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

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i at Q Zena, Zuma 0 RETURNING to swat the ole apple again for Ponce this year are several real pros. Top- ping this list are Billy Stephens, Kirk West- cott, Homer XVllliHHlS, Ray Pierce, Dave Pip- pinger, ,lack Keena, and Lawrence Blaylock. Heading our list for Hashy pitchers are Rob- ert Conrad, Vic Daey, Bob Prahl, and James Overstrcet. As usual the boys all think they are really hot stuff when they first show up, but after getting hopped in the head with the ball, letting some beauties get by, and fanning a few hundred tinies they calm down a little. Under Coach Mike Ruggles' supervision the boys are really going to town with base- ball this year. Starting off with catching flies, placing bunts, and burning 'em around the hases the team has shown real pep and enthusiasm. Upposite picture. left: Coach Ruggles is watching Robert Conrad wind up the pitchg lower left: Flip Rosen gives a safe signal to Kirk Westcott as Jack Keena bites the dust.

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Dania was the third and perhaps saddest team. For it was against her that Ponce rolled up its highest score of the year, with a 59 to 32 victory. Alter stepping ovcr Gesu 4-6 to 26 and Lake Worth 42 to 33, the team was still full of self confidence. However, nervous tension of the early season had worn off and the team began to relax a little. This was clear during the next game when Ponce scored only 21 points against the mighty Edison Fivc's 43. The loss might have been a shock to good old P.D.L, students, but it did not faze our team. They had what it took to win a game. They knew it, and they proved it at the very next game. After a long hard battle with Palm Beach, the Ponce Five showed they could come out victors over the best of teams. We won that mighty battle 37 to 35. The nerves of our team were still re- laxed, when bingo! one, two, three games lost-just like that. The Beach took us At the tap of the page wc find in the first picture left to right: George Lane. Bob Cuson. Bill Wlard, ,loe Ciancimino, Tom Gibson: second picture, left to right: Kimball Stedman, Bill Ward. Bch Cason. Tom Cib- son. Third photo shows some basketball fans and the boys on the henrh at thc Bearh game. The varsity B Basketball Team. left lo right, first row: George Smith. Howard Misner. Dun Lanigan, Jimmy Wel1'l1, Allan Westx'otlg xarnnll row: Malcolm lulmson, Robert Peterson, Captain Bob Cason. and .lolm Edwards. The Freshman B Basketball Team, left to right, Iirst row: Wallace Smith. Joe Curtin. Harry Caldwell, Marvin Wheeler: second row: Buddy Isaar. Ralph Dahlstrom, Jimmy Riddle, Jerry Loos, Jimmy Brooks. at 53 to 4-0, River Side, 51 to 25, and Homestead at 4-6 to 36. This woke our team up. They couldn't stand it any longer, so they came hack to heat Jackson, our last game of the season, 42 to 37. With hope for a swell season in '4-8, we look to our MB squad. They won first place in the Gulfstream Conference game. Well, so long El Ponso, see you again soon. -FRANK BAKER 33

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Ponce Track Team, left to right: Bill Umphrey, Haley, John Gazlay, Frank Race, Leith Kent, Ed David Alter, Jack Stahl, Bill Thompson, Ray McEnany, Bobby Marx. ln the second week of training the boys were shown the true form of fanning by that prominent man of baseball-Flip Rosen. Poncels schedule for the year has just been completed as we go to press, and our tough- est competitors this season will be Edison, Redlands, and Miami Beach. One thing is certain, if Dacy, Conrad, and the rest of Ponceis curve twirlers do as well in these games as they arc doing now, we have no worries concerning the baseball Season, -AARON HERTZ o AT THE TIME the Cavaleon went to press the track team had had two time trials, one was at Moore Park, the other at Miami High School. The hoys did as well as expected considering the small amount of time they had had for training and practice. From these time trials we get a fair idea of just what the different hoys can do hest. Outstanding for thc dashes are Bob Marx, Bill Tompson, Ray Williams, and Claude John- son. ,lack Stahl shows promise for tl1e 100 yard dash, throwing the javelin, and pole vaulting. Richard Davdison also shows promise for the pole vault. .lohn Gazlay is good as a discus thrower. Over the hurdles we iind Leith Kent, David Alter, and Bohhy Marx in the lead. For the broad jump there are Bowman Hinckley, Ed Ingram, and Bohby Marx. This being the first year most of these hoys are out for track, it's going to take a lot of work to become good, however, if they show in the future as much improvement as they have in tl1e past, we have big hopes of walking away from thc Gulfstream conference with one of the cups. -FRANK BAKER Pictured below, left to right, back row: Coach Ruggles, Robert Conrad, Vic Dacy, Harry Geller, Billy Stephens, Dave McDonald, Dave Pippinger, Richard Kosel. Ernie Ellison, Homer Williams, Couch Rosen, and Manager Rodger Norvellg front row: Manager Bruce Booher, Lawrence Blaylock, Bob Prahl, James Overstreet, Kirk Westcott, .lack Keena, Tom Fitzgerald, Charles Stevens, and Angelo Mandis.