Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

U ' Coach Christie INDEFEATED In their first three meets, one of the strongest Tiger track teams of recent years this season seriously threatened Lincoln ' s hold on the city and state championships. The Bengals, displaying all-around power that pointed to a successful season, defeated Centralia and Puyallup in dual meets, and won the Centralia Relays over a large field of com- petitors before The Tahoma went to press. In the first meet of the season. Stadium invaded the lair of the Centralia Tigers and handed them a 98 2/3 to 23 I ^^ beat- ing. The Bengals won 12 first places and made clean sweeps in severf ' evgntsr ' Fra/ik Londos won high-scoring honors when he took three first places in weight event ' s ' .- ' ^-He was only two feet short of the city record in the shot put, and managed a winning discus heave of 114 feet. A wet track slowed the runners, but good times were made by " Corky " McCord in the 440, and Oscar Barger in the sprints, while Pat Johns showed well in the broad jump. The Puyallup Vikings entertained Stadium the following week, and the Blue and Gold came away with another impressive victory, winning 71 2/3 to 17 1/3. In this meet, weight relays made team strength more Important than individual perform- ances, and Stadium had the team strength. After three straight years of second places in the Centralia Relays, the Tigers this year finished first, ahead of Lincoln, Olympia, Longview, Centralia, Raymond, Vancouver, hloquiam and Aberdeen. Stadium took four first places and eight seconds to give them 69 1/5 points to the 41 1/5 score made by the nearest com- petitor, Lincoln. Oscar Barger set a new record in the junior 100-yard dash when he clipped a tenth of a second from the old record, winning In 10.2 seconds. The junior 440-yard relay found Stadium and Olympia runners in a record-breaking dead heat, the time of 46.1 being three tenths of a second faster than the old mark set by Lincoln. In the run-off to decide meet places, the Olympians edged out Stadium, however. Frank Londos won the shot-put, and the two-mile relay team composed of Byer, Mldal, Watts and Nelson won its event. In all, with six marks falling, this year ' s Centralia Relays were the fastest gathering of high schools since the beginning of the annual meet. A triangular meet with Olympia and Aberdeen, a ' tentative dual meet with Everett, the Penn relays and the city track meet remained on the schedule at publi- cation time. Prospects were especially bright for sending members of the team to the state meet, and the track outlook this year \*as, really encouraging. ' / ■ ■ /.. Row I: Dale McCord, Bill McMas+er. Pat Johns. ' Russell^ Soper, Bob Benson. Heine Pohlman. .AI MIdal, -■ " ~ ' ' ' Boyle " " " ■ ■ Reynolds. Mr. Keyes. ' ^ Dick Strinsky, Jim Nelson. Bill Melton, Staij ' Boyle, Harold Lewtas, Hal Byer. Gi Watts, Dick 3 WcCulloch, Chuck Allen, Row 2: Johnny Long, Oscar Barger. Earl Van ^licenbtirg, Arnold Sandvlq, Drew Foss. Ga Ly!e Smith, Bob Bennatts, Gale Smitji, . Lawrence White, Carl Opolsky, Jj»e\ Beckmah Jack Nichols, Frank Londos. ^ JT . Ji ' Row 3: Don Boyle. Mark Hipkins. KennleKCof^an, Rtobert Chambers. J^^ ' yf!M^ ' ' y?./|^^ Nichols, Tucker. Paul Richardson, Carl VeaSt^, ^.^ob Lambert, Lester Robine, Bj4 W^ss > T > \A4vroV Calkins, Bob Hedberg, John Fenton, Mr. Qiljstie. 5|- / T R A C K /V NInely-fivo