Mount Diablo High School - Diablo Yearbook (Concord, CA)

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TRACK AND BASEBALL Brilliant individual performances and well-balanced reserve strength gave track success this spring. Dual meet competition found Diablo losing to Richmond. 7H 2 to 32 2. winning from Alhambra. 74 to 34. Pittsburg. 72 to 41, and Hayward. 59 4 to 46%. The Devils then scored 63 points in the annual C.C.C.H.S.A.L. meet at Brent- wood. May 7. winning by a large margin. New county records were set by Diablo in the varsity discus and the 880 yard relay; Walter Flood and Joe Santos both surpassed Grossi's record of 123:1 on the weight event with respective tosses of 127:5 and 124:3; the Diablo relay squad of Fahy. A. Santos. Costa and Swanson ran to establish a new mark of 1:33.8 in the 880 yard event, beating the former record set by Diablo in 1935, by .9 seconds. Flood's tremendous throw of 131:2 won him the N. C. S. championship, May 14 at Berkeley, while John Swanson ran a brilliant 440 in the face of a stiff wind to place second in :51.9. Lack of experienced players caused the 1938 baseball squad to be the first in sev- eral years which did not involve Diablo in pennant contention. The fact that a fine knowledge of the game was instilled in the players should prove a foundation that will be of value in the future. « 19

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 B BASKETBALL Apparent specialization in creating havoc among county league leaders made Diablo an important factor in the 1937-38 B competition, although final standings found the team in but third place. The John Swett B's, who were thought to be unbeatable, fell victims to Diablo in the season's finale, after having defeated the Devils by a one-point margin earlier in the season. Fine play on the part of Coach Les Williams' B's was responsible, to a great degree, for the fine basketball Diablo fans witnessed during the winter. C BASKETBALL The class C squad, which reported late last fall, contained more natural ability, but less experience, than the usual 130-pound group. The problem was to permit these players to gain experience enough to play the kind of basketball of which they were capable. This stage of conditioning was reached late in the final round of the C.C.C. H.S.A.L. race, as the last half of the Devilets' schedule was sufficiently good to guar ontee them fourth place in league standings.