Ventura College - La Revista Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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I El I. A E 1:1 1 171 51 Paul Keith Captain B TRACK Battling through the toughest lightweight track season the school has ever known, the Pirate Bee Tracksters finished one of the most successful seasons ever known to this institution. The Pirate Babes started the season by encountering the Saints from Santa Paula. The 66-37 score denotes the easy time the Ventura boys had in defeating their Saintly rivals. Clean sweeps in both sprints started the Pirates on their way to victory, and they didn ' t finish the job till they had taken ten first places out of twelve events. The Pirates also shortened two County League records in this meet. Berg breaking the old 18 foot 9 3-4 inches broad jump record with a leap of 20 feet 5 inches. Morrison broke the other record in the high jump. The old 1 Track Te i irst row. Coach McAllister, E. Zander, H. Hurley, J. Withers, T. H . Stiles, R. Lambert, N. Morrison, H. Meers, H. Hook, M. Carlyle. Second row. J. Rogers, H. Lyon, E. Hymes, G. Turner, B. Way. P. Keith, Hurley, P. Berg, H. Garman, E. Prentice. 118 H. E.

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I El 1 1 V 1:1 f 171 ■ I - LI.AGI1KK H. Or.msby D. Gragg N.Gallagher E. Gt a two-angular meet held at Oxnard. The Pirates scored more points in this meet than in any other during the season, however, the 17 1-2 points they scored was not enough to give the team a place. The tri-county meet, held at Santa Barbara, was the next competition entered by the Pirates. Competition was what it amounted to, for the local boys were able to score only one point. This meet discouraged the team a trifle, but when it was time to compete in the count} 1 meet, they had regained most of then - con- fidence. This year Santa Barbara held the county meet. The Pirates worked hard to gain the 9 1-2 points they got from the meet, and under the circumstances the fourth place looked very tiood to Ventura fans. This completed a season for the Ventura track fans that was not marked by an abundance of success, nevertheless, the boys who participated for the Pirates gave the best that was in them, and we should be proud of them.

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I El I. I P 1: 1 1 171 SI record was S feet 4 inches ami Morrison skimmed the bar at 5 feel 6 inches to shatter this record. Although the two records were bettered, the old marks were still the recognized records fur the County League, fur it is necessarj in break the record in tin- county meet if it is to be recognized. The next meet the Pirates journeyed to Carpinteria where they took a well- earned second place at the Annual Russell Cup Track and Field Meet. Santa Maria won first honors at this meet with 2 1-2 points. Ventura came next with 22 1-2 digits, and Carpinteria came in third, scoring 22 points. A second place with com- petition consisting of fifteen schools is a real task and showed the Pirates were fas) rounding into form for county competition. The third meet with Fillmore saw the Ventura team continuing to display it yood form. Although the Pirate Babes failed to make clean sweeps in any of the events, they scored ten first places, six second places, and five third places oul of twelve events, the final score being 12 1-2 points for the Buccaneers, while 31 1-2 points were all the terrible Indians from Fillmore could collect. Berg again bet- tered the league broad jump record. Morrison cracked the high jump record, and Tinner covered the 120 yard low hurdles in faster time than the present record. In th next meet the Ventura lads made an attempt to prove their superiority over the Carpinteria boys who had given the Pirates the tough battle for second place in the Russell Cup Meet. This meet was the best dual competition the Pirates had encountered, however, as before, the scrappy Ventura Babes emerged from the contest with a 58-46 victory. Four league records were shattered in this conflict. Three of them were accounted for by Carpinteria, and the other, Mor- rison, of Ventura, broke when he went over the bar at 5 feet 6 inches in the high jump. 1 sending the Carpinteria team home with this deieat. the Pirates un- questionably proved they were their masters and that the 1-2 point victory at the Russell Cup Meet was no fluke. As a means of preparing for the County Championship Meet. Coach Mc- Allister decided to let his boys do combat with our own Varsity track team. The II I r . Morrison R. I. wii.i i i