Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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The second team compiled a record of 9 wins and 5 defeats with George Pearson taking the high scoring honors with 42 points. The “Baron’s” advice is give them height and have basket sense and they will go in. “Knobble” Kapsis used to throw a stuffed paper bag through the hoops in the Point Junior High yard when he wasn’t even rated as a basketball player, and his love of the game finally made him the fine center he is. Swede used a comb once after the Northeastern game. Nobody ever re- members his hair having been combed before that. Howie Martin and Eddie Dobbyn have played basketball together since they were nine years old, mostly at the “Y”. Remember the basket that won the Milton game when “Swede” sank a long shot from the middle of the floor in the closing minutes? There was only one player put out on fouls this season, a record in itself! If anybody ever wondered where the team spent its spare moments, he should visit the “Y”, where he would see all the fellows either watching a basketball game, or having a round table discussion while waiting their turns to play Ping-pong—the team’s chief hobby. INDOOR TRACK C5 HE indoor track season started with a meet at Watertown, where Quincy showed up well in the field events, but they lost 54-23 because they failed to place in the running events, probably because they were not used to the new Watertown saucer and the Watertown runners, unlike most scholastic indoor track men, wore spikes. At the annual meet at Northeastern Univer- sity, Deboer scored a second in the shot put, and Harper placed in the hurdles and broad jump, this meet writing the finis on their careers at school. At Brockton, Biller’s first in the dash, and Reardon’s five markers in the shot put, helped make up the Quincy total of 16 against Brockton’s 61. Quincy wound up the season by scoring 1% points in Class B, of the State meet held at the Boston Garden. Biller captured a fourth in the dash, and the relay team of Biller, Sundelin, Nourse and Barry accounted for the fraction. Incidentally, although Tuxford bettered Stevenson’s Dedham mark by a quarter of an inch, he failed to get a place.

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BASKETBALL QUINCY High can well be proud of its 1934 basketball team lead by Captain Howie Martin which has just finished the most successful season a Quincy High bas- ketball team has had in many years, having won 13 games and lost 3 in their regular sched- ule, and having won a place in the Tech Tourna- ment. Eddie “The Baron” Dunn aggregated 100 points to lead the team in scoring honors with his fine basket shooting from all parts of the floor and his excellent floor work which was outstanding in every game and won a place for him on the all-Tech second team. Harold Kapsis was next highest with 73 points, most of them obtained from follow-up shots in which he specialized. “Knobble” was also an excellent feeder for his team mates. Quincy proved it was going places this year when they went to Fitch- burgh on a cold icy night, and with determination rarely seen went out on the Fitchburg court, and defeated the Fitchburg team 28-25 in a hard fought game with Quincy always just one step ahead in scoring and play- ing. “Swede” Almstrom and Howie Martin with their long arms always clut- ching for the ball and their sphinx-like attitudes kept the Quincy teams always cool, calm, and collected. Over at Tech the fellows had an off day and out of forty-three shots they got something like five, which only goes to show they missed the breaks and even if they had sunk the foul shots they were given they would have come out victors. The players received attractive medals for playing at Tech. Of this year’s team only Howie Martin and Eddie Dobbyn are graduat- ing which points to a banner season for next year with so many experi- enced players coming back. The varsity had a distinct advantage over their opponents in the matter of scoring for they piled up 457 points to their 268. Team play proved an outstanding feature of this year’s group and a spirit of friendliness that was always present among the fellows whether they were winning or losing, often managed to pull them out of the fire. Chelsea proved Quincy’s Waterloo by twice defeating Quincy especially in the final game in the last seconds of play with a lucky basket by a Chelsea substitute. Vic Di Gravio and Jim McCollum played fine games at guard, and man- aged to get quite a few points to help the scoring honors of the team, and to keep the other team to the lowest possible score. Mac is still looking for a gym with a ceiling high enough not to spoil his long shots.

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These high-jumpers, Stevenson and Tuxford, both sophomores, ought to be heard of in coming years, as should Nourse in the 600 and Brennion and Gentry in the 1000. These, and others, carry Quincy's hopes for next year, to say nothing of outdoor track this year. HOCKEY aLTHOUGH Quincy High's hockey team did not en- joy an over-successful sea- son, Coach H. Kenneth Hudson is not chagrined. In fact, H. Kenneth is pleased. He did not expect to burn up the ice with his inexperienced outfit. The only benefit which he ex- pected from this season was that the boys would get some much-needed experience. This hope was realized, for although his charges won only one game in the Bay State League, they gained so much experience that, by the season's end, they ranked as the most improved club in the league. With over sixty per-cent of his squad returning next year, Mr. Hudson can well afford to let the value of this season's play be judged by next year's results. The seniors who played this year include, Forwards: Pyne, McKenna, Grogan, O'Brien, Hurley. Defense: Ordway, Mason, Shearer, Fallon, Mac- Mulkin. Goal: Wilmath. The lower classmen who will form the nucleus of next year's outfit are: Forwards: Monahan, Mai vesti, Yoerger, McDade, Keith, McMurray, Leh- tonen, Langton. Defense: Cleary, Service, Sargent. Goal: Nugent, DeCelle. HERBERT GAUDREAU, TAXIDERMIST [Continued from page 14] ichthyologist, and sportsman. The mounting must be an exact replica of its living specimen. Our taxidermist could make his way in the field of painting, we are certain, for, his water-color sketches which he showed us have no rival from the point of vivid, accurate coloring, lifelike appear- ance, and remarkable reproduction. Gaudreau thinks little of his artistic abilities and whenever we spoke of the fine quality of his work, he turned the conversation in another direction, no doubt thinking little of the ex- quisite likenesses which flow from his brush. I learned much about the technical processes involved in mounting an- imals, but will not repeat it here for obvious reasons. The staff of the American Museum is the goal of the young artist. In a few weeks an exhibition of his work will be on display in the show window of the Granite Trust Building. This is a good chance to see some real art. We suggest you take advantage of it.