Western High School - Beacon Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Defeating four schools, Central, Hamtramck, Highland l-JANUARY-I946 CR SS C UNTRY Track Team Front row: Bill Henkin, Neil McLean, Cecil Blevins, Gay- land Jackson, Bob Farrugra, Stanley Fletcher, Back rozr: Jack Long, Dick Slaong, Stanley Estrada, Wayne Betz, Jesse Nester, Ignacio Gonzalez, manager. Ken Gunderson. Bill Murray, Coach Lawson, Bob Jones and Charles Webb. Westerns now departed coach, genial red-haired Thomas Lawson, piloted a green team of two milers into West Side top five. Park, and Miller, and losing to but one, Redford, these thin- elads would easily have won a medal for the fight and spirit which they displayed througout the season. Wayne Betz Neil McLean, William Murray, Gaylon Jack- son, Jack Long and Robert Jones are the lads who were awarded letters in this Marathon. Under bleak gray sky these hard running boys from Western raced for the West Side Championship at Palmer Park, In perhaps the most gruelling of races the Cowboys managed to take fifth place, losing to Cooley, City Champions, ,533 Northwestern, second place. title holde1's, and Mackenzie, third in the city meet. Since the first three city places were captured by West Side Schools. this shows that the Red and White competed against the city's toughest competition. Wayne Betz. the only track letter winner on the squad, was unanimously elected captain by his fellow teammates. Incidentally Betz was one ot' the boys who was with Floyd Rogers, Richard HoI'l'man. and Alex Drabkowski when they captured the two mile Wayne Relay cup for Western High School for the tirst time, Although these true-blue runners didn't have many root- crs cheering them on to victory, they still managed to give a sterling performance throughout the season. showing the new coach an example ot' the never'say-die Western Spirit. Page Twenty-one

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