Hljyl952 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWS LETTER Page Three
Teachers Win 18-4
j SPORTS
I CORNER
I By Doc Crumm
This is my last column to you. I
ha,e been associated with the News
Lciier staff for two years, and I en-
,ovcd my work more each year. In
iT;Lng, I tried to bring to you the
highlights of athletics at State Teach-
I'.s College during 1950-52.
1 want to say, thanks to the many
aijletes who performed during these
soason;, thanks to the athletic depart-
in:i)t for their wonderful cooperation,
anj. mo^t of all, thanks to you for
ijpporting your teams and school
laper.
As many of you have heard me say,
“Xo one thing causes anything.” The
crow'th of your team and newspaper
MS caused by you. Thanks a mill
ion,
O « 0 ft
Baseball is the sport that will end
the athletic year at S. T. C. according
to sportj e. perts, more people witness
ba:eball games than any other sport
in the United States. When your
school played its first home game ag
ainst North Carolina College, I was
surprise] at the attendance. For some
reason baseball has been the neglect
ed sport in American Colleges. During
my stay here I have seen the interest
in baseball grow. The school has not
had a diamond club long. Like all
other schools, reasons can be given
for not fielding baseball teams in the
past. Forget those reasons. The found-
ation for our present baseball team
stemmed from grads like Nan Weeks,
William Mullins, “Peanut” Pailin, Mc
Gowan, Johnny Williams, and other
performers like Red Thompson, James
jfoggard, James Wilkes, and others.
These fellows played to-gether in 1948
and 49 as a group which liked to play
nail. Coach Williams used to practice
his boys against the Elizabeth City
Elks and usually the Elks won. Last
year Fayetteville was the only college
foe that Elizabeth City encountered,
l>''-t this year an attractive schedule
was drawn up by the Athletic depart
ment hsting about five or six school-
toy frays and a few independent nine
&>nies. Yep! Quite a jump. . . . Former
athletes James Boone, Edward Camen,
Leon Tliornton, and James Riley visit-
ed the campus recently. All are serv-
ng in the Armed Forces, and after
conversing with them, each one wish-
63 to return to S. T. C. and resume
l'i> studies .... Three home runs in
a eollege game is somewhat of a re
cord. Can any of you after session
lecturers offer any comment, pro or
con? (EKz. City and N. C. College). .
Against the Sportsmen Athletics,
Jimmy Greer got a three bagger and a
s-and up double his first two times up.
In two games right-handers Randall
and Freeman have fanned eight batt
ers each.
Thomas. .375, Davis, .333, and Hog-
.?'>''d. ,213 are the team,s leading hit
ler'- Thomas has 16 appearances and
0 •' ti: Davis has 15 trips and 5 bingl-
cs, and ^loggard has appeared at the
■'late '4 times and got 3 hits . . . .
The la:t three months in any school is
“ tim ■ !o write articles of any de-
'or*ption. Why? In schools and out-
c of schools, people assume a non-
^‘lalant attitude toward activity. Why?
Tis, Springtime.
May 17—With pitcher Rocky Ran
dall and leftfielder James Hoggard
hiting four baggers, the S.T.C. base-
ballers trampled the South Norfolk
Aces of Norfolk, Virginia 18-4. Ran
dall was up only six hits, four runs
and walked four. To top this feat, he
collected a triple, a homer, and a sin
gle to lead the Pirate’s hitting attack.
Hoggard connected in the fourth inn
ing tor his homer with one on.
This victory ran the local college’s
win column up to three, and they
aa. e lost five.
R H E
Elizabeth Cit 18 11 1
South Norfolk Aces 4 6 19
Umpires: C. Thompson and A. Wil
liams.
1951-52 BASEBALL TEAM
Name Position
Earl Thomas Catcher
Harry Freeman C, P, 2b, lb
Winston Brown Pitcher
William Simon Pitcher
Robert Scott P> RF
Vernon Randall Pitcher
Raymond Reddrick P, LF
LanJon Miales First Base
John Cashwell 2b, RF
James Wilkes 2b, Sb, SS
Alfred Marbley 2b, SS, 3b
Atlas Davis SS, 3b
Fielders
Mathew Timberlake Utility
James Hoggard C, R
James Greer C, R
Encis Brown L, R
J. C. Williams
Luther Williams
Coach—J. H. Wilhams.
Managers—William Andrews, San
tiago Burrell and Dewey Clarke.
Scorer and announcer, Doc Crumm.
A & T Bulldogs Bite
Whew! 19-3, and they call it base
ball. This sounds more like a football
score, but it happened when A & T
College of Greensboro, North Carol
ina walked over the State Teachers
Pirates. Statistics from the game are
not in detail, but according to Coach
J. H. Williams, hvirler Harry Freeman
started on the mound for the losers
and checked the Bulldogs with 4 hits
and Struck out 6 in six frames. The
Pirates went down swinging 21 times.
(Strike outs) Richards got credit for
the win, while Freeman suffered his
first defeat. Errows proved costly to
the losers.
Bethlehem, Pa.—(I.P-)—Forty stu
dents have been dropped from Le
high University for failure to meet
academic standards, Dr. Wray H.
Congdon, dean of students announced
beer recently in issuing a report of
students on scholastic probation!. An
other group of 39 undergraduates has
been suspended for the second semes
ter for excessive absences from class
es during the last term.
Those dropped from the university
include 13 sophomores, 12 freshmen,
nine juniors, four seniors and two m
the general college division. The
Committee on the Standing of Stu
dents placed 194 tsudents on scholas-
tis probation for the spring term m
compliance with university regula
tions.
SLUGFEST —
N. C. COLLEGE WINS, 18-15
Freeman and Thomas
Clout Homers
Although second-baseman Harry
Freeman and catcher Earl Thomas hit
th jackpot, S.T.C. bowed to the N. C.
College Eagles of Durham 18-15 in
a game that was interesting to watch,
ine Eagles flew high in the first inn
ing when catcher Smith hit a single
into right center field to score Smith
and two other Eagles as N.C.C. led
3-0. Dudley was hit by pitcher Ran-
aall and Green struck out. Earher
aartie had lined out to third base
man Atlas Davis, and Johnson was
SO’a by Randall.
Elizabeth City came on and tab-
bea little Payne, diminutive hurler for
N.C.C. for 2 hits and 6 runs. Leading
off, Marbley received a base on balls;
Hoggard was thrown out, third to
first. Atlas Davis was safe on Shaw’s
shortstop error. Thomas hit to the
shortstop, forcing Marbley out at
third, but was safe on a fielder s
choice, and finally left fielder Red
drick hit a long single into dead cen
ter field to score Davis and Thomas,
r'reeman came up next and smashed
a hard low drive across third into
deep left field for the first home run
of the game, driving Reddrick home.
Encis Brown bounded to third but
was safe on an error. Miales received
a base on balls, and Randall drove
one of Payne’s curves into right field,
of which Johnson of N.C.C. should
have retrieved. This error caused
Brown and Miales to score. Marbley,
lead off player for S.T.C., grounded
to first-baseman Dudley, who made
the easy out unassisted. As the Pi
rates took to the field, cheers could
oe heard all around the campus.
The Eagles bounced back five runs
each in the second and third frames
to lead 13-6. E.G. tallied one in the
fifth (Thomas). N.C.C. got 4 more in
the sixth and one in the ninth. Ral
lying in the last four innings, the E.G.
Pirates scored 3 in the sixth, 2 in the
seventh and eighth, and one in the
final stanza.
Plummer got a home run in the
ninth with none aboard for North
Carolina College.
R H E
North Carolina College 14 18 9
Elizabeth City 10 15 12
Winning pitcher—Payne, McQueen
in third, Darden in seventh.
Losing pitcher — Randall, Freeman
in fifth.
Starting battery, N.C.C — Payne
and Smith.
Starting battery, E. C.— Randall
and Thomas.
Double plays, 1—(6-4-3) Marbley,
Wilkes and Miales.
Left on base, N.C.C.—12.
Left on base, E.G.—10.
Strike out for S. T. G.—Randall 2;
Freeman 4.
(In the 5th inning, Wilkes replac-
od Freeman at second and Freeman
replaced Dandall on the mound for
S. T. C.)
Umpires; Woodhouse and A. H.
Williams.
The book review, “The Other Side
Of Hell”, that appeared in the last
issue, was done by Miss Esmeralda
Forbes. Due to spacing, her name was
omitted and the editors would like to
give her credit at this time.
Mazor’s Sports Angle
Hats off to the Elizabeth City
State Teachers College baseball team!
Although they have not defeated any
college opponents, the Pirates have
chalked up three wins over local Vir
ginia semi-pro teams. It was swell to
see many of you turn out to support
our home game. Next baseball seas
on should find S. T. C. with a great
ly improved team and better attend
ance.
Cheerio to all of you! The time
has come when we will all return
home. Of course our minds will turn
to tennis, swimming and hilking. I
wish you the best of luck during your
summer vacation, and an enjoyable
one. I will be looking forward to
your return next year. So long until
then.
—Mazor Slade
Pirates Split—Loose to Shaw
University, but Slap Athletics
With the powerful sticking of Harry
Freeman and Encis Brown, the S.T.C.
baseballers lost to Shaw University
at Raleigh 12-10, but revenged this
defeat by blasting the Athletics of
Portsmouth, Virginia 16-8. In the
Shaw game, Freeman bagged two
singles and a 375 foot home run over
the right-center field wall. Edmunds
was the winning hurler and Raymond
Reddick was the loser for the Pirates.
Buckeye Scott was the star of tiie
Athletics’ game as he gave up only
two hits and four runs in six com
plete innings. Rightfielder Encis Bro-
wn almost had a perfect day at the
plate as he banged out five safties in
six attempts. Brown collected three
doubles, two singles, and scored four
runs. Winston Brown relieved Scott
on the mound for the Pirates in the
seventh frame and gave up two hits
and two runs.
The Pirates made only four mis-
cues as their all around play seems
to have improved. Their best defens
ive play of the season thus far was
seen in the second Portsmouth Ath
letics’ game, when shortstop Atlas
Davis picked up a hot grounder, with
the bases full, and fired to catcher
Earl Thomas to trap the runner at
home plate, and Thomas threw to
first-basemen Landon Miales, who
retired the batter, and the first base
runner, who had started to second
base, was forced out by this magni
ficent play. Robert “Buckeye’ Scott
was accredited the winning pitcher.
Along with this victory the Teach
ers Pirates have now won two and
dropped three. The only victim has
been the Athletics, twice. A. & T
College, N. G. College and Shaw
University have liquiated the Pirates.
The locals have yet to gain their first
college win for 1952.
Cambridge, Mass. - (I, P.) - Planning
for the future of Harvard University
on the assumption “that we shall be
partially mobilized but not in a glob
al war for many years, President
James B. Conant proposes serious re-
adjustments” in the educational patt
ern of Harvard’s student body, most
of whom, he believes, will have serv
ed two years in the armed forces be
fore entering college. Dr. Conant
points out that some arrangement “be
tween extreme acceleration and our
present schedule would seem to be
desired.”