Dixon High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Dixon, CA)

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1 F V PA QA DL DA LL The opening of baseball season found Dixon with seven veteran players to improve the team. It did not take Coach Mitchell long to round off a fair baseball team. The players improved their batting which was the chief weakness of the team last year. Due to the fact that it rained the first part of the week in which the season was to open the teams were forced to play at the park instead of the high school diamond. ' The Dixon nine trotted out on the field Tuesday, April 5, to play their first league game with Esparto. Three times Dixon loaded the bases and three times Esparto managed to put the team out. The Dixon nine batted one of the Esparto's pitchers out of the box, but were unable to score very many runs. Cowden pitched a marvelous game with the support of the team. When the ninth inning was Over ESP3Tt0 went home the victor of a real ball game, 7 to 4. The Winters game was postponed until the following Monday because several of the senior players went to the city with their class. Monday the Dixon ball club traveled to Winters for their second league game. Cowden pitched another wonderful game with the good support of the team. The hit of the day was Stolle's home run scoring a man ahead of him. Dixon was the victor of a 7 to 5 game. The Friday of the same week Clarksburg came to Dixon to play. A strong north wind was blowing which made it bad for the game. After seven innings of misjudging by both teams Clarksburg went home with a 'victory. The Clarksburg game ended the season for Dixon. The players then prepared to enter the softball league which was to begin in two weeks. The players were: Grady, catcherg Cowden, pitcherg Stolle, first baseg Hartley and McEathron, second base: Dunnicliff and C. Cagle, third baseg Robben, shortstopg H. Cagle, left fieldg V. Dutra, center fieldg Kilkenny, right field. Ghcmticleer 4 T

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t0Gf'1C1f'lftClGEf r, f f- f r f-sf A Q 5. c fAfXc1. - A practice meet with Vacaville opened the HBVN track season for Dixon. Several of the Dixon boys placed and the practice they received was a great help to them for their coming Northern Section meet. Sixteen boys, making up the track team for Dixon, competed in the Northern Section meet held at Davis on Friday, April 25. The RCN track team was represented by Sievers and Hopkins in the high jump and Robben in the shot put. Sievers placed third in the high ju p'to hold the only points for Dixon in the WCW class. The HBH team was composed of six men. Homer Witt placed third in the high jump and fourth in the broad jump. ' Hartley took first place in the 120 low hurdles and Ellwood Norton first in the 160 low hurdles. Brown placed third in the 1320 and Ritchey placed fifth in the 660. In the pole vault Ellwood Norton placed third. The HBH relay was composed of Homer Witt, Brown, Ritchey, and Reichel. The WAN track team for Dixon came home with the highest honors of the three. Cowden placed fourth and Phillips fifth in the 880 yard run. Vernon Dutra placed third in the 120 high hurdles and the high jump and fourth in the shot put. In the 200 yard dash Otto Bruhn of Dixon crossed the line in the lead. Hank Cagle threw the football to place first. Kenneth Leathers running the mile came in third and Raymond Norton placed fourth in the 220 low hurdles. Dixon's relay team was composed of Cowden H. Cagle, Kilkenny, and Bruhn. The following Friday the county meet was held at Davis. At noon 10 boys left Dixon to-take part in the meet. The WCW class was'repre- sented by Sievers who placed fifth in the high ju p. Four men repre- sented the HBW class for Dixon. Homer Witt placed third in the high jump. Hartley placed fourth in the 120 low hurdles, and Ellwood Norton placed fourth in the l60 low hurdles. Brown dropped out of the 1520 in the first lap. The NA' class again placed the highest of the three teams for Dixon. Vernon Dutra placed third in the 120 low hurdles. Bruhn placed second in the 220 yard dash and H. Cagle placed second in the football throw. Stolle, Kilkenny, Vernon Dutra, and Bruhn ran the relay 'for Dixon. A few boys are going to compete in the Northern California track meet which will be held May B at Davis.

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4 . 1- l C?fiC1l'lil'Cl'6'Gf v sms' A'rHLanc,s From August until October the principal sport was swimming. The pool was open for the high school girls from eleven to twelve o'c1ock every school morning. The American Crawl, backstroke, and sidestroke were practiced by the advanced swimmers. Those who were just learning to swim were instructed in the shallow end of the pool. Several of the girls took life saving tests during the period. with the coming of cold weather, indoor baseball, volley ball and kick pin were played inside. In volley ball the different classes comp- eted against each other and the Junior girls were victorious. M Once again outside, baseball, archery, and tennis provided exercise for everyoneg and then, when the pool was reopened, the girls went swim- ing. In the spring both boys'and girls' gym classes were combined on several occasions and over a hundred students participated in softball games. There were ten teams each heeded by a captain and they were all able to play at the same time on the girls' baseball field and the four corners of the football turf. . p X The gym classes are under the direction of Mrs. Bloom, Miss Miler, and Miss Eggert. Each teacher has charge of a group of girls and places certain responsibilities in their hands. Squad leaders are appointed every six weeks and they have different duties to perfonm. Girls' ath- letics has become an important part of the high school curriculum. The shower rooms were remodeled this year, much to the enjoyment of the girls. Partitions were removed and the lockers were made larger. Another row of windows was added along the east side to allow more light to enter.