Mahanoy Township High School - Corinthian Yearbook (Mahanoy City, PA)

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Members of Varsity Baseball Team: Becker, lbg Clemson, pg Campbell R.rf: Etcho, lf: Getz, pg Hylan, pg Jones, ss: Koznecki, 3bg Leck p Lorent. 2b: Walczyk, cg Weikel, cg Zeigler, c. BASEBALL TOWNSHIP'S THIRD MAJOR SPORT 'In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love-.' But for Mahanoy Township boys the coming of spring meant only one thing. At the first outdoor practice in the new stadium there were enough boys to supply ten teams instead of only one. With such enthusiastic support Coach Martin was able to get the pick of the baseball-minded athletes of Township. For two weeks previous to this practice pitchers and catchers had engaged in in- door practice in the gym. Here they were taught all the tricks of the pitching and catching trades. The pitchers' forms were improved, control of their pitches im- proved and they were able to pull out of their bag of tricks all the curves and drops they could throw. When the weather permitted, the scene shifted to the stadium where the infield- ers were put through their paces. Here they strengthened their throwing arms and were able to accustom their batting and infielding eye to the outdoors. After getting the kinks out of their sys- tems the parks were ready to do battle with their league opponents Gilberton, Frackville, Minersville, St. Clair and Or- wigsburg and for whatever else the sea- son would bring them. Eighty-three SAFE AT HOME!

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Jay Vee Football Squad: First row-Head, Jones, Foley, Sudnick. Second row-Miller, Wronski, Haley, Lazzer, Becker, Kilcullen, Burke. Third row-Finneran, Whitecavage, Romanavage, McEl- henny, Christ, Leck, Deffley. COME ON NOW-A CI-IEER FOR TOWNSHIP Eighty-two ST. JEROME-NOVEMBER 1 The Township gridders staged a great fourth period rally and tied St. Jerome 6 to 6 in their only away game. St. Jerome had the upper hand in the first half, scor- ing a touchdown but the Larks after a long drive smashed through for the ty- ing touchdown. GIRARDVILLE-NOVEMBER 5 In their fourth game the Larks suffered their worst defeat of the season when they lost to a strong team 25 to 0. The Girardville eleven scored in every quar- ter and were able to blank Township but not prevent them from putting up a game battle. CRESSONA-NOVEMBER 11 Township staged a memorable second half rally but was unable to overcome the three touchdowns scored by Cressona in the first half. In the second half the Larks tore at the Cressona line to put over two touchdowns while blanking Cressona to leave the game 21 to 13 for Clressona. POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH- NOVEMBER 2 In their only game of the season the Larks fledgelings defeated Pottsville J un- ior High 6 to 0. The touchdown came after a long march down the field on the opening kickoff. Although Pottsville ral- lied and held the Jay Vees in check, they themselves were unable to score.

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1 Varsity Basketball Team: Student Manager. Evansg Fritz, Etcho, Koznecki, Lorent, Coughlin, Becker. PURPLE LARKS ENJOY GREAT SEASON The Purple Larks of Mahanoy Town- ship, coached by Mr. Martin, and paced by their star performer Johnny Etcho, Hnishing second in the league race and ran up the record of 16 wins out of 21 games. They won 13 out of 16 league games and 3 out of 5 exhibition games. At the close of their regular season they were invited to play in Bloomsburg tourn- ment where they were eliminated by a strong Dickson City team. The success of the Larks was due to the all-around ability of the starting five -Etcho, Nemitz, Leck, Coughlin and Koznecki both in shooting and in good guarding. In the two big games of the season with Frackville the Larks put a scrappy bat- tle and were barely edged out by a pow- erful Frackville five. Both games were thrillers, full of excitement from begin- ning to end. Township lost the first game at Frackville, a heartbreaker, by 1 point and the second at home by 2. The scores were 32-31 and 35-33. 1 1 KOZNECKI SCORES AGAIN Faculty Manager John Sherry ,SZ f H Q ' a f w ts'-afit ' , X A . - I4 . . il 'A - .. 3 I 52? fri- . R ' 4 ff , -s. f:J,- ku' Ag - I ' -. ' ' fi 4- A-.,, .. Eighty-four