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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, APRM. 27, 194®
BASEBALL TEAM UPSETS CATAWBA
A SLANT
ON SPORTS
By STEVE CASTURA
Elon Netmen Triumph
After Losing 2 Meiats
WalW’s Long Hits
Help Andelrsopi Win
BASEBALL TRIP
These baseball trips are wonderful.
Just think—one can skip classes and
receive absence slips for doing so!
We visit different colleges and meet
many people. Yep, its fun.
It seems that the grass is al
ways greener on the other side.
As we visit the various colleges
with their nice buildings and eat
their good chow (we won’t men
tion^ women), we often wish we’d
gone there instead of Elon. But
Elon has its good points, too.
Things always look brighter when
we are the larger end of the score.
It certainly does help to make the
trip a more pleasant one.
When we lose, the trip becomes
a drudgery. We begin to gripe
about this and that, we criticize
STEVE CASTURA, veteran Elon
catcher, one of the Christian baseball
team’s key men. Steve is acting tem
porarily as sports editor of the MA-
KOON AND GOLD.
BASEBALL SCHEDULE
Watch the announcements con
cerning changes pending for
night games if the Burlington
Bees are playing away. Afternoon
games start at 3:30 except for May
4 (May-day), that game begin
ning at 2 p. m.
April 27: Appalachian (there).
April 30: High Point (here).
May 1: Lenoir-Ryhne (here.)
May 3: Guilford (there).
May 4: Appalachian (here).
May 8: Atlantic Christian
(here).
May 9: Atlantic Christian
(here).
May 14: High Point (there).
May 17: ORD-AAF (here).
the other team and the umpires,
and we tear down each other. Of
course, we should have won the
game, if so and so had done this
and if this guy had done that.
Well, it all adds up to this: It’s
just as pleasant to play at home
as it. is anywhere else.
Then there is always another side
to the story. We, who are studious
(Ahem!), miss our classes; we leave
our wives and sweethearts behind, we
have to rush from place to place,
dress and undress. We ride many
miles to play a ball game and rush
right back, all in a day or two.
Tough, isn’t it?
Some of the veterans have been
giving “Pep” Watkins, Larry Mc
Cauley and Dick York some fath
erly advice abouf the Army. They
tell them what to do and what
not to do. And when the “Re
cruits” begin complaining about
this gbod old civilian life, the old
boys begin to tell them about the
rough old times in the army.
Then, too, believe it or not, the
boys even try to do a bit of study
ing between innings. Bill Anderson
always has a boekkeeping workset
with him, Dick York carries an edi
tion of HAMLET in his back pocket,
Frank Roberts is always trying to
analyze some situations in labor prob
lems, while Burns and your writer are
“Sprechend Deutsch” to each other.
Then there are Jack Andlews,
“Woody” Wilson, and “Bo” Mc-
Swain, beating their brains over
the active and passive voice, and
seeking to master the subjunc
tive mood. Johnny Clayton, Clar
ence Swinney, and Steve Walker
are lookin ginto the zoological as
signment that Dr. Gravitt has be
stowed upon them, and Coach
Pierce is trying to teach “Pep
some American history. But John
ny Hill, W. C. Latta, Bill Claytor,
and Larry McCauley are studying
the finer things in life we w;|n’t
mention women).
This is a baseball trip.
Say, did any of you readers see
that picture of Ace Harrell in the
GREENSBORO RECORD last
week? He’s being pegged out
at home plate during the Veter
ans Club softball game with Bur
lington Mills. Beautiful slide,
Ace, but the throw was too soon!
♦ ♦ ♦
Football team winds up its spring
training this week. No more bruises
and liniment till the fall, boys!
Elon’s varsity tennis team broke
into the win column for the first
time this season on Monday after
noon, when the Fighting Christian
netmen defeated the Guilford College
squad, 4-3, on the Elon courts. Two
days earlier, on Saturday, the Maroon
and Gold netters had dropped a 4-3
decision to Catawba, following an 8-0
setback at the hands of the Greens
boro Tennis Association.
In the victory over Guilford, Tom
my Boyenton, Lawrence Paige, and
A1 Burlingame defeated their oppon
ents at singles, and Bill Love and
Burlingame scored in doubles play.
Love was the only Christian to
win at singles in the Catawba meet,
while the Love-Burlingame and Boy-
enton-Paige combinations hung up
doubles victories.
The remainder of the tennis sched
ule finds High Point at Elon on April
30, Elon at Guilford on May 3, at
Catawba on May 10, at High Point on
May 14, and G.T.A. at Elon on May
15.
Results to date.
ELON 4, GUILFORD 3—Boyenton
(E) beat Hilliard, 6-2, 6-3; Paige (E)
beat Byatt, 6-3, 9-11, 6-4; Cavan (G)
beat Love, 6-2, 6-4; Burlingame (Ej
beat Andrews, 6-1, 6-0; Edgerton (G'
beat Wright, 6-3, 6-3; Cavan-Hilliard
(G) beat Paige-Boyenton, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4;
Love-Burlingame (E) beat &yatt-An-
drews, 6-0, 6-1.
CATAWBA 4, ELON 3—Settlemey-
er (C) beat Holt, 6-0, 6-0; Hartman (O
beat Paige, 6-4, 6-3; Smith (C) beat
Burlingame, 6-4, 6-2; Love (E) beat
Webb, 8-6, 6-8, 6-4; McGinnis (C) beat
Boyenton, 6-1, 6-1; Paige Boyenton (E)
beat Woosley-Johnston, 6-1, 6-1; Love-
Burlingame IE) beat Van Poole-Drake,
6-0, 7-5.
G. T. A. 8, ELON 0—Shepherd beat
Boyenton, 6-2, 6-0; Thompson beat
Burlingame, 6-1, 6-3; Fields beat
Wright, 7-5, 6-3; Coleman beat Love,
6-1, 6-2; Hilliard beat Paige, 6-2, 6-0;
Carrigan beat Holt, 6-2, 6-0; Hooke-
Shephei'd beat Love-Burlingame, 6-2,
6-1; Carrigan-Hudgins beat Paige-
Boyenton, 6-0, 6-3.
Elon Nine
Outwallops
Hanes, 12-9
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BASKETBALL
GYM SHOES
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Sizes 3 1-2 to 12
SCHOOL SWEATE9* and JACKETS
BICYCLES and BICYCLE REPAIRING
(Bikes Painted Like New)
FLASHLIGHTS and BATTERIES
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With Johnny Clayton and Frank
Roberts getting three hits apiece and
driving in nine runs between them,
Elon’s varsity baseball team won a
free-scoring, 12-9 victory over Hanes
Hosiery at Winston-Salem on April 15.
Both teams tallied four times in the
iirst inning, but Elon went ahead
with a run in the third and was never
headed thereafter. "Pep” Watkins,
who went six innings before being
relieved by Jack Andrews, was the
winning pitcher.
The box:
Elon (12 AB R H A
Latta, cf 5 2 0 0
"iork, rf 4 12 1
Burns, rf 2 0 0 0
Wilson, c 0 3 0 0
Castura, c 2 0 0 0
Clayton, ss 4 2 3 2
Roberts, lb 5 13 0
Walker, 3b 5 0 0 2
Swinney, If 5 111
Claytor, 2b 5 0 14
Watkins, p 2 10 0
Andrews, p 10 0 0
aAnderson' 10 0 0
bHill 0 10 0
Totals 39 12 10 10
a Ran for Watkins in 6th.
b Ran for York in 4th.
Hanes Hosiery (9) AB R H A
Mason, ss 4 0 0 1
Ivester, 2b 4 3 2 3
Green, 3b 4 2 2 0
Carter,r f 5 110
Motsinger, cf 5 0 3 1
Hampton, If 5 110
Hemrick, lb 5 0 1 0
Binkley, c 10 0 0
Sheets, c 4 13 0
Miller, p 0 0 0 0
Morrison, p 10 0 0
Franklin,, p 0 0 0 0
Snow, p 2 0 10
Alderman, p 1110
Totals 41 9 15 5
Elon 401 403 000—12
Hanes Hosiery 400 000 230— 9
E—Mason 2, Greene, Motsinger,
Wilson, Walker. RBI—York, Clayton
4, Roberts 3, Swinney, Ivester 2,
Greene 2, ]\&rtoinger, Hampton 3,
Hemrick. 2BH—Greene, Motsinger,
Sheets, Clayton. SB—Watkins, Rob
erts, Carter. BOB—Off Watkins 2,
Andrews 2, Miller 2, Snow 2, Alder
man 1. SO—By Watkins 3, Andrews
1, Morrison 1, Franklin 1, Snow 3, Al
derman 5. H—Off Watkins 9 in 6,
Andrews 6 in 3, Miller 1 in 0, Morri
son 2 in 2, Franklin 1 in 1, Snow 6
in 3, Alderman 0 in 3. LOB—Elon 6,
Hanes 7. Wild Pitch—Franklin. WP
—Watkins. LP—Snow. U—Richard
and SapenfierA. T—2:30.
Pierce Mien
Nip Quakers
sum
Held to three hits, but capitalizing
on the wildness of Guilford’s Joe Win- j
ner, who walked ten men during the
afternoon, the Elon Christians eked
out a 2-1 victory over the Quakers on
Monday, in a North State conference
baseball game at Elon. The win was
the first for Coach Jan Pierce's nine
in five league starts and gave the
team a season’s record of four wins
and four losses.
Guilford’s hurler was his own un
doing in the tight battle. Steve Walk
er’s single and three straight walks
off Winner gave Elon its first run
in the fourth inninn t'-.« >
came across a moment later, when a
blow by Castura was muffed, allow
ing Bill Claytor, who had walked, to
score from third.
The visitors came back in the fifth
frame to get their only run on White-
heart’s hit and a long smash by Frye.
Jimmy McSwain and Jack Andrews
shared mound duties for the Christi
ans, each giving up three hits. Jimmy
started and worked until the sixth,
when Andrews relieved him and held
safe his team’s one-run lead. Mc
Swain was credited with the victory.
The box;
Guilford (1)
JACK ANDREWS, Elon pitcher, who
turned in smart relief job for Chris
tians during 2-1 victory over Guilford. *williams 1
It takes pitching and hitting to win
baseball games, and Elon got both
Wednesday night when the Christians
met Catawba’s Indians in a North
State conference battle under the
lights of Elon’s renovated ballpark.
The result was a 5-3 upset victory
over Catawba, the second conference
win in succession for Elon.
Steve Walker, Christian third-base
man, provided the mam batting punch
of the evening, garnering three of his
team’s eight hits—a single, double,
triple—and driving in three runs, in
cluding the winning tally. The pitch
ing end of the deal was capably taken
I care of by Bill Anderso’|, who scat-
j tered nine hits among the enemy and
blanked his foes the last five innings.
One of the freak plays of the season
occurred in the third inning, when a
liner bounced off Anderson’s head
and flew into Walker’s glove at third.
Steve pegged to second to catch a
Catawba runner off the bag for a
double play.
CATAWBA (3) AB R H A
Dorton, c 5 0 0 0
Lisk, cf 4 0 11
Lyerly, 3b 5 2 1 0
Gabriel, lb 5 O' 1 0
Georgaiana, rf 3 0 10
Richardson, If 4 0 10
Almond, 2b 3 10 1
Poole, ss 3 0 2 0
Van Hoy, ss 3 0 0 0
Taylor, p 4 0 2 3
0 0 0
aRay
bObiant
Eton (2)
McSwain, p ,
Totals
a Batted for Winner ip 9th.
b Batted for Nance in 7th.
AB
R
H
A
4
1
1
0
4
0
0
1
3
0
0
c
1
0
0
0
4
0
0
1
3
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
4
0
3
0
4
0
2
0
4
0
0
1
1
0
0
4
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
35
1
6
3
AB
R
H
A
3
0
0
1
5
0
1
1
?,
0
0
1
?,
0
0
7
4
0
0
0
3
1
1
2
3
0
0
0
3
1
1
1
.. 2
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
28
2
3
14
Lenoir-Rhyne,
Catawba Rout
Elon, 84,10-2
The Elon baseball team opened its
North State conference diamond cam
paign on the road April 12 and 13,
playing Lenoir Rhyne at Hickory in
the curtain-raiser and Catawba at
Salisbury the following day. Elon was
defeated in both agmes.
— tjcrnujx-iviiyne Bears,
Coach Jan Pierce saw a two-game Elon
winning streak snapped as pitcher Sisk
tieid the Christians to a measly two
hits. Both safe blows came from the
bat of Shortstop Johnny Clayton.
Johnny singled in the seventh inning
and tripled in the ninth, after pinch-
hitter Lewis Nance had drawn a
base on balls. The resulting run was
Elon’s only score of the game.
Lenoir-Rhyne sewed up the contest
in the fifth inning with a seven-run
rally, knocking Bill Anderson out of
the box. Relief-hurler “Pep” Watkins
limited the Bears to one hit and one
run in the final three frames.
Catawba’s Indians,l ed by Shortstop
Bill Poole, found Elon just as easy
pickings as had Lenoir-Rhyne. Al
though the Indians held only a 3-2
lead until the sixth inning, four runs
in that frame, one in the seventh,
and two more in the eighth gave them
a comfortable margin of victory.
Poole batted four-for-four to pace a
16-hit attack against E>)h’ twiTlers
Jack Andrews and Jimmy McSwain.
Greene, the Catawba moundsman, lim
ited his Christian rivals to five scat
tered safeties.
Totals 37 3
*—Batted for Poole in 8th.
9 5
ELON (5)
AB R H
Latta, cf 2 0 0
York, rf 5 0 0
Castura, c 5 11
Clayton, ss 3 3 2
Roberts, lb 4 0 1
j Walker, 3b 4 13
Swinney, If 2 0 0
; Claytor, 2b 4 0 0
: Anderson, p 3 0 1
A
L
0
0
6
0
2
0
0
2
33 5 3 11
Total's
Score by innings:
Catawba 101 100 000—3
I 012 010 lOx—5
I Summary: E—Walker, Almond 2,
I Roberts, Castura, Richardson, Claytor
Gabriel. RBI—Gabriel, Georgiana!
Dorton, Walker 3, Roberts. 3B—Walk
er 2B—Lisk, Walker, Clayton, Rob
erts. SB—Lyerly, Castura, Almond,
Georgiana. DB—Walker to Clayton-
Lisle to Poolfe. BB—Off Anderson 3’
Tay or 6. SO-By An^,rs()A 4, Taylor
0. LOB—Elon 10, Catawba 10. WP
Tayl^2. PB—Dorton. U—Matthews
and Ridenhour. T 1:58,
Guilford
Elon
000 010 000—1
000 200 OOx—2
E—Clayton, Claytor, Walker, Fair-
cloth, Nance, Jones, Irwin. RBI—
Frye, Latta, Castura. Sac.—Andrews.
DP—Nance (un-assisted), Latta to
Roberts. BOB—Off Winner 10, Mc
Swain 4. SO—By Winner 3, McSwain
4, Andrews 3. H—Off M«Swain 3 in
5, Andrews3 in 4. LOB—Elon 12,
Guilford 9. WP—McSwain. U—Reib-
er and Rideotaour. T—2:10.
UNDEFEATED JOKERS
PACE INTRAMURALS
By virtue of three straight victories,
the Jokers lead in the intramurals but
have yet to meet their closest compet
itors, the Bombardiers. Victory num
ber one came over the Wolves, in a
17-12 slugfest. Number two was over
the Daybreakers, 10-5, with King and
Mulford having 8 of the 9 Joker hits
between them. The third victory was
over the Wolves again, in a close 11-9
squeeze. Carson and Lassiter hit for
the circuit for the winners; Price and
McKinney exploded round-trippers for
the losers.
The Bombardiers grabbed a 7-1 ver
dict over the Day-Breakers behind
Fred Register’s pitching and also won
a 9-0 forfeit over the same team. Per-
I’y Ayscue homered in the first con
test. The Wolves’ only victory has
been over the Bombardiers by a 22-3
count.
STANDINGS
Team W.
Jokers 3
Bombardiers 2
Wolves 1
Day-Breakers 0
Christians Bow
Twice To A.C.C.
Elon met with double trouble at
nilson last weekend, when the Fight-
mg Christian base'ball team hooked
up there with Atlantic Christian Col
lege in a two-game series. A. C. C.
won the first game, on Friday, by a
5-3 margin; then added insult to in-
jury by taking Saturday’s contest,
t'-l, for a pair of North State confer
ence victories.
In the first clash. Bulldog hurler
u. J. Thorne, who recently turned
offer, pitched and
batted his mates to their triumph
He a lowed only eight hits, struck
issuing a
single walk, and drove in four runs
wUh three hits in four trips to the
Elon’s only threat was a five-hit
outburst in the fifth inning, during
-nd the game tied up, 3-all. Thorne
atted in the winning run in the sixth
doJble"Ti?A'^!j^ eighth-inning
double. Bill Anderson pitched all the
W.J (or Elon, yielding £„ hS.lUd!
mg the losers’ attack was Clarence
frTes ‘=°'’”e«ed twice in four
The Saturday game found Jack An
drews, McLeansville hurler, the ^c-
tim of his teammates’ jittery fielding
Jack gave only six hits but seven Elon
erros aided A. C. C. to score two
runs in the first, two in the third, and
two more in the eighth. The losers
collected only five hits off Bulldog
pitcher Thompson, two of the blows
coming from Steve Walker, who scor
ed Elon’s only run in the seventht
inning.