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THE ECHO
April, 19^'^ a
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Interest Is High In Baseball, Softball
NINE BRACES FOR
RUGGED SCHEDULE
League Members Expected
To Be Much Stronger
This Season
The fever is spreading—the
baseball type, that is. With the
opening of Ecusta’s baseball sea
son a topic of conservation so
popular last summer will be re
vived again.
Expecting stiffer competition
from league members, the local
diamondmen aire bracing them
selves for a tough schedule. The
men realize that other teams have
added new blood and the second
place which Ecusta held last year
CLINT MORRIS
First Sacker
will be harder to hold this sea
son.
Manager Jack Alexander will
depend on men like first baseman
Clint Morris, shown above, to car
ry Ecusta through another year.
Golfers Entertain
Champion Sunday
Seeking to make matters even-
Stephen after last Sunday’s 9-3
loss to Dayton Rubber, our golfers
entertain Champion at the Bre
vard course Sunday afternoon,
April 27.
Captain Charlie Russell, Jack
Wilber, Wayne Conn, George Sex
ton, Jimmy Poteet, Bob Duck
worth, Chris Rogers, and Bill
Jordan composed Ecusta’s team in
the opener.
SCHEDULES
BASEBALL
May 3, Hazelwood there; 10, Can
ton there; 17, Beacon here; 24,
Enka there; 31, Martel here.
June 7, Green River here; 14,
Sayles there; 21, Hazelwood here;
28, Canton here.
July 4, Enka here; 5, Beacon
there; 12, Martel there; 19, Green
River there; 26, Sayles here.
August 2, Hazelwood there; 9,
Canton here; 16, Beacon here; 23,
Enka, there; 30, Martel here.
September 6, Green River here.
SOFTBALL
May 2, *V. F. W.; 9, Rosman; 16,
Brevard College; 12, *Baptist
church; 27, *Brevard Hardware.
June 6, *Kiwanis; 13, *American
Legion; 24, V. F. W.
July 4, *Rosman; 11, *Brevard
College; 15, Baptist chiurch; 22,
Brevard Hardware.
August 1, Kiwanis; 8, American
Legion.
* Indicates second game, starting
at 8:30. First games at 7:30.
GOLF
May 4, Beacon at Municipal; 11,
Sayles here; 18; Postal at Beaver
Lake; 25, Moore General here.
June 1, Enka at Beaver Lake; 8,
OPEN; 15, Dayton at Waynesville;
22, Champion at Waynesville; 29,
Beacon, here.
July 6, Sayles at Municipal; 13,
Postal, here; 20, Moore General at
Municipal; 27, Enka, here.
Bob Anders’ Greens
Capture Honors
Ponder’s Red team came up fast
at the finish but not fast enough
to catch Anders’ Greens in the
ping-pong tourney. Both teams had
a couple games to play but they
could not have any effect on the
final result, except to make it
closer, so all remaining games
were cancelled.
The final standings were:
Gaines
Team: W L To Play
Greens 90 51 3
Reds 86 56 2
Whites 57 86 1
Blues 53 91 0
Inter-Departmental
League Is Planned
The Athletic department has an
nounced that there will definitely
be an Inter-departmental Baseball
League this summer and final
plans for the loop will be drafted
at a meeting of all managers in
the Athletic office Monday, May
5, at 1:30 p. m. All departments
planning a team are requested to
have a representative present.
At this meeting several impor
tant items will be ironed out such
as days and times of games, prac
tice sessions, etc. The league will
have a president, reporter, score-
keeper, and in general, be pat
terned after the W.N.C League.
Teams expected to enter are the
Pulp Mill, Refining, Maintenance,
Machine Room, Control and Cham
pagne. In departments were there
are not enough players to form a
full team, it is suggested that these
departments consolidate with oth
er departments confronted with
the same problem. It is hoped that
a six-team loop will be formed, or
at least one having four entries.
Last year teams were entered from
Machine Room, Champagne, Con-
trol-Maintenance, and Pulp Mill,
with Machine Room winning.
Bowlers Lose 3>0
But Still On Top
Running into a red-hot Western
Produce team last Tuesday night,
our league-leading Ecusta bowlers
were humbled 3-0 in a match on
the Brevard alleys, but fortunately,
they are still on top in the stand
ings.
The visitors rolled a 2842 total
against 2637 for Ecusta. Our indi
vidual scores were Morris, 545;
Colwell, 556; Galloway, 505; Rog
ers, 490; Straus, 541. Averages for
the year are Morris, 175; Galloway,
173; Rogers, 172; Colwell, 169;
Straus, 169.
Team W L
Ecusta 66 36
Reed and Abee 64 38
Enka 59 43
Allen Transfer 57 45
Transylvania Times 56 46
Champion 53 49
Asheville Tire 39 63
Western Produce 37 65
Stikeleather 50 52
Hendersonville 29 73
MERRELL’S TEAM
OPENS PLAY MAY2
Hustling, Hard-Hitting
Forecast; VFW I»
First Foe
Ecusta’s softbailers, with
eyes set on a successful
get their first taste of compete®
Thursday night in an exhibit ^
game at the high school i*®,.
with Hendersonville. The 1°
inaugurate their Transylvania ^
ball League schedule Friday nil® ’
May 2, against V.F.W. on the sa"®
field at 8:30 p. m. j
Since April 17, the team . .
been drilling hard and
Manager Fritz Merrell feels r
“HUSTLING” MERRELI'
men will develop into a i
hard-hitting combination, -
better competition expected ^ ^ j
other league members, the 1° ,
will have to be at their best |
stay among the leaders of ^
loop. i
Leading the pitching crops j |
be speedballer Jim Griffin
Merrell. For the opening
the lineup will probably jj,
as follows: Morris Dom, c; jj
fin, p; Rusty Carland, lb;
Ed White, 2b; Oliver Taylor
Jack Wilber, infielders; Roy
Hen'
Grady Carland, and LaWf®
Holt, outfielders. The reinai jj
of the squad will be chosen
Robert Head, Robert
Dan Edens, Lloyd Orr, C‘
Moore, Vincent Dixon, and
Moffitt.
Plans for exhibition
Camp Sapphire on Sunday
noons are being formulated,
dcuSTA STILL
IN W.N.C
Rowling
(Fishing season opens
AT Camp S'apphire
June I-
I^ASEBALL season opens
APRIL 26-softball
STARTS APRIL 29
©OLF SEASON
begins.