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

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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,-

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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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Laerosse FTER havrnff coached an rnexperrenced squad durlng the early part of the term rn the pornts they were able to glean from a seasons playmg Capt Steve Tolrns and Manager Murray Rosenberg then led the Lacrosse wrelders through a season successful as Harr1s seasons go Although many men of promrsrng abrlrty were uncovered the average werght and stature of the team offered serrous handrcap whrch lf was unable to overcome A pre season rrvalry between Kurrs and Hasrns for the goalre posrtron came to an unexpected end rn the selectron of Red Shanes Although an attack man prevrously Shanes vxas dependable between the strcks under al' crrcumstances In Hart Gutterman and Rreser Harr1s had a well balanced defense whrch at all trmes acqurtted rtself honorably In the mrdst of everv frav Harr1s was well represented erther by Steve Tolrns Murray Rosenberg Scotty McDermott Drck Tolrns MlCkCy Curran Leon Smrth or Charles Roth man all of whom formed the regular attack Should substxtutron have been necessary Sprke Rosenberg Jesse Wrtchell Srdney Waldman Elkan Wendkos or Charles Ordman were always ready to relreve The schedule arranged for the past term brought Harr1s agamst the Crtv College jayvees Bovs Mad1son New Utrecht Hamrlton Manual and Erasmus D , . . , . 7 , . 7 - . Q 7 . , . .. - - U H . I . , L ' 7 9 ,a a 2 7 7 7 4 7 L - 7 9 Q 7 ' , . . Q , 1 2 a 7 Pago Our Ilrmrlrrd Twfuly-0