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THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Page Seven Wirtz And Higgins Placed On All-State Team 1934 Mythical Team Chosen By Coaches. Jones, Edwards, Make Second Team; Tutor, Davis, and Greer Given Honorable Mention. Two Mars Hill men were honored last week by being placed on the all- eonference football team. The men so honored were George Wirtz and Donald Higgins. Wirtz was placed at half back while Higgins won a tackle position. The all-conference, or all-state team as it is commonly called, is chosen each year at a meeting of the state conference by a committee of coaches and sports writei*s. Wirtz, who earlier in the year was elected captain of the Mai's Hill team, has been the outstanding player on the team throughout the season. Fast and the most elusive runner in the conference, he led the backs of the state in scoring during the season just closed. He was also a fine passer and kicker while being a deadly blocker and tackier. Higgins, who played tackle on this year’s Lion outfit, has been the out standing star in the line in most of the games played. A star in high school, Higgins has continued to im prove, and will no doubt be an out standing player for some senior col lege team. Both of the men chosen this year are Juniors, and will stand a fine chance of making the team again next year. Jones backfield star, and Edwards ace lineman, rated the second team while Tutor, end, Davis, center, and Greer, a backfield man, were given honorable mention. Twenty-Five Out For Basketball Team MARS HILL TIES BREVARD, 0 ■ 0 LIONS TRAMPLE BLUES, 42 - 33 Before a small crowd in McConnell Gymnasium, Saturday afternoon, the Lions opened the basketball season with a 42-33 win over the Asheville School Blues, after a fine second half rally. At the end of the first half the Lions held a 21-20 advantage. The game, however, offered little in the way of excitement. Seelbaeh, Who starred for the Blues at the pivot position, regis tered seven field goals and a foul for 15 points. Murrell, Lion forward, was high scorer of the game, with 10 baskets and one foul for 21 points to his credit. The line-ups: Asheville Mars Hill Pos. School Murrell (21)_ F (4) Ballantyne Fleetwood (4) F (10) Valier Anders (2) C — (15) Seelbaeh Hawkins (1) G (1) Taylor Hunt (3)-. G (1) Walton Subs: Mars Hill, Kell 5, Jones, Knopff 6. Asheville School, Pettit 2, Yellott. Melrose Tramples Academy Class 27-8 The Melrose basketball team ran over the purple shirts of the Academy class 27-8 in the opening game last week. William Yelton was the high scorer of the game, with “Cooky” Beaman running second. Both are of the Melrose team. Bobby Wright was the outstanding player of the Acad emy team. The Melrose team consisted of T. E. Person, Neal Shultz, guards, “Cooky” Beaman, and William Yel ton, fomvards, and “Legs” Griffin, center. The Academy team consisted of Farell James, center, Neal Saund ers, and Bobby Wright, forwax*ds, Donald Ross and Jack Wagner, guards. The substitutes for Melrose were: Teague-Beaman, Anthony-Yelton, Keller-Griffin, Kirk-Shultz, Bauman- Person. The substitutes for the Acade my were: Ellen-Wagner, Moorer-Ross, Fox-Moore, and Barnett-Saunders. The officials were “Rush” Padgett, timekeeper; “Willie” Webster, score keeper; and George Wirtz, referee. Answering Coach Roberts’ call for Varsity'basketball candidates, twen ty-five men reported for practice on Tuesday, December 4. Several of these had been training for three weeks in early practice under Coach Roberts’ tutelage. The rest were mem bers of the Varsity football squad who were just reporting. Prospects this year are not as bright as in former years. Only four letter men were present for the first drill. These were: Kell, forward; Robinson, center; Hawkins and Hunt, guards. The rest of the squad are in experienced men as far as junior col lege experience is concerned. At the present time Anders and Robinson seem to have the inside track to the pivot position with Ogle and Poe offering spirited competition. Forward material is plentiful with several coloifful performers out for jobs. However, Murrell and Fleet- wood are in line for starting posi tions. Kell, Chathem, Parker, Person, and Bankhead are all working hard in an attempt to crash the starting lineup. The guard positions at present are being capably handled by the lettermen. Hunt and Hawkins, with Hernandez, ones, Kropff, Spear, Ram sey, and Kurst coming along in fine style. At the present writing three games have been played, two with Asheville School and the other with Blanton’s College of Asheville. The team will leave next Monday on a week’s trip into the eastei-n part of the state. Dur ing this trip games will be played with Rutherford College, Oak Ridge Mili tary Institute, Wingate Junor Col lege, and Belmont Abbey Junor Col lege. I NN—NN—•NH^—Rll«——lINi-—HH- III iM ||»——MR—*j 1* Before a Thanksgiving crowd of 1,- 500 people Brevard College and the Mars Hill Mountain Lions fought to a scoreless tie in their battle for the state junior college championship. Both teams, handicapped by the con dition of the playing field which was a sea of mud, never could get their offensive attacks to functioning prop erly. This game was supposed to settle the state junior college title, but the tie left both teams occupying the championship role. As a result of this tie, it was decided by the conference heads that the two teams should play in Asheville to decide the champion ship. This game was never played, as neither college approves of post-sea son games. Both forward walls put on a great defensive exhibition. The backs also played well, but the wet field made flashy running, deception, and speed slightly under par. In the backfield for Brevard, Prentice, Shufford, and Clayton did most of the ball carrying, while Jones, Greer, and Clark stood out in the backfield for Mars Hill. Following are the statistics on the Brevard-Mars Hill game Mars Hill First downs 8 Yds. g’n’d rush’g 119 Yds. g’n’d p’ss’g 48 Av. yds. per punt 41 The Lineup: SPEAKING OF SPORTS By EDGAR KIRK Intramural Basketball Attracts Attention By PRANTLAND GRICE Now that football season is over (and I must say that we had a very successful season) all interest has turned toward indoor sports, the ma jor one being basketball. In addition to a fine varsity team this year, we will have eight intramural teams. These eight teams will be divided as follows: C-I, C-II, Academy, Melrose, Brown, town boys, Virginia boys, and Ministerial students. Very little information has been received from any of these teams except the Wildcats, who are the town boys. This team is made up as follows: foinvards: Wall, Greer, Chandler, Stines; guards. Carter, Ramsey, Huff; centers, Jarvis and Clark. These men are holding their positions at present but are being kept busy by T. R. Simpson, James “Otis” Holcombe, Snake “Roy” Da vis, Frank “Sally” Bradley, and Don ald “Whimpy” Higgins. Since each team is allowed ten players one of these men will be added to the pres ent squad. These players are all veteran cag- ers. W^all, an intramural star from last year; Greer from Bluefield Inti- tute; Chandler, the flash from Wal nut; Stines from Appalachian State; and Carter and Jarvds, txvo of the best in intramural competition last year. Huff seemed to be oveidooked last year but is showing up excellently now. Ramsey and Clark are twm of the best prospects ever sent out from Mars Hill High. These boys are under the veteran coach, George “Moe” Anderson. An derson has put out a consistently win ning team throughout the years. One of the present varsity stars, Robert Fleetwood, w^as for two years under his supervision. Coach Anderson is losing very little sleep over his pros pects, and predicts an unusually suc cessful season. Brevard 7 114 32 38 Pos. Brevard Mars Hill Tutor LE Wahomc Higgins LT Sitton Edwards, W. LG Kilpatrick Davis C Proffitt Edwards, G RG Grey Cleveland RT Harmon Ramsey RE Gaston Clark ,. QB Griffiian Parker RH Prentice Jones LH Clayton Qreer FB Shufford Subs: Brevard: Smoak, Wimsnant; Mars Hill: Wirtz, Anderson, Jarvis. HR——>IIK——HR—>UH——nH«——RR—UH——UR——mi— The Mars Hill Lions finished out a fairly successful season when they tied Brevard college here on Thanks giving day. Every game of the heavy eleven game schedule was played and we finished with seven wins, two losses and two ties. One of the ties was with Brevard, and thereby hangs the tale of how'’ Mars Hill has to share the title of junior college champs with that institution. The Lions amassed a total of 112 points that season while their op ponents were struggling to anex 99. Sixty-two of these points came in two games, the Lions being snowed under by Milligan and Tennessee Wesleyan, each gaining 31 points by their at tacks. With the loss of only three letter men this fall the football prospects for next year are brighter than ever. Davis, veteran center, along with Huff and Anderson, all letter men, are the only men being lost in graduation, and w'ith plans already underway for the importation of men to fill their places there is no reason for the Lions not easily winning the state title and along with that lick Milligan and Tennessee Wesleyan, thereby aveng ing our losses to them this season. Now that football season has gone let’s turn our fancies to basketball. Why not set our goal at a title in basketball as well as in football? Last season we had a very successful sea son and also managed to place two men on the all southern junior col lege team. The prospects are bright and out of the 25 men that have reported for practice it seems that coach should turn out a winning aggregation. He will probably be assisted after Chris tmas by Nettles who is returning at that time to resume his duties as as sistant coach. And while our minds are on basket- 115 Are Enrolled In Music Department (Continued from page 1) tant orchestral instruments, much in terest is being shown in the college orchestra. This group, along with the male quartet, has already made one trip, the success of which has led those in authority to plan others for the Spring semester. The male chorus is the most recent innovation of the music department, having been organized this year for the first time. Its primary object is the training of the large number of young men on the campus who are interested in cultivating their voices. The quartet, which consists of Jack Benson, first tenor; John Stevens, sec ond tenor; James Stone, baritone; and Earnest Dudley, bass, has made several public appearances this sem ester. Two New Members of Faculty Mars Hill is fortunate in having —HR—HH—nil—WH——BR—MR—HR—RM——BM—HR—»B • I ball allow me to make a worthwhile suggestion. All during the season let us not forget to continue the excel lent spirit of sportsmanship that ex isted during the football season. The first time we boo or razz the referee it will be a blot on our records. That type of conduct is not going to cause the official to alter or reverse his decision. If he did we wouldn’t want him. It makes us boors and poor sports in the eyes of the visitors and we will have that reputation until the conduct is again above reproach for a long period of years. I’m sure this is not going to happen, to us. Another small courtesy we should extend to the visitors is that of ab solute silence when one is trying to make a foul shot. Place yourselves in his position and I’m sure you wouldn’t want 500 people yelling at you. In doing this we will not be placing ourselves in a position to be called “softies”. It will be another point towards good sportsmanship. I’m sure we had rather lose after playing a hard game of clean basket ball than to win by playing crookedly or unfairly. The complete Intramural basket ball schedule has been worked out by coach, and the games are already un der way. They are being played strictly in accordance with the rules and a competent official is in charge of all contests. The basketball programs mention ed above is one of the finest things that could be done for the boys of this campus. While practicing and playing, you learn to play hard, fair and square, and that’s what counts. Our whole college training will be a failure if we do not learn to live with other people, therefore the benefits are two fold. If I’ve left out anything I’ll gdt it next time so I’ll sign off for the year with a Merry Christmas to you all. two new instructors in the music de partment this year. They have al ready won the favor and admiration of everj'^ one. Miss Caroline Paul, of Beaufort, South Carolina, received her B. M. degree from Erskine Women’s Col lege and the New England Conserva tory of Music at Boston, having also studied violin under Samuel Gardner at the Juillard Graduate School. She teaches violin and other orchestral instruments, and directs the college orchestra. Miss Margaret Whittington, who is head of the voice department, studied at the Women’s College of the Uni versity of North Carolina at Greens boro, and Meredith college. She has also had private lessons under Miss Dicie Howell and Gordon Stanley. Every one who is musically inclined is looking forward to the recital which Miss Whittington and Miss Paul plan to give in the near future. O ■D O O O O O O O O O €5 O O O O O A Merry Christmas A Happy New Year MARS HILL GLEANERS o G G O O © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © WELCOME -TO- SCRUGGS FOB DRUGS 23 Haywood St. CAMPUS VIEW ■+ 1 I 4.. Wishing You A MERRY CHRISTMAS J. F. Ammon & Go. i Mars Hill, N. C. ! I -§• McConnel Gymnasium in the Background
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