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

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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.

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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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Miles FaTon and Bob FeaThersTone will again hold down Their posiTions as mana- gers, groundskeeper SmiTh has again done a Tine iob wiTh The Tield, and larger aTTen- dance is expecTed again This year, as crowds were bigger lasT year Than in previous seasons, so maybe The problem oT small aTTendance aT The home baseball games is solved. A TransTer Trom Bolles Academy in Jacksonville, Fd Fscribano, has showed promise in early workouTs oT developing inTo a very Tine addiTion To The piTching sTaTT, which is comprised, as we said, oT Bud Fisher, aT The presenT and only Bud Fisher. Al l-larum, now a Sophomore, played in several games Tor The varsiTy lasT year, buf Tailed To be eTTecTive because oT The obvious Tension placed on him, being a Treshman, one oT The Tew To ever play on Poncels varsiTyg buT, Al has been working hard on conTrol, and iT he comes Through, The pifching sTaTT This year will look like Those oT old here aT Ponce, meaning, oT course, Minnick, Conrad, Fisher, Day and SmeThursT. Phil Jochem showed Tremendous speed lasT year, buT lacked in ThaT all imporTanT gualiTy, conTrol. We Think ThaT This year's Team will really be someThing To brag abouT. I6-sgqnmsw. PicTured on opposiTe page: Buddy Fisher leTs one Tly in pracTice. Middle picTure: Fisher Takes a cuT aT The ball as CaTcher Bing Seibold goes down Tor The ball ThaT is noT There, buT probably in leTT Tield. F'icTured above is The squad oT early candidaTes: FronT row: Don WesT, OuTTield3 Leonard MarTin, ShorTsTop-Second base: Bob FeaTher- sTone, PiTcherg Bing Seibold, CaTcherg Bill Gray, PiTcherg l.eighTon Micheal, PiTcher- QuTTielderg CarlTon Shoemacher, CaTcher. Back row: Bud Fisher, PiTcher3 Norman PrevaTTe, OuTTielder7 Marvin Wheeler, OuTTielder-lnTielderg Ronnie l-lendry, F'iTcherj Ronnie Jordan, OuTTielderg Tom Fisher, FirsT base: Revis BuTler, lnTielder.