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

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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.

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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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Larry Kilbride demonslrales lorm lhal Jim Campbell powers one ol his lamous won malches lor him all year long. lee shols. The Ponce goll leam, led by Slale runner-up Jim Campbell and Slale lirsl llighl champion Larry Kilbride, had a good season, allhough lhe squad did nol live up lo expeclalionsg major disappoinlmenl ol lhe season was lhe sel back by a powerlul Lake Worlh leam lo give lhe up-slalers lhe Gullslream Conlerence lille, an honor lhal lhe Cavs held lasl year. The leam was coached by Johnny Noppenberg, lormer head loolball coach and now alhlelic direclorq lhe leam ran hol and cold all season long, and lhal accounls lor lheir deleal by Lake Worlh, probably, lhey iusl gol caughl on lhe wrong day, lor basically, lhis squad is one ol lhe besl in high school hislory in Soulh Florida. Team members are: Campbell, Kilbride, Jerry Loos, Dick l-lardeman, Ronald Cordes, Bill Charllon, Pele Cook, l-larry Mclvleechen, Bud Fisher, and Jim Gerlh. f Y The l949-50 Ponce goll leam. Firsl row: Jerry Loos, Larry Kilbride, Dick l-lardeman, Ronnie Cordes, Jim Campbell. Second-row: l-larry lvlclvleechen, Buddy Fisher, Pele Cook, Bill Charllon, and Jim Gerlh.