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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 Best Wishes to The Graduating Class of 1936! HORTON’S Stationery - Kodaks Typewriter Supplies One Price House <( The Store of Quality Merchandise” Corner Alabama and Maple Streets Phone 95 heave Carrollton for Atlanta: t Leave 6:00 P. M. Saturday Leave for Griffin 6:30 A. M. and Sunday on , y 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. * * * 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. BUS SCHEDULE 6:00 8:00 10:00 A. M. 1:00 4:30 P. M. The West Georgian Sims, O. Spinks, R. Barton, J. Las setter, and Jack Fleming and King. * * *• 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. Amsterdam is the center of the world’s diamond trade. Best Wishes from .... LOVVORN’S SHOE SHOP Prompt Service and Courtesy! On the Corner .... Square and Neuman St. CONGRATULATIONS! and Best Wishes to West Georgia College and It's Graduates!! from .... c. mlrobertson Manager, Georgia Power Cos. 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! • TO WEST GEOFGIA COLLEGE GRADUATES THE HUB Page Three