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

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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.

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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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The Iasf game of fhe season was againsf fhaf well-known school, Poly Prep. There again fhe Green and Whife was crushed by an oversized feam by fhe score of 6-O. Maybe if wasn'f a vicforious season buf we had a lof of fun playing. TRACK The frack feam had plenfy of compefi- fion from ofher sporfs and acfivifies lnof fhe leasf of which was provided by fhe approaching final examinafionsl. Despife fhis McBurney had a sincere, hard-working feam. Af Riverdale, McBurney did well in fhe field evenfs: Ian Nemlich faking firsf in fhe shofpuf and second in fhe broad iump, John Lawrence and Eugene Renner fying for firsf in The high iump, and Uwe Theden coming in Third in fhe broad iump. In 'rhe races, however, fhe feam failed fo come Through and McBurney was defeafed. Af Fieldsfon, McBurney again failed fo fop fhe campefifion. Ian Nemlich, Fred Korner and Uwe Theden placed in The field evenfs, and Capfain George Faff and Phil Brooks won places on fhe frack. FENCING This year fhe fencing feam gof off fo a beaufiful sfarf by badly beafing Horace Mann 8-I. Vicfory affer vicfory followed: feam affer feam fell in fronf of our cap- able foilsmen: Alex and Edi Treves, bofh capfains, Jimmy Hooper and Barrie Tre- bor, fhe fwo new members of fhe feam. Columbia Grammar, Brooklyn Friends, and Riverdale were fhe unlucky vicfims. By fhe fime fhe annual A.A.P.S. fourna- menf opened, fhe feam was ready and anxious for vicforyg however, fheir success had gone fo fheir heads: fhey wenf on fo fhe sfrips a Iiffle overconfidenf. They once more defeafed Columbia-Grammar and Horace Mann. Then came fhe finals, and McBurney was opposed by a sfrong River- dale feam. Alfhough we had won over fhem af fhe beginning of fhe season, fhey proved fo be slighfly beffer fhan our men, defeafing fhem 6-3. In fhe individ- ual A.A.P.S. rafings, James Hooper placed fiffh, Edward Treves placed fourfh, while his brofher and feammafe, Alex, placed second, one vicfory behind fhe firsf place honors! ' The success of nexf year's feam, offer fhe fifvo Treveses graduafe, will be com- plefely in fhe hands of James Hooper and Barrie Trebor. They should be able fo confinue fhe excellenf showing made by fhe McBurney fencing feam in fhe pasf. BOX SCORE ' Opponenfs McBurney I Horace Mann 8 I Columbia 'GL 8 4 Riverdale 5 O Brooklyn Fr. I 9 2 Horace Mann 7 O Horace Mann 9 I Columbia Gr. 8 6 Riverdale ' 3 INDIVIDUAL SCORING , Won Losf J. Hooper ,s I2 8 B. Trebor , 8 3 E. Treves , B 20 4 A. Treves 20 E 3