Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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CROSSCOUNTRY IYith only one letter man back. around whom to build a cross country team, Coach IVinston labored mightily to whip his boys into shape and bring them up to championship specifications for the 1931- season. Beginning a tough schedule in fine shape, Eastern won handily over Central, 21-IM. in the first dual meet, W'olfe of Eastern coming in first with a time of 10:29. At Kalamazoo. October 13, Eastern was nosed out 28-27. Gaudard. Eastern's plucky little runner, coming in a close second to Niles of Kalamazoo. .lackson's well-balanced team won the Five-A championship, scoring 251 points with Eastern second having 48. Gaudard again ex- hibited the best form among the Blue and Gold runners. with Bassler a close second. To complete the schedule the Vikings again defeated Eastern. November 6-11-65 Q at Ypsilanti. taking the state title by another one of those one-point margins. Second How: Ackles, Fenn, Himnan, De-Fay, Adsit. Levanclowski. Coach VVinston First Row: Gaudard, Baldwin, Bassler. Elliot, Mills, VVolfe TRACK Because of a lack of meets, Coach YVinston's harriers failed to attract appreci- able attention although they worked hard and showed fine spirit in every meet of the season. The Inter-class meet, which is an annual event, was won handily by the 11-A's. The nearest Competition was turned in by the Senior A's. Battle Creek was next engaged. The Quakers easily triumphed with a 60 IX3-413 score. In the meet with Central. the Reds outperformed the Easternites 67-37. The Five-A competition was rather disastrous. tl1e Blue and Gold ending in fifth place, being saved from the cellar by the Battle Creek team. Every boy on the team gave a good account of himself and some material was developed that will be heard from next season. Third Row: Coach XVinston, Bozak. Haussman. Gallager, Mgr. Cummings, Mgr. DeFay, Allen, VVade. Hazelton, Coach Burnham Second Row: Myers. Madison. Lyle, Geovanes, Feun, Elliot, Pearson. Delp First Row: Bassler, Gaudard, Foster, May, Jacobs. XNolfe SWHMNHNG Coach VVinston's mermen started the 193-1--35 season with a splash, in a meet with the alumni. the grads were drowned -L2-32. Dropping a dual meet with Battle Creek, 27--L8, the Quakers rallied with a signal victory over the ancient foe, Central. defeat- ing the Reds -LO-35 for the first time since 1928. In a dual meet with Ann Arbor, the Easternites submitted to a scant RGIQ-38lQ defeat, putting up a game fight before allowing the Purple banner to be raised. Atoning for this nick in their record. the natators sank Pontiac -113-32 and then struck a low spot in the season, dropping meets to Ypsilanti, State Frosh, and Jackson. To wind up the dual swims, Central was again tamed, -111-31. In the Five-A league meet, the Quaker swimmers placed two second places and three fourths to their credit. Arnold Reeves, a senior, and Ike Stange, a junior, deserve much credit as consistent winners in their events. Stange made a record of taking first in the 220 yard swim in all dual meet competi- tion. Third Row: Burhans, Thomas. Stauge. Pierce, Cwiek, Sykes. Vtlhipple, Starbuck, Mgr. Polihonki Second Row: Coach XYinston, Phelps. Hays, Petrovitch. Richter. Redman. Reeves, Hill First Row: Coon, Ray, Brown, Stelma, Trimmer, Hellman, Davis, Rcutter, VVilc0x Page One Hundred Slxlccn

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