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

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THE BOOSTER THIXTIC D.C lJ.DERW ' tfOO MARTIN NESS, ATHLETIC EDITOR Boys ' Athletics. Athletics at E. M. T. H. S. started out at a rather slow pace this year. We had no athletic association, as we usually have, and many of the stud ent body lost interest. But that old, old adage about a poor beginning making a good ending seems to be coming true. There was an attempt to have a tennis tournament, to be conducted by Mr. Edward Holloway. Only a few players reported, however, and when the Spanish influenza began its inquisition, coupled with some bad weather, all the plans were aband- oned. Then our attention was called to the all-powerful subject of basket ball. This promised to be a banner year, because we had five of the old team with us. This year Coach Mor- rison organized a league of three teams to a division, one team from each floor. There were five divisions, namely: Majors, Sub-Majors, Minors, Midgets and Freshmen. The schedule was carried out for a while, and some very fast games were played. Then the state team candidates were withdrawn, and the league was never finished. Of the can- didates, five were old men — Jamison, Bybee, Conn, Cox, ex-Captain Rice and Captain Zeke Secrest. The team finally picked to represent our school is composed of Morris Conn, Charles Bybee, Frank Cox, Albert Jamison, George Keckler, Robert O ' Connor, John Rice, and Captain Brooks Se- crest. Coach Morrison has worked this bunch of huskies into a formid- able scoring machine, with an im- pregnable defense, as the scores of the games already played indicate. We have made 252 points to our op- ponents ' 187. The following is a list of games and the results: Broad Ripple, 2 Manual, 40 Shelbyville, 17 Manual, 32 Tipton, 43 Manual, 18 Crawfordsville, 14 Manual, 21 Girls ' Athletics. The athletic girls have a confession to make. For the first time since their organization they are guilty of having started something they could not finish. But you should not be too quick to condemn them, for the re- sponsibility for this failure rests upon one who has been guilty of many mis- demeanors. He is best known by his nickname, Flu, and as yet we have been unable to discover his real iden- tity. He put a stop to the tennis tournament, which was well organ- ized under the direction of Miss Herzsh. Next came the question of basket ball. The boys ' department in this field had expanded so greatly under Mr. Morrison ' s leadership that they had five divisions in the league. So, in order to promote the school ' s best interests, the girls ' league was con- densed, one evening a week being used, shorter games were played, and three games were played at a time instead of two. The major players were bunched on the first floor; this made the House plan for a tournament impracticable. So the girls were chosen into three groups and captains elected. Eliza- beth Mueller, Muriel Oliver and Frances McAlpin were given this hon- or and responsibility of managing three teams each. In choosing team colors, crimson was noticeably in dis- favor. The girls declare it has proved to be a hoodoo for several seasons. Elizabeth Mueller ' s team chose white for their color, Muriel Oliver ' s, blue, and Frances McAlpin ' s, green. Just now the tournament is at its height. In addition to the regular tourna- ment, Miss Smith organized a tourna- ment in the Gym. II class of the sev- enth and eighth hours. There are nine teams and each plays eight games. Kathryn Fisk ' s team leads, with Elizabeth Mueller ' s a close sec- ond. Many requests have been made by

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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 at Indianapolis, Indiana, under act of March 3, 1879 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 11, 1918. INDIANAPOLIS, IND I A N A J 5 Cents a Copy j 40 Cents a Semester Vol.20 January 28, 19 19 No. 10 Booster Committee. Henry A. Meyer Editor-in-Chief Eva Mills Magazine Editor John Tacoma .News Editor Dorothy Calderwood Art Editor Carl Zimmerman Art Editor Martin Ness Athletic Editor Robert Bryan Personal Editor William Hurd. ..Ass ' t. Personal Editor Forrest Hughes Business Manager Irene Ham Stenographer Doretta Schrader Stenographer FACULTY ADVISORS Miss Emily Helming, Miss Elizabeth Hench, Edward Holloway. Now that we know we are going to leave our Manual so soon, we have an odd, unusual feeling that is un- precedented and inexplicable. It is like leaving a warm room with its roaring log fire on a cold, wintry night. We know we must go, yet we are loath to leave the warm radiance of our school comradeship. We are not anxious to enter the cold, blood- less, unsympathetic world; yet our own progress — even the progress of the world itself — demands that we leave the warm protection of our school, our Faculty and our Sponsors to enter the world of work that awaits us. A world that wants re- constructing and remodeling, and we must carry on the great, serious task that the boys have so efficiently begun. Many of us will not go di- rectly into the world, but will take on additional warmth to fight the world ' s big battle by posting and later by go- ing to colleges and universities. But always, back of all our achievements, will stand the grand old school that will make it all possible. Let us then rejoice that we shall so soon be able to add to Manual ' s name and fame, and push her forward — on forever! CARRY ON It is not the policy of the Booster to reprint editorials that have ap- peared elsewhere. Here, however, is an article by President Lowell, of Har- vard University, that is so very time- ly that we are offering it to you: Remember that what you must do now is to develop your facilities while you are in college, and there is no place in the world for developing a man ' s faculties such as college. De- velop your intellectual faculties every inch. Develop your power of seeing clearly and thinking straight, and be- ing able to handle masses of facts. Make up your mind that whatever you do in life you will not be the second best if you can help it. Let us have no more of what used to be heard so much in the past, and which I think has been diminishing of late years, the feeling that college is a good place to have a good time, if you don ' t do any- thing. That is the poorest way to have a good time. The most thank- less thing to hunt is happiness. You never get it by hunting it. Happiness is a by-product of other things in life. It never comes from aiming at it. ( Continued on page 21 ) The curtain drops at the end of an- other volume of Boosters. In a few weeks it will rise again on a new scene, a new cast, and a better pro- duction. The stage manager, or, as we have come to know him, the Edi- tor-in-Chief, is to be Glen Campbell. Glen will make an ideal editor. He not only has a high scholastic record, but he is a member of the Roines Club, of the Forensic Club, and a First Lieu- tenant of Company I. We bespeak for Glen your hearty co-operation. We wonder what the class average would be, if at the end of five years, each member of the January class were to take a test in some subject he is studying now — Wouldn ' t they feel cheap ?

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THE BOOSTER the girls of the school for military training, but because of inadequate space in the building or on the grounds, this has been postponed un- til the spring term. It is hard to tell whether it is be- cause many of our best athletes are on the first floor or whether the Eagle House has an unusually fine athletic spirit. At any rate, some athletic songs have appeared which prove that the girls are very much alive to the opportunities and possibilities of a real athletic spirit. The Sassiety notes of the January 1st issue of the Booster also leads us to believe that things are didding. So much for what has already been accomplished. The plans for the rest of the term include the annual bas- ket ball tournament, spring tennis, and a military pageant. Columbus, 22 Manual, 26. Alumni, 30 Manual, 56. Rochester, 9 Manual, 18. Huntington, 24 Manual, 22. Castleton, 26 Manual, 19. Tomorrow we journey to Anderson to take their measure. On February 7th Pendleton will lose their scalp to us at Pendleton. Then on the 15th Bedford meets us at the Y. M. C. A. On the 21st we will tarry long enough at Richmond to take them down a notch. On March 1st we have our last game before the sectional. This happens when we try Thorntown ' s metal at the Y. M. C. A. On March 7th and 8th comes the sectional tournament. It will be held at Tomlinson hall, and every loyal Manualite should turn out. Then a week later comes the final tournament at Bloomington. There is nothing that inspires and pushes a team on to victory as does a good backing. Everyone out to see these games! This means you, January, ' 19, seniors, and you, June, ' 18, grads, and all the alumni We want to and will make this our greatest basket ball year. Yea, Manual! Let ' s go! Recently Major Glossbrenner, in speaking to Company I, quoted John L. Sullivan. The quotation not only applies to military training, but to life: Keep your head cool, your feet warm, your eyes open and your mouth shut and you ' ll get along all right. THE TEAM Coach Morrison. Every day we hear words of praise for this player or that, but it is sel- dom that the coach comes in for his share of the credit. The explanation is simple. Ask any of the average basket ball fans who is the best man on the team, and almost invariably he will tell you, the man who scores the most points. The ave rage spec- tator sees only what occurs on the surface. When a clever play is well executed, he applauds the man who scores the goal and never stops to give credit to the master mind that devised that play and taught it to the team. All Manual ' s victories this year have been won on brains, and those brains are Coach Morrison ' s. At the games he is an inconspicuous fig- ure, standing in some obscure place on the side line. But the success or failure of the team upon the floor de- pends far more upon him than upon any other one individual. The Colum- bus game of January 21st is an inci- dent to prove the point. According to all the dope, Columbus was a mucn better team as far as fighting ability and endurance went. But Coach Mor- rison matched brains with brawn — and won. He studied the plays and players of the team and knew exact- ly where their vulnerable spot was, and how to reach it. He shifted our players into new positions to enable our best guard to stop the fast Co- lumbus floor guard. He put a man at center who could best stop the team wcrk of the opposing center, and the point-getting floor guard. In addition several brand new formations were used with telling effect. So — while we ' re passing around the plaudits, let ' s have nine for Shorty, and make ' em BIG. Captain Secrest. Brooks Secrest, June, ' 19, has been playing basket ball at Manual ever since he entered school here. He was prominent in league games during the earlier part of his high school career and last year was a regular on the state team. Owing to injuries received while playing baseball last summer, and illness this fall, Zeke got too late a start, but now that he is in condi- tion, is going like a whirlwind. There is probably no other man on the team who has mastered the essentials of