Central High School - Caldron Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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The 1933-34 Season Central's basketball outlook for the 1933-34 season is exceed- ingly bright with Bollman, Warfield, Neat, Grimme, Hayes, Hostler, and Menze of the first team left to carry on for the the Tigers. They will be assisted by Buckmaster, Altekruse, Schawkey, McKee, Carl Hayes, Steve Sitko, and Kabish of the present reserve team. The basketball team suffers the loss of such sterling men as Freddie Burton, john Sitko, Cliff Swift, Ed Trott, and Law- rence Romano by graduation. All of these have played basket- ball for three years on the reserve and varsity team. Bill Bollman, Joe Grimme, and Lyle Neat are the polished ball players, although none are six feet tall. Neat is the sharp- shooter of the quintet, hitting the basket from all angles of the floor. He is also an exceptional defensive man. Grimme is a strong guard and delights in long shots from the center of the floor just before the gun sounds. Bill Bollman is the stylist of the team. He shoots from any angle with comparative ease and is a star on defense. t Warfield ,supplies the jumping ability of the squad. Although he is only 5 ft. II in. he can take the tip with consistency from a man well over 6 feet, Neat and Warfield are sophomores, Bollman and Grimme juniors. These men are fairly sure of positions on next year's squad, but the rest of the men are all evenly matched and there should be a battle for the remaining berths on the varsity. Ijlt

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Basketball Season Central hit a hot night in their next game and the far superior Auburn team, led by Dave Williams, was barely able to snare a close one-point victory from the Tigers, 7.4-2.3. The Tigers continued their hot streak the next week to defeat Winamac, runner-up in the state tourney last year. By virtue of a last three-minute rally the Bluffton Tigers broke the Central Tiger's successive chain of victories to win by three points. Still retaining their hot streak, the Tigers next beat Decatur, the 1931 Sectional Champs. At this point it looked as though the Tigers were not merely on a hot streak but actually playing in championship form. This is in fact mostly true as they were not playing race horse basketball, but methodical and precise basketball. The Tigers lost this form during their next two city-series tilts and lost both by large scores. The next week, the scrapping team took all the sting out of their poor seasor1's showing. They beat South Side!! They not only beat them, but with the aid of a new zone defense fairly trounced them by eleven points. After losing a slow game to Warsaw, the Tigers forced the Washington of East Chicago's Senators to go to their limit to win the game. ln the final game of the season the scrapping Central Tigers went down to a superior Elkhart quintet led by Patnelle. Fighting with their boots on, when the fray closed, the curtain dropped on the 1939.-1933 season for Central High School basketeers. Page 0

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39 . Q 5 l-lail, Coaches! With the utterance of two names, Mur- ray Mendenhall and Bob Nulf, one cannot help but think of the fighting Central Tigers , of their enviable records in sports, and how extremely fortunate Central is to have such fine men for its athletic mentors. Between the two, Mendy and Bob super- vised the boys' gym class and all of the varied intramural activities associated with them, along with the coaching of the Blue and White's feared teams in foot- ball, basketball, baseball and track. Truly an energetic and busy pair. Chief of staffMendenhall has been build- ing battling elevens, scrapping quintets, and smoothly playing nines at Central for nine years, and with the passing of each year-stone his fame, and consequently Central's athletic prowess, has spread far and wide over the major portion of the state. He is known to all as a fair and square, persevering coach, one who not only teaches his charges the science and the skill of the sport, but instills into them that intangible something that resolves itself into the famous Central spirit that sets the Tigers apart from ordinary teams. Under lvlendy, the boys know that they will be given every opportunity to prove their worth and for this reason opponents are never sure of a win until the final report of the gun. Mendy occupies a place in the heart of every loyal Centralite. This quiet, unassuming man merits the respect and admiration of the entire student body, and when he walks out to address them the tremendous applause is symbolic, while their ex- treme quietness and attentiveness during the talks bears out their love. lt can be truly said, lVlendy is the mentor whose meritoriousness is magisterial. In the role of chief assistant Bob Nulf has proved to be a capable coach, well liked by the students and somewhat one of them as it was not so many years ago he was a student here himself. Well versed in sports, he drills the boys' football and basketball along with Mendy, and in his three years here has become a real right hand man. In charge of baseball, he has produced marvelous teams that by virtue of their smooth play have taken permanent possession of the N.E.l.C. baseball trophy. From the first, Bob's smiling personality readily won itself into the hearts of the Tigers and has steadily increased. An- other Central son has come into his own and we're certainly proud of it. Here's to you, Bob!!! Coaches lvlurry Mendenhall and Bob Nulf i I i l ll ,I In 1 Page One Huudrvd Nine s