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Macon SPorts Rounds By 1. T. BRADY Right on the heels of the final football fracus comes the 1950 51 hardwood harlequins ... in words of other syllables, the loop lashup, or basketball, is now In the center spotlight of the high school sport world's ' three-ring circus. The football team ended the season festooned with numerous laurels which rose out of a fine season of play, and from the looks of things Franklin High's i basketball season is going to cap off an unusual sports year, j However, there is one thing j that preys on the minds of sporting fans! Why is it that football is usually played in the warmer end of the year . . . j p'ayers bundled up in cumber some uniforms . . . and basket j ball comes in the dead of wint er .. . players dressed in little more than satin shivvies with numbers? Anyone got an ans- j wer to it? -One of the top professional femme (French for girls who are women in some ways) bask etball teams will arrive in Franklin December 12 and will take on the men's facu'ty at the high school, in a game using men's lules. Regardless- of the rules, male or female, it is go ing to be something to see ? or she. The female dribblers run run under the name of the Arkansas Travelers and are led by Miss Hazel Walker, a young lady who goes around breaking basketball records with utter abandon. Seven of 'em . . making up a more than generous portion of feminine pulchritude. One of the hook shot >sa;tist& is a pro fessional model," and one could Imagine that slw- Is used to "stun" opposing males while her team mates racks up the points. A number of civic minded citizens, rea'izing that the game is a benefit, have volunteered to don shorts and play on the men's team. It must be under stood that nine out of ten of the volunteers wouldn't know a basketball from a B-B, but where women are concerned they can stand their own, they say. As one civic-minded individ ual so delicately put it, "they could foul me all night and I wouldn't even take a free throw." Isn't civic pride some thing? This game is going to be play ed Tuesday a ternoon at Frank lin Hi?h, so if you want to see the battle of th3 se:;s, which has been rasing since the first cave mm t ashed his wife's pate with the second joint of a dinos%ur. drop o.er and get it on the fun. Then that night the Franklin boys and girls, who play the game for the sport of it, take off lor Nantahala school to play the guys and (Ja's over there. And they keep going "over there" somewhere until January 9. On that date they play their first game at home. From the looks of things fans should follow the thin-clad ELdlNS WITH TNI 1 7-/rwW Elgin DtLmxt Diatinrtirr ttyie mf cm*. High 0mt errand $55 00 Elgin DrLnw. J7/tmW?. Trim modern dmign High curved rmiml #57 50 Trtrm Mtitrff M Tn ELGIN guarantees th ? Duraftwtr Mainspring* wi// never, n>vr brukl *U?4t * Uglily m*??l pcMfiag Graver Jamison jsweler when they go out of town and watch the ascent to the top. The lads have the same team that took Franklin High over the mountain to Ashevllle last season to play In the Tourna ment of Champions, so watch out, you Idle dreamers, the boys are going to try for the crown. As per usual, Franklin's arch rivals are the "thumpers" from Bryson City. ... It just works that way ... In football, basket bal' ... or tiddley winks I Leading the parade of Frank lin stars is Dribblln' Jack Nor ton who covers the center pit like a piece of tarp. Jack's name was penned in on the all-con ference team last year, showing that when It comes to ball handling he knows his stuff, and you can look for it on the roster again this year. Three of the loopsters step ped out of their football uni forms and took to the basket ball floor. The no-kln Nortons, .T">ck and T o, ary Rt bnrj Ion ? Then t.ie.e' ; : nothe ex-full back on tha reset je guard list, Charlie Shie'ds. Ted and Oene Stamey round out the first linei quint, and the bovs should make this a basket ball season to talk about. Good Luck Wrestling fans this week wav ed goodbye to Frankl n's most i famous "grunt and groaner", Wallace "Teacher" Martin, who collected busted lips and assort ed bruises "rassiin"' for bene fits here. He lesigned his teach ing position at the High school and plans to go back to college and finish work for his master's degree. Good luck, "Teacher"! CARD OF THANKS We wish to acknowledge with grateful appreciation the kinnd expression of sympathy shown ?s at the time of the sudden j death of our father and hus band, Also for the beautiful I floral offerings. MRS. W. G. ROLAND AN'O CHILDREN. Porter Harvests Bushel Of Pecans From 4 Trees Here T. W. Porter this week dis played pecan nuts grown at his home here. Mr. Porter said that foj years he bought and planted grafted pecan trees, but that each wint er they were killed by the cold. Then, one year, Mrs. Porter's mother, the late Mrs. L. L. Bry son, planted five nuts. From this planting, four seedling trees grew. They apparently be came acclimated, and have liv ed through the cold winters, and this year Mr. Porter said he wil' harvest about a bushel of nuts. By planting the nuts, instead - of putting out grafted .stock, Mr. I Porter , believes his experience shows it is practical to grow pecans, usually considered a warm climate tree, in this reg ion. 1 Wake county almost doubled the number of tractors on its' : farms during 1949. HEADS FARM WORK BEN r. JENKINS, JR. Mr. Jenkins, Cleveland county farm agent for the past five years, became the new western district agent December 1, suc ceeding Robert W. Shoffner. 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