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next year. The Captain was Ray Rudden, and other members of the team were:-Fred Mayblum, Bernie Mittman, Ira Beardsley, Artie Gurfein. Jerry Fleischman, Al Ross, Eddie Levine, Bay Bernstein, Arny Snyder, and Bob Alson. One of the sports recently revived in Erasmus Hall is fencing. Last year. coached by Mr. Kalman, the team had a very successful season and got as far as the finals in the Round Robin Tournament which determined the City Champions. This year, however, the team was not as fortunate. It lost several of its best foilsmen by graduationg it was not able to procure a coach, and it had to practice in the Student Cafeteria. By dint of much hard plugging by its Captain, Ray Crayefsky, the team was able to enter into competition with the other schools of the borough. Because of its lack of coaching it was slow hitting its stride, but even so, the team was able to finish the season with a record of three victories, three losses and one tie. Others on the team were:eCene Lee, Bernie Stein, Jim Velasquez, Santo Piluso. and Gene Perlowin. Perlowin lost only one bout during the whole season. Since they will be coached by the very versatile Mr. Resnick next year. we are quite sure that the Erasmus Hall Fencing Team will resume its winning ways and add another feather to the cap of Old Desiderius. Since the very popular game of football is played at the same time that the soccer team has its season, soccer is forced to take the back seat when it comes to the question of spectators. However, this lack of rooters does not bother the members of the squad a single bit. They play with the same spirit and determination as the boys on the gridiron. Not since 1935, when we lost the Brooklyn Championship to New Utrecht, have we had a team of championship caliber. This year things seemed to look better. and there was hope that we might again invade the ranks of the Champions. However. bad breaks and injuries hampered the potentiality of the team. Wlith all the fine coaching of Mr. Caldwell, the best the team could show for its efforts was one victory. four losses. and three ties. Many of the members of the team graduated in January and more are graduating now. The gaps left by these outstanding athletes will be hard to fill. Although the cross-country team does not have the interest and following of some of the other sports, the barriers of the team. under the expert 'tute- lage of Coach John Reinhardt. keep plugging along. Last year. for the first time in many years, they succeeded in capturing the Brooklyn Cross- Country Championship. Because of graduation. several of their mainstays were lost. But under co-captains Don O'Leary and Matt Broughton. they staged a sensational comeback. They did not win all of their dual meets. but when it came time for the Brooklyn Championship Meet. they had hit 16
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their peak. They were tuned perfectly for the race, and for the second consecutive time, Erasmus Hall came home with the Brooklyn Championship Trophy. Don O'Leary won the meet for us by winning hrst place. Ed Draney, last year's Captain, Hnished seventh. The team included: Dick McManus, Maurice Lescroat, Jay McCauley, Louis Diamant, lan MacKenzie, and Fred Faehndrich. Closely related to cross-country is track. This team, like others, suffered because of graduation. Last year, we had a fairly good team which went quite far i11 competition, but Andreacchi and the Feldman twins are gone and it looks like a lean year for the track team. Perhaps Mr. Reinhardt will be able to bring Lady Victory back to his team and restore our track team to its proper place at the top of the list. Lacrosse, the favorite sport of every rough and ready boy, is the game devised by the American Indian. Eras- mus Hall High School always had a good Lacrosse team until the sport was tabooed six or seven years ago by the Board of Education. How- ever, there was such a strong demand for its return that in 1938 Eras- mus Hall again became one of the competitors in the series of games played by borough schools. Under the watchful eyes of lVlr. Row- land, a good team was soon developed. From this team of 1938, Arty Robertson, George Fuller, and Saul Kampf were chosen to be members of the Northern All-Star team which played an All-Star team from the South at Baltimore, Md. This year with Don Wliite, Don Seixas, Wiarren Slavin, Roy Cahill, Fuller, Kampf, Jacobs, and Gurfein plus Bassinette, Freid- lander and others from the football team, the new coach, Mr. Kaasman, should have little trouble in turning out a superlative team. For several weeks the candidates for the baseball team have been trying to impress the new coach, Mr. Dugan, with their respective talents. Base- ball was one sport hard hit by graduation, of last yearis regular team, which had little success, there remains only Joe Mele, the pitcher who pitched a no-hit, no-run game. It will be, therefore, a tribute to the coach- ing ability of lVlr. Dugan, and to the cooperation and teamwork of the squad as a whole, if Erasmus Hall returns to its former greatness in this field of endeavor. ln summing up the activities on the field of honor, for the past year, we find that Erasmus Hall has on the whole had a very successful year and that this success was due largely to the efforts of athletes graduating this year. IT
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