Arkansas City High School - River Rat Yearbook (Arkansas City, AR)

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3 p r ,Q r 4 ' 1 -A aa.. .1 , . l 1 e' s.-:ff.,f,.: .ta '.tf:fsifswv,sm-f.1-H p .e..gwf.4rv11:.h..,4-- .sr -g 1 ,v R 1 ,wg 7 TRACK ss-, x,. f Q Track prospects, at first, did not seem very encouraging as only two letter men , ' were backg they being Captain Brown and Willet Thomas. With junior high material f x r 4, and some new finds in senior high, Coach Uhrlaub moulded a team which, although 3. not finishing as high as the teams of recent years, gave a good account of itself for V 5 rw C S 'X ol? 'V Q The intramural track meet, which was won by Oklahoma U, uncovered some A fr- i good material for Coach Uhrlaub. Q, The first meet of the year wasthe triangular meet with Wellington and Winfield ,F 5, 315 on A.pril 9. Wellington won the meet and A. C. took second. Thomas, McMichael, 33' is Flick, Jones. Bright, Marshall, Fry, Brown and Harwell showed up favorably in their ,'v'?'f, Ai events. 4' , tb, Captain Brown, Flick, and Willis Thomas represented A. C. at the state meet LQ? at Lawrence. Captain Brown won 5 points to tie A. C. for sixth place. ' .IE In a dual meet with Chilocco, on April 20, A. C. carried off the honors with X -,Q 7755 points. Capt. Brown was the individual star of the meet. Others who showed tr 5, their ability for the first time by placing were: Stevenson, Darby, Layne, Landers, .' ' and Barth. ' ' ' V A K The 20th Annual Southwestern Inter-High School track and field meet was held pfiif , on Aipril 30. Capt. Brown and Layne scored 8 points to place A. C. seventh in 3 43 Y V class A. ' 3 -42 1 If I 3 '5' 3 The following day at Wichita, A. C. placed fourth in the Ark Valley meet. I lg gi A. C. H. S. had its first track team organized in 1907. That team worfthlrd place ff ' i, in the Winfield meet. f 3 l ' , 3 The following year was more successful as the team took first place at Winfield, Q 1 Q 5 second in class B at Wichita, and won five medals at the Emporia meet. E 1909 was even more successful, as the team that year took first place at Winfield 'f Y Sli and Wichita. and second in the state meet. A 1 The teams of following years were also good, talking firsts on many occasions. Z The team of 1924 was the best team yet produced by A. C. It won all of its 12 i Q Q meets except the state meet. A Some fine athletes have departed from the doors of A. C. H. S. Records have lil? 2 been broken, and the fame of the school has been spread by their victories. Among ,I i i ' the most famous are: Gribble, Kahler, Gardner boys, Mitchell, Houston, Weller, 'E ' Wilson, Chaplin, and Robinson. .Lf g ' Elf f 9 T lr f li 1 if i 'f I in TENNIS . A 'X EE . Twenty-eight boys entered the first round of the bo-ys' singles tournament. fi I 12 Ausmus, Barkwell, R. Lewis, and Post survived the last round by winning 'r 2 their matches with easy' scores. In the semi-finals Ausmus defeated Barkwell 6-2, li -I 6-3. Post won from Lewis in the finals 6-4, 6-2. 1. I: if Four girls entered the girls' singles tournament. Katherine Maus won from 'cwf Helen Albee 7-5, 6-1, and Agnes Cushenberry defeated Margaret Fretz 6-0, 6-0. Maus , ,ff A then defeated Cushenberry 6-4, 7-5 in the finals. Tennis was a. new slport in the Ark Valley League this year, and A. C. was E' N well represented by both boys and girls at the out of town tournaments. Next year J, ,. ' there should be many Bill Tildens in A. C. H. S. ffl? , . A tif 1 4 Y g fa ' Zfwrfff-as pwieifizipwt.. - 4' -fg. .7 1'1r 2 .. fi' , if ' ' af ,Q-rf . .Q mfs: U., ..a'a:selfQ is -.f... .ff-:a.Q..g..:e, :. V .ar

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... J it GOLF Golf was another new Ark Valley League sport in which A, CY was well rep- resented. The golf team, composed ot' Richard WVilkins, Clenton Christy, Dick Metz, and Jolm Ranney, represented A. C. at the fall golf tournament at Hutchinson. The tournament was stopped on account ot' had weather, but Dick Metz wus low medalist. The Wichita golf tournament wus held on May T. We were represented by John Rzmney, Richard Wilkins, Dick Metz, and Harry May. The weather again was un- suitable for golf, but Dick Metz was low medalist for the tourney. Wichita won first and A. C. took second. This was :1 fine showing. Next year, we expect to do het- ter in golf we only lose two golfers. John Runney and Richatrcl Wilkens, hy grad- uution. Dick Metz and Hurry May will return to st-hool next, full.

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