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Page 6 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Monday, May 8, 1950 I <*ji Hunt's Hunches BY PAT M. HUNT Coaching School Here Tom Young Head Coach; Justice, Milner Guest Coaches MONOGRAM CLUB When I wrote my first column for the Western Carolinian, I said OTC\A/ADT LJCIHC that I had never written a column before which was true. I said I 0 I Elf All UtAJo ■was not a sports writer and I'm still not a sports writer, but I have done my best to report on the sports scene at Cullowhee this year. I know I have made mistakes, but who doesn't? Sometimes I left out items of interest to the students, but I can assure you it was unintentional. This job is not as simple as it is cracked up to be. I may be a little prejudiced, but I think the Sport's Page this year has been better than any since I've been at Cullowhee. I hope the Sports writer next year .says the same thing because all of us on the staff want the Western Carolinian to get bigger and better every year. While I am on the subject, I'm sure Hale Bryson would like to see anyone who will take over as Sports writer for the next edition and next year. I believe he has a sports editor in mind, but I'm here to tell you that one man can't do it by himself. The paper can't operate ■without a staff of writers who will work. You have elected a good editor, now back him up by serving on his staff. I offer no apologies for my writing ability but I want to thank the students for their cooperation this year and especially the few who have read my columns in the Western Carolinian all year. You have one consolation . . . This is the last one you will have to read. Since this is my last column, I want to leave a parting note with the students who are returning. It is along the same line as my column | last week, but I don't think too much can be said about the problem «f recreation on the campus. Did you notice in the daily papers last week that the North State Conference Golf Tournament was under way at the Starmount Forest Country Club in Greensboro? If you did, did you notice a Western' •Carolina team entered? WCTC is in the North State Conference, but we are not represented in the golf tournament. Why not? I noticed that High Point College had defeated another North State team in a conference tennis match. Does WCTC have a tennis team? They had one a few years ago, why not now? I know what you will say. "Those are intercollegiate sports and only 10 percent of the students will participate. What about the other 90 percent?" Well, what about the other 90 percent? We have two tennis courts on the campus for over 500 students to use. As I said in my last column, we need at least eight or ten more courts. Now you say that they won't be used. I say they will. I would estimate that between 35 percent and 50 percent of the students would play tennis if they had a place to play. The new courts would enable these students to play tennis as a leisure time activity and also enable the college to field an intercollegiate team. Why not? Golf is another question, but you don't need a complete course to practice golf. Why not a driving range? There is plenty of room fcehind the training school. Why not a putting green on the campus? It could be placed anywhere. Golf was offered in the curriculum two years ago. Why not now? The students could learn the basic skills •of golf from the driving range and putting green. If some good golfers came to WCTC or if some were developed on the campus, we ■could have an intercollegiate team although we couldn't have home aneets. Why not? The college has over three million dollars to spend on building. How [much of this is to bt spent on recreational facilities? I don't know, Cbut I believe it would be an infinitesimal amount. Some of the money as for permanent improvements too. The student recreation program Bias been at its best in the last two years, but it is still inadequate. I believe there are somewhere near one hundred and fifty girls on this campus. How many intramural tournaments have been sponsored for the girls this year. One ! ! ! If you can remember as far "back as the fall quarter, yiu will recall that the girls started an intra- Clyde Pressley brought victory mural basketball tournament. Since then they have had no organized t0 the Catamounts with a last-of- intramural program. Why not badminton for the girls? The boys had the-ninth home run with Bromo a badminton tournament which was just completed. I believe a Soft-' Selzer on base. The two run clout ball tournament is being projected for the fairer sex, but what comes made the margin in the 8-6 vic- 'fcetween basketball and softball? Nothingl I! Why not? , t°ry- The boys intramural program this year has been operating with aj The score see-sawed all the By Dick Stott Western Carolina, for the first time in a summer session, is making available to high school coaches a special course in football and baseball. Both courses will be offered in the first session of summer school commencing June 12 through July 21 with full college credit granted. The school is to be under the direction of Coach Tom Young, Head Coach and Athletic Director of Western Carolina. The high school coaches should gain invaluable experience from the sessions. Young spent 14 of his 21 years in the coaching field developing some of the greatest high school teams in the state. During his stay at Lexington, N. Effie Stewart, rising Junior from Hendersonville, was elected President of the Monogram Club last Wednesday night. A first string guard, Effie has had much to do with the enviable record that the Western Carolina Catamounts have made in the football world. Mac Bowman, who will be playing blocking back when the squad goes into action next fall, was elected to the second post in the Club. Lawrence Arney, Quarterback of the Catamounts and re- c. ntly elected Vice President of the Student Senate, was elected Secretary. The Business Manager for the Monogram Club was selected ear lier in the quarter. Orin Coin, a non member of the Club, will have charge of their many business activities for them next year. HOOPER AND DAVIS ELBOW WINS OVER PIEDMONT Cats Bounce Back From Four Game Losing Streak Coach Tom Young PLOWBOYS DOWN GATS IN EXHIBITION The Sylva Plowboys of the W NC Industrial League shut out the Catamounts in an exhibition game on the College fitld last Tuesday afternoon. Sylva bunched their hits and scored the 3 run margin of victory in the third inning. Jim (Coach) Cunningham, Bill Nevens and Joe Pressley worked three innings each for the Plow- boys on the mound and limited the Cat batsmen to three base knocks. Cunningham gave up one hit, Nevens two and Pressley hurled hitless ball for the last three frames. All three Plowboy hurl- ers are students at WCTC. Charlie Howell went the route for the losers. Sylva touched Lefty Charlie Howell for their three runs in the second. Skipper Jim Barnwell led off the inning with a single, stole second and scored on Junior Sher- rill's single. Bob Phillips singled and Sherrill, moved to third, then Ben Dillard brought in both runners with a double. The Cats were never able to get a man beyond second base during the game. SYLVA 030 000 000—3 9 3 WCTC 000 000 000—0 3 0 C,. his teams amassed a total of 92 victories, 8 setbacks, and four ties over a ten-year period. In 1943 Young moved into higher company at the University of N. C. where his teams won 6 while losing 3. The following year he entered the Navy and spent 1 year at Cornell University with Coach Carl Snavely. After hs release from service Young ventured to Western where he sports a 24 to 14 won and lost record. Last year under his guidance the Catamounts marched off with the North State Championship. Authough Young is a strict exponent of the single-wing attack, he will not confine his teachings to this one offense. His plans include coverage of the Split T Formation and the new Spread Formation that were used successfully by Missouri and Oklahoma. Offensive drills and lectures will not dominate the session. Young plans to cover defenses for all the front running formations. Other phases of the game will be taken up as time permits. The featured attraction' of the coaching school will be the appearance of Western North Carolina's two great All-Americans Charlie Justice and Bill Milner. Choo Choo, the mythical tailback from UNC, will lecture on the liner points of backfield play and point out some tricks of the trade that made him master on the gridiron. Bill Milner, former All-Amer- ican Guard at Duke and more recently a standout end with the *m T-*:: Ik ■' <.| "Choo-Choo" Justice a large number of coaches in North and South Carolina are expected to enroll. The same procedure will be used in the baseball class. Coach Young never reached the big leagues, but did play 15 years of Chicago Bears, will lecture on line professional baseball and is still play. His lecture will cover all phases of offensive and defensive strategy in the forward wall. Most of the work in both classes will be given on the playing field with the class members participating. This method of instructing will better enable the participants to demonstrate their findings to their high school squads this fall. Plans for the course have been completed and quite a student of the game. His first professional manager was Lee Gooch, now head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Young said that Gooch taught him more baseball that the rest of the twenty or thirty managers that he played for. Baseball is coming back stronger each year in the colleges and high schools and the sessions should be a great help in producing better athletes. HEDDEITS BARBER SHOPS SYLVA, N. C. CULLOWHEE, N. C. ___t Jiandicap. The field has been under construction -couldn't have an intramural football tournament and lhey j way until the ninth. WCTC scor- This also brought' ed „ one in the first, but Piedmont many of the activities for boys to a screening halt because they didn't wi d the lead out by scoring have the space or facilities for outdoor games. The boys have had,our runs _ the third. The Cats some type o ftournament going on nearly all the time but it has been came back with one in the fourth> an indoor activity . That is better than nothing. ] three in the fifth ^ one in the I m not criticizing anyone or any group, I'm merely trying to put ideas seventh for a 6-4 lead. Piedmont m the students' heads. If the recreation program is to be enlarged, it erased that lead in the eighth by wrill have to result from student cooperation and student participation.! tying the score at 6 all. Pressley's at is entirely up to you students. How about it? Would you like to homer mt the game away for the .■see WCTC represented in the minor intercollegiate sports or not?' The building program is for you, the students. The recreational program is for you, the students too, but, what do you want? ;No Fish Story Attention fishermen of WCTC, ;you will soon receive a chance to rprove your skill in the sport you •enjoy so much. The Department tof Health and Physical Education •will sponsor an Intramural Fish- jng contest for students, faculty and administrative personnel. 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WCTC 100 130 102—8 5 3 The leading hitters were Press- The Intramural Softball League ley for the wmners and Huff for play is now underway. In games tne losers with two for four each, played thus far: on Thursday, April 27, the 2nd Floor of Mad-1 Piedmont 004 000 020—6 6 2 ison was defeated twelve to one by First Madison when "Lefty" Don Thomas came through with aj The Cats backed up Bill Davis neat three hitter to lead his mates with 12 solid base hits and a 7 to to victory. Hugh Sizemore was 4 victory over Piedmont in the the leading hitter for the winners second game of the series on Sat- with two booming triples in four! trips to the plate while for the bie jn the last inning which drove losers second baseman Smith got| in Shelton with their only tally, the only extra base blow, a dou-j Qn Monday> May h Boodleville, 1 a perennial contender for first warded to the winners. These priz- j place, overpowered a stubborn 2s are for 1st place in the student I Third Madison outfit and emerged division—one steel tackle box, and' the winner by a nine to five score. for first place in the faculty and1 For the winners, all around ath- administrative division—one steel lete Raymond Cox pitched the vic- Seven Hours On The Tuckaseigee By Boyce Winchester and Ned Straehla 8:30 We got under way just below Cullowhee nridge. Carried food in ditty bag tied to canoe. No more equipment except paddles. Small island in river. Took left side. Almost capsized . . . canoe got out of control in rough rapids. 10:30 Webster . . . Rain. Rough rocks. Tried too much speed and nearly split bottom of canoe on rocks. Usually lost control in rapids. If canoe turned around, we just turned around in our seats Wild ducks on river. 12:09 Dillsboro dam. Carried canoe around dam. Ate lunch before starting again. (Didn't have enough food.) 12:32 Back on the river. Fish ermen all along the river. Didn't paddle much, just drifted with the: current. Three miles below Dillsboro we had best ride of trip, just! below railroad trussle. Big rocks scattered in the river. Rapids big and river looked dangerous. In rapids, water splashed into canoe. Out of control. We just sat tight and prayed. Afterwards, we pulled up to shore and emptied canoe. 4:00 Gateway . . . Carried canoe back to Cullowhee on car. Tips . . . Canteen of water. More food. Fishing equipment. Always paddle down the biggest rapids in the river. We averaged about 3 miles an hour. Twenty-one miles on the Tuckaseigee. tackle box. These prizes are now on display in the College Shop and in Mr. F. T. Siewert's office in the gymnasium. The rules for the contest that the student catching longest fish between Wednesday, May 3, 1950 and Saturday, May 27, 1950, will be awarded the prize for his division and the faculty member catching the longest fish during the same period of time will be awarded first prize for his division. The fish must be measured with: Floyd T. Siewert, Robert "Boo" Williamson, or Dwight Miller. tory. The losers collected 9 hits off Cox's slants, but failed to bunch them effectively, thereby dropping the contest. Leading hitter for Boodleville was Todd Kimsey with a ^e' home run and a single in four trips to the platter, while for the losers Hershey Hipps and Elmo Neal with a triple and a single apiece in four'times up led the way. Each team in the league will play twice before the playoffs, with the four leading teams in the league standings meeting in a Shaughnessy type playoff to determine the ultimate champion. urday afternoon. Davis scattered four Piedmont hits over the nine inning route but five WCTC errors were mainly responsible for the Piedmont runs. George Gearino worked the nine frames for the losers. The Cats took a 6-4 lead in the sixth inning and held on as Davis rung up four straight goose eggs for Piedmont. Catcher Ken Sossebee with 2 for 3 led the losing attack. J. C. 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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1950-05-08;
  • Date digitized: 2017-08-23
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  • Pages: 10 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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