The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-13
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UULLINGS
By EDGAR H. CASE
By EDGAR H. CASE

fessional baseball players AL
with good jobs that bring in tn.
wherewithal with which to obtair
the better things of life Now
headed for or already in the deer
South in the land of pleas,
ant sunshine, waving palms, warm
sand beaches and fair bathing
beauties .. away from the snow,
budened, ice-coated North and
West and East The Cincin.
| natl Reds are headed for Puerto
Rico The Chicago Cubs travel
seven thousand miles on THEN
1886 Spring training trip to
the Catalina Islands off Califor,
mia in the Pacific, thence to Flor
idav and back to the Windy City
Be nice to be a rookie trying
to make that team this year .
Walter Stephenson of Saluda will
report to the team February goth
He's third-String catcher and
led the team in batting in number
of times at bat in '35 :. His bat
ting average was 1886 There
are two big reasons he isn't first
string catcher Gabby Hart
nett is the best catcher in the Ma
tional and O'Dea, second-stl'ing
catcher, isn't far behind Gabby
The Philadelphia Athletics
will play IN exhibition game in
Asheville this year April 7th
But what has Connie Mack
got now? Higgins, Hooks,
Moses ? ? ? ? Anyway the GiAnts
and Indians play in Hickory April
9th or 7th And it's not so
terribly far to Hickory.
Joe Mccarthy is the highest
paid manager IL major league
baseball He gets $4,000 a
year and doesn't gather pennarts
so fast Salary increases in
both leagues amounts to 1885,. 900
in 1886. That doesn't speak
bad for baseball Rogers
Hornsby is still gathering veter-
ans Fred Marberry has quit
his umpiring job to relief pitch
for the New York Giants in SO.
Joe Louis is having a cabin
built in the Main woods where he
expects to train for his scrap with
Schmelling His wife will live
with him A few newspaper
men will be Accommodated, but
most of Louis activities arctic be
kept secret Jack Dempsey's
"White hope" talk has started
many a big fellow to Singing
leather over the country :, Jack
Sharkey never loses hope He
tried it again the other night and
was outpointed by Tony Shucco
|. Sharkey's legs gave out on
him after he had the fight practi-
cally won =. But speaking of
fighters, Joe Louis is the first
first-rate fighter since Tunney
When Turner retired the cham
pionship fell into a scrambling
mob of second-raters and was
booted about from one to another
until the old man BraddocE got it.
But has everybody heard this
one?
Jack Dempsey to Max Baer
Get in there, Max and fight
Louis. He isn't hurting you"
Baer "Well, watch the ref
cree, Jack. Somebody's sure whip
ping h out of me-"
Looks like the county school
basketball teams rate one, two,
three like this-Boys- Edney-
vile, Flat Rock, Mills River
Girls-Flat Rock, Mills River,
Edneyville.
Roy Baisden, manager of the
Saluda Mountain Toppers, says
Saluda will be back in the Hen
derson county league this year &.
|. IF the league is run straight
and fair" "We're going to play
ball somewhere" he says, land
we might as we'll play in the Hen
derson county league"
bud" Barnwell hasn't made
any 1886 predictions about the
Valley Hill Killers. Doubtless
there isn't much left to be said
about the Killers, especially on a
very cold day.
Ran into Romantic" Archibald
the other day. He was in ter
rible mess. Out in the cold bare
headed and without his boat.
His ears looked as thin as let
tuce leaf, his eyes contained a
far-away dreamy look, his cheeks
were tear-stained and "Well,
ne looked like he'd lost twenty
pounds in weight and he was just
wandering about aimlessly. He
almost ran over me without seeing
me. ....
Hello, Archibald, what the
heck'S wrong with you?" | asked.