Abraham Lincoln High School - Landmark Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ii' TIF' W, gym Team QYm lincolniTes may well be proud OT The members oT Their gym Team. in addi- Tion To masTering a diTTiculT sporT They have shown greaT perseverance. They conTinue Their endeavors wiThouT The slighTesT slackening despiTe The laclc oT a ciTy-wide gymnasTics league. coached by mr. mac ball, co-capTains daniel lcorn and beniamin harrison, baclced by seniors l4raTchilc, sTashower, and harvey, have iusT compleTed a Tairly successTul season. They Tinished Third in a Tield oT Twelve Teams in all-ciTy gymnasTic championship compeTiTion. lasT year led by co-capTains lorenzo Tyeda and harry heTTer, The gym Team was generally considered To be unsToppable. in l956 aT The all-ciTy meeT, lincoln Tinished second To Tech. capTain Tigler was named TirsT on The parallel bars and was oTTicially ciTed as The besT per- Tormer oT The meeT. Tennis iT was a diTTerenT lcind oT Tennis Team, a sTrange Team, and odd Team, a scrambled Team oT an oTT-beaT year. The promising rookies-sTricl4ler, renT1ler, marlcoTT, goldman, rubensTein, caplan-were seniors. The seasoned veTerans-niederhoTTer, paris, TraunsTein, liz+, Tein, roselle--were iuniors and sophs. capTain niderhoTTer, The youngesT, was The besT. and iTs aTTiTude was diTTerenT Too. Teams are supposed To be boasTTul and overconTidenT, predicTing undeTeaTed seasons: buT This Team wasn'T. iT accepTed The TacT iT couldn'T Tinish TirsT-midwood was Too good-buT yeT iT wasn'T a Team oT lislless guiTTers. you had To call Them realisfs. handball The lincoln handball Team has a simple problem This year: can They lead Their division? Tor The pasT Three years The winner oT Their division has gone on To Talce The ciTy championship. To help Them in Their pursuiT oT ciTy honors The abes have aT Their dis- posal one oT The besT doubles Teams and one oT The besT singles men in The ciTy. The doubles combinaTion consisTs oT Two seniors: murray cauTin and ar'Thur iacobson. These boys worlc exTremely well TogeTher as a Team and parTicularly well under pressure. The singles man, also a senior, is ioel renTzler. under The supervision oT mr. bill mccaTTrey, The handball Team and espe- cially The senior elemenT is looking Torward To a highly successTul season. handball Team J- Cs.,

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baseball Team Track doc schecTer, coach OT The Track Team, has The uncanny abiliTy OT spOT- Ting pOTenTial in spindle legged Tresh men and developing Them inTo hardy, award-winning Trackmen. among The seniors doc has raised are capTain larry bussey, co-capTain lenny lclepaclc, bob hOlTzman, sTan saTOwiTz, ernie alleva, herb TersTandig and ciTy champ pole-vaulTer herman carr. highlighTs OT The currenT campaign were numerous, uppermosT being The 3:29.6 mile relay, which was Turned in aT The iona-queens meeT. This was The besT Time Tor a mile relay in The pasT TiTTeen years OT lincoln hisTOry. iT was run by lclepaclc, bussey, saTo- wiTz, and a promising junior, ernie zeh. anoTher memorable momenT was The bishop loughlin meeT OT lasT de- cember in which lincoln's half mile relay Team finished Third in a Tield OT l4O. also broughT To mind is The Tine perTOrmance OT herman carr in Tinish- ing in Third place among all easTern pole-vaulTers. 26 Track Team basebaH during The pasT Two years The lin- coln baseball Team has had an OTT- and-on success. in l956 The nine cap- Tured a ciTy crown To celebraTe mr. abe plauT's Tinal season as coach. l957 was a rebuilding year. The Team had iusT secured a new coach in The person OT physics Teacher mr. herb isaacson. TurThermore, iT had been hard hiT by l956 graduaTion. no ciTy championship was won in l957. neiTher was The Team disgraced. They Tinished OTT wiTh a respecTable record and aT The same Time laid The ToundaTiOn Tor a powerTul l958 squad. wiTh The advenT OT The presenT sea- son The lincoln baseball Team once again has come inTo iTs own. mr, isaacson had no Trouble insTilling con- Tidence inTo his boys. now, wiTh a year's experience behind him he has become, according To The players, The greaTesT coach in The ciTy. OT course, spiriT and a TirsT-raTe coach are noT The only asseTs which our baseball Team can boasT OT. as Tar as acTual baseball TalenT is con- cerned They are also preTTy well seT. all OT The sTarTing nine, and more, are deserving OT menTiOn here. how- ever, as we do nOT have The space To include all The names we will menTiOn only The Two capTains. ioe marcucci and richie malone-consider your- selves menTioned.

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Fllle Team lincoln can well be proud oT This year's riTle Team. because, excepT Tor one painTul deTeaT aT The ciTy championships, The Team was undeTeaTed. To quoTe The record, The Team deTeaTed The Tollowing opponenTs: manual Training, midwood, laTayeTTe, madison, and hamilTon. iusT To a liTTle deTail, mosT oT The margins oT vicTory were Trom eighTy To one-hundred poinTs. coach hazel shapiro did a Tine job coaching The boys, whose vanguard consisTed oT capTail mel pincus, co-capTain ieTT benson, ioe nimoy, barry hornsTein, and paul Terowslcy. swimming Team swimming The lincoln swimming Team will be especially hard hiT by graduaTion come This iune. a dozen seniors, including Team capTain ben vogel, will dry Themselves oT lincoln waTer Tor The very lasT Time. The Team has noT had a specTacular season by which They can remember Their lincoln days in TuTure years. Their record Tor The season is 7-3. neverThe- less, The boys, one and all, expressed greaT saTisTacTion in The years spenT on This Team. under The able guidance oT mr. goldberg They have developed boTh Tine discipline oT body which comes Trom swimming and The warm spiriT oT comradeship which, TradiTionally, is an inTegral parT oT all lincoln Teams. in addiTion To capTain ben vogel oTher graduaTing members OT The Team who will aTTend various colleges are: lowell cooper, danny Tarber, roger Tox, irwin greenberg, peTe greensTein, arThur hanig, sam paclcer, sTan shapiro, richard sher, richie sulTzer, and howie wexler.