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jrjTTh? ?PORTS TRAIL"*' ^(.ubat-^ in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: A guy LmK0 attended a Cub-Phillies game the other week, hh a st?P ^tch. The Bwne lasted 2 hours and 42 UK that time the ball, he says, was in play exactly ps and 51 seconds. The playing time included the windup and delivery of the ball, throws to first, L until they landed foul, hits, all infield and out r until the ball was returned to the pitcher, and it consumed for three men to run around the bases j y hit balls into the bleachers. nir this time to other ball games, it means for every { actual baseball the fan watches, he sees eight of nothing. And then they're wondering about ,using that attendance sag. . . Quinry in the Chariotte News: Charlie Justice was iat he corrected in his running game when he from the colegians to the pros? . , . "Faking is the IK," he said . . . "Good backs find pro defensive men taught napping ... You have to fake much quicker, get near the college man before I faked him. Get 0 and you've got an elbow in the face." Horner in the Durham Herald: It was interesting he Pittsburgh version of why pitcher Ron Necciai m the inactive list . . . They said he was suffering tiach ulcers ... 1 when did stomach ulcers partially paralyze a fel and shoulder? ... Necciai could hardly lift his right I he left the Bur-Gra club early last month and one gers on his pitching hand was stiff . . . Duke Hos ics diagnosed his ailment as a "pinched nerve" in shoulder . . . p are some who fear Necciai may never pitch win again . . . The tall Pennsylvanian was greatly con k>nt his physical condition when he departed for figahela home ... all Cassell in the Baltimore Evening Sun: Ben | the one-time "Alabama Arrow" of the Yankee out phed the Indians beat the Yanks and explained why icently as manager of the Tampa club. "It just got i for me," said he. "We had three players on the one homer apiece. They led the club." umill in the Christian Science Monitor: A1 Lopez, land skipper, was telling about the fellow who got cent club gathering and asked the question: "Why have your ball players just hit the ball over the itead of letting them swing hard and strike out?" Id him and the more than 200 others in the hall ng isn't that simple," Lopez said. "It may look it, rely isn't. I tried doing what he suggested for a f years and succeeded surprisingly few times." k Spencer in the Winston-Salem Jaurnal: I have it the best way to prepare for an interview with a gue scout is to find a wooden Indian in front of a rugstore and start a conversation, r many years of talking with baseball scouts and tidians I find that the only difference is that the 11 answer "ugh" once in a while and the wooden ist nod which way the wind is blowing. [)uincy again: Joe Cambria takes a stand as firmly ixt crusader. Some things are good for baseball, not, he reasons. Queens," announces Joe, "gotta go!" ns? h, the Miss Everybodys you see advertised in ball radays. Rail parks don't need beauty contests; they i hits?and they're not gonna get them with girls iround in bathing suits. in the dugouts and I know. The ball players, they here at the parade and say, 'Look at those legs'? than that. I don't talk like ball players, but I py're talking about the legs when they should be about that pitcher coming up and how many base rp going to get. s and ball playing don't mix." ?ond Johnson in the Nashville Tennessean: There'll 1 six schools fighting for the Southeastern Confer a this fall .. . That's the opinion of Bob Woodruff, entor. n't think Georgia Tech will be as strong," Bob said. 'e lost one of their great line backers! I cannot see erence in Tech, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, LSU ucky. Mason is back at Kentucky and he will be eligible Kentucky had a fine sophomore team last fall and phi played both ways. With Mason and Steve Meil that big fullback (Allen Felch) who gave Ten tnuch trouble, they could be rough. 'ia s success will depend on how its line develops. r,t the conference's best passer in Zeke Bratkow taaee is singing about hot having any guards, pen spoiled with so many fine guards. Alabama y finp squad but has a habit of starting slowly. I0ther loaded with talent." i 4 lia's Basketball Record Ktha, the Indiana State College star who |e New York Knickerbockeres totalled , line 85 consecutive games in his three yea ?basketball competition in the mid-west. In, Tnd., he once scored 32 points in a s ng Kansas Tech. ? e Babe Pinelli of the National League c|*^8 g ?nto three types, reports The Sporting ... . ??Ti^ticker^oneisth^alibi Softball Tournament Starts At Canton Today Pi-t-i m J ? > ? ?jigni 1 earns Play, Today? Wellco In The 8th District soft ball tourna J ment opens in Gankbn tonight with I all eight entries slated to see ac tion in four games beginning at 6 I o'clock on the Canton High dia mond. it ivas been announced by District Commissioner Jack Justice Two loams from this tournament will advance' to the North Carolina men's $jate tournament, which will be jktayed In Canton the week of August 24. The winner advances as 8th District Champions, and the runner-up will be entered as host team to the state meet. This will give Western North Carolina three entries in the state event, sine* Champion YMCA will automatically be entered as de fending state champions. The YltoCA nine will not compete in the district tourney. i The district meet Is to be played on a double elimination basis, and the pairings for., the first round i Monday night are* 6:00?Champion Mill of Canton vs. Sports Mart of Asheville. 7:00?B'Sj T All-Stars of Canton vs. Superior Cleaners of Asheville. 8:06?Cross Mills of Marinrf vs. j Mutual of Omaha of Asheville. 9:00?Anderson-Brown Patrol of Asheville vs. Wellco Shoe of Hazel wood. Play wtll continue each night next week. The finals Friday and Saturday nights will be played in conjunction with exhibition games between the Waverly, Florida, and Champion YMCA teams. Trophies to be awarded in the 8th District tourney will go to the winners, runners-up leading hitter and outstanding pitcher. The entries in the women's Southern Regional meet will in clude the state champions of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Flor ida. Alabama and Tennessee, plus His Master's Voice SAN BERNARDINO, CaM <AP> ?A dog lover who believe* In the peace and quite tff his neighbors as well as the happiness of his Ave Weirttaraners has found an easy way to keep them all happy. George C. Wiedeman has rigged up a 70-foot electrical communi cation system from his home to the backyard kennels.' If one of the dogs starts barking in the middle of the night. Wiede man speaks sharply or smacks his hand with a rolled newspaper before his bedroom microphone. The dog obeys his master's voice. The neighbors get their sleep, * Fire Water Bottle - TRINIDAD, Col <APt?The glare of the sun through a bottle .tossed in a bed of pine cones was be lieved responsible for starting a fire biasing through 3.000 acres of brush and timber recently near the Colorado-New Mexico border. Dam age was estimated at $23,000 the metropolitan champions of At lanta. Birmingham. Mobile and Miami. Canton's Champion YMC-A will also ? plate an entry as host team. The men's state tournament will involve the champions of the eight ASA disrtcits of North Carolina and the Champions of the Charlotte and Raleigh metropolitan districts. Tlie Champion YMCA, as defend ing champions, and a host team from WNC will swell tlfc entry list to twelye clubs. Champion YMCA has held the state crown for the past four years, and can establish an all time record | for the state if they make It five in a row this year. All of these August tournaments will be played on a double elimina tion basis, and will total something like 55 games in the next three weeks. Want Ads bring quick results FRANK II. (Tykerl MILLER, of Waynesvllle, Is ?ffn weighing in at 246 pounds for the National Soap Box Derby held Sunday in Akron, O. Tyker made a good showing in the competition which in cluded ears from all 411 states. Germany, Alaska and Canada. Hr won his heat hi the first round but was eliminated in the second round by one of the runners-up in the finals. The erace was run down the 973.4-foot Raceway before some . - ? ? v?- 'a-spy y * Iron Duff CDP Meeting Postponed To Aug. 20 The Iron Putt CPP hat postpon ed its next meeting from Ttars day August 13, at Camp Hope to Thursday. August 20, at Dam Chapel Methodist Church. It will be held in the Sunday School Room. In the United States during per iods of high employment, about half the people over 14 yegrs of age are not in the labor farce? that is they are not working or looking for jobs. 40,000 spectators including Mr. and Mrs Miller, Stuart Roberson, Rob ert Allison, all of Waynesville; Frank Ellis and J. H. Duncan of Murphy; and G. Edison Hill of the Asheville Junior Chamber of Com merce. Tyker was .flown to Akron by the Ashevflle Jaycets, had a police es cort with full sirens and horns to his hotel where, with the band play ing "Carolina," his name and. his tory were read over a loudspeaker to a crowd of about 000 spectators. Want Ads FOR RENT? September first. 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