February 28, 1950
THE POINTER
Page Three
Bison And Reynolds Clash Tonight
Displaying their finest form of the season, the Black Bison
rolled over the Yellow Jackets of Salisbury, 57-35, in a basketball
game played here last Tuesday night. Pictured here are Robert
Brinkley (21) of Salisbury and Frank Hassell (12) of High Point
as they scrambled for a rebound. Looking on is Frank McRae (42)
of the visitors. McRae was high man for the losers with twelve
points, while Hassell tallied five for the locals
Spring Sports Soon To Start;
March 15 Date For Baseball
Golf, Tennis Suffer
Losses Of Lettermen
BY BOB BUNDY
“In the spring a young man’s
fancy lightly turns to ?” Well
if you take a look at the athletic
field some spring afternoon, you’ll
probably find hopeful young ath
letes’ thoughts turning to track,
baseball, tennis, golf, and spring
football.
Brother, whether you’ve noticed
the calendar lately or not, it s
about that time—the time for
these sports to get underway, that
is. Definite dates have been set
for baseball and spring football,
.March 15, which is also the day
for your income tax to be in. March
1 has been set as a tentative date
for the opening of the golf amd
tennis season. For those miserable
few who haven’t noticed, track
has begun.
Prospects
Track—The loss of such stal
warts as Clyde Garrison and
Charlie Jones will be a blow to
the tracksters; but returning let
termen Darrell Winslow, Don Mc
Neill, and Bill McGuinn should
enable Coach Ishee to field a
better-than-average aggregation.
Baseball — The baseball team
will be looking for an improvement
over last year’s season as they
are losing only two letternmn.
-Ymong those returning are Bill
Craig, Lawrence Kimball, Charlie
Bryant, and Leroy Land, who
should help the baseball team win
their share of the games this
spring.
Tennis, Golf, Football
Tennis—The Bison netters prob
ably have the least hope of having
a successful season of any of the
teams. Losing four lettermen of
last year’s six, this year’s racket-
ers may lack the needed experience
to have a winning team.
Golf—The loss of three letter-
men from last year’s state cham
pionship team may lessen the
chances of a repeat performance
in the state tournament, but the
linksters should have a top-fliRht
Spring football—This sport has
become quite instrumental in de
veloping new grid stars, and no
doubt will see a large turnout
this year.
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Before H. F. Game
(Bv Richard Whittemore, Sports
Editor, HIGH LIFE, Greensboro)
The Purple Whirlwinds of
Greensboro will try for their sec
ond victory of the year over their
arch-rivals. High Point. In their
first meeting-, the Greensboro lads
were victorious by the count of
26-16. But by virtue of their play
ing on their own home court, the
Bison could win with the support
missed here.
The Whirlies boast triumphs over
all conference foes except Burling
ton, and at the time this article
goes to press the score of that
game is not available.
Greensboro, High Point, Burl
ington and Salisbury have clinched
conference berths for the state
tournament and will represent the
Western AA Conference against
the Eastern Conference in Durham
later this season.
This game should be very close,
and Greensboro as well as High
Point should make a good showing;
the game this time should be
played wide open there—no mat
ter which of the two wins, both
will go to the North Carolina
tournament. If Greensboro does
win the rest of their games be
tween the time that this article
is written to the High Point game,
the Western Conference will be
at stake!
The game should be interesting,
to say the least! Good luck to the
winner, whoever he shall be!
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BY RONNIE CURRENT
With a record number of en
tries, the third annual North
Carolina Junior High School
Basketball Tournament will get
underway here in the high school
gym Thursday afternoon, March
2, and will continue on the 4,
6, and 7. Invitations have been
sent out by Coach Simeon to
all junior high teams through
out the state, and most of the
teams have already accepted.
Since the beginning of ^ the
tournament in 1948 the local junior
hi"-h squad under Coach Ray Cor-
rell has been one of the main
threats for the tourney crown. E.
K. Powe of Durham won the initial
event, and the Baby Bison took
the laurels last year. The locals
have another top-notch team this
vear and will be defending their
championship honors against
some of the finest talent ever to
enter.
To each player of the winning
team a gold minature basketball
is given and beautiful trophies
are awarded the champion and
runner-up squads. tVide interest
has been centered around the
free throw contest, and to this
year’s winner will go a minature
gold ball.
In the battle for first place in
the Class AA Western Conference,
the Black Bison, at this -w-riting,
is the logical choice for “most
likely to succeed,” with Greens
boro rated next in line. The race
for the two other berths for the
State Tournament centers around
Burlington and Salisbury. Rey
nolds High of Winston-Salem has
been eliminated as a possible con
tender for the state honors and
■will not be defending the crown
they w^on last year.
Locals’ Chances Raised
With Powell’s Return
Sporting a first place position
in the race for honors in the West
ern Class A.A Conference, the High
Point High School Black Bison will
be at home tonight for an engage
ment with lowly Reynolds High
of Winston-Salem. This will be
the second meeting of these two
teams this year, and the Demons
fi-om the Twin-City will ibe seeking
revenge for the 41-40 defeat that
the Bison dealt them in a game
there two weeks ago.
On Friday night the Burlington
High School Bulldogs will be in
High Point for a return meeting
with the Bison. The Alamance
County boys dropped a decision
to the loop-leaders in Burlington,
but since then have been very suc
cessful with other conference foes.
Last Friday night the Bison all
but clinched first place in the
Western Conference with a win
over the Purple Whirlies of Greens
boro. The Bison, playing without
the services of Jack Powell during
the first half, were behind 20-13
going into the final half. Powell
entered the game then, however;
and the Bison came to life. Play
ing a tight zone defense they held
Greensboro to 11 points in the sec
ond half and defeated them 34-31.
For the “Powellful” High Point
team and the many Bison fans, it
was sweet revenge.
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1950 Wrestling
Season Closes
With a 28-10 win over the
Greensboro Purple Whirlwinds the
High Point High School wrestling
team ended their season Thursday
night.
This victory enabled the Bison
grapplers to rack up a seasonal
record of five wins and two losses.
Six of the High Point matmen
were wrestling their last match for
the high schol. They are Captain
Glenn Hudson, Jack Willis, Don
Rogers, Roy Bragg, Harold Mor
gan, and Bobby Black. Two sen
iors, Darrell Winslow and C. ^ L.
Corn, have been injured during
the latter part of the season and
have not been able to do any wres
tling. .
In the eight matches the Bison
wrestled this year, they ran up a
total of 159 points to the 98 points
that their opponents have rolled
up.
Much credit should be given to
the new Bison Coach, Mr. William
“Hoot” Gibson, who replaced Rook
Sappenfield and who turned out a
commendable record for the sea-
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Doris Craven
The outstanding athlete fea
tured this time really needs no
introduction to High Pointers. She
is active, well-known, outstanding
in almost any field you might
choose.
After winning her letter in sev
eral sports at Junior High, she
moved over to the senior building
to star in tennis, soccer, basket
ball, and softball, being named
captain in each major sport at
least once.
You’ve probably heard about her
four years of varsity basketball,
how she’s sparking the team with
flashy floor play, and that she was
the high scorer of last season.
She has played softball at H.P.H.S
for three years, but since Doris
never speaks of herself and what
she has done, probably few of you
know just how successful she has
been in this sport. She played
in the industrial league here in
the summers of 1947 and 1948, be
ing named to the honorary All-
State team both years.
But perhaps the highlight of
her “softballing” days was her trip
to Florida with the state champion
High Point nine, where the team
won third place in the southeastern
tourney, and Doris won honorable
mention as outfielder on the All-
Southern team.
Many other accomplishments by
this “wonder girl” cannot be men
tioned for lack of space.
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BY ANNE SHIPWASH
Girls’ basketball at H.P.H.S.
has been more successful this
year than was first expected.
A quick re-hash of the games
to date shows the girls with
a 2-2 won-lost record. In the
first game the girls got off to
a slow start and couldn’t over
take the Salisbury lassies, and
so lost 28-14. Then the girls
were fired up to whip Greens
boro 39-27. However, their steam
ran out before they met Rey
nolds; and although Nancy Beck
was the individual high scorer
of the game, the locals lost 29-
22. Nancy collected six baskets
and four out of eight free shots
for a 16-point total.
In journeying to the Gate City
the next week and repeating the
story, the girls proved that that
win over the “Whirlie Girlies” was
no accident. This time the score
was 31-27, and the game was the
best-played yet. Doris Craven not
only passed for several scores and
set up many others, but she scored
nine points herself. Doris, who is
exceptionally good at intercepting
the ball and starting plays, was
outstanding on floor play in this
game also. It was certainly her
best game to date. Joan “Slats’’
Crowder had 12 points and Nancy
Beck had 10 to round out the
scoring for the Pointers. Helen
Martin, at her usual center guard
position, was of invaluable aid in
holding Greensboro’s star forward
to a mere three points. The girl,
Tharon Seawell, is high scorer on
the Whirlie team for the second
straight year, and had scored 17
points in the first meeting of the
two teams. The other regular-
guards, Ann VonCannon and Co-
leen Ward, were, as usual, steady
and dependable.
The Junior Varsity wasn’t
quite so lucky, but lost to the
Whirlie Juniors, 15-8. Gwen
Reddeck, among the top four
in individual scoring on the local
I teams, collected five of the eight
points the J. V.’s were able to
get.
Nancy Beck, who is averaging
about 11% points per game, is
still the team’s leading scorer
with a total of 46 points in four-
games. Joan Crowder is in second
place with 26 points in four games.
These totals do not include the
intramural and practice games,
but are only the scoring against
out-of-town teams.
The Bisonettes, still proud of
their new uniforms, were hoping
to get win-number-three from
Reynolds in MTnston-Salem on
February 26. Results of the
game were unavailable at the
time of this writing.
Coach Upchurch is vei-y pleased
with the improvement the girls
have made since the start of the
season. Optimistically speaking, the
prospects for next year are rather
good. Although she loses five var
sity players through graduation
this year, including the starting
trio of forwards. Coach doesn’t
seem to be too worried, because
all the guards will return, and
there are quite a few fine junioi-
yarsity players who will move up
into their “big sisters’ ” places next
year. Yep, the future of gii-ls’
basketball in High Point seems
to be pretty bright!
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