McKinley Junior High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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fTYYTTYYT1WfTY'!T!eY est in this game too, and it is understood they issued a challenge to any combi-nation in school. Sh-!! - They were beaten once or twice or maybe it was three times. At any rate, there is always pep when we play our Directors. We are sorry to hear of the change in the number of our courts that will probably he made soon in the future. Last year's class winners are as follows: First period-Robert Jones. Second Period-Arthur Morales Third Period-Rubin Whaley ' Fourth Period-Tony Rini. I Seventh Period-Brassy Giordano Eighth Period-Lucky Stewart School Champion-Brassy Giordano. Basketball . Basketball is an important link in our noon activities. Some of the boys prefer to play this game, and it is not unusual to find a boy sticking to this game during his stay at McKinley. lt is a very active game, therefore it attracts the vigorous type of youth. The greatest trouble seems to be in securing good officials. Basketball! scores at McKinley were very close this year in both leagues. The Senior winners are: Roland Symons, Capt., Merle Mallon, Charles Li-nd, and Everett Wantland. The Intermediate winners are: Abe Tankenson, Capt., Cecil Win- cox, Juan Alameda, Charles Podilla, Oscar Sokol, Terry Olson, and Albert Bobo. - Indoor The Noon League of Indoor at McKinley has the enthusiastic sup- port of every boy in school. Not only is it a fascinating way to spend the noon period, but it is an expression of youthful vigor and delight. It is an organization dating many, many years back, and quite a few of the boys who have graduated are to be found in local high schools holding down important positions on their baseball teams. We have four leagues on our grounds, selected according to ability. The National league boasts the greatest ability, while the Y I L 111141111-lllllillll 'I

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'ff1g,f1vvfv1fs4?QrfYYfYYYl: ard McDaniel, smothered the B8 team to the tune of a 22-0 defeat. Receiving the kick-off on his 10-yard line, McDaniel rushed the ball back to mid-field before being downed. After three plays the B8's took the ball on their 15-yard line. On the first play Zaby shot a fast pass which was snagged out of the air by Linn, the star center of the B9 team. An end run by Jones put the ball in, a position for a drop-kick. Then McDaniel did his stuff, and the ice was broken for the B9 championship. ln the second quarter, the B9's opened up a shower of passes that could not be stopped by the B8's. It was a Jones-Pilcher, McDan- iel-Battyany combination. The performance of Jones and Pilcher was good enough at any time to spell a touchdown and then secure more firmly the victory. It should be said in all fairness to the B815 that it was an extended noon period that accounted for the terribly large score on the other side. fSome of the wise ones in the B9 gal- lery were asking what was the cause of the goose-egg for the B8's. No one attempted to answer this question. Captain Dobbins is to be congratulated on his splendid team. There was at all times good sportsmanship shown. and everyone is satisfied with the result. Looking around here after the stress of battle is over and a calm has settled on the advocates of Junior Football, we find the following boys wearing the purple and gold diamond, the svmbol of victory achieved by hard work on the football field: Ellis Dobbins fCapt.J, Richard McDaniel, Charles Jones, Florian Casados, Theodore Hupp, Arthur Skuratowsky, Frank Pilcher, James Wil- liams, Laurence Rice, Lyn-n Garbett, George Wade, Basil McDowell, Millard Johnson, Louis Battyany, and Roy Robertson. Handball A little round black ball, a determination to win and thirty min- utes of time make a pleasant combination for almost any quartet of McKinley boys. Favored with splendid courts, ocean breezes, and California sunshine, it is little wo-nder that many of us exhibit a healthy coat of tan. We hasten to inform you we are not indians fal- though some of our actions might justify that conclusionl if our complexions dot resemble a California sunset. The game' of handball has a lot to do with it. And judging from the numbers always found on the courts, we have a lot to do with the game of handball. Last term found Tony Rini and Brassy Gior- dano playi-ng a 21-20 game for the school championship. Brassy got the pennant, but it was by the skin of his teeth. Many other games just as exciting were played. The Directors take a little inter- LLILAILLJLLLLLLLLL

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Tv1,,fTTfYY1WQfTYYT'YfY'1:.1i Bush league has not only the greatest ability in the making but the loudest organization in Indoor to be found anywhere. After the teams are chosen by their respective captains we have a week to com- plete all adjustments on teams. Then the Pennant Schedule begins in earnest, lasting throughout the entire semester. Needless to say many close games are played, many incidents occur that live long after i-n the memory of the participants, many disputes are settled, many umpires are among the missing. But these things make indoor a real sport. The fall league found Casados and Dobbins running neck and neck for the pennant. This was nothing new in the you-ng lives of these boys, so they took it as a matter of business-grim determina- tion to win. ' The winners of the various leagues are as follows: NATIONAL-Ellis Dobbins CCapt.j, Henry Clifton, Frank Pil- cher, Richard McDaniels, Edwin Carl, J. D. Ray, Harold Barber, Charles Jones, Morris Gold, Barton Smith. AMERICAN league winners-James Hendrick fCapt.J William Kauffold, Edmund Poland, Ernest Brooks, Everett Caron, Louis Scarpello, Harold Trime, Carl Jones, Irving Burak, and Juan Fish. COAST league monogram winners-Howard Theroit, Capt., Ken- neth Leedom, Arthur Dennis, Camillo Zippi, Vincent De Gruccio, Salvadore De Gruccio, Sam Narens, Louis Jerzykowsky, Robert Sex- ton, John Clauder. BUSH winners are-Melvin Taylor, Capt., Clifford Smith, James Palmer, William Montgomery, Ben Woods, Doll Nelson, Ralph Jack- son, Harold Lewis, 'Albert Landry. .egg fi ' X .L 1 A L. TA I, YT .Ill I. .L-.,L-4..-..L 1 .L L