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Tennis record good
as season closes
Mercer’s tennis team kept
it’s winning record intact by
defeating Georgia Southwest
ern and Georgia College at Mill-
edgeville, following a defeat to
a tough Emory team last Tues
day. Mercer is now 10-6 on the
season. Though the Hears lost
to Emory at Atlanta. 6-3, (they
aK“ lost to the same team earli
er ihts season at Mercer) they
goi a good performance out of
several p'ayers. Mitchell Sch-
waliber and George Wvche won
their singly games, and Charlie
Bowen, Mercer’s number one
tennis player, got back on the
winning track by defeating Bob
Paine, 6-4, 6-3.
The next game sent the
Bears down to Americus to
play Georgia Southwestern.
When the smoke cleared, Mer
cer’s netmen prevailed with a
5-1 victory, winning four of
the six singles matches. Bowen
and Schwabber continued their
winning, ways with relatively
easy victories. Gene Armstrong
and Steve Cotter were also vic
torious, in the singles depart
ment; the doubles team of
Schwabber-Armstrong pro
vided the only doubles victory.
For the Georgia College at
Milledgeville game, the Bears
returned home and celebrated
with an 8-1 triumph. The only
Bear netman to lose was John
Lowery, but he lost a very
tough 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 game.
Bowen continued to lead the
way on the bright side, with a
6-1, 6-1 victory Over Frank
Fowler. The other Bears also
played extremely well, but
these days the victories come a
little sweeter to Charles. A bad
toe which has held his usually
hustling game down to a slow,
defensive struggle, is still both
ering him, but he has learned
to play with it, and his im
proved record shows it. An-
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Cluster Sports Writer -
other Bear who has been im
pressive Is the number two
man, Mitchell Schwabber. He
has now won his last four
single games in a row, and in a
lot of those, he has had to
come from behind to win.
Mercer went back on the
road to play Oglethorpe, on
Tuesday, May 5, and Georgia
College, Thursday, May 7, be
fore returning to the home
courts to finish out the season
against Georgia Southwestern
on Monday, May 11.
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ship and that editors would
have “full authority apd
responsibility to regulate the
entire contents of their pub
lications.” Any actions which
the Board might take would
have to be after publication.
Dr. Ralph Phelps, vice presi
dent for development submit
ted a minority report which
attacked both the structure
and philosophy of the Board.
In his statement Dr. Phelps said
“The make up of the commit
tee, which gives students a
majority, makes the entire idea
of university control of publi
cations a farce.”
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Undefeated Teams
vie for softball lead
Intramural softball is devel
oping some heavy competition
with SAE, SN and ATO con
tending for the lead.
Monday brought the
SAE-UA game with both side
seeing some heated ball play
ing. As the game opened SAE
loaded the bases and a sacrifice
to the outfield brought in two
runs. The UA’s came back in
the same inning and tied the
game up. SAE in the second in
ning started getting fired up
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and pushed three runs across
and an KB1 in the third period
of play. But the UA’s, not to
be put down so early in the
game, slugged four runs them
selves and again tied the game
6-6.
Thinfg slowed in the fourth
but in the fifth SAE got the
ball rolling with Bruce McCalis
ter putting one through the
shortstop’s legs. Five more base
hits put SAE ahead 12-6.
Rather shaken up with the
E’s rally, UA Charlie Walters
made a terrific home run over
the left fielder’s lead, bringing
in a base hit with him. A base
hit turned into a double as an
enthusiastic spectator, Chris
Morgan, stopped a dropped
throw to first with his foot.
Questioned about the incident,
Morgan stated, “I forgot.”
“Wheels McCalister” in the
top of the sixth smashed a line
drive through the shortstop but
while rounding first unfortun
ately wiped out. A base hit by
Sutton McGeehee brought in
two more runs and a double by
Tommy Willis pushed McGee
hee home. A base hit by David
Taylor and a bunt by coach
Eddy Roberts led to a double
steal. A sacrifice to the outfield
chalked up two more for the
Greeks. In the bottom of the
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seventh the UA’s squeezed in
one more run but the game
ended in favor of SAE, 16-9.
Undefeated SN played the
Phi Delt’s. Early in the game
SN stretched their lead out
with nine runs on five hits,
four errors and three walks. Phi
Delt David Bottoms came back
in the next inning with a base
hit but this proved Phi Delt’s
only score as the game ended
in the fourth with SN 11, Phi
Delt’s 1. For SN, Bobby Potter
was leading slugger with three
hits and Steve New and Vernon
Greene each with two hits.
Pi Kap’s went down to KA,
losing 4 : 6. The highlight of the
game was “lightening toes Joe
Uzman” stealing a base to ,the
amazement of all. Joe’s pitch
ing led the KA’s to victory.
Third Even put out Pi Kap
17-11. After four innings Third
Even pulled ahead .15-1 and Pi
Kap went into the decision
making bottom of the fourth
do or die. But the Pi Kap’s
came through with Kermit
McManus smashing a grand
slam bringing the score to 15-5.
Third Even went on to win
17-11.
Another undefeated team,
ATO just got by the Lawyers
4-3 with a tremendous effort
by Paul Howell. At the top of
the aeventh the Lawyers push
ed a man to third with ohe out.
At this time the score was 4-3
and a Lawyer thought he could
tie up the game with a bunt.
Howell picked *up the bunt,
tagged the lawyer out coming
home and threw the runner out
at first with a squeeze play.
MIMA won over Kappa Sig
12-2.
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of cooperation from the people
who lived there.”
Bruce Gandy summed up
the feeling of most Mercer stu
dents who participated in
Spring Cleaning 70: “The
people were just great. It made
me feel really good — and they
were doing most of the work.”
WHI it last; “For a little
while maybe,” said the lady
with a newly painted gable and
shored up porch, “for a long
while, 1 hope.” Then the
streets grew quiet after the
day’s activity as the workers
departed for their respective
homes.
Participating residents re
ceived a garbage can to em
phasize the clean-up aspect of
the program and an American
flag to symbolize the spirit and
heritage that made Spring
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went back to being a bit sleepy
and a little tired with the set
ting sun. But the community is
a lot cleaner.
Harris
speaks on
protests
The big iasue in youth pro
tests is how to amalgamate
them into “an effective stream
of national action,” Mercer
University President Rufus C.
Harris told an Honors Day au
dience at Valdosta State Col
lege Wednesday, May 6.
The amalgamation is neces
sary, Dr. Harris said, “if we
avoid the harraasment of splin
tered bands of rebellious forces
rending the national unity.”
The college will be a princi
pal force in this amalgamation
if it is permitted to function
without “distortion."
Hie speaker outlined Ways
in which the college endeavor
is distorted. One is relevancy.
“A college must give its prior
ity to those who comprehend
that the worth and dignity of
knowledge does not depend
solely upon its current useful
ness ... a college must take the
long view.”
Another way to distort a
college is to expect it to retreat
from the day-to-day business
of life. “Perhaps there may
have been a day when a college
could have beep for both fa
culty and students a secure and
serene retreat from the world.
There Is no such day now.”
The college. Dr. Harris said,
“must be a part of the society
which gives it birth, which
nourishes it ... Neither its fac
ulty nor its students can be in
sulated from the concerns, im
perfections, struggles and re
quirements of that society.”
The partisans in each of
these two camps are equally
dangerous. For “the college
cannot survive as an arena for
gladiatorial groups to fight to
the death ...
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