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

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Rifle Team and Ends team consisting of last season’s Junior Varsity players won the tournament, winning three games and losing none. Four teams were ntered: Fresh¬ man, Sophomore, Junior, and the Odds and Ends team. The Fresh¬ man team won one game, the Juniors and Sophs won two each, while the “Jayvees” had an easy time winning three games. Aside from the inter-year contests the boys have been drilled in funda¬ mentals such as passing and shooting from the foul-line. They have received, as well, a thorough grounding in the rules of basket¬ ball. Coach Grummond is to be thanked for giving his extra time to coaching the team so that it will be feared when the fall rolls around. Spring Football Following the example set by many other schools, the 1926 foot¬ ball squad is having spring prac¬ tice under the watchful eyes of Coach Larsen. The boys who will don the moleskins next September are getting ready for the long grind by going through their paces at the P. S. A. L. field Mon¬ days, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The spring training consists mostly of fundamental work, such as falling on the ball, passing, punting, dropkicking, and a thor¬ ough study of the rulebook. As many of last year’s gridders have graduated or left school, there will be many positions left vacant. The only boys who will remain from 1925 who played more than one game are Meissner, Bjong and Hagerty, in the back- field, and Warnock and Ed Sroka, wingmen. With a number of can¬ didates from last year’s Interme¬ diate aggregation, and a group of husk - newcomers, these “vets” will have to fight to hold their jobs. Coach Larsen, although busy with an outdoor track squad of over 150, is doing noble work in coaching two branches of sport in one day. However, he is being assisted by Mr. Grummond who, after a long hard season with the basketball teams, has given up the rest of his spare time to the spring training of both the -court and gridiron teams. 29

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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

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Handball This term saw a new athletic- activity ushered into Tech’s pro¬ gram: interclass handball. Mr. GrummOnd, who coached basket¬ ball decided to conduct a tourna¬ ment so as to discover material for Tech’s future handball outfits. Games , were held on Wednesdays and Fridays at the Second Naval Battalion Armory. Finally, after three months of playing, the semi¬ finals were reached and the doubles championship was decided. Mearns and Lopresti defeating Poojamora and Paolillo, 21-2, 21-0. Next, the singles championship was decided— Mearns of 4A1 won the coveted honor after a stiff match with Lo¬ presti. Mearns is sure to be a star when Tech enters scholastic hand¬ ball. Thanks are due to Mr. Grum- mond and Manager Furno for de¬ voting their spare time to con¬ ducting the tournament. Bowling This, highly successful term in athletics has seen the development of a new sport in Tech, that of bowling. Four organized teams appeared, the Faculty, The Survey, the Bank Staff and the Longfel¬ lows, of which our teachers are the undoubted champs, with the jour¬ nalists holding a slight edge over the six-footers for second place. All matches were rolled at the Cen¬ tral Y. M. C. A. Alleys. In the first fracas, ye pedagogues downed ye big boys, 2201 to 1929 a decided advantage of 272 pins. Two weeks later the writers con¬ quered the unfortunate Longfel¬ lows, 1959-1859, 100 pins deciding. After this match, by all the laws of natural events, the Survey lumber- rockers should have given the teachers a good battle but the dope was wrong and the type jugglers were overwhelmed 2293 to 1801. They came right back, however, and downed the Bank Staff 1930 to 1817. 30