Improvement Era, 1941 by Unknown

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Explorers

M. Elmer Christensen, chairman; Mark H. Nichols, Axel A. Madsen, Elwood G. Winters, Floyed G. Eyre, John D. Giles, Dr. L. A. Stevenson.

VANBALL

THE eleventh annual Inter-Council Vanball Tournament was held February 28 and March 1, in Salt Lake City. The Logan Ninth Ward Team of Cache Valley Council won the championship for the second consecutive year by playing as fine a brand of vanball as has ever been played by Explorers. The smoothness and accuracy displayed was indicative of long consistent training under competent leadership.

The second place winners, Emigration Ward from Salt Lake Council, surprised even themselves by playing a championship brand of ball from the beginning of the game until the finish as indicated by the final scores-15-13 and 16-14.

Other places in the championship tournament were distributed as follows:

Third Place, Logan Fifth Ward, Cache Valley Council; Fourth Place, Manchester Ward, Los Angeles Metropolitan Area; Fifth Place, 33rd Ward, Salt Lake Council; Sixth Place, Pocatello 5th Ward, Tendoy Council; Seventh Place, Fairview Ward, Utah National Parks Council; Eighth Place, Ogden 7th Ward, Ogden Gateway Council.

TOOELE FIFTH WARD EXPLORER TROOP NO. 365

These Explorers all have their Arrowhead and Life Awards. All but two Explorers have hiked over the Mormon trail from Henefer to Salt Lake City. The entire troop plans to make the Pioneer Trail Trek again this year.

Names of the Explorers are: Top row left to right: Earl Kenworthy, Kent McKluskey, Westley Smart, Ted Bingham, Val Simpson. Bottom row, left to right: Norman Jordon, Jack Gibson, Explorer Leader C. N. Fackrell, Jack Riding, Keith Ensign.

Each member of the championship team was presented with an Explorer sweater. To the Emigration team and consolation winners, 33rd Ward, were given vanballs.

The tournament was characterized by a much finer type of vanball playing than in previous years. On practically every team was one or more outstanding server, kill-shot, or set-up artist. The tournament committee however feels that outstanding players of the 1941 tournament consisted of:

Harold Blaser, Logan 5th; Norman Sonne, Logan 9th; Keith Larsen, Logan 9th; William Busby, Emigration; George Grow, Emigration; L. J. Nuttall, Jr., 33rd Ward.

Mark Nichols of the General Board of the Y. M. M. I. A. served as chairman of the tournament committee and Roy Johnson as tournament manager. To Brother Johnson goes much credit for his untiring enthusiastic service in developing interest and raising the standards of vanball play. Hundreds of Explorers throughout the Church today have an athletic program they can proudly call their own.

LITTLE MOUNTAIN MONUMENT

HAS your troop selected the rock it will contribute toward building the Explorer Monument on the summit of Little Mountain on the Pioneer Trail? On June 8, at 5:00 p. m., all Explorer troops and stake representatives attending June Conference will participate in a fitting program depositing the rocks sent in by the troops. It is hoped that several hundred troops will be represented. Plan now to have a rock sent from your troop for the monument, and if possible have a representative of the troop bring the rock personally.

PIONEER TRAIL TREK

EXPLORERS

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