Lincoln High School - Commander Yearbook (Warren, MI)

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.JUNE COMMANDER nose TRACK - 56 The Abes' track team will be right up on top sharing the honors with the rest of the league again this season. Coach Leach expects Lincoln to be one of the main contenders for the track trophy which has been won by Northrille for the past two or three years. Mr. Leach, who coached last year's track men, will have most of his former track team report to him when he issues the first call to the cinder paths. He will have Harold Sonnenberg, who does wonders in the pole vaultg Mike Pops, clipping off seconds in the mile rung Henry Leich, John Post, and Edwin Adams breaking the tape in the dashesg Leich and Chester Radlinski in the broad jumpg and Henry Mrukowski heaving the weights. Besides these valuable men, he will have a lot of new candidates coming out to fill other positions. Coach Leach lost three men through graduation. Merlin Bishop, Orlando Romano, and Edward Kolaczynski held positions which will have to be filled by other track members this year. Q1--11.1 BASEBALL - 56 The Abes will be the main contenders for the base- ball championship now that Farmington is out of the league for they finished in second place last year. It certainly looks as if the Lincoln ball hawks will get results this year. Coach Bacon expects to have about 25 ball players ans wer his call for material. Of that number, about 15 are veterans of former years. Four men will be missing from this year's lineup. Sofranko, who played second, was lost through mid-year graduation, and Sheets, Bukowicki, and Tazreak have left school. I

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-:JUNE QQMMANDER gusse- Coach Leach's basketball team did not look like a success as far as wins and losses were concerned, but he found out with his new method of play that the team im- proved a great deal from the previous season. The coach lost two regulars by mid-year graduation- Romano, center, and Sofranko, who played forward. He had to move Foutz up for the center position, and Hackel to the forward position from the B Varsity. This completed his first team after mid-year graduation. The Abes proved to be the master of Berkley and Red- ford Union, winning two games from each team, while Trenton barely edged them out, 21-19. Melvindale and Northville proved to be the Abes' superior by defeating the Abes in their games. With Coach Leach back with us again next year and Leich and Sonnenberg being the regulars lost through graduation, the Abes hope to have a winning team next sea- son. The final standings of the Suburban League found Lin- coln in third place, with Melvindale tied for first place, Trenton in second position, Lincoln, Redford Union and Berkley trailing in that order. The men who composed the first team were: Hackel: forward Foerster: forward Jones: forward Popa: guard and forward Foutz: center Maple: center Sonnenberg: guard H. Mrukowski: guard Leich: guard Radlinski: guard

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JUNE Z COMMANDEQ H lQ36 Y L I 1 GIRLS' BASKETBALL Frances Bromley--Right Forward Dec. 19 Hazel Park-18 Van Mary Waldo ----- --Left Forward Jan. 10 Roseville--20 Van Elda Frankiew ---- Center Forward Jan. 17 Eastland---ll Van Dorothy Miller---Center Forward Jan. 24 Eastland---12 Van Nancy De Sano----Right Guard Jan. 31 Roseville--17 Van Barbara Ehardt---Left Guard Feb. 7 Hazel Park-21 Van Roberta Knapp ---- Left Guard Feb. 20 Utica------15 Van Helen Matoshko---Center Guard Feb. 25 Utica ------ 10 Van Dyke Dyke Dyke Dyke Dyke Dyke Dyke Dyke The Girls' Basketball team was exceptionally good this year, In compet ition with four other schools for the championship, Lincoln ended the season in second place. team to play held them to the score of 18-15 in favor of Hazel Park. Lincoln early in the Roseville at of Lincoln. When L1nco1n's games with Eastland came the girls practi with both games, winning the first with a score of 24-11. and When Lincoln again played Roseville, the girls knew they their best in order to beat them. This they accomplished by a Lincoln was tied for first place with Hazel Park. On the championship game on the home floor the Hazel Park team built 24-ll in their favor and to L1ncoln's sorrow. The first game was with Hazel Park, champions of last year, a difficult due to their greater advantage in height. But the Lincoln lassies next played Roseville allowing them to pile up a score of 8 points game. Later our girls woke up making the score 14-ll in favor of the half. At the end of the game the score stood 22-20 in favor cally ran away the second 24 12 would have to do score of 21 17 night of this up a score of When the game with Utica arrived, the girls were determined to attain secord place by winning this and also the next game with Utica. Their hopes were partly dimmed when Utica showed unusual ability by winning the game with a score of 15-14.