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

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THE BOOSTER ATHLETIC REVIEW FELIX BRUNER THE first season during which Manual has been allowed to compete with outside schools has not been particularly successful from the standpoint of victories. At the state meet most of the members of the team qualified in the prelimin- aries, and usually ran in fourth in the finals, losing out on the points. Five of the nine members of the Manual team reached the finals. It was necessary to run the track events in many heats because of the large number of entrants and the narrow- ness of the track, which would accom- modate only four runners in dashes. The track events were of endurance. In the hurdles, Gullett was forced to run nine races. Endurance was the main requisite and Gullett lost out chiefly for that reason. He did, how- ever, take third place in 220-yard low hurdles and he finished fourth in the high hurdles. A rather unusual event was the pole vault, in which two men broke the state record. Mittank of Fairmount Academy, was the winner over Garten of Manual .Garten vaulted 11 feet Wz inches or 2V± inches higher than the old state record. Garten has made rapid progress in the pole vault and by next season should be able to at least equal the new state record. Manual lost two out of three dual meets in which the team participated. In no meet was the Manual team swamped, the scores always being close. In the only home meet in which Training school participated, the Red and White won both the meet and the relay. For winning this con- test Manual was awarded the first cups that have been given the school for interscholastic contests for over eight years. Gullett was the star of the season, being the individual point maker in the dual meets. He lost only one race in all three meets. Garten did well in the pole vault, losing only ALTHOUGH the M. T. H. S. basketball team did not bring home any championships this year, all things considered it made a good showing. The team played in poor luck in the sectional meet, draw- ing for its first opponent the fast Martinsville five. It is a matter of conjecture what the M. T. H. S. team would have done if it had met South- port instead of Martinsville in its first game. In all probability the Manual quintet would have defeated the Southport team and would have reached the finals. In fact many con- sidered the Manual five much better than the Southport quintet, who were runners-up. The Martinsville team was made up of some of the fastest players in the state, and, prior to the sectional tournament, had met and de- feated some of the fastest Indiana high school quintets. Although the Manual boys were de- feated in their first game they gave Martinsville a hard race. Cotton Berndt said that it was one of the fastest high school games that he had ever seen. The scoring for the red and white quintet was done by Harold Bartholomew and Edward Gass, both of whom played a fast game. Ernest Richman and Stanley Lefeber played a good defensive game. Although Herbert Behrent played a fast game, he was hampered in his scoring by the lowness of the Martinsville gym. Morse played only three minutes at the end of the game and Overstreet did not get into the fight at all. Because of the peculiarity of their position and their lack of chances to score, the guards usually do not get as much credit for playing a good game as do the other players who have more chance for grandstand per- formances. Stanley Lefeber proved an exception to this rule in the game with Martinsville, for he received much of the applause of the spec- tators. Followers of the game ranked him as one of the best guards of the meet, and one newspaper gave him a place on its all-sectional team.

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THE BOOSTER PRESENTS! WILLIAM ' S family loved to give presents. This was true not only of his immediate family, but of all the host of uncles, aunts, grandparents, and first to forty-sec- ond cousins, that comprised his list of relatives. Now of course William was perfectly aware that gift giving is not a crime; in fact he was nothing if not an anti-Spug. But when a fel- low has received four hundred eighty- one gifts and it is yet seven days until graduation he is apt to be a bit pessi- mistic. Then there was another cause for worry besides the superabundance; that was the repetition of presents. From previous birthdays and Christ- mases he had long since learned just what to expect from each person: ties from grandmother, aunt Ella, and uncle Ed; shirts from grandfather, cousin Lola, and mother; handker- chiefs from the twins, cousin Ruth, and Dick; books from father and uncle Roy. He could tell without any trouble just what to expect in 1948. It was while seated on top of the wardrobe (there wasn ' t room for him anywhere else) that he took an in- ventory of his possessions. It was as follows : 1 watch, 6 watch chains, 13 watch charms, 8 knives, 11 tie pins, 28 shirts — actual count, 19 pairs of socks, 350 handkerchiefs — William counted these in lots of 25 each, 4 sets of cuff links. 31 books — from A Six Cylinder Courtship to Essays of Elia, 3 bath robes, 7 pairs of bedroom slippers — green, black, purple, orange, yellow, brown and pink. (The bathrobes were errav, red and black plaid, and blue.) The outlook was awful! He had been receiving presents for three days only. At this rate he was doomed to receive eight hundred six- teen more handkerchiefs, fifty-nine more shirts, fourteen watch chains, etc., etc. The only consolation was that he might eventually get slippers to match a bathrobe, or visa versa. And as William jumped from the wardrobe, and upset the socks while trying to dodge the handkerchiefs, he mentally concluded that there was only one thing to do. And that was to start a hope-box. EXTRACTS FROM WILL Second: To the library, we will one-half dozen copies of the book by Fred Glossbrenner on How to Stall in Any Class. It is a book of deep penetration. Fourth: To the freshmen, we will the many long-lost determinations which we have made to get better marks. Fifth: To Hugh Davey. we will a reliable alarm clock, in order that he may be recalled to life in time enough to leave his history class. Sixth: To Ike McClain. we will ten feet of adhesive tape, which shall en- able him to remain close to mother earth when he leads a yell. Seventh: To the present and com- ing students of M. T. H. S., we will that desire, which we had for some time, to get out of Manual. As the hour of death approaches and the magnitude of our sins and short-com- ings loom up before us in the form of a threatening hand, the fear of death is upon us, and we vainly cry for a chance to remain and try again. Eighth: To coming students, we will a classified list, especially pre- pared for us by such popular students as Edward Gass, Alvah Heskett and Charles Goth, telling the courses which are easiest to get by in. If this preparation is properly appre- ciated there is no reason for anyone stumbling on such subjects as trigo- nometry and chemistry. Ninth: To some deserving under- classman, we bequeath the wonderful vitality of Leon Rogers. We believe that anyone who has vitality enough to carry him through Physics II for three terms, while the average boy succumbs after the first attack, has a vitality which should not be neglected or overlooked. Tenth: To Mr. Stuart, we will one- half dozen best grade leather halters. to be at the disposal of those young men who are so fond of leading their lad}- loves about the halls of Manual. Eleventh: To Ringling Brothers ' circus, we bequeath Donald Cayton. Although Donald will be missed among his friends, it is our belief he will be much more at home among the monkevs and other animals.

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THE BOOSTER IN THE most hotly contested match of the girls ' tennis tourn- ament, Ruth Harbison won the finals from Dorothy Rice, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 3-6. 6-3. The winner had only one more game than the runner-up. The match lasted about three hours, many games going to deuce, and it was only in the last fifteen minutes that the victor was to be guessed. Both girls displayed remarkable skill. In the first set, Dorothy Rice won the first two games, when Ruth Har- bison found herself, and took the next three. Dorothy then evened up mat- ters but the first set went to Ruth. Dorothy was now on her mettle and allowed her opponent only two games in the second set. The third set went to four all, when Ruth took holt , and won the set. Dorothy won the fourth set by hard driving and care- ful placing. The remaining sets were featured by the fine plays of both girls. Ruth Harbison ' s endurance in the remain- ing two sets gave her the champion- ship. We congratulate our new champion, and we feel proud of the good, clean sportsmanship that characterized the match. BECAUSE of the ever-increasing number of entrants in state track and field meets, the meets of recent years have been slow and a large number of heats have been ne- cessary. The holding of state meets is becoming more of a problem every year and some solution will have to be found. The State High School Athletic As- sociation has been considering the holding of sectional meets. The point makers in the sectional meets would then participate in a state meet and decide the state championship. This would make the meets faster. Merle J. Abbett Early last September we learned that Merle J. Abbett was to be Man- ual ' s athletic coach for this year. We returned to school mentally picturing him as a large, blustering, hail-fellow- well-met sort of a person. That we were surprised to find a slender, boy- ish-looking young man, is stating the case mildly. Soon a new spirit began to enter our athletics; new life was put into the dead body. It was the spirit of Mr. Abbett. It was the spirit of play, the spirit of clean, fair sportsman- ship. Never before in the history of the school has a teacher so enthroned himself in the hearts of the students. Coming here a stranger, he now has more friends than perhaps any other teacher. The servant question again arises. If we had had a Butler at Franklin, would we have won the meet?