I Trophies Presented to Outstanding Eagle Gridders Monday Bad Daniels most improved Jackie MrQurrn . . . outstanding back George Wallace . . . sportsman Jimn lie Lawrence . . . outstanding lineman Eagle Rally Falls Short; Hawks Post 3-Point Victory After leading from 10 to 14 points throughout the game* the Newport Hawks had to fight off a desperate last quar ter rally by the Morehead City Eagles Tuesday night be fore downing the Eagles 60-57 in a game played on the Newport boards. Newport, led by the 25-point performance of scoring ace Johnny Turpin, had little troif-4 blc with the Eagles for the first Ihree periods as the Hawks posted comfortable leads at all the quarter marks. The end of the first quarter saw the Hawks leading by five at 15-10 and by halftime they had run this lead to 11 points as they left the floor ahead of the Eagles 36-25. Morehead City opened the last half by scoring two quick baskets to narrow the margin to seven but then Turpin and Kirk went to work and put the Hawks safely back out in front. The end of the third quar ter saw the Hawks leading by eight ?t 45-37 after they, at one time during the period, enjoyed a 14 point spread. In the final period the Talbcrt men weat into a full emni pressing defense and the tactics paid off as they managed to peck away at the Newport lead. Late in the quarter the Eagles managed to close the gap to one point before two costly fouls were called on them as they tried to get the ball. The Eagles were also hurt some what when John Phillips was forced to leave the game with five fouls. From the floor the victorious Hawks hit on 20 of 47 field goal attempts for an average of 42.5 per cent. The best that the Eagles could manage was 17 of 67 attempts for a cold 24 per cent. From the free throw line the two teams fin ished exactly even, Newport hit ting 20 of 28 for 72 per cent and the Eagles sinking 23 of 32 for the same mark. Turpin's 25 points was high for the Hawks as well as for the game. Next in line for Newport was Larry Kirk who scored 15 points while Tommy Gillikin who finished with 12. Tom Thompson, with 12 points, paced the Eagle scorers and was followed by John Phillips who had 11 before fouling out. Wade had nine points and Jimmie Smithwick, returning to the starting lineup, had eight. The Hawks made it a clean sweep for the night when their girls' team rolled to a 50-32 win over the Eag lettes in the opener. An ice-cold second period in which they failed to score during the entire stanza proved to be the downfall of the Eaglettes. Newport posted a lead of 13-7 at the end of the first quar ter and had run this to 26-7 at the rest period. Coach Doug Schafran substituted > freely throughout the contest ?nd his starting forward trio played only a portion of the first half. Sub stitute forward Betty Green paced the llawkettes in the scoring de partment as she turned in a mag nificent performance by pumping in 13 points. Regular forwards Dump Warren, Jenny Lynn Gar ner and Margaret Lilly were next in line with eight points apiece and Melanie Garner had six. Nancy Allen, who played both for ward and guard positions during tlie contest, had five points. Patsy Garner, with two points, rounded out the Hawkette scoring. Substituting for starting guards Nancy Allen, Lana Linebarger and Jo Ann Hphl were Dottie Whitley, PaylttMason. Nancy Gamer. .and Jane Wurdoth. Carol Buchannon substituted at a forward slot but failed to score. For the Eaglettea Alta Dickinson was high with IB point! followed by Johnice Dozier with eight and Clara Jo Gaskins with four. Portia Salter had one point. Starting guards for Morehead City were Virginia Thompson, Georgia Mizeako and Lon-aine Hatcher. Sally Simpson and Mat tie Phillips also saw action in the back court and Nancy Dulce sub stituted at forward. The Eaglette* aank only two of eight free throw attempts while the Newport girts were converting four of six attempta. BOX SCORE Newport Turpin ... Kirk _.... Zlrm ? Gillikin Edwards Nance Small ? Bell ? Mills ? FG FT PF PTS 8 9 2 25 5 5 3 15 0 0 3 0 S 2 4 12 0 3 4 3 10 12 10 3 2 0 10 1 0 0 10 ToUla 2? 20 21 ?0 Morehead City FC FT PF PTS philtipa 1 5 5 11 Smithwick 2 4 5 ( Thompson 4 4 2 12 Wade J ? 1 ? Styron ? 1 1 S 3 Sledge 112 3 Wheal ton S S 2 U Totals UKn Buy Full-powered! 4-transitor* j0t rcnun <*iy $115 II i:\RINC \ I ! > worn eadrety at Ike Mr? M dualling cards! Another tMkl triumph! ltomarkahle aaw wearing eiiel TW "Dtpbail" dipt ? ardlhl JWy . . . weigh* haa thaa a* oaace. Tet It ktteo M fwwr . . . brHllaat HlrMy ... Inm ZeaMh ?y Larry McComb Turpin's 153 Point* Top* County With football season now officially over in the county until next September, basketball is getting warmed up to what promises to be a real exciting season among the five county schools. Beaufort and Morehead City were both late getting started with the cage sport because of foodball but both now have had their first taste of hardwood competition. The Eagles have played three games and won two of them while Beaufort Hail won their only start to date, downing Pamlico 59-30. Of the other school*, the Smyrna Blue Devils, under the coaching of Jim Parkin, have compiled the most re spectable record, having won six of their eight starts. Their two defeats came at the hands of Aurora and Swansboro. Newport, with likeable coach Doug Scha fran back at the helm for another year, has managed a record of four wing and five losses to date. The At lantic Pirates, under coach Roy Cockerham are still win less in five games. Although he's only played one game so far. Butch Hassell, high scoring ace of the defending state champs, paces the county scorers with his average of 18 points for the one game. Close behind Butch but with eight more games under his belt is Johnny Turpin of New port who has scored a total of 153 points for an average of 17 points per contest. Turpin's total of 153 points is tops in the county, being 20 better than the total scored by his team mate Larry Kirk who has 133 points to his credit. Kirk's average for nine games figures out to 14.7 points per game. The best balanced scoring attack in the county is owned by the five starters on the Blue Devil team at Smyrna. Coach Jim Parkin has five starters all averag ing nine points or more per contest. Sophomore Dale Lewis leads the t>ack with his 122 points and 15.25 aver age. Curt Nelson is close behind with 119 points and an average of 14.88 per game. Then comes Braxton Piner with an average of 11.5, Horace Lawrence with an average of 10.9 and Carol Hill with an average of 9.5. The Blue Devils have played eight games to date. Senior John Phillips has been the scoring leader for the Eagles of coach Gannon Talbert in their three games played. The big center has had totals of six, 19 and 11 points to give him an average of 12 points. Veteran guard Tom Thompson is next in line with an average of 10.1. Other Eagle scorere and their averages are George Styron, 7.8; Harold Whealton, 5.8; Jimmie Smithwick, 5.3; and Dan Wade, 5.8. Although his team has failed to Win a game to date sharpshooter Bobby Nelson of the Atlantic Pirates is close behind the county scoring leaders with an average of 18.8 points ? fame for five contests. Roger Harris, sports an aVerhge of 10.3 per game having played in one less game than Nelaoa. Ray Tallent, average of 6.4 and Danny Harvey, average Of 3.4, round out the Pirate scoring. Another All-County eager of last year tor the Seadoga, Pud Hassell, scored 12 points in the opener against Pamlico while Ray Hassell canned 10 points and David Jones six points. That 'a 30 for now. Oak Meet* ? Communism, what it is and how it got started was the topic of Bill Boyd, who spoke to the Newport Rotary Club Monday night. Mr. Boyd also discussed briefly the po littcal situation in Cuba. Guests at the meeting Included Lather ttlmOtoh St. ahfl Herbert O. Phil Bp* m ar Morthead City. Basketball Games TONIGHT More heed City at Atlantic Smyrna at Camp Lajauna SMVMMt Beaufort at New Bern (JV'i pity at ?:*? Seadogs Top Hurricanes 59-30 in Season Opener Coach at State Will Speak at Banquet Earl Edwards, football coach at State College, Raleigh, will be the speaker at the football ban quet for the Beaufort Seadogs at 7:30 Wednesday night in the school cafeteria. The banquet is sponsored by the high school ath ! letic association. Tickets, $3 each, are available from eighth graders, from foot | ball players and at Eastern Ru lane. Football Banquet Huge Success Members of the Morehead City high school football team ?nd pay ers from the midget league were honored Monday night at a foot ball banquet sponsored by the Jay cees and the Touchdown Chib at the recreation center. Highlighting the evening's pro gram was the presentation of tro phies to members of the varsity squad. Jackie McQueen, Eagle co captain, was selected by his team mates as the outstanding back on the team for 1958 and received the trophy, presented by the Ocean Oil Co. from Jaycee president Bill Sin gleton. Jimmie Lawrence, the other co captain on the squad was voted the outstanding lineman for the year and received his trophy from Buck Matthews Jr. The Morehead City Drug Co. provided the trophy. George Wallace, selected to make the presentation of the best sports man trophy, did a real double take when he pulled the tape from the name on the award and announced that his own son, senior lineman George Wallace, wa? the recipient. The names of the trophy winners were kept aecret until the presenta tion and even those presenting the trophies were unaware of the win ners until they removed tape from the name plates. Eagle coach Norman Clark made the presentation of the most im proved player trophy to senior Bud Daniels whom Clark termed a "mighty mite" for the red and white during the past season. Player* and coaches of the More head City football league were also honored at the banquet and pre sented with certificates for their participation in the program. Mayor George Dill, coaches Da vid Lee and Norman Clark and high school principal Lenwood Lee were speakers on the program tar the evening. Movies of the highlights of the 1958 Washington Redskin football season were shown following the dinner and program. ? ? Dale Lewis Paces Smyrna Victory Over Havelock The Smyrna high school Blue Devils, after two consecutive sting ing losses, got back on the winning trail Tuesday night by downing Walker Gillikin's Havelock Rams 63-37. The win proved costly to the Blue Devils, however, as starter Horace Lawrence was put out of action for at least ten days with a badly sprained ankle. Lawrence, a work horse off the defensive backboards before he was injured, will miss to night's game at Camp Lejeune but is expected to return to the lineup in time for the Atlantic game next Friday. The Blue Devils had little trou ble in disposing of the Rams for their sixth win of the year as they led throughout the contest. Their lead at the end of the first quarter was six points at 12-6 and they maintained their two-fold advan tage at halftime as the two teams left the floor with Smyrna leading 26-13. The Blue Devils scored 39 points in the last half to completely out distance the Rams. The end of the third quarter saw Parkin'i crew enjoying a +4 25 advantage. High scorer for his team and the game was sophomore Dale Lewis of the Blue Devils who burnt the cords for 19 points. Caroll Hill and Braxton Finer gave Lewis more than ample support by scoring 17 and 12 points respectively. Floor general Curt Nelson man aged seven points before having to leave the game with five per sonals and Horace Lawrence had four. Footballer Janes Seaton proved to be the only effective scorer for the Rams as he canned 16 points to lead hii team in the losing cause, i The Blue Devils were relatively cold from the floor during the first half, hitting only five of IS field goal attempts but in the final two j periods they bombarded the bas ket with a 48 per cent shooting average on 12 of 2S field goal at tempts to give them an average for the night of 39 per cent on 17 of 43 field goal attempta. Smyrna hit 29 of 17 foul shot at tempts for an average of 7S.4 per cent from the charity stripe. The Rams made good on 13 of 23 gift shots. The Blue Devil junior varsity played the preliminary ( a m e ?gainst the Havthx* Jayvees and came away with a 49-21 win as Genus Jones scored more points than the entire Havelock team with his 26-point performance. G&W SEVEN STAR ?ma STM MiKOCD WHIMKT, ? ftOOf , RH' m mm. ou, oh* ohm nnt i fCOVA, b ILL Butch's 18 Tops Scorers; Girls Defeated 61-43 The Beaufort Seadogs, defending Class A champions of the state took up right where they left off last March as they completely outclassed the Pamlico Hurricanes Tuesday night to down their Seashore conference foes 59-30 in a game played at Pamlico. An air tight defense completely stymied the Hurricanes throughout the first half as they* managed to score only ten points during the first 16 minutes of play. The end of the first quarter saw the Seadogs ahead at 14-2 and the lead jumped to 25-8 by halftime. Head coach Thomas McQuaid used his starters only spariugly throughout the game as he played his second string during most of the contest. Butch and Pud Hassell, the Sea dogs All-County duo of last season, paced the Beaufort scoring attack with 18 and 12 points respectively. Soph RajfHassell finished the night with ten points. High scorer for the Hurricanes was Lupton who tossed in a total of 11 points. Truitt of Pamlico had nine. By the end of the third quarter the Seadogs had mounted their lead to 18 points at 38-20 and then they poured on the steam in the final stanza to outscore Pamlico 21-10 for the final 59-30 margin. Beaufort made 15 of 25 free throw attempts during the game for an average of 60 per cent while the Hurricanes were hitting 10 of 17 for 59 per cent. In the preliminary game the Beaufort girls saw their first game Shrinert, Wives Will Attend Party Dec. 18 The Carteret County Shrine Club will have its annual Christmas par ty Friday night, Dec. IS, at Harvey Smith's dining hall in West Beau Fort. The party, for Shriners, Mas ter Masons and their guests, will feature dining, dancing and the in stallation of new officers. Shriners are reminded to wear their fez and bring their gift for the crippled children's hospital, ac cording to secretary Theodore Phillips. A donation of $2.50 per person is expected. | of the year result in a toss as they bowed 61-43 before the Pamlico sex tet. Pat Lupton, with 20 points, and Lynn Peterson, with 13, were the big guns in the losing cause for the charges of coach Jim Fodrie. Lin da Chadwick rounded out the Sea dog scoring with ten points. Fodrie started a guard trio of Shiela Wil lis, Jeanette Ransom and Fretta Kay Garner. Lois Jean Pigott saw action at one of the guard posts and Peggy Bradshaw substituted at forward. Pamlico posted only a four-point j lead at halftime but a torrid 22 point third period allowed them to pull out of reach of the Seadogs. Beaufort did their coldest shooting of the game in the third quarter as v they managed only six points. AUTOMATIC DELIVERIES J. M. DAVIS TEXACO PRODUCTS PHONE PA MM MOREHEAD CITY i When he stops to shop here, SsaU really lights ap a Merry Christmas for >41 oa his IM. You, too, can pick a handsome pack ot gifts for all the family and friends. Here are just a few ansgeatioaa: ' Recordi, Hi - Ft, Stereo, Record Playera, TV and all am all appll aacea ? jut too manj flft Itema to I tat. Came la today, while we tan a wide variety. i BEASLEY'S Radio & TV Service PAB-4711 K1 ArcndcU St. Mmhod CHjr