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

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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

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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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The Tors finished their district schedule with a spectacular 22-0 win over their oldest rivals, the Goose Creek Ganders, This was the first time since 1938 that the Tors had overtaken Coach Dan Halls- worth's Ganders, D. A. Clements scampered to pay dirt twice and Alvaro once on a T0-yard punt return. After being held to one touchdown for the entire first half, the Golden Tornadoes suddenly began to click in the second half to down Kirwin 32-0 and take the 1946 city championship before over 5,000 fans at School Park. lt was the fourteenth meeting of the two squads, and the win was Ball's thirteenth of the series. The two elevens tied in 1935. The Bucs played a terrific defensive game to battle the Tornado offense in the first half, but could not hold the spirited Tor eleven in the second half. Three Tornado markers were tallied via the ground, while the other two were by air. In spite of a muddy field, both squads played hard football. Thus the Tors ended their 1946 season. -CContinued from Page 933 the lead the Pasadena Eagles took in the early part of the game. Some fine talent was displayed by the Tors' all-round forward, Buddy Bev- eridge, as he took high point honors for the night. The ,Tors continued their season by being defeated by the future district champs, the Beaumont Purples. The Port Arthur Yellow Jackets, paced by George Sladwyck, effected the Tors' fifth beating. The South Park Greenies pushed the Tors further into the cellar by handing them their sixth straight defeat. The Goose Creek Ganders, the Tors' district Nemesis, journeyed to the isle, and paced by 6'6 George Sutton, defeated the Tors for their seventh straight defeat. The Tors finally broke into the district win column by smashing the powerful Orange Tigers, 62-27. South Park's Greenies, guided by Floyd Eberhardt, were stopped by the Tornadoes' great defensive set-up. The Ball High Tornadoes copped their third straight city cham- pionship in as many years by defeating the Kirwin Buccos three straight. ,The Tornadoes, again paced by Buddy Beveridge, were hardy enough to be at their best when playing their crosstown rival, Kirwin. The team had six players alternating in the starting lineup during the season: john Nash, Buddy Beveridge, Billy Hempel, Ray Wo- mack, Edward Zambon, and james Black. Ball I-Iigh's versatile for- ward, Beveridge, lived up to his advance billing as all-district by lead- 97