W'''!nesday, April 21, 1954
MAROON AND GOLD
UUL,L»
Christian JJrid Squad To Face 9-Game~¥e7siwrii7l9S
McDaniel Is
Top Hitter
In 9 Games
Co-Captain Red McDaniel, who
has divided time behind the plate
and in the outfield for the Fight
ing Christians this season, is the
battng leader among the regulars
on the Elon College baseball squad
with a .314 mark after the Gull- I
ford game last week. Ronnie Me- I
Intyre was hitting ahead of him j
vith a lofty .7.iO percentage, but I
McIntyre had been at bat only '
four times.
The husky ChrLstian catcher and i
outfielder had banged out eleven ■
in thirty-five trips to the plate ;
in the first nine games of the sea- |
son. and this was enough to make '
tiim the only one of the regular., I
topping the magic .300 mark. His
closest regular pursuer was Co-
Carftain Speedy Langston, who
showed eight hits in thirty trips
for a .267 mark.
The Christian squad as a whole
donned its slugging clothes In the
Guilford game to pull the squad
percentage above the .200 mark
for the first time this year. Prior
to that game, which saw Elon
bang out seventeen hits, the Cliris- |
tians had been hitting only .188!
and that game was enough to
boost the team average by nine
teen poiifk.
No less than seven different 1
Elon players shared the lead i?i!
the other departments of offen
sive play, with several of the boys [
holding a tied share in more than j
one department. Co-CaptaiQ
Speedy Langston and Nick Thomp
son shared the runs-batted in lead
with five apiece, and Thompson
was tied with Don Packard for
the stolen base leadership with
four each. Packard was Ifeading
in triples with two. and both Pack
ard and Langston shared the lead
In sacrifices with Alton Myers
and Sherrill Hall, with all four
having one sacrifice. Hank Ham
rick was leading in doubles with
a pair, and Bobby Green had one
homer to lead in that division.
The complete statistical record
through the game with Guilford
last Wednesday afternoon follows:
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J IRST COUSINS i-on\i KEY STONE P
A
VIR FOR FIGHTING CHRISI IAN BASEBALL SOI Al)
It's a family act that baseball
Nick Tlioinpsoii
fans have been seeing; out
around second oase uiten tne
Lion Christians take the field
this year in the North State
Conference diamond race, for
the stock> youngsters who make
up Elon s keystone pair are first
I'jusins, aui they have been
Playiu? bdseball together since
tiiey Here big enough to tlirow
ttie ball around. At least they
iiaie played together at every
tpportunii.i. for they attended
different high schools and thus
uere separated on the high
school diamonds. Nick Thompson
(lefu, rated by many as tne top
siiort-i.,up in the North State
Conference last year, played his
high school ball at Builington s
alter W. Uilliam.s High Sciiool,
and he also gained wide acclaim
foi his brilliant infield play in
American Legion ball. He jump
ed into a regular position with
the Chrtslftins as a freshman last
year and did a fine job both
aiielu and at bat. Larry IJolflc-
myer (right), who came to Lion
from LIkton, Va., hit the Lion
baseball scene a full year ahead
of his cousin and is now play
ing his third baseball season in
a Christian uniform. His role
through the past two years has
been that of a utility man, but
he played most of the time at
second base this year
Coach Varney
Makes Public
New Sche(]ule
Larry Doffleiiiyer
SPORTS
A La Iiauseo
McIntyre ..
McDaniel ..
langston ...
Myers
Watts
Thompson .
Hanlrick ...
Laughlin ....
Packard
Armfield ...
Swicegood
Snydeir'
Hobgood
Green ....!
Dofflemyer
Smith
Conger
®'rgman .
Hall
Scott
Wilborn
. 4 3
35 11
30 8
23
27
33
9
10
22
11
6
6
14
18
19"
. 9
8
. 5
3
. 3
. 2
avg.
.750
.314
.267
.261
.259
For the past two weeks I have, One of the most commendable
been substituting for Nelvin Coop,
er as coach cf the Elon High
Scljool baseball team, helping out
while Nelvin prepares himself for
a summer in the Carolina League.
The intention of this article is
not to write about my coaching
or Cooper's future, but to make
certain individuals aware of
the terrible piighi that some of
our high school teams are sub
jected to in the matter of um-
242|piring. ^ I It
222! This situation does not exist in
.200
.182
AAA high schols, for schools like
Burlington are able to pay qual-
.111
'To5
.000
.000
.000
.000
.000
.000
ified umpires. I'm not familiar
• 182 j witii the situation in AA schools.
.167 but thTs crusade is directed main-
,167 ly towards officials and coaches
' of Alamance County’s many Class
A schools.
In my first game, which Elon
played wit,h another Alamance
County school, the umpires were
just picked up from the audience.
Assuming these alleged umpires
v/ere impartial, they were still
not qualified to officiate; and, as
result, the game was at times
in chaos. This condition is unfaii
to the kids participating and al?o
unfair to the game of baseball.
We must remedy this fault imme
diately, or baseball in the smaller
schools will lose its place and im
portance.
What can we do about it? We
can have an association just like
ve have in basketball. In the
court game the prospective re
ferees must attend and partici
pate in a basketball clinic, in
W'hich fundamentals and regula
tions are stressed, and each offi
cial is required to take a prac
tical examination to prove his abi-
ear a uniform.
TOTAL 299 62 .207
J’^^'ENTS 282 54 .191
c ®ATTED in — Langston
■ Tnompson 5, McDaniel 3, Doffle-
3, Packard 3, Green 2, Watts
• Armfield 1, McIntyre. TWO-
WGGERS — Hamrick 2, Mc-
Miel 1. Langston 1, Dofflemyer
‘■Tompson 1, Watts 1, Myers 1.
I®^^^-SAGGers — Packard 2.
Ln-D ~ STO-
‘ Packard 4, Thomp-
1 / 2, McDaniel 1, Green
Myers 1. SACRI-
1 ~ 1- Pack-
7, Ham- {jjj.y
strike outs’ -"conger^2l'
Jwick 18, Hall 16, Swicegood I prestige to the game,
to, 1. HITS — Swice- No elaborate organization is
19 i Conger, 12 in necessary for high school base-
9 in 11 ‘"I 20; Hall|i,axi All that is essential Is a
WMes won —
Conger
I leader, who would assign the um-
Swicegood 2
LOS- Harhrick 1
■ Swicegood
1. McIntyre
actions of the college year came
about last week when the mem
bers of lota Tau Kappa Frater
nity voted to sponsor a trophy
in memory of their late frater
nity brother, Billy Rakes. Billy,
as most of us know, was killed in
an automobile accident last sum-
iTier while enroute for a week of
fun at Virginia Beach.
The trophy, which will have
Kakes’ name engraved upon it,
Aill be awarded to the person
vho does the most for sports at
Elon during the year. It was de
clared that the winner need not
necessarily be a varsity man or
1 professional. Everybody wil be
eligible, including the average fan.
While I'm on the subject of tro
phies, 1 was wondering whether
any organization or combined or
ganizations could pressure the
allmni into procuring a trophy
;ase. We need one badly. There
are exactly ten trophies in the
library, and they are so high up
and so difficult to reach that 1
iare say that there are not twen-
y-five students in the entire col
lege who have taken the liberty
of locking at them. Let's go, fel
lows!
♦ * *
Baseball Schedule
Lion 4, Wake Forest 2.
Elon-Wake Forest (rain).
Lion 3, Guilford 3.
Elon 5, Williams 6,
Elon 1, Williams 0.
Lion 0, East Carolina 2.
Elon 2, East Carolina 1.
Elon 3, Reidsville 6.
Elon 2, Lynchburg 4.
Elon 17, Guilford 0.
Elon 14, ACC 0.
Elon 1, ACC 0.
Elon 5, Bur-Gra 7.
Elon 2, Hampden-Sidney 8.
(Remaining Games)
April 22—‘A.C.C., home.
April 24—Guilford, home.
.\pril 26—• High Point, away.
April 28—Guilford, away.
May 3—• High Point, home.
May 5—Lynchburg, away.
May 8—* East Carolina, home.
* — Indicates double-headers.
Elon Downs Quaker Nine
17 To 0 In Wild Contest
Fir/ding the batting range for^
the first time this season in col-'
Icgiate competition, the Elon I
Christians unlimbered their big'
guns and threw a heavy barrage!
base hits at the Guilford Col-‘
lege nine on the Guilford field'
last Wednesday to chalk a 17 to|
0 victory in North State Confer
ence competition.
The Elen batters banged out
a total of 17 base knocks, includ
ing three two-baggers, and took
full advantage of seven walks and
Lviichburtj Is
Winner Over
Elon Squad
The Lynchburg College Hornets
A'ere victors over the Elon Chris
tians in a 4 to 2 diamond battle
on the Elon field on Monday,
April 12th, a game in which the
lead changed hands three times
before the final decision.
Eddie Stinette, the Hornet
pitcher, was the hero of the game
for Lynchburg. He held the Chris
tians to four scattered hits and
had three hits in three trjps to
the plate, including the homer
Ithat icnotted the score in the sixth.
SPORTS SPOTS Jack Mitch- jijg game was a tight pitchers'
ell is now with Augusta, of the battle between Stinette and Char-
South Atlantic League, otherwise ‘ ]jg Swicegood through the first
known as the Sally League . . . | six innings, but a streak of wild-
Shreveport still owns Mitchell, aslpggj gj ^[,g mound and afield cost
that club only optioned him to|runs in the sev-
Augusta . . . You may be inter-j gj,{[j Luther Conger went to
ested to note that Bevo Francis, ^j^g hillock for Elon to hold the
the fabulous point-getter, has been visitors hitless the rest of the way.
expelled by tiny Rio Grande Col- ^ single, an error and an in-
lege for taking too many cuts ■ ■ •. fjgid out sent the first Lynchburg
Jack McKeon, Fred Biangardi and ryjjj,g[. home in the third. Suc-
Billy Cayavec, who are stiU at-'
cessive singles by Packard and
tending school, are set to go again c^,,igggoo(j, followed by a Lynch-L„ trios but T anr=fr.n i
with the Bur-Gra Pirates , . . Roa-, (,urg error gave Elon two markers I ri cc. ’
noke College, of Virginia, took the fifth, and then came Stin-r and Ham-
the measure of the Christian track gtte’s tying homer in the sixth. each contributed a pair of
team by a 90-35 score, but Coach singles, an error and a wild i Singles. Each of Hamrick’s blows
Boyd expressed himself as pleas- pitch figured in the wining Hor-!was a two-bagger,
ed with the showing of the Chris- ^ ^gt rally in the seventh. '
tians in some events . . . Elon won r h e
only one event, but they took Lynchburg 010 001 200—4 5 2
second in several others . . . Mai; Elon 000 020 000—2 4 2
Elon Splits
Double Bill
With ECC
The Elon Christians and the
East Carolina Pirates broke even
in two hard-fought baseball games
at Greenville on Friday, April 9th,
flock of Quaker errors to swamp Pirates copping the first
their old basebal rivals. The 17by a 2 to 0 count and Elon
♦allies came within three of equal-1 nightcap by a 2 to 1
ling the total Elon scoring in
eight previous games.
Hank Hamrick, who turned in
a neat twc-hit job from the Elon
pitching mound, was in trouble
in the first inning when a walk
and two errors loaded the bases
with nobody out, but he settled
down to retire the Quakers with
out a run, and that was the game.
The Christians broke loose in
the top of the second for five
runs, an early lead that was more
than enough, but the Elon bat
ters continued their hammer-and-
tongs attack four run rallies in
both the fifth and sixth and sin
gle tallies in the third, fourth,
eighth and sixth.
Singles by Red McDaniel. Lar
ry Dofflemyer and Nick Thomp
son fitted with two Quaker er
rors and a walk for Elon’s five
runs ill the second. Singles by
Don Packard and Nick Thompson
and a double by Hank Hamrick
powered the 4-run attack in the
fifth; and hits by Dofflemyer,
■Myers and Laughlin featured a
similar 4-run uprising in the
sixth.
Nick Thompson, Christian short
stop, topped the batting for Elon
as he hammered four hits in sev-
Thu Fighting Christian, of Elon
College will play nine football
: i;ames during the coming 1954
jqrid campaign, according to the
I -schedule released by Coach Sid
I Varney. The Christian schedule
I ncludi s two new opponents, both
fiom the Southern Conference for
ia> opening and clo.sing contc.sts.
The Elon eleven will meet The
Citadel in the opener, ,nd Uic-n
n Saturda.\ before Thanksgiving
w ill battle the Davidson's Wild
cats in the closing game of tho
>ear. The Southern Conference
outfits were added as Wofford
A as dropped from the 19.'54 card.
The other seven opponents for
next fall were all met last sea
son. aitTiough there has been two
changes of date. Tiie Newberry
l;'dian;. were moved up to Octo-
'ler 16, taking a date that was
open on the Elon card last year,
riie annual Daltle with Guilford
will be played the first Saturday
n Xcvimbcr rather than on the
laditionai Tnanksgiving date.
Coach Sid Varney, in making
he now Cliri‘>tian schedule pub
lic. stated that he is still looking
for a tenth game, which he would
add either as an opener on Sep
tember 19th or as a closing bat
tle on the last Saturday in Novem
ber. The schedule calls for four
home games, with five on tlio
road.
Coach Varney also expressed
pleasure at the showing of tho
fighting Christians in winter prac
tice, stating tiiat the youngsters
'f last fall showed much improve-
.■nent on both offense and defense.
1 he Christian schedule follows:
Sept. 25—The Citadel, away.
Oct. 2—Appalachian, away.
Oct. 9—East Carolina, home.
Oct. 16—Newberry, away.
Oct. 23—Catawba, home.
Oct. 30—VV'estern Carolina,
away.
Nov. 6—Guilford, away.
Nov. 13—Lenoir Rhyne, home.
Nov. 20—Davidson, away.
nirps and to whom coaches can . ... -
GAMES j hio nrntpsts and send' "^1 Stinette and Floyd: Swicegood,
Hall 1,*make reasonable protests and senaI _
{umpire evaluations.
(Continued On Page Four) | Conger and McDaniel.
r h e
Elon 051 144 011—17 17 2
Guilford . 000 000 000— 0 2 8
Hamrick and Hobgood, Wilborn;
Davis, Jarrett, Jones and Percise.
margin.
Sherill Hall, Elon's elongated
right-handed ace, turned in the
feature performaiice of the first
.iame when he held East Carolina
to one hit, but the Pirates runt
up two unearned runs to win tht
.^ame 2 to 0. The piinto run in
the final encounter was also ol
the unearned variety.
The Christians hau two men
on base in the first inning of thi
opener, but poor base-running cost
a chance to score, and then Elon
loaded the bases with two out in
the seventh frame of that first
contest but missed the chance tc
score.
Luther Conger was the winning
Elon pitcher in the second game
as he scattered six Pi .-ate bingles
along the route, but it took a last-
inning rally by Elon to pull his
game out of the fire. The Pirates
were- leadinsr 1 to 0 going into
the final inning, but successive
hits by Nick Thompson, Red Mc
Daniel, Speedy Langston and Bob
by Green sent the two Elon mark
ers home tor the victory.
The East Carolina coach pro
tested the second game on a tech
nicality that involved use of a
player as a base coach who had
previously >been in the game and
then been taken out cf the line
up. •
The score by innings for each
game follows;
FIRST GAME
Elon ' 000 000 0—0 4 2
East Car 000 020 x—2 1 1
Hall and I^cDaniel; Barnes, Tay
lor (7) and B. Cline.
SECOND GAME
Elon
East Car.
r
000 000 2—2
100 000 0—1
liaseliallers
Face Busy
W eek Ahead ^
The Elon pitching staff, which
is regarded as one of the strongest
in the North State Conference and
in the entire state, will be given
a severe test during the coming
seven days, for the Fighting Chris
tian diamond squad will face sev
en games within the seven-day
period, which means that more
than one of the Elon moundsmen
vdll have to do double duty.
The Maroon and Gold diamond
crew will have to play three dou
bleheaders during that • seven-day
period, unless the Weather Man
intervenes and forces postpone
ment of some of the battles, and
doubleheaders always tax the
strength of a pitching staff.
The Christians will take on At
lantic Christian s Bulldogs here
tomorrow in the first of the three
bills, and Saturday will bring
the Guilford Quakers to Elon’s
home fieid for a double engage
ment. Originally carded as a sis-
;le battle with the Quakers, the
double program was made nec
essary when the North State ri
vals played to a 3-3 deadlock here
oarlier in the season.
Next Monday Coach Doc Mathis’
boys will journey over to High
foint to engage the Purple Pan
thers in a pair of games, and, while
the Panthers have not shown too
nriuch strength in early-season bat
tles, these games could prove
tough. The week of play ends with
the final Guilford game in Quaker
Hollow next Wednesday. April
28th. and every North Carolina
-ports fan knows that anything
can happen when Elon and Guil
ford tangle in any sport.