\ " , ?W - ? ... ? * ^ I 12 County Senior Gridders Named To Play In Thanksgiving All-Star Game jgj . ' ? ' ; ' ' il'-ifci" W "_rT~ '- -gLv*- ? ? "?" ,? ? Outlook For Deer Season In WNC Best In Many Years GUIDES GOPHERS By Alan Mover MU8RA fjH /#???*State Ajp WARM ATH j Ml on/c state mel/g. ata OF M/ A/AJESOTA ^^1 EOF TEE FOSE BOHYL, TEE Z*n? Z^epsmIE PVJ ^r. /?6CP?EPS HAVE 1 PVil /r /T 7#? ^ / at WaynesvUle Bowl ing Center will start Friday, No vember 23. it has been announced. Severr 1 men and women ane still needed for teams in the league. Interested bowlers are asked to contact the manager of the bowl ing center, or call Mrs. Oliver Yount, GL C-6070. Use Mountaineer Want Ads Healthy Fijis LONG BEACH, Calif. 'AP?Dr. Robert Cohen says there are feu places it* the world that are any healthier than the Fiji islands in the Pacific. Dr. Cohen is the senior surgeon of the British government medi cal service in the Fiji islands. Said Cohen: "In the Fijis, there aie very few tropical diseases, no malaria and most people live to a ripe old age. We have many Europeans there who are over 90 " ? ""' ' -I Here And Yonder The Sportscope By BOB CONWAY " Something went wrong, and Coach Vernfcm Kuyker of Owen High would like to know what it was! Last Friday night the WarAorses pranced into WTTIS stadium with a string of seven victories, the Buncombe County championship, and a firm grasp on the No. 3 spot in the Blue Ridge Conference. Last, season Owen backs made repeated gains around and through the Waynesville line, and most of the top backfield per formers for Owen that night were on hand here for a curtain call. tOqly a week earlier, the Warhorses trampled the Brevard Blue Devils, si'i, a team inai won over waynesviiBe three weeks before. 22-7.) However, the vaunted Owen split-T offense fizzled badly and the Warhorses were able to pick up only 17 yards against the Gold^fcGiants all night. ^^the same time, the Waynesville offense clicked so well that the Mountaineers were never forced to kick during the entire eon test in scoring four touchdowns and having a fifth called back be cause of a penalty. The impressive victory over Owen reminded Waynesville fans of something they learned earlier in the season: the 195& Moun taineer football team had a lot of talent, but, at times, just couldn't seem to click. WTiy the Gold and Black gridders looked so good at times, and so inept at other times (against Canton and Brevard, for example) is a question that may never be answered. But if the Mountaineers had played all season as they did against Owen they probably would I have finished the season with a 9-1 mark instead of their actual 6-3 J record. Speaking of the Owen game, in Monday's paper we expended hundreds of words describing the Mountaineer triumph, but it wasn't until the issue rolled off the press that we noticed one slight omission: the score was never mentioned either in the story or in the headline. In ease you haven't heard previously, the Mountaineers sad dled the Warhorses with a 26-0 setback. In the future, the Fines Creek and Crabtree-Iron Duff boys' basketball teams will be battling not only to win the game, but also to gain possession of the "Orange Bucket." According to Coach Joe Turner of Fines Creek, the story goes like this: When Fines Creek invaded the Crabtree gymnasium last week for the first basketball game of the season, they took with them a wooden bucket in which to keep orange peelings and chewing gum deposited by the players ? in order not to mar the gym floor. ? In case you didn't know, basketball players like to suck on oranges and chew gum during a cage tile to keep their inside of the mouths moist and permit better breathing.) After the game ended with the Crabtree boys on top, 39-37, Fines Creek left behind their bucket in making their exit from the C-ID gym. Coach Turner called Coach Lynwood McElroy of Crabtree to :ihnnf )ho bucket and eot this reDlv: "We have it all right, but if you want to see it again, you'll have to win it back." The proposal made sense to Coach Turner, so the two schools have decided in the future that the winners of the boys' basketball game will gain possession of the bucket. Since Fines Creek and Crabtree will meet three times more during the regular season and possibly in the Haywood County tournament, the orange bucket may change ftands several times be tween now and next March. On Monday's sports page, we mentioned that the Mountaineer Midget football team lost to Hendersonville (which they did, 6-0, in the First game here), but what we didn't know was that the local tni^Bs defeated Choo-Choo Justice's charges, 7-6, in a return game played at Hendersonville. The latter contest was played while we were on vacation in Kentucky. ' 1 ? ? Bethel Opens Cage Practice; 20 ? Game Schedule Slated Starting with Erwin at Bethel on December 4. the Bethel BJue Demons and Belles will play a 20 game cage card this season, ac cording to a schedule announced by Principal C. C. Poindexter. Teams to be met are Erwin. Fines Creek. Crabtreo. Canton. Flat Rock. Clyde, Hendersonville. Waynesville. Brevard, and Edney ville. The regular season willwnd February 15 at home against Crab tree. Basketball practice at Bethel opened Monday with daily prac tire booked until the season opens. Six outstanding players are miss ine from last year's championship Belles' team: forwards Annette Lowe. Eva Nell Henson and Bar bara Jones: guards All-State Louise Pinkerton, Barbara Messer and Mary Kay Phillips Beturnlng monogram players are Judv Blazer. Joann Green, Ardatha Griffin. Annette Grogan. Jannette Grogan. Geraldeen Laymon. Bar bara Phillins. Annette Sheffield. Jannette Sheffield. Ardie Ruth Smathers. June Smith and Shir ley Smith. Dale Singleton and L M. West are mikslng from last year's Blue !>mom team Monogram players back are * Billv Burress. Henry Cnpps. Gerald Hill. Carroll Mease Harold Queen, Dean Reece and John Russell. With the opening of basketball practice, a 'home-stretch drive' is : under way to pay off the balance 1 of indebtedness on the fold-away seats in Bethel's spacious new ; gym. Season tickets a.e now on sale. i A performance by stars from the : WSM Grand Ole Opry is scheduled ! for November 21. The night pro cram will be in the gym which will be equipped with 2,000 scats for the occasion. A donkey basketball game between Bethel men teach ' ->rs and parents is also set Novem ber 26. The complete Bethel schedule is: Dec. 4?Erwin, home. Dec. 7?Fines Creek, home. Hpr 11?Crshfmp ihnrp Dec. 14?Canton, home Dec 18?Fines Creek, there Dec. 18?Flat Rock, home Jan 3?Flat Rock, there Jan. 4?Clyde, home. Jan, 8?Hendersonville. there. Jan. 11?Waynesville, home. Jan. 15?Brevard, home. Jan. 18?Ednevville. there. Jan. 22?Hendersonville. home. Jan. 25?Canton, there. Jan. 29?Ednej vllle. home. Feb. 1?Waynesville. there. Feb. 5?.Brevard, there. Feb. 8?Clvde. there. Feb. 12?Erwin. there. Feb. 15?Crabtree, home. Newspaper* Nothtnf S?Tta Lflra * Waynes ville Leads With 8 Selections I Thirteen Haywood County senior Tootball players have been named 'by a three-man coaching staff to perform with the Midwestern All Stars against Buncombe County in the second annual Senior Bowl game Thanksgiving Day at Ashe ville Memorial Stadium. The Wayiiesville Mountaineers will have eight representatives in the game, the Clyde Cardinals will have three, and the Bethel Blue Demons two. Thp eolpftinne \nr?r#* mtiHo hv the Midwestern coaching staff com posed of H. B. Griffin of Clyde and | his two assistants. Bruce Jaynes of Waynesville and Clyde Peek of Mars Hill, who named 11 backs and 14 linemen. The remainder of the Midwestern squad w ill be made up I of five players from Henderson ville, three from Mars Hill, tW'o | from Brevard, and one from Old Fort and Marshall. (No Canton players were chosen because the Black Bears are par- j ticipating in state Ctass-AA plav- i offs.i Waytlesville will be represented in the game by end Tom Sparks, |. tackles Richard Turner and Jim Hall, guard Jerry Nichols, quarter back Sam Lane, halfbacks Carroll | Hooper and Neal Palmer, and full back Hugh Grasty. Center Jim Byrd was named as an alternate. Clyde will have in action quar terback Bob McCraeken, and half backs Danny Caldwell and Johnny Rogers. (During the regular season. Rogers played fullback for the Cardinals.). Bethel will send en^ Gerald Hill and guard Joe Bob Fish into the fray. Hendersonville's representatives will include tackle Charles \Vor sham. guards Gib Campbell and Parker L.vda. center Clarence John son. and fullback Charles Sproles ; The remainder of the Midwest-1 ??rn squad will include ends Robert , Cauble of Brevard and David | Boone of Mars Hill, tackle Gene Allison of Old Fort, center Tom Cabe of Brevard, quarterback Jer ry Brown of Mars Hill, halfback Clarence Edwards of Marshall, and 'fullback Milan Wall of Mars Hill, Other alternates are Donald Ray .Gilkey of Od Fort and Tip Tipton of Marshall. j A setback to the hopes of the Midwestern team came when it | was learned that Hendersonville's I big fullback. Bob Elliott, would not j be available for the game. Eliott recently underwent an oDeration on his teeth and also sutTcred a shoulder injury, which has not completely healed. The Buncombe Countv tnna/t urfti be made up of nine players from Owen High, six from Lee Edwards, four from Enka, two each from North Buncombe and Erwin, and one each from Reynolds and Leicester. The team has eight backs and 17' linemen, and will be coached by Vernon Kyler of Oweri, Roy Phil lips of Enka. and Red Stevens of North Buncombe. Athletes Make Good fcrolfers CAMBRIDGE. Md ? Ton athletes alwavs make better golf ers. says George Jacobus, six-time president of the Professional Golf ers' Assn. "Concentration, desire and good hands are the important items." says Jacobus, "and most athletes have these things to begin with." Jacobus, who years ago started the idea of holding the baseball players golf tournament in Florida, points out that 16 of the 17 driv ing champions in his baseball event have been pitchers. Lou Kretlow won the tourney last vear "Top golfers, too, have been out i standing in other sports," says J Jacobus. "Byron Nelson was a good basketball player. Sam Sncad was good in baseball and basketball. ' and Walter Hagen could have been 1 one of the outstanding baseball j plavers in the country." Ellsworth Vines made his mark in golf after being a tennis champ ion and Sammy Byrd made the 1 grade after a baseball career with the Yankees. Former hockev play err Bill Ezinicki is another who now makes his living as a golf , pro. "On the pro tour there are ex ! football stars Mike Souchak and George Bayer." says Jacobus. | "Now Mickey Mantle is just start ing to play golf. He's doing real 1 well because he has the naural coordination." During 1942 and 1943 Count Fleet won three races at Pimlico by a combined total of 43 lengths. Ed Sutton of Cullowhee, V. C.. averaged 7.6 yards per carry dur ing North Carolina's first three football games this fall. Cliff La Rose. Michigan State guard, was the Detroit Catholic Youth Organization's light heavy weight boxing champion in 1953 Mountaineers Open Cage Season Here December 1 Not even bothering to take a rest between sports, the Waynes ville Mountaineer basketball team started practice this week in pre paration for their opener with the Murphy Bulldogs here on Satur day night, December 1. Returning to the WTHS cage squad this season are two starters from last year's five ? foi ward Carroll Hooper and center Tom Sparks. Lost by graduation were, three starters?captain Don Jor dan. Bobby Ballance, and Tony Davis, and two reserves?Don F.zell and Joel Medford. Other holdovers from the varsity squad, all reserves last year, are juniors Bruce Davis and Ernie Ifenshaw and sophomores Jack Holder and Bobby Trull. Moving up from the junior vars ity will be senior guard Johnny Wright, junior guard Ralph Arring tcn. and senior forwards Henry Jenkins and Richard Mehaffey. From last year's freshman team will be Sam Styles, a forward or center, and guards Johnny Carse well. Clifton Arnold. Vi'n ' Grefch, David Beck, and Kennelii Lance I also a forwardi, and Bobby Green, forward. One freshman who may see some varsity action will be forward James Ledford. Considering his prospects for the coming season. Coach Bill Swift t< rmed his squad "green but prom ising." By the end of the season, he ventured hopefully, it may be as good as last year's five which won the Haywood County tourna-1 mi nt at Bethel. J Coach Swift pointed out, how- * ever, that Canton, Bethel, and I Clyde all will haye most of their j last year's team back and will be I ' strong again, ( ?? 1 Dayton Rubber Will Meet ' Brevard College Monday , Two former Brevard College stars will play against their old alma mater Monday night at 7:30 when the Dayton Thorobreds meet Brevard College on the Waynes ville High School court. 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