Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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GIRLS' ATHLETICS BETTY LOU BLACKMORE, EDITOR 4 QP First row lleft to rightl: Myrtle Miller, Dorothy Dunbar, Betty Schissel, Doris Van Horn, Martha Morrison, Helen Lee Smith, Dorothy Strong. Second row: Miss Thelma Armfleld, Betty Macy, Margaret Richey, Marjorie Zechiel, Caryl Gaines, Roberta Bowsher, Ruth Waltermire. Third row: June Wayland, Dotty Lackey, Lola Lennox, Mary Alice Shively, Carleen Becker, Miss Katherine Thompson, Mrs. Kate Steichman. Fourth row: Zilpha Price, Mary Lib Hayes, Pat Shea, Mary Houppert. The Shortridge coeds have proved that the Shortridge boys are by no means the only ones who are good athletes. The Girls' Athletics depart- ment offers a broad field of sports to all girls. In the fall there are tennis, the posture contest, and the efficiency contest. Then follow hemingway, hockey, basketball, volley-ball, baseball, and swimming. In the spring comes tennis again, the foot contest, and gym exhibition. The girls have their athletic club, also. It is called Philateron Club, which means friendship, sportsmanship, and character. It is a chapter of the National American Athletic Federation and is the only chapter in the city schools. Its purpose is to sponsor all athletic events, act as a leader in all sports, and represent the athletic department in school act- ivities.Members ofthe club are those who have five hundred points or more, and pledges are those having two hundred and fifty points. Points are given for the efiiciency contest, the foot contest, the posture contest, and for playing on the various teams. Betty Macy is president of the Philateron Club, Mary Alice Shively, vice-president, Dotty Lackey, secretary, Mar- garet Richey, treasurer, and Betty Schissel, sergeant-at-arms. The highest award a girl may receive for athletic efficiency is the Shortridge sweater with the official S . This is given after a girl wins one thousand points. The girls who have sweaters are Betty Macy, Mar- garet Richey. Roberta Bowsher, Mary Alice Shively, Doris Van Horn, Dorothy Dunbar, Caryl Gaines, Dorothy Strong, and Myrtle Miller. The Shortridge girls hold a tennis tournament each spring and fall. In the spring of 1932, Agnes Hinkle, who graduated last year, won, and Mary Anna Butz was runner-up. Last fall Mary Anna won the tourna- ment, and Nellie Ittner Was runner-up. In the fall also came the posture contest and the efficiency contest. Winners this year were Mary Alice Shively, Mary Morrison, Anna May Smith, Betty Smith, and Doris Van Horn. Efficiency contest winners for the fall of 1932 were Dorothy McKinney, first place, and Josephine Gris- wold, second place. Next on the athletic schedule came hockey. The team played one

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FOOTBALL TRACK The 1933 season has been one of the most successful in recent years for the Shortridge track team. During the spring, coach Don R. Knights boys have won three meets and have tasted defeat only in a forfeit meet to Wiley of Terre Haute. Jefferson of Lafayette and Kentucky Military Institute were defeated in two dual meets and Shelbyville and Greenfield Were defeated in a triangular engagement. Shortridge placed ninth from a field of thirty in the Kokomo Relays. Having only two lettermen, Herman Ziegner and Eric Wadleigh, Coach Knight had to develop new material and he has been successful in doing so. Bluemel, Druley, Cox. Hoatson, and Seward have bolstered the squad by Winning points in every meet. Ziegner has scored eighty points in five meets and has tied the school record in the 100- and 220-yard dashes and set a new record in the broad- jump. The mile relay team, composed of Wadleigh, Bryant, Cox, and Bluemel, set a new record in this event. They ran the distance in 3.38.3, clipping 3.4 seconds on the old record. I , , 1 ' E sf 3 'lu a f H vie '- 1 Kxlup., 1 A P

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GIRLS' ATHLETICS game with an outside school, Washington, this year. The Shortridge girls Won a 3-1 victory. The hockey varsity consists of Myrtle Miller and Betty Schissel, co-captains, and the following players: Betty Macy, Roberta Bowsher, Marjorie Zechiel, Helen Lee Smith, Mary Alice Shively, Helen Marie Shea, Lola Lennox, Martha Morrison, Dorothy Dunbar, Dotty Lackey, Doris Van Horn, Zilpha Price, Dorothy Strong, Ella Frances Rall, Caryl Gaines, Mary Houppert, and June Weyland. Hemingway is one of the most popular games with the girls. Intra- mural games are played, and a varsity is chosen. The varsity this year was composed of Margaret Wilcox, Alice Breckenridge, Treva Berry, Dorothy McKinney, Lillian Morris, Beulah Calvin, Pat Shea, Margaret Richey, Lucille Brown, Elizabeth Dickson, Mary Elizabeth Hayes, Mary Anna Butz, Marguerite White, Carol Langfitt, Edna Steinmetz, Genevieve Sherrill, Helen Knight, Mauvis Johnson, Myrel Anna Gibson, Jane Kissel, Dorothy Lackey, Margaret Fisher, and Kitty Lou Fitzgerald. Intra-mural volley-ball is another popular feature in girls' athletics. This year's varsity consisted of Roberta Bowsher, Myrtle Miller, June Weyland, Dorothy Dunbar, Betty Macy, Mary Houppert, Marjorie Zechiel, Dorothy McKinney, Amelia Bretz, Caryl Gaines, Evelyn King, and Margaret Richey. The girls had a successful basketball season, too. They played nine games, winning seven and losing only two. Mary Houppert was captain of the varsity team, and Myrtle Miller, Margaret Richey. Marjorie Zechiel, Betty Macy, Bobby Bowsher, Doris Van Horn, Lola Lennox, Dorothy Dunbar, Betty Schissel, and Mary Elizabeth Hayes were other players. Shortridge is Well represented with girls on the I. A. C. and H. A. C. swimming teams. The girls received 100 points for their accomplish- ments. On the I. A. C. team are Helen Lee Smith, Mary Alice Shively, Barbara Tompkins, Jane Shewalter, and Jean Benham. Betty Clemons, Martha Morrison, Mary Robinson, Carleen Becker, Caryl Gaines, Catherine O'Hair, and Nita Kehn are on the H. A. C. team. The girls seem to feel that their sports curriculum would not be com- plete without that all-American game, baseball. In the spring of 1932 the girls played two outside games with Washington, winning them both. The first was 5-1, and the second was 28-20. The Girls' Athletic department estimates that they have about one thousand four hundred girls participating in one way or another in the department. STUDENT ATHLETIC MANAGERS w 1