THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
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Wingate Quint Beaten
By The Lions 54 - 33
Mars Hill Has Scored 696
Points; WOO Mark Expected
To Be Reached
Lions Lose One Game
In Eight Tilts
Sports Observer Follows Team
Throuph Series Of
Games.
The Mars Hill Lions soundly
trounced the Wingate College quint
on their home court 54-33.
Coming up from a two point lead
at the half when they were only lead
ing by the score of 21-19, the Lions
turned on their high scoring tactics
during the final half to win going
away. The Lions scored as many
points the last half as the Wingate
cagers were able to garner during
the whole encounter. Coach Roberts
second string basketeers were run in
during the final moments of play, and
even they were able to hold the Win
gate team on better than even terms.
By scoring the 54 points in this
game, the Lion cubs were able to
maintain their record of averaging 50
points a game. After this game the
Roberts men had scored a total of 696
points in games to date. The goal of
this year’s team is to score 1000
points during the season. With 696
poi nts scored and with 12 games to
play, the Lion basketeers seem quite
likely to gain their end.
Anders and Murrell were high scor
ers for the Mars Hill team, but they
were closely followed by Kell. Anders
and Murrell each tossed 14 points
through the hoop, and Kell followed
with his 10 points.
Hawkins and Shanks, the latter a
newcomer to the team, also played
nice defensive games for the Lions.
Neither of the two Wingate forwards
was able to score a point on the two
stellar Lion guards.
Love and Crayton were outstand
ing for the Wingateers. Love scored
16 points to top the scoring for the
evening, while Love, his teammate,
looped in 9 markers.
Jitters By Knotts
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Lions Win Three Gatnes
In Pre-Season Tilts
CHARLES HURST
The Mars Hill Lions were not very
during the holidays, winning only
four games while suffering three
loses. The first game of the season
against Asheville School was won by
the Lions. The final score was 42-33.
In this game the Lions were paced by
Murrell, high scoring forward, with
21 points. The Blues were led by Seel-
bach, six-foot-five center, and Valiar,
diminutive forward, with 15 and 10
points respectively.
The second game of the season
proved disastrous for the Mars Hill
cagers as they bowed to the fast
stepping Blanton’s Business College
quintet from Asheville 37-25. The
Carter brothers, Floyd and Rex, led
the Blanton’s team to victory. Rex led
the scorers with 15 points with Floyd
close behind with 13 points. Murrell
again led Lion scorers with 10 points.
The third game of the season prov
ed to be a heart breaker to the Lions
as they lost to Asheville School 48-52.
The lead see-sawed back and forth
throughout the game. The final result
w'.s in doubt until the last minute of
the game. The Blues showed two play
ers to advantage. They were Seelbach
and Taylor, each scoring 18 points
In their first game during the holi
days the Lions defeated Rutheforc
College on their home court 50-30.
Though holding only a 15-13 advan
tage at half time, the Lion quint be
gan to click in the second half. Mur
rell, with only two points the fii’st
half, began shooting them through
the hoop the last half and scored 26
points. Kropf scored 11 points from
his position at guard and foi'ward
Hall and Scarborough for Rutherforc
garnered 11 and 9 points to lead the
Ramblers
The following night Oak Ridge en-
tei'tained the Lions. The Lions ran
I’oughshod over the Cadets 52-16
Murrell, Kell, and Anders were out
standing for the Lions, Mui’rell gath
ering 22 points.
Wingate was the next victim of the
Lions falling 37-25. Kell, Kropf, and
Anders were stars for the Lions. Col
lins and Long were outstanding for
Wingate.
The Lions were given a dose of
their own medicine as Belmont Abbey
soundly trounced them 38-31. Kell
The Mai-s Hill five officially opened
its 1935 season by taking the measure
of the Beacon Mills team of Swan-
nanoa 43-36. This game was played
at home. Murrell with 15 points and
Kell with 8 points paced the Lions.
Patton and Buchanan were outstand
ing performers for Beacon.
Rutherford College became the
next to fall before the Lion’s sharp
shooting five. This match proved to
be a high scoring spree for both teams
with a total of 107 points scored. The
final score was 60-47. Anders led
the Lions, running up 24 points. Kell,
Murrell, and Kropff also aided in the
victory. Hall and Albertson were
outstanding for Rutherford.
The Lions embarked on a two day
trip the next night. Textile Insti
tute was the first foe. The Lions
barely managed to eke out a victory,
33 to 31. The Lions were trailing
18-12 at the big intermission. Mur
rell with 15 points was the Lions
big scoring threat. Lowery led the
Textile players.
The Wofford Frosh went down be
fore the Lion cagers on the follow
ing night 52-25. Kell was the fair
haired boy for the Lions on this oc
casion with 18 points. Murrell and
Anders garnered 14 and 10 points
respectively.
The Lions suffered their first de
feat in five starts when they fell be
fore the Beacon Mills quint, 39-31.
Hipp and Morgan led the Mills cag
ers with 14 and 16 points respective
ly. Murrell caged 10 points for the
Lions.
The Lions again hit their winning
stride against the Wofford Frosh, tak
ing them into camp 54-21. Murrell
and Kropff set the pace with 18 and
13 points, respectively. Hodges was
the Frosh best player.
The Marshall All-Stars were the
next victims, 47-26. Kell with 16
points was high scorer. Redman led
Marshall with 11 points.
TVa Liw.s. avenged tb.elr
ootball defeat at the hands of Ten
nessee Wesleyan by trouncing them
37-19. The Lions were without the
services of Anders and Kropff due to
illness. Murrell paced the Lions with
19 points. Farmer with 8 points led
the Wesleyanites.
SPEAKING OF SPORTS
By EDGAR KIRK
Independent Team
Leads Intramural
Great success has been attained in
the Intramural League to date with a
total of 19 games already played. In
terest has been high, and large crowds
have been on hand for each en
counter.
The Independents, substitute team
for the C-II’s, are perched on top
with a total of four wins and no
losses. They are closely followed by
Brown Dormitory with five vans and
one loss, this to the Independents by
the score of 33 to 14. The other teams
follow down to the Academy team
which holds the bottom rung of the
ladder.
Individual scoring leadership has
been hotly contested. At the present
Charles Hurst, forward on the Inde
pendent team, is leading individual
scorers with a total of 43 points. Hov'
ever, he is barely in front as Carter
Phillips with 42 points is right on his
heels. Hurst’s score has been compiled
in four games, however, while
Phillips’ score covers a period of six
games.
The standings:
W. L. Pet.
Independents 4 0 .1000
Brown 5 1 .830
Town 4 1 .800
Ministei’s 3 2 .600
Meli'ose 2 ' 3 .400
Vii’ginia Club 2 3 .400
C. I 14 .200
Academy 0 5 .000
Individual scoring:
Team Points
Hurst Independents —43
Welcome in heavy caps to all the
new students who have arrived on our
campus to make it their home for the
coming semester. Luck to you and if
we can help you in any way, feel free
to call upon us for it. We take our
first bow here.
And to those who have found it
best to depart from this abode, we
send a fond farewell along with the
same old saying—^Luck to you!
Just to be contrary this time, we
are going to begin with a lot of non
sense and end with some serious
thoughts. Perhaps you may not re
member it, but at the C-I party it is
said that Brother Lindsay, you know,
Miller, kind of talked to James
Stone’s date a little more than he
thought was exactly gentlemanly, so
he goes around to Stone’s room and
apologizes the next morning for hav
ing taken his girl away from him. And
to that we would say, “More power
to you”! And say, did you ever read
hat poem about the football hero
that some fair damsel on our campus
composed? It is really delightful to
feast one’s reading soul upon it for a
few minutes. Isn’t this column sound
ing silly so far?
Just a reminder—^Valentine’s Day
is not so far off in the future and have
you selected your valentines yet?
That was meant to be just a thought
in passing, so ask Muss McGuire
about it.
You know, shipping is an awful
thing.
Now that second semester is begin
ning in earnest, we find that we must
settle down and do some of the pro
verbial digging to keep everything up
to par for the next six months. This
latest Literary Guild gift, “The
Science of Life” by Wells, is an inter
esting book. However, some of the
discussions were so far over our heads
that the benefit received from those
selections was negligible.
Someone ought to write an essay on
the life of typewriter ribbons. The
one that we are using now is black
and red with the edges frazzled from
\roo \oTig^ ^use—
Some of them if they could talk would
solve mysteries, give insights into dip
lomatic entanglements, and give us a
check on a lot of misunderstandings.
The Iron Firemen, or the automatic
stokers to most of you, which are
directly under us in this dormitoi'y,
have a hard time keeping the placed
all heated to the same degree all the
time.
Right here I would like to make an
appeal to all the students for their
cooperation in the movement for se
curing I’oom deposits for donation to
the building fund. Some will tell you
that you cannot get them back any
way. That is only true to a certain
extent, but since the cause is so
worthy and since so many just forget
the deposits, why not join up and
give it to a cause which really needs
the money? That’s swell—thought
you would.
The untiring spirit with which Miss
Allen is pushing her plans for the
new dormitory is extraordinary. Con
gratulations and bouquets to her for
it. And we think that the attaches at
the infirmary deserve some sort of
garland or commendation for their
efforts during this near-epidemic of
flu and pneumonia.
And, the annual staff promises to
have “The Laurel” off the press by
April 15 or just a little later. There
is another place where we would like
to ask that you cooperate with Mr.
Stringfield and the staff in getting
your portraits, if you could call them
such, made and in making the pay
ments foi’ the books as they fall due.
This past week-end has evidently
been quite hard on a lot of students
from the appearance some of them
give—circles, sleepiness, and few
hilarious laughs as usual. Come on—
grin and take a bow.
Douglass’ last Saturday Evening
Post cover was a wow and was a true-
to-life expression of an everyday oc
curence, so it seemed to us.
And before bidding you farewell
Who said basketball wasn’t a na
tional sport? With 18,500 fans crowd
ing Madison Square Garden on sever
al occasions within the past few
weeks, and this only a single example
out of many, it can be truly said that
basketball is rapidly gaining in popu
larity with the American sportsman.
And why shouldn’t it be as popular as
football? It is undoubtably a scientific
game, it’s fast and requires physical
perfection that the fans like to see.
“More and better basketball” is our
cry.
The Lions have started out after a
record. If they maintain the pace they
set at the first of the year, that of
averaging 50 points per game and on
completing their schedule have annex
ed a total of 1000 points, they will
have an All-American college record.
Coach Roberts and the boys apprec
iate the support and also the sports
manship shown by the students this
season and promise in return to main
tain the high standard of play shown
by them in the past. In spite of the
long practice periods and their deter
mination to do their best the Lions
would be unable to win as regularly
as they have been doing without stu
dent support. Attend the games, cheer
when the action justifies, and you will
be playing the game too—the game of
ife.
For the most improvement allow me
to call your attention to Robert Fleet-
wood and Bob Anders. Both these
boys by hard work have graduated
from the class of dubs and are now
rounding out into seasoned players,
ones that can be depended on. Con
gratulations, boys, and may you con
tinue to improve. The woi'k of Mur
rell, Kell and Hawkins is also not to
be overlooked.
For the fastest high school basket
ball in the state let me suggest that
you see the games during the annual
tournament, held here in February.
Though very little has been said to
the student body as a whole, I’m sure
Coach would appreciate it if the spec
tators, after seeing a game, would at
the close of the game remain as close
to the sidelines as possible rather than
ambling across the floor in going out.
In doing this you will prevent the
playing surface of the court from be
ing torn up and will insure faster
games.
ALUMNI NEW S
Rev. Clarence H. Patrick, graduate
of Mars Hill College in the Class of
1929 who last year received his B. D.
degree from Andover Newton and is
now doing graduate work at Andover
Newton and Harvard University, was
recently called to the pastorate of the
First Baptist Church in Shelburne
Falls, Massachusetts, situated on the
Mohawk Trail not far from Albany,
New York. Andover is the oldest
. theological school in the country and
is the seminary of Adoniram Judson
and Luther Rice. It was founded in
1825 and is one of the mother Baptist
seminaries of America.
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Of the six men at Wake Forest Col
lege on the December honor roll with
“A” reports, representing work be
tween ninety-five and one hundred
per cent perfect, one is Henry S.
Stroup of Alexis who was graduated
from Mars Hill College in 1933.
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Dr. Oscar Gillis, Mars Hill graduate
of 1906, is now a physician at the Old
Soldier’s Home in Biloxi, Mississippi,
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Miss Maxie Clark, former student
of Mars Hill College, was married
December 15, 1934, to Mr. J. Grey
Teague of Canton.
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Douglass Ferguson, 20-year old
Burnsville boy who is a carpenter’s
helper at the Norris Dam project,
near Knoxville, Tennessee, has won
wide recognition as an artist by
sketches he has made of Chairman A.
E. Morgan and Director H. A. Morgan
of the TVA, and Senator George W.
Norris. The sketches have been dis
played at Knoxville, and have been
praised very highly by thousands of
persons. Ferguson, who was graduat
ed from Mars Hill Colege in 1932,
has also sketched several scenes at
the TVA development. He conducts
art classes at the dam village. He
hopes to attend the Chicago Academy
of Fine Arts and study abroad with
the money he earns at Norris dam.
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Lewis Prince of Greenville, S. C., is
a member of the South Carolina legis
lation. Mr. Prince is a graduate of
Mars Hill College in the Class of
1927.
College in 1908, is now a state senator
in Virginia.
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Rev. L. R. Vann has accepted a call
to Spruce Pine, Mitchell Association,
succeeding Brother J. T. Biddle. The
Rev. Mr. Vann was graduated from
Mars Hill College in 1920 and has
been teaching for a number of years,
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Miss Edna Claire Stroud, a gradu
ate of Mars Hill in the Class of 1931,
was married to Mr. James Bryan
Spell, January 26, 1935. Mr. Spell is
a graduate of the University of North
Carolina and holds a position with the
Federal Land Bank at Columbia, S. C.
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Wade E. Brown, attorney, has been
named president of the People’s Bank
and Trust Company, of Boone. Mr.
Brown was graduated from Mars Hill
in 1926.
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Roland Wall, a graduate of 1916,
who visited Mars Hill in September,
is now mayor of Brookhaven, Missis
sippi. o o
Henry Lee Bridges, who was grad
uated from Mars Hill in 1927, is a
member of the firm of Duke and
Bridges of Greensboro.
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STUDENTS WELCOME,
of course, buy or “no buy”.
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John Battle of Charlottesville, Va.,
who was graduated from Mars Hill
and Murrell again led the Lion scorers
with 7 and 12 points. No one man was
outstanding for the Abbey team as
they worked as an oiled machine.
Phillips Brown
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Arrowood Ministers 36
Yelton Melrose 35
Beaman Melrose 34
once more for a couple of weeks, we
would like to ask if the possession of
honesty, truth, and dependability is
not enough for a fair foundation?
Perhaps that sounds foolish, but we
have a reason for asking you to think
about that for a couple of minutes.
Will you?
Again we wish the new students
luck and PERHAPS for ourselves. So,
until next time,
KNOTTS to YOU!
The Gibbs House
_and—
Gibbs Annex
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