Stingers Struck By Sickness As Tourney Nears, March 6, 1929

Adams Out For Sure And Cherry On Doubtful List As Yet

Rated as the best team at the tournament by officials there, and paired with the great Andrew Jackson quint of Jacksonville in the first game of the tournament Friday morning at 8 o'clock, the Leesburg Yellow Jackets have an assignment sizable enough to satisfy the most ambitious.

Then along comes the certain announcement that Jimmy Adams stellar guard of the Stinger squad, is definitely out of the picture. The husky sophomore was stricken with appendicitis and yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock was operated upon for the malady. He is resting easily.

And then came word that Spurgeon Cherry, all-district center and mainstay of his team, is home in bed with a case of tonsilitis, Whether the lanky youth will be in condition to play Friday is largely a matter of conjecture. Everything possible is being done for him.

Confident that their boys were due to win the state championship this season after a heartbreaking defeat in the series at Gainseville last year, hope was back in the lineup doing his bit to win the title.

Meanwhile Coach Frank Banning, striving throughout the season to get his men in shape for the final tournament after an early season outbreak of influenza, met this latest calamity with as good grace as possible and sent the balance of the squad through a workout in anticipation of the big game Friday morning.

In the advent of Adam's and Cherry's absence from the squad, Smith would be most probably used at center, Herlong or Hannah taking Smith's post. Rountree, who recently has been playing Adam's guard position will most likely continue to do so.


Resources
Sports Section
The Leesburg Morning Commercial
March 3, 1929

Leesburg Public Library

http://www.ci.leesburg.fl.us/library/

Article provided by:
Gerald Lacey
Staff Writer
Carver Heights Quarterback Club
1986 Varsity Jackets Football Lettermen #82
Class of 1988 Leesburg High School

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