South Story Six Conference Baseball Tournament. Collins defeated Slater 2-0 in the opening round. Titus was pitcher and Evans catcher. Lineup: Ronald Stratton (48) (ss) 1 hit; Dick Halterman (47) (of) 1 hit; Frank Miller (46) (1b) 2 hits; Earl Evans (46) (c) 0 hits; Gordon Holland (46) (of) 1 hit; Bob Titus (46) (p) 1 hit; George Tiffany (48) (of) 2 hits; Dick Keagle (46) (2b) 0 hits; Ronald Halterman (48) (3b) 0 hits. Second round - Collins defeated Cambridge 7 - 0 with Dean Wolf (46) doing a fine job of pitching and Evans catching. Jennings pitched and McHone caught for Cambridge. Lineup: Stratton 0 hits; D. Halterman 1 hit; Miller 2 hits; Evans 1 hit; Holland 1 hit; Wolf 0 hits; Tiffany 1 hit; Keagle 1 hit; R. Halterman 1 hit.
Finals - Maxwell won over Collins 14-13. Maxwell took a 10-0 lead in the first inning with Collins coming back to tie Maxwell 13-13 in the last inning. Maxwell's wining run was in the bottom of the 7th inning. Titus pitched and Evans caught. Lineup: Stratton 1 hit; D. Halterman 0 hits; Miller 1 hit; Evans 0 hits; Holland 1 hit; Titus 1 hit; Tiffany 1 hit; Keagle 0 hits; R. Halterman 0 hits.
The local Vocational Ag boys attended a Dairy Judging school with 17 other schools at the Newton High School. Particularly interesting was the tour through the building and dairy barns on the Maytag Holstein farm to observe one of the finest Holstein dairy herds in the middle west. The Voc Ag boys have been busy setting out trees on the school grounds. Two rows of trees (27) have been planted along the east side of the grounds.
Collins' Baseball Team defeated Maxwell 11-2, giving Collins the season edge with two victories and one loss. Maxwell defeated Collins the previous week 14-13 in the conference tournament game. (Insert 2005: No box score found)
On April 26 the juniors, seniors and faculty saw the fulfillment of their Junior-Senior Banquet plans on arriving at the Commodore Hotel in Des Moines. We were delighted when we saw the luxurious lobby and our own beautifully decorated banquet table in the hotel's ballroom. Three little cowboys stood on each table. On the ends of each table were black coyotes against big, yellow paper moons. Place cards were tiny boots cut from fiberboard. Forty-five attended; the juniors, seniors, and junior-senior faculty. The theme of the very interesting program was "The Last Roundup:" Toastmistress - Carolyn Partridge; "First Brandings" - Dorothy Buck; "Headin' for the Last Roundup" - Donald Snyder; "Along the Trail" - Harold Mullihan; "Get Along Little Doggie" - Supt. R. A. Long; Music - junior girls sextet - "Riding the Wrong Trail." After the program, everyone was given a rose to wear home. When the banquet ended we attended the Orpheum theater where the juniors provided tickets for all to see "From This Day Forward." (Insert 2005: Second out-of-town junior-senior banquet)
Grade News: Third - In language, we have been learning how to give book reports, both written and oral. Fourth - We are finishing our history books this week and having a world review in geography, studying the heat zones. Fifth - Our study of South America has just begun.