Benton High School - Bentonian Yearbook (Benton, MO)

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1939 THE BENTONIAN 1940 Bors BASKETBALL Cconmnuedl Though thlrteen VlCtOT1CS are supposed to be unlucky, the Tlgers look back unon the season as a successful one It found them restlng w1th second place 1n the Scott M1SS1SS1Dp1 tournament conference and fourth place 1n the Leadwood lnvltatlonal tournament Lyman Poyal fcaptalnj Quentln D1ebold,N1lson LTVlU and Jack Cannon are the members of the team that gr du te th1s year Loslng only three lettermen, the Tlgers of next ye r should prove a strong combat agalnst the county teams SOFT BALL The mayor sport precedlng the b sketb ll season lS softball The schedule made bv the Scott Nlsslsslppl County softb ll league result- ed 1n Benton s pl y ng the followlng teams Fornfelt,Illmo Oran and Blodgett Benton won three one of whlch was a practlce game Wlth Blodgett, the county champ1ons The members of the squad were fleld Bertrand pltcher LeGrand catcher Erv1n l t base Mcpherson End base- Foy 1 jrd b se Diebold short stop Adams outflelders Thompson Wllls Edwards, and Koch GIFLS BASKETBALL The season opened November 21 1939 when we met Oran One of the ei hteen scheduled games flve were won two were t1es and eleven were lost Th1s year we were 1nv1ted to the Vanduser tournament to play on December 2? 1939 We were el1m1n ted by Handles by a score of U6 38 In the Scott MiSS1SS1pp1 tournament we were defeated our flr t game, by Morley We entered the Dlehlstadt tournament wh1ch opened M mch M l97-LO The f1rst game, whlcn we won 27-L-18, was w1th Brosley Our next g.mes whlch we also won, were w1th Handles and Holcomb Diehlstadt won the fourth game from us by two polnts 28 26 Then defeated Hornersv1lle EM-23, wrlch gave us thlrd pl ce ln the A bracket The sen1ors to graduate are Lou1se W1ll1ams,a member of tresquad for one ye r She plaved p1TSt te m forward Lou1se proved to be very good player as was snown by her good p1r1t and her willlngness to cooperate Paullne Wlse co captaln and flrst team forward of the squad, was a member for two years Per ccur te shots and steady play ing wlll be mlssed next ve r Other members of the squad are Mary Jane Brock fcaptalnl Cl ryce Mlcheal, Irene Bles, Marle Ziegler, Marle Pattenglll Verba Lee Wllls Louise Feed, Geraldlne Miller, and Inez Gaby They were all very good players thls year, and w1ll be back 1n full swlng for next ye r We feel th t what l1ttle we have accompllshed 1n the way of team work, nort mansh1p,and w1nn1ng trophles should be attrlbuted not only to our team but to our coach- Mr Lloyd McDowell .1 .l I - 1 - . . . Q, - . ' - ' d' . . H . . . . . . , . . . . ' Z ' ,K ' U . . . , . .1 . . 9 p , fd. E1 7 0 1 . 5 . .- EL fi 0 r L A H L .... a . I 0 : . C1 V- ' 2 9 o e - . . Q ln' ' ,.,,. ' .' ' ..- . - ' - Q -... 1 1 1 - 1 1 ,,, as . 1- , -, r . ' ....... . a , cz ' , ' , ' 4- 1 1 1 ' 1 D. . . cr 1 D O ' c. , Q 8 I 1 .. e .1 . . . . U , .. L. Q ,Ex ' , . . , . - ' 5 s . . - c' , n S -- 5 'We ' . . . . 1. El. e - 'Q . . . . ,' Q, . . 5 n L J. S. g 9. ,, Q I S . . . . . . . ' 1 9 I sa 4 5. a 4 F. ' L 'S Q . F . . , Q- . . 1 9 . 9 , . 5. 4 5 F . . . SL S ' l C a

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