Baton Rouge High School - Fricassee Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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 IK ACM. TEAM The Bulldog cinder path followers never expected a State championship track team when the large group of small aspirants stepped on the cinders for the first time In December. With only tour lettermen, an Inexperienced track squad won the I-afayette relays with 2» point . Upon returning from the relay carnival, they swept through a triangular meet with Istrouma and Baker, to win with 62 points. The Green and Gold spikemen were prepared for the Stnte Rally after winning duel meets with Bolton ('33 State champs) and the Jesuits, with sweeping victories. They regained the State title by amassing 51 points, which was a record number of points. Captain Kenner Day. capable and worthy, came back after an aliACk of malaria to lead his team-mates to the State championship. He won the pole vault, took third In the HO. and ran anchor man on the record-breaking mile relay team. Alternate Captain Jim Martin was a great asset toward the team's morale and training. He won the half-mile and mile In dual meets and won the half-mile In the State rally. Gene Davis won the 100 and 200 in all dual mect3, and broke Into excellent competition and won second in the 100 and second in the 220 In the State rally. Karl Bomar came through throughout the season to win the Javelin and broad Jump. He brought in ten points in the State rally. Jumping 22 feet 6 Inches and throwing the Javelin 160 feet. Frank Lewis always was a 10-polnt winner and In the State rally he climaxed his high school career by being a member of the record-breaking mile relay team. Sidney Cowart, hop. step and Jumper, was the kind of a competitor who Jumped two feet better than he ever did In the State rally to win his event. J. C. Phillippc was a consistent winner in the high Jump He Jumped several Inches over his head throughout the season. Mack Avants did the team's shot-putting. He had to compete with the best high school shot-potters thal have ever been in the State. B. W. Wax ran second only to Frank Lewis In the hurdles and was a member of the record-breaking mile relay team. Frank O'Neal threw the discus farther than any other B. R. H. S. man has ever done. He took third place In the State rally. Larry Landry ran the 440 along with X. Day and was a member of the record-breaking mile relay team. Bob Martin ran the half-mile along with his brother Jim and was always ready to run on the mile relay-team. Tootsie Denny ran the sprints along with Davis and high Jumped with Thillippe. He was a member of the U0 relay team that won first In the Lafayette relays. Emile Noto was a member of the 140 relay team and ended the season as a quarter-miler. He was anchor man for the sprint relay at I-afayette. Ashby Cobb was another member of the sprint relay team and ran the 100 and 220 with Davis against Jesuits. Krnest Spro’.es was an understudy for Captain Day In the pole vault and hop. step and Jumped second to Cowart He was nn 11-foot pole-vaulter. Dewey Holden Is one of the best examples of what perseverance and determination will do. With no native ability, he has made the grade. The lettermen who have represented the Green and Gold for their last time are: Captain Kenner Day. Jim Martin. Karl Bomar. Frank Lewis. Dewey Holden. Earnest Sproles. Ashby Cobb, Mack Avants and Larry Landry. The 1034 Fricassee

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The 1934 Fricassee