Coalinga High School - Petrolia Yearbook (Coalinga, CA)

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Page 54 The Petrolia June 1937 if J f f ©J Baseball: Top row; Cowsert, Zwicky, Fleisher. Borda aray, Vickery. Mechalis, White- ner, Kahl, Ramsey, Davis, Beckman. Murphy, Douglas, McCollum, Coach Heath. Bottom row; Copeland, Brunson, Becker. Obert, Stephens, Jeffers, O ' Neill, Lacey, Myers. West- ern. Bourdeau, Knight, Gilman. Track: Top row; Peck, Baker, Bruce. Lewis. M. Pow- ell. Loftis. Lahaoroue, Garvin. H. Powell. Bottom row: Gilman, Ennstrom, Koehler. Gowan. Prindle. Goivan And Gilman Lead Track Squads In Meets Coalinga track-men were fairly successful in their 1937 meets. They did not par with the squads of preceding years, hut since material for track was so hard lo find they did more than was ex- pected from them. The most outstanding stars of the season were: James Bruce, C class high jumper and sprinter; Donald Gilman, C class jumper and distance runner; Forrest Gowen, A class high and 1 o w hurdler; Francie Prindle. A class hurdler; Harold Koehler and James Switzer. high jumpers; Bill Ayers, broadjumper and sprinter, and Melvin Powell, broad juniper. Donald Gilman, however, was the most up-and-coming man of the bunch. In the King City Invitational Meet, he competed and won first place in the B class 440. Later at Lemoore he ran the A class 44(1 and took second place in a close sprint to the tape with the first Coalinga Nine Scores 5 And 2 The Coalinga High School base- ball team scored rat her low in the 1937 winning list, with five defeats and two victories. In its first game, with Kings- burg, Coalinga lost by a 9 to 6 margin, scoring two runs in the first, one in the third, and three ' n the ninth inning. On April 2, however, the Coal- inga nine scored a 5 to 3 win over Clovis High School. In this game both the Clovis pitcher and Jack Lacey, Coalinga winger, fanned eleven men. But Lacey allowed only two hits while Coal- inga made eight. Kerman High School defeated Coalinga in the closest ball game ever played by Coalinga High teams, by a score of 1 to 0. The only score of the game was in the eighth inning when Schwab- enland. the Kerman third sacker, smacked a beautiful three bag- ger and came home on an error by Ed O ' Neill, Coalinga catcher. Again Coalinga was defeated by Fowler on April 16. by a 10 to 5 score. But Coalinga finally won another game. This time the Coal- inga nine defeated Central by the fuzz off ' n their cheeks, with a score of 3 to 1. Reedley High School took Coalinga in an 11-inning tilt on April 22 by a score of 4 to 2. Coalinga lost its last game with Sanger on April 30, by the score of S to 3. place runner of Lemoore. At Selma he broke the county B Class 330 reco ' d by negotiating the dis ance in 3S.S. At Lemoore, Forrest Spec Gowen accounted for 12 of Coal- inga ' s 20 points with his running and hurdling.

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June 1937 The Petrolia Page 53 Coalinga High Five Ties Fowler For League Crown A Class: Top row: Heath, coach, Knight. O ' Neill, Stephen . MacLean. C i. Bznirdeau. Branson. Divis. Bottom row: Engatrom, Gow- an. Lacey. Murphy, eapt.. Western. Obert. CI. Bourdeau. B Class; Copeland. capt.. Chamberlain. Chedesler, W. Tune. Jewett. Greve, ;. Tune. Reyner. Fleisher. C Class; McCollum, Ensstrom, Gar in. Rhoads, Harrold, McNeill, Smith, Bordatraray. Bruee, Baker, Kirk- pat, ick. MacLean. Lay, Champlin, Lahargoue, Ramsey, capt. era, the Coalinga team evened the count with Kingsburg on Jan- uary 16 by winning 31 to 26, with Western storing 20 tor Coalinga. Clovis Stops Championship Coalinga won its first game with Clovis, January S, by a 29 to 26 score. In their second game Clovis knocked Coalinga into a tie with Fowler tor the division title by sinking four free throws in the last two minutes of play to de- feat Coalinga by a one-point mar- gin of 23 to 22. Coalinga-Fowler Playoff Fowler High School won the playoff game with Coalinga on February 2: ' , in a battle royal for 1 lie Division Championship. Coal- inga actually won the game in the Brsl half, leading Fowler by a score of 26 to 14. hut in the id half Coalinga blew up like a ballOOD when I.acey and Bourdeau went out on fouls and finally l .-t 33 to 2. .. For the first time in several years the Coalinga High School produced a winning varsity basketball team. Coalinga ' s quintet defeated Fowler twice but split its series with both Kingsburg and Clovis, leaving it in a tie with Fowler for the division title. The H and C class squads, while losing all their games, developed some promis- ing material for 1938. Fowler Defeated Twice On January 21;. Coalinga de- fealed Fowler by a score of 24 to 22. Although the Coalinga five Fowler an early nine-point lead, it came through after a 13 10 1:: tje ;,i naif time to control I he game all the second half. The Coalinga quintet won from Fowler on February 9 by an even er margin, this time by the Score of 23 to 22. Coalinga led all the first half. but Fowler jumped into the lead at the re- cess to hold a 2-point edge at the end of the third quarter. In a breath-takingly exciting last quarter, the locals mustered five points and held the visitors to only two fie»- throws. Split Series With Kingsburg Kingsburg swept Coalinga to defeat on Wednesday. .January 11. the contest ending 26 to 22. Led by a brilliant bucketing on the pari of Dale West

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June 1937 The Pelrolia Page 55 — ■■I ' J.l- ] Scoreboard By SCOTTY Coalinga High School students hope that the superstition that mishaps c o m e three in a row holds true, for if it does, Coalinga might start with a clean slate in ' 38. Coalinga. in these last two years, has had three successive calamities in play-off games for titles. Last year Coalinga was flip- ped out of the Valley Champion- ship play-off; this year she was lipped out of the County Cham- pionship play-off; and again this year her basketball team slip- ped nut of the tille. At Fowler, the Coalinga eleven looked much the stronger team, rolling up 11 first downs while Fowler mustered six. Alter this game, our boys were as gloomy looking as a hunch of thoroughly dampened hens, [or thej thought that all hope for a county championship was gone. The coaches of the tie-up teams were called to Fresno by the County Foot hall Commission to war Swim Teams Enter Meets Coalinga ' s B class swimming team won first place in the valley swim meet of 1936 with a total of 3 8 points. Chedester took first in the 5 0-yard breast stroke, Johnson, Chedester, and Ayers first in the medley relay, Johnson sec- ond in the 50-yard back stroke, decide upon a plan to determine the winning team. They decided to flip a coin, and in this way. the odd team would be out of the play-off and the other two teams would play for the chance to meet Laton for the county title. They flipped and Fowler was the un- fortunate team. This plan was not approved by all three teams, however, so in order to try to satisfy all involv- ed, the Commission decided to let Fowler play Laton to deter- mine which division would send a representative team to the val- ley title playoff w i t b Dos Pal- os. Coalinga drew the lot to go on and represent the division. Hut Fowler lost to the diminutive Laton squad, and thereby cancel led Coalinga ' s chance in c h a m - pionship play. Gilman third and Murphy fourth in the 50-yard free style, Cham- plin third and Kirkpatrick fourth in the 220-yard free style, and Bruce third in diving. These men accounted for a total of 24 points and were all left for the swim- ming team of 1937. The county and valley meets for 1937 were held at Madera on May 22 and May 29. respectively. Since seven of those boys men- tioned above still remained in the H class, Coalinga did especially well in these two meets in the middle-weight division, and plac ed in several events in the A class.