The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-21
RIGHT OFF
THE BAT
By EDGAR H. CASE

II looks like rain :. But Dizzy
Dean saws he'll win % games for
ss50. 00o or charge the Cardinal
moguls nary cent for his services
And he's still on the auction
block for half million dollars
ar mora !. T. But if he remains
with the Cardinals and he and
Paul Dean and Lonnie Warneke
should all have a good year it
would Just be too bad for the
Giants, the Cubs and the other
National league clubs who have
designs on, coping the pennant
Bill Terry will not play first
base for the Giants this year
Neither will Sam Leslie p. Terry
has picked as his successor a
youngster by the name Of Jack
Me Carthy Charlie Grimm,
Cubs manager, is also through as
a first baseman Jimmy Will
son of the Phillies says his team
is ready to 60 as it stands :;
Bucky Walters, formerly n third
baseman, heads his pitching staff
The Boston Bees are opti-
mistic =. Have acquired a num-
Der of promising youngsters {.
Of the SO players on their roster
18 are hurlers The Yankee
stadium saw most homers hit in
,36 The total was 1913 -.
Hal Trosky of the Indians hit
most home runs at home He
propelled 80 into the stands at
Cleveland Only three teams
collected most home runs in their
respective parks The Yanks:
Indians and Red Sox In all
the other parks the invaders got
most four-base plays Walter
Johnson, once speed-ball king OF
the majors, is working on his 500
acre farm near Germantown,
MARYLAND . . He's more satisfied
there than he was trying to man;
Bud Shaney, old Asheville Tour
list pitcher, will manage the Tren-
ton team in '37 Lefty Melton,
the Black Mountain boy who made
Babe Ruth look bad in Asheville's
Mccormick field some years ago,
will pitch for the Giants this
wear John Lanning, another
boy from around Asheville, is
counted on to pitch winning ball
for the Boston Bees Stuart
Martin, who also went up to the
big show from Asheville to join,
the Cardinals, is in the hospital
seriously i'll with appendicitis
He was slated to be regular in
the Card infeld this year.
Joe Jacobs says Schmeling and
Braddock will fight in June
Schmeling will arrive in America
in about, a month and make an
exhibition tour Jacobs says
the fight will draw great, crowd
Benny Leonard, former light
weight champion, says Bob Pastor
will whip Joe Louis January ~
:. Tommy Loughran is still
winning fights Jack Sharkey
has been silent since the Brown
Bomber bombed him Perhaps
it was Sharkey's last bow
John Henry Lewis, light heavy
weight champion, was held to 8
draw in Philadelphia a few week!
ago and says he was robbed o.
the decision and will never fight
in Philadelphia again.
Edneyville's boy cagers JUS
about proved that they have M
opposition in Henderson count!
by trouncing Flat Rock 81 to
But the Flat Rock girls show
ed that they will be strong con
tenders for the county champion
ship by easily triumphing Owe
the Edneyville sextet.
| Green River evidently is plan
ming to do big things in baseball
this year The Islanders have
already had a meeting Hop'
the other clubs in the Count!
league start planning things be
fore April 18th.
THE NEW YEARS UPSET Is
STILL AN UPSET :. And it still
looks like rain.