Page Four.
THE SALEMITE
Friday, May 20, 1938.
SPCCT SLANT/
WILLENA COUCH WINS
TENNIS TITLE
A record praetieally impossible to
beat was set by Willena Couch ia
the final tennis tournament last Sat
urday afternoon. For the fourth
consecutive year Miss Couch hag
gained the championship in the col
lege tournament. During this time
.she' has lost only one set in winning
her four titles.
In Saturday’s match the cham
pion defeated her able opponent,
Cornelia Wolfe, in straight sets,
6-0, 7-5. The first set was won in
an easy fashion with a 6-0 victory.
The second set began with Miss
Wolfe taking a 4-1 lead in which
she showed both proficiency and
skill in the game. At this point
Mias Couch staged a brilliant come
back and won her fourth title with a
7-5 victory. In the semi-finals the
champion defeated Sallie Emerson
in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2, and Cor
nelia Wolfe won her sets in a closely
played match against Elizabeth
White with a 11-9, 6-4, decision.
MARY KNOX WINS
RIDING CUP
Another equesrtrian year was
brought to a close with the Riding
Show last week. As the riders left
the college, a threatening cloud was
covering the sky; but the storm
mercifully held oflf and the few drops
of rain only CQoled off everything.
The riders were divided into first
class and the second class. Seven
girls entered the first class. In this
group, Mary Knox received the blue
ribbon, Tillie Hines the red ribbon,
Evelyn McCarty the yellow ribbon,
and Cramer Percival the white rib
bon, denoting first, second, third,
and 'fourth places, respectively.
Seven girls also entered the second
clas;). In this class, only three rib-1
bons were awarded, the blue one go-1
iBg to Mary Worthy Spence, red to
Jane Kirk, and yellow to Esther
Alexander.
As a climax t© the Aow. all the
ribbon-winners competed for the
cup. The contestants in this last
event did well and displayed prom
ising horsemanship. However, the
coveted cup went to Mary Knox
of Statesville, N. C., who had also
Won the first class blue ribbon.
NEW FASHIONS EM
PHASIZE COMFORT
You must have noticed the trend
towards comfort in clothes. New
fashionn permit freer movement than
ever. If you don’t believe times
have changed, drag out big sister’s
college annual and take a look. Not
so very many years ago gym suits
were strait jackets, and bathing
suits were what we’d only clown in
now. Should we try to swim in one
of the “fashionable” suits of some
years back, we WQuld probably be
come so tangled up in. skirts and
ruffles that we’d end up by making
a meal for the fishes. But we can’t
blame it on the suits today. There’s
not much extra material to weigh
us down!
Shorts and slacks are going to be
worn this year just as much as ever,
the new short jackets will lend a
fresh touch. Short tennis dresses
also are becoming popular. Many
of them are of the dirndl type with
plenty of blouse for chest expan
sion and practically no skirt to hin
der knee action.
Wherever you look this year you
wUl see the dirndL Did you know,
by the way, that diindl is the fwn-
iliar term for young g^rl in the
former Austrian Tyrol t
So, whether you wear stripes,
dots, gay colors, o nrhite, eomfort
and smartness should be the key
note of your outfit.
ATHLETIC COUNCIL
FOR 1938-’39 ELECTED
Felicia Martin, President;
Peggy Bowen, Vice-
President
The 1938-’39 Athletic Council has
been elected and promises to be a
successful one. Felicia Martin is
the new President. She has been
on the Council for two years — her
sophomore year as volley ball man
ager and this year as assistant bas
ketball manager. Peggy Bowen, the
incoming vice-president, was secre
tary of this year’s council. Mary
Venable Rogers, new secretary, was
treasurer this year. The new treasure
is Carolyn Cherry, who seems to
have acquired quite a few offices as
treasurer here at Salem. Carolyn
Pfohl, a member of the varsity hock
ey team, joins the council for the
first time as the new hocky manager,
and .Tane Kirk, this year’s assistant
manager, will be Caroline’s assist
ant. Ann Johnson and Mabel Pit-
zer, both varsity basketball players,
are the new basketball managers.
Josephine Hutchinson will keep her
position as tennis manager, and will
be assisted by Sallie Emerson, who
has made quite a show for herself
in this year’s tennis tournament.
Betty Sanford and Mary Thomas,
both excellent swimmers, will fill the
position of swimming managers, and
Emma BrQwn Grantham and Tillie
Hines will manage Riding. Mary
Davenport, this year’s volley ball
manager, has been chosen manager
for baseball next year. Marjorie
Powell, cheerleader and training
manager for the ’37-’28 council, now
assumes position as SQCcer manager.
Geraldine Baynes, an outstanding
sophomore athlete, will join the
council as volley ball manager. The
new golf manager is Peggy Jones,
who has shown herself a skilled
horseman both here in Salem and
earlier at the Academy. As hiking
manager, Jesse Skinner, a St. Mary’s
transfer and a good athlete has been
elected the new manager for arch
ery, and Margaret Patterson, one of
this year’s cheerleaders, has been
chosen and the new cheerleader and
training manager. These girls will
make fine leaders, don’t you think t
I PERSONALS
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Ann and Felicia went home again
last week-end . . . Katherine and
Millie Trojcler went home to Burl
ington . . . Eve Tomlinson spent the
week-end at home in Hickory . . .
Margaret Wilson went to Kerners-
ville to visit her grand-parents . . .
Alice Kenlow and Millicent McKen-
dry went home with Christine Dob
bins to Chapel Hill . . . Briggs went
home to High Point for the week
end . . . Becky Brame and Lois Mor
gan went to North Wilkesboro for
the week-end . . . Nell Kerns went
home to Durham . . . Olive Biddle
spent the week-end in Charlotte . .
Mary Jo went home to Wilkesboro
. . . Pattie Porter spent the week
end in Raleigh . . . Lillie Taylor
from Shelby spent the week-end
here with Mary Lee Salley . . . The
girls who went to the “Hill” last
week-end reported a grand time.
Junior-Seniors were held in the
big new gym with Red Norville play
ing. Eunice Patten went to the
Phi Dut houseparty . . . Kelly Anne
Smith went to the Beta, houseparty;
and Jo Gibson, Alice Horsfield, and
Marianna Redding were guests at
the A. T. O. houseparty. Leila Wil
liams, Mary McColl, and Prather
Sisk also attended the dances, which
they say were perfect . . . Virginia
Lee, McCarty, Lou Preas, and Fran
ces Oole went to Agnew Bahnson’s
wonderful house party at Roaring
Gap last week-end. The moon was
pretty there too.
If a hen is heard to crow it is at
once done away with as it Is con
sidered unlucky to keep it.
GLANCING BACK AND
FACING FORWARD
None of us have ever been hurt
but rather most of us have been
helped when occasionally we have
stopped to survey from a vantage
point, the past. A fair summary
and appraisal of bygone experiences
helps no little in planning for the
future. It is with this in mind then
that we glance backward over our
past athletic year at Salem. This
sports page itself was one of our
first, most important, and most suc
cessful steps forward this year. A
sport section in the Salemite has
proved quite successful under Cor
nelia Wolfe’s guiding hand, though
there have been times when we have
failed to provide her with much
news. ,
As it is customary, the Athletic
Association entertained the fresh
men early in the year. This year the
girls gathered in Bitting Recreation
Room for an informal picnic supper
one night during the first week of
school, and the sports managers vied
with each other in sellingj their par
ticular activities. For a while last
fall, the pool, the tennis courts, and
riding out at Mr. Anderson’s were
our pastimes in sports. The fall
tennis tournament was incomplete
but at least began well with a double
ladder for upperclassmen and a
singles for the freshmen.
Hockey season brought out the old
feud between the juniors and sen
iors who finally tied for the cham
pionship. The season closed with an
exhibition game for high school stu
dents from the surrounding schools.
About fifteen of our best hockey
players attended the hockey con
ference at Harrisonburg State
Teachers College and found it fun
as well as helpful. At the banquet,
which closed the season officially,
and excellent varsity waaannounced
and the cup presented. All during
the hockey season, a number of us
were making regular trips out to Mr.
Andersons and riding his horses. Be
sides the regular rides, there were
several early morning ventures too.
With the coming o^ the basket
ball season we really began using
the gymnasium and the new lockers.
This is the first entire athletic year
we’ve had there. The basket ball
season wound up with a double tour
nament for A and B classes. In
both, the juniors finally triumphed
and received the cup for the first
time at the banquet closing the sea
son. Near the end of the basket
ball season. Miss “At” introduced
most of us to a new game, badmin
ton. One night, four men from the
city gave us several exhibition
games with the result that our bad
minton players have increased in
number and in skill.
From basketball we went into the
volley ball period. Here too the
season closed with a tournament,
though not such a successful one
as we had in the two major sports.
Along about this time a group went
over to Duke o**e Saturday to par
ticipate in the play day. There they
had a chance to compare Salem ath
letics with those of other southern
schools.
With the coming of warm weath
er, we all began to branch out into
the individual sports, tennis, golf,
and swimming have been claiming
our time lately. Now these are wind-
ing up; the tennis and golf tourna
ments are over; the riding show
has been held; and the pool is open
at regular hours. The tennis tourna
ment was especially successful this
FIRST TOURNAMENT
PLAYED ON SALEM
GOLF COURSE
Great enthusiasm was shown over
the golf tournament which was play
ed last Thursday, Friday ,and Sat
urday onr our new course. Three
spring, featuring three ladders for
classes A, B, and C, Particularly
are we proud to boast of our new
golf course of four holes. The new
golf course of four holes. The tour
nament is being played here on our
own course. ,
So we draw to the close of an
other athletic year at Salem. Jane
Kirk and the council entertained
the council and the hockey and bas
ket ball varsity teams recently as
sort of wind up. Now our new pres
ident, Felicia Mairtin is facing her
duties.
Facing forward, we are turned
toward a promising summer in which
to display and improve our athletic
asquirements. There is no time like
these summer days in which to
tackle our favorite individual sports
and polish them up. Then in the
fall we will all gather again to
show our summer improvements and
to compare them with those of onr
classmates. We will begin a new
year with our well-equipped gymn,
excellent field, good courts, new
golf course, high aim for our sports
page, new council, new material in
the freshman class, and a renewed
energy and enthusiasm.
different prizes were awarded in a.
special chapel for athletic awards.
The first prize of three golf balls
was won by Joan Robinson, for the '
lowest score on eight holes. Two-'
golf balls were given to Peggy ' j
Jones for the least number of putts. :
A hidden hole prize of two golf balls [
was awarded to Caroline Cherry. j
This tournament was the first to
be played at Salem; and although
it was not very elaborate, it was
quite successful. Next year import
ant plans will be made for those in
terested i ngolf, especially begin
ners, .because this sport is expected
to be a very popular one.
DAY STUDENT DOINGS
What is this we hear about a
certain young man about town go
ing out to see Pitzer four times in
one week! Monopoly, eht
Marjorie Porter seems to be mak
ing a comeback. She has three
dates with an “old flame” next
week.
Another little Freshman was all
smiles Monday. Jim came by and ^
took her to ride Sunday night.
Abraham Lincoln was born in a
little log cabin, which he helped his I
father to build. !i
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AND WE WISH FOR
THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF
SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE
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