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

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THE BOOSTER Athletics By Frank Cox Athletics During the Year — 1918-19. In an article published in the first edition of the Booster last fall, two sectional winning teams (in basket- ball and track) were predicted for Manual ' s athletic card during the pres- ent school year. Last Saturday, run- ning true to form, the track squad fulfilled this prophecy by winning the sectional track meet at the fair grounds; for earlier in the spring the basketball team had accomplished its end of the program. So in reviewing the athletics of the school year one can easily see that to date they have been extremely suc- cessful; never in the school ' s history have there been two sectional win- ning teams in any one season. Basket ball opened up with a rush last fall, there being 219 boys enrolled in the various monogram teams. Due to the enforced Flu vacation the league games were never finished, but a squad of 28 was picked from the showings made, which comprised the state team basket ball squad. The reg- ular schedule opened the 8th of No- vember and lasted until the team was eliminated at the State Tourney in the second round of play the 9th of March. Two teams were carried during the en- tire season and comparative scores show how successful this experiment was. Out of 26 games played by the first team, 18 were won, with the team scoring some 654 points to their oppo- nent ' s 412. A most remarkable fea- ture of the team ' s success was the fact that in the local sectional tourney only 7 field baskets were registered by the opposing four teams played. Rice led the season ' s scoring with 56 field baskets. Conn registered 31 before he left school in January. Secrest rang up 43, Jamison 38, Bybee 37, Keckler 29, O ' Connor 16, Wertz 11, Harmeson 8, and Cox 6. The second team also played wonderful ball, winning the city championship by not losing a game to either Shortridge or Tech during the season. They won 9 out of 11 games played, scoring 263 points to their opponents ' 129. Out of this squad, a nucleus for another success- ful school team is left for next sea- son. Our Track Team Newt Dodge tried about every event in track and field work, but majors in the high jump and high hurdles. He had bad luck at the sectional, getting a bad start in the hurdles, and tying for second in the jump, but lost out while jumping off the tie. Newt has other stuff if he gets down and works. We lose him to Purdue this year. Harry Baldauf is a hard-working man and has had the most successful track season of his career. He shows up best in the high hurdles, high jump and javelin throw. Baldy graduates this year. Frank Messing needs no introduc- tion. He is a star dash man and low hurdler. He, with Frank Garten, won the state meet two years ago. He is going to hum things up over at Illi- nois next year. Albert Jamison is young, but he sure steps the 220 and the 100-yard dashes when he is in good condition. He will be back in school next year. Tubby O ' Conner has been at it again; losing iron balls. He sure will be missed next year when the roll is called. Gardner is a half-miler of no mean ability. He has the right spirit and Continued on page 8 In reviewing the track season, Man- ual ' s winning team has won all her meets, seven straight, and has a fair show to place high in the state. There is no team in the state strong enough to defeat the squad in a dual meet be- cause of its even balance in all events in both track and field. While the meet at Richmond was not won be- cause of the lack of phenomenal men on the squad, the fact still remains that Manual has the best balanced track team in the state. In another week the baseball city championship series will be started at Washington Park, and Manual ex- pects to run true to form by giving the other teams entered something to do if they win over her fighting bunch of ball tossers. So taking our share in the breaks of Dame Fortune, we as a school have had a wonderful athletic school year.

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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. I N D I A N A P O L I S . I N D I A N A J 5 Cents a Copy j 40 Cents a Semester Vol 21 June, 1919 No . 13 Booster Committee. Glen L. Campbell Editor-in-Chief Crawford Barker Art Editor Frank Cox. Athletic Editor Thomas Gallagher News Editor Benjamin Jordan Personal Editor Robt. O ' Conner. .Asst. Personal Editor Myron Buker Business Manager Morna Pellam Stenographer Helen Carter Stenographer Anna Sandler ...... Stenographer FACULTY ADVISORS. Miss Eleanor P. Wheeler, Miss Eliza- beth Hench, Edward Holloway. EFTH5 In considering the achievements of the year past, let us begin with bas- ketball. Our team easily won the sec- tional and then went to the state tournament. In this we were defeated by the state champions. Five mem- bers of the team are June seniors. Next, Manual triumphed over her competitors in the district and state discussion contests. The winner of these contests is a June senior. Along this line, the debating team, com- posed for the most part of seniors, broke even by winning one debate and losing one. Our track team next in line, won the sectional meet and finished third in the state, being nosed out by the narrow margin of one-third of a point. This team also had as a nucleus a group of seniors. The Roines and Masoma clubs have accomplished a great deal this year. With all these facts, who can doubt that JUNE, ' 19, is peer of them all? Credit for Booster? i or the first time in history, the members of the Booster Staff have received credit for the work done. Is this fair? First, what is the Booster? Is it not a school project, like athletics or debating? Should there be credit the Booster work? Track is as hard, if not harder, than the Booster work. For the lat- ter the student receives credit, for the former he does not. If credit is given for one, why not give credit for both? If the students have too little pride to work for the school without credit, they should not be allowed to stay within its walls. With this issue, Volume twenty-one of the Booster is brought to a close. Next year there will be a complete change of staff, with Walton Cash at the head. Because we have had ex- perience along the Booster line, we bespeak for Walton your hearty co- operation. (Continued from page 2) have families of domestic children who will gather round you in your peaceful homicides in tumultitudinous consanguinity. Sometime, seated in some lovely re- treat in the back yard, beneath the shadowy shades of an umbrageous tree, you will gather round you your wife or husband and the rest of your orphan children. You will there take a retrospective view upon the diagram of futurity, and cast your eye like a flashing meteor forward into the past. Seated in their midst, aggravated and exhaled by the dignity and indepen- dence coincident with honorable pov- erty, your countenances irrigated with intense glows of self-deficiency and ex- communicated knowledge, you will quietly turn to instruct your lit- tle assemblages. You will endeavor to distill into their minds, useless les- sons to guard their juvenile youths against immortality. There, on a clear sunny evening, when the silvery moon is shining forth in all her indulgence and ubiq- uity, you will teach them the first sediments of geometry, by pointing out to them the bear, the lion, and many other fixed invisible consterna- tions which are continually revolving in their bearings, through the blue cerulean fundamu? above. From this (Continued on page 9)

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