Wednesday, May 6,
1953
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MAROON AND GOLD
. THEY CARRIED ELON COLORS IN GOLF AND TENNIS . . . 1953
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SEEING SPORTS
with
GARY SEARS
I The athletes who have carried Elon colors in golf and tenn!is compe.i)jon ithis sfjiring are
; „hown above. Members of the go^f team (left to right in the picture at the left) are Don Smith,
of Greensboro; Joe Harvey, of Guilford: Nelvin Cooper, of High Point; Frank McGriff, of Win-
I slon-Salem; Bowman Small, of Burlington; and Wayne Workman, of Mebane. The members of the
I tenais team (left to right in the picture at the right) are Bill Blackstone, of Jacksonville, Fla.;
' iTohnnie HoweU, of Suffolk, Va.; Lou Rochelli, of Wayne, Pa.; Bob Peters of Reidsville; Charlie
Pchrader. of Winston-Salem; Pa c Painter, of Luray, Va.; and Gary Sears, of Portsmouth, Va.
Just who does the judging and
hat is judged in determining the
e^'ipient of the Messick Sports-
■anship Trophy for the North
tJte Conference? Do the student
odies vote, or is it the admini-
t itive officials of the various
hools?
At present the answers to these
aestions are not known to me.
l-owever, the newly elected pres-
der.t and vice-president of our
‘udent government reported to
i in chapel ten days ago that we
id not win and that the "Dyna-
’ Kids" frcm Guilford were
winners of the trophy this
ear.
Now, I ask you — anyone who
eads this column — do you think
lat Guilford has shown any out-
andiiig traits of sportsmanship
wards winning this trophy? I’d
rtainly like for someone to make
E list of just what constitutes good
portsmanship, and, if throwing
'ynamite is a good sign of sports-
;nship, then my philosophy upon
ill.' subject has been wrong for
,uite some time.
I'm not saying necessarily that
here at Elon deserve the
i'ophy, nor am I making any as-
ertion as to who I think should
et it. I don’t travel the loop
ircuit enough to witness the con-
net at the other schools, and
herein lies ray choice as to who
hould vote upon or select the
eceiver of the award.
I do think that the matter of
lie choice should lie exclusively
ith the members of the athletic
earns at the various Conference
“Ueges. I dare say that there are
wa:iy students in school that
■^uld express an adequate opinion
^ the actions of Western Car
olina students (just using them
an example) at their home
8!»r.es in sports, but how many of
us have even visited each of the
eampuses in the North State Con
ference, much less witnessed an
athletic contest at each place?
Yes, I maintain that someone is
waking a grave mistake if the
practice of selecting the winner of
the sportsmanship trophy is not
changed to allow the choice to rest
on the representative vote of the
members of the various athletic
earns at each of the schools in
■the Conference.
not too early to make plans
for the coming year so here’s a
short reminder to the president
nf the “E” Men’s Club here to
this important issue up at
your next meeting for discussion,
If the voting is to be on sports-
'"anship or dynamite, then we
'■'f the student body would cer-
lainly like to know.
I think that I am capable of
?])eaking for my fellow students
in stating tliat, whichever may be
the issue, I feel certain that we
are willing to work hard euuu^n
toward that goal so that the com
ing of anot'ier year may find the
Messick S|)ortsman3hip Trophy
esting oncc again in the halls of
■Jlon.
They come and they go these
lays, and we’re speaking of the
Joys that are able to fulfill the
reauirements of Uncle Sam, One
of the latent to depart was Kic.i-
ard Smith, sophomore athlete
from Lexi'igton. Richard was a
tackle on the Christian football
team and a hurler for the base
ball nine while here in school.
Steivfirt Grabs Batting Leadership
As Diamond Campaign Nears Close
com-
High
Looking over some of the back
issues of the M. and G,, I’ve
mentioned several times the grad
uation or depaV'dure of Nelvin
Cooper from Elon athletics. It is
really official now, since Nelvin]^^d javelin. A one-mile
left two weeks ago to play ^jn dose the program.
Elon Track
Team Wili
Seek Title
Elon will send a strong
bination of track men to
’’oint on Saturday of this week for
the annual North State Confer
ence track meet, which will get
underway at 2 o'clock in the Mil-
'is Stadium. In addition to Elan,
“ntiies are expected from lenoir
Rhyne’s defending champions,
■figh Point and Guilford.
The meet will open with the
high hurdle trials and the finals
of the high jump and shot put.
Events on the schedule include the
hundred, two-twenty and four-
forty dashes, the high and low
tiui-dles, the half-mile, mile and
two mile runs, and the high jump,
broad jump, pole vault, shot put.
ball out in Nebraska.* His vacated
spot on the golf team has been
filled by Husky Hall, the lanky
senior from Fieldale, Va. Husky
says that his scores are not for
the press at this time, but in the
near future he will be available
to give instructions to all inter
ested parties.
Can you really believe that this^
Spring Quarter has gone by
rapidly? It’s hard to realize such,
but with the intramural tourna
ments in tennis, badminton and
golf in full swing, it looks like
the Malloy-Borjes doubles team
will be one of the strongest con
tenders for the crown in their
meet. Several boys will make a
strong bid for the golf crown,
some of them being J. C. Disher,
Ben Kendall and Scott Quaken-
bush.
For all the sports-minded peo
ple on this campus this should be|
The Elon harriers have been
working out under the direction
of Bowman Small, who is not el
igible for the meet, duo to the
fact that he participated in track
at Guilford. He was high scorer
of the meet while running for
I the Quakers in 1950.
Mai Bennett, talented fresh-
so man from A.sheville, j^ias been
Working out all season and will
be a potent threat for the Elon
thinclad.?. Bennett will be aiming
for a new record in the high
hurdles, which was set at 16.5
seconds by Morer of Lenoir Rhyne
last year.
A1 Ludwig, who placed first for
Elon in the shot last spring, hopes
to better his winning toss and
perhaps top the Conference mark
of 44 feet 7 inches that was set
by Bob Edmiston, of Elon, in 1950
Bobby Stewart, veteran Christ
ian baseball star, who switched
this year from his old assignment
jn cen'jf'r field to third base,
found enemy pitching to his lik
ing in recent games and banged
away for six hits in fifteen at
tempts in games played .since the
last averages were published,
wiiicii was sufficient to pull the
slender Sanford boy into the bat
ting leadership for the Elon reg
ulars.
With fifteen games already
played for the season, Stewart’s
record shows twenty-one hits in
fifty-three trips for a mark of
39G, exactly one point better than
his average of two weks ago.
Right behind him and still slug
ging at a terrific gait is Carroll
Keid, who has held the lead most
of the way this year. Reid had
for fourteen since the la.st aver
ages appeared and now has
twenty hits in fifty-one attempts
for a .392 percentage.
Three other Christian regulars,
Nick Thompson, Don Packard and
Jimmy Dalton were hitting in the
.300 circle after the guilford game
of last week. Thompson was hit
ting at a .355 clip, while Packard
showed a .339 average, and Dalton
was knocking for a .306 mark.
Thompson was leading in the total
hits, with twenty-two safeties in
sixty-two trips.
The Christians as a whole were
hitting for a squad average of
.288. With an average of 9.7 hits
per game. Opposing teams had
averaged only 5.1 safeties per
gcyne for a .168 percentage off the
Elon pitchers, who had held the
opposition to five hits or less nine
times tills sea.son.
Carroll Keid, senior co-captain,
was leading thice of the other
departments. He topped the run.s-
battcd-in columns with 14 to his
credit, had slapped four doubles
for first in that categoiy, and was
well ahead in stolen bases with
ten thefts. Jimmy Dalton still led
homers, Speedy Langston top
ped the triples column, and Bobby
Jones was tops in sacrifices.
Sherrill Hall added two mound
victories to his string and topped
the pitchers’ win column with
five, trailed by Charlie Swice-
good wiith 3, Luther Conger with
2 and Larry Summers with one.
Hall continued to top the strike
out column, with Swicegood hav
ing the best mark in average hits
per inning. The only three losses
for the team were charged to
Swicegood, Conger and Smith.
The complete record through
the Guilford game of April 28th
follows:
I’layer ab r h
Watts 3 12
llobgood 4 0 2
McDaniel 9 3 4
Myers 7 4 3
Stewart ' 53 11 21
Heid 51 15 20
Thompson 62 17 22
Packard 53 7 18
Summers 3 2 1
Dalton 49 13 15
Swicegood 12 2 3
Lang.ston 56 7 12
Christian Nine Wins Five
More Conference Battles
Baseball Schedule
Don Swinson, who copped the tv«)-
twenty for Elon last spring, will
be unable to compete due to a
wonderful weekend commg up
just ahead. The North StSate ten-
r. ....
b.,„g .cb.au..a for Prid., .ndiW.tU. Hub.rt B bb.
Saturday. If you like tennis with
a lot of action, why not drop out
and see the champs in action.
Just in case you don’t like ten
nis then the Fighting Christian
baseball squad will take on the
Pirates of East Carolina m base
ball here on Friday and Satur
day afternoons, and one of these
(Continued On Page Four)
Green will be newcomers in the
dashes for the Christians.
Other entries from Elon
are known at this time
elude Dee Atkinson,
dox, Billy Renn, Mike Moffo and
Charlie Schrader. Others who will
compete are asked to report to
Bowman Small at once.
who
will in-
Dave Mad-
Elon 3. Williams 0.
Elon 16, Wesleyan 0.
Elon 3, Ohio Univ. 0.
Klon 2, Reidsville 6.
Elon 1, Wake Forest 2.
Elon 2, Wake Forest 5.
Elon 3, East Carolina 2.
Elon 14, A.C.C. 1.
EIon-Guilford (Postponed).
Elon 4, Guilford 3.
Elon 10, A.C.C. 3.
Elon 2. A.C.C. 0.
Elon 15, High Point 1.
Elon 4, Est Carolina 0.
Elon 21, A. C. C. 8.
Elon 5, Guilford 2.
Elon 9, High Point 0.
(Remainins Games)
May 6—High Point, away.
May 8~East Carolina, home.
May 9—East Carolina, home.
May 11—Guilford, home.
May 12—High Point, home.
May 14-16—Conference Tourney
ave.
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Musten 42 11 9
Laughlin 5 11
Jones 46 4 9
Conger 7 2 1
Dofflemyer 7 0 1
Green 10 1 1
Hall 19 0 0
Curtis 3 0 0
Mackie 2 0 0
Smith 2 0 0
Perry 10 0
Mclntrye 0 0 0
ELON TOTAL 507 105 146 .288
OPPONENTS . 458 33 77 .168
RUNS BATTED IN — Reid 14,
Langston 12, Dalton 11, Packard
9, Musten 8, Jones 7, Stewart 6,
Thompson 6, McDaniel 5, Swice
good 5, Conger 2, Myers 1, Hob-
good 1, Summers 1, Watts 1.
TWO BASE HITS — Reid 4,
Packard 2, Thompson 2, Stewart
2, Conger 1, Jones 1.
THUEE-BASE HITS—Langston
3, Myers 1, Thompson 1, Reid 1.
HOME RUNS — Dalton 3, Musten
1, Stewart 1, Reid 1. STOLEN
BASES — Reid 10, Dalton 5,
Thompson 4, Stewart 3, Packard 1,
Langston 1, Musten 1. SACRI
FICES — Jones 2, Stewart 1
BASE ON BALLS — Conger 16,
Hall 15, Swicegood 10, Mackie 7,
(Continued on Page Four)
The Fighting Christians base
ball .squad tightened its grip on
first place in the eastern division
of the North State Conference
baseball race by chalking five ad
ditional victories over looi> foes
within the past two weeks.
Swinging into the "home
slretch” of the campagn, Coach
Jim Mallory’s boys show ten
straight wins in Conference games,
with five of the last six games
lo be played on the home lot.
The Christians go to High Point
loday and then two home games
each with Guilford and East Car
olina and another home tilt with
High Point.
The victories within the past
two weeks include two over High
Point, one at home and one avay.
to go with single victories over
Guilford, East Carolina and At
lantic Christian, all of them on
enemy felds.
ELON 15, HIGH POINT 1
Larry Summers, freshman left
hander from Monticello, made hir
first appearance in an Elon base
ball game a good one as he pitched
the Christians to a smashing 15
to 1 victory over the High Point
Panthers at High Point on Mon
day, April 20th. Summers had
only two balls ait out of the in
field as he let the Panthers down
with three scratch hits
The Christians started the scor-
jng with two runs in the second
and three in the third racks and
counted nine more in big fourth
and fifth frame rallies, A single
tally in the seventh was just frost
ing on the cake. High Point’s lone
tally came in the sixth.
Speedy Langston proved the big
stickman for Elon in this battle
as he hammered two triples in
four trips and batted in four runs.
Jimmy Dalton also had a pair of
hits.
R H K
Elon 023 4.50 1 15 11 3
High Point ...- 000 001 0 1 3 0
Summers and Jones, Hobgood;
Hedrick, Popp, Shepherd and Mor
gan.
ELON 4, EAST CAROLINA 0
NET TOURNAMENT
HERE mis WEEk ,
The annual North State Con
ference tennis tournamrni will
he played here on the Elon
Courts on Kriday and Siturday
of this week, with representa-
ti»os from six conference schools
expected to participate. Each
team will be aH'>wed two singles
and one doubles entry.
Mike Reyes-Varelas, of High
Point, is the defending sungl«s
champion, while Mike Horcas-
itas and Rudy Frarier, also of
High Point, will be back to de
fend their doubles title. Other
vetlerans retaining will be Hal
low and Cameron, of East Caro
lina, and Black-stone and How
ell, of Elon. Entries are also
expected from Catawba and
Guilford.
Tivo Teams
Deadlocked
In Softball I
As the Intramural Softball sea
son rolls along toward the end,
the 1. T. K. and North-South com
binations are in a deadlock for
the top spot, with Noith-South
handing the frat boys their lone
defeat last Wednesday as Pat
Chandler hurled a 4-3 victory.
Gene Williams’ long double in the
third drove in two runs for the
winners, while Don Merrimon
and James Calhoun led the I.T.K.
outfit at bat.
The North-South team suffered
its first defeat in a 2 to 0 battle
with Kappa Psi-CIub House as
Wade Garrett, bidding for a tourn
ament berth, pitched a two-hitter
and aided his team to the win
with a triple and single that drove
The Christians gained their fifth in both runs. The I. T. K. nine In
shutout victory of the season as
big Sherrill Hall, sophomore right
hander, handcuffed the East Car
olina batters with five hits and
chalked a 4 to 0 victory over the
Pirates at Greenville on Wednes
day afternoon, April 22nd. It was
Hall's second mound victory over
the Pirates this season.
The Elon outfit broke away in
front early in the game, scoring
two runs in the first rack when
they combined singles by Carroll j
Reid and Speedy Langston with
turn licked Kappa Psi-Club House
3 to 2 in one of the bolter games
of the year. Ben Kendall had two
of the three hits that Garrett al
lowed the winners.
Another excellent game saw
Alpa Pi-Carlton down an improv
ed East Dorm team 4 to 1 behind
the three-hit jiitching of Sammy
Nelson, who went the route on
the mound. Dave Padrick had two
hits to lead the winners.
The standings to April 30th fol
low:
a walk and an East Carolina er
ror. Bobby Stewart homered in the
fifth with nobody on base. A final
marker came home in the ninth.
The victory was won over Jim
my Byrd, ace of the Pirate mound East Dorm 2
(Continued on Page Four) 1 Alpha I’i-Carlton 1
I T. K 5
North-South 5
Kappa Psi-Club 2
Sigma Phi 2
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