Hamburg High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Hamburg, IA)

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TRACK SQUAD Row 1 : Henshaw Sjulin Barnes Gubser Morelock Kingery Row 2: Lynn Dovel Langston Bright Peck Ware 1950 BASEBALL The 1950 Hamburg baseball season opened April 17, with Hamburg playing host to the Fremont County Baseball Tournament, Norman Brown, Gene Brown, and Gary Langston were the only returning lettermen back from the 1949 squad. With the weather hampering practice the Hamburg squad entered the County Baseball Tournament with only three workouts under their belts. Despite their lack of practice and experience the boys had their sights set on the Championship. The first round of the tournament got underway April 17, with Hamburg and Tabor and Randolph and Farragut. Hamburg defeated Tabor 3 to 2, while Farragut took out Randolph 4 to 3. The last half of the first round games pitted Riverton against Percival and Thurman against Sidney. Percival won from Riverton 10-0, while Thurman nosed out Sidney 3 to 2. Farragut and Hamburg and Thurman and Percival played in the second round games with Hamburg and Thurman the winners. Hamburg won the final game of the tournament by downing Thurman by the close score of 4 to 3. The Hamburg team is as follows: Virgil Lynn, left fieldg Gene Brown, shortstop, pitcher, Gary Langston, catcher, Jack Hollingsworth, third base: Gary Ware, center fieldg Max Rageth, second baseg Ray Kingery, first baseg Charles Barnes, right fieldg Norman Brown, pitcher. Hamburg also won the Iowa High School Sectional Baseball Tournament by defeating Sidney 8 to 5, Shenandoah 5 to 3 and Farragut in the finals 6 to 2. Many of the players who won this sectional were members of the various summer base- ball teams that the city of Hamburg so loyally supports. TRACK The Track team entered the Tri-State meet at Peru, the County Conference meet at Shenandoah, where they placed third, and participated in a dual meet. Many good individual performances were turned in at the various meets. BASEBALL SQUAD Row 1: Dixon Rageth R. Lynn Barnes Gubser D. Brown Row 2: Hollingsworth Kingery V. Lynn N. Brown G. Langston Emberton Dankof Ware 1,51 B 1

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PEP CLUB Pep Club was organized in September with Mrs. Doreen White as leader and Miss Marjorie Winney as her assistant. The members elected Elaine Hamilton--M President, Marjorie Martin-Vice Presi- dent, and Norma Pennington --e- -Secretary- Treasurer. There were about 50 members and during the year the Pep Club did a num- ber oi interesting things, such as organ- izing a Marching Pep Club that marched at all the Home Football gamesg Sponsor- ing the Homecoming Activities: selling food at some ot the basketball gamesg and sponsoring a food sale at the lowa State Bank.