Alcee Fortier High School - Tarpon Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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ENNIS HE Tarpon Tennis Club, recently organ- ized by Principal Conniff, terminated a four-year blank'f in the tennis circle at Fortier. Getting off to a late start, the Club put out a very fine team, but was able to enter into dual competition only with Newman and send entries to the Item's Tennis Tournament. The club was headed by a brilliant new- comer to the tennis world. in Richard Moule- dous. After a few preliminary games, Richard, his brother Alfred, John Bennett and Earl Mor- rison were selected to represent Fortier. In their first test on the courts the Tarpons met and defeated Newman in a close match, 3 to 2. In the singles Richard Mouledous defeated Harris of Newman, 6-3, 6-1, John Bennett bowed to G. Annis, 6-0, 6-1, and Alfred Mouledous downed B. Eckstine, 6-1, 7-5. In the doubles R. The Tarpon tennis team. Left to right: John R. Bennett, Jr., Alfred Mouledous, Jr., and Richard Mouledous. Missing from piciure is Earl Morrison. Mouledous and Bennett defeated Harris and Annis, 6-3, 6-4, while A. Mouledous and Morri- son lost to Eckstine and Swain, 6-3, 6-4. TRACK I Continued from Page 632 On April 17 Fortier won its first meet in a close contest with Easton, copping nine out of fifteen first places. james Fos, by virute of win- ning the broad jump, the hop, step and jump, the 440-yard dash, and running a leg on the winning relay team, was high point scorer. James Wright won the 100 and 220-yard dashes, while Sidney Opotowsky, Billy Harman, Fred Weiss, Frank Porte, jack Cornish and Billy Meeks brought in the rest of Fortier's points. 'The Fortier cindermen came second in the P. S. A. A. meet on Tuesday, May 2, taking six out of fifteen first places and breaking three rec- ords. james Fos set a new record of 54.1 in the 440-yard dash in addition to winning the broad jump, and the hop, step, and jump. james Wright won the 100-yard dash and bested the old record in the 220 by .4 of a second. The relay team composed of Wright, Harman, Fos and Opotowsky, set a new mark of 1:35.9 in the 880- yard run. Page Sixty-five Billy Harman, James lVright, Jimmy Pos, and Sidney Opoiowsky examine the trophy won by them in the 880-yard relay during the recent running of the Item Relays held at City Park Stadium.

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