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5 Three Flasher* Are Now Hitting Over 300 Mark Three of the Nbrth Wilkesboro Flashers are now hitting over the coveted 300 mark. Bob Wright, who has led the dab practically all the year with the war club, is still leading with 331, bat has slumped slightly in the past two weeks. Dave Davenport has climbed past the 300 mark after shaking off a slump and Is now hitting 309. Bob Hite, who has hit his stride in recent games, is above the 300 mark with 303. Cecil Fogleman has a 500 mark but played in only three games before he was Injured. John Childers, a pitcher, is also over 300. Following are unofficial aver ages for the season through Mon day night this week: Bob Wright —1 - 332 Dave Davenport — 309 Bob Hite _ 303 Horace Hubbard 250 Wayne Davis 205 Ed Morton 251 Bddie Bowman 249 Cecil Fogleman .7. 500 j Bill Hamlin .« 230 Charlie Morant 24*5 A-^ohn Childers 312 ▼ Dewey Wolfe 157 Gary Thornburg 150 Bob Thompson 130 Ralph Littman 200 o—— Revival At Ad ley Methodist Church Revival services at Adley Metho dist church will begin Sunday evening, July 30, 7:45 o'clock, and continue through the week with services each evening. Rev. W. C. Crummitt, pastor at Union; Grove, will assist the pastor, Rev. J. L. A. Bumgarner. All are Invited to the services. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Administra tor of the Estate of L L Carl ton, deceased late of Wilkes Coun ty, North Carolina, this is to no tify all persons having' claims a gainst the Estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersign ed at Boomer, N. C. Route 1 on or before the 13 day of July 1951, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to said Estate will please make immediate settlement. This the 15 day of July, 1950. CHARLIE W. CARLTON", Administrator of the Estate of L. L. Carlton, deceased. 8-21-6t(T) SPORTS Briefs Two of the best pitching pros pects in the Blue Ridge league j this year are Elkin's John Pyecha j and Radford's Tom McCftuley. Both have fast balls so necessary for major league hurling . . . . Jim Seccafico's son at Wytheville has had polio. Jim is the second i baseman . . . Tex Qrigg, manager j jat Galax, is deputy sheriff in Tex-, .as. . . . Recently he lost his wallet | [ with his deputy sheriff's papers. ] He lost it at Elkin . . . Mt. Airy's baseball status must have been re juvenated. The Granite City had j its largest crowd Monday night j and the team responded with a . resounding victory over Elkin . .1 The Colonial class B league has folded because of poor attendance and bad weather. . . . The Coastal Plains league in the eastern plrt of the state is in dire shape be cause of excessive rain. One team palyed only one home game in 15 days. . . . Baseball chain sys tems have a greater part of the talent cornered and independent clubs are finding it harder and harder to get rookie players who can compete with what the major league chain outfits have signed. Breaks — Someone said the winning teams make their own breaks. They also seem to get many not of their own making. At Elkin Saturday night a ground ball which North Wilkesboro play ers said hit an Elkin baserunner went all the way through and roll ed under the right field fence. Both runners scored. The official rules defines such a play as good for two bases only. The plate um pire called six pitches on the socks as strikes. Four were against North Wilkesboro. Three times runners were on base. Twice the low calls prevented walks. Here Sunday In the second inning of the last game base runner Bob Thompson was hit by a batted ball. A runner on third could not score because the ball was dead. The break killed a promising rally. Even the weather is against a losing team. In a game against Elkin here when the Blanketeers won 2-1 Wayne Davis powered a towering drive into right that looked like it was going over. At that exact instant a stiff wind blew down the river and stalled the ball in the air. It fell into % fielder's glove inside the fence. It takes an average attendance of about 700 paid per game to opjerate a class D club. If it makes LOCAL SCHOOLBOY 0110 TEAMS [ SE T TO TRAIN AT APPALACHIAN '" Report s on Meeting ■ * FOLLOWING a one-hour session of the Cabinet at the White House, Vice President Alben Barkley an- . swers questions at a press confer ence. The Korean war situation was considered at length by President Truman and members of his Cabi net (International Soundphoto) a nickel it takes more than that along with every other possible Bource of Income, including con cessions, box teats, score card ads, fence ads and miscellaneous in come .... gjhorty Brown is ex pected to play with a class B club next year . . . Sale of Elkin pitcher Pyecha is calculated to help the Elkin club out Of a hole financially this year. . . . Jeff Davis, Mt. Airy pitcher who hails from Tadkin, maybe should be come an outfieldes. He has won two games with pinch hitter home runs with the bases loaded. One was against North Wilkesboro and the other against Radford. . . Charlie Morant, North Wilkesboro left handed pitcher, is the Smooth est fielding first baseman in the Blue Ridge league. As a pitcher be has speed and control, the first two essentials. Last year he wac i high school star at Jacksonville, Florida. I One of the best outfielders in , Boone — aeven nigh school football teams of the Piedmdnt and Western sectiong of North Carolina will seek the cool moun tain air of Boone for preseason practice at Appalachian State Tea chers College beginning August 13, according to an announce-1 ment today by Appalachian Coach I E. C. Dugglns. Coaches Presnell Mull of Le noir, Marvin Hoffman of Wilkes boro, Jack Kiier Of Lincolnton, Frank Austin of Concord, Earl Broome of Newton-Conover, Tom Boyette of North Wilkesboro, and Bob Nolan of Boone will send their charges through two weeks of in tensive training on Appalachian practice fields, the sessions to cul minate in four night games at the end of the second week. Sponsored by the Boone Quar terback Club in co-operation with college athletic officials, th£ seven teams will be granted full use of «chool facilities, >and a number of Appalachian gridders now in Sum mer school will aid the various coaches in their training pro grams. This Summer marks the third season during which this unique grid program has been in opera tion, downstate coaches grasping at the chance not only to escape late Summer heat but to gain valuable assistance from season ed college players. In addition to those high school teams now scheduled for practice games. Coach Art Ditt will bring his Marion Marauders into camp on August 24 for a tilt with Coach Earl Broon\e's Newton-Conover eleven. Games now scheduled for the latter part of August are as fol lows, kickoff time to be at 8 p. m. at College Filed: August 23 — Boone vs. North Wilkesboro. August 24 — Newton-Conover vs. Marion. August 25 — Lincolnton vs. Wilkesboro. August 26 — Lenoir vs. Con cord. the league is Wayne Davis, Le noir youth now with North Wil kesboro. Wayne has power and speed and needs more experience at the bat. . . . Bob Hite remains the fastest man we have seen from the plate to first. He sur prised Elkin's Patterson by beat ing out a "Sunday school" bounder , to second base Saturday night . . .! Bob Wright- has a baseball play* j er's heart. He has filled in at four i positions, been injured twice and never gripes. He'll be up there in a few years. o Lenoir Optimist Club Horse Show Aug. 1 st | Scheduled for two night perfor mances, Tuesday and Wednesday, August 1st and 2nd, the second annual Lenoir Optimist Horse Show, will open at 8:00 p. m. at the Athletic field, with the top talent as to officials and exhibi tors, assembled from throughout the horse show world of the South eastern states. Returning this year for the sec ond time to manager the show Ib John L. Bowers, of Winston-Salem, N. C. who has managed a long string of highly successful horse shows throughout the Southern states during the past five yeras. He will be accompanied by his wife, Ruth, who serves as horse Bhow secretary. Judging the saddle horses is D. T. Lambeth, of Lum ber ton, N. C. who has bred and trained many of the nation's fin est walking horses, gaited ponies, and saddle horsse. He took two champions to the great Lexing ton horse show of 1949, and was the triner of the top winning horse of American Horse Shows in the walking horse division in 1948. His show ring, and training stable at Lumberton have housed many of the South'B finest horses. He will be assisted as Junior Judge of walking hores by Mrs. Dawson Morgan, social leader Of Cooke ville, Tenn., and owner of the mare who foaled the present worlds champion walking hoita. This mare is Merry Giovana, dam of Midnight Merry. Mrs. Morgan is chairman o the trophy commit tee of the Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration to be presented in Shelbvllle early In September. H. Glenn York of Elkin Is ring master and Judge of Jumpers. York has served as Judge and ringmaster at leading shows in North Carolina and the South. Entries are pouring Into the horse show mail box, and port able stables are being brought to Lenoir to house the more than 75 horses expected to compete here. A standard ring will be erec ted near the ball diamond on Tuesday: Persons interested in securing entry forms and prize lists may write the horse show manager John L. Bowers, Lenoir Optimist Horse Show, P. O. Box 2155, Le noir, N. C. . o Harvard university has the big gest bass drum on any American campus. It is eight feet high and travels on a four-wheeled carriage. It is valued at $8,000.
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