The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
CACEBALL, BOXING
WORK UNDER WAY
Tennis And Baseball Teams
To Begin Practice In
Near Future

The athletic department. OIL NeW
Hanover High school will settle
down to steady practice this week
for the remainder of the winter
program of basketball and boxing
and preparations are being made
for the tennis and baseball teams
to start work.
The basketball team will begin
work Monday morning in the "Y'
at 8 a. m. and will practice each
morning for an hour under Coach
Robert L. Black. The Wildcats are
handicapped this year by the lack
of a regular gym to work out in
and through the generous co-opera-
ton of the YMCA officials will
play all their home games in the
'sY" on Thursday nights until
further announcement.
With but two days preparation
the Wildcats lost their first con-
ference game to the Fayetteville
Bulldogs Friday night in Fayette'
vile and will start work Monday
for another conference 60 against
the Charles L. Coon High school
of Wilson on the local court Thurs
day night. The Junior varsity wor
its game with the Fayetteville
Jayvees, but it is not known
whether they will e action this
week or not. The Juniors do moi
have a place to work but Coach
Bryan hopes to secure some
church gym for his squad.
Coach Howard Mcdonald will
work his charges out in the Bri'
gade ring in preparation for the
coming match with the Charlotte
boxers January II in Charlotte.
Coach Mcdonald has a large squad
out this season, but wants more
boys between the weights of 12s
to 1855. The ring artists will pro.
badly hold all their matches in the
cid gym at the High school as
the work going on there will MOI
interfere with the matches.
The tennis teams will begin seri'
Gus work Monday afternoon on the
Robert Strange courts with al
members Of the Phantom Aces
back in uniform except Harold
Hinnant. Fuller from Plant High
school of Tampa, Florida and g
member of the Wildcats football
team of 1910, is a welcome ad
dition to the team and is now
playing the number five position
Lionel Johnson is still at his ole
number one post with Nelson Tay
lor in the two. Charles Boney ano
JeroIld Robinson are occupying
the three and four places respec'
lively with Fuller and Burt Myers
bringing up the five and siz
Charles Edwards and Paul Smell
are in the number seven and eight
posts. -.
The girls tennis team suffered
the loss last season of Mary John,
sen, four year veteran, Norma
Henderson and Jane Lewis, anc
will have several newcomers tt
the lineup. Eslie Fergus will play
the number one and captain the
team; Agnes Morton lines up ir
the two with Jean Jones bringing
up three. Louise Hardwick oc.
cupies four with Jocelyn Peck al
five and Katherine Goodman six.
ALI members of this team are jun.
iors and sophomores and will be
back in school next year. The girls
will be defending their state and
southern championships and t. e
boys the eastern title.
Coach Floyd Bumgarner, lost
Bobby Lee, Cecil Lee, Allison Aid.
erman, Johnny Smidt, and Adrian
Rhodes from his 1910 squad but
prospects for another fine baseball
team are very bright. Coach Bum.
garner will issue call for work
about February and will have Billy
Pieper, Jennings Edwards, Jack
High, Harold Horton, Red McCabe,
Roy Lamb, Elverton Stands, Fred
Day, Red Slaughter to build his
team around this season. It is not
known if Bobby Edwards will be
able to pitch this season due to
the broken leg he received in the
Fayetteville football game. 3