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

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THE BOOSTER 13 THE YEAR ' S ATHLETICS BY GEORGE GARRARD Fall Sports. Athletics started with a boom in the fall of 1917 with the fall tennis tourna- ment, the promise of interscholastic basket ball games, and the organization of cross-country and steeple-chase teams. The tennis tournament was snappy all the way through and some new stars were brought to light. The girls ' singles were won by Florence Walsh. The boys ' singles went to Udell and the doubles to Udell and Elliott. As soon as the tennis tournaments were over, four basket ball leagues of four teams each were formed. Four boys were selected by Coach Morrison to help coach and take charge of the Freshmen teams. Midget, Minor and Major leagues were then formed. The Gray team was captained by Thomas Quill, January ' 18, and Messing, Sum- mers and Garrard were captains of the Whites, Crimsons and Blues respective- ly. Through the work of Captain Quill and Conn, a new man from Columbus, Indiana High School, the Grays were able to cop the championship of the Major League. The Whites, with Cox and Secrest as the stars, managed to get second place. The Blues were third and the Crimson team brought up the rear. Just before Thanksgiving, the inter- est in athletics centered on the steeple- chase and cross-country runs, which were held on a 3-mile course at River- side, over the canal tow-path and sev- eral other paths, the names of which are unknown to the writer. (The cen- sor refused to print the substitutes, though fit for said paths by said writer.) The steeplechase and cross- country run were won by Charlie Bybee in record time. Record of Basket Ball Games — ' 17 and ' 18. By this time Manual ' s basket ball athletes had played the Monogram ser- ies and the White Major team had played Brownsburg High School, our first interscholastic game, which result- ed in a victory for the Whites, 14-12. The second erame was played against Southport. Manual ' s first state squad was sent against Southport ' s huskies and the second game was won 25-9, with old M. T. on top. The state squad as it started the season, was composed of Conn, Speer, Secrest and Baldauf, forwards; Steeg and Dodge, centers; Bybee, Cox and Garrard, guards. The next game took the team to Bloomington, where they met their first defeat to the tune of 30-17. The loss was credited to Eseray of Bloomington who hit the iron hoop ten times out of twelve for foul throws. Soon after this the state team suffered several mishaps. Some of the men were sick and one or two were ineligible. This probably accounted for the loss of two hard games with Shelbyville and Franklin. During this time Secrest was moved to floor guard and Summers was playing center position with Mess- ing and Baldauf as forwards. Cox remained as back guard. This team won from Broad Ripple, 39-5, jour- neyed to Columbus during Christmas vacation and was beaten 20-17. The team played Lizton on the night of January 1 and suffered a defeat, 14-11, at the hands of the farmers. It was rumored that all but two of the men were out till three o ' clock on the morn- ing before, but of course, we cannot vouch for that — M. T. went to Browns- burg and was defeated 26-14. Follow- ing the defeat came a victory at Broad Ripple by a 28-15 score. Games here at the Y. M. C. A. with Bedford and Martinsville were canceled because of the cold weather. On one of these nights we played Jefferson of LaFay- ette, and were beaten 22-10. Brazil was defeated 21-7, at Brazil. The Deaf Institute was defeated 55-19, in a prac- tice game. Our team next went to Southport ' s cheese box of a gym. The Southerners were able to make several three cushion shots on the walls of the aforementioned gymnasium and beat our quintet by the close score of 16-15. The Broadway Knights were beaten in a practice game, 53-9. Nobles- ville came down to see what sort of quintet we had and found it to be air tight. They were unable to score a field goal, the final score being 49-2. On Saturday, February 9, probably the most thrilling and sensational game ever played on Manual ' s floor, was wit- nessed by some four or five hundred rooters. Rochester High School had just defe ated the Lebanon team, state champions, and on their way home chose to take our own warriors on for a tussle. Well, anyone who saw the

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12 THE BOOSTER The Booster PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY The Pupils of Chas. E. Emmerich Manual Training High School Entered as second-class matter March 30, 1912 a.) Indianapolis, Indiana, under act of March 3, 1879 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA J 5 Cents a Copy J 40 Cents a Semester EDITORIAL BOARD. Gladys Stevens ) itnrcs in chief Sumner Wiltsie } Editors-in-Chier NEWS. ' Gladys Ewbank, Mildred Mason, Helen Poehler, Nellie Thomas, Marie Van Jelgerhois. ATHLETICS. George Garrard. ART. Emory Bryan, Harold Stewart, Fran- cis Tuysin. PERSONALS. Emory Bryan, Carl Carpenter, Arthur Batley, Louise Schneider, Nina San- ders, Leta Ennis. MAKE-UP. Carl Zimmerman, Charles MacGinnis, Henry Meyer. Melvin Kettlehut Business Manager Glenn Kinghan Circulation Manager FACULTY ADVISORS. Miss Emily Helming, E. H. Kemper McComb, Edward Holloway. In Union There Is Strength. This was felt by the January and June Seniors of 1918, when the ques- tion arose as to whether or not the January Seniors should abandon the plans for their Senior Booster. The severe days of last winter, which forced many shops, schools and even homes to close made it impossible to have the Senior issue of the Booster printed. At the January Class party, the June Class was kind enough to of- fer, through its president, Joseph Sharp, to share its Booster with the January Class. As a result the Jan- uary and June Boosters have been combined, with one-third devoted to the January ' 18 Class, and two-thirds to the June ' 18 Class. — Grace Hackemeyer, V. P. Have you been reading Diamond Dick or have you been stiffening your mental fibre by delving into the depths of Emerson ' s Correspondence and such like? The wise person who has not gone along the line of least resistance, but who has, according to the Reading List, read the most valuable list of books, will be presented a fine edition of some book on commencement night. The person who has read the second best list will be given honorable men- tion. Phi Beta Kappa. Before the graduate of this year is a new and intense situation to face for his future. There is college, the war, and the vast amount of work which is the result of the struggle. He has been urged to choose the first course wherever possible. There honors and distinction await his worthiness of them. One of the greatest of these honors is that of being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Be1a Kappa is the national hon- orary fraternity founded in 1776, at William and Mary College. Long lists of notable men such as Longfellow, H. W. Mabie, Thomas Higginson and Jo- seph Choate, have been members and since that time students of colleges and universities have received and worn the insigna — the key of the fra- ternity of intellect. They have won it, not only by long perseverance in their studies, but because of their character which impreses itself upon people. Grinds are not the recip- ients of the key. In fact, not a few have failed 10 make Phi Beta Kappa because they were such grinds. Do not have a false impression; it re- quires work and endeavor in every line of the college course. Various chapters have various re- quirements according to their consti- tution, but all are upon the same high standards. There are three chapters in the state of Indiana: the Alpha at DePauw; Beta at Wabash, and Gamma at Indiana University. Two students from Man- ual have recently been elected to Phi Beta Kappa: Joseph Littell and Ben- jaman Perk. We hope that others will be added from this year ' s class.

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14 THE BOOSTER game will tell you that Rochester got all they were looking for. The score stood 12-10 in Rochester ' s favor at the end of the first half. In the second half some real basket ball was exhib- ited by both teams. When the whistle blew for the end of the second half, the score stood 20 to 20. Conn, Se- crest and Steeg formed the point-get- ting trio, while Cox and Garrard did their best to form an impregnable wall against the Rochester offense. Captain Rice was substituted for Steeg in the last half and in the over- time period he managed to cage the goal that defeated Rochester by two points. This game was undoubtedly as hard as the Martinsville game in the sectional meet and had the team held together in that game as they did in the Rochester game, there would have been a different result. The team next journeyed to meet Mr. Abbett ' s aggregation at Bedford, and after much hard luck in railroad connections, arrived in Bedford to de- feat that team by the slim margin of 15 to 14. The A team of second string men, was formed about this time. They played the Martinsville Seconds twice and the Noblesville Firsts once. They defeated the Mar- tinsville team at home and lost to Martinsville at Martinsville and to Noblesville at Noblesville. The state team was beaten at Whiteland, then came back strong by defeating Brazil 34-5. Manual ' s Guards stunned the crowd by each caging a field goal. The team went to Pendleton and, after run- ning up a large margin in the first half, were defeated 18-17 in the last few minutes. At Shelbyville the team couldn ' t get together and as a result, Shelbyville scored at will. The result was 36-15 in their favor. Three nights of prac- tice were then put in before March the eighth. Each player had an invisible label on himself which read, handle with care, and all took heed; but it was the same old story thrice told of being eliminated by the best team in the first round of the tournament. There is no excuse to offer. We didn ' t play the game that Martinsville did and as a result we were at the small end of the 19-8 score. We do have the satisfaction, however, of knowing that the Martinsville-Manual game had the closest score of any that Martinsville played, and Martinsville scored eleven points less against us than she did against our nearest rival, Southport, who was beaten 30-12. 1918 Track. Track meets were arranged for with the Y. M. C. A. at Noblesville, Crawfordsville, Shelbyville, Bedford and Culver. The Shelbyville meet was called off because of wet grounds, the Noblesville meet was canceled, and the Culver meet was changed to the tri- state meet at Miami College, Oxford, Ohio. The Y. M. C. A. meet was won by Manual for the first time since Man- ual has met the Y. Crawfordsville was defeated by a large score, as was Bedford two weeks later. The team next went to the meet at Oxford, Ohio. Culver Military Academy won the meet, but Manual got second, with Garten first in the pole vault and high hurdles. O ' Connor first in the shot put, Messing third in the low hurdles, and Bybee third in the 880- yard run, and fourth in the mile run. These men were point getters in all of the meets, with Jamison, Harmeson, Whitney, Dodge, Cross, Cady and Hoff- man also figuring in some of the meets. Manual won the sectional track meet with 42 points. Tech was second, with 37 points and Noblesville was third, with 23 points. Shortridge, Southport and Lawrence did not score. Manual ' s point winners were Garten, first, in high and low hurdles, pole vault and broad jump; O ' Connor first in shot put, Cady first in the mile; Bybee first in 880-yd. run; second in 440-yd. dash, Cross third in 440-yd. dash, Messing third in 100-yd. dash Sparks, Cady, Cross and Bybee won the relay for Manual. All of these men, along with Gardner, were entered in the state meet. We will not delve in- to the depths of the state meet, be- cause it is an old story by now of how we were given the rotten deal which lost the track meet for us. Ivey, of Rochester, and Garten, of Manual, were the individual point win- ners, with 13 points each. Perkins of Tech, was next, with 10 points. Manual rooters returned downheart- ed, but they had the knowledge and conviction that their team, the team which represented dear old Manual, was the champion team whether they brought home the cup or not. Spring Tennis. The spring tennis tournaments were