EToivn FootballPack Track Champs Honored; Johnson New WAA Prexy SHALUITTE — Winfred B Johnson, principal of Shallotte High School, is the new president of the Waccamaw Athletic As sociation for the 1962-63 session; having been elected at the spring Awards Meeting of the WAA held in the local cafeteria last (Wednesday) night. Elizabethtown's Yellow Jacket football champions of the loop and Whiteville’s new Wolfpaek track champions of the WAA were honored at the Awards meet, with trophy presentations being made with awards borrow ed from the Shallotte trophy case because this year’s News Reporter awards had failed to ar rive in time for the meeting. The new trophies will be pre sented upon arrival. Johnson, in his first year as Shallotte principal after having served a long tenure as an ath letic coach at Bladenboro, New Hanover High School, Roanoke Rapids, and other places, succeeds J. W. Black of Bladenboro as president of the loop. B. S. Brigman of Whiteville was named to replace Johnson as vice-president; while Randall Burleson of Tabor City was elect ed secretary-treasurer to succeed E. H. Cooper, Jr. of Chadbourn. James H. Baker presented his Eastern Carolinas Officials Asso ciation sportsmanship trophy in football to Coach Frank Thomp son of Bladenboro on behalf of his Bulldog team, its fans and coaches. Baker also recognized Coaches Dick McCleney and Woody Wilson of Chadbourn, whose school will receive the bas ketball sportsmanship award when it arrives. These trophies are given to schools adjudged best by vote of the offiicals who work their games. The 2nd Annual WAA Baseball Tournament was set for Bladen ’ boro's Spinner Park on Monday, May 7 and Thursday, May 10, with competitors to be the top four teams according to regular season standings. President Johnson asked the group to think along the lines of doing something about cur tailing girls' basketball and also to think about examination weeks of all schools in setting dates for next year’s WAA cage tour ney. so as not to work a hard ship on schools and their stu dents. Present were Principals Black of Bladenboro, Fred McClure of Elizabethtown; Brigman, White ville; Burleson, Tabor City and Johnson of Shallotte. E. H. Cooper, Jr. of Chadbourn was re ported ill. The new member of the conference, Hallsboro, was not represented. Coaches on hand included Gene Winfree, Doug Henderson, Shal lotte; Woody Wilson, Dick Me 'Cleney, Chadboum; Buck Jolly, Paul L. Powell, Whiteville; Frank Thompson, Angus Begley, Bladen boro; John Small, Bermey Stev ens, Tabor City. Also present as guests were j Dr. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte; Brunswick County Supt. of | Schools John G. Long of South- j port; Charles Allen of Bladen- I boro; James A. Baker of Fay- ! etteville; and Sports Editor Jiggs 1 Powers and Photographer Gilbert i Rushing of The Whiteville News j Reporter, which paper annually i furnishes the WAA trophies for ! football, track and baseball cham- 1 pions. Also on hand were Co-Captains Marion Davis and Tommy Beason of the Whiteville track team; Bud Fisher and Eddie Smith, co-cap tains of the Elizabethtown foot ball club. Principal Johnson was hpst to the group and seafood dinners were served. Pack Wins Track Title By .JIGGS POWERS (Waecamaw AA Publicist) RHALLOTTE Six new records were set and another tied as Whiteville's Wolfpack swept to the 1962 Waccamaw Athletic As sociation track title here yester day (Wednesday) with a victory in the annual WAA Track and Field Meet. High'way 117 North, Wilmington N. C. A Full Line Of Ouality Building Materials Dial RO 2-3339 UPPLY Coach Buck Jolly’s Pack down ed defending champion Shallotte’s Pirates, 37% to 29. Tabor City's Red Devils, coached by John Small, came a close third with 28% points; Chadbourn, tutored by Woody Wilson, was fourth with 24%; Bladenboro had 18% and Elizabethtown had 2 points. Dans Is High Man Individual high man was White ville’s Marion Davis, who chalked up 15% points with a first-place in the 100-yard dash; two sec onds in the high jump and the low hurdles, a tie for 2nd and 3rd in the 220; and fourths in the high hurdles and shotput. Next came Leon Edward Fon vielle of Tabor City, who won the 220 and low hurdles and a second in the 100, for 13 points; Chadbourn’s Charlie Heye scored 12% with a first in the 440, sec onds in the shot and disc and a tie for 3rd and 4th in the 100 yard dash. 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Six New Marks Sammy Williams of Tabor City broke the old discus mark of 113’ held since 1958 by Oleun Stephens, also of Chadbourn, with his new toss of 118'10”; Larry Freeman’s broad jump of 19’3 3-4” broke the one set by Charlie Heye last year of 18’11”. Mike Stanley of Shallotte pole vaulted 10’6” to set a new record for the loop and replace one set by Kel ton Williams of Chadbourn in 1960, when he vaulted 10’ flat. Mike Stanley high jumped 5’6” to tie the record set by himself and three others—-Allison Holden of Shallotte, Tim Blackmon and Marion Davis, both of Whiteville —at the 1961 meet. Coach Buck Jolly and his co captains, Marion Davis and Tom my Beason were present here, last night (Wednesday), to re ceive recognition as the leaders of the new tiack champions at the 1962 WAA Awards Banquet in the local cafeteria. The summary: 100-yard dash—Marion Davis (W), Leon Fonvielle (TC), tie between Dennis Pope (B) and Charlie Heye (C), 10.7; 220— Fonvielle (TC), tie between Pope (B) and Davis (W), Robert Blackwell (W), 24 seconds; 440— Heye (C), Ward (B), John Gan us (S) and Tony Hinson (W), 52.3 seconds (New WAA record); 880—John Cox (C), Tommy Bea son (W), Howard Hughes (S), Willis Gibson (B), 2:08 (New WAA Record); Mile run—Steve Love (S), Beason (W), Bobby Buffkin (C), Gibson (B), 5:08.2. Mile relay—Shallotte (Jimmy Pigott, Hughes, Love, Ganus), Whiteville, Elizabethtown, 3:59. 120-yard high hurdles—Sammy Thompson (B), Roger Tatum (TC), Paul Grooms (S), Davis (W), 18.3 (New WAA Record); 180-yard low hurdles—Fonvielle (TC), Davis (W), tie between Tatum (TC) and Thompson (B), 21.6. Shotput—Harold Ward (W), Heye (C), Larry Fowler (TC), Pope (B), 43’2”; discus—Sammy Williams (TC), Heye (C), James Russ (S), Little (E), 118’10” (New WAA Record); high jump —Mike Stanley (S), Davis (W), Fowler (TC), no 4th place, 5’6” (Tied WAA Record); broad jump —Larry Freeman (C), Ward (B), H. Ward (W), Tatum (TC), 19’3 3-4” (New WAA Record); pole vault—M. Stanley (S), tie between Larry Stevens (W) and Morris Phifer (W), tie between Robert Galloway (S) and Norton (S), 10’6” (New WAA Record). Raceway Board Members Added Darlington, s. c. — Eos Coolvin, Darlington Raceway president for the past eleven years, was re-elected to chair manship of the board at the an nual stockholders meeting Wed nesday night. Also re-elected were the pres ent officers, B. A. Wallace, Harts ville, vice president, Robert Kilgo, Darlington, ‘secretary and J. P. Brunson, Jr., Darlington, treas urer. Named to serve another year as members of the present board of directors were Walter D. 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