Pershing Middle School - Reflections Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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Boyst Basketball 2 vmwwwaWw-vmmwwai F. Miller, E. Miller, Whitson, Johnson, Meagher, Hubbard, Edgar, Covington tCath The first game of basketball was played against Sanger at Sanger on Jan- uary 7. The game was won by Sanger after a hard struggle with our boys. The Sanger folks supplied our boys with a refreshing supper after which their long trip home was undertaken. The second game was played against Kerman at Tranquillity. Again our boys played well and hard but owing to their former experience in playing, the Kerman boys won the game. The third and last game of basketball was played against Clovis at Clovis on February 4. The Clovis boys won and our boys returned home bearing their defeat well but vowing they would have a better team the following year.

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Girlst Basketball Faye Miller, Marian Grottkau, Elsie Hubbard, Ruth Brown, Orletta Brown, Elsie Stricklin, Inez Brown tCath The first game was played against Sanger at Sanger. Our girls played their best but were defeated by the Sanger girls. The second game was played against Kerman on the Tranquility court on January 21. The girls played hard and were proud to know that they had at least made Kerman work for her Victory. The third game was forfeited to Tranquillity by Clovis as they had no team. Girls' Lineup. Forwardselnez Brown, Faye Miller. Guards-Orletta Brown, Eva Brown. Centers-Marian Grottkau, jumping; Ruth Brown, running. Substitute-eElsie Hubbard, Elsie Stricklin, Dorothy O,Rei11y, Blanche VVhitson, Edna Holmes.

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Track Team ms 0,; z, Covington, Meagher, F. Miller, Hubbard tCath, Johnson, Whitson, Edgar A Memorable Trip to Coalinga On the second day of April, 1921, the High Schools of Fresno County held a track meet at Coalinga. . Quite a number of the students of this school wished to go so it was voted to take the school bus which was large enough to carry all of them. The bus left the school house at ten olclock. It went by way of San Joaquin so as to finish gathering up the crowd which consisted of about thirty students and teachers. 1 We traveled along smoothly for almost the entire distance, when all of a sudden, while speeding down a hill, the bus began to quiver. The quivering increased until we thought we were being electrocuted, the vibration was so great. After this a loud crash was heard and the bus stopped. We looked down and saw a hole in the floor. Someone shouted, The rear,s all torn out? Someone else declared that it was the axle; but Mr. Greening, our driver, settled the argument by getting out and discovering the drive shaft lying at least one hundred yards up the road. All the students got out and waited. Some were hungry and some were bent upon getting to Coalinga, even though the machine was broken. Mr. Greening stopped the first machine which passed and got in and took the broken part to Coalinga to a garage to be mended. The hungry ones insisted upon our wonderful lunch being opened, so we passed it out and had a feast while we waited. XVhen the boys finished they hailed another machine and those were going to enter the athletic events left us. In about an hour a mechanic from the -35a