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

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, 9 ' Q-I Q ll ,W T' Ll! iff li ATHLETICS HE chief characteristic of athletics in Townsend Harris during june 66 Nineteen-Twenty-Nine's three years sojourn, was consistency. By p consistency we mean that the teams never exceeded sane expectations, 7 5 nor did they ever greatly discredit those interested in them. U 4 l I- eg lil As to their general ability, one of the knowing ones from a su- periori' high-school, with tongue in cheek, would say mediocre. The actual scores would seem to substantiate this utterance but we know that the major- ity of our aggregations if judged in wealth of spirit, had no peers. At times even the flesh rose to supreme heights when wearers of the Crimson and Gold came through against unsurmountable odds. The most unforgettable of the moments were: the Clinton soccer game of last semester when an or- dinary Harris eleven trimmed the league-leading Red and Black booters, two to nothing in as thrilling a contest as was ever seen on jasper Oval, the cham- pionship fencing match of two terms ago when the Crimson and Gold trio came from behind to vanquish Textile in the Study Hall, after the hearts of the spectators had become heavy with despair, and the Eastern District Track Meet on June 2' 1928, when Sam Mothner running the Junior 220-yard dash lost his shoe at the half-way mark but continued running and took third place. During our six terms in Harris we witnessed the discontinuation of a sport in which the Crimson and Gold formerly had no equal-basketball, and the rehabilation of a sport which had been dropped when an entire champion- ship team graduated in a body over twenty years ago-lacrosse. The former of these two will come back when the new gymnasium is com- pleted, and it will come back strong, as it will then have advantages such as no Harris five ever possessed. The latter, after a poor but spirited showing in its first comeback season is now, as we leave Harris, bidding fair to become one of the ranking sports. These two incidents but show us that Harris, athletics, and time go on in endless route. Thus it is that we depart, leaving a period of consistency in sport behind us, that the next few years will change into one of mediocrity, and the gym era of outstanding lustre. I 1 ll 1 E 5 all K3 . . Q N. ' 0 , r pl i ,'LV ' rl up a v i 0 'Q lib Z t 50, I. ,u if Page One Hznzdfed Fifteen l r

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13' V12 g'if.,-., '-' C X Afi 4'-,E SWIMMING i M HE Harris mermen in their off season engaged in few meets, but went through an extensive period of training in preparation for next sem- fg. ,V all eral N-P ,xg Ta W , ,U . A, , Q W y If 'f sit We si A 'fl ester's aquatic encounters. The squad which survived last season's O l ? sl i I. ,N I P. S. A. L. tournament was unusually strong. Under the expert tutoring of Coach McCormick it has developed into quite a cham- pionship aggregation. The star century men were Johnny Nolan and Sol Shaub. The fifty- yard free style berths were ably filled by Kolodney and Kaufman. Boyd, who was unable to swim in the two-twenty, his former forte, because of a recent operation, was the star breast stroker. Houck and Mayer were the Harris representatives in the backstroke. The relay quintet was the team's surest point scorer. It consisted of Ash, Captain Fredericks, Kolodney and Boyd. The divers, Meltzer and Morris, showed a marked improvement and should garner quite a few points in next season's meets. Hiller and Aronson swam the two-twenty. V Although the Freshman swimming team, which in former terms was the proving ground of Varsity prospects, was discontinued this semester, it was satisfactorily replaced by the Interclass Swimming Meet. In spite of the fact that this term's intra-mural water carnival was not as successful as might have been expected, quite a few men were uncovered who were of Varsity calibre. 4 7' f X , 1 I i Y- .3 0 'V is-Sz il ll fa Page One Hundred Sevenzeen