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

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SWIMMING The swimming Team goT oTT To an early sTarT This year. When The call was TirsT senT ouT by William IvliTchell, The manager, Tor all swimmers To reporT Tor pracTise, a score oT mermen responded. From lasT year's Team came Richard James, who placed second in A.A.P.S. diving: Halsey Cook, our chieT backsTroker7 Raymond Reid, This year's undeTeaTed capTain spe- cializing in The l00 yard and 50 yard Tree' sTyleg Guy Loudon and Julian Luykx, who swam The breasTsTroke. 5Tan Erickson and Edmund TrosT helped Dick James in The diving, The Team Tinished The season wiTh a clean record: six vicTories-no deTeaTs. The closesT meeT was wiTh Lincoln School, which led unTil The lasT evenT, The TreesTyle relay. ThaT was some race. Lincoln School led aTTer The TirsT lap buT McBurney came Through in The end. The 50 yard TreesTyle sprinT was swum by Edward DuThu, Jack EckhardT and ErnesT TaroTT. Barrie Trebor swam The long 220 TreesTyle wiTh David Davis and ErnesT TaroTT alTernaTing as sec- onds. The medley Team consisTed oT l-Tale sey Cook lbackl, Guy Loudon lbreasTl and Barrie Trebor lTree sTylel. The Team ended The year by placing Third in The annual A.A.P.S. meeT held in The McBurney pool. CapTain Ray Reid placed TirsT in The T00 yard and 50 yard TreesTyle, seTTing a new record in The T00 yard. Guy Loudon and l-lalsey Cook placed Third in The breasTsTroke and backe sTroke respecTively. Dick James running neck and neck in The diving, Tailed To Tal-,e TirsT by less Than Two poinTs. The medley Team placed TourTh. AlTogeTher, IvlcBurney's swimming Team had a very successTul year. 0pponenTs McBurney 22 ManhaTTan Prep 37 25 Adelphi 36 3l Lincoln 35 7 ST. Johns 27 24 Poly Prep 33 28 FieldsTon 38 T37 206 n-. .lf Ai 31nafaa

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BASKETBALL lVlcI3iirnr:yIw highly iinderraled Varsily Baslcelball Team gained second place in The inilial N.Y.A.C.Is Privare 5chooIs Tournamenl. Cer iIGaIIoping Camels slarled all by bealing Ihe lavared Poly Prep loam by a 54-40 score. They wenl on Ia beal Trinily in Ihe semi-linal round and in Ihe Iinals Iosl Io a hard playing Tie La Salle leam by seven poinls. AI the beginning ol The season The Ieam was made up ol Ihree regulars Irom Iasl year, some ol Iasl yearls Iravoling Ieam, and a launch ol likely Ioolcing newcomers. The slarling lineup consisled of: Lawrence, Rf., Karner, C., and Baron, LG, The re- maining Iwo posilions were divided among Finn, Parsons, Anderson, Ian Nemlich, Woodhczad, and John Lange. Among The reserves were Broolcs, Karpas, and Ryall. The season ended wilh The reams record reading I5 games won and 5 Iosl, The Ieam's leading scorers were Kar-ner wilh 348 poinls and Baron wilh I68 poinls. The individual record lor poinls scored in a single game was made by Korner when he scored 39 poinls againsl Adelphi. Gpponenl McBurney I8 Walden 37 24 I3'IcIyn Fr, 50 39 De La Salle 22 I9 Wesl Islip 50 38 Vlfoodrnere 55 32 Adelphi 6I 39 Lincoln 30 I8 SI. Augusl 50 I2 Lalce Grove 34 35 Ivlanhallan 40 22 Barnard 43 27 I-lorace Mann 25 43 Franlelin 49 29 Dwighl 49 30 Eliz. Erwin 42 31 Buxlon 46 37 De La 5aIle 34 40 Poly Prep 54 36 Trinily 57 40 De La 5aIle 33 609 86I

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SOCCER The soccer Team, spurred on by The coaching oT Mr. Funaro, who filled us wiTh inside dope on how To Take care aT The opponenTs in Three easy lessons, sTarTed The season on OcTober l7Th by playing Columbia Grammar and losing To Them, 2-O. The sTraTegy aT Mr. Funaro, alas, did noT worlc as iT was planned. The second game aT The season was againsT LaTayeTTe and There again The Green and WhiTe received a crushing blow Tram a superior Team, losing by a score OT 5-O, The Third game was a ToTal vicTary Tor The Green and WhiTe. ln The TirsT halT T-lanlc Baron, The all around aThleTe, scored The TirsT poinT aT The season Tor The Green and WhiTe. BUT Birch WaThen came baclc in The second halT and Tied The score. McBurney scored The Tinal poinT in The TourTh quarTer and The game was ours. By The way, I-lanlc scored The second painT. The TourTh game oT The season was againsT Horace Mann. IT seemed ThaT whenever a soccer game was schedulf'-d The wind swung around To The norTh and The ThermomeTer Tell below Treezing, BUT during This game iT was especially cold. ATTer The TirsT guarTer when The ball hiT a player he didn'T even Teel iT. Horace Mann's Team proved To be beTTer Eslcimos Than McBurney and won 2fO. The TiTTh game againsT FieldsTon was by Tar The besT played even Though iT ended in a O-O Tie. Luclc wasn'T wiTh lVlcBurney, Tar we missed Tive goals which really should have gone in.