Northwestern High School - Norwester Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Standing: Mr. XYright, Trufant. Switzer. Mr. Jones. Fourth How: Van Dyne, XVagner. Schwab, F. Voss, NYil:son. Ritchie. Third Row: YVii'kham. G, Voss, XVakenian. R. Tate. S9C'0Hd How: XV. Littington, Shier, She-rrin, Schantz, Sosnowski, Vershure, XYulf. Lincoln House Track On Tuesday, Dec. 18, the call for house track men was issued. The meet was to take place on Thursday, Dec. 20, which meant there would be only twoidays for organization and practice. Due to the coaching of Mr. E. J. Wright, our team scored in nearly every event, taking eleven first places and thirteen other places for a total of 80 2X5 points. The meet was run off in the following order: In the heavyweight 30 yard dash, Risdon and Voss entered, but both failed to place. In the light- weight SO yard dash, Vershure and Swan took first and second places re- spectively. In the heavyweight twelve-lap run Schiefelhein took fourth place. Voelker and XN'atts placed first and third in the lightweight ten-lap run. The heavyweight high hurdlers, VViclman and Rogers, took first and second places. Lincoln failed to score in the lightweight low hurdles. Robinson in the heavyweight three-lap run collected more points for Lincoln. Jake XYilsher shone in the lightweight two-lap run, adding more points. In the lightweight six-lap race Penniger placed second, while in the lightweight Eve-lap race, Smith also placed second. VVard tied for fourth place in the heavyweight high jump. -Xt the same time Stewart took second, and Schiefelbein tied for fourth place in the lightweights, VanNortwick placed first, and Yates fourth in the heavyweight shot-put. Rosshach took first in the lightweights, and VVooliver third. In the heavyweight pole-vault. VVard Placed first and Stecker fourth. Thielman and Rooslnach tied for first in the lightweights. In the heavy relay Lincoln took first. The lightweight relay ran away from all the other teams. Lincoln's all-around team enabled her to win the championship for the season 1923. GLENN XY. Saxrirns. 122

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Coach Howard James YVillard Gitzen, Russell Downs. Louis DuPaw, Herman Casenliiser, Orlando Davis, XVillard Burrows, George Alger, Lynn Engle, Joseph Doran, Fred Imran. Pershing Basketball Pershing House spirit has been shown in various and numerous ways, but their hghting basketball teams of 1924 were an excellent proof that the boys of this house stand for the best there is in house spirit. The teams. under the able coaching of Mr, james, have finished a successful season. having won the inter-house championship of the school. The season opened in january: over tifteen boys turned out for practice the first day, and many more, a few days later. They came out with the determination to win the championship for their house, and to beat the Roosevelt team, which had won the cup for two successive years. The lirst games were played on Thursday and Friday, February 7 and 8, and an unusual event occurred. Each house won and lost one game, making the percentage of each house 500. The Pershing heavies won a hard-fought game with the Lincoln team, 9-S. while the lightweights lost 6-17. A few days later the Pershing heavies lost to the, Marshall quintet with a close score of 7-5. This game was all that was required to set the Pershing spirit boiling' again, for the heavies came back and won three successive games from the Roosevelt. Lincoln, and Marshall teams, with scores re- spectively, 17-l-1, 10-8, and 9-4. The hnal games were staged on March lS in the McMichael gym. The Pershing' lightweights ran away from the Teddies in an easy game 15-7. while the heavies also tool: their game. S--l. lYhen the Lincoln heavics lost to Marshall House, it rested on their lightweight team to decide the cham- pionship. Had the Marshall team won, the Generals would have had to defeat it again for the title, but the ninth-graders lost to the lighting Lincoln hve, and Pershing' llc-use gained the court championship, BLXRTIN I-EERMAN. 121

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K. Van Ilyke, Coach: J. Kearns. K. Uxley, XY, McKinnon, E, McMahon. Ib. Persons, R. Mosgrove. YV. Helmrich, J. Jenkin. XY. Pogenkoff, F. Morgan. Roosevelt Swimming To Roosevelt goes the honor of being the first winner of the inter-house swimming cup. Coach Van Dyke's untiring efforts were amply rewarded when the Teddyites stepped out at the inter-house meet with a total of 70 points, an even 20 ahead of their nearest rival. The team was so well bal- anced that fourteen men qualified in the preliminaries, Roosevelt being rep- resented in every event but the lightweight 100 yard free style. Roosevelt took the lead early, In the lightweight breast stroke race Helmrick took an easy first, and Persons of the heavies annexed a second place in his class. McKinnon and Pagenkoff took tirsts in the 50 yard and Z5 yard free style swims. Not to be outdone, McMahon and Hickman took first and second in the 50 yard backstroke, and Humphrey took fourth for the lightweights. In the 100 yard free style second and third were taken by Mosgrove and Lathamer, and Pagenkoff and jenkins took third and fourth in the 25 yard distance. The 250 yard medley was taken easily in the senior event and the juniors did their bit by copping a third. Oxley and Newell kept up the monotony by taking first and third in the heavies' 150 yard free style event. The relay seemed to be just the dish for the heavy- weights, so they annexed the 200 yard free style handily, and the lights grabbed a third in theirevent. McKinnon, McMahon, Oxley. and Pagenkoff, who captured Firsts in their events, also starred later on our state champion varsity team. The Teasing Teddies, the pioneers in worth-while things, feel justly proud of their new cup, ' DAVE PERSONS. 123