Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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Boys’ 130-pound Basketball Team The 130’s had plenty of material, and plenty of experienced men to start the season with, but Captain Johnny Hutton is to be congratulated on his team which won six out of the eight games played. ‘They started the season by showing their class and downed University’s 130’s by a 26 to 18 score. The following week University came back and took revenge in a hard fought game by winning 12 to 10. Polytechnic visited us the next Friday, and after outclassing our fellows, took a fast game 26 to 18. ‘The next game was with Mission, a nd after upsetting all the ‘‘dope,’” we an- nexed the game by a large score of 19 to 5. Hayward dropped in the following Friday and was completely snowed under, Richmond winning 27 to 9. Over in Oakland the next week Vocational lost to us 22 to 14, after winning the first half. Concord came down the next Friday and the roughest game of the season was played. Our fellows played clean basketball and won easily 18 to 8. The last game also went to Richmond when they played Mount Tamalpais Military Academy. Almost even up, Richmond stepped into the lead at half time and won 26 to 15.

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Boys’ Unlimited Basketball Team In January, when the candidates for the unlimited basketball team came out for practice, there was very little experienced material, so the prospect for a successful season was not very bright. However, under the coaching of Major I. W. Hill, a five-man defence was perfected, which resulted in a fast, dangerous team that made a name for the Red and Blue by stringing up eight victories with no defeats. This team upset all “dope” and showed its strength by defeating the Alumni in its preliminary game of the season. “The defense held the Alumni artists to twelve markers, while our own forwards accounted for twenty. The following week the Red and Blue quintet took the measure of University High, Oakland, for a 18 to 5 win on our own court. January 26th saw our team tangle with the Polytechnic five of San Francisco. This game was the best of the season, Richmond winning 22 to 21 with Poly fighting to the last whistle. ‘The next game was with the Missionites from San Francisco, and we disposed of them 25 to 11. The following Friday Hayward visited us for the big game of the year. Our boys finally captured the game by a 28 to 18 score, after receiving a big scare in the first half. Vocational came next and “dope” pointed to an easy win for Richmond. ‘This was our first game off our own court, and our fellows were nervous, but managed to nose out Voc by a score of 14 to 12. Concord visited us the following Friday with intentions of taking home the bacon. Needless to say, they left it, with a one-sided score, Richmond winning 23-6. The last game came with Mount Tamalpais Military Academy in San Rafael. Our team was under a handicap because of the box-court. Nevertheless, after a hard fight, the Red and Blue won 27 to 20.

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Baseball Richmond High had a very successful year in baseball, winning more than the majority of the games. The first game was with the Fremont Tigers and they clawed a 3 to 2 victory us. Vallejo played us next and we swamped the Mare Island boys by a tune of 16 to I. Next we traveled to Mt. Tamalpais and we slipped a 5 to 1 defeat on the Sausa- lito boys. Our next game was with White’s Preps, and we swamped the Berkeley boys 14 to 0. We had two other games with them and won 9 to 5 and 16 to 1. Piedmont fell before Richmond tribe by a score of 4 to 0. Oakland fell before us 13 to 5. Hitchcock beat us in the eleventh inning by a score of 6 to 5. Analy High defeated us + to 3. Our last game of the season was a victory for us as we defeated Mt. Tamaplais 9 to 5. The players who played in these games were: Captain Hecker, Muth, Morrti- son, Schreuder, Cornell, Paasch, Chattleton, Hutton, Novarini, Bonham and Healey.