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MAKOOiNi Ai\D
Friday,j\prU 17,
Christian Squad Divides
Four Wilininjjtoii Games
REID THIS/
Si
B. F. Black, a big boned, harmon
ica playing Shenandoah Valley boy.
packed hi.- one best shirt and all
of his spunk when he left his Keez-
elton. Va.. home for Qon just be
fore World War 1.
He was a plain, happy youth, the
type that Flon manages to attract.
Black would be noticed, although
save for his six-foot. 200-pound
frame, he wa.*. no more of a strik
ing figure than the other farm
boys.
Black, in time, would be remem
bered for giving EUon its first mu
seum.
During his undergraduate days,
though. Black gave more mea.sure
to clog dancing and tooting around
with his mouth harp. By the time
he was graduated in 1917. Black
pursued loftier occupations. By
then, he became the Rev. B. F.
Black of the Congregational Christ
ian Church and the father of a
The Christian baseballers suffered
their only defeats in their first fif
teen games at the hands of the
Wilmington College Seahawks. but
they managed to turn back the Sea-
hawk.i- in two other games and gain
in even *;plit in four battles played
during Ihr week following Easter.
Wilmington 6. Klon 4
The Seahawks pushed across two
nin.‘ in the sixth frame to break
•I four-all tie and cnin a 6-4 victory
over the Elon College Christians at
Wilmington on March 30th. The de
feat broke a five-game winning
streak for the Elon outfit.
R II E
Elon 002 on 000—4 9 5
Wilmington 004 002 000—6 7 4
Everett and Cheek; Smith. Bur
dett 4'. Braxton 51 and Mills.
Flon 6, Wilmington 4
Richard Such, talented freshman
nitcher for the Elon Christians, went
the route and turned in his second
victory within five days as he
Pitched the Elon ba.seball .squad to
T fi to 4 victory over the Seahawks
at Wilmington on March 31st
The Christians went into the final
■nning trailing by a 4 to 3 margin
nnd pushed over three counters in
the top of the ninth to clinch the
victory
R II E
Elon 0 0 100 003-C 10 3
Wilmington 101 020 000--t 6 1
Such and Cheek; Lemon and Mills.
Wilmington S, Elon 3
The Seahawks grabbed their sec-
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iayag
growing family. He also became a ond win over the Elon nine 5 to 3
chaplain in the armed services. Just 'i^re April 3rd behind the two-hit
as war took on furious aspects over- oitching of Vick Johnson, who over
seas.
Rev. Black was a sure provider.
came brief streaks of wildness to
hmdcuff the Christian hitters
He rented “We.st End”, the large j hrough most of the game,
frame structure that eventually be-| Lefty Everett worked steady ball
came the college president’s resi-1 for Elon in the early part of the
dence. 'ime. but untimely errors by his
"I want njy family to be at Christian .supporters proved disa.s-
Elon." Rev. Black said. "If any
thing happens to me. I know they
would be in good hands there."
Happily, nothing remiss did befall
the jolly preacher while abroad,
and when he returned, he showed
off his foreign .wiuvenirs to his ap
preciative family.
"Why not.” they suggested, "do
something with them so everybody
can enioy seeing your things?”
The Rev Black agreed, command
eering an upstairs room in old Ala
mance and began displaying his
collection. To be sure, much of it
was remots from FJon. such as the
gun he .saved from a shotgun wed
ding. although it wnsn’t oreci.selv i battles with the Sea-
rous and cost him four unearned
iins. No batter on either team had
Tvore than one hit during the fray.
R II R
’.Vilmington 200 020 ICO—5 6 1
Elon 000 021 000-3 2 4
V Johnson, Page (9t and Mills,
"verett. Burtsche (61, Dailey i9>
and Newsome, Cheek 61. WP —
Johnson LP — Everett.
Elon 6, Wilmington S
A two-run rally in the bottom of
the eighth gave the Chri.stians a
"nmeback 6 to 5 victory over the
Wilmington Seahawks here on Sat
urday afternoon. April 4th and ;it
the .same time gave Elon an even
the sort of a .shotgun ritual
you
h-i'vks durinn the week
may have in mind The tKinr Hri-ip. i Richard Such had worked the
groom got married on |r” . ninnp
and. lacking even the modest fee
accorded the clerev. gave Rev.
Black a shotpiin Other of Rhck’s
displays included stuffed Alamance
County owls, which the good nrench-
er prepared himself; a powderhorn
that may well have been left over
from the O'Kelly days and a wide
array of pistols, one of which, it
was whisnered. had been n duelinq
gun in an affair over a lost love.
The fellow who was Its previous
•wTier had been a two time loser —
hi.- girl and his life.
It was for this museum thil the
Rev. B F Black is remembered,
even though his curios were de
stroyed in the fire at old Alamance
during the mid-twenties
Elon has lacked a museum ever
since.
'irst eicht innings and received
credit for the win Pete Crook topped
*hf Flon batting with three singles
RUE
Wilmington 201 Oil 000—5 8 2
Elon 112 000 020—6 13 0
Wray, I,eninn '3> and Mills: Such
Dailey '9'. ,Iohnson '9' and Cheek
I^enoir Rhvne
(Continued Frooi Pace Thi««)
Little Gary Taylor was the top
hitter for the Christians as he
Bnacked out four singles in five
tries, with Jerry Tillman getting a
homer and two singles and Carlton
Highsmith a double and two singles.
Tom Brown got three ol Lenoir
thyne’* six safeties, including a
Jouble and two singles.
The line score:
Lenoir Rhyne 000 020 000-2 b
Elon 220 000 040—8 12 S
Lackey, PursJey (8) and Brown
Tillman and Cheek.
Svl*liii(‘s
(Pictures On Page Two)
concern. In Cuba, fear of Commun
ism was expres.sed by 15 per cent
of those with a university educa
tion, but it was mentioned by only
3 per cent of those who had only an
elementary education.
This technique for determining as
pirations makes it possible to see
and compare the wide-spread vari
ety of ways in which different peo
ple look at the world, or, more
properly, the wide variety of worlds
in which people live their lives.
SENATE
Continued From Page One)
the publication of the booklet in the
Fall of 1964.
Other bills that will possibly be
brought up before the end of the
1963-64 session may include one to
provide funds for the pond project,
and another to contribute funds to
the College's Seventy-fifth Anniver-
MARYI.AND CHOIR
(Ontinued frooi Pa(e l-wo)
formed (Church in Burlington. At
one time he had his own radio
program over Station WBBB, billed
as The Singing Shoeiflaker.
Elon Blanks
Quaker Nine
In 6-0 Game
Herbie Johnson, Elen's fin - so'''
omore southpaw, chalked his fifth
mound triumph without a lo.ss whjr
he pitched the Christian baseball?r
to a 6 to 0 victory over the Guilford
Quakers at Guilford on April 13th.
The victory moved Elon to n mnrV
of six wins and no losses In Caro-
linas Conference play and an over
all season record of thirteen wins
in fifteen starts. The win was more
important In that It came over onf
of the teams which have lieen Elon'
closest comoetitlon In the loop race
The Christians exploded for foir
counters in the second ■nii’i" of'
the slants of Harold Pate, Quake-
starter, who ran into a streak o'
wildness and walked three men dur
ing the Elon uprising. These walks
combined with a sacrifice fly, a
-ilngle and a double to plate the
Four runs. Herb Johnson tripled two
other runners homo in the third to
wind up the Elon scoring.
Phil Cheek, Elon catcher was the
top hitter for the diristian nine dur
ing the afternoon as he blasted out
three singles. No other player on
either team could show more than
one hit. .John.son fanned nine and
walked four In pitching 'he win
R H E
Elon 042 000 000—fi 9 1
Guilford 000 000 (»0—0 3 1
Johnson and Chetk; Pate, Miller
(3), Kellom 9i and Cook. LP -
■’it"
' hj Koith Fulton Special Choir, high school singing group from
wliich a^;>ca.ju in co:i£,n o>i me li.uii c^riuus 0*1 nean.
J.:y ni?;;!, Apiil 8th, is pictured above. The group, which has made
ihrw trips to Europe and another to Mexico and Guatemala, presented
a hlehly enjoyable program of choral music, dances and specialty num
bers in the program in Whitley Auditorium, and its program was fjiven
high praise from an enthusiastic audience.
Elon Sweeps Two Baseball
Tilts From Williams S(|uad
The Elon !)aseballers swept a two-
;ame series with the touring Will-
•nms College nine from Massachus-
■tts hero In early April. The Chrlst-
ins chalked a loosided tO to 1 win
in the first of the two games on
.:>ril 1st, and then they grabbed a
^3 victory in the second tilt
Elan 10, Williams I
The Christians unllmbered their
best hitting attack of the early sea-
on as they turned back the touring
Villiams College nine by a 10 to I
Tiargin here on April 1st.
The Elon outfit used a pair of
valks with three hits to shove four
runners home in the second inning,
with a triple by Tommy Newsome
as the big blow during the rally.
That was enough scores for the win.
''ut the Christians also added a
:lngle run in the third and then
' anoth T 4-nin uori.sing in
■ fifth.
RUE
Williams one 000 100—1 5 fi
Elon 041 040 100—0 16 2
Wallace and LeRoy; Tillman and
New.some.
Elon 6, Williams 3
i The Christians hit hard and early
I as they grabbed a quick five run
' lead in the very first Inning and
went on for a second win over th?
visiting Williams College Ephies f
to 3 here on April 2nd.
Jumping on Kevin Sheehan, start
ing pitcher for Williams, for six
hits In the first rack, the Christians
shoved five runners over the plate.
The big blows in this early unrisin?
by Elon were a pair of doubles by
Gary Taylor and Pete Crook, with
Comar Shields, Art Davis, Fred
Stewart and Tom PIccinnini .nil con
tributing singles to the cause. Elon
'nter added a single run in the
fifth, but it was not needed.
The line score:
R H E
'.Villiams 010 000 002—3 4 2
Elon .500 010 100—6 12 5
Sheehan, Kile 7> a’d Straub.
Christianson 7): Johnson and
'"heek TJP — Sheehan.
Atlanta Choir Sings Here
The North Fulton Special Choir,
of Atlanta, Ga., one of the finest
scholastic musical groups in the
country, was heard with praise in
Whitley Auditorium on the Elon Col
lege campus on Wednesday night,
vpril 8th, when it offered a varied
program of choral music, dances
and variety sketches.
The Choir, which represents the
North Fulton High School in At-
Spotligliting The Ch ristians
Elon Downs
Ciney Squad
The Elon College baseballers, aft
er being shut out for seven long
Innings, broke loose for six runs
in the eighth frame and turned back
the University of Cincinnati Bob
cats 6 to 3 here on March 23rd in
the opening game of the 1964 cam
paign.
Richard Such and Herbie Johnson,
a pair of newcomers to the Elon
mound staff, split the mound duties
for the day, with Johnson getting
credit for the win as he worked
the final four innings. The two Elon
hurlers let the ’Cats down with five
hits and fanned a total of ten men
between them.
The line score:
Cincinnati . 000 300 000—3 5 0
Elon 000 000 060—6 5 1
Smoll, Puts (8) and Burch; Such,
Johnson (6) and Qieek, Newsome
linta, has quite literally gained
worldwide reputation, for the group
has made three European tours and
a tour of Mexico and Guatemala in
recent years, all of them as good
will representatives of the United
States Department of State.
The touring musicians, forty in
number, appeared at Elon under
the direction of Robert S. Lawrence
Jr., who has directed the choral
music program at North Fulton
High School for more than twenty
years, and during that period the
North Fulton Clioir has never re
ceived a rating lower than “Su
perior” in any youth music festival
or contest.
The Atlanta singers received a
“Superior” rating in international
competition at Salzburg, Austria, in
1956. when thty were competing
against forty-six selected youth
choirs from all parts of the globe.
In a imilar international competi
tion in Wales, the North B>jlton
group reduced from forty to twenty-
five members to meet festival re
quirements and then gained fifth
place against thirty-one adult choirs
from all over the world.
The touring musicians from
Georg have a special tie with North
Carolina, since Robert S. Lawrence,
the choir director, is a graduate of
Davidson College. He later did grad
uate work in music at Emory Uni
versity, Columbia University, the
University of (Georgia and Ogle
thorpe University.
Tlio Foiirib Y'*'?”
rnntinurd From I'ap-r
America is not going to the dogs
as many conservative minds like
to think. The college student cannot
help but .see the shortsightedness of
the pre.sent attitudes. This genera
tion will be stronger for the ex
perience of testing the wayward
path and will rise above its shallow
rationalizations and face the reali
ties which contain the essence of
life's just and moral codes.
TTiere will be lingering problems.
There will be many scarred hearts
that have been through the 3gonlz-J
ing experiences of marital failure,
there will be children who will
wander through life, knowing that
their existence was a mistake,
there will be families that are be
cause society forced them into unity
at the end of a shotgun. How dif
ferent is this from the society that
passed through the roaring twen
ties? How different is this from the
full gamut of social trends that
have existed throughout the history
of our society?
West Car»liiia
(Coiitlnaed From Pace Three)
Richard Such, Elon's fine Fresh
man right hander, went the route
again and stnick out thirteen Cata
mount batters as he posted his
fourth victory without a loss In the
early season competition. Such al
low^ eight hits, but he scattered
them well and shut the Cats away
from the plate except for singleton
runs in the first and eighth racks.
R H E
EUon 100 020 000—3 6 1
W Carolina 100 000 010—2 8 4
Such and Cheek; Thorpe. Raleigh
(6) and Smith.
(Continued From Page Three)
good a stick man as a pitcher. Such
has been the leading Elon pinch
hitter. His longest blast has been
a two-run triple against Wilming
ton. Richard also drove in two
against N. V'. U. to aid his own
cau.se.
Carlton Highsmith has also been
hitting well. Had a couple more
hits dropped, he would be around
the .400 mark. Fred Stewart has
displayed awesome power but his
timing has been off. Look for Stew
art to develop into a long ball hit-
♦"'r Inter in th" s"a.son and to keen
his average up to around .300. Other
players have not hit up to potential.
Despite the 9-2 record, the Clirist-
ians have committed more than
their share o' errors, both in the
field and on the basepaths. How
ever. Sanford reports an improve
ment over last year. As for a team
outlook. Coach Sanford has no pre
dictions. He does feel that the
Christians' performance over the
rest of the season and in the tourn
ament will depend on their hustle,
attitude, and alertness.
Golfers Lose Openers
In the feature story last issue on
the golf team we left out the sec
ond paragraph, which consisted of
the player positions, which shows
Bobby West, Billy Harding, (Jordon
Cox, Jim Brown, Sonny Long,
CJiarles Spears, Dan Seals and Dale
Harriman in that order.
TTie double loss to Pfeiffer and
Catawba in the opening meets can
hardly be called upsets, (iach Wike
offers no excuse for the losses. The
Christians simply did not play their
regular game. Coach added that
they did not play at all, or at least
did not seem ready to play.
Bobby West shot an 81 for the
day. Tile next day he shot a 74.
Billy Harding can shot better than
81. (Jordon Cox was sick and started
not to play and probably should not
have played, but still shot 83. Cox
can better that score also. Jim
Brown got out of the hospital two
days before the match and could not
play at all.
With all of these factors, if either
Cox or West had swept their brack
ets, Elon would have won. In the
total strokes department Pfeiffer
had 322. Elon 327. and Catawba 331.
Coach Wike is trying to establish
our five best golfers. In the tourna
ment five golfers will play and the
best four scores will be used. Both
Pfeiffer and Catawba have four good
golfers, but if any of them has a
bad day In the tournament, the
school's chances will be crushed.
Despite the fact that in the last
four years Elon has lost three
matches at Alamance and two of
the three matches were on March
23, Coach Wike stiU rates the golf
team as a conference threat. Wike
feels that the losses did not dis
cou.-age the golf team, rather the
players have accepted its challenge
Netters Are Hopeful
Despite the fact that the Christ
ian tennis team dropped its opener
to High Point, the Elon netters in
that meet equalled their best per
formance of 1962. High Point had
previously played two matches be
fore meeting Elon, and continuous
rains had prevented practice for a
number of days.
It is expected that Elon will win
a fair share of matches this spring,
and if desire and hard work have
anything to do with success, the
team is to be congratulated. Team
members are most optimistic about
their chances and are playing to
win.
Following the modernization of
the college tennis courts last sum
mer, hiterest In tennis has blos
somed to the extent that college of
ficials now rate existing facilities
in adequate.
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