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volume IV. ELON COLLEGE, N. C, APRIL 6. 1923 ^11
ifAKE FOREST, STATE AND GUILFORD
are victorious in first games of
MAROON AND GOLD BASEBALL SEASON
In Spite of Defeats Elon Nine is
Showing up Well in Opening
Games of Season.
1 brown leads in hitting
I Jack Underwood Pitches Fine
i Game Against Wake Forest—
! New Men Breaking in.
FRIEND GIVES LIBRARY
BUILDING TO COLLEGE
A friend of the college has recent
ly given $50,000 for the erection of
a library building. This friend pre
fers that his name be withheld for
the present. This is the third build
ing to be given to the college since
the iire on January 18.
Work on the library building will
not be begun at once, but efforts
will be made to complete the first
buildings planned. The library will
follow Immediately. It Is to be a
beautiful structure with the capacity
of 100,000 volumes, and room for
other library needs.
TEmn GOES ON CONQUEST
IN LAND OF SANDLAPPERS
Plays Charlotte Hornets on Way Over
—Licked but Show
Fight.
Having played three scheduled games
in the state—Wake Forest, N. C. State
and Gruilford,—the Maroon and Gold
squad is now invading South Carolina,
where they meet Wofford at Spartan
burg. From South Carolina the team
goes to Georgia, where they meet Pied
mont at Demorest, Ga., and North Geor
gia A. C. at Dahlonega, Ga., for two
games. The team then returns home
and opens the season on the home field
with N. C. State.
As to the Georgia trip, very little is
known of the teams which Elon will
meet, but it is certain that Elon will
show up well, at least, against her new
opponents.
The team has not won a game thus
far, but in every game it has shown
decided improvement. On the way to
South Carolina the team stopped over
in Charlotte for a game with the Char
lotte league team. The Christians lost
this game, of course, but the Charlotte
paper spoke well of the showing made
by the Maroon and Gold squad. Fogle-
man pitched against the leaguers and
his work was excellent. He also hit
well in this game. Grady Brown starred
for Elon in the field.
Father Of Walter
Pennington Dead
Dies at Home in Burlington After Two
Weeks Illness.
J. Wesley Pennington, father of Wal
ter Pennington^ a former student here,
died at his home in Burlington Sunday
at 6 o’clock. Mr. Pennington was the
victim of a stroke of paralysis which
he suffered two weeks prior to his death.
He was one of the oldest citizens of
Burlington.
The funeral services were held at
the home Monday afternoon at three
o’clock, and were conducted by Rev.
G. 0. Lankford, D. D., pastor of the
First Christian church, of which Mr.
Pennington was a member.
OR. E.C. BROOKS TOIeAD
CLOTHING ORIVE IN STATE
State School Head Asks North Carolin
ians to Save Human Lives by
Sending in Cast-off Clothing,
A campaign for old clothing to keep
Armenian sufferers from freezing to
death next winter, will be held during
the last week of April in every county
in North Carolina, announcement has
just been made from State Headquar
ters of the Near East Relief in Raleigh.
Dr. E. C. Brooks, State Superintend
ent of Public Instruction, has been ap
pointed State clothing chairman for this
drive, which will come to its climax
May 1. Josephus Daniels, honorary
State chairman, and Col. George H. Bel
lamy, State chairman of the financial
campaign, will actively assist him.
Most of the county chairmen who
raised their quotas in the campaign just
ended for money to feed these children
and refugees, will handle this campaign
for old clothes. It is pointed out that
housewives in their spring cleaning will
be more than glad to get rid of this
cast-off winter clothing, and at the same
time save human lives thereby.
May 1st has been designated as Bun
dle Day by Dr. Brooks, and everyone
in this county is asked to take or ship
their cast-off winter clothing to the
(Continued on page two.)
NEW STAFF ASSUMES ITS
CONmOL OVER MAROON
ANO GOLD FOR THIS yEAR
Lynam Editor and Elder Busi
ness Manager—First Issue
Under New Regime.
STAFF IS VERY EFFICIENT
Beginning with this issue, Maroon
and Gold is under the supervision of a
new staff. The entire staff is composed
of new material with the exception of
the editor, Sion M. Lynam, who has
served for two years on the staff. Mr.
Lynam was editor for the alumni dur
ing his first year as a member of the
staff, and served as managing editor
this year. He is a rising senior and
will have charge of the paper for the
remainder of this year and to the be
ginning of April of next year. Mr. Ly-
nam’s two years experience with Ma
roon and Gold has well qualified him
(Continuea on page three)
The anual entertainment of the Psi-
phelian Literary Society, which was
given in the Municipal Theater of Bur
lington Saturday evening, March 31,
was a splendid success. The chief fea
ture of the program was a play, ‘‘Bet
ty’s Last Bet,’’ a farce comedy in
three acts, by Edith Ellis.
Before the opening of the play the
college orchestra rendered some excel
lent selections of popular music.
In the address of welcome Miss Min
nie Edge took the opportunity to thank,
in behalf of the society, all those peo
ple, and especially the people of Bur
lington, who had, through their kind
ness, made the entertainment possible,
and those to whose kindly assistance in
coaching the play the success of the
entertainment would be largely due.
At the close of the. first and second
acts vocal duets were rendered by mem
bers of the society. Misses Lucile and
Annie Belle Cardwell sang “Carmena”
at tlie close of the first act; and Misses
Della Gotten and Mary Lee Foster sang
‘■Barcarolle,” from '‘Tales of Hoff
man,” at the close of the second act.
The play was a light production but
intensely humorous. The scene was laid
in the home of the Darlings in Stock-
bridge, a remote small town in Connec
ticut. The time is the present.
The characters of the play were:
Mrs. Darling, a widow with four great
problems—Lillian Harrell; Katherine,
called “Kitty,” her eldest daughter—
Mary Graham Lawrence; Margaret,
called “Peggy,” her second—Pattie
Coghill; Dorothy, called Dolly,” her
third—Rose Howell; Elizabeth, called
“Betty,” her fourth—Effie Bowden;
Hannah, a general servant who doesn’t
like men—Annie Laura Phillips; Rich
ard Wentworth, a wealthy man of af
fairs and colonel of National Guard—
Irene Goff; Percy Wentworth, his neph
ew and ward—Mary Nell Stryker; Jack
Van Loon, of the historic Van Loons—
Alice Barrett; Hamilton Moriarity, a
rising young state legislator—Margaret
Homewood; and Edgar Darling, who is
a student of archaeology—Sarah Car
ter.
The play opened with a conversation
held by the three elder daughters in
the Darling’s living room. All three
of the girls are of a marriagable age,
but there are no eligible suitors in
Stockbridge and the girls are plainly
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NERIN ELOREOGE IS~
HERE FOR CONFERENCE
New Field Secretary Addresses Students
Following Luncheon Hour
Wednesday.
Mr. Hermon Eldredge of Erie, Pa.,
secretary of the new Christian Educa
tion Movement of the Christian church,
was at Elon Wednesday. He transacted
business with Dr. Harper in the morn
ing and spoke to the students in the
afternoon.
He is one of the most influential,
best trained, and hardest working men
in the Christian denomination, and is
well qualified for the new position
which he holds. He has spoken to the
students here before and they were glad
to have him here again.
It is hoped that he will make his
home at Elon as he is planning to locate
somewhere in the South. He is father
of Miss Lucy Eldredge, of the class of
’21, who is now Secretary of Religious
Education of the Southern Christian
Convention.
worried over the situation. The mother,
who is even more worried on account
of the lack of suitors for her daughters,
comes in. She has two letters. One
letter announces that their cousin, Ed
gar Darling, from Ohio, will spend a
day and ahalf with them as he is on
hi's way to Europe with a party of
archaeologists who are going to dig up
Greece. The second letter is from Aunt
Elizabeth with whom Betty has been
staying while she is in school in New
York. Betty has been expelled because
she helped a girl friend to get married,
and now she is coming home.
Before either Edgar or Betty arrives
a telephone call comes from Percy
Wentworth asking permission to call
on Miss Kitty Darling. Kitty objects,
but Mrs. Darling, thinking that per
haps she will be able to marry off one
of her daught)er^, overrules. Percy
comes and Kitty is much bored.
Betty arrives. Her mother orders her
to tell about the trouble that had caus
ed her to be expelled. After Betty
explains, her mother asks lier how she
got the stylish outfit of clothes which
she is wearing. ..Betty explains that
she has won them by betting.
Presently, when all the Darlings ex
cept Betty are entertaining Percy Went
worth in the parlor. Jack Van Loon,
whom Betty had met in New York,
comes in. Mrs. Darling comes into the
dining room and finds Betty and Jack
conversing. She, believing the young
man to be her nephew, Edgar Darling,
embraces him and calls her three other
daughters in to meet their cousin. Jack,
quickly taking in the situation, decides
to play the game. At the first moment
that they have alone again Betty gives
Jack all the information she has that
will help him in playing the part of
her cousin Edgar. Jack bets Betty
three kisses that he will get all three
of her sisters engaged before he gets
caught, and Betty accepts the bet.
In the second act when Jack has af
fairs going nicely the real Edgar Dar
ling appears on the scene; and Jack
and Betty have a great deal of trouble
in getting rid of him before his pres
ence is discovered by other members
of the household. Jack and Betty dis
cover that both Kitty and Peggy are
harboring secret loves. Kitty is in love
(Continued on Page Four)
Three games on Elon’s baseball sche
dule have been played thus far and
just as many losses have been the re
sult. Maroon and Gold has failed to
win in the three consecutive games
played before starting on the southern
trip, but there is no reason for discour
agement for the supporters of the Chris
tian team. In the games played, even
though lost, Elon has shown that Coach
Corboy was right in his statement that
the aggregation was a likely looking
buneh.
Maroon and Gold has a good team
and it will be hitting its stride soon,
which will mean wins for Elon.
The teams which have thus far de
feated Elon are Wake Forest, N. C.
State and Guilford.
The most interest shown in the three
games was the game with Guilford.
The reason for this was because the
Elon-Guilford game is an annual affair
which is staged at Cone park in Greens
boro. A great number of students from
Elon always attend this game and cheer
the Maroon and Gold team in their fight
against the Quakers. Easter Monday
was no exception for they were there
in great numbers.
Wake Forest Game
Old Gold and Black defeated Elon
3 to 1 in this game which was featured
by the pitching of Stamey for Wake
Forest. He allowed Maroon and Gold
only two hits during the nine innings
of play. Jack Underwood, pitching his
first game for Elon, did fine work in
the box. He allowed only six hits,
but the inability of his team to hit gave
him a small chance to win the game.
N. C. State Game
The game with the Techs was played
on Saturday afternoon in weather more
suitable for football. However, both
teams seemed to be warm with the wil
low, for it was a regular slugfest. Elon
secured 13 hits from the delivery of
Beal, N. C. State pitcher, while his
teammates were gathering 14 from Fo-
gleman and Barker. Thirteen of these
were credited against Fogleman. Every
man on the Elon squad, except two, hit
safely. In this the leaders were Perry,
Marlette, Braxton and Lindley. The
final score was N. C. State, 8; Elon, 6.
Guilford Game
This game which was witnessed by
s^Jout 1,200 fans, which included a great
number of Elon and Guilford students,
full of thrills. The ninth inning
rally spelled the defeat of Maroon and
Gold 7 to 4. Elon took the lead in the
first inning and held it until the sixtli,
Guilford counted tlirce times, tak
ing the lead. Kirkland hit safely in
the eighth and scored on Perry’s drive
'^hich tied the score. Guilford came
back strong in the ninth with a rally
tt^at enabled them to chalk up four
^^llies and win the game.
The outstanding players for Guilford
^ere Smith, Hayworth, English and
Ferrell. The players performing most
creditably for Maroon and Gold were
^faxton in the field and Perry and
^rown with the willow.
Elena Tanara and Macey Si-
11®'’ spent the week-end with Miss Isa-
1 Dixon at her home in Reidsville.
f and Mrs. T. E. Moffitt and Roy
' Moffitt visited here Sunday.
GRADED SCHOOL CLASS
GIVES EASTER SERVICE
Much Music of High Order—Sarah Vir
ginia Hook Acts as Choir
Leader.
As a fitting close of a perfect Easter
Sunday the children of Miss Madge
Moffitt's class, assisted by a number
of the Sunday school children and some
of the college students, presented a
beautiful operetta Sunday evening at
7:30 o’clock in the graded school audi
torium. The stage was decorated in a
very artistic manner with spring flow
ers and a white cross suggestive of the
Easter season. The children were dress
ed in white as were also the young la
dies who had a part in the entertain
ment.
Miss Jennie Gunter read very impres
sively tlie story of Philip the Crusader.
This was interspersed with songs by
the children with little Miss Sarah
Virginia Hook acting as choir leader in
her own charming way. She also re
ceived the silver offering at the closing
of the program.
Miss Irene Goff sang “The Holy
City” very beautifully and she with
Miss Mary Lee Foster sang “Eastern
Morn” with much expression. Misses
Atkinson and Newman also sang very
sweetly, “It Was For Me.”
DOTH ELON HIGH TEAMS
WIN III TRIANGLE DESATE
Young Debaters Do Fine Work Both
at Horae and Abroad—Teams
Will Go to Chapel Hill.
Eloii High School was successful in
its debates last Friday night, winning
from Stony Creek and Friendship High
Schools. The query discussed was, Ke-
solved—That Congress should provide
for the enforcement of the decisions of
the Eailroad Labor Board.
Elon was represented at home on the
affirmative side by ]\Ii'sses Ruth Huff
man and Josie Loy. Both sides offered
strong argument, but the Elon debaters
were better in refuting arguments in
their rebuttal. Elon’s negative team,
which won at Friendship, was composed
of Dan Long Newman and Henry Peele.
By virtue of its double victory Elon
is entitled to send both teams to Chapel
Hill on April 13 to compete against the
other successful high schools of the
state.
After the debate at the Elon High
School the girls gave a rejeption at
the Young Men’s Club for the visiting
debaters and friends of the school.
PSIPHELIANS STAGE EXCELLENT
COMEDY AT BURLINGTON THEATRE
‘Betty’s Last Bet” Pleases Large Audience in Burlington — Duets
Rendered Between Acts—Last Play Which Psiphelians
Will Give Representing All Women Students.