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P © RT PAGE Edited By John I. Anderson £ Rambling With The ' Sports Editor .... --—--—---* On Gil Coan And “Hoss* Stamey 9 h Em As the big league baseball teams get ready to start spring train ing around the first of March, sports fans in Transylvania begin talking about the prospects of a good season of Gil Coan and Harold <*Hoss” Stamey, the two pride players of this county in bigtime ball. Coan, regular outfielder of the Washington Senators, will report to Orlando, Fla., shortly after the first of March, and Stamey leaves on Friday for St. Petersburg, Fla., where he will join the St. Louis Cardinals. Both players have spent the winter in Brevard and the fleet footed star of Washington recently opened a service station here. Coan has been conditioning himself on the Brevard golf course where he has .played most daily since last October. “I expect to hit around .300 this season,” he stated yesterday. Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, was recently quoted in the sporting magazines of the country as saying that Coan had been over coached in the big leagues by various managers and that in 1950 he would be left alone and will be given an opportunity to come into his own. Coan had a mediocre season with the Senators last year, but he promises to be a strong reinforcement for their 1950 pennant bid. Be fore going to Washington, Coan was the outstanding hitter in the Southern Association while with Chattanooga. His batting average for the season was .372. In addition to his power at the bat, Coan is rated the fastest base runner in the American and National leagues. His power and speed were well demonstrated by the fact that he hit 28 triples for a new Southern Association record and also stole 37 bases. Both Coan and Stamey were baseball stars with the Ecusta Paper corporation baseball team in the Industrial league. Prior to playing with Ecusta before the war, Coan played outstanding ball for Brevard college and broke several hitting records. Before playing with Ecusta, Stamey was one of the most outstand ing baseball players to ever graduate at Brevard high school. He was a great hitter, a pitcher and an outfielder and graduated in 1947. That summer he was a key man on Ecusta’s WNC team, and Manager Jack Alexander says “Hoss” improved as fast as any young ball player he has ever coached. Recently, Alexander received a letter from Johnny Nee, former scout and at the present time director of all player personnel of the Philadelphia Phillys, in which Nee praises Stamey by saying he is definitely big league material and a fine fellow. For the past two seasons, Stamey has placed with Americus, Ga., -'a Philly farm club, and during the first year he hit .328. Last year Stamey’s batting average was .311, and he led his team in all depart ments except homers, batting in more than 100 runs, hitting 12 homers, 12 triples, and his 40 two-base hits were tops in the loop. Recently, ‘ “Ho6s” signed his 1950 contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. The Ole Sports Editor speaks for every baseball fan in Transyl vania when he wishes for Coan and Stamey the best season ever in 1950! MITCHELL & SMITH CONTRACTORS -PRECAST CONCRETE Septic Tanks—Drain Tile—Floor Joists ant. Steps 330 WHITMIRE ST. PHONE 579-W BREVARD. N. C. In Stock... 1950 Allotment Model 12 Cole Corn Planters Cole Fertilizer Distributors Globe Cultivators Malta 50 or 60 Tooth Drag Harrows Complete Assortment Garden Plows and Hand Tools Farmers Supply Co. - J. M. ALLISON — — v — 111 -.- ■■■ ■ ' TARHEEL WILDLIFE SKETCHES NMF Bum UST run IT SEEMS THAT 1 WE WERE NOT THE ONLY TARGETS IN 1949 LETS MAKE 1950 A SAFE YEAR 'AFIELD Win Donat,. BREVARD CAGERS SPLIT TWIN BILL WITH SWANNANOA Girls Lose By 25 To 8 Count; Boys Win By Margin Of 13 To 36 The Brevard Blue Devils split a doubleheader with Swannanoa high school here last Friday night. The Swannanoa girls won the first game, 25 to 8, and the Brevard boys took the finale, 43 to 36. • M. DeWeese led the Swannanoa girls to victory with 10 points. Captain Bobby Morris, Jack Eu banks and Foster Bagwell set the pace in the boys’ game with Mor ris taking. scoring honors with 15 points. Eubanks scored 12 and Bagwell 11. Gibson and Hall were high for the losers with 12 and 10, respectively. Girls’ lineup: Sw’nn’a, 25 Pos. Brevard, 8 Meeks, 1 _F_ Norris Johnson, 8_F_ McCall, 3 DeWeese, 10 ___F_ Green, 1 Biggs -G_ McCrary King -G_ Anderson Ward -G- Landreth Subs: Swannanoa: Stroup 6, Foster, Mayhew, McMasters, Al len, King, Jenkins. Brevard: Sen ior, Bryson 2, Ferguson 2, Masters, R. Allison, A. Allison, B. Allison, Byrd. Boys’ lineup: Sw’nn’a, 36 Pos. Brevard, 43 Hall, 10-F_Morris, 15 Gibson, 12-F__ Eubanks, 12 Creasman, 2_C_ Wolfe, 4 Allen, 7-G- Stamey Huntsinger, 2 __G__ Bagwell, 11 Subs: Swannanoa: Suttles 1, Bates, Stroup, Atkins 2. Brevard: Peterson, Reed, Hargis, Kimzey. Officials: Thurmond, Walkei PISCAH BOWLERS TAKE 2-1 VICTORY Triumph Makes 14 in Last 15 Matches; Ecusta Drops Close One By trouncing the Seven-Up bowlers to the tune of 2-1, the Pis gah Motor court team won its 14th SHEET SHOOT Saturday, 1:00 P. M. Brevard Country club Range Blue Ridge Conference Golf Schedule | 1950 March 7—Hendersonville at Tryon Waynesville at Brevard March 10—Asheville School at Waynesville Brevard at Hendersonville March 14—Tryon at Brevard Waynesville at Hendersonville March 17—Asheville School at Tryon Waynesville at Hendersonville March 21—Tryon at Waynesville Brevard at Asheville School March 24—Tryon at Hendersonville Brevard at Waynesville March 28—Hendersonville at Brevard Waynesville at Asheville School March 31—Brevard at Tryon Asheville School at Hendersonville April 4—Tryon at Asheville School Hendersonville at Waynesville April 7—Waynesville at Tryon Asheville School at Brevard April 14—Tournament at Tryon (Play will be 18-hole medal play.) match in the last 15 games last week. On the same night the Ecusta club lost a hard-fought match to Standard Supply by the same score. The winners are cur rently leading the league. Charlie Colwell had the high score of 606 for the losers, who came within 10 pins of being the victors instead of the losers. Walter Straus was second with 585; Ralph Morris had 581; John Emory 495; and Lewis Meece fin ished with a 486 score. Individual scores for Pisgah were: Reynolds 551, Conley 564, Rogers 497, Oates 540 and Bridges 574. Blue Devil Cagers Divide Twin Bill On Tuesday Night The Brevard high school cagers split a double-header with their favored rival, Hendersonville, here on Tuesday night. In the first encounter, the Bre vard girls’ varsity won out by the score of 34 to 24, and in the feat ured game of the evening, Hen dersonville trounced the Blue Devils to the tune of 69-34. This was the last home game of the season and a large crowd was on hand to witness the ex citing double bill. On Friday night of this week Brevard travels to Ben Lippen for the last contest of the season. In the girls’ game Tuesday night, Theressa McCall and Doris Ferguson were high scorers for the locals. ADVERTISE FOR HER! Little Dorothy had been pray ing for a baby sister. Her mother, while reading the paper, exclaim ed: “I see Mrs. Smith has a little daughter.” “How do you know that, mam ma?” Dorothy inquired. “It says so in the paper, dear.” “Read it to me.” Her mother read: “Born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a daughter.” Dorothy thought a moment and then said: “I know what I’m go ing to do. I’m going to stop pray ing and begin advertising.” TORNADOES LOSE OUT IN TOURNEY Drop Close Game To Gard ner-Webb By Score Of 65 To 60 Playing one of the best games of the season, the Tornadoes of Brevard college dropped a close basketball game to Gardner-Webb cagers last Thursday night in the first round of the Western Divi sion Carolinas Junior College tour nament at Kings Mountain. The score was 65-60, and the game was just as close from begin- ^ ning to end as the score indicates. At the end of the third stanza, The Tornadoes were behind by only one point, with the score at 51-50. Jack McCauley, Brevard’s flashy forward, played a great floor game and racked up the highest score for the locals with 17 points. Freshman Charlie Brewer played a nice game and accounted for 11 points. The lineup: G.-Webb, 65 Pos. Brevard, 60 Puckett, 8 -F__McCauley, 17 Rollings, 15_F_Brewer, 11 Trammell, 5 ___C_Welch, 7 Moon, 25 -G_York, 9 Homesley, 6 ___G__ Wilk’son, 10 Subs: Gardner-Webb: Key, Bar row (6). Brevard: Greenway (4), Davis (2), Watson. TRY TIMES WANT ADS_ ■ PRINTING LETTER HEADS BILL HEADS STATEMENTS ENVELOPES OFFICE FORMS CIRCULARS VISITING CARDS WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENTS THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES PRINTING-PUBLISHING PHONE 7 BREVARD, N. C. Service That Satisfies...Every Time! Above is a recent photo of our station on North Broad Street. Note its clean, spacious, inviting appearance. We stress customer satisfaction as a means of gaining your patronage and good will. 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