PAGE Tcrntr,' MAROON AND GOLD SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1948 WHAT’S WHAT By EMERSON WHATLEY Without making any bones about the matter, this corner thinlcs that the officiating at some of the more re- ccnt games has been, to say the least, rather rough. The games at E. C, t! C. and A. C. C. almost ended in riots. The game at Catawba last Saturday* night wa? almost a farce as far as tlie officials M'ere concerned. The game started with only one official. After about five minutes of play the other showed up. From all indications it would have been just as well if he had stayed at home. We are not saying that the officials were partial toward one team or the other. We are say ing that tliey seemed to talce no inter est in tlie game and it appeared to the fans, both Elon and Catawba, that the officials decidedly had an off night Some of the officials have been good. No one could ask or better work than has been given by Culler, Cheek, Rip ple and Hedrick. Some of the others however do not seem to understand the game. Perhaps it is because they are poorly paid. It could be tliat they are accustomed to service teams. At least that is the excuse that has been offered by at least two of them. How can this be explained though when a nine of tiie 13 men on the squad are veterans and have been playing ball vi^hile in service? Maybe Mr. Plaster can give us an answer. Well, I suppose this is the last WHAT’S WHAT that will come off the line. You see, Professor Hook checked in his little black book the other day and told me that I could giaduate come March 1. I’m gonna' miss the M & G office and all the swell people connected with the paper. In fact I'm gonna’ miss Elon. Now 1 have to go out somewhere and get a job and start to work. Anyway, this column was started my freshman year when Faye Thomas was editor of the paper. The next year Mary Ellen \ McCants censored my nonsense, and ' finally I started work under ye pres-1 ent editor, Tom Horner. It has been lots of fun and some hard work and i I'm sorry it is all over. The new man who is taking over has had vastly more experience than I have and will get this page on the ball. Before he came to Elon he was sports editor of the Port Chester. New York, Daily Item. Here’s our new sports editor, A1 Burlingame. Right, Al? Joe Golombek, Steve Castura And Wayne Taylor Lead Elon Defense “HAP” PERRY IS BUILDER OF MEN JSLON TRIPS A. C. C. IN CLOSE GAME In a rough and tumble affair Sat urday night January 26, at Wilson, the Elon cagers stopped the Atlantic Christian Cagers 44-41. The Elon team made a whirlwind start and ran up 10 points before A. C. C. scored, but the Bulldogs rallied then and drew up within 5 points at the end of 10 minues of paly. The team ap parently tired just before the half and led A. . C. only 20-19 at intermission At the beginning of the second half the Elon team scored two quick field goals to go ahead but Atlantic Christian came back and it was nip and tuck for the rest of the game. Fred Register sunk two foul throws with 40 seconds to go to put the game on ice and then Roney Cates sunk a foul shot after the game end ed to make the score 44-41. Cates and Burns led the Elon attack with 15 points each and Joe Golombek once again played tha outstanding defen- .sive game of the night. Chapen, A. C. C. forward, led the Bulldog attack with 14 points. The box: ELON Pos.—Player Fgr Ft F Tp Ftm F—Burns 6 3 4 15 3 F—Kernodle 3 2 4 8 1 F—Register 0 2 12 0 C—Cates 5 5 4 15 3 C—Taylor 0 0 3 0 1 G—Golombek 0 0 10 1 G—Castura 0 4 14 2 Totals 14 16 18 44 11 COLLEGE GETS TWENTY HOUSING UNITS A. C. C. Pos.—Player Fg Ft F Tp Ftm F—Chapen 7 0 5 F—Fussell 3 0 4 F—Smith 5 2 3 C—Thorne 2 11 C—Brooks 12 2 G—Benton 0 0 0 G—Goodwin 0 0 5 Totals 18 5 20 41 16 14 6 12 5 4 0 0 The college has received an initial allotment of twenty temporary hous ing units and is making plans for an attractive campus cottage layout to house married veterans and their families, Paul C. Plybon, field secre tary, recently announced. The units will be released to Elon by the Fed eral Housing Authority as partial ful fillment of an application placed some time ago. With approximately thirty married couples now in school, more are expected, and the college is seek ing to obtain fifty more temporary units. Each unit consists of two bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen and bath, and is made up in sections that can be assembled in forty-eight hours according to government specifica tions. Complete with all necessary wiring and plumbing, one of the units needs only to be connected to water and sewer lines and electricity after it is erected. The only costs to students occupying the units will be maintenance, lights, heat, and water, all of which is expected to total about $20 a month. The houses are for veterans only. The houses are not expected to start arriving^ until late next month, but war vets may enroll in school at any time. The college has provided facilities for married veterans and their wives, but there are no accomo dations yet available for children. Most of us had feared that sooner or later it would happen, and so it did. L. J. “Hap” Perry, who for nineteen years has coached Reidsville High School’s Golden Lions to the pinacles of success, has been lured away to a college post. It isn’t strange. The only strange thing is that we have been able to keep him here as long as we have. With the fine record he has estab lished here it is only natural that sooner or later he would be beckon- ea to greener fields. It isn’t the first time he has been offered a job as a college mentor. But his pleasant rela tions here with the citizens of this town and his association with the many outstanding boys with whom he has worked these many years had great influence in keeping him here. Nearby Elon College, where he made fame as a quarterback in his colkjje days, was badly in need of a football coach. There could be but one choice. “Hap” Perry was the man for the job, for during the nineteen >ears he coached the Golden Lions his team won 161 games, lost 42 and tied seven for a percentage of .783. His teams won seven class “B” state championship titles and one co-state championship title. One of his teams was held to a tie in the finals, and only two of the ten teams he carried to Chapel Hill were defeated. I don’t know of anyone who can get more out of his boys than does “Hap” Perry. So many times when his ma terial appeared weak he would sur prise everyone with a winner. He is truly a builder of men. He taught his boys to plock and tackle with pre cision. He developed great passers, great kickers, and great runners. His lines, frequently outweighed by oth er lines, would outcharge, outfight and outplay the opponent as his smart speedy backs would run at will. His long and short punt formations, which are rarely used by other teams, are hard to solve. His end runs with beautiful downfield blocking have been nightmares to his opponents. His passing attacks have always been hard to stop, and when his teams were stopped on the ground they could al ways take to the air and gain. His teams were taught to think. All Reidsville teams were smart, and knew how to cope with every situa tion. It never was easy to outsmart the Lions. Above all, he taught his boys to be good sports, to play the game as Elon Drops Game To Catawba 43-26 it should be played, hard and clean. The Lions were always good losers when they were beaten fairly. And there were many times that the Lions were- not beaten fairly. “Hap” Perry is also a master of defense. He always had an answer for the formations and plays that were used against his teams. His teams were seldom beaten badly, and it was a rare thing for a team to score more than two touchdowns against the Lions. There can be no doubt that “Hap” Perry will be a successful college mentor. I don’t know of anyone who knows and understands the game bet ter than he does. Anyone with his knowledge of the game and his ability to handle men would succeed wheth er in college or high school circles. Paul Brown and Wally Butts, both former high school coaches, went straight into college coaching with immediate success. I honestly believe that if “Hap” Perry should coach at some major university he would rate among the best coaches in the coun try. He his written football history here in Reidsville, ahd the beautiful Kiker stadium is a tribute to him and his Golden Lions. Although his many friends hate to see him go, they wish him much suc cess and sincerely hope that he will reach the top in the coaching profes sion.—Reprinted from John Oliver’s Sports Review, in the Reidsville Re view. In a game last Saturday night played at Salisbury, the Elon cagers I pjll before the Catawba Indians, 43-29. The Indians held the Elon team to their lowest point total of the year and lowered the Christians’ average of 48 points per game. Tinker McGinnis, Catawba guard, broke the hearts of the Elon fans v,’ith his set shots from midcourt and also dogged Warren Burns during the entire game. Bob Van Hoy, forward, hit 4 overhead shots for nine points in comparison to McGinnis’ total of 14. Don Kernodle led the Elon attack both under Elon’s basket and under the Catawba bucket. He had eight points for the night. Warren Burns nit four field goals for a total of eight points and Roney Cates had two field goals and five foul shots for nine points. Joe Golontbek played a fine floor game and controlled re bounds in spite of the fact that he was fouled repeatedly under the Ca tawba basket. The box; ELON Pos.—Player Fg Ft F Tp Ftm F—Burns 4 0 4 8 2 F—Register —' 0 1 1 1 0 F—Harris 0 0 10 0 F—Kernodle 4 0 4 8 1 F—Anderson 0 0 10 0 C—Cates 2 5 19 4 C—Taylor 0 0 0 0 0 G—Golombek 0 1110 G—Boyenton 0 0 0 0 0 G—York 0 0 0 0 0 G—Castura 10 12 0 Totals 11 7 14 29 7 CATAWBA Pos.—Player " Fg Ft F Tp Ftm F—Taylor 3 12 7 2 F—Gabriel 0 0 10 0 F—Hartman 0 0 10 0 F_Van Hoy 4 14 9 1 F—Feimster 1 0 0 2 0 C—Gudger 3 0 2 6 0 G—Speacht 13 15 3 G—Richardson 0 0 0 0 0 G—McGinnis 6 2 3 14 2 G—Smith 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 18 7 14 43 8 JOKERS TAKE LEAD IN INTRMURAL8 Girls Sports By BETTY BENTON MARIMBA PLAYER GIVES CONCERT Lynn Burton Jackson, talented ma rimba player, gave a recital in Whit ley Auditorium for the college and community on Monday evening, Jan- uar 23. He began the program with Handel’s “Largo.” Other selections were “Indian Love Call,” “Claire de Lune,” “Liebestraum,” and Chopin’s “Polonaise in G” and “Etude in C.” Encores were “Stardust” and Schu bert’s “Ave Marie.” Many members of the appreciative j audience remained after the concert, I and Mr. Jackson obliged them with in- ' formal playing of request numbers. ELON SODA SHOP t; ‘‘WHERE THE GANG MEETS'^ You Name It—We Have It Or We’ll Get It! Under the direction of Demon Dave “Shoeball” McClenny, several new ac tivities have been recently added to the girls gym class. Dave has had the girls doing calithenics. going ^on hikes, playing leap frog, running re lays, and doing some outside march ing. Some of these calisthenics were really tough and the girls say that they will be sore for a month. Leap frog is a lot of fun though, unless some over-developed person is in front of you. Only two games have been played in the intramural program since the last issue of the M & G came out. On January 28, the Rebels won frotn the Wildcats 37-12. Hazel Cole led the Rebels with 15 points. Her fast- breaking crip shots ran the Wildcat guards ragged. Ruby Wheless led the Wildcat attack with three points. On January 30, the East Dormitory team defeated Ladies’ Hall 10-3. Grace Ward Ted the East team by getting 7 of the ten points. Most of these came from set shots around the foul circle. Mary Yarborough led the Ladies’ Hall team and scored all of thei porints. There are now only three games remaining on the schedule. They are as follows: February 14: Day Students vs. Re bels. February 18: Wildcats vs. East. February 25: Hubbas vs. Day Stu dents. All games start at 6:45 in North. The Jokers and Bombardiers, both unbeaten, battled for the lead in the men’s intramural basketball league on January 24, and when the smoke had cleared away, the scoreboard showed the Jokers perched on top of the heap by virtue of a defensive 35-23 victory. Starring for the win ners were Eddie Mulford and Wayne King, both of whom broke the pre vious league scoring record of ten points held by Link Howard of the Gremlins-. Mulfoi'M’s 16 points was the new high; King netted 12. Big gua for the losing Bombardiers was W. D. Little, who tallied seven points, including three sensational one-hand ed shots. During the current season the Elon team has held its opponents to slight-, ly more than 42 points per game. This has been primarily due to the fine work of Joe Golombek, Steve Castura, and Wayne Taylor. These three men have been rated by many of those who saw them as the out standing defensive floor men in the North State Conference. Joe Golombek has got most of the rebounds in every game in which he has played. This (and his set shots) was one of the things that stopped the high flying McCrary Eagles. It was outstanding in the first Catawba game. In every game he has been the spearhead pf the Christian de fense. Many times the oponents have had three men on one. Most of the time this one man has been Joe They have scored on him very few times and then not from under the basket. After a couple of minutes of play they Kirn not to leave Joe open for set shots either. Steve Castura has combined a gooct defense with a good offense. In the Hanes game he was high scorer with his set shots. When he plays at the front line in the zone defense the oponents learn to respect him for his bawl-hawking and a line of chatter that has unnerved many an opponent. Steve is deadly on shots from just outside the foul circle and on many an occasion has broken under the basket for a lay-up shot that he never misses. Wayne Taylor has started only about half the games but in the other games he has proved a capable substi tute for Roney Cates. When Taylor is in the middle of that zone very few balls escape him. He has also proved deadly on rebounds and has been in there scrapping for the ball every time it comes near him. Taylor has not proved as strong on offense as he could be, but with his defensive work has been excellent. ELON SWAMPS E. C. T. C. The Elon Christians ran up their highest total of points for the year January 31, when they trampled the E. C. T. C. Pirates 73-65 in i game played at Elon. The Pirates threw a scare into the Christians and v^ere leading at half-time 35-31. Elon came back however and scored 42 points in the last 20 minutes for the margin of victory. Koney Cates led the Christian scor ing parade with 23 points and Warren Burns tossed in 16. Joe Golombek led the defense and took a majority of the rebounds. Bobby Harris, Pep Watkins and Fred Register went into the game as reserves and all showed up well. The Parker twins, James and Jessie, led the Pirate scoring with 19 points each. Blainey Moye, guard led the defense but could not stop the fast breaking Elon team. This was tl»e second meeting of the year for the two teams. In the first encounter the Christians walked off v/ith the laurels 52-41. CO-EDS! WE HAVE MOCCASINS, LOAFERS AND SADDLES Burlineton, N. C. Hood Sporting Goods Co. IS ELON COLLEGE’S NEAREST SPORTING GOODS STORE BASKETBALL GYM SHOES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Sizes 3 1-2 to 12 SCHOOL SWEATEB# and JACKETS BICYCLES and BICYCLE REPAIRINQ (Bikes Painted Like New) il FLASHLIGHTS and BATTERIES KEYS MADE — LOCKS RBPAIRBD 1 Flowers For All Occssiont Mooretield Florist Phone 850 TENNIS RACKETS RESTRUNO FISHING TACKLE HUNTING CLOTHING Whertt Your Investment Pays Most in Health—in i05 W. FRONT ST. OPPOSITE FIRB STATIOM

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