North High School - Northern Lights Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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Basketball in 1923-24 The 1923-24 season of basketball was the most successful that North High ever had. Led by their fighting captain, Mike Limric, the Black and Gold quintet completed the season with an| average of 750 in the city series — an average higher than that of any other city varsity team. They battled their way to victory through three city series games, only to drop the fourth game to Cen¬ tral, which m.eant that North had to divide the city honors with South High. In the tournament held at Goodyear Gym on February 28 and 29, the Eskimos won from East and the highly touted Canton Mc¬ Kinley crew, but were defeated in the finals by Barberton, who won from them earlier in the season also. Incidentally Barberton and Central were the only teams to defeat North during the season. Among the high class teams which North met and defeated were: Lorain, who won the title of the “Little Big Seven,” Akron East, who beat Akron Central in the city series; Cleveh nd Heights, who forfeited their game to North when it was found that one of their players was ineligible. Wadsworth, Shaker Heights and Hudson all fell easy victims to the Northern warriors. The Northerners received the lion’s share of personal honors among the teams. Nelson was named all-city guard; Limric was placed on the same mythical team as forward, be¬ sides being high scorer of the city; Vernotzy received the center position; Limric’srunning- mate, Barnes, was accredited with being the best floor man in the city, but, a.-- a forwards job is primarily to make points, he was not mentioned on the all-city team. The only letter man who will be back for all of next season is Barnes, captain-elect, a three year veteran. There are several subs however who have shown their wares in some of the games and seem to be promising mate- lial Limric will be eligible until next Janu¬ ary, but it is doubtful whether he will take much part in basketball. The following is a summary of the season’s games and scores: North 26 Akron East 14 North 32 Shaker Heights 7 North 2 Cleveland Heights 0 North 29 Lorain 27 North 22 Barberton 25 North 24 Wadswor h 16 North 25 West 22 North 30 South 29 North 39 Cuyahoga Falls 24 North 30 Central 32 North 13 Fast 11 North 20 Ca ton McKinleyl5 North 16 Barberton 23 No th 24 Obernn 16 North 26 Hudson 25 On next year’s schedule several new teams may appear. Among these are Alliance,Wood- ward Tech of Toledo, Canton McKinley and Lakewood. These together with Cleveland Heights, Loiain, Barberton, the city teams, the tournament and possibly two other teams, ought to make an interesting schedule. —Joseph Zisscn,’25 Read your oven North Star Fifty-seven

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Track Summary for 1924 In the North High interclass track meet, held on April 26, the senior athletes buried the underclassmen under an avalanche of points. By winning six first, seven second, six third and several fourth places, along with the relay race, they were able to garner 72 points. The juniors were the closest com¬ petitors with 28 points, while the sophomores and freshmen trailed with 23 an d 8 respect¬ ively. Hosfield, ’24, track captain for the season, won all the points allowed an entry by taking four firsts, besides being a member of the winning relay team. His name, there¬ fore, will be engraved on the track cup pur¬ chased by former coach Wagner. Previous to this only two track men have won this honor. The inter-class meet uncovered other mater¬ ial which shows promise also. Middleton, a Sophomore miler, is showing class and should develop into an unusually good man during the season. Griffith, a junior, although only a novice at pole vaulting, is jumping almost 10 feet, which is considered a good height especially considering the condition of the available jumping places and the time of year Cleon Wells, White, Hosfield and Conley gained some experience, as well as honor, when they took fifth place in a medley relay at Columbus on April 19. Many schools of high caliber were represented in this race; such as Toledo Scott and Waite, Lakewood and Columbus South. The most successful meet of the season so far was the one held at Lakewood Oi. May 3, where the Northern athletes won first place in the mile relay, second in the sprint medley and fourth in the 880relay. A handsmoe silver cup and eight medals testified to the suc¬ cess of the occasion. In a triangular meet, staged at North High’s field on May 10, West High emerged an easy winner with 82| points over North’s 36 and South’s 11 . Marty of West carried off the personal honors with four first places. The Northerners, as a whole, did not come up to their usual standard. Wnite, however, made his best time in the quarter, winning a first place with time 56.5. Baker won the discus throw with 103ft. lin. Hosfield took second place in the 220 yard dash and Limric m the broad jump. These, with places won by Hos¬ field and White in the 100 yd. dash, constituted North’s score. —Joseph Zissen,’25 Debate News Debating at North has been given due at¬ tention this year. Each of the Hygiene classes held a debate on the question: Resolved, that life in a community is better than private home life. In one class the affirmative side won the decision; in another the negative team was successful. Mr Kelly’s three lOA English classes engaged in a series of dis¬ cussions on the Philippine question, although no formal debate was held. The real interest of the debating season, however, centered around the Debate club, which, at its first meeting held early last October, elected Donald Bishop president. Many questions were taken up for discus¬ sion during the first semester. In February members of the club began to gather facts on the Philippine question. In April a tri angular debate was arranged between Ak¬ ron North, Cuyahoga Falls and Bedford on the question: Resolved, that the Philippines should be given immediate and absolute in¬ dependence. On May 1 the members of both teams to represent North High were selected; Edna Schrank, Budd Van Kirk, Donald Bishop, and Charles Walker (alternate) composing the affirmative team and Jeane Garrett, Basil Likens, Luther Hosfield, and Robert Long- aker (alternate) the negative. On Friday May 9, the affirmative team de¬ fended the argument at home against the Bed¬ ford negative team, while the negative team went to Cuyahoga Falls to argue against their affirmative. The debate resulted in two victories for Cuyahoga Falls, one victory and one loss for North and two losses for Bed¬ ford. In the debate held at North the student body showed good sportsmanship toward Bedford giving them considerate attention and enthusiastic applause. The decision of judges Flickinger, Zook, and Marting was unanimous in favor of North. At Cuyahoga Falls North’s negative team lost a two-to-one decision. Altogether we have had a fairly successful debating season, though w e have room for improvement in scoring next year. Probably two or more inter-school debates will be sched¬ uled for that time and the aim of the Debate club will be to come through undefeated. —Budd Van Kirk,’24 Fifty-nine