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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VARSITY TENNIS DespiTe losing all oT lasT season's leTTermen, The I938 Bengal Bombers, more gen- erally known as PaciTic's Tennis VarsiTy, won Tour ouT oT six maTches againsT Top-TlighT compeTiTion. Gone were such aces as BrighT, CorTez, Beck Parsons. Taking Their places were hi+herTo unTesTed guT-wielders I-lellman, Sapiro, McBride, and The new- comers delivered sTirringly in The major wars. VicTories were regisTered in maTches wiTh Two oT The ToughesT Jaysee neT squads in The sTaTe, SacramenTo J. C. and San lVlaTeo J. C. Scores were C. O. P. 4, Sac- ramenTo J. C. 2, C. 0. P. 6, San lv1aTeo J. C. l Remaining Two Triumphs were gain- ed aT The expense oT The CaliTornia Aggies in a home-and-home series, 6-I, 5-I. Only seTbacks suTTered by The remodeled KieldseniTes came when The Tigers ran inTo The Tough Tommy Wilson-coached San Francisco Jaysees, 6-I, and when San MaTeo upseT The dope, 4-2. A sevenTh dual maTch, wiTh Far WesTern Comference champs, Fresno STaTe, was called oTT aT The elevenTh hour when The downsTaTe school was unable To send a squad To STockTon. Final TabulaTion revealed ThaT The Tiger Tenniseers garnered a ToTal oT 24 indi- vidual maTches To Their opponenTs' I5, prooT enough ThaT PaciTic, Though rep-resenT- ed by a comparaTively inexperienced squad, more Than held iTs own on The courT. ln The Far WesTern league championships aT Davis, The Bengal rackeTeers were noT aT Top Torm, did IiTTIe To prevenT anoTher Fresno STaTe vicTory sweep. In singles play, Jack McBride, Seeyopee's lone enTranT, Tell in The opening round beTore PeTer- son oT Nevada, 6-I, 6-4. The doubles combine oT Francis I-lellman and I-lerman Sa- piro breezed Through The TirsT round, handing The Aggie Twin sTrokers, Lomkin and WaTerman, a neaT sTraighT-seT pasTing, 6-2, 6-3. In The Tinals, however, The PaciTic Team Tell beTore The neT wizardry oT Fresno's ace duo, Dunkin and Bloyd. Scores, iden- Tical, were swiTT, decisive: 6-I , 6-I, 6-I. H II n Fuller Dahl Pugrnire WenTz Sapiro Moen MaTTh il76l