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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1952 THE BLACKBIRD, ROCKY MOliNT HIGH SCHOOL PAGE S At this particular time of the year it seems that most of the boys in the local high are partici pating in one kind of sport or an other. With tennis, golf, and base ball in full swing, there is plenty of reason for this. So far the baseball team, under the Coaching of Clet C. Cleet- wood, has won one game, beating Greenville by a score of 10-1. Al together they have played four games. Ed Braswell is the big man with the stick this year with a bat ting average of .531. Following closely to Ed is George Pearce who is hitting .455.' Coach Lundy’s tennis team is doing an exceptionally good job. They played two matches, one with Tarboro and one with Wilson and have won each. The major league regular sea son play got its start yesterday. Youth Shop Topa in Togs for Tots to Teens 211 8. Main Street Dial 7274 Buliuck Furnllure Go. AND Kerailworih Gift Shop If It’s New — We Have It Vogue Dress Shop 226 S Main Street PROCTOR'S Victor - Bluebird - Decca Caiumbia - Capital Records ISl Main St. - Rocky Mount m GEHMAN’S Jewelers ' 189 S. Main Street Dial 6722 Tennis Team Advances As Daughtridge Stars With three games under their belts the Rocky Mount high school tennis team is now just about sit uated and can tell which man be longs in what position. So far this year C. C. Daugh tridge, a second year man, is play ing the number one position while Wallace Johnson, who has been sick most of the season, is the number two man. Holding down the number three position is Charlie “Wally” Putman, a first year man. For the past two games Putman has been working at the number two post because of John son’s absence. The rest of the squad consists of freshmen and sophomores, which might prove helpful in the coming two years. Some real pitcher’s duels were in hand as the New York Giants Sal Maglie boasting a 23-6 record will meet Robin Roberts ■ (21-15), Philadelphias’ best. Warren Spahm took mound duties for the Boston Braves face the Brooklyn Dod gers. The Dodgers will pitch Preacher Roe. FORMER RM STAR WITH CUBS Local baseball fans got their first look at the Rocky Mount Leafs when they met Durham in. the Municipal Stadium, Monday. The Leafs should have a good team this year under the direction of their new skipper, Paul Badgett. This game was the first exhibition game; the one with Danville last Friday was called off. DAIRY BAR 577 Raleigh Street Teachey - Womble 125 Nash Street OUTSTANDING LABIES’ RiEADY-TO-WEAP Recommended by Duncan Hines Wilro, Inc. Restaurant 220 S. Church St. Rocky Mount, N. C. Eastern Carolina’s Most Complete Stock Of TOYS Sporting Goods PORTSMENS HEADQUARTERS ★ ROCKY MOUNT, N. C ★ BUCK OVERTON’S Barbecue Dial 7369 Englewood Former ^Bird’ Flying High Gene Hooks, former Rocky Mount high school star, started off his second year of pro-base ball yesterday for the Springfield Cubs in Springfield, Massachus etts. After spring training with the club in Clewiston, ,Florida, Gene recently played in Durham when Springfield met Durham in an ex hibition game. His athletic career began in RMHS when Caruso was head coach here. He started in baseball and basketball, then, and even though he played no football, he acted as manager. It was a loss to Rocky Mount high school when in 1945 he grad uated and entered an Air Techni cal School. After serving one year, he went to Wake Forest where he spent four years outstanding in sports and scholarship. During this time this Eagle Scout from Rocky Mount was elected to the Collegian “Who’s RADIO HOSPITAL 127 South Washington Street Phone 22972 JOSH BULLUCK’S BARBECUE Pit Cooked Barbecue Cokey Road £. S. Bulluck, Jeweler Watch, Clock, Jewelry Repairing WILLIAM F»rNNETT‘S Bishop Laundry Co. “WE DO IT BiErnCR” Dial — 4il4a Who” of the United States. He was also taped into the 0. D. K. which recognized him for his ex cellent work. Most outstanding was the fact that in his third bear at Wake For- set he was put on the All-Ameri- can-ColIegian baseball team. It was that year that the team went to Witchitah, Kanas, where they proved themselves to be the No. 2 team in the Nation. Graduating in 1960 Gene was bought by the Chicago Cubs and since then has been playing for farm teams of the Cubs. He was tried on second base and in out field, but made third base his spot for Springfield. Blackbirds Drop Game In Ten Inning Thriller Albert Farmer Went all the way for the Blackbirds in a ten inning thriller, which saw the Fayette ville Bulldogs go ahead in the last of the tenth to take the game 6-8, Thursday. The Birds took the lead and held a 5-run margin until the last of the sixth when Farmer weaken ed and the score was tied, 5-5. The tenth inning winning score wag the only other tally of the game. Leading hitters for the game were Bobby Patterson and Eddie Pennington with two hits each. Ed Braswell, although with only one hit during the game, was hot with the bat also. He knocked in three of the Birds’ five runs. Third Lot* For L»eaU This game marked the third loss for the locals, with only one win— against non-conference Greenville. Two of the three losses were by close scores. Against Durham the Birds were defeated in the last of the ninth inning on an error which broke up a 10-10 tie game. Wilson -is the only team which seemed to have no trouble with the Birds. They whipped up a score of 19-8. Although losing, the Birds have shown a lot of streng^th at the plate. Nearly everyone on the team is hitting well. Outstanding; among them is Edward Braswell, who leads the team with a .455 batting average. Coach Cleetwood made shifts on the squad, putting catcher Ed die Pennington on third base. Wil lie Green, former third baaeman, went to the outfiold to fill in for R. G. Capps, who dropped from the squad, and Bobby Owens took over the backstopping chores. Yesterday the diamond-boys traveled to Wilmington with th« golf and tennis teams to play their foui’th conference game. The Red and Blue golf torna- ment scheduled for Carolina Coun try Club has been postponed be cause of the conflict with the Greensboro Open. RADIO SERVICE SHOP And TELEVISION CENTER 112 and 114 S. Washington St. Walter Mears Carolina School Of Commerce Specialists in Business Training Licensed by State of N. C. 12il N. Main St. - Phone 709‘5 Dixie Letter Service Photo-Offset, Booklets and Newspapers, School Annuals Complete Duplicating and Mailing Service Rocky Mount Phone 7095 Vann’s Boys’ Shop “Clothiers’^ For the Boys Vann’s Boys’ Shop At 5 Points NEW YORK CAFE L W. Rose Drug Co. Phone 7111 Rocky Moant Complete Prescription Serrlcs BLUE Blini TAXI All Cars Dispatched By Rsdi* DIAL 8101 JAMES M. FOX JEWBLEK 126 S. Main Street ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. STATE Finance Company PERSONAL LOANS— SIGNATURE ONLY South Washington Street Dial 2-1399
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