The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-02
ISLANDERS IN
Z MORE Wins
IN CO. LEAGUE
BaIfour Defeats Woodmen
and Hosiery Mil Quits
the League
Ru EDGAR H. CASE


And the wheel spins on. An
other busy Saturday afternoon in
the county league. Main results
The Green River Islanders reglst-
CIR two more victories and move
closer to winning the second half.
The two wins were over the pre-
yiously undefeated Saluda Noun
tain Toppers and Fletcher re-
spcetively and lifted the Islanders
into first place with eight trl-
umphs and one defeat with only
a single game to go.
The Islanders downed Saluda IN
a morning battle by a 10 to z
score. Swan pitched the game for
the boys from the land of big
plenty aqua" and did a very nice
lob OF it. He was helped lot by
his hard-hitting teammates, espe-
cially Bill Vaughn who hit home
run, triple and a single.
H. Taylor, who pitches most
anywhere and everywhere base
balls can be had, was on the
mound for Saluda, but he was
lust another good cousin to the
ambitious Islanders. However, the
Polk countians gave him very poor
support.
FLETCHER AT GREEN RIVER
1t was dessert for the Islanders
after they had devoured the Noun
tain Toppers. The score was 9 to
l in favor of the league leaders.
Ray Ward, recently a Saluda
pitcher, hurled the game for the
Islanders and should have had a
shut out victory. His fire ball
and fast breaking curves were too
much for the Fletcher nine and
the heavy hitting of the Islanders
produced runs sufficient to win
the contest in a walkaway. Green
River has only a game with Fruit
land at Fruitland to play to end
their part of the regular season.
FRUITLAND AT SALUDA
The Mountain Toppers snapped
out of their morning setback and
trounced Fruitland by a 6 to 4
score at Saluda in the afternoon.
But it was a pretty tight, hard
fought ball game, with Fruitland
giving a good account Of itself.
Fred Pace pitched the win for the
Polk county boys. Saluda has now
won six games and dropped only
one.
However, the Mountain TopperS
have three games to play, post
poned games with WOW. and
Balfour and a regular scheduled
game with Fletcher at Fletcher
next Saturday. They will per-
haps have to win all three games
to stay in the fight with Green
River.
WOW. AT BALFOUR
WOW. 8, Balfour 6. It was
staged exclusively for Balfours
benefit. The contest was original
ly scheduled for vows battle.
field. but was moved to Balfour's
big boxed-in stronghold for rea-
sons unknown. Nevertheless, 1t
was a pretty good ball game. De-
spite the awesome, fear-lnscplr-
ing calibre of the mighty Balfour
guns, nothing of larger dlmen,
sions than pesky single was fired
through the thinning ranks of the
Woodrnen SQUAD. But the pitching
on both sides was fair and the
batters were out of practice.
Howsomever, B. Crisp, ]. Capps
and Donald Parker pitched for
Balfour while H. Williams, W:
Brothers and Houston saw mound
service for WOW.
For five or six innings the con-
test was tight, with the score re-
manning knotted at 2-2 and 3-3.
But along in the final innings OF
the game Balfour picked up three
more runs while Parker was daz-
zling the Woodmen with his speed
and curves. The win keeps Bal
four in the second half race with
six wins and two Setbacks. But
Green River must lose to Fruit
land while the Mill boys beat Mills
River next Saturday or Balfour,s
cause will be lost. The WOW.
team surrendered. several weeks
ago. ..
CHIPMAN-LaCROSSE AT
MILLS RIVER
Mills River got the game by
forfeit. The Chipman-LaCrosse
team has dropped out of the lea
que. =,
In the play-off of a postponed
game last week Balfour defeated
Fruitland 3 to 0. B. Crisp pitsn-
ed the shutout for his team.