iielwood Nine To Open WNC League Play At Beacon Mills Saturday ton Black Bears Here Friday; untaineers Whip Greenies, 7-2 ley Uses Yank System tunning Philly Team TALK??Roy Harney, general manager of the Phillies, *ssrs team problems with new field pilot Mayo Smith. Bey and Smith are products of the Yankee organisational ney, regarded as one of i op front office men and 1 tl manager of the Phila- . lilies, presents especial-1 Srwsfeatures his views stems and why be sue- 1 ro Smith as manager.) I ROY HAMEY 1 j )e silly If I didn't carry ] f the Yankee system. i est thing about the Yan the winning of five t nnants. They were con- I anging their personnel. 1 they made some change ig in established Nation- , veterans and promising | tight into the American j b stars as Johnny Mize, | )P. Johnny Sain. Ewell j ind more recently Jim i have some good young < racuse finished fourth i ernational League and 1 tyoffs and faced Louis [ Little World Series, i g agreement with Syra- I pay dividends this year I I enrnth (31) is the rieht t lief inb lie worked 58 jwr at Syracuse. John ) ?d Jhn Owens (21) are t definitely major league pitching prospects. Meyer won 15 and Owens 17 in a tough league. Joe Lonnett (28), a catcher, hit 21 home runs. Marv Blaylock (25) hit 22 homers and batted. 303. A first baseman, he should be ready. Bob Bowman (23) hit 20 homers md batted .282 as an outfielder, if he can hit the curve ball he's major league all the way. These are the boys we brought jp from Triple A. If some of these hoys make the club i^ will be a healthy thing. As far as Mayo Smith is con ;erned I had a chance to watch lim work four years, the last two ?t Birmingham in the AA Southern \ssn. Before that he won two pennants at Norfolk in the Class \ Piedmont League. I know he can gef along wilfi nen. He never had a tailor-made dub. I think a young manager will nake a good major league manager, ie's 40. I think well see a young trend n managers. It's beginning to hap pen now with fellows like Walter Mston, Smith. Birdie Tebbetts, Marty Marion, Pinky Hirrins, Ed lie Stanky and Stan Hack. Mayo Smith is coming in cold in lis major league debut. Before his spring the only Phillie he The Mountaineers won their fourth baseball game of the sea son Tuesday by sending Christ School back to ArdeD on the short end of a 7-2 score. The Gold and Black diamond crew, who have lost only to Beth el thus far, will be after "the big one" here Friday afternoon when they collide with the Canton Black Bears at WTHS. Canton has lost once to Brevard, but has beaten the Blue Devils in 'a second game and has also tamed Hendersonville and Asheville OfihAnl Coach Bruce Jaynes of Waynes ville announced Wednesday that he will be sending his ace George Mit chell to the mound tomorrow against Canton. Mitchell was hurt in a wreck April 15, but appears to be back in top form again. The senior hurler was charged with the loss to the Blue Demons, but was still below par from his back injuries. In beating Christ School Tues day, the Mountaineers got only one more hit than the visitors?6-5? but got them when it counted. Top hitters for WTHS were Bobby Hill and Johnny Wright, each with a pair. Waynesville opened the scoring in the second inning with three runs as Ballance was safe on an er ror, Davis singled. Roberson struck out. Muse bounced out, Stephens was safe on an error and took sec ond when the ball was thrown away ?permitting Ballance to score, and Wright singled, scoring Davis and Steohens. The Highlanders picked up three more in the third as Hill singled, Robinson was safe on a fielder's choice, Ballance walked, Davis flew to left field, Roberson walked, Muse hit a grounder to the shortstop who failed to get rid of the horsehide, allowing Robinson to score. Stephens then singled, scoring Ballance and Roberson. Christ School scored two in the fifth on singles by Robinson, Carr, and Robertson. The Mountaineers closed out the scoring in the sixth inning as Wright doubled and then scored on Hill's single. Waynesville (7> ab t h B.vrd, ss 3 0 0 Hill, c 4 0 2 Robinson, 3b 4 10 Ballance. p 3 2 0 Davis, If .... 3 t 1 Roberson, If 110 Muse, cf 3 0 0 Stephens, rf 3 11 Wrieht, 2b 3 1 2 Totals 27 7 6 Christ School (2) ab r h Dunn. If 4 0 0 Huffman, cf .... 3 0 0 Shuford. 2b 3 0 0 Underwood, lb 3 0 0 Martin, p 3 0 1 Robinson, c 3 12 Carr, rf 3 11 Hudnor, ss 3 0 0 Robertson, 3b 3 0 1 Totals 28 2 5 W. L. Black Now On Navy Reserve Cruise William L. Black, hospitalman in Ihe U. S. Navy Reserve, son. of Mrs. Dora C. Black, Route 3. Waynes ville, and the husband of the form er Jo Ann Singleton of Waynes ville. is now undergoing two weeks training aboard the U.S.S. Bowers out of Charleston, S. C. During the ship's two weeks at >ea, the reservist will visit Port Everelades, Fla. Black is a member of a Naval Re serve company at Asheville. A recent survey Indicates that 35 , million Americans take a break for coffee some time during their working day. ;ver saw play was first baseman Earl Torgeson who was with Seat tle in 1946 when Mayo was an out Selder under Jim Turner at Port end. Incidentally, Mayo was rec jnimended for a manager's career by Yankee coach Turner. We have some good young ball players and with coaches like Whit j Wjratt, Wally Moses and Benny j Bengougb I know We can make I thtm better ball players. MAN WITH FUTURE? - - - By Alan Ma-. AMBlT/OH LAST YEAR ?/ W/HH/RG OVER /CO GAMES- THEIR /OS A.'AS as EH to pred CHL/ -' ? T/MES 0/ WE YA IKS - /\ . THf* /ear RE JUST Jp I Popes to vy/h more t tmah the ?pp place team. rrprv iii m i iisvi ? Yl \tu 11 lial i ? ^ M ? 1 y ^ ? bl ii pv ? waynesville women's lextime j ne f riendly Bank took over the lead in the Waynesville Women's Bowling League Tuesday night by winning two games trom Wellco Shoe while the former leader, Mur phy Chevrolet of Canton, was drop ping a pair to Liner-Sheehan. The two teams will fight it out for the second-half championship next Tuesday night?the final night of bowling fol- the lady keglers. Wellco Shoe won the first-half league title. In another match Tuesday night, Howell Motor topped Dayton Rub ber, 2-1. ' Cecil Elliott rolled the high in- j dividual game of 180 and I la Jean Yount the high individual series of 474. Liner-Sheehan posted both the high team game of 833 and the high team series of 2290. HIGH TEAM SERIES Liner-Sheehan 2290 The Friendly Bank 220* Wellco Shoe 2192 HIGH TEAM GAMES Liner-Sheehan 833 Dayton Rubber 819 Mumhv Chevrolet 772 HIGH INDIVIDUAL SERIES Tla Jean Yount 474 Marv Hamlett 458 Cecil Elliott 430 HIGH INDIVIDUAL GAMES Cecil Elliott 180 Ua Jean Yount 178 Rozelle Ray _ 168 TEAM STANDINGS W L 1. The Friendly Bank 301$ 14V* 2. Murphy Chevrolet 29'$ 15V4 3. Wellco Shoe 251$ 191$ 4. Liner-Sheehan 231$ 21V* 5. Howell Motor 161$ 281$ 6. Davton Rubber 91$ 331$ INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES 1. M. Hamlett 142 2. A. Wvatt 142 3. M. Medford , .... 140 4. M. Harrell 139 5. I. Yount 138 6 L. Carver 136 7. C. Elliott 133 8. R. Rav 134 9. D. Phillips 132 10. M. Martin 131 SCHEDULE FOR MAY 3 The Friendly Bank vs. Murphy kiALia y BY VIVIAN BROWN J AP Newsfeatures A song fest is a good way to entertain your church group after the young people's meeting. It breaks the ice so that lads and lasses get to know each other, and gives everybody an opportun ity to make more friends. Take a group at Pelham, New York. 4. Pretty Rita Arthur 16, who mov ed there from California had been used to after-church socials at members' homes. But when she got to the new town there was nothing like it going on. How do you get to meet people? thought Rita when she saw that at church meetings all the bashful boys sat off to themselves, and shy girls blushed when spoken to. She took things in her own hands and invited the group? from 12 to 18 years of age?to her home after one of the Sunday evening meetings. Says Rita: "l.thougnt I'd experiment. The song fest was a huge success. The second one brought out 36 people and two ministers. Now other people are being encouraged to hold social* in their homes." The minister, Rev. Duane L. Day of the First Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon led the singing. Fun songs came first?"Sippln" Cider" and "Tell Me Why" among others. Then before refreshments "quiei resigned" says Rita, and hymns such as "Jacob's Ladder" andf Rock of Ages" were sung by the girls and guys. Refreshments consisted of 3 different type cookies, cup cakes, mints. A fruit punch was made with ginger "ail. Rita says: "We were really amazed that these fellows and girls were so neat. Everyone brought his own napkin and paper cup back to the Chevrolet. Welleo Shoe vs. Dayton Rubber. Llner-Sheehan vs. Howell Motor. fohnson, Thompson To Head A-W Field Sunday . Special Meeting Df Blue Ridge Conference Called A special meeting of the Blue lidge Conference will be held at 30 p.m. Monday at Sand Hill ilgh School, it has been announc ed. C. C. Poindexter of Bethel, con erence secretary, said that several natters vital to the welfare of the ?onference will be considered at he conference and urged coaches, irlnclpals, and superintendents to ittend the session. Pvt. Billy Wyatt Is An Expert Rifleman FORT JACKSON?Private Billy IV Wyatt, ?F" Company, 501st \irbome Infantry Regiment, son if Mrs. Billy W. Wyatt. Haieiwood lias qualified as an Exoert Riflie man with the M-l rifle during his Iralnine at Fort Jackson. He will be awarded the Expert Qualification Badee for rifle which he will wear throughout his army career. In order to qualify, basic train ees at Fort Jackson must spend msnv hours In instruction in the use of the rifle. They learn to dis mantle the weapon, the safety rules of Its operations, and how to fire it. ? ii Governors' Choice CONCORD. N. H. ? Ned Quint, 81-year-old violinist, play ed at Gov. Lane Dwinell's inaugu ration. It was the 31st consecu tive inauguration reception at which he has played for a New Hampshire governor. Quint first Addled during the reception for Gov. Charles A. Buslel in 1895. table and cleaned up his own crumbs." There were no records played. It was all piano music and the youths sat around on the floor. Everybold dressed up?the boys wore their Sunday suits and the girls wore party dresses or blosuse; and skirts. The Rev. Day com mented: "I've never seen boys and girli mingle as nicely as they do at these song gatherings. They are friendly to each other and have lost the awkwardness that Seetned to exist at the meetings." Th* song festival is announced in the church paper as well as listed in the church bulletin. Par ents drive the young people to the pftrty and pick them up later. Rita is hoping that some of the adults who have large homes will Invite the group to sing. Says she: "Parents are delighted with the project because for one thing It helps keep the girls and boys off the streets." . . Joe Lee Johnson, the lanky Chat tanooga speed demon who beat Speedy Thompson by a whisker In the last Asheville . Wcavervllle Speedway race, will be back Sun day afternoon to square off against Thompson and the rest of a 30-man field In another modlfled-sporU man feature. Thompson said after the last race that he still believes he can outrun Johnsons' Cadillac-powered Chevrolet and he plans to prove it Sunday. Johnson and Thompson com pletely lapped tne field here April 17 as the Chattanooga speed mer chant flashed across the finish line a scant 10 feet ahead of the Mon roe driver. Promoter Gene Sludcr Is pre dicting a fast track for Sunday's race. "The rains this week camr just right," he said yesterday. "We'll have the track In perfect condition." And 5,000 spectators are expect ed to crowd the speedway to watch Johnson and Thompson resume the duel they began April 17. Sluder termed that race "the toughest one I've ever seen." Time trials Sunday will begin at 1:30 with the first heat race scheduled to go off at 2 p.m. The program will include two 10 lap heats, a 15-lap consolation, the 30-lap main event for modified and sportsman drivers, and a 35-lap run for amateur drivers. Sluder said Tommy Boger, who was injured in a Columbia, S. C. race a year ago, was recently re leased by his doctors who declare'1 Him readv to race. Boger will be here for the Sunday race and he'll be ready to run. said Sluder. Another entry to be considered as a big threat to Johnson an'* SDeedy Thompson is Speedv's brother, Jimmy, who will be drlv in* his new Lincoln-oowered racer Accompanying Johnson from Chattanooga will be Freddie Friar and his souped-up Ford who came in third to Johnson and Thomp son April 17. The field of 30 drivers also will include Cotton Owens of Spartan burg, S. C.. Banks Simpson of Con ' cord, Doub Cox of Greenville S. C., Dick Blackwell of SUrtex ' S. C? Banto Mathews of AshOvilli and Bill Widenhouse of Midlandi Other top sportsman drifters Jin ? elude Termite Moose. Mutt Simp ?on. Krnest Tlnoett. Johnnv Deav ' er, Glenn Wood. Leroy Turner Btmk Moore and Harlev Allman. The amateur field, which is ex oecfed to exceed 25 drivers, ii | headed bv Hush Carpenter of Lin colnton Bill Herman of Hlckorj and Earl Chambers of AsbevlJle, Name Trouble DALLAS, Tex. (AP) ? School officials were in a tizzy. F.ighl after diplomas were printed, foui girls in the graduating class got married. . 10 Players From WCC Join Team Hazelwood. runner-up in the Western North Carolina Industrial Baseball League last year, will field a team of "unknown quantity" against Beacon at Swannanoa Sat urday afternoon. At least six?and probably more ?of the players who performed for Hazelwood last season will wt be available to the locals for the com ing diamond campaign. The heaviest loss resulted when the Champion Paper and Fibre Company entered the WNC league with a new team?taking from Haz elwood such Canton players as Dee Stephens, ace shortstop in '54; -atcher Bobby Joe Mease, and Ditchers Charlie Carpenter, G. L. Rhymer, and Jerry Alexander. ? However, their loss may be more than offset by reinforcements fr6m Western Carolina College ? head ed by star hurler Jim Kuvkendall of Hazelwood. who won eight fames 'or Hazelwood last vear without s loss. Also from WCC will be ->ltchers Spunk Caele and Joe Dressley, catcher David Price, a 'ocal boy; outfielders Fred Liner, Max Rhodes, and Dick Sineleton, ?rnd lnflelders Dick Power, Ronald tordan, and Brown Griffin. Regulars returning to the team will be outfielders Bob Pitts. Oliv er "Babe" Yount, and Bill Milner, 'ast year's manager; lnflelders El mer Dudley, acting manager; Floyd Teas, Vanderbilt University ace, and Lonnie Bishop, and catcher Kenneth Troutman. Newcomers from local ranks are Bill Leatherwood from last year's Waynesville High's team, a pitch er; Neal Wyatt, an outfielder, and Bobby Ballance, third baseman, nitcher, and one of the leading Mtters on this season's WTHS ?quad. Hazelwood has practiced eight times thus far and hopes to get in 'wo or three more sessions before taking the field against Beacon Sat? i urday. The accidental death rate of pas- < ' sengers on U. S. railroads in 1954 ' was .01 per 100 million passenger " miles. ;| IAFF - A - DAY 4 , "Goodness, Mr. Higbee, you t don't expect a girl to EAT LUNCH on her lunch hour!" IAFF-A-DAY ? unaccuiromea as i an to puouc speaxinff, ? .r ' . laff-a-day *iu.v "You wore rlfM. I1'* *?? tight!* I IE'S DEPT. STORE ? ??? ? I ? The Mark of the World's Most Famous Hat coconut straws ?STETSON ! ?ybwtighi, cool as cracked ice, and becomingly toOi/id are these Coconut Straws by Stetson. ^ style shown here has a flattering center r???, and features a fancy wide puggree band. ' comes in a choice of attractive shades to com your summer wardrobe. A ASSIES PARTMENT STORE VOTE FOR HENRY CLAYTON FOR ALDERMAN TOWN OF WAYNESVILLE IN THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION TUES.. MAY 3 ? 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