The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-04-22
Big B|ak Winners
In Contest Named
Duront Leeds In
Platform Events
With II Points
(By william Cathey)

Scoring firsts in defamation and
sophomore piano. second in expression
and fourth in quartette, Durant High
paced the field in platform contests dur
ing the recent Big Black Track and Field
Meet held at Goodman. Winners were an
nounced Sunday.
Durant amassed a total Of IL points to
top its nearest rival, Kosciusko, which
collected Q markers. Ephriam Cresswell
was supreme In the oratorical event
Jane Harrington was best in the sopho-
more piano GLASS, Johnny Parkinson
finished = strong runner-up in express
sion and members Of the Dursnt quar-
tette were fourth.
Results Of the contests and Holmes
winners are AZ follows: Defamation
Cresswell, Durant, first.
Expression-Johnnie Parkinson, Du-
rant, second.
Points scored by other schools are:
Alderman and Ethel, 6h each; Eupora,
8; French Camp, 81; Lexington, q; and
Sails l.
Annexing eight first positions, includ-
ing one for a new regional record, the
Holmes Agricultural High School boy
and girl thinclads walked away with
highest honors in track and field com
petition. Coach Frank Branch's proteges
chalked up a total Of SO TALES to beat
Eupora in second place with So points.
Next in rank was Kosciusko with AZ,
French Camp with 32h, Sails with SIN,
Ethel with 22h, and Durant with Q.
To Hazel Branch, who led the indi-
vidual scoring for the girls group with
IL counters, goes the distinction of set
ting a new mark in the 75-yard dash.
The lass was clicked in the excellent
time Of O9.2 two-tenths Of a second bet
ter than the previous figure of 09.4. J..
Waddell of Eupora tossed the shot for
a distance of Al feet, IL inches, to ex-
coed the old heave of 80 feet, 90 inches
by 2 feet, 2 inches. Incidentally, this
lad was high scorer among the boys with
13% markers. WATSON Of Ethel follow
ed with 1871, while Mccormick of Eu-
pora was third with II. Other Holmes
county winners were: Girls: 60-yard
II. Branch, Goodman, first, time
O6.4.
75-yd. dash--H. Branch, Goodman. first.
Baseball throw-Shubert, Goodman.
2O0-yd. relay--Goodman, second.
Boys: 10O-yd. dash-Jones, Goodman,
lloyd. high hurdles-Dickerson, Good
third.
Mile run-McNeer. Goodman, first.
4a0-yd. dash-Ables, Goodman, first.
dash--Jones, Goodman, first.
200 yd low hurdles-West, Goodman,
ssO-yardj run-McNeer. Goodman.
H. Hodges, Durant, fifth.
Mile relay-Goodman, first.
Broad jump-Ables, Goodman, third.
High jump-Shrock, Goodman, first.
Shot put-Wright. Goodman, second.
Discis-W right, Goodman, first.
In the written examinations, Kos
had a very comfortable margin
Of victory by accounting for SO points.
Pickens was in second place with 80
followed by Eupora with SO,
North Carrollton with So, and Alderman
80. Results Of the various sub
jects are: w.
Business arithmetic-Betty Jean Teal,
Pickens, second.
Plane geometry-~ames Stokes, Du-
rant, second; Doris Thompson, Lexing-
ton, third.
Biology-David Comfort, Durant, third.
General science-Billy McKie, Pickens,
third.
Chemistry-Jack White, Pickens, first.
Home economics-Elizabeth Thornton.
West, first.
Agriculture-Owen Melton, West, Sec
ond.
EnglishI-Louise Logan, Durant, first;
Ora l.. Cahoon, Pickens. second.
English H-Jean White, Pickens, first;
lane Harrington, Durant. second.
English III-Evelyn Hand, West, Sec
ond; Esther Nelson, Pickens, third.
World H~istory--Jean Strider, Lexing-
ton; Edwin Maxwell, Pickens.
Typing-Ephriam Cresswell, Durant;
Hollowell. Pickens.
Latin betty Joe Ingram, Pickens.
The sweepstakes trophy, given to the
compiling greatest number OF
points in literary, athletic, and platform
has not been announced, since
in tennis, basketball, football are
yet unknown.