Madison Central High School - Tychoberahn Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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June ..THE ORANGE AND BLACK.. 1932 SHIRTS AND SHORTS gg ND THA TIME bellowed the husky- volced announcer, -fohty-eight and eight-tenth se-cuhlndsf' T o u s e l - headed Ted Meredlth, carrying the colors of Mercersburg Acadenw of Pennsylvania had just clipped a full one-half second from hls own national interscholastic q u a r t e r mile record. This all happened way back ln the pre-warldays, 1912 to be exact. And the Mer- cersburg flash's phenomenal achievement still stands, unapproached by the hammerlngs of hlgh school 440 men for 20 years. And lf you want our honest opinion. lt's good for another 20. For the state high school records dis- close that the Wlsconsln mark for the fur- long ls 51.2 seconds, and the Big Eight time is approximately one second slower. Not only that. but the 440 reccrd of other states show up just as badly ln comparison. Boy, could that Pennsylvanlan step! While we're on the subject of Meredith. we may as well take a look at this boy's one- half mile mark, which was hung up the same year 419121. In the llttle red book on page 14 is found the notation: Half Mile Run- 1.55 T. Meredith, Mcrcersburg. 19l2, Therc's certainly plenty of laws ln Pennsylvania, but the Quaker state evidently neglected to put a ban on speeding around clnder-paths on Sat- urday afternoons. Agaln the Badger state record. 2 minutes, 2.1 se:onds, suffers in comparison with the Quaker lad's speed. The Big Eight time is also much slower. Jack Keller, who this year as a member of the Ohio State track team set an unofficial record of 14 seconds flat ln the 120-yard hlgh hurdles at Evanston, Illinois. is the sec- ond member of a trio who hold two national interscholastic marks apiece. This long-leg- ged Buckeye speeclster tore up a perfectly good Columbia, Ohio, track back in 1929 to set a 120-yard high hurdle record of 15.2 sezonds, and then came back the same after- noon to skim over the lcw barriers in an even 24 seconds. Zlesc's, of Milwaukee Wash- ington, time of 16 scconds in the high hur- dles ls the best the Badger preps have been able to turn ln. and another Milwaukee Washington star holds the state record ln the low hurdle of 25.5 seconds. I'm afraid the Big Eight records ln these events were buried beneath the flying spikes of said Mr. Kellar. Wisconsin High School's one of two pre- war tend incidentally pre-prohibition! rec- ords wnm established in the 100-yard dash. The man was Rodlck, the year was 1913, and the time-10 seconds flat. This mark com- pares qulte favorably with that of a string of fellows who smashed into the national lnter- schclastlc record book with 9,8 s e c o n d s. Ralph Metcalfe of Tllden Tech. Chicago. and now M.a.xquette's prize dash star, ls among these. Rodlck's record has never been equalled ln a state meet, but just that might happen when Clem Janeckl of Milwaukee East and Madlson's own Howie Rich clash on May 28. Need it be mentlcnerl that the Big Eight record is l0.2? Mike Treps, now a team-mate of the above mentioned R. Metcalfe, shares his 220-yard dash record with Gibson of LaCrosse, the latter making his time just last year. Both these men were clocked at 22.1, just seven- tenths of a second slower than the national rccord of 21.4. held jointly by Carter and Goodwin. both of Unlverslty High, Chicago. Howie Rich brings up the rear with the Elg Eight time of 22.5 seconds. We dug up a story in connection with Carter. which proved mighty interesting. It seems the year previous to his setting the mark of 21.4, Car- ter was caught in 21 flat. Everyone mar- vclled, untll upon measuring the track, as is the custom when a record is set, the judges found that some enterprising official had made the course eight yards too short. We suggest that Mr. Carter might institute a clalm for the world's record ln the 212-yard dash. We would surely appreciate lt, and so would several track coaches, if some kind soul would tell us what they fed those guys down there in Mercer-sburg ln the days before the late uproar lmeanlng the World War and not a recent kidnaplng casey. What we mean is that a certain Mr. Shields of Mer- cersburg Academy flew over 5,280 feet of Pennsylvania clnders in a total of 4 minutes utes, 23.6 seconds. And that, folks, is hoof- lng it on anybodys clnder path. A Beloit shirt and shorts man by the name of Marks dld some tall hustllng himself. After picking the clnders out of the other competi- tcrs' ears. eyes. nose, and throat, the judges announced the time as 4 minutes, 32.4 sec- onds. It happened fn 1909, and the sensa- tional time still stands on Wisconsin track books. It's some satisfaction ln the held events to know that some eccentric track commis- slon oan't discredit your record wfnnlng mark because of a wind at your back ln excess of 3 m. p. h. velocity. Otherwise one of the aforementioned commimlons cer- tainly wouldnt have allowed a leap of 24 feet, two and five-elghths inches ln the broad jump made by Ed Hamm of Lonoke High School. Arkansas lgood old Lonokel ln 1924. And we oughta page Mr. Ripley on that one. For any ham that's s trong enuff to jump 24'2'?Q should either be ln a museum or a garbage can. The Wisconsin mark of 22 feet, one inch was made by Donahue of Milwaukee Washington during the flrst track meet he had ever competed ln-the state high school meet. Mr. Hamm. later competing for Georgia Tech, eclipsed his prep school mark by nearly two feet by jumping 25 feet, ll inches. ln an lntercclleglate meet. In case lt means anything to you readers, the world's record ls 26 feet, 1.8 inches, coveted by a fel- low hailing from the isle of Haltl. -5 14 1- Madlson Central's lone state tltle-holder. Jimmy Dunn, was wiped off the record books last year when Quader of Port Washington, a class B school, sailed over the cross-bar at slx feet, raising Dunn's record one and one-quarter lnches, Although the programs which are to be used ln the state track meet enter the national height as 6 feet, 359 inches, 1 am fairly sure that the leap has been beaten. We nominate George Spitz as the title-holder. The Big Eight record ln this event is 5'1l , held by the honorable James Dunn, and one-quarter inch higher than his winning jump at the state fracas. Those of you who were amazed to see broad-chested Marlo Pacettl heave 12 pounds of lron across exactly 51 feet and 2 inches of Camp Randall soil, surely would have been gasping for oxygen had you seen Bud Hou- ser Know Dr. Hbuser-practicing dentistry ln Los Angeles? let loose of a slmllar ball of lrcn for 56 feet 3 inches out in sunny Calf- fornla ln 1922. And again we find the above mentioned program. at fault. I am positive that a chap named Dhles from Kansas estab- lished a new record ln 1930 with a throw over 58 feet. Pacettl the Terrible also owns the present Big Eight mark in the shot-put wlth a put of 51 feet.. 55221 inches, a heave which surpases his own state performance. Mr. Landers of Oregon, Illinois. made a non-stop flight of 12 feet, 8 inches to regls- ter hls name as national interscholastic pale vault champion, Jaskwlch mKenoshal who barked signals for Notre Da.me's team in 1931 has pole vault honors in the Badger state with a vault of ll feet, IDX inches. And thatls all for the pole vaulters, those fellows who are always attempting vallantly to go 1-1 feet ln the air, only to come down again, all too suddenly. Those sports wlseacres who predicted that Arlle Mucks' mark of 130 feet. IVZ inches in the discus would stand for all time appar- ently dldn't reckon on future Wlsconsln strong boys. And less dld they reckon on those beer-fed Mllwaukeeans, represented by Rice of Milwaukee Riverside, who added one foot and ten inches to Mucks' throw. But you aln't heard nothin' yet. Bud Houser of Oxnord. California. flung the lron platter out into space, which after an extended Eight, executed a neat three-point landing somewhere down San Francisco way. After dlsentangllng themselves from several hun- dred yards of tape measure. the onlcrals announced the throw as 145 feet, 6 inches. Wottam.an Houserl The javelin throw was eliminated from Wisconsin High School Track meets as n result of an injury a boy sustained during the 1930 meet. when struck ln the head with one of these dangerous weapons. Actually, there ls just as much so-called danger in the discus, and lt's a shame this event can't be continued. However lt might be well to quote the state and national records ln the javelln. Bishop of Hancock High School, Wisconsin, a class C school lthat is a school under 300 pupilsl is the Wisconsin champion fContlnued on Page Twenty-Seven!

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1932 ..THE ORANGE AND BLACK.. 1932 Q LAZINESS Q If you will not work, rewards will not be given you AVING observed people in all stations of life, we have finally come to the conclusion, much to our own consternation that the major- ity of them are lazy. Of course, the human race is nationally lazy. The ambition and desire for gain which we now possess is not inherent, but has been acquired through countless ages. In his original state in the Garden of Eden man was not required to labor, nor would he have known how had it been required of him. His greatest effort was to gather the bountiful blessings which had been provided for him. This, how- ever, was too good to last, and he found himself in a world entirely strange to him, in which he must find sustenance by laboring with his hands. The Greeks told the same story in the tale of Pandora and her box. Thus we see that from the earliest days women have been the cause of man's predicament. So man has labored down to the present day, and to all appearances, will be laboring to the end of time. Now the trend is to get as much as one can with the least effort possible. tn Many people are not fundamentally lazy. They have aspirations for greater things, but they do not wish to exert themselves to realize them. For instance, every high school student wishes to be president some day. If all were to be satisfied, we would have to increase the num- ber of presidents and vice-presidents propor- tionately, and the situation would be remedied in much the same way as Amos 'n' Andy organ- ized their Fresh Air Taxicab lncorporated, mak- ing all of their friends vice-presidents. As I said before, all boys wish to be presidents land girls First Ladiesl, but do they realize that every les- son which is unprepared takes them farther from their goal? The average student believes that if he sits back and absorbs another stu- dent's work, he is getting by prettily and is putting one over on the teacher. Perhaps he ls, but he is also putting something over on himself. Some day he will have a job requiring initiative. Then he will wish he knew what initiative is. One must not always blame the students. The teacher is often at fault. If the teacher thinks a topic is too hard for the stu- -I Q is 13 dent, the former will substitute something which will not require such strenuous exertion of the gray matter. If this were nto true, how could a student come into high school without knowing a compound from a complex sentence? This comes as a result of over-emphasis on grades rather than on actual intelligence and capacity for learning. qi Then, there is the tired business man who comes out for a round of golf after a hard day's work in his office with a fan blowing cool breezes upon him. It has actually been whis- pered that theer is a man in N-- who drives around the golf course in an Austin and then goes home very much exhausted. It is also rumored that he is not physically incapacitated. qi Let us observe the laborer at the same hour. After a day's work at some hard manual labor, he goes home and does some extra work to help pay for the fifth installment on that radio or automobile. Mind, this is no reflection on the tired business man, as it has been proved that mental work causes exhaustion more quickly than physical. It takes so many calories to nour- ish the body for one day, and so many more to nourish the brain. If the brain uses more calories than the body, it is only logical to assume that mental work exhausts a person more quickly. My authority for this statement is a member of the C. H. S. faculty. Il There are also those who use more energy to avoid work than they would expend in com- pleting the task assigned. There is a girl who fills the refrigerator full to overfiowing with a great deal of geometrical jiggling to keep from washing a' few dishes. fYes, we read Out Our Way. l One ofthe fallegedlyj superior six will spend so much time mowing a lawn that by the time he is through he has to begin all over again. Yet, this same boy will go fishing and sit an entire day as motionless as the Sphinx with never a nibble and go home well satisfied with having spent a very pleasant and profitable day. If his mother had asked him to do this he would lPlense turn to Page Eighteen! J.-

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1932 ..THE ORANGE AND BLACK.. June CENTRAL CASTING HIS is station WCF, owned and oper- ated. ln the interests of the students of Central High coming on some page in the magazine tat least I hope it Isl, at this time we join the CHS network to bring you the program entitled Central Casting with your announcer Wally Foster . . . hello every- body this is ci course program and we're So- lng to do away with all formality as there are a lot of things to be said during these short lines because I'm go- ing to endeavor to answer so nle of thc questions that I have been showered with and here they come . . . Is lt too late to get a snapshot of you with your autogmph? asks A. Student, No, there are a few left and ll' you send ln a the Central Casting l walter Fusler top of one of these colymns ln to me I'll see to it that you will getone... sus as A. Friend writes ln and sez I have writ- ten several letters to you asking you this same question alld haven't seen it answered in your column yet, and on it goes, will you please tell nlc who played the part of Phoebe Brent in the one act play, A Mat- ter of Cholce ? and I heard that her nlotllcl' took her home after the performance nt the PTA, but I think that some He-Man dld. Can you and out who he ls? I think 4'Phoebe did her part well , . . to tell you the truth friend this is the first letter I have received but never the less I found out what you wanted to know, so that's ull that matters, The girl that played the part of Phoebe Brent in that play ls really Elaine Hanson and the big he-man that took her home from the P T A is really Hank Kllnert or else I'm terribly mistaken . . . s s s s s Is Myrtle Fcster, who is in one ot my classes. your sister? wrltes a J. I-I. S. stu- dent . . . yes she is my sister . . . and as for the rest of your note, Thank You . . . to think that there has been a couple going around ever since Xmas that you haven't exposed in your colymnf' sez a reader, their names are LaBelva Morehouse and John Du- Bois . . . well I'm awfully sorry but I do admit that. I can't keep up on all of these couples . . . And do you know what boy has glven me the cold shoulder for a year and for that same length of time I have been trying to check up tif you pleasel on him and I just found out that in a case of emergency he had to have his folks cut his hair so that he could usher at the last Snring concert at Central? . . . can you picture two such boys as Howard Gearhart and Eugene Schroeder sitting on a front porfh swinging at eleven o'clock at night? they were . . . did you know that Jack Norton has a neck of girls coming out to see him every day wlllle he ls at the Hospital? scrib- bles some one . . , s s u s s And we saw Dick Engels and Bernice Cohn after the Spring Concert down on Gorham street . . . and some one tells me Kenneth Rasmussen and Jean Gearhart are so so so . . . Jimmy Dean, Carter Lelder, and two others were paradlng around Gorham and Johnson Streets with their shirt-tails flying behind them tthe same night, after the Spring concert! . . . they took and pushed fl car that was parked down on Gorham street down by Conkllns Ice House . . . Say Jean your behavens lately are terrible er sumpin cause someone tells nle that you and Chuck DeBois were seen together on that memor- able nite of the spring concert . . . Poor Ray Hankel' sobs someone. the spring and a girl have got hlni . . . he draws about one line a day ln drawing class and the rest oi the time he sits and thinks of that girl . , . and do you know try as hard as I mlght I couldn't and out wllo that girl is , . . s s s s s Donald Cowan and Meyers Victor are con- tinuously runnlng up and asklng me if the other one has told nle anything about the other . . . If I'm not wrong then the diploma with the most names on will belong to Rufus Henry Peat Karllcs, Junior . . . yes that's all one name and if you don't believe lt, look for yourself on that list on the bulletin board in the main corridor . . . Smith may be a com- mon name but there will be only one on this semesters dlplonla at Central . . . Say Aleen Anderson have I been misspelling your name all this time or was lt spelled wrong ln the program of the Spring concert? They spelled it Ayleen . . . and according to the some manuscript they spell Mr. Bennett's name Homes Bennett and Evercttfs last name as Canteron . . . the three trumpeters are Charles DuBois, Charles Martin rand not quite a charles but almostb, Challs Olson. s s s s s Wlllle I was digging through by notes at home I ran across the copy of the first colymn that I ever wrote for this glad rag lMlrror to youl. And just for old tlme's sake let's print it again. Here it is word for word: Did You Know That . . . By IVALTER FOSTER -ras ms: issue of me Mum was issued Feb. 26. 1924? -0- Joseph sam of New Mlll, England. ls s gms bowler slnmuga he lm us Arms? '-0- In the xssue or me lvlu-for on Sept. 24, ms, an ul-one was pnuu-d ssylug out -.I 15 1, a Central teacher had his mustache shaved? Imuglns. -0- lulss asus mud likes to Iss sluts? twins npulnglss to lm-.J -0- In 1012 almost all of the boys used sun wnlts collars? .lust pleture Dlel: Edward. OH. OH. And the girls wore ankle length dresses? -Q- A pls can as rut tum sugar pieces with only time cuts? 'ny lt. Use yuul- Gs-um. .0- ons - fourth equals three - slghtns? rln muslcl. -G- John ann-ll, s mlm ur u small town, rc t u r u ed home ms: an absence ur ell years and found his uu-u :raver -0- Ruth Goetz believes ln Santa Clnus?? He called her up nnrl asked her what she wanted for clu-lsuuus. :Ask hem -9- A quart of milk weighs muse num u Quart ur el-um? A little dllTerence ln the size, eh? wllot? s s s s s HE WORDS of Miss Hand Have you got your column? . . . the writing down of notes ln classes of funny incidents . . . the teacher taking them away and tearing them up into shreads . . . the threat of some-one warning you npt to use tllelr name . . . the thought of being saved by finding some contributions ln the Mirror box . . . the trip to the box . . . and finding that some- one has been there ahead of you . . . you reach for an aspirin and walk down to the drinking fountain and the water ls turned oft' . . . here comes so and so maybe they can tell me some news . . . nope, they don't know ally . . . -there comes my co-worker maybe she has some left overs that I can use, I'll ask her . . . say Elv- . . . Wally have you anything for my column? . . . but we agree that there lsn't a soul doing any- thing unusual . . . here lt ls Friday and nothing done I guess I'll do lt over the week-end . . . Monday morning . . . Miss Hand and of course, Is your column ready? . . . I'll have it ready the second period . . . the second period finds me sitting at the type-writer thinking of past incidents and writing them down . . . ah! there's the fourth page and so that's that . , . the Mirror comes out . , . Oh gee your column is good this time Wally. better than ever says some one . . . aln't it a grand and glorious feeling? yes that's the life of a columnist, s s s s s The best signs of Sprlng ure: Alvin Gillette writing notes to Mary Ellen . , . Bill Bethel with his sleeves rolled up . . . Edna BslsZey's lovey-dovey speeches to Edmund Hart . . . Jean Gearhart's going swlmln . . . Miss Hand buying another new dress . . . Dave Malec with his shirt all unbuttoned . . . Ber- nice Cohn carrying a lilac . . . Aleen Ander- son holdlng a flower in the fountain to glve lt a drink . . . the office filled with flowers, plants and fish bowls . , . tlocks and docks tcontlnued on Page Twenty-sevenl