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SATURDAY, MAKCH 9, 1910 Maroon and Gold PAGE TKHEE m. a i II a O SPORTS CALENDAR I WITH AL1.ISON' Du';e.- Hie pcwerhcuss of the Southeni Ccr.f'.Tsnco. and Elon, runner up in the TiOrth Stc '.B Conference last year, are sche- dui£d to I lay in Greensboro, Monday after noon of next week. Rained out in last year’s same and washed out in last Saturday's game, the Christians will again attempt to repeat last season’s performance when they ' were leading the boys in Blue. The Elon nine was raining base hits in last year’s af fair, before the game was called off and evidently were headed for an easy victory over the Southern Conference Champions. Coach Jack Coombs, one of the greatest •ccaches in the baseball business today will probably pitch Bill Mock? -his ace hmler. in an attempt to stop the Hendrickson charges. Tal Abernathy, the Mebane portsider, will probably get the starting roll icT the Christians. The Blue Devils have six lefthanded hitters and Abernathy should be able to master the situation. Big Eino Showfety, Gardner, Fones, Clayton and Hobson will attempt to match stick power with such famous hitters as: Capt. Crash Davis, Eddie Shokes, first sacker who is ticketed to be in the majors next year, Pierce, George McAfee, who won fame as a foot baller last fall and Bilane, left fielder. Pearce To Captain 194G Team Congratulations are in order for John Henry Pearce, the tall 'Christian basketball center. Pearce was elected captain of the 1940 -tt am at a meeting held Monday night. The newly elected captain comes from Suffolk, Virginia, where he played basketball during the time that he attended the local high school. He has been a member of the varsity here at Elon since his freshman year. As a sophomore he saw much action and played as understudy to former Captain Ike Fesmire. During the past season he w'as the regular center on the Christian five and a good job he done. Pearce’s speciality seems to be team work garnering rebounds cff both his own and his opponents back boards. In addition to playing basketball, Pearce plays football, takes ?n active part in other extra curricular activities and is a member of the Sigma Phi Beta Fraternity. Apple Hurls Well Against Colby Rifton Dixon Apple, the ex Greensboro high hurler, seems to te headed for a good season, after his excellent showing against Colby last week. R. D.. apparently free from arm ailment which handi capped him considerably last year, allowed the visitors only two hits April April April A^iil April April 13 BASEBALL — A. C. C. at Elon — Duke at Greensboro — High Point at High P. 0 — Lenoir Rhyne at Elon Lenoir Rhyne at Elon McCrary at Ashboro Pjarce Elecfed Cage Capfam April 16 — Wake Forest at Greens boro. -pril 17 — Guilford at Elon April 18 — Appalachian at Boone April 19 — W. C. T. C. at Cullc- wee TENNIS April 9 — Guilford at Elon April 12 — Catawba at Salisbury April 16 — Lenou- R. at Hickory April VJ — Wuiiam 6c Mary at Elon Four Basket Men Receive Letters the five frames he worked. One of these hits was of the scratch 'variety. The sophomore hurler had perfect control and struck out scrveral batters. Apple has won himself a starting berth along with the veterans, Co-Capt. Fuller, Longest, Craft and Tal. Abernathy, the only portside hurler on the squad. (Continued on page 4) Closing the basketball season there were four young men who macie their iecceis, tnese min v/ere Ed Potter, Ray Cessna, W. O. Maynor and Johnny Clayton. Last week they took the severe initiation which entitled them to a full pledged m.ember of tlie*‘*E" club. al positions tiian they were lasi. season. Causey, Whitley, and Towns, are trie pitcners. Go.d- bium, Born, “Country” Holland, -vlaynor, Caruso, Puguski, Malbon^ Day, Taylor, and Barney rounc out the team. With a lot of new blood to help boost the Kappa Psi Nu’s they are hoping to have a good team. Lost from last year’s team is Bruce Flory, a slugger that any eam would like to have. The boys trying for positions are: Utt. Captain, Brown, Gilliam, Pollard, Darden, Bullard, Mallard, Lea, Pruitt, Vore, Fonville and Bell. Nothing is known about the other teams but MacDuffies In dependents are reported to be strong and are ready to dethrone the Sigm*a Phi’s as champs. • V'" /: i: LUNCH AND DRINK AT SHAW’S SODA GRILL A FRIENDLY CENTER WHERE FRIENDS MEET Next to Paramouni Theater Phone 1588 Burlington, N. C. j CHRISTIAN NINE jFACE TOUGH FOES IT PAYS TO LOOK WELL Have Your Clothes Cleaned And Pressed At BOSTON cleaners Burlington, N. C. I E:on s pill-poimders. otherwise j Vnown as the baseball team are ' r.boiit to enter into the racst ln> ■■'ortant ‘'stretch’’ of the season. the eleven days between the Olh and ?Oth. Elon will enerase ^x?.ctly nine top-rank ball clubs. Seven cf these nine im’^or*^?‘nt pfr'^ence games, while the two nutP’de ppTP.es are w’th J'-Tcf^rarv's j •*’'or'£r Fs^les and Wake 'p'orest’s I Deacons, which, by the fway, are two of the strongest foes ] around to be picking on. j The fir.^t of this series of games ps with Elen’s arch rival. High • Print College. High Point put a j ^’nt in C^ta^'^bp’s championship j -irrnoT on ArrH Fool’s ^:\v wh^n j their ace pitcher. Scotten let the • f'vf.r-dappprous Indians down with I only s’x hits. With such other ^’’♦s+anding men in the lineup as *^ochrane. Hueh Hampton, and Murray, the Panthers present a j com.bination, that will be hard to j beat. I Followins the High Point game j ''n the ninth, Elon plays Lenoir j Rhyne two games on the twelth j and thirteenth. Coach Pat Shores ; eked out a conference win last season over the Christians and the jElonites will be looking for sweet irevenee this year. • McCrary’s strong semi-pro out fit will follow directly after the Lenoir Rhyne games. This game is scheduled for Saturday April 13. The Eagles are rated one cf the best semi-pro teams in the state- and boast several former Elon diamond stars on their ros ter. PAY “THE PLACE” A VISIT L. J. Whilese'I Elon College, N. C. SOFT BALL CH ATTER Softball play started off with a bang this week, with ten teams lined up and ready to start play. Art Lea announced recently “tha: play this year would be divided into two leagues.” Each frater- iXTRA r%
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