Boys High School - Epitome Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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FOOT BALL TEAM

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THE EPITOME 63 Poor Johnny Bair! I-le always looks downcast. Ever since he became a dentist he's been looking down in the mouth. After studying pharmacy for ten years, Johnny Adams has at last become a farmer and is doing nobly. He is trying to raise salted peanuts. Miles Ocksrider and Charley VVise are in the moving business. Charley takes after his last name and grabs the piano stool when a piano is to be moved. 'flolinnyi' Martin and Alf Rogers are very prominent civil engineers in llphrata. Their latest great achievement was the construction of a stone step in front of Rogers' home. We are sure that Seymour Ziff and Fat'l Smith are the best business men in the class, however, because they have a sale planned for every week in the year for their clothing store, and have even decided how to collect the fire insurance at the end of the year. - Harold Reifsnyder and Oscar Mclntosh are now called the :'Pied Pipers because of the great number of children who follow their ice cream wagon. They are a great menace to Jimmy Lindenmuth's business, as jimmy has an ice cream parlor, and he swears he'll poison their horse if they donyt keep out of his neighborhood. Sure enough! One of our brilliant classmates has become a mathematician. 'Tis Sheldon Frankhouser himself. He helped Johnny Rothenberger,who is a track-walker, to figure out his income tax, and, according to Frankhouser's figures, the government owed johnny 5.31. Norman Kaplan is announcing trains at the Reading Depot. Fred Yeager is there also, and says that he'll.be chief clerk as soon as about forty more em- ployees die. As salesmen, Willie Spatz and Bob Kline are pursuing a great and noble purpose. Their great work consists of inducing the opium smokers in Chinatown to try Camels. Harold Blumberg admits hels a good lawyer. In his last case he succeeded in having his client imprisoned, which goes to prove that he's good. Philip Crystal, his client, refused to pay the two cents he borrowed from Burt Jones in High School, and, as a result, was given ten days. Adam Nowotarski, Ed Pettit and George Hain have gone to sea. They had the poor luck, however, to get on a bum vessel. At least, they call it a tramp steamer. And now, to end this tale of woe, we come to Mutt Poetter, our class valedictorian, who has reached the highest rung of success. He sells peanuts at the Pagoda. And may I say that I hope none of you are disappointed in your future positions, for this prophecy, which was revealed by the Fates, is absolutely true. I thank you.

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THE EPITOME 65 Foot alll Coach, GEORGE SNELL Assistant Coach, DANA GRIFFEN Student Manager, MILTON SXTULTZ C aptain, CHARLES SCIIAEFFER LEVAN SMITH VVARREN HESS VVILLIAM LEAS XIQVU-LIMLLESHER FRANK SCHEID EDGAR REINIIOLD OBERT. UTH FREDERICK PERELLA RALPII RISSMILLER DAVID HESTON A S H DONALD FIELDS LBERT TARK JOHN ANVMAN EARNEST ARTZ JOIIN STEIN ROBERT FRIEDMAN SAMUEL BERTOLET VVILLIAM GERIXIIAN THOMAS TVIAIER Reading High had one of its worst seasons in years, but the team was not wholly to blame for this. It seemed to play in hard luck all year. Taking the ball from one end of the field to the Other only to lose it by a fumble or some other bad break in the shadow of the goal. There were no outstanding stars, with the possible exception of Captain Ding,' Schaeffer and Levan Smith, the only two men left from last year's team. Ding Schaeffer was re-elected captain, so it can easily be seen he was well liked and an inspiring leader. VVe lose very few men by graduation, and, with the help of the school, we are sure Ding will give us a winning team next fall. Summary Reading High 65 Hazleton High, 20. Reading High, og Shenandoah High, 19. Reading High, Og Pottsville, IO Reading High og Stevens T. S., 18. Reading High og Lebanon High, 12. Reading High og Allentown High, 18. Reading High og Steelton High, 63. Reading High, Og Norristown High, 34. Reading High, 6g Lebanon High, 27. Reading High, 22g St. Gabriel High, 6. RESERVES At the start of the season there was not a single veteran of previous years on the reserve squadg in fact, all of the boys were Sophomores and had no previous foot ball experience. From this material Coach Griffin developed a good fighting team, which lost to only one team, a team that should have played the first team. A study of the Reserves' record brings forth some remarkable facts. The high spots are the holding of the Seminoles to a O-0 score fthe Seminoles are the city champions in the semi-professional classj, the holding of Porter Vocational High School first team to a IQ-O score Qljorter held Shenandoah High School, champions of the Coal Regions, to a 6-O score at Shenandoahj, and the 0-O score of the Lebanon Reserves at Lebanon. After the first Porter game, Lease, Maier and Lesher were promoted to the first team and played regularly the remainder of the season. Adams also played on the first team in the last game of the season. Record: VValnut A. C. O, Reserves 65 Seminole A. C. O, Reserves og Lebanon Reserves O, Reserves og Windsor A. C. O, Reserves I5g Porter V. H. S. 19, Reserves og Porter V. H. S. 58, Reserves og Lebanon Reserves 0, Reserves 0. Lineup at the end of season: R. E., Wenrichg R. T., Esterlyg R. G., Demaro, CLiesmanj g C., Reeser or Hess, L. G., Rohrbach, QKatzj 3 L. T., Hullingerg L. E., Schmucher, fOBrien, Zieberjg B., Carabellog H. B., Adams, Abele, Hagang F. B., McIntosh.