Garden City High School - Mast Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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How do you luke The uackeTs7 ruTle Team Tunushed wuTh a 400 average Tor The season RaskopT Meader ElmendorT SmuTh l.uTTlewood Kromback and Bulger were The hugh men on The squad The Red Cross beneTuT boxung show was presenTed un The lull Tollowung wunTer sporTs As usual anybody desurung blood curdlung Thrulls was There To wuTness The leaTher slung ung specTacle Openung up wuTh The lower weughT maTches The show puT everybody aT The edge oT Theur respecTuve seaTs And The TughTs became more unTeresTung a They en Tered The heavuer weughTs wnere every punch counTs In one of The Tunal maTches ponenTs slugged so hard un The TursT round ThaT They could hardly sTand up Tor The re maunung Two The lasT evenT oT The evenung was The heavyweughT maTch oT champ Joe Subella vs WalTer Schrader AlThough The e was ome real sluggung The ba Tle dud noT a sume The drasTuc proporTuon oT lasT year maTch un whuch Joe knocked ouT Tom Co roon Judgung Trom gaTe receupTs The show wa a success Tor over S200 was collecTed Tor The Red Cro s Every year a The MasT goes To pres sprung sporTs are uusT geTTung under way Thus year The same polucy musT agaun be Tol lowed as ul TWTGS Tume Tor The yearbook To b p nTed Thus a Tull 1ccounT oT all e games us noT avaulable La T March 26 pracTuce goT under way Tor The I945 baseball season Agaun Thus year k ds SandTord s aT The helm wuTh hus able hand guudung Tne ball club Sux Ou lasT years leTTermen along wuTh many new hopeTul compruse The Team The schedule Tor Thus year shows The Team playung a new school ouT droppung anoTher T-lck vuule whom we have played beTore buT noT un he lasT Tew wTh Two games scheduled Thus year Tnds u wuThouT any engagemenTs wuTh Hemp sTead buT wuTh engagemenT wuTh Sewan haka Muneola GreaT Neck MannasseT PorT WashungTon and Glen Cove Wurh such play ers as Tummy Carroll Lou Koelscl John Ma Ioney Bul Oson George Cody and Boo DewhursT back Trom lasT year and The add Tuon oT Carl Braun a good record Tor Thus year s ba ebau' Team has already ceen sTar d To daTe we have won Tuve ard losT none aeorge Cody and Carl Braun have been . I . . I I . U . T . S Fl . C K . . . 1 S . . . . - ,Sli ,, i . . . . . . . , . I T . . V T , . I I S .. I . I . ' T WalTer Jenny vs. Danny Eldridge, The op- years, has been puT back In The schedule, T T T . ' T S , - S 'S ' I I XII' T ,- V. . . u l' 5 . ' S ul I u u y- s . - . 43

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away ManhasseT GreaT Neck and Glen Cove The mosT rmporTanT game oT The sea son was played here aga4nsT Mneola Our Team playing Tor all :T was worTh ToughT a losung baTTle agarnsT Mrneola Tor The sec oncl Tame Mineola wrTh :Ts zone deTense could noT be beaTen The season ended wrTh records howmg evrdence oT TourTeen vrc Torres and Three deTeaTs one oT The beT baskeTball seasons rn G C hrsTory The wresTlrng Team Thus year under Mr C5 C are made of WrTh a mrnrmum oT Tacrlnles and maxrmum oT good coachrng The maTmen made a successTul season Dur :ng The course oT The regular season The maTmen losT only Three maTches One oT These was To AmrTyvrlle whrch rs considered second only To Mepham rn wresTlrng on Long Island Thus amazing score was consrdered unlrkely aT The sTarT OT The season Coach Thomas had hardly any experrenced men on The squad buT he worked very hard waTh The boys To produce a wrnnrng combrnaTron The vrcTorres durrng The season were largely due To The eTTorTs of The habrTual Threesome Johnson ConanT and Fann ng When Thrngs were lookrng dark Tor our squad The bug Three helped arou e conhdence and Team morale MosT sporTs rn hrgh school besng specTaTor sporTs noT much rs heard abouT The sporTs carrred on beh nd closed doors Cne oT These specTaTorless sporTs rs rrTlery LlTTle as known abouT rrTlery alThough IT rs one oT The major w:nTer sporTs un G C Our Team rs a mem per oT The Nassau CounTy InTerscholasTrc maTches rs arranged Two maTches wrTh each Team rn The League The won and losT record oT The TrrsT sux maTches was noT Too lmpre sive wrTh Two vucTorres over Mepham and Oceansrde and Tour deTeaTs aT The hands OT HempsTead CenTral Sewanhaka and Cham made grvrng The Trolans a percenTage oT 333 AT The close oT The second round oT League maTches The sharpshooTers showed Therr colors by upprng The Team cores way over many OT The previous maTches WrTh an Impressive 858 vrcTory over Oceansrde and anoTher wrn over Ivlepham coupled wnTh losses To Sewanhaka and l-TempsTead The Whose chesT as shcknng ouT7 S . . . - . I . Thomas, showed whaT maTerial Tellows Trom RiTle League. Each year a schedule oT Twelve 42

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Cody geTTung un shape ouTdoung Themselves To puTch The home squad To vucTory aTTer vucTory George has already puTched humselT a no huTTer whule Carl has done almosT as well Besudes puTchung he has been wallopung The ball consuderably un one game besudes puTchung he scored all Three runs We hope These Two mound men conTunue Theur record a TeaT whuch wull become uncreasungly hard sunce laTer on we play Three and Tour games a week sorT oT hard on Theur arms Mr STeen had The lacrosse players ouT on The Tueld very early Thus season fNlThough aT TursT The lacrosse sTucks seemed To be do :ng more damage Than good a TursT class ouTTuT quuckly shaped up WuTh The reTurn oT bug Bull Fuller Andy Thompson Bob Nelson Joe Fannung and oTher equally good play ers The Team us maunTaunung a hugh percenT age oT vucTorues whuch us expecTed To lasT all season CerTaunly uT success us based upon The number oT boys ouT Tor a sporT The lacrosse Team cannoT lose When The Tlowers began To bloom and The sprung showers began To Talr uT was also Tume Tor The buddung Track sTau To wear away The Toluage growung un The old cunoeu paTh The Track men were abouT The TursT ouT Thus sprung and were seen grundung ouT aps aT an unp ececlenTed raTe IT wll be ve y hard Tor The Team T luve up To I T year s bruIluauT record wuTh The lo s oT Three quauTers oT The relay Team and mosT oT The sprunT deoauTmenT a moderaTely succes Tul season wa all ThaT was expecTed The coach Red SmuTh hopes Through The manupula Tuon oT TalenT To score heavuly agaunsT op posung runners To daTe The squad has won TWO meeTs and losT one Bob PoTdevun Nassau LounTy record holder Jum Daley nd STu Bucknel seem To be The backbone oT The squad all veTerans oT lasT years Tro phy wunnung Team laTely ChueT has been walkung Through school wuTh a perpeTuaI smule on hus Tace The reason Tor Thus smule can be ueaduly ex plauned by The TacT ThaT The Tennus Team Thus year agaun conTauns The Two Bucknell broThers Thus vurTually assures hum oT a Trame work Tor Thus year s squad The Damon broTh ung gaps whule unduscovered Ta enT us ex pecTed To puT The Tunushung Touches on a Tough bunch To beaT No games have been played as yeT due To The heavy amounT oT r n whuch aT prunTung Tume sTull us con un uung Funally arruvung aT our lasT sprung sporT golT Mr Nuchols seems To Thunk ThaT The suT uaTuon could be a loT worse George STuhr us agaun back George has won all sorTs OT TournamenTs on The lsland un New York STaTe and un The EasT WuTh hus broTher Jerry The backbone oT The golT Team us preT Ty umpressuve WuTh Muessen Doyle and luT Tle eughTh grade Tommy Bowles Tullung un The remaunung Three spoTs anoTher com pleTe squad us Turned ouT So Tar The Team has won one maTch and has yeT To be de TeaTed Comung To The end oT Thus chronucle oT The T944 T945 sporTs year we cannoT help buT Teel proud oT The magnuTucenT Teams ThaT were produced ThroughouT The Three seasons . , . ' N. . , . 'S . u K . Q ' ' : u- . . 1 B QR' u' o ' as , L ' I ' . T 5 ' . . ' . a . , a ' T u ers are sure To plug up mosT oT The remain- ' ' . . . I . ' . : I 1 1 1 s - n +1 - 44