PORT Here And There BY BOBBY TERRELL IWUffTffffffTffftTtffff.fff.fftf.ff f f tff tf f f ff.f fXJ TWO CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHTS LOOM ON SAME CARD FOR SEPTEMBER Both Lightheavy And Middleweight Crowns Will Be At Stake The Tournament of Champions biggest rival to the 20th Century Sporting club of New York, an nounced Friday that two champ ionship fights will be presented on the same fight card in Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, probably on Sept. 23. The T. of C. promoter Andy "Niederreitter has scheduled l'ght heavyweight king Freddie Zule with Frenchman Marcel Cerdan European champion. This is. the first blow of the T. of C. for the boxing patronage that has for so long been held by the 20th Century club. Sul Strauss. acting head of the 20th, refused to take his rival's challenge lyii.g down and proceed ed to announce tnat his establish ment would leature a big heavy weight snow on Sept. 22, just a day oi; ><> earlier than the T. of C.'s shew. Strauss stated that Jer sey Joe W.ilcott would face Ez zard Charles in tae feature event with two other top ranking heavys slated to go on the s..me night. The 20tn's program w.li be held in Yan kee Stadium. For a long time Cerdan has been gunning for a shot at the Middle weight crown and no better time could have been chosen than the same night that Lesnevich will attempt to win back the crown he BUSINESS INVESTMENT Popular soft drink franchise available for the following Counties: ? JACKSON . SWAIN MACON CLAY GRAHAM CHEROKEE A Cash investment of $15,000 will give a return, to-right party, of approximately $10,000 a year. Particulars only to those with necessary funds. Address: Box 307 c7o Sylva Herald, Sylva, N. C. CA little quiet, ?\C/l little silence. ?_A> grow a soul/. e%? FRIDAY NIGHT 8 P. M. The Price of Truth What is it? God says buy the truth and sell it not. Be sure to hear this. SATURDAY?8 P. M. The Anti-Christ Is he now in the world? I&-Ui?_Anti-Christ_to appear before the Tribulation? SUNDAY NIGHT The Great Transgression THE GREATEST OF ALL SIN It is even greater in magnitude than the Unpardonable Sin. It is not the Unpardonable Sin. What is it? MONDAY ? NO SERVICE TUESDAY?8 P. M. "Seven Women Shall Take Hold of One Man." , Read Isa. 4:1, Then hear this Prophecy. WEDNESDAY Lest We Forget Here is a great truth that is now forgotten. THURSDAY Who Are The Itil of Rev. 11? Are they Jews or Gentiles? Hear the Tabernacle Choir sing with Kistler. Sweetest Sontfs of tf\c (lOfpcl .V f I>ry COMMUNITY 6BLE TABERNACLE Intersection 19A - 23 and 107 jLegionaires End Season With 15 - 12 Record CONTINUED OUTBREAK OF POLIO IN WNC RESPONSIBLE FOR EARLY SHUTDOWN Skipper (ivorge Lcc Leads Hitters At .370 | li : li .)! 1wins out ! ' 2', +L-r.A - l..t. Syiv.. Legioncires c.?!iv ci it ouits !a-t !?*. uiav nignl :luc to the c?.;;tii:uoci outbreak of( polio in r.t- cqiut.ry. Club officials thought ;t butler .to close out the s??. sen at this point rather than to continue to play and endanger the citizens who turn out to see the' games. Tne Legionaires could have picked no better time to quit. Their last game was the 18 - 12 slaughter of Greenville, Tennessee on the foreign field and that goes to show t .at the beys still had plenty of power. Never let it oe s: id that the Le i gionaires did not give the home folks their money's worth. Out of ? 17 games played on the Mark Wat son diamond, Sylva was victorious in 13. On the road they won only 2 out of 10. Their first victory of the season was over Charley Munday's Hen dersonville Skylarks out of the professional VVNC Class D league. Frorh there on they met the best of the semi-pro bunch in West ern North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia and defeated better than half of them. The Murphy Mount aineers proved to be the chief scourge to the Legionaires, taking 5 of the 6 games played. Hazel wcod took 2 of 2 from Sylva. Sylva lost no games to out of state competition. They played 7 games with teams from Tennessee and Georgia, and won all of theme Skipper George Lee captured the batting championship of the clut for the second straight year with an average of .370, 48 points under the .418 that he pounded out las season when his club was a mem ber of the Smoky Mountain league Ben Dillard again placed second for the second consecutive season this time with .309, 103 points less than his .412 cf last year. lost to Mills in London two weeks ago. All in all. \ye'll say that the Le gionaires hi vc had a good ae. son 1:iitime ; r.ci they will be sun niiij 'i-r a be'ter ur.e next year. Softball Tournament To Be Staged At Brevard Brevard, July 31 ? Tne annual! Western North Carolina Invitation al soi'tball tournament will be held i here on the lighted Brevard High school field from August 24th! through August 28th, R. C. "Slim"' Bullock, announces today. Some of the fastest teams in! North and South Carolina are ex-j' pected to participate in the event and a handsome trophy will be awarded to the winning team, Mr. Buliock, the financial secretary of, the Transylvania Softball league,| sponsor of the tourney, reports. Trophies will also be given to the second and third place teams. Last year the tournament was a great success with 20 teams er^ter I ed. Sutton's of Waynesville won I the first place trophy, with Enka and Army stores, of Asheville, runners-up. Arrangements for the event this year will be under the directon of the Transylvania Softball league officials and balls for the toufney will be furnished by the league. Entrance blanks have been sent out to a number of teams and all entries must be returned by Aug ust 15 to Mr. Bullock, P. O. Box 11, ' Brevard, N. C. He can be reached by telephoning No. 705-w. Play will start on Tuesday, Aug ust 24th, the secretary reports, and pairings will be announced short ly after the 15th of August. All concessions in the ball field have been turned over to the Dunn's Rock Masonic building committee here, it is reported. HAVE YOU RENEWED, i \ / YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? - CHEROKEES TO MATCH BOWS WITH I ASHEVfLLE ARCHERS | IMcet Will Be Held j At Rent Creek Ranch Sometime This Month Tr.e Cherokee l4bik.ns, longtime specialists with the bow and ar row,' will attempt to show their skill with these weapons some time this month when they meet the modern Robin Hoods of the] Asheville Archery club in a one-' day meet at Bent Creek Ranch,' ^sheville. -j Two' teams of four Braves each will vie witn two teams of four from the Archery club in the shoot ing of an American round which' consists of 90 arrows per person from distances of 60, 50, and 40 yards shot at a four foot target. Another contest .will be held be tween the two best Cherokees and the two best Robin Hoods shoot ing at a moving target. The win ner of the latter event will be ac claimed as the champion of the day. William Castleberry, owner and operator of Bent Creek Ranch, will be host to the groups and will award souvenir riobon prizes to winners. In addition to the bow and ar row events, Carl Standingdeer, archery champion of the Cherokee band for a dozen years, will give an exhibition of his skill with a blowgun, a weapon long used by the Cherokees for killing small game. A plaque, made by the wood working department of Biltmore Industries, will be awarded to the team with the highest total score. The plaque will serve as a rotating prize to be contested for each year for the next several years at simi lar annual contests*? The contest will be open to vis i.. i s \vli.iout cnurge, \s it;i trie ex ception ot c;:i!'vii ?n under i(3 years of age, and the ex-it time ot the contest will be announced later. Local Coys Assist During Peach iiu>h In South Car. During the rush shipping season of peaches t\v) boys iVom the local Southern Railway station assisted at points in Scuth Carolina. John Gibson worked as operator in Gramlin, and George Sloan as bill ing clerk in Inman. Both boys returned to Sylva the middle of the week. Quay Grigg relieved Sloan at the local station during his stay in South Carolina. '.Naval A;r Reserve pilots flew ]L'2.U7.5 man h>H,rs in training op eration*; in one month of 1^47. Dr. W. Kermit Chapman | Dentin Offices In BOYD BUILDING Waynetvllle. N. C. Phone 363 i when coid miseries strike FAST RELIEF OPENING FOR BUSINESS MONDAY, AUGUST 9 HAMBURG FARMERS ASSOCIATION A Meeting of all members and friends of the Association will be held at GlenVille High School Thursday, August 12 at 8 p.m. oO' SEE IT TODAY AT Y? d?Al?R:S 1 REECE-HAMPTON MOTOR COMPANY, Inc. ?Cull?wk?e Road Sylva, N. C.