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PAGE FOUR 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.