Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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• - To Pep Rally The team efforts are appraised by the student body at the pep rally. Here Mr. Carl Paarman leads the students in the initial singing of the new school song. With one unifying cheer, AHS students are ignited by cheerleaders, left to right, Kathy Arnold, Mary Fran Neu- field, Mary Bohrer, Eileen Dockery, and Mary McMeans. “There is no place like Assumption, Assumption high we mean,” echoes the band to highlight the rally.

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From Practice Through the woods and over the bridge, from football practice they come. By now this trek is familiar to all AHS football players. It is not, however, known to the rest of the student body. Here we go behind the scene. Dick Hasenmiller leads the team from . . . . . . practice, practice and more prac- tice, where Coach Gene Walton directs the team efforts at least two hours each day. Here Jim Davies and Dick Ilasen- miller ponder the instructions just given them by Coach Walton. As though they were posing for a foot- ball program cover, juniors Sharon Belk and Mary Ann Keller flank AHS gridder Jim Anderson, ’60. Actually such a pose would never be seen on a football practice field, but Jim looks as though he enjoys it. 10

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Sister s Father Pitched For The Chi White Sox “My dad never talked much about his playing days, but I wish he were still alive so he could go to the World Series,” recalled Sister Mary Borgia, Assumption teacher, in a reminescent mood recently. Her dad, known to the baseball world as “Butcher Boy” Joe Benz, was a member of the last White Sox pen- nant winners in 1919. Benz pitched only one game that year for the team that later became famous as the Black Sox because eight players accepted bribes to “throw” the World Series that fall. Upon his release early in the 1919 season Benz was presented with a life time pass to all the Sox home games. When he died two years ago this pass was given to his son and because of this Sister Borgia’s brother secured four tickets for this week’s Series games. “My mother has been bom- barding the Sox front office for sev- eral weeks now asking for tickets,” Sister Borgia added, “but with no suc- cess so far.” The publicity and photography di- rector of Assumption remembered that her dad was especially proud of his no-hitter against Cleveland in 1914. The hitless gem put the former Chi- cago meat market helper in baseball’s mythical Hall of Fame of no-hit hur- lers. Only two balls w’ere hit out of the infield but two walks and three errors marred his bid for a perfect per- formance. The no-hitter against Cleveland was the 26th of the 76 victories he won in nine years of major league pitch- ing but he also lost 76 despite a ster- ling 2.43 earned run average. His best year was 1915 when he won 15 and lost 11 and the following two years he won 15 and lost only eight. In 1917 he won six of nine decisions as he helped the Sox in their second flag in American League history. Heading his baseball memories af- ter his retirement was the testimonial dinner given in his honor in October 1954 by many of his former team- mates. A paragraph from the program of that dinner called Joe Benz “. . . a great player, a gentleman on and off the field, a fine neighbor, a friend of all who knew him — a pal of a guy.” “I wish I could get tickets,” Sister was heard murmuring as she took off down the hall on another of her busy days around Assumption. “You and a million other people,” I mumbled as I resigned myself to a seat in front of the television for the remaining Series games. Netmen Finish Fall Training The last of two fall tennis matches, both with D.H.S., was played Wed- nesday afternoon to complete the first fall tennis schedule in the history of Assumption or St. Ambrose Academy. Fr. Gerald Kraus coached the net- sters in the absence of spring coach Fr. Arthur Perry who is assistant sophomore football coach. Why the sudden decision to have fall tennis? “Several players were in- terested and we figured it would help develop better players for the coming spring,” Father Kraus stated. He con- tinued, “We kept it short because of the late start and the desire of a cou- ple of players to play sophomore foot- ball.” The fall matches will be figured in with the spring maches to determine letter-winners. Fifteen aspirants re- ported for opening practice with John Jayne and John Lammers fighting for top spot and Ron Rehmann and Bob Young battling for the third position. According to Father Kraus, Young, a junior transfer student from Decatur, has looked good in early practice ses- sions. The Assumption netmen won their first match with Davenport 6-3 as the four top players won fairly easily. Father Kraus was pleased with the performance and praised the enthus- iasm of the players. “You’ve had your chance!” challenged Coach Walton in his calm but effective talk addressing the student body at the pep rally preceding the DUS game. K worked! Sophs Romp in Opening Games Hard work and 100% co-operation have helped mold this team into an eager outfit that will win its share of games,” sophomore football coach “Babe” Derouin said in a recent in- terview. Derouin is assisted by Fr. Arthur Perry, former Notre Dame gridder. Thirty seven reported for practice August 24 and all 37 were still out with a month of the season elasped. “The front line on defense of John Fiese, Mike Abbott, Don Miller, Bob Deluhery, Mike McGee, Barney Pur- cell, and Mike Quigley has looked good at times,” commented Coach De- rouin. Karl Noonan has sparked the offensive end of the attack augmented by A1 Rashid, Clarence Mason, and Dave Aldape. Another outstanding prospect, fullback Stan Maliszewski, was forced to sit out this year because of a broken leg suffered in baseball last spring. The sophomores rolled to a 19-0 vic- tory over the North Scott reserves and 28-14 rout of Bettendorf’s sopho- mores in their two starts before be- ing humbled 20-7 in the Davenport game. 12