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Sports ae By GILMER LENTz HE curtain has fallen and the final sport J season is over for the “Bears” and “Bear- ettes’ who are graduating this year. Al- though they are leaving, they will always be here in spirit. They have played their last game but they live on in the piles of football and basketball uniforms neatly stacked in the supply room of the gymnasium. On some eerie night in the quiet darkness, when everything is wrapped in a solemn stillness, they shall rise and go forth to live again the thrills of the 1944 field of sports. Close your eyes and go with them as they battle on the field and run across the gymnasium floor. These blithe spirits seem to be walking on air as they steal into the moonlight surrounding the buildings. With the exception of a few lighted windows dotted over Main Building, the twinkling stars and the smiling moon are the only lights in the bluish black night. From moon-beam to moon- beam in the soft breeze you can see them as they cross the green meadows to the dimly lighted field. The quietness of the night is suddenly broken by stirring scenes from the autumn of 1943. Yells fill the air every time a touchdown is made. The first scene relived is the opening game with Lenoir. The Bears lose the game to Lenoir by the score of 19-0 but in the next scene everybody looks happier. The Bears hold Bessemer City to a scoreless tie. Then with spirits dimmed for a little while, watch as they skid into a losing streak playing with Forest City, Morganton and Marion. Later in the night the spirited Bears are thrilled again by reliving the game won over Newton by the score of 12 to 7, but their feeling of joy is downed by seeing the shockingly high score made by Cherryville. The night is filled with cheers as they experi- ence again their amazing victory over Belmont and they joyfully pledge never to forget their treat in Charlotte after the game. A silence follows as every player recalls the delightful Football Banquet given in their honor on the night of December 14, 1943. As the clock strikes midnight, the Bears and Bearettes seem suddenly to be spirited from the football field to the basketball court in the gym- nasium. Around the court there is a deep silence. Not even a mouse is stirring. Moonlight streaking through the windows on the floor makes the court look beautiful. Suddenly graceful basketball players appear and they live again the scenes from some of the basketball games of the winter of °44. The Bears swell with pride as they begin to play again in that victorious game with un- defeated Rutherfordton that gave them the championship of the Western North Carolina Conference. The Bearettes, too, glide gracefully from goal to goal as they live again some of the exciting minutes in the games gone by, recalling that they won three games against a loss of seven but even that memory cannot daunt the spirits of the Bearettes as they live again. As the basketball scenes fade, the spirits of the sports are suddenly seen on the track field, on the softball diamonds, in the swimming pool, on the tennis courts, playing dodge ball, and pulling the bow in archery. Spirits cannot linger beyond the night. The feeble rays from the rising sun suddenly break through the darkness surrounding the fields and courts and they must disappear. So in a moment they are across the campus into the gymnasium, across the floor to the supply room. One by one, they make their way back into the piles of uniforms and silence follows.
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