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5 Tar Heel Cage Teams In CIAA’s 13th Tournament games Underway Thurs.; Shaw U. Bears Gain Last Berth; Top NCC DURHAM Shaw University’s Bears of Raleigh are scheduled to t vtTiTlo with f irst-rutYkccl A&T College of Greensboro in the final game of the CIAA basketball irurnanieul Thursday night. The tournament will be held at North Carolina College's gymnasium. The "Aggie-Bear clash will round out the first night’s play. Shaw's eager", in the tour nament for the first time since 1919. finished eighth in the conference, which includes eighteen tennis from West Virginia. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. Tire Bears gained the last re maining berth by whipping North Carolina College. 74-7.1 last Sat urday night. Basketball teams from five colleges in North Carolina will b among the eight participatin’ clubs in »he ClAA's 53th annual tournament starting here at 2:30 Thursday afternoon in North Carolina College’s gymnasium. Tournament Committee chair men I#, D. Smith of Union an nounced participants at a pair ing session here Sunday, North Carolina schools playing are A&T of Greensboro, new vis i|f& * I If; ‘hfti IP'' 1 '• ' - GASP COMPANY Ralph “Tiger’’ Jones 'right) gasps as he takes a hard right to the mid-sec tion from Kid Gavilan, in the 7th round of their Feb. 19th bout. Middleweight Jones turned the tables on former welterweight champion Gavilan and beat him with a persistent hooking attack for a split decision. (UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO). FAMU Starts Drive To Build Completely New Football Team TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (ANP) —Florida A and M opened spring ƑDSG NO SUBSTITUTE New York Yankee outfielder Elston How ard is trying to convince a skeptical son. Elston Jr.. age 2, that it’s great fun eubfltitutirwf a baseball for a imowball in e game of piich-and-catch. Howard and his family vacationed at Gros sunger'a (N.Y.) before leaving for sprir-j training in Florida. (Neweprees Photo). itation champion and top-seeded | club; Fayetteville State Teachers.] third seeder! quint: North Carolina College's 1957 v • .ration champ ions. fifth ranking dub this yeat; Elizabeth City State Teachers,! seventh place in its first year of i CIAA competition; and Shaw ; University of Raleigh, eighth. The CIAA is composed of 17 i colleges in North Carolina, Vir-j litiiia, Maryland, Delaware, and Vest Virginia. •* * * 4- The three day tourney’s first game TViuinda* after noun matches fourth seeded Morgan of Baltimore, Md.. • 14-4> against seventh rank ing Elisabeth City <l2-71 Other Thursday frames: 5:00 p.m., third seeded Fayetteville f 10-5) against sixth ranking Virginia State f 12-8 1 : 8:00 p. m., second seeded Union < 16- ;>t of Richmond against North ] Carolina College >. 9-9)5 awl 9:30 p m., top seeded ! i!7-3> against eighth place Shaw, (11-8 1, * * * ♦ In Friday s semifinals starting at 8:00 pun., the winner ol thej Fayetteville and Virginia stare game plays the winner of the NCC and Union contest. I At 9:30 pan. Friday, the winner | of the Morgan-Elizabeth City af lat r mccfa t,*c wanner of the ShaA and ANT clash. A consolation match between ] semifinals losers is slated for 7:30 | pin Saturday with the finals be ginning at 9:00 pm Thursday has been set aside as High School Day A high* light, of the occasion will be | elaborate coronation cere monies featuring all eight teams ot 7:30 Thursday night. For the Aggies of Coach Cal Irvin, this is their first CIAA cage title in 31 years, it is a CIAA first for Irvin, youngei brother of former baseball star Monte Irvin. The Aggies, as league champ ions, will represent the* CIAA in NCAA college division playoffs. NAIA representatives remain to | be selected. In till,- year's dramatic race | Shaw of Raleigh scored a thril* | ling last minute 74-71 win over NCC to edge out Winston-Salem, the 1957 tourney kingpin. Unde: the CIAA’s Dickinson rating $y ten*, teams are ranked according' to the strength of their i opponent grid practice last Thursday with hopes of tilling gaps left vacant and Introducing new plays. Coach Jake Gaither said he plans to work on fundamentals, a few new plays, and a great deal of time will be spent working new men into a smooth machine. “FTcm our starting eleven,” re lated Gaither, “we lost tackles Vernon Wilder and James Hill, quarterback James Williams, full back Alonso Vereen, and guard Charles Hines. "We will work x total of 20 days. Our daily workouts will not lead to game scrimmage at the end. There will be some scrim maging, but we must make an ef fort to find capable replacements and polish details in offense and defense.” In addition to the five starters, lettermen lost are backs. Frank Brown and Thomas Marshall; tackles, Beno English and Riley Morris; guards Henry Harris. Robert Brown, Carl Crowell, and Charles Howard; end Samuel Cleare, and centers Marcellus Durham and Paul Williams. Returning letterman include: ends, Jerry Cardoza, William Let:. Horace Small, and Frank Mer chant: tackle:-;. Leon Collier and William Davis: guards Eugene Miller, Lewis Rice and Wilde Wychc; center. Willie Taylor; backs Alvin Chavis, Clarence Childs, Leroy Hardee, Lewis John - son, David Latimer. Lee Royster Eugene White, and Charles Young. (Ggh r *fte GUL ’Lots of men could support a wife if they didn’t have toi feed her vanity.” DFD BREAKS SCORING RECORD Joe Howell, .10) star playmaket for the A&T College Aggies, scores with his favorite jump shot in the game between his team and Shaw University played last week. How ell, in scoring 35-points, broke the record for scoring in the five-y-ar old Charles Men re Gymnasium. The 77-58 win by the Aggies also clinched the 1957-58 CIAA basketball championship and gave them first conference flag since wa.v back in 1937, Howell, currently lead ing the conference in percentage field goals and free throws, near top in total points with an average of 21.1 per game. Is sure choice for All-Conference honors. Louis Garvin <4 Shaw University guard throws an ineffective guard on the elusive Howell. Allen Edges Giaflin In Bitter Cage Duel COLUMBIA, S. C. <ANP> Harold Donnell scored 19 points to lead Allen University to a 63- j over Claflin College here in the Joseph Henry Gymnasium last Wednesday. The Yellow Jackets’ Arnold Smith, the nation’s No. 1 free throw shooter in small colleges of NCAA, shot four of five to bring ] his total to 100 out of HO for an! average of .909 Smith, as the ma- j jority of hb teammates, is a • freshman. Bishop Downs Rust, 96-58 MARSHALL. Texas (ANP) - - Coach Dwight Fisher’s Bishop j College Tigers Wednesday got re-1 venge for a defeat Best month at j the hands of Rust College by; swamping Rust 96-to-58. The game was played in the Bishop gymn. Both teams played the first half on fairly even terms. At; the end of the first, half, Bishop : was leading 42 to 38. When play \ resumed, the Bishop squad began to pull quickly away. Bishop ca ;-: esters, made up mostly of fresh men, seemed to relax and sink n larger percentage of their shots, j They also played a stronger ri, - tensive game. Lawrence Franklin of Memphis, I pint-sized guard, led the Tigers, to victory while hitting for lift points. Elbert Parish. 6’ 2” for ward also from Memphis, aid< d j the cause with 18 points, George' FDSF CUBA WINS -SERES'— Happy Cuban lans parade tli« streets oi San Juan carrying pitcher Bob Straw, oiler a game against Puerto Rico. He held the Puerto Ricans scoreless and gave up only three Kite in the huts] q~-nc of the Caribbean baseball Berios. Cuba won by a 2-0 score, to take its third straight title. (Nawspreas Fl.ol©). j Eugene Redd was runner-up in ; scoring for .Allen with 15 points. Henry Worable, Charlie Davis and James Davis were outstanding on i defense and rebound work. Claflin was led by Willie Wright and Walter Dockery with 17 at.ri 10 points, respectively. Dockery i also led his team in rebound and i defense. Allen now has sn 11*10 record ■ for the season and is ninth in I SIAC standings. j Chambers, fi* 2" center from Pul- j ; ton, Kentucky, helped to notch j ! the victory by dumping in 16 | points. The Tigers will end the basket-! I bull season February 28th when \ t hey take on llouston-Tillotson I college in a conference game at Austin. Zie “Good health is the thing j ! that makes you feel that now j j is the bear, time of the year!” ' Breakdown Os Statistics Shows Why Aggies On Top in CIAA DURHAM A breakdown of individual and ham .statist'.. ■ clearly demonstrates why the Cal Irvin coached Aggies of A & t College in Greensboro are on m in the heated CIAA basketball race. The ted hot. Aggies, out from, for their third consecutive w hold the lead in team defense nr.J are the conference’s field g. ;,? percentage kings They also bo.: individual standouts in field : production, free throws and re bounds. With a won loss record n. 15 .< the Aggies have amassed points in IB games for a first rank ed 60.3 in team defense. They uv trailed the Broncos of Fayette vs lie State who have bucks'. 1 798 points in 13 contests for a <?.: 4 average. The Aggies show an hiiprrs she 50 per cent accuracy front the floor in point production best in the CIAA In 18 games, they have connected on 498 of their 979 field goal attempts. Virginia State College is rur ner-op in this department with 47 per vent accuracy, * w a m Jot 1 Howell. A & T’s ’:,u;s h:i,’ forward is the CIAA': hot shot in both field goals and free throat f "" r 7 " * *■*'?*'* *** t t ****** **si :Y^ •HS> $* ‘ STACr, — . *H£ -f‘"» ' 'top bourb®. I s f:'7- UK KfNTUCSfy 731 'wo<\ V ,* M ■■y ■;... '• jggpb'i sf*^ 1 i ei® S' £ %7 OLD STAGG KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON 86 PROOF • SFAGG OlSf. CO., FRANKFORT. KFNTIICKY THE CAROLINIAN WI S H ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1958 j Hs has sunk 138 field ooals in 247 via 1 runts, giving Mm a percentage ; of 55. He ha 3 also converted 85 mark era from the charity line and sporu ,! torrid 66 accuracy per centapc in the free throw division. And Aggie pivot-man Clmrlia Harrison is the conference’s lead rebounder with 430 to his cre dit in ltt games. This gives him a 23.9 percentage on the boards. Winston-Salem’s Wilfred John of New York has enjoyed the best night of any single performer, His 39 point performance against •Vt;. ~n earlier in the season. A’thcu"h not. in the first divis-j ■!u l.:; m -.landings, J. C, Smith j has the be. j CIAA record in team Mu-use. Tlu Bulls have gamed aj ! 75.1 ...u i,' , in compiling 37G j ; point: in 13 '’inner. j *** * i They arc followed by an oth«*r »<*.•;:nd tlivlJot. team, Honard I". HU,ms, who are sporting a healthy 74,7 aver age on 897 points in 12 games. | As a team. North Carolina Colieje has the best marksm-n if the free throw line. Tagirs have com cried 12 bfngle.s in "5 9 tri.-s. Their percentage is 69. * * * * s Runner-up A v T i>r<s register ed a- 66 percentage on 297 convex j r.iona in 448 chances. Other individual standouts In clude St. Paul's R. Scott, who has scored 340 points in 16 games, feu a 21.2 average, second best in the] conference: J, Syphax of, Howard whose 93 field goals (173 at tempts) give him a percentage ini 12 games of 54: St Augustine's A Stirrup with 80 percent accuracy irt the gift circle (88 out of 109 free throws); and H. Fields of the 2nd ranked Elizabeth City team] who lias plucked 376 rebounds] and an average of 22 in that de] partment. j , Neighbors ".ntridrnttlly, fellows —, -hoi are they ’unfair’ about?* 15
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