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Edited By John I. Anderson
Rambling With The
Sports Editor
COAN SIGNS ... Gil Co an has signed his 1953 contract with the
Washington Senators and is now working oat with the club in Orlan
do, Florida. It is reported that the fleet-footed outfielder was given
a cut of $2,000, with the understanding that he would get a portion
of it back if he had a good season. Writing from Florida, Coan says
<he Senator club has certainly changed, and including himself, there
are only three “oldtimers” in the line-up. They are Mickey Vernon
and Eddie Yost. The Senators are staying at the Orange Court hotel
In Orlando, and they expect to break camp around April 1st. Washing
ton plays Charlotte on April 5th, and already many local citizens,
including practically the entire Brevard Rotary club, have made
plans to see the game. Incidentally, it will be carried over Mutual on
a coast-to-coast hook-up.
FROM ROY THOMPSON’S FEED BOX ... A local sport let his
doctor talk him into an operation on February 12 and then realized too
late that that was the night of the Gavilan-Davey fight. He took his
radio along, and was just beginning to realize that the fight wasn’t be
ing broadcast when the nurse came in to give him a sleep shot. He was
dtiibborn. She was determined. He told her he had quite a wad on Da
vey. She told him she had orders to give the shot. He finally took it
after die promised to wake him up and tell him how the fight came
out The next thing he knew she was shaking him and saying “Gavilan
slaughtered Davey in the ninth.” The sport groaned, rolled up his
sleeve, stuck him arm out and said, “Gimme another shot!”
BETWEEN SEASONS ... Athletes have their midseason slumps,
and sports writers suffer a similar dilemma between various sport
seasons. Here we are at the close of basketball and just prior to the
opening of baseball, and sports activity at the moment is centered
around kite flying in the March winds. We are looking forward to
the big contest on the high school field on Saturday week. Don’t
know who enjoys flying a kite the most: the father or the son.
Cello-Mecks Continue Swift
Pace In Ecusta Bowling Loop
First Place Team Wins Three
More. Stars Of Night
Are Listed
By taking three straight games
from Champagne, the Cello-Mecks
continue to gain a firmer hold on
first place in the Ecusta Interde
partmental bowling leagu^jgmd
they now have a record of^Pmns
Ond 13 losses.
The Pirates, after winning two
out of three from the Sparkies, are
in second place with a record of
42Vz to 20Vz, and they are being
pushed by the Hillbillies who have
42-21. The latter took three from
Clear Paper during the past week.
Transportation, loser of two
games to the Bees, is next in line
with 40V£-22M>, and the Sparkies j
have 38-25.
In the other match during the
past week, the Alley Cats nosed out
the Pick Ups 2-1.
Stars of the night were:
High High
Name, Team Game Set
Lanning, Cello-Mecks_180 497
Meece, Hillbillies_222 521
Ponder, Pirates_181 502
Hamilton, Sparkies_184 507
Schmidt, Bees_193 505
TORNADOES MADE
GOOD SHOWING IN
CAGE TOURNEY
Defeat North Greenville In
Close Contest. Lose To
Asheville-Biltmore
Brevard college Tornadoes made
a good showing in the Western
Carolinas junior college conference
tournament held at Spindale.
In the first encounter, Brevard
nosed out North Greenville, 63-59,
but lost to Asheville-Biltmore in the
championship rounds by the score
of 77-71.
In the North Greenville game, ,
Brevard took an early lead and held
it until the final quarter, when
North Greenville put on a scoring '
spree that pulled them up within 1
one point of the Tornadoes. How
Bradley, Transp._196 1
Metcalf, Transp._ 530 1
Emory, Alley Cats_182 468
Amette, Pick Ups_214 515 1
Hendersonville
Flying Saucer
$ Days $
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BARGAIN
FESTIVAL
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
MARCH 6-7
HUNDREDS OF PRIZES
EXCITING VALUES
SAVE! SAVE!
Bowling Stars At The Ecusta Paper Corporation
CHARLES LINK, left, captain of the league-leading Cello-Mecks bowling team in the Ecusta league,
is pictured above as he wins first place in the All Events of the 17th annual WNC ten pin tournament in
Asheville. He also led his team to second place honors in the team event with a team total of 3,073 pins.
BRUCE REYNOLDS, right, has been labelled ‘dean of Ecusta bowlers,” and readers of The Times are
urged to gleam his bowling record over the years.
Real Harbingers Of Spring
Sure sign of approaching spring is the activity of big league base
ball players at training quarters. Here, at Vero Beach, Fla., the Brook
lyn Dodgers give their pitchers a workout. In background, manager
Chuck Dressen (left) watches Clem Labine pitching, while Ben Wade
(right) stands waiting. Ronnie Lee (back to camera) is the catcher.
All-Class Tourney Is
Underway At Rosman
The all-class tournament at the
Rosman high school is now under
vay.
Coach Winchester is the director
>f the tournament and his able as
sistants are Bill Pangle and Charles
>ver, the Tornadoes came back to
oss in a pair of field goals that
>ut them out front to stay.
High scorers for the locals were
loyle, 17 points; Eller, 12 points;
Malcolm, 11 points, and Stamey 10
>oints.
Against Asheville-Biltmore, Bre
•ard took an 18-10 lead at the end
if the first quarter. But the Bull
logs came back blazing to go ahead,
.8-26, at halftime. From there out
t was Asheville-Biltmore all the
vay.
King led the Tornadoes with 17
)oints, while Stamey dropped 16
>oints through the hoop. Hoyle had
2 and Eller accounted for 11.
Wildlife Club Meet
Set For March 12th
Monthly meeting of the Transyl
vania Wildlife club will be held on
Thursday night, March 12, instead
of the usual date of the first Thurs
day, it is announced by W. O. Sin
iard, president.
The meeting is being postponed
one week on account of many of
Whitmire of the varsity squad.
The outstanding team to enter
the meet so far is the eighth grade
girls who defeated the highly tout
ed ninth grade girls to the tune of
16 to 12. Georgia Carter and Sylvia
Robinson together with La Verne
Smith could pace any team to vic
tory. These girls could play with
Rosman varsity if they were only
in the ninth grade.
In other games the eighth grade
boys were defeated by the ninth
grade. The tenth grade boys top
ped the eleventh grade boys 14 to 9.
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BOTH WOMEN/ AMD
TIME TABLES ARE
SUBJECT TO CHANISE
WITHOUT MOT ICE -
The only thing around here that
doesn’t change is the high quality,
fair prices and friendly service.
Now On Display!
Self propelled type Blue
Grass rotary mower, power
ful and easy running. Also
push type.
BREVARD^
HARDWARE,!,
OPPOSITE COURTHOUSE
FREE SEEDS FOR
COVE ITEMS ARE
NOW AVAILABLE
Applications May Be Secur
ed Through The Local
Wildlife Club
Officers of the Transylvania
Wildlife clu'b have secured blanks
from the state whereby free seed
for planting food and cover items
for birds and small game may be
secured by farmers of the county.
The Wildlife Resources Commis
sion is endeavoring to secure plant
ing of the seeds throughout the
mountain section as part of the ef
fort to increase birds and small
game.
Blanks may be secured from W.
O. Siniard, president of the club
or from C. M. Douglas, secretary,
in the tax collector’s office at the
court house.
the wildlife club members wishing
to attend the annual chamber of
commerce banquet which is slated
for this Thursday evening in the
Brevard college cafeteria.
Bruce Reynolds Called "Dean
Of The Ecusta Bowlers" In
Article Taken From The Echo
■- m
Local Kegler Has Been Par
ticipating In Sport For
Many Years
(Editor’s Note: Thanks to the
Ecnsta Echo, the Times is this
week carrying the following
timely and interesting article,
which recognises Bruce Reynolds
as the dean of bowlers at Ecus
ta.)
Bruce Reynolds—“Dean of the
Ecusta Bowlers.” Bruce could right
ly claim that title, for he’s the old
est bowler in both the Interdepart
mental league and the Western
North Carolina league.
Though he wouldn’t reveal his
age, he did say that he hoped he
would be able to keep on “rolling
’ef down the alleys” for five or six
more years before he retired.
Bruce got his start in bowling
back in 1920 when he became a
member of the Norfolk and West
ern Railway team. He bowled with
the railroaders for five years and
then left the company to work for
du Pont’s Old Hickory rayon plant,
where he was active in the Inter
plant bowling league.
In 1933 he moved to Enka where,
in addition to bowling in their In
terdepartmental league, he bowled
with the Enka team in the Tri-City
league. (The Tri-City league was
the same as the W. N. C. league is
today). For four of the six years
he bowled with the Enka team, the
Enka keglers won the league cham
pionship.
In further testimony of Bruce’s
outstanding ability on the alleys, he
has participated in four national
tournaments. In 1937 he went to
New York with Asheville’s “Land
O’ The Sky” team for the Ameri
can Bowling Congress tournament,
where he was a prize-money win
ner.
In 1938, in being among the ten
bowlers who had the highest aver
ages in the Tri-City league, he won
an expense-free trip to Chicago to
bowl in the A. B. C. tournament.
Again, as in the previous year,
Bruce came home from the tour
nament a prize money winner.
Coining to Eousta in 1939, Bruce
began bowling both on the Ecusta
team and in the Interdepartmental
league. He has bowled every year
but two on a departmental team
and on the Ecusta team. Every year
he’s bowled in the Interdepartmen
tal league he’s held the high indi
vidual average for the season.
During the two years that he
wasn’t bowling for Ecusta he bowl
ed for the Transylvania Times
team and the Pisgah Motor Court
team. Both teams copped the West
ern North Carolina league cham
pionship the season he bowled with
them.
In 1946 Bruce and the other
members of the Ecusta team trav
eled to Buffalo, N. Y., to give a very
creditable performance in the A.
B. C. tournament there.
He went to his fourth A. B. C.
tournament in 1951 as a member
of the Carling’s Red Top Ale team
of Asheville. That year the tourna
ment was held in St. Paul, Minn.
Again Bruce came home a prize
money winner.
Last year the Ecusta team, with
Bruce doing his share, took the W.
N. C. league championship, and, ac
cording to him, they have every
reason to believe they can take the
crown again this year.
Bruce has yet to bowl a 300 game
but there is every reason to believe
that he may do it before his bowl
ing days are over. He once rolled
11 straight strikes but had a 6
10-4-7 split for his next. He ended
up with a total of 296 pins.
Bruce Reynolds may have passed
the mid-century mark in age, but
as anyone who draws Bruce as an
opponent on the bowling alleys will
tell you, he’s no old man.
DOG BEST CAMPAIGNER
Top honors among volunteer
March of Dimes workers in Salmon,
Idaho, went to Stub, a dog.
Max Hemmert, who owns Stub,
tied a miniature iron lung around
the dog’s neck. Stub trotted up and
down Main street. More than $90,
from dimes to dollars, was dropped
into the iron lung.
Fire Insurance
Amendments
Rate Reductions New Type Coverage
EFFECTIVE APRIL 15, 1953
STOCK OF MERCHANDISE now eligible for TERM
PRIVILEGES in protected mercantile buildings. Here
tofore, only buildings and fixtures could be covered for
more than one year.
MERCANTILE BUILDINGS in business area eligible
for new 10% reduction in rates.
DWELLINGS (Protected) New rate reduction (other
than farm).
DWELLINGS. Low cost new type of insurance for
North Carolina now available which covers loss from
following eight perils:
1. Water damage from plumbing and heating systems.
2. Rupture or bursting of steam or hot water heating systems.
3. Vandalism and malicious mischief.
4. Vehicles owned or operated by the insured or by a tenant.
5. Glass breakage.
6. Ice, snow and freezing.
7. Fall of trees.
8. Collapse.
BREVARD INSURANCE AGENCY
BUDDY MELTON
Telephone TUmer 2-6811