Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Bob on the Pole Vault Nicholas NVith the Shot :uid rlnzllilied I4 of the l5 men entered to compete in the state meet tu he held the following week. llunglas placed second with 27M poinlsg Nogales czune in third, with 9 pointsg XYillcoX won fourth place by attaining 7 pointsg and ,-Xmphilheztter :Lttuined 1 point, gained in the jnvelin event. Gordon fjiggsj Lent grahhed firsts for Tucson in the l00 and 220 yard dashes. Huh justice. .-Xmpliitheatre star who had heen clocked at 10 Hat on the l00 in przictice, failed to place in the 10.3 sec. l00 :lt the meet because of 21 charley horse which also made it necessary for him to withdraw from the 220. ln the weights Monty XX.lllilllSllll racked up tirsts in hoth the discus :ind jzmvelin. Clmrles Nichols threw the shot -H feet, 3 inches to win his event. Bob Young of Lent, Batiste, XYilkinsnn, Young Postun, Bartlett, Lcwcllan,

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Procter, llnice, Llljilll, llnynes XhillSth1l, 'llzxylmg Mnrpliy, XY:tytv SUU'l'llI2R N tfUNlf1iRIiXt'li Al lCli'l' .Xt the SUlllllCl'll Conference trztek meet held :tt the L'niversitv of ,Xrizonzl stnclittm. un .Xpril 29, 194-l, the Tucson Senior lligh thinelzuls carried away the eonferenee title. The teams represented vghere from llunglzts, Nogales, Xlilleox, :md .'Xmphi- theziter. N 4 . . . They were led hy lired lizltiste, VVl1tl'i:lll'tJliC the district reeord in the 200 yard low hurdles hy running them in 22.5 seeonqls. knocking four tenths of ll second wtf the old record. Butiste also won the 120 'yard high hurdles in 15.3 seconds. .Xnd in his third event, the lmmzltljitiiip. Fred jumped 2l feet. nine inches to victory. The Tueson tezlm :mmssed 10816 points hy winning twelve of the fourteen events Fred Linihering Up msS.WN V M Q ' WM KJ swims.

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x p- f ,Qt ssw+.g,.:.,: . ' A it . , , A , ..., -Q I 1 T , Wm ,gym S' f N at YN, . we-3-A , V -w N2 ,kwa -,.,,,, W , ' . N- 6 ft 1 .1 - l Q Q X I 50-yd. Dash Against Mesa Snyder, Mgr., Busby, M., Montgoinery, Scott 'l'llS also, won the pole vault event with a ten foot six jump. Maurice llnsby with a time of 2 :lO.5 seotecl a first in the 880. Up and eoming Raul l,njan took an easy hrst in the mile run in 4142.8 with XYilson second. Finishing off the meet the 'FHS relay team eomposecl of llatiste. Poston. Montgomery, ancl l,ent took first in the L6 mile relay in l f3'l'.5. The purpose of this meet was to cletermine who was qualified to compete in the state meet to be heltl the following week. That is. a man was 1'Cqllfl'CLl to place hrst, second oi' thirtl to become eligible to take part in th coming competition be- tween the tlistriet winners of the state. Because of transportation tlitiieulties no team eoultl have more than a fifteen man squacl, which left out many of the Tucson traekmen from the competition, otherwise it may have been possible for the school to gain more if not all of the points.