Wednesday. April 20. 1955
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THRKK
Christians Face Crucial Tilts With East Carolina
Eloii Nine Meets Pirates
111 Double Bill Saturday
lom; distance cu)i i ek
Lefty 'Faylor Is
With Biirliiijjton
Lefty Taylor, ace pitcher with
Elon’s North State Champions
of 1950 and 1951, came right
back home last week when he
joined the Bur-Gra Pirates of
the Carolina League as one of
the regular mound staff for the
professional squad.
Taylor had a mark of five
wins and one loss for Elon dur
ing the 1951 campaign, his final
season in a Christian uniform,
one of the highlights that sea
son being a thrilling 15-inning
baUle with East Carolina, in
which the Elon southpaw went
the route and out-pitched two
Pirate aces for a 3 to 2 win.
The Christian southpaw, a
native of Thomasville, Ga., pass
ed up his senior college season
to sign with Burlington in the
summer of 1951 and was later
with Waco in the Texas League
before a two-year stint with the
Army, He returned to Elon last
fall and graduated at Thanks
giving.
Alton Myers
■Mton Myers, junior third sacker on the Elon baseball squad, has
heen the long distance clouter in the Christians' early diamond
tattles this spring, according to the statistics that were compiled
alter the first six games. The Lexington boy. who is playing his
bird season in an Elon baseball uni'Trm, started off with a
booming triple in the opening game with Guilford and then rap
ped out four two-base blows in (he double-header Against Atlantic
Christian on April 9th. In second season as a regular at the hot
corner, Myers has also been doing some nice work afield and has
tolen two bases.
Green Leading Batter
In Six Early Contests
A pair of hard-hitting outfielders
from Brown Summit had batted
and a slugging third Daseman
"ere topping the batting attack
tor the regulars on the Elon Col-
ege baseball squad in the first
ix games of the 1955 season, ac-
oording to statistics compiled last
veekend following the Saturday
right defeat at the hands of the
professional Bur-Gra Pirates.
The batting leaders among the
Christian starters at the 6-game
point were Bobby Green and Char
lie Cassell, outfielders, and Alton
Myers, third sacker, each of whom
had been hitting enemy pitching
at a fine clip and at timely mom
ents. The three regulars, however,
'■ere trailing behind a number of
reserves who had been to the
plate twice each in the early
games.
Bobby Green, an All-Confer
ence outfielder last spring, whose
errific homer was the deciding
-lout in the final titular victory
>ver Lenoir Rhyne at Hickory,
*as banging away at a .421 clip
>n 8 hits in 19 trips to the plate.
Trailing was Charlie Cassell, who
donned an Elon uniform again this
year after four years in Uncle
Sara’s armed service. Cassell
showed a .389 percentage on 7
hits in 18 trips. In third place was
%ers, who had 8 hits in 21 at
tempts for a .381 percentage.
Coach Doc Mathis had used a
total of 22 players in the first six
Wmes of the 1955 schedule, six
“f the group being pitchers, and
entire squad was banging
away at a merry ,284 clip, which
"as tar above the Christian squad
hitting of a year ago, when the
■vlon baseballers won their fourth
orth State Conference title in
‘X seasons.
Bobby Gre«n was topping the
Christians in the important runs-1
latted-in column. The big junior!
Elon runners across the plate,
with Homer Hobgood trailing one
behind with 7 RBI’s to his credit.
Alton Myers, with four doubles
and a triple included in his eight
hits, was the leading long-distance
hitter in the early battles.
Sherrill Hall, tall senior right
hander, chalked two of the five
pitching victories for the Elon
nine, with the other three winning
games credited to Captain Hank
Hamrick. Luther Conger and
Charlie Swicegood. Luther Conger
suffered the lone loss at the hands
of the Bur-Gra Pirates.
The batting and pitching sta
tistics for the Christians through
last Saturday's Bur-Gra contest
are as follows:
Player
Henderson 2
Motsinger 2
Oakes 2
Green 19
Cassell
Myers 21
Swicegood 3
Packard 23
Thompson 23
Scott 8
Conger 8
Hall
Dofflemyer
Hobgood 17
Sharpe 9
McIntyre 6
Watts 8
JohnMon 0
Hamrick I
Stringer
Bergman 2
Stauffenberg
Elon Loses
To Biir-Gra
The Christian baseball squad,
with five straight wins over col
lege competition, suffered its first
defeat of the 1955 season when
the professional Bur-Gra Pirates
of the Carolina League grabbed a
10 to 3 decision in a night battle
at Graham Park last Saturday
night.
The pro squad packed just too
much experience and batting
power for the Elon collegians, and
the Christians fell behind by a
9-0 count before they could push
over three runs in the seventh in
ning.
The Bur-Gra squad paired six
hits, four walks and an Elon er
ror to grab a 5-0 lead off Luther
Conger in the first four innings.
The pros then added four count
ers off Charlie Swicegood in the
fifth and sixth. Jack Henderson
held them scoreless in the seventh,
but Ronnie McIntyre gave up one
run in the eighth.
Nick Thompson. Elon's All-State
hortstop. came out of an early
season batting slump to get two
doubles and lead the Elon batting
attack. His final two-bagger drove
three runners home. Larry Doffle
myer and Ray Scott had the other
two Elon safeties.
R. H. E.
Elon 000 000 030— 3 4 3
Bur-Gra . 201 213 01x—10 11 2
Conger, Swicegood (5), Hender
son (7), McIntyre (8) and Hobgood:
Martin, Taylor (5), Paine (8) and
Dorton.
The championship chips will be
right down on the table when the
Christian baseballers invade
Greenville for a Conference
double-header with the East Car
olina Pirates, for the outcome of
the two games on the Piratei'
home field could go far toward
deciding the outcome of the 1955
titular race in the eastern division
of the North State loop.
Pre-season dope placed the
Christians in the favorites role
in the battle for the eastern di
vision crown, but the diamond
prophets also labelled Coach Jim
Mallory's Pirates as the "dark
horse " of the eastern race
Both the Christians and Pirates
broke away to winning starts in
their Conference competition, and
the team which can gain the edge
in four games they play each other
can well go on to claim the sec-
itional honors. The two games in
Greenville on Saturday are the
first two of their four meetings.
Elon copped three of four game?
last year, with East Carolina nos
ing the Christians 2 to 0 in a battle
at Greenville in spite of a 1-hit
mound performance by Sherrill
Hall. Luther Conger turned the
Pirates back in the other game
that afternoon by a 2 to 1 score.
Hall and Conger then paired on
the mound for Elon to chalk wins
by 4 to 0 and 2 to 1 in the other
games on the Elon field.
Coach Mathis has the same two
towering right-handers ready for
duty against the Pirates on Satur
day, and the two All-State mound
stars will bfe turning loose with all
barrels against the Pirates and
Coach Mallory, who formerly
tutored the Elon nine.
PlVO r ON 1)01 I5LK KILL! V;S
W illiams Nine
Is Defeated
Seeond Time
Larry Dofflemyer
Larry Dofflemyer. a senior se« ‘i cl sackrr from Elkton, Va.. has
been going great guns as the pivol man of Christian double-play
combinations in early 1955 base lall games, and ho has taken a
turn in initiating several of the double killings himself. 'I'he lec-
rrds for the first six games show that Dofflemy(‘r has participated
in six double plays thus far for the year, and three of them were
Iwo-man jobs that he started himself on plays from Dofflemyer to
Bobby Sharpe in the double win over Atlantic Christian. He was
the middle man on the other thre^' plays, one from Myers to Doffle
myer to Scott and the other two Thompson to DofflemyerSharpe.
On The
Sidelines
Br JOEL BAILET
Ba.-iehall Soliedule
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.389
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.381
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.333
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.261
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elon TOTALS 197 50 56 .284
OPPONENTS 181 25 31 .215
RUNS-BATED-IN — Green 8,
Hobgood 7, McIntyre 5, Thomp
son 4, Cassell 3, Conger 3, Doffle-
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MIISOR SPORTS
TENNIS SCHEDULE
Elon 2, WF Fresh 8.
Elon 3, Guilford 4.
Elon 3, E.C.C. 6.
Elon 1, E.C.C. 6.
Elon 8. A.C.C. 1.
Elon-Lynchburg (Rain).
Elon 2. Lenoir Rhyne 5.
(Remaining Meets)
April 19—Guilford, away.
April 21—Appalachian, away.
April 22—Lenoir Rhyne, away.
April 26—Appalachian, home.
April 29—High Point, home.
May 3—High Point, away.
GOLF SCHEDULE
Elan 13 1-2, Guilford 4 1-3.
Elon 2 1-2, E.C.C. 15 1-2.
Elon 3. E.C.C. 15.
Elon H. Catawba 7.
Elon 11, Catawba 7.
(Remaining Meets)
April 19—Girilfori, away.
April 21—Appalachian, away.
April 26—Appalachian, home.
April 29—High Foint. home.
May J—High Point, away.
Elon's Fighting Christian base
ball squad is the talk of the North
State Conference and not without
good reason, for all indications
point at this time to another big
year for the Maroon and Gold
diamond outfit.
It took the Weather Man him
self and several days of sustained
rains to stop the Christians' win
ning ways in early season games.
Three times last week the annoy,
ing stuff halted scheduled games
with Guilford, a fact which left
the Elon outfit with an overloaded
schedule for the present week.
It is extremely hard to keep
this team of ours off the sports
pages of the state when one sur
veys the string of impressive wins
against its early-season foes. Sta
tistics shown elsewhere on this
page show that the team has been
hitting at a merry clip to aid and
abet the pitchers.
The pitching staff itself, which
is something of a coach's dream,
is rounding into mid-seas»n form,
and the senior alignment of Ham
rick, Swicegood, Hall, Conger and
McIntyre has been strengthened
by the addition of two freshman
hurlers. Jack Henderson and Frank
DeRita.
Other departments of the club
are sound and match up well with
the pitching, and every foe on the
Elon schedule is pointing for the
Christians, hoping to be the first
college foe to beat Elon in ’55. By
the way, have you seen our base
ball team yet?
• • •
In case you're wondering about
those new faces you saw on the
campus last weekend, let us help
you clear up the mystery. They
were not, as someone so wittily
suggested, delegates from the
House Un - American Activities
Committee investigating “Com
rade” Moize. Instead, they were a
group of youthful high school
football players from several dif
ferent states who were paying the
Elon campus a brief visit. The
youngsters were on the campus
for three days, and they managed
to see a little Carolina rail), al
though the Weather Man did smile ^
and send a bit of sunshine on Sat-1
urday. May we hope that the
youthful gridsters like the Elon'
atmosphere well enough to join
our grid squad for the coming
1955 campaign.
With one meet already in the
books and another one scheduled
for this week, the local fans can
go to the cinder path for their
sports. A great deal of attention
is being focused on Horst Mevius,
the German lad, who is expected
to bring home the bacon in several
events for the Christian thinclads.
Other track participants say that
the slender Mevius reminds one
of a locomotive as he streaks
around the track. Who knows, may
be we will be watching one of
the top runners in the state in the
person of the blonde speedster
from Germany. Maybe, too, we
should nickname him the "Lubeck
Locomotive" or the ‘‘Lubeck Ex
press.” Certainly he has the power
and the speed.
* • •
ON THE LIGHT SIDE . Did
you ever wonder how the poor out-
of-state students amuse them
selves on Sundays, a time wlien
many of the students from this
section have trekked to their
homes for the weekend? Well, a
new sport is now raging on the
campus on the weekend, and it
might be called sun-soaking. One
who is watching at such a time
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Elon 13, Guilford 3.
Klon 11, Williams 1.
Elon 11, Williams 2.
Elon 8, A.C.C. 6.
Elon 4. A.C.C. 3.
Elon-Guilford (Rain).
Elon 3, Bur-Gra 10.
Elon 2, Greensboro 8.
(Remaining Games)
April 19—Guilford, away.
April 23—E. C,C. away (DH).
April 25—H. Point, home (DH).
.April 30—A.C.C., home (DH).
May 4—H. Point, away (DH).
May 6—E.C.C., home (DH).
The Elon Christians continued
to unload with the heavy artillery
a.'' they hammered out an II to 2
victory over the Williams College
nine at Greensboro on Tuesday
night. April 6th. It was the second
■successive victory over the Massa
chusetts collegians.
Charlie Swicegood and Ronnie
McIntyre, a pair of Elon's senior
pitching stars, split the pitching
chores for Coach Doc Mathis’
>(|uad. and they held the Williams
team to six hits, three of which
came in a belated ninth inning
rally that accounted for the New
Englanders' only scores.
Swicegood, with three All-Con-
lirence seasons behind him, baff
led the Williams batters through
the first six innings, allowing
hem only two hits while striking
•)Ut nine and walking four. Mc
Intyre added three strikeouts in
the final innings.
Klon grabbed the lead with
-ingle runs in the second and
fourth and a pair of markers in
the second inning, but the Christ
ians we-re really off to the races
in the big fifth inning, when five
runs crossed the platter.
After a walk to Hobgood, Larry
Dofflemyer and Charlie Swicegood
slugged successive two-baggers to
start the big inning, and three
singles in a row by Nick Thomp
son. Bobby Green and Charlie
Cassell finished out the rally.
Dofflemyer was the big gun in
the Elon attack with a triple and
double in four trips, but Bobby
Green qontributed a double and
single in two tries, and Charlie
Cassell had two singles in three
attempts. Charlie Freeman led the
Williams batting with a double and
two singles.
R. H. E.
Williams ■ 000 000 002— 2 6 3
Elon 012 i51 lOz— 1 10 2
Shaw, Flood (6) and Leinbach,
Welles: Swicegood, McIntyre (7)
and Hobgood.
Christians Top Bulldogs
Twice In Eastern Race
Combining timely hitting and counted for four runs. Conger
sharp fielding behind the steady
pitching of Luther Conger and
Sherrill Hall. Elon's senior All-
Staters of a year ago, the Christ
ians grabbed a double victory over
the Atlantic Christian Bulldogs at
Wilson on Saturday afternoon,
April 9. The Christians took the
opener by an 8-6 count and then
copped the nightcap by a 4-3 mar
gin
The two wins shot the Elon out
fit to tne top of the heap in the
North State Conference's eastern
division, in which the Christians
had chalked three straight wins
and no defeats. The victories also
boosted Elon’s full-season mark to
five wins in as many starts.
Elon grabbed the lead with two
runs in the first inning and went
on to score all their markers in
the first five innings. Alton Myers
topped the Christian attack with a
pair of double, but Don Packard
Bobby Green and Charlie Cas
sell had two singles each to con
tribute to the scoring. Don Percise
ind Bob McPhail each hit twice
for the Bulldogs.
Luther Conger, starting on the
mound for Elon, held the Atlantic
Christian nine scoreless in the
jarly innings and was in trouble
inly in the final frame of the 7-
inning battle when four hits ar-
stopped the Bulldogs’ Jerry Wil-
■ ams without a hit in the game.
Sherrill Hall was Elon's winning
pitcher in the nightcap battle, in
which he let the Bulldogs down
with three hits. The big right
hander fanned eight and allowed
five walks and duplicated Conger’s
feat in holding Jerry Willlam.s,
Bulldog outfield star, without a
safety.
Alton Myers again hammered
two double doubles, and Charlie
Cassell and Homer Hobgood had
two singles to pace the Elon bat
ting. No Bulldog batter had more
than one hit.
The score by innings for the two
games follows:
(FIRST GAME)
R. H. E.
Elon 203 210 0—8 12 2
A.C.C 000 1014—6 8 I
Conger and Hobgood: Rogeri,
Horne (4) and R. Fulghum.
(SECOND GAME)
R. H. E.
Elon 130 000 0—4 10 2
A.C.C 101010 0—3 3 4
Hall and Hobgood: K. Fulghum,
J. Williams (6) and R. Fulghum.