SATURDAY, MARCH 30, K4.
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE FOUR
Elon Nine Faces Ohio U. In Opening Game
The Armchair
Athlete
By AL BURLINGAME
All you Elon sports enthusiasts who |
had to sit back during the war and
watch the collegiate athletic contests
of other colleges—if you wanted to |
see collegiate sports at all—can un- |
pack your best cheering voices from
the mothballs of inactivity now, and
prepare to let loose the old Elon bat
tle cries! Yes, varsity sports are
back with a vengence. In fact, they
have been injected so suddenly into
the bloodstream of the college ath
letic program that, compared to the
sports picture of only a year ago, the
outlook for 1946 has picked up like a
spavined truck horse that has been
jabbed in the rump by a hornet.
Of course, we had varsity basketball
this year, as well as the previous win
ter; but now the Big Three of col
legiate competition—basketball, base
ball, and football—all have been re
united with their hearty old devotee,
Elon College. And there is nothing
missing, abridged, or incomplete
about that Big Three, unless it be the
faces of Maroon and Gold stars and
rooters of yore.
The return of baseball and football
on a big-time basis here isn’t all, eith
er—varsity tennis and a pepped-up in
tramural schedule also will give you
sports-hungry Christians a chance to
satisfy your appetites. Then, if even
those side lines aren't enough to fill
you, the Burlington Bees baseball club
will be playing at our Elon stadium;
and you can certainly feast on fare
like that! If you’re not satisfied then
—brother, you’ve got an over-active
athletics gland, and we despair of its
ever being cured! \
♦ * ♦
A word about the intramural pro
gram, boys:
Coach Pierce Returns To
Elon; Will Act As Head
Baseball Mentor
Bobcats Play Here Monday;
19-Game Campaign Planned
Here is something that has been
fc Emulated ior your own benefit. No i
one compels you to play intramural i
softball, or volleyball, or whatever I
the sport may be. You play for your
own good. Every man of you needs i
some sort of healthful, outdoor ex-!
ercises, some kind of release for
nerves grown tense at work in the!
classrooms and laboratory. Remem
ber the old proverb about “all work
and no play”? Well, all work and'
no play also makes Jack a very paun-
cliy individual. If you’re suffering
from over-expansion of the waistline, |
fighting the battle of the bulge, you i
need exercise. Even if you’re as thin
as a backyard clothespole, you need
exercise. If you’re just plain normal
in physique, you need exercise. For
you men of Elon, the intramural soft
ball program is an opportunity to
serve yourself, biologically and men
tally. Softball is an easy way to
take our exercise—and an easy game
to pick up, if you don’t have exper
ience. Let’s take advantage of this
opportunity, guys. Let’s play ball!
■K * * ♦
There has been some discussion,
both on campus and in the local daily
paper, about the possibility of Joe
Golombek’s playing football for Elon
this fall. Joe was all-Conference, all-
State, all-American for the Christans
in 1938. He returned to college this
year after a lengthy period of army
service, and was voted the most val
uable player on the 1945-46 Elon bas
ketball team. Joe has informed this
column that h£ does not—repeat, dols
not—intend to play football. That
should settle that!
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Returning to Elon on terminal leave
from the Navy, after 23 months’ ser
vice, Lt. J. L. Pierce, U. S. N. R., will
act as baseball coach for the Fighting
Christians during the 1946 season, it
has been announced by Dr. L. E.
Smith, president of the college. Di
rector of the Air Corps physical edu
cation program at Elon before enter
ing the service himself, Lt. Pierce
has returned to accept an assignment
necessitated by the influx of new stu
dents to the campus.
More than a hundred new G4. reg
istrants' already have entered school
for the spring quarter. In the re
alignment of the athletic program.
Coach Lacy B. Adcox will direct
intramurals and classes in physical
education, and will assist in the coach-
been directing varsity baseball train
ing of baseball. Coach Adcox had
ing until the new coach could as-
I sume his full duties. Spring football
i practice under “Hap” Perr,y, former
Reidsville high school mentor and
j varsity tennis are also expected to get
! under way shortly as part of the re-
1 vamped program.
Coach Pierce is a resident of High
Point. A graduate of High Point Col
lege, where he was a three-sport ath
lete of the class of ’32, he received
his M. A. in physical education at |ie
University of North Carolina in 1940
and came to Elon in 1942. He con
ducted physical training for Air Corps
trainees in 1943 and 1944, and enter
ed the Navy in 1945.
A participant in many thrilling war
experiences, as commanding officer of
anL. C. T. Mortar ship, Lt' Pierce saw
duty in the Solomon Islands, at Ok
inawa, and at Japan. Not only did
his ship help cover the landings at
Okinawa and undergo continuous duty
during the campaign there, but it was
credited with having shot down one
kamikaze plane during the action.
As coach of the first post-war Elon
team, Lt. Pierce faces the task of
moulding his ball club from a mixture
of former Elon players, whose col
lege careers were interrupted by
service in the armed forces, and
younger boys—most of them just out
of high school—who are long on as
piration and short on experience.
After a preliminary observation of
the squad. Coach Pierce was con
servative in his estimate of Elon’s con
ference chances this spring. He re
marked that the squad appeared
sti'ong in the outfield and was par
ticularly impressed by Latta, an out
fielder from Burlington.
“Johnny Clayton at shortstop,” he
said, “Steve Castura catching, and
Latta in the outer green will give us
a nucleus of pre-war athletes to
build around. At present, however, I
need more time to look over the
squad. Some of the new men are
good. We will probably get some
top pitching, but lack a left-hand
er now. In any case,” he concluded,
“you may be sure that we will have a
fairly good team.”
COACH J. L. PIERCE
Spring Football
Practice Set To
Start Monday
TWO TEAMS ADDED
AS MEN LAUNCH
SOFTBALL LOOP
Same to you
Bolstered by the addition of two
new teams and by the rei.|5orced lipe-
ups of the five teams which /t.ve
been competing in the intramurals
since last fall, the men’s intramural ^
program got rolling again this week
with what promises to be an excit- ^
ing softball race. Added to the orig
inal teams (the Gremlins, Wolves,
Jokers, Daybreakers, and Bombard- ;
iers) are the Owls and Hawks, made
up mostly of veterans who have just
returned to school. ]
The Wolves and Jokers were slat
ed to open the softball season last
Vv'ednesday, and the campaign is
scht \ lied to ^jntinue through May 6.
Playoffs are scheduled for May 8
to 15. •
Complete schedule:
March 27, 3:00 p. m.: Wolves vs.
Jokers; 4:00 p. m.: Hawks vs. Day
breakers.
Mjarch 28, 6:45 p. m.: Owls. vs.
Bombardiers. I
April 1, 6:45 p. m.: Gremlins vs.
Owls. • I
April 3, 3:00 p. m.: Bombardiers, vs..
Hawks; 4:00 p. m.: Wolves vs. Day- j
breaker ; ►
April 8, 3:00 p. m.: J*okers vs. Day
breakers; 4:00 p. m.; Wolves vs. |
Bombardiers. I
April 10, 3:00 p. m.: Gremlins vs. I
Hawks; 4:00 p. m.: Jokers vs. Bomb- j
ardiers.
April ll, 6:45 p. m.; Wolves vs.
Gremlins.
April 15. 6:45 p. m.: Owls vs. Hawks.
April 17, 3:00 p. m.: Daybreakers
vs. Bombardiers; 4:00 p. m.: Owls vs.
Wolves. ' ^
April 18, 6:45 p. m.: Gremlins vs.
Jokers.
April 22, 6:45 p. m.: Hawks vs.
Wolves.
April 24, 3:00 p. m.: Owls vs.
Jokers; 4:00 p. m.: Gremlins vs. Day
breakers.
April 29, 3:00 p. m.; Hawks vs.
Jokers; 4:00 p. m.: Owls vs. Day
breakers.
May 6, 6:45 p. m.: Gremlins vs.
Bombardiers.
Spring football practice, in prepar
ation for the Christians’ first gridiron
season since the war interruted the
varsity athletic program, will begin
on Monday, April 1, it has been an
nounced by L. J. "Hap” Perry, new
Elon College coach. Practice will con
tinue for about four weeks, with the
squad working on the lower end of
the Elon baseball park, so as not to
interfere with baseball workouts by
either the college team or the Bur
lington Bees, who are also scheduled
to start drills on the initial day of
April.
Assisting Coach Perry in the spring
workouts will be a former all-State
and all-Conference football player at
Elon—(Garland Causey, who has
not signed a contract here, however,
as he may rejoin the pro eleven in
September.
Perry, who will assume his duties
as athletic director at the college
on July 1, is hesitant about predict
ing the school conference prospects
this jfcar, biit exicts the Christians
to be strengthened by the return of
veterans. Among his potential grid
stars are slated to be several boys
from his 1945 Reidsville High school
State championship team, as well as
Charles Nichols, all-State Reidsville
lineman of 1944, all of whom are ex
pected to enroll next term.
Initial spring drills will be to ac
quaint the men with Perry’s system, a
modified single-wing which he em
ployed so successfully at Reidsville
High. During his 19 years as football
coach there,Perry won the State class
B championship five times, tied once,
and was beaten once. His recotJ. is
one of the best of any high school
coach in North Carolina.
Fall football practice will get un
derway on September 1. to prepare
for the opening game with Atlantic
Christian College on September 27.
According to a conference ruling, fall
practices are prohibited from starting
any earlier.
JOKERS TOP FOES;
DAYBREAKERS WIN
Men’s intramural softball was
launched with a bang on Wednesday
afternoon, when two games were play
ed at the college ball park. In the
curtain raiser, the Jokers blasted to
an easy 11-3 victory over the Wolves,
while the nightcap found the Day
breakers ekeing out a thrilling 10-9
triumph over the Hawks.
With Eddie Mulford showing good
control, the Jokers tamed the Wolves
in smart fashion. Three runs in the
opening frame gave Mulford a lead
the losei»i never could overcome.
Girls' Sports
By BETTY BENTON
Unless the weather says “April
fool!” and turns up showery, the first
Elon College baseball team to take
the diamond since 1942 will face the
strong Ohio University Bobcats in the
Elon stadium on Monday, April 1st,
in the opening game of the 1945 sea
son. Director of Physical Education
Lacy B. Adcox has announced a ten
tative schedule of 19 games for the
Chrisians, 13 already designated as
definite and six still under negotia
tion, with the Ohio U. contest heading
the list.
The impending clash between Elon
and the team from the Buckeye State
is one of seven spring training games
j with North Carolina and Virginia col-
} lege nines, scheduled by Athletic Di-
' rector Don C. Peden of Ohio Univer-
I sity to precede the Northern school’s
I regular campaign.
j With seven lettermen available, in-
1 eluding two World War II veterans
j from the 1943 team. Coach Peden will
head south on March 29 with a squad
of about 17 men. On March 30, the
I Ohio nine will meet Virginia Poly-
I technic Institute at Blacksburg, Va.:
I then, following the game at Elon,
I they will tackle North Carolina Uni
versity at Chapel Hill on April 2,
I Duke University at Durham on April
3, North Carolina State at Raleigh
on April 4, Wake Forest at Wake
^ Forest on April 5, and Richmond Un
iversity at Rich'mond. on Aisril 6.
! The five lettermen from last year’s
Ohio team, which won nine games
I and lost only to Ohio State and Mich-
, igan State, are : Gene Ruszkowski,
catcher; Bill Barbis, outfielder: and
Bill Turk third base (all from Cleve
land); Ralph Sayre, New Haven, W.
Va., second base; and Charles Horn,
Crooksvile, Ohio, shortstop. Charles
Burdette, Akron, pitcher, and Charles
Trager, Cleveland, outfielder, made
letters in 1943 and returned to Ohio
Uilversity this semester after serv-
, ing in the armed forces. Burdette is
I expected to be tile mainstay of the
: squad’s pitching department, while
Ruszkowski, Trager, and Horn are
I looked upon as the team’s potential
leaders at the plate.
Facing the invading Buckeye bats
men will be a pitcher ncjt yet named
by Coach J. L. Pierce, although the
selection very probably will come
from among a sextet of hurlers now
under the coach’s surveillance, name
ly: Pep Watkins of Ramseur, N. C.;
Jack Andrews of McLeansville, who
pitched with the Melville Torpedo
Boat Base team while in the Navy;
Jimmy McSwain of Robbins; Bill An
derson, former Army twirler from Mc
Leansville; Perry Ayscue of Hender
son; and Dave Smith of Burlington.
Elon’s coach, who has just taken
over his duties, is still experimenting
with combinations and seeking to dis
cover the top hitters on the Christian
squtid.
The games listed as definite on
the Elon schedule, besides that with
Ohio U., include two with the Greens
boro O. R. D. nine, and two North
State conference clashes each with
Catawba, LfeAoir-Rhyne, Atlantic
Christian College, High Point, and
Guilford. Two additional games witli
Atlantic Christian, as well as two each
with Hanes Hosiery of Winston-Salem
and Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege, are being sought.
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BURLINGTON COCA-COLA BOTTl,lNG CO., BUELINGTON, N. C,
I hope everyone is as happy about ■,
softball season starting as I am. It i
may get dusty going down to the
field, but it’s worth it after you get
there.
Here is the intramural softball
schedule for women;
March 27: Ladies’ Hall vs. Second
Floor West.
April 3: Third Floor West vs. East.
April 4: 3rd Floor West vs. 2nd
Floor West.
April 8; Ladies’ Hall vs. East.
April 10: 2nd Floor West vs. East.
April 14: 3rd Floor West vs. La
dies’ Hall.
April 25: Ladies’ Hall .vs. 2nd
Floor West.
April 29: 3rd Floor West vs. East.
May 2: 3rd Floor West vs. 2nd Floor
West.
May 8: Ladies’ Hall vs. East.
May 9: 2nd Floor West vs. East.
May 13: 3rd Floor West vs. Ladies’
Hall.
May 14-18: Play offs.
If any of the teams are planning
to change team managers, or any of
the team managers are unable to
serve, please get together and elect
a new representative and report the
name to Coach Adcox.
The Women’s Tennis Ladder will
be started as soon as possible. This
time let’s see that it is completed!
The positon of senior manager for
the girls is open. Anyone qualified
and wishing to submit an applica
tion please do so at once.
Well, see you down at the ball
field!
Bobby Harris and Wayne King con
tributed homers for the Jokers, and
A1 Burlingame, the losing pitcher,
got a four-bagger for the Wolves.
The second game looked like a
runaway for the Hawks at the outset,
the score being 8-0 in their favor when
the Daybreakers came to bat in the
second inning. A deluge of hits, plus
a half-dozen Hawk errors, tied up
the game at that point. In the top of
the fourth, the Hawks went ahead
again, 9-8; but the Daybreakers knot
ted the count once more in the fifth
and won with another tally in the
sixth. Perry Ayscue pitched for the
winners, while Barrett and Smitli
shared the mound duties for the
Hawks.