Glendale High School - Stylus Yearbook (Glendale, CA)

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CLASS ' ' C BASKETBALL Playing a good, steady brand of ball, with but few relapses into lethargic action, the Class C basketball outlit wound up the past season with five conference wins and three losses. With poor prospects facing hini at tlic opening ot the season. Coach Jack Gaines found it necessary, with the excep- tion of Don Crecnlee ' s berth, to lashion an entire new oulht in the annual ti tle race. Dropping a close fracas to the Franklin Kiteflyers, 19 to 14, at the opening of the sea- son, but one player, fohn Nickel, showed up with any prominence. Plaving inconsistently, but with a measure of success, the Babes dealt out a 22 to 16 defeat for the .South Pasadena Tigers before engaging in their first conference tilt with Long Beach. Taking an ignominious defeat at the hands of the Beachers, 25 to 9, the Firecrackers got off on the proverbial wrong foot. Coming out of their momentary stupor, the Card Babes took three straight wins from the Pasadena, Santa . na, and .Mhambra outfits. .Although possessing a strong reputation, the .Millionaire Cees took a 16 to 5 defeat from the Blaster five. Displaying a polished passing offense, the Cardettes soimdly troimced the Saint quintet, 19 to 4, after a fast game. The thirtl of the victories for the locals was also a lop-sided affair when they took over the . lhambra .Moors, 21 to 5. Morton and (Jreenlee displayed good torm in these tilts, which placed the Cees in the second notch. The quintet had quite a comedown, however, when they lost their second tilt to the Long Beachers, 19 to 6, after the Oilers had successfully bottled up Morton, forward threat. The second meeting with the Pasadena Babes proved to be a little more of a contest, with the locals taking the nod, 13 to 11. Displaying a dazzling ofTense in the early part of the game, but relaxing in the later [leriods, the Card Cees came perilously close to losing the tilt. Next on the list of the (dendalc victims were the Saintettes. This outfit was taken over, 15 to 11, after some spectacular shooting by Frank Morton. This victory eliminated all possibility of a second place tie with the Saint Babes. The Blaster Babes dropped the final league tilt to the Moor Fleas, 20-9. Capt. Morton 133

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CLASS B BASKETBALL Falling far short of the enviable record set by the varsity oldsters, the Blaster Bees took only four conference wins throughout the past cage season. Having no lettermen, and but few men with any experience on the squad, it promised to be a tough season for the lightweight mentor, popular Coach Sperry, when the call for candidates was first issued. Registering a few pre-season wins by reason of pure lurk, with a few important cogs slipping, the Bees weren ' t impressive looking when they opened the season with the Long Beach Oilers. Dropping a heart-breaking affair to the Oilers put a kink in plans for a championship quintet; which was abetted by a loss to the Pasadena Bulldogs a week later. Without Coach Sperry on the sidelines, the Bee hoop tossers coasted along during the first half, leaving the Oilers ahead, 9-6, at this juncture. A raking over by Coach Stanlev sufficed to spur the lads onv ' ard to make a scrappy, determined finish, with Wilson and Captain Burris outstanding. With an inconsistent eye for the basket, the Blasters lost, 26 to 16, to the Pasadena quintet. Battling on fairly even terms throughout the first half, the Bulldogs came back the third quarter to smear the Blaster defense. A comeback was staged in the next contest, however, when the locals took on the Alhambra Moors. Flashing a snappy offense that over- whelmed the Moors, the Blaster Bees took a well-earned 23-18 win. Kimlin, forward, was easily the star of the meet, accumulating twelve points. Once more failing to find the basket, the Bees dropped their next game to Santa Ana, 27 to 15. Failing in all concerted effort at ball playing, the Bees dropped the second tilt to Long Beach, 19 to 13, after a second string had been forced to carry on during a large part of the game. The first string five, re-inserted with three minutes to go, played in an overwhelming frenzy to score seven points, but failed to overtake the large Oiler lead. Meeting the champion Cavemen on the San Diego floor, the Glendale lighties d ropped a pair of encounters, 33 to 14, and 24 to 15. Closing the season with a flashly rally, the Blaster Bees triumphed over Pasadena, Santa Ana, and Alhambra. A bucket by Burris in the final moment of play broke a tie for the victory, 21 to 19, over the Bulldogs. The final score of the listless Santa Ana fray was 23-15. A 27-16 victorv over Alhambra brought the season to a close. Capt. Bums [ 132

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VARSITY TRACK Ciipt. Piigliuso With a firmly established track supremacy, created in the days of Wykoft, Slocum, and Zaun, Glendale faced the 1930 cinder season with hopes at a low ebb, because of the almost total absence of seasoned and experienced perform- ers. However, Coach Russ Cripe took over the reins, and although losing the greater number of conference meets, trained a coming crop of men for the next year. A fourth place in the Orange County Relays, run off at San Bernardino, served as an indication of the hard work put in by the local tracksters. Taking a first in the 440 open relay race and garnering fifteen points for their total, the representatives of Glendale stood only eight digits behind the winners of the meet, representing Inglewood. The 440 open team was composed of Captain Bud Pagliuso, Sloan, Slocum, and Baker. In the 440 novice relay race, the Glendale men showed well by taking a third place, notwithstanding the fact that none of the members of the team had possessed any great experience. This novice outfit was made up of Barnes, Roach, Mantle, and Barnett. In the four-man two-mile event, Pienado, Guessmeyre, Newton, and McDowell pushed the rest of the field in a fast finish to cop third place. A pair of practice meets were indulged in by the Red and Black tracksters before they met the Long Beach Oilers in the first Coast League tilt. A meet with the Glendale Jaysee, although devoid of score-keeping, showed up some of the real potentialities of the prep squad. In the other practice meet with the Franklin High team, the locals hung up a 59-45 victory. Captain Pagliuso made a fine record in copping firsts in the century and furlong events, and in running the winning lap of the 440 relay race. Seconds in both dash events and a race in the relay showed up Barnett to an appreciative field. On the first of March, the Beachers came to the Blaster oval and swept through track and field events to win an 87-25 victory. Taking but two first places, the Glendale team evidenced a lack of all-around ability. Norman Franklin, Oiler dash-man, beat out Pag- liuso in the century by running 9.9, but lost to the Glendale captain in the 220 race. When the Beachers dropped the baton on the third lap of the relay the Glendale team, composed of Pagliuso, Sloan, Williams, and Slocum, had little trouble in taking first money. For the second track meet of the conference season, and for the second defeat, the Glendale track men visited the Border City and lost to the San Diegans, 98 V? to Vi. Out of a possible forty-five digits in the field events, the San Diegans garnered forty-three and one-half, the Glendale points coming when Art Wilson took a third in the broad jump. For the rest, Pagliuso took seconds in the furlong and 100 to Ortiz; Burris, Bee- man, took a close second in the 440; Sloan managed a second in the 220 low barriers, and Baker nabbed a third in the furlong. A nipping cold day was dished up when the Card track team dished up a dl ' i to 45 ' victory for the Pasadena Bulldog cinder artists. A hitherto obscure lad, Fitch, bobbed up in the Bulldog ranks and made life miserable for the Card backers who had expected to sweep the dash events. This chap took firsts over Captain Pagliuso of the Blasters in both the 100 and the furlong events. A pretty race was run by Grussmeyer in winning the half mile, while Sloan came forth with his old form to cop the low hurdles race. Don Colburn, Blaster ozone botherer, took a first in the pole vault, while Slocum took a third place in the low barriers. After a thrilling finish between Pagliuso and the afore- mentioned Fitch, the Glendale relay team copped first money. This foursome was com- posed of the Glendale captain. Baker, Williams, and Sloan. The next team to take the measure of the Cards was the Santa Ana crew. This was done, none too gently, 677 ' to 455 3. In this meet it was the dash events wherein the local stars twinkled, but in the field numbers the Dons copped consistently. The best mark of the meet was made when Pagliuso stepped off the 220 in the exceedingly fast I 13-)