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

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We GOLF When The call Tor golTers was senT ouT This Spring, Mr. Purcell discovered ThaT noT one golTer Tram previous years was in The school. l-lowever, six poTenTial gollers an- swered The call. Many diTTiculTies were ex- perienced by The boys when They began To organize The Team. Finally They had Time To play only Three maTches, Two wiTh Poly Prep and one wiTh Brooklyn. The Team losT all Three maTches. The Teams home course, Clearview, is locaTed in Flushing. The sTarTing Tive were noT seasoned veT- erans, buT They did provide some compe- TiTion Tor The opposiTion. The prospecTs Tor nexT year are good. Byron Anderson grad- uaTed in June, buT Warren Hagberg, Fred SchmidT, Eugene Renner, RoberT Wood- head, and George Edbon will sTill be in The school. TENNIS The Tennis Team by winning all oT iTs maTches placed iTselT high in The running Tor The BesT Team Cup. The phrase, 'Twin- ning all oT iTs maTches, gives a very poor picTure oT whaT The Team did To iTs op- ponenTs. OT The Tive maTches played only one was a baTTle, The one againsT Lincoln, which was Tinally won by McBurney in The lasT seT, 3-2. The oTher maTches were walk- aways, IvlcBurney winning every seT in each maTch. The Team, composed OT Baron, Jacobs, Lawrence, SchmiT, Alex Treves, and Weis glass, Took To The courTs early and oTTen. The players were scarcely ever seen wiTh- ouT Their racgueTs under Their arms. ln Their TirsT maTch, abbreviaTed To Two sin- gles and a double, They deTeaTed Brooklyn Friends 3-O. There was no guesTion oT The ouTcome aT The maTch aTTer The TirsT seT. Columbia Grammar was The nexT vicTim, The score 5-O. Then came The Lincoln game.

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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

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The maTch was hard ToughT ThroughouT, buT McBurney ouTlasTed Their opponenTs and won 3-2. The Tinal maTches oT The season were well played, buT The McBurney Team was Too sTrong. BoTh CollegiaTe and Adelphi were noT only deTeaTed buT lolanlced. MosT oT The Tennis players are leaving This June. NexT year Mr. Guernsey will have To sTarT pracTically Trom scraTch. BuT Mc- Burney has always had good Tennis Teams: we are sure ThaT TuTure Teams will be egualf ly capable. OpponenTs McBurney O Brooklyn 3 O Col. Gr. 5 2 Lincoln 3 O CollegiaTe 5 O Adelphi 5 2 21 VOLLEYBALL The VarsiTy Volleyball sguad won The AAPS TournamenT aTTer a Tough sTruggle wiTh TriniTy, In The TirsT round They elim- inaTed Adelphi in Two games, winning I5-IO and T5-I3. Regis proved no compe- TiTion aT all in The semi-Tinals, McBurney Trouncing Them T5-4, T5-9. The Tinals, howf ever, developed inTo a long hard sTruggle. ln The TirsT game McBurney came Trom be- hind To deuce The game aT I4 and wenT on To win aTTer The serve had changed sides a dozen Times. The leTdown ThaT Tolf lowed was severe and TriniTy capped The second game easily, I5-5. IT loolced as iT McBurney was Through. Then TriniTy, which had been playing TighT ball Tor Two games, relaxed. BeTore They could recover, Mc- Burney had won The deciding game, T5-6. The J. V.'s were eliminaTed in The TirsT round by ST. AugusTine. The Freshmen losT To ST. Francis in The semi-Tinals by T5-8, l5-8.