Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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NINliTEEN-TH1RTlIEN- FQURTEEN 59 WLM' si ' - - , -- . a ' .' - , ' ' -,-, 1-.H .f . '-1'-'i:'i- ' J ' ,.,V - ' .gt A , , - . - . 4 ' ' A ' - if 5 If 57. lit' g L -. vfpti---.LN ,-,. - gp.: Q . 11, -.Iv .E-,,. , V, vvv- 'EF A! ' gf 1 -.fp ' ff' -5 ' ' lflylmaxzf'-1. 'Qi HE excellent showing of our basketball team, Rupp man- I aging, will serve as an example for this sport in Harris. li theless the team did fine work on the whole, and only 4' acknowledged defeat after a hard struggle marked by close scores The frames were well attended and much credit is due to the students for their loyalty shown in supporting the team. l fi Although the majority of the games were not won never- - -. g lYe started the season with four veterans, Capt. Curry, Michaelson, .Toffe and Bennett. Chief among the new men were Holman and Adler. The first conflict was with an old rival of ours, Hoboken, to whom we have paid tribute again and again. This season wit- nessed the same sad sight. Our boys piled up 19 points against the Alumni, in a fast game, a few days later. Erasmus forfeited their game to us and the next game with Ca- thedral College, Zd, was won only after a hard fight. Withiii the two following weeks, both Mt. Vernon and Fordham Prep. were forced to acknowledge our superiority. Mt. Vernon furnished plenty of excitement, but the Fordham boys were too far outclassed to offer much resistance. At this time we weakened and allowed Commercial to break our winning streak and defeat us by a 25 to 10 score. On January the 2nd we celebrated the New Year by defeating Commerce in our first P. S. A. L. game. Mussy Holman shared the honors of the game with his brother Nadie, of Commerce. Neither side could gain a decided advantage, as is shown by the final score of 19 to 18. The following week saw our third unsuccessful attack on the Jersey Jinx, North Plainfield came over to us and took things into their own hands. Our hopes for the P. S. A. L, Championship were jarred con- siderably when Stuyvesant defeated us by a clean-cut victory. At the end of the first half the score stood 12 to 10 in their favor, and in the second it looked as if a cyclone had struck us. In the scrimmage with Clinton on Ian. 16 we got the wrong end of a 26 to 24 score, but, when we consider the brilliant record of the Red and Black, this close score is something to be proud of. Little Kaufman was the mainstay of his team, and Capt. Curry's 14 points were a big help to US.

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58 THE HARRIS ANNUAL completely outplayed them, and only carelessness kept the score down to 4 to l in our favor. Harris fans looked forward to the scrimmage with Commercial as a sure victory for the Crimson and Gold. The men from Brooklyn, however, had their own ideas about the matter, and, taking advantage of the over-confidence of the home team, turned a defeat into a tie. Clinton was the next to test our strength and was defeated in a one-sided game. Shifting winds kept our line from placing the ball more than twice between Clinton's posts. In the last game of the sea- son our men were too confident and fell down before the strong attack of Stuyvesant. Besides taking third place in the final record, we succeeded in get- ting two men on the all-scholastic soccer team-namely, Zimmerman, who played outside right, and Perrotti, our center. The team as a whole was awarded the block H for the brilliant work done through the entire season. The following are the scores of the games that were played : Score Score Harris. . . Curtis ...... . .. Harris... Commerce . . . .. Harris... Boys ....... . . . l 2 2 0 l 0 Harris.. .2 Morris ...... ...l Harris.. .l Columbia Zd. . . .0 Harris.. .O Manual ...... ..l Harris...l C. C. N. Y., 'l7.0 4 l l l 2 O 0 2 Harris.. . Erasmus .... . . . Harris.. . Commercial .. Harris.. . Clinton ..... ... Harris. . . Stuyvesant .. . . . 15 Total points 8 Games won, 73 lost, 35 tied l.

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60 Newtown surprised us a THE HARRIS ANNUAL nd increased our list of misfortunes. Even the presence of the reinstated 'fMike could not prevent the tide from sweeping up against us. rence, but the absence of effect on their line-up. We then took a weak team over to Law- two regulars seemed to have very little The encounters with Peekskill Military Academy and Flushing were very favorable to us. In the latter Curry and Mike each caged six baskets and Holman followed up with three more. The line-up for the past season was as follows: Curry, Center, Capt. Adler, Forward. Holman, Forward. Schwartz, Forward joffe, Forward The scores of the entir Bennett, Guard. Michaelson, Guard. Kaufman, Guard. Rupp, G. Lachowski, Managers. Mr. XVilliamson, coach. e season follow: Harris.19 Hoboken . . . .30 Harris. lZ North Plainf1eld.27 Harris. l9 Alumni ........ l2 I-Im-115.19 Plfstuyyggant .27 Harris. 2 Erasmus ....... O -- ,gg ' Harris.25 Caniedfai, 211. . .24 Sfmffg? Lclmtffu ' 22 ieraffisao Mr. vermin ..... 21 MTS' QWMCC '--- Harris.26 Fordham Prep. .12 Harms- 9 NGMOW11 '----- 15 Harris. lO East Side Com. .25 H211'fiS.23 PC6kSkill ...... 21 Harris. l9 fCommerce .... 18 Harris.3l Flushing ....... 15 Games won, 95 lost, 6g XP. S. A. L. lf. ,Vim ' W - fi .f f'-- 'aff ' . f .', . f 'Y -Ca. w 24,5 , . I . 'A I A i ' 'f ' ' f' fi t '