A B Davis High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Mount Vernon, NY)

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0970 Basicetballers End With Low W. i. A. A. Ranlclng Come Cut Fourth After Annexing City Crown Beiore going inTo any discussion oT The i938-39 baslceTball Team, iT should be sTaTed ThaT bare Tigures, while They do noT lie, do noT do iusTice To Coach Oswald's charges. The Team was aT Times decidedly beTTer Than a TourTh place ouTTiT, Their ulTimaTe sTanding. However, Their compleTe poTenTialiTies came To lighT only Two or Three Times. Twice, They scored brillianT Triumphs over a Rooseveli Team Thais was helpless aqainsT The brand oT baslceTball displayed by The Maroon on These vicTory sprees. A sTronq Third place GorTon ouTTiT was also seT back in one me-eTing. AgainsT our rivals, WhiTe Plains and New Rochelle, The boys did noT play The Type oT ball ThaT They were Tully capable oT and conse- quenTly They absorbed Tour beaTinqs ThaT mighT easily have been won. However, Davis reTained The mylhical ciTy championship by Trouncinq Edison in The one rneeTinq beTween The Two schools. Ca pfain Tullio Luisi TOP: Lynvh, Se-nno, Carucci, Ma1'Tin, Berke. MIDDLE: M:1nage1'Jenks, Miller, GE'SYlEl', Healy, Chianose, Tlvudler, Fonrh O II BOT'l Yhllker, Longrhi, Conover, Impara, Captain Luisi. ,- f m ,.,. ':-mm. ff f f b , TM, ... 11... M

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TOP: Coach Coffin, Coach Doyle, Goodliffe, M01-iarity, Moller, Wachter, Bovio, Kalik, Coach Nordone, Coach Oswald. MIDDLE: Lillis, Anto Wells, Capmain Hammond, Casucci, Moore, Herbert, Fitzsimmonis, Russo. Srzhliecher. BOTTOM: Wickena, Warshauer, Senno, Junrnielo, Czark ski, Miu-hell, Imnzwa, Hoffman, Avalone. ,U 'I i 4 l W . n Maroon Foofhall Squad Enjoys Average Seasoni New Rochelle l lelcl To Tie As White Plains Wins CapTain Wilfred Hammond The TooTball Team This year showed iTselT To be a Tine one in every respecT. AlThough iTs record was noT excepTional, crediT should be given To Coach CoTTin and The enTire squad: Tor, considering The maTerial presenT aT The beginning oT The year, The Team did quiTe well. ATTer a slow sTarT, The Maroon and WhiTe piclced up speed and ToughT Their way back inTo The W. l. A. A. race. Things were moving smooThly unTil an irriTaTed WhiTe Plains Tiger, laTer To loe shown as one oT The sTrongesT Teams in The counTry, Thoroughly clawed The Maroon and puT an end To all TiTle hopes. This was one oT The rnosT imporTanT games oT The season, as boTh elevens were undeTeaTecl aT The Time. Davis had several grand scoring chances in The TirsT period and carried The TighT To VVhiTe Plains Tor mosT OT The TirsT halT. The Plainsmen Turned on The heaT in The second halT and ran up a score oT 26-O. ln The closing game OT The year a moral vicTory was gained when our arch rivals Trom New Rochelle were held To a scoreless Tie. The game was played amidsT mud, rain, and windy and The specTaTors Tool: as much oT a beaTing as The players. 0960

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TOP: Manager Minor, Manager Sharpe, Moller, Roseff, Martin, Chianese, Mr. Jacobs, Coach Coffin. MIDDLE: Herbert, Wachter, Andel CasseTtu, Impara, Van Orden, Lynch, Czarkowski. BOTTOM: Avalone, Gesner, Healy, Captain Conover, Marana. Baseball Nine Loolcs To Successful Campaigni Veteran infield and Seasoned Pitchers Return CapTain William Conover Judging Trorn The wealTh oT TalenT ThaT responded To Coach CoTTin's call Tor baseball pracTice, Davis had subsTanTial hopes oT a banner year and a Team To inspire Tear in The hearTs oi rival aggrega- Tions. There was an abundance oT veTeran maTerial back Trom a grand I938 squad To Torrn The nucleus oT This year's Team. ln TacT, The enTire inTield OT The previous campaign was on hand, along wiTh several seasoned piTchers who were second only To The greaT Ralph ZeiTz oT lasT year. Two capable caTchers also were ready To hold The smoking oTferings oT CasseTa, Van Orden, and Appel. UndoubTedly The greaTesT single loss Trorn The previous year was piTcher Ralph ZeiTz, one OT The ouTsTanding moundsmen in The hisTory oT The school. AlThough This boolc wenT To press before any deTiniTe sTaTisTics could be consulTed, Trom pasT records iT seemed saTe To say ThaT The sTandouT perTorrners This year would probably be lviarano, Moller, and Conover in The infield and CasseTa and Van Orden on The mound. Red Moller is noTed Tor his hard hiTTing and generally good compeTiTive spiriT. Conover is anoTher whose slugging gives rival hurlers anxious, and Tragic, momenTs. 0980