Business High School - Commercial Record Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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The Commercial Record 37 liASKl+l'l'BAhli The Girls' Official Basketball Team opens January 14, 1921, with a game at Latimer Junior High School Due to a new ruling, opponents will meet but once each season exchanging the place of play each year. This has been done in order to shorten the schedule. The Girls' Team schedule is as follows: Friday, January 14th, Business at Latimer Thursday, January 20th, Business at Home. Thursday, January 29th, Irwin at Business. Friday, February 4th, Business at Riverside. Thursday, February 10th, Business at Home. In our open dates we hope to schedule a game with Wilkinsburg Junior High School and Schenley's Second Team. We are fortunate in having three members from last year's team with us, Catherine Walker, Jessie Stolman and Helen Nass. We likewise have Cora Vitulla, but owing to illness she has been unable to practice. But after February 1st, we will be deprived of the services of these girls. So our team will be picked from new players. However we have not been very suc- cessful in arousing the girls enthus- iasm. We realize that many are busy after school hours, but surely out of 450 girls we ought to have 50 girls out for practice. Show your school spirit. Practices every Tuesday and Thursday. However, don't forget to come out and cheer for Business High! Come out and ROOT! SXVIMIMING Every season brings some activity- but there is something we can do dur- ing the entire year and that is Swim. It's about time now to come out to practice for our Swimming Meets in the Spring. It needs time and practice. Let's have a team this year-for we couldn't find enough girls from this school to form one in 1920. It' you can swim--come down to the Forbes Street School Pool every Tuesday and get into good form. lt' you can't swim-Come down and learn. We need you all. Start uow. Remember Tuesdays-3:30 P. M.- 4:30 P. M. there is always some one to help you! We want girls who dive. lVe want girls for fast swimming. We want girls who swim in good form. Are you one of these? TRAVK Our Annual Junior Girls' Track Meet which took place, June 11, 1920, prov- ed to be a very interesting and well planned affair. The various events were reported in the June record. but we were not able to have the results! Our girls did mighty well and if we all get together this season-we surely ought to do better. Results. 50 Yd. Dash- Nanie Place Points M. Chalmers 3rd 2 Baseball Throw- M. Hardin lst L. Peterson 3rd .Z Running Broadjump- L. Freund 2nd 3 L. Minnis 3rd 2 Relay Race- M. Knapp, E. Feldman A. Jonum, E. Erickson G. Lear, H. Saydak 3rd 4 18 l.l'l'l'1ltARY DIGEST t'I.l'IS A Literary Digest Club was organiz- ed in the 10-B classes by Miss Henning- er. The purpose of the club is to achieve the ability to speak more clearly and concisely. Officers were elected in each class to preside at the meetings each Tuesday. The officers appointed different students each week to address the class on a topic taken from the Literary Digest.

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36 The Commercial Record Beigle, Balquist, Ackerman, Green, Dupnak, Lifstiz, and Childs. The swimming schedule will call for several dual meets and finish up with the Junior High School championship. BASKETBALL When the call was issued for Basket- ball practice a great many boys re- ported to the Gymnasium ready for work and after several weeks of hard work and practice the squad was reduced, then some team work and signal drills were started. The follow- ing boys were selected to make up the team that will represent our school during the present season:- Beigle, Balquist, Litfin, McMahan, Ayoob, Childs, Savage, Close, Pal. The team played several practice games before the Christmas vacation and won all of them. Sam Savage was elected Captain of the team, but as he leaves school with the graduation class in the middle of the season it will be necessary to elect another captain to finish the season. Sam Lifsitz has been chosen manager of the team and has arranged one of the best schedules our team has ever played. Games have been arranged with the Freshmen, Sophomore teams of the Senior High Schools and with Wilkinsburg Junior High School. Coach White has also picked a second team composed of the younger boys and expects that some of them will be able to take the places of Savage and Beigle who will leave the team in mid- season, the following boys are on the second team. Rodgers, Mason, Ackerman, Dupnak, Geis, McKeen, Kessler, Burr, Miller, Kirby, Ennis. BASE BALL The Base Ball outlook for our school this year is not very promising, but we will have back with us again, Joe Bal- quist, and Mike Ayoob of last year's Championship Team. This will mean that the boys who come out for the first try-out for the team will have to work hard to keep the reputation of our school. The following boys were awarded the school letter for baseball: Tarker, Balquist, Frank, Souse, Costeel, Lockbaum, Close, Cohen, Ayoob, Beigle and Lyons. GIRLS' ATHLETIC NEWS SOCCER We certainly did enjoy the marvelous weather during September and October, inasmuch as we were able to have our gymnasium work out of doors. Our main game was that of Soccer-football! At Iirst it seemed rather senseless- Just kicking the ball up and down the field-which resulted in our becoming tired very quickly. After playing for a few weeks we developed a little team work and found that our hearts and lungs, weren't put to such a terrible strain. It's a fine game, for any num- ber can play, though a team is com- posed of 11 members. It gives every one a good chance to show his ability and speed in running. This year we played only during the regular period, but with a little practice and work, we ought to be able to have class teams and maybe a school team. Girls! Your personal and school spirit as shown during the gymnasium perio-d is truly fine. You are all de- veloping a keener sense of fair play and coniradeship! You are showing your desire for team play-and co-opera- tion! Just as you play now-you will play later, whether in the regular rec- reation or in the Game of Life. Re- member this! Play Fair! Be Square! Stick together-for teamwork means strong work! Act Fairly! Think Fair- ly! ' at

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38 The Commercial Record TEX ,, ,.fX t !-,A Q A fe f 'AVE' A , -if I , AN INTERESTING TRIP THROUGH THE XVESTERN UNION RECEIVING AND SENDING STATION The day that the senior students went for their class rings, Leon Keller took two of the boys on a trip through the Western Union Receiving and Sending Station on the Sixteenth floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The first thing that any person visit- ing would notice, is the tremendous noise that is caused by the telegraph instruments recording messages for this district. The stations are divided into districts, each city being a district, and from those cities messages are received and sent. Mr. Keller was an interest- ing guide. He explained everything. The receiving machine is very much like a typewriter. It receives the message and records it by perforating the message on a long strip of paper, which is like the paper strip one sees coming from a stock ticker. Then it passes on to another kind of machine which typewrites the messages on blanks of paper. The niessages are then ready for delivery. The Morse code is the code used most largely by telegraphers. It consists of a series of dots and dashes which represent the letters. It would prove interesting to the senior classes if they could visit this receiving and sending station some time. Albert Havelin, 10-A-2 THE GRADUATING CLASS OFFICERS The 10-A class election this year was the most interesting that was ever seen in old Business High School. The different classes appointed dele- gates to a convention that nominated candidates for the various offices, viz: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer. The few days preceding the election were used to advantage by the candidates to gain the majority of the votes. Samuel Savage could be seen wandering about the hall stopping all the 10-A students and soliciting their votes by the time-honoredexpression: Your support is earnestly solicited. The election was held after school on Friday following the nominations. The candidates were on needles and pins and wandering about like they had an attack of insomnia. When the announcement was made that Henry Kuhn had carried the majority for president by a landslide there was an uproar that lasted for quite a while. But when Sam heard that he was elected secretary he was too much em- barrassed to stay and crept out of the room without being seen by anybody Cas he thoughtb. Ben Cohen received the majority of votes for vice-president amid great cheers, the same being accorded Albert Havelin who was elected Treasurer by a large majority. 10-A-2 carried all the offices except the Vice Presidency which Ben Cohen, a 10-A-1 was successful in securing. Albert Havelin, 10-A-2.