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

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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.

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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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ATHLETIC COUNCIL The AThleTic Council had iTs usual busy season. There were seven maior spar-Ts and a holT dozen minor ones To supervise, Over one-TiTTh OT The schools enrollmenT received leTTers. WTTTT The yeorls sporTs cempleTed, The council can say deTiniTely ThaT This was a very successTul sporTs season. The swimming and The Tencing Team were Un deTeaTed: The volleyball Team wen iTs A,A.P.S. ToernamenT, while The Tencing Team and The basl4eTball Team placed second in Theirs. PONY SPORTS The pony basl4eTball Team, wiTh Mr. Parker coaching, had an excellenT season This year, AgainsT ,l. V. comeeTiTion, They won six oT The eleven games played. The Team losT The TirsT game ol The season To Friends Seminary, 38-QT, be? came baclc Two days laTer To Troiince The ST, Thomas squad, 3l l7. The second Team played The nexT game, losing To DalTon, 26-T3, buT The regulars rehirned To The vicTory column by repealing Their win over ST, Thomas, This Time by 39728. The mosT inTeresTing game ol The sea son was played wiTh fXugesTinian Seminary. The score aT The end aT The Tirsl auarTer was T7-T77 aT The end oT The halT, 23-23. When The linal whisTle blew Mr, Parlierls scoreboolq said ThaT McBiirney had won. 34-32. ST, fXugusTinian claimed a Tie game and ouTargeed The McT3erney claim. AT The end ol The exTra period The score read, ST. f'XugusTinion, 42 -- McBerney, 40, The Team Then wenT on To beaT The Bar, nord Brownies by a score oT 36-Zl and Trample TriniTy's highly raTed squad, 42-TZ. ln a nighT game McT3erney deTeaTed The Y.M.C.A, iayvee Team, 2321. ThaT was The hardesT Tei1ghT game oi The winTer. lVlcBiirney brolce even in The lasT Tour games, losing To Friends Seminary and Poly Prep, and winning Trom T'lorace Mann and TriniTy.