Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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BUCCANEER - 1937 73 -uu1.nn1,,.,1H111-m1uu.1.,.,1,,,,1..,,1.m1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...un.1nu1,.f ' 1 Francis Thornton Bob Lawrence Shirley Summer Howard Upton ter-mile competition, when he ran away from Wirz, San Mateo star, in 50 seconds flat. George Terry went 12 feet at Berkeley, while Bob Maxwell, running his first quarter, ran 51.4 sec- onds. Summers won both hurdle races at Berkeley while Hallstone grabbed two firsts in the sprints. Lawrence won both the vault and the javelin against San Mateo. San Francisco State edged out a 63 to S9 victory over the Pirates the following week in San Francisco. Lee copped the century in 10 seconds flat and the 220 in 22.3 seconds. Jack Sum- mers, broad jumper, won the event with a leap of 21 feet, 7 inches. Joe McNabb set a new track record by running the half mile in 2:O2.8. A dull meet in which the Pirates lost to the Stanford Freshmen by a 67 to 55 score, was followed a week later by the record-breaking perform- ance of Upton at Sacramento against the Panthers. Bob Maxwell followed in third position in the fast time of 49.9 seconds. Sazcramento Won the meet easily, 80 to 42. Lawrence got off a 185-foot javelin toss to place second. Upton, Hallstone and Lee swept the 220. The Conference Meet at Marin clos- ed the regular season with MIC getting third behind Sacramento and San Ma- teo respectively. Upton won the quar- ter easily in 50 seconds flat. Jimmy Hallstone ran second to Ellison of San Mateo in both sprints. Lawrence brought the javelin championship back to Modesto when he unloosed a mighty 192-foot toss. The relay trophy came to Modesto when Lee, Summers, Maxwell and Up- ton ran away from San Mateo to win in 4 minutes, 26 seconds. Rickert took second in the discus with a toss of 132 feet. The Pirate relay team closed the season by competing in the Fresno re- lays.

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72 On thbpdm C ALTHOUGH they wound up third in conference standings, Coach Fred A. Earle's 1937 Pirate track team de- veloped several all-around performers plus a good mile relay team. Modesto,s biggest star was Howard Upton, a freshman, who broke a five- year National Junior College record for the quarter-mile in a dual meet with Sacramento, by running the 440 in 48.4 seconds. Upton's time also shattered the conference record. The blonde star continually won his favorite event, plus doing yeoman work on the relay team and in the broad jump. BUCCANEER - 1937 Other men who stood out on the squad included: Joe McNabb, a dis- tance man 5 Shirley Summers, hurdlerg Bob Lawrence, javelin and pole vaultg Jimmy Hallstone, Legs Lee and Bob Maxwell, sprintersg Jim Rickert and Francis Thornton, weight men, and George Terry, pole vaulter. The Pirates opened the 1937 season at the annual Long Beach relays. A quarter-mile relay team of Hallstone, John Nelson, Lee and Upton ran third to Pasadena and Los Angeles Junior Colleges. The mile quartet finished fourth, being composed of Bill Weber, Summers, Nelson and Upton. Next week on the MJC oval, the high school all-stars were downed by the Pirate thinclads, 79 to 56. Upton won the quarter in 5 2.6 seconds while a half-mile relay team of Hallstone, Maxwell, Lee and Nelson ran through the two-lap distance in 1:32.6. Two defeats at the hands of pow- erful opponents followed. San Mateo came to Modesto, and went home, a 76 to 46 victor. On the following Tuesday, the Pirates met the Califor- nia Freshmen at Berkeley, and finished on the short end of a 76 to 46 score. Howard Upton served notice that he would mow down conference quar- 'The College Track Varsity

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74 we SW' Baseball Captain Dwight Moore MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE base- ballers, failing to uphold their position as champions of NCJCC competition for the first time in five years, ended their season in second place. This year the Bucs played twenty conference games. In the first series against Marin, the Pirates won 4-2 and lost S-0. After dropping Pasadena in a practice encounter, 7-4, Coach Jack 193 7 - BUCCANEER un-nn.-.mn--un-nun:-:aux-urvf-:nan-.luv-' nn1un1nn-nu-nm-nn1un--u Gardner's men then swept the Santa Rosa series on the Bear,s diamond by 14-4 and 3-2 counts. The following conference series, played on San Francisco's mud-slopped diamond, was dropped to the north- erners by dint of hard luck to the tune of 5-4 and 9-8 scores. Then the Pirates again hit their stride, and smashed out twin victories Watching the heavy hitters go into action -2 .iii f- i 't i 1 .fic f X ' T 1' n if r If Q ' E 2 '1 , f J, 1 Eh si ffl .. wrfff K 9 ,. I .Y . i 1