John R Mott High School - Mir Or Yearbook (Postville, IA)

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FIRST ROW: L. Meyer, Marston, Koenig, Palmer, Severn. SECOND ROW: Broinard, C. Schultz, G. Livingood, A. Schultz, L. Christofferson. QMEQKK Forty boys tried out for the baseball team this season. Due to late rains the practicing began later than usual this year. I' The Pirates started out their baseball season on the wrong foot with a loss to Monona. The Bulldogs won a 3-0 victory behind Schmidt, theirace hurler who allowed only one hit. Koenig pitched good ball for Postville but the team couldn't push any runs across the plate. l Another defeat came at the hands of a West Union nine. Cloy Schultz took the task of pitch- ing, but errors cost the Pirates the game by a count of l0-6. ln their first home game, the Pirates defeated a veteran Lansing team by a score of 5 to l. Get- ting only two hits and those of the infield variety, the local boys took advantage of the walks and wild pitches to score. Our runs came in the first, third, and fifth innings. Their run came in the sixth inning. The Pirates took anotherwin, evening the count, with West Union. Earl Koenig was on the mound for the locals, allowing seven scattered hits, none of them being for extra bases. Postville scored six runs in the first inning on four walks, a double by Art Schultz,- and ay fielder's choice. ln the third inning Dwight Marston's home run, a walk by Art Schultz, Bill Palmerfs single and a double by Koenig produced three runs. The last run was scored in the fifth inning. Marston singled, went to second on an error, and scored when Gilbert Livingood hit a single into left field. West Union scored in the fifth and twice in the seventh. The Pirates lost to Monona 8 to 7. Errors cost the home team the game. Monona also had its share of errors but they weren't as fatal as Post- ville's. Monona had 8 runs, ll hits and no errors, while Postville had 7 runs, 5 hits and 4 errors. The Pirates lost their return game with Lansing 8 to 5. Koenig worked for Postville, allowing 8 hits. Only two of their runs were earned, errors accounting for the remainder. Postville scored in the second, fourth, and fifth on extra base hits by Leo Meyer, Clay Schultz, and Leo Christofferson. Meyer led the Pirate hitting by getting three for them. . Behind the four-hit pitching of Lefty Koenig, the Pirates edged onto a victory over Marquette, 3-2, to gain a place in the semi-finals of the Sec- tional' Baseball Tournament. Marquette scored their runs in the first inning on two errors, a walk, and a hit. The Pirates scored two in the fourth on an infield hit by Martsan and an error. ln the sixth Postville scored the needed run to win. Next the Pirates downed a determined Lansing nine, 3-2. Leo Meyer went the game for Postville at the mound and kept things well under control.. ln the finals the Pirates faced Monona. There was no score until the fifth inning when Monona put over a run. They scored two more later to win 3-0. To finish the season, the Pirates invited a Wau- kon team over only to trim them l4-0. It was a sort of revenge for previous defeats in other sports. It was also the left-handed Koenig's sec- ond shut-out of the year. Letters were awarded to the following members of the team for baseball at the end of the season: Earl Koenig, Leo Meyer, Bill Palmer, Eugene Se- vern, Cloy Schultz, Gilbert Livingood, Leo Christ- offerson, Rodney Anderson, Dwight Marston, and Art Schultz. Leo Meyer was elected captain of the baseball team at a meeting of the baseball boys.

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FIRST ROW: E. Severn, L. Meyer, G. Livingood, D. Marston, B. Palmer. 'SECOND ROW: D. Meyer, Koenig, C. Schultz, Coach Blackman. ' asfiefkiff The Pirates started the season out with two victories. Lansing fell first in a closely contested battle, 25 to 21. Next came a powerful Sumner club. The Aces started out in the lead, but Post- ville soon caught them and retained the lead to win, 29 to 19. Still sharing conference No.: 1 spot, the Pirates went to Monona where they suffered their first setback, the final count being 30 to 15. After Christmas vacation, the Pirates journeyed to West Union. The game was a see-saw affair, but in the second half' our boys found themselves and controlled the remainder of the game. The Pirates received their first defeat in the conference at Waukon, in an overtime, the final score being 29-28. Battling for their conference lead, Elkader came to Postville to nose out the Pirates, 22 to 17. Paying a visit to the Peacocks, the Pirates lost a close game to the Fayette five by a score of 17 to 16. After the Activities Ban- quet, the Waukon Indians again bumped the Pi- rates, this time for a score of 28 to 23. ln the County Tournament the Pirates easily knocked Waterville off, 68-12, to gain a place in the FIRST ROW: K. Peake, Malone, B. Martins, Douglass, Hills. SECOND ROW: D. Meyer, R. Christofferson, Gunderson, Tim- merman, B. Livingood, J. Koevnig. semi-finals. Then they played Lansing and suf- fered a 46 to 39 defeat. Going into the last stretch of the season, the Pirates knocked Maynard from the first place by a score of 23-19. Monona paid a visit to us and won the heated contest by a score of 24-21. The West Union Bombers came to Postville only to suffer another defeat, 38 to 34. lt was a much more even game than the first. McGregor came next, only to be beaten again by the home team. lt was a close game all the way. For the last game of the year, we journeyed to Elkader, only to receive a 50-28 defeat. .ln fin- ishing the season with the Sectional Tournament, the Pirates won their first game with Monona, 27- 18. ln the finals they lost 27-24 to Waukon. f The Upper Iowa Conference also had a league or IIBII season season. The season, only losing twice. They took the County Tournament in very fine style. teams this year. Our boys finished the second in this league, after a very good Junior High Boys had a very successful FlRST ROW: C. Peake, Brainard, Hath, R. Anderson, Malone, Gericke. SECOND ROW: C. Schultz, L. Christofferson, Han- son, B. Martins, Douglass, A. Schultz. l 1

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l Gunderson, R. M. Meyer, McNally, L. Brown C7255 zlfmclg fu. The Cheerleaders are cliosen by the high school assembly. ln the fall, Shirley McNally and Rose Marie Meyer held try-outs for two new cheer- leaders before the assembly. After each of the girls had led the assembly in one yell, elections were held and ,Lorraine Brown and Bette Gunder- son were elected as the other two cheerleaders. x Their routines were always peppy this year and helped the boys to put forth their best effort. They introduced several new and different yells and at one of the pep meetings they introduced a new dish-mop redheaded cheerleader. She l?l created quite a riot. p ..,...f5z'... The organization of high school girls, known as The Tumblers, but preferred to be called the Pir-ettes, consists of girls who 'enjoy this type of work. Lorraine Brown was the leader and Jean Douglass the manager of the group. The objective of these girls was to create in- terest in gym work. This was accomplished com- pletely here, and in schools surrounding Postville. They gave several exhibitions at games, twice at Waukon, and at the Sectional Tournament. Their peak performance was at the Physical Education Demonstration in March, when they gave a full tumbling demonstration entitled RoIIicking Rag- gedy Anns. Memories of their flashy entrance in those out- fits lcreated by themselvesl and their clever tum- bling acts will linger a long time in the minds of their many fans. For their fine work tumbling letters were presented. . FIRST ROW: R. Green, Douglass, E. Winters, Turner, Gunderson. SECOND ROW: Sanders, Enyart, J Hangartner, Gordanier, L. Brown, R. M. Meyer, Appel. ' s