Věstník (West, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 18, 1969 Page: 8 of 32
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Our next regular meeting will be
held Thursday evening, July 10 at 7
p,m, We will liold a short business
meeting and háve a watermelon feast
later so keep this meeting dáte in
mind and come out for this sociál.
Miss Judy Shenkir and Miss Mary
Fisher will give the dáte for the in~
■stallation of youth club officers in the
very near future.
Hope to see you all at our next
meeting! Háve a nice summer!
Fraternally,
Mrs. Dorothy Chervenka,
Secretary í
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TUHU) CZECH SFECTACULAR —
Lódge 66, Linden Halí, Simday, Aug, 24.
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SOKOL SOUTHERN DISTRICT:
FROM THE ROARD OF DIRECTORS,
The time of our Sokol Southern Dis-
trict Slet (competitions and exhibi-
tům) is fast approaching, We hope that
all the gy.mnasts and/or their parents
are planning to go to Corpus Christi,
June 21 and 22. The gymnasts, chil-
dren, juniors, and adults, will háve a
chance to find out how well they háve
learned their competition routines and
to perform the calisthenics which we
háve been practicing, and their fam-
ilies will enjoy seeing them perform.
The Slet in Corpus Christi will be
June 21-22. ■
Nazdar,
George Převrátil,
President
(Reprinted from Sokol Spotlights
the News. —Ed.)
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Coach Has 3 State Titlcs
SNOOK S SUCCESS STOHY
By JIM MONTGOMERY
At 30, Alexander the Great had con-
quered what was known of the world
in 325 B. C. At 29, Jimmy Horn hasn’t
quite doně that, but on the ot-her hand
he hasiťt doně bacily at all.
Three weeks ago his Snook Bluejays
won the statě Class B basketball
championship, giving Horn three such
titles in seven years on the Job. His
1965 and 1966 Snook teams also went
all the way.
Snook, Texas, with a population of
140 within its city limits, is situated
on Farm Road 2155 about 12 miles
Southwest of College Station. “Iťs near
enough you can see the lights on
A&M’s football stadium,” Horn said
dur mg a pause at a cpaehing cl lnic
here receňtly, “and if the winďs right
you can hear the yelling.”
There are 'aout 50 boys enrolled in
the high school, and turnouts íor bas-
fíSTNÍK
ketball practice run right at 100 per
cent. : :Everybody whots physically able
tries out for the team,” Horn said. “The
only sports we háve are basketball and
track.”
Horn is head, coach of both sports
as well as principál of the school. He
came to Snook in 1963 after serving as
assistant basketball coach for one sea-
son at Buna, long-time Texas school-
boy cage power under famed coach
Cotton Robinson.
Understandably, Robinsoni theories
are largely ušed by Horn, along with
many other Southwest coaches. “We
stress defense and the disciplined of-
fense,” Horn said. “We vary somewhat
in that we use some triek defenses
such as the zone press.
“Cotton always said he’d like to try
the zone press but he didiťt want to
také the time to put it in. Otherwise,
we use his offense, which starts out as
a double post but is single post once
you get into it, and we use a vicious
man-for-man defense.
“We cail our defense ‘safety firsť,
though, meaning we don’t like to give
up penetration.”
When Horn came to Snook, the
basketball program was already on
sound footing. “The man who prece-
ded me coached there 14 years,” he
explained.
“They had three or four pretty good
years, then went into a slump and
lost 36 games in a row, but the time
I got there they were back winning
again.”
Horn’s program now reaches youn-
sters as early as the sixth-grade Ievcl.
“We don’t háve kid baseball in our
eommunity,” he said, “so the last two
summers we’ve had little league bas-
ketball. We set up nine-game schedules
for incoming sixth-graders and sev-
entli-graders,
“Actually, we could go one grade
higher without running into the In-
terscholastic League rule against sum-
mer basketball, but wc háve organized
play in the seventh, cighth and ninth
grades anyway, so they move from lit-
tle league right into our junior high
program.
All but one startér from Horn’s 1969
statě ehampions were seniořs, and he
doesn’t expect a strong team next
year.
“It isn’t so much what you lose,” he
said, “but what you háve for replace-
ments. Two years from now, and four
and f i ve-years from now, weTe going
to háve the best athletes we’ve ever
Wednesday, June 18, 1969
had coming through our school.”
In seven years, Hom’s teams háve
won almost 300 games, streaking to a
remarkable 50-1 record in the cham-
pionship year of 1965, but Bluejay Pro-
ducts haven’t gone on to loftier
heights.
“We’ve never been blcssed with a
lot of good athletes,” Horn said.
“Not one of our klds has ever play-
ed for an NCCA college. Maybe some
day we’ll háve a really top athiete.”
Several Snook players háve been
namecl all-state, and Horn onhesitatin-
gly nominates Calvin Gerke as his best
alltime performer. “In my seven years”,
he said. “Calvin is the only kid I’ve
coaclied that I had to look up at, and
Tm only 6-1 He was 6-514.
Gerke had a nuniber of collegiate of-
fers but decided to play no more
basketball after high school.
“He had bad fcet and ankles,” Horn
said. “The tocs on one foot had been
crushed, and ono toe was gone, so he
didn’t think hekl be ablc to play in
college.”
• Horn himself has little experienee
as a basketball player.
“I never started in a basketball game,”
he said. “i might liave my senior
year in high school (at Newton, Texas),
but I got hurt in our last football
game and couldnT play basketball.”
(Clipped from the Austin American
and submitted by J. J. Stalmach. —Til)
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THIRD CZECH SPECTACULAR —
Eoilgc 66, Linden Halí, Sunclay, Aug. 24.
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Reports
DISTRÍCT II SALES REPORT
Wc madc the month of May aňother
good month by selling 66 members for
$214,470. This brought our total to 290
members for $885,470. We háve seven
more months to make 1969 an out-
stand year for District II.
Willie Dušek sold the most insurance
for the second consecutive month with
8 members for $30,000. Jerry Mikuláš,
Jr., was second with 5 members for
$23,000. Tliird was Clifton Martinets
with 6 members for $19,000. Frank
Skala, Jr., sold 3 members for $14,000
for fourth plače followed by John Ba-
rabas with 3 members for $13,000 for
fifth plače.
We háve a new organizer who made
his first sále. He is Larry Beran, an
organizer for the Beyersville Lodge.
Good luck to you Larry.
Active organizers for May are as fol-
lows:
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Sefcik, R. J. Věstník (West, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 18, 1969, newspaper, June 18, 1969; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth624923/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas.