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

 - Class of 1936

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Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY) online collection, 1936 Edition, Page 93 of 120
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BASKETBALL -NEWEST CRAZE by Alan L. Often Madison Square Garden. Twenty thousand throats shouting, plead- ing for a last minute point. And there you have i t — the nation-wide favorite indoor sport — basketball. Ever since its invention in I 89 1 , when Jannes Naismith conceived the idea of this comparatively young sport, basketball has been growing in popularity. At the pres- ent time there is hardly a college or school in the United States that does not sponsor a team, and no team lacks rooters. For many years, gatherings of basket- ball coaches have been constantly amend- ing the rules, in order to minimize the roughness long associated with the game. To this end, changes were made last year lessening the frequency of the rough center jump, giving the players more room on jump-balls, removing the possibility of a stationary pivot on the offense, and giv- ing both the goal and foul shot to a player fouled while making a basket. Still another feature making basketball such an enjoyable game is its uncertainty. Good foul shooting, combined with a hawk-eyed referee, can overthrow a world-beating team. Simply because of an off-night, a long campaign, or a strange court, an Olympic favorite may go down to defeat. Though there are many excellent teams throughout the country, such as Notre Dame and Purdue, New York City seems to have many teams which, if not champions in the true sense of the word, at least seem to win consistently. Until New York University went on a fatal road trip to Georgetown and Temple, it had gone the entire season without defeat, and was considered the top in Eastern basketball. After its return, however, it was twice more defeated by Notre Dame and Manhattan, and almost lost to a far from perfect City College five. After these defeats, the metropolitan supremacy fell to Long Island U. and Manhattan, hlowever, since L. I. U. students decided not to make an Olympic bid, Manhattan, along with a weak St. Francis team was left to bear New York City ' s banners in the tryouts, where neither got further than the first round. Other metropolitan teams enjoying successful seasons were Columbia, who ran away with the Eastern Intercollegiate title, St. John ' s, Fordham, and C. C. N. Y. EIGHTYNINE

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THE TENNIS TEAM by Theodore Schein When one wishes to cite the Harris team which does nnost to uphold the prestige of the school in athletics, he invariably points to the tennis team. It is heartening, after innumerable setbacks in other sports, to see a successful tennis team romp through its schedule scoring victory after victory. This semester, because of a new arrangement of the P.S.A.L. schedules, which provided for a di- vision of the league into several parts, the tennis team was given a greater opportunity than ever before to distinguish itself. In fact, at the beginning of the season the squad was favored to win the champion- ship of its division, and to date it has given no indication that it will fall short of its goal. The results attained by the team can be attributed mainly to the experience of the players. Captain Robert Siebertand Theodore Schein, stalwarts of last year ' s aggregation, again helped to turn the balance in favor of Harris. THE SWIMMING TEAM by Warren Kraemer Though it did not come out near the top in this season ' s P.S.A.L. championships, the Swimming Team is proud of its accomplishments. From an un-i organized squad of boys, who, for the most part, had never engaged in competition before. It be- came a well-trained, smoothly working unit. More than half of the team was made up of lower classmen who will be eligible for next season ' s squad. This means, of course, that they will have two or more years of the experience and training that is so essential to the team ' s success. As a result they will be much better fitted to meet the strong opposi- tion that other teams offer. In no small measure is the development of the team due to coach Jay Counsellor, who gave unstintingly of his time and knowledge. EIGHTY EIGHT



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COMMONPLACE by Daniel I. Rothbaum There was nothing unusual about him. Nothing that would make you turn around when he passed in the street. You just took him for granted; his sombre clothes, his detached look, they seemed to have been born with him. His daily routine was the same. Seven o ' clock found him sleepily awake, waiting his turn at the wash stand. His toilet wasn ' t very detailed. Washing his teeth, a rinsing of his hands, and an absent-minded combing of knotted hair sufficed. The problem of whether a clean shirt was in order always imet the same decision. Tomorrow. Tomorrow never came. His shirts looked it. Perhaps that ' s why he lost his job. Slovenly was the word the manager used. My dear fellow, this store has a reputation for keeping only neat and intelligent help. You are neither. The cashier will give you your pay envelope. Neat and intelligent hell! A bunch of pasty-faced idiots who did all but fondle the manager to keep in his good graces. And they were satisfied to continue in their aimless way. Yes madame, it looks beautiful on you. It should look that way on everybody, or, I ' ve seen that suit on many men, but never did it look like that. Why it looks as if it grew on you. Intelligent! The blubbering fools didn ' t know anything outside of their own little world. From Monday at nine until Saturday at noon they thought only of the store. Saturday night they went out. Took the girl friend to a picture or a dance, then up to her apartment. They spent the greater part of Sunday boasting about how far they ' d gotten the night before. Coarse pigs. They weren ' t fit company for dogs. And they were called intelligent. Boy, that was a laugh! A tour of the agencies proved fruitless. He wasn ' t anxious to get a job washing dishes, but after a time even that would have been wel- come. He ' d been thrown out of his boarding house long ago, and the shabby suit was a series of patches. Some holes weren ' t repaired, and when the wind blew he nearly froze. A kind soul gave him an overcoat, but it didn ' t assuage the gnawing in the pit of his stomach. NINETY

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