McBurney School - Lamp and Laurel Yearbook (New York, NY)

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HTHLETICS

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-if 451 PINGPONG This year There was no oTTicial pingpong Team aT McBurney. ThaT does noT mean, however, ThaT The game was neglecTed. Day aTTer day, during lunch hour and Tram Three unTil Tive, The Tables in The Pingpong Room resounded To The ping oT The balls. Since no compeTiTion was ar- ranged, iT is impossible To name The besT players. CHESS The chess Team, Thanks To The able TuTor- ing aT Mr. Weeks, ended The season wiTh a record aT Tour maTches won and Three losT. The chessplayers opened The season auspiciously by deTeaTing Columbia Grame mar 3-l, Jacobs, RucksTuhl, and Kennedy winning Their games, They pulled Through againsT Regis, 2lf2fllf2, Jacobs and Ruckf sTuhl winning and Kennedy Tying. DisasTer overTook Them in The TriniTy maTch. Cnly Barry, who had suTTered deTeaT in The pre' vious maTches, won, and The Team losT, 3fl. The nexT maTch was a disappainTmenT when Riverdale TorTeiTed. FieldsTon, The nexT op- ponenT, was deTeaTed 3fl, Jacobs, Ruck- sTuhl, and Kennedy again winning. This was one oT The hardesT ToughT maTches in McBurney's hisTory. The maTch againsT l-Torace Mann ended in a 3lf2-V2 deTeaT3 RucksTuhl managed To Tie his game buT The oTher players losT. The Tinal maTch, againsT Franklin, was a disappoinTmenT also. Jacobs won and Barry Tied, buT RucksTuhl and Kennedy losT, giving The maTch To Franklin, ZVQATVQ. In The individuals, sponsored by The Chess AssociaTion aT PrivaTe Schools, Bob Barry held his own unTil The semi-Tinals, where he was deTeaTed by Kurchmeyer, l-lorace Mann's sTar.

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FOOTBALL The Theme song oT The TooTball Team was, Man The boaTs, we have a game This aTTernoon. ln everyone oT The Tive games, The boys had To puT up o TighT noT only againsT The opposing Team, buT againsT The wind, rain, and mud. AT The MonTclair game The Tog was so low ThaT you couldn'T see one end oT The Tield from The oTher. AT one Time James Threw a ThirTy yard pass To no one in porTicular. Korner came running ouT oT nowhere: by a sTrolce oT luclc, puT up his hands: and The ball Tell in. The MonTclo1ir players accused McBurney oT using radar. The sTarTing Team consisTed oT: SchmidT, L. E.: lan Nemlich, C.: Karner, R. E.: Alan Nemlich, L. H, B.: James, Q. B.: I-Tagberg, R. I-T. B. WiTh The able guidance aT Coach Parker, The Team rounded inTo Tine shape Auxfbfy early. The Coach had James passing and running The ends, lan Nemlich plunging Through cenTer and blocking, Woodheod running The ends, and The Torward wall aT SchmidT, Alan Nemlich, and Karner knock- ing Them down and receiving posses. Be- hind The TirsT six came a group oT sTurdy subsTiTuTes: Loudon, FGTT, Woodhead, John Lange, PeTe Lanino, and Rice, who goT ouT on The Tield and did iusT as good o iob as The oThers. OpponenTs i McBurney 20 LocusT Valley 12 27 Adelphi 6 25 MonTclair Teachers I9 7 LocusT Valley 26 2 BuxTon 20 81 83