Watseka High School - Watchekee Yearbook (Watseka, IL)

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Trac Watseka was represented by ten boys at the Normal Relays on April 24. It proved to be very stiff competition, as Gerald Gregory was the only Watseka boy to place. He was one of six to tie for third in the pole vault. Gregory cleared the bar at 11 feet 3 in. Onarga and Gilman furnished the competition for Watseka on April 27. The meet was held while a light rain was coming down. The Warriors came up with 77 3X4 points, Onarga got 37 1! 2 points and Gilman finished with 24 3X4 points. The local thinlyclads traveled to Onarga on April 30. It was a triangular meet with Onarga Mil. and Paxton being the second and third teams in the meet. That was the way they finished also. VVatseka racked up 64 points, Onarga Mil. totaled 41 points and Paxton accounted for 35 points. The Warriors braved very bad weather and won the county track meet, which was held at Onarga, on May 3. There were ten other teams in the meet. The Warriors, victory was highlighted by Captain Marion Ralph. Ralph clipped 3 of a second off the 180 yard low hurdles mark. Gerald Gregory got the only other first place for Watseka. He got this in the pole vault. The first five teams iinished in this order: Watseka-443,153 Sheldon-313!5g Onarga-254 Central- 23 3f5g O. M. S.-19. The district track meet was held at Kankakee on May 8. Thirty teams com- peted in very bad weather. Wats-:ka had to settle for five and one-half points. Gregory tied for iirst place in the pole vault. Ralph got the other point by running fifth in the low hurdles. The final varsity track meet for most of the boys was the Wauseca Gon- ference meet. It was held at Rantoul, May 11. The VVarriors placed second with forty-three points. The host team won the meet by accumulating sixty-eight points. Tom Gonzales, Marion Ralph and john Wood won first places for Wat- seka. Wood threw the discus 134' 4 1f2 , breaking the old record of 131' 1 1,f2 . l64l

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A-A 969 Left to nght Bottom Row Pete Ferrero Robert Scharlich john Paro Dale Decker Dick Pige Gm Rosenberger Roger Eckstem Bob Rhoades DlVld Cmady and Larry Harmon Second Row Tom Oberloh Lloyd Easthurn jim Flesher john Ash Gerald Gregory Marion Ralph Darrell Decker Tom Gonzales Douglas Canady Karl Oelke md Piul McAnarney Top Row Coach Gordon Mclxcnne Dennis Fox kenneth Townsend john VVood Robert Seggebruch Frank Sch'nnnbnrg Varis Purkihtis Lowell Schmidt Wayne Roberts Richlrd McGill Jim Reina le and William Cflfliltli Trac NVatseka opened its track season on April 6, by downing Central in a dual meet. The final score was: Watseka-56 2X3 and Central-56 1y'3. The VVarriors captured live first places and Central took eight. The difference in points came in Watseka getting seventeen second and third places against only eight for Central. On April 13, St. Anne and Cissna Park came to the Warriors, cinder paths. VVatseka-874 St. Anne-464 Cissna Park-8. Need more be said? The Warriors journeyed to Sheldon on April 22. Kentland, Indiana, was the third team in the meet. After the dust had cleared, NVatseka had racked up enough points to come in second. The point totals: Sheldon-525 VVatseka-48g Kentland-25. Sheldon garnered eight firsts, WVatseka took four, and Kentland had to settle for two. I631 1

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