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MAROON AND GOLD
Friday, March u, ijy
MID THIS/
SI’KAKS IIKKK
£3:
Branson’s Nunilier 40 Is I honoks for bkAxN^n
(KDITOR S NOTK: Dr. Uanlcley
had brrn Klatrd to Chrow out thr
fimt ball to Inaugurate Felon's 1965
homr batM-ball sranon, but hr was
ralird away from the campus on
that date and mliH-d the chanre
to Nhow hlM pitchini; prowrsii, but
the follow Ing rolumn trllH of his
baiting nkill.)
The round man in the I’resldi-nt's
office, you may suspect, is les- tha,.
a baseball star.
Well, just don't underestimate th
scope of one J. Earl Danieley, wh
had planned to toss out the first
baseball to open Elon College’s cur
rent l'J65 season.
In old Earl's undergraduate days,
he could smite with the hat. a-
witness his greatest hour as related
vebatim by one of my modest as
sociates. Ed “Muley" Mulford, who
left his mark in a number of ways
at our school alon^ about 194.5: —
or "Muley" tells the story from
here —
‘‘1 had attended Blue Ridge Col
lege before the war and had quite
a bit of success in ba.seball  never
duplicated at Elon and my excuse
was campus politics). Then came Revolution.”
K.ANKIN
IILGII
Retired From Cage Use
Uruikin (;E!L‘St
As l^i Gamnia
M’j ! e: l::;*cr
Dr. Hugh F. Rankin, professor of
history at Tulane University, who
has gained wide recognition as th'
author of numerous books and histor-
L-al urtlclos. delivered th.' .^ll.^uaI
Pi Gamma Mu Lecture in Mooney
h ipcl Th’atre on the Elon campu;
list night. His topic was "Yankei
Doodle, The Soldier of the American
the war, ta-daa! I spent a couple
of years in the service and the fac
that I could throw a softball very
hard may have saved my life. E ■
ery time my outfit was due to g'
overseas. I'd find myself transfer
red to another stateside outfit th'
had a 'hot' softball team. I spent
most of my time in Florida T len
struck out when a gun blew up in
Key West and I got a perforated
ear drum, so this gets me an honor
able discharge in October 1944. Well,
they are hard up for somelxxly t
run the YMCA at home in Port
Che.ster, N. Y.. so for six months I
run the joint and get in wonderful
shape.
"So a buddy of mine telLs me we
are crazy not to take advantage of
the G. I. Bill and we write Georg
Colclough at Ellon, who was trying
to find students at the time. We
got his name from some guy who
said they had a good sporting pro
gram there before the war
“Comes the spring and we are
enrolled. There were enough stu
dents at Elon to form a three-team
league. Earl played with the day
students and I was on the dorm
team. Now, although I had been a
hot-shot pitcher for several years,
one thing jinxed me. I had never
thrown a no-hitter. I kept coming
close and had a dozen one-hitters
and about as many two-hitters, but
I couldn't get that perfect game.
"We played the day students ajjd
I came closer than ever before. We
had a lead, oh. it must have been
7-0. or something like that (I was
always hitting home runs), and In
the bottom of the last inning, I had
a shutout and more — no one had
walked and no one had gotten a hit
"I whiff the first two guys and
up comes E^rl Danieley, looking
over his glas.ses and tummy. I throw
him a fast ball and he doe.sn't even
blink. Strike Onel
"Then I decide to fool him and
throw him a change-up. He swings
and fouls it off and now I'm scared
So thit makes up my mind for me
I won't mess around with this big
g»j. I to.ss him a fast-rise ball, the
fastest thing I've got since my con
trol is always perfect and I prepare
to walk off the mound with my no-
hitter at last
"Earl doesn't blink at my rising
blazer, either. Instead, he steps into
it before it shoots up. He swings
and there is a crack. Tlie ball zips
by my Romanesque nose and over
my de\inely curly blonde locks into
the outfield. My buddy out there
takes a step in. stops as he sees
the ball climbing and It was gone,
gone, gone along with my no hitter.
"As far as I know, the ball is
still traveling.”
WIspa of Wisdom
The worst trouble with tne future
U that it .vems to get here quicker
than it u.sed to.
It often shows a fine command of
the language to say nothing.
Higher education, as any parent
This lecture by Dr. Rankin wa^
the sixth in the series of annual
lecture programs, sponsored each
year on the Elon campus by the
■;lon Collc 'e chapter of Pi Gamm
'.!u. which is a national social sei
ne ' honorary organization. The
guest lecturer last year was Dr.
lichard Watson, of Duke University,
and the one for the previous year
was Dr. William P. Cummings, of
)avid.son College.
The annual sponsorship of these
lectures is one of s[)ecial feature'
of the Pi Gamma Mu program at
Sion, designed to promote interest
in the social sciences. TTie society
nembership on the campus is com-
Hjsed of outstanding students and
acuity members in the field »f his-
ory and sciial science.
Dr. Rankin, born in Arlington, Va.,
s a graduate of Elon College and
iter attended graduate school at
he University of North Carolina as
■lohn Motley Morehead scholar,
• eceiving the M. A. in 1952 and the
h. D. degree in 1959. He was as-
>':ated with Colonial Williamsburg
s research associate prior to going
0 his present teaching post at Tu
lane.
The guest lecturer is recognized
s an outstanding authority on the
\merican Revolution and on various
'.'Cts of the American Colonial
Period. He is a member of the
vmerican Historical Association, the
(rroiip
(Continued From Page One)
he Book Store reopens. 4i The
Elon College fiook Store should em
)loy more student help during times
hen business is greatest to help
urchasing students to locate books
liid supplies. (5) We recommend a
ojter cooperation between the
■'Ion College Book Store and the
'uJent Government Association. (6i
•Ve recommend that the College pol
icy be amended to allow the Stu-
lent Government Association to sell
■Tt no profit, banners and penunts in
order to make them more readily
accessible to anyone. (71 We strong
ly recommend the inception of a
suggestion box in the Book Store in
order that the Book Store might
onsider the suggestions of concern
ed students and thereby increase the
el of its scrvic*."
In concluding their report, the
luthors state that "it is hoped that
the fruits of this study will result in
more efficient, effective, and gra
cious service on the part of the Book
Store, resulting in a greater volume
f student trade and ultimately re
ilting in a greater degree of profit
by the College.”
Maroon Eh'voii
To|)s(;ohl !‘)-U
The Maroon Marauders turned
back the Ciold Nuggets by a 19 to
14 count in the annual Maroon-
Gold grid game played on Mon
day afternoon as the concluding
feature of the Christian winter-
foofhall drills.
Oary Jordan swept over for
two TD’s for the .Maroons, and
H. Ij. Robinson slipped over for
the other, with Bobby Ferrell
booting the good point. Ron For-
esta and Alex Burnette scored
the touchdowns for the Golds,
'vith Gary Karriker kicking the
two points.
‘Siriiias' Win
(Continued /rom Page Tl'ee)
The faculty game produced a fine
individual battle between "Billy The
Kid" Miller and "Man-on-Man" Mat
tocks, with Mattocks caging 24 points
10 ^dge Miller with 23 counters
"Whizzer" White had 19 points to
join with Miller ia leading the
"Cons" to their victory.
The two-game final program was
staged under the sponsorship of the
Physical Education Majors Club,
which arranged the faculty battle
as a prelim for the finals of th.
intramural title race.
Line-ups for the Intramural tiU
follow:
;’os. .Sigmas (70) Phis (49)
F—Bray (8) Hay (16)
F—Gozjack (22) Crabtree (4)
C-Jarvis (5) Dawson (5)
G—Stewart Kelley 131
G-Franks Shields (5)
Half-time: Sigmas 34, Phis 22.
Sigma subs — H. Johnson 6. Phi
subs — Pruette 6, Ciamello, Broad-
away, C. Johnson.
The Number 40 jersey which Jesse
Branson, Elon’s NALA All-American
' scoring star wore during four years
of brilliant play with the Elon Col-
! legt cage squad, has been retired
1 and will in the future have a place
> in Elon’s trophy case along with
; other Christian sports mementoes o
I the past.
The formal ceremony retirinc
I Branson’s home jersey from further
' competition was held in a specia'
chapel conrocation in Whitley Memo
rial Auditorium on Monday morning
March 1.5th, with Fred Stephenson
of Greenville, R. I., president of
Elon’s Student Government Associa
tion, presiding over the gathering.
Stephenson read a resolution pass
ed by the Student Senate, whicl
recommended the retirement of th -
jersey as a tribute to Branson, who
became Elon’s first basketball All
American. Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon’^
president, announced approval of
the retirement by the Faculty Ath
letic aimmittee and stated that th ■
jersey will be placed in a trophy
case in the new student center,
soon to be erected on the Elon
campus.
Branson himself was called to the
stage, and he was given a standing
ovation by the Elon student body
and faculty for his record, which
ended with the smashing of seven
teen of Elon's all-time basketball
records and the tying of another.
Branson has just added All-State
honors to the previous All-Confer
ence and All-District honors accord
ed him this year, and he is rateJ
an excellent chance of repeating
the All-American honor that he won
last year.
The retirement of Branson’s Num
ber 40 home jersey is the first such
instance in Elon basketball history,
but two years ago the student body
and sports authorities voted to retire
the football jersey of Willie Tart,
NAIA All-American halfback, from
further competition.
^; .'-'4
Ur. A. L. Ilook, veteran Elon faculty member and long-time
chairm iu of Elon’s laculty athletic committee, is pictured left atove
with J',,.' j;an.',on, Elon’s towering All-American basketball star. They
holJ I’son’s Niim’oor 40 jersey, which has been retired from further
Elon c>'.!3 ’.'by in tribute to Branson's fine record as a Christian player.
Meet Baseball Players
mJ
Elon Golf Team
Southern Hi.storical Association, th
Mississippi Valley Historical Associ
ation and the Conference on British
Studies.
•Among his outstanding books, some
of them done jointly with other writ
ers, have been "Rebels and Red
coats," "North Carolina in the Amer
ican Revolution,” ‘"Hie Pirates of
Colonial North Carolina,” "Upheaval
in Albemarle,” “The Theater in.
Colonial America.” He has also writ
ten numerous- articles for profes
sional magazines.
Special honors accorded him for
his historical work have been tk'
R. D. W. Connor prize twice for
the best historical article in The
North Carolina Historical Review,
along with no less than three grad
uate fellowships in his chosen field,
including awards by both the More-
hgad and Guggenheim Foundations.
On ISookistOR'
Capsule Comments
the discovery of 'Ijstic. it
t ' mated that women take up
ne-third leas spaos.
Maybe hard work never killed
I person, but you never heard of
anyone restiog to death, either.
Drama Foslival
(Continued From I’age One)
morning and with five other plays
in two units, one at 2 and the other
at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Th?
plays were followed by an open dis
cussion session at 6 o’clock in which
the judges, faculty directors and the
youthful actors themselves took part.
The plays presented included "The
Audition Is Over,” by Williams High
School, Burlington; “The Zoo Story,"
by the Elon Players, of Elon Col-
legt; "Golden Slippers,” by Smith
High School, Greensboro: “The Brick
and ’ITie Rose,” by Wilkes Central
High School. Wilkesboro; “What’s
Wrong With the Girls,” by Smith
High School. Greensboro: “Men
Folk,” by Pittsboro High School,
Pittsboro: ’'Sorry. Wrong Number,’’
by Thomasville Senior High, Thomas-
Spotliilitin*r
(Continued From Page Three)
a match in over seven years
Throu,'’hout the season, little in thr
way of formal practice is conducted
It is held that the recently reno
vated tennis courts serve one-thirc’
the needs of a college this size.
If intercollegiate athletics is im
portant part of the liberal arts edu
cation, as the tumult and the shout
ing over the two championships ir
mijor sports seems to indicate,
then clearly Elon College must bal
ance its program of intercollegiate
competition to boost these spring
sports.
But more important, the athletic
program needs to be set up to bene
fit more students. ’ITie sports of th'
future will be those sports which
can be enjoyed by the individual
through active participation for th
duration of a lifetime. Included an
the so-called minor sports: swim
ming, tennis, and golf. The popu
larity of baseball is already declin
ing, and it is highly likely tha’
football and basketball are reaching
their peak at the present time.
Participation in the program o
athletics at Elon is not as great as
we would like to theorize. Many
students will not attend intercollegi
ate sports events, and many of those
who do will not cheer.
Too few students use sports fa
cilities of the college. It might be
added that many schools require up
to four years of physical ed, and
Elon College, if it desires to pro
vide the best possible liberal arts
education, has a very definite need
to offer adequate athletic facilitie.s
to meet the needs of the time.
(Continued P'rom Pa^e Tlire" ■
DEMPSEY HERRING: This fresh
man infielder hails from Whiteville
He is 19 years old, is 5-10 tall and i\ i" , . , | I* _
weighs 165 pounds. Bats left and inClianS
throws right.
ROBEIRT ELLIS: Another first-
year infielder. Ellis hails from
Marion. S. C. He is 18 years old,
stands 5-10 tall and weighs 182
pounds. He bats and throws right
MORE MORE MORE MO Mumber One, was medalist for the
RONNIE TUGWELL: Also a fresh- -,u nn » k*
. . , J winners with a 77 count, but man
man and an infielder, Tugwell haiF
ville: and "To Burn A Witch” b-
Northwest High School. Guilford
County. '
Track !\Ieet
(Continued From Page Three)
220 LOW HURDLES: Ingram (C),
Gray (C), MacDonald (E). TIME:
20.2 secs.
HIGH JUMP: Tie for first by
Frank (E) and Groat C'. third
O’Brecht (E). HEIGHT: 5 feet, 2
inches.
SHOT: Ferrell (E), McLellan (C),
WiLson (E). DISTANCE: 45 (eet, 9
inches. (NEW ELON RECORD).
DISCUS: Seckel (C), Mann (E),
Landreth (C>. DISTANCE: 120 feet
8 inches.
JAVELIN: Seckel (C), Owilder (C).
Williams lE). DISTANCE: 195 fee
4 inches.
MILE REILAY: Elon (Olipbant,
Gregory, Pruitt, Frank). TIME: 3
mins. 38.6 secs.
Other Elon players were Robbie
Pate, who lost a 3'^ toH decision
Brown,
Three;
who tied 2-2
and Whitey Murray,
blanked his Number Four man
a 4-0 count.
from Arlington, Va. He ii 19 years aged only a 2-2 tie with his opponent
old, is 5-9 tall and weighs 170
pounds. He bats and throws right
WILUAM GREEN: Green, still
another freshman infielder, come'
from Wilmington, Del. He is 18 years
old, is 5-9 tall and weighs 155 pounds.
He bats and throws right.
WILLIAM TURNER: also a fresh
man infield candidate, Turner hails
from Draper. He is 21 years old
stands 5-5 tall and weighs 150 pounds
He bats and throws right.
DAVE OLIPHANT: Oliphant, who
comes from Mooresville, is another
first year infielder. He is 19 year,'
old, stands 5-10 in height and weighs
160 pounds. He bats and throws
right.
OUTFIELDERS
CARROLL MONGEai: A senior
letterman outfielder. Monger hails
from Elkton, Va. He is 21 years old
stands 5-9 in height and weighs 16"
pounds. He bats and throws right
CARLTON HIGHSMITH: A junio:
and a letterman outfielder with tw-i
seasons as a starter, Highsmith
comes from New York City. He^i
22 years old, stands 5-11 tall and
weighs 170 pounds. He bats left and
throws right.
FRED STEWART: An experienced
performer but not a letterman, Stew
art is a junior from Charlotte. He
is 23 years old, stands 6-2 in height
and weighs 220 pounds. He bats and
throws right.
OWEN SHIELDS: This senior out
fielder, making his first bid for an
Elon berth, hails from Blairs, Va.
He is 22 years old, stands 5-10 in
height and weighs 165 pounds. He
bats and throws right
WALTER BURKE: A freshman
who was a reserve in football, Burke
hails from Arlington, Va. He is 18
years old, stands 5-9 taU and weighs
165 pounds. He bats and throws
right.
STANLEY COCKE: Also a fresh
man outfielder, Cocke hails from
Gretna, Va. He is 18 years old is
Miy M in height and weighs only
135. He bats and throws left
RON FORESTA: Having already
won his letter as a halfback in
football, Foresta bids for a second
sport in his freshman year. He is
19 years old, stands 5-9 tall and
weighs 170 pounds. He bats and
;hrows right.
The Elon College golfers turned
ack the Catawba linksmen in a
ir hnn' Conference meet at Salis-
iiry l ist r'-itky, M'ir.h ;-il' by a’
'2 to 7'j count. Bobby West, Elon's
Sigma Mu Host
At Open House
Sigma Iviu Sigma’s spring pledge
class was introduced last Sunday
at an Open House to celebrate
the fraternity’s fifteenth annivpr-
sary on the Elon College campus.
The chapter was formed on
March 21, 1950, as a chapter of
Sigma Alpha Chi under Dr. Wi|.
Ham Moseley Brown. In 1952 Sig.
ma Alpha Chi and Sigma Mu Sig.
ma merged, taking the latter’s
name, with the Elon Chapter tak
ing the name of Lambda Chap
ter.
The eleven new pledges are F.ei
Bright, Burlington; Marcus Brad-
sher, Roxboro; Butch Cocke, Win-
Chester; Larry Crouch, Thomas
ville; Bob Doolittle, Kinston; Bill
Frank, Wilmington, Del.; Dale
Harrison, Deer Park, N. Y.; Skip
Hinshaw, Burlington; Jimmy Luns
ford, Winston-Salem; Tom Payne,
Arlington, Va.; and Alan Willard,
Chester, Vt.
New Pledges
o
(Continued From Page One)
Carol Reynolds, Elon College; Beth
Rountree, Hobbsville; and Betty Tal
ley, South Boston, Va.
DELTA UPSILON KAPPA-Mary
■Andrews, Sanford; Jeanne Fiorito,
Greensboro; Barbara Ippolito, Bur
lington; Ann Lamberth, ReidsviUe;
Carol Popowski, Sayreville, N. J.;
?.nd Shelia Westbrook, Burlington.
PI KAPPA TAU - Betsy Dear-
born, Salisbury; Mary Faust, Salis
bury; Nancy Hilliard, Graham;
Flora Hovis, Boone; Susan Jager,
Pawtucket, R. I.; Betsy Jones, Dur
ham; Sally Maurer, Norwich, Conn.;
Elizabeth Powell, Fuquay Springs;
Gina Prescott, Arlington, Va.; Sand
ra Williams, Newport News, Va.;
and Sandra Winter, Miami, Fla.
TAU ZETA PHI — Rita Apple,
Burlington; Sharon Branch, West
Palm Beach, Fla.; Francine Gif
ford, Norfolk, Va.; Sherrie Hepburn,
Southwick, Vass.: Sheila Hughes,
Norfolk, Va.; Jane Mclver, Burling
ton; and Eleanor Zesso, Hartford
Conn,
Spring Election
(Continued From Page One)
It, .uoi. a u Ti lu i The above list shows more unop-
the Number Two match; Jimmy Posed candidates for class officers
Number
years. All persons elected in next
Thursday’s final election will be
inaugurated at a special Student
Body Assembly on May 3rd.
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