The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-18
E. FLAT ROCK
.COUNTYCHAMP
Fletcher Ruled To Have
Forfeited Fifth Game
To Pope's Team
By E. II. CASE

''A" Aii,'ahI ana warming sun
and seemed in some degree To
mirror the gorgeous, indescrib-
able colors of the magnificent an.
tumnal world and before several
hundred action-hungry fans, East
Flat Rock and Fletcher met ar
the B&lfour baseball park Satur.
day afternoon in what was SIM
posed to be the fifth and final
game of the county championship
series, and in the most one-sided
and weird contest ever pulled off
by two teams supposed to he
equally matched, East Flat Roct
triumph.d over the Fletcher ae.
gregation by 16 to | score. r
was East Flat Rocks third
straight win after Fletcher had
won the first two games and. if
everything had gone off smooth
and regular, would have given
that team the county champion
ship in actual play.
But Fletcher, after winning the
first two games and dropping the
third, claimed the fourth game
and subsequently the champion
ship by forfeit when East Flat
Rock failed to show up to PLAY
the fourth game on Wednesday,.
the day first agreed upon by the
president and the two managers,
But President Zeb Hoots refused
to allow the forfeit due to the
fact he had moved the fourth
game up to Saturday because of
the worlds series and the broad
cast starting on Wednesday and
informed both managers of the
fact. Nevertheless Mr.. Fletcher,
manager of the Fletcher team,
stuck to the old agreement, claim
ing that due to several of his
players playing football that he
could not get his full team to-
gether on Saturday and that We'd
neSday was more suitable 10 him.
He brought his team to Rs,lfour
on that Wednesday, found no
East Flat Rock there and claimed
the necessary third game ard the
county championship. on forfeit.
However, he, did bring his team
back and play the fourth and
fifth games, saying they were on
ly exhibition games and that he
was merely playing to please the
fans. In the fifth and final game
so many of his players we're out
with football injuries. he had to
use three of Balfour's players
and absorbed a 16 to l licking.
PRESIDENT Hoots and his aties,
G. D. White and n. B. Gibbs. held
special meeting Tuesday morn
ing and decided that Fletcher had
Forfeited the fifth and deciding
game to East Flat Rock and that
pope's team is due to possess the
rotating trophy, presented 20 the
! league in 1882, until the 1886 Sc
ries. The trophy has now been
won twice by East Flat Rock ana
twice By Fletcher. To gam full
possession of It a team must win
it three times.
The team that Fletcher pnt on
the field Saturday was absolutely
no match for Elmer Pope's pow
erful bunch of aroused AMI vic
tory-mad young athletes headed
by big Johnny Jackson, tre-2all
finger whose spectacular pitching
ana hitting has been the hignlight
Of the series. Pope's boys, insp!r-
ed by two successive victories
over their opponents, came out
for blood in the fifth game and
literally hammered and gassef the
Fletcher aggregation into lnslg-
nificance.
In piling up their total OF 10
runs they blasted out 81 hits, sew
eral of which were OF the extra
base variety. In the fourth inning
they scored 8 times, IA men go
( ing to bat in the frame, slammlng
out 7 hits, drawing one walk and
profiting immensely from Fletcn'
er errors. -,
During East Fiat Rocks Wild
scoring spree, Johnny jackson
was "gassing" the opposition IN
Dizzy Dean fashion. He gave up
only six scattered hits and strucS
out ID, besides, he aided his
teams scoring materially by hit
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Fletcher's lone tally came II
the second inning as a result OF
doubles by Wilkie and Justus.
E. Phillips led his team in nit,
ting, getting four safeties out OF
six trips to the plate. Hendrix got
three hits.
Wilkie got two doubles fo'
Fletcher.
V, Drake hit a long home rur
over left field fence in the. frs
of the ninth but the game wa:
called on account of darkness anc
his effort went for naughti bu'
to thrill the spectators.