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

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Golf T the beginning of the term the absence of golf addicts was the sole drawback to the undertaking of pre season drrll and for a while the forming of a team was dropped However at the suggestion of Coach McEwan Lester Feinstein the manager nnally issued a call for candidates To hrs surprise he found the meeting room packed to capacity by as enthusi astic and hopeful a group as ever tried out for a Harris team With this show of encouragement a hasty eliminative tournament was started the best pill chasers at Harris The team practised regularly at Van Cort landt Park while a schedule was drawn up with several city high schools Although the golfers steadily improved their game which at the beginning of the term neighbored in the hundreds was gradually lowered until 80 became a common occurrence they could never overcome the handicap of their early season inactivity The schedule for the past term arranged by Lester Feinstein included matches with jefferson Roosevelt Clinton Evander Childs Boys Columbia Grammar Textile and several others r n ..., , - .... A ' ' 9 . , . 9 7 7 ' 7 - 7 . . . U From these trials Teytmeir, Hecker, Rosen and Feinstein were selected as , . i 7 , , I 7 7 l 7 l 7 9 1 7 7 ' Page Om' Huurirmr' N1'ur'lmu

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lb emtomg Team T THE outset of the terms campargn the Fenclng Team for the first trme rn the hrstory of the sport 1n Harrrs, looked ahead wrth doubtful hopes Its omrnous expectatrons were fulfllled when If lost two consecutrve matches to Morrrs, and one to Washrngton Regarnrng lost prestrge, however, Captarn Abrams, representrng Harrrs at the crty champronshrps, captured ten consecutrve bouts and advanced to the final round, only to meet defeat at the hands of jungman, a comparatrve new comer from New Utrecht However, begrnnrnv wrth Barrrnger, the trro frnally roused rtself from 1ts lethargy to complete an otherwrse credrtable season The trro th1s term consrsted of the veteran Captarn Irvrng Abrams a marnstay for the past three terms, Henry Karlrn and Leonard Le1ght Manager Francrs D1 Franco, rn addrtron to h1s managerral dut1es has proven hrs use fulness by ably substrtutrnff on several occasrons As usual a host of lower classmen has been learnrng the rudrments of the art at the hands of Captarn Abrams But srnce Karlrn Le1ght and D1 Franco w1ll contrnue at Harrls another term the team wrll remarn rntact Manaver D1 Franco succeeded 1n arrangrng a very rnterestrng schedule whrch rncluded matches wrth Morrrs, XVHSh1HgIOH, Barrrnger Central Textrle, Morrrs Evenrng and Boys ,...- . ,. -... ..... --.W 'X 0 , . 4 . Q 1 O 1 Q 7 . . , - Z3 ' 7 . , N , . D . u . N 9 7 . . , Page Om' Hundred Eighteen r

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Baseball INISHING rts second season out of P S A L competrtton the baseball team astounded all Harrrs cynrcs by playrng a brand of ball unknown smce the days of yore By darrng to launch a campargn more arduous than rt would have to endure as a member of the P S A L the ntne brought upon rtself much rrdrcule and rather uneven scores vsere complacently expected by the majorrty of the students However rn the Hrst game of the season agarnst a strong Clrnton n1ne the team drsproved all pess1m1st1c predrctrons by puttmg up a strff fight and losrng only after havrng led Clrnton for the better half of the game Wrth such an opener to lead them on the ball tossers came through a grrllrng schedule wrth colors flyrng The brunt of the season s play was borne by Capt Edelstern and Letz who comprrsed the prtchrng staff At the recerver s end although he had two capable understudtes rn O Bloom and Fabrrcant vsas the dependable Rosenberg In the rnfleld there was Ash coverrng the mitral sack Frne on the keystone bag the cavortrng shortstop Honey Block and the errotless Robeson on thtrd Out rn the garden where the sluggers repose were Poretz Samrlow and Greenfield and occas1onally Buslrk If need be there were sufflcrent and capable substltutes 1n Skudowrtz Wersel Klern man Brownstern and Ahtens ,.-f .... rw, F . . . . , . . . ., . . I 7 7 7 7 . . . . , . . . . . , . 7 - 7 ' 7 V . ' 7 . .. . . ,, ,, 7 7 7 7 7 ' 7 ' 7 7 ' , . 1,47-11 f-11'- f,-