|len, Ellis, Doe, Rotan Playing In Tourney Semi-Finals
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Southern Softball Tournament Will Open At Canton Monday
Champions
Of 6 States
To Participate
Twelve of Dixie's top softball
team-* will compete in Canton in
the annual Southern Regional
Men's Softball Tournament which
opens August 30 for five days.
The Southern meet is rated sec
ond in national importance or'";
to the World Tournament. Six
Southern states will be represent
ed?the state champions of North 1
and South Carolina, Florida. Geor-|
gia. Tennessee, and Alabama. In
addition there will be metropoli
tan titleholders from Miami, At
lanta. Birmingham, and Mobile.
In the past four years the South
ern Region has produced one
champion and two runners-up in
the World tournament.
North Carolina's official repre
sentative in this tournament will be
Western Auto ol' Greensboro.
Playing behind the stellar pitching
of young Wade Garrett, they won
the Tar Heel crown Monday night
in the finals of the state meet at
Winston-Salem.
The tournament will be played
under the sDonsorshio of the Cham
oion YMCA. and will be supervised
by State Commissioner Smith Bar
rier of Greensboro and State Sec
retary Jim Dav of Reidsviile. The
Canton Y's Men. in an auxiliary
role, are publishing a 48-page tour
nament program and will handle
tifknt c:?lr?c
They have sot aside some 300
seats behind home plate in Can
ton's ball park as a reserved sec
tion for which season tickets are
being sold. The 1500 capacity of
this park was filled to overflowing
throughout the Southern Regional
held here in 1952.
Play in this year's event will
open Monday afternoon, Aug. 30. j
with Atlanta meeting Florida at 2
o'clock and North Carolina play
ing Georgia at 3:30.
That night Champion YMCA
takes on Alabama at 7:30 and the
defending Clearwater Bombers en
gage Tennessee at 9:00.
The second day of the tourna
ment will be an eight-came mara
thon. During the remainder of the
meet two games will be played
each afternoon and two at night.
Easy Angling
DANIELS VILLE, Pa. 'API ?
Everett Marsh won the presidency
of the Danielsville Izaae Walton
club the easy way.
Marsh was the only man to catch
a legal fish in the Lappawinzo fish
ing contest here. He hooked a 12
inch rainbow trout by the tail.
He was named president of the
club shortly thereafter on the basis
of his catch.
GOES FOR DECKS
REGINA <AP> ? George Gen
ereux of Saskatoon. Canada's only
gold medal winner in the 1952
Olympics, says duck hunting is
better than any other outdoor
sport. He won his Olympic medal
in trapshooting.
?lists
I Meet
?riday |
ti-flnals of the ninth
Eesvilta Meb*? lnvltlf
? Tourament at the
?lub. Bob Allen of
? met V?M?* D?e. Jr
KS. Ala vrWto
K, Ellis of Orlando, Fla.,
? against Jay Rotan of
?ntwo 18-holefduels. .
? ill vie tomorrow in a |
?-final Play Wednesday,
? fellow townsman Char
? two up with an eagle
? hole, a five-par, 473
?tllen's fine drive land
Eit three feet from the
lj the same fast pace >
K in sidelining Jimmy
? of the favorites Tues- |
?ousted A. D. Mull of
? two up by equalling
?winner of the Waynes- :
L 1950. 1951. and 1952,,
? on the front side to
?up and went on for a !
?umph over Bill Calley
? red-faced Rotan was j
?ar in eliminating Gene
? Jacksonville, Fla., 5
? J, C. Hyatt of Ashe
?e in the finals 10 and
I Rotan are favored to
?finals tomorrow.
?ion Y
ft Season
lay Night
ftnpion YMCA Softball
?omplete its 1954 exhi
?ule Saturday night at _
? High park with a
?r against Thomas ?
ftods of Birmingham. | I
?mans were runners-up
?s Clearwater Bombers !
?hern Regional Cham
? season, and have vir- J
?me team back. They I
?pion Y by one run in a
? at Birmingham.
? is 7:45 p.m. J n
kgLeague S
kg Slated J
ly Night
?s for the opening of
? County Men's Bowl- '
?1954-55 season will be
?eeting at 8 p.m. Mon- *
? Wayncsville Bowling ^
? season will open on i
?tember 13. tl
?tains and bowlers in| a
CONGRATULATIONS were exchanged Wednes
day evening by two of the four finalists in today's
championship playoffs at the ninth annual
Waynesville Men's Invitational Golf Tournament
on the Country Club links?Bob Ellis of Orlan
do. Fla., and Rob AUen of Waynesville Other
finalists will be Weldon Doe. Jr., of Montgomery,
Ala., and Jay Rotan of Cramterton. Allen will
meet Doe. while Ellis will oppose Kotan.
(Mountaineer Photo).
Hazel wood, Martel, Enka, Ecusta To
Meet 28th In WNC Baseball Playoffs
Second - place Hazel wood will.
aeet Martel Mills in the second
ame of the Western North Caro-j
ina Industrial Leage playoffs at
:30 p.m. on the Enka diamond af-1
sr the league-leading Enka Ray- J
nites meet Ecusta at 1 p.m.
Winners of the Saturday tilt
nil meet at Enka at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Hazelwood clinched second place
ar the regular season last Satur
ay by outlasting Martel 3-2 in a
ruelling 13-'nning battle ? with .
Iharlie Carpenter going the route
ar the locals on the mound and
I
te eight-team league arc urged to ,
(tend the meeting Monday night.
I
giving up only six hits.
Carpenter will start for Hazel- J
wood Saturday unless Jim Kuyken
dall of Hazelwood arrives from j
Nova Scotia, where lie has been I
playing semi-pro ball. Kuykendall., i
VVaynesville Mountaineer and j I
Western Carolina College pitching ' |
ace, w on several important games j!
[or Hazelwood in mid-season.
Others in the lineup Saturday i
will include:
Floyd Teas, first base; Lonnie !
Bishop, second base: Bud Blalock. i
third base; Dee Stephenson, short- I
stop; Babe Yount, left field; Man- 1
ager Bill Milner, center field; El
mer Dudley or Bob Pitts, right
field, and Bobby Joe Mease or Ken
neth Troutman, catcher.
Hazel wood's record for the sea
ion, after a two-year layoff, was 12 (?
won and 8 lost. Had Kuykendall re- '
mained here, the local squad prob
ihly would have won the league
;rown.
The final meeting of the WNC
Industrial loor will be held Tues
iay at Asheville where trophies I
Furman Needs
Another Selvy
GREENVILLE. S. C. (APi?Fur-;
man University won't lower iLs
basketball sights because of the
?raddation of All-America Frank
Selvy who toppled many records. |
The 1954-53 schedule calls for
games with such teams as LaSalle,
NCAA champion; North Carolina
State. Atlantic Coa-a Conference
champion; and George Washing
ton. Southern Conference title
holders.
WOLVERINE WOE
ANN ARBOR. Mich. fAP) ? The
University of Michigan broke a 36
year record this year ?- one of
dubious merit.
It was the first time since 1918
that Michigan hasn't won at least
one Big Ten conference title.
for the regular season and for the
playoffs will be presented.
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FOREST HILLS, N. Y. ? The
Australians are gathering up al
most every major international
trophy in sight this year. Their
John Landy. though beaten by
Roger Bannister of England, (till
is the world's fastest miler (4:581;
Peter Thomson won the British
Open golf crown and Doug Bachli
took the British Amateur.
Now the Australians are after
the National tennla championship* 1
j They have a powerful team which
Includes Ken Rosewall, Rex Hart
i wig, Lewis Hoad and Roy Emer
TONY TRABCRT .
son, a 17-year-old who upset Haad
at Newport, R. I. '
The Americans above, defend
ing champion Tony Trabert, Vic
Seixas and Art I iriioa appear to
be America s best bets to keep tbe
title here.. While Trabert was beat
en hy Rosowall in five sets at
ART LARS EN
Wimbledon and by Bernard Bart
zen In the National Clay Court
tests at Chicago he has been rest* ?
ing for the Nationals; Seixas and I
Larson are ranked No 2 and S, I
?.respectively, in the United States
and will be our main hope if m
Trabert falters. g
THE FAMOUS CI.F.AIWATER (FLA.) BOMB
ERS will be defending their 1953 championship
when the Southern Regional Men's Softball Tour
nament opens Monday, August 30. at the Canton
High School ball park under the sponsorship of
the Champion YMCA. The Bombers see their
first action Mondav night at 9:00 as they meet the
Tennessee state champions. Members of the
squad, front row, Joe l,ewis, Jerrv Curtis, Herb
Dudley, John Hunter. Ed Ridell, Charlie Scruggs,
and Palmer Gilpin; back row. Bob Sprentall, Joe
Everett, Manager Eddie Moore. Joe Scott, Nolan
\Vhillock. Gene Usmiller, Jim Ellis, Bob Forbes
and Trainer William Williams. The batboys are
Tommy Moore and Warren McMullen.
Fox Hunters' s
Bench Show 1
Set Saturday s
ti
The annual Haywood - Jackson si
Fox Hunters Association Bench t<
Show will be held at 2 p.m. Satur- fi
day on the grounds of East ,
Waynesville School, it has been an-' (l
nounced by Devoe McEiroy, presi- p
dent. I s
Entries at the show are expected p
to come from North and South |
Carolina. Tennessee, Georgia.' c
j Florida, Virginia, and West Vir- f
I ginia. Breeds to be exhibited prob- s
abl.v will include Walkers. Tnug . |
! Goodmans, and Julys.
Prizes, ribbons, and rosettes Will
he awarded to winners in the vari
ous age groups. The judge will be
G. I. Patterson of Tennessee. j
Sandwiches and drink- will be
sold on the grounds by Woodmen
of the World.
>nead Putt-Putted
ro llth Place
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SPRINGFIELD. N. J. tAPl?Sam 1
nead, who now has tailed to win '
he U. S. Open golf title 14 times, :
nunded like an outboard motor at- '
li* his third round 72 put him
ve strokes off the pace.
"If I eould only take advantage '
f the greens," said the White Sul
hur Springs, W. "Va., pro. "It's the
ame, old story?putt, putt, putt,
?utt, putt.
"Off the tees I play like a ma
hine. 1 missed the edge of the
airways only twice and when I
?et on the greens I can't nee them.
just lost another Open."
Sneari finishing with a 290, tied
or llth place with I )r Cary Mid-1
llecoff As a result, filammin Sam!
mist play in the sectional qualify- |
ng rounds if he hopes to shoot fori
lie 1955 Open in San Francisco.
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Revenge Is Sweet
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
lAP)?It was some time in com
ing, but a band of vengeful veter
ans finally settled a grudge of
long standing at a recent city soft
ball game.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
team blanked the opposition, 18-0,
as pitcher Hugh Stout twirled a
no-hitter. The losers? The Military
Police team from nearby Camp _
Carson.
Tuna Tournament
Optimism
PT. JUDITH, R 1 tAPi?Offi
cials of lite 12th U. Atlantic
Tuna Tournament, to be held from
this port from.Aug. .11 to Sept. 2.
are erpressing "cautious optimism"
over prospective catches. Heavy
tuna catches were made in this
year's Bahamas tournaments, and
250 and 500-pound biucfins have
been taken olf Newport, R. I.
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