on april 20, 1937, the wilson baseball team scored an 8–3 victory at central stadium in the school's first-ever major sport inter-high win. wilson pitching ace kilmer bortz, with his "befuddling drop" pitch, struck out sixteen central high school batters. in the spring of 1937, two baseball players were honored as wilson's first ever all high selections in a major sport: 1b bill hawksworth for batting .500 and "whose play around the base was a thing of beauty," and strikeout phenom bortz. bortz would later become a highly decorated world war ii navy aviator in the pacific, including being awarded two navy cross medals for his actions during the battle of leyte gulf.