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Pitge Four HIGH LIFE SPORTS SECTION December 3,1955 Whirlies Down Whippets; Hopeful For AAA Title Penfieid's Jottings By Add Penfield, Jr. The Whirlies of Greensboro Sen ior High opened their basketball 'Campaign last Tuesday at Raleigh. The giant Caps defeated the cagers 63-46. Outside of a poor first quarter, the coaching staff was well pleased with the boys' perform ance. GHS offers several opportuni. ties in varsity athletics at this time of the year. There is the aforementioned basketball, wrest ling, and swimming. Coach Glenn and the antics of his matmen were well received in the unique as sembly last Wednesday. If that dcmonsti*ation is any indication, the wrestling team should have a fine season. The swimmers are handled by Coach Pat Earey. This corner understands that there will be intramural programs in basket ball and wrestling for those who fail to make the varsities and are interested in these programs. Do you like basketball? If you do, there are plenty of good high school and college games to be played in the state between now and the next issue of HIGH LIFE. Monday through Wednesday of next week there is the first annual Charlotte Invitational. It features such teams as Wake Forest, David son, Clemson, Tennessee, Mississ ippi State, Florida State, Colgate and Boston University. We like the Deacons and Tennessee in the tourney. A sleeper could turn up in the Red Raiders from Colgate from upstate New York in the Chenango Valley. Action resumes after Christmas with the Seventh Annual Dixie Classic from the 29-31 of this month. N. C. State should be the favorite in this tourney. We like a Duke-State final with the Wolf- pack to win by four points. The Whirlies play host to Dur ham on January .3. pul« plays the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest on January *-'’4. Guilford College pla3^ Apfxdaehfan &t BOone on the fifths Thi6-'W3lhdie& at Char lotte January 6. Senior High’s Whirlies pulled out a 47-45 overtime victory over their cross-town rivals, the Besse mer Whippets, at the Senior High gjm last Friday night. The right kind of reserves at the right moment was the key to the win. This was the first time in 20 years that the two Schools h^ met. With 2:16 left in the third quarter Coach Jamieson sent in junior Owen Johnson followed shortly by Doug Orr. These two boys put on a full-court press and scored timely baskets in a great comeback effort. Johnson capped the effort with a jump shot at the end of the third quarter. Bill Hanna got the first basket after 50 seconds. The score was tied a total of six times in this stanza. It ended 14-13 in favor of the 'Whirlies. Bessemer gained the lead at the end of the second per iod, 29-24. Whippet Richard Tiu*ner led all the scorers with 15 points at half time. Larry Gill and Wilson Car- ruthers had six apiece for the ■Whirlies. At the start of the second half, Larry Gill and Bill Lewey hit for quick baskets, narrowing the gap to 29-27. The Whippets moved to a six-point lead at 33-27 after the Whirlies had missed several foul shots. When the quintet started a three- minute overtime, the Whirlies con trolled the tip and played for one shot. Brad Anderson took the shot with 59 seconds gone in the extra period. The shot missed, but Wilson Carruthers rebounded it, making the score 45-43. The WTiippets lost the ball to the "Whirlies who went into their shell again. The Whirlies worked around until Bill Hanna worked himself loose to score on a layup with 32 seconds to go. Bessemer’s Townsend hit two free throws to move within two points at 47-45, but the game was over for all in tents and purposes, Just 20 sec onds remained and' the Whirlies froze the ball to gain their first win of the season against one loss. Richard Turner of Bessemer led’ all borers at the game’s end with 20 .pointSi Laity-Gill KiI9 -14 for thfe Whirlies. WIlsOH CaiiHHthers with 10 and Leon Townsend of GHS Matmen Begin Work; First Match On January 12 By Jerry Farber “I've got 61 good boys, and from the way it looks now, we’re going to have a top-notch bunch of grap- plers,’’ states likable wrestling men tor Lody Glenn. From a visitor’s point of view, the Greensboro 1955- ’56 grappling crew should be noth ing short of colossal. Last year Coach Glenn started his “rebulding” program and had a young, but hustling, batch of boys to work with. This season, those youngsters should develop into Grade A material. Back from the 1954-'55 squad are stars Jackie Jones. Kent Carter, Bert Wilder, Dwight Witty, ^win Meade, Ronnie Parks, Benny Mc Kee, Lou Gunter, and Bill Craven. Though there wasnt a surplus of lettermen returning to the mats, Coach Glenn still has a plentiful supply of “bosses” from which to choose. Among these are Gary Sni der, Phil Causey, Tommy Smith, Steve Schlosser, Charlie Whedbee, Guy .McGraw,. Larry Rogers, Har vey Daktor, Buddy Watkins, Bill Godfrey, and Bob Johannesen. These are just a few from among the hordes. The grapplers open the season against Asheboro on January 12 in a home match. The schedule rests with 12 squads to be met, culmi nating with the state tournament on March 2-3. Glenn’s boys face the Asheboro grapplers twice, Statesville twice, and the same num ber of meets with High Point, Bur lington, Goldsboro, and Salisbuiy. The season’s finale pits the Whir lies versus Salisbury at Salisbury on February 29. Wrestling coaches Glenn and Claude Manzi are anticipating a highly successful year of grappling. Bessemer with 12 points were sec ond high for their respective squads. In a preliminary game, the Sen ior High Jayvees defeated a simi lar team from Bessemer, 60-29. Linwood Oates led JV scorers with 10 points as Coach Julian Smith cleared the bench of his sq\iad. and from the strenuous practice ses sions, nothing less than a fatal plague will keep Greensboro Higi’s wrestlers from a continuous string of pins. Stalwarts Jackie Jones, Kent Carter, Bert Wilder, and newcomer Tommy Smith should be among the crew’s strong spots, but a never-say “I’m pinned” bunch of challengers will keep the bigwigs from relax ing. There are 12 weight classes and 61 grapplers, and every one has his eye set on that “first spot.” With interest and participation gaining steadily in body-building here at GHS, nothing would suit the wrestlers better than to have a good cheering gang bebhind them . . . attend those matches . . . previously stated, nothing would suit the boys better, except probab ly a three minute pin. “FOLLOW THE WHIRLIES” The schedule is os follows: January 12—Thursday—Asheboro Here, 7:30 January 17—Tuesday— Statesville Here. 7:30 January 19—Thursday—High Point There, 7:30 January 26—Thursday—Burlington There, 7:30 January 28—Saturday— Goldsboro There, 7:30 February 2—Thursday—Statesville There, 7:30 February 7—Tuesday— Salisbury Here, 7:30 February 9—Thursday.—Burlington Here, 7:30 February 14—Tuesday— Asheboro There, 7:30 February 16~Thursday~High Point Here, 7:30 February 23—Thursday—Goldsboro Here, 7;30 February 29—Wednesday’—Salisbury There, 7:30 Mardi 2-8—State Toumamevt Lowe Leads Tar Heels To Shrine Bowl Victory; Jamieson Coaches Game Almost left off the squad. Nel son Lowe of North Wilkesboro came out of obscurity to score- two touchdowns and to help in a drive for another as he led a Bob Jamieson-coached North Car olina All-Star Shrine Bowl team to a 19-13 victory December 3 at Charlotte against a similar team of South Carolinians. Quarterback Nelson I^we was not even on the squad until the middle of the week. A vacancy in the roster paved the way for Coach Jamieson to bring the North Wilkesboro lad to Char lotte for the game. This was the 19 annual game played before the usual sellout crowd of 20,000. Coach Bob Jamie son of GHS was the head coach of the Tar Heel boys. Whirlies Lou Glascock and Don Rothrock repre sented the Gate City in the contest. Lowe scored the first Tar Heel touchdown in the second quarter, climaxing a 73 yard drive. Lowe also converted on* his extra point try. - Greensboro’s fine halfback, Lou Glascock, scored the 13-6 touch down in the second quarter, Lou caught a pass at his own 26, cut to his right and continued on his way to a 38 yard jaunt to the South Carolina 36. The Tar Heels then drove down to the five. Fullback Wade Smith of Albemarle handed the ball off to Lou on one of Coach Jamieson’s pet plays from the dou ble wing and the fleet-footed halfback “turned the corner” around right end to score un touched. This was Coach Jamieson’s first time coaching the North Carolin ians in this Shrine Classic. Cer tainly it was an honor well-deserv ed. He coached North Carolina to a convincing win in the Kiwanis- sponsored All-Star baaketball game in Charlotte last March.
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