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

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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

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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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Sport Shorts According to the form usually employed in Senior Issues the purpose of a column like this is to review ,the accomplishments of the various athletes and teams during the season just past. Therefore we start by harking back to the cold wintry days of basketball. Coach Grummond began the season confronted with all sorts of difficulties. His squad was composed mostly of new material and boys in the lower grades. Some of Jhe most promising can¬ didates were taking courses which required ninth and tenth periods and therefore they could practice only once or twice a week. But despite these handicaps Mr. Grummond built up a team which handed the world a surprise by trimming Boys High, 13 to 12, and he also laid the foundation for a better team next year. The first team was cqmposed of Roth, Singer and Bernstein, for¬ wards ; Pope and Sartori, centers; and Voronkov and Podaris, guards. Mr. Grummond introduced an innovation in the form of spring basketball practice and Mr. Larsen, not to be outdone by his colleague, took unto himself the responsibility of running spring football. The faculty basketeers com¬ posed of the Messrs. Walsh, Tar¬ antino, Milde, Grummond and Larsen went through their three game schedule with a record of one victory and two de¬ feats. They became so confident, after beating the varsity, that they proved easy picking for the Madison faculty and the Poly Tech Junior varsity quintets. Why is it that Mr. Milde never gives illustrations on the gym ap¬ paratus ? Coach Larsen, of track, fol¬ lowed along in the trail blazed by Mr. Grummond and also gave much of his attention to lower grade runners who, although they were unable to score points this season, will probably develop into winners in the coming seasons. Ed Walsh is probably the most improved runner on the squad this year. Early in the season he broke his novice and since then he has been running with the mile relay team. What a combination that relay team made, always up in front, and running with the best of them : long-legged, strong lunged Walsh; short, hard fighting Roach; stocky, barrel-chested “Whitey” Lonnstro r tn, and ' that greyhound, Johnny Knobel. 31