University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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7m The balmy climate of San Antonio and the fitting courts on the college campus combine to make tennis an all-year-round sport for the players. It is among the eminently favored forms of exercise in the student com- munity, whether the poll be of the learned or unlearned in the technique. For the former there is always capable competition, for the latter com- petent instruction. There is scarcely a day throughout the year when the playing does not go on a the rare day When the weather itdoes not permit? The spring tournament is unfailingly an occasion for bringing to- gether the ablest performers and all those who love the game, to the number of the legion. In the final event of this years tournament, the splendidly spirited contest between Suzanne Ill and Daisy White was won by the former, and the award of the championship was thus decided. Notable among the other contestants were Alice Sawtelle, Bebe Burkett, Nellie Hasler, Elaine Coutret, Gerda Balluder, Jean Nash, and Carmen Balluder.

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Certified as a member of the National Woments Athletic Association, the Sports Association of Incarnate Word College, functions as the central student council of the several athletic organizations of the college com- munity. Throughout the current year its offices in this capacity have been consistent with the excellent traditions that have established its repute as worthily authoritative. Membership in the association is determined by specific qualifications for the distinctive duties that are required. From the gratifying number of eligible students, 1939-1940, there were selected as officers: Marjorie Brite, president; Ruth Dukes, vice president; Mar- garet Galligan, sebretary-treasurer. Though many other notable achievements might be recorded of it here, it is sufficient to report that, figurative of its sustained enterprise and climactic to the years development thereof, it managed the play-day, April 11, when the teams of five Catholic high schools met for contests in volley ball, dodge ball, deck tennis, relay races and baseball. Veritably the ttcommission continues to grow and flourish.

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Daughters of the Southwest, descendants of pioneers who itlived in the saddle, the main of the riding club and its classes guide their mounts skillfully along tree-shaded trails. If there be others in the company, the association soon prompts and enables them to bride along. To conclude the years training in the finer points of equitation, there is held in the spring the annual studentsi horse show. It included this year an exhibition of skill in various gaits and in j umping as well as a novelty, the Musical Basket? Awards were made of ribbons and trophies. In the j umping competition, Beth Cotter won first prize, Ruth Cotter, second, and Emma Reitmeyer, third. T0 Ruth Cotter was awarded the trophy for mastery of equitation, with second place in the contest to Beth Cotter, and third to Hibernia Swain. Victors in the three-gaited pair competition were Hibernia Swain and Betty Collins ; in second, third, and fourth place, respectively, were Beth and Ruth Cotter, Maxine Brynston and Samuesta Lockhart, Maebelle Robertson and Marie Garcia. First place in the begin- nerst three-gaited class was won by Maebelle Robertson. Maxine Brynston earned second place, and Marie Garcia third. In the showing of privately owned mounts, Jane Ellen Hillje was awarded tttop honors? Ruth Cotter second, and Hibernia Swain third. The trophy for the ttMusical Basketii competition was won by Ruth Cotter.