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WTHS Boys Victors 28-25, As Girls Lose 40-3 MAiiniamaavel 1 1 11 1 mmmn1 111 ? -I t'lVUlllUUlVWl k> Win Out In Last Minute By BOB CONWAy Mountaineer Staff Writer Waynesville came within one minute and 20 seconds of dropping t\yo games to Crabtree-Iron Duff's cagers Friday night at Crabtree, but the Mountaineer males snatch ed the victory out of the Are with a last-minute spurt to win 28-25. Earlier, Waynesville's girls had lost to the Crabtree-Iron Duff las sies 40-35 as the home sextet stag ed a second-half rally. Coach Bill Swift's Mountaineers trailed throughout most of the contest, but in the last few min utes the Gold and Black sharp shooters began to And the mark at the same time that Crabtree lost their shooting eye. Behind 25-20, Bill Grahl and Joe Aldridge hit fouls to make the score 25-22. Grahl connected from the side to close the gap to one point, and then Billy Leatherwood put the Mountaineers ahead for the Arst time in the game with a short push shot?26-25. As the Crabtree cagers fought to cool the Waynesville rally, they started fouling the Mountaineers. Aldridge hit two more free throws to put the Gold and Black ahead 28-25?at which point the game ended. Crabtree lost its chance in the last minute to tie up the ball game when Roy Pope missed a crip shot, and Jphny Crawford failed to make a foul throw. Aldridge led the Moutaineers with 14 points, while Leatherwood got 10. Pope with 9 and Thad t ? BARGAINS I IN USED APPLIANCES AT Rogers Electric Co. 1 Used 42" Youngstown Sink. ? 1 Used ( union Washer vw i $10.00. (A Real Buy). ? 2 Mola Washers. Good Bargains For Only $40.00 Each. ? 1 Universal Semi - Auto matic Washer. Only Slightly Used. Wonder ful Buy At Only $75.00. i ? 1 Used Bendix Automatic Washer. Priced Right At i $60.00. 1 Used Rendix Automatic 1 Washer For Only $90.00. j ? 1 Bendix Deluxe Ironer. Used As Demonstrator. Only $150.00. ? 1 Harder-Freez 13 Ft. Home Freezer. Good As New. Guaranteed 1 Year. 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AP .Newsfeatures NEW ORLEANS?Allen Ray Collins probably is the only football player who ever broke a leg in a workout, taped it and returned to action. ? Allen, a lineman for Ridgewood Prep in the New Orleans Met ropolitan League, says he averages about one broken leg a season. me uniy iime a DroKen leg ever stopped him was when he cracked it just before a game and couldn't patch it. He sat that game out. Now he carries a spare leg in the team bus. The leg in question is wooden, t>ut the 17-year-old'9 courage is made of stronger stuff. Allen caught his right foot in a power lawn mower when he was nine. Infection developed and the leg had to be amputated below the knee. For the past four years, Ridge ivood coach Warren Nelson says Allen has been battling to make the regular team. He played part time on the varsity in 1951 and 1952. This year he made the grade. \i? il. | er boys on the squad. And he is smart with excellent reflexes." The 6-foot, 2-inch, 185-pound youngster, who waUcs without , a noticeable limp, plays center 6n offense and tackle on defense. The Ridgewood coach thinks Al len will be a star for the remain der of his stay at Ridgewood. "He's got his full growth now and should be all right," says Nelson. "While he was growing, he had to get his wooden leg changed regularly to match the growth in the real one. I think that caused trouble in his balance." His-parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Collins, have been a big help. His mother is the team's biggesl ? ???*-? ixiutvu u u%j an ?nc iuaw two games, he was a 60-minute man in the next two. "Alle/i is not fast," Nelson says, "but he can keep up with the slow Crawford with 8 were high for Crabtree-Iron Duff. In the girls' tilt, the two sextets were tied 9-all at the first quar ter. but field goals by Linda Welch and Shirley Jones put the Moun tainettes ahead at half-time 22-17. However, in the third quarter Crabtree's high-scorer, Bonnie Sue Justice started connecting and Crabtree-lron Duff went into the lead to stay. Bonnie Sue tallied a total of 14 for Crabtree, followed by Louise Presnell with nine. Shirley Jones with 16 and Betty Smith with 11 paced the Mountainettes. Girls' lineup: Waynesvllle (35) Crabtree (40) F?Welch 18) Smith F?B. Smith (7) Best (4) F?S. Jones (16) Presnell (9) G?Hooper Sutton O?Walker McCracken G?Hamilton Hill Subs: Waynesvllle?Roland. Fitz gerald, Winchester, E. Smith, Carv er, B. Howell. Crabtree?Price 3, S. Bradshaw 6, Justice 14, Sanford, J. Bradshaw 4, Ferguson. Boys' lineup: Waynesvllle (28 Crabtree (25) F?Aldridge (14)... J. Crawford (fl) F?Cogdlll T. Crawfoad (8) C?Baker Pope (9) 3?Leatherwood (10) Walker (2) 3?GVahl (3) ? Smith Subs: Waynesvllle?Nichols, J. Harris, Jordon, Queen. Davis 1. Stephens, Hlghtower. Crabtree ? Hryaon. Referees: fiumgaruer and Evans. i . *. . - Bethel Clips Fines Creek 43-27; SS-45 Bethel's Blue Demons and Belles won their second double feature of the season by downing the Fines Creek cagtrs on the Fines Creek floor. The Demons won 35-45, while the Belles came out ahead, 43-27. . Capps paced the Demons witfc 21 markers, while Messer was high for the Hornets with 13. Edwards led the Belles with 23, while Moore collected 11 for the Fines Creek Allies. Girls' lineup: ? Fines Creek (27) Bethel (43) F?J. Ferguson (7) Edwards (23) F?C. Ferguson (3) ? Wilson (5) F-?Moore <111 Puston (9) G?M. Price Kevls G?Trantham Shepherd G?Davis D. Pressley Subs: Fines Creek?Haynes 2, Rathbone, Justice 4, Rogers. Beth el ? E. Henson 4, Hcatherly 2, Lowe, Kelly, Pinkcrton, Mease, Phillips, C. Pressley, Messer, Hen F?G. Messcr (13) Owen c2> j F?-W. Messer (10? B. Wells (4) C?Hunter (4) C. Wells (12) G?Payne (9) Capps (21) G?V. Evans (4) Deitz (7) Subs: Fines Creek?J. Evans 5, Ferguson, Ledford. Bethel ? W. Wells 5, Hargrove, Stamey, Burnett, Green, Kelly. Heferees: Bumgarner and Ray. I son, Rogers, Reece. Boys' lineup: Fines Creek (45) Bethel (55) Adept Sportsman 1 RALEIGH (AP) ? Rob Brooks, , assistant sports editor of the Ral eigh iN.C.t News and Observer, is ( proving as adept witli golf clubs as he is with a typewriter. He recently won a trophy for the ( third consecutive time when he captured the writer's division of j the fourth annual Football Round- ( Up Golf tournament at Chape^Hill. , Bob posted a one-over par 73. T | booster. And his father, a Buras, t La., oilworker, comes to New Orleans for ail the games. Allen i and his mother live in an apart- ! ment near the school. \ His Ridgewood schoolmates i have been a help, too. "We don't have anybody here who stares at Allen," coach Nel son says. "In fact, some of the younger kids who don't have any thing to do with athletics, don't even know about his artificial leg. "And his teammates enjoy kid ding him. He used to take off his wooden leg to take a shower and they would hide it. "Now he locks it in his locker ; before taking a shower." Allen, a B student, is also an outfielder on the baseball team, likes to play tennis, bowls, swims rfnd is the shot put and discus man on the track squad. He wanted to go out for basket ball, but Nelson wouldn't let him. "He might undo all the good he has done," the coach explains. , "if he got out on the court in shorts and couldn't cover up his lefc." Allen plans to go to college;, but he thinks trying out for col lege football would be "carrying the thing a little toj> far." Yet, he is going a long way on t one good leg. PITCHES FOR RAMS By Alan MflYff WORM r ? ?V|P" ? VANBROCKLM OF THE 7 Mi /0S AA/OEIES I ? /?/4AfSy WHO H ro p/rcH I J j/A . , _ ^r-s Hi nrtis pnor TAB RAPS PACK rue H? HAP Lot AP6PLSZ ?rN J[fL r/te top op /tz p/v/z/Ort t?* at tte halfwaymapk, TMAMX* LA&ASIP TO A PA IP W/NZ OV?R OiAMPKXi JXTRC fN TUB PAST 3 YBAPB PB'B BBBAl CHAMP PRO ? PAtseP TW/CB; AISO PUHNBR-UP (Hi ?**. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL.-AMERICA TEAM FOR 1953? as cl)osen by a poll of sports writers across the nation. Here is The Associated Press All-America football team for 1953 (AP Wirt-phoJ Mountaineer Trio Shines In Optimist Bowl Triumph A powerful line ? bolstered by [hree members of Waynesville's 1953 stone wall?and an outstand- 1 ing performance by Candler's ' Chuck Farmer gave the West an ' jpset victtory over a favored East f squad -in the seventh annual Op- ' :imist Bowl game in Asheville^Sat- 1 arday. f The East, with a powerful run- 1 ning ""attack, made a number of 4 scoring threats, but when the chips s were down, the Western line was r mmovable. 1 The West scored in the third pe -io don a 75-yard drive sparked' by several runs and two passes from farmer to Hunnicutt, Lee Edwards >nd. Farmer sneaked over for the inal two yards and Corkran added he extra point. Following the West's touchdown, 3illy LeFevre of Lenoir .almost re urned the kickoff for an Eastern score, but the Mountaineers' Jim ny Frady, the last man between lim and the goal line, hauled Le Fever down. The East's only score came in the second period when Farmer in tercepted an Eastern aerial and was tackled in his own end zone. ?After the game, the West's 1 coaches?Roy Phillips of Candler, i Joe Hunt of Sylva and Bill Estes of Biltmore?named Farmer as the most valuable player on their squad ' and tabbed Frady as the runner- . up. Before the game, Farmer and ' Frady were named co-captains ofx, the Western aggregations. i The trio of coaches also praised Mountaineers Harold McClure, who made a number of outstanding 1 tackles during the game, and Roy Pressley, for his fine blocking. McClure halted two Eastern ' threats in the first period, one when he threw Lambert of Val Kid's Baseball Gloves Are Import! HARTFORD. 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