Sweet Home Union High School - Timber Echo Yearbook (Sweet Home, OR)

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mrcicle The SweeT Home Trackmen Turned ouT for pracTice on Ivlarch lst This year, buf The weaTher hampered pracTice for some Time. There were a ToTal of 25 boys ouT for Track wiTh five reTurn- ing Track leTTermen, The leTTermen were Don Klum, Allen Wallingford, Leo BenneTT, Don STevenson and Jim Riggs. Generally speaking The Track Team showed some very definiTe improvemenTs over lasT year's Team, buT iT sTill doesn'T have The sTrengTh ThaT iT should have, however, considering This is iusT The second year SweeT Home has had a Track Team since l94O, if is shaping up fine. The Track meeTs The Team aTTended This year are much The same as The meeTs They aTTended lasT year. On April l abouT half The Team wenf of PorTland for The l-lill Relays again, buT They failed To place in any of The evenTs. April 5 The whole Track Team journeyed To Lebanon for a pracTice meeT There. The Team Took quiTe a few second and Third places, buT only one firsT. ThaT was Jim Riggs in The mile. April 8 found The Husky cindermen aT JuncTion CiTy for a Two way meeT wiTh The Tiger Trackmen, The Huskies came ouT on The shorT end again, buT aT leasT They managed To Take a few more firsTs This Time. Riggs Took firsT in The mile and in The 880 also. Klum was firsT in The 440, and STevenson was firsT in The shoTpuT. April T2 The Team Traveled To Albany for The Three way meeT wiTh Lebanon and Albany, April T4 The VVillameTTe Valley Track meeT, April 22, dual meeT wiTh Corvallis, April 27, a dual meeT wiTh Jefferson, April 29, a dual meeT wiTh Lebanon, May 6, The Tri-CounTy Track meeT, and May l2 The Di:TricT meeT.

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llgciselvcil l Sweet Home's i949 baseball team started practice this year about the 7th of March with seven lettermen to bolster the other 30 odd players that turned out. The returning lettermen were Don Rice, Dannie Simons, Darrell Miller, Keith Hall, Dave Walker, Dick Dimick and Pete Bennett. The first game of the season was scheduled with Shedd on April 5th at Sweet Home. Sweet Home came out on top by an 8-2 score in a very thrilling game, with Simons and Sandy Boyd each knocking a homer. On April 7th Sweet Home tangled with Lebanon here on Sweet l-lome's home field, and managed to hand the Warriors a 5-2 defeat. On April 8 Sweet Home traveled to Brownsville to take a game easily by a lO-2 count. On April 12, Sweet Home played Albany at Sweet Home, April l5, Lebanon at Lebanon, April l9, Junction City on the Tiger's field, April 22, Shedd at Shedd, April 26, Browns- ville at Sweet Home, April 27, Albany at Al- bany, Mary 3, Elmira at Elmira, May 6, Junc- tion City at Sweet l-lome, lvlay lO, Elmira here, lvlay ll, Halsey here, and the final game is with Lebanon on May l7 here on Sweet Home's own home field.

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