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Football Ended, Locals BeginBasketball Plans—Dr.lt;Baker to Coach.tParkersburgh High yesterday wire-1 the management of the Charleston m*h football team cancellation of ISaturday’s contest with the local eleven at Laidley field. The telegralt;n virtually brought to a close the foot- ] ball season in West Virginia. By vir-, i tue of its of no defeats in West Vi**- J j tflaia and victories over the 191V i 1 champions and other strong elevens of 1 the state, Parkersburg holds the We.it' 1 Virginia High School Athletic associ- j „ation football championship for 19in. j. Basketball practice will be started * tv the Charleston High school squad , j w*t Monday. The basketeers will bo' 1 coached this year by Dr. N. H. Baker,! 3 instructor in charge of the champion- 1 ship 1915 quintette, and Glen M. Colby,C. H. S. athletic director The outlook is bright for a successful season. ]Only one man is left from last year :? j regular quintette. ‘'Stock” Gaines?the ] lanky youngster who last season hell; down center for the local basketeers, i will lead the team into action this win- i ter. There are five other men who 1 ware members of the 191-7 squad. Bill Htiser, Jimmy Martin, Cablish and the Ohley brothers, who participated in more than one scoring last season,: 1 with Gaines, will form the nucleus m this year's squad.s Kd Young, who last season acted the part of ‘‘star substitute for the unfortunate Baraca A. A. five, will prob* ably prove a strong contender for one of the running positions on this year “j quint. Lambert Lewis, whose illness prevented him from being a member of the football team in the season just closed, may bo well enough to begin basketball work after the first game ®r so. Lewis was the satr of Central Junior High’s five, a couple of seasons ago, and entered the High school Just too late to edge into the basketball work in the second semester of the 191T-1918 school term.Other basketeers of more or less ability who n ay become a part of this year’s squad, include Courtney, Seaton. Carson and Meldahl.UECTEXAXT stark home.Former High School and WesleyStar Returns an ()IMahre Stark, former CharlestonHigh and West Virginia Wesleyan * athletic star, is home from a Southern training camp with a gold bar on hh eoulder'and the same old smile on hir iface. Lieutenant Stark finished wellto the fore in a large class of graduates in the officers’ training school.While wearing the blue and maroon of the local high school. Stark won many a coveted “C and was a member of every state championship team which the school produced during his four years in the institution. As a football star and basketeer he shared honors year in and year out with Ho- j; mer Martin. He was one of the leading high school trick men of the state and a good baseball player.Last winter he made the regular Wesleyan basketball five with ease and was considered of tha main-ys. of that ultra-successful quin-latte. Shortly after the close of tho basketball esason, he enlisted in a mechanical training unit and was sent to a Virginia cantonmentT He was pro-^Qoted to a sergeancy only a few wethcs after his arrival in camp.Today, • Lieutenant Stark expressed his intention of returning to school after Christmas, providing that he is »ot called back into the service in the meanwhile. He has not definitely decided what college he will attend, al- j though he will in all probability re-turn to a state school, but it is certain that the athletic organizations of whatever institution he affiliates himself with will be vastly improved by 1 his addition.i1)J
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Mon, Dec 02, 1918
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