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Page Pour THE PILOT March 28, 1957 From Our Foreign Correspondent In The Basement By DILLABD MORROW Many people wonder where great athletes come from and I’m here to tell you. Everyone that knows any thing about the Gardner-Webb campus knows where Decker Hall is. Therefore everyone who knows where Decker Hall is knows or has heard of the notorious Basement Heading the list of “Rats” is the president of the Basement, Jim “Musk-Rat” J o h n s o n, President Johnson is followed closely by “Wilt the Stilt” Oarver. The last news flash that this plowboy received was that the New York knicker-bockers were trying to draft Carver. The latest member of the “Rat” is Harold Hicks—This great athlete arrived on the scene so as the sports minded men could study him. Has anyone come up with a solution yet? Clark Hoyle, the hall prootor, would be classified as the co-captain of the crew since he is the floor walker—shucks! I meant to say floor man. “Quiet man” Hoyle played with a basketball team up in the foothills while he was in high .'-chool. Here he made quiet a name for himself as he broke the school’s scoring record of three points per game, scoring a total of six points as he participated in only one-a^d- a-half games. Ronald Ballard is next in line— Not much to say'about Ballard, ex cept he won the Basement Cham pionship Tournament in checkers. Landon Deal! Here is one of the most colorful characters in the line up. Little Deal is a demon on the football field, the basketball court, and the baseball field—slow down Deal, I can’t tjrpe that fast. Deal’s ambition is to quit the sports world and be a Humphrey Bogart in the movies. Seeing as how everyone would ex pect the basement to have the best in everything, I might add that our managers, Larry Mosteller and Bill Ashley, are the best. Larry’s future Library Notes Miss Jessie F. DeShong, college librarian, recently released the fol lowing list of best selling books of 1956 which were added to the Gard ner-Webb library. Anderson, Marian ,“My Lord, What a Morning, Viking Press. The famous contralto tells of her long struggle to become a concert singen A genuine expression of a great ar tist and public figure. Cemar, C. W., “The Secret of the Hittites”, iCnopf Archaeology’s ex citing rediscovery of the powerful Hittite empire, lost to history for three thousand year.s Churchill, Winston, “A History of the English Speaking Peoples”, Dodd, A memorable history, and an enduring record of our common race; illuminated by flashes of geninus, character and style. Forester, Cecil S., “The Age of Fighting SaU; The Story of the Naval War of 1812, Doubleday, Masterly account of great sea ■ fights by a first rate storyteller turned historian. Kendall, Paul M., “Richard the Third”, Norton, Sound scholarship and a distinguished style character ize this definitive biography of the enigmatic King Richard III. The preceding list was compiled from the February issue of the ALA Bulletin. This is only a partial list of the many new books which were added to the library in 1956. Phillip Bradley is the mascot. As for coaches, we have the great est in Wyman Hamrick and Ted Tomblin. Coach Tomblin just in formed me that I would have to’ cut his short and get my rest, I have to run the 18 mile race to- one-mile stuff. Dixon Carroll, — Dixon doesn’t play any kind of .sport, he just keeps the lady fans attentive. Any thing else you want me to say As for me, I just left for Africa, for my own safety after the Rats read this. Compliments of PHONE 8031 Shelby, North Carolina LUTZ-YELTON TRUCK and TRACTOR COMPANY SHELBY, N. C. SHOP BELL'S For Your Complete Line of College Clothing. Clothing for Boys and Girls. BELL'S LATTIMORE, N. C. Just 4 Miles from the Campus. 10% Off for All College Students. FROM THE SPORTS DESK By Dillard Morrow Sports Editor Will Carolina make through to the National Championship? Did you get wounded in spring train ing? How’s the old batting eye? These are a few of the questions going around the G. W. campus these daYs and rightly so since Car olina is doing o.k. for themselves and many of the gridiron hopefuls are holding their backs and every sunny day you can here the popping of a mitt and the crack of a base ball bat. Spring training gave us a last look at some of the boys who will be leaving this year and a first look at the material entering school next fall. Lawerence Matheny could con tribute a notable gift to the institu tion if he would donate his scooter to the athletic dept. Coach Harris wore a path out walking from the high school gym where his base ball players were working out to the football field to check on the progress there. May we at this point congratulate Dean Bridges on his being picked the Best Sportsman in the basket ball tournament at Spruce Pine last month. Many of the local fans are still puzzled about the fact that Dean was left off the All-Tourna ment squad. Well, the ball bounces funny sometimes. Congratulates are in order for the entire basketball squad as they took third place in the tournament. In the words of Confucioiis (Paul Cline). “We had one of the. best basketball teams; the Best Coaches; the Best Manager; and the Best Scorekeeper”. Of course there are no trophies for Best Manager and Scorekeeper, Paul, but if there were, “Us” would have carried them off. Versatile Jackie Reavis answered a question that many of the sopho mores are wondering about these days; the ques tion—Where are you going to school next year? Well, the Jack came through in fine form as usual with “Anywhere I can get in”. Reminds nie of the coach trying to get this dumb football player a passing grade on a test. The ques tion asked the young hero was this: How much is 7 & 7? The answer came in a quick reply as the hero muttered “That’s 13”. The teacher said no that’s wrong and Coach- said “Can’t you count that one right, he just missed it by 3”. As you people read this little bit of information about a little bit of everything You might put forth this exclamation, “Where did he leam to write trash like this?” May I leave this with you. I’ll leave it any way. Too many men develop and feed inferiority complexes in the presence of more intellectual col leagues. But listen carefully, learn and you realize that what Will Rogers said is most certainly true; Everybody is ignorant, only on dif ferent subjects. Diamond Dust By DILLABD MORROW . As baseball season nears, all avid baseball fans will be looking to see who wiU be on the Gardner-Webb squad. We of the sports desk are go ing to run brief notes on each play er In each issue. Some of the com ments will come after the season starts: however, we hope you enjoy this series of articles. James Huey: Marshall High School—second base—pitched in h.s. —a four year man in high school and had a 404 batting average. Wake Forest. Don Miller: Thomasville High School—Centerfield—four years of high school ball and one year of le gion—306 batting average in h.s. East Carolina or U.N.C. LISTEN, STUDENTS, LISTEN Paul Cline: Cramerton High School—catcher—four years of high school ball and one year of legion— 300 average—A.S.T.C. Floyd Wright: Waco High School —1st base—four years of high school and three years of legion ball—pitcher—400 batting average— W.C.C. Harold Plemmons: Old Fort High School—four years of high school ball and three years of legion ball— catcher — batting average 412 un decided. Gary Cannon: Belmont High School—catcher—four years of High School ball and also played legion ball—608 batting average—Transfer from Carolina—undecided. ^ Jackie Revis: Angler High School —outfield—four years of high school ball—350 average—anywhere can get in. SKELETONS IN DECKER HALL’S CLOSETS (Continued from Page 3) that they were the worst of ene mies but in actuality they were the best of friends. Other well know names were those of “Sleepy” Harrill, Bob Por ter, Henry Fogle, Gary Hook, A1 Kincaid, Harold Matthews, and Melton Stabler. All of these were known for their various personali ties inside Decker Hall' and, well. Oops! Almost forgot Grady Thomas, Ernie Byerly, and Jimmy Moore. “The Dirty Fourth of a Dozen” they were called. They were There was “Prof” Moseley and his assistant “Prof” John Iceminger or “Frostyfingers” the lassies preferred to call him. Never could figure out why. Late most any evening we could hear the roar of car engines as Vickie Plaster in her yellow “CAD” convertible and Jim Messick, the hot-rod addict of Decker HaU, lined up behind the dorm for a drag race around the campus. Speaking of drags, I think I have dragged this out long enough. John Gladden LANDIS SHOE SHOP SAM DAYBERRY, Prop. Complete Line of Polishes, Laces and Wa’terproofing INVISIBLE RESOLING Phone 6943 SHELBY, N. C. LET’S GO OVER THE GOAL! Contributiorw are taken up In the dorms on regularly scheduled dates. Announcements will be made In chapel when students will caU for' your contributions. LET’S HIT OUR MARK! Ludgrgirl! Next time one of her dates bring up the Schleswig' Holstein question, she’ll really be ready for him. Ready for that test tomorrow, too ... if that bottle of Coke keeps her as alert tonight as it does other people^ SIGN OF GOOD TASTE BOTTLED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY THE COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF SHELBY.
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