Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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THE BOOSTER team which won the ' 14 tournament; Norma Thorns and Julia Weghorst, who helped the Crimsons win last year ' s games. They also played in the monogram series, putting up a good fight for the first monograms awarded the girls of M. T. H. S. — lulia A. Weghorst. Our Standards Raised. The close of this term finds Manual Training High School supplied with clean, clear-cut, and honest athletics. A great change has taken place and people are noticing and compliment- ing the high standard on which Man- ual ' s athletics have been placed. Many outsiders may not know it, but the students of Manual realize that this sudden change for the better has resulted from the efforts of Merle J. Abbett, the present coach. When Mr. Abbett was appointed coach last fall, our athletics were undergoing a gen- eral slump. He undertook the work of building up an entire new athletic force under a clean policy and strict training rules. Provisions were made for an athletic training table in the lunch room where only such food is served as fulfils the training rules. Mr. Abbett has built up a squad of basket- ball players from which it is going to be a great task to pick a state team. This last fact makes Manual feel that it will certainly put out a winning- state team. The papers of Franklin, Indiana, confirm this feeling by pre- dicting a victory for our team in the next state meet. — Paul Church. The New School Banner The January ' 16 class has presented to the school a new M. T. H. S. ban- ner. It was made in the form of a pennant, the size being six by fifteen feet. The class noted the need of a school banner at the last Track Meet. At this time. Manual had nothing to dis- tinguish her except the innumerable shades of red worn by the students. The class, therefore, made this banner, which they hope will be carefully pre- served by all Manualites. — Frieda Wingenroth. Some Seniors Trounce Faculty Team The Senior-Faculty basketball game is a contest which will long be remembered as being the big circus event of the semester. The gym was packed until there was hardly breathing space. The Seniors simply just coundn ' t miss going, and the Freshmen attended because they wanted to see how the Faculty ap- peared doing the fox-trot around the floor in tights. Mr. Abbett and Mr. Koontz were the stars for the Faculty. The former scored ten of his team ' s twelve points and the latter covered the floor well — by actual count falling exactly 453 times. The Faculty, how- ever, did not have a monopoly on the basketball talent. On the Some Senior team, Miller caged six field goals, and Swede Iverson lifted in three. The success of the Seniors was due, no doubt, to their coach, Heinie Moesch. Although he ad- mitted that he couldn ' t distinguish a field goal from a foul, his whispered conferences with his team seemed to frighten the Faculty and to inspire the Seniors. — Paul Church. Fouls Fa nHir Field Foul Com- r acuity Goals Goals mitted Koontz F 4 Anderson F 1 Edwards C Abbett G 1 8 1 Ammermon G Senior — Miller F 6 Iverson F 3 1 Masters C 1 3 Ebaugh G 4 Conner G 2 The members of the January class have discovered that not only does Robert Hatfield look like an Indian, but that when he is on the trail of Senior Booster material he has the hunting instincts of one. — K. M. Why did they put Lucile Wakeland on the joke committee of the Senior Booster? Because jokes are always short.

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THE BOOSTER Our Athletics. (By Merle J. Abbett.) During- the last four months about one hundred fifty boys have been tak- ing part in basket ball and the only regrettable fact of this, is that there were no more taking part. In summing up the things accom- plished that are really worth while in the sport, we find a number of com- mendable facts. It has not been so much a matter of which team won that was of utmost importance to us. but the fact that the above mentioned boys were benefited directly by the practice. They are stronger in body, quicker in thinking and acting, and have a greater capacity for team work, and a better knowledge of the same. All boys who have engaged in the sport have attained the average re- quired by the school to engage in ath- letics. They have shown that they are in- terested in the athletics of the school, that they are trying to do something for their school as well as themselves. They have not had anything held up to them, of a material nature, to serve as an incentive to their play. Their activit} has been one with no selfish interest and it has resulted in very great benefit to the boys themselves, and they have in a large measure got- ten out of their play what they have put into it. They have aided very materially in contributing an added interest in the school by making the sport amusing and pleasing to other members of the school. They have aided very largely in furnishing members who will make up the squad that will represent the school in the sectional tournament in March. They have been manly in their be- havior, interested in their endeavor, active in their play, strict in their training, wholesome in their spirit, and loyal to their fellows and school. May the boys who have engaged this year have more prosperous years, with more enjoyment, more profit to reflect upon and reap a harvest from after they leave school. Basketball Manual has had a very successful basketball season this year. The principal reason for this is the coming of Mr. Abbett. He has gotten the whole school interested in the game. Almost all the boys who have partici- pated in basketball this year say that they have received a square deal. Our prospects for a state team are very bright. The team will be ex- perienced, as nearly all of the mem- bers of it were on the state squad last year. However, with plenty of prac- tice, the new men will be in just as good condition as the old members. The substitutes have not yet been de- cided upon, but there are several men who are able to take care of those po- sitions. This year ' s team appears to be much faster than that of last year, and as last year ' s team won the sec- tional tournament, a repetition of this should occur again. Prospects arc that our men may go even farther. — Robert A. Conner. Girl ' s Athletics The athletic spirit was renewed with unusual vigor this year, espe- cially in the girls ' tennis and basket- ball tournaments. The spirit of play, as expressed by Mr. Abbett, has been more prominent this year than ever before. The number of participants has greatly increased, due partly to the well organized athletic associa- ciation which includes both girls and boys, and partly to the efforts of the girls themselves to make this a suc- cessful athletic year. Norma Thorns won the fall and spring tennis tournaments and we, as January ' 16 seniors, are very proud of our double champion. There are several prominent Janu- ary seniors in the basketball tourna- ment this year, among whom are Ruth Lieber, captain of the green

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THE BOOSTER Class Officers Jan. 1916 , WILLIAM EBAUGH PRESIDENT MISS MARGARET BURNSIPL SPONSOR NORNA THOMS SECRETARY LOUISL STEWART VICE PRESIDENT OTTO 5CHOELLK0PF TREASURER THE AIM OF THE JANUARY CLASS. By William Ebaugh, President. The spirit of the January ' 16 class has been one of its most noticeable and useful assets. This spirit is best shown in the numerous organizations and activities of the school. Each organization and activity has its quota of January ' 16 Seniors. Although we may not always be in positions of great influence and power, we give the best we have and, realizing our own limitations, take our orders from the other fellow. Our aim has always been to serve Manual Training High School in every way possible. In our intimate relations with the various organizations and activities of the school, our senior class has de- veloped what is now its main charac- teristic — originality. Ours is the first January class to have an official sen- ior issue of the Booster. The January Senior-Faculty basketball game origi- nated with us. So it is with almost all that we have attempted. The adoption of an official school flower, the placing of the official school color and official school pin in the trophy case in the library has been done in order that the school may see the tro- phies beside the insignia of Manual Training High School and so develop and bring to the fore the spirit of loyalty and devotion to this school. All this has been done through a love for Manual. Our work in Manual will in a short time be done, but our work for Manual will never be done. We can best show our appreciation for her by toil in the bustling world. We ' hope that the little wc have accomplished will inspire in some measure the on-com- ing-classes to a higher loyalty and ap- preciation of Manual Training High School.