Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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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

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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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l i Fink. Mr. filory. Heydenburk. Stephan, Brown GOLF 1931 About the time the grass was beginning to get green. Coach Flory sent out a call for golfers. This sport was still in its infancy in our school but there was a good turnout. From the numerous prospects Mr. Flory picked a promising team. lt was composed of Fink. who acted as Captain throughout the season, Heyderiburk. Stephan. and Brown. The team played six matches. four of them being dual meets. The boys were rather unsuccessful. winning only one of the dual meets. They defeated East Lansing. l2-U. The three losses were met at the hands of Battle Creek. Lansing Central. and Jackson. On May 23. the team competed in the Regional Tournament and took third place. However. none of the boys qualified for the State Meet. The last meet was the Five A League tournament at Lansing on May 30. The boys took fourth place. keeping out of the cellar with a one point advantage on Lansing Central. The prospects of a winning team for 1032 look very promising since all four members of the 1931 team will be back. Below is the result of the Five A League tournament held at Groesbeck course on May 30: Ann Arbor 305 Battle Creek - 330 Jackson - 330 Eastern 3-l-l Central 345 Puge unilrrul Porlu-Iour