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Mountaineers
During Football Season
With Versatile Eleven
Nutshell Review
Shows 11 Wins
Out of 1 1 Games
Plaved in 1946
A nutshell review of the 1946
record of Die Waynesvilk Town
ship High school football season j
shows the Mountaineers won 11
games of 11 played, averaged
points to four of their opponent . ,
giving them a tolal of 3(iH for the;
best season record of any North ;
Carolina high school team this,
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The team was strong in all ile-1
partments. being well drilled he-1
fore going on the field and having I
smart plays called when in action
Passing was a spectacular success,
with 7o connections (47 per cent)
of 161 attempts, an average of ti.U j
completions of 14. (i tosses per j
game. Points after touchdown wwe
garnered at the rate of 74 per .
cent 39 out of 53 attempts.
Biggest scoring thrill was at ;
F.lizabethton, Tenn. Biggest satis-;
faction was' in beating Canton
twice the second time with three
varsltv backs on the sideline. Big
gest individual honor was taken
by Tom Medford. selected All-State
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TOMORROW is New Year's Day
wtien football bursts into its last
bloom in the variety of bowls over
the warmer regions of the V. S.
Since these bowl games could
hardly be known as big-time af
fairs without some notice from
pardon the cough, folks) Spear
neading, we shall take this oppor-
unity to make public our views on
the subject. It seems that down in
v Y'orleens there is what they
-ail the Sugar Bowl, where the
ootball teams from the University
of North Carolina and the L'niver-
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rity of Georgia will push each oth- score. So for the records it's Geor
t around the field for a few hours gia by two points . . We'll string
omorrow aim-noon. Most of what along with X. C. State against
we have heard about Georgia con- Oklahoma. 12 points better we
;"erns their man Trippi while they hope . . . Tennessee and Rice will
,ay that Carolina has a right fair put on a good game at Miami, with
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I Victory Banquet
There si ill are some tickets
available lor the Victory Ban
quet to he piven Friday night
in the lla.'ehvood school cafe
teria in honor of the WTI1S
Mountaineer football s'quad.
The tickets can be obtained at
the Chamber of Commerce of
fice. The banquet is sponsored by
t!ie football fans of Waynes
ville and tiazelwood, with a
committee headed by Kd Sims
in charge of arrangements.
Awards lor outstanding work
during the football season,
several entertainment novel
ties, and a big turkey dinner
are being arranged, with the
banquet to start at 7 p.m.
tackle. Biggest loss will be the
graduation of practically the whole
1946 varsity squad which will put
Coaches Weatherby and Ratcliffe
; to building a brand new starting
: team next autumn.
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SPORTS
By ED SPEARS
player in Justice. Carolina also has
a good line, hut some of their best
men particularly at center won't
be able to perform. Both teams
have risen up on their heels and
won the scraps they thought im
portant this year, except that Caro
lina went to sleep for a moment
against Tennessee and lost a game
they should have won. We would
like nothing better than to see
Justice. Pupa and the boys from
Chapel Hill set the Georgia boys
. down, but fear lliey will come out
'on the wrong end of a 20 to 18
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'46 Softball
Play Here
VV. H. L. Loop
Draws Many
Entries in Summer
Time Recreation
Softball contributed one of the
highlights in local sports during
1946, with nine teams entered in
the ' Way nesville-Hazel wood - Lake
Junaluska league to make it the
most widely participated in of any
the Vols getting our vote to out
smart the 'Owls, about 13 to 7.
UCLA isn't supposed to have too
much trouble with Illinois so we'll
vote for the California boys and
hope to be on a bandwagon. Geor
gia Tech over St. Mary's at Hous
ton, but this will be close . . . and
Delaware to continue their unbeat-
! en
record against Rolnnfl in tne
Cigar Bowl.
N. C. State's basketball team has
lived up to expectations so far this
season. Coach Everett Case, who
hails from Indiana where good
basketball is habitual, took the
State quintet into his home terri
tory, and they finished the trip
with' five wins and one loss. Their
big "Dickey" Dickey has heen
averaging 15 points per game. Car
olina's White Phantoms made two
appearances in Chicago and lost
to both Northwestern and DePaul,
while Duke took a jaunt into Flor
ida and finished the pre-holiday
schedule undefeated.
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QUAIL hunting is almost a
j thing of the past in Haywood
county. The answer to this, accord
; ing to Rufus Ratcliff. the game
warden, is the absence of ' un-
touched fields in which the birds
i cau live during the winter months,
i You can drive around Haywood
' county, says Rufus, and practical
i iy every field you see is used for
; the cultivation of a field crop, or
1 clover that is cut for hay. or is a
1 pasture land with some livestock
! feeding on it. This proves that the
j farmers are getting more use from
j the land, even though the hunter
j is going to have to go farther away
from home for game birds as the
! years go by.
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Memories of The 1946 Big
vayion uage
Pace In Counly Circles
Rod And Gun
Users Have
Big Season
Trout Play Cagey
During Summer,
But Bear Hunters
Make Record Kills
Hunters and fishermen, although
seeing the deer season close this
past year in Western North Caro
lina and finding quail stocks very
sparce in nearby fields, can look
back on 194G as a. pretty good year
after all. Some of them can. any
way. The fishing season got off to a
big start in May when 624 follow
ers of Izaac Walton went up the
group sport enjoyed during the
past year.
Although attendance at games
dwindled after the season was
started since the league was too
strong at the top and weak in the
lower division, there were some
good scraps, last inning wins, and
several upsets to keep up suspense.
There were a few engagements
with out-of-town teams, and in all
games the locals gave a good ac
count of themselves.
The Boosters soon were tagged
the "team to beat" after the season
began, and the Tannery was the
only nine to get that honor. Bob
Putnam's pitching assisted in 22 of
the champs' 23 wins, and the soft
ball twirlcr struck out 1 17 baiters
along the way.
Stan Henry of the Boosters hit
.505 during the season, with Rob
inson of the Tannery second not
only in hatting i.468i but in pitch
ing, with 10 wins and 5 losses.
Unagusta and the Veterans scrap
ped for third place, with the Vets
being nosed out by half a game.
Dayton won over half its games,
while the High School, Pet Dairy
and Lions hovered over the Youth
Club in the loop cellar.
Canton's American Legion and
Champion Y performed in July 4th
games with the Boosters and Tan
nery, and the locals went to Canton
later to enter the W.N.C. tourney.
One of the best games came at
the end of the season, when an
All-Star selection faced the Boos
ters and were unable to keep them
down.
The '4C season developed a lot
of players and brought some us
able experience and etfuhpment
which should make this coming
summer a bigger one for the play
er and fan a li
League Season Highlights
& earns oei
Bethel High Looms
As Powerhouse
In Haywood County
Again This Year
Last Winter when the basketball
season ended, several Haywood
county teams had added quite a bit
of luster to their records. And some
of them look like they might re
peat the same this year.
The 'current pace-setters in high
school circles, Bethel High, were
among the biggest honor winners.
Their boys quint won 14 of 15
starts in regular season play, with
Billy Wells furnishing 321 points
to aid in this job. Both Bethel
teams were final winners in the
Enka and W.C.T.C. tournaments.
Waynesville High also had
strong teams, the boys winning the
W.N.C. tourney championship, and
the girls losing to Fines Creek .in
the Gold Medal play-off.
Dayton Rubber company had a
fast combination in the W.N.C.
Industrial league, and showed their
mettle during the 4-stale tourney
West Fork of Pigeon River for a
week-end of 'casting. They caught
a total of 2,799 fish during this
amphibious operation.
Later on in the summer bad
weather seemed to follow the
Haywood angler, and many more
trout were seen than brought to
the frying pan. Wayne Rogers and
some associates hauled in a 24-inch
speciman from Cataloochee, but
good catches were rare rather than
the rule. Bass in the lakes were
more cooperative, with one linny
citizen of Junaluska jumping in
Harry Evans' boat for the best tall
tale experience of the summer.
Big game hunters were more
fortunate with bear than in many
a year. Scarcity of food in the
mountains brought them down near
orchards and pig pens, and kills
were daily occurences after the
season opened this fall a bad sign
for the future even though there
wer many bear steaks eaten this
year. Alonzo McGaha and Carl
Rathbone bagged the biggest ones
brought to town.
Squirrel and rabbit were sup
posedly plentiful, but the nut-eaters
were not as numerous as
thought when the season officially
opened.
So far as the sportsmen were
concrneea, mere were more li
censes issued this year than ever
before as ex-gobs -and GI's kept up
target practice with rod and gun.
This is a good sign that the out
doors life will not become extinct,
even though the days of game sup
ervision and planning are at hand
to keep fish and game stocks from
seeking friendlier hills.
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Tournaments
Add Interest
To Golling
During '46
Prospects For
Better Season
Lay Ahead For
Local Linksintn
One of the best seasons yet was
experienced by the Waynesville
Country Club, With fttce weather
offering many extra days to John
and Jane Golfer and interest in
the sport heightened by the re
turn of equipment and an interest
ing series of tournaments.
Three regular tournaments were
begun during the stimfner that
will be annual affairs, and should
attract the better golfers visiting
in this area each year. It took Some
good playing to win the initial
contests, and competition will grow
keener in the years to come.
Under the general guldanee tf
Pro Ray Raynor and the Club
management, handicap tourneys
were held most every week-end
to lead up to the main events at
the beighth of the season. The Wo
men's Invitation tourney was the
first played, and Jackie Lewis of
Orlando was crowned champion af
ter defeating Edna Lackey of Gol
den Beach in the final round.
When the men got together to
settle the matter Of cluu cham
pionship, R. L. Hendricks took a
1-up victory over Aaron Prevost
for the title. Shortly afterwards a
larger field of players entered the
W.C.C. Open nieet, and a big fol
lowing saw the climax duel between
D. B. McKenzie of Asheville and
Charles Curtis, when Curtis came
down the last stretch and sank two
birdies on the 17th and 18th holes
to earn a notch on the tourna
ment loving cup.
Not all that happened was on
the serious side, such as when Les
lie Coleman drove out in the rough,
knocked another ball out and lost
his own. All in all 1946 Was a good
year for the local and visiting
golfers, with little doubt that 1947
will be even better.
in Asheville, where they Went to
the finals. Dayton now Is Working
out the kinks in their schedule, aYid
some lively indepetftdeht competi
tion in basket-making will get
under way come January.
St. John's school, returning to
court activity this Winter, will re
open the season after Christmas
with a tilt Jan. S agamst Cherokee.
The other high schools will swing
into action the followfrig VeA,
with warm-up days behind aird
prospects for a lively season be
fore the tournaments arrive.
A number o cotton mill Jtfwtts
in the agricultural South 3fperate
cominumty canning plants to 'en
able employees to preserve home
grown frufts ahd vegetables.
Hazeiwood Baseball M
Is Industrial Circuit
Champ During Past Y
Blalock Leads
team to Big
Season As Loop
Is Reorganized
Local followers of baseball saw
that sport return to pre-war stand
ing during 1946, when Hazelwood
entered the Western North Caro
lina Industrial league and battled
their way to the loop champion
ship. The league had been disbanded
for four years previously due to
the shortage of players, but army,
navy and marine separation used
tne months following the end of
hostilities to put many a young
man out where he could drill with
a fcaseball bat rather than a rifle.
bud felalock returned from jock
eying a plane for Uncle Sam to
be made manager of the. Hazel
wood nine. They started practicing
In April, opened their season in
May, With games scheduled each
Saturday afternoon. With only a
two-man pitching staff, Blalock and
if. C. Burrell, they began running
(over everything in sight, being es
pecially strong in the hitting de
partment which doesn't hurt any
baseball team.
Until August they went unde
feated, then had a bad afternoon
at Ecusta and lost their first match.
Later on in the season they drop
ped a game with Champion Y,
which gave them a final record
of 18 wins out of 20 games. Enka,
Beacon Mills, Green River, Sayles
Biltmore, and the league cellar
holders, Martel Mills were unable
to touch them during the regular
season.
Blalock not only was the league's
best pitcher (12 wins to one loss),
but paced the team in individual
batting with a big .877. Sam Lane,
a fast-traveling putfielder, was runner-up
in batting, with a .360, with
the dependable Gordon Wyatt and
Elmer Dudley next in the percent
age column.
Burrell had a pitching "arm that
Won six of seven games, despite
being at the age when most ball
players retire, and hit over .314
as well. Bill Milner was another
of their batting powers, and prob
ably the smoothest defensive man
Was Oliver Yount in left field. With
Gene and Glenn Wyatt, Stan Henry,
ErVin Shook, and the other players
On the roster, the team had a well-
rounded baseball squad and came
Out of many tight spots to achieve
their exceptional record.
During the post-season- playoff
HazelwoOd went to the final but
lost a hard-fought match to Beacon
Mills, 6-4, on the lafter's field. But
it was a great season, nevertheless,
and the fans will be quite happy
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