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

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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 '

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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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no help to the Cables, lads as they bowed to the supreme hurling effort of Gene Cvossman by a 5 to 0 score. C-ossman blanked the home team spreading four hits and fanning nine. ln their second game the Cavalieris came out victoriously at the top of an 8 to 2 score over Andrew Jackson. Kirk XVestcott netted our first round-tripper with a blast into left-center field. With a sharp eye Westcott poled another fly deep into left-center that a good fielder would have caught, as it was Kirk made home on the four base error. Dave Callander and Vic Dacy split the pitching chores, each allowing one run. Next day, the Cavs journeyed upstate to XVright Field, the home of the XVest Palm Beach Wildcats, and politely yet rather sloppily drop- ped the tilt to the Wildcats at the short end of the 8 to 3 score. Tommy Day pitched, allowing six runs on 7 hits. XVith a standing of only 1 win and 2 losses, the Ponce diamondmen added to their deficit by forfeiting their game at Lake XVorth. Several key players failed to show up, letting Coach Cramley down in a time of need. At this point of the season it seemed all the boys needed either glasses or sawdust to fill up the holes in their bats. No matter how good the pitching or fielding, you have to be able to hit the apple to win any ball game. With 2 hits garnered in the Edison tilt which Ponce lost 5 to 0, third-sacker Bill Powers seemed the only half way consistent hitter. By the way, Bill wore glasses 5 maybe the whole team should have tried Poweris formula! Losing to the league leaders, Fort Lauderdale, Il to 6, the Cavs regained some scoring power. On the previous day the Ponce nine had shutout Miami Beach 2 to 0 with the 1 hit hurling of Dave Callander. Again Ponce lost in a non- conference tilt with Tech High I2 to 9. With a degree of vengeance in their sticks, the Jackson Generals came too long enough to stop Ponce 8 to 3. Fred Schiess was the star hitter of the tilt. Miami High beat Ponce 4 to 0 in their first tilt of the season. The Cavaliers came back to conquer Redlands 10 to 0 in the second game with the beanpickers. They lost to Lauderdale again by a 4 to 3 score, but came back to defeat torious mood, they surprisingly blanked Miami High 2 to 0 in an exciting tilt. 1 ,ul 1-S in- ? if .z ' L. the Lake Worth Trojans 8 to 4. Still in a vic- 'Wm ' 3111 x4