New York University School of Education - Education Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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VARSITY BASEBALL, 1930

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Varsily Indoor Track HE Track team gave a wonderful account of itself in the indoor meets this year. For the second year in a row the Violet athletes took the Metropolitan A.A.U. track title. It is the only college team to have this honor. Chuck jones, Schneider, Fogcl, Sandler, Barker and Grodman along with the Medley relay team accounted for a total of 27 points to capture the meet. Though once again the team failed to recapture the Inter-collegiate AAAA indoor championship, it managed to place fifth. jones tallied four points with a second place in the shot put, Rezneck three more with a third in the weight event while Schneider, Krosney, and Maloney managed to make the final tally twelve points. Jones, Krosney and Barker again came through in the National A. A. U. Cham- pionships and, with a point from Nat Lerner, compiled eight points to tie the New York Athletic Club for third place. Other consistent N. Y. U. men performing unattached were Spitz, Nordell and Singer. Spitz, as everyone already knows, set a new world's record in the high jump when he beat Harold Osborne at the Metropolitan meet with a leap of six feet seven inches. Singer has been taking most all the sprint events run in the Metropolitan area this season while Nordell has placed consistently in the longer runs. 191

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Varsify Baseball HE 1930 squad turned in one of the best rec- ords that any Violet diamond team has made in years. Of the 22 contests engaged in, the team won 15 and lost seven. Standing out were the victories over Columbia, St. john's and Rutgers. The Fordham combination broke even, while Army, Pennsylvania, Holy Cross, N. Y. A. C., Yale, and the Quantico Marines beat the Violet warriors. Coach McCarthy's outfit scored one hundred and forty-six runs during the season, while hold- ing their opponents to one hundred and two rallies. The team's batting overage was a fair .259. There will be quite a call for new material this year. The graduation of most of the veteran infielders leaves McCarthy with the difficult task of filling their boots. Coach Robert's freshman nine, however, turned in a promising record of six victories and three defeats. All three losses were at the hands of powerful teams and by the narrowest of margins. The cub team will be able to furnish some fairly good material for this year's pitching staff. Bob McNamara, the galloping, line-smashing sophomore back of the 1930 Gridmen, is a pitcher of no mean ability. With him will be John Symanzyk, a southpaw artist, Zignor, Herzog and Shearer, another left hander. The addition of jimmy Lee, who operated behind the bat so successfully for last year's yearlings, will be a great asset to the Varsity bat- tery squad. The rest of the infield will probably ,V , be taken care of by some of last year's substitutes. 5 For the outfield, the frosh furnished some excellent material in the shape of MacDonald, one of Bob's football mates, and last season's slugging sensation, Babe Boggini, who will aspire to fill Kastner's old patrol in center field. If only that infield can be patched up we'll have a dandy team for 1931. 195