Ball High School - Purple Quill Yearbook (Galveston, TX)

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TRACK TEAM First Row: Tidmore, C. Dick, B Rogers, VVimberly, J. Dem-kard, Mr. Fowler fcoachl. Second Row: Doherty, Donald Detbre, Huber, NVillhelm, Black. Third Row: B. Nelson, Noel, VVomack, E. Lauzon, L. Young. TB-EEK The 1947 track team began its slow, repetitions conditioning in early March and finished the season late in April. The team had one returning letterman, Ray llomack, and a few of last year's trackmen, plus a large group of newcomers. Coach Fowler's thinly clads en- tered a large number of track meets this year, namely the Border Olympic at Laredo, the Conroe meet, Texas relays, Lee relays, Hous- ton relays, and the district meet. The Tors entered the district race with only a small number of points collected by VVomack at the preceding meets and came out last in the district race with but nine points. VVomack contributed a total of seven points-five points for first place in the high jump, and two for third place in the broad jump. Robert Chuoke placed fourth to give the Tors another point, and Lauzon coined a point by placing fourth in the high hurdles. Clther trackmen participating in the year's meets were Emil Huber, Bill Rogers, Bobby XYimberly, Fred Prickett, Larry Young, George Doherty, and Joe Di Mare. 94

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BASKETBALL First Row: Tevault, Knowles, Letsos, Norman VVilson, Spoor. Second Row: F. Priekett fmanagerb, N. Beveridge, Hubbell, H. Mellina, Lalney, B. Hempel, Grove, John Nash. Third Row: Mr. Kallina Ceoaohh, Hatch, L. Young, Davenport, VVomaek, Gilder, BASKETBALL Black, Zambon. The Tornado basketball team started the season with plenty of hustle and fightg in the first nine games the squad averaged 36 points per tilt. The Purple and Gold, in the first game of the season, de- feated the Stephen F. Austin Mustangs of Houston, 44-28. They Went on from here to tromp Galena Park twice, defeat Texas City, and whip the South Park Greenies, 39-23. The South Park tilt was not a district game. Meanwhile, in interseetional play, the Tors lost four hard contests, one to the cagers from Milby of Houston, 36-32. The tall Sain Hous- ton quintet dropped the Tors, 52-23g Port Arthur, after a last minute rally, stopped the Tors in the semi-finals in the Beaumont tourney, 32-29g then the Ball quintet fell before the experienced Pan .Xmeriean Oilers. The Tornadoes opened the district race against the Urange Tigers, and after the lead Changed hands four times, the Tigers jumped ahead in the third quarter and managed to hold the edge to the final minute. The Tors fell before the tall and experienced Tigers, 235-28. The see- ond district tilt also brought a defeat. Ball High could not overcome 93 fifontinued on Page UTJ

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TENNIS TEAM First Row: Seelhorst, G. Sharp, A. Zinn, D. Farmer, B. Harr. Second Row: Mosle, McDonough, M. Roberts, L, Runge, B. Allen. Third Row: E. VVhipple, J. Johnstone, Letsos, McMillan, Richards, Mr. Marchak TE-WSIS feoaehb. Ball Highs tennis team. the best in many years, had a great sea- son under Coach A. VY. Harchak. The team entered three tourna- ments. In the first, with Dickinson, team members won all of their matchesg in the second, with Stephen F. Austin of Houston, Ball Highis racketeers won seven and lost one. Traveling to Beaumont for the district competition, they swept three of four events to win the district 14.-XA title. The Tor players took boys' doubles, girls' doubles, and girls' sin- gles. Richard Richards and Eugene Letsos breezed through the doubles with scores of 6-0, 6-O, G-1. The girls' doubles team, Gloria Sharp and Anita Fay Zinn, won fi-2, 6-tl, and lietty Ann Hari' won thc. girls' singles 6-1, 6-0. Runge lost to Tom Clark of Beaumont to for- feit boys' singles. Some members of the team entered the River Qaks Tournament. They were Louis Runge, Donald Farmer, Letsos, and Richards. Letsos went to the third round, while the others dropped out in the first and second rounds. Other netters this season were Tlilly Mcllillan, Donald Gottlob, Sue Seelhorst, and Thelma Kogut. 95