Myers Park High School - Mustang Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Mustangs are migfity maulers on tde mafs Grapplers for this year ore, first row: Ben McCoy, Bo Willard, Phil Burns, Goody Thomas, Larry Smith, Allan Aitken, George Foster, Paul Stork, Bill Tourtellot. Second row: Robbie Thax- ton, Ed Genois, Jim Drake, Pete Elliot. Third row: Gus Anastes, Deno Elliot, Butch Allison, Doug Maddock, Mike Gilbert, Tony Smith, Jack Thomas, Woody McGinn. Coached for the first year by Stuart Allen, the Myers Park wrestling team posed a defi- nite threat on the mats this season with a four-two record. Three matches before the State Meet, the grapplers continued to pin their opponents and increase their wins. On the mats were such grappling seniors as George Foster, Bo Willard, Goody Thomas, Phil Burns, and Ben McCoy. With underclass- men like Paul Stork, Allan Aitken, and Ed Genois, future wrestling squads of Myers Park will have great experience on the mats. WRESTLING SCHEDULE Dec. 12 Statesville Dec. 19 Albemarle Jan. 8 .Mooresville Jan. 12 Salisbury Jan. 15 Albemarle Jan. 29 Mooresville Feb. 3 Albemarle Feb. 9 Statesville Feb. 14 Boone Feb. 19 State Match Goody Thomas shows Myers Park ' s wrestling from against Albemarle. Paul Stork riding a Salisbury opponent across the mats 29

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Gfiree sfafe records Sro en as Losing only to East and West in a triangular meet and to the Davidson and Carolina frosh, the Myers Park cross country team, coached by Stuart Allen, defeated East 19-36, N. C. State frosh 24-41, and West 15-73. At the state meet, the runners of Myers Park beat the second-place team by 15 points, 28-43. Outstanding record breakers were Captains Hugh Huntington, Eddie West, and Tom Stockton. The 1958 State Champions are, first row: Jim Taylor, Archie Costner, George Wisecarver, Bill Messerly, Walter Kellogg, Nick Holland. Second row: Neal Cheek, Morrison Devine, Harry Spoon, Don Page. Third row: Hugh Huntington, Tom Stockton, Eddie West, Jim Cothran, Robert Whitton, Mike Stenhouse. Cross country captures state crown fourtfi straight year Mustangs off to a good start against West Coach Stuart Allen checks time with assistant Bob Allen.

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The racing dive — M. P. style by Co-Coptains Sanford and Getting into the swim of things Goodson Swimmers win inuifafionals Sy wide margin After only four years of competitive swimming, Myers Park ' s Swimming Team captured the state high school championship, setting two national swim records. Bill McGinty bettered the national high school record twice by shaving the listed rec- ord of 50.2 to 50.1 seconds in the 100-yard free- style qualifying events and then came back with a 49.6 for the finals. In the 50-yard freestyle he bettered the old record of 23.8 with a time of 22.9, Myers Park scored 1 18 points to outdistance second-place Greensboro with 68, At the fourth annual Eastern Carolina Invita- tional swim meet, the Mustang mermen amassed 1 18] 2 points ta outdistance Needham Broughton ' s 88 points. At the Emory University Invitational, with 25 schools participating, Myers Park collect- ed 57 points to sweep the honors. In the 50-yard freestyle, McGinty broke the meet record of 23.7 by .4 of a second. The freestyle team. Bill San- ford, Lou Sullivan, Deems Wilson, and Bill Mc- Ginty, also broke the existing state record of 1 .38 minutes by 2.1 seconds. At Chapel Hill in February, the swimmers placed first in faur events, scoring 83 points to win the 14th annual Southern Interscholastic swimming championship. Bill McGinty clipped the 100-yard freestyle record of 51 seconds by posting a new time of 50.5. The 1959 Mermen of Myers Pork ore, first row: Lou Sullivan, Bill McKee, Deems Wilson, Bill Sanford and Paul Goodson, co-captains; Bill McGinty, Vance Cockersham, Jim Moore, Billy Gilbert. Second row: Bobby Helbein, Vic Burg, Bill Cowan, Paul Barefoot, Bob Mobley, Bob Glasgow, Joe Goodson, Drew Taylor, Sonny Charnley. Third row: Phil Levine, Jim Gray, Steve Van Every, Thad Adams, John Alexander, Norman Scott, Jonn Wnite, Jonn Thomas, John Brietz. 30