The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-05
Gold Team Downs
Blue In Convent
Field Meet

ClNdity SilOWCQ. - tt III.
The days peak of excitement
was reached in the Volleybal
came, when a Blue Team, under
acting Captain Teresita Valdez
easily won the first game. After
a complete reorganization oil
players and attitudes the Gold
Team, captained by Josephine
Fradcra, began an astonishing
display of spirit and determine
ton which led to a game tied al
nine different scores ending in a
win for the Gold. Even the score
keeper, Mrs. Floyd Clark, found
it difficult to restrain her activi-
ties to bookkeeping in the OK
element of this game. At no
time did the youngsters actually
seem to be outplaying their hard
fighting opponents, but they
seemed to whip out their scores
by a process of "mind-over-mat-
ter" The intensified backing of
their home room teachers, Sister
Catherine and Sister Shelia re-
fusing to consider defeat for their
girls, seemed to permeate the
playing of the Goldsters; and
they finally carried the third
game 10 chalk up another thirty
points for their team.
The Gold Basketball Team,
ably captained by Maryann
Large, including several girls
who had never touched basket
ball until this season. played the
best game of their careers, but
they were not able to win from
their more experienced, faster,
and smoother playing seniors,
captained by Sylvia Taylor. This
is. the only sport of the day whose
outcome could have been pre-
dicted with any certainty. The inn
petus of an audience or roofing
section with hackers for students
OF these ages creates a higher
number of new stars in a moment
of need than in any adult sports.
Also the youthful stars from these
groups seem to fade in a like
mercurial fashion in the face of
their puzzling, unorthodox, new
type competition.
During the final minutes of the
Field Day the roofing section
could be heard from one end of
the grounds to the other following
the tricky routines of yell-leaders
Shirley Owens and Kay O'Connor,
almost stealing the show from
the basketball game being played.
"A Field Day has the unique
position of offering to all girls
who want to play and enjoy
sports the chance to play, not just
to the limited group of experts.
This latter policy causes stagna-
ton in sports for both the school
and the community because new
talent never comes from old stars.
The success of the Convent Field
Day was insured only through the
complete cooperation of the Sis
tiers of the Convent and their
classes from the first grade root
ersson up those interested out
sidcrs who helped or attended the
meet; and the ninety-seven girls
participating, who showed them
selves capable, of such extensive
sports organization. This was in
deed a milestone in girls sports
in Key West, and it is expected
that Girls Field Days at the Con-
vent, the High School, the Uark
recreation area, and possibly
someday the new coliseum may
eventually prove routine events
following this pioneering effort.
DRILL TEAMS
Gold
Rose Yates, Capt.
Cell Bezanilla
Ritty Brooks
Marietta DePaSquale
Sandra Johnson
Patricia Holek
Barbara Laid
Yvonne Moore
Nancy Jones
Patsy Saylor
Yvonne Meyers
Lourdes Gonzalez
Carmen Lee Diaz
Mary f. Kingerman
Jerry Porter
Dollie Owen
Paula Stephan
Esther Trujillo
TENNIS
Gold tst':
Eleanor Cato ,5s.-.
Barbara TWiehauS d..
Marie Renducles, Capt. g..
Lourdeg Gonzalez ia
Rose Yates
Marietta De PaSQuale
Blue
judy Trevor
Betty Fairfield
Gay Lou BarroSo
Nora Malone
Barbara Nelson
Pat Bethel
HOSTESSES
Shirley Owens, Chairman
Coreel Reagan
Mary Spence
MAY O'Conner