THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT FLASHERS BATTLE MT. AIRY - j m 11 INNINGS, LOSE 8 To 7 With several holes yet to be plugged* North Wilkesboro Flash ers lost to Galax at Galax Mon day night 5 to 1 and to Mt. Airy at Mt. Airy Tuesday night 8 to 7 in 11 innings. At Galax the patched up line up found the going rough in the Held and committed a lumber of errors which accented for a greater part of Galax's five runs. Lee Bentley went the route for North Wilkesboro and allowed seven hits, although only five of the seven could rightfully be call ed hits. North Wilkesboro collect ed only three singles off Webb, the hits being by Davenport, Wright and Thompkins, pinch hitter. At Mt. Airy The Flashers lost no time boosting their batting av erages off the fast balls Of Wascq, Brooklyn farm hand, and scored six runs in the second frame. Bob Hite, playing his first game for North Wilkesboro this year, col lected three hits in his first three times at bat. Dlake Pardue had two well timed hits and drove in ttree runs. Eggleston succeeded j^asco and was the winning pit cher. Mike Sfcheer went the route for North Wilkesboro and could have won easily had defenses been tigh ter in the field. The players play ing tfut of position had much dif ficulty playing on Mt. Alry's field and errors were plentiful. In the eleventh two Granlteers got on through error but it ap peared that the game might be saved for the Flashers when Dick Stockton threw a perfect strike from center field to cuf down a Mt. Airy runner at the plate, but a succeeding batter lined one into center to get in the winning run. o Baseball Try-Out At Lenoir 3 Days . - - L«enoir, June 19 — A ty-out camp for baseball players will be held here June 26, 27 and 28 under sponsorship of the New York Giants. Bill Harris, chief scout in the Carolinas and Virginia for the Giants, and Dale Alexander, form er major leaguer, will conduct the camp. Practice begins-at 10 a. m. daily during the three-day period. All boys between the ages of 17 and 21 are invited to participate in the camp. Boys must bring their uniform, shoes and glove. Those who are signed to contracts with any club in the New York Giants organization will have ex penses refunded, Harris has stat ed. Big Bob Wright Leading Flashers With 353 f igure With four regulars of the North Wilkesboro baseball club off the roster, the batting averages for this week listed several pitchers who have been playing all over the field while replacements have been awaited. •But the averages this week have a new leader In Bob Wright, whp has been filling in at first base since Tom JDaddlno left the club. During the past week the batting average of the powerful Wright jumped from 280 to a lusty 353, which indicates that his 220 pounds of bone and muscle thrive on regular duty. Dave Davenport, the other bat ter of the one-two punch Of the Flashers during the past week, climbed from 317 to 339. Bernie Loman, who quit as ma nager of the club, previously had led with 341, and Tom Daddino, who also quit the club, was bat ting 313. The figures below are near com plete for the season through Mon day night's game at Galax. Bob Wright 353 Dave Davenport 339 Joe Subbiondo 226 Ed Morton 230 Dick Stockton 222 Carter Lentz 268 Alex Dubrosky 190 Mike Scheer 166 Bill Hamlin 241 Lee Bentley 125 Leslie Rhoades . 428 Morgan Tompkins — 333 Alvls Corum 080 A1 Pearson __ 133 o Bob Hite Returns To Flashers Team Bob Hite, one of the fastest players ever to grace a Blue Ridge baseball field, has returned to play outfield for the North Wil kesboro Flashers. Last year Hite played here, bat ted 302 and made such a good record that he was called up to Greensboro in the Class B Caro lina league. He played in several games with Greensboro and in the last game there before being farmed out to New Bern in the Coastal Plains league he collected six hits. At New Bern Hite had only hard luck. First was an eye in jury and four weeks ago he pulled tendons in his left side and was sidelined for four weeks. Doctors have now given him the go ahead signal. Hite, always a very popular player here, is now in good con dition and tips the scales at 177. -JS o Blue Ridge League Schedule For Week Friday, June 23 North Wilkesboro at Wythe- \ ville. - Elkin at Mt. Airy. Galax at Radford. Saturday, June 24 North Wilkesboro at E