Page Three
MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1945
What's What
By EMERSON WHATLEY
Thing’s you learn on a road trip:
Harvey Rawls, believe it or not, can
pound those piano keys. You should
hear him on Tschaikowsky’s “To
night We Love.” Danny Banks is
afraid of the mountains. Wallacs
Owen takes his text books along and
studies while the other boys have a
general rough-house. Bob Foust
knows some rather rare jokes. Le
noir Rhyne students eat like kings.
Wayne Taylor is ready for anytliing
that comes along except other women.
Fred Register makes friends with
half of the student body of the op
posing school within the first half
hour he is on campus. “Doc” Bowden
is the best sport in the world.
Bouquet: To Don Miller, the head
manager of the basketball team, who
always has everything ready for the
boys. Before game time he knows
where every man’s uniform, shoes,
and other equipment is. He takes
care of everything from the score
book to lamb’s wool for Danny Bank’s
poor aching feet. Don has had sev-
«ral years of experience in this line
and is always on the ball.
More people drafted and other
wise. Two men have left the Elon
basketball team within the past couple
of weeks and another is soon to be
leaving. Fred Yarbrough recently en
listed in the navy and has left school.
Harry “The Secret Weapon” Turner
left recently for the army. His ad
dress is yet unknown. Wayne Taylor
is the third member of the trio who
will soon exchange his Maroon and
Gold for the colors of Uncle Sam’s
Air Corps. Taylor has been the
and has seen more playing time than
any other man. The best in the world
to all tliree of you.
Notice on the bulletin board at
North the day after the basketball
team returned from ts road trip;
“The following articles were left
in Dean Bowden’s Car;
Weekend kit (tan)
Safety razor
A part of the roof of the gift shop
at Blowing Rock.
The owner may have them if he
will come to my room.
JUNIUS PEEDIN,
President of the Senate.”
Maybe they didn’t win any games,
but it looks like they really did raise
the roof.
Tonight the boys go up against
High Point in a return game. It
would be mighty nice of the students
could go up to the game. How about
wheel horse of the Christian defense it? Where is that Elon spirit?
Girls Sports
By EDNA REITZEL
Snce the May Court election, plans
are being discussed in the physical
education department as to the pro
gram for the eventful day in spring
when 'Liza and Gene are crowned.
Each year the music department
joins with the physical education
classes to give this program.
So far no one seems to be inter
ested in the table tennis tournament!
The team standings up to this date
are;
HaU
Team
Ladies’
East
3rd Floor West
Day Students
2nd Floor West
W. L.
0
0
1
1
2
Pet.
1.000
1.000
.500
.000
.000
Coach Adcox tells me that in his
physical education classes he lets the
group select their own activities for
each six weeks. In this time they
learn to do each activity well and
the carry over value will be greater
in later life.
SPORTS EDITOR GOES
BIG-GAME HUNTING
(
This is a tale of derring-do in the
fashion of ye nights (not knights) of
old. Today being Whatmas day, our
man Whatley, who hardley succumbs
to any lure less than a forty caliber
blonde, has gone wild turkey hunt
ing with another heather-bloom
cheeked miscreant, one Gene
“Thanksgiving Menu” Poe. The
danger to the local inhabitants in
creases by the hour, God wot. As for
the game birds, we dare not predict.
Lady luck sometime! shows blind fa
vor to beginners, piscatorial, natator
ial, and cliuck-wagon amateurs. Yet
we doubt that ye noble fowl will be
caught off guard long enough for
these marksmea to pull a trigger.
The problem at this distance, would
seem to be who is the wilder, the for
est denizens or the pair of crooners
who set forth from here at one p.
m. today. We hope the turkeys car
ry compasses, or they’ll get dizzy
watching the whizzing evolutions of
the twentieth century Boones.
Tears, idle tears, from the depths
of some divine despair call forth
this moan, the idle product of a wit
less moment. The fact is, that blank
Emerson left his work undone, and
with the sports editor away, we have
to go to press anyhow. But this is
news, b’gosh, and sporty enough for
the page. Watch the next edition
for a pcture of two or three (?) birds,
depending on who catches who.
ENSIGN JAMES F. DARDEN
REPORTED TQ HAVE
RETURNED FROM EUROPE
Report was reecived recently that
Ensign Jimmy Darden, Elon, ’43, of
Suffolk, Va., had returned from a
year’s duty overseas. Jimmy served
on a landing craft in the Mediterran
ean area and, we suppose was in the
From left to right, first row; Wallace Owen; Carl White; Bill McEnti re; Wyane Taylor, co-captain; Bob
McCotter: Fred Yarborough. Second row: L. B. Adcox, coach; Jack Stone; Fred Register, captain; Harvey
Rawls, Harry Turner; Don Miller, manager. Danny Banks and Bob Foust are not pictured. Yarborough,
Turner, and McCotter are no longer in school, but are serving with the armed forces.
ELON—APPALACHIAN
On Friday night, January 26, the
Elon Christian journeyed to Boone
to meet the Appalachian State Teach
ers College Mountaineers and were
defeated 51 to 33. The game was the
fifth conference loss for the Maroon
and Gold cagers and left them only
one game out of the North State
cellar.
Owen led the Elon aggregation with
10 points, all of them coming in the
last 7 minutes of the ball game. Bob
Foust played his usual good game and
tossed in. 8 points for the Elon cause.
Danny Banks and Fred Register
played a good floor game as did Har
vey Rawls, who got almost all of the
rebounds for the short tjftne he was
in the game.
The big highlight of the Appala
chian game was the man to man de
attack on southern France. 'We hope ^lon cagers by
he will visit campus soon. It is re
ported that his wife, Virginia Jef
freys Darden, Elon ’44, has joined
him at his port of landing.
ELON—LENOIR RHYNE
Attention team managers: Helen
Newsome, Marie Garner, Margaret
Rawls, Hilda Malone and Iris Boland
will you get your teams signed up
for this?
Now to our intramural basketball
tournament which has been going
■along without any interferences.
In the game between East and 3rd
floor West last week Erma Canady led
her team to victory by a score of 17
to 5. Erma was high scorer that night.
(Maybe we should add right here that
Fred Register is doing an excellent
job of coaching for East!)
In thenext tournament game 3rd
Floor West won over 2nd Floor West
by a 31-9 morgin. Rawls won high
score with fourteen points and Brew
er was high for the losers with four
points.
Last Wednesday night Ladies’ Hall
met the Day Students to edge out a
14-11 victory. Helen McBain tossed
in ten points for the victorious six
while Rumley shot six for the de
feated team. Boland, Apple, Ricker
and Helen Morris displayed excellent
guarding.
HEY
The Gang's All Here
On Saturday night, January 27, the
Lenoir Rhyne Bears administered the
worst licking of the year the Elon
five as the Christians were raked
over the coal 64 to 34. In going
down in defeat however, the Maroon
and Gold cagers scored more on
Lenoir Rhyne than any other team
has been able to rack up during the
year.
Foust, with ten points led the
Elon five and Danny Banks was close
behind with 9. Wallace Owen scored
seven for the Christians. Fred Chand
ler was ^ood under the basket and
the Mountaineers. The defense stop
ped the fast breaks of the Christians
and held them well in check especially
in the first half. Lacey was easily
the best player on the court that
night even though he scored only 6
points. His coolness and floorwork
kept the Elon team in the hole after
the first few minutes of play.
ELON-CATAWBA
On Saturday night, January 20, the
Elon cagers met the highly favoreri
Catawba Indians on their home court
and were defeated 57 to 37. The
Catawba team, which has been de
feated this year only by the Univer
sity of North Carolina, showed too
much experience for the younger and
lighter Elon cagers. The Elon team
WITH THE ARMED FORCES
took an early lead but the Indians
Harvey Rawls threw in those two i took over after the first ten min-
points that he has been promising
his girl.
Armstrong, dimutive Bear guard,
led the Lenoir Rhyne scoring with 3
field goals and 4 foul throws for a
total of 20 points. Cline, a sub for
ward got hot during the first half
and ended the night with a total of
10 points.
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r.LON-McCRARY HAWKS
On Monady night, January 22, the
Elon Christians met the McCrary
Hawks of Asheboro on the Hawks’
own roost and came out on the short
end of a 58 to 38 score. Max Lanier,
who helped stop the St. Louis Browns
in the world series last year, showed
the spectators that he knew some
thing about basketball also as he
tossed in 14 points to lead the Mc
Crary team. Routh, the lanky Hawk
center, aided and abetted the cause
as he got ten points, four of them'
coming on foul throws.
Captain Fred Register led the Elon
five with 11 points and some fine
fJoor work and Danny Banks took
charge of the scoring as he tossed in
4 field goals a)i four fcVr throws
for a total of 12 points. Jack Stone
and Harvey Rawls ^howed up well
for the short time they were in the
game.
ules and were never headed after
that.
Register and Chandler led the Ma
roon and Gold quint with 8 points
each and Bill McEntire trailed them
closely with 7 pionts. Bob Foust and
Wayne Taylor were outstanding on
defense as was Danny Banks who en
tered the game late in the last half.
Marklin, a reserve center, led the
Indians as he tossed in 18 points
from under the basket and on re
bounds. Van Hoy, half of Van Hoy-
Bowen combination, followed close
behind with 17 points and Bowen
came in a few points under his usual
average as Fred Register held him
to 12 points. Le Feavers played a
good defensive game for tlie winners.
LETTER FROM LIEUTENANT
POLLARD IN ENGLAND
Writing with his usual verve and
sense of humor, Lt. John F. Pollard
has sent his compliments to the M.
& G. and we find the sentiments so
interesting and cheering that we’re
sharing with you. The following ex
tracts were lifted from his letter,
which contained a small photograph
of John mustachioed like a lesser
Mephistophel^s. .
I maintain that being stationed
with the RAF accounts for the
smudge on my upper lip . . . Having
once (by accident I think) made an
“A” in math( I have arrived at the
sad deduction that you are in arrears
in our correspondence . . . send an
old worn and torn copy of the M. & G.
anyway, or get a “ghost writer” to
drop me a line. (Ed.’s note: The
V-mail will carry our reply. We owe
nobody, envy nobody, and are sure
that our letter to the Hon. Honey-
Boy went out on time. Maybe it “got
straffed on the way, John. But the
rest of you mark the address at the
bottom of this column, and write him
the letter he has earned twice over.)
I managed to meet and spend some
time with F/O Fred Gilliam ... a
real treat . . . We intelligence officers
work slow but sure, it says here in
fine print . . . I've been trying to get
out of this place and at the moment
have a fine chance of doing so if the
“powers that be”—who have no idea
of what I’m doing—don't decide as
they have four times previously that
I am too valuable at “what they have
no idea of.”
My spasmodic informers on the
proximately two and one-fourth inches
long with a diameter of one-fourth
inch, and that they taste wonderful
when set afire at one end and sucked
at the other ... Is that so? Tell Dr.
Hirsch that I wish I had taken German
instead of French. Take it easy, and
my regards to everyone, sincerely,
Lt. John F. Pollard,
0-869054, 8th P. T. S.
APO 634, care P M
New York, N. Y.
CAPTAIN AMOS R. SHELTON
IS PROMOTED
Selman Field, Monroe, Lju—Captain
Amos R. Shelton, formerly of 705
Tipton Place, Greensboro, N. C., has
been promoted to his present rank
at Selman Field, a u|iit of the AAF
Training Command, it ^fras announced
by Col. G. B. Dany, commanjiing of
ficer.
He attended Elon College and prior
to entering the service was credit
manager of the Commercial Credit
Corporation, Greensboro.
Captain Shelton received his com
mission in the Air Corps in October,
1942, and is now serving as test pilot
and Group Aircraft Maintenance of
ficer at Selman Field.
CORPORAL JOEL SCOTT
ON CAMPUS
Corporal Archie Joel Scott, of
Northport, Michigan, who was a stu
dent at Elon for three years, leaving
in 1942 lor the Army, returned to the
campus Monday afternoon for the
first time since his departure.
“Scotty” has spent two years in the
Aleutians and admits to us tliat sun-
home front tell me that Liza is editor | shine in those parts is rarer than rain
of the annual ... Do you think you ; in sunny Cal. And from what we
could arrange for her to mail me a | gathered, it seems he much prefers
copy all wrapped up in things like American girls to Eskimos.
chicken, cakes, cookies, candy
and a package of cigarettes. They tell
us these last are paper cylinders pack
ed with tobacco and measuring ap-
He is now stationed at Camp Butner
and it is our hope that he may visit
the campus often while he is in this
vicinity.
Neal Wright
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