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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1942 MAROON AND GOLD PAGE TlfREE LmDiing With ED WAHS Elon To Meet High Point Again Tonight I5y far the most pertinent |iiestion confronting the Elon Athletic Association at present is the problem of de-emphasis of athletics, and. if de-emphasized, to what extent. It is on this question that we offer our humble opinion. liv all means, physical fitness should bo strepsed to a much j;reat- er de^’ee today than ever btfore. The hifjher officials of the armeil forces of the nation are makina; desperate pleas for this very thinp; in the schools and colle"f's throu;;hout 1tie country. They emphasize the fact thar in the traininir |>ro.;Tauis of the Army, Xavy, and Marine i’orps for acrual combat, that such traininj; consists of at least sixty- five per cent physical. In addition, they point out the numter of st'- lectees and wonld-be enlisted men who are beinj^ rejected daily on ac- 'oouiit of lack of physical qualifications. There is no questioning of ■the fact that physical training; in p;eneral is of utmost im])ortance. 1'he issue at stakf, then, seems to be whether or not intramurala should replace intercollecfiate athletics. We believe that intramural athletics should be utilized to a f^i’oater extent at Elon. We readily see a flaw in the intramural set-up in that many of the students will not cooperate, and in such cases, compulsory physical educaticm should he impos' d up.m those p'rsoiis. But, even with the ideal intramural proijram, intercollefjiate athletics at Elon can never be replaced, iv ot :that wo could not realize the samS? physical advantajfes from intra murals, but because intercollegiate athletics at PHon have become a part of the school, a i>art throusrli which we erain prestiaje.^ We believe the de-emphasis of intcrcollepjiate athletics at Elon ■would mean the de-emphasis of Elon College as an educational insti- 'tution. It is our sincere hope tliat the administration will .‘ee fit to 'Continue our present progrsyn, and, above all, that no squabbles will ;arise among us in determining the future of athletics as a part of ithis institution. CONGRATULATIONS TO ELON QUINT Orchids to Coach Hendrickson and the basketfcall squad on a well played, hard won victory over High Point. We have never seen a more spirited ball club on an Elon court in nosing out a supposedly superior Jligh Point team, 34-33. No matter what happens at High Point tonight or in the tournament next week, that victory makes our season a success. alone Stories by Storey With the basketball tournament their games with the Moun- ]ust around the corner it is the j taineers and this alone should duty of your humble scribe to try I make- them trouble for the higher and give the faithful sports reader ] nps in the rankings. Another club some idea of the event which is set aside to decide the winner of the North State conference title. To b(^n with, the cxaaches and officials of the conference have the ,iob of seeding positions for the event. The record of each team is taken into consideration and in practically evety instance the or- ler in which the clubs finish the .■season is the seeding they are giv- «n in the tournament. In other words if Elon ends the year in third place in the conference ave rages they are given third seeded position. The procedure of de- terxiiinincj the seeded teams is^thc* same as that followed in the Sou thern conference. Perhaps some are dubious as to the lixiation of the said tourney; w’ell in fact so anf we. You see sometime ago w'hen our Christians •defeated High Point College the Panthers were so humiliated they "were moved out of the state. But we are only kidding, although they •did take it so hard it is a known fact that they haven’t gotten over it yet On Saturday night our boys go to'High Point to engage some Panthers who were once on the in vincible list, but have been re moved after losing to Elon. Getting back to the North State tourney which gets under way next Thursday, the High Point. Panthers will probably rate the number one position for the play. High Point bowled over every thing in the conference except Elon and regardless of our leel- ing toward this school they have a ^rcat team and deserve the num ber one ranking. Appalachian a,nd Elon rate as the logical choice tor second notch in the seedings. Elon Jias defeatf-d every team »» ^e confcrejice, w h i 1 e Appalachian was unable to beat High 1 oint in -ither of its double meetings. As Im our opinion we think that be- practice cause of the abpve fact Elon should get the number two slot. Although EUn did not play Western Carolina Teachers and vour-scribe has not seen the 1 each- cr3.iii action we think they rate as th^ “dark horse” of the tournp. t The Teachers- held Appalachian , to a tww P*.)-"' to be watched is Catawba, with their height they should be able to take the measure of at least one competitor in the conference play off. CUFF COPY Elbert Fearing, freshman foot baller has forsaken his gridiron career to drive a taxi in Elizabeth City. In our estimation Fearing was the logical successor to Jack Boone, who will be lost to Elon by graduation in May . . . Douglas Cecil blocking back on the ’41 Elon eleven denies that he has any matrimonial affiliations, in other words the lad says he isn’t married . . . Our sympathy to Ike Perry wlio is down with the mumps . . . Lacy Hagoods performance^ in winning both the Burlington and Greensboro Golden Gloves events rates our praise and we think yours ... In concluding may we say that we hope the new crop of freshman football players are as good looking as last years crop of freshman girls . . . thirty. Moundsmen Report For Initial Dut Seven pitchers and three catch ers answered Coach Horace Hen drickson’s initial call for baseball practice Monday, February 16, in the gymnasium. Becaust^ of the cold weather the boys were forced to remain in doors ami participate in a light work-out. Taking brief exercises to loosen up the leg musics and tossing the horsehide to limber up their arms, were on menu. Molly Craft, a star pitcher on last year’s team, was the only one of the four pitchers reporting to that slated back for this year’s team. The ri-st of this group have dropped out of school. Thtt. 5fher candidates for the decision in. both of pitchers’ department who answer ed the first call were Dalton, Bowden, Berry, Comer, Brown and Withers. The catchcr’s per sonnel included' Askinsj Zodda and McClenne.y. Panthers Tamed By Christians The p]lon basketeer^i travel to High Point tonight to mi'et the formidable PantJier quint*‘t in a return engagement. High F'oint will i)e pointing for this game tc, avenge their only defeat of the season, and Elon will be jnnnting just as hard to rejx'at the .nuppos- edly impossible feat of outscoriiig the boys from High I’oinr. If the game which, we pluyed here can be taken as an example of what will happen at High Point to night, then we would strongly ad vise that unless your funeral is coming up Sunday, forget all other engagements and take it on, uu to High Point. The date of February 7, 1942 will go down in the annals of P>lon College history along side sucli dates as the founding of the insti tution and the celebrating of its fiftieth anniversary. On Saturday it was, and a beautiful night. A perfect night, as a matter of fact. We had received inside dope (from High Point) as to the re sult of the game. It was a cinch, the Panthers were undefeated, invincible. In dividual members of the teajn dreamed of the trip to Kansas. Perhaps tickets had been bought. And the Hi I’o, the Panthers Col lege paper, gave us some very in teresting comments. “liemember Pearl Harbor and our 48-0 Grid Loss to p]lon . . . After Elon and W. (\ T. C. as we must, it’s on to Kansas City or bust ... The coach is telling his boys not to be too hard on poor little pjloh . . . The loss of Gardner and Towns to Elon will make our victory over them seem hollow . . . Let’s ^'t sweet revenge and pile the points on nice and thick”. O yes, prettv phrases, all of them, but prompted by a little dose of over-patriotism for their school, we think. Pllon’s basketball players re membered these things on Satur^ day night, the Elon students re membered them . . . they also re in embered the unprecedented writeup in the Hi Po after the football clash between these two teams last fall . . . '‘There will always be a High Point to win the victory and there will always be an Elon to walk away with the prize” . . . they remembered too the little poem that was so gra ciously dedicated to Elon. W’e repeat, pretty, pretty phras es, but how do they taste without salt or pepper? Are they flat or perhaps just a little bitter? Yes, we have had a suc»v'siul season of basketball here at Pilon. We of the Maroon and Gold tried in our humble way to predict the out come of our first encounter with High Point. This we did, but the students and the five basketeers also remembered the boastfulness of the Hi Po. That is why win ning that game made a successful season for the Christians. The outcome of the game to night will not affect this one way or the other. We don’t dare pre dict the score. This one thing we know, Elon has a fine basketball team and they will bt; fighting on any court for victory until the fi nal whistle has blown. We had the misfortune to lose two of our best players earlier in the season, but we still have u team tiiat we are tremendously proud of, a team that will make a good showing in the tourney next we'k. And also very important they punctured the balloon that was sailing so. trium phantly over the fo-*s that High Point met. It just giX“S to prove further that re^;irdless of how good we are there is always some one else who is just a little better. Warren Burns’s fiehl goal in the last half minute of play ena- bltMj the Christian basketball five t-o nose out the High Point Pan thers here Saturday, P'ebruary 7, by a 34-33 margin. Tlie Panthers with a record of s;vont('en straight 1 previous victori*--;, were favorwl ' to continue their winning streak With the exception of Jack Gardner here are Elon’s representatives to the tournament to be held in High Point next Thursdav, Friday and Saturday. These are the onlj; l)oys who have caused the highly touted Panthers to bow in defeat so far this season. Kn‘I'liiig left to right, they aw, John ny Cla%'ton. Tal Bean, “(Ihuck” I^'iitz, and “Moose” Kravitz. Standing left to right are. Manager Don Miller, Cap.tain W. L. Hobson, Richard P>ans, W’arren Burns, Jack (lardner, who left school at mid-season, Eniit Johns, Joe Tomanchek and (^oaeh Horace Hendrickson. against the locals. With only thirty seconds left to play anti Elon trailing 33-32 after Nance’s foul shot was good. Burns stoie th#^ ball from Malfregeot, dribbled d«>wn the floor, and shot a snowbird field goal for the cli max play of th« game. The two teams played cautious ly throughout the firat half. Hil liard Nance’s mid-court field goal as the whistle blew gave High Point a 18-17 lead at the half. p]lon started the second ha.lf like a house on fire, running up a i8- 22 lead, biggest either team had during the night. Howover, the Panthers came back t> deadlock the score 28-28 when Guard Jerry C/Ounihan dropped in two long shots and (>enter Bill Keeng sank a pair of fottls. Burns, in addition to produc ing p]lon’» witming point, was high scorer of the game, drppping in six fidd goals for twelve points. Junior Johnny Clayton, a dimin utive guard, was a stalwart on de fense throughout the coatest. High Point Nance, f ...... Stasulli, f Malfregeot, f ... Goble, f . Keene, c PatteraoB, e ... Counihan, g ... Elanhagan, g . . Dummy, g TOTAL • Pjlon Hobson, f Burns, f Johns, c ...... Clayton, g .... Tomanchek, g . Bean, g TOTAL g fg pf tp ftm The game was exceptionally rough; twenty-seven fouis were called (hiring the contest. Appalachian g fg pf tp ftm Miller, f 7 3 3 17 2 Williams, f 5 2 2 12 1 Smawley, c . ., . 5 4 1 14 0 Novotny, g .... 4 0 3 8 1 P’idler, g O' 0 3 () 0 Isaacs, g ’...... 2 1 1 5 1 TOFAL 23 10 13 5(i 5 Elon g fg pf tp ftm lIobsKia, f ..... 3 3 '3 9 3 Burns, f, 3 4 3 10 1 Evans, f 0 0 0 0 0 Johns, f 7 2 2 16 1 Hooper, c 0 0 0 0 0 Tomanchek, c . . 2 1 3 5 1 Bean, g 0 0 2 0 1 CUayton, g 3 1 1 7 0 Cravitz, g 1,0 0 2 0 TOTA'L • 19 11 14 49 7 Christians Get Second Victory Over Bears 4 1 3 0 1 1 2 1 0 13 K 2 6 3 1 2 0 14 10 2 6 1' 6 2 4 2: 0 ■9 33" ffi pf tp ftrii ■6 U (i 5 5 0 34 Appalachian Quint Avenges Defeat Elon suffered its wicond defeat in the loop this season here 'I'ues- day, P^ebruary 10, when the Ap palachian Mountaineers, paced by Danny Miller aiid Beius Stnaw- ley, edged out the locals by a seoie of 56 to 49. The Mountaineers overtook the Christians’ lead after six minutes of play and were never headed. Trailing 31-20 at the half, Elon rallied in the opening minutes of the second half to register twelve points b'.hind Freshman Ernis; J ohn’s sharp-shooting, while the visitors were collecting only three. But Appalachian then resumed its scoring to stay out in front by a safe margin. Johns was Elon’s leading scorer of the night with sixteen points. Appalachian’s Miller nosed him out for high-point honors of the night by chalking up seventeen )x»ints. Captain Hobson’s free shot in the last minute of play gave Elon college a 44-43 victory, over Le noir Rhyue here Friday, P ebruary 13, in a North l^tate conference game* Th»,‘ game pfov^ to be a see- ,saw affair, each team taking the lead from the other until the last minute and half when Johnny Clayton shpt a b‘autiful mid court goal to' tie the score for Elon. Prior to this climax slibt, the visi tors had pushed ahead by a five- point margin.-: ■ ,, , HobsoO, whose, free shot ac counted for the .. triumph, played intermittently because of illness. Incidently Hobson was awarded a shirt and a tie by his teammates for being an outstanding player for Coabh Hendrickson for four years. Jiurns led Elon’s scoring, attack, dropping in sixtwn points. Staf ford was high for Lenoir Rhyne with thirteen points. Elon fans also witnessed ano ther rough game; 21> fouls were called in the game. GirPs Sports ri;tt('rs will be awarded to m(“in- l:)ers of the girls’ gvm classes this vear. The program f. >r the year has lK?en a series of seven tourna- meiits. F ive tournaments already have het'ii completed. Winners of four out of seven tournaments will r('cMve letters. Koontz, Dyer, Warren, and Riimley have already rweivi’d enough jx>ints for letters. In the Volley Ball tournament twenty games were played. The teams wero as follows; 4 :(>0 1. Winners — Mathews, (Captain; Byrd, Jones, McPher son, Kary, Worsley, Kearn, Bai ley, Savage, Muse, Lloyd, Burk^- head, Dowd, Cordell, Britt, M(X)re. 2. ('handler, Captain; Breeze, 15ridge«, P'allin, Brooks, Warren, Watkins, Miller, liyrd, Carti-r, .Manchester, Watson, Hill, Simp son, Harden, Ward, Harrell, Bar field, ('addell, Coble, Allen, Har- rfll, IHx. 3 :(U) 1. Winners — Warren, (Japtain; Itumley, Brittain, Hall, Kuniniev, Reidt, McCants, Wat son, Boone, Kittner, Griffin, Pope. 2. P'oushee, Captain; Baker, Bovd, Jeffries, Thomas, Simpson, l>assiter. Hill, E; Hill, R. 2:00 Winners — Green, (’ap- tain; Tate, Koontz, Pkrp, Hook, Dyer, Messick, DeI..oache. 2. Lynch, (3a|)tain; lUutzell, P’owlkes, Underwood, Holland, Harrold, Whitlwk, Lloyd, Jen nings, Scott, Harden. I^noir tih.yne g fg pf tp ftm Gilbert, f .... 1 4 7 0 .McCJall, f . 0 0 1 0 0 Stafford, f . . . . 3 0 1 6 1 .Mashburn, c . . . 4’ 5 4 13 U (iurley, c . 1 1 4 3 ‘J Willett, g . 1 1 1 3 1 Bost, g 0 0 1 0 1 Dugan, g TOTAL . 5 1 0 11 0 17 9 16 43 5 p;ion K fg pf tp ftm Clayton, f . . . . . ') 0 1 7 1 Burns, f . 7 2 3 16 0 Hooper, f . . . . . 0 0 0 0 0 J.oluis, c 2 1 3 5 1 Hol»on, c ^. . . . 2 1 0 5 2 Kravitz, c . . . . 0 0 (J 0 0 Tomanchi'k, g . 4 2 4 10 1 P>aus, g . . . . . 0 0 2 0 0 Bean, g . 0 1 0 1 1 "T(ri'AL 18 8 13 44 6 Lacy Hagood Wins Golden Gloves Trophy The Golden Gloves Boxing tournaments, which were held in Grwnsboro and Burlington the past two week-ends, respectively, were represented again this year by several P]lon students. Lacy Hagood, from Burling ton, an outsider gridrrian last fall for Coach Hendrickson, defeated five men in two tournaments— three by knockouts and two by de cisions to become champion of the lC0-i)Ound clas^. Hagood fought four of his opponents in (jreens- boro, February 7. As a result ho was awariled a twelve-inch troi)hy for going undefeated. Last Sat urday Hagood was issued another trophy for winimig the 160-poi^d class in Burlington. P’rank Hayes and Tex Lisman, who head t^^- 17.')-pound and 200- IMHind classes, respectively, lost out in close fights in the Grer-n.s- boro touramnent. Hayes and Lis man both were champions of their •lasses last year.
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