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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.
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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.
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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
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