Palo Alto High School - Madrono Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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The Year’s Athletics F()()T HALL—1918-1919 The influenza epidemic put a serious crimp in Paly’s football prepara- tions. The team was just getting into shape when school was closed, and after a five weeks’ sojourn the team took the field again and most of the former work was lost. San lose was Palo Alto's first victim. For the fifteenth time we took San Jose into camp with a 3 to o score. Paly was not so successful in the game with San Mateo. The two teams were about evenly matched and for over an hour neither side had the advantage. With five minutes to go San Mateo made good use of a dribbling rush and succeeded in crossing for the only try of the game. The loss of CarndtrfF, who was kicked in a scrum formation, greatly weakened the forward positions. Two regular members of the team seemed to have forgotten the fact that a player must be doing satisfac- tory academic work. Their loss also helped to weaken the offensive work of the team. In the two games Franklin and “Tub Hays were the stars of the team. Their offensive and defensive game gave Paly many an advance and saved our line from being crossed b the opposing team. Taking everything into consideration, one might say that our football season was a failure. MASKETBALL The basketball team had probably more hard luck than any of the other high school teams. We lost every game we played with the various high schools of the peninsula. Two of the games were lost by one point. Campbell succeeded in winning by the score of 20 to 19. San Mateo, our ancient rival, took us into camp by the score of 13 to 12. This game was probably the hardest fought on the San Mateo court for several yea's. First one team would forge ahead and then the other. The whistle came in the wrong time, because it was Paly's turn to score. Some good material showed up for practice and Coach Dougan is confident that with more practice the team will make a better showing ♦ against San Mateo and San Jose, who heat us 49 to 18. Hays was one of the hardest playing guards that represented any high school in the state. He has been elected captain of the 1919 team and is capable of making the Paly team deliver the goods. BASEBALL Paly was not very successful in her league encounters. In the practice 3i

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games l'alo Alto succeeded in winning eight and tying two games. The team finished up with a .500 per cent league average, having won two from Mountain View and lost two to San Mateo. R. Howe and K. Shedd did some noble twirling for Palv and they will undoubtedly show more class next year. Both of these boys pitched several no-hit, no-run games this season. George Green was a great help behind the bat, his cool-headed ness and fast throws to the bases saving many a run from being chalked up for the visiting teams. “Pat Hardeman, R. Herdman and “Booky Hannington also starred in the game. Herdman will be lost by gradu- ation, but the other two will be back in uniform next year and do their utmost to win for Paly Hi. Paly lost the games to San Mateo by narrow margins: the first game was lost by a score of 2 to 1 and the second by a score of 7 to 6. Shedd pitched both games and was better than Hunter, but San Mateo found the weak spots of Paly’s field and a few errors on our players’ part al- lowed San Mateo to put their winning runs across the plate. Stanley Dougan gave expert coaching to the team and showed the boys a lot of inside “dope that helped to win their games. For the first time in many years the Stanford freshmen were taken into quarters by t three straight victories. R. Howe was elected captain for 1919 and with him at the helm and Dougan furnishing the dope Paly should make a better showing in the league games next year. TRACK The only team to win any league championship was the track team. The team placed fifth in the X. C. L. and won the P. A. L. by a margin of ten points over San Jose. The annual dual meet with San Jose was lost by the score of 65 to 45. The post-grads of San Jose did the work for them. Palo Alto’s athletes seem to have the habit of graduating after four years of study and we never have a chance to spring any “dark horses on San Jose. A few of the track men succeeded in piling up good individual scores. Scofield and Waterman led with 20 points to their credit, Carndufif was a close second with 18, Hays gathered in a total of 18, l.eistner 17, Green made 8 and Moore 7. Twelve boys received letters for making a third or better in the P. A. L. Major Dougan awarded block P’s to the following: Chester Carn- duflf, Nathan Moore, Philip Scofield, Edward Waterman, Hartford Hays, George Green, Hugo l.eistner. Lloyd Allen. James Walker, Ralph Herd- man. Allan Charles and Stephen rata. EDWARD WATERMAN. 33