HaUsboro Slates First Holiday Invitational Cage Bill, December 28-29
Whiteville, Hallsboro And
Southport Have Entered
By JIGGS POWERS
HALLSBORO—Plans are in the making for the
First Annual Columbus Holiday Invitational Basket
ball Doubleheader, to be played at the Hallsboro
High School gymnasium on Thursday and Friday
nights, Dec. 28-29. Only boys’ teams will be involved.
Tentative plans for the big Yuletide holiday cage
program would pit Whiteville’s Wolfpack and'Halls
boro’s Tigers, as the host teams, against Southport’s
Dolphins and a fourth club, Floyds, S. C.
Mack Edwards, coach of the
Hallsboro Tigers, is the man who
is spearheading the move to bring
Columbus County its first big
basketball program during the
Christmas holiday period.
Edwards is the originator of the
Currituck Holiday Doubleheader
that ha^ become such a success
in that area. He established this
program while coaching at that
school last Christmas and it has
grown this year from last year’s
four-high-school-team program
until the one this year, which
will consist of two afternoon and
two night games both days; with
both high schools and junior col
leges competing.
Edwards said that White
ville’s Coach Buck Jolly and
Coach Pete Lee of Southport
had already accepted the invi
tation and that It Is now a
sure thing that Floyds would
accept.
Coach Edwards said that he
felt the program would be wel
comed by the sports-loving pub
lic of Northeastern South Caro
lina and that of Southeastern
North Carolina.
“There’ll be no Dixie Classic
for basketball fans to attend this
year,” he said. “So, I believe many
of them would like to stay at
home and see their own boys play.
It will give the college students
someplace to meet during the
holidays, too.”
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this oppor
tunity to thank our relatives and
friends in Southport for their
many acts of kindness and sym
pathy to us in the recent death
of our dear husband and father.
Mrs. M. Dewey Smith &
Mrs. W. S. Holland
Watch Your Label!
Gage Pairings
HALLSBORO — Director
Mack Edwards today releas
ed the following pairings for
play In the First Columbus
Holiday Invitational Double
header here, ne*t Thursday
and Friday:
DECEMBER 28
7:00 p. ni.—Hallsboro-South
port.
8:30 p. m.—VVhiteville-Floyd’s.
DECEMBER 29
7:00 p. m.—Whiteville-South
port.
8:30 p. m.—Hallsboro-Floyd's.
Pirates Defeat
Waccamaw Two
ASH—Shallotte’s Pirate cage
teams rolled over the Eagle crews
of Waccamaw High School twice,
here, Friday night. The Lady
Bucs, paced by Judy Golden’s fine
shooting, took a 53-29 win; while
Robert Galloway hit often to lead
the Pirate boys to an 87-44 win
over the Eagle five.
Judy Golden tallied 44 points,
getting, all except 9 of her Buc
crew's total in their win over the
Eaglettes. Galloway hit for 35
points.
Jim Russ with 15 and Danny
Stanley with 12 also hit in the
double figures for Shallotte’s boys.
Stanley also turned in a good re
bound game for the winning quint,
which now has a 4-0 record.
Waccamaw’s leaders included
Mary King, with 23 of her Ea
glette team’s 29 points; Vernon
King with 20 points, Earl Hughes
and Lyle King each with 10 points
for the Eagle boys.
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Fonvielle, Williams Named
To All-East A A Grid Team
RALEIGH—Tabor City’s Red
Devils, runner-up to Elizabeth
town’s Waeeamaw Athletic Asso
ciation football champion Yellow
Jackets, placed a pair of its stars
on The Raleigh News and Obser
ver’s 1961 All-East Class AA
Football Teams, while the champs
placed but one.
Joe Tiede, of the N&O sports
staff, announced the All-East
Double-A selection here, Sunday,
which included first and second
teams, and a number of honorable
mentions.
Leon Edward Fonvielle, fleet
footed, 170-pound halfback, and
Big Sammy Williams, burly 215
pound tackle, were the Tabor City
aces on the All-East. Bud Fisher,
ace bread-and-butter fullback of
Coach Charlie Regan’s ETown
champs, a 180-pounder, was nam
ed as the center.
Three other WAA stars, includ
ing two from Elisabethtown and
one from Chadbourn won second
team positions. Dick Crutchfield,
185-pound end, was Chadbourn’s
nominee; while Guard Pat Jessup,
195:pounder, and Quarterback Ed
die Smith, 175, won second-team
places for ETown.
Getting honorable mention from
the Waeeamaw loop were End
Mac Campbell of Elizabethtown;
Tackles Kenneth Gooden and
Frank La.i, .both of ETown; Guards
Alex Gooden of ETown and Jerry
Soles of Tabor City; and Back
Howard Benton of Shallotte.
Of the WAA stars, Joe Tiede
had this to say:
FISHER—“Named as first team
center was rugged Bud Fisher of
Elizabethtown, who played full
back on offense and end on de
fense . . . Elizabethtown's Fisher,
a 5-6, 180-pounder, was the top
ground-gainer for the conference
champions. He also was a stand
out defensively, and for that rea
son was named at the center posi
tion.”
FONVIELLE —“T a b o r City’s
Fonvielle, impressed Waeeamaw
Coaches with his running ability
. . . ‘One of the best in this sec
tion, college material,’ said Frank
Thompson, former Wake Forest
tackle now coach at Bladenboro
. . . Another former Deacon,
LEON FONVIELLE
SAMMY WILLIAMS
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Whiteville’s Buck Jolly, cited Fon
vielle’s ‘great drive and broken
field running.’ . . . ‘Very fast and
deceptive’, said Jiggs Powers oi
The Whiteville News-Reporter”.
WILLIAMS—‘‘Tabor City tac
kle Williams, at 215 the biggest
boy on the two teams, led the
all-star voting in the Waccamaw
Athletic Association. Only a jun
ior, he led Coach Bermey Stevens’
tough defense and also excelled
as a blocker.”
Tiede noted that Eddie Smith of
Elizabethtown, was ‘‘the second
team player who came closest to
making the first team. A versatile
player who can run and throw
very well, Smith was mentioned
for his ball-handling, faking and
field-generalship. ”
Here are the two All-East
Teams: FIRST TEAM--Ends Ruf
fin Odom, Ahoskie and Richard
Austin, Cary; Tackles Chuck
Sledge, Morehead City and Sam
my Williams, Tabor City; Guards
Dick Barnhill, Apex and Bill Har
ris, Beaufort; Center Bud Fisher,
Elizabethtown; Backs David
O’Neal Morehead City, Carroll
Forehand, Edenton, Leon Fon
vielle, Tabor City, Earl Capps,
Ashoskie, Bobby Brannon, Gary.
SECOND TEAM—Ends Lyn
wood Rogerson, Williamston and
Dickie Crutchfield, Chadbourn;
Tackles Charles Cuthrell, Edenton,
Dan Crocker, Selma; Guards Bill
Williams, Ahoskie and Pat Jess
up, Elizabethtown; Center Frank
Shields, Scotland Neck; and
Backs Eddie Smith, ETown, Rich
ard Dixon, Edenton, Jimmy Wil
liams, Fuquay and Spencer Bar
row, Ahoskie.
Dove Season
The final half of the split
dove season Is now a week
old, having; begun on Dec. 13.
It will continue through Jan.
15, 1952.
Bag limits on doves are 12
dally; 24 possession.
Poor Shooting
Hurts Ap Mark
By “SMUT” JONES
BOONE—A poor shooting per
centage from the floor and loose
ball handling are largely respon
sible for the Appalachian State
Mountaineers’ poor start on the
hardwood this season.
Coach Bob Light’s charges have
won only one of four games, that
being a 66-62 decision over Pfeif
fer. The losses came at the hands
of Guilford, East Tennessee State
and Belmont Abbey.
In the four games, the Apps
fired at the basket 261 times, hit
ting on only 92 for a 35.3 per
cent accuracy mark. That isn’t
the kind of shooting that wins
many ball games.
Poor ball handling and passing
pl&yed a large part in the one
point loss to Guilford and that
phase of the game must also be
improved.
Two bright spots in an other
wise gloomy picture are freshman
Wayne Duncan and sophomore
Jim Richardson. Duncan, from
Danville, Va., has hauled down
51 rebounds while scoring 49
points in the four games. His best
effort came against Pfeiffer when
he speared 18 rebounds and col
lected 16 points.
Richardson, a 6-4 lad from
North Wilkesboro, has 43 re
bounds to his credit and is the
team’s leading scorer with 60
points. Richardson has sunk 41
per cent of its shots from the
floor while canning 12 of 14 free
throws.
Doug Wall, soph guard from
Winston-Salem, owns the best eye
for the basket thus far. The six
foot guard has hit on 15 to 34
shots for an accuracy figure of 44
per cent.
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