Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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Standing: Bissell, Richmond, Mr. Winston Sitting: Boulter. Beaumont. Brightman, Atchison, Skidmore, McDonald, Wingerter, Clark, Gibbons. Brailey, Wingerter, Armstrong, Hicks, Morris, Byelich, Keturi, Barber, Lyon, Sirhal. Gibb SWIMMING The swimming season of the past year has not been precisely a success: neither has it been a failure. The splashing Quakers competed in seven dual meets, of which they won three and lost four. ln a pre-season contest, the Michigan State College Ereshmen took Eastern into camp with the score of -+3 to 32. Then the alumni gathered together an aggregation of swimmers com- posed of former Quaker stars and met our team victorious in this meet. defeating the grads 42 to 16 and drowned the Eastern tanksters. 50 to 14. the following week to trim the Jackson team, 52 hit a low spot in season, being defeated by Battle from home, Ann Arbor was the next and last bowed to Eastern's swimmers to the tune of 51 to Once again. Central and Eastern met in the natatori in the pool on January 9. Eastern was 26. Central then came along on January Coach Winston's men came back again to 23. On January 30. the squad again Creek. 53 to 10, in the first .meet away victim of the Quaker onslaught. They 13. um. On February 20. the Big Reds defeated Eastern in a strongly contested meet. The final score was Central 42. Eastern 22. Thus, the Big Reds retained their city swimming title. Eastern placed third in the Five A League Swimming Meet. scoring twelve an one-half points. Both the sprint and the medley relay teams placed third in the finals. Duane Brailey tied for third place in the two hundred and twenty yard free style swim. The medley relay team finished fourth. Although a number of the boys will be lost by graduation, Coach Winston is not at all pessimistic about next year's season, as a host of the blue and gold colors to victory. promising reserves will be back to carry Page One Hundred Forty-Iwo

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.wks .W s. Y vlllllr Il Hoff in Action and low hurdles and placed fourth in the broad jump. Kaiser won the mile event: Pricco was undefeated in the high jump. and English won the javelin toss. When the meet closed the officials spent nearly two hours counting their points and Eastern was given first place with 42 5X6 points. and Flint Central only H3 of .1 point behind. with 4213 points. Every- one was certainly warm around the collar until the final score was announced. With the regional championship safely retained, the boys who won places at Flint entered the State Meet at M. S. C.. held on May 23 and 2-4-. After the trial runs were held, eight boys gained entrance into the semi-finals. Vwlhen the Hnals arrived. only five boys had qualified. They were: Captain Hoff in the high and low hurdles. Godfrey in the high hurdles, Frank- ford in the half mile. Kaiser in the mile. and Pricco in the high jump. Facing the best track stars of the state. Eastern's group of thinclads distinguished themselves. Hoff took second place in the high hurdles. and in the low hurdles took first. Kaiser was nosed out of a first place in the mile after leading three quarters of the race. and Leo Fricco tied for fourth place in the high jump. Eastern scored 12 points and took eighth place in the final standing. The State Meet out of the way, the team put in one week of intensive preparation for the Five A League Meet. Eastern was the defending champion, and if it defended its champion- ship. it would not only win the track trophy but the Five A All-Sports Trophy as well. The competition was of the keenest type. The contestants of the tive schools ran neck and neck. and battled to gain a few feet on each other. Eastern's colorbearers showed themselves superior, and won the meet with 43 ZI3 points. The final standings were: Eastern - - 4 3 2 I 3 Central - - 3 5 51 6 Jackson - - 3 3 l I 2 Ann Arbor - - 2 2 Battle Creek - - 19 Page One Hundred Forty-one vz

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Second Row: Large, Beckwith, Disbrow. NVhitney. Sheathelm, liornsy. Coach Iiox Eirst Row: Hershey. Martin, Nlary TENNIS 1931 Upholding the reputation gained by former Eastern net teams. the 1931 edition of Fox-coached racquet wielders entered competition with a veteran team and emerged with Eive A and Regional championships safely stowed away. The efficiency of the team is shown bv the fact that in the six dual matches. comprising forty-three individual matches. Eastern won thirty-eight to her opponents five. Defeating Battle Creek in her match, Eastern gained the momentum that swept her to the regional championship at East Lansing and to second place in the state meet, being beaten only by Grand Rapids Central. Lansing Central proved to be the biggest obstacle as is proved by the 4-3 victory, assured only after Captain Walt Korney defeated Don Sexton. Central's best, in two sets. 7-5, and 6-0, In the Five A League. Eastern won four and lost none. taking the championship with a perfect record. With the Five A trophy safely in her trophy case, Eastern entered the regional champion- ships at East Lansing. At the end of a days play the matches stood at nine all with only Sexton of Central and Korney of Eastern remaining to decide the championship. The final match with Sexton of Central clearly showed the superiority of Korney's brilliant overhead game. The victory was Eastern's. 6-2. 6-Z. Encountering the best competition the high schools of Michigan could offer. the doubles team of Korney and Large smashed their way to the semi-Gnals where they were defeated, after a brilliant match. by Seigal and Nichols of Grand Rapids Central, who became state champions. Martin, Hershey and Beckwith form the nucleus around which Coach Fox hopes to build another team of championship caliber in 1932. Page One Hundred Fong-three