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r-'J-XS FAGiJ Gi WayncCY'iIIc luGuuialncer Monday AtterudOii, March 27, ISCiJ ! - i " " ' ' PS "1 1 1 C W-1M C J1W i ! eCond Straight Year' . , V-V, m Gets 1950 Mrs. Mathis, Max Pagers Score High In Victories It Set For k Of Aug 21 At Santa Clara Coach A r...l. nlpion i JI For the second ."li Land of the Sky kdt to tne oi v-'- '...mial North Carolina ftball Association tour. , be held W Canton the .,.,,t 91-26. wms, including the nine tampions who nliv-offs during juu I"- ... the nt Will COliij'i ie . 'Jlfml'nalion brackets will stated Tournament Direc- justice of tne spon,o..nB .. - A Men's Club. anization sponsor last year, tne nrsi ever western pari oi me me team tooK me uut this being unampion fin? team managed by ... ..... ,U. tiai wese. U was u,e " hin for Canton althougn . j l . I 4Via n 111 c am naa ueeu i - tore. Canton went to me at the Southeastern lent, losing to the eventual Florida. : orth Carolina men's win ited Executive secretary of the North Carolina Softball Association, will in the Southeastern nt at St. mersDurg ftoduled oh August 30-Sept, Lorld's championship tour will be held Sept. 11-16 at Tex. N'orth Carolina women s lent, previously announced Md at High Point on Aug' 19 and 24-25-26, district tournament sites i will be announced in the lure. rn North Carolina was the the State event last Aug' the first time, f hampion YMCA All-Stars d their being host team ing the state crown, anion club automatically is 1950 tournament on two as host team and as defend pnpiun. Softball Commission 1 te offi Irch on radar, war-develop ktion device, actually began pack as 1932. telecast of a political con was the Republican assem- Philadelphia in June, 1940. Clyde ii onsCl vSi: i I If h in FORMER end coach oi the profes sional Cleveland Browns tootball team, Dick Gallagher has been named bead football coach at Santa Clara University. Santa Clara, Calif. Ho has signed a three-year contract calling for salary of about $12,000 annually. (International) cials following last year's playoffs declared it was one of the most successful on record. Capacity crowds from every corner of Hay wood County jammed Champion Park day and night. Th oliivers from the East re- srinndod enthusiastically to the Canton hospitality and the fans. Observed one veteran of live tournament campaigns: - "The ians out here are the best bunch I've ever played for. If there are a better bunch of sports any where I'd 'like to fece them." The assignment of the 1950 event to Canton for the slt-ond straight year supports this Haywood town's unspoken claim of being the new capital of softball in North Caro lina. V Justice, Manager Floyd (Flossie) DeWeese, and their fellow All Stars, rated as the staunelu'st pro motes of inter-state softball in the South, meanwhile,-, are looking ahead to the preliminary ...summer campttign when they'll meet as usual the South's finest teams. Lawrence, WBC In Tie For Lead A. C. Lawrence Leather Com pany 'edged Ward's Esso, and Wayntsville Bowling Center de feated Life Insurance Company of Virginia, each by 2-1 score last Tuesday. The results left WBC and Law rence in a tie for first "place In the Haywood County Men's Bowling League standings. Lawrence turned in the highest team series, 2,718. WBC was sec ond with 2,702, ACL's 942 was the highest game turned In by a team. Spider Medford of Ward's rolled a high series of 163-181-203547, and Stretcher of WBC was second with 539. Dr, Hinkley of Life" Insurance Company of Virginia equalled the highest ganle of the Reason when he scored a 242. Medford was runnerup with 203 for high single game. Tomorrow, Ward's Esso will meet Life Insurance Company of, Vir ginia, and A. C. Lawrence will play Waynesville Bowling Center. The standings: MARSE JOE By Alan Mavcr 11c -'J 1 . it. -i Aj C. Lawrence WBC Ward's Life Ins, Co. W 18 18 17 13 h 14 14 16 20 Pet. .553 .553 .515 .394 1 X:' -':.-':.VW kflS.TKMvWt' IS t n 1 KSt. I l 'flu r"-irr w I . . JrT f W I A M t99 re OX HAP TUB PITCHERS fxeu amp fHDeR won HALF reAM'eys VCTVRie&) 2 rof fioveR ahp H (MUAMS Wide-Opon Battles Soon For Titles In Class B Event Report For OTH leball Prcclice Brills y-f iye hopefuls turned out as practice sessions went 'swing for the Waynesville -hool baseball team. ' Marshall Teague said mes;had definitely , been P for Uie Mountaineer hall '"M two briortf contests '-tight. ;95 'mad, dominated by Pn and sophomores, will f season at the home field gainst Mars Hill High I P0siti0n! SllloHir .n .! .. .hu, HOTS Finitely- spttlPrt t, lit i. . ' F. ,he six others are still fs choice, ':S baseman's lob appar clinched by Bobby last junior. James '"gate, another Inntnr UP as the first-string, catch- hi laW Jimmi, V....1. ji.fi ""E mini. ,,u:.i. ... . " "men- aiso- m '"8i-nand er Harold Mills, junior team. and Kenneth Smathers, and South paw Jimmy Swift. Among the outfield prospects are the only seniors on the squad Charlie Womack, Bob Davis, and Bpbhy. Owens, all .football stars of he uasi seasori also.'. . v s Copipetition is ;gping to be .Jceeh, all season, However, paueuiany a mong th youngsters. J TeasiiP named Bo Moody, an ilghth-grader, and Freshman Bob' $y Kuykendall among his top pros' pects for catcher. Then there are. Freshman Joel Burrell, son of the Hazelwood pro club's, new manager; little Grady Davis,; another freshman whom Teague calls a "natural ball play er." . 'y .v ' r.'.-.- Mark Hoaglen, a sophomore, and Carol Swanger, a junior, are others rated as highly promising. These all are good for infield spots. All these youngsters, incident ally, also are going to be studied for their possibilities' for the Hay wood" County "American " Legion Wellco No. 2 Boosts Lead In Bowling Wellco No. 2 won two games out of three from Southern Bell to .gain a firmer hold on first place, while Wellco No. 1 team won two and lost one to the Independent team. Wilma Gordon (Wellco No. 1) had the high individual game for the evening with 164 pins. Dorothy Phillips (Wellco No. 2) had second hteh came with 163 and Lillian Sawyer (Weilco No. 1) was a close third with 101 pins. Lillian Saw yer had the high three games series with games of 138-148-161 for a total of 447 pins. Dorothy Phillips had second high series with games of 121-142-163 for a total of 426 pins. ' Wellco No, 2 had the high team series of 719-699-816 for a total of 2234 pins, again setting a new season's fecord by eclipsing their previous record of 2230 pins made last week: , . FO HfS 3C seAGOft AO 003 TON R5P 5TCX goes, Hoeee Js : : - '. ,:' fiM VflfjAliTiS WMLD problem ip rue GO fOK 7fe Are7 Community ! qurnament Eropliies Given To iitlisls, Sesl Sporis The 1949-50 basketball campaign will close in Haywood County this wetk in a blaze of color. At the Waynesville High School gym this afternoon, the county's boys and clrls will open play for the annual championships of the Haywood County Senior 4-H Club Basketball. Tournament. At Clyde, tomorrow, crack in dependent teams from throughout the Smoky Mountain region will start competition in the first West-1 erh North Carolina Invitational Tournament, being sponsored by the Clyde Lions Club. Sixteen teams are entered in this big event, most of them vet eran campaigners of Western North Carolina's hot Class B semi pro campaigns. One of the top contenders for the first title in this new event will be the Dayton Rubber quintet from Hazelwood, champions of the Haywood County Baskvtbnll League. However., it will be rouRh sled ding for everybody, from the looks of the lineup. Underwood's of Waynesville, which dropped a close decision to Dayton in the Haywood finals will be back again for another crack nt another title. Center Pigeon's boys, one of the top contenders for the mule cluiiiv pionship of the current Haywood County Community Development Program tournament Is also en Cured.! Oil Vt AiUtl. Others figured to give any pre tournament favorites a lot of trou ble Include Buchanan's of Canton Service Paint of Ashevllle, Cher okee, Finv;s Creek, the host Clyd All-Stars, ana several more com blnations. Also In the field are the Jilna luska All-Stars, the Waynesville All-Stars, New Bridge Shell of ABhevllle, the Latter Day Saints of Cherokee, Morgan Brothers Candy of Asheville, Spring Creek, and Candler Independents. The first round pairings: Tlie Center Pigeon girls and the Fines Creek boys today hold the champions' trophies of the first Haywood County Community De velopment Program Basketball Tournament. A rapacity crowd of 400 fans saw the girls from the Pigeon Valley lick the Saunook girls, 43-21, and the Fines Creek boys roll over fluhting Center Pigeon quintet. 74-49, in the tournament finals at the Waynesville Township High School i;,'m Saturday night. Both the new chHinplons, how ever, had to fhlht through the first half before working up their win ning margins. Carline tCottonV Mathls and Filith Cook, who made up the big differences between the Canton sec tion winners and the Waynesville Fines Creek champions, broke the girls' game open shortly after the third quarter started. Botwet n them they sank seven field, goals." and a free throw in rapid succession to put the game on iee. while Guards Blanche Hen son, .Shirley Rhinehart. and Mar garet Hill were holding the Sau nook offensive without a point. Ud to that time it had been close. Trailing 114 going Into the ser L-omis L'G? E&ie'fiillss Standings: Wellco No. 2 .. Independents Wellco No. 1 - Southern Bell W ... 9 ... 7 ...5 .3 L 3 5 7 9 Pet. .750 .583 .417 .250 Schedule Monday, Maroh 27th. Independents vs Southern Bell. Wellco No. 2 vs Wellco No. 1. Center Pigeon CDP is Gain County Finals cham Plgeon teams Kn-l champ,onship matches of 1 B vwood County Com- victoH,a'"eni fy . Friday Us : .?v". the South u West Pigeon 3rlT. M r:.... . tto a crushing 66-27 Ijo - Dut outclassed 1rH'. . Tc'nter w SCrlng efforts' Hhifi.1. -.'n gins, with kin. .n a"d Cotton Math. Kfrom whiPed their I ,.,ron West xin . and Mrs. Rhinehart connected for 13. ."""'"''v: . ''.-..;'-.' ' Best individual effort for tne losers was that of Mrs. Wyatt, who Scored 14. The undefeated Pigeon girls met Saunook at Waynesville in one xniintv phnmnlnnshiD match. The Pigeon boys clashed with powerful Fines Creek in the other. PAID AS THEY DANCE TYFCATUR. Ga. (UP) The Deca tur Hi eh School TNT Club found a new way to Insure regular attend ance at a series of dancing lessons. The lessons actually are free; the teen-agers pay 50 cents at the be ginning of the course and a nicnei Forty yards of material are used in the skirt of the Greek national costume, the ballerina-like kilt, worn bv the army's elite corps, the Evznnes notes the National Geo graphic Magazine. The Center Piffeon girls and the Fines Creek boys last Satur day night were awarded the gold en trophies symbolic of the championships of the first an nual Haywood County Commun ity Development Program bas ketball tournament. But six other learns got awards equal in value. These were for demonstrating the highest quali ties of sportsmanship during the course of the week-long tourna ment. ' The Rev. Mrs. C. O. NeWell of Crablree, County Program chair man, presented the championship trophies to the winners of the finals which had just ended. TRese prizes were donated by David Underwood of Waynes t?ille. s :: Then she presented sportsman ship trophies each to a boys' team and a girls' team in each of the three sections in which the first round of the tournament was played. In the Waynesville section, the Saunook girls and the Francis Cove boys were judfred tops in sportsmanship. The girls' trophy was donated by the Farmers Federation, and the Champion YMCA of Canton donated the boys' prise. In the Fines Creek section, the j best sports were the Lower Crabtree girls and the Upper Crabtree boys. The trophy to Lower Crabtree was donated by Zimrey Messer of Ratcliffe Cove. The boys' trophy was given by Rogers Electric Company and Mountain Supply, both of Wayntsville. The Canton section trophies', both donated by C hampion "Y", were presented to the Cruso girls and the Thlckety boys. Jack Justice, Champion ath letic director and chairman of t h e Community Development program basketball committee. Supervised the tournament finals. The tournament officials and members of the Program basket ball committee selected by vote the teams which were to receive the sportsmanship awards. Vr, ) A Tuesday 6 p.m. Clyde All-Stars vs Cand ler Independents. 7 p.m. Morgan Brothers vs Spring Creek, 8 p.m. Service Paint vs Juna luska. 9 p.m. Cherokee vs Waynes ville; ; Wednesday 6' p.m. Buchanan's vs Fines Creek. 7 p.m. Latter Day Saints vs C. Pigeon. 8 p.m. New Bridge vs Dayton. 9 p.m. Underwood's vs Candler All-Stars. Ghost towns in the west some times come to life through new ore discoveries, tourist trade or winter sports. nd frame, the Saunook girls, led by Edith McCracken, cut it down to 15-11 by half time. The Center Pigeon girls, how ver. smoothed out their game and (inched it in their scoring spree that started in the third. Mrs. McCracken led the losers with 16 points, While Mrs. Mafhls took individual scoring honors with 27... The Fines Creek boys had to stage an uphill fight through the first period and most of the see olid before they started connect ing with deadly accuracy to clinch the' game. Superior height all aroundt and amazing long-shooting perform ances spelled the difference be tween champion and runnerup. Max Rogers, held scoreless through' the first period mainly b the effoiv? of Center Pigeon's Man ager and Center Fred cWst, broke loose in the next three to rack up 20 point h. But it took a general all-around polished offensive to lick the best' team in the Pigeon Valley! Three other Fines Creek per formers, all of whom were stars, scored 10 points or better: Forward Burton MeEhoy, 14, principally on a spectacular long-range push shot: R, L. Ledfnrd, 19, all but one of them on Inyups or set shots; and Guard S. T. Swanger, 10. Forward Ernest Mathis, connect ing with monotonous regularity through the first half, led the los ers wilh 15 points. But the best all-around man on the floor, until he went out on fouls with four minutes to go, was West. Though slowed down by an in jured leg he suffered in child hood, Wert managed to be at the right spot at the right time con sistently, through the game. Seven times he stole the ball in mtd-6lr as n Fines Creek boy took a shot at the hoop. The sportswriter lost track of the number of times he broke up beautifully - executed Fines Creek pass plays. But State College or Bradley U. couldn't have beaten Fines Creek that night. In the last three periods, the champions scored 69 per cent of their field goal attempts. Tin; first period, however, be longed to Ci nter Pigeon. Forward T. M. Gibson, sank a beautiful shot to give the Pigeon boys a 2-0 lead ten seconds after the game opened. Swanger tied it JOHN MARSHALL Broke Three World Marta By LOU BLACK AP Ncwsfeatures NEW HAVEN, Conn. His eye are on the National AAU Indoor swimming championships to be held in Yale's swanky natatorlum March 31-Aprll 1. The eyes of the world's swim ming experts are on him. Many of them predict he'll rewrite the rec (Cbntinued on Page , Ward s Leading In Bowling Event up, then Ledford put Fines' Creek ahead with a charity toss. But Mathis scored two field goals, and Kcnnelli Jones and West one each to give the Pigeon quin tet a 10-3 lead before Ledford nar rowed It down just as the first quarter ended. After that the Fines Creek boys pulled themselves together and methodically worked up to even terms, then tock the lead for keeps. Seconds after the second period opuruaLJauliogi &4 er sank a field goal each to put Fines Creek ahead, 10-9, before Pigeon hit from the foul line. McElroy'B free thruw broke the deadlock again, then T. M. Gibson connected with a field goal and a free throw sending Pigeon out from behind. Bob Rogers sank a charity toss and McElroy rollected two more from Uie foul line as Fines Creek again took tne lead. ' . T. M, came right back with a field gom to make It 15-14 for Pigeon, but Max reversed the standings with a neat layup. The status quo couldn't last, how ever. Mathis connected With a long shot. But that was the last time the Pigeon boys were in front. Fines Creek opened a barrage 'that gave it the lead for keeps. Max sank two field goals in a row, Ledford followed with an other, and .McElroy came through with a fourth to make it 22-17 be fore Pigeon scored again, on T. M. Gibson's charily toss. ' McElroy cancelled that out with a', "two-potnter, Jones sank a free throw for pigeon, littt Max came through with a field goal to knock that out. The first half closed on a thrill ing note that was characteristic of the game. Bob Rogers, recovering a rfcr bound from the Fines Creek bas ket, dribbled fast down, this court , then carefully fired from the cen. ter of the floor. . ' The half-time buzzer sounded as the ball left his hands. f. The shot swished through thd hoop without touching the rim'. Fines Creek left the floor with (Continued on Page O Saunook Girls, Fines Creek Boys Win Tests In CDP Sectional Finals The Saunook girls and the Fines Creek boys Friday nigm went into the finals of tne first Haywood County. Community De velopment Program basketball tournament. ; . ' But both had to some from be hind of their games to do it. The Saunook sextet In a tight defensive battle defeated the Low er Crabtree girts, 28-19, in the first game of the Waynesville-Flnes Creek section double-header at the Crabtree-lron Duff High School gym. .''..::. The Fines Creek boys had to make an uphill fight through most of the first half, but gathered steam as they went and defeated a fighting Ratcliffe Cove quintet, 46-22. . ' -. The character of the contest was illustrated In the fact that Max Rogers and his buddies scored 27 of their total, point In the second half. The fiirls 8ame was so tight de-! fensively that both teams lost five players between them on personal fouls, though these .athletic sins were of the milder sort Mrs. J. R. McCracken, Jr., whose given name was Edith Metcalf, was held down by close Lower Crab tree guarding for the better part of three periods. This largely was througli the work of Pauline Bishop, finest guard on the floor that night. ' . ' But when the pressure was on in the final stages, the former Bethel High School and Enka scoring ace warmed up and sank 10 of her 21 points in the last five minutes of the ball game. Aside frpm Mrs. McCracken's general all-around ball-handling artd scoring performances, how ever, the guards on the opposing teams took the honors. The Saunook trio of Ruth and Dot Phillips and Bobbie Sparks limited the Lower Crabtree scor ing offensive to four field goals, all but one of them from a consid erable distance beyond the basket. On the other hand, however, Pauline and her two teammates, P. James, Dot Noland, Miss Cog- dill and Miss Kinsland, yielded only ten shots from the floor to the usually high-scoring Saunook About halt oi tnese The Waynesville Invitational Bowling -Tournament - got- under way last week end with 14 of the 17 teams entered seeing action. The Ward's Esso Team (Waynes ville) took a commanding lead in the tournament and are now In first place in the standings. The three remaining teams, who have not been in action, will compete this coming Friday, but it is doubt ful If any of the three will surpass the performance of the local team. The Pisgah Motor Court team is in second place, while the W B C. (Waynesville Bowling Center) is in Anmhinoi inn Uimunmuu... - i . , . m. & j j hooks and set shots from be- mira piace. ie a nuru Bu were yond the foul circle. Both teams, showing the tension of playing in the sectional finals, missed several scoring opportuni ties each, early in the game, but loosened up late in the second per iod and hit their stride in the last half. The score at the end of the first period was 3-2. with Saunook lead ing. At half time it was 10-7. Sau nook, In the third quarter, it was 17-14, favor of Saunook again. (Continued on Pace 6) (Asheville) team is in fourth place at present. Fourteen teams consisting of five men to the team (70 bowlers) have competed so far and several high scores have been turned In. Nine games of over 200 have been bowl ed in the team bowling matches, so far. The tournament will be re sumed this coming Friday when the other three teams compete. The doubles and singles matches are also scheduled to tart Friday night ' Manv Visitors and spectators witnessed some of the finest Bowl ing ever done in Haywood County, and will have the opportunity to see more this week end. There is no admission charge and all per sons interested in Bowling are in vtied to see the matches. The tournament is conducted on a handicap basis and the scores below Include the handicaps for each team: T. Pfna Ward's Esso 2923 Piseah Motor Court (Brevard) 2739 WHC .. 2716 Standard Supply (Asheville) .. 2701 Allied Van Lines (Asheville) 2691 Allen Transfer (Asheville) .... 2678 Asheville Sporting Goods 2659 Life Iris. Co.' of Va. (W'ville) 2647 Biltmore-Plaza (Biltmore) ... 2641 Life Ins. Co. of Va. (Ashevill)e 2632 Champion YMCA (Canton) .... 2620 Silver Dollar (Asheville) . ... 2608 Allen Transfer (Ashevllle) 2607 Allen Asheville Transfer ii Storage 2491 Schedule For March 31st SO-HI (Asheville). : Biltmore Dairy (Asheville). Eoka "C" Spinners (Enka). if MOT SELL BW.. T8M ETC. phone 700 The MOUNTAINEER Is refunded on each attendance
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