Leilehua High School - Ka Leilehua Yearbook (Wahiawa, HI)

Page 66 text:

TRACK ALTHOUGH the Leilehua spikemen did not exhibit any outstanding scoring during the i938 track season, the squad, as a whole, possessed much talented material. The most outstanding members of the squad were those boys composing the four-mile relay team, Kimball Chun, Louis Rocha, Chester Stewart and Ioseph Garcia. Much credit is due to Yetsuo Higa, Leilehua track mentor, who spent many hours training the boys. Other outstanding members of the team were Max Suzuki, captain: Rudolph Peiler, Edelberto Balingit and Toshio Tanaka. The squad opened the season with a dual meet against Kamehameha. Ex- hibiting class in every event except the shotput and the hurdles, Leilehua easily won the meet by a score of 60 to 41. The team then traveled to Alexander field and competed in a triangular meet with Punahou and St. Louis. Punahou emerged victorious with the Saints second and Leilehua third. In preparation for the Cornell relays, a dual meet was held which the Micks won by an overwhelming score. The Cornell relays were held on March l9. Captain Max Suzuki was Leile- hua's only qualifier in the preliminaries but the Mules were well represented in the relays and the long distance runs. Leilehua's four-mile relay team smashed the record with ll seconds to spare. McKinley won the meet with Punahou a close second. ,Leilehua tied for fifth place with Kamehameha. The interscholastic track meet was held on March 26. Edelberto Balingit was Leilehua's lone qualifier. loseph Garcia, star Mule miler, and Edelberto Balin- qit, speedy 440 man, each took a third in their respective events. Rudolph Peiler ran a good fourth in the 880-yard run. McKinley won the meet ll points ahead of her nearest competitor. Leilehua tied for sixth place with lolani. First row fLeft to rightl: Soon Gull Kim, Lloyd Chapman, Robert Hirota, Fred Kim, Yoshio lchikawa, Lincoln Yoshikado, manager: lohn Leonida, Louis Rocha, Toshio Tanaka. Second row: Max Su- zuki, Ioseph Garcia, Edward Kawahara, Lawrence Monma, Robert Chinen, lames Shintaku, George Song, Chester Stewart. Top row: Mr. Higa, coachy Gilbert Procter, Robert Strohlin, William Kalei- kilo, Rudolph Peiler, Edelberto Ealingit, Kimball Chun, Ianito de Gracia, George Karnana. Not in picture: Iames Nunes, Mitsugi Sugimoto, Mamoru Hakoda, manager.

Page 65 text:

First row CLeft to rightl: Smith Choi, Duck Young Yoon, Gary Yaji, Albert Sur. Top row: Ianito de Gracia, Paul Hurley, Gilbert Procter, lack Cleary, Torn Mizuno. BASKETBALL COACHED BY Edward Lewis and led by Stanward Kim and Gilbert Procter, the Mules went through a very busy season, fighting every minute of the game until the last whistle blew. Teams represented in the lnterscholastic league were: Leilehua, McKinley, lolani, Roosevelt and Mid-Pacific. Leilehua's first game in the Senior lnterscholastic league resulted in a de- feat at the hands of Roosevelt, 26 to 22. Outstanding players were lack Cleary and Stanward Kim. Invading Honolulu, the Highlanders gained their first victory over lolani in a very spectacular contest, 26 to 24. . - In the next game, McKinley's quintet was victorious over the Mules. Lei- lehua was in the lead until the end of the second quarter, but the opponents staged a sudden spurt, resulting in the Mules' defeat, 42 to l8. With both teams having the same number of points up until the third Canto, the game with Mid-Pacific was a very close one, and only by a last-minute rally was Leilehua able to nose out a victory to the tune of 22 to l4. In the second round, Leilehua bowed to the winning Roosevelt team. Sim- ilar to the first game with Roosevelt, Leilehua took the lead, only to lose it in the end. The final score was 35 to 27. Although a hard fight was staged by the Mules, they were dominated all thrloughlthe game by the avenging lolani, with the final score, lolani 33, Lei- e ua . .lVIcKinley, displaying its usual flashiness, easily conquered Leilehua, but the game was not too one-sided in spite of the score of 20 to 45 in their favor. The last game of the season resulted in a victory for the Mules over M. P. l. The opponents led all through the game, but Leilehua, in an extra period, Igialgiually diminished the margin to take the lead, with the score, Leilehua 35, . . I. 26.

Page 67 text:

First row fLeft to rightl: Kaoru Kawahara, rnanagerp Bob Hirota, Kaname Kakernoto, Kunso Suna- hara, Tom Mizuno, Max Suzuki, Mamoru l-lakoda, Tsuneichi Yoneda, Toshio Tanaka, Robert Taka' yama. Top row: Mr. Kunihisa, coachg William Watson, Gary Yaji, Noboru Tanaka, Bob Chinen, Yukio Komori, lunichi Yamauchi, lack Cleary, Paul Hurley, Takashi Motoyama, Mitsugi Sugirnoto, Katsuji Shintani, manager. A BASEBALL OPENING THE SEASON with three successive victories, the Leilehua baseball squad shows definite signs of a championship team. As this book goes to press, the boys have been made heavy favorites to win the title. Meeting Punahou in their initial league encounter, the Mules exhibited some high class playing, walloping the Puns to the tune of ll to 2. The victory was due mainly to the timely hitting of Mitsugi Sugimoto and the fine mound work of Toshio CCandyD Tanaka. Sugimoto smashed out two homers while Tanaka pitched a no-hit game up to the seventh inning. Other outstanding players for the day were lack Cleary and Robert Takayama. The game was played on Alexander field. Assuring the public that their unanimous win over Punahou was not just a lucky upset, Leilehua next defeated the Roosevelt Roughriders by a score of l6 to l . Tanaka again turned in an excellent game on the mound, allowing but three hits in his seven innings of hurling. On the other hand, the Mules col- lected l3 hits from the two Roosevelt pitchers, Carr and Kennedy. Batting honors go to the team as a whole as no outstanding hitting took place. ln their third encounter, the Mules took on Mid-Pacific. Establishing an early lead of 4 to l, the Manoaites had things pretty well their own way for the first seven innings. Leilehua, however, staged brilliant four-run rallies in both the seventh and eighth frames to clinch the game. Tanaka pitched the first four innings but was relieved at the start of the fifth by Motoyama. Together they yielded but five hits. Thisfvictory gave Leilehua the sole leadership in the l938 lnterscholastic baseball league. The Mules have yet to meet a strong St. Louis nine, Kameha- meha, Mcliinley tpresent champs? and Iolani. Three of these schools, St. Louis, Kamehameha and lolani, are tied for second place. By no means is the cham- pionship sewed up. Good hitting percentages have been turned in by the entire squad. This year's coaching is in the experienced hands of Mr. Lawrence Kunihisa, who deserves much credit for his Work in molding such a fine team.