Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Sankrt Sail § rljpbulr Date, 1912. Score. Jan. 5............II. S. C..............16 West .................... 7 Jan. 12.............H. S. C..............24 Glenville................ 8 Jan. 19.............H. S. C..............25 East.................... 12 Jan. 26.............H. S. C..............11 South.................... 9 Feb. 2.............H. S. C..............11 Central ................. 5 Feb. 9............II. S. C..............25 Tech ................... 28 Feb. 16.............H. S. C..............11 Lincoln ................ 17 Mar. 1............II. S. C..............17 Geneva ................. 12 Dec. 15 (1911)........H. S. C........•....... 7 Faculty ................. 8 Total ...................................147 106 LINE-UP. Weintraub (Captain) Broz............... Russon ............ Zak ............... Lebowitz........... Hilberer, Twitchell . Thomas Albertson .. Right Forward .Left Forward ...... Center . .Right Guard Left Guard .........Subs .....Manager ®ljr Sootrra' (fllub NEVER before was such spirit shown in Athletics and Debating as that displayed this year. Some credit for this school spirit is due, of course, to the winning teams we placed in the field, but a great part of the credit is due to the Rooters’ Club. On Thursday, January the eleventh, at the call of Mr. Ross Baxter, the first meeting of this Club was held in the auditorium, at which yells, new and old, were rehearsed. For the way he handled the fellows through the yells, Ross deserves much praise. The writer knows that a good yell, from his side of the fence, goes a long way towards victory, for it instills a certain desire to forge ahead, inspired by the knowledge that one is well backed. Ross will be with us next year and it is hoped the Rooters’ Club will again be able to cheer a winning team on to victory. THOMAS V. MURPHY, Editor. 9«

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Saakrt Sail THE Basket Ball Team of 1912 was a great delight to the School, because it proved a complete success. Although Captain “Jake” Weiutraub was the only veteran back at school, Coach Evans built the best team Commerce has ever had. Of the forty candidates that came out for the team the following were picked: “Captain Weintraub and Broz, forwards; Russon, center; Zak and Lebowitz, guards; Hilberer and Twitchell, as substitutes. Thomas Albertson was chosen as manager, which office he filled with great satisfaction. The first game was played December fifteenth, when the faculty and varsity engaged in a hard struggle. The faculty won with a score of eight to seven. Coach Evans scored most of the points for his team. West was next defeated by Commerce with the score of sixteen to seven. This meant the championship of the West-side, and gave us a fine start in the senate race. Glenville was met next and defeated by a great margin, the score being twenty-four to eight. With two victories and no defeats Commerce after training hard all the week sent the team against East. The game was the fastest one ever played on Commerce’s floor, and when the final whistle sounded Commerce found itself the winner. The next game was with South, the first game of the season played on an opponent’s floor. Commerce was again victorious. The following week Central was defeated at Commerce, in a very exciting game. The next game, Commerce vs. Tech, at Tech, was the greatest game of the season. Both teams were tied for first place in the Senate League. With three minutes of overtime playing. Tech won a victory. The score was twenty-seven to twenty-five. The last senate game of the season was played against Lincoln, at Lincoln. Commerce was handicapped by the small gymnasium and lost. This game brought to a close the most successful basket ball season the High School of Commerce has ever experienced. The second team composed of Donley, Goldberg. Rosenstein, Kamnetzky and Raybon deserves mention. The team-work showed by these fellows was excellent, as is proven by the winning of six out of the eight games played. (Color Sratno The color team basket ball teams were again continued this year by Mr. Warfield. A captain was elected by the members of each color: Weintraub-Greensr Broz-Blues; Howorth-Gold, and Hilberer-Red. 95

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Sljr (Srnnm (6arnr MARCH the first was a great day for the basketball team: great because victory made us another visit on that day; and great because of the fun we had on our first out-of-town game. On that day the team took a trip to Geneva to play the so-called “Geneva Hayseeds.” To say that we were almost scared to death at the sight of the town marshall “Uncle Zeke” would put it mildly. No sooner had the manager of the Geneva team taken us from the station to the armory, than he, the town marshal, made his presence felt. He informed us that we would have to behave ourselves in a way that would be satisfactory to him or we would be made to feel the hand of the law as administered in that town. We were to walk along the street without making any noise and we were to keep away from the girls of the Geneva High School. The thing that impressed the boys most was his enormous badge, which glistened like the moon and resembled our neighboring plauet Mars in size. When we entered the armory to practice a short time before the game started, we noticed that the girls of the town sat in one part of the armory and the boys in another. The girls did the rooting and the boys did the yelling for our blood. On one side of the hall the village notables were seated on a stage, and they included everybody from the mayor to the truant officer, the last of whom, afterwards played an important part in one of the scenes. The notables became as much excited as the boys and the girls, as the game went ou. and they also became thirsty for our blood. To emphasize this they showed the boys a little old fashioned cheering. It was about ten minutes after the game started that the marshal was given a chance to show the town officials and voters that they had elected a man that would stand for home interests. Mr. Evans called time, so as to talk to the referee about one of the rules and as the Geneva team was still scoreless, the marshal thought that he would help them to score by not letting the referee explain the rules; so he marched out on the floor and ordered the coach off under the penalty of arrest if he disobeyed. The village lads applauded this act with great gusto and the marshal threw out his chest as if he had actually succeeded in capturing a great burglar. Zak had his head injured and the truant officer put in a bid for fame by escorting him to the doctor for repairs. The shedding of blood seemed to have a maddening effect on the crowd for they yelled for the death of a few of our boys. The Geneva team had a colored man to rub them down before the game but he was a “hoodoo” rather than a help, and after the game he told us the reason his team lost was because the star of the team played only thirty-five of the forty minutes it took to play the game. As a side issue to this scene in real country greatness we succeeded in trouncing the “Hayseeds” to the tune of 18 to 13, and in consequence we left town in a joyful state singing all the way home. LIONEL RUSSON, 1913. 97