Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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SPIKE SHOE CLUB ll HE Spike Shoe Club oT lvlanhaTTan College has Tor iTs purpose The encour- aging oT love and respecT Tor The sporT ThaT iT represenTs. lT Tends To TosTer inTerclass compeTiTion in Track, Tield, and cross-counTry in order ThaT iT may develop inTeresT and encourage new men To parTicipaTe in These sporTs. Finally, To give reliable inTormaTion as To college liTe and college ideals To Those inTenT upon enTering college and whose chieT exTra-curricular inTeresT is Track. This organizaTion has now been in exisTence aT lv1anhaTTan College Tully one year. On May I2, l93I, under The guidance oT Mr. Philip J. ShackleTTe, aT ThaT Time CapTain oT The Track Team oT This insTiTuTion, The club's iniTial meeTing was held. Mr. ShackleTTe and all members oT The Track Team aTTending. A consTiTuTion was duly drawn and The acTiviTies oT The club commenced. The charTer members number eighTeen, wiTh BroTher Charles and Mr. PeTer WaTers, moderaTor and coach, respec- Tively, aT lv1anhaTTan College, unanimously elecTed honorary members. Today The acTive membership oT The Spike Shoe Club numbers over TwenTy-Tive. The presenT oTl7icers are: PresidenT, VincenT lvlcArdle: Vice-presidenT, Read SmiTh, and SecreTary-Treasurer, ArThur l-leil. The amazing progress which The members oT The Spike Shoe Club have mani- TesTed wiThin The TirsT year oT The exi T T h The organizaTion. s ence o T e club, proves very promising Tor 290

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T fgT fi3YT3Qa 5 aixfihq, iw' . , S ,f ,. ...J and Tile :ial lark olic 9uT- The n in irns. iver- ving 'earn hips. id in ivenT The orris. Y. U. rpson S353 ll'4iYll,,.li 1 CRUSS-COUNTRY lTl-l undoubTedly one oT The besr cross-counTry Teams in The making, Coach PeTer WaTers nursed secreT ambiTions Tor his l93l program. JusT whaT The naTure oT Those ambiTions were, would be hard To say, buT iT one were able To peneTraTe inTo The inner researches oT his mind he mighT noT have been aT all sur- prised To see a plan unTolding iTselT which Tended To place cross-counTry aT Man- haTTan on a plane equal To The TinesT in The EasT. NoT ThaT lVlanhaTTan has ever suTTered Trom loss oT presTige in This sporT. On The conTrary, ever since The sporT was'inTroduced some seven years back by iTs Tamous coach, The Green and WhiTe has Turned ouT some wonderTul Teams and Tor The pasT Tew years has been growing sTronger and sTronger. BuT whaT PeTe WaTers did inTend To do was To secure even h d T h'l nio ed. a higher noTch in The hall oT Tame Than a Jasper Team a ers w ie e T y CapTained by The sTalwarT Edgar lvlarTin, The Green conTingenT invaded The mok liTTle Town oT BeThlehem Pa and scored a mosT decisive vicTory over a surprised s y , ., horde oT Lehigh runners. Taking The TirsT Tive places, The lvlanhaTTan speedsTers Thus . . . . Th rolled up The perTecT score oT I5-40. An auspicious beginning Tor The season. e order oT Tinish Tor The Tour and Tour-TenThs miles was Jack Ryan, Frank McKenna, ' ' ' ' ' ' D lvl hall crossed Jim Walsh, Al lvlorris and Bill Sim. All were Timed in .'Z6.l2. an ars The line in sevenTh posiTion wiTh Joe Burns Tollowing. The Tollowing week The Jaspers lined up againsT a sTrong, deTermined band oT Union harriers who had sTill To TasTe deTeaT Trom a lvlanhaTTan Team. BuT The Green ' d T b and WhiTe squad was in a revenging mood ThaT day and TorecasTs prove o e groundless as The game and inspired' Team Trom Van CorTlandT smoThered The SchenecTad lads whom They Trounced easily. Ryan and lvlclienna again led The Y pack over The hills while Walsh, lvlorris, Campbell and lvlarTin helped To compile The low score oT 20-35. The lVleTropoliTan Championship Tound lvlanhaTTan The runner-up To N. Y. U. d dT Th wiTh Teams compeTing Trom Columbia, Fordham and C. C. N. Y. Thir an our place wenT To Ryan and McKenna, respecTively, while sixTh posiTion was garnered by Walsh. ln The l. C.-Four-A Championships lvlanhaTTan p ace s or more universiTies by a good margin. The splendid showing oT Jackie Ryan, who beaT l-lallowell oT l-larvard Tor sixTh posiTion, The highesT ever aTTained by a Jasper runner, was success enough as Tar as The lVlanhaTTan runners were concerned. ' T ' l T'e The Tinal meeTing oT The season, The lvl. A. S. C. A. A., resulTed in a ripe I Tor TirsT place beTween Jack Ryan, Frank McKenna, and Jim Walsh. This dead heaT gave lvlanhaTTan The individual Middle ATlanTic TiTle Tor The Third consecuTive year. BUT unTorTunaTely The Team TiTle wenT To AlTred College, who Torced over a Tull Tive- ' ' ' b Th arrow margin oT one poinT man Team in The TirsT Ten To reTain The Team TiTle y S V1 - ' A d o was concluded one oT The mosT successTul 33 To 34 Tor The Green harriers. n S seasons in The annals oT The Green hisTory. l d ixTh, leading aT leasT Ten xx, xy f fax -41 1 T , i Q .i , if , T 1. sxvfff 1 l l l i 3 1 l l i --mem, , 289 .23

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,5w y ay. X fe' Y e , cy, MW M DQ A 'Nha Q ll , , gf.. A T .. I Q ,1- T .-L 12. , ncour- TosTer avelop i give Tering y one T +ha+ 5 held. in was umber espefl- my-Tive. SmiTh. mani- qg Tor I , ..., fiq 9 i l SWIMMING TEAM . . . .JOHN FELLOWS CapTain . Coach . . . eus MAUOH Manager I. . THOMAS KANE AST year was The TirsT Time in The hisTory OT lvlanhaTTa.n a VarsiTy Swimming Team engaged in inTerscholasTic compeTiTion. Building The Team around The Freshman group and Tilling iT ouT wiTh Tive men OT The class OT '34, The mermen reached Their peak in The EasTern CollegiaTe Championships by Taking Third place in The VarsiTy Relay. This year Tound The Team compeTing againsT some OT The TinesT collegiaTe naTa- Tors in and abouT The lvleTropoliTan disTricT. Due To The splendid coaching OT Gus Mauch and The deTermining spiriT OT The Jasper mermen, The Team made a com- mendable showing againsT all iTs experienced opponenTs. Some OT The men who nOT Only Tormed The nucleus OT lasT year's Team, buT who ' ' B w will be on deck Tor The big Things promised nexT season are, OConnor, urro s, ColberT, Quinlan, Cuny and Purcell. 5,dl ,gr--3-f,+-ffk,,1 -lv, V . g V .-crf,.af-.,. ew Q -f ' - -F--. N,-.,.,-,. 1 M ,is K, ..s. 29 l