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MAROON AND GOLD
March 31, 1922
Sparoon anU C5oltj
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Collegiate Press Association
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ELON COLLEGE
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Now we know how an ex-Pres-
ident feels on the day his succes
sor is inaugurated.
Wonder who would kick if Ma
roon and Gold got in a fight with
The Christian Sun?
You needn’t worry. So much of
the new staff is the same as the
old that we are afraid the paper
will be just as bad as ever.
The songs f)f rejoicing which
we had planned to sing when it
came our time to quit have van
ished from our minds. We feel
sad.
If the ministerial students can
argue as well for the Kingdom of
God as they did for the treaty-
making power—then, we predict
a successful and hapjiv life for
them.
1 he new board fence (partly)
around the athletic field is a valu
able addition. The boys are to
be commended for their work on
it. That is the kind of college
loyalty that counts.
We spoke our minds about you,
Hal Clark. But we must confess
that when we see the two, three,
and four-sackers flow from your
bat, it gives us an inclination to
take it all back. Hooray for Chat-
em, anyhow!
Before replying to the sweeping
remarks in this week’s issue of the
Christian Sun about the Greek
letter social clubs at Elon, we are
going to let Editor Riddle get
some more information on the
subject. W'e don’t see how any
one could possibly know so little
about anything . And, you know,
it would be taking an unfair ad
vantage for us to start our debate
until our opponent had some ma
terial for his side.
What we particularly resent is
that the tirade in The Christian
Sun places Maroon and Gold in
a position such that people out
side may infer that we are too
yellow to fight the evil influences
that are alleged to be fast under
mining Elon. Rest assured.
Brother Editor, that if your alle
gations were true, we would have
taken up the gauge of battle long
ago-
We are proud of our debaters,
who won decisions in both de
bates; but we are not proud of
the way they are treated. The
only recognition we have been
able to perceive is a few individu
al commendations. Yet we yell
ourselves hoarse, and a meal may
be interrupted in the dining hall
to give the time-worn “fifteen
rahs” for an athletic team-—sev
eral members of which perhaps
are dismissed for their failure to
pass work. We are heartily in
favor of backing our athletic
teams—we believe in athletics—
but we do think it is time for us
to begin to appreciate in at least
a small degree intellectual attain
ments, for that is really the pur
pose we have, or should have, in
coming to college.
"AIN'T WE GOT FUN?”
Wednesday night’s doings made
us feel that, after all, it wasn’t
so bad to be a journalist. It is
good now and then to have some
one like Mrs. Rainey .the spon
sor of Maroon and Gold, to really
have a cheer-up meeting'.
We are sure that it couldn’t
have been done better anywhere.
All the eats and all the decora
tions were Maroon and Gold just
like our little old paper and our
college, and it made us feel a lot
at home. The contests, too, how
homelike they were! And say,
didn’t we have a time writing up
the wedding of Bow-Legs White !
We wonder if Mrs. Sturm and
Joe didn’t frame up on that joke.
They must have, or Joe would
never have spoken up as he did
just at the proper time .
Mrs. Rainey, we want to thank
you in our columns for the de-
lig'htful evening. friend like
you is hard to find when a college
journalist starts hunting. While
we live and write, we will remem
ber that uniquely planned ban
quet with all of its fun and good
will.
Sion and All the Gang.
RETROSPECTIVE
In looking back over our suc
cesses, if we have had any, the re
tiring staff of Maroon and Gold
wish here publicly to express our
gratitude to those who have in
any way contributed to these suc
cesses.
We are exceedingly obliged to
our advertisers, for after all is
said and done, we know that it
would have been impossible for
us to bring out the paper with
out them. While we feel that
those who have advertised W'ith
us were gainers from a purely
business standpoint, yet this fact
does not diminish our apprecia
tion for the generous patronage
which we received.
We want to let it be known here
and now that the Burlington
Printing Company, which did the
printing of the paper, is without
doubt the most efficient, consci
entious, and patient concern of its
kind that we have done business
with. At all times they have been
ready to help and to co-operate.
From Editor Riddle, of The Sun,
to the printers’ devil, there was
always extended the helping hand.
For a real news nose, Mr. C. M,
Cannon cannot be beaten. He
rooted out everything around here
that looked like news, and he let
us have it written in fine style.
Professor Gotten, the faculty
adviser, has been indeed an ad
viser. Never once has he turned
his advisory capacity into a cen
sorship. For this we are very
thankful. Otherwise discourage
ment would have captured and
destroyed our enthusiasm some
where near the beginning.
These and other things have
helped us to carry out our purpose
of presenting the news of the col
lege in the most attractive way
possible. Thanks to everybody !
Merci bien !
DEPARTED WITHOUT
SYMPATHY
At last it seems that the stu
dents of Elon have arrived at a
point in their upward progress
where they will no longer tolerate
the ingratitude of a bunch of la/y
athletes. That is what we have
needed for a long time. It appears
that we have turned over a new
leaf, and will no longer (as the
saying is) allow athletes “to get
away w'ith murder.”
In the past when someone was
debarred from a team student sen
timent was so much in his favor
that by petitions, or some “hook
of a crook,” he w'ould eventually
be reinstated. But the bigoted
athlete who loafs on his job and
fails to make a grade, thus mak
ing him ineligible for the team,
has at last lost his foothold, and
student sympathy for him is fail
ing fast. Five men not long since
received notice that for failure to
make a grade their services were
no longer needed on the 1922
baseball team. The sympathy
we used to hear for such men has
turned to wrath. We are glad
that this is so. It speaks well for
Elon.
Now, this paper believes in ath
letics. No one admires a worthy
athlete more than we do, and no
one gives the team any more
whole-hearted backing than we
do. But we most certainly do not
believe in the athlete Who w'ill
lie down on his job and flunk most
of his subjects just because he
thinks his position on the team is
so essential to the welfare of the
college that he w’ill be allowed to
play anyway. The students back
such a man on the athletic field
to the limit of their resources,
and for him to spit in the face of
such support as he does when he
has himself kicked from the team
is nothing short of treason to his
teammates and to his fellow stu
dents.
We have not heard a word of
sympathy for the lost baseball
players, and we hope we shall not
hear any. If these fellows have
the making of real men in them,
they will spruce up and regain
their lost place in the respect and
affection of Elon students. If
they are no good at all, they will
quit entirely, and we shall let
them go w’ithout any regrets.
ELON WINS IN FORENSIC
BATTLE WITH GUILFORD
(Continued from page 1)
R. S. 'Helms, speaking first, (Jeclaretl
that the Senate lias been a burying
ground for many good treaties, citing a
number of instances wliere treaties liave
died in the Senate to the hurt of other
nations as well as our own.
S. G. Hodgin, first speaker for the
negative, pictured the advantages of
open discussion in the Senate.
H. Lee Scott, continuing Elon’s argu
ment, took up the League of Nations
treaty and its defeat upon purely party
lines, and said that the transferring of
the treaty-making power would elimi
nate politics from international treaties.
J. S. Taylor, Jr., concluding the ar
gument for the negative, contended that
the government would become a des
potism should this power be granted
the Executive Department.
The judges for this occasion, who de
cided the question affirmatively upon
the merits of the argument, were Rey.
W. R. Peter, D. D., Burlington, N. C.;
Rev. E. N. Caldwell, Graham, N. C., and
Hon. D. J. Walker, Burlington, N. C.
Professor Paul S. Kennett, of the
faculty here, acted as president for the
debate, and W. J. Gotten and William
Wolff as tirae-keepers.
The negative team representing Elon
debated at Guilford on the same night
that the affirmative team debated at
home. This team was composed of R. O.
Smith and W. T. Scott. The decision
committee rendered a two-to-one decis
ion in favor of Elon. These young men
offered strong argument, especially in
the rebuttal.
PSIPHELIAN GIRLS CLAIM
VARIETY IS SPICE OF LIFE
(Continued froni page 1)
The last number was a humorous
reading given by Mrs. Rainey entitled,
“What William Henry Did.”
Misses Goff, Cardwell, Kirkland and
Mrs. Rainey received special mention
from the judges.
ERSKINE AND FURMAN GO
DOWN BEFORE ELON NINE
(Continued from page 1)
By a bunt-and-vun offensive the visi
tors sewed up the game in the eighth
frame bv tallying fw their fourth time.
The wet condition of the ground
made the fielding of both teams show^
up poor, and slowed up the game, though
•Tt no period lid it lack in interest.
The outstanding hurling by Jones, of
Lenoir, was the only feature of the
game, having 15 strikeouts to his credit.
Score by innings: R.
Lenoir . . 000 .100 010—I
Elon 000 200 100—3
Batteries: Lenoir—Jones and Deaton,
Elon—Luke, Barker and Underwood.
Two-base hits: Rudisill, Marlette. Um
pire, Johnson.
The box score:
Elon
AB
R
H
PO
A
E
Xewnian, 3b .
. . 3
0
0
0
2
1
Stoner, 2b ....
4
1
0
1
1
1
Brovvr), rf. . . .
4
0
0
1
0
0
Marlette, ss. ..
4
1
1
0
3
0
Allston, cf. . .
4
1
1
2
0
0
Underwood, e.
3
0
0
6
0
1
Cheek, lb. ...
O'
1
12
1
0
Smith, If
3
0
0
2
0
0
Luke, p
1
0
0
0
4
1
Barker, p. ...
2
0
0
1
3
0
Lenoir
AB
R
H
PO
A
E
Rudisill, 3b. ..
4
0
0
0
1
1
Seitz, cf
3
0
1
1
0
0
Boggs, ss. , ,
4
0
0
0
3
0
Deaton, c. ...
2
1
0
15
1
0
Hawn. 2b. ...
4
0
1
1
2
1
C. Gilbert, If.
3
1
1
2
0
0
Boger, lb. , ..
3
1
1
8
0
0
E. Gilbert, rf.
3
1
1
0
0
0
Jones, p
4
0
0
0
1
0
Earned rims.
Elon 1.
stolen bases,
Allston 2. Two-base hits, Rudisill and
Marlette. Struck out by Jones 1.5, T-juke
1, Barker 2. Bases on balls, off Luke
1, off Barker 2, off Jones 1. Hit by
pitched ball, Luke 1. Wild pitch, Bar
ker. Umpire, Johnson.
Erskine
With Perry w'orking on the mound
in the game with Erskine College Taes-
day afternoon, Elon had little difficulty
in taking the big end of a 4 to 1 score.
Perry was working in mid-season
form, and allowed only five hits for
the eight innings he worked, scattering
them through four innings. Kennedy
doing the twirling for the South Caro
linians although allowing the Elonites
only five hits, was unable to keep them
scattered, and this, coupled w'ith poor
suxiport from his teammates at critical
moments, caused the Erskine defeat.
Fogleman substituted for Perry in the
box for the ninth inning, and though
allowing two hits in that inning, air
tight fielding kept the visitors from
scoring.
Elon’s three earned runs came in the
seventh wdien hits by Newman, Clark
and Underwood, coming at opportune
times, brought in three scores. The
other tally in the fourth came by All
ston ’s being hit by a pitched ball, steal
ing second, and advancing to third and
home on a sacrifice by Marlette and
en-or on Reed.
Erskine's lone tally in the eighth was
of a fluke variety, Kennedy being safe
on an error, advancing to third on
Young’s two-bagger and getting safe in
home on an infield sacrifice.
Young, of Erskine, was the only out
standing hitter, getting two singles and
a double out of four trips to the plate,
the only man of either nine to get more
than one hit.
Clark center fielder for Elon, was
back in the game today, and aided ma
terially in the fielding.
The box score:
Elon AB E, H PO A E
Newman, 3b 4 0 1 0 2 1
Stoner, 2b 4 0 1 2 3 O'
Allston, If 1 1 0 3 0 0
Marlette, ss 4 0 0 1 4 1
Clark, cf 4 1 1 2 0 1
Cheek, lb 4 1 0 15 0 0
Underwood, c 3 1 1 3 1 0
Smith, rf 2 0 1 0 0 0
Perry, p 3 0 0 0 7 0
Fogleman, p 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flynn, x 1 0 0 0 0 0
Kirkland, xx 1 0 0 0 0 1
31 4 0 26 17 4
xFor Smith in 7th.
XX For Allston in 8th.
Erskine
AB
R
H
PO
A V,
Young, cf
4
0
3
1
0
0
Huffman, ss
4
0
0
0
1
9
Thompson, rf. . .
4
0
0
0
0
n
Scoggins, lb. ..
4
0
0
11
0
0
Sherer, If
4
0
1
1
0
0
Evans, c
4
0
1
3
0
n
Page, 2b
4
0
1
3
4
1
Reed, 3b
3
0
1
4
3
“>
Kennedy, p. .. .
. . . . 3
1
0
1
0
xStuart, 3b
1
0
0
0
0
0
35
1
7
24
9
•5
xFor Peid in 9th.
Score by innings: R. jj g
Erskine 000 000 010—1 7 5
Elon 000 100 30x—4 5 4
Summary: Earned runs, Elon 3. Two-
base hits, Young, Page. Stolen bases
Allston 2, Marlette, Clark 2. Hit by
pitched ball, Kennedy 1. Struck out by
Kennedy 4, by Perry 3. Bases on balls,
none. Umpire, Johnson.
Funnan
The Elon team opened their batting
eyes Wednesday and trounc6d Furman
University to the tune of 6 to 2, se
curing eleven hits off of Andrews, five
of which went for extra bases.
After a bad start in the opening
inning Fogleman, pitching his first col
lege game, tightened up and held the
visitors at his mercy, allowing only six
hits, three of which came in the first
inning. Bradley, first 'up for Furman,
singled. Carter follow’ed with a two-
bagger, and another hit by Lanee gave
Furman their two tallies. After that
Elon had things their own way. 'Fogle
man struck out 11 of the visitors.
Elon was unable to score until the
third, when Smith duplicated Under
wood’s two-bagger, w'ho had preceded
Iiim at bat, sending Underwood around.
Stoner’s three-bagger in the sixth
started a merry-go-round, and before
the side was retired timely h;!,.! ,iy A.l
ston and Cheek let in three runners.
Again in the eighth inning things
looked bad for the Furman pitcher when
Clark lifted one far over centerfield for
three sacks, sending in Allston, who
had singled ahead of him; Underwood
winding up the inning with a single that
sent Clark home.
The heavy hitting of the Elon nine
and the stellar pitching of Fogleman
after the first inning were the features
of the game. Both teams played good
ball in the field, only three errors being
charged up during the game, two of
which went to Furman, and all three
of which were hard chances.
Score by innings: E. H. E.
Elon 001 003 02x—6 11 I
Furman 200 000 000—2 6 2
Batteries for Elon, Fogleman and
Underwood; for Furman, Andrews and
Lance.
The box score and summary follow:
Elon
AB R H PO A E
Newman, 3b. ...
... 4
0
1
1
2
0
Stoner, 2b
... 4
1
1
3
3
0
Allston, rf
... 4
2
2
0
0
0
Marlette, ss. ...
o
1
0
0
3
1
Clark, cf
... 3
1
1
3
0
0
Cheek, lb
... 4
0
1
9
0
0
Underwood, c. , .
... 4
1
2
11
0
Smith, rf
... 3
0
3
0
0
0
Fogleman, p. ...
... 3
0
0
0
1
I)
31 6 11 27 11 1
AB E H PO A E
5 1110“
5 1 3 4 0 0
4 0 0 2 0 0
4 0 14 10
4 0 115 0
4 0 0 0 1 0
3 0 0 2 0-2
3 0 0 11 0 0
3 0 0 0 4 0
Total 35 2 6 29 11 2
Score by innings:
Elon 001 003 02.'t—6
Furman 200 000 000—2
Summarj': Batteries for Elon, Fogle
man and Underwood; for Furman, An
drews and Lance. Stolen bases. Carter;
Allston 3, Marlette, Underwood. Sac
rifice hits, Fogleman, Clark, Marlette
Two-base hits, Carter, Smith, Under
wood. Three-base hits, Clark, Stoner.
Struck out by Andrews 2, by Fogleniai
11. Bases on balls, off Andrews 2. Vtn-
pire, Johnson.
Total
Furman
Bradley, rf
Carter, cf
Cox, If
Lanee, c
Chewning, 2b
Brazington, 3b
Nelson, ss
Drummond, lb
Andrews, p