Central High School - Prospectus Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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VARSITY SWIMMING—Front Row: Jim Adair, Francis Bartlett, Jim Murray. Art Crawley, Hugh Grover, Ted DeCourval, George Brown, Royce Bloomer, Neil Stalker, Tom Reiter, Pat Gammon. Back Row: Charles House, Bob Vowell. Manager James McCarthy, Coach Bob Richardson, Manager Delbert Randall, Norm Jones, Norm Gillespie. Swimming The Indians finished a swimming season which on the record looked poor, with two wins, two ties, and six losses. However, competition during the season was unusually keen, and two of the Tribe's losses were to the State championship Arthur Hill Lumber- jacks. Coach Bob Richardson and Stan Broome, coach of diving, were given some outstanding performances during the season by the team. The relay teams were the strong point of the squad. Central also was strong in diving, giving many fine performances. The two relay teams and several others competed in the State Class A meet at East Lansing, but Central did not place. The Red - Black mermen scored wins over Bay City and Royal Oak, both by large scores. Bay City was dunked by a 52 - 32 score and Royal Oak fell, 53-31. The Indians tied Bay City in the second meeting between the two schools, and also tied Lansing East- ern in an earlier meet. Thirteen varsity and one reserve award was made for the season. Delbert Randall and James McCarthy received manager's letters. Those who earned their second swimming letter were: Jim Adair, Francis Bartlett, Royce Bloomer, George Brown, Ted DeCourval, Charles House, and Norm Jones. First awards were made to Pat Gammon, Norman Gilles- pie, Hugh Grover, Jim Murray, Neil Stalker, and Bob Vowell. RESERVE SWIMMING—Front Row: Leon Wilcox, Fred Ethier, Bill Sides, Bruce Stewart, Arlie Major, Jim Daily. Lawrence Abbey. Terry Way, Dick Graves, Bob Fowler, Russ Kipp, Ted Shuster. Second Row: A1 White. George Elliott, Denny Burgess. Allen Beam, Ralph Kalmar, Oliver Marble, Merle Grover, Bob Treat, Bob Kelly. 1945 Prospectus 22

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Reserve Basketball The reserve basketeers had a rather poor record to show for the efforts for the season, but this was neither the fault of the players or the coach, Jerry Udell. Something more to their credit than winning ball games was the fact that several boys who started on the reserves had enough ability to gain the varsity team when that squad became short-handed. Had the Indian reserves played the entire season with the boys who started on the squad, they would no doubt have compiled an outstanding record. Jerry Udell turned up three outstanding Sophs early in the season and these boys were promoted to the varsity. They were Van Williams, LeRoy Middleton, and Bob Steffen. Warren Bunyan was another who made the varsity ranks. In all, practically three separate teams were used during the season, and among them, they gathered 3 wins and 11 losses. One of the sore spots of the season was the loss of three contests to Northern in the Little City Series . Not including those boys who went to the varsity, 13 received awards. They were Ray Page, Howard Welch, Jack Skaff, Jim Winters, Art Reynolds, Sam Allen, Wes Waldron, Les Farkas, Bill Oroz, Chuck Knowles, Jerry Myers, Louie Szabo, Ken Slaght, and John Lancaster. RESERVE BASKETBALL—Front Row: Don Salim. Manager, Sam Allen, Jim Winters, Wesley Waldron, Howard Welch, Second Row: Bill Orosz. Louis Szabo, Ken Slcght. Third Row: Gerald Myers. Jack SkaJf. Les Tarkas. Charles Knowles. Back Row: Ray Page, Art Reynolds. JERRY UDELL SOPHOMORE BASKETBALL-Front Row: B. Goodall. C. Day, B. Knot. B. Miller. L. Henderson, D. Fridline, D. Wirsing. Second Row: J. Bishop. T. LeVoir, B. Harmon. P. Woodring, T. Brooks. H. Shaal, H. Wright. Third Row: D. Macline, J. Marr, B. Leavitt, D. Fessler, D. Black. K. Averill, Ken Averill. D. James. Back Row: G. Slater, R Parker, L. Harp. R. Johnson. M. Boughen, T. Murphy. J. Lan- caster. J. Bonnell, L. St. D. Malone. ► 21 1945 Prospectus

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TRACK—First Row: H. Graves. B. Sides. R. Lucas, W. Root. J. Kloblucher, B. Speckin. E. Eriksen. D. Tremaine. R. Williams. H. Sims. C. Pohly. Second Row: R. Eriksen, B. Green. J. Williams. J. Marr, J. Harrison. E. Pilley, N. Jones, Jack Marr, W. Novak, C. Piggott, C. Robbins. J. Voorheis, A. Straw. N. Jones, J. Troxler. Third Row: J. Thomas, O. Jackson. B. Walker, D. Marsh. P. Heddy, E. Eary, V. Williams. B. Misekow. C. Knowles, D. Mackie, T. Petropoulos, J. Adair, T. DeCourval, J. Hayes, J. Hallitt, R. Bloomer. B. Mclnnis, Leon Malone. Track The Indian track squad with exception- ally strong performances in several events and an all-round balance was one of the best at Central in several years. Six boys gathering 19 Vi points gave Central fourth place in the State Indoor Track Tournament coached by Stan Broome and Bill Melzow. The outstanding performers throughout the season were Owen lackson, first-place dash- man in the state meet; Jesse Thomas, hurdler and jumper; Ted DeCourval, pole vaulter; Norm Jones, quarter-miler; and Jim Marr, miler. The relay team also gave some bril- liant performances running near 1:35. It was composed of Bill Speckin, Jack Harrison, Jones, and Jackson. A number of others also gave good per- formances. By events, they were: hurdles— Jack Hallitt, Joe Klobucher, Walter Novak, and Jack Hayes; dash man—Jack Marr; distance men—Edward Eriksen, Wayne Root, John Voorheis, Richard Graves, Jim Adair, J. D. Williams, Burton Walker, and Elwyn Pilley; shot-putters—Chuck Robbins and Warren Knowles. Tennis The tennis team, under the direction of Coach Clement Rowe, turned in many fine performances and compiled a favorable record for the season. Mr. Rowe had three lettermen returning from the previous sea- son, Paul Buben, Bob Meythaler, and Norm Beattie, with Buben and Meythaler relied on to carry the biggest load. Tom Muhn, a numeral winner from the 1944 season, was also on hand. The netters had two principal objectives for the 1945 campaign. First of all they wanted to beat Northern, and secondly, they wanted to better their '44 record. After defeating Northern for the City title for six consecutive seasons, the Norsemen spilled the Red-Black's last season. The Tribes' record from the previous season was two wins against three losses in a season con- siderably curtailed by war-time travel dif- ficulties. The team competed in nine meets in 1945. TENNIS—Front Row: Bob Meythaler. Sam Allen, Norm Beattie. Back Row: Wes Waldron, Clem Rowe. Tom Muhn, Paul Buben. 23 1945 Prospectus