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By Ton Forney -* Pinch Hitting for Fred Beam I’ve been called in to pinch hit so often in this column that if I don’t get a liit this time, I'll probably be farmed out to the minors, Tliis is a rather quiet time in the sports world, both locally and on a national scale. Here at home Piedmont High School basketball teams are completing a hi^iily successful season. County Basket ball Tournament, both boys and firls, novj is going on at Belwood, 'At the present time both Piedmont boys and Piedmont girls have reached the semi-finals, and-tonight Piedmont boys are playing Polkville, their old rivals, Pic(.-mont boys previously defeated Casar boys. Piedmont girls who earlier won the in vitational tcumamont at Valdesc, have reached the semi-finals with a win over Grover, Rc'cently the sectional basket ball tournament of the Western Conference was stag ed in Shelby, Kings Mountain girls and Rutherfordton boys won out over keen competit ion, Kings Mountain had both their boys ?Jid girls to reach the finals, but their boys \verc turned back by Rutherfordton, Kings Mountain's girls won their tourney title by defeating Tri-Hi of Caroleon. In college basketball, Ehake University won the Southern Conference basket ball tcurnanerit in Raleigh, defeating the University of North Carolina in the finals in what the season's record ;vould show to be an upset, Carolina's won and lost record for regular season grmcs was the Jjcst in the conference. But something happened in the Tournament ?jid Duke won by a healthy margin kk-Zl, Carolina placed two. Mock and Box on the all confcrcnce tefm; Duke placQd two. Carver and V/ric^t; and Va, Tech placed the other, Frederick, Duke.rcached the finals by wins over V/illiam and Mary in the first round njid N. .C, State in thei sccond, Carolina reached the finals by victories over Richmond pud Virginia Tech, Vfell, it is time to t?ke up baseball. Spring training is just beginning for Ma jor League teams. No one seems to knOv; what the Major League teams will be like. The armed forces have taken the crecm of the crop. The Yojikces have lost such stand outs of last year as Keller, Bill Johnson, Russ, Sears, Vfeatherly, Dickey, Joe Gordon and others. The Gardinals have lost many of their best players; so have all the other terijns. It v/ould be unwise to try now to predict the outcome of the season's play. However, it is likely that all'-teamLS will be nearer equal than usual, due to the fact that f>jLl have lost many of their best players, and those left behind will be more nearly equal on all teams, Tlrie Brooklyn Dodgers will have nev/ uniforms for ni,;ht gnmes. They will bo of satin, white piped with blue for home grjnes, and blue piped with white for out of tovm games(I may have this reversed). This should be quite a spectacle. The explanation is that it is to get the fan's minds off. the quality of the baseball, which will be played by an aggregation of over age and underage players piped with /^-F»s, MiUiy of the players who had thought they had retired for good frcan baseball will this year probably be regulars unless 17 years olds beat them out. It is our sincere wish that very shortly all of you will again be with us, part icipating in our local athletic contests or being again vdth us as spectators in these events. We'll tiy to do our part, and we know you are doing more than yours to speed up that dr'.y.
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