Norristown Area High School - Spice Yearbook (Norristown, PA)

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Girls' Tennis Early in May, the girls started their daily hikes to the macadam courts of Elmwood Park to prepare for the rapidly approaching tennis season. As the day of the first game drew near the Weather became unusually rainy. Each day found the girls debat- ing whether they should carry their tennis rackets and balls or raincoats and umbrellas to practice. The coach and managers began to get gray hair, and the players began to lose interest in tennis and take to studying Weather reports. Finally, after two games were postponed, the first match was held at the park courts. April - May lean Abbott, Kitty lune Stoops, Peggy Logan and Mary Heimer played the singles for N. H. S. Kitty Iune was the only undefeated player. The doubles matches were played by teams composed of Iean Allerton and Claire Woehlingg Shirley Schweiker and Floy Lewisg Ann Schweiker and Caroline Faulkner. With these girls supporting the honor of N. H. S. We came through the season's short list of matches with victories bal- ancing defeats. SCORES Coatesville Norristown Berwyn . . . Norristown Radnor . . . Norristown Lansdowne Norristown 3 l Q? l -an H-dim

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Boys? Tennis Hooray! The first suburban match was held on our netmen's home courts and they upset a favored Abington team. The Upper Darby suburban contest proved to be the most exciting of the season. Ed. Davis, with the deciding point's counting on his match, couldn't stay on his feet and walked from the match with cuts, bruises, and the first defeat of the season. Although the Hill School match was lost by the Eagles, a decisive advantage Was scored by the discovery of a new doubles team, Iohn Hoover and Fred Sharp. Another victory was Won by N. H. S. when they defeated Coatesville on their home courts. And, as yet, Frank Guth- ridge was undefeated in suburban matches. The N. H. S. netrnen were too strong for the court players of Pottstown and scored another victory for the books. Our players had a tough time at Lower Merion. It seems their attention was cli- verted from their playing to the attrac- tive group of spectators. Yippee, another tennis team sank un- der the power of our players! Bob Novell's excellent serves provided many thrills, in the Cheltenham match. What a tennis team! ! Playing at Rad- nor it showed extra-ordinary skill in every set. SCORES Abington .....,... Z Norristown , . . . . , 3 Upper Darby ...... 3 Norristown . . , . . . 2 Hill School ,,,,.... 6 Norristown . . . , . . 3 Coatesville . . , , . U Norristown . . . . . . 5 Pottstown ..,...... l Norristown . , . . . . 6 Lower Merion ...,. 4 Norristown . . . , . . l Cheltenham ..,,... U Norristown . . . . . . 5 Radnor ...... . . . 0 Norristown . . . . . . 5 Lansdowne ....... 3 Norristown . . . . . . 2 Pictures at right. Left: Over the net-pop! Right: R-e-a-c-h! Up by the tree are Bob Novell, Iohn Hoover, and Bob White. Down below are Fred Sharp, Frank Guthridge, and Ed Davis.

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