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

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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?

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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 The B ooster published weekly by The Pupils of Manual Training High School Entered as second-class matter March 30, 1912 at Indianapolis, Indiana, under act of March 3, 1879 INDIANA PuLIS, INDIANA pn.pc J 5 Cents a Copy t-Ki c. | 4Q Cents a Semester EDITORIAL BOARD C. Kenneth Magers. ...... .Editor-in-Chief Paul Iske Asst. Editor-in-Chief Mildred R. Hein Magazine Editor Irrna Gulley, Gladys Benson, Assts. Norma Merrill. . .. Academic Editor Ruth Sanders, Assistant Edward Gass Athletic Editor Kearsley McComb, Ruth Harbison, Assts. Evans Plummer Science Editor Eugene Ehrgott, Assistant Harold Stewart Art Editor Raymond Freeman Exchange Editor Foster Davis Staff Photographer STAFF Lawrence Brink, Mary Burrows, Cyrus Clark, Mildred Clark, Malcom Dunn, Helen Fehr, Raymond Freeman, Julius Frick, William Gane, Pauline Hart, Dwight Llewellyn, Forrest McAlpin, Ross Mullin, Leone Newman, Gladys Stevens, Helen Sommers, Emma Tacoma, Richard Treat. Edward Wagoner Business Manager Ruth Stinson, Marie Roesener, Hazel Reidenbach, Mary Jeter, Helen Helkene, Assistants. Robert G. Barnhill Student Advisor FACULTY ADVISORS Miss Eleanor P. Wheeler, E. H. Kemper McComb, K. Von Ammerman. OFFICES :: :: ROOM 2 6 Next Wednesday marks the end of one of the most momentous years in the history of Manual. The Shake- speare celebration, the changing of the name of the school to the Charles E. Emmerich Manual Training High School, and the great boom in ath- letics, any one or all would serve to distinguish this year from others in the annals of the school. So the task of the Booster has not Miss Knox been a snap this term. We have endeavored to cover all of these events with a small staff and improve the paper at the same time. It has not been easy, and we believe that we have not entirely failed. True, we have been severely criticised at times, but why notice that criticism, since it was destructive, not constructive ? In fact, we rather glory in this cen- sureship — it shows that Manual is tak- ing a slight interest in its paper. Next year it is the intention of the Booster editors and staff to make the paper more original, snappy and modern. During the latter part of this semester and in this issue we have worked toward this end. We have introduced some novelties of make-up. The paper contains fewer formal articles — more nut stuff. We hope the product of our pens will be pleasing. — The Editors and Staff. After one last look at Manual we conclude that she ought to have a cradle roll as well as an honor roll.