San Diego and Hoover were not factors in the Coast, Southern Section, and state meets, while Coronado sprinter-hurdler John Fawcett led a strong showing by athletes from the Metropolitan League.
Fawcett set a County record in the 440-yard dash and La Jolla’s Jerry Soule and Jim Tripp and Oceanside’s Bill Huntales were among the best in Southern California.
4/2/37
Clyde Yakel won the 100-yard dash in :10.2 and anchored Hoover to a 1:32.5 victory in the 880 relay, but San Diego took nine of 13 events and scored a 70-43 victory in the teams’ first dual meet as Coast League opponents. Bob Logan high jumped 6-1 1/8 for the winners.
—Jim Tripp was a triple winner in La Jolla’s 61-47 dual meet victory at Sweetwater, winning the 100 in :10.1, 220 in :23, and long jump at 22 feet, 7 inches.
4/6/37
San Diego geared for its big meet later in the week versus Long Beach Wilson with a 64-49 win over visiting Santa Ana. Best marks for the Hilltoppers were Bob Logan’s 6-foot high jump and Bill Vogt’s 12-foot pole vault.
4/8/37
Bob Beckus and Chuck Skidmore tied for first in the 880 in 2:05.3, but Hoover dropped a 63-50 Coast League dual at Santa Ana.
4/9/37
Visiting Long Beach Wilson won nine of 12 events and defeated San Diego, 62-51, virtually assuring the Bruins of the Coast League dual meet championship.
Ed Becker won the shot put competition from Wilson’s heralded Norman Standlee (pre-meet best 50-11) by hurling the 12-pound ball 51 feet, 1 ½ inches, breaking the San Diego school record of 50-10 ½ by Ben Sohn in 1936.
Bob Logan high jumped 6-1 1/2 and Charlie Bell took the broad jump at 22-2 ¼ for other victories by the Hilltoppers.
—Bill Huntales tripled for Oceanside, winning the 100 (:10), 220 (:23) and broad jump (21-11) in what was described as an invitational meet including Metropolitan League teams on the Pirates’ oval.
Oceanside scored 42 points, followed by Coronado (32), La Jolla (27), Escondido (14), and Sweetwater (13). Point Loma and Grossmont did not participate.
Coronado 440 standout John Fawcett ran :14 in the 120-yard low hurdles and La Jolla’s Jerry Soule won the high jump at 5-11 and 70-yard high hurdles in :09.5.
4/13/37
Bob Hodges and Art Laret scored a combined 24 points and Alhambra defeated coach Glenn Broderick’s host San Diego squad, 68-45. Laret also nosed out the Hillers’ Herman (Bub) Gatewood as the Moors won the 880-yard relay in 1:32.
San Diego’s Ed Becker hurled the shot 49 feet, 1 inch, Bob Logan cleared 5-11 in the high jump, and Bill Vogt pole vaulted 12 feet. Louie Pritchard tied for first with an Alhambra runner in a 4:51.1 mile.
—John Fawcett’s :10.2 first place in the 100 led the Coronado varsity to a 63-40 win over an all-star alumni squad.
—Grossmont topped Sweetwater in a Metropolitan League dual, 62 1/2-40 ½, as Clay won the 100 in :10.3 and 220 in :23.3, and Wohlford high jumped 5-8 and pole vaulted 10-3.
— Long Beach Poly’s 9-0 points sweep in the pole vault late in the competition was enough to hold off Hoover in a 58-55 Jackrabbits victory on the Cardinals’ track.
Hoover’s Phil Krutzsch set a school shot put record of 49 feet, 8 inches, bettering the mark of 48-1. Bob Beckus remained undefeated in the mile in 4:47. Alvin Corday won the high jump at 5-6 and broad jump at 21-5.
4/16/37
SOUTHERN PREP LEAGUE FINALS, @VISTA
The host school scored 77 ½ points, to edge San Dieguito, which had 73, in the first annual league championships. Fallbrook had 42 ½, Ramona 33, Julian 22, and Mountain Empire 16.
San Dieguito’s Chuck Beckwith had the day’s best marks, :10.5 100 and :24.5 220.
4/17/37
A San Diego foursome of John Boyle, Henry Manley, Jimmy Suzuki, and Fred Gianola won the 880-yard relay in 1:32 and the Hilltoppers escaped with a 61-52 victory in a Coast League dual at Long Beach Poly.
The Hillers won 9 of 13 events: Ricky Roth, 880 in 2:06.4. Henry Manley, 100 in :10.5, Fred Gianola, 220 in :23.2, Louie Pritchard, mile in 4:50.1, Bill Vogt, pole vault at 11-6, Ed Becker, shot put at 48-5, Bob Logan, high jump at 6 feet, ½ inch, and Charlie Bell, broad jump at 21-8 ½.
—John Fawcett of Coronado ran the fastest 440 in County history at the Chaffey Invitational in Ontario, blazing the one-turn quarter-mile in :49.5, which bettered the record of :49.6 by San Diego’s Irvine (Cotton) Warburton at the state meet in 1929.
Fawcett’s mark stood as the Coronado school record until Scott Knox ran :49.2 in 1961.
4/23/37
Long Beach Wilson and Alhambra completed the dual meet season in a flatfooted tie. Their dual meet score was 56 ½-56 ½, which created final Coast League standings of each with a 4-0-1 record, followed by San Diego, 3-2, Long Beach Poly, 2-3, Santa Ana, 1-4, and Hoover 0-5.
COAST LEAGUE TRIALS, @LONG BEACH WILSON
San Diego’s Jimmy Suzuki turned a 440-yard dash in :52.5, fastest of three heats. No field events were held and two of the league’s best runners, Hoover’s Bob Beckus and Clyde Yakel, competed with Class B athletes.
Beckus’ 3:24.1 in the 1320 bettered the record of 3:27.9 by a Santa Ana runner in 1936. Yakel won heats in the 100-yard dash and 220.
4/24/37
METROPOLITAN LEAGUE TRIALS & FINALS, @SAN DIEGO STATE
Oceanside’s Bill Huntales set a meet record with his :09.8 victory in the 100-yard dash, which tied the County record shared by Jimmy Willson (1929) and Morris (Mushy) Pollock (1933) of San Diego High.
Huntales also won the 220 (:22.7), set a record in the broad jump (22-8 7/8), and anchored his team to a 1:33.3 victory in the 880-yard relay.
John Fawcett of Coronado set a meet record with a :53.1 in the 440 and La Jolla’s Jerry Soule of La Jolla bettered the record with a high jump of 6 feet, 2 3/8 inches, won the 200 hurdles in :22.5, and the questionable height or distance 120-yard high hurdles in :15.
The meet, which drew more than 250 athletes in classes A, B, and C, began with trials at 10 a.m. and finals at 1:30, saw team honors go to La Jolla, which scored 41 points to Oceanside’s 35 ½, followed by Coronado, 16, Point Loma, 13, Escondido, 5, and Sweetwater, 3 ½.
5/1/37
SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISIONAL, @SAN DIEGO STATE
Athletes from the Metropolitan, Southern Prep, and Imperial Valley leagues were led by Oceanside’s Bill Huntales, who won the 100 in :10, 220 in :22, and was second in the broad jump at 22-6 5/8, behind La Jolla’s Jim Tripp, who reached 23 feet.
Tripp teammate Jerry Soule led qualifiers with a 5-8 high jump, cleared while jumping in his sweat suit and winning the 120-yard high hurdles in :16.1. Rory Tillinghast of La Jolla and Wohlford of Grossmont tied for first with 12-foot pole vaults. Coronado’s John Fawcett clocked :52.6 in the 440.
COAST LEAGUE FINALS, @LONG BEACH WILSON
Alhambra’s Art Laret won the 440 in :52.3, 220 hurdles in :25.2, set a record in the broad jump with leap of 23-6 1/8, and ran a leg on the winning relay team (1:36) as the Moors scored 63 points. Laret bettered the 1928 record of 23-1 12 by Frank Wykoff of Glendale.
Bob Beckus of Hoover set a Class B 1320 record of 3:24.7 and teammate Clyde Yakel won the B 220 in :23.7 and was second in the 100. No other San Diego-area athlete earned a first place.
Long Beach Wilson was second in team scoring with 48 ½ points, followed by San Diego, 28, Long Beach Poly, 27, Santa Ana, 20, and Hoover, 7.
5/8/37
SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISIONAL, @GLENDALE
Clyde Yakel of Hoover set a Class B record when he covered the 220 straight in :21.6, erasing the record of :22.1. Bob Beckus of Hoover set another B record when he ran the 1320 in 3:21.4.
San Diego’s Edward (Red) Becker set a school record of 51-8 ½ to qualify in the shot put. Louie Pritchard passed his test, second to a 4:46.6 mile. Bob Logan high jumped 6-1 7/8. Bill Vogt was among advancers with a 12-foot pole vault.
5/15/37
SOUTHERN SECTION FINALS, @LONG BEACH WILSON
It was a banner day for Metropolitan League track-and-field athletes.
Bill Huntales of Oceanside won the 100-yard dash in :10. John Fawcett of Coronado won the 440 in :51.2. Jerry Soule of La Jolla tied for first in the high jump, clearing 6 feet, 3 inches. Soule teammate Jim Tripp was second with at 22-8 in the broad jump.
San Diego’s Ed Becker broke the school record for the second consecutive week and won the shot put with a toss of 53-1. Louie Pritchard of San Diego was fourth in the mile, won in 4:40.2.
Hoover was fifth in Class B with 12 points. Bob Beckus was beaten for the first time in the season by Bigley of Norwalk Excelsior, who won the 1320 in 3:19. Clyde Yakel of Hoover was third in the 100 and second in the 220, both races won by freshman Eddie Morris of Huntington Beach with a record-tying :10 in the short race and a record :22 in the long sprint. Bernie Carroll of Hoover was fifth in the 70-yard high hurdles.
Long Beach Wilson won the Class A championship with 29 5/6 points. La Jolla was sixth with 8 ½.
5/22/37
23RD STATE TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS, @LONG BEACH WILSON
Oceanside’s Bill Huntales, La Jolla’s Jim Tripp, and San Diego’s Ed Becker earned medals in a soft showing by local athletes.
Huntales was fourth in the 100-yard dash, Tripp third in the broad jump at 22-3 ¾, and Becker third in the shot put at 52-9. Los Angeles Jefferson’s Bryant Allen won the 100 in :09.8. Bill Bugbee of Montebello was first in the broad jump at 23-1, and Wilbur (Moose) Thompson of Modesto took the shot put at 55-8 ¾.
Jefferson won the team championship with 23 ½ points.
