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Wednesday, April 18, 1951 MAROON AND GOLD PAGE THREE Spying On Sports by JOE SPIVEY A portion of toe Fighting Chris- 'tian baseball sciieduie i^ now history, but there is more to come. There is a bright side and a dark side of the ledger thus far. On the dark side is the fact that Along with the above report came the news that C. Q. “Tex” Smith had resigned as Coach at High Point College, another oi Elon’s clo.^ neighbors. Smith, after a fine record at Hign going back to his old grounds in Texas to, has not happened since before' coach high school athletics. He Klon nine dropped three Point, is laight games— souiei,nnig that j stamping v^oach Jim :v^llory came lo Elon i;i 1948. l.iese luo.i,ej came at ..;e hands liortiieiii leams. said his reason for tliis was tliat he and his father have farming interests, and he wished to be 1..eaning Spungfield College from .nearer to this interest. Hell Massachusetts and Ohio Unlver- probably start growing some tall i,y. Texas lads forV the future High On the bright side is tlie fact Point basketball teams, mat the Chriatians have been far ing pretty well in Conference play, and they are the big team .n the race as the Mallorymen seek the conference crown for the third straight year. ^ 1£ the Christians ever find t.;eir batting eyes, they will be 1.,;rd to stop, ilits seem to be vientiful, but they have an odd .labit of becoming scarce in tire >,iutch. The early season jitters are prevalent, but the team seems | lo be gaining more poise in each' game. Coach Mallory is still! looking for a good inlield combi- iiation, and lie snould come up with a solution as me season wears on. The pitching department seems to be the most settled issue, with Hank Hamrick, Lefty Taylor, and Jce Weaver getting the nod. Pete Sykes and Austin Brewer look like good prospects, but both have had trouble with control at limes. ♦ * ♦ Now we’ve seen everytliing! I mean that East Carolina game, and the time Elon had the bases luaded with nobody out. For the benefit of the many students who failed to show up at the game, not a single run came in. See what I mean about clutch hit ting? * ♦ ♦ Former Elon Athletes in the News; A1 ZUian, Jay-Vee basket- baller of the past season is play ing ball with Dallas, Texas, a Cleveland Indian farm camp. A1 played with the Greensboro Pat riots last year, and he is a pitcher. Jack Mitchell, also a Jay-Vee basketball player, and who later got into the varsity games, is with the Greensboro Patriots. Jack has been looking good in ex hibition games playing left field. He can and has been hitting well, getting three safeties against the Brooklyn Dodgers. I Gene Stewart, of the champion ship Elon baseball team of ’48 and ’49, is also playing with the Patriots. Gene has been holding down the first base position, and doing it well. He is bothered by a recurrent knee injury at tunes though. Warren Burns, who once cap tained basketball and was an All- North State Conference player, has been named to coach the West All-Star basketball team in the North Carolina high school circuit. Warren is now coaching at Burlington High School. ♦ ♦ ♦ A1 J.ohns, quarterback and half back of Guilford College’s foot ball teams for the past four years has signed a professional grid contract with the Washington Redskins. Hope he shows up better than Justice did. Good luck, Al! > Paul W. Lentz, assistant direc tor of men’s physical education and head basketball and baseball coach at Guilford College, has been called back into active ser vice with the U. S. Marine Corps. Lentz attended Guilford College *nd has been stamped as one of ;he finest all-around athletes ever produced at the Quaker institu- > 1 ,n. Jack Boone, baseball coach at Eastern Carolina, was very un happy over the results of the en counter with Elon on March 31st. Coacli Boone said the conduct of the Elon students was very un- ipoitsmanlike, and that his play- -■is became rattled by all the noise . ininating from the loyal support ers of the Elon nine. Well, Mr. Boone, I didn't hear any "booing.” No one sat be- ■ iind the catcher and waved hand- All 1 heard was a lot ji' good, loud yelling, mixed in with some stomping and knock ing. I underestimate you as a .ouch, if you taught your players to listen to the spectators and not keep in the ball game. Sure ly you've been to a basketball game or a football game. Don't the people make any noise? I’ll bet there were people there to encourage yelling. You people do have cheer-leaders, don’t you? A little good-natured yelling and hooting goes with a baseball game like ice cream goes with apple pie. That is to say. I’ve never seen a ball game where the fa ns sat mute. And now be perfectly honest, “What would you have said if your team had won? * * ♦ Softball is now in the Intra mural spotlight, and if the field ever gets dry enough, play will soon be in high gear. Another period of keen competition is in the offing, so pull on your boots and come on out. if * * Whether we win or lose, let’s be good sports and good support ers of Elon teams. Four Conference Tilts This Week Western Carolina Plays Christians Here Twice E^A)^’S SOUTHPAW ACES SHINE IN EARLY GAMES w The final four days of this week can make or break the 1951 championship chances of Coach Jim Mallory's Elon College dia mond crew, for the Fighting Christians will play four North State Conference games in as many days to wind up the busiest week of the entire season. The Elon outfit has already met the Burlington Bees in a gani^ BASEBALL SCHEDULE Lefty Taylor (above) and Hank Hamrick (left), a pair of south paw aces of the Elon pitching staff, really shined in the early base ball battles. Taylor was brilliant in a 15-inning victory over East Carolina, a marathon performance in which he went the route, fanning seventeen, walking only two and allowing only six hits. Hamrick blanked all opposition in his first fourteen innings of the year, including a 6 to 0 nine-inning shutout of High Point.in which he struck out twelve and allowed only two hits. Elon 0, Springfield 6. Elon 6, Ohio U. 11. Elon 1, Ohio U. 4. Elon 3, E.C.T.C. 2. Elon 5, Lexington 8. Elon 6, High Point 0. Elon 1, Greensboro 3. Elon 8, Reidsville 5. Elon 8. A.C.C. 1. Elon 4, Guilford 3. (Remaining Games) April 16—^Burlington, home. April 18—W.C.T.C., home. April 19—W.C.T.C., home April 20—E.C.T.C., away. April 21—A.C.C., away. April 24 — Norfolk Navy, home. April 26—Appalachian, home. April 28—Catawba, away. May 1—High Point, away. May 4—McCrary, away. May 5—Lenoir-Rhyne, away. May 7—Appalachian, away. May 10—Lenoir-Rhyne, home. May 14—Guilford, home. May 1—Catawba, home. MINOR SPORTS GOLF SCHEDULE Elon 6, N. C. State 12. Elon 1, Ohio U. 26. Elon 5 1-2, N. C. State 21 1-3. (Remaining Matches) April 19—Catawba, away. April 30—E.C.T.C., away. May 1—E.C.T.C., away. May 10—Catawba, home. TENNIS SCHEDULE Elon 0, N. C. State 9. Elon-UNC Frosh (Rain). Elon-Guilford (rain). Elon 2, Lenoir-Rhyne 5. (Remaining Matches) April 17—High Point, home. April 19—Catawba, away. April 20—Guilford, away. April 24—UNC Frosh, away. April 25—High Point, away. April 26—Len.-Rhyne, away. April 30—E.C.T.C., away. May 1—E.C.T.C., away. May 7—N. C State, home May 10—Catawba, home. Bobby Stewart Paces Elon Regulars At Bat Not a Christian regular was hitting .300 after eight games of the 1951 baseball season, with Pete Sykes pacing the squad on the basis of one hit in three trips and a .333 percentage. Bobby Stew art was pacing the regulars after the Reidsville game of last Thursday, with a respectable .297 average. This same Stewart, a freshman outfielder from Sanford, was also leading the way in runs-batted-in, and was tied with Austin Brewer for the home run leadership, each having one round- tripper. Quakenbush was leading in stolen bases, while Reid Great Pitching Feature Of Early Games Of Elon’s Baseball Season topped the sacrifice hit department. The complete average throughthe first eight games follow: Player AB R H Ave. Runs batted in — Stewart 7, Sykes 3 1 1 ,333 Brigman 3, Reid 3, Quakenbush Stewart ... 27 2 8 .297 3, Brewer 3, DeSimone 2, Riley Riley ... 21 1 6 .286 1, Two-base hits — Brigman 1, Reid ... 29 7 8 ,275 Reid 1, Stewart 1, Quakenbush 1, Ouakenbusili ... 30 4 8 .267 Homts runs — Stewart, Brewer, Brigman ... 28 2 6 .214 Stolen bases -— Quakenbush 4, Myers ... 35 2 7 .200 Stewart 1, Brewer 1, Sacrifice Taylor ... 13 2 2 .153 hits—Reid 2, Brigman 1, DeSi Kendall ... 13 0 2 ,153 mone 1, Base on balls—off Tay Bnewer ... 31 5 4 .129 lor 12, off Brewer 8, off Weaver Rogers ... 9 0 1 .111 7, off Sykes 4, off Hamrick 1. DeSimone ... 23 0 0 .000 Strikeouts—by Taylor 29, by Ham Laughlin 6 0 0 .000 rick 16, by Weaver 4, by Brewer Fritts .... 5 0 0 .000 3, by Sykes 2, Hits—off Taylor Hamrick .... 4 1 0 .000 13 in 30 1-3; off Brewer, 9 in G 1-3; Weaver .... 3 0 0 .000 off Hamrick, 8 in 14; off Sykes, 7 Schrader .... 3 1 0 .000 in 6 1-3; off Weaver 5 in 9 J-3. Rakes .... 3 0 0 ,000 Games won—Taylor 2, Hamrick 1 Stricklin .... 1 0 0 ,000 Games lost—Brewer 3, Sykes 1 Jones ... 0 0 0 000 W'eaver 1, With the work of the Elon pitchers as a special feature of the play, the Elon College baseball iquad battled to an even break in ts first ten games of the season, ■vinning five and losing five against powerful opposition. Four of the five victories came against North State Conference rivals, and the Fighting Christians vVere stll undefeated in champion- jhip games after last three weeks of the 1951 season had passed. The Conference victories were over East Carolina, High Point, Atlantic Christian and Guilford. SPRINGFIELD 6, ELON 0 The baseball season got under way on Friday, March 23rd, when the visitors from Springfield College of Massachusetts, walked away with a 6 to 0 victory. Al though the biting was equally di vided, each team getting four hits, the Indians from New Eng land took advantage of five Elon miscues and the wildness of Chris tian hurlers to chalk up the tri umph, R. H, E. Springfield .. 000 Oil 301—6 4 1 Elon 000 000 000—0 4 5 Nevers and Tominaga; Taylor Brewer, Weaver, Hamrick and DeSimone, OHIO 11, ELON 6 Oiiio University rapped three Elon pitchers for nine hits and eleven runs hereo n Thursday, March 28th, to win a ragged 11 to 6 victory in a three-hour con test. The Christians got eight hits off two Ohio hurlers, but they could not hit when it count ed most. The result was fifteen men died on base, and another loss went on the books. The Mallory-men showed some signs of life in the ninth inning, when Archie Brigman cleared full bases with a double to start the fireworks. Two other runs were also pushed home to net a five- run rally. It was too little and too late, however. ' R. H. E, Ohio U 122 020 022—11 9 3 Elon 010 000 005— 6 8 4 Andrews, Kovach and Biscup; Sykes, Weaver, Taylor and De Simone. OHIO 4, ELON 1 The Ohio University nine made it two in a row in as many days on Thursday, March 29th, by a I to 1 margin. The visitors got all their eight hits off Austin Brewer, Elon’s starting pitcher, ,vho wasc redited with the defeat. The Christians outhit the visit ors from, the Mid-West, but the Elon bingles were too scattered to be effective. The lone tally □f the Elonites came in the fifth on singles by Austin Brewer, Arch ie Brigman and Shag Myei's, R. H.E. Ohio U 020 020 000—4 8 2 Elon 000 010 000—1 10 5 Swank and Bishop; Brewer, Hamrick and DeSimone. Hamrick was never in hot water, as he struck out twelve and gave up only one walk. The High Point center fielder, Collette, was the only thorn in Hanuick’s side, for it was he who garnered the only safe hits for the visitors Greene pitched six-hit ball for the Panthers, but he was the vic tim of five miscues by his team mates. ^ I* ■ R. H. E. High Point .. 000 000 000-0 2 5 Elon 000 020 40x—6 6 1 Green and Morgan; Hamrick and DeSimone, at the local park on Monday niglit of this week, and the four Con ference tilts complete a five-game slate for the week, all of which means that Coach Mallory can be duly thankful for the strength of his mound corps. The strong Western Carolina Catamounts come to Elon for Wednesday and Thursday games this week, and the Maroon and Geld ball tossers will face Coach Jim Gudger’s boys wilh the mem ory of a certain defeat they suf fered up in the mountains a year ago. The Elon squad lost only one game in sixteen starts in the Conference last season, and that lone Conference licking was by a 2 to 0 score in the second game of a double header at Cullowhee, The two battles with Western Carolina here this week offer an opportunity for revenge, following the two tilts with the Catamounts in the local park, the Christians will take to the road for a two-day invasion of the east ern part of the state. They will go to Greenville on Friday to take on the East Carolina Teachers in a return engagement, and then on Saturday the Elon outfit w;*i shift over to Wilson to play the Atlantic Christian Bulldogs in the second of a two-game series. The East Carolina and Atlantic Chris tian teams have both played here earlier this season. Next week is also slated as a busy one for the Elon nine, with three games on deck. The Nor folk Naval Air Station invades the local park next Tuesday, to be followed two days later by the Appalachian State Mountaineers. A crucial meeting with Catawba in Salisbury on the final Saturday in April winds up a rough fort night for Mallory and his men. ELON 3, E. C. T. C. 2 The Fighting Christians final ly broke into the win column on Saturday, March 31st, when Lefty Taylor went the full route to set the Pirates down 3 to 2 in a fif teen-inning battle. The game, which opened Elon’s defense of its North State Conference crown, was* one of the longest games in the history of the Conference. Taylor pitched superb ball in his marathon exhibition, limiting the Pirates to six hits and two free passes, and he ' struck out seventeen man. He got better as the game progressed, allowing Dnly one hit after the seventh frame. He struck out three in a row in the fourteenth E,C.T.C. 000 Oil 000 000 000—2 6 4 Elon 000 000 020 000 001—3 9 6 Byrd, Piner and McSwain; Tay lor and DeSimone. LEXINGTON 8, ELON 5 The pros up Lexington way had to stage a rally in the eighth to down the Christians 8 to 5 on W'ednesday, April 4th. Elon had moved out front in the early innings and clung .to the advan tage until Bill Woods slapped out a Texas Leaguer in the the eighth to break up the .^ame. R. H. E. Elon 014 000 000—5 5 4 Lexington 001 300 04x—8 5 5 Sykes, Weaver and DeSimone, Shrader; Lanier, Gray and Poole. ELON 6, HIGH POINT 0 Behind superb two-hit pitching of Hank Hamrick, the Fighting Christians shut out the High Point Panthers here on Thursday, April 5th, by a 6 to 0 score. It was Elon’s second successive by thumping the Christians again North State Conference victory. GREENSBORO 4, ELON 1 The Christians went up against another pro team when they tack led the Greensboro Patriots in Greensboro on Friday, April 6th, and once more Elon was on the short end of the score as the Pat riots won 3 to 1. The winners got all their runs, all of them unearned, in the second inning. Tliese tiiree runs erased a mo mentary Elon lead, for the Chris tians had counted ar un in their half of the second. Brewer scored the Elon run, doubling to center- field and scoring on a wild pitch R, H, E, Elon 010 000 000—1 4 3 Greensboro ..-030 000 OOx—3 5 1 Brewer, Taylor and DeSimone, Schrader; Klein, Hricinak and Pettit. ELON 8, REIDSVILLE 5 Power iiitting at timely inter vals gave Elon a smashing 8 to 5 victory over the Reidsville Luck ies of the Carolina League in a game at Reidsville last Thursday afternoon. The Christians set the victory theme in the first in ning, when successive homers by Bobby Stewart and Austin Brewer featured a five-run uprising. Lefty Taylor effectively stilled the Reidsville batting power, but he found his control lacking and kept liimself in a hole much of the time by -walking nine men. However, errorless support by his mates staved off the Luckies' scores, and Joe Weaver stepped in to quell a threat in the ninth. R. H. E. Elon 500 030 000—8 7 Seven Teams In Softball Competition The Intramural Council laid plans for a seven-team softball league at a meeting held on Mon day, April 2nd, and play is al ready underway in the loop. The schedule calls for a single round- robin, with each of the seven teams playing six games. The Council has not yet decided whether there will be a play-off series. Each of the four fraternities is represented by a team„ with North Dorm, Day Students and an independent team called the Orphans rounding out the loop. The Orphan club consists of all campus students who are not in fraternities and do not live in North Dorm. All teams have shown evidence of strength in early play. Four games are already in the books. Alpha Pi defeated Sigma Phi 11 to 8 and then knocked off Kappa Psi 7 to 6 in a pair of well-played games. Kappa Psi licked North on the opening day of the season 10 to 8. The Orph ans w'on over Day Students on a forfeit, but the Day Students are now perfecting Iheiif organiza tion. The stndings up to last Thurs day, April 12, are as follows: W. L. Ave. Alpha Pi 2 0 ^ Orphans 1 0 Reidsville . 300 000 101—5 4 2 j^appa Psi 1 Taylori Weaver and DeSimone, j x. K 0 Schrader; Mitekavich, Sidwell and Pawler. (Continued on Page Four) North 0 Sigma Phi 0 Day Students 0 1.000 1.000 .500 .000 .000 .000 .000
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