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CLARK PANTHER, MARCH 8, 1852, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Xavier, Bethune-
Cookman fall to
Eppsmen
held from the end of the third quar
ter until the two remaining minutes
of the game whfin Avery Burress of
Wyoming, Ohio slipped in close for
three consecutive lay up shots; and
Roman Turwon, on a pass from Mal
colm Turner, tossed in the final goal
to make the score 83-75 as the game
ended.
Year Book Nears
Completion
Much of the work on the 1952
Yearbook has been completed.
Editor David Stanley recently re
ported that he was very much pleas
ed with the work already done and
that doubtless the 1952 book will be
one of the best Clark College has
ever produced.
Editor Stanley and the staff of
seniors, directed by Dr.Jf. F. Sum-
mersette, report that student pic
tures, buildings, ihuch of the ath
letics section, and faculty pictures
have been made and are now in the
hands of the engravers.
When Xavier University’s “Gold
Kush” came to Atlanta February 2
with a 13-4 record and still ranking
as a team to watch in SIAC play,
they brought William Robinzine of
Chicago, Ill., who in the first quar
ter of a closely fought game kept
his team close at the heels of Clark’s
Panthers who, behind the scoring of
Bennie Lowe, Roman Turmon, and
Avery Burress, were leading 17-16
at the end of the first quarter.
At half-time the powerful offen
sive had scored 38 points while al
lowing Xavier only 27.
Holding their lead throughout the
contest the Clarkites piled on a 58-
37 lead in the third quarter and
went on to their 12th consecutive
victory 71-60.
Two nights later Bethune-Cook-
man met the Panthers on Atlanta's
Magnolia Court in what was to be
a free scoring but closely fought
game from start to finish.
Bennie Lowe, Clark’s ace forward
from Thomaston, Ga., put the Pan
thers ahead in the opening moments
of the game with a free throw after
missing a lay up shot at the open
ing toss up.
Neither team was able to advance
more than five points beyond the
other throughout the game.
Bethune-Cookman’s Mike Ardis
and John Cheney (who scored 35
points) put their team ahead at the
end of the first quarter 17-14.
The Clark Panthers evened the
count at halfway the second quarter
and Darius Hairston, freshman star
of Wilkesboro, N. C., put the Pan
thers ahead for the first time in the
ball game when he drove in through
the Bpthune-Cookman defense for
a lay up. Cheney countered im
mediately for Bethune and took a
one point lead for his team as the
half ended 35-35.
In the second- half Bennie Lowe
started the scoring off again and put
Clark ahead 37-35, but Mike Ardis
tallied again to even the count and
begin a Bethune scoring spurt
wihich put Clark behind 41-37. James
Trice of Atlanta closed the gap at
47-51 and Turmon and Lowe teamed
up to tie the count 51-51. Lowe
found the range again moments lat
er and sent the high flying “Epps
men” into the slim lead which they
S. C. State Falls
69-60 at
Orangeburg
Leading SIAC competition this season is the powerful Clark Basketball team which won seventeen games before losing one. Left to right
kneeling, Forrest Patterson, Avery Burress, Leon Carlton, Bennie Lowe, Freddie Jackson, Bobby Palmer, Norris Muldrow; standing, Of fie Clark,
Malcolm Turner, Darius Hairston, Roman Turmon, Warren Rouse, William Powell, James Trice, and Leon Alexander.
Professional photographers Mr.
Charles W. Lowe and Mr. Harmon
Perry, photographers for the AT
LANTA WORLD, have been em
ployed to make the yearbook pic
tures and have submitted an excel
lent group of photographs for year
book use.
Members of the- staff are; Class
Editors, Martin Edwards, Maurice
Thompson, Mary Staley, and Thirk-
ield Cravens. Harold Hamilton is
Sports Editor, and there are several
other seniors who work in various
capacities.
South Carolina’s Bulldogs held on
with grim determination to the
four point margin which the Panth
ers carried through the close
James Trice, three-year man with founght State-Clark game in
the Panthers, offers a real threat to Orangeburg on February 9 but in
the opponent in every game. Play- the waning moments the State de-
ing from a guard position, Trice’s fenses crumbled before a barrage of
ability to take rebounds makes him field goals which put the Eppsmen
an invaluable assest to the team. ahead 69-60 at the final whistle.
MID-TERM EXAMS
March 24-26
As usual, Roman Turmon was the
main cog in Clark’s defense as well
as offense; The six foot four center
piled up 30 points, most of which
came after he took rebounds of
shots missed by his teammates.
Panthers Win Five on the Road, Six at
Home for First Eleven Wins
When the now-high flying “Pan
thers” opened their current basket
ball season on December 7 at the
Magnolia court their was little
doubt that they would not be among
the top flight SIAC teams this year.
Savannah State offered little re
sistance to the powerful Panther
offense which racjfed up 68 points
to Savannah’s 44.
Bennie Lowe, Roman Turmon and
Malcolm Turner took the helm in
the first game emerging first, sec
ond, and third respectively for scor
ing honors.
When Ted Wright’s Tigers and
“Sonny” Epps’ Panthers met for the
second and third games, in Savan
nah this time, it was the same story
—the Panthers took an early lead,
held it all the way and went on to
win 68-56 and 56-48.
The Eppsmen returned to their
“home court” on December 18 to
meet Knoxville College in Clark’s
first conference game of the season.
Tht suprisingly strong Knoxville
quinted gave the Panthers a quite
different battle from what was ex
pected but to no avail for the Cardi
nal and Black took the game 56-54.
When Knoxville played host to
Clark on January 1 the Panthers
showed their superiority by win
ning with an eleven' point advan
tage, 61-50.
On the following night Fisk Uni
versity was to prove to be the
strongest opposition the Panthers
had met. The determined Bulldogs
fell behind a barrage of field goals
early in the first quarter as Burress,
Turmon and Lowe put the Panthers
ahead by six points.
Smith, Charles and Nelson found
the range for Fisk in the second
quarter and from then on it was
anybody’s ball game.
At half time Fisk led 21-20 and
the Panthers were behind for the
first time this season.
The Fiskites extended their lead
to six points before the Panthers
could score a single goal in the
third period, but Trice and Powell
countered for Clark and Turmon hit
two free throws to put the Panthers
in the lead.
Bennie Lowe came through in the
final period to make four goals from
the sideline before Fisk could rack
up one. Bernard Charles, Fisk for
ward, then whittled the Panther
lead down to a tie and on a free
throw Fisk went ahead 51-50 with
less than two minutes femaining in
the game.
Leon Carlton, guard cinched the
contest for Clark with a lay up shot
with ten seconds left la the game,
and the Panthers had won victory
number six.
The Maroon Tigers of Morehouse
found the going rough when they
met the supercharged Panthers at
the Magnolia court on January 12
and at the end of the game their
hopes were dashed down the drain
as Clark remained undefeated in
their seventh game with the 58-41
defeated handed Morehouse.
Mighty Morris Brown met defeat
at the hands of the Eppsmen on
January 18 at Brown’s Joe Louis
Gymnasium in the Panthers’ most
important victory of the season.
Sports waiters had given Brown a
slight advantage, perhaps since the
Wolverines were conference champs
still strong, and were playing in
their own gymnasium. Brown’s po
sition seemed secure in the opening
moments of the game as Firebrace,
Benson and Murdock piled up an
eight point lead over the Panthers.
Before the first quarter ended,
however, the Panthers had closed
the gap and made a game of it. At
half time Brown held the lead, 23-
21.
Everyone knows what happened
in the last half of the close game.
Leon Carlton again saved the day
for Clark when he slipped in for a
laf up shot to put the Panthers a-
head with one minute remaining to
be played. But again, as in the
Fisk game, the foe had a chance to
die the count on a free throw but
missed it and Clark cinched victory
number eight to assure fans that
Clark was a'team to be reckoned
with in SIAC competition.
Tuskegee showed a poor offensive
system in the opening moments of
the Clark-’Skegee game played at
the D. T. Howard Gymnasium on
January 25 and Bennie Lowe, un
usually accurate in shooting did
most of the work in putting the
Golden Tigers behind 11-0 before
the game was five minutes old. In
dications were, from this start, that
Tuskegee would lose by a tremend
ous margin, but Hockett, high scorer
for the Alabamians, poured on an
array of field goals which nearly
equaled these of Trice, Turner, and
Lowe.
Time and again the Panthers rack
ed up comfortable leads, only to
have Jackson and Bonner of Tuske
gee whittle down the count to a
meager one or two point lead. Twice
in the third quarter Tuskegee led
momentarily by one point, but in
the final period the Panthers main
tained a five or six point lead which
lasted until the final whistle was
sounded and the Panthers had won
victory number nine, 56-50.
Hapless S. C. State was the next
Victim of the Cardinal and Black.
The confident State team went into
the game appearently sure that it
was time for Clark to lose and in
the first period the Bulldogs looked
as though their beliefs were to
come through. Throughout the re
mainder of the game they found
that the Eppsmen were not to be
underrated for with their entire
team scoring the Panthers ran up
76 points, their highest score in any
game before that one. State emerg
ed with 54 points.
Even more confident of upsetting
Clark was Benedict College’s team
which fell decisively to the Panthers
on January 28 at the Magnolia as
Roman Turmon tossed in 38 points
to break his current season’s record
by 8 points and come within 5 points
of breaking the single-game SIAC
mark of 42 points which he now
holds. The free-wheeling Panthers
defeated Benedict 84-57.
Big Roman Turmon, one of the
best centers in the SIAC, has amaz
ed basketball fans since his basket
ball debut last year. With 439 points
already on the books Turmon will
probably exceed the 500 mark by
March 3.