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Wednesday, February 22, 1950
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THREE
m Telling You
By ROCCO SILEO
As in the past, Elon was well
represented in state Gplden
Gloves tournaments which have
been going on for the past three
weeks. And once again multi
colored shiners bear out the sin
cere and earnest efforts of our
amateur battlers.
This year, footballers John
Hurst, Roy Kelly and Ray Parker
sported the Maroon and Gold col
ors in Burlington and Durham
tournaiftents. All three Fighting
Christians won in the “B” Town
last week representing the Bur
lington AC against the Schoolfield
AC and then went on to Durham.
Here the young pugilists met with
fair success. Kelly, fighting in
,the 175-pound division, drew two
byes and then lost out in the semi
finals in a field of 107 leather-
pushers, Parker, a middleweight
lost his initial encounter, but
Hurst copped his first and was
well on his way to the semi-finals
when a unique accident forced
him out of action on the short end
of a TKO.
Seems that the diminutive wel
terweight was ahead on points
v.'hen he caught a head butt from
his opponents flush on the kisser.
The head on collision dented his
moth-piece and all but tore looge
a couple of choppers, spelling fin
is to Hurst’s ambitions of cop
ping the 147-pound dicision of
the Durham Golden Gloves Tour
ney.
Embarrassing Incidents Depart
ment . . . Into each life must fall
embarrassments of one sort or an
other. Officials anticipated me
largest turnout of the season at
the new Memorial gymnasium
with Burlington and High Point
high schools battling for top berth
in the Western onference.
Ira Upchurch, Elon’s jack-of-all-
trades and ticket seller of late,
went over to-the gym earlier than
usual and prepared to meet the
throng. However, his prepara
tion went for naught, for upon
Stepping out of the booth he soon
learned that he had locked him
self out and was without a key in
his possession.
I’m told the harassed Upchurch
spent the next half-hour or so in
a state of confusion. While beg
ging fellow students to search out
a key, he attempted to go on with
his job by reaching through the
windows for tickets and change.
The varsity cagers should be
commended on their performanc
es of late. In chalking up consec
utive victories over Lynchburg,
Eastern Carolina and Atlantic
Christian, Coach Mathis’ quintet
has looked very impressive in its
rejuvenation. Substitutes James
Hamrick and Bobby Leigh have
been instrumental in the success
of the Christians. Their hustle
and sparkling play on various oc
casions has inspired the regulars
no end. Many say it is too late to
worry now, but I feel it is never
too late to cause a comniotion.
Four years ago, the Christians
Went into the tournament in the
lower brackets. They had a great
shot in Roney Cates but somehow
were not even considered a threat.
Yet when the smoke had cleared*
the combination of Cates, Johnny
Clayton, Warren Burns, Ed Drew
and a few others brought home
the North State Conference tour
nament trophy to Elon.
.f * * *
Look for the annual Intramural
benefit game to be played in the
near future. Last year the game,
which saw two all-star Intramural
teams collide, netted $40 for the
March of Dimes and met with the
approval of aU.
Winter Grid
Work Moves
Ahead Nicely
With forty-five men driving
with all the spirit and ginger of
mid-autumn, Coach Jim Mallory
brands his winter football prac
tice this year the best he has ever
had and, with cliaracteristic Mal
lory optimism, expresses the hope
that Elon’s Christians of 1950 will
be' a faster and more deceptive
aggregation than last year’s fine
team.
Mallory paid high tribute to the
.‘pirit of his boys, declaring that
he had “never seen a squad with
better spirit in all the years of
his coaching.” He pointed to the
fact that most of the boys are
playing in the off-season as if
they loved it, where many squads
take the winter work as drudgery.
A “new look” has been added to
the Elon offense, which promises
more open and deceptive attack
this coming autumn. The loss of
such stalwart performers as Ar
nold Melvin, Claude Gentry,
Claude Manzi and others means
that the Chritsians may not pack
quite as much power as last fall,
but they will probably be more
fun to watch.
Several of the younger play
ers on the squad have been show
ing up exceptionally well. Bill
Blackstone and Len Greenwood
have been showing plenty of stuff
on the flanks. Blackstone, a fresh
man, was a regular with the Jay-
Vees last fall, and he was re
leased from basketball to get the
advantage of off-season grid
work. Greenwood, a sophomore,
saw much varsity service last year
and promises to be better next
season.
Ed Watkins, a husky junior
tackle, has been running in Mel
vin’s tackle slot and playing with
savage power. Another youngster
who has looked good is Lou Ro-
chelli, freshman tailback, who
may prove one of the ofljensive
spearheads. Bob Lewis, lanky end,
is missing the work because of‘an
appendectomy, but he will be
strong contender when he re-
HIGH POINT
Second Game
Thurs. Night
A. C. C.
NORTH STATE
TOURNAMENT PAIRINGS
Second Game
Fri. Night
ELON
Second Game
Thurs. P. M.
CATAWBA
E. C. T. C.
Sat. Night
First Game
Thurs. P. M.
LENOIK-RHYNE
GUILFORD
First Game
Fri. Night
First Game
Thurs. Night
APPALACHIAN
Champions
Conference Cage Meet
Will Start Tomorrow
VARSITY CAGE SCHEDULE
Elon 36, Carolina 57.
Elon 57, Eatmons 36.
Elon 47, Elkin “Y” 32.
Elon 55, McCrary 67.
Elon 46, Elkin “Y” 36.
Elon 29, Hanes 51.
Elon 62, A. C. C. 65.
Elon 44, E.C.T.C. 56.
Elon 57, Catawba 66.
Elon 66, Hanes 83.
Elon 44, Camp Lejeune 61.
Elon 48, Appalachian 78.
Elon 52, Lenoir-Rhyne 55.
Elon 46, Catawba 62.
Elon 50, W.C.T.C. 40.
Elon 72, W.C.T.C. 50.
Elon 51, High Point 75.
Elon 52, Guilford 66.
Elon 52, Lenoir-Rhyne 55.
Elon 50, Appalachian 52.
Elon 75, Lynchburg 73.
Elon 54, E.C.T.C. 30.
Elon 82, A.C.C. 42.
Elon 64, High Point 90.
(Remaining Games)
Feb. 18.—Guilford here.
Feb. 20.—McCrary here.
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SETTING FAST PACE
DAVE MONDY
Dave Mondy, slender sopho
more forward, has been setting a
fast pace in varsity basketball
games during the past month,
having hit better than fifteen
points on a number of occasions.
He had scored 215 points through
the High Point game last Thurs
day night and has definitely
placed himself as one of the bet
ter players in the Conference.
The Fighting Christian cagers,
taking a definite brace in late-sea-
son play, chalked up three con
secutive wins within the last two
weeks, two of them from Confer-
snce teams, and the reversal of
forrn enabled Coach Doc Mathis’
men to clinch their berth in the
Conference tournament.
After losing three consecutive
battles to *GuiKord, Lenoir-
Khyne and Appalachian, the turn
of fortune came with the Lynch
burg invasion, which netter a 75-
73 overtime decision. This was
followed by* wins over E.C.T.C,
54-30 and over A.C.C. by an 82-
42 margin. A second loss to High
Point broke the string of wins.
GUILFORD 66, ELON 52
The Christians took an unex
pected drubbing when they drop
ped their first battle with Guil
ford on the Quakers’ home court
on Saturday night, February 4th,
by a 66 to 52 score, losing a game
which the dopesters had given
hem an excellent chance to win.
The line-ups:
Elon (52)
Guilford (66)
Hall (18)
Johns (11)
Wright (11)
Ralls (9)
FerreU (6)
Guilford
Rakes (8)
Gaither (6)
J. Drew (3)
G. Cooper (15)
>"r. Mondy (12)
Score at half: Elon 28,
25.
Elon subs—Haithcox (6), Kamp-
man, Jones, Taylor (1), Leigh (1),
Foster, Gane, Hamrick. Guilford
subs—WoodaU (1), \ Venable (4),
Coward (6).
LENOIR-RHYNE 55, ELON 52
Plans to avenge an early loss
to Lenoir-Rhyne went wrong
when the Christians dropped a 55
to 52 engagement to the Bears on
ehe home court here on Tuesday
night, February 7th. It was the
identical same score by which the
Lutherans had won the first game
in Hickory. The battle proved
close all the way, with the two
teams knotted at 27-all at half-
time.
The line-ups:
Elon (52)
F. Rakes (10)
F. Cooper (6)
C. Drew (3)
G. Mondy (15)
G. Leigh
Lenoir-Rhyne (55)
Kantorski (3)
Sellari (2)
Bost (10)
Wells (21)
Neighbors (7)
Score at half: Elon 27, Lenoir-
Rhyne 27.
Elon subs—Gaither (4), Jones,
Kampman, Haithcox (6), Taylor
(6), Myers, Hamrick, Foster (2).
Lenoir-Rhyne subs — Willis (8),
Pawlak (4), Cashwell.
APPALACHIAN 52, ELON 50
Victory was so close and yet so
far when Elon met the Appalach-
Appalachian (52)
Causey (13)
Lancaster (11)
Hunt (11)
Martin (10)
Wey
Appalachian 36,
ian Mountaineers in Alumni Gym
nasium here on Wedensday night,
February 8th, for a last half rally
fell barely short as the Mountain
eers won 52 to 50. After trailing
36 to 24 at half-time, th^ Christi
ans pulled up strong in the late
minutes, and the score was knot
ted 48-48 two minutes before the
end.
The line-ups:
Elon (50)
F. Rakes
F. Gaither
C. Haithcox - (5)
G. Cooper (9)
G. Mondy (16)
Score at half;
Elon 24.
Elon subs—Hamrick (13), Jones,
Kampman (5), Drew, Taylor (2),
Foster. Appalachian subs—Mast,
Hope (1), Moir (4), Stephens (2).
ELON 75, LYNCHBURG 73
The Christians hung up their
first ot three consecutive victor
ies when they invaded Virginia to
meet the Lynchburg five on Fri
day night, February 10th. Despite
the fact that Coach Mathis kept
three first-strigners at home to
rest for the next night’s Confer
ence battle with E.C.T.C., and
Coach Mathis himself stayed at
home with a sore throat, the
Christians chalked up a 75 to 73
victory in an overtime period.^
The line-ups:
Elon (75) Lynchburg (73)
TOURNAMENT BOUND
Hudson (11)
Mallory (30)
Holland (15) 22,
WeWst (4)
•Fooutz (2)
Elon 33, Lynch-
F. Hamrick (8)
F. Gaither (14)
C. .JIaithcox (23)
G. Leigh (13)
G. Foster (6)
Score at half:
burg 30.
Elon subs—Hall (3), Jones (2),
Martin (1), Nester, Owen, Joyce
(3), Myers. Lynchburg subs —
Milam (8), Broadus, Gordon.
ELON 54, E.C.T.C.-30
The Christians pulled an upset
that reverberated from one end
of the North State Conference to
the other on Saturday night, Feb
ruary 11th, when they swamped
the E.C.T.C. Pirates 54 to 30 in a
game in Alumni Gymnasium here.
The Pirates invaded Elon fresh
from a victory over the high-fly-
ing High Point Panthers the night
before, but they were cold as a
wedge and could nevser threaten
after the early minutes,
the way to victory.
The Christians were ahead 19
to 15 at the intermission, but they
really got hot on both offense and
defense in the final half to avenge
an early season loss to the Pir
ates at Greenville. On defense
the Elon cagers held E.C.T.C.
without a field goal for fourteen
minutes of the Second half.
The line-ups:
Straigh
G. Mondy (10)
Score at half:
Allsbrook (7)
Elon 29, A.C.C.
Elon subs—Hamrick (2), Kamp
man (7), Drew (10), Foster (3),
Leigh (1), Gane (3); A.C.C. subs
—Coggins, Boykin, Ingraham (3>,
C. Tart, R. Tart, Stroud.
HIGH POINT 90, ELON 64
The Elon cagers caught High
Point on another hot night and
dropped a 90 to 64 de«ision in a
battle at High Point last Thurs
day night, February IGth. This
game broke a three-game win
streak, but Elon turned in a good
offensive game in scoring 64
points.
Don Haithcox chipped in 16
points to pace the Elon attack, fol
k-wed by Larry Gaither and Dave
Mondy. Leonard Hunt, at ecnter
for High Point, poured in 31
points to lead the game scoring.
The line-ups:
Eight strong basketball teams
from the colleges of the North
State Conference will converge
on Statesville tomorrow for the
annual Conference basketball
tournament, which will continue
for three days and end with the
choice of the 1950 champion in
the finals on Saturday night.
The High Point Panthers enter
the tournament in the Number
One seeded spot and as favorites
to cop the crown, which was won
last year by the Lenoir-Rhyne
Bears. The other seven teams to
contest the Panthers include Ca
tawba, Lenoir-Rhyne, E.C.T.C.,
A.C.C., Guilford and Elon. West
ern Carolina, the ninth team in
the Conference, failed to make
the grade this year, finishing last
in' the regular season standings.
The tournament goes to States
ville this season for the first time,
with games scheduled to be play- ,
ed in the new community gym
nasium there. The big meet has
been held in Elkin’s Gilvin Roth
Y.M.C.A. for the past two years.
The tournament will be played
under the sponsorship of the
Statesville Junior Chamber of
Commerce, which has been busy
for the past two months laying
plans for the event. The final
plans were laid at a meeting of
the coaches, athletic directors and
other officials from the various
colleges, which was held in the
Vance Hotel at Statesville last
Friday night.
The tournament play will get
underway tomorrow with four
games, two of them, in the after
noon and the other two at night.
The semi-finals will be played on
Friday night, and the two surviv
ing teams will meet in the final,
championship contest on Satur
day night.
Elon (54)
F. Rakes (1)
F. Gaither (5)
. Haithcox (10)
. Cooper (9)
. Mondy (8)
E.C.T.C. (30)
Everton (1)
Russell (6)
FenneU (3)
Bauer (6)
Thrift (1)
Elon (64)
F. Rakes
F. Gaither (13)
C. Cooper (8)
G. Mondy (10)
Score at half:
Elon 27.
Elon subs — Hamrick (13),
Kampman, Drew, Leigh (2), Gane
(2), Foster. High Point subs —
Fisher, Mobley (2), Draper (5),
Embler (5).
High Point (90)
Waiz (21)
Joyce (12)
Cartwright (6)
Pryor (8)
High Point 36,
COACH DOC MATHIS
Coach Doc Mathis, who is wind
ing up his first season as cage
mentor for the Fighting Chris
tians, is tournament bound this
week with his squad. The Elon
basketeers failed to make the
grade for the North State Tourna
ment at Elkin last season, but a
late season spurt has assured mem
of one of the eight berths for the
meet at Statesville this week. I^f-
Score at half: Elon 19, E.C.T.C.
5.
Elon subs— Kampman, Gena
(1), Hamrick (8), Taylor (,)2Leigh
(7), Foster. E.C.T.C. subs—Tan
ner, R. Blake (2), J. Blake (2),
Collie (7), Guthrie (2).
ELON 82, A.C.C. 42
Elon hit the hottest pace of
the season in chalking up an over
whelming 82 to 42 victory over
,the A.C.C. Bulldogs here on Tues
day night, February 14th. The
win was the third straight for
Coach Mathis’ boys and also
avenged an early season 65-63 loss
to the Bulldogs in Wilson.
The Christians gained a six-
point advantage at 8-2 in the first
five minutes and maintained
that lead to a 29-22 margin at
half-time, but the flood gates of
Elon scoring really opened in the
second half.
The line-ups:
Elon (82)
F. Rakes (8)
F... Gaither (7)
C.
LEADING
SCORER
Haithcox (19)
Cooper (12)
A.C.C. (42)
Glazer (8)
B. Tart (7)
Sugg (12)
DON HAITHCOX
Towering Don Haithcox is well
out in front among the scorers on
,the Fighting Christian cage squad
and in the top brackets in the
North State Conference. The big
boy from Guilford College had hit
for 265 points through the High
Point game of last Thursday, and
I he was given a possible chance to
]'V Cagers
Score Well
The Jay-Vee basketball squad,
up to anc^ including its 60-31 vic
tory over Guilford here last Tues
day night, had chalked up thir
teen wins against only four losses
for the season, and indications
Vv'ere that the Baby Christians
might close their season with a
more or less clear claim to the
Jay-Vee title in the North State
Conference.
The youngsters, most of whom
are first-year players, had hit for
an average of 55.4 points per game
in their first seventeen games.
Meanwhile, they were holding
their opponents ton an average of
43.6 points per game.
Husky Hall, slender freshman
from Fieldale, Va., was topping
the individual offensive work
through the Guilford game with a
total of 152 points in 15 games for
an average of better than 10
points per game. Carl Jones,
Maynard Nester and Bob Taylor
trailed him in that order. The in
dividual scores for the Jay-Vee
game through February 14th fol
low:
Name G
Hall 15
Jones .....A 13
Nester 15
Taylor 14
Joyce 14
Hajnu'ick 14
Leigh 11
Martin 11
Myers 14
White 13
Owen 10
Blackgtone 9
Rakes 2
Robertson 15
Lewis 1
Haselden (5), top the 300 mark for the season.
Gaither
Foster
Bailey
t '
Craven
Cutchins
, 1
4
12
= 2
1
FG
65
43
41
32
32
27
23
18
23
20
18
11
9
6
5
4
3
2
0
0
FT
22
17
11
25
14
20
13
21
1
2
3
5
3
7
0
1
1
2
0
0
TP
152
103
93
89
78
74
59
57
47
42
39
27
21
19
10
9
7
6
0
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