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MAROON AND GOLD PAGE TirREK Elon Quint Will Play Lenoir Rhyne On Local Floor Tonight IN THE HEAT OF CONFLIC I W I i H >K)UNTAINEEK8 Walking The Clialk-Liiies By BILL WALKER sketball still reigns as king ^ spring. Here’s best wishes for the ^orth Carolina, and North Car- best o' luck to Chick in his new lina still reigns as king in bas- assignment. Ltball. for three of the top ten teams in America are from the Old North State. Those Tar Heel teams in Amer icas "Top Ten” are quite natur ally listed from the state’s “Big Vour" colleges, but the “Big Four" has by no means a patent on good basketball. This has been demon strated quite completely this year by some of the fine teams in the North State Conference, particu larly by our own Fighting Chris- ians right here at Elon. The Christians are at present n sccond place in the North State Conference standings with a 6-1 record against loop foes, but they are well out front among the Con ference teams when their over-all 14-2 mark is considered. The East Carolina squad leads the Confer ence percentages with v.i 8-1 mark. * * t Led by a pair of service return ees, Dee Atkinson and Ben Kendall (lie rampaging Christians must be called favorites to sweep the Con ference championship honors. They have been hitting better than 100 points per game in half the games this season, and their overall balance and power is dis closed by the fact that several players have copped the scoring honors on different occasions. * » ♦ Scoots quips for the quacks — When taking a final in tumbling, one neds a monkey instead of a ponyl Holy Cowl » * * Here's a bit of congratulations \'j Chick Leitch, who has recently been made the full manager for the Elon football team for the coining season. He takes over the spot held for three years by Pat Chandler, who graduates this And getting back to basketball, one finds it quite discouraging in going to a home game to find so little school spirit and student sup port for the team. With one of the finest teams in Elon history, one finds at times that the opposing teams have almost as many stu dent supporters on hand as do (he Christians. The real “cake-taKer”, however, is to see how few spectators who really go all out and cheer for the Christians. ’Tis said that some of the few who do decide to back the team whole-heartedfy' have been told that they can cheer only at certain times for fear that it might be objectionable to the vis iting teams. Most schools appreciate school spirit, but it would seem that cer tain persons here at Elon do not appreciate it. Indeed, it seems that some would stamp out what spirit does exist. Sure, the Christians have what I consider the best team in Elon history, and I be lieve they could hold their own against much bigger competition than they are meeting However, just because they hap pen to be winning, there is no rea son what the players would not ap preciate school spirit. I'm sure that a few cheers from the home folks would mean much to Uie players, just as it would if you were out there on the floor. So, regardless , . t, r. * tot qq ’ , ,, „ X trampled the DuPont qumtet 99 of who likes it or not, lets get;, , , j „ ,.„„t to 59 m a loosel.v-played contest out and supi^rt our fme team. Martinsville High School Give it everything you ve got, and I Cugers Want Revenge For Losses Lust Year Elon (^age (jaiiies Jimmy Crump, pictured center above in the white Elon i.nifoi ni. found himself in a cl(»se spot with the ball as the opposing Appalachian Mountaineers doubledlast Thursday night. January 19th . The Aberdeen junior, who know up on him in the game hen s exactly what to do with the ball when he gets on the free-throw line, was having difficul.y eetting the ball out to his team mates. Frank DeRita 'left) and Earl Stone (right) look on anxiou ly to see what Crump is -op oj Tumblers To Be Featured In Series Of Stunts At Half Of Bruin Battle The diversity of Elon's physical drop-offs from |>yramids imd dives r-ducation and sports program will >-('i living pyramids. number be proven tonight when a group (.(■ „ ■ teatines will als(> he in- of tumblers from Dr. Scott Boyd's p^.,3. ‘ class in Physical Education 36 , .,1 . , i ,■ mids. the divers will clear groups jWill stage a demonstration of their ' :u l between the halves of the Elon- eight, with four boy.^ down and The Elon Christians, who were Ltnoir Rhyne basketball game. three and one on tiers above that. Basketeers Top DuPont de-railed from the victory trail by an upset loss to Eastern Carolina at Greenville, got back in their winning ways last night when they let's all get together and BEAT EAST CAROLINA! Of course, there are other teams coming be fore the Pirates, but we don’t want any slip up on that February 11th contest. Just remember, let's BEAT EAST CAROLINA! Girls Start Cage Play For Intramural Crown Basketball and tumbling have' been the featured sports for the prls’ physical education classes during January, with four girls basketball teams beginning play this week in the battle for the campus championship. A special feature during the bas ketball season is a free-throw tour nament, which began last week and will come to a close on Jan uary i30th. There will be tumbling and horse-shoe pitching during the i^age games for girls who do not play basketbaU. Student managers in charge of the various sports include Polly Payne for basketball, Yvonne Win stead for the free-throw tourna ment and Dot Perkins for tum bling. All the features are being offered under the auspices of the Women’s Athletic Association, ^lich has recently had a new con stitution framed by Mrs. Jeanne Griffin and the officers and rep resentatives of the girls’ sport groups. Basketball games this week were ^t for Monday, Tuesday and Wed- •■esday. with teams from Second Floor West, Third Floor West, Students and Delta Upsilon *^^PPa participating. Results of 'hose games were not available for publication, but complete re- 9th. The Christians moveil out front quickly in the battle as lanky Dee Atkinson and Ray Whitley paced an early drive, and the quarter mark found Elon leading at 22-16. Long distance popping by Whit- Elon 78. Pfeiffer 62. Elon 90, Belmont Abbey 83. Elon 91. McCrary 100. Elon 124, DuPont 70. Elon 106, HIkH Point 101. Elon 104. Guilford 57. Elon 108, Erskine 86. Elon 102. High Point 81. Elon 100, Pheiffer 77. Elon 81, Pfeiffer 76. Elon 69. East Carolina 105. Elon 99, DuPont 59. Elon 96, A. C. C. 82. Elon 90. Catawba 62. Elon 102. Appalachian 81. Elon 107, West Carolina 90. (Remaining Games) Jan. 25—Lenoir Rhyne, home. Jan. 28—Catawba, away. Jan. 30—McCrary, home. Feb. 1—High Point, home. Feb. 4—West Carolina, home. Feb. 8—Appalachian, away. Feb. 11—East Carolina, home. Feb. 13—A. C. C., away. Feb. 16—Lenoir Rhyne, away. Feb. 18—Guilford, home. Elon Quintet 96-82 Winner Over Bulldogs The Elon Christians were out front early and then had to stage i, last period rally to defeat the Atlantic Christian Bulldogs 96 to ;i2 in a thrilling Conference bat tle here on Wednesday night, Jan uary 11th. The game, which pitted the two highest scoring clubs in the North State loop, saw Elon hold a scant 76-75 lead with barely 4:30 re maining on the clock, but Dee At kinson and Frank DeRita then led — - ^ . iiuiiigm. a y Chrlstlan drive that produced include both boys and girls, al-l.^ tumbling courses empha-\20 points in the final minutes, hough there are only four girls _ ^ This late rally enabled the The college sports authorities. The four girls, all of them phys -.Iways on the lookout for some 1 (,,j majors, will present two stunts. lew fciiture or entertainment to color to tiie Christian athle- li{* '>rn?ra^j. w'ei'^omed the offer "'f P- Boyd an^ his ph.v.'iicol edu- o^t'oi group to Fitage the demon- ‘.'rstion tonight. but they have not announced their exact program for the in termission. Chuck Maynard, member of the Christian grid squad during the In discu.ssing the program that past two seasons, will be the stu- is planned for the occasion, Dr. Ijent leader for the boys group Boyd stated that the group will Naming a student leader The Christian cage squad, roll ing along with 14 wins in 16 starts and with a scoring average of 96.7 points per game, will meet one of its toughest tests of the entire season when the Lenoir Rhyne Bears invade Alumni Mem orial Gymnasium tonight. With Elon barely one game be- liind the league-leading Ea?t Car olina Pirates, the Christians will go all out for the win that will bring the Conference leadership closer: but the greatest incentive of all wil be Elon's desire to a- venge three defeats suffered last year at the hands of the Lenoir Rhyne squad. The Bears won at Hickory last year by a 72-66 score and then iiosed the Christians 77-73 in a game that featured the Elon High School Day” program. The third Bruin win came in the semi-finals of the Conference tournament, when Lenoir Rhyne came from behind to win by an 80-71 mar gin. The Christians felt that they could 'have won either or all those games, and Coach Doc Mathis is priming his boys to get the jump on the Bears this year. Compara tive scores give Elon the edge for tonight's game, but the Lenoir Rhyne squad is always dangerous. Coach Jim Hamilton will bring three of the most dangerous scor ers in the Conference in the per sons of 6-8 Bob Ortmyer, 6-6 Rai- ford Wells and speedy Floyd Propst. Wells led the North State Conference in scoring last year with an average of 28.9 points per game, and all three are capable of hitting 20 to 30 points on any given night. Against Newberry last Saturday night Ortmyer hit 33, Propst 27 and Wells 23 points. Coach Doc Mathis will probably start three of his tall boys against the Bears tonight, with Ed Jura- tic and either Frank DeRita or Earl Stone at the forwards; Dee ■•\tkinson at center: and Ben Ken dall and Ray Whitley at the guards. on the class roster. The course in sizes the value of studying and and to ..d B.n ;r.»h.d cl .u^bUn, I. I‘7' Elon margin to 50-33 by the half- of all students working to a major,each of the students has an op- physical education, and those portunity at one time or another working to a minor in that field the term to teach certain time intermission. The third quarter proved tops for the Christians as Elon's outside men kept whipping the nets with' boys’ program for tonight sets and push shots. This drive I include demonstrations of for- tions, allowing more s u en s e (Continued on Page Four) l«ard rolls, pyramid building, chance to demonstrate. are encouraged to get the. train-, ing. stunts. Usually the teaching is ^Jone by way of group demonstra- TUMBLING CLASS TO GIVE EXHIBITION TONIGHT Elon Men Named For Committees The Elon athletic staff has two representatives on the sports committees for the North State Conference,, which were an nounced recently by Dr. M. C. Yoder, of Lenoir Rhyne, who is president of the Conference. The major sports committee lists Coach Jack McComas, of Atlantic Christian, chairman: Coach Sid Varney, of Elon; and Coach Tom Young, of Western Carolina. The minor sports com mittee lists Dr. Scott Boyd, of Elon College, chairman: Coach Ben Baker, of Guilford; and Coach Arthur Paschal, of High Point. suits will be given later. Only games set for next week are Second West vs Day Students and Third West vs Delta U next Thursday, but later games are set the following weeks. After the conclusion of round-robin play, the championship wil be awarded after semi-final and final elimi nations. The semi-finals are set Green. SECOND ROW — Roy Gilliam. Pat Cafasso, David Mose for Tuesday, February 14th, with Frances Knight, and Joy ^ r_lt T-I’an*" Something new in tho wav of half-time entertainment is slated for the intermission of the Alumni Memorial Gymnasium tonight. That something Klon-Lenoir Rhyne basketbal g ^ p^ysi. new is to be an ' participate in the various stunts, -pictured left to right above, cal Education Morrison, George Nall, Harvey Sharpe, Jimmie Calhoun and are as folows . ^RONlJtuw welborn, Carolyn Abernathy, Kathryn Lambert, Archie Wil^ K(JW — KJUKII nai/iH Mnwp the finals on Thursday. Februao'i ley, James BacrXodrow Rush, John Hall and Henry Fogleman maCK, Thf»fnn«nn. a BACK ROW — Bobby Sharpe 16th. Jack Henderson. Bob Bergman, ciiuck Maynard. Nick Thompson and Hubert Durham. Christians to maintain their sea son average of 96 points per game for the season to that time, and the Elon scoring power gave plen ty of thrills to the largest crowd ol the season in Alumni Memor ial Gymnasium. Both clubs dropped 35 of 46 shots from the free-throw line, but both teams had trouble at times with their shooting from the floor. The Christians hit on 37.1 per cent, wile the Bulldogs racked even 33 per cent of their floor attempts. The lead switched several times in the early moments, but the hristians found the range and pulled away to a commanding 47- 38 margin at half-time. The Bull- nogs came back strong after inter mission and actually grabbed the lead at. 56-55 after five minutes ')t the third quarter. It was then that Christians went to work. Ben Kendall had 27 and Dee Atkinson 25 to lead the Elon at tack, but they were ably aided by Frank DeRita's 18 counters, most of which came in the last quarter drive for victory. Big John Mar- ley was tops for the Bulldogs with 26 points, but Widgeon, Buchanan and Williams all hit in double fig ures for the visitors. The line-ups. Pos. Elon (96) A. C. C. (82) r—juratic (4) Buchanan (13) I''—Kendall (27) .... J. Wiliams (12) C—Atkinson (25) Beecham G—-Whitley (5) Widgeon (16) G—Citty (5) ..... Tomlinson (8) Half-time—Elon 47, A. C. C, 38. Elon subs — DeRita 18, Stone 4. Crump 8. A. C. C. subs — Mar- ley 26, Dr. Whitley 3, Whaley 3, D. Wiliams 2. Christians Roll Over Indian Five The Elon Christians rolled for a decisive 90 to 62 victory over the Catawba Indians in a North State Conference battle here on Saturday night, January 14th. The game marked the exact sixth an niversary of the opening of Elon's huge Alumni Memorial Gymna sium. The Christians and Indians were tied at 2-2, but Dee Atkinson hooked good for the 4-i bucket, nd Elon was out front to stay. Atkinson, aided by Jimmy Crump ind F:d Juratic, pushed Elon to 25-13 margin at the 10-minute mark, and Frank DeRita took over the lead as the Christians racked a 47-24 lead by half-time. It was Atkinson, Juratic and Crump again after intermission as the Maroon and Gold tossers moved their lead to 70-42 by mid way the last half. At that point Coach Doc Mathis retired both his first and second teams for the night, and the Christian third- stringers finished out the battle Jimmy Crump, Elon's junior guard from Aberdeen, was top man for the Christians with 18 points. Other Chrl.stians in dou ble figures were Dee Atkinson and Ed Juratic, each of whom hit 14 points. Pos. Elon (90) Catawba (62) y—Juratic (14) Fleming (11) F—Kendall (4) Hunt (6i C—Atkinson (14) Bryant G—Whitley (7) Lyndon (3) G—Crump (18) Holland (4) Elon subs — Stone 2, DeRita 8, Rickover 2, Sharpe 6, McDonald 6. Gates 4, Stout 5, King, Watts. Catawba subs — Clayton 22, Stout 7, Helfrick 2, Cline 4, Massey 2, Earney 1.
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