TUESDAY, MARCH 24. 1953
THE BLACKBIRD, ROCKY MOUNT HIGH SCHOOL
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Birds Take 1st Tilt
Of Baseball Season
As Godwin Fans 14
Manley Godwin fanned 14 bat
ters allowing only six singles as
the Blackbirds: took their first
diamond tilt of the season gaainst
Kinston 3-1.
Cage Season Over, Baseball Takes Spot
Sports Teams In and Out; Pictured Above
Head basketball coach Bill Lundy, left, and head baseball coach C.
C. Cleetwood (pictured center; put basketball benind and look ahead
to baseball matterf. Members of iarsity basketoall team pictured at
left are, front row, Bobby tatterson, iJie mEdwards, Stan Still, Jim-
Daughtridgs, Billy Proctor, George Pearce, Bobby Deans, James Man
ning, and team manager Jmimy Davis; back row. George Patseavoras,
Smokey Lancaster, Donald Edwards, Dave Barnes, Eddie Pennington,
Lloyd Hedgepeth and Carter HedricK..
Baseball team members at right are, front row, Bobby Patterson,
Stan Still, James Manning, George Pearce, Gordon Waters, Clem Ed
wards, Edward Braswell, Bobby Deans, Albert Parker, Carlton Ruffin,
Charles Landm, Sammy Mouson and William Green; back row, Adi-
son Wimberly, Manley Godwin, Billy Adams, Eddie Pennington,
Bobby Cummings, ,Ray Harper, Raymond Highsmith, Billy Pearce
Fred Harris, Jimmy Lancaster. Bunny Bell and Harold Gilbert.
Lancaster, Edwards, Patterson, Pearce Lead
Team which won 14 Out Of 19 Games;
8 Letternien Return To Baseball
With basketball gone and base-
RM Wins Last 3 Of Season
Goldsboro Defeated not stop the fast ball handling of
After trailing Goldsboro in the the Birds and Rocky Mount walk-
opening minutes of the game, the ed of with an easy 87 to 57 win.
Blackbirds went on to defeat the Donald Edwards was high scorer
Quakes,'51 to 3a. The.Bixdfv huilL.gith 23 and Lancaster was next
up an 11 point lead in the first with 22.
half, holding the Quakes scoring
to only 10 points.
A hit batter, a sacrifice, a single
and a wild pitch brought the win
ning score in the top half of the
ninth inning.
Neither team showed too much
power at the plate as the Birds
collected six hits. a,lso .George
Pearce came through with two for
three to lead the locals at bat.
RM took a 1-0 lead in the first
frame on a hit, two walks and a
hit batter. Kinston’s single came
in the third when Godwin gave
up three straight singles.
William Green, who was sche
duled to hurl the game, was in
jured in an auto accident last
week and was unable to pl§y. He
win probably pitch the next game
on March 25 against Greenville
In the local stadium.
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In the third period Goldsboro
came back and scored 10 points
and in the last period scored 12
points. This was not enough for
Goldsboro with Joe Lancaster
controling the backboard and
Billy Proctor playing one of the
best games of the season. Lancas
ter was high man with 14 points.
RM 87, Bulldogs 57
Fayetteville visited R o c ky
Mount next and the Bulldogs left
with a solid defeat.
Getting off to a slow start, the
Blackbirds stayed behind during
the first quarter. During the rest
of the game the Bulldogs could
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Birds Get Revetiee
Seeking revenge over Wilson,
the Blackbirds led by Joe Lancas
ter high scorer with 16 points, de
feated the Cyclones 48 to 40. The
Blackbirds pulled out in front in
the first quarter with Bobby Pat
terson and “Weno” Pearce doing
’some fine ball handling.
In the last quarter the Cyclones
used a full court press and the
Birds, not being able to break
through, their lead dropped to 6
points, but this was still too much
foi- the Cyclones.
Smokey Lancaster broke the
school’s individual scoring record
when he brought his total up to
318 points.
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JEWELER
126 S. Main Street
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
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134 Sunset Avenue
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ball on its way, the Blackbirds
have plenty of energy to give the
best of teams a real fight for
baseball’s number one spot. Look
ing back into the cage season,
IlMHS realizes it has had a fine
team with a record which carried
it to the State AAA playoffs.
“Smokey” Joe Lancaster wil,h
318 points, Donald Edwards with,
201, Bobby Patterson with 19!,
and captain “Weno” Pearce were
the big guns of the team which
won fourteen out of nineteen
games during season play. In con
ference play Rocky Mount took
seven of twelve games, whipping
Durham, Fayetteville and Golds
boro twice each and Wilson once.
The locals looked good both of
fensively and defensively. They
averaged 60 points per game
against 51.2 points for their op
ponents.
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I Rocky Mount, N. C.
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OUTSTANDING LADIES’
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It’s Baseball Now
At present the Blackbirds boast
a 3-1 victory in baseball ovor Kin
ston, the only game of the season
so far. Manly Godwin, the teams
number one pitcher, struck cut
14 batters In this win last Wed
nesday. Besides Manly, seven let-
termen have returned to the
squad this year to fill in most of
the positions. They are Bobby
Patterson at first base, George
Pearce at second, William Green
at shortstop, Raymond High-
smith, “Gatcr” Braswell, and
Stan Still in the outfield, and Ad-
ison Wimberly, another mounds-
man.
Regular conference play begins
against Durham April 2. Two ad
ditional nonconferenre games are
scheduled beforehand—Greenville,
March 25, and a return match
with Kinston, March 31.
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Rocky Mount, N. C.
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Dial 2-3609
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