Abilene High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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TRACK First How: Robert Schultz, Charles Box, Bob Cecil, Stanley Iarrell, Parramore Sellers, Dubb Duff. Second How: Grady Vlfeir, lrvin King, C. I. Collier, Iimmy Arrell, Horace Bradley, Bill Davis. Third Row: Sam Smith, Gene Dalton, Charles Narrell, Will Smith, Weldon Rhodes, W. K. Bentley. As soon as basketball season was finished, Coach Bentley issued his call for the track boys to report. ln the first days of February the runners, high jumpers, hurdlers, and all the other boys worked out consistently each afternoon in the gymnasium. Many of those who had gridiron records and a few who had had experience on the hard-wood court could be found among the squad. With such seasoned material Coach Bentley might have expected more than he obtained at the first meet that was held in San Angelo. As far as the points scored are concerned, the meet was unsuccessful, but the boys showed new interest in anticipation of the District Meet that was held the following week. At District Meet the team came home with three y y ...ug- places: King finished fourth in the lUU-yard dash, Sellers placed fourth. in the 220-yard low hurdlesg and A f . ' the mile relay team, composed of Narrell, King, A y Schultz, and larrell, captured third place honors in A V ' Q the relay event. All of these runners were, therefore, 1 . entitled to enter Begional Meet that was held in Abi- A A A f lene, April 20. On your mark, get set . . Page 105 4 . -Wigan .-

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BUYS TENNIS 4lf..wW-'i 7 f First How: Turley Wheeler, Don Bowers, Tom Burditt, Iimmy Atkinson, Wallace Wright. Second Row: Bed Burditt, E. H. Hamilton, Billy Dee King, Glenn Gordon. Third How: laiiies Cullar, Ioliii Shirley, I. W. Sorrells, Bay Preslar. The boys on the team this year played more matches than ever before. Matches with Breckenridge, Abilene Christian College, McMurry, Clyde, Sweetwater, and Botan gave the netters all the competition desired. ln a meet with Breckenridge early in the season, both juniors and seniors lost all matches but senior singles. ln an unfinished tournament held a week later in Abilene, again the Eagle players were beaten early in play. A dual meet with Sweetwater provided the Warbird net- ters with their first victories. Wright, senior singles, beat lvy of Sweetwater 6-O, 4-6, 6-3. Atkinson and Burditt, senior doubles, defeated Hawley and Stevenson 2-6, 6-2, 6-3. Gordon, junior singles, also won his match. -- Cn March 30 Abilene senior team entered the San Angelo Invitation Tourna- ment. Again the boys made a good showing, both singles and doubles advancing to finals. ln finals Wright downed lvy of Sweetwater 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, but Atkinson and Burditt tasted defeat at the hands of Stevenson and Hawley, Sweetwater doubles, by a 6-4, 7-5, 6-O score. At District Meet Burditt and Bowers lost in the first round to Hagsdale and Bogart of Botan. The score was 4-6, 6-4, 6-O. Wright, however, went to the finals by beating Botan and Anson, but in the final match that lasted four hours he finally bowed to Cfrubbs of Colorado, after playing five sets. The scores were 6-l, 2-6, 6-1,9-11,7-5. Both Bowers and W' right will return next year, and some of the upcoming junior players are King, Hig- Senior ,letters don, Hamilton, Gordon, and Sorrells. Page 106