Gig Harbor High School - Growler Yearbook (Gig Harbor, WA)

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- ly,,4,l Kaya' faiedaf HE BASEBALL SQUAD thus year proved to be better than was expected Under the trarnlng of Coach Wulllarn W Thomas the players showed abuluty even though they were lnexperlenced The tlrst game of the season brought to gether the ancient rlvals Vaughn and Clg Harbor The game was well played from the begunnlng and terrlfuc huts were made by both sndes Clg Harbor showed excellent abrlrty Vaughn was held to only a few hats by our star putchers john Lysell and Peter 5l4anSIS The fnnal score was lO to 8 nn Clg Harbors favor The second game was played with Eatonvulle at Crlg Harbor Thus game was a putcher s duel from begunnung to end Both teams showed splrlt and abuluty but Gag Harbor lost the game 8 to 6 The next game was played wuth Port Orchard Thus game was very thrlllrng Gag Harbor scored lO runs In the second lnnrng Port Orchard dud tts best all through the game but could not stop Ong Harbor and the game ended wath a score of l2 to 8 nn favor of Crg Harbor Wrth thus victory under thelr bonnets the team gourneyed over the water to meet the strong Kapowsun nrne They started the day an superb fashron by holdrng a lead of three to O over therr aggressnve opponents But the shut out ball pntched by Cy Creenlaw took our men off guard and from that tlme on checked the local nlne About thus tame we wonder what Thels dad to cause all the excrtement7 When all the shoutlng was over Harbor was on h los ng end of the l l to 3 score Then ln a practrce game Gag Harbor met Poulsbo lt was a valrant struggle to the end game Poulsbo was vrctorlous At the present tame the team has two more games to play One wlth Flfe and the other w th Roy The llne up thas year consisted of the follow mg players Catchers Edward Thers Herbert Cook putchers lohn Lysell Peter Skansre Ed son Bahr farst base Arthur Petersen second base Allan Watson thnrd base Edson Bahr shortstop Carl Drake center fmeld john Mur phy rlght fleld Paul Alvestad and left fueld Albert Northey , e Although Gag Harbor trted every truck in the

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:he EDWARD THElS Rlght Halfback Klcker pass er and end runner HAROLD SWENSEN Quarterback Bralns and llne plunger OHN LYSELL Fullback End runner llne plunger blocker IOHN MURPHY End Defenslye rnan ALBERT NORTHEY Guard Three year lunemarw and dependable guard EDWARD TROMBLEY Center Keeps cool at all tlmes and IQ an excellent center FRED QUISTORFF Tackle Opens holes ln op ponent s llne BOBBY THURSTON Fullback Klcker passer end runner PAUL ALVESTAD End Rellable tackler and blocker and fron man of team MARVIN NATUCCI Tackle Crltty tackle good blocker ROY SPADONI Guard Stops a hole ln any me ERNEST MATSON Rlght Halfback Played we ln backtleld posltlon Substltutes this year are Erancls lohnson Sylvester Edwards Paul Muehlen Raymond Armstrong james Hopklns George McTurnal Wlllle Arneson Bull Muehlen and Duck Fuqua Managers are Stewart Whlte Cordon Secor and Herbert Cook if at'- iv 1341- 4. ?'l 'frfff'

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nl: Inaba! PRIL 26 a very excutung game was played at Cuug Harbor between Vaughn Hugh School gurls and the Cug Harbor gurls The lune up for Cug Harbor was as follows Mary Makovuch catcher Muldred Crosby putch Dorus Sehmel fulled the posutuon of urst baseman very effucuently Opal Berg played second base and Munnue Modun covered thurd base Elva Sehmel and Vurgunua Zulyevuc were the shortstops Elva rnussed three hard hut balls un successuon but on the next play a Vaughn player fauled to touch thurd base and Elva had enough presence of mund to touch thurd for the funal out thereby preventung Vaughn from scorurug the tyung run The outfuelderg were Mary Lovrovuch Mae Petersen and Ruth Schar pe ge The funal score as lO to 9 un g Harbor s favor The furst of the unter class games was be tween the eughth grade and the freshmen The teams were very evenly matched and three games were necessary to decude the yuctors The eughth graders won after a hotly contested The rest of the serues has not yet been com pleted although the Senuor lunuor game has been started The latter game has proven to be very humorous One funny sutuatuon o curred whule the Iunuors were battung Muldrecu Crosby was putchung and Dons Sehmel was playung furst base for the Senuors The lunuor s batter ht a ha d bouncer to Muldred who thought ut was too hard to handle so she booted a perfect spural to Dorus who made a faur catch to reture the unuor runner For three years the gurls of the Class of 1933 have been school baseball champuons and the underclassmen are tryung hard to make tnem surrender the crown before they graduate Often the luttle eughth graders are forgotten by theur upperclassmen but thus year theur achuevements have been so noteworthy that we connot forget them Last fall the eughth grade gurls were undefeated un the League Baseball play They won games from Rosedale Luncoln and Crescent Valley I y I cr. f g . vv Cu thurd game, u r 'A l' I .. .. I . I