Ventura College - La Revista Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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I El LA Klil l T l 51 Next year the Pirates will be in the Southern California Junior College League. It is hoped that Ventura ' s success during the past season will continue in the league next season. The Junior College played a practice game with the High School. Home runs by Martin and Zapf spelled defeat for the High School. The final score was 6-1. The Fullerton squad played one of the best games that the Ventura fans were able to see during the season. Ventura started the scoring when Martin knocked a home run. with one man on base, in the first inning. They followed with another run in the second frame. The Fullerton team evened the score in the sixth inning. Then the local boys collected four runs in t he seventh, only to have Fuller- ton tie the score again at the end of the eighth. Bixler won the game fot the Pirates by a timely homer in the ninth inning, making the score 8-7. The second game, which was played in Fullerton. found the entura squad without four of their regulars. Several errors, mingled with their inability to hit. caused the local boys to lose 6-2. The Taft Junior College gave the Ventura boys their third and last defeat of the season, by the score of 2-1. The local boys had an off day. Taylor allowed a number of passes in the third stanzas which resulted in the Taft boys scoring their first run. Later in the fifth inning, with one man on base. Pierce, third baseman for Taft. knocked a three-base hit to win the game. A homer in the third inning by Tommy Heath, who was substituting for Bates, with two men on the bases, defeated Santa Maria 3-1. Santa Maria scored their lone tally in the initial inning. After the third inning the game settled down to a pitchers duel with Taylor having the best of it. The Santa Monica boys tried hard, but the two-run lead was too much for them to overcome.

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I El 111 E 1:1 1 171 H mates stepped out and collected the runs. The game was sewed up in the seventh frame when the locals gathered six runs. A hard-hitting, hard-fighting, and e d lidding baseball team, coached bj Vernon Hebel and captained by Gould Taylor issued warning to the othei Junioi Colleges to henceforth beware of the Pirates. The Junior College team lost only three fames this season. Two of them were by a one-point margin. The outstanding characteristic of the team was its wonderful fighting spirit. More than once it was this spirit that put the game on ice For the local sluggers. The pitching department of the team was admirably taken care oi by • Chicken Gould Taylor. All of our opponents had to admit that Chicken had some wing. henever he was in a tight spot Taylor worked his way out by his dazzling speed and fast-breaking curves. Corking Catcher Carl Bates completed the team ' s battery. He proved to be poison for the base runners. However, near the end of the season, he caught a few on his finger instead of the mitt, leaving the catching duties to Burum and Gordon. Holliday Mitchell held down the initial bag with great success. Although now and then the infielders tried to keep him from catching a few, Mitch usually was able to snag them. The keystone sack was in the able hands oi that blonde star. Shannon. Shag had a knack of hitting the old pill just when and where the opponents least expected it. Jo-Jo Martin handled the short-stop position superbly, often making what seemed a sure hit, an easy out. Jo-Jo was always good for a hit. When he wasn ' t hitting the ball the pitchers were hitting him. Roger Burum took care of the hot-corner with good results. Bixler also played third, when Burum was catching. In the outer garden Coach Hebel planted Zapf, in left field. Bright in center field, and Bixler in right field. Caca Bixler talked a wonderful game. He was the best drawer the team had. What-a-man Bright starred with his dazzling speed in base-running. Homer. Hunt. Harrison. Gordon, and Smith completed the n ister. K. Shannon L.Daly H. Mitchell ( i. T Y1.I |R

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IEI l l V 1: 1 1 171 ■I Clyde oolle Captain A BASEBALL This year it was decided that the Ventura County League schools would dis- continue baseball: and that Santa Barbara, the only school having an organized team, would receive the championship and the opportunity to enter the playoff on May 4. This didn ' t sound so good to the Ventura clubmen, for they were determin- ed that Santa Barbara had to work for any honors she received. Enough enthusiasm was present in the school to organize a team with Eric Kolberg as coach: and a series ol three games was played with Santa Barbara for the championship. The games were played before May 4, 1931, so that the winner could enter the C. I. F. First row. A. Barnes, J. Wigton, H. Hour, 11. Lamp, J. Macias, X. Morrison, Y. Poplin, . Chaffee, 11. Kim. skin, R. Sori m. W. Fraser. Second row: D. Bi ki m, . Dysart, H. Cobos, J. Garcia, C. Woolley, 1). Lam,. R. F. t i.k. B. Flores, l . t gi vi. Coach Eric Kolberg. Third row. P. Wigton.