PACE FOUR
MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, May 6,
1953
Plan Baselial! Plav-Off
For North State Title
ELON’S 1953 MAY QUEEN WITH JUNIOR-SENIOR ATTENDANTS
cuACii i.E v;iN(;
The final play-off for the 1!).');
!i.ill cJiampionship of thi
iorth Slate Conference will bt
taged in a best-two-of-three ser
;.t KarnapoUs. beginninR oi
Thursday, May 14th, according to
.m announcement made last week
end by the conference basebal
committee.
The titular scries, which i'
i’xpccted to see Elon's Cliristian*
md the Lenoir Rhyne Bears batt
ling for the loop honors, will fea-
■ure single games on Thursdas
and Friday of next week, with t
third game to be played on Sat
urday. May 16th, if the rivals split
the two opening contests.
The tournament method of sett
ling the conference championshif
*as started last year, which wa>
' Lhe first time that the nlne-tean
league had been Eplit. >
It was Elon and Lenoir Rhyne
last fpring in a series played at
Hickory, with Lenoir Rhyne tak
ing two straight games In their
jwn park. That win for Lenoii
Kbyne broke a string of three con
secutive Conference champion
ships for Klon.
The Bears have already clinch
ed the western division title thi-
ear with a mark of nine straight
wins and no defeats, while Elon
apears an almost certain winner in
the eastern bracket' with ter,
stiaight wins.
The Lenoir Rhyne baseballers
coached by Troy Washam, have
depended all season on a three-
man pitching staff that includes
Jo? DclK.iger, Roland Barker and
Raeford Thomas. The Elon outfit,
Mallory, a former football and
baseball star at the University of|®" ‘"eluding
MALLORY
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Mallory Gi^ 'es j
) (ioachiii^
Job At Elon
Coach Jim Mallory, head men
tor of football and baseball at Elon
since the spring of 1948, is leaving
Elon at the close of the presen
year to accept a position as as
sistant football coach and physical
education instructor at East Caro
lina, according to information
made public last weekend.
Elon's May Queen of 1953. Nor j", Roberts, of Jamesville is pi tured in the center above w'ith
her junior and senior class attendants. The attendants, left to light in the back row. are Rachel
Matthews, of Portsmouth, Va., an ! Virginia .Ternegi-.n. of Gcdv.in. representing the junior class; and
Betty Comer, of Steeds, and Be ty Van Sharpe, of Burlington, i epresenUng the senior class. Ann
Matkins. the maid-of-honor, was not present when the picture was taken.
MimR SPORTS
North Carolina, placed three Elon
grid teams second in the North
ISherlll Hall, Charlie Swicegood
Luther Conger, Larry Summers
State Conference and won three
straight loop baseball crowns. His, McIntyre
record for all
tilts follows:
Year
1»48
1949
1950
1991
1952
games and loop
TOTAL
Year
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
FOOTBALL
All Games
Con.
W L T
W
L T
.451
3
3 1
8 2 0
5
2 0
7 2 1
6
1 1
6 3 0
4
2 0
.361
1
5 0
28 18 3
19
13 2
BASEBALL
All Games
Con.
W L
W L
18 7
9 4
20 5
13 2
21 7
15 1
17 8
12 3
17 11
13 5
13 3
10 0
106 41
72 15
The tournament play-offs in
Ivannapolis are to be .staged under
the sponsorship of the Y’s Men's
Club of the Kannapolis Y'.M.C.A
The sponsors hope to stage each of
the three play-off games at night
since night games are said to at
tract much larger crowds in the
Towel City.
COMMENCEMENT
(Continued From Page One)
on Monday morning. May 25th,
when the college will confer de
grees on the graduating seniors of
1953. The address on this occasion
will be delivered by the lion
Willis Smith, Jr., North Carolina’s
junior member of the United
States Senate. The diplomas and
legrees will be conferred on the
graduating seniors by President
'jCon E. Smith.
ESSO PRODUCTS
COLLEGE STATION
JAIMES ANDREWS, Prop.
Road Service General Car Care
Elon College, N. C.
‘HASTY HEART’
(Continued From ^age One)
the sympathetic manner in which
";he handled the role of Sister
'Margaret, the army nurse, who
fell in love and agreed to marry
•he embittered Scotch soldier, de
spite the fact that she Icnew of
his impending death. Her por
trayal of emotions stood out
throughout the performance.
Jerry Loy, enacting the part of
an ea.sy-going "Yankee” from
Georgia, drew constant laughtei
ind kept ^the audience with him
throughout the play as he stutter
ed and stammered in realistic
;tyle at exciting moments. He had
1 leading part in '.caching the
tubborn McLachlen the meaning
of true friendship.
Excellent performances were
also given by Joe Brankley, as
Digger, the tough Australian;
Johnny Meadows, as Kiwi, the
New Zealander; E. B. Morriss, as
Tommy, the irrepressible English
Cockney; Joe Morris, as the Basuto
native, who knew only one word
in English; Johnny Bolt, as the
orderly; and J. B. Pickard, as
the army doctor.
Christian Nine Wins Five
HITTING AVERAGES
(Continued From Page Three)
Curtis 3, Smith 1, Summers 1.
STRIKE OUTS — Hall 3, Swice
good 19, Conger 17, Mackie 6.
Summers 4, Curtis 3, McIntyre
I. If ITS — Hall, 30 in 50; Swice
good, 17 in 32; Conger, 10 in 17;
Smith 6 in 4; Curtis, 5 in 9; Sum
mers, 3 in 7; Mackie, 3 in 5 2-3;
McIntyre, 0 in 1-3.
GAMES WON — Hall 5,
Swicegood 4, Conger 2, Summers
1. GAMES LOST — Swicegood
1, Conger 1, Smith 1.
(Continued From Page Thiee)
;laff, who yielded eight hits while
valking nine and fanning five,
lall struck out eight Pirates and
walked five.
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East Carolina 000 000 000 0 5 2
Hall and JoncE; Byrd and Cline.
ELON 21, A.C.C. 8
Coach Mallory used nineteen
men in the line-up as the Christ
ians swamped the Atlantic Chirst-
ian Bulldogs 21 to 8 at Wilson on
Thursday afternoon, April 23rd
The victory gave Elon a cleai
sweep of the four games played
with the Bulldogs this season.
The Maroon and Gold hitters
had a field day at the plate, pound
ing a total of twenty-seven hits
Cine home run, two triples and
five doubles. They had two bij
innings, driving eight runs home
in the third and five in the fifth
racks.
Nick Thompson and Don Pack
ard each had four hits to pace
the Christian hitting, with Thomp
son banging a double and triple in
his collection. Carroll Reid hit a
grand-slam homer in the third
inninp,'.. Pitcher Charli.e Swice
good hit safely three times in
four tries.
R H E
Elon 018 151 113 21 27 2
A. C. C. 000 103 202 8 9 J
Swicegood, Conger, Mackie, Me
Intyre and Jones, Hobgood; Beach
ham, Thompson and Strickland
ELON 5, GUILFORD 2
Scoring three runs in the first
inning and hanging tight to theii
margin all the way, the Chrstians
turned back the Guilford Quakers
C to 2 at Guilford on Tuosdaj
I afternoon, April 28th. It was the
I second win over Guilford for the
year, both of them behind the
pitching of Sherrill Hall.
Elon's big first inning saw Nick
Thompson walk, Bobby Stewart
4ngle and Carroll Reid triple to
Jrive in the first two runs. Reid
himself scored when Rod Red-
fcarn pegged wild at home plate.
Bobby Stewart and Carroll Reid,
,vho have been staging a close
jattle for the Christian batting
'caderihip, each had two hits to
lead the Elon attack. Percise and
Redfearn had two hits for Guil
ford.
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Guilford 001 010 000 2 9 4
Hall and Jones; Mikles and Per
oise.
ELON 9, HIGH POINT 0
The Elon baseballers turned in
their sixth shutout of the year as
Charlie Swicegood held High Point
to four hits and blanked the
Panthers 9 to 0 here last Friday
afternoon, May 1st. It was the
third time this season that Swice
god himself had scored shutouts
from the mound.
Elon broke away in front with
single runs in the first, second
rnd third innings and then added
three runs in the fifth and an
equal number in the sixth. At no
time during the game did the
High Point outfit threaten to score
off the southpaw slants of the
Lexington sophomore.
Jimmy Dalton had a three-bag
ger and a pair of singles, Nick
Thompson smaked a double and
'»o singles, .ind Carroll Reid
Irove out three singles to lead
he fifteen-hit attack for the
Fighting Christians.
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Elon Ill 033 OOx 9 15 0
ligh Point 000 000 000 0 4 l
Hed.rick and Morgan; Swice
iood and Jones.
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but short on time.
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GOLF SCHEDULE
E!on 5 1-2, Ohio U. 21 1-2.
Elon 2 1-2, Wake Forest 24 1-2.
Elon 3 1-2, East Carolina 23 1-2,
Elon 4, East Carolina 23.
Elon 10 1-2, High Point 7 1-2.
Elon 6, N. C. Stat^i 21.
Elon 8 1-2, Guilford 9 1-2.
Elon 10 1-2, High Po nt 7 1-2.
Elon 2 1-2, Carolina JV 24 1-2.
Elon 1 1-2, Wake Forest 25 12.
(Remaining Meets)
April 30—Guilford, home.
TENNIS SCHEDULE
Elon 0, N. C. State 9.
Elon 3, Wake Forest 5.
Elon 7, Guilford 0.
Elon 0, East Carolina 9.
Elon 0, East Carolina 9.
Elon 2, High Point 5.
Elon 5, Lenoir Rhyne 1.
Elon 4, Catawba 3.
Elon 3, Wake Forest 6.
Elon 2, High Point 5.
ELcn 7, Lenoir Rhyne 0.
F.Ion 7, Catawba 0.
Elon 0, N. C. State 9.
i.*an 6, Guilford 1.
Elon 5, Lynchburg 4.
(Remaining Meets)
May 8-9-—Tournament.
Air Forces
Groups Here
And Marine
Representatives of two branc'
of military service will be on f ,
Elon campus within the next w?.
to interview students. An Avi"
ation Cadet Team will be at E
on Friday of this week, foOowel
next Monday and Tuesday bv
"—a
The Aviation Cadet team J
oe in Student Union from 8 m
until 2;30 on Friday to consider
applicants for training as pilots or
aerial observers. Appiic.mts must
have at least 90 quarter hour« ol
college credit and be between «
■ind 26 1-2 years old. Successful
applicants receive a four-montla
draft deferment while awaiting as-
Alignment.
The Marine group, which comes
next Monday and Tuesday,
interview freshmen, sophomores
and juniors for assignment to Plj.
toon Leaders’ Class and will offer
seniors a chance to attend Officer
Candidates’ Class.
Both of these plans allow tha
successful candidates to graduate
from college before assuming ac
tive status. The Platoon Leaders’
Class consists of two summer
training periods of six weeks each,
which qualify the students for ap
pointment as second lieutenants
after graduation. A new Officer
Candidate Class for graduating
seniors is scheduled for July, and
flight training will be offered
after fourteen weeks of Officere'
Basic School.
SEEING SPORTS
(Continued From Page Three)
teams appear certain to represent
tlie eastern division in the Cot
ference play-offs.
Still another attractive event
will be the Conference track meet,
which will be an all-day affair
over at High Point. We will liave
a strong group of contenders,
and it looks as if we may have a
chance at the title again this year.
Here’s to a full weekend of sports,
and may all of you support one
of the events.
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