Are. B and 22d St. H. 7000
A
Simpson Hi
Runs Wild In
Lanier Game
Poets Crushed By Tornado In
One-Sided Game On The
B. A. C. Court Friday
The combined attack of the V Ip cent
and Byrd boys, with the assistance of
Ellis or Ferguson, during the game,
ckrried the Purple Tornado of Simp
S&n Tech to a 56 to 13 victory over the
Sidney Lanier Poets Friday night at
the B. A. C., the Poets bowing from
the first to the swift passing attack of
the Techsters, who took the lead after
the first score had been made by the
Montgomery boys and playing some of
the best basketball seen on that court
this season, doubled, tripled and quad
rupled the score without giving the
visitors a chance for a showing during
the entire evening.
Lanier, coming to Birmingham with
the record of having one of the strong
est teams of the state and having beat
the Tordano on their Montgomery floor
fell an easy victim to the Purple and
Gold team, which stopped their of
fense and broke through their defense
at will. "Slick” Vincent, star guard of
the Tornado, and Curdy Byrd, center,
scored 40 points between them during
the encounter.
Byrd and Vincent Star
The playing of Curdy Byrd and
"Slick” Vincent was ably seconded by
that of Albert Vincent, Dewey Byrd,
"Buck” Ellis and "Firpo” Ferguson,
either of which would have been on the
list of first star of almost any high
school encounter, with John Wllklng
and James Harris giving an almost
equally good exhibition of cage work
during the encounter.
The vaunted stars, Brunson, Pater
son and Kaminsky, were' but flickers.
