MARCH, 1951
THE PILOT
PAGE FIVE
Scoop'em Up
with
“SCOOP” KISER
HARRIS BACK AGAIN
Norman Harris, the former Ashe
ville Lee Edwards High and High
Point College star who guided the
Bulldogs to the Western Divisi
crown last season, has returned
the local campus. Harris, who cap
tained a Charlie Justice-led Ashe
ville club, saw his Bulldog nine cap
ture the crown by fourteen points
over the second place Spartanburg
Pioneers, a team that licked the
Gar'dner-Webbers twice during the
season. Wayne Bradburn has been
doing a splendid job with the dia
mond hopefuls for the past three
weeks.
tiRASS SOWN ON FIELD
Coach Bradburn has been work
ing the 30-some candidates for the
diamond squad on the Boiling
Springs High School field while
the college turf is being sowi
grass. The field will not be ready
until the season opens, therefore,
the two practice tiffs scheduled with
Gastonia High were both carded for
the G.H.S. field. College field will
be ready for the home opener on
April 13 with the Mars Hill Lions.
Brevard, Wingate, Belmont Abbey,
Pfeiffer, North Greenville, Spartan
burg, and Oak Ridge are the other
clubs to be seen in action on the
toilege field this season.
MEMORIES FROM ’50 SESSION
Here are a few of the unforgettable
moments from the 1950 baseball
season. What Gardner-Webb fan
can forget Walter Oakes’ stealing
home to climax an uphill struggle
against Mitchell in Statesville, Cline,
McSwain & Co.' rallying for four
runs in the ninth frame to down
Wingate there, Blaine Proneberger
returning to his home town, Cherry-
ville, to choke Belmont Abbey on
five hits, and of course “Lefty” Mor
ten’s two-hit masterpiece on the
final day of the campaign at Mars
Hill.
The Complete
Schedule
April 3—Carolina Mills—there
April 10—North Greenville—there
ApriM3—Mars Hill—here
April 14—Pfeiffer
April 16—Wingate—here
AprU 18—Belmont Abbey—there
April 20—North Greenville—here
April 21—Pfeiffer
April 24—Spartanburg—there
April 28—Brevard—there .
May 2—Mars Hill—there
May 4—Oak Ridge—ther e
May 8—Spartanburg—here
May 10—Belmont Abbey—here
May 12—Oak Ridge—here
May 14—Wingate—there
May 16—Brevard—here
HUDSON'S
DEPARTMENT
STORE
in
SHELBY
features
PETERS SHOES
For All the Family
• Weatherbird
O City Club
• Velvet Step
three-sport star from Stanley, hit
.344 last season while Sealey hit
.289. Sealey was the clubs’ defen
sive star in 1950. Banks Miller, Bob
Blackburn, Dub Harris, and Bob
Rankin are the other prospects for
the outergarden jobs.
The big problem for Coaches Brad
burn and Harris this season will
be to find replacements for whitey
Cline, McSwain, James Moon, Wal
ter Oakes, and Blaine Proneberger.
These four lads sparked the Bull
dogs to their divisional crown last
Highlights of the coming seven
teen-game card will be: April 3—the
season opener against Carolina Mills
at Maiden, April 13—the home open
er with Mars Hill, May 4 and 12—
the two-game series with the Oak
Ridge Cadets, and May 8—game with
Spartanburg here.
Prospects Are Bright For '51
Baseball Campaign
30-some candidates have been going through daily prac
tice sessions for the past three weeks preparing for the tough
seventeen-game schedule which lies ahead. Rain and cold
weather have chased the hopefuls indoor for the past couple
of days. Rain also washed out the Bulldogs’ scheduled prac
tice tilt with the Gastonia High Green Wave last Tuesday. A
couple of pre-season tilts with the Gastonians, however, are
still on the card.
Wayne Bradburn and Frank Richardson have been handl
ing the ’51 Bulldogs until Norman Harris returned from
Tennessee. Harris guided the Gardner-Webbers to the West
ern Division crown last season.
Lettermen Joe Anthony, Charles Morten, and Frank Wil-
'son top the pitching candidates.
Anthony, a big boy coming from
Boiling Springs won three and lost
one last season. Anthony was a star
hurler at the local high school and
also with the Shelby Juniors. Wil
son, a little lad with a lot of stuff,
won only one of three games last
season but the Gastonia boy is ex-'
pected to be one of the top mounds-
men in the J. C. circuit this season.
Morten, the lone portsider in the
group, won two without suffering
defeat last season. His most im
portant triumph, however, came on
the final day of the campaign when
the Huntersville High ace blanked
Mars Hill on two hits for the Divi
sional crown. Amos Kiser, a big
righthander. Jack Holt, C. D. Hen
dricks, Charles Shelton, Noble Ball,
and Jerry Merrill are the other
moundsmen in camp. Shelton and
Morten are lefthanders.
The Bulldog mentors will have to
find a replacement for George Mc
Swain in the catching department.
Sam Travis, the football star com
ing from Granite Palls, is the like
ly replacement. Travis starred for
Granite Palls High and also in the
Hickory Industrial circuit. Milton
Higdon, McSwain’s ’50 understudy,
Hugh Miller, Shelby gridiron stand
out, and Mick Harrelson are the
other catching prospects.
Tom Barrow and Tom Newton
are the lone returnees fighting for
infield spots. Barrow clubbed .314
last season, and the former Maya-
don star seems to have the inside
track for the first base job. Bill
Morehead, Summerville, Georgia
lad, and Ken Grayson, a Shelby
lad, will give Barrow plenty of com
petition. Ken Brady, Allen Law
rence, Bob Nix, and Bill Stout are
the candidates for the keystone
cushion. Nix and Brady were stars
at Summerville and Miami Highs,
respectively, while Stout gave Coach
Bradburn’s basketballers ample re
serve power. Lawrence was a star
defensive lineman on the Bulldog
football outfit.
An all-state shortstop and a bet-
cer-than-average third baseman
complete the infield hopefuls. Bob
Bush, a three-sport star, was all-
state shortfielder at Summerville
High while Howard Gamble was a
star hot corner guardian at Miami
High. Bush is also known for his
power at the plate while Gamble hit
.300 for two seasons of high school
play. Gamble is the brother of John
Gamble, captain of G-W’s 1949 foot
ball team. Alex Bromir, another Mi-
ALICE SWANN
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ber of the P. H. A. (Puture Home
makers of America), and various
other student organizations. The at
titude of Alice’s classmates toward
her is reflected in their selection of
her as the one most likely to suc
ceed in her class.
Alice has proven
rare students here
who stay modestly i
until there is work ■
ever and when ev
to be done Alice h
on hand to do her
holds two very responsible posts at
Y. W. A. As well as secretary-treas-
urer of the sophomore class. The
future holds noderrors for a capable
and determined student like Alice.
She belongs to that wholesome group
of people who believe that if you do
your best every day the future will
take care of itself.
at Gardner-Webb
.n the background
to be done. Where
s always been
MILTON NOBLITT
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tion was given him when he was
chosen as a sophomore superlative.
Honors to Noblitt are like water on
a ducks back, they don’t affect him
much. His sincere humility and dry
sense of humor plus his own in-
vinitable way with people account
in part of his popularity.
Milton was just as outstanding
in high school at Shelby, N. C. He
played two years of good football
as blocking-back, but evidently he
didn’t neglect his studies for he
: was elected president of the honor
to give Bush I society. He was also a Marshall and
plenty of competition while Bob : ^ perpetual class officer. As if these
Hamrick and Newton provide oppo- 1 activities weren’t enough he was
sition for Gamble. | elected a member of the Student
Letterman A1 Homesley and Andy ! Participation Group which served
Sealey are almost sure-fire berths ' as a form of student government,
to land outfield spots. Homesley, a 1 Milton is undecided between Wake
A PORTRAIT
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its life. Those who loved it as she
did refused to see it perish. They
said “We will not let it die.”—And
they didn’t. They picked it up by
the heels and set it afloat on the
vast educational ship of the state
in the name of Christianity.
Yes, Mrs. Huggins has followed
the school a long way, and simul
taneously, she has seen the little
community of Boiling Springs take
shape and build to the point at
which it Is today.
Mrs, Huggins has a versatile
repertory of many abilities in the
field of education. For thirteen years
she taught the third grade in Boil
ing Springs High School, and has
taught English, Latin, and Greek
here in the college. Much success
has been attained by her, but her
more recent one was that of her
counsellorship for boys last year, liv
ing in the Huggins-Curtiss Dormi
tory. Some of the boys even now
remark of the love they developed
for her. Presently she resides in
the girl’s dorm as their counsel
lor, and is equally successful.
More than anything she likes tea
ching and working with young peo
ple. Some of the other activities
which attract her are reading, let
ter-writing, and tending her flowers.
Mrs. Huggins is truly a pioneer of
this wonderful institution which we
so dearly love.
MAY DAY PLANS
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lem; and Charles Rabon, Camden,
South Carolina.
Little Susan O’Leary will be the
train bearer and “Chunky” Wash
burn, crown bearer. Misses Mary
Elam of Shelby and Mary Prances
Howard of Statesville will serve as
pages.
After the King crowns the Queen,
five groups will present the pageant,
“Musical Dances.’’ The different
parts will be the polka, the minuet,
the ballet, scarf dance and the May
Pole dances. Miss Jones is the pian
ist.
Directing the pageant is Miss Mor
gan, assisted by Cora Ray Beam, as
student director.
An old woman solemnly approach-
1 the earthly remains of her hus-
ind, shook her head sadly, and
lid:
“Po’ Henry, Ah hopes you has
“Don’t you think Levy is
“Bah! Cohen can out-a
with^ one hand tied be
‘Does yo’ take dis woman fo’ you
lawful wedded wife?’’ asked the
colored minister, glancing from the
200-pound bride to the 100-pound
bridegroom.
“Ah takes nuthin’,” replied the
bridegroom. “Ah’s bein’ took.”
“Good morning, Mr. Cohen. Vat is
upsetting you dis mornin’? You look
“Yez, mine brother is awful sick.”
“Oh, is he!”
“No, Ikey.”
Porest and U. N. C. as the school he
hopes Uncle Sam will allow him to
attend next year. He plans to ma
jor in chemistry with an eye to in
dustrial chemistry as a vocation.
Those of us who know him have
no doubt but that he will make good
because he has practically made suc
cess a habit already.