Saints Win Track Meet in Ventura

Santa Paula Chronicle
Saturday, April 5, 1930

This article from the early 1930's covers a victory by Santa Paula High School's track team in which they beat Ventura by a good margin. One particularly interesting part of the article is that our team is referred to as the "Saints". Apparently, during this period the school's athletic teams were called "Red and White", "Saints" or "Cardinals" depending on who was writing the article. By the end of the decade, the name "Cardinals" (which was used by the student newspaper) had been agreed on, and we have been the Santa Paula High School Cardinals to this day.

Local Track Squad Takes Nine Firsts, Ventura Three, To Defeat Ventura Pirates in Dual Meet.

Times are slow for most events

Santa Paula high school's victorious Saints added another scalp to their growing string today by defeating Ventura in the first meet on the Ventura Junior College field by a score of 83 to 53.

The local team took nine firsts, leaving Ventura but a few of the field events in which to boost their total, and even one of these was unexpectedly taken by a local man - Llack of the locals winning the shot with a heave of 40 feet five inches.

Kenneth (Cutie) Brown, and Philip Powell were the stars of the meet again, and as usual, Brown and Haydock conducted their duel in several events, Brown winning in the majority but losing in the broad jump when Haydock, on his last trial leaped 21 feet 1 inch.

The relay squad of the local school which placed third in the A.A.U. races at Long Beach, and since that time have cleaned up all opposition, had absolutely no competition whatsoever today as Ventura did not enter a team. The locals ran an exhibition race, practicing passing the baton in preparation for the county league meet in Oxnard next Saturday.