The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-08
Along
The SidelineS
WITH ELTON CASEY
DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?
That the Eastern Class AA Conference football leaders
are already tabbing Leon Brogden's Wilmington Wildcats
and chubby Lee Stones Raleigh Capitals as the clubs to
beat in this years grid race. Brogden has Is veterans back
while Stone has about a dozen monogram wearers back from
the team that licked Tony Simeon's High Point Black Bisons
for the State Class A cup last season.
We label Fred Emmerson's Durham High Bulldogs as
the loops darkhorse.
That basketball talk is already in the air. Yep, they say
most of the University of North Cardinals returning stars
are leaving the "Hil." We understand that Jim Paxton, Jim
Jordan and several other of the lads who were leaders in
the White Phantoms march into the National Cage tourney
last year are not planning on reporting to Chapel Hill for
this hardwood campaign.
That will certainly take everything out of the bright
picture that most Tar Heel supporters had painted. Carolina
has lost their ace mentor-Ben Carnevale-to the United
States Military Academy and their ace pivot man-Horace
Bones" McKinney-has Joined the potent Hane's Hosiery
quintet in Winston-salem.
Speaking of the Winston-Salem crew, which will be
plotted by Joby Hawn, reminds us that they are LOADED
with cage material. Remember Cedric LOFTS, the Duke ace
and member of Durham Highs National Champ club, and
speedy Dan Anderson, Carolina star? We'll, both of these
lads have signed to play with Hanes as we'll as other former
College stars throughout the South. Hawn, former popular
High School athletic director in the Twin City, has outlined
quite an impressive schedule for this years club.
While on the topic of basketball, we hear that the local
Wildcats are also counting on one of their best years. We
hope so. That was a tough break last year to have to drop
out OF the Eastern Conference with such a good club.
P. H. (Chuck) Quinlan, veteran trainer at Carolina and
head wrestling coach, is back on the job after a vacation
with his home folks in New England.
"Quinny", who has tended the ills of Tar Heel gridders
for the past 20 years, is a rabid baseball fan and a staunch
Boston Red Sox supporter. He saw the pennant-hungry Red
Sox play every club in the American League while he was
on vacation.
White Aud is currently the hottest pitcher" in the
Senior Softball Circuit. The husky blonde-haired tosser
recently pocketed his fifth win in a row and is being counted
on heavily by Sunshine Laundry heads to keepthem in front
in the loop race. Aud, former New Hanover athlete and
Navy discharge, attended Wake Forest College last year
Deacons. This year, White says he is not going back to the
Baptist Institution, but will enroll in the New Hanover
College set-up.
years Duke eleven. Miner, An-American several years ago
at Duke, started his College grid career by wearing the garb
of the South Carolina Gamecocks.
That Bill Mc1lwain, former sports ed of the Wilmington
Star and later reporter in Charlotte and jacksonville. will
leave tomorrow to resume his studies at Wake Forest COL
lege. INC" will do some free-!ance writing while at the Wake
County "house of knowledge"
Dickie Watts, former Wilmington star, is back home for
a few days before going back to Wake Forest. Watts was
out for football but quit.
piggy Dykes, another New Hanover star. has renorted
back to his shipping post in the Merchant Marine.
If you haven't secured a Wilmington High athletic ticket
yet, you had better hurry fer We hear they are going at a
Friday night at Kinston. The following Friday, Laurinburg
invades Legion Stadium for the Cats initial home outing.
We made a mistake in our column the other dav when
running a story on New Hanover Highs football SQUAD. We
referred to Rupert Bryan as athletic director and men,
toned Brogden as Head Coach. Well, Rupert is Business
Manager and Brogden is Athletic Director. We are like
everybody else, we make mistakes often, but we do like to
clear them uD later.