SATURDAY. MARCH 16. 1946
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE FOUR
Elon Wins Over-time Thriller Frcm A.C.C
THE ARMCHAIR
ATHLETE
Golombek Wins Most
Valuable Player Award
Cates Ties League Mark
In Final Game Of Year
TEAM CHOOSES PLAYER FOR
ATHLETIC HONOR
By
AL BURLINGAME
For the first time since 1942, Elon
has a baseball team! Well, at least
it’s got the makings. Thirty diamond
prospects answered the call of Coach
Lacy B. Adcox this week, and, by
the time Ohio University invades the
Elon ball park on April 1st, for the
opening game of the season, a team
shall have been whittled out which
should do justice to Maroon and Gold
teams of the past, and which should
provide Elon fans with as many thrills
as did the Christian basketball quin
tet in the recently concluded court
season.
The full baseball schedule has
not yet been completed; but if
there are many games with oppon
ents of the calibre of the Athens,
Ohio, nine, against whom Elon
will inaugurate the coming cam
paign, things aren’t going to be
easy by any means|. Ohio Univer
sity has boasted some great ath
letic teams in the past, most re
cent of which was its basketball
team of three or four years ago,
which went to the finals of the Na
tional Invitation tournament at
Madison Square Garden.
Of course, Elon has a reputation
of its own to uphold. Maroon and
Gold teams have been conference
winners many times, and have whip
ped such rivals as Michigan and Cor
nell.
Heading the list of 1946 pros
pects for the Christians are such
promising men as Johnny Clay
ton, former shortstop here before
the war, and Jack Andrews, who
pitched for a year with an out
standing Navy team.
Then there are prospects like
Frank Roberts, third baseman for
two years at Elon College; Bill
Anderson, who twirled high school,
semi-pro, and Army ball before com
ing to college; Jack Knight, who
caught Jot Elon several years ago;
Steve Castura, another backstop who
played with the Christians before en
tering the Army; Woody Wilson,
catcher-infielder, with Am^ican Le
gion and army experience; Jimmy
McSwain, first base and pitcher, who
I played with the 5th Armored Division;
I L. A. Nance, Ed Griffin, James Park-
i er, and Steve Walker, outfielders with
I baseball experience while in the ser-,
vice; Johnny Hill, second baseman on
I an Army nine; Ed Mulford, who play-
) ed third base at Blue Ridge College,
in Maryland.
Then there are others, who
have played high school and ama
teur ball—Jack Holt, Bill Clay-
tor, Dick York, Wayne Taylor,
Ace Harrell, Dave Smith, Perry
Ayscue, Chink Spivey, Oabe
Bray, Dave McKinney, Bob Bar
rett, Jack Burch. There will
probably be other^ prospects, too,
before the first week’s training is
finished; but no matter what, it
looks as if Coach Adcox. has some
thing to work with. Let’s have a
winning team, boys!
Joe Golombek, guard on 1946 Elon
five, was voted the McGee Fix most-
valuable player award at Elon College
yesterday.
His steady defensive work played
a major role in Elon’s victories. To
ward the latter part of the season
Golombek was stricken with ptomaine
poisoning.
It was Elon’s misfortune to lose
Joe just at the time the team was
trying to retain first place in the
North State Conference.
Discharged in July, 1945, after
spending four years and nine months
in the service of the U. S. Army,
(three years and nine months over
seas) Golombek returned to the Elon
campus to resume his studies.
Back in ’38 and ’39, Joe was one of
Elon’s Greats of the Gridiron where
he played fullback, making All-State,
All-Conference and Little All-Amer
ican. Besides his football feats, Joe
won the National Amateur Heavy
weight Championship at New York’s
Madison Square Garden in 1939.
He entered the service in June, 1940
and was stationed at Pearl Harbor
when the Japanese attack occuA'ed.
Later Joe was attached to the 25th
Division in the South Pacific. While
in the Army, Golombek received the
Unit Citation, American Defense, Asi
atic Campaign ribbons, and tfiree
bronze stars.
In football, Joe was described in
1938 as “the fiercest line plunger and
one of the most dangerous runners
North Carolina has ever seen.” The
all-State backfield to which he was
elected included Duke’s all-American
Eric Tipton, and Bob O’Mara, and a
fellow named George Stirnweiss,
whose fame as a pigskin toter for Car
olina has recently been obscured by
his feats as a member of the New
York Yankees baseball team.
Golombek’s basketball ability^ for
vi'hich his teammates voted him the
McGee Fix award, is not of the spec
tacular, colorful variety. Although a
MOUNTAINEERS AVENGE
LOSS TO ELON, 55-42
Cates Paces Elon
Scoring For Year
keen-eyed shot, Joe seldom tried to
score during the past season, concen
trating his efforts on a calm and de
liberate passing game, letting the oth
er men make the points. ' His chief
value, however, was on defense. On
defensive rebounds, one almost always
expected to see Golombek come up
with the ball, even when his opponents
towered above him—and Joe seldom
fell short of those expectations.
Finishing the season with a deluge
of baskets—76 points in the last three
games, to be exact—Roney Cates,
Burlington’s gift to the Elon College
varsity basketball team, topped the
individual scoring roster for the 1945-
4(5 court campaign by netting a total
of 361 points. He missed only one
of the team’s 25 games. Roney’s
total was second highest recorded by
an individual in the state this year.
Only John Dillon of Carolina netted
more points than the lanky Elon cen
ter.
Second in team scoring for the
Christians—and third in the North
State conference race behind Bunk I
Leonard of Guilford and the 6-foot-4
Cates—was Captain Warren Burns,
who made 274 points in 22 games, and
who might have taken conference hon
ors except for his being injured at the
crucial point in the year. Also mak
ing more than 100 points during the
Elon campaign was Don Kernodle,
Burns’ co-starter at forward. Don
tallied 120 markers in 24 games.
scoring tabulation
I GREMLINS ROUT FOES
IN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
ELON BOWS TO EAGLES
AT ASHEBORO, 56 TO 47
I CHRISTIANS CONQUEROR
LYNCHBURG, 48 to 49
Vengeance was sweet for the Mc
Crary Eagles on February 25, when
the Asheboro quintet played host to
the Maroon and Gold basketeers from
Elon and repelled the invasion, 56-47.
The win avenged McCrary’s 42-37 loss
to the Christians earlier in the year.
Despite a 27-point performance by
Elon’s star center, Roney Cates, the
Eagles were in control from the start,
zooming away to a 34-21 halftime lead.
The Christians outscored their foes
in the final half, but the midway mar
gin was too great to overcome. Except
for a basket by Tommy Boyenton in
the fourth quarter, all of Elon’s last-
half scoring was done by Cates and
Warren Burns. The latter made ten
points during the game. Watts was
outstanding for the victors with 14
points.
Turning on the steam in the last
half, Elon’s Fighting Christians over
powered Lynchburg College, 58-49, on
February 22, in a return basketball
scrap at the Elon gym. Early in Janu
ary the Christians had trimmed their
Virginia rivals, 66-51, after leading
all the way. This time, however,
Lynchburg stuck it out until the third
quarter. At halftime the score was
knotted at 19-all, and in the early
minutes of the third period at 28-all;
but then Roney Cates dumped in seven
straight points for the home team,
and Elon was never again in danger.
Cates, although on the bench near
ly half the game, led the scoring for
both sides with 17 points. Captain
Warren Burns was runner-up for the
winners with eleven. Outstanding for
Lynchburg were two brothers, Win
ston and Tosh Milam, who netted
eleven and ten points, respectively.
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The Mountaineers of Appalachian
State Teachers College rolled into the
Elon gym on February 23, stayed long
enough to avenge their earlier 51-50
defeat at the hands of the Fighting
Christians, by virtue of a classy 55-42
triumph over the Adcox men, and
then retired to their mountain haunts
singing “Always a-winnin', always a-
grinnin’ ”—and they were grinning
wider than ever, because they had
spoiled Elon’s last chance to tie for
the North State conference basketball
crown.
Even with Roney Cates playing one
of his best games for the Christians
—he made 21 points—Appalachian
dominated the home five completely.
The Apps were ahead at halftime, 27-
18, and Elon was never able to threat
en. Brooks, with 17 points, led the
flashy visitors to their victory.
The box:
APPALACHIAN (55)
Pos.—Player Fg Ft F Tp Ftm
F-—Collins 5 0 2 10 0
F—White 2 10 5 0
F Wey 4 12 9 1
K—Fidler 0 v 0 2 0 0
C—Brooks 8 1 3 17 2
G—Hegaman 2 0 2 4 3
G—Hiatt 3 4 3 19 5
Totals 24 7 14 55 11
ELON (42)
Pos.—Player Fg Ft F Tp Ftm
F—Burns 4 4 4 12 1
F—Harris 0 1111
F—Kernodle 10 12 1
F—Register 0 0 2 0 1
C—Cates A 9 3 1 21 4
C—Watkins 0 0 0 0 0
G—Castura 0 0 10 1
G—Boyenton 3 0 0 6 0
G—York 0 0 10 0
G—Taylor 0 0 3 0 0
Totals 17 8 14 42 9
Playing off a three-way tie for first
place, the Gremlins this week won the
men’s intramural basketball title by
crushing the Jokers, 43-20, and the
Bombardiers, 40-16. The Jokers de
feated the Bombardiers, 37-35, in the
consolation game, which ended in a
dispute over the time.
In the Gremlin-Joker battle, the
losing Jokers gave their foes a tough
time of it in the initial half, leading
by five points at one stage and being
behind when the halftime whistle
blew, 15-14. However, paced by Link
Howard, Ed Carson, and Jimmy Mc
Swain, the Gremlins ran wild in the
last two quarters, and the game turned
into a rout. Wayne King’s rebound
play was the Jokers’ only consolation.
Against the Bombardiers, the Grem-
Complete team
follows:
Player Games
Cates 24
Burns 22
Kernodle 24
Golombek 19
Casura 25
Taylor 25
Register 21
Harris 20
Anderson 19
Boyenton 9
Mulford 9
Watkins 19
Wilson 6
York 14
Burlingame 5
Ayscue 1
Price 1
Neese 1
King 3
McClenny 5
McCauley 5
Thompson 5
Pts.
361
274
120
80
78
64
56
37
24
24
14
13
7
6
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Climaxing a season of basketball
thrills and chills. Coach Lacy Adcox’s
gold-clad Elon cagers ended their
1945-46 schedule in breath-taking
fashion on February 27, when they
snatched a scary 55-49 overtime vic
tory from Atlantic Christian College
in the home gym. Led by Roney
Cates, whose 28 points during the
battle equalled the North State con
ference one-game individual record
for the year, Elon came back from a
ten-point deficit in the fourth quarter
to send the game into overtime, final
ly winning out and clinching third
place in the struggle for conference
honors.
For three-quarters of the game, A.
I C. C. kept the Christians buffaloed,
I forging a 24-18 halftime edge and in-
I creasing the margin to 40-30 as the
I minutes of the fourth period began
ticking away. At that point, however,
the home team suddenly found itself.
Cates, Warren Burns, and Fred Reg
ister carved away at the A. C. C. lead,
and Burns finally tied the score at
45-all two minutes before the end of
the regulation time. Smith and
Thorne made fouls for the visitors,
but Wayne Taylor’s last-minute goal
again evened the count; and, when
Smith missed two foul goal tries at
the very end of the game, the score
was still deadlocked—A. C, C. had lost
its chance. In the extra period. Burns,
Register and Cates quickly gave Elon
a six-point lead, and the decision was
on ice.
Smith, with 17 points was top man
for the losers, while his teammate
Chapin made 13 before fouling out.
Elon finished its- season with a
record of 17 wins and eight losses.
The Christians’ conference record was
eight wins, four defeats.
The box:
ELON (55)
scoring in a single contest fall to Ed
Mulford of the Jokers, whose 22 points
topped the 16 held jointly by himself
and Link Howard. A1 Valderrama,
lins clinched the championship witli | Bombardier center, equalled the old
ease, Howard again showing the way record during the tilt, and another
with a total of 16 points. , Bombardier, Larry McCauley, regis-
The disputed consolation game be- tered double figm'es with 12 points,
tween the Bombardiers and the Jokers The Bombardiers led at halftime in
saw a league record for individual the exciting scrap, 16-15.
Pos.—Player
Fg Ft F
Tp Ftm
F—Burns
5
1
4
11
7
F—Register —.
2
1
2
5
0
F—Kernodle ..
2
0
0
4
2
F—Harris
0
0
2
0
2
C—Cates
14
0
3
28
2
C—Watkins
0
0
0
0
0
G—Castura
1
0
3
2
2
G—Boyenton ..
1
0
0
2
0
G—York
0
0
0
0
0
G—Taylor
1
1
4
3
2
Totals
26
3
18
55
17
A.
C. C. (49)
Pos.—Player
Fg Ft F
Tp Ftnt
F—Chapin
6
1
5
13
4
F—Fussell
2
0
1
4
2
F—Bunn
0
0
1
0
0
C—Thorne
3
1
1
7
2
C—Davis
2
3
3
7
2
G—Smith
7
3
2
17
4
G—Goodwin
0
1
5
1
2
Totals
20
9
18
49
16
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