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The long-awaited deer - hunting
season will get under way in West
ern North Carolina this Monday
and continue through Saturday. De
cember 1.
On both East and West Fork in
Sherwood Forest, hunting will be '
on a non-quota basis the first day
and thereafter, but in some sec
tions of Pisgah Forest, only hunt
ers who have received advance ap
plications will be allowvd to hunt
on opening day.
Earl Williams, game protector
for Haywood County, told The
Mountaineer Wednesday that ho
has been seeing a lot of deer in
his work, and said the herd ap
pears to be in good condition.
For three-day wilderness hunts
on Midd'r Prong. Mr. Williams
said, hunters can obtain permits !
starting at noon on Sundays and
Wednesdays. These hunts also will
be on a non-quota basis, he added
Hunters who want to hunt on
land adjacent to the Blue Ridge
Parkway must apply for permits at
the High Bridge checking station
on Big East Fork, the game pro-1
tector explained.
Copies of hunting regulations I
and maps of hunting areas ar ?
available at both dux-king stations
?at High Bridge and above Lake
Logan. Mr. Williams said.
On both game refuge land and
outside, "the limit for deer this
season is one per day and two per
season, he added.
In Waynosville deer hunters re
ported that a number of ears al
ready are in lie;- at one of the
cheeking stations. Their owners
merely drive them up to the sta
tions and leave them until opening
day.
Mixed Bowling League
Starts Play Nov. 2.1
Play in the Mixed League (men |
and women> 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 <AP> ? 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, (
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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.
The Thorobreds, a rebuilt and
untried team, open the season with
this exhibition game and are
scheduled to begin WNC League
play Monday. November 26, at
Burnsville
Center Gerald B:^<er will prob
ably start the game against Bre
vard. Gerald graduated from Way
nesville in 1954 and is presently
planning to enter Georgia Tech
this spring. While at Brevard,
Baker was placed on the All Con
ference team and made the All
State Junior College squad. Dur
inn his last year at Brevard, he j
played under Coach "Chic" Martin ,
who will be coaching Brevard Mon- ,
day night.
Boh Brannon, former team cap
tain and leading scorer at Brevard,
and Noble Arlington will be man
aging the Thorobreds this season.
The Hazelwood Lions Club will
be handling the door this season
and advance tickets may be pur
chased from any membci*.
In addition to Brevard, Dayton
will bring college and former Dixie
League teams to VVaynesville. The
Thorohreds are slated to meet the
VVCC Junior Varsity. Enka, Greer,
S. C., and Monaghan in exhibition
games and Champion "Y" in the
YVNC League schedule
Canton Will Meet Murphy
On WCC Field Friday Night
Canton and Murphy high schools
will clash in a first round game in
the state class AA football playoffs
Friday night at 8 o'clock in West- j
ern Carolina College's Memorial
Stadium
Site of the game was decided at
a meeting at Cherokee Monday
night between officials of the two i
schools. Canton waa represented
by Principal W. L. Rlkard. Head
Coach Boyd Allen and assistants
Cliff Brookshire and Bill Phillips.
Athletic Director Ike Olson and
Coach Ralph McConnell represent
ed Murphy.
Canton will represent the Blue
Ridge Conference and Murphy the
Smoky Mountain Conference in
the playoff game.
The winner of this game will
play Nov. 23 against the winner
of the Charlotte Harding-Winston
Salem Gray game
A flip of a coin decided that two
officials will be used from the
Smoky Mountain Conference and
three from the Blue Ridge. Four
of them will be on the field. The
fifth will keep total yardage gained
from scrimmage and in case the
game ends in a tied score, the
team with the most total yardage
shall be declared the winner.
Tickets will cost $1 for adults
and 50 cents for school children.
They will be placed on advanced
sale in Murphy and Canton later
this week. No seats will be re
served.
After expenses, game receipts
will be divided between the schools.
Wagering during the 50-day har
ness racing meet at Freehold. N.
J . reached a new high of $8,690,
367 during 1956. The increase was
31 per cent above 1955.
Bowling
IIAVWOOD COUNTY LEAGUE
RESULTS OF NOV. 5
Haywood Hdwe 3; Wellco 0
Dayton 3; WBC 0
Charlie's Place 2; A1 Marshall's
1.
HIGH TEAM SERIES
Dayton 2G85
Charlie's Place 262G
WBC 2593
HIGH TEAM GAMES
Charlie's Place 939
Dayton 937
WBC 934
HIGH INDIVIDUAL SERIES
R. H. Stretcher 551
jack Beicnet" az.i
Babe Yount 915
HIGH INDIVIDUAL GAM US
t. H. Stretcher 224
lohn Jackson 192
Itevenson 191
TEAM STANDINGS
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5ayton - 18 <i
rOiarlic's Place 17 7
M Marshall's 13 11
VBC 11 13
taywood Ildwe. 10 14
Vellco 3 21
INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES
?. Cribble 175
Pop Goolsby 169.5
it. 11. Stretcher 169.4
Vt. Rose 165 6
B. Yount 165.08
H. Valentine 165.06
B. Fowler 165.01
J. Riggins 164.8
J. Belcher 164.4
J. Jackson 162.1
WAYNESVILLE WOMEN'S
LEAGUE
RESULTS OF NOV. 6
Wellco Shoe 3; Ro-Search 0.
Friendly Bank 3: Parkway 0.
Howell Motors 2; W.B.C. 1.
HIGH TEAM SERIES
Friendly Bank 2304
Wellco Shoe 2299
Howell Motor 2232
HIGH TEAM GAMES
Friendly Bajjk 814
Howell Motor 813
Welleo Shoe 800
HIGH INDIVDUAL SERIES
M.vra Harr->11 486
Jean Knight 470
Helpn Brown 451
HIGH INDIVIDUAL GAMES
Jean Knight 183
Myra Harrell 174
Audrey Wyatt 174
Belle Bilev 163
TEAM STANDINGS
W L
Welleo Shoe 21 6
Friendly Bank ,17 10
Howell Motor 16 11
Ro-Rearch 10 17
WBC 9 18
Parkway Motors 8 19
INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES
J Knieht 143
M. Hamlett 143
A. Wvatt 142
C. Elliott 140
M Harrell I 139
T. Yount 139
L. Carver 137
D Phinips 136
I Bowen 134
G. Rogers 131
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