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SIDELINE VIEWS By JOHN STF.CK 1 Re-writing Track Records: On- i - tie- \Ii T:ati: at llampden-Sydney back in the 1950-52 period, and one Bob Trice CH. of 1940. will have to move o\ei t iii youn in. are omini along to wipe their track records off the Death Valley book... ! av( who hails from the colorful com munity of Boulevard Post Office, substituted his own name for Mile ie . :i 880-yard run last Friday in the H-SC meet with Norfolk Da; of W&M Evenso the promising froth ran second in the j iecord-shuttering race! 1 lit- Division’s Bonne Drumwright won with a 2:00.6 race, clip ping two second off of Milenei's previous record of 2:02.6 Graves was ,ius a stride behind Drumwright and finished at 2:017 to set the new H-SC mark. Milenei. the New Yorker who came South for his education. : ill In ’em hanging on the ropes when it comes to records, though. In his fine ye-,. . i rum.ihe in 1952. G- ue set three Tiger marks, a 4 29 null- a 9-58.6 two-mile run. and the 880 record, broken Friday by Dnunwright and Graves. Bill Ben-.',!., the H-SC irishman flyer <from Richmond, had an ithei real day on the cinders Hews tin meet top scorer with 14 point:. ■ apturing the 100 in 10.1. the 220-yard dash in 22.0. placing eimil in the broad jump and third in the low hurdles. His 22 0 :n the 220-yard dash tied the H-SC mark, held by a fellow townsman now Dr. Robert P '1 rice. MI), who run his record race in 1928. The Divisii.n. which picks up a lot of schoolboy talent from the . mith-rich Tidewater area. whipped H-SC handily 76-46, taking 10 of 14 even; jun Frazer won the discus and the mile relay team of (iruvi-r. Bob Hippensteel Tom Allen and Bunting Blown produced the othe] H-SC fust place

Dr. Moore and ‘ins Boys : Dr Ray Moore, almost as closely identified with Hampden-; Sydney as Venable Hall, dug into his storehouse of yarns to regale members of the basketball squad at their banquet last Friday night. The team physician and college doctor, who has lost none of his euthu; ia in and love of sports since his graduation on the Hill a long f>7 years ago. recalled a behind-the-front baseball game in France when he was m that country with a lot of other American lads keepings the Huns out of Paris about 1917. An ambulance section man with the 80t.li Division, he was in a ball game with others of his outfit whe nhe decided to shed liis 1< g pings to improve his peed on the base paths. Both sides burst into laughter when the shedding revealed one red and one green! st ekms in place of the olive drab a good army man should have been wearing. He didn't draw any extra duty, though He had a good day on the bases, and the first sergeant was on his team! D: Moore al o told the rotindballe;- about a World War II in C ' len winch he \tew-d ruth pi .o ■ On. day he saw two strange A run officers driving on the campus in front of hi; Black Bottom home. He learned they were passing through this section and went i r n[ rhe-r v.ay to veil Hampden-Sydney. They had been ttnder ■ ad ta: .me yeat b*for> Colgate -..hen a H.tmpden-Sydney team v.si! (i dial school for a football game. The Tigers lost 60-0. • We've never forgotten the spirit of those Virginians that day." the st-rangets old Dr. Moore. -\Ve vowed if we ever got to Virginia we would visit the school that produced men who could lose by that much and still maintain an esprit, a determination to keep trying; that they did. That'.s why were here." they said. Then the venerable team physician brought himself up to date with the 1956-57 basket-ball squad. "You see. you never know who j may be wat 'hing you. When ver you go. you represent the college— don't ever forget that." To try to help Hill athletes remember his admonition, Dr. Moore. Iwr'he wilh In son. Ray. has establish 'd an .award- the Moore key—to be presented to the most valuable and .conscientious Tiger in each major spore He presented the football and basketball keys during Friday's banquet to Jim Frazer and Russ Holcomb. Side S.ine Shorts:

PRESTON LANCASTER, of Eid'mviIIe. mo king points for the University of Virginia's truck mm. The Cavalier sophomore took the 220 low hurdles lost week in a dual meet with Princeton with a run of 25.7 seconds. Earlier he took a first in the high hurdles and a ! third in low hurdles in the dual meet with William and Mary. Today, ' Lancaster will be coir.; ting with the "V" squad in a triangular meet! at Chapel Hill with North and South Carolina. ARCHIL (iOODWYN, •■-man hand •: athletic prowess, has dent , t > In 1 Hi h’s dual meet last week \ith Varina Goodwyn won the 100 m 10.5, the 220 with a 25.3 mark and the broad jump with a leap > f 19 feel. 4 inches! The Blue Devils.! liowever. won, 71-42. HARCl.t) CLARK, who led the State Group II basketball scorers, has quite a war. wi h baseball, too. Th William Campbell High ace tossed a cla y no-hitter against Brookville last week, with his t .m winning -1 : 2. He had a perfect game for five innings, then lour walks and an error gave Brookville its runs. \L SMITH, ti e local radio new- and spurts -aster, has some fine interviews with major league bassballers he got on tape on trips to! Lynchburg and Richmond while the big league teams were moving North. He has person-to-person chats with A1 Lopez. Casey Stengel.; -Ma k Main! lime Pliiiley. Jerry' Cdlemah. Stab Mu.sial, Freddie Hutch:; in and A1 Dark among others He scored his broadcast beat with ‘-ome hard digging and is serving up the interviews twice weekly duriny his evening sportscast. He found the cooperative big leaguers .Hist like ii savs in the book - the bigger they come, the nicer they are. Sindh found Lopez the most astute; the Yankees' Jerry Coleman, the mast g •mletnanly a reputation he's had for a long time. All of 'em were most helpful. -I

BASKETBALL BAXQI'ET highlights seniors Warren Carter. Captain Uoug Io>ce and l!u<s Holcemh join Coach Miller in an admiring glance at the first Little 8 tournament championship lroph> which rests in the II-SC trophy case. Carter won the sports manship award, while Holcomb wain the Moore K<w as the squad's most valuable plj\er during last Lrtda> s squad banquet.

NEW ll-SC BASKETBALL captain Horsley Butt sets warm Handshake from Couch Louis Miller who holds silver tray pre sented to him by squad members. Claude Bihchurd wlm served as toastmaster fur'the banquet tendered I In I e.er squad tridav, was next in line Putt Chosen 1957-58 Captain 9 Letters, Squad Leadership Awards f

Horsley Putt, junior forward who propped at Boonsboro High, was named next season's captain and Seniors Warren Carter and Russ Holcomb won the most valuable player and sportsmanship citations during the awards banquet for the Hampden-Sydney College basketball squad last Friday. Claude Pritchard, assistant to the college president, was toastmaster and Dr Ben R. Lacy, Jr . was guest speaker for the annual salute to the Tiger court squad in the College Commons. - Coach Miller, who was presented with a silver tray by members of the 1956-57 squad, awarded nine letters. Seniors Doug Joyce. Carter and Holcomb won letter blankets as Eour-time .monogram earners: Jun iors Ted Shepherd and Bob Humph reys. two-time winners, received certificates, while Putt and Fresh men Gil Sayres, Leon Hawker and Vernelle Martin received 1 e tier v. cater.-. Manager Bill Her- also eceited the sweater. Individual Awards Dr. Ray A. Moore, team phy sician, presented the Moore Key for most valuable player to Carter, -’oniiir forward from West Point. Dr Moore, who with Dr. Ray Moore. Jr., this year established the award" key for all sports, also pro

'sented the key to Co-Captain Jim ; Kra/«-r fur ills leader; hip (hirim: (lie football campaign The sportsmanship bowl, provided j ; annually through interested college! •supporters at Farmville, went to Warren Carter, who jumped from! Group III to college play as a J . freshman. It is awarded for conduct I Ion and off the floor and for enthusi astic support of the squad in prac tice and games. Squad Thanked Dr. Joseph C. Robert, college president, extended his congratu lations to the squadmen, while Dr. j Lacy, in his after-banquet remarks, stressed the value of athletic com petition as it serves to weld thej college and students into a team. ; He said the disciplines and team work learned in sports serve the 1 • greatest purpose when they are I carried over into life work. Coach Miller, remembering the ■ notable victories over Mt. St J Mary's, VMI Roanoke; the captur ing of the first annual All-Little Eight tournament, and the steady performances in the Mason-Dixon and Quantico Marine tourneys told the squad; "To me you’re terrific. We made some mistakes, sometimes we let ourselves down, but what, you have ' given me will never be forgotten."

11-SC Track Squad Takes 71-51 W in ■ W< itmai : I ord-breaking shot put and discus heaves apd a triple-first perform ance in the 100. 220 and low hurd les by BUI Benson helped Hamp den-Sydncy's track team build a 71-51 win ovei Bridgewater Col lege Tuesday afternoon on the Eagles' Riverside Field. Frazer's 47 feet. 4 inches effort with the shot, and 144 feet. 2 in ches with the discus, were new marks for Riverside Field. Neither equalleci Frazer's own records which he holds for H-SC. l irrj Pence, Bridgewater cap tain. was the meet's high scorer with 21 points. The three-sport star took the high jump, the pole vault , the broad jump and added right more points with a seconds to H-SC's Bob Capman in the high hurdles and Frazer in the discus. Bucs Take (kune From Amelia 9-2 By JAMES WARREN Buckingham s wung big bats against Amelia last Friday to down the Orioles 9-2 It was the first game of the season for Amelia and six of the nine runs by Buckingham were unearned as the Orioles com mitted ten errors. Elmo Bryant. Buckingham's left hand ace who has started every game so far this year, buffaloed the Orioles and allowed only three hits. Buckingham jumped quickly to a lead in the first inning and by the fourth inning had compiled then nine run lead. First baseman Cary Bryant paced the attack hitting three for four. Third sacker Roy Hill, who is hitting .650 for the year, picked up two for three Friday. James Warren started on the mound for Amelia, but was relieved by Fred Wade in the fourth. Amelia scored their runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Alton Hill drove over the first run for Amelia with a line smash oxer the short stop's head scoring Ashton Edxvards from second, who had walked and hat taken second on a pass ball. For the other score, J. B. Flippen drove in Nelson Harris who had walked and stolen second. Doug Blankenship collected the only other hit off Bryant. Jonah Gregg made the defensive play of the game for Amelia In the seventh inning he scampered way to his right and made a shoestring catch of a line drive that xvould have been an extra base hit.

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KecorJNow 70 H-SC Avenges Only Loss With 8-tt Richmond Win Leftfielder Gene Cooke's two out triple, with Bob Humphreys and Hunter Cox on base with walks, broke up a 1-1 same in the 10th to give Hampden-Sydnev a 3-1 victory over Randolph-Macon Tuesday at Ashland. Bob Humphreys, junior right hander, took the sting out of the Jackets with a three-hit effort on the mound for his second pitch ing win. Lew Brandt, R-M ace, was the losing pitcher. Brandt gave up seven hits while- going the 10-inn ins distance. His record is now 2-2. Hampden-Sydney scored the tight game's first run in the fifth when Wayne McLean, freshman catcher from Richmond, walked and came home on Third Base man Tommy Davis’ hit that bounced over the head of R-M Outfielder Bunkie Keeton for a triple. Davis was in a third re placing Humphreys for mound duty. The Jackets tied the contest 1 and 1 in the eighth when they bunched two of their three hits, both singles by Marshall Hughes and Keeton, Sandwiched between an error. The teams battled through the ninth with the deadlock dangling to set the stage for the dramatic 10th inning heroics by grid co captian Gene Cooke, a long-ball specialist for Coacii Weenie Mil ler's Bengals.

Tiie win gave H-SC a 6-1 over all record, and a 5-0 clean slate m the Little Eight race. Hampden-Sydney's baseball players left for Easter vacation in good spirits. A split with Big Six champions. Richmond, and a 3 to 1 win over Randolphp-Macon for tiie week just preceding tiie spring vacation saw to that. Wednesday afternoon's 8 to 6 victory against the Spiders te sulted from a ninth inning rally for three runs, and duplicated the come-from-behind method Rich mond used last week to give H-SC its only lose in eight starts. Trailing 6-5 in the ninth. Buck Dodson, the freshman infielder from Portsmouth, singled m a pinch hitting role, moved to sec ond on a sacrifice and scored on Tom Davis' single to make it 6-6. Bob Humphreys also singled r gainst Pat Lamberti. who reliev ed Spider starter Mel Harowita, No. 1 mound ace Humphreys stole second, then Carnes walked Hunter Cox to load tiie bases just before Gene Cooke came through ■> ith a clutch single to right cen ter to score tiie deciding run. Humphreys scored a moment later to rive H-SC an insurance i un on Wayne McLean's fly to i ■ titer field. Bii! Tynes. .senior righthafcder. ••'...<> los1 tiie dicision to Richmond la ; week at Death Valley, came on in tiie sixth in relief of starter Warren Carter to get credit for tiie win. Coach Weenie Miller used pitchers Joe Leafe and Ed Drew in the ninth to subdue Richmond and protect the lead.

| Bowling League Summary Men's Tenpins League Team Won Lost A&P Tea Co.27 15 Harry's Barber . 21 21 Baptist Church 20 22 Methodist Church . 16 26 Games Tuesday, April 23 A&P and Methodist Church Baptist Church & Harry’s Barbers Women's League Team Won Lost Home Furniture ........... 6 4 Taylor-Forbes . 4 -6 Games Thursday, April 25 Home Furniture & Taylor Forbes Men's Duckpin League Team W on Lost The Hub . 7 2 Leggett's . 5 4 Standard Oil . 2 7 Games Wednesday, April 24 The Hub and Leggett's Fa. Mfg. Co. & Standard Oil Crewe Takes Contest From Bugs By 7-3 Crewe railroaders exploded for six runs in the second inning to down Buckingham 7-3 on tire Bucs home diamond Tuesday El mo Bryant, Buckingham pitcher, had trouble hitting the corners with his slow curve, and t-.ie Rail roaders had their bats waiting when he started throwing them down the middle. Three walks loaded the bases in the second inning. A double scor ed two runs for Crewe and left two still on base. Anothe” walk loaded the bases again. Joe Mea. dows, Crewe shortstop, stepped up to the plate and hit for the fence, pe connected for a grand slam honi.r and that was just about the end of the day. It is the sec ond home run pitch Bryant has served up in his four years of high school baseball. Buckingham managed to push across one run each in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings.

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1 ll •- +* FARMVIIIJ' IIIGII TRI-CAPTAINS give the once-over to ttieir new squad uniforms. John ( arson third baseman, gets cheeked in front by pitcher-first baseman Randolph Lafoon, while Walker Noblin catcher, admires the big orange numerals on the back. Area High School Baseball Round-up

EDMEND GARNETT Hitting .30!) For Dukes Powhatan Blanks Freeman 11-0 by JOSEPH LEWIS Powhatan used three big innings Friday to sink arch-rival Douglas Freeman 11-0 on the Indians' home field. An error, walk, a n d fielder's choice after Sophomore Christian Goodwyn's lead of double, was oh

maxed by Carroll Palmore's base cleaning home run giving the In dians a four run edge in the first inning. In the second inning Shortstop Christian Goodwyn was safe on a | fielder’s choice. Leftfielder Leonard Walker was hit by a pitched ball, advancing Goodwyn to second. Archie Goodwyn's double drove in Christian Goodwyn, and John Boggs' hard single to center field scored Walker and Goodwyn. In the fifth inning Freeman’s Jack Gary hit a wild streak, walking two men and hitting another plus giving up two timely singles to Center fielder John Boggs and Carroll Pal more; costing him a total of four runs and raising the count to 11-0 Archie Goodwyn and Sophomore lefty Gabe Cosby were very stingy, i allowing the Rebels only three hits ; over the seven innings. Goodwyn pitched the first five, al ! lowing only two Freeman hits, while Cosby was impressive in a two-inn ing stint giving but one single. Goodwyn and Boggs have won two games each this season, giving Pow hatan a record of four wins for four ; starts. R-H Statesmen Win Over Barons 11-7 Charlie Harding drove in two runs with two hits to play a lead ing role in Randolph-Henry s 11 to 7 win over Bluestone High's Barons Tuesday night at Char lotte C. H. Ramsey started on the mound , for the winning Statesmen and was relieved by Gene Gryder in the fifth. Wilkerson, Burnt a i and Gregory toiled unsuccessfully for the losers. | The Statesmen out-hit Blue ; stone nine safe blows to eight, and both sides committed t wo er . rors.

Smith Gets Two Wins For Dukes Cumberland High's Dukes won league games over Gochland <2-1 > and Battlefield Park < 7-1 > and dropped a 12-4 decision to Group II Midlothian .n their last three starts to bring their season re cord to 3-1. Righthander Marshall Smith added Wins No. 2 and 3 while tossing a f bur-hitter against Gochland Friday and spinning a fine two-hit! performance in the 7-1 win Tuesday at Battlefield Park High. He fanned nine in the Goochland contest and got 15 Parkers on strikes. In the t:ch8 Goochland contest, the Dukes scored the winning tal ly in the third inning. Bob Hig gins opened with a hit. advanced on Ed Garnett’s second hit of the game, moved to third on Sopho more Bob Murphj . sacrifice and came home on Catcher Charlie Womack’s squeeze bunt, to break up a 1-1 knot. Womack’s fifth inning triple driving in two mates ahead of him was the big blow in the Tuesday game with the Parkers. Ed Garnett. veteran Duke shortstop, has continued his as sault on enemy pitching. His cur rent -500 mark now includes a double and triple in the loss t.o Midlothian and two safe knocks in the Goochland victory.

Tri-Captains Will Lead Veteran Nine Of 12 Letterinen The Farmville High School Wolverines make their home [crowd debut tonight <Thursday) with the Blackstone High Rams providing the diamond competi tion under the First avenue lights. Coach Bob Gilmer reminds fans that he lias moved starting time up a half-hour this season to 7:30. The change is an effort to end games, in their mid-town set • ting, earlier. The Orange and Black squad will be under the leadership of ! tri-captains. Walker No b 1 i n, I catcher. .John Carson, third base man. a n d Randolph Lafoon. pitcher and first baseman. The 1 squad will be sporting new grpy. ! pin-stripe uniforms, also Probable Starters

Coach Gilmer may nominate Joel Coleman, a junior righthand er who saw mound service last, campaign, to pitcli with Co-Cap tain Noblin his battery mate. Lafoon and Buck Hartley will divide first base chores, with Jimmy D. Cox at second, Co-Cap tain Carson at the hot corner and Jackie McIntosh and Ellis Dun kum available for shortstop duty A letterman outfield of Bob Fowlkes, in left, Howard Clay bough, in center, and Garland Fahrner. in right, will patrol the outer pasture. Earl Fore. John Hodges and Buddy Smith will also be pressed into outfield duty us needed. Gilmer will have Hartley. Fore. Fahrner and Lafoon lor use on the mound, if Coleman starts. Victoria C — FHS 4 A bad sixth inning, when Vic toria erupted for five runs, spoil ed the Wolverines' campaign op ener last Friday as the Panthers won 6 to 4 at Victoria. With Randolphp Lafoon hurl ing six-hit ball. FHS was ahead 3-1 when the boil-over occurred combining walks, errors and the Panthers' Curtis Newman's dou ble. Townsend's first inning homer put Victoria in a 1-0 lead until Bob Fowlkes evened the count at 1-1 with a four-bagger in the fourth. The Wolverines went ahead 3-1 in the first of the sixth when McIntosh walked, pilfered second and came home on La foon’s single. Fowlkes' second big blow, a tripple. then scored La foon. The Panthers broke lose in their half of the sixth to go ahead 6-3 with Farmville closing it to 6-4 in the seventh as Buck Hart ley got an infield single and came : home on Coleman's single. Amos went the route for the Panthers giving up five hits. FHS SCHEDULE April 18 Blackstone . .. home 23 Crewe . there 26 Crewe . home 30 Victoria . home Powhatan Loses 3-2 Thomas Dale edged out a 3-2 victory over Powhatan Tuesday afternoon in 5n important Dis trict II contest. The closely fought battle was the first district loss for the In dians.

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