Bobby Merrill Hugh Sizemore More Basketballers.... Here are five more mem bers of the boys’ basketball team which concluded its season recently. Upper right is Hugh Sizemore who spark ed team in late season games; upper left is Bob Merrill, former Etowah High star, and left is Claude Laughter, also from Etowah. Two Ecusta mainstays, Conley McKin- nish, left, and Ollie Taylor, right, are shown below. Claude Laughter L i Cagers End Season Our basketball teams have put their attractive uniforms in the moth balls until next season as a round of tournaments climax ed the 1947-48 schedule. The girls completed the sea son with eight wins against six defeats. In their final two games of the season, they whipped Haw Creek 34-11, but succumb ed to Martel in the Henderson ville tournament, 24-15. In the W. N. C. League standings, Ecusta tied Canton for second place with 3 wins and 3 de feats. Martel won the league title. Running into tough luck throughout the season, the boys won four and lost 12, five of the defeats being decided by a margin of six points or less. In their final home game, the men defeated Southern Dairies 59-52 and they won their first game in the Asheville Y tournament 47- 31 from Central Y. In the sec ond tournament appearance, however, Woodfin defeated us 48-45. Hugh Sizemore was chosen on the all-tournament second team and Speedy Merrell was the choice for the third team. "Support the Red Cross" TELEPHONE CHANGES Dorothy S. Sams—Brevard 187-J. Matthew A. Schlosser—Bre vard 618-J. Lita Steppe—Brevard 416-J. "Support the Red Cross" W. N. C. Industrial Baseball League Season Opens April 17 Conley McKinnish Ollie Taylor 22

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