The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 1952 Page: 3 of 4
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"Friday, February 22, 1952
THE WESTERNER WORLD
Page 3
Westerner Track, Baseball
Teams Start 1952 Training
The Westerner track and field team and Westerner baseball
team mebers have dug their equipment out of storage to start
training for the coming 1952 season.
Coach De Witt Alexander has almost thirty boys reporting for
baseball practice and a letterman in every position. He has ten
pitchers on hand. They include Carroll Walker, Charley Wright,
and Buddy Ferris—the "big three" of the Lubbock Legion staff
last summer.
Approximately fifteen fly-chasers are trying for a berth on the
squad. Returning members who
are trying for an outfield spot are
Randall Rieger, Jimmy Craw-
ford, James Solley and Ray Weed.
Although the infield does not
report for awhile, Coach Alexan-
der has a pretty good idea of who
will be in the starting lineup. He
has first baseman Sammy Sayers,
socond baseman Frank Wright,
shortstop Johnny Tatum, and
third baseman Hulen Haley re-
turning from last year’s squad.
The Westerners have Bo Sex-
ton, who captained last year’s
nine, returning for his third sea-
son at backstop.
The track picture isn’t as prom-
ising as baseball, for Coach Fred
Brown has only seven returning
lettermen out of the 31 athletes
reporting for track.
They include Billy Ray Smith,
a senior who will compete in the
LtO and mile relay this season,
and James Greer, a junior, who
will also run the 440 and mile re-
lay. Charles Hodge and Charles
'Northington, both seniors, will en-
ter the sprints.
J. W. Hutcherson, a junior who
lettered as a high jumper last
year, will be out to fill Sammy
Adams’s shoes. Adams was the
Westerners’ outstanding high
jumper last. year.
James Sides, a senior shot put-
ter .and discus man, will be back
and will also enter the high jump
and possibly the sprints.
Brown said he has some “pretty
good prospects” coming up this
year. Among them are Red No-
lan, Pat Hartsfield, Benny McCol-
lum, Ronnie McMillan, and Jer-
ry Davis.
Lubbock finished last year sec-
ond only to powerful Odessa in
the district title race. But the
'Westerners’ two leading pointma-
kers, Danny Boone and Sammy
Adams, have graduated.
In addition to those already
mentioned, the following boys are
las Lindsey, C. D. Walker, Jack
agan, Billy Parker, G. A. Law,
-Jimmy Higgins, Charles Moore,
by BEN WEST
(Editor's Noie: Since basketball
season has ended and track and
baseball haven't started officially,
there will be no Westerner cf the
week in this issue.
If one really wants to know if
winter is over, all he has to do is
go to Chapman field and watch
the Lubbock High school ath-
letes. Inside the fieldhouse, foot-
ball boys are getting ready for
spring training by taking special
PE oustide, track boys are try-
ing to get their wind by running
countless laps, and baseballers are
regaining their throwing arm and
hitting eye. Yes, when track,
special PE and baseball get un-
derway, one can be sure winter
has left us.
Speaking of baseball, this might
be the year for Coach De Witt Al-
exander and his boys. Although
Odessa is supposed to be tougher
than ever before, the Westerners,
with lettermen in every position,
might furnish those Broncs too
much competition.
Carroll Walker, a Westerner
and American Legion player last
year, is possibly the best pitcher
in the district. His main asset is
his ability to keep calm, cool, and
collected, and because of this, he
has the confidence of his fellow
teammates. Other standouts are
Bo Sexton, Johnny Tatum, and
Sammy Sayers; all these boys
have played on the baseball
team since entering high school,
and all three are team players.
Johnny and Bo have outstanding
batting aevrages, while Sammy
hits the long ball. We close wi+h
this prediction: A Westerner w_ll
be seen riding a broncho to the
g’ourl hi the near future. That
Westerner will either be wearing
a baseball or track uniform, but
he’ll still be a Westerner,
Charles Lackey. Don Davis, Doyle
Graves, John Bacon, Joe Gray,
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Representing LHS's two spring sports, Ray Weed (left) is
ready to catch a sizzling pitch, and Billy Ray Smith is all set for
"a record breaking sprint.
1-1 i-Y Teams Play This Week
In Second Round Playoffs
The Hi-Y tournament entered
second round play Monday as 20
games were scheduled to be play-
ed this week.
Homei* Bagley, chairman of the
projects’ committee of the Hi-Y,
requests that all guidance spon-
sors attend their games. “Students
should be there, too, in order to
cheer for their team,” added Hom-
er.
Four games were played Mon-
day. 301-337 combined won over
229 by a score of 12 to 10. James
Henderson led the scoring with
6 of his team’s 12 points.
233 edged out 243 in the closest
game of the day, 16 to 15; McNutt
tallied 9 points for 233.
Hector Zamorano and James
Box tallied 18 and 17 points, re-
spectively, to lead 183-184 com-
bined over 110-236 combined 59
to 16. It was the highest scoring
tilt of the day.
311-325 combined, led by Jarry
Owens and Boots Wacasey, down-
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Basketballers Close Season
In Pam pa, Borger Defeats
ed 134, 37 to 30; Wacasey drop-
ped in 18 points, while Owens
made 17.
In Tuesday’s games, 332 beat
331, 29 to 28. Max Baxter sank
12 points for the winners and Don
Tucker made 6. Room 172 won
by a forfeit over homeroom A.
Clyde Brazell and Jeff Moore
tallied 6 points each to lead 242-
239 combined over 111-182 com-
bined, 17 to 10.
Homeroom 181 walloped 309 in
Tuesday’s high-scoring game 38
to 29. Jim Hawkins tallied 19
points for the winners, while Jim-
my Watson was runner-up with
17 markers. Jackie Branch led
309 by dumping in 11 points.
Wednesday morning’s only tilt
was captured by 218 when they
beat 136, 28 to 11. Bobby Neigh-
bors sank 18 points for 218, while
Bill Agee Kilpatrick led the los-
ers with 5 tallies.
The Pampa Harvesters slid by
the Westerners in an overtime
period to gain a 60 to 59 victory
at Chapman fieldhouse last Fri-
day night, while rampaging Bor-
ger Bulldogs proceeded to slaugh-
ter the same Westerner five Sat-
urday night in a 82 to 50 game.
The Harvesters looked as if
they were going to rush the Wes-
terners off the court in the first
few minutes of play. The score
came to 11 to 3 before the West-
erners began to slow down Pam-
pa’s fast break. The first stanza
ended in a 21 to 17 score with the
Harvesters on top. Twice in the
second quarter the Westerners
came within one point of tying
the score but the Harvesters were
still ahead at halftime 38 to 35.
Pampa struck quickly in the
@onnat
by JoAnn Lawson
After what seemed to be
months, the g i r 1 s’ basketball
tournament finally got under-way
last Monday afternoon. In the
first two games Betty Water’s
team defeated Joyce Pruitt’s by a
margin of 20 to 9, while Kay
McDonald’s went down to Gala
Fisher’s by a score of 11 to 2.
Because of the deadline for this
column, no other scores were av-
ailable for this issue. All other
scores will be included next week.
On Tuesday — Nellrose Leach
met Janelle Watson; Mary Alice
Reidy met Charlotte Coffman.
On Wednesday—Rudy Vinson
met Helen Benton, Peggy Golden
met Maxine Spector.
Winners of these games played
yesterday, some will play today,
and the finalists will be decided
next week. The winning team will
meet a faculty team in an ex-
hibition game soon.
third period and they had scored
six points when Lubbock scored
their first. The Harvester crew
had built up a 47 to 41 lead as the
last quarter got underway, but
with five minutes left to play the
Westerners t ed up the game 50
to 50. The teams see-sawed back
and fourth until Lubbock took the
lead 56 to 54. But regulation play
ended in a 58&o 58 deadlock.
In the three-minute overtime
period the Pampa quintet scored
a field goal and Sammy Sayers
sank a charity toss for Lubbock,
and the fame ended with the Har-
vester’s on top 59 to 60.
Bob Fullerton paced the Wes-
terners scoring with 21 points;
Marvin Bond scored 19 points to
capture Harvester .scoring honors.
In the game played Saturday
night, the Borger team, led by
their brilliant Mack Carter, wast-
ed little time in convincing the
crowd why they were leading
the District 1-AAAA champion-
ship race.
The Bulldogs quickly surged
ahead of the Westerners after the
opening whistle sounded, and led
20 to 8 at the end of the first quar-
ter. «
At the half, the Westerners
were trailing 40 to 19 and were
found still farther behind, 63 to 33.
at th close of the third period.
In the final period, the Wester-
ners tallied 17 points, while Borg-
hit 19 in that period, which
brought the final score to 82 to
50 in favor of the Bulldogs.
Carter tallied 38 points to cop
scoring honors and to boost his
total to 554 points, an average of
28.6 points per game. Sammy Say-
ers and Bill Williams tied for
high point honors with 12 points
apiece.
The game was Lubbock’s final
of the season, leaving them with
a conference record of one win
and 11 setbacks.
Borger’s win was their eleventh
in 12 district games.
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