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THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Page Three THE HILLTOP 1936 Mars Hill Lion Football Schedule Contains 9 Games, All In Conference The 1936 football schedule calling for nine games, all against conference foes has been made public by Director of Athletics Oren Roberts. This is two less games than the 1935 schedule contained. The only new opponent on this year’s schedule is Campbell Col lege. The Campbellites will be met at Mars Hill on October 10. Three opponents on the oidginal 1935 schedule have been dropped from this year’s schedule. Appalachian Frosh, Tennessee Wesleyan, and Biltmore College are the three. The season will open September 26 on the Mars Hill gridiron with Rutherford College fuimishing the opposition. For seven con secutive week-ends the Lions play an opponent each week, then skip a week, and close their regular season against their traditional rivals, Brevard College. This last game will be played Thanksgiving Day on the Mars Hill turf. Eight of the nine games scheduled for the Lions are to be played at home. The game on a foreign field is the annual game with Oak Ridge Military Institute. The Cadets will be met October 31 on the Oak Ridge field. The 1936 footballers will have an enviable record to uphold. For the past two years the Mars Hill gridders have been champions of the Old North State, compiling during that time a record of 11 victories, 1 defeat, and 1 tie in conference play. Taking into consideration non conference play in the state the Lions have won 14, lost 1, and tied 1.' The schedule: September 26 Rutherford Here October 3 Wingate Here October 10 Campbell Here October 17 Lees-McRae Here October 24 Belmont Abbey Here October 31 Oak Ridge There November 7 P. J. C. Here November 14 Boiling Springs Here Novemiber 26 Brevard Here Trackmen And Netters Prepare For Hard Schedules Track Team Faces Hardest Schedule In History; Net ters Have 10 Meets A And B Teams Representing Mars Hill i Lose Four Games In Newport Tournament Two basketball teams representing Mai*s Hill College participated in the Southeastern Junior College Basket ball Tournament held at Newport, Tennessee last week-end under the auspices of the Newport post of the American Legion. The two teams, A and B, competed with teams from four other schools representing three others states of Kentucky, Tennes see, and Alabama. The Mars Hill teams did not fare so well in the meet, losing all four of the games in which they participated, all by narrow margins. Their losing margin in all four games was only a total of fourteen points. The first game in which a Mars Hill quint participated took place Fri day afternoon. The B team after putting on a miserable exhibition the first half and trailing 11 to 2 at the half, showed a complete reversal of form the last half against Hiawassee to almost overtake the Tennessee team. The final score favored Hia wassee 29 to 27. In the B team consolations the Baby Lions were defeated by the Pikesville (Ky.) team 46 to 39. The two teams were tied at 24 all at the big intermission, but the Kentucky team had a stronger finish the last half to gain the verdict. The A team lost two heart-break ing games in the tournament. Satui'- day morning Tennessee Wesleyan, winners of the tournament, nosed out the Lions 49 to 46. The Lions played by far their best game of the season and fought a gallant fight before suc cumbing. The Wesleyan team tower ed over the Lions by several inches, but the Ro'bertsmen made up with fight what they lacked in size. The Mars Hill team led at the half by four points, but did not hold the lead very long. The Wesleyan team ran up a big lead but Mars Hill fought on to the final whistle, scoring four points in the last minute of play. With only two hours rest the A team took the court again Saturday afternoon against Pikesville. Tired as they were the Lions still managed to put up a good scrap, losing in the final moment of play by 47 to 45. Had the Mars Hill team been fresh they might easily have beaten the Pikeville team by 15 or 20 points. At the conclusion of the tourna ment two Mars Hill players were honored by being placed on All- Tournament teams. Jim Murrell was placed on the A team at a forward position and George Wirtz was hon ored by officials and placed on the B team at guard. Baseball Prospects Are None Too Bright This Season Only Three Lettermen This Year’s Crew Of Baseballers On Prospects for a winning team at Mars Hill this year do not appear as bright as they might since there are only three lettermen returning from last year’s team. Parker, Wirtz, and Conferenice heads this week and Hernandez are the men. However, Both the track team and the ten nis team under the direction of Coach Spencer B. King and Coach Vernon E. Wood respectively have started work in preparation for hard sched ules this season. The tennis team held their first meeting early this week to plan for this season’s work. As soon as the weather clears and courts are put in shape the netters will begin in ear nest. Only one letterman from last year’s team is in school this year. Charles Hurst who held down the number four position on last year’s team will again be ready for service. Several reserves from last year’s squad and a number of newcomers will fight it out for the other positions on the team. The college tournament last fall unearthed several good prospects in Warrick, Yelton, Ross, Ellen, and some other good prospects entered school the second semester so that the Mars Hill team should at least be aible to make up in quantity what it may perhaps lack in quality. Only five meets have definite ly been scheduled by Coach Vernon Wood. Textile Institute and Wofford College will be met on the first week end in May, both at Spartaniburg. Textile has scheduled a return meet at Mars Hill on May 6 and Wofford will probably do the same at a later date. Two meets have been arrang ed with Lees-McRae with dates to be decided upon at a later date. More meets Avill be scheduled by Coach Wood before the regular sea son opens so that the Lion racquet- eers will likely engage about ten foes. Coach Wood is attending a meeting of Southeastern Junior Col- Coach Roberts hopes to mold a win ning team around these men this year, and prospects are that a hust ling, fighting group will be produced. The squad has been cut to about 22 men and they have been working for about 3 weeks indoors and out, hav ing had about ten practices outside. The squad is now drilling in the gym until the snow clears off the ground and conditions are so that the squad can practice on the diamond. No definite prediction can be made regarding the team this year as the squad has not had sufficient workouts on the diamond to gain an idea of what the team will be. The pitching prospects seem to be good, with Wirtz and Parker, last year’s regulars, and Scaiiborough, Johnson, and Stines showing up well in practice. There are quite a number of infield candi dates but no position is sewed up un less it be that of the initial sack, Hernandez’s hangout. At present Al exander and Haney are the best choices for the keystone sack and Mulley has a foothold on the short field position. Hurst and Bowman lave the inside track to the hot spot at third base. upon his return will make public whether or not the Mars Hill team will enter the conference tourney later in the spring. (Continued on page 4) Lions Finish Third In Conference Rage With A Record Of 11 Wins In 16 Starts The Mars Hill Lions finished third in the conference basketball race with a season’s record of eleven wins and five losses. Oak Ridge was awarded the championship held last year by Belmont Abbey, with a record of nine wins out of ten games. In all games played the Lions have a record of 16 won and 9 lost. Only one team was able to defeat the Robertsmen twice during the season. Asheville School conquered the Lions in two games be fore the Christmas holidays. All other teams to defeat Mars Hill were in turn vanquished by the Lions. All of the teams who defeated the Lions were able to win by only a few points. On the other hand the Lions defeated these same teams by a large margin. For the second successive year the Mars Hill basketeers scored over a thousand points, ending this season with a total of 1084 points. This season’s total gives the Mars Hill quint an average of 43 points a game. Opposing quints were able to dent the Mars Hill defense for 777 points for an average of 31 points per engagement. The largest number of points scored by the Lions in one game was against the Presibyterian Junior College five when they rung up 63 points. Asheville School scored the most points chalked up by any opposing team in a pre-Christmas game. The Blues defeated Mars Hill 54 to 52 in an extra-period battle. No team held the Lions to less than 28 points in a game while the Lions were able to hold the Mitchell college team to a 8 point sum for one game. Jim Murrell this year again led the Lions in scoring with 374 points or a game average of 15 points. Don Parker was second with 204 markers. Andy Kropff had 181 points for third place. Cowan with 135, Hernandez with 77, and Brantley with 66 were next in line. Baseballers Trek Into South Carolina For Six Games During Spring Holidays 2 Mars Hill Forwards Given Honors In Conference Murrell Is Chosen On First All- State Cage Team; Parker Makes Second In the outfield the candidates are numerous. Harris, Sinclair, and Huff are the pick of the crowd in the outer gardens. It is possible that Hoot will use the pitchers who are not on the mound in the outfield when play be gins. Behind the plate Weaver is the out standing candidate. Weaver was a re serve on last year’s team. He is ex pected to receive stiff competition from Ray and Jones in the fight for the backstop position. A meeting of conference heads was held in conjunction with the Tour nament. Officers of the association were elected and plans laid for the annual tennis tournament. Dean I. N. Carr was elected to the vice-pres idency and Mr. Wood chosen the head of next year’s tournament com mittee. The tennis tournament will be held at Tennessee Wesleyan late this spring. The Mars Hill raqueteers will compete in the central zone finals at Hiawassee College with Hiawassee, Young Harris, and Tennessee Wes leyan. Two teams from this four will be chosen by elimination to com pete at Tennessee Wesleyan in the final tournament at which the con ference champion will be chosen. Toughest Schedule In Years Faces Lion Baseballers Several Senior Colleges Are Listed In Schedule For Robertsmen The inclement weather at Mars Hill and the inability of coaches to get together has forced several changes in the schedule for this year’s Lion baseball team. The sched ule is not totally completed as yet but will be filled out shortly by Coach Roberts. When completed the schedule will contain approximately thirty games. The team will meet prep school, jun ior college, and senior college teams during the spring. The heavy snowfall at Mars Hill forced Coach Roberts to call off sev eral battles on the Mars Hill diamond. The game scheduled with Johns Hop kins University of Baltimore for next Tuesday was called off alto gether and two opening games last week-end were not played because of the snow. The incompleted schedule: March 27-28—^Textile, there Dean I. N. Carr and Coach Oren Roiberts represented Mars Hill at the meeting of the North Carolina Jun ior College Conference in Charlotte last week-end. At this meeting Coach Roberts was presented a football trophy symbolic of the state championship in football which the Lions won last fall with a record of seven wins and one loss in conference play. The basketball trophy was award ed to Oak Ridge. The Cadets had a season’s record of nine victories and one defeat. Lees^MoRae and Boiling Springs were second with 10 and 4, and Mars Hill was third with 11 out of 16. Jim Murrell was placed on the All- State team for the second successive year, and Donald Parker made the second AlLState team. The members of the conference who attended the meeting went on record as being in favor of the Gra ham Plan. President Campbell of Campbell College introduced a reso lution to adopt the plan. It was sec onded by Coach Oren Roberts. Five schools. Mars Hill, Campbell, Presby terian, Boiling Springs, and Brevard voted in favor of it while two schools, Wingate and Oak Ridge, opposed ad option of the plan. Lees-MdRae de clined to vote on the plan and Bel mont Abbey was not present. The conference upon the recom mendation of the nominating com mittee decided to keep the same slate of officers as had been in effect last fall. Of this group Dean I. N. Carr was elected president. The next meeting of the confer ence heads will be held in Charlotte in the early summer to make plans for next year’s work. March 30-31—iCitadel, there April 6-7—'Lincoln Memorial, there April 8—iCarson-Newman, there April 10—^Blue Ridge (pending), there April 11—^Blue Ridge (pending), here April 17—^Farm School, there April 18—^Farm School, here April 20—'Belmont Abbey, there April 21—^Wingate, there Coach Oren Roiberts and his Mars Hill College baseballers will trek into South Carolina during the spring holi days for a weeks’ training trip. The Lions will play six games on the trip, returning the day school opens after the spring holidays. The Lions will leave Mars Hill on Thursday, March 26, for Spartanburg to meet Textile Junior College that afternoon. Textile will be seeking revenge to the nth degree for the two sound thrashings dished out to them last season. Mars Hill walloped them 13 to 6 on the Textile field and walked away with a 24 to 0 trouncing on the college diamond. Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, the University of South Car olina will play hosts to the Lions at Columbia. This is the first time the Gamecocks and the Lions have ever met in any form of athletics. Sunday, the Lions will travel to Charleston and rest up for two games with The Citadel team on Monday and Tuesday. This is also the first time athletic teams of the Baptist In stitute and the seaside college have ever met. The Lions will stay in Charleston until Wednesd'ay when they will start the trip home. Somewhere on the homeward trip the Lions will stop off and engage another foe yet to be se lected and then continue home that evening. This foe yet to be selected will probably be either Textile or Wofford College. Efforts to schedule a game with Presbyterian college or Clemson College for this date proved unsuccessful. This will be the first time a Mars Hill baseball team has ever taken a trip into South Carolina. The five games with senior college teams will prove a big dose for Mars Hill but the Lions should some back with at least an even break. April 22—^P. J. C., there April 23—^Campbell, there April 24—Oak Ridge, there April 25—'Boiling Springs, there April 30—'P. J. C., here May 1—'Brevard, here May 2—Brevard, there May 6—Maryville (pending), here May 7—^Textile, here May 8—iCarson-Newman (pending), here May 9—'Belmont Abbey, here May 12—'Wingate, here May 15—iCampbell, here May 16—iBoiling Springs, here May 24—Oak Ridge, here
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