Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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TENNIS SEASON REVIEW Before 1929, no team had ever represented a Lansing high school on the tennis courts. At that time, however, Mr. Fox of the mathematics department. himself a city tennis champion, organized such a team. The tennis season started the first of March, with twenty-five men out for practice. Since it was the first school tennis team in the city, there was no veteran material. Only one player, Rex Norris. had had any tournament experience. After the tie with Owosso on their courts, the team began to show rapid improvement. The following games with Flint Northern and Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills were very close, but the last two dual matches, with Lansing Central and Jackson, were quite one-sided victories, Eastern entered the Regional Tournament held at Central High School, Ypsilanti, where twelve class A and B schools of Southeastern Michigan competed. Eastern's team strength was shown in this two-day struggle, when they won nineteen of the twenty-three matches played to take the team championship. The singles championship went to Fred Vanderlip after six long matches. Yanderlip and Norris won the doubles championship as the result of five wins. Korney reached the scmi-finals in singles. and paircd with Large to reach the douhles semi-finals. At the State Tournament held at the Michigan State Normal College of Ypsilanti. the doubles championship was won hy Yanderlip and Norris. 'l'he 1928 doubles champions, Grand Rapids South, were met and defeated in a hard-fong'ht semi-final match hy scores of li-HL: at-li: li-st. Eastern was runncr-up to Grand Rapids South in the team matches. and received the second placc trophy. The nffrnrrive figure on the left is the trophy 'won at the regional four- lmmenf. The lOZ'iII!l cup was rzwarrlml I0 the team as rzlnnfr-up in. H10 .vlrzfe f0lll'IlfII7IPIIf. i Page One Hundred Twenlu-lhrce

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2nd Row: Korney, Large lst Row: Mr. Fox, Vanderlip, Norris, Silverman ltastern Eastern Eastern Eastern Eastern Eastern Total - Singles ClHlll1IllllI1Slllp Doubles Cllillllplllllhlillb Team l'lian1pionsliip S Coach Fox TENNIS - 5 Uwosso - 1 - 3 Uwosso ----- 3 - 5 Flint North:-rn - - - 4 - -lr Grand Rapids Uttawa Hills - 3 - 7 Lansing Central - - - 1 - 7 Jackson f---- - O - - 31 Opponents - 12 liiioloxml, 'l'oI'RNAML:NT f - - - - - - - - - Vanderlip, Eastern Norris and Vanderlip, Eastern - - - - f - - - - - Lansing Eastern S'I'A'l'I-I 'l'ot'nNrxMr:NT Doubles Cllalnpionsliip - - - . Norris and Vanderlip. Eastern 'l'1-:un llnnnerffp ---- - - - - Lansing Eastern LETTER BIEN Fred Vanderlip Rex Norris Donald Large N Vl'alter Korney W , 2?f'K Esee Silverman I w.g'i' 2 in .. . ':. N q ' - E t Q 4 V . .W 1 4 Captain Norris Page Ons Hundred Ta'un1u Ia

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