Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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59 e46 Buccaneer I936 WINNERS OF THE PENNANT e To righT Dwighi' Moore, Verne r gl G I d L g TIT LfT Shd,Jh Ch G gBl yRlphPld D dJ AT This poinT The ploT becomes soggy. MJC, if she wanTs To reTain her TiTle, musT win The resT oT her games-or aT leasT spliT every series. Seven more Times They rolled across The MJC ouTdoor TheaTer To The WesT bleachers. And Then The crises-The TesTs-The all-imporTanT TilTs againsT The red-shirTed Menlo men. They drove in- To ThaT aggregaTion oT baseballmen wiTh such Tury To Talce The big dog's share oT 2 I-2 and 7-2 scores. And now They saw Themselves in a Tie Tor The NCJCC headpiece. The same crown incidenTally ThaT has adorned The head oT lVlJC's myThical PiraTe Tor The pasT Three years. Leveling oTT againsT San Francisco Junior College, The Swashbuclclers rouTed Those meTropoliTan invaders in The TirsT game, and 6-3 in The nexT. And Then an- oTher crucial clash, This Time againsT The TradiTional rival-San lVlaTeo. BUT iT was also saTely passed wiTh Two wins, 2 I-3 and 7-I. And again The spoils oT vicTory lie aT The shoesTrings oT lVlJC's baseballers. And now a word Tor Those champions who made The PiraTe Team a champion nine. Deno MoraTi covered The caTcher's assignmenT, ably assisTed by DwighT Moore. Dave Jamme, John Thompson and Bob Winslow were in charge oT The oTTensive operaTions Trom The piTcher's mound. The inTield sTrip was guarded by CapTain Frank Sieber, l-loward KingsTon, John Changala, and Verne Schrader, while in The Tar-Tlung ouTTield deTenses Garland LingerTelT, George Galaway, George Picardo and Ralph Polidoro were in charge. To all oT Them a cheer, Tor TogeTher They upheld an MJC TradiTion. To Jack

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URTH CONSECUT LE WO Coach Jack Gardner In Hrs Flrs'I' Year Here Helps Brmg PlraI'e Baseball Team Info Anolher I'Is Four+h Champlonshrp As San Maleo Is Swamped In Crucral Games THEY PERPETUATE MJC TRADITION cl G LI yd y D gh? Sh d Dd By ROBERT I-IAMMATT Bur Io keep on wearing Ihe crown you ve gol +o defend your Ihrone And so one windy day Iasl Ivlarch a slrlng of Plrale base ballers eagerly Irolled onlo Ihe held and mro Ihelr places Io Iesr Themselves agannsr a hardened Irlple Irlo of Sacramenlo Junior college balmen. Nine Innings Iarerrhey found Jrhemselves losers by a 3 2 margin. So, a week Ialer, officially opening The NCJCC season, Ihey soundly ruffled Ihe Ivlenlo oullil 9 4m one game and I8 O In anolher Luke a modern monsoon Ihey galhered power and momenlum wllh each encounler Ivlarln was The TIFSI Io Ieel Ihelr Ihundery blasls IH a double blll Ihal ended 9 2 and 7 2 Bul even monsoons can be punclured and so w1Ih5an Ivlaleo admlnlslerlng Ihe pun polnl Jrhe Plrale baseballers cllmaxed Ihelr nexl weeIc's brace ofgames 'raking Ihe Ioser's porllon of 5 3 and 4 3 scores The following week agalnsl Marin again Ihe Buccaneer base ball mechanism gave hnnrs of again headlng slralosphereward, by Ioslng Ihe Iirsr balrle 5 4 and Ihen In Ihe second raking a 9 O vlcrory Buccaneer I936 Page 45 F O I V E T I T NI I . . I . . I I I ' , H , QS n 25. . is .v , I . . . Sf ' g C h ardner, Frank Triano, Howard Kingslon, John Thompson, Harold Schmiclf, Bob Winslow, o H' kl G I d L' g felr, George Picardo, George Galawayg sealed, Deno Morari, Frank Sieber, wr Moore, Vern d D ' J h Ch g I , Dave Jamme, George Blaney, Ralph Polidor . ,, . . . I . . ru - - , I

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