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PLAY. Clothing instructor Anne Merritt (seated left), and Presidential secretary Willie
Pictured" above is the dynamic Clark Track squad which recently won the City Triangle championship.
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CLARK PANTHER, MAY 21, 19*. ATLANTA, GEORGIA
In SIAC Meet
Clark Spikesters Place Third
Although the skies were downcast, hundreds lined the
banks of Atlanta University’s track field to view the 15th an
nual Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference track and
field meet on Saturday, May 10.
The Sportscope
The mighty cindermen of Clark,
who were hardly given a chance of
placing-among the top four teams,
By E. M. PHARR surprised all but themselves as they
, , . placed third above such notables as
Another school year is almost „
Florida A. and M., and Bethune-
Cookman. Coach Epps, confident of
placing, used great strategy plus
team spirit to cop the third place
honors.
gone, and with it goes the termina
tion of another year’s athletic ac
tivities here a,t Clark. We have had
a very good year in sports, although
there is still .much room for im
provement.
The victories of note were the
gridiron Panthers’ tenth consecu
tive win over the Morehouse Ma
roon Tigers; their impressive show
ing against the Morris Brown Wolv
erines, despite the 50-6 score; the
cage team’s brilliant 19-1 seasonal
record; their participation in the
National Tourney at Fisk; the win
ning of the SIAC Visitation Champ
ionship; Roman Turmon’s winning
the position of center on the Na-
The Clark aggregation, with more
“firsts” (four) than any other SIAC
team, one “second” and two
“thirds,” racked up a total of 28
points to place behind Xavier, who
rolled up 36 3-4 points and Tuskegee.
with 30 points. The Xavier spikes
ters won their tenth crown in the
history of the event.
Left to right seated, Hubert Ricks, Edward Clemons, Aloyd Edinburgh, Henry Collins, Harold Barrett, and
Walter Vance; standing, Arthur Johnson, Newt Solomon, Offie Clark, Roman Turmon, John Cannon (Capt.),
Charles Stinson, and Leartis McNeil. Not pictured are Ralph Ballad, Laurence Gates, Larkin Mann, Leon
Carlton, and Augustus Robinson, Manager.
Greekdom
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Delta
The Panthers received their points
by taking first places in the javelin
ticmaTTourney team?and the’ciark throw (Leon Carlton), the shot put repu te were received into the Pyra-
spikesters’ winning of the City Tri- (Roman Turmon), the high and low mid Cluh of Sigma Chapter, Delta
angle meet. ? * hurdles (John Cannon);
Although the gridiron team won pj ace j n the high hurdles (Laurence
gnly three out of seven games, they Q ateg) . third place in the half-mile
displayed a “never say die spirit”, . ■ ...
. . . ... (Offie Clark); and third place m the
which accounted for their brilliant f
showing against the Wolverines, mile relay (Hubert Ricks, Offie
With only three two hundred Clark, Arthur Johnson, and Harold
pounders, this -wap, perhaps one of Barrett). Others who participated
the lightest teams in the history of were Harold Barrett, in the 440;
the college. However, what the
“ , , , „ , Edward Clemons, two mile run;
gridiron five lacked, the cage team
made up for. Coach Epps perform- Arthur Johnson, broad jump and
On Tuesday night, April 7, eleven
young women, scholarly and of fine
second si S ma Theta Sorority. They were
Allie Howell, Theodosia Jackson,
Emily Johnson, Jacquelin Laughlin,
Hazel McRae, Glendora Patterson,
Evelyn Shye, Willie F. Stoney, Ruby
Ward, Marjorte Wellmon and Ann
Wilson.
Clark Cindermen Annex
City Crown
With 69 points, the Clark College third in the javelin toss. Roman "T”
Sorors of Delta are really excited
over the first issue of “The Delta
Hexagoii,” The issue is the initial
cindermen annexed the 1952 City
Collegiate championship at the At
lanta University track field on April
26.
The Cardinal and Black pathmen
displaced the Morehouse Maroon
Tigers, who had won the annual
meet for six consecutive years, as
they racked up a total of eight
“firsts”, six “seconds, two “thirds”,
and two “fourths” in the track and
ed wonders in moulding a team of pole vault; Walter Vance and Aloyd publication of the Southern Region liel ' d events.
championship material. A great Edinburgh,
jump in the improvement of Clark’s
cage five is seen from statistics Receiving track shoes for their
showing the team of ’49 with only participation were John Cannon (2);
two wins to the team of 52 with 19 Qf£i e Clark (2); Hubert Ricks. Ar-
wins in twenty seasonal contests. __ ,, „ ' T
... , thur Johnson, Harold Barrett, Laur-
This team gave Clark a “first” by
ence Gates, Roman Turmon, and
being the first Clark basketball
team to ever play in the National Leon Carlton, one each.
Tourney.
With the publicity our athletic
events gained this year, in addition
to the fact that only seven seniors
wiili vacate the Clark athletic scene,
I predict that our athletics will be
much improved and the cage team
will be “holy terrors.”
Seniors who will vacate the Clark
athletic scene are Jerry Hobbs,
Patrick Bell, Larkin Bell, and Har
old Hamilton, football; Bennie
Lowe, Forrest Patterson, and Avery
Burress, basketball. There are no
seniors on the track squad and in
view of this fact, they should be
very strong come Spring 1953.
The PANTHER wishes to
commmend Coach Epps and the
members of the track team for
their splendid showing this year
in the various track meets. You
have come a lung way. and have
done much with little. Here is
wishing you the best of luck In
winning the SIAC champion
ship next year.
Registration
Sept. 22-28
of Delta Sigma, Theta, edited from
letters, reports, and news articles
sent by seventeen graduate and ten
undergraduate chapters of this re
gion.
Of particular interest to Sigma
chapter is news of the entertain
ment by sorors of Bethune Cook-
man College given for Deltas visit
ing the campus as part of the Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society conven
tion. Soror Samuella Gray repre
sented the Clark chapter of Alpha
Kappa Mu along with Solomon
Sears.
Football
Clark Vs. Fort Valley
Sept. 27
Turmon tossed the shot put 42 ft to
win that event for another “first.”
Clarence Lewis gained another
point by placing fourth in the discus
throw. In the running broad jump,
Arthur Johnson and Laurence Gates
placed one-two for the remainder of
the sixty-nine points. The jump
was won with a leap of twenty feet
and six inches.
The team, under the guiding hand
of Coach Leonidas Epps who has
done a wonderful job with them,
was favored to win the meet and
One week prior to the A. U. meet,
the Epps thinclads copped fourth were als ° stron S contenders for the
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McMullen (seated right) tell Physics instructor Professor George Ferguson (center seated) who plays Char
ley’s Aunt in the play by the same name, how wonderful he is, while French Instructor Albert Berrian, who
played “Jack Chesney”, and Assistant Business Manager John Harris, who played “Charley Wykeham” look
on.
place at the ’Bam State relays with
14y 2 points. The strong “Panther”
relay team finished third behind
Bethune-Cookman and Florida A.
and M. The meet was won by the
thirty man team of A. and T. col
lege of Greensboro, N. C.
In the track evefits, John Cannon,
ists, captured second place in the
captain of Clark’s spiked-shoe art-
100 yard dash, first place in the 120
yard high hurdles and 220 yard low
hurdles. Laurence Gates finished a
Close second behind Cannon in the
high hurdles and due to a bad ankle,
gave way to Arthur Johnson who
came in second on the low hurdles.
Hubert Ricks contributed his share
t» the amassed number of points bj
winning fourth place in the 220 yard
run and second place in the 440 yard
rum. Charles Stinson, the outstand
ing performer of the day, gave the
Eppsmen a “first” in the ojie-mile
run and a second in the two-mile
tun, fts Edward "Hoss” Clemons
placed third in the mile and was dis
qualified in the two mile after com
mitting a foul in the Ia£t turn. Wal
ter Vance added to the champions’
sum of points by placing fourth in
the §80 yard run, which was won by
teammate Charles Stinson. The
track events were climaxed with the
gun sounding the one-mile relay as
Harold Barret, Offie Clark, Charles
Stinson, and Hupert Ricks scooted
around the track to win first place
in three minutes, thirty eight and
four tenths^ seconds.
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In the field events, Arthur John
son captured second place in the Chester Foney,
pule vault with only two men par- rick Bell, best
ticipating. Leon Carlton sailed the
javelin 177 and nine-twelfths feet,
as he bettered his 167 mark at ’Bama
State, to win the javelin throw. A
SIAC meet scheduled for May 9th
at the A. U. field.
A few oddities from the City meet
are: Charles Stinson displayed great
stamina as he ran a total of 15 laps;
Offie Clark, with a bad leg, passed
a wolverine who had much distance
between them on the third lap of
the mils relay; Laurence Gates, de
spite an ankle sprained at ’Bama
State, finished second in the high
hurdles before he had to be carried
off the track after spraining the
same ankle.
A breakdown of the seventeen
man team shows that there are eight
freshmen, four sophomores, five
juniors, and no seniors. This should
leave Coach Epps with a stronger
aggregation next year, with addi
tions from the incoming freshman
class in September.
The members of this years’ squad
are Charles Stinson, Edward
Clemons, Laurence Gates, Walter
Vance, Al.oyd Edinburgh, Ralph Bal
lad, Le Artis McNeil, and Newt
Solomon, freshmen; Offie Clark,
Larkin Mann, Roman Turmon, and
Leon Carlton, sophomores; John
Cannon (captain), Harold Barrett,
Hubert Ricks, Arthur Johnson, and
Henry Collins, juniors. Augustus
Robinson, freshman, is manager.
Personalaties
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best-groomed; Pat-
physique; Charles
personality; David
friendly; Jonathan
conversationalist;
Jackson,
' Stanley,
Jackson,
Averett
best
most
best
Burress, best all-around,
teammate, Aloyd Edinburgh, placed and Marshall Smith, most versatile.