Jamesburg High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Jamesburg, NJ)

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TRACK MEET The largest sports event ever to be witnessed by a j.H.S. student audience was held on May 4, of last year, under the sponsorship of lamesburg High School and the supervision of Mr. Livezey, and Coach Timberman. Their minions swept them to 3rd place among the competing teams of Franklin, lvletuchen, Scotch Plains, Dunellen and Hightstown. james- burg may well be proud of this splendid showing, for we must bear the fact in mind that this was the origin of the first track squad to be associated with lamesburg High School. Congratulations are in line to Bob Mason for his record breaking dash in the half-mile and an orchid to you Mr. Livezey for turning out such fine material. THE I. V.'S. The entire junior Varsity or perhaps as you better know them, the layvees with the exception of Terran- ova, Ivins, Mason and Va-nZino have had little or no experi- ence in basketball competition. Though their record of twice defeating a strong Red Bank squad, a Metuchen and Allen- town quintet and several others cannot be called excellent it is most impressive and the coming varsity prospect most hopeful. We believe with the proper experience and. a few breaks we may yet produce the winning squad for which lamesburg has been seeking. 52

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BASKETBALL As the football season swung through the home stretch we found Coach W. Vincent Timberman issuing an early call for basketball candidates. With its small, green, inexperienced team, jamesburg opened to defeat a larger, more impressive Alumni squad 27-l8. The succeeding game with Red Bank only brought defeat by an accurate, sharp-shooting quintet who at no time seemed annoyed by our fast courtsters. j.H.S. in its third game was pitted against one of the stronger teams of the shore conference and a well-filled audi- torium saw their eh ome lads avenge a Red Bank defeat and turn back Belmar 27-19 Riding the . waves of victory, the jamesburg squad met with disastrous results at South Amboy, losing to Hoffman and then at home to Hightstown in the final seconds of the closing periods 26-l9, 25-23. The Christ- mas vacation was followed by a battle against one of james- burgs most powerful opponents, Metuchen. The score read 41- l. Throughout the remainder of the season Coach Timber- man's minions swept through a number of their strongest rivals. Captain Stanley lndyke, joseph Spezio, james Christen- sen, David Rogers, Murray Yacknowitz and Robert johnson made up the nucleus of the squad, while William Neeff, William Soden, james Terranova, Charles lvins, and Robert Mason performed consistently as second string men. Due credit should be given Coach Timberman and the squad for their fine work ' in making a fairly strong team out of an inexperienced squad. 51 a

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BASEBALL The i937 season was a most successful one-both in victories and individual performances. The climaxing indi- vidual effort was Leslie Sout-hgate's no-hit no-run game against Hightstown in May. No hitter on Hightstown reached second base. Victories were secured over Hightstown, Allentown, Me- tuchen, Highland Park, St. james Red Bank, South Amboy and the team hustled throughout the season. Outstanding hitters on this club were Gordon Donohay and john Paladino both of whom are missing from this year's team. However, with lndyke, Christenson, Narozonick, Hall, Terranova, D'vorak forming this year's nucleus, a successful season is anticipated. Other players helping to make up this year's club are Collins, Spezio, Mason, Kozochek, Soden among others. April 6 Red Bank Home April l 3 Highland Park Away April 27 Highland Park Home May 3 Hightstown Home May 5 Dunellen Away May IO Metuchen Away May l 3 Allentown Away May I6 St. lvlary's Home May 24 Dunellen Home May 27 Hightstown Away june l Metuchen Home june 3 Allentown Home june 6 Red Bank Away