The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-15
COUNTY LOOP
LEADERS WIN
THREE GAMES
And Balfour, at Fourth,
Stops Fifth-Place Chip
man-LaCrosse
By EDGAR II. CASE

L
urday afternoon the county league
teams were favored with dry dia-
monds and all saw action.
1t was the second games of the
second half and when the sun set
on the fields of activity, three
teams-Chipman Lacrosse. Green
River and Saluda-emerged UNI
defeated, while three others
Mills River, Fletcher and Fruit
land-have yet to break into the
win column. The other two teams
-Balfour and w. o. W.-have
each won one and lost one, and
| all in all it looks like the begin
ming of hot race.
GREEN RIVER AT FLETCHER
Green River 81, Fletcher 6. 1t
was that bad. Murder!. First de-
gree! The Islanders, bold and
dashing, from the land of big
| plenty aqua" with their mighty
bludgeons polished, bone-rubbed
and ready, literally annihilated
their opponents. Cries from the
battlefield could be heard for miles
around and when the dust of the
conflict had settled to earth the
Islanders marched away with their
second straight triumph of the
second half.
All of the individual stars of
the battle have not been named,
but Swami and B. Vaughn were
outstanding for the Islanders. The
former pitched the win over the
Fletcher team and B: Vaughn had
perfect day at bat, getting a
home run, a triple and double
and single.
Fletcher used several mounds
men, including Moore, Tweed and
Presley.
MILLS RIVER AT
CHIPMAN-LaCROSSE
Mills River 7, Chipman-L ~.
1t was Johnny Jackson again. HIS
speed-ball was too much for the
Riverians and Chipman-LaCro
hung up victory No. 2 in two tries
in the second half. But in doing
| so the whole team performed well
behind Jackson's effective tWirl-
ing.
Mills River used Wright and G.:
Corpening on the mound, but
neither could stop Chipman-La-
Crosse from swatting the ball
safely. ,
The Riverian team is somewhat
| weakened through the loss OF two
or three star players.
SALUDA AT FRUlTLAND =,
Saluda took this one, 16 to a:
Cobb LYDIA and his fighting squad
could not check Ray Ward and his
Polk county youngsters and they
won their second straight. Ray
flashing some of his 1885 form,
pitched the game and was never
! in danger of defeat. And the
huge score run up by his team in
dicates that his teammates pound
ed the ball plenty hard and lar
away.
R. Jones was Fruitland's start
ing pitcher, but he received poor
support. ..
| It was a close, hard-fought
game, with Balfour, out-scorlng
w. o. w. 13 to IL. The hits were
almost equal, with w. o. W. get
ting II and Balfour 16. Both
| teams were guilty of playing loose
hall or else the score would not
have been so huge. But it was a
thrilling game with the outcome
uncertain until the last man was
out.
E. Case and Ash were opposing;
! moundsmen. w. O. W. combed
Ash for three hits and a run IN
the first frame. The Mill boys
Jumped on Case for two runs al
ter Manning had dropped a fly
ball in left field. In the third an
infeld error led to another run
for Balfour. w. o. w. picked up
another tally in the 9th on two
hits. But Balfour jumped into a
6 to 2 lead when the w. y. W.
infield failed to handle two bunts
and hits followed between outs.
However, the Woodmen put on a
spirited rally in the 9th to score
six times and 60 two runs into the
lead. Case was lifted for a pinch
hitter and Brothers went in to
pitch for w. o. w. He encoun-
tered trouble right away when
two scratch singles and home
run down the left field foul line
by B. Crisp scored three runs ana
put the home team back IN the
lead by one score.
But Balfour drove in four more
runs in the 9Th to 60 into a IL 10
8 lead. W.. o. w. couldn't score
again until the 9th. In the 9Th the
white-uniformed athletes scored
four times to make the count IL
to IL, but with the tying run on
second and only one out, two bats
men hit infeld flies to end the
game. W.,
High spots of the game: H. wall
liams hit a long home run over
right-field fence. M. Brevard got
four hits. Patterson got four hits.