Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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a double-loul was called involving Bob Druss and his opposile. Going lo lhe foul lines bolh men made lhe mosl ol lheir scoring opporlunily. And as lhe Long Islander cancelled Druss' success by sinking lhe loul shol, lhe Midwood boy rushed in and sporlingly shook his hand. This was lhe poinl lhal gave Cily lhe game, since lhe r lailed lo nolice lhe sudden alleclion shown lo Ray Schwarlz during a lasl-second lhal consequenlly failed lo deuce. We were lhe class lhal iusl gol under lhe wire when il came lo lhe lormalion ol a loolball leam. Al lhe momenl one may queslion lhis as a occurrence, bul even lhe recolleclion ol games losl will become a slimulus conversalion. Those accuslomed lo losses pick lhe all-slar leam ol superlalives on lhe day lheir school wins ils lirsl ball game. We had all expecled a successful loolball season in I947 and Coach Murlha proudly proclaimed lhe pre-season viclories allowed lhe leam. Bul Midwood losl lhe early games, and when lhe Blue and While deplored ils adversaries chances in lhe New Ulrechl game, lhey were lrying lo convince lhemselves, nol lhe opponenl. Websler passed lo Burslein lor 55 yards and Midwood led 6-O . . . Feinslein recovered a Ulrechl lumble on lhe ensuing kickoll . . . Midwood rolled . . . I2-O . . . Len McNeil's end-around sel up lhe lhird score, and lhe delirious Midwood roolers were playing lhe parl ol lans lo a winning ball club. When quarlerback Bill Smilh called lhe lasl play ol lhe day, Midwood led 24-7. Schools lose who are capable ol success on lhe ball field, bul who developed an only recenl lo lheir Grammar School gradualion. ll is lor lhis and Soccer leams were warmly greeled by lhis deparlmenl. for lhese sporls were nol lhe big names. For clebul lhal look place in Madison Square Garden. Don Rudolph and Joe Franklin, ranked second in lheir heal Many ol a ballgame are inlerrupled by sensalional acls, and il is as if lhe course ol play made a dream sequence oul ol lhe common occurrences a day al lhe ball park. You don'l see lhe resl ol lhe lield or lhe score ol lhe game, bul lhere's Slan Budin running way back in lell-lield, diving, somersaulling, ancl lriumphanlly waving lhe ball and glove logelher in his righl hand. ll's lhe game againsl Jellerson, now, back in lhe I947 loolball season. Midwood is laking a bealing from one of lhe cily's besl leams. Jimmy Marshall, a long way lrom his calching role in baseball, slands I5 yards behind lhe line awailing lhe pass from cenler. Marshall is a guy who relies on his speed, and lhe greal dislance from cenler is lo give him a chance lo gel going. The ball is shilled and Marshall slarls oll. Nol lorward lor a louchdown, bul eller lhe pigskin ilsell as il sails lar over his head. Picking il up, he runs away lrom lacklers and allhough he is 'Finally broughl down, lurns lhe blunder ol a cenler inlo lhe kind ol play people wrile aboul in yearbooks. Then lhere was lhe opening evening ol lasl year's baskelball season, when Ray Schwarlz, in his lirsl game as a lirsl-slringer broke lhe Midwood scoring record wilh 22 poinls. Again lasl year's baskelball season and lhis lime an overlime period in a game againsl Tilden. Wilh 30 seconds lo go, and lhe score lied, Neil Poslman is louled. l-le slands on lhe line, bows his legs, and up, and in il goes, lhe winning poinl ol Midwood's lirsl viclory. Quielly lhe rille leam came along, and allhough il is obscured by a lack ol lan-appeal il was lhe loophole upon which Midwoodiles hung a hope and beliel lhal winning leams can

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in 1f'6f1f0.ilU07f'f The compleTe agieemenT human beings have concerning The use and develop- menT oT The body may be responsible Tor The populariTy oT aThleTics, and wheTher iT is aT a business luncheon in your living-room armchair, or when The car breaks down, The recollecifions of your high school Teams will be welcomed. All will become Class A'ers in The league ThaT TaThers around The Tireside. LeT The living room scene be a sTereoType. A poT-bellied sTove wiTh your TeeT Tipping The TooT-resT, and since The Training rules oT more a+hle+ic days have been relaxed, you will have enTered The class whose privilege is dissipaTion. So, be careful noT To leT The ashes drop, and don'T Tip The glass Too Tar in your sTruggle Tor comTorT againsT The oversTuFFed chair. Allowing such a scene To have influence over my ThoughTs, The TirsT Thing ThaT comes To mind is The no-hiHer Charley GersTen Threw againsT Brooklyn Tech in The finale oT The I947 baseball season. IT had been a year of 0-2 Tor Chuck as he warmed up on The Parade Ground sidelines. The Midwood rooTers in The grandsTand made playful suggesTions ThaT The only way Charley would win was by a perTecT game. The early innings wenT by, and The infielders chanTed, no-hiTTer, baby boy, no-hi'Her, baby boy .... Midwood had gained an advanTage in The run cleparTmen+ as iT came down To The Tinal inning. We were all aware oT GersTen's negaTive aTTiTude Toward Tech baTTers, buT The round shouldered condiTion of Midwood's won and Ios+ record made The prospecT of a no-hiTTer seem miraculous. Quickly, Charley pushed The TirsT o Two baTTers r and whaT was I uT sTepped in. A ball abou+ To become a in which The neuroTic are was The case. The moTions d as TwiTches 0l'l The TBCES of slammed The ball pasT To GersTen, who in iT ThaT makes Thrills which higher- asslsT a school-day evenT in Nahonal League's mosT valuable Hugh School gym Talking abouT 9 ended e sporTs TanaTic alThough baske-Tball and gym shorTs and UP TOY games. The evenTs oT and fhe ouT To The ueens iT as a blind- way in which The game progressed was signiTicanT, Two Teams on The ownership oT The lead as lhg final r . . ua Ter was giving rOOm. Ray Schwarh, who had scored 22 poinTs in The preceding a mediocre day, and iT I Herb BGVSTGTH. and Bob up Tor The slump. Of course a good Tloor This would only deprive unappreciaTed There were abouT ThirTy

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ta lex 0 mzklwood toiled How fhey shrilly ring and bellow Down fhe long and guarded hall, Class is over, calls a fellow. Buf fhe feacher sfill does bellow, Does nof hearken fo ifs call. We are bored, our feef are fapping, Buf his ears don'f sfop fheir flapping, Don'f you make a move af leaving, Mr. Becker loudly yells, , Jusf because you heard fhe sounding of fhe bells, bells, bells: They're for me and nof for you, fhose precious bells. Wifh a scurry, hurry, race, We are running foward fhe door, Buf if closes in our face, 5 We musf frudge wifh weary pace For a pass from fhe firsf floor. Lafe again our zeros piling, Mr. Spieler is sfill smiling, The period is over. You're in fime, he grinning fells, For fhe bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells. Darn flue horror and flue ferror of flue bells! If is despues de comer The Familia Brown has crossed The wrong border. They should send Themselves a posfal card. They're losf. In fhe halls fhe kids pass by, Buf we sfay here fill we die 'Cause we doubled, why, oh why? Mr. Cabal made us do if and now he gladly yells Thaf fhe bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells Tain'f for you-you Spanish doubles- Oh, fhose sweef, nosfalgic bells 8