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Wednesday, March 28 ^
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Christians Lose To Kansas
Quint In ISAIA Tournament
OFTICERS WHO LEAD SENIOR CLASS
SCORIISG
(FINAL FOR SEASONt
Dee Atkinson was the top scor
er for the FightinK ChrisUar caR-
tis durine the 1955-56 campaien.
which saw the basketeers win 25
of 32 Rames, but Ben Kendall con
cluded his brilliant career in an
Elon unilojn by setting a new
career scoring record foi Chri!,-
itian basketball.
Kendall, who tallied 448 poinu
this season, ran his four year to-
al to 1,653 points and moved
iihrad of the old Elon four-year
mark of 1.45fc which was held by
Don Haithccx. However, the tow
ering Haithcox still holds >the Elon handling the ball well and
The Elon Christians, who ap
peared to have lost completely the
shooUng accuracy tha had char
acterized their play throughout th
ieason, dropped a 77 to 55 deci-
•iiorj to the seventh-seeded Pittii-
burg Teachesr of Pittsburg, Kan-
-,as, in the first-round play in the
NAIA’s national basketball tour
ney at Kansas City on March 13th
After posting a brilliant 45,3
per cent shooting record for 31
games this season and topping the
50 per cent mark many times, the
best the Christians could show at
Kan.sas City was 19 field goalf. i:
B6 tries for a 28.8 per cent mark
The Pittsburgh basketeers, wh;
made only 32.3 per cent of the.i
shoU at the basket, were never
thelesE a little more sure of
sinRle-season mark of 007 points,
which he set in 1952.
The final Individual Bcoring to
tals for the 32-game season fol
low.
Player
G
FG
FT
TP
Atkinson
30
180
161
521
Kendall
32
178
92
448
•Tura'tic
32
172
90
434
Whitley
32
152
7fc
380
DeRita
32
119
105
343
Crump
28
105
80
290
Slone
31
58
69
la.’i
Citty
27
38
39
115
Rickover
20
14
6
34
King
16
10
9
29
Stout
18
10
9
29
McDonald
13
8
7
23
Other Players
14
15
10
4C
ELON TOTAL
OE’PONENTS
32
32
1060
807
749
737
2869
2471
Ititraniiiral
Five Second
In Tourney
The Elon College intramural
cage champions made an excel
lent showing in the second an
nual North State intramural touT-
iiament, placing second in the
four-team eveni that was held at
High Point on Thursday, March
22nd The High Point elub nosed
Elon by two points for first place,
The Elon entry trampled Ca
tawba in the first-round battle
by an 84 to 68 margin. Tony Car-
with Catawba placing third and
Lenoir Rhyne fourth,
caterra racked 19, Oscar Steven
son 13 and Jerry Slaughter 10
points to grab individual honors
for the Christian combination. Gil-
dersleeve, Calawba grid star, had
25 poirvl£ to pace the Indian squad.
In the final titular battle the
High Poimters came from behind
in the final minutes to nose Elon
59 to 57 for the title. The Chris
tians weie ahead by a comfortable
margin through most of the game,
blit their attack went sour in the
closing minutes Dave Moseley
rolled in 20 points to lead, the
Elon attack, while Jerry SlauRh-
ter hit 10 to place second in scor-
Inp H.irris had 28 points to lead
the High Point squad. The Ca
tawba Indians turned back Le
noir in the consolation battle and
claimed third place.
throwing up a tight man—to-man
defense that appeared to bclher
the Christians greatly.
The Kansas team rolled to an
early lead as Elon rolled shot after
shot around the rim, but the Chris
tians rallied in the second ten
minutes of the game and scored
23 points while holding the Kan-
.sas cagers to 15 counters. Thii
rally enabled the Christians to
pull within six points at 39-33 by
half-time
The Christians then went four
minutes of the second half before
Dee Atkinson dropped one free
throw, and another minute elapsed
t>efore Ed Juratic hooked for
Elon’s first floor shot of the half.
The squad could only hit 6 floor
shots in 36 tries for a 16.7 second-
half percentage,
Midway the second half, with
the Pittsburg squad leading by 18
points. Coach Doc Mathis pulled
most of his starters and sent re
serves into the fray. Bob Rickover
and Tommy King scored to slash
ihe margin to 12 points. They
could not hold the pace, however,
and the Kansas outfit pulled away
in the closing moments.
Reflecting the almost complete
collapse of the Christian shooting
Elon BasehaUers Open Year
By Downing Williams Twice
Leaders of senior class activities on the Elon campus for the
1955-56 college year are pictured above. The senior officers, elect
ed by vole cf their classmates at last spring’s campus election,
niclured left to right, are as follows. SEATED — Barbara Carden,
of Burlington, secretarv; Jo Ai'n Wright, of Burlington, treasurer.
STANDING — Jack Garber, of Cadillac, Mich., president; and Phil
Carter, of Liberty, vice-president.
Meet Elon’s Baseballers
(Continued From Page Three)
junior from Dunn, N
son is making his third bid for
Elon baseball honors. He saw some
service last year as a reserve but
did not letter. He is 5 feet 10
inches tall, weighs 175 pounds
and bats and throws right-hand-
ed.
SHORTSTOPS
NICK THOMPSON — An All-
Conference and All-State perform
er for three years, Thompson hails
from Burlingtcn, N. C. His speed
and throwing and long-baU hit
ting has made him a feared man.
He is 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs
160 pounds and bats and throws
1 man candidate from Mebane, N,
„ . Ic,, Johnson played his high
, 'school ball at Hillsboro, He is 6
feet tall, weighs 165 pounds, bats
,'eft and throws right.
BOB STAUFFENBERG — A
sophomore, who saw reserve duty
last season, Stauffenberg hails
from Morea, Pa. He is 5 feet 11
inches tall, weighs 195 pounds
and bats and throws right-hand-
The Christian baseballers kick
ed the lid off their 1956 diamond
season by wiiming two battles
from the touring Williams Col-
i lege nine here on Monday and
Tuesday afternoons of this week,
! grabbing the opening game by
! a 4 to 3 margin and taking the
! second tilt by a smashing 13 to 3
count.
Bill Ross, freshman right-hand
er from Reidsville, tripled to deep
I right center in the eighth to drive
in Elon's winning run in the Mon
day afternoon tilt, Ross divided
pitching duties with Jack Hender
son, sophomore southpaw, and the
two boys let Williams down with
five hits,
Gilbert Watts and Corbitt Hart
ley, a pair of freshman right
handers, split mound duty in the
second game on Tuesday and scat-
lered nine Williams hits along the
route. Meanwhile, the Christian
batters mixed eleven hits with a
series of Williams miscues to take
a one-sided decision
R H E
Williams ... 200 000 100—3 5 2
Elon 003 000 Olx—4 6 3
Yankus, Newey (6) and Welles,
Weinstein (6): Henderson, Ross (6)
and Hobgood,
R H E
Williams . .. 000 100 011—3 9 2
Elon 200 110 81x—13 11 2
McLean, Bladgen 6) and Welles,
Weinstein (5); G. Watts, Hartley
(6) and Hobgood, Sharpe (6)
tunmcliffe story
(Continued From Page Two)
Not only were my classes men
tally stimulating, they were gay
as well. The sari of the Indian
girl is colorful, graceful and of
ten beautiful. There was always
a delightful odor of flowers per
meating the classroom. The In
dian girls do not cut their hair.
They wear it in a single long,
hining braid, which falls grace- 1 Ray WhiUey spoke for the hoys,
fully down their backs. All ofj Coach Doc Mathis also spoVe,
Varsity Cagerg
Supper Guests
The Fighting Christian caff>,
who pobted the finest rec(vrd
Elon College basketball hirtt-
in winning 25 of 32 games
guests of a group of alumni w
friends at a steak supper jl tt;
Burlington Elks Clnb last Wed-
nesday night, March 21st.
The gathering featnrei brl«
talks by Frank Roberts, V>c^
Wilson, Moses Cmtchfield. Stan
Huffman and Cliff Elder in
praisie of the Elon cagers. and
Co-Captains Ben Kendell anj
CASH AWARDS
(Continued From Page One)
procedure, in as much as they
do not conflict with the regula
tions set forth above. Such selec
tions shall be completed during
only Ed Juratic and Ben KendallThompson is a sen- the second month of the Spring
were able to break double figures, j fourth-year regular. Quarter,
GEORGE ALLEN — A speedy
and each of them could count only
11 points. Roger Robbins with 23
and Carl Neff with 30 paced the
Pitt.sburg scoring.
The - line-ups—
Poft. Elon (55)
F—Juratic (11) .
F—DeRita (8) . .
C—Atkinson (5)
G—Kendall (11)
Pittsburg (77)
Cain (6)
. Robbins (23)
. Nealy (4),
.. Palmer (15),
The accepted nominees shall re-
Allen hails from Col-|peive final evaluation through a
G—Whitley (8) Neff (20)
Halftime — Pittsburg 39, Elon
33.
Elon subs — Rickover 4. King
4, Crump 4, Stone. Crtty. Pitts
burg subs — Lavin 6. Wiliams 1,
Seaverao 2. Faurot. Peterson.
HALKINES
(Continued From Page Threei
freshman,
lege Park, Md. He is 5 feet 9
Inches tall, weighs 155 pounds and
bats and throws right-handed.
THIRD BASEMEN
ALTON MYERS — An All-Con
ference performer last spring,
Myers is a senior and is bidding
for his fourth season of Elon base
ball play. He hails from Lexing
ton, N. C. He is 5 feet 9 inches
Central Committee of Judges,
composed of one Representative
from each of the four Divisions,
to be appointed by the President
of Elon College with the assis
tance of the Dean of the College.
The President of Elon College
shall be an ex officio member of
this committee. The Student Nom
inees shall submit their research
tall, weighs 175 pounds and bats*papers to this Central Committee.
left and throws right.
HILARY MOTSINGER — A
-■ophomore who saw reserve duty
last spring, Motsinger hails from
Kernersville, N, C, He is 5 feet
10 inches tall, weighs 170 pounds
and bats and throws right-handed.
outfielders
j ne awards shall be presented
by the President of Elon College
or his appointed substitute to the
BOBBY GREEN—Twice an All- winners at the final regular me*et-
victorles. winning medalist honors Conference outfielder, Green has! ing of the Student Body in the
igamst both Guilford and Cataw- been a feared long-baU hitter for | Spring Quarter.
I
who shall have free judgement of
both the research paper and the
class performance of such students
before selecting the three award
winners in each Division.
SPRING FOOTBALL
(Continued From Page Three)
them love flowers, and each morn
ing they fasten fresh flowers at
the top of the braid at the base
of the neck.
Strings of small Toses, jasmin
and the white flower of the cork
tree, woven sometimes with small
yellow mari(golds, usually make
up these bouquets. An old flower
woman appeared each morning
with a basket of flowers, and be
fore long her basket would be
empty. The girls living in the dor
mitories had no garden yet, and
so they would stop to pick a string
of flowers from the old woman.
College Grew Fast
One hundred girls enrolled at
Lady Doak College that first year,
and when I left the next year to
be married and to move to a to
bacco area in the Telegu district,
a few hundred miles north of Mad-
hurai, the enrollment had more
than doubled.
The new main hall was nearing
completion—half of it had been in
summing op the play for what
he termed “the best team t«
play for Elon sinoe he nnu
t« the college.”
The group presented rifts t«
Coach Mathis and to Ned Gaol-
din, a former Elon cage captain,
who served as assistant coach
and scout durijig the carapaisa
just ended.
LffiRARY NOTES
making another trip up the grid- over a year and new dormi
tories were building. Now Lady
Doak College has a student body
jron.
The second half commenced
with the Fighting Christians once
more faking the ball on their own
of four to five hundred, and it
ranks high in the University, for
twenty. Bradham and Smith, mix- its examination returns have al-
ha. However, either of the other
three “L’s” is capable of pushing
par on any given day. and it looks
like a (in,e season ahead for old
Elo’ in that game which long ago
became an old Scottish custom.
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Pictured And Diplomas Framed—One Day Sen-ice
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saw only reserve duty as a fresh- i
SECTION B
Provision is made for the es-
man. but his terrific homer clinch- tablishment of a student Legisla-
ed the championship in the play- Committee to investigate the
offs with Lenoir Rhyne in his makeip of a shingle to be pre-
sentefl to the honor winner at the
time of awards.
Headtjuarters For Elon Students
DEPARTMENT STORE
Burlington Managed
sophomore season. Hailing from
Brown Summit. N. C., Green
stands 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighs
190 pounds, bats left and throws!
right. I
DEAN ROBERTSON — A fine i
sophomore prospect from King. ]
N, C., Robertson rejoined the Elon
squad this spring after a term of
army duty. He is 6 feet tall,
weighs 170 pounds and bats left
and throws right,
JERRY HOLT — A former All-
State legion .Ttar from Graham,
N. C., Holt sat out last season for
transfer eligibility. He stands 6
feet tall, weighs 180 pounds and
bats and throws right-handed. Holt
iS a junior, '
BILL REECE — A tall fresh
man from DrSper. K. C., Reece
stands 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighs
185 pounds and bats and throws
right-handed.
WAYLAND MEDLEY — A,
freshman prospect from Greens
boro, N, C.. where he played at
Bes.semer High. Medley stands 5
feet 11 inches tall, weighs 165
pounds, bats left and throws right.
CLEM JOHNSON — A fresh
ing their plays well with variations
nf the split-T and the short punt
formations, proceeded to march.
Eight straight hand-offs to Bob
Stauffenberg again brought the
Varneymen knocking, Quarterbacl^
Satch Bradham handed off to bro
ther Whit Bradham, who dove over
the Blue Hose line for the score.
The conversion was wide and Pres
byterian led 7-6,
The foe then took over and find
ing they could not move, punted
deep to the Fighting Christians,
Again the Elon machine began to
roll, Eddie Bridges caught a long
pass which put the men of Elo’
on the 35 yard line. A jump pass
to lanky Tony Carcaterra placed
the pigskin further in Hose terri
tory. Two more gave the Chris
tians a score, but it was called
back on a penalt'-
sant surprise for the 200 fans
who were in attendance at the
fray. With their mixture of the
short punt and the split-T. they
constantly "befuddled the opposi
tion, Although outweighed by 10-
15 lbs, per man, the pigskinners
pushed the Blue Stockings up and
dowTi the playing field. Unoffi
cial statistics show that the Chris
tians piled up 22 first downs to
the Hose’s 7,
Outstandilig in the Christian line
were Glenn Varney, J, B, Vaughan,
Tony DeMatteo, and Tony Carca
terra. Looking good in the back-
field were Bob Stauffenberg, Whit
Bradham, and quarterbacks Dick
Smith and Richard Bradham.
ways been good. The Zoology pro
fessor is now an exchange pro
fessor at Wellesley College in the
United States, and at the same
time she is studying for another
degree.
It is thrilling to realize what
has come of a venture started with
little money but much faith and
prayer. It is equally thrilling to
remember that one helped to build
and bring about something last
ing and worthwhile in this tur
bulent age.
The Elon CJollege Library, wh;:h
already possessed an excelleat
collection on costumes down
through the ages, has recently aid
ed three very fine new books on
costumes of past centuries. Ether
or all of the new books will
prove valuable to those who
plan pageants or other dramatic
costume productions.
There is a revised edition c:
Mary Evans’ “Costume Througli-
out The Ages,” which has proven
highly successful in earlier ve^
sions. This volume outlines the
development of dress from Hg>-p-
tian, Greek and Roman times to
the present day, with a section
in detail on national costumes of|
national groups of all the worli:
Two other new books are de
voted to English costumes, onei
on English costume of 'he .\ce|
of Elizabeth and the other the cos
tume of the Eighteenth Century,
These books were published in
London and are well illustraieS.
Previous volumes of the seriel
dealt with English costumes ci'
both earlier and more recent
iods.
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