Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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FROSH TRACK ln Their firsT season of Track compeTiTion in years, The Bengal cubs compiled a baTTing average of .333. Three meefs were held, each found improved performances and lasT saw The Orange and Black vicfory banner raised for The lone Time This year in Track compefifion. MeeTing STockTon High School's powerful Tarzans in Their firsT TesT, The unfried Bengal Babes Tell before l.eichT, lvloore, and company, 74-30. Pracfically a duplicafe performance was regisfered aT Lodi, when They dropped Their second meeT, 77-36. Then The curfain fell wiTh a 70-52 vicTory over Placer Junior College. l-ligh poinT honors for The season were evenly divided befween Richard T-layashi and WalTer Laederich. l-layashi promises To become one of The Wesf CoasT's ouT- sfanding broad iumpers, having leaped over 22' in Two meeTs This season. l-le was one Bengal Taken To compefe in The Fresno Relays. Leaderich won The high hurdles and The pole vaulT againsf Placer and STockTon, revealing himself as a likely prospecf for nexf year's varsiTy. George Fowler was one of The finesf performers for The Bengal Babes, winning a firsT place in a differenf evenf ir? each meeT, The 440 againsT STockTon, The T00 againsT Lodi, and The 220 againsf Pacer. Buford Bush, Vic Meyers, and Glenn l-larTer were The Frosh crack disTance men This year. Bush has a record of 253.5 in The quarfer and 2:05 in The half. Meyers was one of The ouTsTanding men ouf, buf illness kepf him from winning a firsT place. l-lar- Ter's work in The mile and The half showed sfeady improvemenf. Back row: DePuy, Monnie, Lauppe. Bryanf. Klass, I-larfer, Gobel Middle row: STockard, Folendorf, Bush, Meyers, Fowler, Aifkens FronT row: Goodman, MedhursT, Thornfon, Hayashi, Bishop gg-, l T I I74l

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c 1-Q, I Q . D I p M. Parsons Avery Cooper STarr The honor OT winning The TirsT poinT Tor The Bengals wenT To Lloyd I-IoTTman. wiTh a TourTh in The miIe run. Cordner Nelson added number Two in The Two mile. Then George Tomasini blazed himseIT inTo Third place in The 880, running The dis- Tance in 2:0 I .6. Two poinTs were added To The PaciTic ToTal. A roar Trom The crowd signaled Lewis Ford's TeaT oT clearing I3 TeeT in The pole vauIT Tor a new PaciTic record and The conTerence gold medal. Below Torm in The high iump, he had To be conTenT wiTh a Tie Tor second aT close To six TeeT. Seven and a haIT poinTs were added To The PaciTic ToTal, and Ford crowned high poinT man oT The I938 season. VincenT Peck came Through To add anoTher poinT To The Bengal ToTal in a TasT 220. Mick Parsons jumped 22' I To Take Third in The broad jump, while BonniTieId added anoTher wiTh a TourTh in The discus. Wifh only The mile relay IeTT. The score was Fresno 72, Chico 42If9, Cal Aggies Ib. PaciTic I5If2, and Nevada 8. Fred Boyes, Ernie ATkinson, George Tomasini, and VincenT Peck ran The relay in 3:28 To beaT The Aggies and land The Orange and Black ahead oT Their perennial rivals. Sparked by Ford's dazzling perTormance, The Bengals had clawed Their way Trom The dungeon To Third place in. The Far WesTern Comcerence. School records in The pole vauIT and high iump had been broken, boTh by The sophomore sTar, Ford. Tom- asini had come Trom The unknown To an evenT enTireIy new To him, and had run nearly a 2 minuTe haIT. I-Ie was undoubTedIy, as Coach Jackson puT iT, The mosT improved man on The squad. AT The Fresno Relays he was. one oT The Tew Bengals To compeTe againsT The class oT The WesT. II73I

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