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

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Sports HIGH schools fame IS greatly enhanced by the prowess of her teams In thrs respect, Townsend Harrrs Hall frnds herself rn a dual posrtron For a number of years, her teams have been gradually growrng fewer, the materral of her squads, scantrer, and her athletrc reputatron, weaker In fact, so far as her standrng rn sportdom rs concerned she has been slowly descendmg rnto total obscurrty Nevertheless rn sprte of the deprecratron rn her sportrng realm Harrrs, to her rrvals remarns aloof, elevated on a pedestal of reverence, the cynosure of questronrng eyes How can a Hrgh School, such as Harrrs, where sports are of professed unrmportance, whose teams lack the professronal coachrng so apparent rn therr opponents turn out athletrc aggregatrons at all? What fountam of perpetual sprrrt anrmates her representatrves on the freld of competrtronp These and srmrlar querres contrnue to puzzle outsrders, yet we see them answered term after term Durrng no other perrod has Harrrs looked upon such drastrc changes rn her sportrng framework as have taken place rn the last three years It has wrtnessed the last stand of a Harrrs Basketball team It has watched the Baseball team drop from an envrable pos1t1on rn the PSAL to a menral one rn the Prep School League And further st1ll rt has seen the Track team once an outstandrng rrval of the Crty Champrons go through a season wrthout garnerrng a srngle pomt In former years, Harrrs athletrc aggregatrons were wont to ascrrbe the glory of therr VICIOIICS to the 1nebr1ant sprrrt anlmatrng the school rn general Now however, they may wrth more proprrety, attrrbute therr degenerated con drtron to the lack of rnterest, and to the sluggrshness so notrceable among the students In addrtron to the dont care attrtude drsplayed by the students, the proposrtron of equrprng the teams has always been one of great concern Due to the fact that the student body IS comparatrvely small, and, as a consequence the source of revenue, the teams have been handrcapped by rnferror equlp ment Furthermore, a convenrent place for the physrcal development of the teams 15 hkewrse lackrng Therefore rn v1ew of these varrous obstacles to be overcome by our athletes, rs rt not httle wonder that they are almost completely overwhelmed? Strll Harrrs goes on, always puttrng out teams that go down to defeat coverrng themselves wrth glory by the rndomnrtable and never say dre sprrrt teams that have never experrenced the rnvrgoratrng thrrll vshrch contestants realrze when they hear the encouragrng plaudrts of therr schoolmates, teams that week after week, struffgle for the fame and recognrtron of a school that fergns rgnorance of therr endeavors and that shows no acknowledgment of therr sacrrfrce To these men we heartrly extend our prarse hoprng that rn so dorng, we may awaken the student body to a realrzatron of therr task X , . f a ' a I . . . 7 7 7 7 ' , . , , , A , Q 9 ' -- U , H - - . . ' a 7 e . . . . U .,, 7 7 D ' 7 Pagf Our Hnnzdrcd 51.116011

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ii-hir Track Team URDENED wrth the tradrtron of belng one of the few Harrrs teams that could hold therr own avamst any opponent an unexperrenced track team sorely depleted rn ranks by graduatron thrs term set rtself nobly to the task before If of carrymg on a spotless record But rt found out early rn the term that If was no match for the other crtv Hrgh School teams Undaunted by therr drsmay upon findrng that no matter tests therr efforts were of no avarl the cmder pushers kept doggedly on entermg every meet contmually hoprng that by some une pected stroke of luck they would be repard for all therr troubles Among the many runners of promrsrng abrlrty uncow ered thrs term Wrlson appeared to have the edge over Zrmmerman rn the 440 Whrle Pruchansky Vrsaper Rosenfreld and Cutler have vred wrth each other rn varyrng degrees of success for the honor of best century runner In the 220 yard drstance Edelman and Kern have shown outstandrng abrlrty B - D 1 , - , 7 , , . how long they practised or how much they strove to place in any of the con- . . 7 . 7 . . . V , A . . . . I . . 7 7 1g'0v111f'1sf'f-