The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-11
IS
FLAG winner
IN CO. LEAGUE
Takes Last Game With Sa-
luda 1l-9; Far in Front
as Season Ends
Rv E n. CASE

The baseball season Is over III
the Henderson County league. All
&c quiet around the old battle
grounds throughout the circuit
The bases, ripped and torn by
MANY a thrust of flying spikes
lie moulding and decaying' silent
witnesses of many thrilling stru&-
oIes and brilliant plays that are
now forgotten or relegated to the
mast September grass ngntS
bravely to cover over and o0hter-
ote the signs stamped upon the
Garth of conflict, battle and -,
Aw. dribble. What | started
ont 70 say is-Fletcher won the
second half in the county race
Saturday afternoon by defeating
the Saluda Mountain Toppers II
70 @ to chalk up their tenth WIN
ont of II games and leave all the
other teams ho~"leSSly mlred IN
the muck a mile in the rear.
The game was played down IN
Polk county, near TryOn. and was
a red-hot contest. Saluda led at
fbe end of the 7th inning by a
) TO | score and might have won
had a change of pitchers been
made at that time. But the man.
ager let c. Thompson, his start
ing twirler stay on in the box
,,,;IL tho rsSult that he weakened
and lost the game, although the
battle went on in the 10th inning
before Fletcher'S hard driving
athletes finally won. Then it was
a home run by pinch hitter JuStuS
with two men on the sacks that
put the contest on ice for the
visitors.
]. Baldwin pitched for Fetch
er and was hit pretty hard but
managed to emerge the winning
hurler
A series of games between East
Flat Rock. first half winners, and
Fletcher will be played to deter
mine who is county champion.
The dates of these games will be
set and announced later.
Valley Hill and Fruitland
Just to keep in good standing
in the county league, Valley Hill
got together a makeShltt team
end played Fruitland scheduled
double-header at the city high
school grounds. Fruitland won
both games, the first 10 TO l and
the second 1 to .. The first con-
test saw the Killers at their worst.
They committed at least 10 errors
and were entirely impOtent in
score-making although they did
collect 10 hits. X. Drake esSayed
to pitch this game and was given
such poor support that eight hits
off his delivery were good for 10
runs.
Hard Rock" Sexton pitched
the last four innings of the game
and made Fruitland's heavy hit
tiers look like country boys fight
ing chimney Sweepers with fishing
canes. He didn't allow a single
batter to pass second and gave up
only one hit.
Foote pitched for Fruitland and
was very effective against the
brand of hitting that the Killers
showed.
The second game was a visible
improvement over the initial en-
counter. 1t was mostly a pitchers
battle between Houston and Err
mando Horatius CaScarindo with
erorrS and misplayS being mainly
responsible for all the scores on
both sides. The score was 4 to 2
in Fruitland'S favor but at least
three of Fruitland'S runs could
have been prevented by perfect
play by the Hitler infeld which
made six errors. Houston should
not have been scored on. He al
lowed only three hits. Ermando
was touched for six.
East Flat Rock at Balfoar
East Flat Rock and Balfour
played what was just another ball
game at Balfour, with Balfour
winning IA to s. East Flat Rock
wasted no energy trying to win
and Balfour had things pretty
much its way.
Mills River at Green River
Mills River again defeated Green
River at Green River. The game
was close and interesting. the
score being Z to 6 favoring Green
River.