Ferris High School - Wheel Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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Page Seventy-Iwo BASEBALL Coach .............. ....... G eorge Wood Faculty Advisor ..... ......... M . F. Seely Captain ........... ..... G uido Baratelli Manager ......, ...... E dward O'Connor ---.4 :in 5

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TRACK AND CROSS COUNTRY Coach ..................... ....... J ohn Hickey FaCulty Advisor ........ ........ A lfred Devlin Track Captain .................. ....... V ictor Falango Cross Country Captain ...... ,,,,,,,. J arnes Zarowski Track Manager .................A..... .............. ,,,,.,.A, T h omas Damato Cross Country Manager ........................,,..,......,......,,,,,,,, Philip Kook The most meteoric rise to fame of any of the Ferris sports is the record which the track and cross country teams have established. Under the able guidance of jack Hickey, the excellent material which had given such promise the previous year blossomed forth and justified the praise which their mentor had accorded them. Captain Vic Falango and Lou Scerbo teamed up in the dashes, as they always do, placing first and second in the opening Port Richmond meet at Staten Island to win 44-33. The following meet marked the return of Memorial to track activity. But the Orange and Black of West New York picked on the wrong team to make their debut with for the Bulldogs were on their way to bigger things and they ran right through Memorial easily winning 67-24. So superior were the Ferris spiked shoe artists that they took first place in every event but the broad jump. The boys were picking up speed when they flew right past the St. Aloysius trackmen, breasting the tape a winner once again. This time the count was 59-22, Once again our team showed its clear superiority sweeping first places in all events but the 440 and the broad jump. The sterling performance of Falango, a dash man, Slodowski, a weight thrower, and Zarowski, a miler, who garnered twenty-live points among them featured the meet. The winning streak was briefiy interrupted with a 45-36 setback at the hands of Union Hill. However, the team came back strong to take a tri-angular meet from St. Peter's and St. Michael's by a large margin even going so far as to blank the St. Michael speedsters without a point. Lincoln was outrun in an exhibition meet. But Emerson put the dampers on the Bulldogs' title hopes by nosing out the Ferris cindermen in an exciting encounter which terminated the schedule. The hill and dale squad, a new team in Ferris sport annals astounded the scholastic track world by galloping their way to three victories and then losing a close meet at the end of the season. The harriers led off innocently enough with a 21-34 victory over St, Michaels. The following meet awoke all track mentors to the fact that the little school of Ferris had a team to be reckoned with when they knocked off Bayonne, the County Champions, 25-30. Adding insult to injury and at the same time showing the stuff ' of which Ferris men are made, Tom Hawkes, who was far ahead of the field, sat down and waited until jim Zarowski caught up to him and then the two ran a dead heat to the tape. East Orange was an easy victim as the Bulldogs barely missed a perfect score by three points, winning 18-37. A surprise upset by St. .Aloysius cost the team a perfect season. The services of Hawkes, who was out with injuries, were sorely missed, however, the smooth striding captain, Zarowski, took top honors. The score of this heart breaking defeat was 26-29. Cross country lettermen are Zarowski, Hawkes, Papick, Cassidy and Custardo. To coach jack Hickey is owed a debt of gratitude, for through his efforts he has placed track and cross country on a par with the other major ranking sports of the school. WILLIAM FLANAGAN. Page Seventy one

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BASEBALL The spring of last year brought forth another team under the new-born banner of Ferris. Known as Dickinson Annex during the previous season, the baseball team trotted onto the field with the name Ferris neatly sewed in green letters on their uniforms. No one knew what to expect from the band of boys who were practicing so faithfully under the able tutelage of coach George Wood. Only four players had any previous experience. The others were green, one of the mainstays of the pitching staff was a freshman and only a few members of the team showed any power in hitting. After reading local press reports those in Scholastic Sport Circles decided that the team with its youth and inexperience was not expected to go anywhere. But although the squad closed the season with a record of six wins and nine losses, the season might be termed successful for the team played a surprisingly good brand of baseball, and provided trouble no end for county teams. The season started with freshman johnny Stanton twirling a ten inning 6-5 victory over Memorial, previous season County Champions. To prove that the Memorial win was no accident Ray Godleski and johnny Stanton teamed up together on the mound and came through with an 11-10 win over Dickinson. The winning punch was supplied by Dutch Schultz when he singled in the ninth with the bases full to give the Bull- dogs the runs necessary for victory. It also marked the third time that Ferris had come from behind to take the lead. Here the team slipped into a slough and the effects of overwork could be plainly seen in Godelski and Stanton who were dividing every game on the schedule between them. The result of the slump was four straight losses before Al Manzo's booming wagon tongue won the St. joseph's game in the form of a home run. The Bulldogs then went down before St. Peter's, Bayonne, Dickinson, Snyder and Lincoln in that order, three of the defeats being by close scores. The hitting of Dzitko, Manzo, Schultz, and Baratelli along with Biviano's line fielding was apparently going to waste until the team pulled through with a win over the Faculty and then closed the season by avenging the Snyder and St. Peter defeats. Thus with the first season behind it the Ferris baseball star is in its ascendancy. It rose to great heights this season and will surely rise higher with the coming of the next. WILLIAM j. FLANAGAN. Page Seventy three