SPORTS...
Above: The Champion Bees. Front row (I. to r.)
John Emory, Charley Cook, Howard Schmidt. Back
row: Lloyd Harris, Art Lindley, John Goldberger.
LATE SPORTS NEWS
(As the Sports Section went to press, the
following news came in. Too late to be in
cluded as featured news, it is reprinted here
as it appeared in the Asheville Citizen.) A
complete report on the W. N. C. League will
be included in the next issue of The Echo.
ECUSTA BOWLERS WIN TEN PIN
LEAGUE CROWN
The Ecusta bowling team won the West
ern North Carolina Ten Pin League title by
one game margin over three teams.
The team is captained by Joe Lavell and
Chris Rogers.
The runner-up teams were Hendrix’s
Cloverleaf Drive-In and Champion Y of
Canton.
The team is composed of Bruce Reynolds,
Lewis Meece, Lavell, John Emory, and Ed
Lass.
The American Enka team beat the Ecusta
team three points but Ecusta had enough to
pull through with the win, while Hendrix’s
and Cloverleaf were dropping two.
t BEES WIN CHAMPIONSHIP
HILLBILLIES PLACE SECOND
PIRATES THIRD
The mighty Bees clinched the 1951-52 cham
pionship on Friday, March 21 by handing the
Clear Paper Bowlers a 3 to 0 stinging. Taking
over the league’s lead November 30, the Bees
were never headed. They held on to the number
one spot for the remainder of the season.
Going into the final night of bowling, the Bees
were enjoying a 6 game lead. They were set back
3 to 0 on March 28 by the Maintenance keglers,
but still remained three games ahead of their
closest competitor. Totals for the season show a
record of 49 wins against 32 defeats for the
champion Bees.
Second, third and fourth place honors were not
decided until the season’s last three games. Al
though losing their last match to the Cello-Mecks
by a score of 2 games to 1, the Hillbillies, by vir
tue of the one game win, copped second place
with a record of 46 wins and 35 losses. The Cello-
^ Meeks’ final two game win enabled them to move
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