The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 1953 Page: 3 of 4
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Thursday, April 2, 1953
THE WESTERNER WORLD
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Westerners Start District Play With Amarillo
Westerner Round-Up
Don Wilson, playing for rooms 242 and 243 combined, goes up
for a shot in the Hi-Y Intramural basketball game with 309 and 332
combined, as they played in the boys’ gym Tuesday. 309-332 won the
game by a score of 28 27. '/
y Track Team Will Take Part
With two straight wins last
weekend the Westerner golf team
seems to be shaping up very well.
They won a match from Lamesa
Friday YlVz-Yz, then defeated
Plainview the next day by the
same score. Captain Stanley Black
beat Plainview’s Gene Boyd ixk-
y2; Niki Sullivan beat Hugh Til-
ghsen 3-0; John Glover beat Bob-
by Crues 3-0; Don Brown defeated
Rex Regis 3-0; Black and Sullivan
teamed to beat Boyd and Tilgh-
sen 3-0; and Glover and Brown
beat Crues and Regis 3-0.
Final eliminations were made
on the new girls’ tennis team,
which is coached by Mr. Richard
Ayers, and the following were the
7K
¥-
In Big Spring Meet Saturday
The Westerner cinder squad
travels to Big Spring Saturday
with hopes that the 12-man team
can bring home a first place vic-
tory.
The meet will consist of more
relays than usual, and some of
the jumping and weight events
will be cut to make this possible.
The Westerner team is better
in sprinting events, according to
Coach Freddie Brown, so the meet
should hold some reward for the
enthusiastic Westerners.
In last week’s Interscholastic
meet at Brownwood, the Western-
ers received only one point. Troy
Harbor, sprinter, won a fourth
place to get the mark, as the 11
other failed to place.
The 47-team meet was played in
near perfect weather Saturday, as
Abilene knocked Amarillo off a
two-year winning pedestal by tak-
ing the meet 24-2/3 to 23-5/6 for
the Golden Sandies.
The Brownwood meet was
probably the Westerners’ hardest,
and they have great hopes for a
victory at Big Spring Saturday.
Baseball Team Loses Two, Wins One
The Lubbock High school West-
erner baseball team lost two
games to Odessa last Tuesday and
Friday by scores of 8 to 6 and 14
to 4, and won one game from the
Big Spring Steers last W ednesday.
The Westerners made six errors
in two big innings to ~ hand the
Bronchos the victory in the first
game.
Carl Schlemeyer, who pitched
the last three innings, was credit-
ed with the win, while Buddy
Ferris, relief pitcher in the fifth
inning, was charged with the loss.
Coach David Cook’s crew were
the victo£|g; over Big Spring the
next day, Wednesday, with a 13
to 7 win while defeating the
Steers for the third time.
Three runs in the first inning
and six more in the third clinched
the game for the Lubbock nine.
Big Spring chalked up three
runs on three hits in the second
inning and four on three in the
fifth.
Friday was another dark day
for the Lubbock nine when they
met Carl Schlemeyer at Odessa
and lost to the Permian Basin
boys 14 to 4.
The loss gave the Westerners a
3-2 record in pre-season games
and Odessa a 4-0 record.
Garcia, Gehrig Garrison, Jim-
my Crawford, Frank Wright, Wal-
lace Wilson, and Dub Sampson
each got a hit.
The Westerners go to Amarillo
fftr their first district 1-AA games
tomorrow and Saturday.
By Joann Myrick
Something very unusual has
happened in “ye old” gym. Last
Tuesday, the seventh-period girls
played the seventh-period boys in
a battle of volleyball in the boys’
gym. It seems that the girls lacked
experience (?) and were defeated
only “slightly” by the boys.
You may wonder what the boys
were doing playing the girls. Well,
it seems that the heating system
in the girls’ gym suddenly broke
from a wallop of a volleyball, and
therefore the gym was running a
close race with the North Pole.
The gym ceiling is so low that
volleyball, or any other sport, is
difficult to play without hazard
to everyone involved. Anyway, as
was said in the beginning, the
girls lacking a polished perform-
ance and showed signs of needed
improvement.
In one of the PE classes the
other day all but one of the girls
was suited out. Surprisingly
enough, Mrs. W. I. Pittman, physi-
cal education instructor, reported
that all classes were unusually
cooperative when suiting out
Maybe spring fever has caught
their athletic ability and stimu-
lated sportsmanlike attitude.
Maybe with a little practice,
classes will have a big, success-
ful volleyball tournament again
this year. Speaking of the tourna-
ment, Mrs. John Wilson, physical
education instructor, hopes that
several girls will get up indepen-
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results: Irene “Chic” Chipman,
senior, singles; Virginia Fite, jun-
ior, and Pat Rainer, sophomore,
doubles; Sandra Dudley, sopho-
more, alternate.
In the annual Odessa tennis
meet Saturday the girls lost out
in the first round, but the boys
beat Andrews and advanced into
the second round. However, they
were finally defeated by Big
Spring.
If you don't think that Lubbock
High is simply loaded with good
old spirit’ just ask Coach David
Cook. We bet he could tell you a
lot about how much spirit and
enthusiasm this school really has.
Coach Cook has been mentor of
two sports, baseball and basket-
ball, and has had a good chance
to see throngs of students and
faculty that flock to his games
whether the team is winning or
losing.
Approximately 25 people were
at the last baseball game, and
most of those could have been
from the opponents’ town. Even
if they were all from Lubbock,
put 25 over 1800 and see the per-
cent of the study body repre-
sented.
dent teams, and when the tourna-
ment is announced, several of the
teams wil enter to play against
the PE classes.
This is anofner reminder: If you
would like to practice with your
team or any other team for that
matter, the girls’ gym is always
open on Wednesday afternoon at
3:45. Remember* this practice
could very well bring you a win-
ning team.
In closing ,we would like to say
that during the latter part of May,
softball will begin and last until
school is out. When this starts,
at least we can drag out of the
gym and into the spring atmos-
phere again for a welcome re-
freshing breath, free from gym
surroundings.
Lubbock High school’s Western-
er Baseball team will move into
district play today and tomorrow
when they meet the Amarillo
Golden Sandies at Amarillo.
_When district play gets under-
way, Amarillo is entered as the
favorite. The Sandies boast five
starters from last year and 11 re-
turning lettermen. The biggest loss
in the Amarillo lineup is that of
Ruben Plaicio, the rubber-arm
pitcher, picked last year as one
of the outstanding hurlers in the
district.
The Westerners have ten re-
turning lettermen but no regular
starters save Buddy Ferris, and
Carroll “Doak” Walker, who did
some starting on the mound last
year.
The Westerners will play the
Sandies one game this afternoon
at 3:45 and a double-header to-
morrow.
Pampa and Borger also play
their first district games Friday
and Saturday.
All Westerner games played
here will be played at Odom Field
and the Activity books are good.
The 1-AA district has changed
a bit since last season. As it was
Lubbock, Odessa, and Big Spring
made up the south half of the dis-
trict and Borger and Amarillo the
north half. The winner of each
half of the district played the best
two out of three games for the
district crown. Amarillo won the
district and Bi-District but was
defeated by El Paso in the first
game at Austin.
As the district is now, the north
and south half has been done
away with. The . four teams,
Pampa, Borger, Amarillo, and
Lubbock, now make up the 1-AA
district.
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