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I'AGE FOUH MAROON AND GOLD Friday; April 15 I960 REID THIS/ I® ^ 6® Back in 1944 I was a junior stud ent at our little place called Elon. Then it was plumb in the middle of a big oak tree and a war hero’s monument and an iron gate or two. In between tliey had the school. I was rooming in North with a remarkable fellow from Bluefield, W.VA., who owned the improb able name of Leopold Malcolm Smith. He was all of 16 at the time. ' At such an age, he was a sopho more, so one must conclude he had pretty much on the ball in the way of school housin’ and book learning. Which he did. Leopold's IQ in courting left much to be de sired, so he said to bla2es with it and only romanced part time— six nights a week instead of sevpn like all the rest of us. On his night off, he was then able to devote his full time attention to building a television set. This, mind you, was in 1944. Leopold was indeed a man be fore his time. The TV he built was probably the first of itjs type. It was constructed expressly for use in a 1928 Model A touring »edan in which several of had part ownership. I believe my stock in the project consisted of phony gas ration stamps. Anyway, Leopold tinkered with a pasteboard tx>x full of tubes, wires and funny looking gadgets. When he was done, he installed his contraption on the back scat of the Model A and turned on the switch. There was just one tiling wrong with Leopold's TV set. Nothing, absolutely nothing, flashed on the screen. As I said, Leopold was a BUin before hJs time. There are occas ions when I am so bored with TV of today that I think the shows on Leopold’s homemade 1944 set were superior to many of our con temporary ones. Each, in a dlfferemt way, was BDthing. Cinder Squad Tops Guilford And Pfeiffer The Elon College track squad grabbed thirteen first places ii; sixteen events and scored 84 i-2 points to turn badk Guilford ana Pfeiffer in a triangular cincie: meet here Wednesday afternoon, Apnl 13Lh. Guilford look seconu with 54 1-2 and Pfeiffer traiieu with 32 paints. George Wooten, Elon’s freshman quarterback star, took three firsts in the 220 yard dash, the broad jump and the hop-step-jurap for 15 points to lead the Christian scoring. Eddie Burke, with firsts in both hurdles and second in the high jump, and Dick More, will; firsts in the shot and javelin and second in the discus, got 13 pointi each. A1 Plaster, who won both the mile and two-mile, was an other Elon double winner. THEY LEAD STUDENT GOVERNMENT NEXT YEAR As I See It (Continued From Page Three) play. The well-played 4-2 battle with East Carolina here last Sat urday afternoon was played in one bour^and fttty minutes. The “speed-up” plan simply does away with pitching warm-ups «t the beginning of each Inning with pitchers getting a runner if they happen to get on base in order that they may warm up on the sidelines. It also eliminates any tossing the ball around after in field outs and provides that any time there is an intentional walk the batter is simply waved over to first base. The softball league started here laat week, but the opening games were raintd out after two weeks of sunriiine. Coach Bob Dunlap, who is running the program, com mented, “It always happens. • • • There** talk around campus that Eloa may field a soccer team next faD, if there's enough names sub mitted to provide a team. Soccer Is a growing sport in the United State* and was played centuries ago by the early Grees and Rom an*. Jiut as basebaU is the na tional pastime here, so soccer is considered in the European count- rie*, where they even hold a world series each year as we do in base ball. Submit your name if Inter ested. • • • Farmer Elon baseball and bas ketball star, Nelvln Cooper, was recently named by the Chicago Cubs to manage their Norristown Tenn., club in the Appalachian League. Cooper, a native of Hifh Point, played several years o' pro ball in the Three-I and Carolina leagues. He has been teaching physical ducation at N. C. State tor the past three years. Barry Staebler, who won the dis-^ cus for Elon with a mark of 12j feet 5 3-4 inches, set a new Elon record in that event, eclipsing the old mark of 117 feet 5 inches that was set by Dick More last year. Track summary; 100 YARD DASH. Hineman (E), Libby (E), Bailey (G), Creech (P). TIME: 10.4 secs. 220 YARD DASH. Wooten (E), Bailey (G), Creech (P), Paschal (G). TIME 23.5 secs. 440 YARD DASH; Braxton (G), Moore (E), Adcock (P), Bridgers (P). TIME; 53.7 secs. 880 YARJ3 RUN; Cooke (E), Braxton (G), Conger (P), Lovell (G). TIME; 2 mins. 12.2 secs. MILE RUN; Plaster (E), Wag ner (G), Conger (P), Fiaber (P). TIME; 4 mins. 51.9 secs. TWO-MILW RUN; Plaster (E), Wagner (G), Fisher (P), Patter son (G). TIME; 11 mins. 28.7 secs. 220 LOW HURDLES: Burke (E), Hughes (P), Brown (G). TIME; 26.5 secs. 120 HIGH HURDLES; Burke (E), Hayes (P), Brown (G). TIME; 16.4 secs. HIGH JUMP; Jones (G), Burke (E), tie for third by Riddle (E) and Lovell (G). HEIOHT; 5 feet 11 inches. BROAD JUMP: Wooten (E) Bailey (G), James (G), Creech (P). DISTANCE; 19 feet 10 inches. HOP-STEP^UMP; Wooten, (E) Hineman (E), Hayes (P), Bailey (G). DISTANCE: 39 feet 1-2 inch. POLE VAULT: Jones (G), Ful ton (G), Olivia (G), Connor (P) HEIGHT; 9 feet. SHOT; More (E), Claypoole (P), Searcy (P), Warren (E). DIS TANCE: 40 feet 2 Inches. DISCUS: Staebler (E), More (E) Oliva (P), Searcy (P). DIS TANCE; 123 feet 5 3-4 inches. (New Elon record). JAVELIN: More (E), James (G), Gozjack (E), Claypoole (P). DIS TANCE; 161 feet 4 inches. MILE RELAY: Elon (Tuck, Moore, Buie, Hineman), Guilford. TIME: 3 minutes 40 seconds. 9 Pirates Use Big ynning To Defeat Elon 4 To 2 Leading the Elon College Student Govemtment activities next year will be 'he L’'iree i^’ud^.nts pic tured above, who were elected ii.t he recent campus elections ?n(; w^re fnrmalW in!la'!ed in o!£we in ceremonies held on Monday morning, May 2nd, ShOAin left to right, the Sludinl CJov^trment leaders are Wililani Hassell, of J.ameston, secretary-lrea.'urir; E. Boelte, of Vernon Iiiil, Va.. pie.^- ident; and Cliff Hardy o£ I'lankln Park, N. J., vice-prcGident. II ro ihe " 'I'istiai -c sea- Eloil Baseball Ranks High Elon Downs Norfolk Nine (Continued From Page Three' Baseballers Win Over Pfeiffer 2-1 The Elon Christian baseballers turned back Pfeiffer 2 to 1 on ’Thursday, April 15th, in a game that was played in less th«n two hours, the tUt being played under the experimental “speed-up” rules that are designed to keep the play moving at a fast rate. Gary Henson, Elon’s senior southpaw ace, pitched steady ball las he scattered seven Panther bingles, walked none and fanned nine. It was the second straight game in which Henson had aUowed no bases on balls. Henson als« jotaed with Pete Jwies, Eloo second-saclcer, in pac ing the Christian Wtting. Each got two singles. Bill Jordan, Pete Hoch and Danny Robinson got two hits each to pace the Pfeiffer hit ting. Elon 000 001 100—2 ( I Weiffer 00 000 OlO—i 7 1 Henaon and Uttle; DiMuccl and Holcomb. the year. Carroll Reid (.349), and Jack Musten (.307) led the Christ ian batting and also won All-Con ference berths. Swicegood (5-1) made the All-Conference team as a pitcher, and Sherrill Hall (5-1) had an excellent record. Elon again won the Eastern Di vision of the North State race in 1953, only to have Lenoir Rhyne cop the championship play-off."' again, two games to one. The Fighting Christians posted a 14-2 mark in Conference play, and a 17-11 record for the season. Char lie Swicegood pitched a brilliant no-hit, no-run game against At lantic Christian to highlight the season, the second no-hitter In Elon diamond history. Four sluggers banged the ball around to pace the Christian nine, including Carroll Reid (.419), Bob by Stewart (.369), Jim Dalton (355) and Nickk Thompson (.340). The sl-igging talent of the four pro duced All-Conference positions for each of them, along with two pitch ing aces, Charlie Swicegood (6-4) and Sherrill HaU (6-1). That sea son ended the successful six-year coaching stint for Jim Mallory. Freshman Nick Thompson was also named to the All-State squad. MaUiis Directs Team C^ach Graham L. “Doc” Mathis assumed the diamor>d coaching duties in 1954, and Elon_ grabbed the Conference title, vrinning the Eastern Division and defeating Lenoir Rhyne two straight games for the crown. It was the tenth North State baseball title for Elon, the fourth crown in six years. That 1954 squad set a new high mark for AU-Conference lionors, placing four pitchers and three other players on the loop honor squad. ’The “Big Four” pitchers on the AU-Coaference were Luther Conger (7-0), Sherrill HaU (5-1), Hank Hamrick (2-1) and CharUe Swicegood (4-2). Others on the All- Conference squad were Nick Thompson (.307), Bobby Green (.268) and Red McDaniels (.286). HaU, Conger and Thompson were on the All-State list. Leading hit ters were Speedy Langston (.309) and Nick ’Thompson. CharUe CasseU, outfielder and first baseman, l«d the hitting for the Elon regulars in 1955, hitting .421 in 21 games, and leading the Christian nine to 16 wins in 21 games for the season, while win ning 13 and losing three in the Conference. Elon had actually tied for first place with ECC but a for feited game with ACC gave the Pirates the crown. Another All-Conference mark was set when Elon placed eight men on, the mythical squad. Pltch- eni Charlie Swicegood (5-0) and Hank Hamrick (3-1) were named to the All-Star list for the fourth consecutive year; Pitcher SnerriO all (3-2) and shortstop Nick Thompson (.324) were named for the third straight year; Pilcher Luther Conger (5-1) and outfielder for the second conE'-cuMve yoar and Alton Myers (.246) and ilomer Hobgood (.246) claimed initial | cjteve Wall and Charlie Maiden berths. It was Thompson s third hammered back-to-back home- straight year as an All-Stater, feature the Fighting while Swicegood came through Christian attack as the Elon Col- with another no-hit, no-run con- baseballers trampled William test against High Point, his second Mary’s Norfolk Division out- and Elon s third in her history. jjj 16 to 2 at Norfolk on Monday In 1956 Elon s younj and April 18th, to open a ■ lericnced squad posted a Lt’t.ii- holiday invasion of Vir ginia. The East Carolina Pirates got four runs in a big second inning and then fought off several Elon th.rej|its to detfeat the Fighting Christian baseballers 4 to 2 in a North State Conference diamond battle here last Saturday after noon, April 30th. The Christians outhit the loop- leading Pirates, and Elon’s Gary Henson out-pitched East Carolina ace Larry Crayton, but tne Elon soutnpaw ran into trouble in tnat big second frame when he isnued two of his three bases on balls and alllowed the Pirates a single and double that counted the winning markers. Cfayton, East, Oarolijia’s All^ State sophomore ace, allowed six hits, compared with five Pirate .safeties off Henson, and Crayton issued eleven walks as he was be set by lack of control through much of the contest, but he got] C. G. Hall, who has been in the errorless support that cut off Elon lead-off post all year, is topping scores and pulled him out of the!the scoring column with 19 runs holes. I while Steve Wall is pacing the all- Sonny Bass, Pirate shortstop, | important runs-batted-in standings who had two singles in three trips, (lifter driving 22 of his mates over was the only man on either team the plate. IIen;ion, who shows 7 who could hit more than once.'^^is against 3 losses, leads the and there was only one extra base Pitchers. hit during the entire game, which! The batting averages follow: was played in one hour and fifty i AB R H Ave. 'minutes under the baseball “speed I 24 Myers Tops Baseballers In E ittmg Leroy lV': e : ■ Iio bro',. ■ regular li.i u,) for th,; baseballers in .he past ; is pacing L'.ic ''litting for son with a average, cor.ipilej on 10 hits ! .1; limes ar hat. Among t!::x3 wlio have been m the startinn vjtfit through most of the campaign CharUe ,>iaidon and Mike LittI': in a ,e race with Maidc-, i.'ttiiig at a .360 clip and Little b'lov/ing a .3o7 average Each has boen at bat 75 times or more. han-average record of 12 wi;is in 19 games for the seaion, while ^'inning nine and losing 3ix in the Conference. Outstandin.: player: included Nick Thompson (.423: who rounded out a brilliant four- year baseball career at Z!on, claiming a place on both the All- State and All-Conferer "e squads each of the four years, Gi! Watts, freshman pitcher, who was dest ined to become one of Elon’s all- time great pitchers and sluggers; and Bobby Green, another slug ger, who was a leader in the all- important runs-batted-ln column. Sanford Becomes Coach Jac Sanford, in his first season as Christian mentor, chalked up 17 victories in 22 games, includ ing a 122-3 record in (Conference competition, and his club added another North State Conference tiUe in 1957. Gilbert Watts (7-1), Elon’s soph omore righthander, wa,s top batter as well as top pitcher, and he ham mered out 15 hits in 29 trips to the plate for a .519 average. Trail ing him and the only other regu lar to t(^ .400 for the year was Bobby Sharpe with a .421 percent age. Other regulars who contrib uted to the pennant winning nine were Tony Carcarterra (.368) and Buddy Montgomery (.316), Love lace (4-0), Henderson (3-1) and Mangrum (1-0). Watts was named to both the AU-Conferenee and All-State squads. Elon’s Maroon and Gold colors still waved high on the North State Conference championship pole in 1958 as the Fighting Christians posted their twelfth title and their fourteenlth first-place since the Conference began. It was the sec ond consecutive North State base ball title for the Elon nine, which posted a final Conference record of 14-2 in wins and losses and won 18 of 25 for the year. Watts again topped the Christ ian baseball squad in both hitting and pitching this seascMi, and he received All-Conference, All-State and All-American honors. His sea son batting average was ,362, while his pitching record stood at eight wins and one loss. Tony Carcar terra (.358) and Larry Bulla (.351) followed closely. To National Tonmey It was at the dose of this 1958 campaign that the Christians got one of the truly high points in Elon diamond ihstory by carrying the Maroon ^d Gold colors into the national NAIA tournament at Alpine, Texas, making the trek westward after school was out in Jone. It was this tourney play, in which The Norfolk outfit grabbed a brief lead early in the game, scor ing a single marker in the lirst for a 1-0 edge, but Elon tied the count with a run in the second and went ahead with another score in the third, only to have the Indians tie it again with a singleton counter in the bottom of the third. The Christians nwved ahead for keeps when they plated two runs in the fourth on singles by Charlie Maidon, Mike Little and Pete Jones. They stretched the margin with three runs in the fifth on the homers by Wall and Maidon, a single by Larry Teague and a double by Little. Five runners scored in a big sixth for Elon, which came on one hit, three walks, a hit batsman and a sacrifice. "The Christians also added four scores in the eighth on four walks and singles by Maidon, Little and C. G. Hall Charlie Maidon topped the Elon hitting with a homer and three singles in six trips, but Little had a double and two singles and Hen son a double and one single to aid the cause. >- The score by innings: r h e Elon 001 235 04(^—16 11 1 Norfolk 101 000 000—2 5 2 Henson and Little, DelGais; Henley, Zeb (6) and Everton. EPoln won on« cd thi%e „ „ ,««me*. that Gil Watts clinched Bobby Green (.373) were named his All-American berth. Coach Jack Sanford’s nine, fin ished second in the Conference in 1959 after winning two straight loop crowns, finishing with an 11-4 mark in Conference play and a 20-7 record for over-all competi tion. Gilbert Watts wound up a bril liant four-year career, pacing the Christian regulars with a fine .363 average, and winning six games against four defeats as a pitcher. His four-year record as a hitter: entered the books at .365, while! his pitching record stood at 23 wins and only six losses. His 1959 record merited him a berth on both the All-Conference i and All- State squads, e also led the Con ference with six homers and turn ed in a no-hit no-run contest—his first, Elon’s fourth. Gary Henson was top pitcher for the year, winning six and los ing one. George Allen (.325) was outstanding at shortstop, and he receive da position on the AU-Coo- ference baseball team. A look at the records reveals that Elon CJoUege from 1927 tai the present has triumphed in 425 game,* while she has only tatted defeat 183 times, a feat of horse- hide magic unparalled in the state and probably not challenged ia collegiate baseball. up” rules that allow no pitching warm-ups at the beginning of in- Maidon nings nor tossing the baU around after an infield out. The Pirate rally in the second opened with walks to Pierce and Bass which combined with a single by Johnson, a double by Castelow and a sacrifice fly by Crayton to plate the four runs. Elon’s first run came in the fourth on a pair of walks and a single by Joe Del Gais, and the final Elon marker came in the ninth as Gary Hen son single, advanced on a walk and scored on a single by Leroy Myers. The score by innings: the E.C.C 040 000 000—4 5 0 Elon 000 100 001—2 6 1 Crayton and Johnson; Henson and DelaGis. Wise Cracks A bachelor says that the only female who can tell you every thing she’s carrying in her bag is a lady kangaroo. 21 75 56 9 40 61 85 82 87 Little Keyser Henson Pike Wall Irvin Han Teague 53 DelGais 19 Tillman 19 Jones 60 Olson 11 Knapp 12 Others 35 10 10 .417 6 8 .381 13 27 .360 12 20 .357 0 3 .330 10 13 .325 16 19 .311 14 24 .283 16 23 .273 19 23 .264 11 2 0 11 1 0 2 .223 .105 .105 ,100 .091 .083 Elon Total . 786 152 193 .246 Opponents 797 160 192 ,241 Footbull Coach (Continued on P’si- Four' staff as assistant in 1958 and served two seasons. He also co:.ch- ed the tennis team last sprir.'.' x.A Is directing Elon’s undefealcd E^lf squad during the current cam paign. 4>B Lambda Om^a Rho Some get athlete*. Some g« TWi fr*tendty prte virtually e,,,^ tadudia* worn®, ft Imn faMtieally loyal *«nber8 ia more ttuoi 100 countriea around tie world. U hai ao pfa and iti o«ly ritual if th« liiaple a«* ot enjoying Cgea-CoU erwy day of the year. Iti Baa*? 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