Wednesday, April 8, 16i3
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGB TIIKl.*
MiyOR SPORTS
STLDEM FACULTY COMMITTEE Y Wl>iS EL()^ DIAMOM) CAMPAIGIN
GOLF SCHEDULE
FIoii .» 1-2, Ohio U. 21 l-Z.
f'lon 2 1-2. Uakf Forest 24 1-2.
Flon 3 1-2, Fast Carolina 23 1-2
Flon t. Fast CaroUna 23.
Flon 10 1-2, lliRh Point 7 1-2.
Flon 6. r. Staw 21.
'Remainin;* Mrcts)
April 20-^juiirord, away.
April 21—High Point, away.
April 30—Guilford, homf.
May 4-5—Tournament.
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TENMS SCHEDULE
Flon 0. N. C. State 9.
Flon 3, Wakp Forest 5.
Flon 7. Guilford 0.
Flon 0. Fast Carolina 9.
Flon 0. Fast C’an>lina 9.
Flun 2. Hi^h Point 5.
Flon 5. Lenoir Rhyne 1.
FJon 4. (’atawba 3.
(Remaining Meets)
April 20—Wake Forest, home.
April 21—Hijh Point, away.
April 23—Lenoir Khyne, away.
April 21—Catawba, home.
April 27—N. C. State, away.
April 29—Guilford, home.
May 1—Lynchburs:, away. •
May 2->^’arolina JV, home. •
May 4—Carolina JV, away. *
May 6—Lynchbur*. home. •
May 8-9—Tournameofc.
•—Tentative meets.
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In Softball
By GARY SEARS
The Intramural suftball season
is well underway, and three teams
have already shown sufficient
strength to indicate that they will
be contenders for the title right
down to the wire, with the pos
sibility looming this early in the
season that the title may not be
decided until the final week of
the can'.paign.
.'V ‘ . - f
Sh(‘rrill Hall
Sherrill HaU (left) and Charlie
Swicegood (right> have each
♦umrd in vi''^orl. : for
£ion diamond squad in early
crames and have proven potent
factors in the Christians' bid for
1 9 5 3 championship honors.
Ri*ht behind them is Luther
Conner, another letter winner
of last year, who has copped two
victories.
Both Hall and Swioe;ood are
sophomores, and each has shown
much improvement in early
games this year over their work
as freshmen a year ago. Hall,
who came to Elon from King
High, is a tall right-hander who
has been truly impressive in his
three victories, which included
a 3 to 0 win over Ohio I'ni-
vorsity, a 3 to 2 victory over
Fast Carolina and a 4 to 3
eleven - inning triumph over
Guilford.
Swicegood, who was the start
ing pitcher and winner over Wil
liams College 3 to 0, has added
his other two viclorie- over the
Atlantic Christian Bulldogs. One
of Ciiem was a 14 to 1 victory at
Wilson, while the other v.as a
thrilling 2 to 0 decision over the
Bulldogs here last Saturday in
which the Lexington left-hand-
er let the Atlantic Clu-iijtian
ninr* down without a hit. Swice-
good's no-hitter was the first in
Flon diamond histor>', according
to statements from fans here
who have watched Christian
baseball for many years.
Charlie icejjooil
SEEING SPORTS
with
G4RYSEARS
urned in a double victorj' over
\tlantic Christian here last Sat
urday, with Charlie Swicegood,
iophomore left-hander, pitching
fhe first no-hitter in the memory
jf veteran Christian diamond fans
With the Spring sports schedule schools. Even though some of the j game of the double
well underway, it would be no | larger schools go in full force for'*^'"
(Jirisliaii Baseball S(]iiad Is Leading
Eastern Race For Conference Title
The Elon Colege baseball squad team who hit twice. Sherrill Hall. i stop from Burlington, led the as-
\or(h-South. lota Tau Kappa ,oie than lair at this time to re-1 some of the
ir.d Kappa Psi-Club House are the ^ run-down on some
three nutfits bidding strong right f^e players and manner m
now, with the ITK boys holding a ^^hich thinys shape up as to the
M- ’,t ;rtge thus far in the race. the North S.ate Cou-
The ITK team, playing well be-
li.nd the fine pitching of Husky: baseball team has been
Hall, has chalked three wins piayi„g a terrific brand of ball
against no losses ! shows no loss al this writing
Rfcent games saw ITK defeat conference contests. Down at
East Dorm 5 to 2 as Hall allowed Carolina it was a spirited
only three hits, North-South de-ij.,^„ (^at defeated the Pir-
feat East Dorm 6 to 2 as Pat;
ates’ Co-Captain "Punchy" Piner
Chandler did a neat job of hurl- a 3 to 2 score. The following
ing,.and Sigma Phi top Alpha Pi- day at Atlantic Christian our own
- l ighting Christians came out with
Cirlton 21 to 9 as Tom Gough
led the slugging with four safe , The hitting of
h.N tor the winners |Uol>by SteAart, Nick Thompson
Inti-mural officials remind the Da,to„ p,ayed big
-..fll,.,ll parfcipants at this time,p^,.j3 ^cth wins.
that .in all-star team is to be „ . . . . .
, , , ... . Rain intervened on Monday of
picked from the league to repre-', , . . ,
. ... ... , last week to postpone a game with
tent Elon at the state intercol-' ^ . .. ° . .
, . . ...... . ^ i Guiitord, but the Christians
legiate softball tourney in Greens- . . . j . .
, . _ joumeved over to Guilford last
boro early in May. i. , , ., . ...
. .. Wednesday for another tilt with
The softball standings up to , , ,
, , the Quakers, and once more it
.\pril 1 ith folows: '
Teams W L Ave.
l.T.K 3 0 1.000
North-South 10 1.000
Kappa-CIub House 1 0 1.000
Sigma Phi . 2 1 .667
Alpha-Carlton 0 1
East Dorm 0 2
was proven that when these two
! teams get together previous games
and scores mean nothing. The
Quakers had been nosed out by
East Carolina 6-5 when the Pir-
minor ' sports, one
The two victories tightened
Elon golfer has given the best of; place in the
those teams a run for their money.
I'm speaking of none other than!
Eastern Divi.^ton of the North
State Conference, with a mark of
Don Smith, the Greensboro boy.^'^'^ and
it pegged the Christians’ season
mark al eight wins in eleven
starts.
After opening with three con
secutive shut-outs, the Maroon and
Don has been medalist several;
times and should fare quite well:
A’hen North State tournament:
lime rolls around. Close behind 1
Don is Joe Harvey, a junior and
,1 , .u- Gold nine hit the skids and drop-
Ihe only letter winner on this _ ^ □ j
year's squad. Joe has improved
Ms game a gieat deal and has
played some fine golf this year.
The other members of the golf
squad should show steady im-
.orovement as time goes by, thus
adding strength to the team up!
ind down the line. Hats off to a' ^ .
Carolina League used their pro
fessional skill to hand Elon her
first defeat of the 1953 diamond
campaign, chalking a 6 to 2 vic
tory in a battle played in the
ped three in a row to Reidsville
and Wake Forest, but Coach Mal
lory's boys 'have since turned in
five strjight wins over East Caro
lina, Atlantic Christian and Guil-
i ford,
REIDSVILLE 6, ELON 2
The Reidsville Luckies of the
minor" team that is playing a
"major’’ schedule.
♦ » *
The tennis team, which has
faced the problem of rebuilding Reidsville on Monday af-
almost completely, should I’each; The game was
called in the fifth on account
Baseball Schedule
Elon 3, Williams 0.
Elon 16, Wesleyan 0.
Elon 3, Ohio Inir. 0.
Elon 2, Reidsvillr 6_.
Elon 1, Wake Forest !.
Elon 2, Wake Forest 5.
Flon 3, East Caroliaa 2.
Elon 14, A.C.C. 1.
rion-Guilford (Postponed).
Eton 4, Guilford 3.
Elon 10, A.C.C. 3.
Elon 2, A.C.C. ♦.
■\ (Remaininc Gameat
•\pril 20—High Point, away.
AprO 22—East Carolin*. *w»y
April S3—.\.C.C, »w«y.
April 28—Guilford, »w«y. N
April 30—McCrary, away.
1—Hiuh Point, home.
' iay t,—High Point, away.
May S—East rarnlina, home.
-»1ay 9—F,ast Carolina, home.
iTjy 11—Guilford, home.
•■ijy 12—nigh Point, home.
. ates put on a late rally to make
1 ^p a deficit, but w hen Elon met
I the Quakers it was Guilford's turn
to come from behind, a feat which
he Quakers accomplished to tie
up the ball game at 3-3 and send
the contest into e.xtra innings.
Then came the eleventh inning
when Jimmy Dalton was on by an
«rili;r. then "Speedy" Langston
came through with a timely
double to score Dalton and win the
game by 4 to 3. Same old story
. , . when these teams meet, there's
sure to be a hard-fougiit contest,
and the win could go either way.
They call tennis and golf minor
sports here in the North State
'onference, but there’s nothing
'.iaor about the schedule that the
Elon golf team has played. The
1^)1 lers have faced Ohio Uni
versity, N. C. State and Wake For
est to mention a few of the larger
its peak by the end of the current
week. The fact that rain and cold
weather has kept the team in
side for quite some time has
slowed the netmen considerably
in reaching top strength.
The netters, with only three
lettermen returning from last
year, were shut out by both East
Carolina and N. C. State, and at
Wake Forest they came out on the
short end of a 5-3 score. The
crowning achievement thus far
'.vas a shutout victory which they
wone over our ach-rivals over at
Guilford.
Bill Blackstone, a senior from
Jacksonville, Fla., has been run
ning into some very good compe
tition while holding down the
Number One position. Johnny
Howell, from Suffolk, Va., was
slowed up at the beginning of the
season with an injured arm, but
;ie has shown steady improvement
and is now playing the Number
Two position. Lou Rochelli, the
’rand-old-man of Elon a'.iiletics,
’las been the surpri'e of the team
for Elon, and Archie Lynch, for
Wake Forest, each worked four
’.litless innings foT their respec
tive teams.
R. H. E.
W. F. 001 010 000--2 4 1
Elon . 000 000 001—I 6 2
Lynch. Collie and Liptak: Swice-
iocd. Hall and Jones.
W AKE FOREST 5, ELON 2
The Christians dropped their
second sucessive battle to Wake
Forest by a 5 to 2 count in a game
played on the Elon field on Wed
nesday afternoon, .^pril 8th. .\gain
the Elon outfit had trouble hit
ting behind runners and left eight
men stranded on the sacks.
Elon broke away in front in the
first when Dalton scored on Lang
ston’s single, but the Deacons
got two in the third. Elon tied
the count in the bottom of that
;ame rack, but Wake Forest sewed
■jp the contest with three markers
in the fifth.
Bobby Stewart had three hits
and Nick Thompson two to lead
the Elon battiHig attack, with
June Floyd getting two safeties
tor Wake Forest.
sault on two Bulldog pitchers witl'.
four hits in six trips to the j)late
but Jimmy Dalton. Carlton Lan^t-
tcn and Don Packard all chippcc
in three safe blows in the Elor
cause.
Charlie Swicegood, sophomori
left-hander, went the route foi
■£lon n«> the mound and held the
Buldogs to five scattered hits dur
ing the battle. '
ilon ■ 4.50 102 002 — 14 18 0
V.C.C. 100 000 000— 1 5 3
Swicegood and Jones, McDan
iel; Beacham, Dominguez and
Strickland.
ELON 4. GlILFORD 3
The Elon baseball outfit had to
go eleven innings to nose out the
Guilford Quakers 4 to 3 in a Con
ference battle at Guilford on Wed
nesday afternoon, April 15th. The
same two teams had been forced
to po;/‘i)one
Reid Holds
Top FIftcc
In Bnttinsi
Co-Captain Carroll Reid blasted
three hits in five trips in the dou-
)le victory over Atlantic Christian
'ast Saturday and shoved hi.s bat
ing average back above the .400
■nark to retain the hitting leader
ship among the regulars on the
Elon College diamond squad. One
pinch-hitting reserve was hitting
ihead of him.
With eleven games already
played, the fleet-footed outfielder
lad banged out fifteen hits in
iliirty-seven trips for a mark of
405. «liich Have him a slight lead
' !• HobUy -itewart. who switched
hi ■ -?a'’ from the outfield to
third base. Stewart .smacked three
hits in -i'v tries ;';;ainst the Bull
dogs last Saturday and was right
-.'iind Ifr-;;! v.ith fiftcfii hts in
thirty-eight trips for a .395
Nick Thompson, freshman short
stop, kept his fine hitting pace
and was pounding the ball at a
.348 clip, but he was the only
other member of the Christian
squad to rank in the r.it-gic .300
circle.
T>ie Christians were hitting for
a squad average of .263, sho'wing
an average of 8.5 hits per game.
The opposing teams were aver
aging only 4 7 safeties' tor each
game, proof of the excellent
mound work of the Elon pitchers,
who had held the enemy batters
to five hits or les seven times this
season. Top mound job of the year
has been Charlie Swicegood’s no
hitter against Atlantic Christian.
No less than seven different
Elon players shared the lead in
other departments of play, with
Carroll Reid and Jimmy Dalton
each leading two brackets. Reid
holds the lead in two-bagsers v.ith
four doubles and also leads in
:tolen bases with 10 thefts. Dal
ton leads in runs-batted-in with
nine, and in homers with three
round-tripers.
Sherrill Hall and Charlie Swice
good were topping the pitchers
last weekend with three victories
apiece, but Luther Congei" v.,is
right behind with two wins to hia
credit. The three Elon defeats
were charged to Swicegood, Con
ger and Smith. Hall was tops in
strikeouts, Conger had given up
the most walks, while Swicegood
had the top mark in hits allowed
per inning of work.
The complete statistical record
through the Atlantic Christian
g:mes last Saturday follows:
Player
game two daysj^y"*
earlier due to wet grounds, but |
this gave Elon three successive
Thompson
Conference battles.
The game proved a pitchers'
battle between Sherrill Hall for
Elon and Bailey Nunn for Guil
ford, with the two sophomores
Packard
Dalton ..
Dofflemyer
Langston
McDaniel
Musten
of rain.
The Christians went ahead in
the seccnd with a pair of runs.
when Carlton Langiton and Don
Packard singled and- scored" as the
Luckies' third-sacker errored Bob
by Jones' grounder, but the Luck
ies tied the score in that same rack
and went on for pairs of runs in
the third and fourth.
R. H. E.
Elon . . 020 00—2 4 0
Reidsville . 022 2x—6 6 2
Smith and Jones; Dotterd and
Niro.
WAKE FORE.ST 2, ELON 1
T'ne Maroon and Gold baseball
rrs droped the first of two de
cisions to the Wake Forest Deac
ons by a 2 to 1 score in a game
played at Greensboro on Tuesday
night, April 7th. It was a pitcher's
battle all the way, with Elon's
Stt ;cegood and Hall allowing
Wake Forest only four hits during
the game
The loss hinged on the inibility
of Ehm batters to hit behind
Christian runners, with Coach Jim
Mallory’s boys leaving fourteen
R. H. E. I renewing an old mound rivalry
W. F. . 002 030 000—5 6 4 that began when they were high
Elon 101 000 000—2 7 4 school neighbors up in Stokes
B. Brown. Quinn and Holt. Lip-’County. Hall allowed only six hits,i^°"®*
tak; Conger, Curtis and Jones. ! which the Christians got to Nunn
ELON 3, EAST CAROLINA 2 for nine safeties.
Tile Elon baseballers grabbed | Nick Thompson aiid Carroll
the lead in the Eastern Division of | Reid led the Elon team with two
he North State Conference by de- ^its apiece, but it was Carlton
feating East Carolina 3 to 2 at
CJreenville on Friday afternoon,
\pril 10th. It was the first Con
ference test for the Mallory out-
iit, and the Christians smashed
a tliree-game loop winning streak
dr the Pirates by winning the
Lou, performing for the first time
on the tennis courts, has been j
schools that have furnished “ consistent brand “f ten-|^g^ stranded an the sacks. The
Christians' opposition. 1"“' remaining members of I Christians got six hits, but they
True the tlon linkinien were i could not hit on the three oc-
not able ta defeat any of these, icasions when they had the bases
eams, but Coach Pierce believes ‘'"-jloaded.
provement over the early matches j stewart. Elon t> rd base-
(Continucd on Page Four) I man, was the only man on either
that the squad gained valuable
May H-16 Conferenc* Tourney. 1 experience by meeting these
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Langston's double in the top of
the eleventh that drove Jimmj
Dalton home from second base!
with the winning run.
R. H E.
Elon 210 000 000 01—4 9 2
G'ford 110 000 100 00 —3 6 2
;ame. I HaU and Jones, Nunn and Per
il was big Sherrill Hall, Elon's | ci,se.
ophomore right - hander, who ELON 10, A.C.C. 3 „ . . „ o • jo
-toed out with his mound work | Hitting well behind their run-1 i TWO-
in this first Conference victorj’, ners, the Christians defeated At-, ^ 9
of the year. Hall matched EastI,antic Christian 10 to 3 in the Hrst|
Carolina’s Jim Finer in allowing game of a double-header here ’11 cv utTS Mvers 1
,nly five hits during the game., Lturday afternoon, April 13th. ITHKEE-BASE-HITS - Myers 1,
Jimmy Dalton, little Elon second ,mon swept to the front in the
baseman, led the Christian hitting second inning with a six-run rall>
"A-ith two safeties. 1 that came on three hits, four
R. H. E. walks, an error and a hit batsman
Watts
Ei^n totals
r ,-!~er.U
RUNS BATTED IN—Dalton 9,
Musten 7, Reid 7, Langston 6.
Pickard 6. Stewart 4. Conger 2,
Elon 100 020 000—3
E.C.C. 001 000 001—2
ELON 14, A.C.C. 1
Thompson 1, Stewart 1, Langston
1, HOME RUNS—Dalton 3, Mus
ten 1. STOLEN BASES—Reid 10.
Dalton 4, Thompson 3, Stewart 3,
Packard 1, Langston 1. SACRI
FICES — Jones 2, Stewart 1.
BASES ON BALLS—Conger 14,
Hall 8, Swicegood 8, Curtis 3.
Mackie 2. Smith 1. STRIKEOUTS
—HaU 20, Conger 16, Swicegood
5 31 The Mallorymen added fourl
^ ^ more runs in the fif’i.h and sixth
to clinch the gamoi which had,
The Christian nine tightened its j seen the visiting Bulldogs score 1
hold on first place in the North jjwice in the second and once in
State loop by swamping Atlantic;the sixth.. Luther Conger went
Christian 14 to 1 in a game at,the route on tiie mound for Eloni' „ jg swicegood 11 in 26;
Wilson on Saturday afternoon, and allowed only four hits. 1 conger 8 in 16" Curtis, 5 in 9;
\pril 11th, Opening with a fourrj Bobby Stewart and Nick Thomp-1 ^iaj.;jie 2 in 4
run uprising in the first, Elon.^on were the big knockers fori WON-Hall 3, Swicegood
went on to win easily in the looplthe Elon outfit, Stewart showinsl ‘ 2 GAMES LOST—
''■'Nick Ttoinp.son, freshman short- (Continued on Page Four) | Swicegood 1, Conger 1, Smith 1.