Cranford High School - Golden C Yearbook (Cranford, NJ)

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I un Uh: Spotlight Page Slxty-Four Uhr Urark Gleam Manager W TALBOT Captamf-C SMeL'rzl:n Coach,-J S W1-:EKLEY HE Track Team opened the season wlth a bang by defeatxng Somervllle on thexr home ,N track by a score of 70 to 16 on Apr th1s was m the broad Jump Smeltzer took first place 1n the 100 yard dash quarter mlle 11 21 Somervllle captured only one fxrst place and and ran as anchor man on the relay team p and captured the half mlle relay m whxch they were entered The four men who ran N!! were Del Gandlo McGrath Frederxckson and Smeltzer On the 29th of Aprll Pmgry was defeated at Cranford to the tune of '74 to 12 Agam only one first was allowed the vxsxtors Flrst places for Cranford were taken by Towers Smeltzer Olofson Kramer Reed and Sorensen May 6 the team agam allowed only one flrst even thls as a tle to go to Roselle when Roselle was defeated on thelr home field by the score of 76 16 Bob Kramer took first place 1h the dlscus and shotput and tled for flrst m the hlgh Jump On May 16 Cranford won the State Relays at Kearny by takmg first ln the half mlle relay and MY second ln the mlle relay Then came the County Meet on May 22 Cran or pe whlle Uruon came second wlth about half th1s score Among the outstandmg stars of the meet was Towers who captured first place m the llghtwewht 100 yard dash the 220 and the runnmg broad Jump Kramer took another tr1o of gold medals by wmnmg the dlscus 12 pound shotput and the heavy welght runmng hxgh Jump Smeltzer won the heavywelght quarter m1le Not satlsfled w1th wlnnmg the County Meet the team took off the honors at the Plainfield Rotary Meet The txtle of thxs meet has been held for the last elght years by Plamfleld Donnelly smashed the d Bob Kramer took two second places and Towers took three first places f d rom d off wxth th s meet totalmg 639 po1nts 8 pound shotput meet recor Rourke took second place ln the pole vault WL . . . . 559525: . ,ai 51S,,, . 1 ' ' ' . A r1l 25, the team went down to Phxladelphxa J - . . . u 2 , , , - , . . ' A Y V 1 D I ' 1 I P . . V A 4 'null

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The Spntliglgi Page Sixty-Three - 'U Bugs Basketball Umm Manager CHRIS SORENSEN Captam-JOE KLEIN Coach J S WEEKLEY HE Basketball team of 1931 was the only undefeated Class B team ln the State of New 5 LA X2 Wlth only a few Jersey It won every game on the schedule whlch conslsted of fourteen hard foufht matches The openmg game was played at Chatham Roslch showed h1s abxllty by s ormg elght po nts and Capt Klem scored slx On January 30 the team played Roselle It was a laard fought game untll the very end The score stood 25 17 at the close of the game Westfield was another vlctxm of defeat havlng lost by the score of 23 16 The most excltmg game of the season was the return game at Roselle Roselle had the lead at the end of the half the score be ng 12 11 In the last quarter the score was 21 21 seconds to play GF1mthS sank a basket g1v1ng Cranford the vlctory The last game o the season was play ed at Westfield Llke the one wlth Roselle this game was very 6XC1f1I1g At the end of the half Westfield had the lead by four pomts After the half Cranford began to smk baskets and the game ended wxth the score of 17 10 ln our favor The schedule and The s hedule and results follow Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Chatham Umon Scotch Plalns Mlllburn Metuchen Chatham R selle Aw ay Aw a5 Home Aw ay Home Hcme Home Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb results follow Umon Westfield Metucla en Rc elle M111bUl n Scotch Plalns Westfield Home Home Away Away Home Aw ay Aw ay H S pp :Inu Einulllnl O stir' -r QT, - ' ' ls . ,I , 1 . . . if ' I I I ' ' I ' - ' ' ' , ' A ., ' . f C. . . O . C. . . O . . 6 ' L' 18 8 . 3 ' 23 20 . 9 ' ' ' 18 15 . 6 23 16 ,13 ' 28 12 .10 . 32 22 .16 ' ' ' 19 14 .13 S 23 21 .20 39 16 .17 ' ' 47 10 .23 23 9 ' ' .20 ' . ' ' 31 22 .30 C 25 17 F611 27 ' ' 17 10 I' . 1 ' BI 1' H Fr'- Ill'

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mhz fspnilighi Page Sixty-Five - ll Uhr Eaarhall Gram Manager L HILYARD Captam-L FULTON Coach-J W Corn-:x-: HE Cranford High School Baseball Team has had a hne season so far winning 7 out of 10 . I Wie were defeated by Co1umb1a Hugh School of South Orange Newark Academy and Chatham All three of these teams were fast playmg aggresslve teams and Newark and whxch no partlcular person stars but every one plays together and thus we are able to defeat the other teams The team won from Westfleld M1llburn twxce Plngry Scotch Plams Metuchen and Roselle All the games were fought hard for and none of them were easy vlctorles The team was very unlucky to have Joe Klein one of the pltchers spht h1s fmger at the first Mlllburn game and so be unable to pxtch anymore Also another pxtcher on whom we depended was xnelxglble That left us wlth a staff cons1st1ng of only three pltchers Burly Grmmes W1llKle1n and Burlc We succeeded however and turned m several v1ctor1es anyway Freder 1ckson also p1tched ln the second Mxllburn game Followlng lS the schedule and the scores C H Opp ODD Columbia Pmgry Metuchen Scotch Plams Newark Academy Chatham Westfleld Mlllburn Mlllburn Scotch Plams Roselle nl uI'l Ill W E :ia Chatham were close games with the score of 4-3 in both instances. We have a team in L S 2 , . . . . S. . C. H. S. . ' 5 13 ' 2 1 10 0 ' 4 2 ' 3 4 3 4 5 0 ' 11 6 ' 8 0 ' ? ? 9 6 fl r . . !l 'I' r E r I'