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

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PUGILISTS PDUND WITH PASSION Ruooieo, Rouou, CAPABLE,-all these adjectives adequately described Ponce de Leonis ringmen. These pugilists of the highest degretfcombine brawn with fast footwork and dexterous boxing. Having held the preliminaries at school, the finalists went to Gesu Roof in March to battle for top honors in their respective titles. Everything turned out with results as follows: Chester Hunter, defending his heavyweight title, defeated Frank W'ilcox in an interesting bout, Dave Rinke took Don Allen in his stride to win the title of light heavyweight championship , middleweights Bill XVright and Al Gustinger drew in a boxing contest, Kirk Westcott retained his welterweight title by defeating George Thompson, Bill Dunsford stopped Bill Thomp- son for the lightweight championship, feather- weight james Lee defeated Fred Bridges 5 for the bantamweight title, Don LeBaron stopped Bill Waddell , the Hintzke brothers, Ted and Dave, successfully defended their titles, flyweight and paperweight, respectively, against Bob Kuhl and Tony Gulliver. All title winners who repeated from last year, were awarded miniature golden gloves, while new winners received silver gloves. STAR PERFORMERS-three fellows who did not participate in the school golden gloves, but did fight in the Miami Golden Gloves bouts: Al DeFoor, George Pena, and Francis McCrink, all winners in the Miami fights. Al has fought for six years, climaxing his young career with a trip to New York, fighting in the Golden Gloves at Madison Square Garden. Winning the open lightweight title at Miami by a KO., Al added to his present record of 22 bouts. He represented Miami at New York, but was defeated in his first bout. George has fought for a year, winning 9 bouts. This year he competed in the open division bantamweight, receiving the title. Francis Mc- Crink, winner at Miami, lost in his featherweight division bout at the Garden. GEORGE PENA raises his arm in victory at the Miami Daily News bouts. K V I A . fvfin 2:1 . '599hu '-1-.. NZ, -21 -'il' q'7 - -'l.. ':-'

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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.

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Schiess, Trammell, Pierce, Keena Stars Ol '46 Baseball Season P1cTuRED LEFT TO RIGHT, back rom: Bud Nelson, David Pippinger, joe Ciancimino, Mort Guilford, middle row: Charles Stevens, Tom Fitzgerald, Bob Conrad, Bill Veber, front row: Brad White, Larry Cahill, Hugh XVood, Paul Van Landingham, Lawrence Blaylock. assesses as -rttfsmts aacct VARSITY TEAM MEMBERS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, back row: Doug Preston, Bill Powers, Homer Williams, Jim Wright, Bruce Booher, middle row: Bob Schiess, Dave McDonald, Dutch Kirk- land, Fred Schiess, Vic Dacey, front row: Ray Pierce, Talbot Trammell, Kirk Westcott, Dick Fandrey, Tom Day, jack Keena, ALTHOUGH ten lettermen returned to fill posi- tions on the Ponce nine, they couldn't come up with the high caliber play needed in the Gulf- stream playoffs. At this writing,--Ed's note: Deadline prohibited inclusive games-the Caval- ier's standing in the district was 5 wins and 10 losses, while the conference record was in second place with 3 wins and 4 losses. 8 Returning lettermen were: Tom Day, Talbot Trammell, Dave McDonald, Captain Dutch Kirkland, Kirk Westcott, Fred and Bob Schiess, jack Keena, Ray Pierce, and Vic Dacy. Other players include: Bill Powers, Doug Preston, joe Ciancimino, jim Wfright, and Dick Fandrey. That they were favored to take their initial tilt of the season from the Redland nine seemed ,ff T ff ' D b '