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

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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

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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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FOOTBALL-fContinued from Page 925 game. The Tors, paced by two hard-running backs, Alvaro Vaiani and Dee A. Clements, swamped the over-rated Beaumont gridders 27-0. The Tors stomped to 14 first downs while South Park managed to get only 5. Both teams exhibited fine ground play, with Billy Bag- gett, all-district back, almost getting loose for long gains. Playing their worst game of the season, in which they showed no offensive plays, the Ball High gridders rolled over the Cleburne jack- ets 2T-O. The Tors racked up their fourth straight victory and still maintained an undefeated, untied, and unscored-upon record. The Orange Tigers, after being pushed all over the field during the first half, managed to come to life and score after a 63-yard march and defeat the Tors 'T-6. The Ball High line, which had held four op- ponents scoreless this season, cracked long enough in the second pe- riod to permit the Tigers to push over a TD and defeat the Tors in this second district game. This was boomed as the number one schoolboy game in Texas. Ball High, led by all-district Bob Hempel, rolled over the Royal Purples of Beaumont 33-13. Snapping back from their loss to Orange the previous Week, the Tors struck within two minutes after the kick- off on a pass from Vaiani to Hempel to score the first TD. The Tor offense was only fair, while it gained nine first downs to the Royal Purples' three. This game was in honor of the late Sam B. Graham, who was superintendent of Galveston Public Schools. The Port Arthur Yellow Jackets were thrown out of the district race by losing to the inspired Tors, 28-0. This was the first time in history that the Jackets were defeated on their home ground by the Tornadoes. The mighty Tors started their initial touchdown drive early in the second period when Vaiani intercepted a Port Arthur pass. Dave Balderach, one of the district's leading extra point kickers, booted all of the four conversions. The Tors showed power in all classes by shoving the Jackets all over the field and scoring in the sec- ond, third, and fourth periods. The highly touted Pasadena Eagles, who, the week before, had de- feated South Park, ran over the Tornadoes to win 14-6. The Tor defense just could not hold slippery Jimmie McNeil and Lawrence St. Pe working from the intricate T. The Tors lost all hopes of staying in the district race, while the Eagles went on to cop the district crown. Big Billy Butler, the 230-pound tackle, gave the Tor line considerable trouble. The spectacular play of the game was when Alvaro Vaiani took a Pasadena punt on his own 27 and returned it 73 yards for the Tors' only touchdown. 96