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

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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

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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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us a surprise by downing us 4—1. Eastern District fell by the same score and Erasmus repeated Curtis’ feat, making two losses for us. Otir team then lost to Manual’s Racket¬ eers 3—2. We again lost a league match to New Utrecht, the score being A —1. A few days later Cap¬ tain Jadge’s men downed the Green and White in a return match. The score was the same, 4 —1 with the difference that the charges of Messrs. Brook and McColl were on the winning side. Rifle Tech’s sharpshooters have been very successful in their matches. As this goes to print three victor¬ ies without any defeats have been chalked up to the credit of our nim- rods. The first win came when New Utrecht forfeited on March 26. April 1 found our gunners out- shooting the opposition of Rich¬ mond Hill with a score of 909-735. Johnston was high scorer for the Rlue and White with 175. Mr. Murphy’s charges took the Boys High riflemen into camp on April 22, the tally being 874-763. Meade and Walsh were high scorers. Practices were held twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays at any one of the following ranges: 13th Regt. Armory, 2nd Naval Battalion Ar¬ mory and P. S. A. L. field. Mr. Murphy of the English department coached the marksmen. Captain Walsh and Manager Johnston were the high scorers in the meets. Other members of the team are: Meade, Gersoni, O’Pray, Keeler, Sieden- topf and Wylie. Spring Basketball in order to get better acquaint¬ ed with his material and to get a good start for next fall, Mr. Grummond, our basketball coach, conducted an inter-year tourna¬ ment among the boys who came out for spring training. The games were held every Wednes¬ day at the 2nd Naval Battalion Armory in Bay Ridge. The Odds 28