Willow Springs High School - Willamizzou Yearbook (Willow Springs, MO)

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p 3? ., The 1939H-Willamizzou e Hy BASKETBALL Mitchell was high point man for the season having scored 232 points. The total points are as follows: Mitchell, 232 ....... Junior FiSher, 24 ............................. Junior gtringer, 1;: -- $111301 Shryock, 12 ., .......... Sophomore erguson, . emor , . R. Smith, 87 .. Senior Clmgan, 2 -------------------------------- SOPh0m9re B. Smith, 33 .................................... Junior Barker, 1 -------------------------------------------- Semor Stringer was chosen for the All Star Team at the Sub-Division tourney. TRACK The largest track squad in the history of the school turned out in defense of our 1938 track championship; over thirty boys worked hard to fill the gaps made by graduation. Willow Springs sponsored two track meets. The first, a warm-up invitation- al meet in which five schools participated, was held April 1. Willow placed fourth. The second, the annual invitation meet qualifying winners for the state meet, was held under the floodlights April 14. Eleven schools competed; Willow placed second. The S.C.A. was held in West Plains and won by them; Willow won fourth place. Outstanding in track this year were Madden in the mile, best time 4'. 59 ; Stringer, discus, best distance 126 8 ; Nelson in the half and quarter; and Mit- chell, broad jump, 20' 8Vz . Those lettering were Madden, Stringer, Mitchell, Nel- son, Bradford, Swecker, Clingan, and Hodges.

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n e The 1939 Willamizzou e e BASKETBALL TED MUNFORD, Coach Swift 0n the heels of the closing of football season came the gala opening of the basketball season. The opening of the season found the W535. luminaries. at practice early in anticipation of a busy season. On December 13, the Bears opened the season by winning over the Norwood five by a score of 43-33. Thesecond game of the season was lost to the Mountain View cagers here by a score of 36-23. The Bears next met and defeated the West ;Plains Zizzers here by a score of 39-25. On January 6 the Mountain Grove Pan- 'thers defeated the Bears by a score of 21-16. The week-end of January 12 and 13 found the Bears in a tournament at Birch Tree. The Bears won their first game from Winona by a score of 28-15. The second game, however, was lost to the Birch Tree team by a score of 20-25, thus eliminating the Bears. On January 20 the Bears lost another thriller to Thayer by a score of 21-24. The Bears were unsuccessful in winning any games in the S.C.A. tournament held at Mountain Grove the following week. The first game was lost to Mountain Grove by a score of 15-18 and the second was lost to Summersville by a score of 22-36. The Bears lost their second game with Mountain View by a score of 29-35 on January 31. A game played here with Licking resulted in a decisive Victory for the Bears, winning by a score of 47-15. A closely contested game was played on February 7 and won by the Bears by a score of 40-38 overithe Seymour five. On February 10 the Bears were defeated by the Cabool Bulldogs by a' score of 31-39. Summers- Ville won a decisive Victory over the Bears when they defeated them by a score of 30 to 57. The Bears suffered another defeat, this time by the West Plains Zizzers, by a score of 25-38. The next two games were played with and won by the Houston Tigers. The scores were 24-37 and 17-45. The Bears won their second victory over Norwood by a score of-39-36. Seymour defeated the Bears at Seymour by a score. of 34-18. The Bears wound up the season in the Sub-Division tournament held at Cabool the week of March 2-4. The Bears were nosed out of consolation by the Norwood five, after having made a gallant fight through three close games. tContinued on next pagei , 1. . 7'.

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n r; The 1939 Willamizzou e tt TENNN-IS So far as the tennis season has advanced, out of the many hopefuls that have tried out Jo Lovan for the girls and Glen Hansen, Otto Holland, and Goldman French for the boys have represented Willow Springs High School.,Everyone of. the members of tour tennis team is a senior; therefore next year will be one in which we shall see new faces on our tennis teams. , The' only match that has been played so far is the one with.West lglains: and, although we didn't win, we put up a good fight. ' IV GIRLSl PHYSICAL EDUCATION During the warm weather the class was divided into softball teams, and played softball a few weeks. After softball, several hikes were taken, then we re- tired to the gymnasium for marching, calisthenics, and dancing. The marching and calisthenics were instrumental in improving our posture and poise. The dances were simple ones at first, the Polkas, Swedish dances, and the old English country dances; this was mostly rhythm work. The dances became more difficult as the year passed by. We played basketball and volley ball during the winter months, and developed some very good players. V