friday, April, 1966
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Christian
Scratch Sheet
By JACK DeVITO
CHRISTIAN VKTI]{i.4N AT SHOT
jn a Februarj' issue of the Ma-
■foon and Gold there was a column
on athletics in the small college.
This article made an attempt to
hrin’ out the shortcomings in many
of the aspects of small college
athletics, but it did not provide any
solution to these shortcomings.
In the following issue of the
psper, on iVIarch 2nd, I made a
•■half-wav decent” (so I am told)
a lempt to defend athletics. As I
expected, the March 16th issue con
tained a reaction to my reaction.
This made good reading and I
enjoyed it. I do not feel that my
first article dealing with athletics
needs any rebuttal, so I will try
to discuss the subsequent rebuttal
to triy article in a manner that
be pleasing even to Socrates,
Item I: The February 18th article
concernipg small college athletics
made four accusations. First, the
author stated that there is too
much em;iha?is on athletics in col
lege. Secondly, the article stated
that m.iny coaches have too much
control over athletes. In the auth
or’s third accusation, he insinu
ated that a coach should not be
able to take an athlete out of
one sport to practice another sport.
Lastly, the article reported than
in many small colleges there is
friction between the athletic com
mittee and the coaches.
Item II: On March 2nd, I ex
pressed my feelings on small col
lege athletics with reference to
the February 18th article. In this
column I discussed the so-called
over-emphasis of athletics in the
small college and the scholarships
connected with this emphasis, the
control of college coaches over
their athletes, the prejudices be
tween professors and athletes, and
some achievements made by
former athletes in fields other than
sports.
Item III: The Maroon and Gold
of March 16th contained a column
that was subtitled “Reaction and
Rationalism”, I had made the
statement in my column that if
Elon had 70 scholarships instead
of 35, it would show an improve-
nient in sports. The author of the
“R and R” column compared this
statement with one of his own. He
said that if everybody had a mil
lion dollars, they could all buy a
Cadillac.
Personally, I do not see any
thing wrong with everybody being
able to afford a Cadillac (I guess
tiie author does not believe in
I'B,J,’s Great Society). He went
on to say that money is more
needed for a science building. Well,
1 guarantee that if everybody had
fine million dollars, there would
be a new science building.
The author of this column next
went on to defend himself on a
matter of which he was not ac
cused of. i.e., he stated that he
never said that any athlete was
stupid or incompetent. All I said
in my column, which he was an
swering, was that there are many
athletes who did well in other
areas aside from sports.
In commenting on coach con-'
trol and professor control, the'
author reaction in a way which
I expected. He said, concerning ^
intellectual control, 'VVould you!
rather be a Socrates for a second'
or an amoeba for an hour?” Even '
though I doubt that these intellec-1
tual giants are in the Socrates \
mold, I will say that an amoeba
accomplishes more vital processes
in one hour than Socrates or any
other human can accomplish in
one day or even one year.
Next, the author asks me why
should the recruiting coach have
“supreme” control over the ath
lete that he has recruited. He asks
whether this is professionalism.
He then asks whether I would
recommend a coach saying ‘‘all
I want my players to do is make
D’s, and the rest of the time is
mine.”
First, I will say that I do not
know of any school that gives the
coach supreme power over his re
author reacted in a way which
doubt it, I would be against it.
As far as the term professionalism
is applied here, I cannot agree. In
small colleges especially, there are
very few benefits an athlete can
receive that would bring about pro
fessionalism.
In reference to his question about
the coaches concern with his ath
letes making only D’s, I think this
is ridiculous. Most athletes who
make only D’s will not be in
school very long, due to failure to
maintain the “C” average, and
an athlete not in school cannot
help his coach very much.
As the author of “R and R” put
it, just for kicks, I did not mention
whether Bill Bradley went to school
on an athletic scholarship. All I
said was that Bill Bradley was
an excellent athlete and an ep
cellent student. Bill Bradley did
help sports, and sports helped Bill
Bradley.
Sport Shorts
. Former Elon All-American
Jesse Branson is being brought up
by the Philadelphia 76-ers for the
National Basketball Association
play-offs. Jesse played five games
with the 76-ers before being sent
down to the Trenton Colonials in
the Eastern Professional Basket
ball League. I hope that Jesse will
get a nopportunity to show his
ability in these play-offs.
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Christiana Are Winners
By 1-0 And 5-1 Scores
WITH 76-KKS
The Fighting Christian nine gave
winning flavor to Elon’s early
diamond campaign when Coach
Jack Sanford's outfit turned back
the Williams College outfit from
Williamstown, Mass,, by scores of
1 to 0 and 5 to 1 in a pair of battles
played on the Elon field on Wed
nesday and Thursday afternoons of
last week.
The Christians used errorless
fielding in grabbing tlieir 1 to 0
win in the first game, while get
ling only a single hit, but the Elon
l)atters came through with ten
safeties to post the more decisive
to 1 win in the second contest
Comar Shields, a veteran shortstop from Blairs, Va., is one of the
key figures in an Elon College infield combination which has proved
cu- 1 j ^ defensive group' in early Christian gamesthisseason.
Shields has been a regular at short for the past two years and
promises to be one of the finest infielders in the Carolinas Conference
this year. He batted .231 last season.
MimR SPORTS
Squad
Showing
Elon Net
Iniprovement This Season
College tennis team
' completely new play-
/s this spring, is showing great
wprovement over the Christian net
witits of recent years, for the
nnstian racket wielders have al-
won more games and more
« in four meets played this
than they have won in any
w season in recent years,
the Christian tennis squad last
>?ar dropped seven straight de-
®ions and managed to win only
, ° individual matches out of
^■nme played. Thus far this
Wg. the Elon netters have not
pag^ a team victory, but they
steady improvement
3 have increased their individ-
niatch victories in each suc-
team match played.
opened the sea-
dropping a 9 to 0 decision
powerful Carolina Fresh-
yearling crew which Is
Kea With stars destined to move
P w a Carolina varsity that has
now won more than twenty straight
victories and has dominated At
lantic Coast Conference tennis for
years.
In the second team match against
the strong Wake Forest varsity
the Christians went down 8 to 1,
with Don Weed and Henri Deschee-
maker grabbing a thrilling doubles
victory in three sets by scores of
6-3, 11-13, 6-3, In that match the
Deacons managed to win only one
set by a 6-0 margin as the Elon
boys won a total of 58 games out
of the nine matches.
Against the N.C. State Fresh-
men, also another powerful year-
ling squad, the Christians went
down 7 to 2, but once more Elon
showed improvement with Mike
Meacham winning his singles
match and joining with Sandy Car-
rington to win a doubles decision.
In this match the Christians won
56 individual games and forced the
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GOLF SCHEDULE
Elon 13, ACC 11.
(Remahiing Meets)
Mar. 28—Guilford, away.
Mar. 31—Pfeiffer, away.
Apr. 4—Pfeiffer, home.
Apr. 6—Wilmington, away.
Apr. 15—Catawba, away.
Apr. 19—High Point, away.
Apr. 21—Appalachian, home.
Apr. 25—High Point, home.
Apr. 28—Catawba, home.
May 3—Appalachian, away.
May 6—Guilford, home.
May 9—Wilmington, home.
May 13—A. C. C., away.
May 16-17 — Conference
Toamament at Boone.
TRACK SCHEDULE
Elon 42, Catawba 92.
(Remaining Meets)
Mar. 30—Wofford and Brevard,
~ away.
Apr. 5—High Point and Guilford,
away.
Apr. 21—Washington and Lee,
away.
Apr. 23—Davidson Relays at
away.
Apr. 26—Catawba, away.
Apr. 2»-CampbelI, away.
Apr. 30—Atlantic Christian,
away.
May 3—Guilford, away.
May 9—NAIA District Meet,
at Wofford,
May 14—Conference Meet
at Boone.
TENNIS SCHEDULE
Elon 0, Carolina Frosh 9.
Elon 1, Wake Forest 8.
Elon 2, State Frosh 7.
Elon 3, ACC 4.
(Remaining Meets)
Mar. 28—Cuilford, away.
Apr. 1—Guilford, home.
4—Appalachian, home.
Apr. 14—Pfeiffer, home.
Apr. 15-Pfeiffer, away.
Apr. 18-UNC (Chapel Hill),
away.
Apr. 23—Fernim, home.
Apr. 25-High Point, away.
Apr. 2^High Point, home,
lyiay 7 —Ferrum, away.
May 13-14—NAIA District, at
High Point.
May 16-17—Conference Meet,
at Boone.
Pembroke Is
Winner Over
Elon S To 0
Herbie Johnson, Elon’s ace south
paw, sent down ten men by the
strikeout route and walked only
four as he went the full route
against the Pembroke Braves here
Saturday afternoon, March 19th, in
Elon’s 1966 diamond opener, but
the Christian senior also had four
wild pitches and they cost him a
5 to 0 loss to the visiting Pembroke
nine.
The Braves got away to a one-
run lead in the first when a walk,
a pair of singles and a wild pitch
cost Elon an unearned run, and
Elwood Baker upped the Pembroke
margin to 2-0 in the second with
a solo homer, but that was the
last score for either team until
the top of the ninth when three
other unearned runs came home
on two wild pitches that combined
with four singles and a walk.
While Johnson was turning back
the Braves in all except three in
nings, the Elon baseballers were
having their troubles at the plate
as they managed only seven scat
tered singles, never more than
one safety in one inning, off the
slants of Wayne Nunn, the visiting
Pembroke ace.
The Christians did have two men
on the sacks in three different in
nings and loaded the bases with
only one away i nthe eighth, but
they were unable to come through
with the needed hits behind the
runners,
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ELON 1, WFLLLAMS 0
The Elon Christians could get
only one hit off the slants of two
Williams College hurlers here on
Wednesday, March 23rd, but the
Christians held the visiting New
Englanders away from the plate
and then used four walks and a
sacrifice to plate a score in the
ninth that gave Elon a 1 to 0 win
in the first of a two-game series.
Lowell Davis and Larry Ashby
'jonibined for a fine one-hit mound
job for the Ephies, but six walks
in the late innings kept the visitors
in a jam, and Ashby gave up four
of those passes in the bottom of
the ninth and allowed a sacrifice
by Ronnie Fitch as Elon counted
the winning marker.
Jack Burtsche and Burgin Beale
paired in a steady pitching per
formance for the Christians, allow
ing the Williams nine only six hits
scattered over six of the nine in
nings. The two Christian mounds-
men combined for eight strikeouts
and allowed only tour scattered
walks.
The Christians turned in an er
rorless job in the field behind the
pitching of Burtsche and Beale,
with the Elon infield contributing
a pair of double plays that cut off
scoring chances for the visitors in
the fourth and sixth racks.
The line score:
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Williams 000 000 OOft-0
Elon 000 000 001—1
Davis, Ashby (6) and Kelley,
Mosher (5); Burtsche, Beale (6)
and Newsome.
WP-Beale. LP-Ashby.
EI,ON 5, WILLIAMS 1
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With Herbie Johnson and Sam
Moon combining in a five-hit
pitching job, the Fighting Christ
ian baseballers turned back the
Williams College Ephies 5 to 1 on
Thursday, March 24th, giving Elon
her second win over the Massa
chusetts outfit.
Johnson, who was warming up
for a scheduled Conference start
against Guilford on Monday, fan
ned an even dozen Williams bai
ters in his seven-inning stint on the
mound, whiffing three of the
Ephies in one inning and striking
out two men in three other racks.
He walked four, but never more
than one in an inning.
The Christian batters, who had
managed only a single safety while
defeating Williams 1 to 0 the day
before, got to two visiting pitchers
for ten hits in this second game,
with Robbie Ellis smacking three
for four and Tom Hauser getting
two for four to pace the Elon at
tack.
The Christians got singleton runs
in both the first and third innings,
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Apps Use Elon Miscucs
To Grah 4 To 3 Battle
The Appalachian Mountaineers
capitalized on untimely errors by
the Elon Christians to grab a 4 to
3 win over the Elon baseballers in
the first Carolinas Conference bat
tle of the Christian season played
on the Elon field last Saturday
afternoon, March 26th,
The Christians had pulled out
front with a solo run in the third
inning when Comar Shields singled,
stole second and scored on an App
miscue; but the Mountaineers went
ahead hy a 2-1 margin with a pair
of counters in the fifth on two
singles, two Elon errors and a
base on balls,
Elon bounced back with another
solo score in the bottom of the
fifth and tied the count at 2-all
when H. L. Robinson walked, stole
second and came home on Marshall
Montgomery’s single, but the
Christions went down in order in
the next two racks and then saw
the Mountaineers plate two runs
in the eighth on a walk, two singles
and another Elon error
There was a tnreat by Elon in
the last of the eighth when Tom
Hauser and Joe Byrtus both singled
after two were out, but the rally
died when the next man was out
in a play on the bases. The final
Elon counter came in the ninth
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Baseball Schedule
Elon 0, Pembroke 5.
Elon 1, Williams 0.
Elon 5, Williams 1.
Elon 4, Campbell 9.
Elon 3, Appalachian 4.
(Remaining Games)
Mar. 28—Guilford, home.
Mar, 29—High Point, away.
Apr. 2—Newberry (DH), home.
Apr. 4—Appalachian, away.
Apr. 5—Pfeiffer, home.
Apr. 11—Wilmington, away.
Apri. 12—Wilmington, away.
Apri. 13—A.C.C., home.
Apr. 15—West Carolina, away.
Apr. 16—West Carolina, away.
Apr. 18—High Point, home.
Apr. 19—Catawba, away.
Apr. 21—Campbell, away.
Apr. 22—Pembroke, away.
Apr. 25—Lenoir Rhyne, away,
Apr. 28—Guilford, away.
Apr. 29—Lenoir Rhyne, home.
May 2—Catawba, home.
May 3—Pfeiffer, away.
May 5—A.C.C., away.
May 7—Presbytcrian(DH),Home.
First Virginia Girls Cagers Grab
Campus Title In WAA Loop Race
The First Virginia basketball
squad, composed of girls living on
the first floor of Virginia Dorm,
grabbed the campus championship
in girls' basketball for the 1966
season ,emerging as winner from
field of six teams that entered
the competition.
The final standings showed the
First Virginia team on top, fol
lowed by the Day Students and
New Dorm girls in a tie for sec
ond, with Pi Kappa Tau fourth.
West Dorm fifth and the combined
Second-Third Virginia squad sixth.
The individual scoring leaders in
the girls’ cage play included Del
Lineberry, of the Day Students;
Brenda Williams, of New Dorm;
Edna Hall, of First Virginia:
Ronda Cecil, of West Dorm; Gail
Summers, of Pi Kappa Tau; San
dra Myatt, of West Dorm; Gladys
Wilson, of New Dorm; Ellen Fritts,
of New Dorm; I>oraine Totten, of
Day Students; Bernice Page, of
Day Students; Betsy Jones, of Pi
Kappa Tau and Mary Coolidge, of
Pi Kappa Tau.
With the girls’ basketball played
off the sch^ule, the girls of the
Women’s Athletic Association will
now turn their attention to two
intercollegiate play days that are
scheduled within the next month,
one of them in tennis at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill on April 16th and the other a
volley ball program at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Greens
boro on April 23rd.
In announcing these two play
days, Mrs, Jeanne Griffin, who
directs the women’s physical edu
cation program at Elon, staled thi;
week that Elon will be represented
by two singles players and one
doubles team at the tennis play
day at Carolina, The Elon All-
Campus Volley ball team will par
ticipate at Greensboro.
Jes.-io Branson, twice an Aii-
•V.ii. ricfln «hi|p playing basketball
,rt F;i(in Collfgr, has just been re-
callfd lo ihc Philadelphia 76-ers
for the post-srasnn play-offs in the
prufcstional National Basketball
loop as Ihc (Quaker City club moved
to fill its active roster for the
titular series. Kranson, who was
dniftrri by (he Philadelphia NBA
outfit after finishing his Klon play
ing days a year ago, was farmed
out for minor-lrague play earlier
this sea.son after playing a few
early-season battles with (he 76-er«.
Errors Cost
Elon Defeat
By Campbell
Erratic fielding and inability to
hit behind the runners proved cost
ly as the Elon Christians dropped
a 9 to 4 decision to the Campbell
College baseball squad here on
Friday, March 25th, with the loss
dropping the Elon nine to an even
2-2 record in wias and losses.
Each team tallied singleton runs
in the first inning, but the visiting
Camels moved ahead with another
solo score in the fourth and then
added three runs on two hits and
three Elon miscues in the top of
the fifth. That rally was enough to
ice the victory for the Camels, but
they later scored once in the
eighth and twice in the ninth,
Paul Amundsen and Perry Wil
liams divided the pitching chores
for ;he Christians and allowed the
Camels only seven hits, but they
gave up eight ba,ses on balls and
.suffered from seven Elon fielding
errors and a balk. The Camels
used four pitchers during the fray,
and they also allowed seven hits
and gave up nine bases on balls,
but they held the Christians away
from the plate in all except three
racks.
Comar Shields and Marshall
Montgomery each hit twice for the
Christians, while Larry Caudle,
Van Wood and Ed Adams each
garnered a pair of safeties for the
winners.
The line score;
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Campbell . 100 131 012—9
Elon _ 100 010 200—4
Curtis, Stevenson (6), Walker (7),
Forehand (9) and Hagar; Amund
sen, Williams (6) and Newsome.
WP—Curtis. LP—Amundsen.
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