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

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THE GIFT THE MERRY, MERRY CUCKOO

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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 Class Play Chatter. Every time this particular season of the year drags around, it is cus- tomary for the Booster grin artists to sling a pint or two of ink about the class play. We kinda forget just what we said on the subject last year, which makes it rather inconvenient, as we ' ll probably have to think a lit- tle. Class Play is a semi-annual disease which attacks high school students in the second term of their senior year. The first symptoms are sudden and violent attacks of oratory, coupled with ejaculation of such startling ex- clamations as, Annie, I hear the cuckoo singinV In the more advanced stages of the disease, the victim develops a variety of that well known malady, Domus Magnus, together with a marked ex- pansion of the respiratory organs. Such attacks, however, are easily checked in their incipiency by the ap- plication of a little cold water, and are never serious unless accompanied by writeups in the papers and great publicity through the Booster. And now for the final and most seri- ous period: The patient becomes a victim of alternating chills and fever. Much uneasiness is apparent. He be- comes addicted to the use of such ex- clamations as, Hazel, is my hair on straight? and Gee! wonder if they ' ve got a big crowd tonight? He realizes that the time has come to kill or cure. Which it has. We thank you. Just before the final performance Friday night, somebody switched off the lights in the property room, and when they came on again, Clyde Pierce found, very much to his dis- gust, that he was holding hands with Elliott Hume. Cheer up, Clyde, it could have been worse. ' Spose, f ' rin- stance, it was Cox or Robison. Mr. Holloway was at first very much disappointed at the apparent absence of the Welsh rabbit in The Merry, Merry Cuckoo. He insisted that no Welsh play could be a suc- cess without such a decoration, and seemed greatly worried about it until our esteemed friend, Brother Winslow, pointed out the fact that the wig Tom Gallagher was wearing was a genuine Welsh hair. The slight delay in getting the first (Continued on page 8)