Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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TENNH5 XVith only two veteran racquet wiclders from the previous season. Eastern opened the 1931- season in championship style. handing out a 6-3 defeat to the veteran Owosso team and a 7-0 setback to Hastings during the same week. In a meet. at I lint Northern. which was harder fought than the score indicated. Eastern trimnphcd. 5-2. The next week saw a dual meet with a powerful East Lansing team. that won three of the five singles matches and forced the Quaker men to come from behind to tally a 11--Z5 victory. The following week, the Quaker aggregation routed a formidable Central team -I-23 to collect the fifth city champion- ship in six years. This meet again saw the Blue and Gold netters compelled to take both doubles matches to win. In successive meets. Iiastern's net team rather handily trounccd Battle Creek. Jackson. and Ann Arbor by the identical score of 5-2. to take its third Five-A league championship in four years and gain a leg on a second trophy. Easterifs entrance into the regional tournament held at Michigan State Normal College in Ypsilanti. May 26. proved very successful. the Quakers taking their sixth consecutive team championship. In the State tournament. Krause reached the semi- finals and Kirchen and il'halen reached the doubles finals before being eliminated. The point summary for the tournament showed the Quakers to be in a tie for the state championship and the possessor of a beautiful team trophy as well as individual medals for the players. Major gold letters. signifying State Champions. were awarded Krause. Captain Kwast. VVhalen. Kirchen. and Gutzki. Second Row: Coach Fox, Sirhal, Kirchen., Krause, NVhalen, Kaley. Ives First Row: Jeffries. Kwast, Maclnnis. Knapp. Gutzki. Murphy BASEBALL After leaving baseball out of the sports picture at Eastern for one season, the athletic department decided again to issue a call for players. Coach Graff had a ditlicult job selecting varsity material from the host of candidates assembled at the first practice. The chief reason for renewing activities in this field of sport was the hope that baseball would take its place in the Five-A league calendar. Booking a five team schedule. thc Quakers broke even on the first season's play in this new field. dropping two games each to the strong Battle Creek and State Frosh teams while downing both Howell and Charlotte twice. Several boys, including Red Roe. Chet Smith. Jenks. Byelick. I,yle Sherman. Kolberg. Padgett, Maliskey. Ballard. Alton. Stein. and Campion turned in creditable performances. It is hoped that the sport has gained sufficient favor to continue in coming years. Third Row: Mgr. XVaskow. Fox. Ballard. Ball. Maliskey, Smith. XVilcox. Kaulitz. Coach Graff Second Row: Jenks. Byelick. Kolb:-rg. Padgett. Roe. Lamb, Stein. Alton First Row: Shippcy. Campion. Pease, Beauchamp GOLF Golf. although a comparatively new sport in Haste-rn's program. is becoming increasingly popular. Starting the season. April 21. by trouncing Central, the Blue and Gold iuashie wielders next defeated East Lansing on April 2-11, Howell on April 28. and Battle Creek on May 7. In the second round the matches with East Lansing and Central were repetitions of the previous encounters. The Easternites met their strongest opposition. May 12. in the form of an aggressive team from Ann Arbor. Coach Bovard's golfers were compelled to be content with a tic score. An already successful season was topped off by winning the Ifive-A and Regional meets. This feat gave Eastern its first two golf trophies. iValker.. Hein, and Cushion turned in the best all-season perform- ances for the team. Cushion. Mitchell. Hein, YValker, Ziolkowski. Melendy, Coach Bovard Page One Hunilred Fourteen

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