Friday, May 9, 1913. THE EL O.N C 0 L L E G.E
WEE.KLY.
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me three times where my hat was and it
was On my head all the time.”
The potato that Claudius intimated was
ingulfed by one of the undersigned was
•dispatched to remove his lid (to see if
there was anything in the kettle under
neath) but, when the potato turned it’s
eyes on Appius Claudius, it dropped thru’
the floor.
While we were discussing this extra
ordinary occurrence, the gent spied some
macaroni and was heard asking Aunt
Mickie how in the world they got all those
holes in the noodles.
A little later on he noticed that our
biscuit plate was empty and, rushing over
to the oven, took out a pan full of bis
cuits with his bare hands. He found it
rather too heavy to hold however, and
the best he could do was to throw pan
and all at the table, showering biscuits
all over the kitchen.
And at that, even Aunt Mickie just
about gave up hopes of making a waiter
•out of the newcomer; so he was put to
dishing out icecream in the far corner.
As might be expected, we soon heard
distress signals from that section, and,
looking over, beheld Claudius with his
head in the freezer. When they got him
loose, he explained that he had seen a bug
in the icecream, and wanted to get a close
look at it. All of us that believed it
stopped eating.
As the last resort, the frail and half-
-yiarved lad was put to washing dishes,
Ibut, in an effort to get a piece of cake,
eased half a dozen plates off the sink on
Aunt Mickie’••^ns, whereupon the lat-
teri^Exasperatea beyend maasure, took
the gentleman by the heels and the nape
the neck, dipped him in the dish water,
;iid turned open the hot faucet.
It evidently didn’t suit l^s whiskers
for a second later tne Elon Ichabod tore
■out the kitchen door and poled across the
ampus in the direction of home. He has
not been seen in the vicinity of the kitch-
•en since. ''
At present his only means of support
is his position as a mascot for the sixth
team at the Orphanage and on occasional
job writing fables for the W^eekly.
The undersigned seldom tell the truth
themselves but when they do turn out a
plain, frank, open, truthful, bonafide like
that above, they feel that it should be be
lieved. I
All this we do hereby certify to be true;
so help us eat.
Beale, Cotten, Heatwolf,
Merritt, Miller, Myrick.
Norfleet, Rainey, Rountree,
BASEBALL AND BASKET BALL
ELECT CAPTAINS.
Strange to say at the meeting of the
men composing these two teams for the
choice of a leader during the next sea
son new men were elected in both cases.
Haller W. Vaughan of Timberville, Va.,
■will lead the quint for next winter and
P. E. Bruce, the fast short stop of this
year’s club whose domicile is at Mars
Hill of this State is to engineer the base
ball mine during the season of 1914.
Both men have made good records on
their respective teams. W'^e remember it
was Vaughan and his fellow countryman
Bradford who showed the outfit here
what it meant to go into a. game fight
ing and maintain that pugnacious spirit
throughout.
Bruce “Is The Guy” who has been gob
bling up every thing around past number*
six and who came near breaking up the
show on several occasions by his heavy
lidtting. Pitchers all look alike to him,
and it is his all-around first class playing
which won him his place. If any new
man deserved the place, Bruce did and we
all feel satisfied over the results of both
choices, a thing that is by no means al
ways true.
MALONE'S PITCHING WINS
YOUTHFUL TVVIRLER PUTS IT OVER WOFFORD
COLLEGE IN A PRF.TTY G.-VME
W’hat proved to be the last full game
of baseball on the home field, at least so
far as the regular schedule was concerned,
was taken by us from the outfit from Spar
tanburg, 2-0. Both clubs put up good
games, and in spite of the total of seven
errors made by both teams, the contest was
far from being ragged or one-sided.
But two hits were gathered from Ma
lone’s assortment while the visiting mounds-
man yielded only four. Whitmire put one
through the box that might liave been han
dled by either Bruce or Poythress which
counted a safety and in the second Still
well lifted one high in the air which any
one of four men might have gathered into
his embrace, but during the preliminary
Alphonse-Gaston business, Newton’s won
derful discovery was having its effect on
the rising sphere and before the bowing
was completed this soaring pill had become
a stationary object just back of second
base, Stillwell was on first, his running
mate on second and the second hit cred
ited to W’offord. But that ended the hit
ting. Fast fielding could easily have given
Malone a no-hit game, but as it happened
’twas not so.
Of the four men that faced “Buck” in
the first three fanned the air. Elon, in
her half, managed to squeeze one in by a
fumble at third. A stolen base by Poy
thress put this one in.
Wofford showed signs of aggressiveness
in the second. After Deshields had gone
out, Bruce to Atkinson, Corunchsel hit one
to Newman which took a bad bound. Stil-
well hits over second. Two on, one down.
Buck decides that to be enough, so he
disposes of Bethea and Osborne in short
order.
Elon annexed another in the fourth by
Bruce’s single, a stolen base, Johnson’s sac
rifice and Atkinson’s fly to deep center.
This ended the run getting, though we
should have counted in the fifth when we
had bases full and one down. It happened
in this way. Finch singled over second.
Malone struck. Joyner puts one just in
side third and Finch goes to second. Poy
thress shoots one through Sims and Finch
attempts to score but is put out on a
close decision. Newman and Bruce are
retired on infield chances, thus ending the
inning.
During the remaining four nothing hap
pened except some of the nicest pitching
and fielding we have seen here this season.
W^offord has a good club, though they are
slightly given to the habit taught us by
the Indians. Nevertheless they are an
agreeable bunch, and we were glad to have
them.
The box score:
Elon AB R H PC A E
Poythress, 2b 4 1 0 1 4 0
Newman 3b 3 0 0 1 1 1
Bruce ss 3 1 1 2 3 1
Johnson If 3 0 1 1 0 0
Atkinson lb 2 0 0 11 0 1
Burrus rf 3 0 0 0 0 1
Finch cf 3 0 1 2 0 0
Malone p 3 0 0 0 1 0
Joyner c 3 0 1 9 2 0
26 2 4 27 11 4
WotTord AB R H PO A E
Sims ss 4 0 0 1 4 2
Whitimire lb 4 0 1 13 0 0
Stockhouse 3b 4 0 0 1 1 1
Hamilton rf 4 0 0 2 0 0
Deshields If 3 0 0 0 0 0
Corunchsel 2b 3 0 0 1 5 0
Stilwell p 3 0 1 0 1 0
Bethea c 3 0 0 6 1 0
Osborne cf 3 0 0 0 0 0
31 0 2 24 12 3
Summary: Earned runs, Elon 1, Wofford
(I. Struck out by Malone 9, by Stilwell 4.
Time 1 hour, 30 minutes. Umpire, Mr.
Horner.
A.V IVORY TOP
The other Wednesday night XIr. Alonzo
T. Ranks and Jlr. C. Titus Rand, two of
the most representative Seniors of Elon
College were oarrjing on a very brilliant
conversation, the main tojnc of which was.
“Why didn’t we get on for commencement?”
They talked for a while about what an
honor it was to get on and also said much
about their resret at not receiving the
honor. All at once Hanks’ face brightened
as he said, "Say. 'Tite,' if the faculty will
not give us any wa.v to show our trxie
wortli, we Clin show what is in us ourselves.
Now you know the First Team is off get
ting beat, but why i-an’t we take the Sec
ond Team down to Hurlington, contitute
ourselves the batteries, beat the high school
preps and cover ourselves with glory?”
‘■That's the very thing,” responded the im
mortal ‘Tite,’ ‘‘we'll show the faculty how
Itard it is to down a working man.”
This being agreed upon, they both rose
early Thursday morning and phoned to
Burlington to see if they could get a game
with the “preps.” Fiiuilly after much quib
bling about the financial end of tiie ciues-
tion the game was arranged and “Banks
& Uand” at once set about getting a team
together. JIany of the boys refused to go
but they finally mustered a team composed
of Rand, Banks, (of coiu’se they come
first). Ankles Bradford, Ezekiel Fulghum,
Pretty Red Barks, Cutey Moore, Tuckus
Watson, Red Sox Sessoms, and they also
carried along William Jefferson Cotton for
a substitute.
Rand was on the firing line for the
“collegians” and Meador operated the big
gun for the “preps." Rand pitched a
great game, but thirty-seven hits being
made off his most artistic, superfluous de
livery. The whole team was behind him
with perfect support and it certainly was
hard luck to lose the game that seemed
to be. going our way so much. One of the
main features of the game w'as that we
found a new Elon star. Mr. Willie Cotton
was substituted for Bj'adford in the sec
ond and when the first team comes back
we think Coach will certainly show his
ignorance if he does not put Willie on first
base in the rest of the match games. He
played the classiest first base that has ever
been seen on the Burlington diamond or
on any other diamond for that matter. He
also knocked one home run, but since he
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lust the bail tSurlingtuu would uut let it
count and he had to go and bat over. Thin
time he did not hit tor hut three bases.
Burlington was Invincible in the held,
but Lheir work at the bat was weak as will
be seen by a leiereuce to the nuiuDer o£
hits tney made. 'j.he score, ,or as much of
it as tne scoremau gut uown, was 19 to 0
in lavor of tuo "preps." i.he game was
very close ail ihe way tnrough and at any
time it seemed tuat ii.iou was going to make
a rally and win. The toilotting is the scure
oy innings:
RUE
Elon U OOOOOOOO 0 129
Burlingtun 1 2332134X 19 37 0
Home Runs: Burlington 8.
a-Base Hits; Burlington J, Elon 1 by
Willie Cotton.
:^-Base Hits; Burlington 11.
Star Blays; Willie Cotton 2ii.
Xe.xt game to be played July 4.
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