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TUESDAY, APRIL VI, 1M8
Ecusta Rallies for 9-8 Win
BOSTON OPENS BASEBALL SEASON
SPEARHEADING
With
SPORTS
By FJD SPEARS
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HAZELWOOD HAS lost a pair of games the hard way
both by one-run margins. Enka put the heat on in the sixth
to win .1-2, and Ecusta came from behind in the eighth to win
9-8. In the first game Hazel wood's deficit of hits cost the vie-:
tory, but this wasn't true at Ecusta, where it looked like old
times as Milner, Dudley et al. brought about a change of
pitchers eaily in the game and apparently had a safe lead of:
-I alter lour innings. It seemed to be in the books that
Hazelwood Lead
Slips In Eighth
Inning Uprising
Clint Morris Holds
Hazelwood After
Suttles Is Belted
From Mound
Victory again slipped out of
Ilazf lw.xxj s hands in the final
stages of play as Ecusta made the
eighth their big inning and wrote
a final score of 9 to 8 Saturday
afternoon.
Elmer Dudley, utility infielder
anri mit4ia1Hir thja rmet tun wb.
ecusta would start connecting with Dudley's tosses, which is sons, was Hazelwood's starting
no reflection on lurn as Elmer was rlnintr an vrllent inh ; I pitcher, and with errorless back-
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iu neau on ine paper plant batters that crucial eighth it The score tightened to 8-5 going
takes an experienced fireman to do a job such as he faced inl ,tle second haM of the eighth,
with two runners on and no one out. ' ani Dudlfy Jtft tne ound aftf
walking the first two Ecusta stick-
men. Carland and Head.
; Billy Griffin took over under
pressure, and Ray Byrd, Ecusta
; catcher, connected for a single
over second base to drive Carland
home and send Head to third.
Clint Morris was played out by
Dudley, who had shifted to third
hast-, on a hard running foul catch.
Goode hit a grounder to Shook at
shortstop, who tossed home but
not fast enough to get Head.
Sams swatted a fly to left field,
which Amnions caught, but the tie
ing run came home as Byrd beat
the toss-in. Rick Orr slapped a
double to score Goode and put the
home team ahead 9-8. J
Morris, who had relieved Grover i
Suttles on
struck out
& ; . . u - -cr- i "'s "llu e oia tunc vuncn m ine
And it was too much to expect Griffin i ,.. wag ahead foT " stanzas.
IT WOULD BE a mistake lo count Hazelwood out
of the league pennant race this early in the season. Give
Manager Jack Smith a couple of regular pitchers which
he expects to have before June and the defending cham
pions will Ki-t back in the groove again. Fielding has
been top rale from the start . . . only one error thus far
. . . und hitting is getting hack to par. 9s soon as pitchers
are available to round out the team's strength Hazel
wood will hit the ictorv trail.
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THE HONOR Of OFFlCIAllY opening the 1048 baseball season goes to
Boston ac Gov. Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts prepares to toss the
first ball In the morning opener between the Boston Red Sox and the
Philadelphia Athletics. Red Sox Manager Joe McCarthy (left) and
veteran Athletics Manager Connie Mack (riKht) look on. ( JnternotioiicI)
Philly Coach Says Lively
Ball. Slider Harm Hurlers
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By IBANK ECK
Newslcatuics Spoils Editor
ONE ()F THE last year Hazel wood regulars, leftfieldor
Oliver Vnunt, i.-. trying out with Forest City in the new
league down there. Oliver took a trip to Arkansas ear
lier tins M-asnii tu try out with a team there, but was told he
wiis a little uld to break into organized baseball . . . how
ever, he has decided to go ahead with his ambition. He is
getting regular use in the Forest City outfield and looks
pretty rure ef surviving the player list cut-down later this
week There are tew men who can outshine his fielding work,
ami it Ins hittui!' --hi.wr. improvement Oliver should rise in
the pr!e- s.uh.il .line.
A (Jl'ICK WAV to get free of civilization for a few
days is a trip lo Hazel Creek, according to Roy Parkntan
after a lishing jaiuit there last week. Hazel Creek comes
from (he Smoky Park area into Fontana Lake, is almost
inaccessible hy land, and has been uninhabited for a
number of year-,. The creek abounds in native speckled
and rainbow trout, as Mr. Parkman, Guy Massie and
four friends from Sylva found during their four-day ex
pedition. They crossed Fontana in a barge, taking a jeep
with them, and went upstream about 13 miles to camp.
Fish didn't find the lure attractive until the sun came up,
but there were no complaints about fheir biting habits
during daytime, and the group bad a most enjoyable
trip to remember, They saw only one other fisherman
during the time. The place isn't recommended by Mr.
Paikman as a good warm-weather visiting spot . . . too
wild and too likely to bq full of rattlers.
PHILADELPHIA Coach Cy
Perkins of the Phillies believes he
has the answer lo most of the sore
anus in major league baseball.
The man who caught more than
1.700 Karnes in 15 years with
the hill in the fifth. I the Philadelphia Athletics blajnes
Amnions, first Hazel- i much of the uitchers' arm troubles-
wood batter up. Smith reached ! on the lively ball and the slider,
second on a fielding miscue Ecus- - The trouble with the pitchers
ta s sixth in the game and Dudley ! today begins with their fear of
advanced him to third with a sin- the baiters," says Perkins. "Any
gle. Bill Milner, with a home run j time you get a cliance to visit a
and two singles in four previous ; ,ig leapue park during tutting
times at bat, popped out to Morris, ; practice just watch what happens
and cen te i fielder Head made a to any tluee batters,
pretty catch of Troutman's line j Usually they take three swings
drive to end the game with the, each. That's a total of nine swings,
tieing and possibly the winning you'll rind most uf the time that
run on base. i(1v thi ee out of nine balls hit in
For four innings the game was prac til.e gll U)r what wt. call base
all Hazelwood's. Vhen Milner's ,jts
homer into far left field brought -During spring training at
C learwater
in two runs in the third, Hazel
wood led, 5-1, and added two more
off Shook's single and Head's er
ror in the fourth.
Playing before their official first
home season crowd of 400, Ecuta
nibbled away at the score from
t here on out. Lefthander Morris
gave Hazelwood only one hit the
five innings he tossed to be the de
cisive factor in what otherwise
was a batting duel.
FISHING RECI'LATIONS for the Great Smoky Moun
tains National Paik were announced last week by Park Supt.
Blair I;., - The season will open May 10 and continue through
Aucust '.'A. There will be no size limit either on trout or
bass, but the creel limit is 10 of either or both types. State
permits will be required according to the territory fished.
Fishing will not be allowed on Lands Creek, Mingus Creek,
Chestnut Branch, Ravfn Ford and all tributaries upstream
from the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina;
and all waters of the middle prong of Little Pigeon River
above the mouth of Ramsey prong in Tennessee. All other
Park streams are open.
Say, "I Saw It In The Mountaineer.:
The "Best Tood icr
Man'sTtesf Triena
Hazelwood
Shook, ss
Amnions, 3b
Smith, c
Dudley, p,
Milner, cf
Troutman,
Powers, lb
Case, rf
Harris. If
Price, 3b
Griffin, p
Totals
Ecusta
Goode, 3b
Sams, ss
Orr, rf
Alexander,
Clayton, If
Garland. 1 b
Head, cf
Byrd, c
Suttles, p.
Morris, i ' i
Dockers, ph.
Case. If
Totals
Hazelwood
Ecusta
If
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Box Score
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. ASIIEVILLE, N. C.
Postal Team
Wins Match
With Dayton
Rubber Plant Golfers
Defeated 8V2 to 2Vz
In Opening Industrial
Loop Match
Postal Accounts took the meas
ure of Dayton's Industrial golf
league team Sundav tfternoon at
the Waynesvillo Country club, win-
niug with pn 8te to score in
tt.e-fi-.t match of the season.
(mv Deitz of the Postal Ac-
counts number one pair made the
18 holes in 72 shots for low score
of the day. Deitz and Clark, who
scored 76, gave Postal a clean
sweep (3 points) over H. L. Hen
dricks, 76, and Jonathan Woody,
80.
The Postal second-ranking pair
was as fortunate in its foursome.
Newman, 81, and Holly, 88, re
ceived another 3 points by under
scoring Eric Clauson, 83, and Whit
ner Prevost, B0.
Dayton's number three pair, Dr.
Boyd Owen, 91, and Zeno Wall, 82,
salvaged half a point against Arn
old, 85 and Murdock, 86. And the
fourth section of the Dayton team,
M. H. Bowles, 84, and Joe Davis,
83, provided three points by de
tile Cardinals were
taking their pre-game licks.. One
of the batters drove a line drive
back at a Cardinal coach who was
pitching batting practice. The
drive nicked the peak of his cap
and turned the pak around In
the side uf his head. A few inches
and the coach who was pitching
would have been hit in the eye.
"That's just an example of how
the lively hall can impair a pitch
er's morale."
Perkins is not advocating re
turn of the ball used years ago
but he would like to see pitchers
work a lot harder on their con
trol. "Years ago, I'll admit, the ball
was deader but the pitchers prac
ticed control," says the usually
silent Cy. "Today they practice
knucklers and sliders.
"In my opinion the slider is the
most harmful pitch ever to come
into baseball. It's an unnatural
pitch.
"For years every hitter, with
few exceptions, has been worried
about a hook. If the young pitch
ers today would spend as much
time on a good curve ball than
the effort they put into a slider
they'd have nothing to worry
about.
"You never hear anyone say
What a great slider he has,' but
you will hear them rave about a
pitcher's curve ball or his fast hall.
"The slider looks to me as if It s
thrown with an elbow twist.
That's where all your operations
are. There's absolutely no per
centage to the pitch at all."
Perkins believes that Ed Rom
mel, an American League umpire
since 1938, and Emil ( Dutch
I.pnntrd 17-tflm winner f r,- tha
Phils last year, are two of the few !
Mountaineer Nine Beats Cid
Will Play Brevard Here U
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Bred For Derby R,,)
WTHS Bunches
Hits In Fourth
To Take 3-2 Win
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Waynesville high bunched three
runs across home plate the -fourth
inning to forge ahead of CulLow
hee here Friday afternoon, and
held on to the lead for a 3-2 win.
Wednesday at 3 o'clock the Moun
taineers make their fth start -of
the year against Brevard here.
Jack Amnions pitched nine hit
ball against the visitors. Waynes
ville managed only four safeties off
two Cullowhee raoundsroen, but got
three of them in the decisive fourth
to send Cagie to the sideline.
First blood was drawn by Cagie,
who singled and was knocked home
by W. Hooper in the second.
Bill Owens, leading off in the
lower half of the fourtn, lata a
single past the first baseman. Cald
well was struck out, but David
Price and Bobby Robinson followed
with one-base hits over third, tne
latter bringing Owens home.
Craig grounded to third, but Til
ly played for home and tossed wild,
letting Price score. Burgin flied to
left field and the catcher took the
toss-in to stop Robinson, but drop
ped the ball.
Cullowhee moved into position
to do some damage the fifth, when
H. Hooper and Taylor got to base
on hits. The- next two batters pop
ped up to short, however, retiring
the side. The Mountaineers also
put runners on in the sixth, when
Bryson hit two batters, but were
played out before scoring.
The final tally was made in the
seventh. Taylor singled. Tilly bang-1
ih! a high one to centerfield which
popped out of Owens' glove, and I
Taylor rounded the bases. Amnions
bore down on the next batter, how
ever, and brought the game to a
! close with a strikeout.
for so many operations," claims
Cy. "Sore arms in the old days?
Why the only time we ever heard
of a sure arm was when some
darn fool told a rookie pitcher to
sleep with his arm in the pull
man hammock, you know, that
little cradle that's supposed to
hold your personal effects.
"Here's an example of what a
pitcher lacking proper contrul
does to the team's morale. Sup
pose you're playing shortstop and
I'm pitching and I have three
balls and one strike on the batter
Why, the shortstop gets the jitters
and pretty soon it catches the
whole infield.
"But if a pitcher has his control
and gets two strikes and a ball on
a batter yo" watch how the short
stop and the rest of the team perk
up. The main thing is to get that
ball over the plate. Most batters
don't hit safely once in three times
they hit the ball, anyway. The per
centage is on the pitcher's side but
most of them don't know it.
"Those who do know it. fear
the lively ball because it comes
back at you like a shot out of a
cannon."
Perkins, born in Gloucester,
Mass., 52 years ago. has either
caught or hit against sonic of the
game's top pitchers, like Lefty
Grove, Herb Pennock, George
Earnshaw, I,efty Gomez.
Cullowhee ab r h po a e
Simpson, 2b 3 0 0 1 1 0
W. Hooper, rf 4 0 110 0
R. Hooper, cf 4 0 1 5 0 0
Taylor, If 3 12 10 0
Tilley, 3b 4 0 10 11
Pressley, r 4 0 0 7 0 1
W. Wlke, lb .3 0 0 1 0 1
S. Wlke, ss 3 0 110 1
Cagle, p 2 1115 0
Bryson, p 1 0 0 0 1 01
Totals 32 2 7 18 8 41
Waynesville ah r h po a e '
Burgin, 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2
Shook, ss 3 0 1 5 2 0
Amnions, p 2 0 0 0 6 0
Powers, lb 3 0 0 6 0 0
Bill Owens, cf 3 1 1 1 0 2
Caldwell, If ... 2 0 0 4 0 0
Price, 3b ... 2 1 1 1 2 0
Robinson, rf 3 1 1 0 0 0;
Craig, c 3 0 0 4 0 0 '
Totals 25 3 4 21 10 4
r
Cullowhee 010 000 12 7 1
Waynesville 000 300 x 3 4 4
Two base hits: Taylor and 3.
Wike; Strike outs by Amnions 3,
Cagle 5, Bryson 1. Double play
Amnions to Shook to Powers. Left
on base Cullowhee 9, Wavnes
vllle 7.
cameras."
The problem is more easily
solved when it comes to fishing.
Many fishermen fish only for the
sport and throw back the fish they
catch. In some areas in the nntional
Red ,oresls state laws prohibit
Ruffing. Joe Bush. Urban Shocker.
Waile Hoyt and Bob Shawkey.
During his career he caught
well over 2,000 games yet he has
fingers like a pianist. Earnshaw is
teaching the young Phillie pitch
ers how to pitch and Perkins is
showing the young catchers how
to catch, without breaking their
fingers.
But when Cy isn't catching he's
observing what the pitchers are
doing and the deliveries thev're
remov
al ot hsh that are caught.
"That way the same fish can
get caught many times in one sea
son." Swift said.
But the system won t work when
it comes to hunting, Swift pointed
out. Once you shoot an animal
you cant "throw him back" for
some one else to shoot.
pitchers who ever perfected the fooline with
knuckle ball delivery. "if they'd onlv fiet wisn to tho
trying it I percentages there'd he a lot less
reason sore arms," he concludes.
"Too many kids are
today and that's another
Too Many Hunters Haunt
Woods, Officials Compfain
By VINCENT BURKE
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (UP) Forest of
ficials fear that the national for
ests are becoming overstocked with
hunters.
If the boom in hunting and fish
ing continues as expected, they
predict the supply of game in
many areas soon will be too small
to meet the demand.
Lloyd W. Swift, chief of wild
life management for the forest
service says the total supply of
game animals in national forests
still is increasing. But for the first
time in many years, the rate at
which sportsmen are taking game
from the forests is increasing fast
er than the rate of increase in
game animals.
Last year 4,650,000 persons
hunted the, 152 national forests or
fished their lakes and sf reams.
That compares with the pre-war
high of 3,540,000 in 1941. This year
an even bigger turnout is expected.
As recently as seven or euiht
doubling every 10 years. Now the
rate of increase has declined to
about one-third of that. The limi
tation of the land is beginning to
show up. Some forests are fully
stocked; a few are overstocked.
"The only answer is to make
better use of what we have," Swift
said. ,
He hopes for changes in state
game laws to reduce the "bag
limit". Gradually, Swift believes,
sportsmen will become more con
cerned with the "purely recreation
al aspects" of the forests and less
with killing game.
"In the past we were meat
hunters," he said. "We wanted to
kill game for food and we wanted
to demonstrate our prowess as
hunters. v
"But nowadays many veteran
hunters won't shoot at run-of-mill
deer. Unless they can get a prize
specimen, they're content just to
get kick out of looking at wild
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