PAGE FOUR
MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1941
Alpha Pi And I.T.K. Tied For First Place In Mural Basketball
Quickies
Baskeihaih Presi.on wc.si.ir.oi‘.-
latid, un*v^isily of boutu Cai.:i.n-Ji
l UikuiLali slar, has dropped in
163 poinu so uir Uiis sjaajii. vii*■■>
Vi ai iiii ujuaj. on Jai.uaiy ^9). 'L'n-
like nuisl good alHifcLcs .ie docs
uai .dfcsiie lo break any scor,ni>
i-ucordsi, lua chief ainbUion is to
s.at opera . . . He says that ho
V.oaid like lo sing with the Metro-
po.ikaa opeia.
tUrb CUue, Wake Forest’s star
ct-aLCi', was given a big build up
before the Wake Forest-Carolina
on Januaiy 1“*. iiu^
up niAilc suiue peopie tnintc UiaL
diuybe Cline wouid ho.d Caio
Uua.i All Aa.ericaii centui, Ueoi^i;
tiiamacic. 'ihe resales of Uieir
Lisl meeliog w,as Cline li poiii.;..
Vaiarciae-k az po.nls. Even i,(*e
, sitiongest Vvake roiesi foilowui-
eotud see very well that this dui
not look so good. In the next
Vv ake Forest-Carolina game, Cline
was given a chance to prove
wiiaL tne papers had said about
iiini. The results of the second
CUukc-Glamack duel on January
Zii, was Cline 0, Glamack 14.
Uoes this prove anything?
ttasebaU: Most of the students
know that Emo Showfety “flunk
ed” out ot school. Enu> says that
he is going to try out for Greens-
boio'a entry in J.he Piedmont
league. He talked with Herb
Fenoock, director of Red Sox
minor league operations. Mr.
Feonock assured Emo that he
would get a try with the local
club, he is sending Showfety to
t:ie spring training camp with the
Ciub somewhere in South Caro-
Uua.
i'here has been so much talk
about Hank Greenberg beini;
diafted into the army that most
people forgot the possibility of
other baseball players being draft
ed. Ted Williams, star outfield
er for the Boston Red Soxs, got
his army questionaire tae oua-r
day. The Minneapolis draft board,
where Williams is refeistered, ;o d
him that he was subject to call
sometime during the summer un
less he was given deferment. It
ia reported that Williams is to g.*t
around $20,000 for holding down
one of the outfield spots for Bos
ton. Wouldn’t 30 “bucks” a
month look bad if he does havo
to join the army.
Babe Ruth, the king of swat,
is always in the news. But this
time it is not for one of his base
ball feats. The “Babe” has been
sick with influenza for the past
two or three weeks, and now his
doctor says that he is suffering
from a sinus condition. Tough
luck Babe.
That argument over who will
get the biggest pay check, Bob
Feller or Buck Newsom, sure is
doing one thing and that is giv
ing Newsom and Feller plenty of
publicity. Maybe some one
snou.d remind them of the pay
Babe Ruth made in one season
with the New York Yanks. Boy!
would that make their little $35,-
000 look like chicken feed.
Track: Dave Morrison, Univer
sity of North Carolina track star,
IS the only member remaining of
tile Tar Heel two-mile relay team,
which won its event in the Mill-
rose games at Madison Square
Garden in 1939. That was the
second time that Carolina has
won this event. Incidentally,
Dave Morrison is president of the
student body at Carolina.
This reminds us of the fact that
Elon does not have a track team.
In the past two years we have
had, and still have, men who
would stand out in any track
meet in the state. Why doesn't
gomebody do something about
this. With our new football sta
dium going up we could verv
easily build a track, with very
little or no expense.
Here's How They Looked In The Old Days
Football as it was' played ai
Elon College in 1909 was quite
different from the modern ver
sion of the Christians' cham
pionship elevens, as a glance at
the photograph of the team of
1909 shown above will indicate.
These 20 boys composed the
second football team in Elon's
history, and even then the
Christians were becoming used
to winning teams for that c)ub
won two of the three contests
it played.
Somtrn of the boys shown here
have since become well known
and have archieved success in
their careers. Some are now
dead.
Those in the picture, v.’hi'-b a
a prized possession of Mr Sam
B. Foashee, of F.Ion College,
are: front row, left *o ri'~ht —
A. Liggett Lincoln, Russell A.
Campbell; second row — Cla
rence Spoon, the mascot M. W.
McPherson (wearing helmet),
Titus Rand. J. P. Farmer, S. B.'
Foushee, B. J. Earp, J. S. Flem
ing and J. R. Po'nter; thitd
row — W. W. "Buddy" Elder,
W. E. Rowe, coach, W. H. Flem
ing, J. W. Barney, C. C. Fon-
ville: fourth row — O. V/. Hin
ton, R. C. L’ewe'Tyn, June K»'r-
nodle, Charles Mann, and L. R.
Johnson.
Dr. A. L. Lincoln is now a
New York physician: Dr. Clar
ence Spoon is now a prominent
Burlington physician: S. B.
Foushee is a conductor on the
A. ard Y. railroad and has a son
Jack in school now: B. J. F^rp
is a minister of the Christl’n
church and is located in Vir-
gin'a and has a diu(iht»r Rach
el in sc^ool no'v; W. W. F’der
is a chaplain in the United
States' navy and has a son Jim
my in school: J. W. Barney i'>
tVe vp^cran Elon profpssrr of
find' ha: a son John ?>rd
daughters, V/infred and Elva
Grace in schoo’.: C. C. Fonvilie
is a Bur’ington real estate man;
: nd L. R. Johnson is principal
of the East Orange, N. J., high
: chool.
This scuad won its two games
hy btatin7 Roidsvi'.le seminary
3! to 0 end Raleigh Y. M. C. A.
r 'r, 0. T’-o only loss was to
Bingham Military academy lo
cated in Mebane. The score of
Ihis game was 17 to 6.
Profrssor Barney in telling
about the team pointod out Jhst
no recular equipment was re-
quirod. The p'ayers could- v/ear
fhouldor pads, shin pads, nose
guard's or mouthpieces if they
v.’fntcd to.
The team traveled by a horse
dr=?'vn hack. The boys would
leave Elon early on the morning
of a ~ame and return about
•^idni'rh* foHowing the contest.
CRUISING
With Crutchfield
It's a seldom thing that a
champion is claimed at the height
of his career, but tragedy’s heavy
hand slipped up on one of sports-
dom’s leading figures of 1940
when Earl Dew, American jockey
champion for the past year, was
killed in a pileup at the Agua
Caliente, Mexico, racetrack last
Sunday.
Thus, in a fraction of a minute,
a champion who was just a boy—
Dew was only* 18 years old — was
removed from his throne, not by
some piortal challenger, but by
a more powerful being.
Death came even before the
Sac City, la., youngster could
claim the trophy emblematic of
his championship. He was to
have been presented a gold
watch at the close of the day’s
program, and only that morning
had flown to the Mexican city so
that he might be present for the
ceremonies.
Perhaps it was fate that caus
ed him to accept invitations at
the last minute to ride in the
sixth race when he apparently
had planned to watch from the
rail as a guest of honor.
His reign as champion was brief,
but no one who remembers his
thrilling battle with W. T. Taylor
in the closing hours of 1940 for
the title can dispute his position
as a real champion. The young
ster proved he could stay in there
and take it by nosing out Taylor
in one of racetrack’s greatest
fights for one of its highest hon
ors.
Dew died as every champion
probably has wished—with his
“boots on”. The accident occur
red when Dew was urging nis
mount Bosca in a drive down the
home stretch. For some reason
the horse went down, causing two
others tp pile up, breaking its
own neck and fracturing Dew’s
skull.
The price of glory may have
been life for Earl Dew.
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NEW SCORING RECORD
A record hung up by one of
basketball’s greatest stars was
broke last week when Ken Grif
fin, of Alderson Broaddus col
lege, ran up a total of 1,603
points in a four year period to
eclipse Hank Luisetti’s mark of
1,596 points while playing for
Stanford.
However, the title will mean
little to Griffin unless he follows
up better than did Luisetti. The
former Stanford star attempted to
capitalize upon his fame but fail
ed and only recently asked to be
reinstated as an amateur.
Just another example of how
fleeting fame and fortune are to
a collegiate athletic star. It s
i headlines today and breadline
tomorrow unless the individual ac
cepts the opportunity of a schol
arship to prepare for some pro
fession.
ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION
Because it costs too much
money .officials of little Stetson
university have announced the
abandonment of intercollegiate
football in favor of a greatly en
larged intra-mural program. In
issuing the statement that the
grid sport would be given up af
ter 40 years, officials stressed the
the fact that they believed the
same amount of money devoted
to the upbuilding physically of
the entire student body of 600
would be much better than to con
tinue to concentrate on a sport in
which the school could never hope
to attain the top. Aspects of
commercialization also were in
troduced.
This is another illustration of
our belief that eventually small
schools are going to be forced to
return to playing the sport on a
more amateur basis.
Bigtime football is too expen
sive for a small college to sup
port by itself, and a reckoning is
bound to come sooner or later
when the athletic associations
continue to lose money. Just how|
soon other reckonings will comej
depends upon how long the monayj
lasts and how long student bodies
Wiiat Is Wrong' With
Our School Spirit
Students, we just haven’t got
the old school spirit! Elon has a
larger student body than any |
other school in the North State |
conference, except Appalachian;
yet we make the least noise ot
them ah. What’s wrong? We j
have what it takes, but just won't
apply it. The first thing is to get
out to the game on time; don’t
be late. Second thing is to let
everybody know you’re there by
me way you cheer and yell.
Of the basketball games we
have played up to dale, the at„i
lude of liie student body as a
whole seemed to be: “We've goi
j it in the bag; how many points dc
i you want?” All’s to be heard ai
j the games is the cheerleaders.
I Very few students once in a
I while clieer the team loud enough
o be heard on the third floor of
North Dormitory. Let’s all come
out lo each and every game early
and cheer loud enough to wake
up some of the dead in the skull
orchard of Elon College. The
boys as well as the girls can get
j out some of that excess loudness
1 which they carry on during study
[ and sleeping hours,
j — Good Sportsmanship —
Good sportsmanship comes first
; of all, even during defeat. Al
ways when a visiting team enters
' upon the court give them a big
hand, and in a few minutes give
them a good cheer or two. When
Elon comes on the floor, give
them the same. Another thought
is this: when either coach of the
two teams makes a substitution,
always give the player or players
leaving the game a big hand.
While the visiting teams and
alumni are on the campus be
polite to them.
— What's Wrong With the
Officials? —
There’s nothing wrong with the
officials. They get paid for what
they know about basketball, we
don’t get any pay for what we
think we know. The officials
are out there calling them the
way they see them. All of us
make mistakes sometimes; there
fore, they will miss one once in
awhile. So let’s not boo them,
but just overlook it. As you all
know, the North State Confer
ence Athletic Association gives a
: trophy of best sportsmanship to
i the school which best deserves it.
1 That we want and would like to
' have the honor of getting — let’s
I be good sports.
j A word or two about the seat-
I ing arrangement for the students.
' The few games which have
been played this year, we have
. noticed some of the students sit
ting in the south side stands. No
student is allowed over there;
they are for paid admissions only.
The north side stands are for the
students. Let’s all get together
in one large mass, pull, cheer, and
yell together, and we’ll get more
out of the game. The players and
coach really appreciate it, and
can do more toward putting the
ball through the hoop.
Tie Also Exists
For Second Place
continue to consent to being de
nied certain phases of student life
in order that a football team may
be financed.
In our opinion, small colleges
are going to have to recognize the
facts and either agree to spend
ing huge sums or reconcile them
selves to playing teams of equal
strength before crowds which will
be largely partisan.
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IT WON'T BE LONG
Basketball is nearing that stage
where the tournament is the most
important thing on the schedule.
By the time another edition of
this paper appears, the North
State conference will be nearing
completion and the Southern con
ference meet will be just in the
offing. After that, it won't be
long until BASEBALL.
The sideway point in the intra
mural basketball league finds Al
pha Pi and ITK tied for the .ead
with three victories and one de
feat each. In the second spot .v.n-
other tie exists between Sigira
Phi and Publishing House A’s
with two wins and one ie.ii
each. These are the standings
at press time, Tuesday morning,
but so closely matched are li a
games that by the time you resd
this, any of these may have be.n.
relegated to the bottom of the
loop.
The features of the week’s pla^''
were the two games played b>''
Alpha Pi. They spat their 'in-
gagements taking Sigma Phi in o
camp 38-25 and dropp.ng a closa
battle to I. T. K., 22-16. In the
first game, Sigma Phi jumped in
to a lead at the gun; relinquish
ed it by a point at halftime, 15-14;
took the lead immediately after
the beginning of the third quar
ter, but then Alpha Pi out d;d
their three point lead to win.
Claude Lawrence, captain of
the Alpha Pi club, led his team
in scoring with 18 points. Kraft
and Foushee were second high,
and played bang-up decisive ball.
O’Conner and Shaw were the
high men for Sigma Phi’s los.ng
five.
Then Monday night, Alpha Pi
met and lost to I. T. K. This, in
contrast to the Sigma Phi’s fray
was a slow, dull game, marred
as it was by unfortunate injuries
to Kraft and Sen ter. Dahtr
racked up a crip on the opening
tap, and the red and black was
never headed. Defense was at a
premium as proved by the quar
ter scores, 2-0, 8-6, 17-13, and
22-16. Alpha Pi drew up to with
in one point only in the fourth
quarter, trailing 17-16, but then
I. T. K. drew away to finally win
22-16. Rogers and Causey were
high for I. T. K. while«Foushce
led the Alpha Phi’s.
The game between Kappa Psi
and the Publishing House A s
was another thriller. The lead
seesawed back and forth through
out the game, and two minutes
before the end Kappa Psi was
only one point behind. But then
“Tomanchek’s Tigers” rolled to
take the ball game 34-26. Lentz,
and Castura led the Publishing
House while Watts and Lee rack
ed up most of the Kappa Psi’s
points.
Thus far, the games have been
outstanding for the close, battles
they have produced. The league^
race is still very much a wide,
open affair, and ‘‘you bet your
money and you take your choice"’
as to who will inherit the title
won last year by I. T. K.
Kid Cuebell Loses To
Harwood in G. G. Fight
j Continued from Page 3
on the head and is down. Cubell's
up at the count of two staggering
and goes down again. Cubell is
up at count of nine. Hargood steps
in with a series of body puches
and an uppercut to the jaw and
Cubell is down. Saved by th?
bell, Cubell is helped to his cor
ner by his managers.
Round two. Cubell trys des
perately to collect his senses to
answer the bell for the second,
and the majority of the onlookers
think he did. His managers, how
ever, and the referee refused to
let him continue. Dismayed and
tired the “Irish” boy was through
for the evening. We could not
get a statement from Cubell. He
just stood against the wall in his
dressing room Tepeating to him
self “Take me home again Kath-
line.”
Jokes aside, frankly and what
have you the Kid, Dick Cubell.
deserves all the credit in the
world for his courageous attempt
in the last Golden Glove fouma-
ment. ■