PAGE FOUR MAROON AND GOU} SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947 Catawba Wins Conference Title As Elon Bows MAHOON AND COLD SpJO/dA By ED MULFORD Recap of the year’s activties shows that Elon has had a successful year. The football team won four, lost five snd rose to the heights in the final game of the year to tie a favored Guilford team at 14-14. Next year’s team should be stronger with some added material, but it will face a rug ged schedule opening with Davidson September 20. With Big Jim Mur ray plunging into the line Elon can give its opponents plenty of trouble, so hopes are high. Basketball found Elon’s club hav ing a 13-10 record up to the North State Tournament. The club got hot in the tournament, swept through three opponents and came back with the North State conference cham pionship. A fine club, the basketball- ers mas be without the services of Co- Captain Roney Cates next year for he has procured a good job with the Burlington Recreation Commission and has also had several offers from Charlotte of the new Dixie Pro Leapiige. Also missing will be John ny Clayton, a senior who was voted the most valuable man on the team and richly deserved it. Aside from Roney putting the name of Elon in the country’s newspapers with 457 points and John’s fine team play, both men are swell fellows and will be sorely missed. Despite the losses to Catawba last weekend, Elon has fine baseball team and we are most proud of it of all the 1946-47 Elon athletic teams. We’ll match the infield with any in the Carolina league and we think that Ed Ellis, John Clayton and Steve Walker have a future in organized ball. Ellis turned down an offer from the Boston Braves scout Gil English Tuesday morning. Before the season ends Elon should have about fourteen victories and that’s plenty good. Our congratulations then to all the men who played varsity sports and the coaches and thanks for some interesting games. A great deal of credit for keeping things lively on the sport scene this year should go to the intramural boys. Plenty of the lads in intramural com petition were of varsity calibre and the intramural football, basketball, volleyball and softball leagues flourished with great spirit. In par ticular we enjoyed the night football game between South North and Oak Lodge. The tennis team has also been busy and the Elon Vets soft ball team is playing its annual sched ule. Beefs? A few. Two clubs played an intramural softball game the other day and we saw some pretty sorry sportsmanship. It is our contention that yelling at your own teammates and harping consistently at the um pires have no parj in sports. May we borrow a little verse? “When at last life’s contest reaches the final frame It's not who won or lost, but how you played the game.” Play to win of course, but after all intramurals are for exercise and fun, I so lets can this sore-head stuff now. Nuff sed! Stan Kenton won the national or chestra poll with 160,000 odd votes, edging out Woody Herman. Eliot ! Lawrence, Vaughan Monroe, Ray Mc Kinley, Charlie Barnett, Duke ElUng- ton, Count Basie and others all place high in the running. What’s that ! got to do with sports? Damfino (Span ish word) but if Verdalee can stick ■ Calvin Milam in every column, we can be unorthodox too. Chubby Kirkland says he’ll have I another powerhouse football team at • Catawba next year. Same report ^ comes from High Point. Catawba ! has the finest collegiate baseball team j we've seen in a long time. J. D. ! Thorne, last year’s hot shot pitcher with Atlantic Christian won one the other day, stopping Lenoir-Rhyne on four-hits. Did you know? That Joe Golombek, Elon’s Little All-American made a darn good showing against Joe Louis in a boxing bout in the army. That Emo Showfety, the Burlington Bees’ slugger is a former Elon star. That Graham Erlacher was a leading ground gainer and scorer in New England football, and had offers from Fordham, Notre Dame and Yale. That A1 Burlingame was a famous sports editor in Westchester County, N. Y., before entering Elon. That its been fun writing this column, but this is goodbye and good luck to everyone. Double Loiss To Indiaiis Leaves Elon Second From the left, front row: Coach Perry, Bill Anderson, George Cross, Bill Snow, Steve Walker, “Rocky” Silo, and Lou Savini. Middle row; William Davis, Ed Ellis^ Jack Andrews, Frank Roberts, Dick York, and Johnny Clayton; and back row: James McSwain, Leon Pope, “Pep” Watkins, John Henley, George McEntee, and George Stanley, the manager. Tennis Squad Will End Play Today In Hickory IELON DEFEATS ! LENOIR-RHYNE GIRLS’ SfioAii By BETTY BENTON Elon’s varsity tennis team ends the 1947 season today against Lenoir- Rhyne at Hickory. Until Thursday, when Coach Pierce’s men were to face High Point in a battle to decide the North State conference title, Elon had won three conference meets and lost one, having topped Guilford twice by 4-3 scores, and Lenoir-Rhyne by a 7-2 count, and having bowed to High Point, 5-2. In non-conference meets, the Christians had lost three times without a victory, prior to yes terday’s scheduled meet with Oak Ridge. They had lost to Oak Ridge earlier, 5-2, and to Greensboro Tennis Association twice, 7-0 and 8-0. In the first Guilford meet. Bill Winstead, Pedro Godwin, and the Winstead - Burlingame, Wooldridge- Paige doubles combinations scored the points for Elon. In the return matches, Wooldridge, Page, Godwin, and the Paige-McCauley duo won. Against High Point only Winstead and Godwin returned victors. At Oak Ridge, Paige and Godwin made Elon’s two points; and against Lenoir-Rhyne Burlingame, Wooldridge, Paige, Mc Cauley, Godwin, and the Wooldridge- Paige, McCauley-Godwin teams win victorious. ELON VETS ACTIVE The Elon Vets softball team has been at it the past few weeks. After defeating Sidney Knitters, 10-8, the i Vets blew a 7-6 ball game with Leaks- \ille and also played a 4-4 tie with the same team. The Vets then top ped the Ossipee Weavers, 4-3, in a fast and well played battle, but fell down before McEwen Mills, an earl ier victim, by 14-8. Sears Roebuck dropped both ends of a doubleheader with the Vets by 9-3 and 14-2 as Graham Erlacher slugged out two long home runs. Lineup for the Vets this season, who play their final games today with Leaksville, has been Jim Parker and Bob Harris at first base, Jim Langston at second, Ed Mulford at short and John Duhl and Mike Kozakewich at third. Lefty Hollander and Tony Cockrel have done most of the pitching and Joe Golombek, Walt Byrum, and Billy Hopkins, have been behind the mask. Jim Huyett, Joe Dunn, A1 Burlingame, Graham Erlacher and George Mac- Entee have seen service in the Vets’ outfield. I In a fine ball game, Bill Anderson I set down Lenoir-Rhyne at the college I ball park last week. The score was i 4-2 and Bill allowed only six hits. I Sileo, Walker, Ellis and McSwain j had two hits apiece for Elon. Two ! runs in the first, and singletons in I the second and third marked the Elon scoring while the Bears got their two in the ninth. The Indians evidently had the Chris tians’ number, for they clinched the North State conference baseball championship last weekend with two more baseball wins over Elon by 5-2 and (oops) 26-6. The last game set some kind of a record but the less said about it the better as Elon turn ed in its poorest game of the season and Catawba got a few scattered hits (some in the park—some out). Rich ardson, Catawba shortstop, hit two over the fence, and also walked around the bases for a triple. Ed Ellis saved some face for the Perry- men in their only bad game of the year, as he blasted a long homer over the rightfield fence -and also twirled three fine innings, fanning six. The other game was closely con tested with Jack Taylor besting Jack Andrews on the mound and the In dians holding to an early lead. BATTING AVERAGES By GEORGE STALEY CHRISTIANS EDGf; APPALACHIAN, 6-5 Four pitchers saw service in a home game with Appalachian as Elon emerged victorious in a conference battle by a 6-5 count. Fred Vaughn, Bill Anderson, Jack Andrews and Bill Davis all were on the hill and turn ed in fairly good jobs as the Chris tians squeezed to the win. 1 G. Erlacher Ab. R. H 2 12 Pet. 1.000 S. Walker 81 15 32 .398 J Clayton 76 15 27 .355 B. Anderson 23 5 8 .347 L Savini 80 14 25 .312 L. Pope 42 3 12 .285 |e. Ellis 75 10 21 .284 F. Roberts 30 3 8 .266 D. York 72 15 18 .250 R. Silio 32 4 7 .219 G. Cross 66 11 14 .212 |G. McEntee 10 0 2 .200 jj. McSwain 73 5 13 .173 J- Andrews 23 2 2 .087 B. Snow 3 0 0 .000 W Ellington .... 3 0 0 .000 Watkins 4 0 0 .000 ALPHA PI NINE WINS SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP ELON LOSES TWICE TO McCRARY McCrary of Asheboro took two ball games from our Christians the past two weeks. The first game saw Elon drop a 7-6 encounter, at Ashe boro, and drop the home game 11-8. Hood Sporting Goods Headquarters for College and High School Students’ Athletic Equipment! Fishing, Baseball, Tennis, Softball, Volleyball, Golf, Table Tennis, Models and Model Supplies EquipmentI TENNIS AND BADMINTON RACQUETS RESTRUNG 1 DAY SERVICE KEYS MADE WHILE U WAIT LOCKS — BICYCLES — LAWN MOWERS REPAIRED ~Where Your Investment Pays Most In Health—In Life” 206 W. Front St. Opposite Fire Station Ghosting for Betty Benton is our favorite editorial sport, along with hunting the campus over for the missing author of “Little Bits.” Girl’s Softball tournament is sched- luled to get under way way this week. We have no advance dope on south paw pitchers and heavy hitters, but ■will gamble a shoe-horn against two local doughnuts that some All-Amer- icans will be discovered. Not since the Easter parade have we seen so many (voluptuous curves) as feasted the eye on May Day. Gloria Anderson’s dancing (from Ole Virgin ia, suh) reminded this Ancient Scribe of Pavlowa’s pirouettes in the “Death of the Swan.” Light as mother’s biscuits, and smooth as a co-ed’s lip- smack. The rain stayed away, ashamed to come to Elon when such fair festivi ties were being presented, although it “sho’ come down” almost every where else in this and adjoining counties. Some people took it for granted as just some more of Miss Whicker and Company’s magic. Since the softball league has bob bed up like a cork on a fishing line, we’d like to propose a couple new campus sports for girls: Golf with Elaine Pace and Betty Baker teeing off and wheeling their clubs in one of these new glimmicks that looks like a perambulator; and a course in Big Game Fishing for Flies and Worms, taught to a selected group by Professors Plybon and Coble. Coble, I being both a mathematician and a I gambolier of pronounced success 1 ought to know how to bring a fish Registering a brilliant 8-4 triumph over the American League champion, South-North, the Alphi Pi team champs of the National League, walk ed off with the men’s intramural softball championhsip at the college athletic field Wednesday afternoon. Sammy Glascock hurled for the vic torious Alpha Pi men; Tony Cockrell, South-North chucker, allowed only four hits in losing. “Duke” Ellington starred at bat for the winners, and Graham Erlacher hit two homers for South-North. Hospitality in your hands WINSTEAD REACHES NOTH STATE FINALS Bill Winstead,, freshman, of Rox- boro, went to the finals in the North State Tennis Tournament at Greens boro last Saturday, losing the con ference singles crown to Dexter Mo ser of Lenoir-Rhyne, 7-5, 7-5, 6-0. Winstead, rated Elon’s number one player this year, put up a good bat tle for two sets, but the more exper ienced Moser, who had played at Wake Forest before the war, finally' pulled away to score in straight sets. to a lure, or co-eds to allure. Heavens after one like that surprises the type writer as it ghosts along, it’s time to stop. at home BOHLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY BURLINGTON COCA-COLA bottling COMPANY