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LOCAL SPORTS
By Anard W. Liftman
Bine and Whites Now Resting
After Successful Football •
Season • /
After one of the most success
ful football seasons enjoyed in
years', the Atlantic City High
football team is resting, having
coipped its yearly diadem, the
South Jersey championship. The
locals dropped but one game the
entire season, and that to the
State champs, Neptune High, oi
Ocean Grove.
Head Coach Ralph W. Har
court, and his assistants, Harold
C. Anderson and William Wes
cott, are to be complimented on
their success in turning out a
schoolboy' combination that re
lied on straight football prin
ciples for its victories. Straight
line plunging proved the undoing
of many an opponent of the Blue
and White, although it must be
said the locals had an exception
ally strong line.
Six veterans will leave the sea
shore team for colleges and to
take up their life’s vocation.
Captain Lewis L. Walter, in an
exclusive statement given the
Ventnor News, expressed not
only his own sentiments, but
.every one of his teammates to
graduate. One of the startling
announcements he makes is the
fact that his football career was
ended Thanksgiving as he does
not intend to play on any other
team.
His statement is as follows:
“Yes indeed, we certainly had
a successful season. I am partic
ularly elated at our success in
trouncing both the Camden and
Trenton teams, the first time
such a feat has been accom
plished in fourteen years.
“I think it was a wonderfully
well-balanced team that carried
the Blue and White colors. The
outfit was composed of a heavy
line ‘and a fast backfield of line
plungers.
’ “I believe we ought to get a
close rating for the State title,
about second or third place. Nep
tune High, the State champions,
was the only team that beat us
this season, which speaks for it
self.
“I am sorry the National Farm
School game was my last in the
interest of A. C. H. S. I am
graduating this year and thus
ends my pigskin career forever, as
I am not going to play any more
for either college or professional
teams.
“Next year I will enter the
Philadelphia School of Oste
opathy and become a doctor and
settle down in the ol’ ‘burg’ and
practice.
‘‘Let me extend" the best of
wishes to all my associates in
High through the Ventnor News
for the best of luck and success
in future seasons. I shall always
be a hearty supporter of the At
lantic High football representa
tion.”
It might be said here that
Walter is one of the best guards
to ever matriculate from the sea
shore school and ranks as one of
the best captains to ever lead an
eleven representing Atlantic City
High into a football tussle.
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little difficulty in finding basket
ball amusement in the dead of
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the winter. Several amateur
teams are already preparing for
big seasons and may play on the
piers. Whether or not a profes
sional team will represent Atlan
tic City has not yet been dis
closed, but it is doubtful, as the
champion Celtics failed to come
through successfully last season
as far as finances were concerned
and others have not been partic
ularly successful.
In all probability, Atlantic
High’s quintet will attract many
of the fans Friday nights in the
large school gymnasium. How
ever, a comparatively weak five
will fly High’s colors this season
owing to the number of rookies
constituting the 'Varsity squad,
but one veteran is back on the
squad — Captain Clifton Van- ■
Dyke.
* * *
Too bad that Riverside
dropped from the game last Sun- ,
day after the fray had given
signs of being a hotly-contested
affair. The Roses had earned a
touchdown, which was disputed
by the visitors, and as a result
they quit the game in the second
quarter. The officials gave the
decision to the locals, but the in
vading eleven failed to see it in
the same way and hence the
dropping from the tilt.
To date Melrose has traveled a
pretty path. They have a clean
Q
FOUR
PERCENT
on sayings
accounts
slate,4 no doubt about it, and f
Coach Byron W. Dickson keeps c
polishing same to review new ,
plays. The locals loom as strong 1
contenders for the State cham
* * *
The Misses Elizabeth Becker
ind Ruth Thomas, national high
board fancy diving champ and
American breast stroke titlehold
ir, respectively, unexpectedly
net reverses in their favorite
jvents in the 1923-24 invitation
iquatic meet which marked the
iedication of the Buffalo (N.Y.)
athletic Club.
Both lassies are members of
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>f Atlantic City. The club is one 1
>f the most influential organiza
;ions of the kind in aquatic cir
:les in the country and is com
posed of stellar girl swimmers.
Miss Thomas, fifteen-year-old
:hamp, met her initial setback
since capturing the Senior and
lunior National outdoor crowns
ast summer, when Miss Agnes
Ceraghty, of the Women’s Swim
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finished five seconds ahead of the
American champion in the two
lundred and twenty yards invi
tation race in which three title
bolders were entered.
Miss Becker, who holds the
National springboard champion
ship for the past two seasons,
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