MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THREE
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f^lon Tramples Bears; Passes Crown To Pirates
Christian Win Settles
Raoe For 1956 Honors
Golfers Cop Team Title
In iMeet At Stannount
rirtn rolleg€ golf sqtiad, > ^
the Christians “Four 1ITK N me
r starring roles, chalked a
“.realung team total of 633
claim the team championship
the North State Conlerence
irnament at Starmount Country
with
dual-
lab on May 7th and 8th. The
hrisUan foursome had previous-
V won the Conference champion-
'hip in regular-season play
mark of 12 consecutive
victories.
While the Christian foursome
as cracking last year’s winmng
-am record by 11 strokes, Bill
reen, of Appalachian, overtook
ons Freddy Lloyd in the final
play to win the individual
iampion'ship of the Conference,
ioyd had been medalist for the
irst day. but he faltered in the
iaal round and saw the App star
ome from behind to win top
onori.
The Mountaineer star shot bril-
aiiUy to win, chalking three blr-
i(j on the final nine, holes. He
aJ previously picked up five
trolies on the Elon star in the
i-ont nine, overcoming the lead
iiich Lloyd had posted on the
pening day.
Each of Elon's “Four L’s” -fin-
Softball Crown
The ITK softballers annexed
the campus championship with
a thrilling 4-3 victory over a
strong North “A” combination
last Wed,nesday afternoon, al
though North’s John Hall pitch
ed a brilliant three-hit game for
the losers, Ed Juratic and Lou
Campbell got the ITK hits, with
Ben Kendall, Ray Whitley and
Hugh Citty sharing honors
afield.
r h e
North “A” 210 000 0—3 5 1
ITK 200 110 X—4 3 0
Hall and Grove: Arnold and
Calhoun.
T racksters
W in Over
Lynchburg
ONE RECORD BREAKER I!N ,)l ARTlfr OF (HAMPIONS
.C '*'1
The Elon College cinder squad
came from behind in the mile
hed in the top nine in the tour-1 relay, final event of the day, to
.ment Lloyd finished with 155 defeat the Lynchburg College Hor
nets 66 to 65 at the Burlington
Memorial Stadium on May 1st, in
one of the most thrilling and har
dest-fought track meets in Chris
tian cinder history.
The victory was sweeter for the
Christian tracksters because the
Lynchburg outfit was the only one
to defeat Elon last year, and the
onepoint win avenged that loss
of a year ago. The Christians
could win only six first places and
tie for another in the fifteen
events, but they scored heavily in
second and third places to grab
the final meets, but all four the victory,
hw'. 77 or better against the Bull- j Individual scoring honors for the
Basebull Schedule
Elon
4. Williams 3.
Elon
13. Williams 3.
Elon
G. Wittenberg 4.
Elon
2, West Carolina fl.
Klon
1, West CaroUna 5.
Elon
9, High Point 8.
Elon
8, Guilford !t.
Elon
6, A, C. C. 2.
Elon
11, Guilford 1.
Elon
g. A. C. C. 3,
Elon
14, Appalachian 5,
Elon
5, Catawba 8.
Elon
11. East Carolina 5.
Elon
10. High Point 1.
Elon
0, Catawba 1.
Elon
4. East Carolina 3.
Elon
5, Pfeiffer 8.
Elon
2, Lenoir Rhyne 1 ’.
Elon
13, Lenoir Rhyae 1.
Indians Cop
1-0 Thriller
From Elon
or runner-up honors, Henry Lan-
ress was fourth with 158, Bobby
oy was fifth with 159, and Jim-
Leighton was in a four-way
ic for sixth with a 161 score.
Trailing the Elon squad in team
corts were Appalachian with 649,
uiUord with 678, High Point with
u, East Carolina with 706 and
atawba with 707.
In the two final dual matches
the year, the “Four L’s” had
v.amped East Carolina 17 to 1
:id Atlantic Christian 18 to 0.
bby Loy was medalist in each
Pirate Nine
djjes Elon
111 5-4 TLlt
The East Carolina Pirates gain-
i an even split in the season ser-
when they edged the Fighting
hristians of Elon 5 to 4 here on
hursaay. May 10th. The Chris-
atii had previously scuttled the
irates by an 11 to 5 margin in
battle at Greenville.
The Pirates gained a command-
g lead in the early innings, plat-
; three runs in the second and
pair of markers in the third
totat all their scoring. A stn-
le by Nick Smothers and a pair
f doubles by Clark and Watts
ired the three markers in the
cond, while Smothers singled
Bd Turner tripled to feature the
"o-rua uprising in the third.
The Elon outfit came back in
the sixth for three markers on
four. hito. Singles by Jerry Holt,
Lichok and Homer Hobgood
a triple by Tony Carcaterra
featured that Christian rally. Al
ton Myers hammered a singleton
homer over the right field wall
in the bottom of the ninth. Nick
Thompson doubled to put the ty-
run on .second base, but
Thompson died there when an
Elon pincll-hitter popped to end
innings.
Extra-base blows played a big
Part in the day’s play, with East
t'lroUna ^’.'.owing doubles by Smo
thers anJ Watts and a triple by
Turner, while the Christians dis
played a double by Nick Thomp
son, a triple by Carcaterra and a
homer by Myers. I
The score by iauings—
r h a
''ait Car. 032 000 000—5 10 1
000 803 001-^ 11 1
Husiell, Baker (9) and Watts;
Koss, Hartley (3), Watts (5) and
i-'jgood.
The Fighting Christian cindermen may have trailed East Carolina for team honors m the annual
North State Conference track mtet, which was held in Burlington on May 12th, but the Elon track
squad produced its share of individual champions, including one record-smashing performance that
may be ranked tops for the day. The four individual winners fo.- Elon are pictured above. In ac
tion on the left is Paul Watts, three-sport star from Taylorsville ,q who cut 22 full seconds oft the
old record for the one-mile run a; he came steaming home in 4 minutes 38.5 seconds. Watts turned
in a brilliant final-quarter sprint and won going away over Cliffbrd Buck, of East Carolina. Group
ed at the right are Elon’s other three first-place winners. Leonard Greenwood, winner of the high
jump, is standing in the center. Kneeling left to right are Lynn Newcomb, winner of the quarter-mile
dash and &)b Stautfenberg. winner of the shot put. Watts, who also holds letters in footbaU and
baseball, came back after his record-breaking mile and ran a strong race to take second in the half-
mile. Newcomb also added a second in the shot-put to his winnin ? effort in the quarter^
In an old-fashioned pitchers’
iuel, the Catawba Indians kicked
the Elon Christians completely^put
of the North State Conference U-
de race here on May 8th., in a
The Elon Christians won no
championships in baseball tliis
spring, but they held the decidhig
hand when It came to making the
East Carolina Pirates the 1956 11-
tli.sts in the North Stat* (Confer
ence, tor the Christian nine turned
the dope bucket topsy turyy In
trampling Lenoir Rhyne 13 to 1
at Hickory last Wednesday to kick
the Bears right out of the running.
That 13-1 victory for Elon over
tlie Bears made baseball look like
a cra/.y and mbced-up sort of game,
for the Bears had trampled Elon
just as decisively in a 13-2 battle
on the Elon field the day before.
Buzz Peeler, Lenoir Rhyne
.'outhpaw, had thrown a 3-hittor
at Elon the day before to gain the
13-2 nod, and Peeler joined with
Walter Cornwell in wielding a
heavy stick to aid the Bruin cause.
Each had three hits. Nick Thomp
son, Bobby Green and Bobby
Sharpe got Elon’s three safeties.
Then came a cyclonic attack by
t;ie Christians at Hickory on Wed
nesday, with Elon’s senior .stars
getting in a last solid whack at
Lenoir Rhyne. Bobby Green blast
ed a sizzling three-run homer to
right field, a blow reminiscent of
his circuit clout that defeated Le
noir Rhyne in the play offs in
1954. and Nick Thompson, Alton
Myers and Homer Hobgood each
pounded two safe hUs. It was a
■0 battle that was won on an most satisfying way for the All
^day went to Warren Atwood and
Taylor Goode, both of Lynchburg,
with 13 points each; but Lynn
Newcomb and Larry Gregg each
turned in two first places for the
victorious Christians. Richard
Bradham, Elon broad-jumper, set
a new Elon marke of 21 feet 3 1-2
inches; and Joe Smith, l_/hristian
discus thrower, turned in a aew
Elon record in the discus when
he bettered 110 feet.
100 YARD DASH — Jarrett (L),
Bridges (E), Compton (L), TIME I
— 10 secs.
220 YARD DASH — Jarrett (L),
Bridges (-), Compton (L). TIME
— 22.8 secs.
440 YARD DASH — Newcomb
(E), Huffarth (L), D, Smith (E).
TIME — 53.5 secs.
880 YARD RUN — J. Goode (L),
Atwood (L), Griffin (E). TIME
2 min. 8.5 secs.
ONE MILE — Atwood (L), R.
Bergman (El, B. Bergman (E).
TIME — 4 min. 54 secs.
TWO MILE — Atwood (L), R.
Bergman (E), Stump (E). TIME
1 min. 2.8 secs.
120 YARD HIGH HURDLES —
Gregg (E), Kreeger (L), Marks (L).
TIME — 15.8 secs.
220 YARD LOW HURDLES —
Gregg (E), Kreeger (L), Green
wood (E). TIME — 25.6 secs.
HIGH JUMP — Greenwood (E),
tie for second by Stephenson (E)
and Gregg (E). HEIGHT - 5 feet
10 inches.
broad JUMP — Bradham (E)
and T. Goode (L) tied for first;
third Bridges (E). DISTANCE
21 feet 3 1-’^ inches,
POLE VAULT — T Goode (L)
and Kreeger (L) tied for first,
third Robbins (E). HEIGHT — 10
SHOT PUT. — Newcombe (E),
Cafasso (E), Stauffenberg (E).
DISTANCE — 40 feet 3 3-4 inches.
1 DISCUS ~ Kreeger (L), Leg-
Igett (L), J. Smith (E). DISTANCE
' _ 120 feet 3 1-2 inches.
JAVELIN — T. Goode (L), Ca-
fa.sso (K), DeiVIatteo (E). DIS
TANCE — 140 feet 2 inches,
mile relay — Elon (B. Smith,
DeMatteo, Bridgen a“d New
combe).
Christian Track Team Is Runner-Up
In Annual North State Championship
After trailing the Elon track-- 880 Y.\RD RUN — Patterso^'^ng 'home with the only run “g “ ^
ters through the early stages of ECC; Watts, Eton; Buck ECC^,^^ Williams had been
the meet, the East Carolina Pir-1 Gnffin, Elon. TIME — 2 mins. 3.6 ^
an error moments ear-1 (GAME AT Hit
uni-'arned run in the eighth
It was a game such as is rarely
seen in this modern baseball era,
with both teams having chances
more than once to ice the deci-
-ion. It remained for a Catawba
pinch-hitter, safe on an infield
error by Elon. to score the win
ning marker in the top of the
^ eighth.
I Jack Henderson, Elon’s sopho
more southpaw, pitched magnifi
cently in defeat. The Pennsylvania
lad held Catawba to a single hit
through the first seven frames and
allowed only two safeties during
the entire battl. The second hit
for Catawba, a single by Bobby
Rusher, sent Jesse Williams scam
Conference stars fo close their ca
reers in Elon uniforms. George Al
len, freshman shortstop, had four
singles in five trips for the Chris
tians.
The Christian victory left Le
noir Rhyne with a 9-3 mark in
the Conference, not good enough
to matcji the 11-3 record already
completed by the Ea.st Carolina
nine, so the Elon win at Hickory
gave the title to the Pirates.
(GAME AT ELON)
r h e
Lenoir R. 510 100 510—13 14 2
Elon . 000 000 020— 2 3 3
Peeler and Johnson; Henderson,
Hartley (2), Goss (8), Ro.ss (8) and
MINOR SPORTS
TENNIS
Elon 3, Lynchburg 4.
Elon-Lynchburg (Rain)
Elon 2. A, C. C. 5
Elon 6, Appalachian )
Elon 2. High Point 5.
Elon 1, East Carolina 6.
Elon 2, Guilford. 5.
Elon 6, Appalachian 1.
Eloo 5, Lenoir Rhyne 2.
Elon 0, Guilford 7.
Elon 0, High Point 7.
Elon-Ea.st Carolina (Rain).
EIob-A. C. C. (Rain).
EIon-Lenoir Rhyne (Rain).
1-2.
eOLF
Elon 12 1-2, Guilford 5 1-2
Elon n, Catawba 1.
Eloo n. Lynchburg 1.
Elon 14. Guilford 4.
Elon 16 1-2. E- CaroUna 1
Etoa-Lynchburg (Rain)
Elon 13 1-2, Appalachian 4 1-2
Elon 15, High Point 3.
Elon 15 1-2, Appalachian 2 1-2
Elon 15, CaUwba 3.
Eton 15 1-2, High Point 2 1-2.
El»n 7, East CaroUna 1.
Elon 18. A, C. C.
Elo« won Cooforence' TourM-
it.
TRACK
Eloa Hi >*• *•«»>*“
EloB 64 2-3, High Point 7 1-S
Elon 111. Len«’ **>
A, C. C. 1*. (Trian«el Meet/
Eloo 66, Lynohliurt 66.
Eloa second i» Coaferenee
Meet.
ates came from behind with a
great show of power to grab first
place and the championship in
annual North State Confer
ence track meet at Burlington
Memorial Stadium on Saturday,
May 12th.
Eight new records were set as
the Pirates piled up 78 1-3 points
claim the 1956 championship.
The Elon Christians finished as
L'unner-up with 52 2-3 points,
trailed by Catawba with 13, Le
noir Rhyne with 9, Atlantic Chris
tian with 7 and Guilford with 5
points.
Jim Henderson, East CaroUna
speedster, was top scorer for the
meet with firsts in the hundred,
two-twenty and high hurdles; but
the outstanding single perform
ance of the meet was turned in
by Elon’s Paul Watts, who clipped
22 seconds off the old record as
he put the one-mile mark down
to 4 Hjinutes 38.5 seconds.
Six of the new records were set
by East Carolina, including new
marks in the two-twenty by Hen
derson, in the low hurdles by Bill
Maynard, in the half-mile by Bob
Patterson, in the two mile by Fos
ter Morse, in the pole vault by
EJdie Hurst and in the mile relay
The other new mark was by John
Frowhitter of Catawba, in the jave
lin.
The .summery —
100 YARD DASH — Henderson,
ECC; Perry, ECC; Bridges, Elon;
Steele. Lenoir Rhyne. TIME — 10
secs,
220 YARD DASH — Henderson,
ECC; Bridges, Elon; Green, Elon;
Steele, Lenoir Rhyne. TIME—21.6
secs. (New record)
440 YARD DASH — Newcomb,
Elon; Scribner, ECC; Bishop, ECC;
Fuiher, Lenoir Rhyne, TIME —
52.9 sees.
secs. (New record)
MILE RUN — Watts. Elon;
Buck, ECC; Williams, Atlantic
Christian; R. Bergman, Elon. TIME
4 mins. 33.5 sees. (New record)
TWO-MILE RUN — Morse,
fCC; WdlUams, Atlantic Chris-
safe
lier.
The Elon outfit had trouble get
ting to the slants of Schneider,
ffie Catawba pitcher, but the
Christians did double the Indian
output of hits as they drove out
fCC; WdlUams, Atlantic Chns- ^he
uan; R. Bergm.an, ^lon. Weaver ^uen
Atlantic Chnstian. TIME — 10( _ „..=v,i^n= F.inn
mins, 43.7 secs. (New record)
(GAME AT HICKORY)
r h
Elon . . . 030 050 023—13 15
Lenoir R. 100 000 000— 1 7
Watts aud Hobgood;
Peeler (8) and .lohnson.
6
3
2
Thomas,
HIGH HURDLES — Henderson,
ECC; Gregg, Elon; Meade, ECC;
Holihes, ECC. TIME — 15.4 secs.
LOW HURDLES —
ECC; Gregg, Elon; Meade, ECC;
B. Smith, Elon. TIME — 24.5
secs. (New record)
HIGH JUMP — Greenwood,
E3on; Diickerson, ECC; tie for
,Lhird by Stephenson, Elon, Gregg,
Eoln; and Meade, ECC. HEIGHT
— 5 feet 8 inches.
BROAD JUMP — Scribner,
ECC: Perry, ECC; Bradham, Elon;
Gregg, Elon. DISTANCE — 21
feet 10 inches.
POLE VAULT — Hurst, ECC;
Frowhitter, Catawba; Murphy, Le
noir Rhyne; tie for fourth by Rol>-
bins, Elon, B. Smith, Elon, and
Dickerson, ECC. HEIGHT — 10
teet 10 inches. (New record)
SHOT PUT — Stauffenberg,
Elon; Newcomb, Elon; Gilder-
.sleeve, Catawba; Bullard, Lenoir
Rhyne. DISTANCE — 40 feet 9
inches.
DISCUS THROW — Abernathy,
Guilford; Gildersleeve, Catawba:
Granitz, ECC; Holmes, ECC. DIS
TANCE — 120 feet.
JAVELIN THROW — Frowhit
ter, Catawba; Dennis, ECC; Hurst,
ECC; Bullard, Lenoir Rhyne. DIS
TANCE — 171 feet 6 inches. (New
record).
MILE RELAY — East CaroUna
(Bishop, Patterson, Dickerson.
Scribner). Elon, Lenoir Rhyne, At
lantic Christian. TIME — 3 mine
34.2 secs. (New record)
men were on the cushions. Elon
had men in scoring position in
tour of the nine innings but could
never come through with the
U.t 9CWS. .
Maynard, ‘•^“'^“out punch.
The score by innings—
Catawba
Elon
000 OOO 010—1
(XX) 000 000—0
h
2
4
Ba^eballers
Turn Back
j High Point
Schneider and
and Hobgood.
Lee; Henderson
The Elon Christians turned back
the High Point Panthers 10 to 1
at High Point on Monday, May
7th. The win gave the Christians
a clean sweep of the two-game ser
ies with their old rivals.
The Christians broke out for
four markers in the first inning,
shelling Bill Huegele tor two dou
bles and a single to go witli a
pair of walks. They also added
three runs in the second rack with
two doubles and a single. A sin
gleton in the fourth and two scores
In the eighth rounded out the win
ning total.
Corbitt Hartley, freshman right
hander from Dunn, turned in a
neat mound job for the Christians.
Hartley limited the Pantliers to
a single hit in the first seven inn
ings and finished the job with a
5-hit game. The lone High Point
nin came in the eighth on a dou-
Elon Net Squad
In Tourney Play
The Elon College tennis team
sent entries to the semi-finals in
both the singles and doubles of
the annual North State Confer
ence tennis tournament at Sedge-
field, but the final honors in the
net meet were taken by East Caro
lina in singles and Guilford in
the doubles.
Ben Kendall, Elon’s Number
One entry in singles, reached the
semi-final round before losing to
Mauric Everette, of East Carolina,
by 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 scores in a bitterly j~
fought three set mateh, Evei ette ^ doubles
went on to defeat High Pomts ^ ^ Thompson
a double and two singles to lop
Bill Huegele in the finals by a
three-set count of 7-5, 4-6, 6-1.
Ray Whitley and Hugh Citty.
Elon’s top doubles pair, also
reached the semi-finals before
losing to Jordan Washburn and!
Bob Atlas, of Guilford, in .itraight'
sets by a 6-1, 6-0 count. The Guil
ford duo went on to down Hih
Point’s Ken Tew and Ray Wicker
by ao identical-score in the finals.
the Elon attack, while Bill Watson
had a pair of singles to lead High
Point.
Tbe score by iBning.»—
r b e
Elon 430 100 020—IQ 10 1
High Point OOO 000 010— 1 5 5
Hartley liobguod; Huegele,
Miller (5) aad Bcasiey, Jones (6).