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

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PicTured aT righT Top is a group ol: TraclcsTers hopeTul oT gaining poinTs in The weighT division. l.eTT To righT are: Bud lssac, Johnny Sharpe, Jim EsTaver, and Ed W o l T e. Russ Nichols is also a possibiliTy in The shoT puT evenT. l.asT year. Jim CversTreeT handled The maior parT oT The weighT Toss- ing buT graduaTion leTT only John Poorman, an ouTsTanding discus man, To compeTe This year. l-lere we have Ed Brigham going up and over The bar in pracTice Tor The pole vaulT evenT. This evenT will be considerably weak- ened due To The deparTure oT Fred Anibal and oTher sTellar pole vaulTers Ponce has been noTed Tor in The pasT. PicTured opposiTe is a group oT sprinTers breaking wiTh The sound oT The gun under The waTchTul eye oT Coach Paul Feinerer. ThaT's Kim Callahan leading The paclc on The Tar side, Tollowed by a whole hosT oT runners, all sTriving To leave each a+her in The dusT.

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FronT row, siTTing: Callahan, CharlTon, l-larTneTT, Youghn, Breil, Poorman. Second row: Lewis, Aiac, EsTaver, STriTe, Caldwell, Pierce, Thompson. Third row: Coach Feinerer, RoberTs, Brigham, McClain, Sharpe, Issac, Poole, Garrard, Schlegle, Wiley, NfVolTe and Manager Jaclcson. This year's Traclc Team had noT engaged in any dual meeTs aT The Time oT This prinTing, buT new l-lead Coach Paul Feinerer had high hopes Tor a successTul season. Gone Trom lasT yearls squad are The brillianT broad jumper, sprinTer and middle disTance runner, Angelo lvlandis, Tom Pennelcamp a conTinuous ThreaT Tor The sTaTe championship in The high and low hurdles, and a Tine broad jumper and iavelin Tosser, as well. Fred Pxnibal, Lonnie Grimes and Sonny Parrish, ouTsTanding middle disTance men will noT reTurn This year eiTher. BUT, Claude Thomas, only a iunior, is ready To sTep in and Till The shoes oT Pennelsamp in The hurdles and broad jump. Jaclc Wiley, also a iunior, will prove a capable replacemenT Tor Mandis. lan Aiac will Till Anibals posT as number one pole-vaulTer and Don Prary will be one oT The area's besT disTance runners. Senior Jimmy l-larTneTT will reTurn Tor his Third year as a middle disTance and mile compeTiTor. Tommy Lewis, running oT Ed Ingram, lasT year's disTricT high iump champ will be baclc To pile up poinTs Tor Coach Peinerer in ThaT deparTmenT. John Poorman will prove To be one oT The Top weighT men in The ciTy and will do his share in The sprinTs, Murray McClain will be a more Than welcome addiTion To The sprinTing corps and l-lolT Garrard will run The sprinTs and hurdles. Bill CharlTon, who leTTered as a hurdler lasT year, will be back Tor his lasT year oT compeTiTion. Ponce has a Team oT greaT poTenTial This year, buT iT remains To be seen iT iT can measure up To The Teams oT The pasT Two years, because boTh were TerriTic, Ken Barbier is anoTher reTurning sprinTer who will malce Ponce's corps oT speedsTers hard To beaT. l-'lerels hoping ThaT This year's Team, The lasT To ever represenT Ponce on The Cinder Traclc will be The mosT successTul ever. ,

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This year's Ponce baseball Team, under new l-lead Coach JeTT WesT, should be one oT The powers in SouTh Florida baseball. Many members oT lasT years squad are reTurning To bolsTer The Cav diamond TorTunes. The sTarTing lineup should run some- Thing like This: CaTcher-Ray Fhlyg PiTcher-Buddy Fisher or Joe Fscriabano, supporTed by Al l-larum, Phil Jochem, Burke l.uTich and Bill Grayp FirsT base-Jerry Bishop! Second base-Jim l-larTneTT or Leonard MarTiny ShorTsTop-Larry Kilbrideg Third base-Jimmy Welch: OuTTielders-AnTon Brice, Norman PrevaTTe, Ed Walker, and Fisher when he's noT piTching. ThaT Team, oT course, is purely guesswork, because anyone oT many prospecTs may break inTo The lineup, such as: CaTcher Bing Siebold, InTielder Wayne Moore, FirsT sacker Donn Mann, ShorTsTops Bill SmiTh or Dick l-lardeman, PiTchers Bob Miller, B. Gray, or Ronnie l-lendry, CaTcher Jim l-leaTon, and many oThers. l.asT year's Team did noT live up To expecTaTions, and even Bernie BarneTT, an All-CiTy choice The year beTore, did noT repeaT ThaT honor: however, Buddy Fisher, Ponce's ace curveball piTch- er considered The besT prep prospecT To come ouT SouTh Florida in some Time, and Angelo lvlandis, relieT piTcher and regular shorTsTop, made The All-CiTy Team. PracTice Tor The horsehide and hickory boys opened on March l, wiTh a large number oT pros- pecTs Trying ouT.