C H Friend High School - Chit Chat Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Girls' Basketball Team Mary Stewart .................... , ......... Captam Alice Smith ...7............................ Manager Miss Sarah Lacy, Mr. John P. Jones, Coaches MEMBERS Mary Stewart Hazel Herbster Elizabeth Lee Becky Williams Helen Hope Walker Elsie Spencer Helen Ferrell Lamb Hodges Charlotte Veasey Winifred Sullivan

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Boys' Basketball Team T J Glascock ......,...--....,..-....-. B-- Captain Wiley Umstead ............................ Managei John P. Jones, Coach Dick Haymes Cecil Sanders Peter Staples Robert Walton John Hubbard Wilson Burgess Tom King Jack Spears MEMBERS John Boozer John Collins Lowell Strickland Billy Williams Crawford Staples Billy Vaughan Arthur Crute . '

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1938 Basketball Season t After playing fairly good basketball the first half of the year, the Crimsons kind of dropped down to lose quite a few games in the last half of the year. Exhibit- ing a strong defensive team, the boys held their opponents to twenty points nearly every game. The Crimsons' offensive playing was their fault for the season. 'The boys ho.pe for a better season 'next year and are expecting Glascock, Burgess, Sanders, Boozer, Strickland, and Collins to be back. The Crimsonettes started their season with the best prospects C. H. Friend High School has ever seen. From the previous year they had lost only one player from the regular team. Their captain from last year, Helen Hope Walker, returned, and also three other regulars. The girls had their regular practice before Christmas, which showed fine results.. They practiced hard and long every clay. The season was opened on January 12 with one of their toughest teams, George Washington High from Danville. They got off to a fine start and really kept the George Washington girls stepping. Their teamwork and passing were beautiful. The score was 27-13. Their next team was easily defeated, and the score ran high. The Crimsonettes overcame Farmville by a 36-7 count. The next game on schedule was with Virginia Commercial College. The Crim- sonettes put up a fine fight and finally defeated them 21-20. They were up against marvelous competition and an almost professional team. The Martinsville team was overcome by a 29-12 score. The team breezed through the game with the ease of professionals. The next three games were easily won by big scores, and yet the Crimsonettes kept up their good work and didn't stop fighting a time. The chain was broken when the Crimsonettes journeyed to Lynchburg to play Virginia Commercial a return game. The team put up a grand iight, but just wasn't a match for the Lynchburg girls. After a hard fight they were overcome by a 45-35 score. ' The team really showed what it could do when Averett College was the oppon- ent. The guards were showing what fine defensive work they could do, while the for- wards were sinking snowbirds and cripes all over the court. They took that one with ease by a 33-7 score. Roxboro and Martinsville were two easy teams to take, and the Crimsonettes eased on through these to continue a winning streak which had been broken only once. The schedule next showed the big game of the year. As the whistle blew the team was off to a ine start against Fredericksburg. Orrock, Fredericksburg's ma-in forward, started sinking snowbirds, but the powerful guarding of Herbster and Walker was too much for her. The teamwork, the beautiful passing and shooting were superb, and the South Boston girls kept their opponents fighting through the whole game. The game was close and exciting all the way through, but the Fredericksburg girls emerged the winners by a 16-15 count. Farmville, George Washington, Roxboro, and Averett were added to the Crim- sonettes' listof winners. Their third loss was to Phillips' Secretarial School. The team fought the whole game, but just couldnit play basketball that night. Becky Williams emerged the high scorer for the year, and the whole team is to be complimented on its fine work. -1