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MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE TIIREK
Eton Sports Squads Facing Busy Fortnight Ahead
Thompson Leads Hitting
For Elon Baseball Team
Captain Nick Thompson, who is
,11 to a great start on his senior
FEAR?OME FOURSOME CA^JKiKS KI,0> GOl.F HOPES
Wa-^out front among the Cln-is-
' n ‘regulars in the battle tor sea-
!on batting honors, for the peppy
jitUe shortstop from Burlington
was banging away at .449 clip af
ter eight- games were in the books
Bill Reece, lanky freshman out
fielder. had a perfct rco’d and
i 000 prcentage at that point, but
he had only been to the plate one
(jme Thompson s record shows 13
hiu in 29 trips, giving him a
margin of better than 60 points
over Homer Hobgood, who was
tucner-up among the regulars with
a .360 average.
The Christian squad as a. whole
had had difficulty , with, its hit
ting in the early games, particu
larly when runners have been on
the cushions, but the Maroon and
Gold batters looked somewhat be
tel in that department in last
Saturday's 6-2 victory over Atlan-
ic Christian,
In addition to pacing the squad
in batting, Nick Thompson boasts
-ne homer to lead that field, is
ied with Don Lichok and Homer
Hobgood with two doubles, is well
ut front in stolen bases with 6
hetts and is topping the impor-
ant runs-batted-in division. He
oas hammered eight of his mates
-ver the plate in as many games.
With the Christian squad show-
ns a mark of five wins and three
defeats in the first eight battles,
Jack Henderson has been credit
ed with two wins, while single
victories have been won by Bill
“OSS. Gilbert Watts and Corbitt
anley. Henderson has suffered
two of the defeats, while Uie third
Viii credited to Ross.
The complete statistics for the
earn through the battle with At-
antic Christian las Saturday fol
ios.
lajer ab r r avg.
Recce 1 1 1 1.000
Thompson 29 10 13 .449
with the Elon basebaiiers, .| Basebail Schedule
/■'I,.,;!' a
Elon 4, Williams 3.
Elon 13, Williams 3.
Elon 6, Wittenberg 4.
Elon 2, West Carolina 9.
Elon 1, West Carolina 5.
Elon-Lenoir Rhyne (Rain)
Elon 9, High Point 8.
Elon 8, Guilford 9.
Eion-Lenoir Rhyne (Wet
Grounds)
Elon 6, A. C. C. 2.
(Remaining Games)
April 16 — High Point, away.
April 18 — Guilford, home.
April 20 — A.C.C., away.
April 23 — Appalachian, home.
April 26 — Catawba, away.
April 28 — East Carolina, away.
April 30 — Pfeiffer, home.
May 3 — Appalachian, away.
May 8 — Catawba, home.
May 10 — East Carolina, home.
May 12 — Pfeiffer, away.
G. Watts 5 12 .400
Hobgood 25 5 9 .360
Robertson 3 0 1 .333
Johnson 20 4 6 .300
Ross 7 12 .286
Holt --- 22 3 6 .273
Lichok 30 9 8 .267
Carcaterra 23 2 6 .261
DelGais 12 2 3 .250
Henderson 8 2 2 .250
Myers 28 4 5 .179
.Greer: - 18 2 3 .167
i Payne 10 1 0 .000
Medley 3 3 0 .000
Sharpe 3 0 0 .000
Hartley 3 0 0 .000
Alien 3 0 0 .000
P. Watts 2 0 0 .000
Goss 2 0 0 .000
Motsinger 1 0 0 .000
Bujan 1 0 0 .000
Summers 0 0 0 .000
ELON TOTALS 263 49
OPPONENTS 272 43
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Walking The
Clialk-Liiies '
By BILL WALKEB
i
The Elon College golf squad, most powerful to carry Christiah.'pe> on the in • ^^varal
years. U pictured above. The “Four L's". as‘ the Christian golf quiitet I’jLTiome has come to be
known, trampled all early-season opponents and posted an undef.e:i ed mark fui’ all college com
petition prior to the spring holiday:^. The feasome foursome, pictured left t3 right, includes Bobby
Loy, of Burlington; Freddy Lloy 1, of Durham; Jimmy Leighton, of Durham; and Henry Landress,
•of Leaksville.
Ciiristian Golfers Compile Brilliant
hi Early Season Contests
Seven Softball
Teams In Loop
The Intramural Softball Lea
gue opened its 1956 campaign
this week with seven teams, and
advance dope made the strong
North Dorm “A” squad the pre-
season favorites. Indications
were however, that the entire
leagi::^ will be stronger than last
year.
The, teams entered include
North Dorm “A”. North Dorm
“B”, East Dorm “A”, East Dorm
“B”, Iota Tau Kappa, Alpha Pi
Delta and Sigma Phi Beta com
binations.
It's spring-time in the Carolinas
agam, and with the coming of
Jpriag, we find that baseball, golf,
tennis and track have replaced
baiketbali in the center of the
sporti stage here at Elon.
The Christian basebaiiers, who
have always ranked on top or
nei: the top in the North State
Conference in recent years, have
fou.>:d somewhat rough going in
Mly season this year, paying the
penalty tor inexperience in a num
ber of positions.
The diamond outfit has lost
three of five Conference tilts af-
grabbing victories in three op-
Min= battles against Invading
teimi from the North. However,
*1111 four more weeks of the base-
b»U season remaining, many ob-
*«ners expect the Christian glove-
®ea to improve greatly and per-
give the rest of the teams in
North State loop
money” when
*tre:ch arrives.
The Christian cindermen, last
Jears North State Conference
^ai^ptous, were all set for their
®rst meet of the year against Roa-
“ote here Tuesday of this week,
but results were not in the books
St this writing. However, Coach
Sid Varney has a strong nucleus
^•'iperienced men back from last
title-winners, and the track
here at .school are fully ex
the team to be as strong
iU^nger than a year ago. With
’^eatleman” Tom Harris added
a “run for
the titular
to the squad, who can say differ
ent.
Of course that meet with Roa
noke this week was truly a rugged
opening assignment for the track-
sters, for the Virginia squad won
eleven dual meets without a de
feat last spring and then added the
Virginia “Little Eight” and the
Maaori-Dixon Confaren(ce cham
pionships in late-season meets. It
was reported that the Roanoke
squad had fourteen lettermen back
from last year, so no one here
should be discouraged if the re
sults of Tuesday’s meet were not
as good as some might have ex
pected.
The Elon tennis team, which has
not been able to post a victorious
season in years, hopes to change
things around slightly this year.
With the addition of Ben Kendall,
who returned from service this
year in time for basketball as
well as tennis, the net squad ap
pears to have a cliance to place
well in the North State ratings.
The team lost its first match of
the year to Lynchburg, but im
provement was quite evident as
the netters hiJld strong Lynchburg
to a 4-3 win.
The Christian golfers have stol
en the sports show so far this sea
son as the "Four L's" swept un
defeated through their early
matches. In fact their early wins
have been by such lop-sided scores
that many fans hardly noticed they
were playing-
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Quakers Win
Loop Battle
The Guilford Quakers pushed
over two runs on a single hit in
the ninth to chalk a 9 to 8 victoiy
„,er the Elon Christian at Guil
ford on Tuesday, April 10th. The
victory was Guilford's first in three
North State Conference starts, and
the game left Elon with a sin
gle loop win in four attempts.
The Christians held a one-run
margin at 8-7 as home-standing
Quakers came up for their final
turn at the plate. Bill Ross, on
the mound for Elon, walked the
first batter, and the second man
sacrificed. Jack Henderson took
over Elon's pitching chores at that
point and allowed a walk, a sin
gle and two other walks to force
ithe winning runs across the plate.
The Quakers moved ahead in
the early innings as they count
ed twice without a hit in the first
rack and then scored three runs
on a single, double and Mike Traf
ford's .homer in the third.
Elon had single markers in the
first and third, but the Chrutians
got back into the ball game with
four runs in the bottom of the
sixth. Singles by Joey DelGais and
a double by Homer Hobgood com
bined with a walk, two errors and
a fielder’s choice to plate the runs.
The Christians also had single
runs in the seventh and ninth to
grab the lead.
Homer Hobgood paced the
Christian hitting with two dou
bles and a single, whUe Nick
Thompson and Joey DelGais ac
counted for two singles each in
the Elon attack.
r. h. e.
Elon 101 0^ 1“^-* ®
Guilford 203 101 002—9 9 5
Ross, Henderson (9) and Hob
good; Petty, AUigood (8) and All-
red.
The Elon goiters chalked five
successive victories, all of them
by top-heavy scores in matches
played prior to the spring holi
days but they have had two match-
e.= postponed since the vacation
ended.
The Christians turned back
Guilfcrd and Catawba in the iirst
two matches of the year, scores
for those contests having been
reported in a previous story, and
then they added succesive vic
tories over Lynchburg, Guilford
and East Carolina before the Eas
ter vacation.
ELON 17, LYNCHBLRG 1
Fred Lloyd .'shot a 71 for meda
list honors as the Christian golf
ers swamped Lynchburg 17 to 1
over the Alamance Country Club
course on Tuesday. March 27th
Loy IE) over Wheeler. 2 1-2 to
1-2; Lloyd E) over Foltz, 3 to 0;
Loy and Lloyd (E) over Wheeler
ind Foltz, 3 to 0; Landress (E)
over Jordan, 2 1-2 to 1-2; Leigh
ton (E) over Cavanaugh, 3 to 0;
Landress and Leighton (E) over
Jordan and Cavanaugh, 3 to 0.
ELON 14, GUILFORD 4
Bobby Loy and Fred Lloyd tied
for medalist honors with a pair of
76 scores over the Starmount
course, pacing Elon to her second
straight victory over Guilford by
14 to 4 margin. The match was
played on Thursday, March 29th.
Loy (E) over Crawford, 2 1-2 to
1-2; Lloyd (E) over Vance, 3 to 0;
Loy and Lloyd (E) over Crawford
and Vance, 3 to 0; Landress (E)
over Self, 2 1-2 to 1‘2; Cornish (G)
over Leighton, 2 1-2 to 1-2; and
Landress and Leighton (E) over
Self and Cornish, 2 12 to 1-2. j
elon 16 1-2, E. CAROLINA 1 1-2
Fred Lloyd was once more the
medalist with a 72 count over the
Alamance Country Club course as
►he Elon linksmen trounced East
CaroUna 16 1-2 to 1 1-2 on Fri
day, March 30th. The summary—
Loy (E) over Sexton, 2 to 1;
Lloyd (E) over Bell, 3 to 0; Loy
and Lloyd (E) over Sexton and
Bell, 3 to 0; Landress (E) over
Beck. 2 1-2 to 1-2; Leighton (E)
over Hayes, 3 to 0; Landress and
Leighton IE) over Beck and Hayes,
3 to 0.
Games Just Ahead May
Deeide Elon Title Hopes
MirSOR SPORTS
TENNIS
Elon 3. Lynchburg 4.
Elon-Lynchburg (Rain)
Elon 2, A. C. C. 5
Elon 6. .Appalachian )
(Remaining Meets)
April IS—High Point, away.
April 20—Guilford, home.
April 23—.Vppalachian, away.
.\pril 24—Lenoir Rhyne, away.
April 25—Guilford, away.
April 26-^Hlgh Point, homie.
May 1—East Carolina, home.
May 2—East Carolina, home.
May 3—A.C.C.. away.
May 4—Lenoir Rhyne, home.
May 10-11—Conference tourna
ment.
1-2.
CAMPUS VISITORS
Back as visitors on the campus
within the past week were two of
last year’s graduates, each of
whom played a prominent part in
student life while at Elon. The
visitors were Dave Maddox, last
year’s basketball captain, now
coaching the cage sport in high
school at Birmingham, Ala., and
Jimmy Waggoner, last year's Ma
roon and Gold Editor, now at
tending Southern Baptist Semi
nary in Louisville, Ky.
Stars Win
Ba(J mill toil Title
Ray Whitley and Hugh Citty,
varsity doubles combo in tennis,
swept through to the champion
ship in the intramural badmin
ton tourney, which featured dou
bles teams of both boys and
girls. The finals play wxi be
tween two boys’ teams, but one
girls’ paTj reached the semi
finals.
The Whitley-Citty pair de
feated Mack Payne and George
Phillips in the finals, Whitley
and Cltty had previously won
over Polly Payne and Kathryn
Lambert and over Dee Atkin
son and P. D. Watts. The Payne-
Lambert pair had defeated Car
olyn Abernathy and Joyce Per
ry. Mack Payne and George
Phillips reached the finals by
downing Jim Leighton and Ter
ry Emerson and also George Nall
and Woodrow Wall. The Leigh-
ton-Emerson team won over Ed
die Bridges and Archie Wil-
bom.
Basebaiiers
Top A, C. C.
The Elan Christians got back
on the winning track as they turn
ed back the Atlantic Christian
Bulldogs here last Saturday af
ternoon by a 6 to 2 margin in a
North State Conference contest. It
was tlie first meeting of the year
between the two loop rivals.
Jack Henderson, sophomore
southpaw, and Bill Ross, a fresh
man right-hander, combined their
efforts in a three-hit pitching per
formance. Henderson allowed the
Bulldogs two hits in the first sev
en innings, and Ros.s held them
to a single blow in the final two
frames.
Henderson, who struck out nine
of the visiting Bulldogs during
his seven-inning stint, kept him
self in. hot water at times by his
wildness. He issued ten walks but
managed to hold the visitors away
from the plate *intil the sixth.
The Christians went ahead with
a pair of markers in the third on
singles by Jack Henderson and
Clem Johnson and a double by
Don Lichok. They added a third
run in the fifth, which proved
good enough for the win. This
marker came on three walks, a
sacrifice and Nick Thompson’s sin
gle.
There N#as another two-run as
sault for Elon in the sixth on a
walk to Homer Hobgood and suc-
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GOLF
Elon 12 1-2, Guilford 5 1-2.
Elon 17, Catawba 1.
Elon 17, Lynchburg 1.
Elon It, Guilford 4.
Elon 16 1-2, E. CaroUna 1
Eloa-Lynchburg (Rain)
Elon 16 3-4, Roanoke 114 1-4
(Remaining Meets)
April 18—High Point, away.
.April 23—Appalachian, away.
April 24—Catawba, away.
April 26—High Point, home.
My 1—East Carolina, home.
May 2—East CaroUna, home.
May 3—A.C.C., away.
May 7-8—Conference Tourna
ment.
TRACK
Elon 13 1-2, Appalachian 4 1-2
(Remaining Meeta)
April 21—High Point, home.
April 28—A.C.C., home.
May 1—Lynchburg, home.
May 4—Lenoir Rhyne, home.
May 7—A.C.C., away.
May 12—Conference Meet.
The Elon athletic squads in aH
spring sports are facing a busy
fortnight just ahead, for before
the presses roll another copy of
the MAROON AND GOLD, for no
less than eighteen games and
meets . are. set for the Christian
athletes in baseball, golf, tennis
and track in the next fourteen
days.
The schedule shows five base
ball games, three of them on the
road and four of them against
vorU', State Conference oi>po.sl-
tion; four gelf meets, two at home
and all against Conference oppo
nents; two track meets, including
one dual aci one triangular af-
f.iir: anil .seven tennis meets, three
of them on enemy coutrs and all
against Conference opponents.
The coming two weeks could
quite easily decide the titular fate
of the Elon baseball squad, for
the Christian nine has already lo.st
three Conference games and can
not afford to drop another one
to anyone. More than one of the
chief title contenders is to be
met within the next fortnight.
The Christian nine goes to At
lantic Christian on Friday and
then reiturns home to battle Ap
palachian here next Monday. Two
other games next week are on en
emy fields, with tl\e Maroon and
Gold tossers facing Catawba at
Salisbury next Thursday and East
Carolina at Greenville on Satu''-
day of nexrt week. The Pfeiffer
Panthers come to Elon on Mon
day, April 30th.
The high-flying Elon golfers,
who maintained a clean record
through their early-sea.son compe
tition, play Appalachian at Boone
next Monday in a meet that could
decide the crown. Catawba is to
t)e met at Salisbury next Tuesday,
followed by home meets with High
Point and East ■ Carolina.
The seven tennis meets in Uie
two-weeks period include single
tons with Guilford and High PoiiU
and two meets with East CaroUna
on the Elon courts. The meets
set for enemy courts are with
Appalachian, Lenoir Rhyne and
Guilford.
Elon Defeats Wittenljerg
In Intersectional Game
The Fighting Christian of Elon
Tony Carcaterra,
turned back the Wittenberg (Col
lege nine here on Thursday,
March 29th, by a 6 to 4 margin.
It was the third straight win of
the early season for the Elon
squad, which had defeated Wil
liams College of Massachusetts
twice in earlier tilts.
The Christians displayed power
with the stick and turned a num
ber of neat fielding gems in win
ning the game over the Ohio col
legians. The invading nine jump
ed into the lead in the first on a
two-run homer by Mike Hess, but
Elon grabbed the lead for keeps
in the sixth rack.
Nick Thompson, Elon’s All-
Conference and All-State short
stop, proved the big gun in the
ChrlsUan attack as he hammered
three booming doubles in five at
tempts. Other heavy hitters for the
victorious Christians were Bob
by Green with a triple to the waU,
Alton Myers with a double and
single and Clem Johnson with
pair'of singles.
The Wittenberg nine moved out
front when Mike Hess homered
inside the park in the first, plat
ing Bill Ingledue ahead of him
Elon tied the count in the third
on Bobby Green’s triple a»d sue
jcessive singles by Jerry HoU and
The Ohioans counted once in
the fourth on a double by Hess
and a single by BiU Thompson,
but Elon countered with two runs
in the same frame when Nick
Thompson smacked his second
double of the game along with
a Wittenberg error and a walk.
Wittenberg tied the count in fifth
when Oberholtier tripled and
scored on an outfield error.
That set the stage for Elon's
winning rally in the sixth. Don
Lichok led off with a single, ad
vanced to third on Alto Myers'
double, and both scored on Nick
Thompson's third two-bagger of
the game. That was the game, for
no other runs scored.
Three Elon pitchers saw duty.
Larry Summers, plagued with a
sore shoulder in early workouts,
lasted only one inning. He was
reUeved by Frankie Goss, who
worked four innings. Jack Hen
derson, soph .southpaw, came on
in the sixth and held Wittenberg
hitless through the four final
frames.
The score by innings—
r. h. e.
Wfttenberg 200 110 OOO—4 7 2
Elon 002 202 OOx—0. 11 2
Hawken and Stein; Summers,
Goks (2), HeadersoB (C) and Hab-
(!ood, , i J