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SECTION B--SPORTS PAGE
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959
BY
VIEWS
M AX BROWN
CORPORATION of Buffalo, N. Y.,
caterers who serve thirly-four race
of Amertcan and National League base-
Well as many of the country's air ports, have
lhe catering services at Charles Town's new
doah Downs...
THEy ARE MOVING towards the end of their
Charles Town's Pm-ple Panther caters still
attractions coming up. Next Tues-
le high-scoring Martins'burg Bulldogs will be
at the new gym and you can bet that the
ed quint will go all out in an effort to wipe
out of that lopsided licking they took
ogs on their home floor a few weeks ago.
27, Coach Hunter Maddex will bring his
y High Judges here for a return
locals and this time, too, the Panthers
avenge a loss they were forded to accept in
gy.m back on January 17...
AWAY after the final race at the Charles
Saturday was General Manager Lou Pond-
raveled by plane and his assistant manager
drove the boss's car, both heading for
of Florida and some basking in the
Several weeks..
VIRGINIA'S colorful Mountaineers made
appearance in Madison Square Garden the
and, edged determined home teams, New
noted that they '"look alike, shoot alike,
miss." . . They just could upset Cagey
ction in the Sporting News arid beat New
(tonight) at 9:20 p. m., but resem-
recent West Virginia teams will end there.
Schauss coaches a varied collection of
each looking little like any other, filling a
and melded by the common denominator
the opponent right into the floor...
*ig one for the Mountaineers as far as na-
is concerned and we'd like to see 'am
before those critical New York writers.
Ucky! ! !
OF
THIs WEEK" all horses which have
at Charles Town's oldest race course will be
The entire plant will then be given
in for a long summer session.
Put on the summer's sport is unknown at
whoever does can be counted uvon to con-
racing that has been offered here
E VISITOR, our 'feed the birds'
ley, veteran sports editor of the Hagers-
was here last Saturdav to take in a
afternoon program at the Charles Town
for a look-see at the progress bemg made
of the track, Shenandoah Downs.
tracks; Frank delighted some five or
at lunch at the Charles Town Legion
his usu/d wide array of funny stories
was brought up to date on the prosoects
American Legion baseball team... While
made an, 'early bird' contribution to the
fund cam0aiQ;n that gets under way in
on March 1...
high flying Mountaineers will take
season basketball tournaments next sec- tional, nation's most profitable, ut
third year, and the Christmas Invi-
new Sports Arena...
the likable member of the West
team who pitched some very good base-
for the Charles Town Legion, cer-
showing, on TV last Saturday as the
Holy Cross' 96-90. Bucky, truly a
ate, really rolled up and down the Field
he gained possession of the ball. His
and classy drive'in shooting was some-
QUICK CASH LOANS--ALL SEASONS---Att GOOD REASONS
WEST VIRGINIA football Coach Art
Week that he'd very" much like to have
ling Negro halfback Tom Bloom. He's
good student and a real good football
mentor commented. "We would
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Leading, Trainer At tCharle TownOnRoad TwoGames, ToT SHEPHERD COLLEGE CAGERS WILL WIND
Winter Race
Meeting Play Host Martinsburg Tuesday Night;
Cardinals Friday Night
UP FAIRLY SUCCESSFUL
WM. P. BELL
William P. 'Billy' Bell, a Charles
Town boy, won the leading train-
er honors for the 44-day winter
race meeting at the Charles Town
.track which closed last Saturday.
Bell was successful in sending 13
winners to the Post against 12 for
Frank H. Merrill, Jr. A graduate
of Charles Town High School some
years ago, Bill played football and
basketball and while he has be-
come quite successful in the rac-
ing game as one of the country's
lead4ng trainers, he always keeps
in close touch with his home town
and especially the sports program
at Charles Town High School.
Now in full charge of the strong
Clairborne B. Carter stable of Or-
ange, Vs. Billy also trains for Leon
ard Sasso of Pittsburgh and Stew-
art Porter. He also trains several
horses for himself and his "Battle
Night" won several races at .the
current meet here. He is the son of
the late Phil Bell and Mrs. Bell
of North Street in Charles ToWn.
Billy is also a baseball fan and
,never fails to ask us about how
the Charles Town Legion team is
making out whenever he visits
here.
Last Saturday Clairborne Car-
ter's War Bracelet won t~he Joseph
E. Snyder Memorial purse by two
lengths as 6,900 .fans turned out
for ,the final program of this high
'I:~ successful 44-day winter meet-
lng.
In the winner's circle ceremon-
ies, Mrs. Jean Snyder, widow of
the jockey who lost .his life .here
in a £rack accident June 11, pres:
eni~ed JoCkey 8mi, t~ with a hand
some silver bowl in memory of her
husband. Also there :to share
t'he honors with Smith was Train
er William Bell of Charles Town.
Town Lec"
April 1;
Basketball and hol~se-raciiag had
to give way. temporarily tO base-
ball in Charles Town Thursday
evening ~t least arodnd the Char.-
les Town Legion Home as once
again it was time for the Legion
Post membership to decide' whe-
eher ,to sponsor baseball again this
coming Sum,mer and by a unan-
imous vote of ,the large member-
Ship .turnout, the Post's ,athletic
corn,at,tee was at~t~horized ~o pro-
ceed with plans for fielding a
semi-pro baseball ~eam.
To help finance the ,team sev-
eral fund-raising .projects were
suggested and discussed with ~the
group approving the sale of season
tickets .to all home Legion games
as one of the Ibest projects. I,t is
hoped that at least 100 season
tickets can be sold at $10 each.
The season ticket sale has .been
carried out in past seasons, but a
special effort will be made ,this
.for a record sale.
The Legion membership ,was in-
'ormed by Max Brown, sohedule-
maker and pu~blicity director for
~the team that the Legion will open
it's 1959 season on Sunday, May 3.
Brown said ten,sUre plans are to
get pre-season practice underway
in early April.
'With a number (ff Service teams
already signed to meet the Leg-
ion in home games again this sea
son there is every indica~on base-
ball fans of Charles Town and
the area will be offel:ed the same
brand of top-notch semi-pro base
ball ,the Legion has been serving
up in past seasons.
Brown said Service .teams which
have ah'eady signed contracts to
play the Legion in Charles Town
are: Camp LeJeune, Bolling Air
Force Base, u doubleheader with
the Quantico Marines on July 19
and games ,wi,th Fort Myer and
Andrews Air Force Base. Other set
~ice teams and a number cff strong
semi-pro clu~bs of the East will be
,added to the schedule which is
expected to num~ber at least 20
games, Brown ,said.
Al, though most of the veteran
staxters of last year's Legion team
are expected to be back in uniform
again this season, the one big
spot the Legio will ’ind hard to
fill will be the ca~hing post which
was left vacant w~i,th the depart-
ure of big John Pratico from Char
les. Town to his hometown in New
Jersey. Pr~tico, by far ?,he best
defensivve ,backstopper in the
area, and last season a po~er a~t
:the bwt for 'the Legion, espe’lully
in hi’ting the long ball, iS not ex-
~aected to be back and Legion of,
,flcials axe now scouting around
for a good replacement.
One new 'add~tion which the
Le’ion is exl~ected Co have is Ray
Doyle, a former outstanding hit-
WItERE, WHEN THEY PLAY
TONIGHT (THURSDAY)
Charles Town at Moorefield
FRIDAY
Martinsburg at Romney
St. Joe vs Hedgesville, MHS gym
i Charles Town at Musselman
Shepherdstown at Harpers Ferry
4Berkeley Springs at Warren Co.
i Page Jackson at Spingarn
Shepherd at Potomac State
MONDAY
Shepherdstown at Williamsport
TUESDAY
Martinsburg at Charles Town
Hedgesville at Harpers Ferry
Musselman at St. Joseph's
Douglas High at Page Jackson
Tonight (Thursday)begins the
final big week of scholastic cage
activity before sectional tourna-
ment time rolls around and in-
dications are that some of the best
action of .the season ~has been sav-
ed until the last with a ,total of
14 games set to be played invol-
ving sectional teams between now
and .the end of the next week.
By this time next week Shep-
herd College and Harpers Ferry
and Page Jackson High schools
will have wound up their 1958-59
regular season play and come Fri
day night, Feb. 20, others will be
closing out seasonal play.
Before this general exodus, how
ever, Charles Town High School
will be hitting the hardwoods
three times within a week. They
take the spotlight all to themsel-
ves tonight when they travel .to
Moorefield ~or a. return game with
the Moorefield .YeLlow jackets. In
the first meeting of the two ,teams
staged on the Charles Town High
gymnasium early in the season,
the Harmison-coached Pant,hers
scored a thrilling last-minute one-
point decision over the Moorefield
boys. Although there have been
times in recen, t games that the
Panthers have shown great offen-
sive power, it has not been con-
sistent and so the Panthers will
undoubtedly be in for another
rough evening at Moorefield.
Most Action
Friday night will find the most
action of ’nis late season cage
card with a total of seven games
on tap. And .headlining the action
will he the Shepherds,own-Hat,
pars Ferrycou~y~b~tle to be wag
i ed'in Harpers Ferry and the Chat
les Town-Musselman game at Mus
selman.
Shepherds.own holds two victor
ies over Harpers Ferry to date, one
pons0r
i,/
,ter and infkelder uf SharpsbUrg
(Md.) Club of
the S0u~h Mounbain
League, who .played last season
with a Philadelohla farm club in
in tournament play and another
in Shepherds,own, but since these
batAles the Tigers have become
stronger and the Cardinals weak-
er. The Cardinals have been hav-
ing a tough time of it since the
loss of Steve 'Williams through
transfer and Kenny Waldeck
through an ankle injury.
On the other hand Charles
Town should not have too much
trouble taking the measure of ~he
Musselman High cagers in spite of
the steady improvement which
the boys from Inwood have been
]showing.
The Martinsburg High Bulldogs
will run into a tough foe Friday
Coach Jesse Riggleman's Shepherd College Rams will close out their 1858-59 cage season
Friday night when they travel to Keyser for a return West Virginia Conference game with the
Potomac State Catamounts. After this only the West Virginia Conference tourney action wi|l be
on the schedule before the Rams hang up their cage togs. The Rams have enjoyed a fairly suc-
ce~ful season with a record of eight wins and eight defeats. A number of the defeats which
night when they travel to Romney\ the Rams were handed came as close ones. with another basket or two having easily turned the
to meet the Pioneers for the first tide in favor of the Rams i~hstead of against them. Two members of the team---Bill Grant and
time this season. T1]e Romney Wayne Barr, the scoring aces for the Rams will be playing their final regular season game Friday
team has been all season one of night as both are seniors. Members of the team as shown above are. left to right:---Jerry tlannis.
the highest scoring and most powLeo Beshield. Ron Pyles, Paul Williams, Wayne Barr, Louis Close, Bill (;rant, Harry Hamf. C, ene
erful teams in Eastern West Vir-IBacker. Paul Swartz, Jim Conner and Sam Kunninger. On February 17, the Shepherd Rams will go
ginia, having lost only two gamest~) Buckhannon for the annual West Virginia Intercollegiate Conference tournament in which
once to Keyser and once to Ridgel they will' meet Beckley College at 7:00 p. m. the night of February 18.
ey. .........
The Hedgesv~lleHighcagerswill Charlei Town Falter: After James Wood FG F Pts.
once again be playing St. Joseph's Adams, f ............5 5-7 15
this time in the Martinsburg High ] Carter. f ........... 1 0-O 2
gymnasium while Berkeley Springs
meet the Warren County High cag
ers.
The Shepherd College Rams
will close out the regular season
play with a return trip to Keyser
to meet the Potomac State Cata-
mounts in a return engagement
and Page Jackson Higl-f of Char-
les Town will travel to Washing-
ton, D. C. for a return game with
the powerful Spingarn High team
r~ted as .the third best team in Me
tropolitan Washington.
Monday , night Shepherdstown
will travel to Williamsport, &id. for
the only action that night.
Then Tuesday night the big one
will be Charles Town and Martins-
burg on the Charles Town floor in
a return game.
The Hedgesville-Harpers Ferry
battle at Harpers Ferry Tuesday
night will also be a round of ex-
citement as will the Musselman-
St. Joe" batt.le in Martinsburg.
Potomac Little League
Will Meet Monday In
Shepherdst0wn
Regular monthly meeCtng-bf lao,,
tomac Little League will be held
at War Memorial Building, Shep-
herdstown, W. Vs. on Monday,
February~16th at 7:30 p. m. Team
officials, Managers .Sponsors Par-
ents and all other persons inter-
ested in league activities are urged
to attend. :
Rklph M. Johnson, Secy.
the New York area. Doyle, a prod
uct of sandlot baseball in Boons-
,boro, Md. hasenrolled at Shep-
herd College and at the present
does not plan to return to the
Phillies farm organization this
Summer.
Drtve CAREFULLY. The LIFE
YOU Save M~ty Be YOUR OWN.
The Charles Town High Pan-
thers, playing on their home floor
Tuesday evening, started off like
they were dead set on gaining re-
venge for ~ previous defeat they
had been handed by the James
Wood High Colonials of Winches-
ter, Vs.. but after they had run
up an 18-11 first period lead, fal-
tered and wound up on the short
end of a 67-49 decision.
In the first of the twin-bill at-
traction the Charles Town Jun-
ior Varsity cagers got the local
fans in a good mood at the outset
by scoring a 40-19 victory over
the James Wood Junior Varsity
with Langdon leading the way for
the little Panthers.
With Eismon rolling in four
field goals, Ranalli two and Burns
and Spinks one each, the Pan-
thers were playing rings around
the Colonials.
In the second period, however,
the Colonials came up with the
hot scoring hand as Adams and
Hot, began to hit from the floor
and scored 14 out of 18 points. At
the same time only single field
goals by Eismon and Burns gave
the Panthers any scores at all.
The third period was played
much on even terms with James
Wood rolling in six field goals and
six fouls for 18 points, while Char
les Town scored five fielders and
seven ~oul shots.
In the final period the Colonials
really rolled, outscoring the Pan-
thers 20-10, after both Eismon
and Burns had ,fouled out of the
game,
Eismon led the sc6ring for Char
les Town with 12 ,points, with
Adams and Sprinkle each netting
15 ,points to lead the James Wood
attack.
The boxscore:
Charles Town FG F Pts.
Wilt, f .............. 3 3-4 9
Skinner, f .......... 1 1-1 3
Spinks, f ........... 2 6-8 10
Fleming, f ..........1 0-0 2
Eismon, c .......... 5 2-2 12
Burns, g ............ 3 0-0 6
Coffman, g .......... 0 0-O 0
Ranalli, g .......... 3 0-0 6
Frye, g ............. 0 1-2 1
Bentz, g ............ 0 0-0 O
Totals ...........18 13-17 49
|
Hot,, f ............. 5 4-4 14
Hummer, f .......... 0 O-0 0
Sprinkle, c ... ....... 7 1-1 15
Smockley, c ........ .. 0 0-0 0
Hockman, g ........ 3 1-2 7
Hepler, g .......... 0 ;-1 1
Lee, g .............. 5 3-4 13
Totals ...........26 15-19 67
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