Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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OLLA PODRIDA Baseball Baseball has always been a popular activity in this school, and the outlook for the coming term is exceedingly bright. Before disbanding last season the team elected Les- lie Dent captain. Babe Dent has filled the position of catcher for three years and is without doubt the most pop- ular man on the team. Babe stands for a square deal, and every man who comes out for the team is sure of a fair trial. From the team of last year six veterans are attending school and they, in company with Bert AA ' est who played on the ' 08 team, make the forecast for a successful season very bright. Mr. Wirt will coach the men and with this material on hand he will undoubtedly form a team that will defeat Oak- land. Last year Oakland defeated us in two hard fought games, and ■Mr. Wirt has adopted the expression Beat Oakland or bust. There are four places on the team va- cant, and every fellow in school is urged to try for the team. A second team is also to be started. There is a chance for everybody, so come out and try. Manager V alentine has already arranged games with Mission, Lick. Lowell, Fremont, and Cogswell. There will be two or more games every week, so the students will see plenty of baseball. During the mid-term vacation there is a chance of a trip through the Sacramento Valley. The grounds at Milvia and Carlton will again be used. During the fall of 1910 light practice was held, and sev- eral games were played. Among the new men who played, Roberts and Clayton showed up well and will probably be heard from this spring. The following men have already signified their inten- tion of coming out for baseball : Montgomery, Hale, Grif- fiths, Coleman, Lynch, Vndreason, Hawel, Forbes, Dygert, and Hardy. 26

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OLLA PODRIDA Ostrander is expected to be a point-winner in the high jump. Now anybody can see, from the numbers of veterans who will represent Berkeley High School this season, that there is a great opening for sprinters, distance men, hurdlers, and men in the held events. Because a certain event has an old-timer to guard it is not a good reason why some new men cannot make the team in that work. One man is able to carry off only one medal at a time. This season will be a record-breaker for meets, and under the new system it promises to be the most exciting and inter- esting season that Berkeley High has ever experienced. On February 25 there will be the interclass meet. This is to be the tryout for the team, the members who will repre- sent B. H. S. on track this season being picked from the point- winners of this meet. On ] Iarch 4 there will be a meet with San Jose, which promises to be very close in almost every event, with Berke- ley running a shade ahead. April 8 is the date set for the Stanford Interscholastic. This event, which is held annually by the Stanford student body, has always been the biggest high school meet in Cali- fornia. On April 28 and 29 the University of California is going to give the first annual Pacific Coast Interscholastic Track Aleet. which is to be held on the U. C. cinder path. Representatives Irom the principal high schools of the Pacific Coast will com- pete. These are the meets which are scheduled at this early date. The date for the Oakland-Berkeley dual meet and the B. C. A. L. meet have not yet been decided upon. The Oakland dual meet will most likely take place in the middle of March: Mr. Lowell has offered his valuable services to the team, and with his help and the good material in the school, the coming track season promises to be a most successful one for Berkeley High.

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OLLA PODRIDA Basketball Caliente means hot stuff in Spanish and that is what our basketball team is going to be this year. It is rapidly ap- proaching a condition which is sure to give Oakland High a warm reception when the two teams meet sometime in Feb- ruary. Our team this year is fast, extraordinarily fast. Their over and under-hand passing is fast and accurate, while their goal shooting team work and trick plays leave little to be desired along that line. Every night finds them hard at work passing, shooting goals and fighting for the ball. Every attention is being paid to the condition of the men and owing to the rubbing and careful attention which each receives they are rapidly round- ing into such fine physical condition that sviccess seems writ- ten in every phase of their work. Berkeley High is confident, very confident this year, but the confidence is not the kind that breeds laziness and under- valuation of their opponents. They are confident because they believe that they have the best team that has ever rep- resented Berkeley High on the basketball court and they are right — they have. AVe might call it a machine, a ma- chine which having assembled is rapidly approaching a rhythmic unison as crudeness and newness are being rapidly worn away. Every one interested in basketball at Berkeley High deeply regretted that Mr. Rogers was obliged to leave Ber- keley because of ill health. Mr. Rogers ' place has been taken by Merlin Jackson, a former member of the Stock- ton All Stars, who have been the champions of California for years. His heart and soul are with the team, and he pre- dicts that Berkeley High will be the champions of the State. We have the players and the coach to fulfill this prediction. All that is needed is the support of the school and we are sure that we will get it.