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  • Monday, Feb. 13, 1950 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN P*»ge » CtTMHONTS SPEIT TWO WITH E,C,U. • Hunt's Hunches BY PAT M. HUNT Well, press time is here again with nothing to write about. The surprise of the two weeks period since the last publication was the Cats victory over ECTC. The mountain boys outplayed, outfought, and, most important, outscored the lads from the sand hills. You might class the second biggest surprise as the cage victory over Carson-Newman or the tie wrestling match with Emory University. The cagers tyrere expected to lose an dthe wrestlers to win. Both contests upset the dope bucket. The basketball team has three games left (as this goes to press) in their 1950 season. Their record at the present time is 4 wins and 14 losses. Not so pretty good, is it? I reckon about the happiest man on the hill was Coach "Tuck" McConnell after his charges downed the Pirates from East Carolina. The coach said it was the first time this year that the boys have played up to their par. It may be true. I have always contended that some good material running around in basketball suits. The boys are capable of winning games now, and also of winning the conference title before they graduate. Ronald Rogers has been running like a steam engine in the past few games. He was high scorer in the first ECTC game and has been the sparkplug of the team in other contests. Richard Sides has been the ball hawk of the squad for the whole season. I don't believe you could find statistics on this, but I think Sides has gotten more rebounds over the season than any other man on the team. When he gets his hands on the ball, he has it. There have been very few instances of a tie-up with Sides or of stealing the ball from him. Lefty Pardue has given the fans something to shout about with his hook shots in the past few games. His initial contribution in a varsity game was nine points against A.C.C. In the first ECTC game, he played for thirty-six minutes and poured in 13 points. It was from this game that he calls himself "the original crip misser". The easiest shots are sometimes the hardest to make. Artis Carter played his usual floor game until he fouled out early minutes of the fourth quarter. Ned Straehla and Ray Cox turned in fine performances, as did Clyde Pressley. These boys were ke; in the Cats freezing game of the closing minutes of the game. The second ECTC game was about the same fof the first half. The Catamounts got off to an early lead and held it until half-time. At time the Cats had a ten point lead; 17 to 7. It looked like a different team that came on the floor for the second half. The boys couldn't do anything right, it seemed. Only one field goal for 20 minutes of play is not too good, I don't believe. But that's what happened. The Cats just got one field goal during the whole second half of the ball game. I believe that erases all hope of going to the North State Conference Tournament this year. The dribble derby is to be held in Statesville for tke first time, but the Catamounts won't grace the court with their presence. The wrestling team has come through with 3 wins and a tie since the last publication. In one of their best meets of the year, they downed Presbyterian College by the score of 25 to 11. The boys show a great deal of improvement since the season's opening. Don Thames has done a splendid job in handling the team. It has been a lot of work on Don's shoulders to go to school, wrestle, and coach the team all at the same time. He is due a lot of credit on the sports scene at Cullowhee this winter. It won't be long now until baseball season rolls around. After checking up on last years' statistics, the team won't have much of a record to uphold. They won five games while dropping sixteen. Of the five games the Catamounts won, Lefty J. E. Pardue won four of them including both ends of a double header. It's too soon to tell what kind of team the Cats will field this year, but it is something to speculate about. It won't be long. And now it's time to name our Sportsman of the Week. This week he could be called the Athlete of the Week because it is Rapid Ronald Rogers. Against ECTC he was the sparkplug of the floor play and the leading scorer. His fifteen points was tops in the first game and his floor game was superb. It was reminiscent of the ball-stealing days of Ace McGinn to see Rapid Ronald streak off with a stolen ball or intercepted pass. In Rogers, the Cats have a future All-Conference player. Congratulations Ronald, and keep up the good work. Take Opener 59-52 ; Lose Second Encounter The Catamounts came up with pleasant surprise for the cage fans on Monday night with a win < the Pirates from ECTC. The 59 to 52 triumph was fhe Cats first North State Conference win the season. The team played heads up ball for the entire forty minute; from the tall lowlanders. The surprise of the game was the number of rebounds which the Cats took from the lofty members of the Pirate squad. In this department Richard Sides and J. E. Pardue turned in brilliant performances ive the Cats a record n against 10 losses in thi Coach McConnell said, "That' the first time this season the boys have played the basketball they'i of. I always- knew they had it—it just took a little ti bring it out that's all." The Catamounts jumped to early lead with the score 6-0 aftei minutes of play. The only time they were headed was latei the first quarter when the Pirates took a brief 14-13 lead. With Ronald Rogers and Richard Sides leaping the way, the Cats took over and played smart basketball for the remainder of the contest. These two Buncombe County boys left the game as the top Catamount scorers with 15 and 14 points respectively. For the losers it was Jack Ever- ton with 16 and Warren Russell with 13 points who took high scoring honors. The second game, on Tuesday night, was much the same stor> for the first half. The Cats left the c ut with a gin at the half way point, but the second half was an entirety different story. The Pirates caught fire with a display of marksmanship seldom seen on the local court to take over the lead in the third quarter. From there it was ECTC all tiie way. The Catamounts v held to one field goal for the tire twenty minutes of the second half. The lowland team took the game going away with an eight point margin, 53 to 45. The lineups for the firs* game WCTC (59) Pressley, f Cunningham, f Pardue, c Carter, g Straehla, g Rogers, g FG FT PF TP TOTALS 25 9 15 59 ECTC (52) ' FG FT PF TP Everton, f 7 2 0 16 Russel, f 5 3 2 13 Fennel!, c 3 1 4 7 Bauer, 'g 2 1 4 5 Thrift, g 2 0 1 4 Collie, g 3 1 0 7 Nanley, g 0 0 0 0 22 >: Wester 3 11 52 Carolina 32, East Carolina 31. Free throws missed: Cunningham, Siles, Cox. Pardue, Rogers 3, Straehla 2, Everton 2, Russel 3, Bauer, Collie 3 EMORY UNIVERSITY TIES GAT MATMEN IN DISPUTED MATCH On Saturday afternoon, February 4, the Emory Universitj wrestling team tied the Catamount wrestlers 16 to 16 in a disputed match. The dispute came over the timekeeper blowing his whistle before the 121 pound match wa: over. It is the opinion of the Cullowhee boys that Wood had his man pinned, but the final official outcome was a decision in which Wood was on the short end. It was a hard fought meet from beginning to end with thrills galore in every match. Bob Haliburton and Bozo Burleson were the only Catamounts who won by falls, but each match was a highly contested affair. The boys from Cullowhee now have a record o| one-loss, and one tie for the season. Wood vs. Pound — Pound decision. 128—McClain vs. McCahee — McCahee decision. 136—Haliburton vs. Tidmore — Haliburton by fall. Hornaday vs. Hubbard — Hubbard by decision. 155—Arney vs. Elliott — Arney decision. 165—Loggins vs. Braly —,Braly by fall. 175 — Burleson vs. Smith — Burleson by fall. Heavy—Bumgarner vs. Sotus— Bumgarner by decision. GROANERS DOWN KNOXVILLE Y 28-6 The wrestling team came thru again with a win over the Knoxville Y team on Wednesday night the 8th by the score of 28 to 6 The meet was a good one with the matches closer than the score would indicate. Newcomer Elmo Neal got things underway with an exhibition match in which he pinned Otting- er of the Y team in the third round WCTC won the 121 pound match by a forfeit since the Knoxville team did not bring a man for the match with Baxter Wood. Crittendon got things started for Knoxville with a decision over Mc- Lain in the 128 pound match. Haliburton and Hornaday followed by pinning their Y opponents and the Cats led 15-3. Fox of the Y team decisioned Loggins to gain the other three points for his team. Bozo Burleson had another hard match on his hands when he Willocks of Knoxville. It w; rough and tumble match for five minutes when Bozo finally wore his man down and put his shoulders to the mat. Clyde Bumgarner turned in hi: best performance in pinning "Bronco" Baily in the first round. Baily had a twenty pound advantage Big Bum, but the Cullowhee lad finally held his shoulders down for the pin. Then came the comedy of the evening. Bumgarner immediately did two push-ups on the mat and pulled another of Bozo's stunts in playing a cripple as he left the mat for his seat. Maybe we have another comedian to take the place of Bozo on the wrestling team. It has been quite a while since Bozo pulled some of the tricks which made him a favorite of the Cullo- Bum, Heavyweight, Pins His Man GROANERS DOWN HIGH] POINT Y8Y 25 T013 a meet that featured three falls and three forfeits, the Catamount wrestling team downed undermanned High Point Y team by the score of 25-13. The High Point team showed up with only five boys to wrestle. Proctor Burleson, and Bumgarner of the Cats won their matches by forfeits. A feature of the program was i exhibition between Bozo Burleson and Bumgarner. 121—Wood vs. Daniels—Daniels by fall 2nd period. 128—McLam vs. Burgess—Burgess decision 1-0. 136—Haliburton vs. Auman — Haliburton by fall 2nd period. 145—Hornaday vs. McConkey— McConkey by decision 6-2. 155—Arney vs. Cox—Arney by fall 3rd period. 165—Proctor by forfeit. 175—Burleson by forfeit. Heavy—Bumgarner by forfeit. whee fans. The lineups of the meet follow: 121—Wood vs. Knott — Wood by forfeit. 128—McLain vs. Crittenden — Crittenden decision 8-2. 136—Haliburton vs. Jones—Haliburton by fall 1:25. 145—Hornaday vs. Smith — Horhaday by fall 6:45. 155—Loggins vs. Fox—Fox decision 9-6. 165—Arney vs. Brady—Arney decision 2-1. 175—Burleson vs. Willocks — Burleson, by fall 5:17: Heavy—Bumgarner vs. Bailey— Bumgarner by fall 2:35. Exhibition Neal vs Ottinger — Neal by fall 7:23. INTRAMURAL PR0GR'Ml^*iLea2tnw'1 by Dwight Miller ' Three Madison teams at present e engaged in a very close race for first place in the men's intramural basketball league. The Third Madison quintet, sparked by Clyde Etheridge's twenty-eight points in three games, leads the way with three triumphs and no setbacks. The Second Floor of Madison team, which won the volley-ball tournament, is tied up with Fourth Madison for second place, each team boasting two wins and no setbacks. The Day Students are leading Boodleville by a very slim margin in the fight for fourth place while First Madison. Second Robertson, and Third Robertson are tied up for last place. The suits of recent games were as lows; Third Madison 31 Third Robertson 22, Third Madison Boodleville 28, Second Madison Boodleville 34, Fourth Madison 46 Second Robertson 29, Day Students 20 First Madison 16. Thus far virtually all of the games hav been close and though the three Madison teams hold a definite the present time, upset? highly possible and possibly of the lower teams may yet prove to be one of the determining fac tors in establishing the ultimate champion. In the race for individual ing laurels, Hayes Dockery leads the way with 30 points while Klontz of Second Robertson has ie highest average with 16 points the one game he played. The Leading Scorers: On January 31, the Catamount groaners downed Presbyterian College's matmen in a meet at Cullowhee by the score of 23-11 The meet was one of the Cats best to date. The South Carolina team sent a good, although inexperi ed, team to the grunt and groan session with the Cats. The first match got things started with a bang. Baxter Wood dropped his man and pinned him in just 39 seconds of the first round. Bob Haliburton and McLain followed suit by pinning their men too. Presbyterian won then first match when Weingartner decisioned Bob Hornaday 7-3. Following Weingartner's example the next two men won their matches from the Catamount boys. Bozo Burleson had one of his hardest matches on his hands when he met Watson of P.C. The "Bo/.e' a 7-1 decision, but the match much closer than the score. Watson was one of the strongest nen Bozo has had hold of all year. Big Bum" came through in the heavyweight match to pin Barnum in the last period. Barnum gave Bum a tussle for eight minutes before he weakened. The Cats showed off with two exhibition matches. Donnie Loggins and Ken Hannah showed ; lot of wrestling savvy by pinning the Galloway boys from Presbyterian. 121—Wood vs. Thurman—Wood by fall 39 seconds. 128—McLain vs. Dentins—Mc- j Lain by fall 2.18. I 136—Haliburton vs. Kafew — Haliburton by fall 2:23. 145—Hornaday vs. Weingartner ■ Weingartner decision 7-3. 155—Arney vs. Dunton—Dunton decision 7-3. 165—Proctor vs. B. A. Brown —Brown by fall 3:12. 175—Burleson vs. Watson—Bu rleson decision 7-1. Heavy—Bumgarner vs. Barnum ■Bumgarner by fall 8:14. Exhibitions—Loggins vs. Bruce] Galloway—Loggins by fall 2nd period. Hannah vs. Henry Galloway Hannah by fall 1:57. BLUE RIBBON SHOE SHOP Attention: College Students and Faculty . . . Pick-up and Delivery Service for shoes needing Repairing. Our Agent George Quesada will be around weekly to give you this service. DAVID PARKER Phone 114 Sylva, N. C. COLLEGE BOOK STORE Sandwiches, Sodas, and School Needs Hugh Battle, Operator Western Carolina Teachers College Come in and Lounge around Player Team GP TP Ave Klontz, 2nd Robertson 1 16 16.0 Dockery, 2nd Madison 2 30 15.0 Napions, Boodleville 1 14 14.0 Page, 3rd Robertson 2 22 11.0 West, 2nd Madison 2 19 9.5 Etheridge, 3rd Madison 3 28 9.3 Kimsey, Boodleville 2 15 7.5 Sluder, 4th Madison 2 14 7.0 Kirkland, 2nd Robert. 2 14 7.0 Hullender, 3rd Mad. 2 13 6.5 League Standings: Team Won Lost Pet 3rd Madison 3 0 1.000 2nd Madison 2 , 0 1.000 4th Madison 2 0 l.OOf Day Students 1 1 .500 Boodleville 1 2 .333 1st Madison 0 2 .000 2nd Robertson 0 2 .001 3rd Robertson 0 2 .00( Thru February... Treat Vie Family To Luscious fem tLJfLd+jiL id CREAM Sim f They'll love its delicate, sweet cream flavor and the abundance of tender-sweet, tree ripened cherries in each rich, creamy spoonful of Pet Cherry-Vanilla Ice Cream! 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