Hancock High School - Owls Hoot Yearbook (Hancock, MN)

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1940 --THEOWLITE- Page228 be proud to -be possessor of the runner-up trophy after defeating such strong competition as A1- berta and Morris. Of this year's team there are three lettermen graduating. Donald Domek, Bill Grandjean, and Frank Fiedler will certainly be a great loss to the team next year. Domek has played four years of basketball, being a regular for three years. Last year he was captain of the team, and this year he and Grandjean were co-captains. Be- sides being co--captain Grandjean has played for two years, being an exceptionally good man on tip-in shots beneath the basket. Frank Fiedler also played two years on the regular squad. Al- though these boys are graduating and their spirit will be mtissed at basketball games, the next year's team is expected to be fairly strong With a number of veterans returning. Those returning for next year are Bill Fiedler, Harold Foss, Ben- nie Schmidgall, Waldo- Thurston, Henry Quase- barth, Junior Wiese, Junior Sandine, Jack West, Robert Reese, Robert Giese, and Donald Thomp- son. With such a. group of boys Coach Wartman expects to work up a fairly good team because of the splendid cooperation and team work which most of the boys realize is the basis of a good basketball team. During the seas-on the team! played good, clean, and hard-fought games-Winning 1.2 out of 16 games. This excellent record is the result of the cooperation and stick-to-itness of the boys which Coach Wartman has done a line job of developing in them. The various duties connected with the team were performed by Milo Thompson, the masoot- manager. Mr. Heimierl accompanied the team to all games and kept score and time for nearly all the games. rf.:1':, r- S Y Q N 1 1, tl? x1 -' O' Junior High Tournament Herman was host to the junior high school basketball teams of this district on March 15, following the example which was started by Hancock last spring. Hancock's junior high team drew Tintah for the first game. The juniors came out on top with a score of 22 to 10. Winning this game, the Hancock juniors next played Alberta for the championship. In this game the boys could not get started and lost by the score of 19 to 1 which gave them the runner-up position in the tour- nament. Hermyan juniors rated third place, and Tin- tah rated fourth.

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Page27 THE OWLITE 1940 BASKETBALL BACK ROW-James Thozrnrpson, Kenneth Schmidgall, Robert Giese, Junior Wiese. MIDDLE ROW-Mr. Wartman fcoachl, Robert Reese, Do-nald Thompson, Hilmeir Sandine, Milton Giese, Jack -West, Kenneth'Osterman. FRONT ROW-Waldo Thurston, Frank Fiedler, Donald Domek, William Grand- jean, Henry Quasebarth, Harold Foss, William Fiedler. Mascot Milo Thompa SOD. This year Hancock has enjoyed one of the best and most successful seasons for the past eight years. Through the able coaching of Mr. Wartmxan and the fighting and willing spirit of the team, they came through a schedule which was no easy job considering that District 11 is one of the strongest districts in the state with Breckenridge as state chaimlpions for 1940. On Saturday, December 1, a practice game W8.S held at Benson with the Hancock boys losing by a. close margin-33 to 28. The regular sched- ule was as follows: Hancock 50 Cyrus 6 Hancock 24 St. Mary's 23 Hancock 36 Alberta 27 Hancock 26 Chokio 24 Hancock 17 Morris 32 Hancock 20 Starbwck 26 Hancock 30 Herman 14 Hancock 33 St. Mary's 27 Hancock 21 Alberta 19 Hancick 33 Graceville 19 Hancock 19 Chokio 24 Hancock 33 Cyrus 24 Hancock 29 Sta.rbuck 51 Hancock 31 Gracevilee 25 Hancock 25 Herman 23 Hancock 31 Murdock 29 Climaxing the successful season was the sub-district tournament which was held in the gymnasium building of the West Central School of Agriculture at Morris on March 6, 7, and 8. Hancock 36 Cyrus 20 Hancock 38 Alberta 26 Hancock 22 Starbuck 30 After defeating Cyrus in the first night of the tournament, Coach Wartman drawing for Han- cock drew to play Alberta in the second evening. After taking Alberta, Hancock played the winner of the other bracket, Starbuck, and lost to the Vikings after a close fought game. Hancock can

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Pagezs THE OWLITE 1940 SENIOR PLAY v The Last of the Ruthvens, a mystery play in three acts, was given by the senior class on April 22 under the direction of Mr. Hiemerl. This play gave the experienced group an opportunity to exhibit their dramatic skill after giving a comedy the year before. The students who assisted in the production of the play were: Vera Foss .... Frank Fiedler - Doris Berg - - - - - student director - stage manager - - - - prompter The cast was made up of the following: FTHIICGS BOIIIHLH. - - - - - - Lady Helena Robert Steirrbring - - Verne Delp , - -- Donald Domek - - - - - Grantly - .... Lord Alan - - - - - St. Albans Patricia Estensen - Riosamond Sylvester Betty Blackmun - - - Dorothy Swenson Jane West .... William Grandjean Vicky Van Dyne Monica Sheridan - - Peggy Brent Terence O'Rourke Milton Giese ...... The Stranger Gladys Pearson - - - - The Aparition The play centers around Lady Helena and her son Alan who live in Beresford Manor in England. Rosamond Sylvester, acting as chap- erone to Vicky, Monica and Peggy Cyoung Amer- ican girlsb, is a guest of Lady Helena. Lady Helena is in need of money so she decides to have Alan fall in love with Vicky and marry the Van Dyne millions. Alan agrees and begins his business of trying to win Vicky. Peggy is always wishing for something ex- citing to happen, and it soon does. She gets all the excitemlent she can stand for a long time when the apparition appears on the scene. And still more when a stranger stumzbles in from a. secret passageway. He is bleeding quite badly and is taken care of by the ladies. , There is still more excitement when there is a suicide case and a murder. The play does not end exactly the way the audience wants it to, but because of the variety of characters the cast gained worthwhile experience in acting and pro- ducing a play.