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June l, 1936
In the SPORTLITE
Minor Sport Set Up Most
Important During Year
Early in the Fall quarter a
schedule of intramural basketball
was inaugurated by Marion Baker
and Virginia Barrett, managers of
basketball. There were 6 teams of
boys, composed of 40 boys, and 25
girls in 3 girls’ teams. This in
termural play led up to the regu
lar intercollegiate season, which be
gan early in the Winter quarter.
* * *
Among the activities added this
year was tap dancing. Under Clar
ence Verdel and Grace Rushin a
large group of prospective Astaires
and Rogers’ were tutored in the
fundamentals of this art and sev
eral students have become quite
good. Among them are Lynette
Word, Loid Ingle, Lillian King,
Moselle Taylor, and Joyce Moon.
Interest in tap dancing reached its
peak in the Winter quarter.
* * *
To Elmer Bohannon, student
manager of table tennis, goes a
great deal of credit for the activ
ity in this field during the past
year. He has supervised 2 tourna
ments ,with around 20 participants
in each. E. Hendrix won the Fall
tournament and James Maxwell
the Spring tournament. Elizabeth
Burnham is the ace of the fairer
sex. There are over 30 active ta
ble tennis players.
* * *
Group dancing has a larger
number of followers than any oth
er activity at West Georgia. Meet
ing each Friday, some 200 students
take part in group dancing the
main purpose of which is to im
prove the student’s etiquette on
the dance floor, to teach him the
fundamental steps, and to foster
the desired finer attitude toward
social dancing. Lovett Newell and
Dot Justice have been in charge of
the department. The pianists for
this group have included Nadine
Wilbanks, Earl Reeves, Georgia
Castleberry, Dot Holmes, Bernard
Harris, Doris Webb, Jane Luck,
and Pee Wee Carter.
* * *
An intermural tennis tournament
was held under the direction of
Tom Smith in the Fall. O’Rear
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Treadaway won from Travis Jack
son. Both have since made the
intercollegiate team. Grace Wing
was the number one girl player.
* * *
Rifling was greatly revived this
year under the able sharpshooter
Ed Wright. The members of this
team, about 10 in number, con
structed a range last Fall and have
since been active. Wright won na
tional honors last summer at Camp
Perry, Ohio.
* * *
The West Georgia boxing team,
under the management of Doug
Bishop, put on an exhibition in the
Fall. Those participating were
Lovett Newell, Jimmy Lasseter, J.
W. Sutton, Charles Bohannon, Pel
ham Staples, J. J. Rivers, Bob Rich
ardson, and Ralph Westbrook.
* * *
Under the supervision of Ewell
Holloman and the faithful playing
of Hancel Tucker, checkers have
come in for their share of popu
larity this year. Several tourna
ments have been held, and inter
est was high throughout the year.
* * *
About 20 girls were active in soc
cer during the Fall quarter. Edith
Woodward directed this depart
ment.
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Several star girls tumblers de
veloped this year. Among them
are Virginia Webb, Mary Cole,
Beth Almand, Grace Rushin, Ma
rian Stephens ,and Dot Holmes.
This group put on a program with
the boys’ team during the Win
ter quarter.
* * *
Badminton became one of the
leading sports at West Georgia
overnight, and wouU have become
wider in its scope of participants
if the required equipment had
lasted. Pledger Carmichael did a
swell job of fostering this new
addition to our program, and de
serves much credit. Billy Thomas
was invincible at Badminton and
proved it by winning handily the
Spring tournament.
* * *
Walter Abney put touch foot
ball over during the Fall in big
fashion. Abney formed a couple
of teams, and kept them active
every day on which the weather
permitted.
* * *
The West Georgia wrestling
team, true to tradition, was very
good this year, Jimmy Lasseter
bent his every effort toward de
veloping a worthy team and did
just that. The grapplers met 3
opposing squads, and gave them
all real competition. The members
of this team were C. Bohannon, L.
Jaillet, T. Wright, P. Wright, W.
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Under Andy Floyd the men’s
tumbling made remarkable pro
gress and was loudly acclaimed on
every public exhibition put on.
Andy has had quite a bit of ex
perience in this field and knew
how to convey his knowledge. This
group put on exhibition at the
school gym, at Young Harris, and
put on a figure dance at the spe
cial request of Chancellor Sanford.
This group, every member of
which is exceptionally good, in
cludes Warner Morgan, Randolph
Chandler, Charles Scott, Charles
Bohannon, Owen Spinks and Andy
Floyd.
A source of sincere regret on the
part of the entire student body is
the announcement that Coach Bras
well will not return next year. His
untiring efforts to better and widen
the scope of athletics here have
met with great success. The splen
did athletic program he has set up
has not gone unappreciated, and
his place will be indeed a hard one
to fill. His congeniality and true
sportsmanship have endeared him
to all West Georgians for to know
him is to want him for a friend.
May the best of luck be his.
Back about September 25 of last
year West Georgia set forth on
the ever-treacherous sea of inter
collegiate and intramural athletics.
Since that memorable date the
Braves have weathered the rough
est going and withstood the most
typhoonic waves of competition
hurled at them from every hand.
T'he Braves have socked it to
’em. They’ve turned loose the
heaviest artillery imaginable.
They’ve poured in the grape shot,
laden the air with mustard gas,
writing their success with squirm
ing and writhing victims by the
wayside.
But now calm waters lie ahead.
The days of warring are over,
leaving the Braves mighty and
supreme with only the soothing
thoughts of athletic glorification
to arise in their future hours of
reminiscense.
And with this last effort on the
part of the sports department,
nothing seems more appropriate
than a general resume of the pro
gram so creditably carried out by
the athletic director, Mr. Braswell.
The basketball squad, coached by
Prof. Bonner and captained by Eid
son, played a stiff 14 game sched
ule, ended by the State Junior Col
lege tournament at Milledgeville.
Winning 8 of the 14 games, and
losing 3 by either 1 or 2 point
margins, this year’s five was a
source of great pride to the school.
The games in order played are:
Gordon —here.
xYoung Harris —here.
xCarrolßon A. C. —here.
xßhinehart —there.
Gordon —there.
Brewton-Parker —here.
North Georgia—here.
xSouthern Union —here.
xSouthern Union —there.
xFt. McPherson —here.
xNorth Georgia —there.
xOklahoma Indians —here.
xYoung Harris —there.
xCarrollton A. C.—here,
xlndicates the games won.
West Georgia was eliminated in
the quarter finals of the Junior
College tournament.
The members of the squad were:
Eidson, Shumake, Williams, Hug
gins, Driver, Cook, L. Johnson, B.
Webb, Hansard, Stephens, and
Bishop, manager.
Over the winter months no other
major sports were carried on be
sides basketball.
With the beginning of the
Spring quarter West Georgia shook
the moth balls out of the baseball
uniforms and tennis paraphenalia
and got down to serious intercol
legiate activity.
Due to the unmarred tally sheets
of the past 2 year’s tennis team,
the tennisters copping positions on
the year’s team were, figuratively
speaking, on the spot. However,
they had the goods necessary for
the stiff opposition scheduled, and
though they dropped a couple
matches, their glory was dimmed
nary a bit. The Emory Junior
team could, we dare say, trim any
team in the state. Then in the
Junior College tournament our
boys lost to a team it had earlier
in the season turned back easily,
and then only after annihilating
North Georgia and G. M. C. both by
the score of G-0. The racqueteers
were Campbell, Treadaway, Jack
son, and Foster, Prof. Strozier
coached the team.
In the favorite pastime of Amer
ica, West Georgia broke even in its
intercollegiate campaign. With sev
eral former members of the fam
ous Carrollton Farmer nine, Coach
Braswell aggregated a powerful
hitting, fancy fielding baseball
team. The batting average for
the entire team was .320 which is
quite exceptional in college or
even in professional ball.
On this team were Damon Webb,
Bob Webb, J. L. Webb, Frank and
Bill Kelly, B. Johnson, C. Gilham,
D. Breeden, H. Sappington, H. Gol
den, E. Huggins, and A. Floyd.
The games and scores of the
part season are:
West Georgia 4 North Ga. 5
West Georgia 18 North Ga. 5
West Georgia 10 Young Harris 11
West Georgia 6 Young Harris 7
West Georgia 7 Young Harris 4
West Georgia 13 Young Harris 12
West Georgia 7 Villa Rica 5
West Georgia 19 Villa Rica 5
West Georgia 19 North Ga. 5
West Georgia 7 North Ga. II
West Georgia 7 Young Harris 8
In the games lost, West Georgia
was beaten in only 1 game by more
than one run. Frank Kelly was
manager as well as playing the hot
corner position on the team.
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Watson, Carpenter To
To Be Wed In August
Sincere interest centers in the
announcement of the engagement
and wedding plans of Miss Mabel
Carpenter and Professor Gordon
Watson.
Miss Carpenter has been secre
tary to the president of W’est Geor
gia College for the past two years,
and has endeared herself to the
faculty and student body. She is a
graduate of the Georgia State Col
lege for Women. Her home is in
Atlanta.
Mr. Watson has been at West
Georgia since the beginning of the
college as head of the English de
partment. He has been prominent
ly identified with student activities
on the campus, having served with
distinction as director of the glee
club, and with numerous other
projects.
Mr. Watson received his B. A.
and M. A. degrees from Emory
University. While at Emory he
toured Europe as a member of the
Emory Glee Club. He later stu
died at Harvard University. He
has been on the faculties of the
Georgia State College for Men,
Tifton and the Alabama State
Teachers College, Alabama, before
coming to West Georgia.
Mr. Watson leaves during June
for Boston, Mass., where he will
study at Harvard University dur
ing the summer. It is there that
the wedding will take place dur
ing the month of August .
Hearty Congratulations!
and Best Wishes!
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