December 4, 1942
HIGH LIFE
Pag& Five
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SPORT spins
with
IRWIN SMALLWOOD
It has been a long hard struggle for the Purple Whirlwinds to reach
the heights that they have this season, but, believe me, they deserve it
all. An almost entirely green bunch of boys started olf the season for
Coach Bob Jamieson, but after two
defeats in a row at the first of the giving for the state title. After much
season, they really got in the discussion and debating, Greensboro
groove. finally moved its scheduled game with
The tVliirlies came up with three Burlington up to Thursday in order
straight triumphs over highly-rated to play Gastonia here Friday, Novem-
foes. First they trounced Rocky iTci' 20, for the Western conference
Mount’s Blackbirds, 20 to 0, a true honors.
upset according to the “experts.” The That game, one of the closest ever
next victory came in the game with played in Memorial stadium, ended in
Central high of Charlotte, in which a 13-13 tie, lea,ving the Western con-
the locals were rated as underdogs, ference champion still a mystery. Well,
and it was in this game that the Whir- Greensboro won the draw for the right
lies got their start toward the Western of playing Wilson on “Turkey day” in
championship. the tobacco city, leaving Gastonia with
Following the win with Charlotte, the privilege of challenging the WTiirl-
the Whirlwind traveled to Gastonia winds if they won at Wilson. And
for an all-important tilt with the Green the whirling Whirlies did just that,
Wave. This game ended in a tie, the giving possibly their best performance
first of a series to befall the AVhirlies— of the 1942 season. The score was 20-6.
and Gastonia. Coach Porter Sheppard, of Gastonia,
Greensboro’s next encounter, with Coach Bob .Tamieson, of Greensboro,
Winston-Salem, also ended in a dead- and Principal A. P. Routh, of Greens-
lock, putting Greensboro in thinl place boro senior high, went into a huddle
in the Western conference standings, at Salisbury last Sunday, and it was
.4fter giving game little Rockingham there decided, by a draw, to bring
a 53-0 drubbing, the Whirlies came together the Green AVave and the AVhirl-
back and elged out Salisbury’s Yellow wind for the third time in 1942 at
Jackets, 13-7, to take over second spot Charlotte on December 12 for the grand
in the standings. Incidentally, on this title of state champs of North Carolina
same night, High Point held favored high school football.
Gastonia to a scoreless tie, which then It will undoubtedly be a sure-fire
shoved Greensboro into a two-way tie thriller, and let us say that we hope
for first place in the standings. the best team comes out triumphant.
Then came Friday, November 13. •
The AA’estern conference had two “hum- At the Greensboro-Gastonia game on
dinger” games scheduled for that night, November 20, a ranking officer of the
one being the Gastonia-Reyiiolds and Army, connected with the construction
the other Greensboro-High Point. of the camp in Greensboro, was heard
AA’ell, the AVhirlies came out victo- to remark dining the last half: “I sure
lious, 13-0, over their traditional rival, wish I could have heard what Coach
and AATnsfon-Salem came within two Jamieson said to his boys during half
points of beating the Gastons, the score time a wiiile ago to bring them out
being 13-12. Thus Greensboro and Gas- fighting as he did. Why, if I could
tonia ended the season in a deadlock give my construction workers a “pep”
for the AA^estern conference crown. But talk like that, I could have the camp
somebody had to play AA'ilson Thanks- completed in tw'o weeks.”
Hulchinsoii Announces
At the close of the volleyball season,
Miss Doris Hutchinson, girls’ physical
education instructor, announced the
teams’ standings. Each team played
a total of six games against the re
maining three teams in the class.
Only four teams won all six of their
games. These include: the Speed De
mons, captain, Phyllis .Johnson; Dodg
ers, captain, Mickey Black; AA'olfe’s
team, captain, Alice AA’olfe; and the
Flying Devils, captain. Phyllis Harrell.
Seven Teams W’in Five Games
The seven teams winning five games
include: the Zoot Suits, captain, Ger
trude Archer; the Tarantulas, captain,
Mary Brown: the Spitfires, captain,
Sara Gwyn; the AAGiirlettes, captain,
Hilda Stanley; the Jive Bombei'S, cap
tain, Dorothy Gwyn; the Jinx, captain,
Anne Millikan; and the Ripples, cap
tain, Sue McFadyen.
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High Life Staff Competes
fn War Vocabulary Test
High Life will participate again
this year, as last, in the school news
paper project, under the joint sponsor
ship of the National Tuberculosis asso
ciation and the Columbia Scholastic
Press association. New stories, features
or editorials on the role of the Christ
mas seal in prevention and control of
tuberculosis may be entered.
Since Pearl Harbor nearly 200,000
pounds of paper were used for AVar
Savings Stamps alone and 100,000
pounds of glue to make them stick in
your stamp albums.
Tatum Scouts Players
In Conference Game
Jim Tatum, head coach of foot
ball at the Vniversity of North
Carolina, witnessed tlie Greensboro-
Gastonia football game from the
press box in Memorial stadium. He
appeared to be scouting for vari
ous players to brighten up the Tar
Heel football horizon in the future.
Locals Move
By Defeating
Closer To Title
Wilson, 20-6
Basketball Practices
Begin In All (lasses
As volleyball season faded out last
week, a new sport arose on the girls’
physical education program. All classes
began practice on basketball, wlilch
has been scheduled to continue through
the month of December.
Miss Doris Hutchinson, girls’ physi
cal education instructor, announced
that the classes will keep the same
teams that were organized in the vol
leyball season. These teams will hold
contests in the classes, but intra-mural
games will be played after the Christ
mas holidays by the after-school teams.
Captains included Marie Kivette, Ca-
veil Lentz, Sue McFadyen, Ann Milli
kan, Allene Mateer. Kay Hunt, Alice
AA'olfe, Margaret Kindley, Sara Gwyn,
Connie Hock, Harriet Fox, Betty Fu-
trell, Margaret Rhudy, Hilda Stanley,
Martha Morton, AA’inifred Meyers, Lois
McAdoo, Betty Hartsook, Pearl Link
er, Phyllis Harold, Rachel Johnson,
Alell Alexander, Naomi AA^ebb, Mickey
Black. Gertrude Archer, Nell Riddle,
Dorothy Russell. Frances Gregg, Mary
Brown, Martha Boggan, Jean Lowery,
Julia Phoenix. Ruth Robertson, Onida
Poole, Phyllis Johnson, Becky Kirk-
man. Obega Sims, Martha Sue Inman,
Mary Clay BrufI', Mary Glendenin,
Betsy Holt and Dorothy Gwyn.
Buck Mann Acts As
Head Coach For AVeek
Coach G. O. (Buck) Mann, regular
line coach of the Purple AA'^hirlwind,
has been acting as head coach at
Senior for the past week while Coach
Bob Jamieson has been assisting as
conch of the North Carolina all-stars
at Charlotte.
How are we doing? AA^e are doing
fine! But we haven’t reached the top
yet. Keep mounting. Every boy and
every girl should keep his stamp alinnn
growing, and as soon as it is filled,
turn it into a bond and start a new
stamp album going.
SEAL OF GOOD V\^ILL
What greater gift can we give
to others than health? Through
Chri stmas
Seals we have
given that
gift to mil
lions. But
millions more
deserve that
gift from us.
This year, as we face a threat
ened wartime rise in tubercu
losis, Christmas Seals can well
head our list of Christmas gifts.
Buy and Use Christmas Seals
Church School League
Opens At Y. M. C. A.
Nine lo(*al churches have entered
teams in the Y. M. C. A. Sunday school
basketbal league. Among the top en
tries are the First Presbyterian, First
Baptists and First Methodist. These
teams are captained iiy Charlie A’aiice,
Charles Nichols, C. C. Fordham and
George Ralls. However, the league is
still young, and every team is still
rnnning: no team has lost more than
two games.
The league’s high scorers are Deca
tur Cunningham, with 57 points, and
Gene Thomas close behind with 55
points; both of these boys play for the
Presbyterian team.
The standings are:
Won Lost Pet.
I’irst Presbyterian 3 0 1.000
(’ollege Place Methodist . 1 0 1.000
First Baptist 2 1 .067
AA’est Market Aletliodist . 1 1 .500
Church of the C'ovenant , 1 1 .500
Aluir’s Chapel 1 2 .333
College Park Baptist ... 1 2 .333
Reformed 0 1 .000
Asheboro St. Baptist .... 0 2 .000
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BETTY LOU SHOPPE
t^parkod by the continual cracking of
the AVilscn forward wall by tailback
Carl I’liibb.'^, the Greensboro Senior
high school Purple AA’hirlwind won the
first round of play for the Class A
football crown of North Carolina,
downing a stubborn aggregation of
gridders from AA’ilson high, 20 to G, at
AA'ilson Thanksgiving night. The AA’hirl-
ies now have to face Gastonia’s Green
Wave in the final playoff for the State
title.
Taking the opening kickoff on its
own 15-yard stripe, Greensboro im
mediately marched 85 yards for their
first touchdown of the game. This
drive was made up of short runs by
Darrell East, Carl I'liibbs, Ralph Anth
ony and Bob McFarland with McFar
land heaving an 18-yard pass to Claud
Sessoms in the end zone for the score,
lied Adams, AA'hirlie kicking ace, booted
the extra point.
After an exchange of punts, AATlson
took tlie pigskin on its own 34, and in
six plays the Cyclones had come within
one iwint of overtaking the AVhirhviiul
lead. The final yardage for the touch
down, 34 yards, was made by Half
back Clark, and Felton’s try for the
conversion was to the left.
The score remained at 7-0 until the
latter part of the third period. Greens-
bor had a first down on the Wilson 41
and after AXeFarland had picked up
one yard, Phibbs fumbled in the back-
field. picked up the ball and raced 28
yards through center for a first dowm
on AVilson’s 12. He was tackled hard
from beliind by B. Clark, injuring his
shoulder, and had to be carried off the
field. ’I'hen Phil Feeney, light AA'hirlie
baek, scampered five 5’ards and Mc-
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