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; Tuesda>. February 26, 1952 MAROON AND GOLD PAGE THREE fjElon Baseball Squad Bids For Fourth Conference Title ISeiv Christian Schedule Spring Oil Sports THE LOISG AM) SHOUT OI' A ONE IA^ O PUNCH by JOE SPIVEY Fighting Christians on t ic “hardwood” liave been off their usual form bince the last issue o. ti.e M.&G. came from the press es,-^ut Coach Doc Mathis still has his boys in the thick of tlie chaB'pionship fight. * * * ^he Elonites dropped two contests on the home courts of East Carolina and High Point, and that has kept the Christians from re taining sole ownership of the N orth State Conference lead. At the (time this was written, Elon was in a three-way tie with Appa- lacli.in and East Carolina, and fans were pulling for wins in the two [final games to hold the tie for first. j ♦ ♦ Of note is the fact that the Christians will gain a seeded bertli in the North State Confer-^ence tournament to be held a1 Statesville for the first time since the 1946-47 season. This is a cer tainty. The four seeded teams will [be Elon, High Point, Appa lachian, and East Carolina. Final pairings had not been released at this (sitting. * * ' ^ In the Statistics Department: Ben^endall has paced the scoring most of the season, but Big Don Haitlicox is leading in the less-re- po^eJ-but-just-as - important “re bound ' department. Don had 244 defensive rebounds and 134 offen sive Jrebounds in 29 games. Ben Kenfall has cleared the offensive board 125 times and the defensive bourd- 209 times in the same num ber Jof games. The next closest contender is Jack Musten with 63. Of note is the fact that Ben and Don |have taken 712 of the 1338 rebounds for the season. ! « * * Speaking of Don and Ben, the “Long and Short” of the netters, bothlbroke the all-time Elon scor ing the Guilford game on Feb ruary 16th. It had been held by Eoney Cates since 1946-47 with a 457 total for the season. Ben ran his Jilly to 462 points when he hit for |14 points during the game. Donjran his total markers to 459 points when he swished the nets for |21 points. Congratulations, boys, keep adding to the string in the remaining games, and may the new records go over the 500 mark! ♦ ♦ * Conference records have been IrlUn^ too. Ronald Rogers of West Carolina and Ed Sueta of High Point have continued their battle from last year. Both broke the old conference mark last year but^aeta came out on top in the final tally. Both boys can add more points to the record in the North State tournament. lf|pD,:;h Point gets in the N.A.I.B. to»ia ment, Sueta will probably emerge the victor once more, al- Rogers is now in front with a total of 602 points. * * Wprm weather . . . sunny days • • • the crack of the horsehide a bat . . . kill the umpire! That means BASEBALL! And it won’t be long before the Christ ians put the North State Confer ence crown on the block to make it four years in a row. The pitch ers fnd the catchers have already started workouts in the old gym over at North Dorm. After ex tras, the rest of the' baseball hopefuls will join Coach Jim Mallory at the ball park for full Bcalt practice. It will be the old Bhouider to the wheel, for Coach Malii ry will be working with youngsters in an effort to build another championship team. ^ch pitching stars as Lefty Taylor, Austin Brewer, Hank Hamrick, and Pete Sykes will be gone from the fold, along with infielders Shag Meyers, Perry Riley, and Scott Quakenbush and ou^ielders Archie Brigman. Hank Draimone behind the plate will £'■30 be sorely missed. Campus Cage Race Slio^vs Four Squads By GEORGE ETHERIDGE Four teams are battling for the intramural crown, which will not be determined until the first week of the Spring Quarter, at which time the top four teams in the loop will play three games. At that time l.T.K. will meet North and Oak-Carlton, while Sig ma Phi “A” takes on North. All these teams are still very much in the race, and any one of the quartet could emerge as league winners after these games. Prob ability indicates, however, that two teams may emerge in a tie, necessitating a single-game play off. After leading the league until next to the last week of play, the two unbeaten teams from Oak- Carlton and l.T.K. were defeated by North Dorm and Sigma Phi "A,” each of which had lost one game. These two games left three of the teams tied for the top and North barely half a game out. In the game between Oak-Carl ton and North, the lads from North Dorm took a one-point lead at the first quarter and never lost the lead. The North outfit hit 13 points on ten shots from the floor in the second quarter to gain the margin that resulted in the final 42-35 victory. Jack Mallory top ped North with 18 points, while Bames and Long had 11 and, 10 for Oak-Carlton. The l.T.K. quintet, playing with Bill Blackstone, their scoring ace, just could not hit and were dumped by the Sigma Phi, who could not seem to miss. Sigma Phi gained an early lead and held it all the way to win by 48 to 34. Sheepy Peters and Lou Rochelli topped Sigma Phi with 14 and 11 points, while Bob Reece had 12 for the l.T.K. five. 25 SO ■I The long and short—or maybs it's the short and long—of a one-two scoring punch is shown above in the persons of Ben Kendall (left) and Don Haithcox (righti, who have set the scoring pace for the Elon Christians during the 1951-52 cage season. Both boys are over the old Elon scoring record for the year, both having smashed Roney Cates' old mark of 457 points in the Chris tians' first game with Guilford here oi) Saturday night, February 16th. Henceforth this season new records will be established in each game as the Elon scoring aces continue their assault on the baskets. Here’s Exactly lloiv And When Of Elon’s New Season Scoring Record... STANDINGS (Through Feb. 20) W. L. Ave. Oak-Carlton 5 1 -833 North ^ ^ Day Students 5 2 .714 Kappa Psi 3 4 .429 Alpha Pi ■ 2 6 .250 East 1 6 .167 Sigma Phi “B” 0 8 .000 “The king is dead. Long live the King With such an expression, it is customary to greet new sov ereigns, and some sort of sen timent like that was in the hearts and on the Ups of prac tically every basketball fan who watched Ben Kendall and Don Haithcox in a successful double assault on Eiou's all- time season scoring mark over in Alumni Memorial Gymnas ium on Saturday night, Febru ary 16th. There was a basketball game in p'fogress, with Elon and Guilford battling iu typical Christian-Quaker style through the fii^st three quarters of the contest, but there was another contest — and a double one at that—underway that drew the attention of many of the fans. Back in 1947 another great Elon team swept through a suc cessful season, and that year lanky Roney Cates set a new season scoring record of 437 points for th^ Maroon and Gold. That record had held through the succeeding seasons, but that Saturday nighti n the Elon- Guilford game the fans could sense a new record in the mak ing. Most of the fans knew that both Ben Kendall and Don Haithcox were near to Roney Cates’ old mark, that Kendall needed only 10 poiuis and Haithcox just 20 points when the game started to dethrone Elon’s all-time scoring ruler. It was Kendall and Haithcox against Father Time and the old record, and that contest almost out-ranked the Elon- Guilford contest itself in the interest of the fans, and more than one fan was keeping sep arate score on the two Elon aces. Haithcox was away first with a free throw for his first point after 30 seconds, but Kendall followed just one minute later with his first point. At two minutes Haithcox hooked a two- pointer, and again at 5:40 on the clock it was Haithcox with a free throw for his fourth point. Time was running out in that first quarter when Kendall dropped a push shot to make it BULLETIN Don Haithcox and Ben Ken dall, adding to their already impressive scoring record for the season, moved within strik ing distance of the 500-point mark when both scored heavily in last Thursday’s thrilling vic tory over Guilford. Haithcox, playing before his own home folks, hit for 31 points while Kendall added 22 points for a 484 total. Both had a chance to top 500 in the final regular season battle with Le noir Rhyne. * » * * ♦ ♦ 6 points for the night. Haith cox then started a drive that netted three field buckets and a free throw within two min utes forty-two seconds. The big boy dropped liis 11th point at exactly 3:32 on the clock in that second quarter. It was Ken- Ja} -\ee Cage Squad Closes Great Season SCORING Player Games FG FT TP Kendall 30 189 106 484 Haithcoix.. 30 202 8S 490 Hawkins 22 75 43 193 Cooper - 23 75 36 186 Atkinson . 29 51 60 163 Mondy 25 53 30 136 Gaither .... 25 33 31 87 HaU 28 31 15 77 Gauldin .... 27 29 18 76 Musten .. . 26 25 30 70 Rakes 13 24 11 59 Q’bush 12 10 7 27 McIntyre . 10 7 2 16 Mitchell . 10 4 4 13 Packard .. 7 1 3 5 Maddox ... 2 1 2 4 Hammond 1 1 1 3 Garrett 2 0 0 0 dali's turn then as the Indiana sophomore dropped a free throw at 7:40. and at exactly 8 minutes he took a pass from Gauldin and bucketed a shot hook for his tenth point. THE OLD RECORD W.-VS TIED. One minute ten seconds later Haith cox also hooked one for his 13th counter. This tied no record, but it did tie the score at 34- all for Elon and Guilford at half-time. Haithcox hooked for two points after fifteen seconds of the third quarter and at 5:15 he added a rebound bucket for his 17th point. It was a long time coming, but at the 6 min ute mark he was fouled by Bob Shoaf and sank a free throw for his 11th point. IT WAS A NEW RECORD AT 4.=>8 POINTS. A shout went up from the stands. Kendall added another free throw at 7:30, and each point added was a new mark. ^ The clock showed barely 1:15 of that last quarter when Haith cox rebounded from the front for a field goal that gave him his 19th point. ONCE MORE THE RONEY CATES RECORD WAS TIED. Kendiill -added a free throw at 5:30 and a final field basket at 6:35 to give his 14 points and set his new mark at 362 points before he fouled out. Then at 7:31) of the final period the towering Haithcox pushed good from the circle for his 31st marker. THE OLD RECORD WAS BROKEN AGAIN. It gave ilailhcox 439 for the year. Such was the clocking on a “double killing.” The old rec ord was twice smashed, and several hundred fans went home happy. Of course, all this means that a new record will be set in each and every Elon game from now until the end of the 1951-53 campaign, but somehow that doesn’t coont so much. It was this initial record- sma.shing performance that counted most, and the fact that both Kendall and Haithcox were able to overtake and de throne an old scoring ruler in one and the same game was just a double ttariil for the fans. “The king is dead. Long live the kings—both of em!” Shoivs27 Tough Battles The Elon baseball squad, which will go after its fourth iucessive North State Conference chai»i)ionship this spring, will play-27 tough games during the coming 1952 diamond season, ac cording to the schedule made pliblic this week by Coach Jim Vlallory. The new schedule marks the beginning of a new plan for the Conference baseball race, with the far-flung North State loop split into eastern and western divisions for the regular season, with winners of the two divisional titles meeting after close of the schedule in a series to decide the title for the entire Conference. The division was decided upon last season, and the 1952 cam paign will see Western Carolina. Lenoir Rhyne, Appalachian and Catawba playing in the western group, while Elon, Eastern Caro lina. Atlantic Christian. Guilford, and Higli Point will comprise Ibe eastern loop. Such a division removes the necessity fOr the Elon team to make the long jumps to Boone, Hickory and Cullo- tt'hee. The Christian ball tossers will play a Conference season of ■iixteen games, meeting East Carolina. -Atlantic Christian, High Point and Guilford four times each, two games at home and two away with each team. Other col legiate games for the Christians include two games each with Springfield College and N. C. Stale and a single collegiate con test with Ohio University. The other six contests of the regular season finds the Elon lads tangling with strong professional and semi-pro and service outfits. The professional opposition comes in two games with Reidsville and one game with Greensboro. Also included are two games with Nor folk Naval Air Station and a sin gle game with the McCrary Ea gles. The season gets underway with two home battles against Spring field College here on Thursday and Friday, March 20th and 21st, followed by a battle with N. C. State at iRaleigh on Saturday, March 22nd. Altogether the schedule calls for fourteen games at home and thirteen away, ' Facing this rugged schedule. Coach Mallory has only five let- termen back as a nucleus for the 1952 Christian squad. These five monogram veterans include Bob by Stewart, Carroll Reid and Bobby Rogers, outfielders; and Ben Kendall and Billy Rakes, in fielders. Gone are all of last year's pitch ers, along with a veteran catcher, a first baseman and third base man, positions which must be fill ed if Coach Mallory's outfit is to bid for the 1952 crown. Included in the list of those departed are all five of last year's All-Confer- ence men, a list that included Hank DeSimone, catcher; Scott Quakenbush, third base; and Lefty Taylor, Austin Brewer and Hank Hamrick, pitchers. Coach Mallory has already start ed his battery men working in doors in the old gym in North Dovm, with a group that includes Lefty Swlcegood, Richard Smith, Sherrill Hall. Luther Conger, Billy Byrd and Ronnie Mclntyra, pitchers, all from the freshman class; and Bobby Jones and Char lie Schrader, catchers. Jack Mus ten, another catcher, will report when_ basketball is over. The complete baseball sched ule follows: March 21—Springfield, home. March 22—N. C. State, away. March 28—N. C. State, home. March 29—E. Carolina, home. April 2—High Point, home. April 4—East Carolina, away. April 5—A. C. C., away. April 9—Reidsville, away. April 11—Greensboro, away. April' 12—Ohio Univ., home. April 14—Reidsvile, away. April 16—Guilford, home. April 19—A. C. C., home. April 23—Guilford, home. April 24—High Point, away. April 25—McCrary, away. April 26—E. Carolina, home. April 29—Norfolk Navy. home. I April 30—Norfolk Navy, home. May 2—High Point, home. May 3—A. C. C., home. May 5—High Point, away. May 7—Guilford, away. May 9—East Carolina, away. May 10—A. C. C., away. May 12—Guilford, away. The Elon Jay-\'ees concluded a highly successful season last Thursday night when the Maroon i.nd Gold youngsters, coached this year by Jim Akers, former Willi am and Mary cage star, defeated ijuilford a second time to run their season record to si.\teen v/ins and six losses. The Elon juniors showed two victories each over Lynchburg JV, Greensboro High, Catawba JV, and Guilford JV, with single victories over Jacksonvile High, Graham High, White Oak “Y,” Leaksvile “Y,” Hargrave Military Academy, High Point JV, Burling ton High and Whitmel High. Det feats included two at the hands of Wingate Junior College and Car olina JV and single losses to High I’oint JV and Lees-McBae. The Little Christians scored 1,333 points in the 22 games for an average of 61 points per game, which was almost nine points better than their oppon ents, who counted 1,153 points for an average of 52.4 points per game. The individual Jay-Vee scoring records follow: Player Games FG Maddox 22 Quakenbusih 16 Garrett 22 Packard 20 Mitchell .. 19 McIntyre .... 21 Harvey 20 Lamley 10 Stoffel 17 Fogleman .. . 15 Barnes 4 Hammond .... 2 Gauldin 2 •Atkinson Musten B. Rakes . VViddifield Long Carroll il. Rakes . Hovedeson Canupp 110 75 68 72 75 36 27 25 22 9 12 7 4 4 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 FT 61 30 42 31 23 12 14 14 10 9 1 1 2 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 TP 281 180 178 175 173 84 6« 64 54 25 25 15 10 8 7 4 3 3 2 1 0 0 B. X. E, Leads Girls Cagers The Beta Chi Epsilon lassies sports the girls’ basketball cham pionship of the campus for 1952, having clinched the title on four straight wins in the opening por tion of the loop race. The final half season games were cancelled due to aproaching examinations. Emma Jean Packard was the outstanding scorer for the Beta I Chi outfit, which took time off from the typing and shorthand cla.ises long enough to give a fine lesson to the girls in physi cal education and other depart ments of the college.
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