FEBRUARY
THE PILOT
PAGE FIVE
BULLDOGS BATTLE OAK RIDGE
Paul Eller's Sports Views
Boxing
This week brings to a close the
greatest fights of the year, The An
nual Carolina Golden Gloves. Com
petition from all over North and
South Carolina meet to battle for a
trip to New York where the slam
bang fighters can get their crack
at National Honors.
But as usual the road to fame is
rough and rooky. Not all boys find
fame and fortune, such was the dis
covery of the two G. W. Battlers:
Glen Henson and Blair Little. Both
boys met very good opposition and
put up game resistance. Blair tried
for the second time to beat the
North Carolina champion David
Mills, but as in the first smoker
fight, the semi-final bout was stop
ped in the first heat (round). Lit
tle packed a fist full of dynamite in
his right mitt, but Mills weathere-^
the storm and finally found shelter
in the referee’s arms as Little bi
cycled quickly away from the more
experienced champ.
Glen Henson found too much speed
and aggressiveness in his able com
petition from Greenville, S. C. Hen
son tried gamely to give his lethal
punch to the milling, slamming
Heavy Weight but was pushed into
the ropes and tied up before he
could accomplish his mission. In the
early part of the seco-nd round the
two years from the fight game con
quered Henson and under a barrage
of left and right hooks he fell for
the dreaded toll of ten.
Little has informed me that he
is willing to try again. He hopes
to meet Mills in Greenville this
week. This will be Little’s third try
at Mills and he thinks he has a
secret that will chill the champ.
Let’s hope so.
Turning to the professional world
of Boxing, we see Chuck Davey, the
popular TV star of the Welter
weight division tangle with the Cu
ban Hawk. The bout turned out as
most scholars of the fight circle
expected. Give Chuck another year
and maybe then. Who knows?
Wrestling
College wrestling has taken a
slump in the last few years pro
fessional reached its peak, (TV) and
amateur is holding its own.
In the pro ranks Hans Snobble
and Professor Moto are the big
wheels or at least in the boys dorm.
Every Saturday nite the fans of GW
are watching to see if they can pick
up a few holds or presses to use on
the girl friend on Sunday nite aft
er Church. E. D. said, Just wait
until JEAN sees this. (Rattlesnake)
Turner is also grunting and groan
ing wanting the villain to win, while
the Kat (Cat) Watson just grunts
and yawns. After TV on Saturday
nite all late fans roll and toss to try
to stay in bed Sunday morning, but
as all good wrestlers they must get
up early for that nutritious and
wholesome breakfast.
If any of the girls of G.W. are
interested in learning to wrestle
just try dating Jackie W. or Levi
Turner. Brother, or I should say
sister, you will sure learn fast.
Intramural Program On
Teams Hold Tourney
Locals Seek Revenge
Over Strong Cadets
As the current cage season wanes, about the most important contest
coming up before Coach Norman Harris’ Bulldogs is Saturday night,
February 21 when Oak Ridge invades for a loop scrap. Sweet revenge is
in the minds of the locals, who dropped a thi-illing 88-85 scramble to
Tee Pi-ye’s boys in an earlier meeting.
The Central Carolinas conference race is raging like a house afire.
The situation has changed so many times that the official statistician is
somewhte baffled himself. Oak Ridge has rode the bandwagon for several
weeks, but a recent 100-90 licking handed them by Wingate placed Wil
mington, another leading power, atop the circuit.
Wingate, tied with Chowan for third place before beating Gardner-
Webb and Oak Ridge, is pushing the top teams for a first or second
place spot.
NEED WIN
Gardner-Webb needs the Saturday night bout in order to gain a hold
on fifth place, a very satisfactory spot as far as the state tourney is
concerned. A new system of pairings this year would pit the locals against
the number 4 team should they wind up in the present slot. However, the
invading Cadets need it much more extensively than G-W. A loss would
definitely eliminate Tee Frye’s tall, well-balanced aggregation from the
pinnacle. It is the final conference outing for G-W.
At this writing, the Bulldogs check in with a record of 11 wins against
seven losses, and sporting a 6-4 conference mark. Oak Ridge owns a cir
cuit mark of 8 wins as compared with two losses.
FIRST ONE HOT
The first battle was a rip-snorter all the way. G-W got off to a slow
start, but roared back in three quarters of stirring action that kept the
Cadets scared. An avalanche of free throws and a couple of baskets put
the Military crew ahead as the clock blushed.
Saturday’s game stacks up as one of the hottest in the state. G-W has
been rather hard to handle amid
the confines of the Boiling Springs
gym this season, losing only two
games here. Their impressive 79-74
triumph over Wingate for the lat-
ter’s second loss of the year is proof
enough that the Cadets will have
a run for theii- money in the out
ing. But it was a different story
when the Baptists traveled to Win
gate last week and came back suf
fering from shock. Wingate poured
it on — the results — 110-66.
Despite the attempts for everyone
to get at least one foot into one
gym at one time, the intramural
basketball program has survived
among Decker Hall participants this
year. Six teams have played five
games each, and are currently en
gaged in a double elimination tour
ney in which one tilt has been play
ed.
The intramural program, as a
matter of explanation, is composed
of five teams from Decker Hall and
a group from the Monastery. The
Western Division of Decker seems to
over balance the Eastern segment,
' since the Second Floor West Wing
and the Basement wound up with
four wins against only one loss
apiece in the five-game spree, and
deadlocked for first place.
Second west, sparked by Bill
Bates, a varsity man himself who
was unable to engage this year;
Mark Stone, Eli Reynolds, Bill Wal
lace, and Darrell Wilson, ran rough
shod over the field until Ernie
Byerly’s First East boys punched
out a stirring 54-53 triumph for their
only loss.
Basement forces, known as the
Cellar D;wellers, also lost to the up
set minded First East aggregation
which ended the season with a 3-2
won-lost mark, tied with the First
West, piloted by Dempsey Fritts.
Later, the Basement downed the
First East in a rip snorter, 56-48.
FAILED TO WIN
Boys from the Monastery failed to
ride the winning bandwagon in
regular play, losing all five games,
while Second East upset the First
West for their only triumph.
Nevertheless, it is expected to be
a different storv in the tourney
since the Monastery added a couple
players, Bobby Bush and Jerry
Johnson. Bush, who finds time for
cage action amid family chores, tos-
sea in 38 points in two games, pac
ing the team to their first win in
the tourney. The Monastery was
placed in the sixth seat in tourney
seedings.
PLAY OFF
It was necessary to play-off the
first place tie between the Base
ment and Second West in order to
get a first place seeding. In this
bout, the Second West eked out a
55-51 triumph.
With Second West number 1,
Basement number 2; the teams stack
up accordingly: First East, no. 3;
First West, no. 4; Second East, no.
5; and the Monastery, no. 6.
TAKES FIRST
The Monastery overpowered Har
old Pearson’s Second East outfit
in the first game of the tourney
last week, 51-45. No other games
have been played at this writing.
Basement and Second West teams
drew byes in the double elimina
tion affair, while the First East
and the First West are set to tangle
in the only other game of the first
round. After this match, the Mona
stery encounters the Basement in
the curtain-raiser of the second
Baseballers
Open Drills
March 2nd
By WRAY HILL
March 2, 1953, is the date for all
baseball hurlers to have their arms
in shape and all catchers to warm
up their mitts according to Coach
Norman Harris. About two weeks
later, practice will begin for the
whole squad. Since they were co
champs with Oak Ridge last sea
son with a record of eight wins and
two losses in the conference, the
Bulldogs are expecting a successful
season this year.
Eight veterans of last season are
expected to report: pitchers, Myers
and Queen, catcher Morrisett, 1st
sacker Beheler, 2nd sacker Bates,
and fielders, Diaz, Wallace and Wil
son. At this time no position is as
sured because new blood will be add
ed to the squad from the fresh-
All students having baseball abil
ity are urged to report for the first
squad meeting.
New Co-Captains
Ernest Byerly, 150-pound offen
sive halfback and defensive line
backer from Thomasville, and Boil
ing Springs’ Steve Morrisett, 170-
pound offensive guard, have been
elected to co-captain the 1953 foot
ball team. The announcement was
made public at a recent Chapel ex
ercise conducted by the Monogram
club.
Both boys were first stringers this
season as the locals climaxed a suc
cessful cam paign with a 14-0 tri
umph over Georgia Military College
in the Third Annual Golden Isles
Bowl at Brunswick, Ga.
Byerly is a freshman who wrote
sports history at Thomasville High
school. Morrisett. who graduated
from high schol here, was " mem
ber of the team in 1951-52.
COUNT ON BIG BOYS
Frye will be counting on big Jim
my Gilley, high-scoring freshman
center whose six feet five inches
have played a tremendous part in
the team’s success thus far. Charles
Cooks, Bill Atkins, Waverly Akins
and Ronald Hodge are also big scor
ing powers. The starting five aver
ages near the 6’3” mark and has
plenty of scoring potential.
TWO NON-LOOPERS
On the home front, the Bulldogs
have two non-loop tilts on tap at
this writing before engaging the
Cadets in the all-important affair
Saturday. Monday, Feb. 16, G-W
goes to the hills to battle Lees-Mc-
Rae and travels to Belmont the fol
lowing Wednesday. Both opponents
downed the locals in previous en
counters. These tests have no bear
ings on the final conference record
or the tourney seats.
Harris is counting on Don Bailey,
currently leading the team in scor
ing with a 17 point average; James
Garrison, Gayle Thomas, Henry
Smith, Ernie Beheler, Bob Estes,
and Tom Beard to carry the lead
Saturday. Bailey's scoring feats and
rebound play have paced the team
all season.
Miller Branton, big 6’5” center has
also come through in the past three
weeks after riding the bench earlier.
Brantin’s height should be a key
factor in the Oak Ridge test. Then
Garrison, a top notch rebounder for
his mediocre size; Smith, Thomas,
and Beheler are reliable point-get
ters.