Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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TRACK The 1937 track season should turn out to be a very successful one for Coach Zimmerman's squad as the Paxton mentor has five lettermen back from last year s squad as well as an abundance of promising new material. The returning lettermen are Charles Cornelison. Harold Griswold, Donald Ryan, John Sederlund, and Ferd Marshall. Gorman Smith, dash man, earned his letter last spring in track at Ludlow. The squad didn’t fare so well in its first meet with Drummer and Melvin at Gibson City, but showed much improvement by the time the date of the Wauseca League meet rolled around, when Coach Zimmerman’s proteges came up with third place after a very creditable showing. Cecil Reehl, a newcomer to the track squad this year particularly stood out by winning the broad jump, placing second in the high jump, and being one of the members of the relay team that came in second. If the squad continues to improve at as rapid a rate as it did between the first and second meets this year, it will easily become one of the outstanding teams of its kind in P. C. H. S. history. THE SQUAD Dash men—Marshall, Smith, Sederlund. Distance men—Sederlund, Ryan, Griswold, Ostrander, North way. Hurdler—Cornelison. Weight men—E. Hanson, C. Hanson, Kirsche, Klover. High jump—Reehl, Stevenson, Burklund. Hroad Jump—Reehl, Stevenson Pole Vault—Dunnan, Lundahl. Javelin—Lundahl, Kirsche. Relay team—Cornelison, Reehl, Sederlund, Marshall.

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BASKETBALL This year’s Paxton cagers continued a good habit of recent years— that of having a very successful season. The Blue and Gold hit the twenty mark in triumphs, while dropping only eight hardwood contests. A last-minute finish that swept many an opponent off its feet was one of the features of the play during the ’36-’37 season. Melvin and Gibson City, especially, suffered from our splendid recuperative powers. Cecil Reehl at center, Clyde Van Antwerp and Ray Burklund, forwards, and Charles Cornelison, Tommy Curran, and Ralph Flora, guards, did most of the playing for P. C. H. S. All but Burklund have made their last basket for our high school. Reehl was the scoring ace of the team which won three trophies in county, regional, and Wauseca League play. Paxton won its first game in the sectional tournament from Thawville but lost out to Champaign in its next tussle. Asst. Coach D. P. Wagner’s reserve squad also had a successful season, winning two more games than they lost in eighteen encounters. Max Sullivan, John Hill, Jack Erickson, Dick Klover, Phil Lindell, James Dun-nan, and Allan Lundahl saw the most action for this squad.

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BASEBALL The baseball team was under the tutelage of Coach D. P. Wagner this year, and it began the season with a bang. To date the Paxton nine has won three out of four starts, the one loss coming at the hands of Armstrong, 4 to 3, after our team had beaten them, 3 to 0, in the season opener. Regulars from last year’s team who form the nucleus of this season’s outfit are as follows: Erickson, Hill, Flora, and Anderson, infielders; Reehl, outfielder; Van Antwerp, pitcher; Sullivan, catcher. Bob Wade and Everett Tieman, outfielders, and Frank Baker, first baseman and pitcher, are the newcomers most likely to earn letters. It might not be presuming too much to expect another championship club for Paxton High. Our team is a member of the newly formed East Central League this year. Paxton 3 Armstrong 0 Paxton 9 Buckley 2 Armstrong 4 Paxton 3 Paxton 10 Onarga 3