The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-26
FLETCHER IN
! SECOND WIN
T.: OF THE SERIES
Romps On East Flat Rock
IA to 4; Third Game
Set For Saturday
BY E. H. CASE

by L. II. NASL
1t was supposed to be a bail
game. 1t had been ballyhooed up
as such an affair. A large crowd
came down to the Balfour park TO
witness it, expecting to see a close,
hard-fought thrilling battle. 1t was
the second scheduled county cham
pionship series game between East
Flat Rock and Fletcher. Fletcher
had won the first game by to
score last Saturday afternoon
and the second game was set Tor
Wednesday afternoon. Everybody
expected East Flat Rock to even
the count at one all. The team
was first to reach the park, each
player resplendent in his NIFTY
close-fitting uniform. Each player
was confident. The game was aS
good as in the bag. 4 team with
such a record and with so many
star ball players just couldn't slip
up and lose again. The crowd
watched it go through batting
practice, the majority willing to
wager that Fletcher would taste
defeat today.
+. Fletcher, the champs, were la4e
in coming. Inauspiciously, the
players dropped in one at a time
or by pairs, some in uniform, some
without. So quietly they gathered
on their side of the field that one
hardly knew the team was there.
There was nothing of pOmp Of
ostentation about the champs.
Like a farmer going out to plow
corn or a woodSman going out to
fell trees and chop them up, they
went through their batting prac-
tice. Hard workers, hard fighters
they are, used to playing in pas
lures. on hillsides and on rough
diamonds such as one finds at
Green River, Saluda, and other
places, they seemed to appreciate
fully the smooth grounds at Bal
four. They handled the ball like
big leaguers in the inheld and
hammered it to all corners of the
park in batting practice. But they
weren't favored TO win.
Then the game started. East
Flat Rock went to bat. J. Capps,
lead-off man, singled to n. Moore,
starting pitcher for Fletcher.
Hendrix sacrificed Caps to sec
ond. 1t looked like the Flat Rock
BOYS were on their way to victory.
f. Gibbs came to bat. He hit the
first ball pitched on line between
first and second base. A Flat Rock
chorus of wells went up. But n.
Bagwell dashed over, grabbed
Gibbs line drive and tossed 70
second to double off Caps VINO
had spurted for third. The play
seemed to take all the pep out Of
the Flat Rock team.
Fletcher came to bat. Ray
Ward, the boy who has shut out
nearly every team he has pitched
against, was on the mound for
East Flat Rock. Sorrell was first
to face him. He hit grounder TO
B. Capps at second. B. CapDs
booted the ball across the infeld,
Sorrell was safe. n. Bagwell sim
gled. Wilkie was hit on the foot
by a pitched ball. The bases were
loaded. NJ. Bagwell was up. He
hit grounder to Drake at short
Drake booted the ball and Sorrci
and n. Bagwell raced home. Jus,
tus singled and Wilkie and NJ
Bagwell scored. Garren rolled out
second to first and Justus went t.
second. Case singled and Garrcu
scored. J. Jackson came in from
the outfeld to pitch. He struck
out Moore, but Z. Baldwin singled
and Case scored. SOrrell, up the
second time in the inning, singled
and f. Baldwin, who had gone to
second, scored. n. Bagwell walked
and Wilkie struck out to end q
terrible first inning for East Flat
Rock. Fletcher had scored seven
times and had the ball game in the
bag, so to speak.
n. Moore was pitching gooC
ball and kept East Flat Rock bats
men eating out of his hand unit
the seventh inning when he wa.
scored on four times and taker
out of the box. But fletcher pick
ed up 4 more runs in the fifth
inning after being checked vi
until then by Jackson. In the 5tl
Garren led off with a double