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March 4, 1938 GOLDSBORO HI NEWS PAGE THREE Swimmers Take Second Place in Washington Meet Buddy Crone Wi ns In Diving D ivlsion For Lone GHS First Central High School of Washington, D. C. Captures South Atlantic High School Title With 65 Points Swimming against the fastest eomi)etition the school has ever known, the GHS swimmers ])laeed second in tlie Soutli Atlantic High School championships held at Cen tral High School, Washington, I). C., on February 26. The crack mermen from Central High, Washington, easily captured first ])lace and had only the Golds boro boys as their competition. Cen tral scored 65 points to 39 for the local boys. Other scores in the meet were: Baltimore Poly, third with 21; Western, fourth with 20, and Wood row Wilson fifth with 11. Goldsboro was competing with the best teams of Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, I). C., North Carolina, and Maryland. The enroll ment of the Central School is 3,000, and the school has tw^elve grades. Central entered four men in eacli event to two for the local lads. The only first that the GHS team captured was in the diving. Buddy Crone, who is fast becoming one of the best divers in his age-grouj) in the nation, took all diving honors. Reed of Central placed second to (^rone and Crone’s teammate, Tink er Heyward, came fourth. Buddy, a 13-year-old freshman, amazed the spectators time after time with his wonderfid exhibition of the most difficult dives. Reed of Central High was Crone’s only stiff competition and Crone defeated him like a true cliam])ion. The GHS scoring is as follows; 50-yard freestyle — Dawson fifth; 100-yard breaststroke — Casey sec ond; 100-5^,ard backstroke — Britt third, Kennedy fifth; 220-yard free style—Weathers third, Nufer fifth ; 100-yard freestjde — Shaw^ second,! Middleton fifth; Fancy diving Crone first, Heyward fourth; 300- yard medley relay — Casey, Britt Shaw third; 200-yard freestyle re lay — Nufer, Weathers, Dawson, and Middleton fourth. SPORTS SHORTS - Ross Ward Cage Squads Finish Successful Season Spring Baseball Opens With Bang As 34 Recruits Report for Practice Daughtry IsOnlyGHS Trackster To Place In Indoor Games Reading from left to right on front row: Sarah Thompson, Dorothy Creech, Anne Johnson, Peggy Simmons, Rachel Sutton, Virginia Par rish, Doris Elks, Doris Flowers, and Hortense Liles. Second row: Evelyn Head, Helen Wooten, Ercell Adams, Doris Hedrick, Anna Deans, Norene Johnson, Margie Sutton, Ruth Shepard, Helen Moore, Rfiggy Ballard, and Coach Helen Wilson. Coach Mary Langston, Patsy Fordham, and Margie Wooten were absent when the picture was made. Photo by Ted Burwell. These girls make up the most successful basketball team of girls in several years. The games and scores of the Lady Quakes are: Princeton 13-GHS 15; Greenville 13-GHS 17; New Bern 21-GHS 31; New Bern 13-GHS 22; Kinston 13-GHS 7; Wilson 15-GHS 26; Greenville 8-GHS 16; Wilmington 12-GHS 9; Wilmington 8-GHS 18; Kinston 22-GHS 32; and Wilson 20-GHS 11. Tennis Team Organized With Mr. Freeman Coach The tennis-loving fans of Golds boro will again see a team in action after a lapse of several years. The team, under Coach R. M. I) Freeman, will l)e composed of ten players who will be taken from the top players following the Intra mural Tournament. The tourna ment will be held in the near future To enter the tournament the con testants must have, besides being- eligible, two tennis balls, a tennis racket, and a pair of tennis shoes They also must not be out for any other sport. The tournament will be played on a wimier-loser plan. Any person can challenge the number 10 man on the regular squad. Each of the ten players may cliallenge the one above him, and the three top ones may challenge each other for the top position. The courts will be put in playing condition by Mr. Roy Parker, Su perintendent of Herman Park. For the first time in several years, there is an allotment in the city budget for tennis. Letters have been received from Wilmington, Rocky Mount, and Fayetteville; concerning matches but nothing has been definitely de cided. A tennis team was made possible this year, when $40 w^as allotted from the school activity fee. Left to right, bottom row—Sam Watson, Earl Hollowell, Gorman Lawrence, James Heyward, and J. R. Nickens. Top row—Coach J. W Johnson, John Watson, 0. W. Hedrick, Pat Pate, Horace Potter, Terry Pollock, and Coach Norris Jeffrey. Claiborne Pate was absent when the picture was made. Photo by Ted Burwell. The varsity Quakes basketeers made a valiant attempt to show up well in Class A basketball. The team won five and lost nine: the scores were: Durham 69-GHS 13; Greenville 20-GHS 13; Fayetteville 32-GHS 17; Raleigh 17-GHS 29; Raleigh 18-GHS 24; Fayetteville 33-GHS 25; Wilson 27-GHS 15; Greenville 19-GHS 6; Rocky Mount 36-GHS 20; Wilmington 19-GHS 21; Wilmington 17-GHS 24; Rocky Mount 33-GHS 17; Durham 69-GHS 18; and Wilson 16-GHS 18. )l ell, has!,-(‘I hall is over hiil l/ie rcronls (ire si ill .slatidiiKj. Those Ladti Quakes really weni lo lown l/iis year. They finished Ihe'inosl siieeessful season, in several years'. The Lady Quakes were defeated only twice during the entire season. These two defeats were on the Wilmington and Kinston courts. But the Goldsboro lassies got revenge when these two teams came to Goldsboro. I saw the swell write up in the jYc-ws and Observer about I’riiice .Nufer and agreed with ev(‘rything said. Prince really is a good Ix't in the li)4() 01ymj)ies. With Dick Daughtry takingtliird in the finals of th(‘ ()0-yard lash Goldsboro was able lo score only two points in the scholastic division at the Southern Conference Tndooi Games at Ciiapel Hill February 20 Daughtry took a close second in the morning trials and then (luali- fied for the finals by taking another close second in the night semi finals. Due to a bad ankle, Terry Pol lock, Goldsboro’s State High School high jump champion, was forced out early in this event. Eddie Man- sour and Jim Manly, the GHS en tries in the 1,000-yard run, failed to place. The relay team, composed of Manly, Fartour, Mansour, and Daughtry, failed to ])lace in the 1-mile relay. Goldsboro, wdio w'as defending champion of the indoor title for scholastic division, lost their rank to Maury High School of Norfolk, N'irginia. ^ One ol the major thrills in the Southern (^)nf er(Mu*e division, ^vhich Duke WM>n by scoi'ing 40 points to 38 for (■arolina, featured flames Davis, of (^arolina, and a Goldsboro graduate, who broke the Southern (yont‘ereiu*e record in the luilf-mile rini and s(>t a new mark ol 1 :57.3. ^riie old r(‘cord was set in l!)3(i by Harry Williamson ol (-arolina. His time was 1 ;57.4. Team To Have Eight Lettermen Out For Drills; To Play Roanoke Rapids, Kinston, Wilson, Tarboro Twice 44 Hopefuls Answer Call For Spring Football Drills With But Prmee isn't Ihe only one Ihal is making a 'name for doldshoro. Recen Uy in I wo meels wilh Ihe Ca valier swimming dub of Rich mond, Virginia, Ihe (ioldsboro lassies downed Ihe (Uivalier girls iU)-I8 and Elizabelh Hawley, Lessie Frail Mallard, Mary Louise Thompson, Dol Turlinglon and Jeanelle (Uirrison also showed up fine in Ihe meets. The world’s most popular sport is back again. But baseball fans in GHS are still wondering how the mound forces will do without John Trice, Goldsboro’s ace moundsman of last year. Tennis nuiy not be look(Hl up to by some sportsmen, but (JHS students se(‘ni to like it (piite a hit. In tlu; coming- tournament 1 pi(4v flames (h’one to be the final winner. Quile a record for J,J, boys lo report for spring football f After winning ten straight games this season, the boys nrill need some off-season work to uphold this fine record next fall. Here’s to the swimming boys and we all hope they’ll retain their State Championship title. And if you think they won’t, just ask some member of the team about it. With the Indoor (*ames, held at Chaj)el Hill, already behind them, the track team is eyeing the next three major meets with' high hopes. The team entei'ed all of these meets last year and nnide an excellent showing. Ihe meets are: Ihe Invitational Meet at Duke University, the State Meet to be at Cha])el Hill and the Civitan Relays held at Greensboro. 44 boys reporting, spring lootball again swung into tlu^ sports’ program Tuesday, March 1 ('Oach Norris fiell'rey will coach the team and for tlu^ niudeus o file s(|uad he will have threi' let termen : Marvin Daughtry, Willi( Boykin, and flohn Schmidlapp. (^mch flell'rey states that tlu practice should be very benefitiiiL^ for boys reporting and'they shoiil gain valuable exix'rience. 'Phosc who have jfever been out for foot ball belore should be (\spe{*iallv b('nefited. He also states tliat the team next fall Avill have only three W'eeks of practic(i betore their first game and that all of this must be devoted to the varsity boys. Therefor(‘, littU time will be given to the inex perienced. Those reporting, other than the lettermen are: Jjaiayetti; Sassei*, Derwood l^izzell, Earl Howell’ Dick Price, Robert (Grumpier, Dur- iiam Moore, Billy Powell, ,loe Reeves, Donald Neal, Harry ,lack- son, Walter Jackson, Paul' (Jarri- son, Noah Bass, Ed Nelson, and Heyward Privette. 0. W. Hedrick, Elbert Ward, Thomas Thigpen, Wilton Howell, Ed liaily, Hugh Dorch, Robert Denmark, Gene Ham, Leinvood l^enton, Norwood AVest, R. ,], Moore, George Stenhouse, Faison Thompson, J^oddie Perry, Jack Smith, Ernest Burton, Billy Hol lowell, Billy Hood, (Clifton Daniels, Gray Whitford, Maylon McDonald, William Anderson, David Hinson, Robert (/ozart, David Mc('lenny, and A. J. Oliver. Thii'ty-foui* boys rej)orted to Coach Johnson Tuesday afternoon tor spring baseball practice. Of these only eight wer(> lettermen of last year. Baseball is one of the five major sports of (iIIS and is looking for ward to a successful season. (Joach Johnson report(‘d that as yet only eight games have been scheduled, four of which will be here and four will l)e the reutrn games. He stated that the team would try to schedule 14 games for the season. If the scpiad is able to do so, that w’ill mean seven liome games for the Goldsboro fans. Those games scheduled are: two ^ames with Roanoke Rapids, Kin ston, Tarboro, and Wilson. Junior Team Considered A junior tt'am is being (*onsid- ored. If this team works out, the members of the scpiad ^vho do not play in varsity games will -jjlay in games of the junior team. John (Jrant reported as a candi date for field manager of the team. John IS well known as the football manager during the past season. he eight lettermen n'porting are: Pitehers, Terry Pollock, Sam Watson aiul Tommi(> Snvpes; catelier, Buddy Powell; outfielders Itudolph Bate and Arnold P,ar\vick- '"fielders, (Jornian LawreucJ and SptH'd Hollowell. OflK'rs reporting are: outfielders fv('uneth Westbrook, Earl Prcie, Herman Ji'unette, Biliv Wynn', William Hardison, Sidney (Gordon,’ Harry Hollingsworfh, (Miarles T. \;. (linn, Richard Ball, Warren Hood, (Maud King, Hardv I^‘‘e Thompson, Tom (Jarrere, Brink ley Tayloi-, l^arl Montague and John (Jrant; iiifielders, Arthur StafVord, Bert Griffin aiid Pal I’afe; catchers, Horace Potter, K'us- sell Singleton and J. C. Roso; piifl,. I'l's, J. II. Nickens. Arlow Triplett and ('lyde Kiuii-. Lady Quakes Whip Kinston As Boys Lose To Durham The basketeers of GHS split a double head(*r on February 23 in he (Community Building Gym as the Lady (Quakes took the Eaglets of Kinston 31-22, while the l^]arth- (|uakes fell victim to a (Jil-lS trounc ing at th(* hands ol tlu* Durham Bulls. The victory of the (HIS sextet avenged the 13-7 delV'at, that the Kinston s(|uad handed them earlier in the season. Evenly matched, the (iHS tt'am Avas only oiu'. [)oint ahead at the end of the first half but )ull(*d away in the last half to win H-22. 1 he Durham Bulls, rated as one of the best and tallest high school earns in the South, sank shots with comparative ease from any part of the court. Scoring laurels Avent to b’errell of Durham with 14 nuirkers fol lowed by his team mate, McKinney, W'ith 13 tallies. Hetlrick was best, lor GHS with 10 ])oints. In the girl’s ganu', Adams took all scoring honors with U) points to her credit. Roehelle tlid best for vinston with 11. Liles was next b('st for th(5 Goldsboro six with i) tal- ies.
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