Lane Tech College Prep High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Fencing Fencing, a difficult sport that depends on speed, agility, instant reaction, leg and arm strengt h, and brains, is an important feature in Lane athletics. When the fencing meets start in February the squad will be led by such veterans as George Zuckerman, Bob Simon, Adam Wiese, Carl Manzo, Richard Tringali, Leon Zoghlin, Jordan Krimstein and Frank Ranft. The junior team is composed of E. Addler, E. Chelstorp, H. Clam- age, D. Wahle and C. Zuckerman. According to Coach Moore the prospects look good for another championship squad this spring. Although the team has to be developed in pitch¬ ing, third base, and the outfield positions it still has plenty of punch left from last season with the return of six veterans. The returning lettermen are: captain Milt Majercik, catcher; Irv Medlinger, first base; Harry Wilson, second base; John Howsin, short stop; and two pitchers, Ray Alman and Ray Lewis. Skembaro and Adam- Isiewicy are two other returning players. Fall practice proved very promising. The turn¬ out was large and many new men were picked for the team. Among them were: Outfielders; Bastian, Norton, Beal, Erickson, Biancalana, Rostes, R. Majercik, Fleming, Handnardt, Litt, Newbauer, Johnson, Anderson and Mason. In¬ fielders: Epstein, Tice, Prinz. Pitchers: Smith, a 2B who will be sensational, Lundquist, Asmus, and Paneman. Spring practice will start the first of Feb¬ ruary every ninth period. Some of the new sea¬ son games will be with Waukegan, Proviso, Oak Park, Morton, Crane, Harrison, Fenger, Kelly, Evanston, New Trier, Austin, and Hyde Park. Page ninety-six

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Swimming - City Champions The Lane senior swimming team won its tenth consecutive title in the annual 20 yard swim¬ ming championships at the University of Chi¬ cago by rolling up 38 points against 10 for the second place teams. During the seaso n the team had engaged Crane Tech and Oak Park, beating both. The splashers downed Crane 66 to 6 and Oak Park 36 to 30. In the city meet Bob Gibe led the scoring by winning the 40 and 220 yard freestyle events. Captain Glenn Weber hung up a second place in the 100 yard breastroke and the 180 yard med¬ ley relay. Bob Lefley, veteran boardman won the fancy diving over the favored Kachinskas of Tilden. George Wietor, sage of the swimming team, placed third in the 220. Jack Albers just failed to place by one tenth of a second. A1 Greiner and Harry Madsen captured third and fourth place berths in the 100 yard backstroke swim. Earl Terp who anchored the second place medley relay with Madsen at backstroke placed forth in the 100 yard crawl. Bob Wiess just missed scoring in the 100. Four fast men in the persons of Don Coope, Walter Krautstrunk, Jack Tillson, and Dave Allen swam a terrific race to win the 160 yard relay. Paul Hedmark and Jim Holloway, new¬ comers on the diving board, show great promise. The junior team completely dominated the field in the junior 20 yard pool championships by winning five of the seven first places and pil¬ ing up 43 points to Senn’s and Schurz’ second place 14. Earlier in the season they beat Crane Tech 37 to 14 and later beat Oak Park 42 to 13. Captain Johnny Nickolich sparked his team by winning the 40 yard breastroke race with yards to spare and later he boosted the medley relay into a new city record. Ralph ‘Red’ John¬ son raced in to take the backstroke crown and then one event later he captured third place in the 100 yard freestyle swim. George ‘Joey’ Thompson defending board champ won his event again with about 20 points to spare. Lance Sandburg, Thompson’s running mate, grabbed the second place berth. Jack Thomas sliced him¬ self by taking two places and a second in the 40 and 100 yard freestyle sprints. Bud Gries- bach, backstroke on the first place medley, won a third place spot in the 40 yard backstroke swim. Anchoring the medley relay was Herman Lehman who splashed his way to fourth place in the 100 yard freestyle race. The championship 160 yard relay was com¬ posed of Elmer Newell, who took fourth in the 40 yard sprint, George Howard, Herb Johnson, and Dennis Holfnagle, who anchored. Page ninty-five

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SOCCER - CITY CHAMPIONS Lane’s powerful Soccer team increased its strings of championships to five consecutive city titles by crushing Tilden Tech in the city finals 6-0. Then they went on to win the county crown by edging out Morton Township 10. The Iron- head’s season was perfect except for two ties; one with Von Stuben 2-2, and the other with A- mundsen 0-0. The outstanding men on the soccer team were captain Alfred Dunn, inside left, and Roy Mur¬ ray, center fullback. These two boys were the high point scorers on the team. Dunn is a junior and Murray a senior. Other members of the first string squad are: Don Eisen, outside left; Joe Gaba, inside right; Frank Janda, outside right; Jack Guthrie, left halfback; Joe Skolmowski, center halfback; and Frank Streng, Goalie. The outstanding substitutes were Stan Banas, Marvin Hylin, Robert Klien, and Mort Nemer- off. The manager was George Suchecki. Wrestling Some of the returning veteran grapplers are: James Elg, Nick Carnella, Art Peisker, Bob La Bianso, Ed Manion, Kenneth Rogers, Ray Berndston, and Bill Olbrisch. I. M. Managers The current managers are: Walter Lakowski, Leroy Palmer, Jim Chernosky, Ed Busykouski, Fred Deindoerfer, Dale Boddeker, John Kakleas, Robert Graas and Don Camacho. Page ninty-seven