Curtis High School - Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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BASEBALL The 1942 Baseball Team, headed by captain Al Bovino, opened its activities this spring with many new faces in the lineup. The absence of veterans was compensated for by many promising newcomers. Curtis partisans, proud of the spirited '42 team, saw the Curtis boys lose two games early in the season and then come from he- hind to defeat the impressive teams from Tottenville and Port Richmond and win the eighth consecutive championship of Staten Island for Curtis. Coach Harry O,Brien, the sage of Curtis base- ball, attributed the losses to weak hitting. Defensively. however. the team was topsg it was well drilled and played heads-up ball at all times. SWIMMING In the January graduation, the Curtis Swimming Team lost almost half of its veterans. Coach Robert Gaffney said, however, that the team had a good season. MMr. Cf' as Coach Gaffney is known affectionately to the boys on the team, predicted a bright future for some of the lower termers who were a match even for the older mermen. Some of the veterans who helped to make the ,441-742 season a success were Jim Mange, ace backstroker, Bay Hegel, James MBim7' Vifheeler, Bob Gleckner and Boy Spangler. Buddy Weber and Al Esposito were outstanding in the diving department.

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During the trip to South Jersey, the boys had a great deal of fun and unusual experiences. Coach Harry OiBrien arranged for the boys to stay at farms. They drove tractors, milked cows, pitched hay and did other farm chores. For many boys, this was their first taste of farm life. At mid-season, the team lost captain Ralph Moscato and Gerry Ginsburg through graduation. This was a serious blow, but Doug Vllatson who was elected to succeed Moscato as captain, and Danny McGrath carried most of the burden for the rest of the season. Walter Majeski and Al Bovino also demonstrated their abilities when the going was the toughest. The other players, ,lim McGrath, John Sammon, Vin Lawless and Jay Quintana were always willing and capable to do their part to relieve the regulars.

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TRACK The Curtis Track Team with twenty-four members had one of its most successful seasons in recent years. Coach Carl Jung spent long hours on the Curtis field with the tracksters, teaching the boys the finer points of track competition. The team was headed by captain Arthur Patterson. a top-notch miler. Vliallace Murray, diminutive Curtis track star, blazed across the finish line in first place in a mile race. among competitors representing some of the leading high schools of the city at the Bronx Coliseum oval. This feat established Wallace as one of the foremost high school milers in the cityl Other outstanding mem- bers of the track team are veterans George Yater. Robert Young and Bob Cook. Among the sprinters are Bob Messner, Warren Barcalow. Herb Dawson, George Pfeiffer and Arthur Stamler. In the field events. Tony Morelli and Costa Tesnakis are the high-jump experts. and Tony Ferrara. Anthony Caeta and Edward Pfaff, the shotputters.