Ponce de Leon High School - Cavaleon Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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HARDWOOD BATTLERS HAVE EVEN EINIS OPENING THE 1946 SEASON the Ponce Hardwood members journeyed to Redlands on January 4 and set the i'Beanpickers' back 26 to 20 in their usual initial game. First class competition came in the form of 5 cagers from Miami high who showed the rather baffled Ponce quintet how, when they dealt them their second loss, 32 to 29. Getting back in stride the Cavaliers invaded Miami Beach, and deftly conquered the Typhoons 24 to 15. Talbot Trammell began to show his skill and dexterity in hitting the bucket when he led Ponce scoring with 6 points. Again the Miami quintets proved too much for the Coral Cables lads when the Edison five handed them another defeat, 36 to 32. Suffering their second straight loss the Cavaliers suc- cumbed to the unbeaten Fort Lauderdale quin- tet by a lopsided score, 36 to 16. The L's later proved to be superior when they went on to lead the conference, and take the Gulfstream championship by defeating Ponce in the semi- finals and Miami Beach in the finals. Endeavoring to get out of the rut, and prove they knew the hoop was still up there, the Ponce Quintet smacked the jackson Generals 55 to 11, in their highest offensive scoring tilt so far. To no avail Ponce's star forward, Trammell, scored 17 points in the second end of a 30 to 26 score. Notching their second win of the season to the tune of 43 to 26, the Edison Raiders again defeated the Cavaliers. ln a fast moving but not too dexterous game, the Red and Black piled up 61 markers to the Lake NVorth Trojans' 29, in their second meeting of the year. Trammell again proved his worth by totaling 23 points on 10 buckets and 3 free tosses, while NVard scored 12, and Kirk Westcott 11. The Miami Stingarees collected 45 points to bowl over the Cavaliers 45 to 27. lronically enough Bill XVright pulled the boner of the year when he obligingly dropped the ball in Andrew Jackson's hoop, but despite this the Red and Black went on to win 32 to 25 over the weak General's five. That the first injury suffered by a Ponce cager came in the last game of the year seemed the only outstanding incident when the Cavali- ers ambled up to West Palm Beach and rather haphazardly overcame the Wildcats 43 to 41. Early in the tilt Kirk Westcott hastened off the hard wood with gore gushing from his head down his face. After rinsing off the wound, he immediately dressed and was taken to the hospital where he had 3 stitches taken in the gash over his eye. x ,QSM Varsity basketball team from left to right, back row: Coach Gramley, Managers Robert Bartnett and Bruce Booherj middle row: Kirk XVestcott, Bill Wright, Edgar Montague, Talbot Trammell, front row: Doug Preston, Read Montague, Billy Ward Dick Fandrey, Ray Pierce. B team , back row: joe Ciancimino, Robert Bartnett, Malcom johnson, Bruce Booher, Tom Gibson 5 middle row: jim Craine, Bill Powers, Kimbell Stedman, front row: Alan XVestcott, George Lane, Dave McDonald. 1 BOX SCORES OPPONENT PONCE Redlands 20 26 Miami High 32 29 Miami Beach 15 24 Edison 36 32 Ft, Lauderdale 36 16 Andrew jackson 11 55 Miami Beach 30 26 Edison 43 26 Lake XVortl1 29 61 Miami High 45 27 Andrew jackson 25 32 XVest Palm Beach 41 43

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f'I WAS A 98 LB. WEAKLINGH IN LINE with the nationwide attempt at building up the health and stamina of American youth, s gym tutors put the boys through a phy- education course that either makes or a boy. Opening gym classes provide a period of con- tentment to students when they play football and volleyball during the class periods, while intermittently drilled in the fundamentals of correct marching, but within a short time they are immediately launched into an extensive course of tumbling, which begins on the mats with somersaults and such, into the more dif- ficult twists on the springboard, and work on the parallel bars. That this course improves the boys physically is true, but also it improves the boys' mental alertness, and sharpens their coordination. During the year others participate in boxing, individually and collectively, wrestling, track workouts, and last but not least, the most unfavored-by-boys idea in the course: dancing. Every Friday, if one ambled by the gym he heard terrifying groans emitted from the inter- ior. Why? Because that was the class for dancing with the girls. Softball provides some diversion from the workout in the spring months. But soon the boys went back into the body-building gym- nastics. 106 + PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES on the field 5 this particular snap is of the boys passing the baton. Below them is the gym class participating in track events. Pictured below is Coach Mitchell Menacof viewing the activities of the classes.

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PONCEITES MAKE TRACKS COLLECTING 63 Pomrs, Ponce conquered And- rew jackson 63 to 37 in the first track meet of the year, which was held on the Ponce field. Edgar Montague winning three first places, was high point man. jack XVilkins, jimmy Saunders, and jack Raudenbush rated in that order. Bobby Marx ran the 50 yard dash in 5.3 seconds. Despite a sprained ankle, Doug Phillips won the quarter mile, Dick Fandrey, though troubled by a Jackson miler jeff Cason, took the mile for another first for Ponce. XVith a 5' 41, leap, Montague took first honors in the high jump. Therefore in its first meet Ponce captured 10 lirsts, 2 seconds, and 3 thirds. Coach Cramley took his 15 man squad to the conference meet in May. At last year's first Gulfstream meet, held on May 18 at XVest Palm Beach, Ponce placed fourth, totaling 21 points. It is hoped by the coaches, and expected by the team, for Ponce to rate much higher in the meet this year. aaz'4m7Zew5 Inaugurating a new team sport at Ponce, 12 boys make the swimming team, which has com- petitively challenged local schools to swim meets. Against their first competition, a squad from Lake Worth, the Ponce Aquateers lost at the sorry end of a 50 to 37 score. Held at Venetian Pool in Coral Gables, Ray Trindade captured the only first for the Gables' lads with his diving in the 3 meter contest. He took second in the 100 yard free style, and Tom Fryer won second honors in the 220 yard free style. Others participating in the meet were George Pena, Billy XVard, Fred Lewis, and Donald Lanigan.