Piner's No-Hitter
Blanks Swansboro
The Smyrna high school Bluet
Devil* got their baseball season
off to a winning start is southpaw
Braxton Piner pitched near per
fect ball in hurling a seven inning
no hitter. Final score of the game,
which was played on the Swans
boro diamond was 3-0.
Piner, who was backed up by
some superb fielding by the Smyr
na infield, relied mostly on fast
balls with an occasional breaking
pitch to keep the ball away from
the Swansboro hitters.
In going the route in his first
starting assignment of the season
Piner was never in trouble as he i
rackcd up nine strikeouts and .
Swansboro was able to get the ball
out of the infield only twice and
these were pop flics that the :
Smyrna infield handled with no
difficulty.
Three walks prevented Piner
from pitching a perfect game as
no Swansboro hitter was able to ;
reach first base until the fifth in- i
ning when Piner issued his first j
free pass.
The Smyrna attack at the plate
was led by freshman shortstop j
Dale Lewis, who had two hits in
three at bats and drove in two (
runs. The other Blue Devil run j
was driven in by ccnterfielder j
Wayne Davis with a tremendous i
double to deep centcrficld.
Both teams committed one error !
afield in the seven inning contest, j
Smyrna's next game will be to- j
day against Morchcad City.
Band Members Will
Attend Dinner Tomorrow
Members of the Morchead City
school band will be the guests of
the band association at a dinner
at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Rex l
Restaurant.
Band members may bring i
guests, if they wish, the band as- I
sociation announces. !
Following the dinner, the group
will go to the recreation building
where Mr. and Mrs. Harry Venters
will supervise dancing.
Morehead City
Youth to Swim
In NAIA Meet
A Morehead City youth, Jeff
Faucette, will compete as a team
member of the East Carolina
swimming team in the NAIA meet
to be held on the campus of Ball
State Teachers College in Muncie,
Ind.
This will be the third meet spon
sored by the NAIA. East Carolina
Jeff Faucett
. . . backstroker
won the first one and North Cen
tral Illinois won last year.
Faucettc, who is expected to turn
in a strong performance in the
backstroke is one of eleven swim
mers an<J two divers that Coach
Ray Martinez is taking to the meet.
Faucette is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Faucette of Calico Drive,
Morehead City.
Jenny Lou Smithwick
Chosen for East-West
All-Star Competition
By WENDY LOWE
Jenny Lou Smithwlck, four-year
star of the Morehead City Eag
lettes, has been highly honored.
RecentJy she was notified that she
had been selected to play as for
ward on the Eastern team in the
All-Star East West game. This
game will be played Saturday
night, March 21, in Carthage.
Jenny Lou is the first girl bas
ketball star from this area to re
ceive this honor.
During her four years of high
school, Jenny Lou has made a
remarkable record. This year she
averaged 40 points per game. Her
fast and sure movements plus her
unbelievable shooting ability mike
a combination hard to beat.
For the past two years she was
chosen as first team forward on
THE NEWS -TIMES All - County
team and this season was a unani
mous choice for All-Conference
honors. Needless to say, Jenny
Lou has truly earned the title of
the "Fabulous Forward."
In addition to her outstanding
basketball record, Jenny Lou has
also been active in many other or
ganizations. She is secretary of
the student council, business edi
tor of the annual, and president
of the Tri-Hi-Y.
She Is also a member of the
Beta Club, Latin Club, FBLA, FFA,
and last year was chosen to attend
Girl's State. Jenny Lou received
another tribute when the senior
class elected her the "most out
standing girl in athletics."
Air Force Looks
For More Nurses
Capt. Anne A. Bacheson, United
States Air Force nurse procure
ment officer in this area, today
announced openings arc available
in the Air Force Nurse Corps.
Vacancies exist throughout the ma
jor air commands in the United
States and overseas.
Various inducements for enlist
ment are mentioned by Captain
Bacheson, including eligibility to
apply for specialized post-graduate
training, university training of
fered to a selected group of Air
Force Nurses each year, choice
of area for the first duty station
if the needs of the Air Force war
rant it, and a pay scale from
1338.68 to $459.32 available to
nurses immediately upon enlist
ment, depending upon experience
and education.
Additional information may be
obtained from Sgt Frank F. Fern
ley, local Air Force recruiter, at
the poatoffice building in More
head City on Friday afternoons or
Sergeant Fernley may be contact
? ed at th? poatoffice building in
New Bern at any time.
Jenny Loo
. . . 40 point average
Golf Club Women
Plan Bridge Party
Women members of the More
head City Golf and Country Club
will meet at the clubhouse Wed
nesday for luncheon and to play
bridge. Those planning tA attend
arc asked to make up their own
tables or bring a partner.
Bridge was played last Wednes
day and those attending were Miss
Elizabeth Lambeth, Mrs. Paul
Branch, Mrs. Joaiah Bailey, Mrs.
Frank Cassiano, Mrs. A1 Dewey,
Mrs. James Crowe, Mrs. Wayne
Thompson.
Mrs. John Gaincy, Mrs. James
Eubanks, Mrs. George Vickroy,
Mrs. Gene Smith, Mrs. David Wil
lis, Mrs. B. C. Brown, Mrs. Fran
cis Guthrie, Mrs! Robert Seamoo,
and Mrs. C. C. McCuiston.
Social Security Hours
To Chang* in April
Beginning Monday, April I, the
social security representative who
visits the county will be in Beau
fort on Mondays.
The new schedule will be in ef
fect through June. Hours will be
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the
courtbouae annex. At present tbe
social security representative visits
tbe county Tuesdays.
In Sweden you not only get the
time and the weather on tbe tele
phone, but, if you ditl "Miss Gas,"
yon get suggestions on what to
cook for dinner and bow to cook
it
Pete Reiser
Back With Bums
As Manager
By FRANK ECK
AP Newsfeatures Sports Editor
Vero Beach, Fla. (AP)? Back 'in
1941, when Ted Williams won the
American League batting title with
a gaudy .406 average, a young
Brooklyn Dodger named Pete
Reiser was capturing the National
League crown.
Now, nearly two decades later,
Williams is defending yet another
AL title at the age of 40 while
Reiser, 40 on March 17, is en
gaged in a promising comeback
as a minor league manager.
Fractured skulls and shoulder
separations kept Reiser from the
stardom that alwavs seemed to be
his for the asking. He had the an
noying and near-fatal habit of run
ning into outfield walls.
He is philosophical about it.
"It doesn't matter," says the
cherub-faced Pistol Pete, who will
manage Victoria in the Class AA
Texas League this year. "I never
look back. 1 live in the future. I j
| have young ballplayers to worry |
about.
| "You know I'm really happier
today helping young kids than
' when 1 was playing for myself. 1
1 enjoy working with them more.
Besides, I can thank the Lord that
( I'm alive."
| In 1942 Reiser looked like the
first NL repeat batting champ
since Rogers Hornsby in 1925. Pis
tol Pete was leading the circuit j
in August when he crashed into
the center field wall in his home |
town of St. Louis.
"I missed the flagpole by
inches," he says.
Pete hit .310 in 125 games that
year, but never was to play that
many in one season again. It was
his second full year in the majors.
He missed the 1943-45 campaigns
because of Army duty.
Reiser returned in 1946, got into
122 games but hit only .277. Then
in 1947 it looked as though he was
back on the beam. He hit .309 in
110 games.
But the same year he ran into
the center field wall at Ebbets
Field. The Dodgers had put foam
rubber on the fences for Reiser's
protection. But during the season
someone forgot to remind Pete
that the fences had been moved
in to erect outfield box scats.
VI didn't think I'd live," says
Reiser solemnly. "For 10 days I
was paralyzed. I received the laftt
rites. It got so I couldn't look up.
I used to get dizzy spells. I tried
comebacks with Boston, Pittsburgh
and Geveland but it was no use.
"Even today I shy away from a
fly ball and I've got to be careful
hitting fungocs. I try not to look
up. My eyes are examined period
ically but with all those head in
juries I've had I've got to be care
ful of a blood clot."
Reiser played 861 games, most
of them following serious injuries,
yet finished in 1952 with a lifetime
.295. He was a hustler of the Enos
Slaughter type, only much faster.
When his playing career ended, |
Butch Hassell Tops
Scoring for Seadoqs
Butch Hassell led the Beaufort
Sea dogs in scoring for the season
as he compiled a total of 596
points throughout the Seadogs'
string of 27 straight victories. This
includes the seven games played
by Beaufort on the way to the
state Class A title.
The 596 points scored by liassell
gave him an average of 22.08 points
per contest. Ills high for the sea
son was 34 points scored against
Newport when the Seadogs routed
the llawks 90-57.
liassell broke into the thirties
two other times during the season
when he scored 31 points against
Atlantic and 32 against Maury high
school in the district tournament
at Kenansville.
The second leading scorer for
the team was Pud liassell who
compiled an 11.5 average over 24
games with a total of 276 points.
Hassell was out of irhee games
due to an injured knee.
As a team the Seadogs scored
1,750 points as compared to 1,152
for the opposition. This gave Beau
fort an average of 64.8 points per
contest and their opponents an
average of 42 6.
From the free throw line the
Seadogs completed 408 of <83 at
tempts for an average of 81.52
per cent. Their high of the season
came in the Newport game when
they canned 36 of S3 attempts.
Following Is a run-down of indi
vidual scoring for the season for
the Seadogs. The averages were
figured on a basis of 27 games.
Pts. Avg.
Hassell, Butch 596 22.08
Hassell, Pud ... 276 10.20
Merrill, Sammy 224 8.30
Hassell, Kay 189 7.00
Autry, Allen 187 6 92
Potter, Frank 103 3.81
Thomas Leon 91 3.37
Jones, Calvin 45 1.66
Jones, David 29 1.07
Lewis, Chuck 10 .37
Fire Put Out
Atlantic Bcach firemen put out a
grass fire on the Fort Macon Road
Monday night between 9:30 and 10.
The fire was burning in two places
on the sound side of the road. No
property damage was caused.
Pistol Pete
. . . Now
Pete scouted for a while and did
some carpentry work to make ends
meet around St. Louis. Then in
1955, the Dodgers hired him to
manage their Thorn asville, Ga.,
(arm team in Class D. He finished
fourth.
The following year it was Koko
mo, 1 ml, in the D Mid-West
League and he ran third. In '57
Kokomo it was again and he won
the flag. Last year at Green Bay,
Wis., in the B Thrce-I League he
ran third.
At Green Bay he had Frank
Howard, a $100,000 bonus player
from Ohio State.
"He has the greatest desire,"
says Pete. "I hope I get him at
Victoria for he must play every
day. He tries to pull everything.
He'll wear you out. He hit 37
homers in 129 games, drove in 119
and hit .333.
"Then there's Don Miles who we
had at Kokomo in '56 when he
broke in with .312 and 23 homers.
He can hit .300 this year as a
Pistol Pete
. . . Then
Dodger but he will miss most of
spring (raining due to limited ser
vice and that isn't good.
"He came out to play. He hus
tles like Slaughter hustles. He
makes diving catches. He's crazy
to play baseball. He has so much
natural ability you don't dare fool
with him.
"And there's a little Negro boy.
Tommy Davis, 19, a center fielder.
Right out of high school in '57 he
hit .378 for Kokomo. Last year he
hit .318 at Victoria and finished
with .310 at Montreal. Funny thing,
he lives in Brooklyn."
llow did the Victoria Rose Buds
do last year?
"Well, let's say this," Pete an
swered. "This is the fourth year
in the last five that I'm moving
into a town that finished last."
The Morning After |
Want to know the biggest farce in major league baseball? It'i the
bonus player. Look through the rosters of any of the sixteen bis
league teams and you will find maybe two or three players now play
ing that were bonus babies. The rest of them are either stuck way
down in the minors or out of baseball completely.
Most of them are still drawing handsome salaries from their
bonuses but their hopes of a major league career practically don't
exist. This doesn't mean to say that they couldn't have had a long
life in the majors. Most of them definitely had big league talent but
they were handled in the wrong way and thereby prevented from de
veloping it to the fullest.
A bonus baby is a player that signs with a major league team
and is Daid a lame bonus iust for siuninc
the contract. The bonus is usually any
where from $75,000 to $100,000. Most bonus j
babies are signed right out of high school ;
by men who believe that they have the
potential of becoming another Mickey
Mantle or Bob Turley.
Then, by the rules, a club is required j
to carry a bonus player on its active roster
for a period of at least two years and it
is these two years that have been the
death of 90 per cent of all bonus babies.
Imagine a 17-year-old athlete trying to I
break into the starting lineup of the Mil- I
waukee Braves or the New York Yankees. I
As it's been proven, time and time again,
a 17-year-old boy just isn't capable of play
Larry McComb
ing major league baseball, no matter what his batting average might
have been in American Legiun ball, and as a result he spends two
years riding the benches around the circuit.
Two valuable years that, if properly taken advantage of, the
player could be developing his talents with a minor league team,
learning the secrets of what it takes to be a star in the big leagues.
True, he might learn something from watching the wealth of talent
in the majors from his spot on the bcnch but what good does it do if
he never has the opportunity of putting into practice what he has
learned?.
One of the most important things in being a good athlete is being
in the best of physical condition at all times and it's hard for any
athlete to stay in shape by just taking batting practice every day.
With minor league teams dying daily because of lack of funds or
financial means, it seems that the major league club owners could
put the money they spend on bonus players to a much more valuable
use. Instead of signing untested ballplayers at fantastic sums they
could use the money to develop their teams in the minors.
A lot of minor league teams that have folded could have done
much with $100,000. Every time a minor league folds it actually cuts
down on the caliber of players in the major leagues because it re
duces the number of players that can be developed by the clubs.
Thoughts While Shaving
If the San Francisco Giants don't have anything else this year,
they will have a stadium with the most unusual name of any in the
majors. The stadium was officially christened last week and the ball
park will be known from now on as Candlestick Park. The name
means something to people in San Francisco but nothing to anyone
else. It's taken from the location of the park which is on Candle
stick Point on the southwest shore of San Francisco Bay.
The name will probably wind up eventually as Giants Park or any
thing else that happens to appeal to sports writers over the country
just as the Livestock Pavilion suddenly became the Cow Palace and
will never be known as anything else.
Quotable Quotes
The newest and latest wit on the major league scene is shortstop
Rocky Bridges of the Detroit Tigers. Bridges i* the player who has
led the International league in baiting aveiages Jim the past several
years but somehow has never made the majors. As a result of a
trade that sent him and Eddie Yost to Detroit from Washington, it
looks as if Bridges is finally ready to stick in the big time.
Eddie, of course, is notorious for getting walks and while he and
Bridges were engaged in a pepper game recently at spring training,
Yost let a couple of balls go by. "You're the only man I ever saw
that takes in a pepper game," commented Bridges.
When he first reported to the Tigers training camp at Lackland,
the Detroit sports writers noted that he had played at short, third and
second during his career. "Where do you like to play best?" one of
them asked Rocky. "In the big leagues," deadpanned Bridges.
That's 30 for now.
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March 17 ? Mrs. Fannie Willis
returned home last week from
Florida, where she spent the win
ter with her sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Seibert Morris and
children, Morehead City, spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Lloyd.
Elder and Mrs. Eddie Humphrey,
Jacksonville, and Mr. and Mrs.
Preston Lawrence, ptway, visited
friends here Tuesday.
S/Sgt. and Mrs. Julian Smith,
Seymour Johnson Air Base. Golds
boro, visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Moody Rose this weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Fulchcr,
Greenville, spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tilmon
Taylor.
Services were held at the Mis
sionary Baptist Church, Sunday by
the pastor, the Rev. Wayne Sted
man, of Lakeland, Ga.
Eugene L. Gaskill, Faycttcville,
spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Gas
kill.
The Citizens Mosquito Control
of Sea Level met at the Sea Level
Inn Friday night.
The Coast Guard from Outer
Banks are moving, and will make
their temporary quarters here.
Mrs. William Lloyd and Mr. and
Mrs. Norwood Paul went to New
Bern Monday.
Mr. Nolie Fulchcr, Atlantic, vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Maltby Taylor
Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewell Taylor and
son, David, went to New Bern Sat
urday.
The Rev. John Floyd has re
turned from Columbia, Tenn., and
held services here at the Free Will
Baptist Church Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Taylor and
family spent Saturday in More
head City.
Mrs. Clyde Rose and son, Bobby,
Goldsboro, visited relatives here
Sunday.
City Theatre
To be Renovated
The City theatre, Morehead City,
will close the middle of April and
will be clo-wd for approximately
two months while being renovated.
O. J. Morrow, theatre manager,
states that when renovation is
complete, the theatre will seat
600 persons. There will be new
projectors, new scats and a larger
screen will be installed. It will ac
commodate any type motion pic
ture now being produced, Mr. Mor
row said.
The theatre will be air-condi
tioned and equipped with a heat
ing system that will provide even
heat throughout. A new front and
marquee will be erected.
A modern concession counter
will be located in the outer lobby,
thus preventing noise from con
cession stand operation from fil
tering into the main auditorium.
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