PAGE FOUR 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- K)l KLM; CIIOIK FKOM ATLANTA IIICH S CIIOOL APPEARS IN CAMPLS CONCERT 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. •OTTIEO UNMS AUTHORITY Of THE COCA-COLA COMPAlifY «Y URLINGTON tOCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPaN*' ) J953, THE COCA COIA COMPANY

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