. The black and gold [serial]. BLACK AND GOLD 115. TENNIS Our school was this year represented in tennis by Spruill Thorn-ton and Joe Carlton. With the tremendous amount of school workthese boys were compelled to do, very little time was found for themto secure practice; therefore, they were forced to surrender to RockyMount in the first round at Chapel Hill. In this contest they madea very creditable showing by winning their first set by a score of 6-3;but in the succeeding sets they were losers by a score of 6-2, 6-3; thusthey were eliminated from the state championship race. Thorntonreprese
. The black and gold [serial]. BLACK AND GOLD 115. TENNIS Our school was this year represented in tennis by Spruill Thorn-ton and Joe Carlton. With the tremendous amount of school workthese boys were compelled to do, very little time was found for themto secure practice; therefore, they were forced to surrender to RockyMount in the first round at Chapel Hill. In this contest they madea very creditable showing by winning their first set by a score of 6-3;but in the succeeding sets they were losers by a score of 6-2, 6-3; thusthey were eliminated from the state championship race. Thorntonrepresented us in the single matches. Only two real matches have been played so far this year, bothof which were played last fall with High Point in which our teamemerged victorious in both matches. On Tuesday, April 28th, Thornton defeated Carlton in the singlematches in which he was chosen as captain of the team. This struggleproved to be very exciting from beginning to end, and not until thefinal game, was the winner able to overcome his opponent by
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