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SPEARHEADING
With
SPORTS
By ED SPEARS
k'KSVILLE and Canton will
ni! together here next Fri
a basketball session, which
move uretty interesting
has arranged a schedule
fi.,1.1 Mills. Kcusta ana
February competition . .
the high schools will com-
l i, schedule around Febru-
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Jlii nanients
lil'tcrwards
which follow
HY 31st is the final day
1 limiting in rvorm aro-
well as for rabbit, which
!lhc end ot me snooting
all practical purposes,
city of game in Haywood,
wing pretty acuie, is paniy
,1 ,y some hunters to the
jUs mat run loose uvci inc
liuying the young rab-
cte. More strict pro'
thought needed, with
closer regulation of dogs and bear
ing down on season-jumping hunt
ers. FISHERMEN might keep an eye
on what is happening at the meet
ing being held by Smoky Mountain
Dayton Will
Meet Beacon
Mills Here
Sat. Night
Sylva VFVV Downs
Daytonites 42-26
In Heturn Engagement
! Monday
I Dayton Rubber company's quint,
I losers 42 to 26 to the Sylva VFW in
a return engagement there Mon
i day night, meet a new foe on the
WTHS court
Likes Pro Golf
Saturday nicht in
Park officials along at this time1 , 1 "MS lne v,s,tors have a
of year. The W.N.C. Associated ! Kood reeord 50 lar tnis season. with
Communities, in a proposal de- prols,'ts lor Sood game. There
signed by a sub-comimttee headed i , ube " PreIin'nary, and the
by Charles Ray, is urging the Park th. Wl!l 8et Under Way at 7:30
to expand operation of the Smoke- 0 "LV . , . .
mont fish hatcherv to nmriu ,, . . '" l,l"tls ul uoln arns were
trout for Park streams. Also to
open more oi me streams to fisher
men, since fishing is one of the
main attractions of this area from
a tourist angle, and a primary en
joyment of a large percentage of
the folks who live here, it is im
portant that the people in Western
North Carolina keep an eye on the
future of our streams and lakes
nign scorers Monday, B. Phillips
sinking 22 points for Sylva and
Boone dropping in 9 for Dayton.
In the first meeting between the
two teams Dayton had beaten Sylva
44-36.
Pos. Sylva VFW (42) Dayton (26)
F R. Phillips Messer 6
F J. Fisher (6) Gardner (1)
C B. Phillips (22) Ronnp Qi
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ONE WRITER says the number
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Games This Week
Friday, January 17
Waynesville at Crabtree
St. John's at Belmont
Sand Hill at Bethel
Cherokee at Fines Creek
Canton at Sylva
Saturday, January 18
Beacon Mills at Dayton
Tuesday, January 21
Clyde at Fines Creek
Canton at Mars Hill.
HUNTING MISHAPS IKK
MAINE LEGISLATURE
AP Netos features
BOSTON Twenty-seven per
sons were killed and 57 others
wounded in New England., hunt
ing accidents up to the first week
in December.
Maine authorities said 13 of the
17 hunters shot to death there
were mistaken for deer. Maine
showed the heaviest toll of all six
New England states and the Maine
legislature may do something about
Griffin (4)
Subs: Sylva McClure 7, T.
Fisher. Dayton Arlington, Trout-man.
Rod
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By TOM WALKER
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women's amateur links champion
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peting as an amateur, and Ibat 'Tin
getting mole fun out of playing
now than I ever did before."
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NEW ARMY ... As tremendous
as rod and gun pressure already
has become during the postwar
period, the nation's fields and
streams have yet to see the peak
of the load, in the opinion of Al
beit M. Day, director of the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
"Peace can bo harder on wildlife
than war," Day declared in the
Service's annual report to Secre
tary of the Interior J. A. Krug, and
it will take "the most careful plan
ning and the most unremitting ef
fort" to prevent "serious and ir
remediable damage" to wildlife.
Adding up to the overwhelming
threat to wildlife resources are a
peacetime army of hunters and
fishermen which already outnum
bers the nation's wartime military
forces, greater availability of gas
oline, tires, jeeps, and civilian
planes to make wilderness areas
accessible, and vast engineering
developments under way on the
nation's rivers, the report said.
Pointing to the sharp increase in
the number of licenses issued to
hunters and fishermen even before
the end of the war, Day predicted
that the number of sportsmen soon
will double the prewar figure.
St. John's Loses
To Crabtree, Will
Play At Belmont
Locals to Meet
Belmont Abbey,
Sacred Heart
Academy Teams
Tonight
The Sla. John's basketball teams
will play at Belmont tonight. Op
posing the girls will be the Sacred
Heart Academy learn, and the boys
will meet the Belmont Abbev quin
tet. Crabtree's cagers won a double
victory over St. John's on their
home floor Tuesday night, llogan,
with 12 points to her credit, was
high scorer as the girls fought to
a 27-17 verdict, while their tall
center, McCrackcn. led the Crab
tree quint to a decisive 'Mi-'A vic
tory.
Girls' line-up:
i St. John's (17)
I Pos.
F Potts
P Boyd
F Morris
G Majtel
G Mormino
G - Kirkpat i ick
Fines Creek
Wins Over
Cherokee
Cage Teams
Both Crabtree
Teams Were Beaten
By Fines Creek
Last Friday
Fines Creek defeated both Crab
tree teams in last Friday night's
games Oil their home court, instead
of losing one game as reported
Tuesday. McCreary and Woody
led the girls to a 18-9 win over
their neighboring rivals, while R.
L. Ledford, McElroy and Jack
Green were the big point makers
when the boys downed Crabtree 45
to 21.
Tuesday night they piled up an-
I other pair of one-sided wins when
j playing at Cherokee. The Indians
will attempt a comeback tonight
; at Fines Creek, with the games
; starting at 7:30.
i Ruth Woody and Kirkpatrlck
i were high scorers in the Tuesday
! opener, when the Cherokee lassies
1 were unable to score the first half.
Some of the Fines Creek third
stringers got to see action before
the final whistle blew, with the
score 30 to 5.
Green and McElroy paced the
boys in their 26 to 12 win. Neither
of the Fines Creek guards, nor the
Cherokee forwards were able to
make a point. Walker stood out
for the losers.
Girls' line-up:
Pos. F. Creek (18) Crabtree (9)
McCreary (8) Chambers
Woody (6) Wells (3)
Rathbone (4) Hogan (6)
Walker . Ledford
Jenkins Bishop
Davis Crawford
Subs: Fines Creek M. Ferguson,
C. Ferguson, Kirkpatrick.
Leaves Pirates
Boys' line-up:
Pos. F. lreck(45) Crabtree (21)
F Ledford (15) Rogers 7
F McElroy (12) Best (5)
C Greene (10) McCracken (2)
G Swanger (2) Milnes G
G Russell (2) Hayney (1)
Subs: Fines Creek James 2,
Noland, Rogers 2, H. Green, D.
Green, Taylor, Justice. Crabtree
Caldwell.
Crabtree (27)
Hogan
Wells
Noland
ledford
James
Massie
Boys' line-up:
St. John's (3)
Pos.
F Ward
F Willis
C RJiea
G Ray
G Fcichler
Crabtree (36)
Rogers
Best
McCracken
Caldwell
Hayney
FIRST IN LINE . . . Waterfowl
were among the first game species
to show the effects of too much
hunting, Day said. The heavy bag
of ducks and geese during the
1944 and 1945 seasons, coupled
with drought on the nesting
grounds, has brought about an
alarming decline in the popula
tion of waterfowl.
Fish and Wildlife Service esti
mates of the 194G populations of
waterfowl showed only about 80
million of these birds in the entire
continent, compared with 125 mil
lion two years earlier, the report
declared.
On a continent-wide basis, all
species of game ducks except the
black duck and the blue-winged
teal were on the decline when the
Service made its 1946 checks of
winter areas, nesting grounds, and
favorite resting places during mi
gration. Among j'cese, the Canada
and white-fronted both were declining--the
Canada so seriously
lhal on the entire Mississippi fly
way I lie shooting of this species
had lo be suspended during 1946.
OTHER GAME BIRDS . . . Of
the stains of game birds other
than ducks and geese, the report
; included this:
Mourning dines, hard hit by the
severe winlur el llMll. now seem
to have made almost a complete
recovery. To maintain this species
on the game lisl. however, manage
ment bused on scientific studies is
needed.
The abundance of rails in gen
eral is satisfactory: coots, on the
other band, are becoming scarcer.
Girls' line-up:
Pos. F. Creek (30) Cherokee (5)
F Rathbone (6) Tubhv (3)
McCreary 3 ) Cheltisky
Woody (10) Saunooke (2)
Walker Bradley
Davis Lambert
Jenkins - Parker
Subs: Kirkpatrick 9, M. Fergu
son 2, Haynes, Ferguson, Price,
Ledford, Kinsland, Justice. Chero
kee Sneed, Craig.
WILLIAM BENSWANGER, pre
sident of the Pittsburgh National
League baseball club for the past
14 years, found himself without a
job when the Pirates were sold to
Frank E. McKinney and his associ
ates. He rose from treasurer of the
club to president at the death of
his father-in-law, Harney Dreyfuss.
"I was the only man in the family,"
he related, "and literally got dump
ed into baseball.''
Clyde Boys Win,
Girls Lose In
Tilts With Canton
Canton's girls team won the ini
tial game of a doubleheader at
Clyde High school Tuesday night
36 to 16, with Taylor the high
scoring forward in the contest.
The Clyde boys then repeated what
they had done previously on the
Black Bear court, trimming Can
ton 40 lo 29. Rogers accounted for
13 points for scoring honors.
Girls Lineup:
Waynesville Cagers Win
Over Cullowhee; Play
At Crabtree Tonight
Girls Win 42-17,
Boys Take 31-28
Victory in Tuesday
Night Tilts
Waynesville high school took a
pair of wins Tuesday night at Cul
lowhee, and will meet the Crabtree
teams tonight there, starting at
7:30 o'clock. Crabtree was de
feated Dec. 6 by the locals in their
first game this season.
With Scales absent from the line
up Tuesday, Ensley was shifted to
forward and shared high scoring
honors witn McracKen in the
opening match at Cullowhee, which
the girls won easily 42-17, The
Mountaineers had a tighter match
with the Cullowhee quintet, with
Robinson and Shook the leading
scorers as they notched up a :il-21!
victory.
Girls' line-up:
I Black Bears Trim,
Greenies 43-37
.
The Black Bears took the meas
ure of Christ School Wednesday.,
afternoon at Canton, coming from
a 22-22 tie at the half to defeat
the Greenies 43-37. Clyde Miller
shot 17 points for the winners, fend
Duffy was high man, with 14 points,
for Christ School.
Pos. Canton (43)
F Miller tl7i
F McClure Hilt
C M. Stiles Mil
G .1. Miller
G Smathers 1 10)
Subs: Canton -Matthews.
Sheehan.
C. School (51)
Duffy 114)
Kirby(5)
Holmes, (t)
Mebanet ()
Shuford (1)
Sharp, B. Stiles,
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Boys' line-up:
Cullowhee C.'.X)-
Pos. Clyde (16)
F Evans 1 0
Fish i2i
Stanley
Med ford
Collins
Presslev
Subs: Cl do-
Smith. Morgan.
Ingle
Canton (36)
Taylor (151
Griffin 4
Hendrix (7i
Robinson (2)
Reno
Tat ham
-Mann, Jones 4,
Canton llaney 4,
4. Woodruff. Carver Burrell.
Kovs Lineup:
Pos. Clyde (40) Canton (29)
F Rogers i13i ,1. Smathers (12)
F Leathorwood itti C. Miller (2i
C Limbo ifti M. Stiles ill)
G Brown (4i J. Miller
G Cullen i7i D. Stiles
Subs: Clyde Graham, Hardin,
Sizemore, Morgan, McClure. Can
ton Hendrix, Matthews, S. Smath
ers, McChove 4. Sharp.
Boys' line-up:
Pos. F.Creek (26) Cherokee (12)
Ledford (4)
McElroy (10)
Greene (12)
Swanger
Russell
J. Bradley
B. Larch
Smith (4i
Maney (2)
Walker (6)
hatcheries furnished 7.6 million
fish in 1945 enough for 13,27(i in
dividual plantings.
it.
Maine politicians said they may
propose that the legislature make
it a law to wear red clothing in
the woods, or conduct examina
tions for men seeking hunting licenses.
In Massachusetts, one hunter
was killed and another wounded
critically when they mistook each
other for deer and fired almost
simultaneously.
HELP EOR FISH . . . Wartime
rationing of gasoline and tires
proved a blessing to the country's
inland game fishes. Day said, and
except near large centers of popu
lation the stocks of these fish had
a chance to recover from heavy
prewar angling.
Service hatcheries during the
calendar year 194 produced a total
of 5.5 billion fish and eggs, the
bulk of which was the eggs of ma
rine commercial species. To meet
the increasing demand for fish to
stock small farm ponds, Service
FEDERAL AID . . . Cooperative
projects for the restoration of wild
life were financed by a $1. 000,000
appropriation during the fiscal year
1946, the report said. Money for
these projects comes from an ex
cise tax on firearms and ammuni
tion, Congressional appropriations
from this fund being supplemented
by a state appropriation of 25 per
cent of the cost of each project.
deer season, the Richmond Count v
llr.l.r'lINl, HAINU . . . Action ot Club cmnlovcd mival,. rnim.l I,.
uie Cumberland county wildlile help in a case of attempted night
ciud a iew oays ago in pncning lighting brought against two men
by Protectors Jack Rivers and
found three freshly killed doe deer,
a .22 calibre rifle equipped with a
silencer, and a portable spotlight.
The two were turned over lo Oscar
Chadwick, fish and game protector,
who charged them with killing doe
deer, hunting deer at night with
artificial light, and using a firearm
with a silencer. In court, the
hunters were fined $300 and costs
each, and the driver of their car,
in addition, was ordered to pay
$800 lor damage to the oll'icers'
car.
A somewhat similar case, in
which a highway patrolman also
lent a hand in an automobile chase,
came up in Surry County early in
December. In t his, the Surry
County Club had private counsel
help w ilh prosecution of eight men,
in two parties, charged with at
tempted night-lighting of deer af
ter arrest by Division Supervisor
Robert I". Logan and Protectors
Frank Mackie, Hugh Robertson,
and William White. The eight
pleaded guilty and paid lines of
$100 and costs each.
Just prior to opening of the
I Pos.
Cullowhee (17) Waynesville (42). p Bryson i7)
Pos.
F Watson 3) Phillips i (i i
F Adams )8 McCracken i17i
F Tolbert i (i Ensley (12
G Zachary Mehal't'ey
G Styles Bryson (9)
G Sutton Wyatt
Subs: Cullowhee--Parker. Way
nesville Ferguson 3, Francis,
-Waynesville (SI)
F
C
ti
G
Taylor 6i
D. Norton i 10)
L. Norton i 3 )
Simpson i2
Subs: Cullouliei
nesville Gruhl 4.
Powers (4)
Caldwell (2)
Robinson (10)
Messer (2)
Shook (9)
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In the Cumberland case, the
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fines of $100 and costs for each of
the defendants.
FISHERIES IN PARK . . . Two
representatives of the Division of
Game and Inland Fisheries went to
Gatlinburg, Tenn . this week to
talk with II. S. Park Service and
Fish and Wildlife Service officials
about the fisheries program in the
Great Smoky Mountains National
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85 miles an hour and which ended I
five miles from the start with both
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