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Friday, March 10, 1939 THE POINTER Page Three Bi Weekly Bison Sports Assistant Editor REPORTERS: B. Thomas, G. Morgan, M. Snider, H. Forrest Trackmen Start Training Grind March 8th ^ BASEBALL CLUB REPORTS FOR PRACTICE mms SM WELBORN In approximately one month the spring track season will open a year which may prove to he the most successful in many years. The track squad will be the strongest in the dashes and the jumps although the other events such as the javelin, the shot, the discus, and the 880 will show up fairly well in dual meets. The mile run and the pole vault will be the events which will not have a single veteran. The different men who will re port with the squad this year will be; Bob Truesdale, dash, hurdles, and broad jump; J. R. Newton, dashes and javelin; Em erson Gray, high jump and dashes; W. H. (Swift) Davis, 440 and 880; John Jones, hurdler, broad jumper and weight man. These men will form the nucleus of the track team, although there will be many new men going out for track. Golfers Organized Five lettermen returned to the golf links to give the Bisons a veteran team for the 1939 cam paign. The golf team has reported for practice despite the fact that a coach has not been named as yet. Nto official schedule has been arranged as yet. The golfers plan to enter various meets and get plenty of practice therein. Their first meet is the South Atlantic Meet to be held on Easter-. This meet is to be held here. Later the golf aspirant's plan to enter the State Meet at Raleigh and if this is won they will enter the Southern Interscholastic Contest to be held at Chattanooga, Tenn. Ansel Snow, Robert Silman, Frank Garrett, Henry Baker, Paul T. Bryant, Harold Wilson, and Bobby Sappenfield comprise the team this year. Some of the members will probably attend the Greensboro Greater Open Tour nament held in Greensboro. miON HI Seven Lettermen Nucleus For Bison Baseball Team Charles E. Spencer Donated Pentathlon Medal For Sophomores HAYWORTH Dimunitive Darrel W e 1 b o r n, who has played two years on the Bison basketball team, will be one of the co-captains for the 1940 basketball team. Athletic Director A. J. Simeon announced last week that for the first time in the history of the school that a pentathlon medal would be given to the sophomore leading in the track contest. Charles E. Spencer, state ath letic head, stated that the rea son for giving the medal to sophomores is to create interest in the track team and to build for future years. Each sophomore to enter this pentathlon contest must contact A. J. Simeon, track coach, to know what events are to be held. Every sophomore who exepcts to participate in this contest, must enter five events. Last year the varsity track team participated in a pentathlon contest, with Bob Truesdale win ning the medal. Since the contest met with such fine results, the athletic department, with Mr. Charles E. Spencer as the do- nater, decided to encourage the sophomore boys to take interest in track by offering them a chance to win a Pentathlon medal. GIRLS^ SPORTS Indoor Track Team Fails To Place Men The Bison indoor track team failed to place any man in the finals of the S. A. A. U. track meet, held at Chapel Hjll on Feb ruary 25. Although every man was in good condition the Bison indoor track men could not place in this highly competitive indoor meet. The results of the High Point men were as follows: J. R New ton lost in the semi-finals of the 60 yard dash, John Jones -was beaten in the finals of the high hurdles. Bob Truesdale was de feated early in preliminarites of the 60 yard dash, W. H. “Swift” Da-vis unfortunately placed last in the 1000 meters while Emer son Gray could only seek a seventh place in the high jump. Competition was strong in this meet which included track men from seven Southern states and Washington, D. C. Stellar guard, who scored 134 points and was one of the main cagers in the opponents offensive threat, heads the 1940 Bison bas ketball. team with Darrell Wel- born. Several homerooms have a chance for winning the cham pionship in the girls’ intramural sports program. Rooms 304, 310 and 314, 308, and 201 tied for first place in soccer. Rooms 311, 105, and 208 were winners in the basketball tournament. Much depends on the outcome of the volleyball and basketball tournaments, since oth er homerooms still have a chance for the championship. Volleyball will begin as soon as the class basketball games are finished, reported Miss Nell Stal lings, girls’ athletic director. The juniors and seniors are leading in the class games. Paced by Geneva Crowder, who rang up twenty points, the sen ior girls carried away the class championship by defeating a scrappy but outclassed junior team Monday afternoon by the score of 28 to 8. The seniors had advanced into the finals by beating the sopho more team while the juniors had gained the final round by virtue of a victory over the sophomore second team. Seniors other than Crowder helping the winners were Louise Surrett, Ruth Griffith, Doris By- erly, Lois Fox, Serena Riser, Amy Liou Holmes, and Kathryn Al len. Juniors who played well but proved to be no match for the high scoring seniors were Betsy Yow, Pearl Kinney Juan ita Thayer, Sadie Whitley, Janey Wilson, Frances Brown, and Bes sie Silman. Mary Elizabeth Lind say, stellar guard, was kept out of action because of influenza. First Base Presents Big Prob lem to Coach Scott MPK Foil 'ID Lewis Hayworth, ever depend able back court man and guard, and dimunitive Darrell Welborne, fast-breaking forward, were elect ed Friday, March 3rd, as co-cap- tains of the 1939-40 Bison basket ball team. Notwithstanding the fact that Coach A. J. Simeon had rather select a game captain for each game, he, for some reason, an nounced Wednesday, March 1st that all lettermen would vote for a captain, on Friday, to lead the Bisons in their attempt for the state championship. At the ses sion, all agreed that they had rather put this honor and de pendence upon two men instead of one. Hayworth and Welborn, mem bers of the Bison squad for two years, were given the honor of being co-captains for the coming season. Hayworth scored 134 points this past year, and Welborn scored 120 points. The election was held in a very democratic manner. Each player was seated in the room off to himself. When the names were handed in for nomination practically every one of these boys was nominated. Af ter voting about ten or twelve times, and in a very close race, Hayworth and Welborn were se lected. Racqueteers Begin A squad of 27 boys answered Coach “Sam’* Smith’s call for the 1939 edition of the Black Bi son tennis team. Although the larger part of the tennis aspirants are consid ered to be “green” material, be cause of their lack of experience. Coach Smith is expecting to form a fair team from all his material. Leading the Bisons on the court will be last year’s regulars “Jake” Steele, Earl Frazier, and Thurman Homey. Other boys who are expected to do a lot of racquet weilding are: “Dick'' Hartley, Bill Winders, Arthur Ut ley, Bill Simmons, Bill King, Roy Bradner, and Paul Warren. Other aspirants include: Clark .Wilson, Wa3me Cagle, Jim Smith, Raeford Nance Roy Highfill, Lloyd Flythe, Henry Sawyers, Reitzel Morgan, Sam Pender- graph, Baxter Strapleton, Paul Dobbind, Joe Woollen, Charles Brockman, Thomas Laber, B. E. Putnam, and George Shelhorse. The netmen will be managed by Stanley Freeman. Baseball practice got underway this week with four lettermen re porting and three others schedul ed to report next week. Coach “June” Scott will have to find two infielders, an outfielder, and two first class pitchers if he ex pects to have a contender for con ference honors. The pitching staff will be built around the veterans Jack Hussey and Clifton Overcash, who bore the brunt of the mound duties last year. Two left-handers, big Ed Brown and Forrest Linthcum, are expected to develop into first class hurlers before the season is completed. Brantley Hucks, a fourth year man, and Clyde Hedrick, a second year man, are practically assured of their old outfield berths. Hucks may be shifted to third because of an injury to Webb, a reserve infielder who had been groomed for duties at the “hot corner” this year. The catching will be taken care of this year by the veteran Harry Land. Big league scouts have on several occasions made favorable comments about Land. The infield will be built around Lewis Hayworth, only regular in fielder returning, and Lester Webb, a reserve infielder last year who is now out with a bad hand. Hayworth will hold down his old second base position with Bill Lackey, a newcomer who made a good record with the Asheboro Junior American Legion team last year, at shortstop completing the keystone combina tion. Webb will handle the duties around third if his hand heals as is expected. In the event the hand does not heal immediately, Hucks will probably be shifted from the outfield to third base. First base wilj be “wide open” to all comers. 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