The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-16

LIN 49,.
practically sagged as almost el2nl
hundred local students and aoou'
two hundred adults packed them
selves together for the Whining
tor-Greensboro state champion :
ship basketball game. The capac,
itv crowd of almost two thousand
fans of both the Wildcats ana lne
.Whirlies witnessed e capturing
of the state crown by the Wllo'
cats for the first time slnce 1879.
The hoop-happy locals pushed IL
points through the basket this past
= Tuesday night to beat the Greens
boro Wnirlies' 38 points.
- Everybody's feeling mighty the
now. except perhaps the Green's
boro fans, as the Wildcats proudly
adjust the crown and we Ill sil
back and admire the team.
The coaches are beamlng and
the boys are grinnlng as our team
~ once more is loaded down with
CONGRATULATIONS. So to Billy
Mason, who this season captured
the title of the highest scorer IL
high school basketball in the state
and Johnny McKoy. the fella VINO
scared ahead and sank thirteen
points Tuesday night, "Welnle
brown, Teddy Fennell' Louis
Collie. Charlie Smith, Leroy
loWles, Don Hyatt, johnny Crow
les, and Tlnkey Rogers, we all pa'
yo,I o., the backs and say "mlSnty
well done. ,.
AZ 4 o'clock, the usual starting
time or the games, neafs, lle
dropping OF coins on the HARDWOOD
floor sounds throughout the sym
nasu1m as Manager Henry 1ru :
love peglns the back-aho-ioilH
sweeping Oh the court. AS collis
a.c dropped from the balcony anu
11rown out from the do"-lsl3us
by Henry 5 palroA0',
henry catches the COINS Wan MS
woe mop ana then carefully plcAS
mem up al the end Oh the ~"
n.aen ne POCKETS them, nasAtally'
out tuesday night henry lounu
,ra1 he was meeting some StIl4
,uu4peullon A sllaH Gfeeilspo4o
Am. ABOUT SIX or seven years old'
WAS Iureu Uut o. tAe court WheIe
l.ulley Vas Ialllns last II Iutl
ous1y. Inc young trua Cnased TOLL
PENNIES Il sWlluy PICKED NY
e1uauling ulines, peeilng every
now ana tnen mto the pocket o.
his sweater, Wnlcn was sdSSlns
WIN It's Welgnt, TO gamer sume
on ule SITUATION. Be."eeii
41e:lry ana junior, Il say un1t liz
1ans Iost some uuu9nt, White tley
uolu rachea d STACK.
over the oaIcony railing
the whole snow were Cai'
jenkins, Charlie harrington, Don
aid nvxey, Franklin GIanam'
Lloyd noneycutt, Clarence Hi
burn, Lynn hlrk, tommy hau'
l1vlas maynard, among others.
AS usual all the cheering section
vas IN 1ne torn and really did
some yelllng! Handing the mega
phones we're Gllly Quarles ana
cheerIeaoer Jimmy Sutton. aideo
by Carl Brown and Eddie Bell.
Doing some specially fine
h~ollerlng were Robert FUR, Rex
Willis. Donald Peterson, Jimmy
Spivey, Victor Taylor, and jury
huband.
AS | glanced around through The
other sections, l saw Nancy Win
ninham a n d Jimmy Page, Betty
Lou O'Master and Bobby Bell,
Edna Matthes and Weddell Har-
riss, Patty Jones and Bobby Mel
ton, Alyce Morse and Bobby Crow
ley. ,
Sitting near us On balcony
were Janet Volk and Sonny Bla-
lock, Mary Anne jenkins and
Hugh Evans, Peggy Johnston and
Cecil Corbett.
Others that l noticed we're
intellectually supporting our
swell team were Catherine Grove
Anne Post, Mary Lib Allsprook
Jane Troy, Eusenia McCarty, Flo
renee Sanders, Jean Pope, Ran
dolph Lewis, and Ebe Goodwin.
Gene Warren was busily getting
a play-by-play sports write-up and
was yelling for the team in the
meantime with Carl Warren.
A dance was held over in the
Girls Gymnasium in Isaac Bear
building Immediately following the
basketball game.
Holding n OF the jitterbug
s~potllshts we're Deidra Eagle and
Homer Brewer. and looking on