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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1942
Page
4
Monticello Panthers nosed out Olin 23 to 22 in a tight Tuesday night battle. Capron and Hogan led scoring as Schneider and Griffith sparked a late rally, while foul trouble and fast breaks defined a physical contest in Monticello.
Onslow hosted Center Junction for two basketball games Friday night. The boys won 47 to 12, while the girls lost 86 to 72. The doubleheader marked the highest scores recorded since the new clock was installed three years ago.
The Monticello junior high and reserve teams split a double header with Hopkinton junior high winning 24 to 6 and Sfonti reserves defeating the Olin reserves 11 to 6. Griffith scored half the losing team's points.
A short weekly column riffs on editors, a quiet week, Sacred Heart sports, and gossip about players and coaches. Mentions Switzer and Ralwedder on the Olin varsity guards and tentative talk of a team sweetheart amid school rivalries.
The Wyoming invitational basketball tourney opened with Onslow leading Olin 18-3 as Wyoming High lost to the Wyoming alumni 32-23. Wyoming beat Martelle, Monmouth defeated by 3, and a girls game saw Wyoming down Monmouth. Final standings: Wyoming first, Martelle second, Onslow third. The girls county tourney begins Jan 21 with Olin Morley and other matchups.
Friday games list Anamosa at University High Monticello at West Liberty Mount Vernon at Springville Tipton at Weat Branch amid season notes and humorous quips on teamwork training and coach relations. The piece mentions cost figures for fortifications in France and playful rivalries among nephews and uncles.
The annual Community Forum banquet is moved one week to Monday Feb 2 at 6 30 pm to secure speaker Allen Klein state VP Farm Bureau Federation and master farmer Tickets cost 50 cents and sales are through advisory council and school vocational departments Next week a venue announcement is planned The forum discussed vacation recreation and a camp trip with two reels of technicolor nature films shown by Russell Lux concluding the year’s ten Forum meetings
Notice requests a few flocks of heavy breeding stock for hatching eggs and provides a contact name Russell E Lux in Hopkinton Iowa. A lost cream and tan foxhound named Jiggs with a collar and nameplate is reported by Art Drexler with contact phone 30 W.
Sacred Heart's boys beat Farley 21 to 10 while Farley girls defeated Sacred Heart 50 to 33. Girls trailed 36 to 9 at halftime but rallied to 36 27 by end of third. key fouls sidelined Sacred Heart stars. O'Rourke and Hines led local scoring for the boys in a low‑scoring win.
The University High quintet defeated Monticello 16 to 32 on their home floor Friday night in a ragged game. The defense and fast transition of U High shut out Monticello in the opening period, and after Smith entered, U High pulled away with four quick field goals. Monticello’s only score in the first half came on a Phil Schneider free throw.
The Monticello seconds defeated University High 16 to 14 in a tight contest. Monticello players including Hogan Griffith and Ricken contributed scoring efforts as both teams traded leads in a hard fought junior varsity game.
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