PAGE 8...C0MPASS...APRIL - MAY, 1972
SPORTS WORLD
ECSU FRATERNITIES GET IN
THE SWING O F UNITY WITH
SOFTBALL ACTION
With all the talk about
the lack of unity among
Greeks, the fraternities
are trying to prove these
accusations false. Fra
ternities are getting to
gether practically every
day (when the weather
permits) to prove that
softball is the springtime
thing.
The four-thirty game
has become so popular
that softball fans auto
matically gather at that
time. The Maintenance
Department has provided
a backfence and the field
is finally beginning to
look like a softball field.
In fact, the game is be
coming so popular that
two games a day are being
scheduled. The first game
before dinner and the sec
ond afterwards. The af
ter-dinner game is per
haps the most popular
however because most
fans have finished their
classes and dinner by the
time the game starts.
With so much emphasis
on Football, Basketball,
wrestling, track and ten
nis; it is the overwhelm
ing opinion of the students
that softball and baseball
are two welcomed sports
at Elizabeth City State
University.
The set-up is unique
because whether your
team loses or wins they
continue to play the
games. This is the main
part of developing good
sportsman - like conduct.
It is true that it appears
that the softbaU game is
being dominated by fra
ternities, because most
of the male students be
long to fraternities. This
is favored because a good
hard game always bring
out the best in man. The
awareness of the lack of
unity and communication
among fraternities is
prevalent and if it's go
ing to take softball to
bring them together by
all means let’s PLAY
BALL”.
However brothers for
get tbat frat "jive”when
they’re on the field -
out there it is strictly
ball playing and winning.
But there appears to be
a genuine interest in the
game this semester. Per
haps there is more posi
tive thinking along those
lines of trying to start
a softball or baseball
team on a more competi
tive basis. At present
most of the men who are
participating are also
playing some other sport,
however the number of
others is also exceed
ingly great. PeilTkps next
year this time. Softball
will really be competi
tive instead of intramur
al.
Croquet Becomes A Favorite Passtime
Croquet at Elizabeth
City State University has
become more than the An
glo-Saxon MLddle Class
game in which players
drive wooden balls with
mallets through a series
of wickets set out on a
lawn. One of the older
sports, croquet has be
come a favorite pass time
for many of the physical
education majors and
others. The lawn in front
of Butler Hall is the set
ting. The game has at
tracted other individuals
who desire to learn this
game that so much re
sembles the act of ‘‘put
ting” in golf. While it is
not the most vigorating
game in sports it is in
teresting to play and to
watch.
THE FOLLOWING IS A FAREWELL
FROM THE COMPASS S TAFF
MESSAGE TO ALL SENIORS
1971-72
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