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THE LEXHIPEP
January 28, 1949
SPORTSUGHTS
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Left t» Risht: Redwine, Carter, Bishop, Graver, Phillips, Crow,
Shytle, Morris, and in the center Captain Peeler and Coach Bowen.
L. H. S. Splits With
Rival Children’s Home
January 14—Lexington and Children’s
Home split a pair of Conference
meets here Friday night. The girls
took an early lead for Lexington to
defeat the Children’s Home girls 28-
17. Bruton was high scorer with 12
points.
The L.H.S. boys led the Orphan
quintet all through the ball game
until late in the fourth quarter. In
this quarter the Orphans passed the
“Jackets” in the scoring race mostly
on set shots by Sherrill, Children’s
Home captain. Sherrill was also high
scorer with 18 points. The game end
ed 44-40.
The lineups were;
Boys
L.H.S. Children’s Home
Carter 15 Sherrill 18
Shytle 12 Schrader 5
Craver 4 Boyette 5
Peeler 3 Hayworth 3
Crow 5 Lipe 3
Girls
L.H.S. Children’s Home
Bruton 12 Hoots 3
Carpenter 8 Bryson 3
McCulloch 8 McDonnell 6
Kinney Wagner
Russell Holland
Snellings Moore
L. H. S.-Statesville Split
January 11—Lexington High and
Statesville split a doubleheader at the
L.H.S. "crackerbox” Tuesday nighU
The local girls dropped their second
Conference game to a well-coached
Statesville quintet by a score of 34-14.
In the boys’ game spectators wit
nessed one of the best ball games
thus far this season. For the second
consecutive game, Bobby Shytle was
the hot rock for the “Jackets”. Dur
ing the game he managed to rack
up 19 points. All this and more
points by the rest of the team helped
the Lexington High School “Yellow-
jackets to defeat a determined
Statesville five by a score of 42-39.
Brittain was the high scorer for the
losers with 10 points.
The lineups were:
Boys
L.H.S. Statesville
Carter 8 Miller 6
Peeler 6 Allie 9
Craver 7 Fisher 7
Shytle 19 Gray 4
Crow 10 Brittain 10
Faculty Finds Fight To
Stomp Staffs’ Students
Take some six hundred odd scream
ing maniacs, and some thirty or forty
odd mad buffaloes agitating a pumped
up piece of leather, and what do you
have? Well, you might not find the
answer in any encyclopedia, but it
isn’t a hard question. Yes, it’s the
“student-faculty” basketball battle we
are talking about.
Strangely enough, no one was tram
pled to death in this mad encounter.
In fact, the only injuries that counted
appeared to be a couple of sprained
ankles, a few sore toes, and a lot of
sore teachers.
Much to the chagrin of the stu
dents, the old-timers seemed to have
no trouble in taking both the boys’
and the girls’ games. The ‘“lady
teachers,” paced by fast - moving,
sharp-shooting Frankie Sugg, took the
girls’ encounter with apparent ease
by a 22-9 margin
The “gentlemen teachers” were a
little harder pressed, though they
didn’t relinquish their lead through
out the game. Jimmy Banes was the
“ace” for the faculty along with “Buf
falo” Bowen, whose body-slams, half
nelsons, and flying tackles figured
prominently in the faculty’s victory.
Clowning was the order of the day.
One laugh-getter was the donning of
football equipment by one of the
students after a particularly rough
scrap. Another came when one of
the teachers. Miss Kemp Bunn, faked
an injury and was carried off the
floor on a stretcher to the Piedmont
Ambulance. The crowd went wild
when Scoop McCrary, local journal
ist, who played for the faculty, passed
out only to be revived when given
air by means of a bicycle pump. That
was the one and only time Scoop was
ever out of “hot air.” The whole
faculty was rejuvenated when Swing’s
Dairy delivered half pints of milk
and time was called for the faculty
members to partake of it. According
to the score, the milk must have
done the job.
This game, promoted by the Quill
and Scroll, the High School Journal
istic club, was played for the purpose
of raising money for a much-needed
trophy case.
DOSTER WOOD
Editor
JIM REDWINE
Assistant
Shoot, Carter, shoot!....Harold Carter (with ball) looking the
situation over. Peeler and Crow in baekground.
L.H.S. Boys Defeat
Barium in Conference
Thriller; Girls Lose
January 7—Lexington High played
its first Conference game by split
ting with Barium Springs.
Bobby Shytle, a sophomore and a
new member of the varsity squad,
received his first honors by leading
the scoring attack with 18 points. At
the end of the game the score was
tied 28 all. During the overtime pe
riod, Shytle scored all seven points
to give L.H.S. a victory of 35-29.
Barium scored 1 point during this
period. Barnes was high scorer for
the losers with 10 points to his credit.
The girls opened their first Con
ference game by taking a defeat of
36-19. Strickland was high scorer for
the girls with 18 points. The boys’
lineup was:
Carter Everette
Peeler 2 Barnes 10
Crow 6 Mangrum 7
Craver 7 Baldwin 9
Shytle 18 Young 1
Open Season
On Basketball
Basketball season for Lexington
High is here again, and now it’s
time to look at the male side of the
game.
L.H.S. lost four first-stringers since
last year, but that doesn’t mean the
team is slighted. Four more have
already taken their places on the
team, and there’s still some mighty
fine material sitting on the bench.
Holding down the forward positions
are: ’Harold Carter, Bobby Shytle,
“Chickie” Morris and Don Bishop.
The guards are: *J. L. Peeler, ’Mar
vin Crow, Jimmy Redwine and Jim
Plott. At center are ’“Tubby” Craver
and Blake Phillips.
The junior varsity team consists
of Bobby Leonard, Herbert Sink,
Sonny Timberlake, Bobby Clinard,
“Nig” Clark, Johnny Morgan, hnd
“Nookie” McCrary .
Managers for the team are Calvin
White and Carroll Leonard.
Last year the team ended the sea
son in one of the top three spots and
also won second place in South Pied
mont Conference tournament at Ca
tawba College.
So what do you say we all attend
the games this season and show our
team that we’re backing them?
’Letter men.
High “Hot Rockets”
Hit Hardwood
Yes, the New Year is here and
along with it comes a new season.
The Yellowjackets have tucked away
their football togs only to don their
basketball uniforms in search of fur
ther conquest on the hardwood. Let’s
take a look at the basketball picture
in L.H.S.
The Jackets inaugurated the bas
ketball season with five practice
games: two with High Point High
School, two with Michael and Lohr
Grey Poxes, local semi-pro team, and
one with Erlanger, another semi-pro
team.
The Grey Foxes, paced by Lewis
Hartzog, the ex-N. C. State fioorman
whose “now you see it, now you
don’t” type of basketball, kept the
local quintet one step behind in both
games, took the locals handily in both
encounters.
The High Point boys seemed to
have no great quantity of trouble in
taking two games from Harold Bow
en’s charges. The Jackets were pure
ly and simply outclassed. Incidentally,
the last years state champs look like
repeaters from where we sit.
The boys gave Erlanger a harder
time of it in their single encounter.
The locals led throughout the escond
half until the closing seconds, and
we do mean closing. It was like a
story you read in the sports fiction
magazines. The Jackets led by one
measly point with only a few measly
seconds left when—long Max McGinn
sunk a shot to top all shots. As
one wit put it, “It came from the
general vicinity of his shirt tails.”
Local Laddies Lead
Mooresville, 52-36;
Local Lassies Lose 42-39
January 18 — Lexington High and
Mooresville met on the local court
Tuesday night in a South Piedmont
Conference game. L.H.S. boys took an
early lead with Bobby Shytle gath
ering in 10 points in the first quar
ter, but due to an injury, he was
unable to finish the game. “Chickie”
Morris, who substituted for Shytle
most of the game, received scoring
honors with 18 points. Carter was hot
on his tail with 17.
In the girls’ game Henrietta Bruton
was high scorer with more than half
of the points scored. To be exact, she
took 24 of the 39 points scored. La-
foy was high scorer for the winners
with 19 points.