Polytechnic High School - Polytechnic Student Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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J . uv . , I I C1AQSs'c Basketball , 3 X217 f NA-if , C'-' ,I Row 1: t Lettermenl 'Wilbur Ward, tflim Harris, 'LeRoy Mead, 'iShiro Nagano, Yftobert Porter, 'fDick Cronkhite. How 2: tlftex Faulkner, manager, Perry Lindsay, Robert De Con- treras, David Pellegrino, Robert Dodge, Iack Huddleston, Betts, coach. Pennant winners! Poly's C boys, engineered by their high scoring three, Mead, Harris, and Ward, rode to a Southern League championship, losing only the first two games on their schedule, and those by very close scores. Ringing the basket for many points, leading scorer was Wilbur Ward, closely followed by Mead, Harris, and others almost equally good. Class D Row 3: Rowland Thomas, Iohn Babayan, Stanley Underwood, Paul Gamo, Iim Kawa. Row 4: Howard Tomlinson, Iimmy Hixson, Fumio Miyamoto, Alfred Mr. Chasuk. Polytechnic 16 Huntington Park 17 Polytechnic 24 Ietterson 26 Polytechnic 15 Washington 10 Polytechnic 21 Manual Arts ll Polytechnic 17 Huntington Park 16 Polytechnic 39 Iefferson 20 Polytechnic 26 Washington 17 Polytechnic 28 Los Angeles 16 Basketball Q, ff ,I .4 Row l: UtLettermenl Durgson Lee, tMario Torres, ilfrank Manke, 'Leon Woo, 'Roman Rogers, ifSol Birnbaum, Susumu Inouye. Row 2: 'Rex Faulkner, manager, 'Q Iimmy Saito, George Houston, Led by the mighty mite Leon Woo, the baby D's trampled all opponents, losing not a single game, league or practice, to become Southern League champions. A good offensive and defensive game was played by Roman Rogers. iNathaniel Shaw, Okira Matsuoka, tToshio Maruno, Mr. Betts, Row 3: Pudqe Smith, Frank McCleary, Donald Overton, Bob Fitzpatrick, Glenn Forney, Arthur Chan, Severo Duron. The season schedule was as follows: Polytechnic 12 Huntington Park 9 Polytechnic 24 Iefterson 17 Polytechnic 24 Huntington Park 20 Polytechnic 27 lefierson 5 153 , 1

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x w ,- It -f f -'R-I .4 . 1' in, 3 -f' Ligiglvvefighf Basketball V fr' -11 -use j ,fu 1 .,,4,,ff QULW QULY Row 1: l 'LettermenJ tliludy Isais, tMon Sing Fong, 'fFrank Buckley, 'Hector Villalobos, tLarry Hernandez, 'fDavid Unoura. Row 2: Coach Betts, tFHenry Marquez, Iim Mausser, Iim Bruce, Ioe Walton. Poly at Fremont t bs E 1 ' 4 pg., 152 ' GLY, V A fg9gL1fQ Row 3: Felix Saenz, Marvin Stephens, Robert Kojima, Milton Gold, George Gee. Row 4: 4'Charles Goldstein, manager, Thomas Greco, tBud Daugherty, manager. Scoring a grand total of 281 points, Poly's strong, Well balanced lightweight quintet lost only two games all season, both to the powerful champion Iefferson squad and ended in a three-way tie for first with the Huntington Park and Iefferson teams. Putting the ball through the hoop consistently for high scoring honors were co-captains Frank Buckley and capable veteran Hector Villalobos, who ran up a total of 40 points in two games against Huntington Park. Also a steady point winner as well as a good defensive man was center David Unoura. Lawrence Hernandez and Henry Marquez capably filled the guard positions. The season schedule was as follows: December 6 Polytechnic 24 Fremont 17 December 9 Polytechnic 17 Manual Arts 9 December lil Polytechnic 44 Huntington Park 41 December 16 Polytechnic 22 Iefferson 33 December 22 ,Polytechnic 33 Washington 28 Ianuary 6 Polytechnic 28 Fremont 10 Ianuary 13 Polytechnic 26 Manual Arts 25 Ianuary 17 Polytechnic 35 Huntington Park 26 Ianuary 20' Polytechnic 25 Iefferson 27 Ianuary 22 Polytechnic 27 Washington 24 'Played on the Polytechnic court

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Casper Casparian , Captain , g . .1 '. , l 'P ' 'Lk' i1'x.. get 0- ..f v 44' , 3 Lib' 6 I V V ' W-AA'1ZL1.m,,l.m, ,,,A ,W W f , , ,, X fi? Y! 4 I X ff f WW 1fQ! Y f ff , t . Q . vs. f fy fir , L , X be f I 5 WH 1 ' J I , it 42 , E aw, ,..,. . , Fred Lull, I X lack Richardson Charles Coates . Z., Kryyk E .,.lggZ92iff , vt 4,5 Richard Muller Frank Nasu George Parma Richard Anderson Gym Team March 2 Manual, 97Vz: Poly, ZZVZ At Poly Poly's scrappy but inexperienced gym team was found lacking in all but one event as the powerful visiting Artisans overwhelmed Mechanic muscle- men, 97Vz-22W. Engineering the attack were Paul Husted and Homer Foraker, Manual stars who bagged the only two double wins of the meet in the long horse and side horse, and in the rings and parallels, respectively. Poly's end of the meet was held up by Fred Lull, who garnered a second on the side horse, and by Coates and Tom, who won third and fourth. Third places were won in the rings by Casparian and on the long horse by little Frank Nasu. ' y March 9 Fremont, BQWJ Poly, 50Vz At Fremont Receiving their second setback, the Poly gym- nasts were humbled by the Fremont musclemen, 69V2-50Vz in the winners' gym. Highlight of the meet was the brilliant performance of Bill Sheirs, Fre- mont ace who Won the free exercise, long horse, and tumbling. The rope climb was Won by Kiehl of Fremont in 7:5 seconds. Poly's only firsts were won by Casper Casparian and Fred Lull in the rings and on the side horse. Poly surprised in the parallels by winning three places. An individual upset was provided by George Parma, who garnered a sec- ond. Tumbling again was Poly's weakest event, a fourth being taken by Lopez. March 23 Washington, 88: Poly, 32 At Poly Poly's gym team succumbed to a well balanced group of Washington gymnasts, 88-32, on March 23 on Poly's floor. Washington's team was well rounded out, quashing the Poly squad in all but one event. The rope climb was won by Kerschner of the visitors in 6.9 seconds, a fourth being all Rakoobian of Poly could take. In the side horse, competition was very keen, Anselmo of Washington barely nosing out Poly's Fred Lull. Poly's only victory was won by Frank Nasu in the long horse. Richardson of Poly took a third. A fourth in the tumbling and a fifth in the free exercise were the results in Poly's weakest events. March 30 Poly, 79: Huntington Park, 41 At H.P. Ringing down the curtain on the 1939 season, the Poly musclemen emerged with their only victory in an easy decision over a Weak Park squad. The Spartans took only two firsts and never really threatened. Surprise of the meet was a victory by Charles Coates in the side horse: the favorite Lull could take only a fifth. Poly almost swept the long horse, taking all but a second. The rings were won by Casparian of Poly, and Shirahama took the parallels. Simmons, Muller, and Altmann took l-2-3 in the free exercise. Haverly garnered a first in the horizontals. Poly was again weak in the tumbling event, making only one point on the mats.