Tuesday, April 9, 1963
MAROON AND GOLD
PAtlF. THHRK
Christians Break Catawba Win Streak In 12 To 7 Game
Lenoir Rhyne j j /iM) ALL-STAIIS AS BOYS i\TRAMUHAL CA(;p: CAIMI»AI(,> (;1/)SKS
Topples Elon
By 5-4 Cousit
The Lenoir Rhyne Bears turned
back the Elon Christians 5 to 4 in
a ragged early-season diamond bat
tle here Wednesday afternoon,
march 27th, as the Bruins countoi;
four unearned runs to turn b^'ck
the Christians in their fir.-t bid for
a Carolinas Conference victory.
Lefty Everett, Elon's fnie so')h
omore pitcher, worked a steady
game on the mound as he tangled
with Gary Hinkle, ace of the Lenoir
Rhyne mound staff, in a tight duel
Both pitchers worked tine games
but both suffered by erratic support
afield, with each of the teams co.n-
mitting four errors.
Hinkle gained the victory, al
though Everett bested his Bruin
rival in pitching statistics. The Elon
sophomore scattered eight hits
along the route and fanned ten men
while walking only one. Hinkle held
Elon to only seven hits and walked
one, but he had four le~,s strikeouts
that Everett showed.
The Bears plated a singlaton run
in the first on a brace of singles
and a wild pitch, and Elon c^m
right back in that same fr.ima with
two counters when Danny Hall sing
led, Gary Taylor saw life on a
single, and Mike Little bnoni“'i t
triple to right. That Elon lead was
brief, however, for Lenoir Rhyne
sent two men home after two were
out in the third. An error and a pair
of doubles by Brittain and Ehlers
counted the two Bruin markers.
Lenoir Rhyne moved the count to
Christian ^9’
Gt‘ts Vi(*ior\
Over G'^neral
The Fighting Christian basebt
;rs unlimbered their bats and han.
mered two Washington and I.,ee
hurlers for fifteen hits, including
four doubles, as Elon turned back
5-2 when they used two singles, and the Generals 13 to 2 on the Elon
an Elon error and a fielder's choice I ield on Saturday .March, Dth.
to send two Bruins racing home. The game was tight through the
The Christians plated single scores | early innings, but Elon hopped on
in both the sixth and eighth. Ken, Chris Wigert, Washington and Lee
Cook doubled in the sixth and scored southpaw, for four runs in the
on Everett’s single, and then in the' ourth to gain a commanding lead,
eighth Cook hammered the baU overi nd the Christians coasted in from
the left field wall for a one-run | ^-re. Singles by Gary Taylor and
i Phil Cheek and a trio of doubles
Cook, who had the biggest day, by Danny Hall, Art Davis and Pete
of his Elon diamond career, ram-| \jok produced the fourth-inning
med out a homer, double and a 11 for Elon.
single in four trips to lead the The Christians also staged rallies
Christians, while Brittain had a n the seventh and eighth, plating
Thj .^tl 0.l.' E i.st Dorm baski‘t!);ill squad, whic i captured the liXi3 intramural champio:ishi;) l)y turn-
iiig back the regular sea.son leaders In the post-sea on tournament. Is pictured ;it the left above; while
‘he Campui .\I1-Stars, chosen from the entire Ini;'a:nur.''l League, is shown in the picture at the right,
.lernh, rs of the chamjionship squad from East Dor:i:i, showii left to right, are as follows: FRONT ROW—
Ed Whelass, Gary Taylor, Dickie Smithers and Joe H ^h.-.mith. B.\CK ROW— Tommy Mitchell, Eddie West,
!iU Scott and Bill Bray. The Campus All-Stars, als ' .)lctur;'il left to right, are as follows: FRONT ROW—
’arry Hodge, of ITK Blacks; Gary Taylor, of East D >rm: Dickie Smithars, of Eas; Dorm: and John Goz-
;ack, of Sigma Phi Gold. BACK ROW—Dick Pruitt, of Alpha PI Reds; Bob Denny of the Haiders; Jim
Hamlll, of Kappa Psi Nu: and Ken Broda, of Sigm Mu Sigma.
Elon Griddeers Face 10-Ganie Card
double and two singles to lead the
Bruin attack.
The line score:
R H E
Ltnoir Rhyne 102 0’>n 000—"
Elon 200 I','I! O’O--' 7 '
Hinkle and Brown: Everett an 1
Cheek.
;roe runs in the seventh on an
Tor, a walk and singles by Mike
',it*le and Drake. Four other Elon
'!■:ltcr^ sen:- -'I in the eighth on a
walk, a fielder-; choice .and .^ingles
i)_v Crook. I.itt!.', Gomar Shields and
Mdton Grose,
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The Emory and Henry Wasps, al
ways one of the most powerful
;mall-college grid squads in the
Southeast, will be a newcomer to
he Elon College football schedule
'or the coming 1963 season, accord
ing to the card just made public by
Coach George Tucker, head mentor
for the Fighting Christian gridders.
The powerful Southwest ^'irginia
eleven will replace the Apprentice
School squad on the Elon schedule,
vltb the game to be played in Pet-
''•■:hurg, Va., on Saturday, Septem
21«t. Thl.‘. game will mark .a
chance for Elon alumni in East Vir- Quakers, the Appalachian Mountain-
glnia to see the Christians in action, eers and the We.stern Carolina Cata-
The game will mark the fir.st time mounts in Burlington Stadium,
the Elon eleven has met the Emory In addition to the battle with
and Henry squad in twelve .sea.sons, Emory and Henry in Petersburg,
although the two teams met fre- Va., the Christians will tackle five
quently in years gone by.
The remainder of the Elon grid
campaign will find the Christians
meeting the same teams that were
on the schedule last fall, with the
season to open with the Frederick
Lions in Burlington on Septembei
■:ith. Other home games will ser:‘l
hristian.s agains! the Guilford
other teams on enemy soil. These
games away from home will be with
ICast Carolina, Carson-Newman, Ca
tawba, Newberry and Lenoir Rhyne
The card show's a full Carolina,-
Conference schedule for the Christ
ians, for Coach Tucker’s outfit will
meet each of the other six loop
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3aseha!lers
Down Wake
Forest Nine
kiiijr Sports
With
n.Wii) rtlET MARSHBI RX
Football and basketball have com-
I’lt'ted their season and have passed
from the stage, and spring sports
Jiro now in full swing with ba.se-
oall, wolf, track and tennis all unuer-
''Sy and stepping to the ceiif':*!' of
'he stage, and thus far the spring
^'ason has produced soni'J fiie
thrills for the sports fans.
The Elon baseball outfit got away
on the right foot by winning two of
‘hree from NYU, and other thrills
^3ve come in Christian victories
Guilford, Washington and Lee
’nd Catawba, along with an exhi
bition triumph over the Wake For
est Deacons of the Atlantic Coast
inference. The Deacons rate
®®ong the favorites in the Atlantic
Coast Conference rate, and that
Elon victory by a 4 to 2 score
|"eans much to the Elon team and
**s supporters.
Fine field play and a strwig hit-
'ing attack have been the key to
tlie success of the Elon baseballers
thus far in the season. In most of
^ games of the early season, our
Christians have shown a fine double
combination and the catching
the outfielding have been swell
j. There has been some erratic
i|. , ai the infield, but the Christ-1
ians ha'.e shown plenty of hitting
even in the games they
lost
\oteraiis Pete Crook, Danny Hallj
aiiJ Ken Cook have been powdering
tile ball well, and newcomers Gary'
Dan Kelley and Carlton
Highsmith have shown that they
k.ii, V w hat to do when they step up
the plate. Hall, who has always
hit the long ball, has accounted for
■V 0 homers in the early games, and
L'rojk. Cook, Taylor, Kelley and
Highsmith are all hitting for fine
a.erages in the spring campaign.
The Christian pitching, too, has
been surprisingly good, with Lefty
E\eiett and Roy Erlandsen as the
oace-setters on the mound. Jerry
Drake and some of the youngsters
have shown fine pitching at times,
and we say the fans vrill do well
to watch the Elon Christians when
tournament time rolls around.
» » • • •
Last year’s golf team turned in a
fine season, but this was supposed
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Little Hoy Erland.sen turned in
a ma.sterful job of pitching as the
('hristlan baseballers turned back
the power-laden Wake Forest Deac
ons 4 to 2 in a practice battle on
the local field on Friday afternoon,
March 29th. The win avenged an
earlier loss to the Deacons at Win
ston-Salem.
Erlandsen limited the Deacons to
six scattered hits for t.he afternoon
as he handcuffed the Atlantic Coast
Conference stars most of the way
He fanned only five, hut he npvnr
allowed Wake Forest more than a
■iinele hit except In the fifth inning,
only frame in which the Deacs
’’ou'.d get a .score.
While Erlandsen h.ilted the Wake
Fore.st batters. Carlton Highsmith,
Gary Taylor, Danny Hall and Mike
Little led a 9-hlt attack for FJlon
nighsmith and Taylor i ach h.ad two
hit:,. Hall had a homer, and ialtle
a double for the Chrlstiaii.s. No
Wake Forest batter h:id mure th;n
oi.e hit.
Hie line score:
K II K
(HK» 1)00 -2 « 0
110 020 Dlx—4 !) 0
and HImel; Er
Wake Forest
F.lon
Biddi.x. Mandy
Elon Ilitti ^rs
Feature Win
At Solitihnry
Gaining momentum as the .season
moves along, the Fighting Christ
ian baseballers of Elon College lash
ed the Catawba Indians with a 16-
hit attack, and defeated the Indians
12 to 7 in an important Carolinas
Conference tilt at Salisbury on Mon-
|day, April 1st. It was the first de
feat for Catawba this sea.son.
The Christians broke away to a
quick lead as a walk, an error and
:i single by Mike Little plated two
runs in the top of the first, but Ca
tawba rebounded with three runs
of her own in that same frame as
Everett walked two and hit one
batsman to go with an Elon error
and a single by Bill McDevitt.
Undismayed by the Catawba rally,
Elon added a trio of runs in the
■corid on a walk, an error, singles
ay Everett and Gary Taylor and a
double by Pete Crook. Again the
Indians bounced hack, and the bot
tom of the second saw four Ca
tawba scores, three of them on a
)ooming homer by Ed Knipple, but
hat wos the end of the Indian
coring.
After watching Knipple's three-
)ly homer scream into outer space,
E\erett ended the second with a
strikeout and shut the Catawba out
fit away from the plate for the
final seven racks. The Elon young,
ster scattered six hit.s well over
that final seven innings as he chalk
ed his second win of the season.
The Christians backed up Ev
erett’s fine chunking with plenty
of hits, for Elon regained the lead
with two runs in the third, added
singletons in the sixth and seventh
and then unlimbered the artillery
for four big scores in the eighth.
Danny Hall rapi)ed out three sing
les in three trips and Pete Crook
contributed a homer and double to
lead the Elon assault on two Ca
tawba hurlers Four other Elon bat
ters had two .safeties, including
Mike Little. Dan Kelley, I’hil Cheek
and Lefty Everett. Pacing Catawba
was Bost, McDevitt, Smith and Per-
'tln, each with two hits.
71::- line .^con-:
R II K
Kloii 2:i2 001 140 12 16 1
: atauha 340 (MK) (XK)— 7 114
i:.erett and Cheek; Wagoner, Gen-
ctt and I'eretin, Ilomeruns
landsen and Little.
Knipple ‘Catawba'
ond.
two on in ."' C-
Christian (jindcr S|uad
Drops Meet To (^uakei>
Willie Tart, Elon's power-driven quarter-mile star, who won the Carolinas Conference championship
In that gruelling dash event last spring, is one of eight letter veterans who anchor Coach Gary Mattock’s
Fighting Christian cindermen this spring. The speedy junior, who is also a fine halfback on the Sion
football team, also runs the two-twenty and usually runs the anchor lap on the Christians’ mile relay
team. He started the new season by winning the quarter and tying for first in the two-twenty in the
opening meet with Guilford. The picture of Tart shown here was snapped as he broke the tape in winning
the four-forty title at the Conference meet last spring.
Viclor> in the mile relay, final
event of the day, gave the Guilford
Quakers a hard-fought 67 to 63 vic
tory over the Fighting Christian
cindermen in a Carolinas Conference
track meet at Guilford College Tues
day afternoon, April 2nd.
The Christians were leading 63-02
at the close of regular events, with]
each team having won seven first'
places, but the Quaker relay quartet
r atran the Elon relay four to eke
r,ut the win. Roland .Miller took two
firsts, and Willie Tart gained one
first and lied for another to pace
the Elon scoring.
The summary:
100 YARD DASH: Bovender
'Elon'. Johnson 'Elon'. I'onter
Guilford' TIME: 10.1 secs.
220 YARD D.\SH: Tart 'ElonI and
.Johnson lElon' tied for first. Center
I Guilford I. TIME: 23.55 secs.
440 YARD DASH: Tart 'Elon),
Braxton ‘ Guilford», La nc aster
I Elon I. TIME: 52 secs.
880 YARD RUN: DeVauk (Guil
ford i, Klingler Guilford i, Lancast
er 'ElonI. TIME: 2 mina. 11,6 secs.
MILE RUN: Miller (Elon), Gro
mada (Guilford', Crabtree (Elon>.
TIME: 4 mins. 57.1 secs.
TWO MILE RL'N: Miller 'Elon'.
flromada 'Guilford'. Griffin 'Eloi;.,
TIME: 10 mins. 53 sees
120 HIGH HL’RDLES Allen
IGI ILFORD . White 'Guilford'. Mc
Donald 'Elon'. TIME: 17.3 sec-,.
220 l.X)W HURDLES' Allen Guil
ford'. McDonald 'Elon', Dean
(Elon TIME: 28.8.
HIGH JL'MP: Benjamin 'Guil
ford:, t'oie 'Elon', White 'Guil
ford HEKiHT: :> feet 11 inches.
BRO.iD JUMP: Dean 'Elon', Wil
liams 'Guilford', John.son 'Eloni.
DISTANCE: 19 feet 9 inches.
POLE VAULT: Gardner (Guil
ford', Huff 'Elon», tie for third by
Dean 'Elon' and Kolb (Guilfordi.
HEIGHT: 10 feet 6 inches.
SHOT PUT: Ray (Guilford', Lit
tle (Elon I, Purgason (Guilford i.
DISTANCE: 39 feet 9 inches.
DISCUS: Samuels (Guilford', Buf-
faloe 'Guilford I, Ray (Guilford).
DISTANCE: 124 feet 1 inch.
JAVELIN: (Jozjack (Elon), Kemp-
son 'Elon', Richart (Guilford).
DISTANCE: 142 feet B'.i inches.
MILE RELAY: Guilford 'Mar
shall, Klingler, Buffaloe, Braxton).
TIME: 3 mins. 39.5 secs.