The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
CULIINGS
By EDGAR II. CASE

AT q basketball gabe Gym
warm and comfortable. "a. Bright
LIGHTS :. Seats for spectators I.
Handsome, 1.-THE, elean-limhed ath,,
letes gracefully speeding and
dashine across smooth, black and
white striped hardwood floor. -. !.
Brings back memories of basket
bali days at dear :. old. .Stearns
High Our team. elephantine
Rob 1870. Ted. ITS, Rochelle, l70,
CLYDE, 1876, Phil, 100, this scribe,
$50 Our court. a dirt court on
low ground. One spot on it stay
ed slick :. =. when we went down
on that spot out into the specta-
TORS we slid. :. rough! .. Two
on one is the only foul we knew.
Phil guarded with fingernails that
cut like claws of a tiger. BOD
halted the ball with right as
powerful as Jack Dempsey's. il
your face got in line with that
tight it was too bad for you. Ted
was always getting knocked down
on his back in that slick spot anal
scootine out of bounds games:
We couldn't find high school
teams. had to play colleges and
All-star town teams. VIII al
WAYS remember that game with
Rutherfordton College court,
hard as pavement with little pep
bles all over it. skinned knees,
bruised elbows! :. they went out
of the game like football players.
But we usually got walloped.
most wildly remembered incident
the professor was refereeing'
/ leaped at a low pass, grabbed his
head and tugged on it. he pull
ed in his neck and said plenty. :,
But the Henderson county high
school basketball season is practi-
cally over. The champion Edney-
Wills boys quint and the champion
sextet of Flat Rock will play in
the Cullowhee tournament start
ing the latter of this week. The
Mills River girls team will alsu
take part in the tournament.
BASEBALL LEAGUE SEEMS
ASSURED j..
The county gaseball league is a
certainty. Fletcher is the last
member heard from. Fletcher will
be back in the loop and wants to
start playing week or two earl
ier than we have in the past years
This makes five teams that have
avowed intentions Of playing IN
the county league this year
Salude, E. Flat Rock. Balfour,
Fletcher and the Hendersonville
team will take the Valley HilPs
berth.
Nothing definite has been heard
from Green River, Mills River and
Fruitland. But it is believed these
teams will be back in the fold be-
fore the opening gun is fired.
And remember this-a baseball
meeting will be held at G. D.
Whites office on Third Avenue
East, Saturday night, March 20.
Each team should have man.
ager or representative ready 10
attend this meeting. We want to
be ready to talk business when we
get together. Another announce
ment of this meeting will be made.
But each community and town
that intends to enter team i'll
the league should start organizing
its team right away.
Don't exactly know who is 60
ing to get up the Hendersonvilie
team, but understand that it will
be sponsored by Odell Brock, j. b.
Houston and others and that som"
of, the Valley Hill players will be
given a chance to make 1T.
SOME LOCAL BOYS IN
Carolina LFARM ',
A few of the Henderson county
BOYS are going over to that two
weeks Cardinal farm school start
ing at Mccormick Field, March
80.
Just how long any boy stays
depends upon what he shows in
the way of baseball talent and
ability, imagine.
TIGERS APPEARING
STRONGER THAN EVER
Exhibition games in the big
leagues seem 10 indicate-that the
Detroit Tigers have more power
than ever. that AL Simmons and
Rudy York, a rookie, have added
a lot of strength to the club. That
the Cleveland Indians may go
places this year. They're pick
ING on the Giants again. That
the Dodgers and Reds are both
improved over last year. That
the White Sox are still good