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PACE rovr. Laniisloii Leads Christians In Hitting For ^54 Season Spcc(J> Lan;i>ton boosted hu batting average full twenty point! in tf.r irth state ('otiferencf t.i.il.ii '11. '■! ^rab th batting li'jikrship amonK reKulai^ of the Fi,: ' I f'hristi.m nine for the 1 I!.:.-) . ■ ' n Th‘ cnior first sackei ai 'l ! ‘ ptain clu -d out witTi a .3 3 ; • ml; ge. I; , Or ■■n. ophomore out fielder, claimed the runs-batted- ^ II' : ifirii'p by virtue of his^ thi' T in h .. 'T m the final sn- ii- ' It' Hi? drove Ifl runners | moi e ' D'l.sjel. Kl-al MAROON AND GOLD riiKv i*KODLrp:r) i:l > i9r>i I'iii I'Sf i i Tuesday, May 25, 19-: j ii g 'he s'a'-‘>n, iust oni' ;ri ' i '.I Mi 'laiint fiillow; I’Uyer K II ’i 2 j L. 1::' *‘.n 13 26 Til -I UU >*> 27 •. . vi 84 17 24 G ■■ n 50 U 15 : in 31 3 8 Cong"r 28 ti 7 I'at kard , 06 13 16 M .MIS 79 17 19 WaiiH 64 8 15 Hall . 15 0 3 Hubfiid . 24 5 4 Hamvck .. 18 2 3 tiny (1 IT 6 0 1 Svi in.'.‘111 14 3 2 Arrn.ii d 18 1 2 l)(.l f!i n'lyor . 4!5 7 4 Smiih 33 2 2 Willi'irn 6 1 0 Scott 7 0 0 7 1 0 .62.') .30!) .307 .286 26» .258 .2‘iO .242 .241 .167 i .lfl7 .167 .143 .111 .089 .061 .000 .000 .000 ELON Total*. 7R9 136 1B4 .23;; Opp'iiienN 747 5R 130 .174 HUNS-iSATTKD-IN- Green 17., McDaniol 16. U.n^-ion 14, Thomp- »on 14. Packard 10, Myers 7, Oof- fk-myer 5, Hamrick 4, Hall 3, Cunger 3. I^ughlin 3, McIntyre 2. SvVRi'ticod 2, Watts: 2, Armfield 1. TWO-IJAfKiKRS — Langston 6. M.veiN 3. Kami tk 2, I^ughlin 2, McDaniel 2. 'riionip«im 2, Conger 1 Ireen 1, Uofflemjor 1, llob- H‘■ 1 1, Pdck.ird 1, Watts. 1. Ill KK-BAGGi';US — Green 4, I . 1 Kard 3. Myers 2, Laughlin 1, I .mgston 1. Thompson 1. HOM- KKS—(Jrcen 4. McDaniel 2, Langs- l"n 1, Myers I. STOLKN BASKS I: inp.'ion ID, Packard 7. .Myers 6. W, 5, Langston 4. McDaniel 4. Doiilemyer 3. Gr'.-n 3. Smith 2, L..ughlin 1. SACUIFICKS—Pack ard 5. Green .i, Myers 3, Hall 1, I.:inK'l'»n 1, Thomp 'in 1, Smith 1, liASKS ON BALLS McIntyre ,10, Conger 17, Hall 17. Swicegood 18, Hamrick 23. STRIKEOUTS—Con ger 63, Hall ,'53. ^lamrick 37, Swice- Roood 32 McIntyre 2. HITS-Hall, 22 in 4(., Swicegood. 25 in 40 1-3; Hiiniriik. 28 In 43: (,'onger 36 in 6:' 1-:t Mrliilyre, 15 in 11. GAMKS WON—Conger 7, Hall 5, Swice good 4. Hr. iii ick 2. GANi; S LOST —H.ill 1, Hamrick 1. Swicegood 2. Mclntyrr 2. (iurrolt Lrad.s SoflI>all Cliaiii|).s Wade Garrett and his "Ba.s- kelballers" from North Dorm won the 1951 campu** ^ftball title last Tuesday, when Garrett pitehed and won a doubleheader from ITK by 'cores of 5-1 and 5-2. It was the fifth intramural championship for North Dorm thin year. The champions had tied with I I K in the reitular sea^)n with ! eixht wins and one Ihs each. The (iators from North finished third and Fast Dorm fourth in the standinKs. Captain Tommy Kin* hit three homers for the champions in the two play-off games, with Lddie llakis as the oul.standins performer for the losers. Eloit Doivns ECC T nice The Elon Christian baseballer: clinched their third successive eastern dlvi' ion title with a doubh victory over Last Carolina here or. Saturday. .May 8th. Sherrill Hall and Luther Conger pitched bril liantly to win the two games by -core.s of 4 to 0 and 2 to 1. Hall .illowed two hits in the opener, nd Conger let the Pirates down with Hvc hils in the nightcap, The victories gii’.e Elon a mark of 13 vtins .'*nd 2 losses in the eastern ".nee. r h e E.C.C 000 000 0—0 2 1 Elon 000 022 X—4 5 1 Barnes, Owens, Harris and B. “- line; Hall and McDaniel. r h e. !-; c.c 000 000 1—1 5 21 Elon 000 200 x—2 3 1 Cherry and Britt; Conger and .McDaniel. Sports Letters Are Given To Fionas Varsity Athletes The ff V ■’four 'I about Prof. Phelps, whci ; edit- are r.~ follows: I'rol. John Foffer \Vr; . oil, Va.: and Mari'- '.V-?lborne, of Green Garber, of Cadillac, Emma L:;u Sockwell Tummy Madrcn of : :ir: rl i'.e If 5.3-54 edition cf the P -.i P'i Cii _is pie.ared above, John Fo.stfr We.s^ who is faculty advisor ftr the publication, and Roger --in-chief cf the new .jnnual. Left to right in the picture, the staff members TED York Brannock, of Burlington; Ro'>ir Phelos, of Fort Smith, Ark.; I, faculty .idivsor; Margaret John-ston, of T yon; Martha Jane Lowe, of Hope- Weldon, of Louisbur?. STANDING—Reuben Askew, of Norfolk, Va.; Curtis ■joro; Lewis Gwin, of Norfolk. Va.; Terry E nmer^on, of Mcrehead City: Jack Mich.; Dalton Parker, of Suffolk, Va.; Oleg P noff, of Valley Cottage, N. Y., of Gibsonvi!e; Gary Sears, of Portsmouth, V \ : Alice Cole, of Burlington, and .bemarle. Walter McCraw was not present when picture was taken. ^ Elon Tops Ili^li Point Luther 'onger let the High Point Pai.ihcrt down with foui i.,1 a.s Lion defeated the *’anthers 8 to 1 at High Point on Monday. May 3rd. In the first game of b cheduled double bill. The second ame was rained out. Alton Myers had two hits, and Bobby Green contributed a three-run homer for Elon. r h e Elon 004 300 1—8 6 2 II. Point . 000 100 0—1 4 3 Conger ind McDaniel; Mabry v.irner, Johnson and Morgan. l)iaiiioii(i S({.ia(i I’ops The Elon diamond .-^^' Uad staged 1 n eighth-inning rally, featured by j'Obby Green'-i two-run homer, to ('efeat the Lynchburg Horni.'tsj to 2 at Lynchburg (.n Wednes-j I'ay, May 5th. The Ch.'-istian vie-; lory avenged an earlitr defeat by' :ie Horneii. Sp- dy L ;:;;;slon wav| ;lie only Chri.-tian to hit twice: - Hai.k Hamrick and Charlie '■'wiccguud ^ altered eifiht Lynch- urg hits well. r h e Lion 000 200 030—5 8 1 Lynchburg 001 100 000—2 8 3 Hamrick, Swicegood and Mc Daniel; Stinnctte and Bradley. Large Croup Wiil (Complete Eloii’s Commercial Course Awards of the block E were ^ made to sixty varsity athletes inj ■hapel yesterday, with forty iV.ards going to members of spring nd winter teams in basketball, )a.seball, golf and tennis. Twenty iwards were made in football. Basketball awards went to Ned J.auldin, Jack Malloy. Dave Mad- Jox, Jack Mitchell. Bobby Tim mons, Don Packard. Roy Kieval. ttay Whitley. Hank Hamrick, Earl itone and Ronnie McIntyre. Only Gauldin, Malloy and Mitchell are aeniors. Baseball letters went to Red .\IcDaniel. Speedy Langston, Nick Thompson, Bobby Green, Gene Laughlin, Luther Conger, Don Packard, Alton Myers, Paul Watts, Sherrill Hall, Homer Hobgood, riank Hamrick, Charlie Swicegood. Larry Dofflemyer, Ronnie Smith, Ronnie McIntyre and Bill Arm- I'ield. Only McDaniel and Langs ton are seniors. Awards for tennis were given Charlie Schrader, Baya?d Hovdes- ven, Russell Borjes, Jimmy Luke, Ben Barr and Richard Cook. Schrader, Hovdesven and Borjes are seniors. Golf awards went to Joe Harvey, Don Smith, Roy McGrilf, Bowman Small, Tuffy Bowman and Jimmy Leighton. Only Harvey is a senior. l*resent Campus Sports Troj)hies North Dorm, which won five campus championships, got the team award; and Bobby Green from the same dorm, received the individual awards for the top records in intramural sports this year. The sportsmanship award went to Lewis Winston, all awards being made in chapel yesterday. Championship trophies went to North Dorm for tag football, basketball, track, softball and winter tennis. Trophies went to ITK for volley ball, to Day Students for ping pong, and to Vets Apartments for badminton. Football awards went to Jonn Platt, Dwight Dillon, Marvin .Moss, Mai Bennett, Gene Williams, J. c. Disher, Joe Smith, Charlie Mich- aux, Nick Theos, Homer Hobgootl, Revell Morrison, Jim Hawkius, Pat Cafasso, Chuck Maynard, Glenn Varney, Bob Kopko, Jerry Ak- romas. Bill Snyder, Whitney Brad- ham and Kerry Richard.?. Platt, Dillon and Moss are seniors. Mc(;kf:(;ok sportswear CUKHIN & HAY “.Wr/i’s and Studrnts' IFrnr'* nOSTO\/.i\ SHOES W. Davis St. Burlington Complrto Outfiltrrs for the Studrnt BuiUnKion Born - ' -d - liui in;»ton Managed AITEMION, girls: GOLD^IAN’S SHOES For All Your Campus And Dress Footwear Featuring • ('apf’.ios c rmn and Countrv • I>ob • Cartnelletes • I’rinia Covers Girls • Footflairs 106.R Froni St.- Rurlington. N. C. sports a la rauseo (Continued From Page Three) to use attendance as the criteria in evaluating baseball as the na tional pastime, you would find hat it falls far down the list However, this is the mistake that the skeptics are making. They are using the wrong measuring stick. They are counting the people, they ire listening to the roar of the crowd and the clicking of the uinstylfs instead of the beat of their hearts. I'o be sure the density of the .rowd has alway» been an import ant factor at a»y sports event, uut far more important is the ::,i(lition and the heritage of the 'Ui. 1 A an port. « * » SPORTS SPOTS — If I were to select Elon’s outstanding athlete jiif the year, I would be forced to i' HSt my vote for big John Platt, i In the recent track meet Platt, I Aiho will join the San Francisco l49er s in mid-July, won two first I places in the high hurdles and the | pole vault, second in the low hurd-; les. fi.urth in the shot put and ' tied for fourth in the hi.jh jump.! John walked away with individual high loring honors for the meet .'.ith 13 1-6 points . . . Billy Caya- 1^ .liin In-. .man, u.i- given Ilf. I utr 7ht relea. e by the Hur- ■ ra i ll :r> Jast w. ek and immd- atel.\ signed with the Hi-Toms . . . N. (', State, which staged a fast intra-squad basketball game ome nights ago, has been barred IT! NCAA competition for next v"ar . . Try-outs last May was he reasoi. given . . . The Hasket- lallers. led by Wade Garrett, oested ITK in a thrilling 12-innin'^; intramural softball game by a 2 ;o 1 score on Wednesday. May 12th . . W'ade has established a lerrific statewide reputation as a oftball pitcher,, and it will be vorth your while to wit.-h him tiic next tim> he pitches . . With this ;'Sue of the Maroon and Gold.j vhich is the last for the school ear. comes at the same time my iast column. I wish to say that I' enjoyed writing sports here | ;it Elon, and I hope you have en-' joyed reading them. ' “Take a letter please." , Such is the request that may :,0(jn be heard by the forty mem bers' of the Elon College com mercial class, who are expected to receive certificates in secretar ial practice at graduation exer ciser next Monday, May 31st. The students of the commercial (lipartment, which is headed by Prof. Thomas Fox, have had a busy year, with classes in typing, bookkeeping, dictation, office prac tice and use of various office | martiines such as the dictaphone 1- 'I calculators. j They have been active, too, in Beta Chi Ep-.ilon. an organization which sponsors demonstrations of office equipment, stages inspec tion trips, arranges for lectures and carries out a series of social events during the year. Officers are Anna Howell, president: Bar bara Moore, vice-president; Carol Slaughter, secretary; and Vvonne Buff, treasurer. The club, which meets weekly and holds dinner meetings month ly, held its final banquet at the Burlington Moose Lodge last week, with Mrs, Ruth G. Boyd as featured speaker. The students expected to receive certificate? a.re Dorothy Acree. Gholsonville, Va.; Barbara Boone, Burlington; Yvonne Buff, Burling ton; Nell Councilman, Burlington; Wanda Dofflemyer, Elkton. Va.; Hilda Alejandre, Havana, Cuba: Joan Eaves, Henderson; Frances Fitch, Burlingtoi;: Palsy Gentry. Roxboro; Sara Hogan, Burlington; Jacklyn Hodge, Burlington; Betty Hooper, Norfolk. \'a.; Anna How ell, I’ranklin, Va.; Janet Johnson, Paces, Va.; Noima Jcnes, Burhng- ton; Nancy Kernodle, Burlington; Frances KnighJ, Sanford; Betty r^awrence, Reidsville; Nan Hall man, Burlington; Grace Massey, jpiun College. Bessie Matthews, Pilot Moun tain; Barbara Moore, Burlington: Mabel Oliver, Gholsonville, Va.; Donnie Parks, Henderson; John Payne, Haw River; Kitty Powell, Burlington: Jane Powell Andrews, Burlington; Carol Slaughter, Gra ham; Sylvia Smith, Henderson: Jean Snotherly, Haw River; Glen da Starnes, Haw River; Addie Tay lor, Burlington; Nancy Tingen, Burlington; Natalie Toms, Burling- toin; Betty Walker, Burlington; Jean Brown. High Point; Barbara Weldon, Henderson; Jewell Wynne, Henderson; Shirley Womack, Olivia; and Charlotte Parr, De catur, Ga. 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