Salinas Junior College - La Reata Yearbook (Salinas, CA)

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EAVYWEIGH1' BASKETBALL With seven lettermen, three of whom were starters on the hoop squad which won the league pennant the previous year, answering Coach Shipkey's first call for basketball practice, Salinas students and fans looked forward to a repitition o fthe successful drive of last year. But with material sufficient to win the bunting in a walk, the Cowboys failed to repeat, dropping two games to a mediocre Monterey team. These losses, added to one with the Wfatsonville quintet which later went on to the undisputed league championship, cost Salinas all chances of repeating its 1932 success. With Layer, Pickens, Olsen, and Thorup as a nucleus Coach Shipkey built a first class team to represent Salinas in the hoop campaign. Elmer and Ralph Cosseboom and Bert Lingley were other lettermen reporting for the initial practice. New men coming from the lightweight squad of the previous year were Smith, Clark, Storm, and Dave Lumsden. The first two of these engaged in a nip-and-tuck battle for the vacant guard berth. Salinas began its campaign in fine fashion, winning two practice games from Chaminade by scores of 28-14 and 41-10, one from San Jose, 42-34, and two from Pacific Grove by scores of 32-16 and 32-22. The league games did not turn out so well. The Cowboys won three games and lost three. In a third game beyond having any bearing on the championship, Salinas won as it pleased, the score being 3 1-17. To wind up the season Coach Shipkey took his heavyweights to the Stanford pavilion and forced the Indian Frosh to use their entire power to finish ahead by the slim margin of two points. The score was Salinas-24, Stanford-2 6. Salinas....................................,.......- 21 Pacific Grove.........-.....,.,,,.,,-,, 16 Salinas.....-..........................-.-., 28 Chaminade-.-..-............-..,.,. 14 Salinas..,........,......................,... 27 Santa Cruz........,........m.,...,.,...,Q 19 Salinas..,....,..........,............,............ 21 Watsonville...........,,...,..,.,...,....,..,.g,. .15 Salinas......................................... 42 San Jose....m.............T...i 34 Salinas-..,.-......................... 15 Monterey....-...............,....4fL 25- Salinas............-..........,..... 41 Chaminade..........................- 10 Salinas,....... .... ..,- ........ .................. 27 Santa Cruz........a..................... 23 Salinasn..,.......-.............,.......-...-....... 19 W'atsonvi1le....-................- 26 Salinas............-.-....n-.......... 32 Pacific Grove........a.......-............. 22 Sa1inas.......-..-..-....a.............-... 25 Monterey...-........................... 527 Sa1inas............... ...- -....-.- 31 Monterey 1.....................17 Salinas......+.....-..............-....... 24 Stanford..................................... 26 TOTAl.,...-.........-....................3 5 3 TOTAL.-..............................272 050 FRIED MCABEER

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J. C. BASKETBALL The junior college had one of the finest basketball teams of all time this year. Coach Elmer Richey and his boys should receive due credit for winning their second consecutive championship. Six of last year's letter men returned to start the season off with live straight victories. The men said, Never say die, and won seven more practise games. Then the league games began, and each of the opponents in turn bowed their heads to the J. C. warriors. The victories stood as follows: Salims.................................................. 37 Santa ,Maria-..-.... ......... .... ..... ....- .......... . 23 Salinas .... .......,................................ 26 IvIoran......i......................... I9 Salinas..-.................................. 30 California Po1y.....-..........-........ 26 Salinas.....................2....-.......... 25 Moran.--......... ..... ..--..2.-.......-..... 10 Salinas....................................... 37 California Poly---.......-.............-. 35 Salinas---.........................l.... 35 Santa Maria-........................ 22 TOTAl.-.-...................-............... 190 TO'I'Al..............1....................- 13 5 Then came the gallant annual battle between the J. C. and their rivals, the Cowboys. The high school players tried in vain to avenge the defeat given them the year before, but they were turned aside with a 32-17 victory. Twenty-one starts-twenty-one wins! But the next two games with Watsonville and Menlo were lost by a small margin, 22-20 and 26-25 respectively. The outstanding players were Levon Askew, scoring 154 point s in eighteen games, Rist, and Studevant, snaky forwards, Captain Smith, the big, tall man who tipped the ball at center, Struve and Tarver, guards, and their supporters, Gipe and Withers. I HANDBALI. Last fall an interesting experiment in handball was tried, namely, to see how good a handball team Salinas High c o uld turn out. The boys familiarized th emselves with a four-wall game and then took on and defeated all the local teams. The team journeyed to LostAngeles and triumphed over Metropolitan High by a wide margin. No one else would accept our challenge. Players who won their letters on this team were George Dovolis, Frank Meeker, Levon Askew, Jess Campos, and Russell Sweetman. Winners of the regular fall intramural tournament were Lloyd Foster, Frank Mondo, and Bill Rajewski. A junior college tournament was held this year for the first time. Harold Studevant was the winner and Russell Sweetman the runner-up. 490

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LIGHTWEIGHT BASKETBALL This year's lightweight basketball team didn't revolutionize the basketball world, but under Coach Bennion's guidance many future greats were developed. The first team wasn't composed of only five members, but in each game many substitutions were made since th e competition was so great. The team made little progress at the beginning of the season, but made suficient headway to defeat their closest rivals, Monterey, two out of three times. These, however, were the only league games .won by the Cowbabies, since Santa Cruz and Watsonville proved too tough. , 'U There were no outstanding players, since the lightweights relied on TENNIS teamwork rather than on individual playing. The entire season's scores are as follows: Salinas......f.................i........... I4 Paciic Grove. Salinas,,........-......................... 11 Santa Cruz-...... Salinas,,,.,,,...,...,.........-...-..-. 12 Watsonville...- Salinas........ ,..... .-..................... 25 San Jose,........ Salinas.,...............-............... 20 Monterey-.....- Sa1inas,............ ..... ............ 18 Chaminade .... ... Salinas,...,,....-.-...................m... 6 Santa Cruz... Salinas,.,,,,,,,.,,,,..,......,.,.......-........... 14 Watsonvilleg... Salinas... .... -.......,,.............. 19 Monterey...... SaIinas...............-................- 16 Monterey-...... TOTAL....---.-. ....-...-...........l S5 TOTAL... During the fall, practice t o u r n a m en ts were held with Monterey, Watsonville, and Santa Cruz. Indications were that if our players would get down to steady practice, we might have a fairly good chance to get somewhere in C. C. A. L. tennis. Although the team as a whole was a little erratic, due mainly to some of our players' reliance on extreme western grips,', it was undoubtedly the best team produced by Salinas High up to this time. The teamfailed to do as well as expected in the C. C. A. L. tourna- ments, losing both to Monterey and to Pacific Grove. However, our boys managed to Win again from Watsonville and Hollister. Members of this year's s chool team were Johnny Lumsden, Wilfred Scheifler, Eugene Cahoon, Howard Pence, John Kokalis, Jim Thorup, Ed Burke, H o w a r d V a s c h e, Richard. McCollum, D i c k S h i n n, and Merle Estes. . With the completion of our four new tennis courts it is to be hoped that the general standard of tennis will improve a great deal. 510