Thursday, March 30, 1950
CATAMOUNT GRIDMEN
SPRING PRACTICE SES
WCTC, Cullowhee?Coach Tom
Young's Western Carolina spring
football squad banged heads in a
two-hour scrimmage session Saturday
afternoon, marking the midway
point in the four-week program
of spring training.
Considerable progress has been
made in plugging the gaping holes
in the center of the heretofore
power-driving Catamount line.
The pivot position, both guards
and both tackles, will be hard hit
by graduation this spring when
- all five of last year's center-ofthe-line
starters get their sheepskins.
Center Hugh Constance, Guards
Art Byrd and Von Ray Harris and
tackles Dan Robinson and Buffalo
Humphries will not be around this
fall to batter up the lines of High
Point, Appalachian, Lenoir Rhyne,
et al.
Two replacements, a guard and
a tackle, have definitely been
found. Bob Greeson will take
over Humphries' tackle slot and
Effie Stewart will fill in where
Harris left off at guard.
Several boys are showing promise
at tackle including Clyde Bumgarner,
Harley Stewart, Bill
Owens and Bruce Jaynes. Guard
* candidates who have been outstanding
are Dan Donovan, Joe
Coffey, Glenn Yarborough, Pete
Litaker, and Charles Howell. Two
Candidates are waging a small
war for Constance's center position.
Frank Parker and Tommy
Robertson both show promise of
developing .a one-two punch at
the pivot. Young is well pleased
with the prospects of plugging the
center post.
The backfield, not so hard hit
as the line through graduation,
should again be up to or above
par. Pee Wee Hamilton's running
hasn't slackened since last fall.
Neither has Hershey Hipps'. These
tailbacks are big threats to other
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Robert Rumbaugh, Bobby Cunningham
and Paul Rogers looked
best at fullback. Wingbacks Dick
White, Tommy Hornaday, Jimmy
Johnson and Jack Noland turned
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line, Young will do it. The boys
have been working hard and are
willing to give and take in an effort
to win their second straight
North Conference championship.
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COACH WINNING
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Winning a basketball tourna^
ment is considered an everyday
matter now with all the tournaments
that are being held around
the country. But when a team
wins a tournament under such
conditions as Yadkinville High
won the Winston-Salem Journal
and Sentinel Tournament last
week, there's something more than
everyday matters involved.
To begin with, the Journal-j
Sentinel tournament is one of the
biggest high school affairs in the
world. Competition comes from
all over and it is exceptionally
rugged.
To develop a team, Yadkinville
had to travel a distance of 20
miles each day for practice. Yadkinville
High has no gymnasium.
They practice at West Yadkin.
Coaches Malcombe Brown of
Sylva and Ed Allman and Paul
Buchanan of Webster, all of whom
had a hand in developing this Yadkinville
team, mastered these unpleasant
conditions to the extent
that they developed one of the
best small high school teams in
North Carolina.
In the semi-final round Yad
kinville defeated Meadow of Dan,
the Virginia State champions, then
in the finals Yadkinville topped
King High, 33-31, for the championship.
King had lost only one
game all season.
There's more to this story than
what appears above?th|e team
had a lot of spirit and fight, and
it had good coaching. A lot of
credit goes to these three Jackson
County fellows for the job
they did.
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GRID PRACTICE
Coach Jim Barnwell announced
Monday that Sylva High School ]
would, hold no spring fodtball J
practice this year.
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will be able to whip themselves
into shape in this sport. Barn- <
well had previously planned to \
hold spring football but only light !
drills.
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same benefits from baseball which .
got underway last Tuesday.
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The Sylva High Hurricanes
opened their spring baseball drills
Tuesday afternoon with thirtyodd
candidates out for the team.
Coach Jim Barnwell was pleased
with several performances of individual
players and stated that '
the Hurricanes could develop into
a well-balanced team.
Coach Barnwell plans to play 1
an eight or 10-game schedule with
games pending with several i
schools including Cullowhee, Can- ;
ton, Andrews, Bryson City, Mur- ?
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Joe Louis, the retired heavyweight
champion of the world,
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was seeKing 10 regain ins iruwn
this summer in a fight with Ezzard
Charles when he announced
Saturday that he would join the
Dailey Brothers circus for a 94day
tour and give up professional
boxing.
Louis will join the circus May
24, but before that he will tour
South America, exhibiting his
aoxing skill in several Latin
American cities.
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County teams.
Some of the outstanding candidates
for the team include pitchers
Derel Monteith, a southpaw;
Charles Cunningham, and Zollie
Fincannon. Catchers are T. C.
Shepherd, and Perry Rhodes.
Infielders include Furman Dillard,
John Hoxit, Wesley Warren,
and Jack Holcombe. Outfielders
are Thornton Cabe, Ed Sumners,
Dick Barkley and Jerry Dillard.
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BUCK'S WIN PLAYOFFS
IN CITY LEAGUE
Buck's Soda Shop of Cullowhee
won the playoffs in the Sylva
City League Friday night by decisioning
Boodleville, last year's
champions, 30 to 24, in the Sylva
High School gymnasium.
Boodleville led Buck's until the
final three minutes when Hullender
fouled out of the Boodleville
lineup and the defending champions
were forced to finish the
game wiin iour men.
The sharpshooting of Bryson
then pulled the game out of the
fire for Buck's. Bryson hit on his
last four shots in the final two
minutes good for eight points.
Wednesday night in the opening
round, Buck's defeated KirkDavis,
27-20. On Thursday night
Buck's swept by the Latter Day
Saints of Cherokee, 33-18.
Buck's, managed by L. H. Higdon,
is a well-balanced group of
former Cullowh^e High Sdhool
players. The team was handicapped
in height but made up for
it in speed. O. V. Cagle, 6-3 center,
fractured an ankle in the
opening minutes of the Wednesday
game.
The lineups:
Finals?
Buck's (30) Boodleville (24)
F?L. Norton 2 Hall 3
F?D. Norton 5 Duck 4
C?Cole 8 Hullender 8
G?Tilley 4 Benton 4
G?Bryson 11 Green 5
Asheville Tourist Start
Season With Exhibition
VERO BEACH, Fla.?The Asheville
Tourists of the Class B TriState
League, Western North Carolina's
largest professional baseball
club, dropped their opening
exhibition game of the season to
St. Paul of the American AssociaI
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St. Paul scored three runs in
the first inning, enough to win,
but went on to tally seven more
in the remaining eight innings.
Asheville pitchers Moser, Brosowski,
Muscian, Birksis, and Fiacouzzi
were touched for 11 hits.
Asheville made two errors.
The Tourists scored a run in
the sixth and another in the 8th.
Asheville made seven hits off
three St. Paul hurlers.
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Moser, Broswski (5), Muscian
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Sirota; Chandler, Taylor (4), Lewis
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WCTC, Cullowhee?A promising
pitching staff, a tight infield, good
outfield and strong catching are
the keys Tuck McConnell is using
to unlock the doors to a successful
diamond season for his Catamounts
this spring.
And what more does one need tc
c ross the threshold to success? The
Catamounts show promise of possessing
all' these assets, and if so
a fruitful season could hardly be
escaped.
Already three weeks of practices
are behind the Cats and
they are ready to launch the season
next Tuesday at North Georgia
College. Tuck has not namec
his starting pitcher, but it is almost
understood that either James
Pardue, a strapping, young southpaw
who was the top WCTC startci
last year, or newcomer Bilj
Davis will get the starting assignment.
Along with these two hurlers
the Cats have on roster Harolc
Keener who tossed for the Ecuste
nine of the WNC Industrial League
last summer, Red Griffin, and
Dick McKinney. That's the shape
of the mound corps at present.
McConneli expects to field a gooc
offensive machine as well as a tof
defensive club. Speed on the basepaths
has been one keynote of the
drills. McConneli is a strict believer
in the admonition that i
man can score three times quicker
from 3rd than he can from 1st
So the Cats will get around the
bases if Tuck has his way.
Veteran catchers Squirt Williamson
and Buck Page anchoi
the receiving department. Anc
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J-MEN TIGHTENING OP
IRST GAME OF SEASON
Frank Parker is expected to bolster
these boys as soon as spring
' football ends.
; The infield shapes up as a tight
. defensive unit with Charles Stall;
ings on first, Buddy Foster at second,
J. C. Price at third, and Artis
) Carter at the hot corner. Aaron
i Stroud will serve as utility man.
The outfield lists a trio of vet
erans in Tommy Selzer, a .300
' hitter from last year's squad,
Clyde Pressley, and Don McKen'
zie, powermen. Three newcomers,
1 Donald Ussery, Jim Evans and
Dirk F.rien arp at nrpspnt in re
" serve.
' After playing at North Georgia
on Tuesday afternoon, the Catamounts
will return here for a
Wednesday game with Woflord
' College. The complete schedule
follows:
April 4?North Georgia, there.
April 5?Wofford, here.
| April 8?North Georgia, here.
{ April 11?Wofford, there.
? April 14-15?Appalachian, here. .
I April 20?ECTC (Doubleheadj
er), there.
April 21-22?Atlantic Christian*
j there.
} April 28-29?Piedmont, here.
May 5-6?Appalachian, there.
? May 9-10?Lenoir-Rhyne, here.
May 12-13?High Point, here,
i May 15?Elon (Doubleheader),
. here.
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