FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1949
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THREE
I'm Telling You
By ROCCO SILEO
This fine edition of tlie Fight
ing Christians baseballers, the
mighty ’49ers, should go down in
history as one of the greatest dia
mond combinations ever to be pro
duced at Elon.
The newly c^ow^ed conference
champs should be likened to the
great pre-war championship clubs
of ’40 and ’41. The ’40 team, which
was composed of such stars as Emo
Showfety, Tal Abernathy, Johnny
Clayton, W. L. Hobson, Joe Toni-
anchek and Warren Bums, compil
ed a 20-1 record, one of the finest
ever recorded by a colege team
anywhere.
Acording to Johnny Clayton,
freshman sensation who led the ’40
club with a .450 average, both
pre-war teams have the edge on
hitting, mainly because of a cou
ple of notoriously powerful hit
ters named ShoWferty and Hob
son. However, he added that Coach
Jim Mallory’s crew are at least on
a par, if not better than, Horace
Hendrickson’s Christians in the
fielding department.
All in all, we’re mighty proud
of the new champs, who have fin
ally cast aside the domineering
Catawba Indians and have taken
over as undisputed champions of
the North,5tate' Conference.
Now that Coach Hal Pope is
definitely leaving. I’d like to see
Johnny Clayton, a fine athlete and
a gentleman, remain as basketball
coach.
I think the popular athlete, who
graduates this year, deserves at
least the chance to prove he has
the ability to handle a college
team. For the past two years Clay
ton has been in charge of the bas
ketball team at the outset, drilling
the prospective candidates in coli-
ditioning and fundamentals, only
to step aside in favor of the head
coach in charge.
Coaching a college team is a
big assignment and a bigger head-j
ache, but I’m willing to give odds,
that my candidate could overcome |
toth and go on to be a sucessful
mentor who can give ol’ Elon the,
brand of basketball so lacking in
these post-war years. j
Then too, Clayton could con’-
tinue to assist Coach Mallory with |
the baseball team, as he has been
doing for the past two seasons,
and possibly serve as an assistant
football coach if needed.
However, if some of the play
ers don’t change their attitudes of
the past year, I don’t believe
Coach Pope, Clayton, Rupp or Case
could bring winning basketball to
Elon.
Once Over:
Iiitramurals
Of The Year
By GEORGE STANLEY
The Intramural sports program,
under the guidance of Coach J. L.
Pierce, has just concluded one of
its most successful years. Follow
ing is a resume of Intramural ac
tivities throughout the year.
Last fall, South Dormitory ran
through its regular schedule unde
feated and then went on to defeat
Vet’s Apartments for the champ
ionship of the Touch-football
league. The champions placed four
men, Ernie Kluttz, Bill Hopkins,
Larry Gaither and Rocky Donato,
on the Maroon and Gold’s first an
nual All-Intramural Touch-foot
ball team. Other berths went to
Jack Hanel, Billy Rakes, Chubby
Brown Steve Walker and Tubby
Johnson.
East Dormitory emerged victor
ious in the volley-ball tourna
ment by defeating Alpha-Pi in the
play-offs. Rounding out the first
four were Sigma Phi and Vet’s
Apartments.
East coiifinued their winning
ways by copping basketball honors
from favored South Dormitory.
Some of the stars during the sea
son were Winstead, Huyett and
Reese of East; Mohdy, Clayton and
De Marco of South; Andrews of
et’s Apartments; York and Walk
er of Sigma Phi; and McCracken
and Melvin of I. T. K.
A March of Dimes benefit game,
which brought together the best
performers of each of the Intra
mural leagues, rounded out the
basketball activities for the sea
son.
Ollie Bass won the table tennis
tournament by defeating defend
ing champion Pete Marshburn. In
a challenge match, Elon defeated
High Point in table tennis and bad
minton at Elon’s gym. Represent
ing Elon were Bass, Marshburn, D.
Hooker and Taylor.
Softball took the spotlight as
the Intramural program went into
its final stretch. The strong I. T.
K. nine, with but one loss in reg
ular season play, took top honors
in the league. Sigma Phi and Day
Students were deadlocked for sec
ond place and East was fourth in
the race.
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Mallorymeii Cop Pennant
For First Time Since ’41
In Final Guilford Scrap
Our Fighting Christians of E Ion College clinched the 1949
North State Conference baseball championship last Saturday with a
3-1 victory over the Guilford Quakers.
The victory climaxed a brilliant
Elon Golfers
Win 3^ Lose 7
For The Year
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Coach Jim Mallory’s champion-1 Left to right: (first row) Hank
ship club of 1949 posted a season ^ DeSimone, Wayne Phillips, Ra-
record of 20 wins and five defeats leigh Ellis, Ed Ellis, Bill Ander-
and a 13-2 conference record which son, Fred Paul, Rocky SHeo, Jack
gave the Christians their first White, Burley Dunn and Dick
championship since 1941. lYork; (second row) Russell Lucas,
C. K- Siler, Billy Matze, Nelvin
Cooper, Jack Andrews, Leon Tay
lor, Dick Lee and Steve Walker;
(back row) Calvin Williams, Gene
Stewart, Gene Caviness, J. P.
Thompsion, Harry Frazier, and
Larry Gaither.
D. Mondy
Crowned
Champion
By GEORGE STANLEY
Dave Mondy didn’t say die af
ter shooting an unimpressive 84
in the first round of the recent
36-hole North State Conference
Golf Tournament at the Star-
mount Course in Greensboro.
Instead the young Freshman
star came back in the second
round and shot a spectacular sub-
par 70 to beat favored Billy Stalls
of Eastern Carolina and a field
of 20 entries representing Elon,
High Point, Eastern Carolina, Cat
awba and Guilford. Mondy, who
posted a 154 total, defeated Stalls
by one stroke.
He played perfect golf the sec
ond day to win the tournament.
On the 9th (par 4 hole), Mondy
missed an eagle by a few inches.
The ball hit the pin on his second
shot and rolled out. He putted for
a birdie. He shot a 36, one over
par, on the first nine.
On the back nine, he parred the
10th, sank a 20-fodt putt on the
111th for a birdie, parred the 12th,
and again on the 13th Mondy miss-
jfid an eagle by inches. Again he
BOX SCORE
putted for a birdie and followed
with still another on the 14th hole.
The champion’s drive on the
College Coeds
In Tourney
Jeanne Pittman, Lacala Wilk
ins and Jean Harris represent
ed Elon College at Gteensboro
College on May 14 in a tennis
tournament. Three schools were
entered in the tournament: Greens
boro College, Woman’s College
and Elon.
This was the first tennis tourn
ament for the Elon coeds and they
put up a good fight, even though
they left Elon with the feeling
of being the “underdogs” at the
tournament.
Results of the singles were: Mil
ler (W. C.) over Pittman (Elon)
7-9, 6-1, 6-4; Ingram (G. C.) over
Wilkins (Elon), 1-6, 6-3, 6-2; Hailey
(W. C.) over Harris (Elon), 6-1.,
6-0.
'
Following are the final unof
ficial batting averages of the
championship Elon College club.
The records do not include the
second Appalachian tilt,
player ab r h....ave.
Gaither, p 1 0_ 1 1.000
Siler, p 24 5 10 ..415
Paul, c 5 0 2 ..400
Ellis, 3b 98 19 38 .388
Anderson, utl 39 6 14 ..385
Phillips If 70 18 26 .371
Stewart, lb 95 17 35 ..367
Taylor, p 24 3 7 .291
Matze, c 28 5 8 .286
Cooper, ss 90 16 26 .289
Caviness, rf 54 12 14 .259
Walker, 2b 91 22 23 .253
DeSimone, c 52 7 12 .211
Lee, of 14 5 2 .143
York, cf 86 12 16 .108
Andrews, p 21 2 2 .095
White, utl 5 0 0 .000
Fowler, p 5 0 0 .000
Thompson, of 2 0 0 .000
Frazier, c 1 0 0 .000
Foster, inf 110 .000
Runs batted in: Ellis 19, Phillips
16, Stewart 14, Cooper 13, Ander
son 9, Siler 7, Caviness 6, Matze
4, DeSimone and York 3, Paul 2,
and Lee 1. Two base hits: Stewart
and Phillips 7, Ellis 5, Cooper 4,
jCavines and Anderson 3, Taylor
and Siler 3, Matze, DeSimone and
iPaul 1. Three base hits: Ellis 6
Philips 3, Anderson 2, and Walker
1. Home runs: Caviness 2, Cooper
and Phillips 1. Stolen bases: Phil
lips 5, Walker and Ellis 4, York,
Stewart and Cooper 2, Caviness,
DeSimone and Anderson 1.
15th went into the woods, but his
second shot landed on the edge
of the green where he encount
ered trouble for the first time and
ended with a bogie. He also
bogied 16 but parred the 17th
hole.
Coming into the home stretch,
Mondy needed a birdie to win
the tournament and a par to tie
Stalls. After a perfect drive, he
followed with a shot which, car
ried into a sand trap. The champ
l.calmly chipped up to the pin
jand sank his putt for a birdie to
I finish the back nine with a terrific
two-unday-par 34 to take the title.
Other Elon entries in the tour
nament and their scores were Ce
cil Lilley, 163; Jack Platt, 170,
and Chips Chabalko, 175.
Shown above are the Elon CoHeiSe 1949 co-captaiiis, Steve Walker
and Etf Ellis. Walker, a second baseman, is from Milton, N. C.,
and third baseman Ellis is from Ramseur, N. 0. Both placed
semi-pro ball in the Albemarle leagrue last summer and both are
expected to be in professional circles shortly. In fact, Ellis, who
batted over .400 with the Christians, has signed and is now play
ing with the Greensboro Patriots.
Ray Scarborough
Was Student Here
Ray Scarborough, a native Tar
Heelian and now ace pitcher for
the Washington Senators, was a
summer school student at Elon
College In 1938. He pitched fo_r
the Tower Hosiery Mill baseball
team of Burlington that summer.
Racqueteers
Win Eight,
Lose Seven
While the sports department of
Maroon and Gold was in moth
balls, Elon’s tennis t»am kept busy,
ending their season last Saturday.
The varsity netters began- the
season with a win over E. C. T. C.
and ended with a victory over
Guilford, but their mid^season ac
tivities were not always so pleas
ant.
All in all, the team played 15
matches of a scheduled 22 (the
remainder being either rained out
or cancelled), winning eight and
losing seven. In Conference play
the record was five wins to three
losses. The redoubtable High Point
Panthers administered two of the
lickings and E. C. T. C. the other.
The schedule was highlighted
with a swing up through Virginia
with a baseball team. Randolph
Macon and William and Mary
(Norfolk Division) were met and
defeated, but the Elonites bowed
to Norfolk Navy and Lynchburg
College.
The North State Conference
Tennis Tournament, under the di
rection of Coach J. L. Pierce, was
held here on May 6-7 on the three
new clay courts.
Elon’s Billy Joe Winstead was
seeded first in the singles, but
was upset by Jake Steele of High
Point in the semi-finals. Elon’s
doubles entry of Walter Temple
and Bill Godfrey also fell before
Melvin and Maddox of High Point
in the semi-finals.
The team was led again this
year by Winstead, the elongated
swatter from' Roxboro. Bill . was
beaten only three times during the
season; and he avenged one" of
Athough they^ failed to rack up
an impressive season record, the
Fighting Christian golfers fared
much better than in 1946, their in
itial year on the greens.
The'team scored three victories
against seven losses and a tie. Elon
was leading going into the ninth
hole of their opening season match
with Eastern Cainolina, which was
called off because of darkness.
Freshman Dave Mondy was top
medalist for the team followed by
Cecil Lilley and Chips ChabaTko.
The team, which used the Ala
mance Country Club as its home
course, includes: Captain Cecil
Lilley, Dave Mondy, Chips Cha
balko, Jack Platt, Bill Rogers and
Ed Brannick. Leo Kampman and
Johnny Zurlis served as substi
tutes.
‘K Men’s Club
Elect B. Cook
Billy Cook, rising Junior from
Whiteville, was elected president
of the “E” Men’s Club at a recent
meeting of Elon’s lettered ath
letes.
Other officers elected for the
coming year are as follows: Pete Hall, 3b 4
Marshburn, Senior from Greens- Jones, rf 5
horo, vice-president; Mac Mac- ^
season for Coach Jim Mallory’s
great club. It also gave the Fight
ing Christians their first confer
ence baseball title since 1941, while
serving as sweet revenge on the
pesky Quakers, who proudly ad
ministered one of the two con
ference defeats suffered by the
Christians.'
The other loss was engineered
by the always troublesome Cat
awba Indians, who managed to put
on another typically dramatic up
set by scoring twice in the ninth
to win 2-1.
The 13-2 conference record
posted by the Fighting Christians
was their best in four post war
years, as was their over all sea
son record of 20-5.
If records can serve as a com
parison, the Christian nine of ’49
should, go down in history as one
of the greatest diamond combin
ations ever assembled at Elon Col
lege. In that case the memories of
this great club will go up on a
pedestal along with Elon’s champ
ionship clubs of ’38, ’40, and ’41.
The 1941 team, which ran up 19
straight wins and a season record
of 20-1, was probably the greatest
of our championship clubs.
As usual, Ed Ellis provided the
necessSrj' offensive punch. He
added three singles to a lusty .400-
plus bating average, his best in
four years of competition at Elon.
The following box score of the
game in which Elon clinched the
crown may be dead news, but it
will make an excellent souvenir.
! GUILFORD
j AB R H O A,
Balling’r, ss 5 0 10
0 2 1
Ralls, If : 5
from Sanford,
I Ferrell, cf 1
Cracken, Junior
iChath’m, lb 3
secretary; Gene Hardy, Senior ‘ 2b 3 0
from Reidsville, treasurer; and C.' Enochs, 2b 1 0
K. Siler, Junior from Siler City, Davis, c 4 0
sergeant at arms. , Wolfe, p 5 0
During the meeting, retiring
president Claude Manzi of Up
per Darby, Pa., donated $100 to
to to, the Alumni Memorial Gym- 'phiHips, if 4
nasium fund on behalf of the “E” | York, cf 3
1
1
1
0
11
3
0
6
0
I
Totals 39 1 10 24 11
ELON
AB R H O
Men’s Club.
Ellis, 3b 4
Stewart, lb 3
those losses by soundly thrashing Cooper, ss 4
the Conferopce Champion Henry! Anderson, rf 4
Maddux in the second match with 1 Walker, 2b 4. 0
High Point.
Two newcomers to the team
were Freshman Frank Tingley of
Thomasviile and Walter Temple
of Sanford. During the season each
showed promise of better things
to come.
Other members of the team
were Jack Spirko, who came along
fast toward the end of the sche
dule, Pedro Godwin, who came
out of self-imposed retirement af
ter the season was underway, Rod
ney Southerland, Johnny McAd
ams and Bill Godfrey.
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ftepriiMed fr«n )ua« J949 i«*ue of ESQUIBC Coprrifbi 1949 by
, *‘Whom are you calling out?”
DeSim’e, c 4 0
Andrews, p 4 0
Totals 35 3 8 27 9
Guilford 010 000 000—1
Elon 000 002 lOx—3
E—Ellis, Chatham, Stamey, uav-
is 3, Wolfe. RBI—Ellis, Anderson,
Walker. SB—York, EUis, Cooper,
S—Stewart. BB—Off, Andrews 2,
Wolfe 1. SO—By Andrews 8, Wolfe
7. LOB—Guilford 12, Elon 8.
Wild pitch—Andrews 2. PB—De
Simone, Davis. U—Ridenhour and
and Ridenhour. T—1:58.
Big Jack Andrews
Signs With Patriots
Of Carolina League
Jack Andrews signed a profes
sional baseball contract with
Greensboro Patriots for an undis
closed sum Wednesday to become
the second member of our North
State championship club to tarn
‘pro” within a week.
ITK Wins In Finals
Over Day Students
I. T. K. defeated the Day Stu
dents for the second time Tues
day to win the post-season In
tramural soS?balI tournament.
The tournament champions, who
also topped the regular season
play, had previously defeated Sig
ma Phi twice in the'semi-finals
of the play-offs.