Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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The Varsity mus, Boys, Bushwick, and New Utrecht. The first game played this sea¬ son was with Manual, our friendly rival from Seventh Avenue. We lost a hard-fought game and the score of 10—5 does not do justice to the fight our boys put up. Jarcho started on the mound for us but he was too easy with the Park Slopers and they amassed a comfortable lead in the first three innings. Sirutis relieved him and pitched a fine brand of ball but the damage had been done and the game was Manual’s. Our representatives then lost to Poly Prep’s second team, 9—5. Their first victory came when they defeated Richmond Hill’s second stringers, 10—2. Sirutis pitched air tight ball for the six innings in which he remained on the mound. Dowd finished the game. During the following week they evened up their standing to three wins and as many losses by downing Brooklyn Prep, 4 —2, and Thomas Jefferson, 7—2. Sirutis pitched both these encounters and surely did himself proud, allow¬ ing less than a dozen safe bingles in the two contests. Track The only bright spot in an otherwise dark season for the Tech track team was the splen¬ did running of our mile relay, composed of Walsh, Roach, Lonn- strom and Knobel. Only once did the four Tech speedsters fail to score, that exception coming at the Penn Relays, held at Philadel¬ phia. There, a late arrival pre¬ vented them from warming-up. The chances of a track team next year, however, are very bright. Most of our runners are youngsters who have been getting experience at all these meets. This year’s squad was the largest in the history of Tech, and next year’s promises to be even larger. In the Manual meet, our, relay came in second, following only the 26

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Baseball Baseball championships are get¬ ting to be quite common down here at Tech. Piloted by Mr. Tarantino our ball team has prac¬ tically clinched its position as the premier nine of Brooklyn for the third consecutive time. We’ve only turned out four diamond ag¬ gregations as yet. In referring to the Blue and White pill peg- gers it is quite appropriate or rather inappropriate to say, “What! no championship ?” Mr. Jack Fernandez is the moniker of the gentleman who pitched winning ball in practically all our P. S. A. L. contests. When our bludgeon wielders did hit the spheroid—this was often—a devastating effect ensued. The enemy pitchers were met by a barrage of base hits which often caused opposing mentors to de¬ cide that the cooling sensation of a shower would not do their flingers any harm. As we write, the ball tossers have won six out of the eight con¬ tests staged and have only to down Bushwick to practically clinch the title. The nine was managed by Humer and Geller and they de¬ serve a great deal of credit for their work. Following are the members of the team: Fernandez, p; Smith, p; Simp¬ kins, p; Johnson, p; Waldron, c; Saring, c; Halvorsen, lb; Hymes, 2b; Santora, ss; Crawford, 3b; Smith, If; Podaris, If; Styles, cf; Ayvazian, rf; Maucelli, rf. The scores: De Witt Clinton 1 .. Stuyvesant 5 . Tech 8. Tech 17 . Tech 14. Tech 12 . Columbia Frosh 2 . Tech 5 . Tech 9 .St. John’s Prep. 3 James Madison 4 . .Tech 2 New Utrecht 3 . .Tech 2 Tech 14 . .Boys 0 Tech 9.Alex. Hamilton 7 Tech 11 .Frank. K. Lane 3 Tech 12 .Thomas Jefferson 0 Tech 2 .Brooklyn Prep 2 Junior Varsity Baseball Because of the fact that Mr. Waring, last year’s coach, had no spare time this term there was no Intermediate Baseball Team or¬ ganized. To take its place, Mr. Tarantino, our own McGraw, has formed a Junior Varsity baseball team, composed of second-string Varsity players. The “Jayvees’’ play independent of the Varsity in games with other schools but practice with the senior nine. Louis Gottfried was. chosen man¬ ager of the team and he soon ar¬ ranged a schedule of about twelve games, including Manual, Eras- 25

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Manualites to the tape. Johnny Knobel turned in a fine perform¬ ance for us at the anchor posi¬ tion, going from third place to a close second. There were no relays run at the DeWitt Clinton meet, so Tech was unable to score. However, that same night our relay ran in the Newark championship meet and again finished second to Manual. In the Princeton meet, which came next, our graduation relay finished third. This quartet was composed of Roach, Mitchell, Lonnstrom and Knobel. In the first dual meet, with Thomas Jefferson, we won 65—61. Johnny Knobel was high scorer, making 15 points, while Lonn¬ strom was next with 13. Alexander Hamilton was our next victim on the cinderpath. Knobel and Lindquist starred in this meet which we ran away with, 59—40. In the city champs held at the P. S. A. L. Field on May 22, Tech garnered five tallies. The relay quartet placed third and Johnny Knobel lost the broad jump crown by 2 ' inches, his leap of 20 ft. 9L, inches being that much short of the mark made by Furth of New Utrecht. The Track Squad Tennis Tech’s tennis outfit like most of our teams is coming out near the top. Jitz Wagner has been winning most of his matches and Hoops Jones, a new comer, is right after him, having lost but one game in the last few meets. Logan downs his opponents regularly in just two sets—all that are necessary. Lap- insky has been up against some good players and has not done so well as the others. Jagde and Schwartz have been playing the doubles to¬ gether and have given a good ac¬ count of themselves. In the P. S. A. L. they have lost four matches out of nine. They beat Boys by the score of 3—2 and Madison 4 —1. Hajnilton was swamped 5—0, but Curtis handed 27