosa's
closest rival, and fora long time their
/ Students were hampered in all their
activities, both scholastic and athletic,
/ by the same crowded conditions that
| have confronted US and still do, but
now with the abandonment of cramped
quarters and the inhabiting of a new
school building, West AIlis is fast
pushing ahead of US.
! All the rooters from the home high
/ school looked forward with much in
terest to their first sight of the latest
acquisition of West Allis, for every
one felt the great advance our rival
school had made through the opening
of the Golfers of the city and the is
/ suing of bonds which made it possible
| for such a building to be built.
| A splendid work of architecture it
is, indeed, built of red brick and fin
shed on the interior in most beau
| tiful and practical manner. The gym
nasium is large, well ventilated and
well lighted, and contains every form
of modern gymnastic equipment inn
aginable. 1t could not help Impress
ing all who entered it, but at the
same time it sent a pang of jealousy,
as well as regret, through the hearts
of the Wauwatosians that West AlIis,
| always thought of as a manufacturing
city, rather than one of homes, and
surely no more than an equal of Wau-
watosa, should stride so far ahead of
US as TO be the first of the two cities
to build the mutually, much needed
high school building.
However, as far as TIE team was
concerned, all such musings were
washed" away by delightful swim
in the splendid new swimming tank
Finished in small tile, the spacious
tank filled with clear, purified water
heated to a pleasing yet invigorating
temperature, this last proud posses
sion of the manufacturing town COM
pletely replaced all lurking feelings
of jealousy with those of admiration
and eommendation for the men and
the city that planned, financed, and
built the splendid building, one of
which any city could we'll be proud
SO we came, we saw, and VIC we're
conquered, yet we returned to our lit
tie high school with its small gym
nasium, its inadequate classrooms, its
crowded conditions, its lack of audi
| forum in which all its students could
be amply cared for, it's absence Of q
stage where dramatic productions
highly commendable in themselves,
are cramped and hindered in their
presentation-yea, we returned with
loyalty and love in our hearts for
Wauwatosa and our high school, bat
there also burned deep within US
hope and a yearning that we too--not
in distant years, but now in the imme-
diate future-night be the proud pos
SCISSORS of a bigger and better high
school so that we might look West
Allis in the eye and say, "Again our
building and its equipment equals
yours, now put forth the best you have
for we are again your worthy and
equal competitors"