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MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday January 17, 1951
E Ion A thletes HadFine
1950 Conference Record
PH! PSI CLI STAFF AT WORK ON YEAR BOOK
It’s inventory time in the bus
iness world, and college athletics
have been claBsified as "big
business” by those supporters ol
the NCAA’s much discussed “San-
'ity Code.’ Therefore, the time is
here when Elon should take in
ventory of her glorious accom
plishments in the field of sports
during the year 1950 that has jusi
closed.
A very satisfactory inventory it
is, too, when one surveys the fine
records posted by the Fighting
Christian athletes during the
twelve months that began last
January. It was a period tuai
brought Elon t\:o North Stale
Conference titles in baseball and
tennis, along with three runner-
up positions in basketball, tracK
and football. Only the' Christian
golf squad failed to finish in the'
top brackets.
The Maron and Gold sports
squads, whle accounting for these
team honors, chalked up an over
all total of 43 victories and 36
defeats for the year in all fields
of athletics. Their percentage of
wins in North State Conference
competition was slightly higher,
for Conference contests alone dis
closed the Christians with 32 vic
tories againts 21 defeats.
Honors were not confined to
team groups alone, for the Chris
tian athletes won their full share
of individual laurels. They ac
counted for one individual Con
ference title in tennis anU eight
individual championships in
track, and they added a total of
eleven All-Conference posts, in
cluding two in basketball, five in
baseball and four in footoall. To
top it all off, Elon placed a man
on both the All-State and the^it-
tle All-American in football.
CAGERS FLASH HOT
The Christian basketball squaci
flashed hot at just the right mo
ment and surprised the enure
state, including their own most
rabid followers, oy assuming a
“dark horse” role and battling
their way to the finals of the an
nual North State Conference bas
ketball tournament, which was
held in Statesville last FeLi'u-
"'ary.
Big Don Haithcox and Hank
HamricK were the aces for me
Christian cagers in this late-sea-
son drive, and each of them was
honored with a position on ihe
All-Conference squad, which was
named at the close of the Confer
ence tournament.
ANOTHER BASEBALL CROWN
The Elon baseball team brought
one of the two North State Con
ference titles to the campus for
195U, and, to make the honor the
more significent, it marked the
second year in a row that Coach
Jim Mallory's diamond crew hao
topped Conference standings. The
Christians had chalked the 1949
crown with a record of 13 wins
and 2 losses. They bettered that
mark in taking the 1950 title, win
ning 15 and losing one in the Con
ference.
The Christians also chalked up
an excellent record against out
side competition, which included
some of the strongest college,
.semi-pro and professional teams.
Elon split with the powerful Wake
Forest Deacons and defeated the
Ohio University nine, which in
turn whipped Notre Dame at
South Bend. The overall mark
of 21 wins and seven losses for
the year ran Coach Mallory’s
There were five of Elon’s great.
1950 team winning berths on the*
All-Conference squad. The Chris- j
tian aces thus honored were Gene
Stewart, first baseman; Scott
Quackenbush, third baseman; and
“Lefty” Taylor, C. K. Siler and
Hank Hamrick, pitchers.
TRACKSTERS SHOW WELL
The Maroon and Gold track
squad, which brought the cinder
sport back to the campus for the
first time in many years, was op
erated on a somewhat unofficial
basis, working under the direction
of Leonard Greenwood, a student
coach, in preparing for the Con
ference meet at Guilford.
The Christian trackmen barely
missed the championship in the
revived Conference Meet, leading
throughout the meet, only to be
nosed out by the Guilford Quak- j
ers by a score of 58 to 56 on the'
final event of the day. i
Elon did top the field in indi
vidual championships that day, j
taking eight first places and split-1
ting another. The individual win- i
ners for Elon were Leonard j
Greenwood, in the high hurdles,!
Jim Elkins, in the mile; Jim El-j
kins, in the two mile; Larry Gai-.
ther, in the half-mile; “Lefty”
Taylor, in the pole vault; Bob Ed-
miston, in the discus; Bob Edmi-
ston, in the shot put: and Leon-
w
Eminent Church Men Speak
•
At Elon Chapel Exercises
Dr. Russell Henry Stafford, i rri I
president of the Hartford Theo- MttX Vestttl 1 ttkeS
logical Seminary in Hartford
Conn., will be on the Elon campus
next week and will address the
Elon student body at chapel ex
ercises on Wednesday and Friday,
January 24th and 26th.
AnothVsr prominent Congrega-
t'onal Christian leader here re
cently was Rev. Henry R. Ru»t,
National Young People’s Secre
tary for the church, who spoke in
chapel last Friday morning. He
presented a graphic contrast be
tween Christianity and Commun
ism, pointing out that Commun
ism offers no hope and no ans
wers to the basic human problems
of sin and death.
New Church Post
Max Vestal, of Asheboro, a
sophomore ministerial student,
has just accepted the newly cre
ated position of youth pastor for
the Elon Community church. He
is to be the pastor and leader of
a special youth church, which Is
being organized within the local
church. The new group will em-:
brace youngsters from the third
through the eighth grade.
The first meeting of the group
was held last Saturday morning
at 10 o'clock, and in the future
there will be regular youth ser
vices at the parish house at 11
o’clock on Sunday morning.
It’s a busy time in the editorial office of the Phi Psi Cli, Elon College yearbook, with the, staff
rushing in order to make the February deadline for completion of material. Shown above deft
to right) are AI Eubank, copy editor: Worth Womble, sports editor: and “Moon” Talley editor-in-
chief: all working to make the 1951 anntial the best one ever. Practically all pictures have been
made, and the copy is rapidly taking shape. The book is expected to be ready in ample time for
c'lSt >,bij;ion befc/e commencement.
^There Are More Things
(Continued From Page Two)
was inconsiderate enough to go
and graduate before he completed
it. Professor Hook wistfully
blames himself that Griffin wa3
ard Greenwood and Dave Mondy, permitted to amass sufficient
joint champions in the high jump, quality points before the job was
Bob Lewis tied with Maultsby, of course, there is no way
Guilford, for first in the two- },ow the photostat ma-
twenty. ; (.jjjne feels about it ali, b.ut it givs.=
the impression of stolidly and si-
TENNIS AND GOLF
The other spring sports, tennis
and golf, attracted much atten
tion, and the Elon tennis team hit
u new high when it clinched the
team championship in the North
lently awaiting the touch of a lit^
tie hand, the smile of a litile tac.'.
Real Link Traiyer
We turn away from the poignani
picture of the photostat, and
^tate Conference, winning seven, whup! Staring aloofly at the wall,
team matches cJ: eight in the Con- high on a pedestal in the ceniei
plete the inventory of outstanding One. Which may or may not be a
trinkets in this room. I do not point in its favor,
dare start on the more insignifi-l Well, now! Here we are, slop-
cant articles, lest I too shoulil|ping over onto the back page, and
graduate leaving a task undone. Ig mere beginning has been made.
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But whafs this we've missed'.^ ,fi>-st realizing that the bells and
Out in the corridor again, right! sirens that govern your every wak-:
out in plain sight, there reposes. moment on the campus are;
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it came out of the factory, a brand Quite a complicated procoss, run i
spanking new supercharger, of I by batteries which are charged
the type that is used on b-29 I automatically and seldom ever fail
medium bombers. Partially dis-!‘^ Produce the oirrent that tu-rs
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ference and boasting an overall
mark of eight wins and three loss
es for the season. Captain Bill
vVinstead clinched the Conference
and boasting an overall mark of
eight wins and three losses for
the season. Captain Bill Winstead
clinched the Conference singles
title, and Frank Tingley and Wal
ter Temple advanced to the fi
nals in the Conference doubles.
The golf team posted some ex
cellent individual performances
during the year, with Dave Mon
dy and Ollie Bass shooting the
most consistent golf during the
season. However,
v/as strong, and the Elon golfers
were* able to win only three team
matches out of ten during the
.ampaign.
STRONG IN FOOTBALL
The 1350 football season, which
marked the beginning of a new
college year, also marked the
conclusion of the calendar year,
and the Fighting Christian grid-
men chalked up one of Elon’s
finest records while finishing as
runner-up to Appalachian in the
North State Conference race.
The Maroon and Gold football
squad had an overall record of
seven wins, two losses and one tie
for the season, but the Conference
record disclosed six wins, one loss
and one tie.
Four Christian grid stars won
All-Conference berths, including
Pete Marshburn. fullback; R. K.
Grayson, tail back; Hank DeSi-
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0>vlE-DAY SERVICE
Opposite Town Theatre
cf the room, is the grand prize
of the year, a Link Trainer. For
the benefit of the uninformed
masses, a Link Trainer is a sort
of mock-up airplane, which sim
ulates actual flight conditions per
fectly. There are two sets of con
trols, one operated by the pilot
and one by the grounded instruc
tor. The plane can be ‘flov,'n ' by
either set of controls, with the in
structor watching the progress of
the pilot in “flight'’ or operat
ing ihs controls to create condi
tions within the cockpit that the
pilot must overcome to prove his
competition ability. And for the pilot who
steps out of the cockpit proudly,
claiming he has flown a perfect
flight, there is that devilish con
traption called a “Spider” w'nich
calls him a liar with embairassing
mechanical perfection. The “Spid
er” records every maneuver the
pilot has made, and alter it glee
fully gives him a runback on all
the fatal mistakes he has made.
If we all do not die of inferiority
complexes, it will not be due to a
lack of effort on the part of mod
ern science.
In the far north room there is,
in the event of an air attack on
Elon, a radar set, half a dozen
field fire-control, receiving and
broadcasting sets, all complete,
and more fire extinguishers than
you could shake a pitot tube at.
Off in one corner of the same
room there is a great stack of
mercury vapor lamps, complete
with transformers. The lamps,
once the transformers and mer-
when the thing is working, the
supercharger emanates quiet
pride, being a concrete symbol cf
the not-too-far-distant day when
transportation will get so com
plicated that man will probably
learn how to walk again. With a
supercharger, you must remem
ber, an airplane can fly thousands
of feet higher than it can without
mcne, guard; and Sal Gero, tack
le. Gero also tacked a great end- cury elements are removed, make
ing on a great year of Elon sports
Vi'hen he won a tackle berth on
mark to 59 wins against 19 losses'the All-State and Little All-
in three seasons. American teams for the season.
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excellent incandescent reflectors
(this Professor Hook explained',
many of which are already in use
in the offices of the new gymnasi
um. The lamps are more of the
stockpile of strategic material
Paul Plybon was building in the
event of emergency. 1 would go
a little deeper into the account
of Plybon’s frequent and fruitful
forages into the Land of the War
Surplus Stores, but that would
require at least a whcL? issue of
the Maroon and Gold all by itself.
A Mark 'VI Gun Camera, 16 MM,
loaded and ready to go, a couple
of first class aerial bombsight cam
eras and a stencil machine com-
dent that rises up and stumcles
into his next class.
Perhaps in a future issue some
more ambitious soul than myself
will attempt to cover the remain
ing 96 percent of the material
hidden away in the little frequent
ed hall and rooms of the ground
floor of the Science Building.
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