PORT
Here And There
BY BOBBY TERRELL
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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
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?\C/l little silence.
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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.
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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
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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.
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