John Adams High School - Rebelry Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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= MAROON AND GOLD Lj'vrcnw Hjwkuu. (upturn: Rjy Sioffl. Munu j,r Buddy Armstead. Charles Gaines. Jonas Klein. Al London Emil Mack. Emil O imec. Bob Prebel. Charles Spcnnicchia. R. E. Knesal. Coach. VARSITY TRACK FROM the beginning of time men have enjoyed the pure wholesome satisfaction of a race well run. the pleasure of individual competition, and the invigorating urge for gracefulness, for speed, for sturdy feats of strength and endurance. T o encourage vouth to participate in the manly sport of running and jumping, the ancient Greeks inaugurated the Olympiads, religious feasts which placed track forever in the annals of history. Today, over two thousand seven hundred years since the first Olympiad. John Adams High School is represented by a track squad that honors the same ideals of sportsmanship. Centering on a nucleus of 12 lettermen. Coach R. E. Knesal has a well-balanced track squad, which is one of the top-notch running machines in the city for the spring of 1935. In spite of the poor showing at the indoor C. A. C. meet, due to lack of practice, the present team shows enough lorm to more than duplicate the successful season of 1934. when John Adams copped 3 out of 5 dual meets. The class of ‘35 takes off its hat to William A. Slyh. faculty manager, who has made possible the season pass, enabling every pupil in John Adams to witness every track meet on the schedule for a cost of little more than one cent per meet , thus making track, the oldest of all sports, self-supporting—a feat of which few schools in Greater Cleveland can boast. turty-cighi

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MAROON AND GOLD Sam Goldman. Captain: Robert Streeter. Manaaer: Bert Davidun. Stanley Epstein Phil Fleishman Jimmie Hajek. Henry Hoffman. Wendel Sarmir E. L. Kregenow. Coach. VARSITY BASKETBALL ST ART ING the 1934 35 basketball with a 33-20 victory over John Hay. the John Adams basketeers slumped, and then came back to play a good brand of basketball for the remainder of the season. Ikie Friedler. high scoring forward and guard, and Bert Davidian. a dependable guard, became ineligible for scholastic competition at midyear. However. Sam Goldman. Phil Fleishman, and Wendel Sarmir carried on to make the season somewhat of a success. At times Coach Kregenow s bardcourtmen seemed to turn stale during a game, but were able to snap out of the lapse in time to give the opposition a stiff battle. In other contests the Locals got off to a flying start, kept going, and never lost the lead. Goldman was shifted from center to a forward position early in the season, and dented the meshes with enough consistency to lead the Presidents in the scoring department. He was followed closely by Fleishman and Sarmir. T he Kregmen scored 380 points as against their opponents' 378. but were able to finish on the long end of the score in only six of the 1 3 games played. Season Record John Hay 20 John Adams 33 Garfield Heights 23 John Adams 20 Cathedral Latin 36 John Adams 19 Central 23 John Adams 20 West 25 John Adams 50 Collin wood 37 John Adams 24 East 17 John Adams 25 South ... 38 John Adams 3 i Alumni 25 John Adams Lincoln ... 41 John Adams , 36 West Tech 29 John Adams 33 Glenville - . 33 John Adams . 39 East Tech . 31 John Adams 20 378 Total forty-seven

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MAROON AND GOLD Earl Brown. William Chaikin. Hank Chcslcr Stanley Epstein. Solomon Lame. Martin Miller. Harold Ryshen. Irving 7.eigcr. Ted V. Ptacck. Cva h. VARSITY TENNIS ALT HOUGH tennis is as yet a comparatively new sport in varsity athletics at John Adams, the local racquetcers have established an enviable record on the city clay courts in the past few years of interscholastic competition. Under the skillful tutelage of Coach Ted W Ptacck. the present squad, strengthened by the return of three match-winning lettermen. shows good promise of maintaining John Adams' prominence among the city's netters. by a strong possibility of capturing the eastern division championship. All the home games for the season will be played at Woodland Hills Park against schools in eastern Cleveland and its suburbs, according to the schedule made by the Cleveland Interscholastic Tennis Association. of which the former captain and present manager of the local team. William Chaikin, is vice president. Positions on the team are gained by competitive ladder elimination. each man receiving a ranking ranging from one to seven. The seventh man is open to all challengers at any time and if defeated he must relinquish his position to his vanquisher. Further rise on the ladder can be made by defeating the player whose ranking is just one above.