SATURDAY. MAY 15, 1943
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE FIVE
Ramlilin^
With Private Lacy Hagood
This last “Rambling” of tiie year was written for the M & G by Pvt.
Lacy llagood, who is stationed at Camp Wheeler, Georgia.)
Although my “general orders” control my actions while walking guard,
my thoughts wandered back during those seemingly never-ending hours
to those glorious days when Elon ruled the North State Conference with a
hea\'y hand. Days when the talk was along one topic—Elon’s powerful grid,
cage, and diamond squads.
Yes. those were the daj's. Days when newspapers screamed out in
tall black type deeds of Elon’s forever-winning teams. One of the longest
winning streaks put together during those never-to-be-forgotten days was
the 21-game winning streak put together by the ’41 baseball aggregation—
winners of the North State Conference. Seems as though it was only
yesterday that Tal Abernathy, Elon’s strike-out king, was compiling strike
out records. Bernie Daher, Bernie Askins and Joe Tomancheck were blasting
out game-winning base hits. —
Preceding this great baseball combination were the powerful cagers of
1940—winners of the Nort^ State Title. ’Twas during this successful cage
season that a lanky, dark-haired Jack Gardner won himself a place in Elon’s
hall of immortals with astonishing shooting and all-around cage game.
The greatest and most hard-earned title came when Elon's ’41 gridiron
squad upset the sports writers’ dope bucket and walked off with the North
State title with an unblemished record—a season in which fleetfooted Jack
Boone and Bernie Daher assured themselves a place among Elon’s immortals
by leading an inexperiencd gang of fighting Christians to undisputed posses
sion of the N. S. title. The climax to this thrilling season came as Elon
came from behind to. overcome an early Catawba lead. ’Twas a season
to never forget.
Yep—Elon has had her share of championship teams. Those were the
glorious days—a fitting close to Elon’s discontinued athletic program.
To Coach Hendrickson, builder of these great teams, I doff my hat.
“Coach, ’twas a great job—well done.”
Gosh, here comes the officer of the guard, so I'll have to finish these
wonderful memories some other day. e
But before making an exit—a last goodbye to all you wonderful fellows
and girls left on campus. May God speed the day when we shall meet again
on Elon’s fair campus.
COLONNADES TO BE
DISTRIBUTED NEXT WEEK
The 1943 issue of the Colonnades
is now ready for publication and will
be distributed to the students as soon
as they are printed. The Colonnades,
edited by Ruth Koontz, is a magazine
containing the best literary efforts
of the students during the year.
Jimmie Darden’s one-act farce com
edy, “Sweet Genevieve,” which was
presented at the Chapel Hill contest,
will appear in the magazine. There
will also be poems and stories by
Jimmie Elder, Miller Basnight, Mary
Denson, and Ray Day.
PANVIO LITERARY SOCIETY
ELECTS OFFICERS
Members of the Panvio Literary
Society elected new officers for the
coming year at their regular meeting
Wednesday. Coleen Browning was
elected president of the organization;
Edna Reitzel, vice-president; Alice
Miller, secretary; and Lillian Walker
was re-elected to the position of treas
urer.
The organization has had many in
teresting programs this year, the last
one being a talk given by Lillian
W'alker on the WAACs of today. The
T. N. BOONE
Tailor For Elon Students
SINCE 1914
GIRLS' SPORTS
Reviews. They’re nice — because
they usually mean an ending which
sometimes brings regret. This is ’43,
the end of our school year, and it has
been fun—even those ol' gym classes.
So, boy, sound the bugle, we’re ready
for a review! In fact, let’s have a
Remember column.
Remember when you first tried on
your little gym suit, and standing in
fi'ont of the mirror, you wonderect
why it had to be you who was bow-
legged?
Remember when you were so sore
on Wedne.sdays and Fridays because
of those joint-loosening calisthenics
the day before?
Remember when you first learned
to string a bow, to nock an arrow, and
shoot? (But let’s forget where the
arrow hit!) Remember those cold
days of volley ball, with not even the
sun to brighten our spirits?
Remember the fun we had in the
gym playing basketball, table tennis,
and shuffleboard? Then there were
the intramural games, and what a
time! The Ladies Hall team received
the trophy for being the league leader
in basketball, after having just re
ceived one for volley ball a few weeks
before.
Then we moved out of doors again,
where we got tanned and freckled
while we learned to play tennis, pad
dle tennis, and badminton.
Remember practising for May Day
and the eventful day with such an
appreciative audience? Remember or
ganizing for Military Drill last fall
with Denson as our captain and Dr.
Bowden as our instructor? Maybe
he remembers our difficulty in learn
ing to do an “about face” command
correctly, or even to our astonishment
to find that left is left and right is
right, and never the twain shall meet.
And then when we reorganized this
spring and this time its was Captain
Rumley giving orders, and didn’t she
do well? So let’s thank Dr. Bowden
and Coach Pierce for making all these
things possible. It’s been swell, and
say, gang, let’s always remember!
I may as well tell you the joke 1
heard the other day. Well, don’t look
like that. It’s clean. There once
was a man who had an eight-room
house. Now, in one of these rooms
he kept thousands and thousands of
cakes of soap. Do you wonder what
was in the other seven rooms? Well,
naturally, soap wrappers! Now,
wasn’t that absolutely clean? More
than we can say for most^ of them
around here. But we must keep our
cause in mind. We must strive to
do our duty. Now, perhaps you won
der what that duty is. Well, we’ll
tell you—it’s getting copy for the
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These girls have done good work
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INSPIRATION
As I sit before my old typewriter and
gaze at the clock on the wall (now,
doesn’t this sound descriptive?), you
might think that I’m going to write a
story, but I’m not. I’m going to write
an article for the Maroon and Gold.
Incidentally, this hasn’t been censored
by the editor as yet.
The hot sun is shining in the win
dow here in the dusk of the evening
and bringing that pleasing sensation
of a cooked waffle covered with melt
ing butter. But, nevertheless, we
must labor on. Our cause is great.
W’e must be brave and the cause must
never die. “We have hard work to
do and loads to lift,” as the poet has
said, but who knows better than we
do? The only difference between the
poet and us is that we feel the same
thing but he knew how to say it.
I guess we have wandered away
from the subject, but since we have.
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