PAGE THREE
MAROON AND GOLD
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1949
I'm Telling You
By ROCCO SILEO
bly a few of the smaller colleges
in Virginia.
Such a merger should prove ex
tremely popular and beneficial to
all hands. An inter-state rivalry
never realized before by many of
these schools, would be created.
The players themselves would as
sume a new outlook entirely
against a wider variety of oppon
ents and more extended road
trips, while the schools in general
would gain financially, if in no
other way.
* ♦ *
The Blue and Red football
scrimmage last Saturday afternoon
revealed a few hidden possibili
ties which may blossom out come
fall. Among the highlights of the
ted more than $40, was Well re-! inter-squ,ad tilt, which climaxed
ceived by the specators—so well, two weeks of winter drills, was
in fact, that many asked for a re-; the Blue team’s passing combina-
match. Coach Pierce has okayed | tion of Vance Reece to brother Bob
a second benefit game Which I Reece, and the great running of
should come off some time next a certain couple of new backs
week or the following week at the wlio should be just what the doc-
“Give and you shall receive!” A
\ery timely proverb as far as
we’re concerned. The sparse
crowd of generous supporters
Who donated to our March of
Dimes game last week were re
warded with some of the classiest
and most thrilling basketball seen
at the sweat box in many a moon.
However, there was nothing
freakish about the play of tliese
Intramural stars, nor was it just
one of those nights. For at dif-.
ferent times during the course of
the ball game there \vere four
men on the floor wlio had won
varsity laurels in past seasons and
at least four others who have seen
action with the Jayvees.
The benefit tussle, which net-
latest.
Although our own officials
failed to comment, officials and
coaches of practically all the oth
er North State Conference col
leges expressed their approval on
the latest proposal of consolidat
ing the North State loop with the
new South Carolina Collegiate-
Conference (Wofford, Erskine,
Newberry, Presbyterian, and the
College of Charleston) and possi-
HOPE FOR NEXT YEAR?
The two new backs causing such
a commotion on the practice field
last Saturday during the Blue-
White scrimmage were R. K. Gray
son and Fred fliengardi.
Grayson, a pint-sized speed mer
chant who looked great as a run
ner and exceptionally cool as a
passer, hails from Thomasville
where he played ball along with
Frank Tingley before entering the
Navy for a short tour of duty.
Biengardi, a 215-pound hard
driving fullback is an ex-Marine
who hails from Bay Shore, Long
Island, home of blocking back Joe
Erickson.
tor ordered.
♦ ♦ +
The state of Connecticut must
be in a jubilant state these days,
what with Willie Pep’s great
comeback to return the feather
weight championship to the Nut
meg state and the fact that Tony
Lavelll was recently selected as
the best basketball player in New
England and the best athlete in
the East.
If the new proposal to get some
kind of uniformity in basketball
court regulattons goes through,
you can be sure that the construc
tion business will be faced with
its most prosperous boom. For
while it would be a great idea
to have all playing areas of the
same dimensions, an enforced rul
ing would find about 80 or 90 per
cent of the gyms throughout the
country in need of reconstruction
to conform with the few whose
specifications now meet require
ments.
+ * ♦
Tony Lavelli’s professional bas
ketball ambitions are unique in
that, although the Boston club of
the BAA has territorial rights on
Yale’s great 20-year-old senior,
he may end up playing with the
pro outfits in either Boston, New
York, PTiiladelphia, Chicago, or
Rochester.
Lavelli, an accomplished accor
dion player as well as hook shot
artist, has made applications to
fine music schools in each of the
and
Dave Mondy
Intraiiiiiral
Top Scorer
By GEORGE STANLEY
Dave Mondy, star forward of
the undefeated South Dormitory
quintet, this week walked off with
individual scoring honors in the
Intramural loop with 91 points.
He averaged 13 points a game for
the seven regularly scheduled
tilts. Jim Widenhoiuse, who tried
valiantly to keep the Alpha Pi ag
gregate in the running for a play
off berth, placed second with 79
points and was high man for a
single contest with 25 points
against South Dormitory’s “B”
Club.
The top 25 scorers in the league
are listed below. The totals do
not include any play-off games:
Player — Team Points
Mondy— South 91
Widenhouse— Alpha Pi .... 79
Annas—North North 74
Andrews—Vets’ Apts 68
Walker—Sigma Phi 65
Tingley—North North 62
Huyett—East 53
Bass—Club-Carlton House.... 52
Clayton—South 50
Womble—North North 50
Burns—Day Students 50
Thompson—ITK (A) 48
Erlacker—South North 48
Painter—Alpha Pi 47
Watkins— Cedar-Oak Lodge 47
Siler—Kappa Psi 47
Ellis—Cedar-Oak Lodge 44
Moses—Day Students 42
Harris—Sigma Phi 42
Hoppe—Club-Carlton House 41
Matze—Kappa Psi 39
Sweeney—Day Students 39
Sileo—South 37
Melvin—ITK 35
Johnson—Day Students 34
How would you like to play a round with her?
Larry
Gaither Retains Lead
In Varsity Cagers’ Scoring
(With but four games remaining
to be played, Larry Gaither ap
pears certain to cop the varisty in
dividual scoring honors this sea
son. The 6’ 3” freshman from
Gxanite Quarry has 195 points in
25 contests for a 7.8 average.
However, Leo Kampman, run-
nerup with 178 points in 24 games
leads the squad in field goals with
74 points.
Complete unofficial statistics
covering the first 25 games are:
BEERS, THE CHAMP!
Martha Beers, who set all Coun
ty High School scoring records last
year while a member of the Elon
High School team, dropped in 40
points in a recent game to set j five cities mentioned above,
some kind of school record here it now remains to be seen which
at Elon College. lands Eli Yale’s greatest eager.
Wismer Tabbed Wolfe
As Sure All-American
Elon Golfers
Are Practicing
For Big Slate
The Elon College golf team
plays host t* E.C.T.C. April 4 at
the Alamance Country Club in
the first of four matches already
scheduled. Tentative plans call
for a complete 18-game season.
Candidates for the squad, which
will number eight when the sea
son opens, have been working out
for the past two weeks at the Ala
mance Country Club under the
watchful eyes of John Schoonmak-
er and N. K Baker, pros at the
Club.
Most promising of the candi
dates are veterans Cecil Lily,
Bobby Harris and Ed Brannick
and newcomers Jack Platt, Lacy
Gane, Lou Savini, Neville Cooper,
Lee Rogers and Jack Hanel.
All students who would like to
caddy at the Country Club course
for the general public or for the
college matches should report to
the pro shop at the course for in
formation, according to pros
Schoonmaker and Baker.
Fg
Ft
Ftm
Pf
Tp
Gaither ....
.. 73
49
45
51
195
Kampman
.. 74
30
16
55
178
Cooper
.. 65
34
18
62
164
Drew
.. 50
42
25
56
142
Haithcox ..
.. 50
40
38
47
140
Rakes
... 51
9
21
22
111
Gane
.. 42
21
23
47
105
Savini
.. 29
17
17
87
75
Chabalko .
.. 27
9
8
23
3
White
.. 9
3
3
7
21
Kluttz
... 10
1
4
3
21
Foster
.. 4
5
7
13
13
Graham ...
... 4
1
5
1
9
Hopkins
... 3
1
2
5
7
Fesmire
... 2
1
2
5
5
All-Star Team
Goes To Guilford
For Big 'Play-Day'
Guilford College will play host
to eight girls’ basketball teams in
a “play day” get-together Feb.
19. Elon is one of the eight
schools chosen to send a group of
girls over to play.
Picked by the Intramural
Council and Miss Hope Pate, the
team is as follows:
Evelyn McNeil—Delta Upsiion
Kappa.
Jean Harris — Delta Upsiion
Kappa.
Martha Beers—Day Student.
Betty Cobb—Day Students.
Jean Tliompson—Ladies’ Hall.
Lou Tuck—Second Floor West.
Marjorie Brinkley—Third Floor
West.
Betty Truitt — Beta Omicron
Beta.
Jackie Gaskins—‘Pi Kappa Tau.
Elizabeth Keglster— Tau Zeta
Phi.
South^ East, Sigma Phi
And Day Students Seek
Honors In Intramurals
By GEORGE STANLEY
While tournament time is fast approaching other schools around
the country, it has already arrived here at Elon. The regular season
play officially came to a close last w^eek with South Dormitory,
sporting an tinblemished record in seven contests, leading the Na
tional league while East and Day Students were deadlocked for
the top slot in the American loop with identical 6-1 records.
At press time, the playoffs were
well under way. Monday night’s
play-off schedule brought togeth
er North North and Sigma Phi
runners-up in the National league
each with 5-2 records for the sea
son.
Sigma Phi emerged victorious
25-21 in a rough and poorly play
ed contest and earned the right
to meet South in the final play
offs of the National loop. Jack
Hanel, Bobby Harris, and Dick
York sparked the fraternity men
to victory, while Jack Annas and
Worth Womble stood out for the
North North team.
In the American league, things
were not as complicated. How
ever, East and the Day Students
did end their regular season
schedule with six wins and one
loss apiece, and at press time,
they, too, were fighting for the
right to represent their respective
leagues.
East, playing without the serv
ices of their star, Jim Huyett, lost
only to South No'rth 21-20, while
the Day Students suffered their
only loss at the hands of East Dor
mitory by a 27-13 count.
The final standings do nort; in
clude any of the play-off games.
STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team Won Lost
Varsity Nine Should Be
Power-Laden Veteran Club
Tennis Slate
Of 20 Games
Is Drawn Up
A 20-game tennis slate has been
recently released by Coach Pierce.
However many of the following
matches are tentative and are
subject to change:
March 25 or 26—Lynchburg—•
home.
April 4—E.C.T.C.—home.
April 6—Wake Forest—away.
April 9 — Norfolk N. R. S. —
♦home.
April 14—E.C.T.C.—away.
April 16—A.C.C.—*away.
April 18 — Norfolk N. R. S. —
♦away.
April 19—William and Mary—
(Norfolk Division)—*away.
April 20— Randolph Macon —
♦away.
April 21—Lynchburg—away,
away.
April 26—Wake Forest—home.
April 29—A.C.C.—*home.
May 5—Lenoir Rhyne—home.
May 6—Guilford—away.
May 9—Appalachian—*away.
May 10—Lenoir Rhyne—away.
May 11—High Point—away.
May 13—High Point—home.
May 14—Guilford—home.
*—Tentative.
By ROCCO SILEO
and GEORGE STANLEY
It was clear but miserably cold
at Yankee Stadium for the invad
ing rebels of Duke University one
memorable October afternoon in
1944. All that remained of the
morning’s snowfall within the
vast stadium was a thin white
blanket surrounding the playing
field.
The Blue Devils of Duke were
banging heads with the first of
Army’s great war teams. Ih the
radio booth high above the field,
Harry Wismer, famed sportscast-
er, as usual was singing the prais
es of Blanchard-Davis and Co.
Also attracting much attention,
however, was Duke’s Number 47,
a little 167-pounder who was a
giant on the field that day. Ac
cording to Wismer, the pint-sized
guard was turning in a perform
ance worthy of All-American rec
ognition.
The pesky guard was Garland
Wolfe, now assistant line coach of
the Elon College varsity football
team. But that wasn’t the first
time Wolfe hit the football lime
light, for back in ’40 and ’41 he
was All-State while playing for
Greensboro High School. Then
in '41 he topped a brilliant high
school career with a fine perform
ance in the Shrine game along
with Bill Davis, who also went on
to glory at Duke.
Wolfe performed for the Duke
freshmen the following year,
moved up to the varsity in ’43 and
became well established before
moving out to Paris Island during
the ’44 season.
As a Marine trainee at Duke,
Wolfe turned in a brilliant season
and the best game of his career
in the Army tussle. It was main
ly because of his performance in
this battle that Wolfe was named
to Harry Wismer’s All-American
team and given honorable men
tion by the United Press that
same year.
In rating Army’s ’44 club the
best he has ever seen, Wolfe
says, “the Touchdown Tvi^ins,
Blanchard and Davis, are the best
backs I have ever faced, along with
Otto Graham.” ileniiniscing about
football days at Duke, he men
tioned Bill Milner, Pat Preston,
Tom Davis, Fred Folger, and A1
DeRogatis as the best he has had
as teammates. He has nothing
but praise for his old gridiron tu
tor, saying, “Wallace Wade is one
of the greatest coaches in the bus
iness.”
Before coming to Elon, Wolfe
received offers for line-coaching
jobs • from other schools, but he
made Elon his choice becau?" fur
one thing he says, he perferred
the Physical Education set-up
here. Another reason was that he
was familiar with Coach Mallory’s
football system since it was the
same as that under which he
worked.
Garland Wolfe’s aspirations
point toward the top of the coach
ing profession, and Harry Wismer
isn’t the first,to notice that a good
lineman usually gets where he is
headed.
By ROCCO SILEO
Coach Jim Mallory is a man of
many moods these days. What
with the basketball season on its
last leg and winter football drills
well under way, the popular men
tor propped his feet on his desk
one warm day last week and talked
baseball for a spell.
The Fighting Christians, win
ners of 9 of 13 conference ball
games last season, will be a fast
veteran club according to Coach
Mallory.
“We should have a good pitch
ing staff backed by top fielders
and powerful hitters,” he says.
The mound corps will be paced
by Jack Andrews, ace righthand
er of the past two seasons, and
C. K. Siler, another righthander
v/ho developed into one of the
best twirlers in the conference last
season as a freshman. Veterans
Bill Anderson and Art Fowler are
slated for relief work.
Newcomers to the pitching de
partment, says day-dreamer Mal
lory, are Lefty Leon Taylor and
Larry Gaither, a couple of youth
ful freshmen performers who will
be counted on heavily to share
mound assignments with Andrews
ai4d Siler.
The infield may well be tops in
the circuit this coming season.
Holding down the hot corner for
the third straight year will be
“Shotgun” Ed Ellis, a great ball
player with a greater throwing
arm, who batted over the .300
mark this past campaign.
The shortstop position may be
sewed up by freshman Neville
Coopear, whose baseball achieve
ments speak for themselves. The
youngster from High Point is the
property of the Boston Braves and
will report to a Boston farm club
in June.
Captain Steve Walker, who has
played third, second and short in.
successive years, will be back at
the keystone sack again this year,
while first base is expected to be
a toss-up between veteran Gene
Caviness and newcomer Gene
Stewart. Caviness, who batted
well over .300 last season as the
Christian’s power hitter, saw ac
tion chiefly as an outfielder but
was used sparingly at the initial
sack.
Centerfield may be taken care
of by Dick York, veteran fly-
hawk who enjoyed his best season
at Elon last year with a batting
average in the neighborhood of
.350. The leftfield post may go
to Dick Lee, a southpaw-swinging
flychaser, who showed a lot of
power in workouts at College
Park last season.
- “Then, if Stewart fills the gap
at first base,” Mallory says:
we can send Caviness back to the
outfield.”
Other outfield candidates in
clude Bud Haithccck, a freshman
who may find himself in thej'ight-
field position if Caviness remains
in the infield.
The catching department may
present the only problem on an
otherwise well balanced ball club.
Bank De Simone, number one
backstop last season, is back
again, along with veteran Billy
Matze, who covered the keystone
sack. Roily Ellis, a fine receiver
from Virginia, may push both for
top catching chores.
Day Students 6
East 6
South North 5
I T K (A) 4
Cedar-Oak Lodge 3
North North 3
Alpha Pi 1
South (B) 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
1
1
2
3
4
4
6
7
South (A)
7
0
Sigma Phi
5
2
North North
. 5
2
Vets’ Apt
. 4
3
Vets’ Court
?,
4
Kappa Psi
?,
5
1 T K (B)
1
5
Club-Carlton House ....
1
6
BULLETIN
The Fighting Christians draw
the curtain on the current basket
ball season tomorrow night at
Guilford. The outcome of the
battle may well determine which
of these two conference foes goes
to Elkin as the eighth team in the
North State Conference tourna
ment this year. j
Also scheduled for a trip to
Guilford tomorrow afternoon is a
girls’ all-star team, selected by
Miss Pate and the Woman’s Intra
mural Council, which will com
pete in a girls’ basketball “play-
day” get-together sponsored by
Guilford college.
Joe E. Brown, Comic,
Also Sports Enthusiast
When most folks mention Joe
E. Brown, they speak of the color
ful movie actor in terms of unfor
gettable comic entertainment,
hardly cognizant of his intimate
association with the American
sports world and its major fig
ures for upwards of 35 years.
A confidant of the famous and
mighty in all branches of the
sporting world, Brown is one of
the most whole-heartedly unsel
fish patrons ever to grace the U.
S. sports scene.
*
At one time part owner of the
Kansas City club of the Interna
tional League and various pro
fessional and semi-professional
clubs on the west coast. Brown
is perhaps best known for his as
sociation, both on the screen and
off, with baseball.
He played both professional
and semi-professional ball, had
tryouts with • both Red Sox and
Yankees, and appeared in exhibi
tion games as a second baseman
against the two major league
teams.
The genial actor, number one
football 'fan on the west coast,
has also played around with trot
ting horses and still is a rabid
race fan. ,
The majority of assorted sports
mementoes now on display in the
varsity trophy room at the Uni
versity of California are Brown’s
personal collection amassed over
a period of 30 years.
Almong the more cherished
items are the glove the Immortal
Lou Gehrig wore in rolling up his
incredible record of playing in
2,310 consecutive contests with
the Yankees; the bat Babe Ruth
used to set the existing major
league record of 60 home .runs in
a single season; the uniform worn
by Ty Cobb in his last game with
the Philadelphia Athletics in
1925; and the boxing trunks worn
by Gene Tunney when he won the
world's heavyweight championship
from Jack Dempsey, September
23, 1923, in Philadelphia.