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Dwight Nichols, Sports Editor NAMES OH ROSTER, THIS WEEK In, process of reorganization with many new faces on the •quad, the North Wllkesboro Flashers this week continued to lose but showed definite promise of becoming a winning team. In the game here Monday night there were only three players from the lineup of two weekB ago and the remainder were new arrivals. This new team fought Radford through ten innings and lost in the tenth 4 to 3 after knotting the count with two in the ninth. Catching was Johnny Mercak, who returned • here from Greens boro, where he had been playing well In class B ball as a relief catcher. On first was Horace Hub bard. tall and hard hitting veter and from Kernersville. He played three years in the Carolina league and last year with Elkin. On sec ond was Ed Morton, who has been iTer% all season. Ed Bowman, of Kernersville, is the new short stop, and hi playing well in that position as well a« pounding the ball hard. Dave Davenport, one of the molt dependable of the ori ginal team here, is on third. In the outfield Flash Loman had Wayne Davis, hard hitting rookie from Lenoir who had been with Landis, Bob Hite, of last year's championship team, who UPTOWN SERVICE STATION NOW OPEN ON SUNDAYS 8:00 a. m. - 5:00 p. m. Amoco Products — Washing, Lubricating, Polishing, Waxing WANT A TAXI? Coll 52 or 254 BUSIC CABS . At Uptown Service Station has returned here after being at New Bern, and Don Boseo, of Joilet, 111., who played some in the Ohio-Indiana league. Alvis Coram started on the mound for North Wilkesboro, went out in the second and was relieved by Bill Hamlin, who pitched superb, ball until he went out in the ninth tor pinch hitter Bob Wright, who drove in two runs to tie the score with a single. Bill Byrd, WilKesboro high school ace, pitched the tenth. Sloboda hit to right and the ball was erred on the ground, allowing Sloboda to go to second. He advanced to third on an infiled out and scored on'a fly. In the bottom of the tenth Davenport doubled with two out and the scoring hit failed to fal low. At Radfora Tuesday night the Rockets won a wild game 18 to 11. Thompson started and was reliev ed by Corum in the big third, when Radford scored eight times. North Wilkesboro came back with a good hitting attack but couldn't catch up. The Rockets had eighteen hits to 13 for North Wilkesboro, but walks spelled the difference | Thompson ran into a wild streak, which proved to be his downfall in the third. Wytheville will play here Sat urday night and Radford will be here Monday night. Elkin will ! play here on Tuesday night, July 4. i—o Virginia Ham Given Brushoff By G.B.S. it Abingdon, Va.—Irish Play wright George Bernard Shaw turns up his nose at a Virginia ham and doesn't care who knows it. The Barter Theatre received a brushoff from the famous vege tarian when it sent him the ham as a traditional royalty payment. "Send me some spinach in stead," Shaw answered. — Want Ads Pay Dividends Wytheville — The annual Blue Ridge League all-star game will be staged at the Elkin park on July 9, It Was decided at a meet ing of, the league directors here Friday. The all-star contest will match a select group of players from the three teams In the league from' North Carolina against an all-Btar squad of the Virginia clubs. The Carolina squad will be com posed of six players each from E>1 kin, Mount Airy, and North Wll kesboro. Manager Tlge Harris ot the league-leading Blanketeers will handle the reins of the Tar Heel allrstars. v The manager for the Virginia team has not been selected. The choice will be made between Steve Sloboda of Radford. Gabby Hart nett of Wytheville and J. B. Grigg of Galax. Six players from each of Wythe ville, Galax and Radford will make up the Virginia all-star ag gregation. The players to compose the all-star squad will be selected by the respective managers. At a loop meeting yesterday several decisions were reached by the directors, including the in crease in number of class men allowed from two to three, a move which was approved ten tatively recently bu^ completed yesterday. This is expected to raise the calibre of play in the league. They also voted to . put time limits on games: No single game can start before 7:45 p. m. nor can the last inning start after 10:50 p. m.; No Sunday dou ble-header can start before 1:30 p.„ m. and single games can not be started until 2:30. —o «— Wright Leading Flashers Batting With A 345 Mark Bob Wright continued to lead I the North Wilkeshoro Flashers; baseball team this week with a' lusty 345 average. The powerful hitter also leads in total bases and in runs batted in. With so many new players on the squad it was difficult to figure batting averages. Dave Davenport, consistently a good hitter, hit a slight slump during the week and fell to 296. Ed Morton, one Of the other remaining regulars, had 246. Following are averages of those who have played several games, as figured through Monday night's game: Bob Wright . —1 345 Dave Davenport 296 Drake Pardue — 312 Bill Hamlin 230 Bob Hite 259 Ed Bowman .... 500 Wayne Davis — 250 For several of the new players the averages mean little, because they have been at bat only a few times in the games included in the above tabulation. -o Blue Ridge League Schedule For Week Thursday, June 29 North Wilkesboro at Galax. Elkin at Wytheville. Mt. Airy at Radford. Friday, June 80 North Wilkesboro at Wytheville. Elkin at Mt. Afry. Galax at Radford. Saturday, July 1 Wytheville at N. Wilkesboro. Mt. Airy at Elkin. Radford at Galax. Sunday, July 2 North Wilkesboro at Radford. Elkin at Galax. Mt. Airy at Wytheville. Monday, July 8 Radford at North Wilkesboro. Galax at Elkin. Wytheville at Mt. Airy. Tuesday, July 4 Afternoon: N. Wilkesboro at Elkin. Night: Elkin at North Wilkes boro. Galax at Mt. Airy. Radford at Wytheville. Wednesday, July 5 North Wilkesboro at Elkin. Galax at Mt. Airy. Radford at Wytheville. 3 Thursday, July 6 Mt. Airy at North Wilkesboro. Elkin at Radford. Wytheville at Galax. v h j < 0—i ■ Some 92 home demonstration club members from 15 iponntain counties attended a recent-three day handicarft workshop at the 4^H Club Camp near Waynesville. Boone — The second annual presentation , of "Echoes of the Blue Ridge" opens Friday, June 30, and will be presented nightly through July 4. All performances will be staged at the athletic field of Appalachian State Teachers Col lege. Curtain time for prelimin ary events will be 7:15 p. m., with the pageant beginning at 8:30. The presentation has been great ly enlarged this year, and large nightly is only day celebration . , "special." Friday, June 30, 1b College Day, honoring Dr. B. B. Dougherty, President and Co founder of Appalachian State Tea chers College. Saturday is Far mer's Day, with a huge agricul tural parade; Sunday Is Worship Day, with quartets, choirs, choruses, and congregational sing ing. Monday is Circus Day with a Lenoir, June 26.—Officers to day sought a man who last night entered an apartment and struck Mrs. Andrew Harless, Jr., on the head with a milk bottle. The glass shattered under the impact of the blow. Officers said » 1 ■ Mrs. bruise faujj^local emergency ' Top honors in the Trt-Coonty 4-H Club Lamb Show for 1950 ▼ere won by a Watauga County youth, Bob Wltoon of Sugar Grove, ] who exhibited both tho grand champion and the reserve cham pion.
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