Rye Neck High School - Scraps Yearbook (Mamaroneck, NY)

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men and children will perish! Pro. CWith a sneerj: We haven't any time to think of women and children, and I haven't any relatives so what do I care. I never thought of your wife, but now we havcn't time, for in 85 seconds the moon will be in her exact location! And the deed will be done! Doc. Qlildging near the l'rof.j: But what has the moon to do with it? Pro.: I can't tell you just now. I'll ex- plain when itis over. Keep away from this switchboard. There's only 33 seconds to go. Keep away from me do you hear? Keep away! Qlloetor makes a sudden plunge and is met deftly by the professor, who knocks him back against a dusty blackboard, where professor has been figuring. Dust fills thc room and as the professor reaches for the switch he gives vent to a violent sneeze. His hand misses and grasps some wires near the switch. A loud explosion is heard and the panel is bathed in bluish sparks., Pro. QGaspingQ: Keep away-Doc.-um less you want to-to get--killed. I'm sunk -another minute of this juice and I'll be gone. Get out of here quick-in about three minutes the whole place will go up! No! Don't try to save me! Get out! D0n't tell anyone about this because they won't believe you. Now beat it! Get out before it goes up! Do you hear?? For Heaven's sake get out! fExit doctor.j QAbout four seconds later the stage is lit up by a great light and with a tremendous explosion the curtain drops.j Note: The curtain was made of asbestos so the audience was in no way endangered. Eugene Periconi BURNS Just a peasant rude was he, VVho oft the Scottish fields had tilled. And yet in spite of poverty, A poet rich with genius filled. .lust a few short years he livedg And yet in those he raised his name Above those of his countrymen, Achieving thus undying fame. Willis Rcinke Page Twen A TRUE STORY All winter long the Old Ice House Gang had awaited the coming of Spring. And so it was that when the Mamaroneck River started to shed its coat of ice that the gang assembled to have its fun. Iceberg after iceberg was launched and rode down the river. But soon the fun was interrupted by a heavy downfall of rain. All that night it rained and on the following morning the river was swollen beyond its banks. It was about 10 o'cloek when we reached the river banks to see if there were any more bergs to launch. A short way up the river we found a large one perched upon a large boulder. With long poles we succeeded in getting it into the water. .lust as the cur- rent started to take it out Has Harriott slipped and fell sprawling upon the berg. Before he could get to his feet the current had taken him, berg and all. out into the middle of the stream. At first we thought it funny but when we realized that the stone bridge at Barry Ave. was in his way and that if l1e floated into that hc would be knocked off the berg and his life would be in danger in the current that was flowing. Then we knew that the situation was far from funny. Seeing this, we started down the path along the river yelling for l1in1 to jump, but Has was too scared to jump just yet. All the while the berg was gaining speed and was traveling straight toward the bridge. Just as we rounded the path we saw another berg caught in shallow water. It at once entered my mind that if I could get that berg in front of Has there would be a chance of stopping it or decreasing the speed to allow Has to jump. .lust then Harriott hove into sight from around the bend, so calling the rest to help me, I jumped into the shoal water and shoved the berg out just as Has,' came sailing past. The two met head-on and in the collision Harriott was thrown clear into the shoal water. VVe picked him up, a scared but unhurt boy, and took him home, where some dry clothes made him feel better. But we had all learned a lesson. So that now we look forward to spring for a better reason than for riding icebergs. Fred L. Nichols ty-five

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YE OLD MELODRAMA, ENTITLED How CHALK llUs'r SAVED 'rum EARTHU Il'iIh rzpolrngics to the author of Sadie flu' Sewing fllfltdliill' Gfrln Scene: Mountain Laboratory of Professor P'l'-cn, on the night of August 123, 1897. Professor is reading a book by a pale green l5gfght, when clock in the distance strikes ten p. ni. Enter llr. Ambrose. Pro. Qllloqu'-ntlyj: Ah, I sec you are on time, lloetor. It certainly does one good to see someone punctual around here when all these peons are so lazy. Doc.: I am glad to be of service to you professor. lint I aiu mystitied by that letter you sent me. What did you mean when you said, Come up to my laboratory if you wish to see some wholesale destruction. What did you mean by that? Pro.: Listen carefully and don't interrupt me. I h'iven't much time left to accomplish my plan. Doc.: Plan? What plan? Pro.: To destroy the world! Ha! Ha! Yes, lloctor, my great ambition is to be real- ized tonight. liver since they have forced me to live here in Mexico, an outcast to the world, I have waited for this sweet moment when I can lnake them feel as I have felt. And all because I experimented with a few living persons. I tell you they would not have amounted to much! I picked them up in the slums of Chicago and made exhaustive tests of their brains. They registered al- most zero and it was an act of kindness to exterminate them. But the silly authorities eouldn't see it that way. so I had to escape down here. lint tonight I'll show them. I'll show them! When I pull down thc switch that turns on the current they won't know wh:1t's hit them. 'I'hey'll scurry around and try to get away from the awful heat-but they won't be able to. I'll have them in my power! lla! Ha! Clloctor rushes over to him.j Doc.: Heavens, Professor, you must be crazy! VVhat's the matter with you anyway? llere, sit down and rest yourself. Come on now be a good fellow sit down. Let me give you a needle of morphine in the arm and you'll feel better. Pro.: Now, Doctor, there's no use in your trying to calm me down with any of your silly drugs. I'm not insane, as you think, and I know what I'm doing. Sit down and don't interrupt me. I've got only 13 minutes to tell you the story, before the moon will be in the right position for the experiment. Doc. fliewilderedj: The Moon? P1'o.: Yes the Moon. Listen! You know that carbon is one of the most abundant ma- terials cn the earth's surface. Think of all the forests on the earth, all the coal beds and all the petroleum fields and you will get an idea how much carbon there is. Now then, I have here a machine, which I have per- fected, that will liqnify carbon at a temper- ature of 111300 degrees Centrigrade. Then by means of V Rays. which I have also dis- covered, the carbon is held suspended on the top of the rest of the solution. Then when this carbon is suddenly cooled a solid sub- stance is formed which is known in the com- mercial world as- Doc.: As a diamond. Yes, I understand it all Professor. It's a diabolical scheme, and if your machine works you will have made the whole world one solid uncut dia- mond. But why aren't you content by mak- ing a few and then sell them at a great price? Pro.: I don't want money, Ambrose, I want to see the world destroyed! QCrashes hand down on desk.j Look! There are only live minutes left. I'll prove that my ma- chine does work. I have here on this table a small working model of the large one you saw outside on the top of the mountain. See, I will take a handful of dirt and put it in this container. Then by turning on the cur- rent, as you see, the dirt is raised in 14- seconds to 41300 degrees.-Now see what happens when I turn on the V Rays-See the layer of dark substance on the top? That's the melted carbon.-Now notice that I take this large can of water and throw it on the carbon. Look out! That steam will give you a bad burn. At the moment the steam is given off enough pressure is formed to make a nice sized diamond-Here let me lake it out of the box and you can keep it. It won't be worth much in a few minutes, though, because the whole earth will be the same. Doc. fllramaticallyjz You can't do such a thing! Think of the destruction it will cause. Why all your relations, all the wo- Page '1'wenty-four

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ATEILETICS Looking back over the 1928-1929 athletic season we find it to be. in some ways, quite successful and in some other ways-well, not quite so good. In football we engaged in four games with three teams. Harrison, in spite of the excell- ent defense put up by our boys succeeded in defeating us. Searsdale, having a much heavier team easily took us in tow. But the morale of the squad was not broken and even when Harrison won again the team kept right on going. The boys went into the Mamaroneck game with a Do or Die spirit and when the final whistle sounded the visi- tors had to be content with a mere tie score. This was accounted for by the speed with which the work of the team was carried out. The lightness of the Rye Neck boys gave us a slight advantage over the heavy Mamaroneck squad and if the contest had gone a few minutes more a victory might have been our lot. After a short rest the call for Basketball came. Here was a sport quite different from football, one that would give those who were too timid for the rougher sport the chance to play and fight for Rye Neck. A few days of practice and the squad was cut: a few days more, the squad was cut again. At last Coach Sherwood was con- centrating his talents on about fifteen players that were to represent our school on the court. Long hours of faithful practice and at last the great chance came. The Alumni were taken first. The old meni' were quite surprised when the final score was posted as 19-l2l Tile next two games went the way of the first, Victoriesl Then the break, two games were dropped, Rye Neck had met defeat! The team went right back and won the next one but was stopped again by the Salesians. And so it was throughout the rest of the season, win and lose, lose and win. At last the basketball togs were put away and the last score found to sum up to, six victories and six games left by the wayside. A few short weeks of rest and the last call for sports! Spring was in the air. Baseball season had come! New faces were seen on the diamond. New hands were in the gloves. New hands were swinging bats. The veterans had left and the rookies were learning the game. The new players started off in great style. The first game was a victory over the Roger Ascham nine. The next was another win., Rye High School falling before us. Then the new hands fal- tered, the bats wavered and a seeming jinx settled on the squad. Hare and Nichols were out of a gameg then Nichols hurt his finger. The losing streak begun, was hard to shake off and the bad luck stayed till tl1e end of the season. Out of the eight games scheduled six were lost, two were victories. ' The blame belongs to no one. It was largely lack of experience. Next year the team that takes our place will do better. Since the records seem to indicate that basketball was the sport in which our ath- letes made the best showing we will set down the scores in that activity. They are: Opp. R. N. Dee. 21-Alumni . . . 12 19 Jan. 10-Searsdale .. . 28 29 25-Harrison ...... . 30 26 29-Mamaroneck . . . . 28 19 Feb. 1-Eastchester . . 21 25 6-Salesians . . . . 38 28 8-Eastchcster . . . 24 22 15-Rye .......... . 20 24- 19-Mamaroneck . . . . 29 21 27-Salesians . . .... 20 17 141 32 Mar. 1-Harrison ....... Robert C. Hains, Athletic Manager '28-,29 GIRLS' BASKETBALL The girls' basketball team was not as suc- cessful this year as in the years before. The team had six games scheduled but only were victorious in two of them. Miss Scott, despite the number of games lost, gave each girl the school letters. The girls all put up a hard struggle to win and spent many hours practicing. Tlms they earned their letters- not by winning but by putting forth such an effort. Dorothy Halsey Page Twenty-sin: