Coalinga High School - Petrolia Yearbook (Coalinga, CA)

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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.

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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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Pa ge 56 The Petrolia June 1937 1 . Sixth sense balance. 2. On your mark, get set 3- No fish today. 4. Minus her trapeze. Girls ' Swim Teams Make Showing; Valley Meet Held At Fowler Girls began the week of April 5 with a splash when they dusted off their water wings and donned the scanties of the swimming pool. For the first few weeks, the air was so nippy that oh ' s riods, was the routine followed and all ' s were heard as the girls submerged gently into the pool. Calverna Linse, girl ' s swim- ming instructor, was pleased at the turnout of many of her vet- eran swimmers and many new prospects. Among those who made the team and who competed in the county meet at Fowler last year were: Mary Lou Abshier, Velma Hanst, Verna Hanst, Winifred Mc- Dowell, and Helen Dunsmuir. Three days a week after-school swimming practice, plus gym pe- by this year ' s team, and in this manner Coach Linse entered a trim team into the valley meet held at Lemoore. May 25. An interclass meet and exhibi- I ion was h e 1 d, in conjunction with the boys, May 11. Various dives were exhibited, among which were the standing front, by Jacqueline Stewart, Dona DeBell. Arloa Ridder, Lucille Loftis, Ruth Whitener, Phyllis Kelley, and Lo- ree Vergon; running front by Dona DeBell, Marie Hunt, Arloa Ridder, Rita Johnson, Jean Ander- son, Merilyn Johnston, and Mary Koda. The mercury was given by J. Stewart, R. Johnson, Louise Pilgrim, and M y r 1 1 e Harding. Back dives were given by Marie Hunt, Velma Hanst, D. Smith, Arloa Ridder, and E. Ruiz. Those exhibiting the jack-knife were E. Ruiz. D. Smith, Velma Hanst, M. L. Abshier, and Louise Pilgrim. M. L. Abshier, E. Ruiz, D. Smith and R. Dunsmuir did swan dives, and Dorothy Smith did a front flip. Those girls who did high board diving were: J. Stewart, standing front ; Velma Hanst, running front; and D. Smith and M. L. Abshier, each doing a swan and jack-knife. Those who went out for the 75- foot races were: backstroke — C. Cheney, M. Ellestad, G. Snyder, and W. McDowell; Side stroke — Hunt. M. Koda. L. Spear, E. Ru- iz; crawl — A. Ridder. Velma Hanst, M. L. Abshier, D. Smith: breast stroke — C. Cheney, M. El- lestad, M. L. Abshier, and D. Smith.