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You m«y be reading this In
chapel.
I found that was a good place
to do bomcwork. too.
In just two short, simple sen
tences, I expect I have Ukened
myself to you who arc at Elon
15 years after I was.
Now, just think about it. Here
you are out on ycmr own—many
for the first time. You’re not kids
any more. You're not doing kid
stuff under Senior Oak or wher
ever it Is you're doing what you’re
doing. You've figured out mature
ways to snow your professors on
quizzes. Maybe rou're even Jeam-
ing something out of those tedious
textbooks. Just as you do now,
years ago I felt pretty big, too.
I thought I was important
enough to question this and that.
A good place to start was in reli
gion class.
One of the most vivid memories,
1 have of Elon (and that’s saying
something, because I have so
many) is Dr. Merton French’s re
action when I asked him a real
poser:
"Is God all powerful?”
The goodly Bible teacher looked
straight at me through those hef
ty glasses perched on his priz'
fighter type nose and said, “Cei
tainly.”
■’Then,” tricky old Reid asked,
“Can God build a rock so big
he can’t lift it?”
Dr. French’s specs bounced off i
his snoot. They fell to the floor
and cracked. Glass was dismissed.
We all—Dr. French, excepted—
had a big guffaw out of the whole
thing. We showed him. We weren’t
Elon Squad
Licks Colby
In 2 Games
The Maroon and Gold baseball
squad closed out its pre-holiday
schedule without a defeat when
they pasted the strong Colby Ool-
I* ge nine from Maine with a pair
of defeats on Wednesday and
Thu'. ity afternoons, March 25th
and k;oih. Elon won the first bat
tle by a 12 to 10 score and then
added a 9 to 6 victory in the
second meeting with the team
which won the New England
NCAA title last spring
Big John Van Benschoten, a
freshman southpaw from Southern
Pines, got credit for both of the
Elon victories while serving as a
relief hurler in both games. 'Van
Benschoten went to the mound in
the seventh rack of the Wednes
day game and got the win when
Elon scored two runs in the
eighth, with the game called in
that rack due to darkness. He re
lieved in the sixth inning of the
second game and got credit for
the win on three Elon markers
in the eighth.
GU Watts bad three hits, and
Carcaterra, Allen and Lichok add
ed a pair of safeties apiece in
pacing Elon to its Wednesday af
ternoon win, but the second vic
tory came on the wildness of three
Colby pitchers, who issued thir
teen walks while bolding the
Christians to a scanty three safe-
Ities. Lichok, Watts and Allen were
I the only Elon batters to solve
fhe slants of the Colby pitchers
I for hits.'
I The score by innings for the
two games follow:
(FIRST GAME)
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Colby on 013 22x—10 9 4
Elon 301 0131 12x—12 13 3
Grimm, LoLng (2), Oberparleitr
er (G), Talbert (8) and Seddon;
Thompson, Driver (6), Van Ben
GETS GRANT DoWUS Elon
Cinder Squad In Meet
•n .
Winning six first places and ty-| 1?0 HIGH Biuk
ing for a seventh top spot, the (E), Gregg (E). Smith (WL). TIME.
Elon College track squad turned 16.2 secs,
in a fine showing in losing a hotly 220 LOW ®.’
contested meet to the powerful^Corwin (WL), Butten (WL). TIME.
Southern Conference cindermen 26.8 secs.
of Washington and Lee last Fri- HIGH JUMP: Three-way t« by
day, April 10th, by an 84 1-2 to
46 1-2 score. Only superior depth
of the Generals decided the meet,
which was held on the Generals'
home track.
Eddie Burke with 13 and Larry
Campus Softball
Season Started
The intramoral softball sea
son is nnderway with si* teams
biddiny for the 1959 campus
championship, iccordiBg to
Coach Jack Sanford, who directs
the Intramural sports program.
The schedule opened this week,
with eirht games set and will
cmtinae untU a campus cham-
crowsied.
Burke (E). Gregg (E), Hardwick competing for soft
(\VL). HEIGHT: 5 feet 8 inches.
BROAD JUMP; Gregg (E),
Cherrybone CWL). Stanley (WL).
DISTANCE: 20 feet 5 inches.
POLE VAULT: Tie for first by
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PROF. J. C. SOWELL
* * •
Elon Professor
Receives Grant
In Mathematics
Gregg with 12 points were top j Myers (WL) and CaUawy (WL
scorers for the Elon tracksters, I tie for third
but they were pushed for honors
by A1 Plaster, Elon distance run-
even 20 and we caught an eccle-1 Knapp (8) and Hughes,
siastical expert in a trap; DejCais
not only that, bamboobled him i
I (SECOND GAME)
Prof. Jesse C. Sowell, member
of the Elon College mathematics
faculty, has just been awarded
a study grant from the National
Science Foundation to attend the
Summer Institute for Science and
Mathematics to be held at Iowa
State College, Ames, Iowa, from
June 8 through July 18 this sum
mer. The institute there is one
of three hundred fifty such groups
scheduled this summer in various
parts of America.
Prof.' Sowell, who joined the
Elon faculty for the first time
last fall, is a native of Chester
field, S. C., and a graduate of
Carson-Newman College in Jef
ferson City, Tenn. He has his
graduate work at the University
of South Carolina, where he was
an instructor prior to accepting
his present position at Elon.
ner, who won both the mile and
two-mile runs in the finest show
ing of his career. Plaster had a
terrific kick on the eighth and
final lap of the two-mile.
Burke copped both hurdle events
and finished in a three-way tie
in the high jump for his top score,
while Gregg counted his points on
a first in the broad jump, a tie
for first in the high jump, ^cond
jn the high hurdles and third in
the hundred. The Washington and
Lee had no double winners, and
the Generals used their superior
numbers for many seconds and
third place to stretch the margin.
The summary:
100 YARD DASH: Hickey (WL),
Chamberlain (WL), Gregg (E).
TIME: 10.1 secs.
220 YARD DASH: Stanley (WL),
Droze (E), Montgomery (E). TIME:
23.6 secs.
440 YARD DASH: Blaheslee
(WL), Nelson (WL), Moore (E).
TIME: 52 secs
880 YARD RUN; Simpson (WL),
Glenn (WL), Stuckey (E). TIME:
2 min. 14 secs.
SHOT PU’I): Guthrie (E), White
(WX), Cruger (WL). DISTANCE:
41 feet 2 3-4 inches.
DISCUS: Bowersox (WL), White
(•WL), SuUle (WL). DISTANCE:
118 feet 8 inches
JAVELIN: Rohnke (WL), Paint
er (WL), Danko (WL). DISTANCE:
198 feet 11 inches.
MILE RELAY; Washington and
Lee. TIME: 3 mins. 40.3 secs.
baall honor- include five fri-
temity rroups and one dormi
tory team. The teams are Kai>-
pa Psi Nn, managed by Dan
Porter; Sigma Mu Sigma, man
aged by Charlie Howell; lota
Tan Kappa, managed by Gilbert
Gates; Sigma Phi Beta, man
aged by Raeford Pate; Alpha Pi
Delta, managed by Dean Wy-
rick; and Smith HaU, managed
by John Minns.
AU games are limited to one
and one-half hours in length,
and any team leading by ten
runs after four Innings is a» au
tomatic winner. No team may
play with less than seven men.
Ballad Singer Well Received
Elon Defeats
Army Baseball
Outfit Twice
Attei being rained out for two
straight days, the Christian bast
bailers got their spring vacatioa
diamond tour underway witn ^
double victory over Fort Le« oi
the army post diamond on Wed
nesday, April 1st, chalking wins
ver the sc^diers by scores of 1
lb 1 and 11 to 2.
Gil Watts pitched a beautiful
three-hitter at the army outfit
in the first game while fanning
rive and walking none. Watts al-
io had two singles in three trips
to top the Elon hitting. "
Carcaterra had a double au4
single and Arthur Thompson three
singles four four in the nightcap,
battle, in which Gary Henson and
Dan Mangrum teamed for a foui-
hitter to pitch Elon to an 11 to,
2 triumph.
The score by innings:
rh t
Elon 001020 0—3 7 1
Fort Lee 000 000 1—1 3 t
Watts and Hughes; Gendy, Val-
ente (5) and Mendoza.
Earle Spicer, New York bari
tone and singer of ballads, who
considered ’'the most frequent concert singer with leading
symphony orchestras and oratorio
societies in both England and
repeater” on college musical pro
grams in America, appeared in
Whitley Auditorium at Elon Col
lege last Thursday night, April
9th, as a feature of the Elon Ly
ceum series and was well receiv
ed by an appreciative audience.
The guest artist, who was born
on a farm in Acadia, tht famed
Land of EvangeUne, sang in a
country church choir in his youth,
but he later went on to study
music student in both London and
New York, and be appeared as
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Elon 100 251 2-H 8 I
Fort Lee 000 001 1— 2 45
Henson, Mangrum (7) and Del-
Gais; Letts, Burden (5) and Her
man.
voice, piano and organ in college
MILE RUN; Plaster (E), Bridge- during coUege years he found
forge (WL), Stanken (WL. TIME;
5 min. 4 secs.
TWO-MILE RUN; Plaster (E),
Merchant (WL), Kurz (WL).
TIME: n min. 13 .secs.
time to sing in both his college
glee club and quartet and to play
the bass violin in the college or
chestra.
He later studied as an advanced
out of a lecture, too. i
Well, later on that day, God |
got around to lifting a millstone, ’ Colby
la much bigger one than even we' Elon
had dreamed up for him. VE Day
camc.
We went to chapel.
It wasn’t one of those compul-
«ory ones. &’ery single last one
of us went on our own.
Nobody read the Maroon and
Gold. Or did homework.
There we were—twerps, phy
sically unfit, draft dodgers and
all, each of us praying. I saw a
hulk of an ogre who'd swiped a
pair of shoes the week before
from Belk’s over in Burlington
bow his head. Tears ran down his
ugly mug. A polio-crippled fellow,
who couldn’t make it into the ser
vice, was on his knees.
A lot of us might have been
the
. .. 000 005 010—6 9 4
. .. 000 006 03x—9 3 0
Ruvo, Leuthke (6), Oberparleit-
er (8) and Seddon; Cook, Knapp
(6', Van Benschoten (6) and
Hughes, DelGais.
Elon Prof Pre-Views Try on Mansion
America, singing the works of
such classic composers as Bach,
Handel and Mozart under sucH
distinguished conductors as Sir
Henry Wood, Sir Adrian Boult,
Fritz Reiner, Albert Stoi sst , Al
fred Greenfield and Clarence Dic
kinson.
While a student in London he
became interested in ballads and
folk songs and began singing them
as a hobby. That hobby, how
ever, has become a profession,
aand he has made more than 1,200
appearances at leading American
colleges as a singer of ballads
and folk music.
In all of these college campus
appearances, he haas proved to
be a great favorite with both fac
ulty and students, and he has been
invited back to most of the cam-
(Continued from Page Two)
The original palace was the
seat of the provincial government
from 1770 to 1775, when it was
seized by the patriots. '
Tryon, next to the last of the
Watts Is Leading Hitting
^Continued from Page Three)
Big John Van Benschoten. ttesh-
man left-hander, is leading the
E^on pitchers with three wins and
no losses. Gil Watts equals Van
Benschoten in the win column,
but he had one loss charged to
him. Other pitchers with wins to
their credit include Gary Henson
with twd and Arthur Thompson
and Dan Mangrum with one each.
«mart-alecky and enjoying the Watts has pitched 23 innings to
brash revolt of growing up; but,jiej,d that column and leads in
with all our faults, not one of us j strikeouts with 27 whiffed batters
that day doubted that God had i to his credit. Arthur Thompson
picked up that rock of a temble haas walked 19 batters in 19 1-3
battle.
He pitched it right to us.
Now. 1 can’t assure you that
reading in later chr^pel sessions.
Like I said, though. God thre'
that rock right back at us.
But, we found, God doeso'
■throw curve*.
innings
The complete statistics through
Pembroke Meet
(C^tinued from Page Three)
BROAD JUMP — Gregg (E),
Montgomery (E), Worthington
(P). DISTANCE — 19 feet 2 inch
es.
^OLE VAULT — Carmines fE),
Stuckey (K), Deese (P). HEIGHT
— 10 feet.
SHOT — Moore (E). Guthrie
(E), Fuller (E). DISTANCE — 39
feet 8 1-2 inches.
DISCUS — Moore (E), Guthrie
E). Brosky (E). DISTANCE —
114 fe^ 4 inches.
JAVELIN — Carmines (E)/
Guthrie (El. Moore (E'. DIS
TANCE 159 feet 1 inch.
MILE RELAY — Elon (He^-
r^, Hoore, Stuckey, Montgom
ery), Pembroke. TIME — 3 min
utes 4S.1 seconds.
the Guilford
>as follows;
game of
April
7th is
Player
K
ab
r
b
ave.
Watt*
12
45
15
18
.400
Hall .
10
8
1
3
.375
Palkovics - .
. 5
9
1
3
.333
Cook
2
3
0
1
.333
Allen
12
37
7
12
.324
Carcaterra..
12
44
10
14
.318
Lichok
12
45
15
14
.311
Kanes
11
37
6
11
.297
Pike
8
4
5
1
.250
Van Benschoten 4
4
1
1
.;so
Thompson
9
34
6
8
.235
Wall
. 8
14
4
3
.214
Hughes
10
25
0
5
.200
Jones
12
34
11
6
.176
Henson .
11
27
5
2
.074
Other PIayers25
28
5
0
.000
Elon Totals 12 392 93 103 .263
Opponents 12 366 52 67 .183
RUNS-BATTED IN — Watts 17,
Carcaterra 9. Allen 8, Lchok 6,
Henson 5, Wall 3, Eanes 2, Jones
2, Hughes 1, Van Bensch6ten 1,
Thompson 1, TWO-BAGGERS —
Carcaterra 4. Watts 3, Allen 2,
Canes 2, Jones 2, Heneon 1.
PHREE-BAGGERS — Lichok 2,
Watts I, Alien 1, Carcatcrra 1,
Thompson 1. HOMERS — Watts
1, Carcaterrjf“l, Lichok 1. STO
LEN BASES — Uchok 4, HaU 2,
Carcaterra 2, Pike 2, Henson 2,
Watts 1, Allen 1, ilanes 1. SAC
RIFICES — Henson 2, Watts 1.
TLMES WALKED — Watts 10,
Lichok 10, Allen 9, Carcaterra 8,
Jones 8, DelGais 5, Pike 4, Hen
son 3. Eanes 2, Van Benschoten
2, Hughes 1, Hall 1, Palkovics 1.
HIT BY PITCHER — Allen 3.
Watts 1, Lichok 1, Carcaterra 1,
Eanes 1, Pike 1, Jones 1, Henson
1. STRUCK OUT BY — Watts
27, Thompson 22, Henson 14, Van
Benschoten 9, Mangrum 7, Knapp
6. Cook 4, Driver 1. WALKS BY
— Thompson 19, Watts 9, Knapp
8, Van Benschoten^ 6. Driver 5,
Henson 5, Mangrum 5, Cook 5.
HITS OFF — Thompson, 17 in
19 IJ; WatU, 9 in 23; Van Ben
schoten, 12 in 12. Cook. 7 in 7 1-3;
Knapp, 4 in 9 1-3; Driver, 2 in
1 1-3, GAMES WON — Van Ben
schoten 3, Watts, Henaon 2, Thomp
son 1. Mangrum 1. GAMES LOST
— Walts 1, Thompson 1.
Sport Shots
. (Continued from Page Three)
ball for the college but did play
for Burlington one season. Dick
McCarthy, another Elon pro, who
never played college ball, is an
other who is in the training camps
with Minneapolis.
Well it's about time to close
out and take a break ata Garri
son’s Grill, that is if you can call
it a break. As all customers who
frequent the place know, Mr. Gar
rison talkc a pretty good game
of golf. Bui we're in the know,
for his “Mrs.” informs us that
he’s getting too old to be anything
but a duffer.
royal governors, took office in
1765 at a time when North Caro
lina had a restless population and
a floating capitol.
The assembly met first at one
place and then another, Eden-
ton, Bath, Hillsboro, New Bern or
Wilmington, Records were hauled
by wagon from one meeting place
to the next and were frequently
lost in transit.
Brought Architect
Tryon decided to stop that by
building a permanent capitol in
New Bern. He had brought a young
student architect, John Hawks
>vith him from England when he
came to North Carolina as lieu
tenant governor in 1764.
Hawks drew up plans for a
house like those being built at
the time in the best residential
sections of London. Probably he
did not know much about any
type of architecture except Geor
gian, afld least of all American
Colonial. Work on the palace be
gan in August, 1767.
Soon thereafter, at Tryon’s re
quest, the assembly imposed a
poll tax to help pay for the build
ing. By 1769, the poll tax amount
ed to two shillings, six-pence, or
about 60 cent*.
This was snuff money to the
wealthy eastern planters, who had
long since cornered what money
there was in the coolny. But it
was a burden to the small farmers
in the Piedmont and western sec
tions.
‘The RenruUtors’
These back country men then
formed an exceedingly loose-knit
organization and called themselves
"The Regulators.”
The Regulator movement eli
minated in the Battle of Alamance
Creek, where on May 16, 1771,
Gov. Tryon with an army of about
1,100 men crushed the Regulator
army of two or three thousand,
half of them unarmed, on Ala
mance Creek, not too far from
the Elon campus.
Tryon, meanwhile, had been ap
pointed royal governor of New
York. But he lingered in this state
kmg enough to hang six of the
branchhead boys as a hint to the
others that criticism of the palace
tax was a social blunder.
Although sometimes referred to
as the first battle of the Revolu
tion, the Battle of Alamance Creek
was no fought between colonists
and British troops, but by colo
nists against troops of the State
Militia, led by ’Tryon and com-].^ca’s concert stage today,
posed entirely of other North Car-
oUnians—many of whom later
fought the British.
Williams Games
(Continued from Page Three)
In the second meeting on Tues
day afternoon, March 24th, the
Christians pounded out ten hits
behind the mound efforts of Gary
Henson and Dan Mangnim to
bring Elon an 8 to 1 victory. Hen*
son was the winning hurlei.
Watts, who garnered three hit»,
paced the Elon attack at th»
plate.
The score by innings tor the two
games were as foUows:
(FIRST GAME)
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Williams 003 000 000 3 3 i
Elon 200 060 Olx—9 5 i
Leroy, Morris (5), Gratwlck (8>
and Christopher, Erb; Watts, Man-
puses on which he has sung. His grum (6) and Hughes, DelGais.
program featured a most enter-1
taining Shakespeare “quiz,” and j
he has established a reputation!'
(SECOND GAME)
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Williams 000 000 001—1 5 S
jElon 023 200 lOx-8 10 »
of singing “Frankie and Johnnie” (4, 3^^ Erh, Chris-
better than any artist on Amer-| topher; Henson, Mangrum (6) aod
j Hughes, DelGais.
Lejeime Tourney
(Contmued from Page Three)
with Tony Carcaterra leading the
way on a double and single for
three.
The score by innings:
The
Elon 000 300 0—3 6 0
Ithaca 031 000 x—4 7 0
’Thompson, Cook (3), Knapp (5)
and Hughes, DelGais; Churchill
and Ryan.
Elon 8, Lejeooe 7
The Christians outhit the Le-
jeune Marines in the tourney final i
on Saturday afternoon to clinch
a title tie, with a fine ninth-inn
ing rally netting two runs that
brought the Elon outfit from be
hind. The Elon rally came ©n four
singles and a walk.
Arthur ’Thompson opened Elon’s
half of the ninth with a single,
followed by two oufs, after which
Steve WaU walked and Bill Pal
kovics singled to load the bases
C. G. HaU pinch-hit a single to
score Thompson with a tying
marker, and Gil Watt* smashed
a line drive to deep center to
score Palkovics with the winning
run.
Dan Mangrum, who relieved
Gary Henson in the eighth, was
Elon’s winning pitcher as he
blanked the Marines in the final
two racks. Ttony Carcaterra, Ted
Eanes and George Allen each had
a double and single, and Gi! Watts
and Don Lichok each had two
singles to lead the Elon attack.
The score by innings:
r h e
EJon Oil 021 102—-8 15 0
Lejeune .... 000 204 100—7 9 0
Henson, Mangrum (8) and
Hughes; Macon. &nith (#) and
Fullerton.
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