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SPORTS, CLASSIFIED NEWS AND RADIO-TV SECTION 12 PACES SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1954 ASHEVILLE CITIZEN -TIMES Tri-State Releases 140-Game Schedule Tourists, Smokies Get Breaks By BOB TERRELL Cltixen-Tlmei Sports Writer Baseball fans in Atheville and Knoxville will benefit from the 140-game Tri-States League baseball schedule re-leased today by Bobby Hipps, president of the league. The Tourists will play at least five, and In one case nine more home games than the South Carolina teams which do not support Sunday baseball. Seventy-five games are scheduled at McCormlck Field this summer. Four of them will be home games for visiting Palmetto teams. Knoxville, the only other league town besides Asheville that plays Sunday ball at home, will play 73 games in the Smokies' new munic ipal park.

Anderson and Rock Hill each Hat 70 home games the correct number for each team In the 140-game setup but Oreenvllle and Spartanburg will go on the road for several of their home games. The Spinners play 67 games at Meadow-brook Park In Greenville. Two of their home games are listed for McCormlck Field and one for Knoxville. Spartanburg has 66 home dates with two home games to be played in Knoxville and two others here. The schedule opens April 19 with Anderson at Ashevllle, Knoxville at Spartanburg, and Rock Hill at Greenville.

Three game series will be played in that order on April 19, 20 and 21 before the teams move on for home openers in Anderson, Knoxville and Rock Hill. A MAN NAMED J. C. Like Old Man River, Hyatt Keeps Rolling By KARL FLEMING Cltlten-Times Sports Writer He walks like a cotton farmer but smites a golf ball with all the graceful precision of a finely-tooled machine. He ha the chubby physique of a well-fed servant of the Lord but he has the delicate hands of a surgeon.

He hasn't the fiery ambition to seek a million bucks but he'll play you a golf match as If the Hope Diamond were et stake. He couldn't tell you who ran against Roosevelt In '32 but he can describe shot by shot one of his golf match's of five years ago. He Is not at all the "country-club type" but can beat just about ny country club member you'd like to name. He never went to college but he strokes an educated golf ball. He talks slow and easy but when he swings a club he looks like whip popping.

He Is not fastidious and his shlrttail hangs out a lot but he curves a mighty neat putt. He Is 32 years old, Is married and has one child, a boy, but he Is still pretty much of a big kid himself. His name Is J. C. Hyatt.

And this Is how It all began: That summer the boys lived In a house on the side of a hill that overlooked a long green valley. It was a hot summer and the young boys ran up and down the hill and laughed and threw rocks at the crows. Sometimes at noon when a whistle would blow, the mother of the boys would call them up to the house on the hill. "Here Is your father's lunch," she would say. And the boys would run off down the hill to where their father was working In the hollow below, helping to build a golf course.

The golf course. Beaver Lake, was soon finished, but the boys continued to live in the house on the side of the hill. Sometimes they would lie In the grass and listen to the crickets and look down at the men playing golf, when the men went home the boys would go down the hill and find golf balls. And In the morning the boys would cut broomhandles and stick them down Into short iron-pipe elbows they had found. They used these as golf clubs.

Later when they gov older the boys went down the hill and became caddies for the golfers And once In a while one of the golfers would get tired and want to know "if you Hyatt boys would like to play a few holes?" They wanted to very much and that Is how they both learned to play golf. On Mondays and Fridays the caddirj were allowed to play on the course but It cost 25 cents. So J. C. and Roy the latter the youngest would save money from their caddy fees so they could play.

They were paid 40 cents for caddylng nine holes. J. C. and Roy both became good golfers. One summer J.

C. went to Oreenvllle to play in the Klwanls Tournament and won a suit of clothes. It was his first tournament and his first golf prize. And although his team did not win the tournament. J.

weg proud to have won the suit. That was a long time ago. Now he is married to a girl named Kelle and has a 15-months-old baby named J. C. Hyatt Jr.

The baby Is blue-eyed like his daddy and Ilka his daddy has a bunch of cheeks that wander all over his face when he smiles. There was a time when J. C. might have become a professional golfer. He won't do It now because of his age and because there Is K- 1 AS If i fei lSSS: As in past Tri-State League seasons, closing date Is Labor Day, Sept.

6. The Tourists close at home against Knoxville. Spartanburg will be at Rock Hill and Greenville at Anderson for the other season-ending games which usually precede the league playoffs by a day or so. A single league game is scheduled July Fourth Asheville at Knoxville since the holiday falls on Sunday, restricting the South Carolina teams. The league will operate this summer without the traditional all-star game.

Several factors combined to eliminate the mid-season extravaganza. Club owners had to permit a three-day break in sched J. C. Hyatt On The Fairways, An Enigma With A Cornpone Brogue And A Sophisticated Swing. One-One ule and share a heavy financial burden In order to put on the all- Golden Loch Wins 'Chase Amateurs Ward, Venturi To Pose Threats To Pros In Masters Meet star game.

Players weren't fond of the contest. So the keague di rectors voted it out. Revamp Last year the all-etar fame matched North Carolina choices Feature By RL'SS NEWLAND Clure, commanding officer at Ft. foresees the return of amateur golf Ord. sold on thtt Idea that Ven- to eaualltv with the oro variety.

SAN FRANCISCO. March 20 Amateur golf will throw a power turi't participation in one of the I He thinks Venturi and Ward have I SOUTHERN FITES. N. Mar, most publicized tournaments in the'the qualities to become standard 20 tfl Golden Loch a 10-year- against South Carolina players. A completely different set-up would have to be formed to put on the game this year.

The Tourists will play at horn Is Voted ful one-two punch at the profes country will provide excellent puc- bearers. old chestnut gelding, easily won the featured Sandhills Cup steeple sionals in tne Masters tournament at Augusta, April 8 through 11. on 16 different Sundays almost He relations for tne Army. It is highly questionaoie. now- Oen.

McClure. incidentally. Is a 'ever, that these two simon-pures By SKIPPER PATRICK KANSAS CITY, March 20 I every Sunday In the season. Knox chase for 4-year-olds and up here today in the seventh annual meet native Georgian, from Rome, and lean make much of a dent in the The two are Harvle Ward and The National Assn. oi Basketball Pvt.

Ken Venturi. They form one; an old friend of Bobby Jones. He hard shells of the professionals. The Masters is a 72-hole medal ing of the Stoneybrook Racing Assn. ville lists 13 Sunday games.

Because of this fact no double-headers were scheduled in Asheville and only one In Knoxville. However, when the season get of the strongest amateur comblna- also is a solid southpaw golfer, tlons ever to bang shots in the I middle seventies to low eighties. Coaches today voted to revamp the one-and-one free throw rule to put the nremlum on good shooting rath play test. Ben Hogan, defending Favored Fiddler's Choice came twenty year history of the deluxe i Venturi luck was with him this er than inaccuracy. divot derby.

time. He might have had a CO. under way, doubleheaders will appear in the Tourists schedule at champion: Sam Snead. Uoyd Man. teke st0 grum Byron Nelson Cary Middle- bfc en hurd, for jeM, coff, Jim Ferrier Jimmy Demar- lnd felture on toe et are among the old pros who I even.race clrd that opened the will be in there pitching.

national steeDlechase season. Pro stars will hardly quake In who went in for chess or mountain The recommendation that goes to the National Rules Committee tomorrow gives the fouled player their boots at thought of the Ward-1 climbing. Venturi invastlon. The play-for-pay Before military service beckoned, members of the sport always have Venturi teamed up here with Ward a second, or bonus shot, if the first! In winning last year on the, Sandhills Cup Is a 2y4-mlle shot It made. If the first shot Is i dominated the Masters.

Not even i selling autos for Ed Lowery, also; 6.950-yard par 72 course. timber oflerins: a nurse missed, the ball remains In play. The present rule allows a second a time in a man's life when he must make his big move. J. C.

didn't make his big move when he was younger. But though he la not a professional with a lot of money, J. C. can till look back on a long string of admirable accomplishments. He did, after all, win the Beaver Lake tournament six years In a tow, more than any other man.

He won the Ashevllle Country Club Tournament twice and he won the Waynesvllle tournament last year. In 19S2 he became the first out-of-towner ever to win the Bristol Invitational. One year he won the Beaver Lake, the City and the ACC tournaments and might have made a clean sweep of all four local meets. There was a lot of speculation about It, but he wasn't Invited to play In the Blltmore Forest Tournament. He would never tell you so but this hurt his feelings very much and he can't understand It.

J. C. Is thought to be the best amateur golfer In Western North Carolina. He has beaten just about every good man In the hills. His list of victims In the Beaver Lake Includes: Jim Dowttn, Lee Pickens, Al Dowtln, Tal (Pop) Stafford, Jerry Rogers and Gene Ochsenrelter.

Are there any around better than these? But last year was a bad year for J. C. One day he was replacing worn wire In his automobile and badly burned his hand. As a result he was unable to play golf for a big part of the summer. He didn't play In the Beaver Lake, ACC or Hendersonvllle tournaments.

But he played at Waynesvllle. There had been some doubts about his being able to play, but he me great coooy Jones couia win a craca goner ana u.o.u.a. wenier ruuiias oi iu-w-oo-o 0j b00 Goiden Loch ridden by the tournament that was fashioned cial. Ward already has served outj274. That's the kind of golf, Cameron and owned by in his honor.

hls time in the Army. Automotive close to It. that the Ventura-Ward Mls, Eleanor Sears of Boston, beat free throw If the first Is missed. Floyd S. chairman of the Rules Recommendation Committer San Francisco lays claim to, mogul Lowery is one of those who duo will be up against.

om a field of nine In 4:51 3-5. The these two youngish links stylists. Ward is a native of Tarboro, N.C.. but now lives here as an automobile salesman. He won the 1952 British Amateur and was runner- gelding, winning his first major steeplechase, led over the first five fences.

Then Cameron held back and Southwest, owned by G. C. Wevmouth of Greenville. Correlation Victor In Florida explained the proposal, made by Coach John Bunn of Springfield (Mass.) College would aain make basketball a 40-mlnute game. If passed by the rules lommlttee.

the automatic two free throws an the last three minutes would be eliminated. The coaches voted yesterday to 20 anteed to the winner of this third: led briefly. Golden Loch II moved HALANDALE, March up last year. He and Venturi, a native California, were stars and up to win going away. (UP) Correlation, a rugged colt demy.

Fiddler's Choice, owned by Mrs. same time Shoemaker At the McCormlck Field due to rain-cuts and other possible postponement. Doubleheaders are Inevitable in a baseball i aon. The Spartanburg Peaches and Greenville Spinners will play 16 games at McCromick Field this summer; Anderson will play 15; Knoxville and Rock Hill will appear 14 times each. The 140-game schedule, a popular one among six-team leagues, will provide 420 baseball games for Tri-State League followers, and 420 garnet often it enough to provide fuel for the hot stove league for years to come.

With five of the six league team already hooked to major league organizations, the prospect for a fast brand of baseball played by young farmhands It bright indeed, Greenville, the league's lone independent club, isn't trying to hide its expectations of fielding a team capable of holding its own against Tri-State competition. The coming season has been tabbed the Tri-State do or die year. That It Is, but things are looking up. C. O.

Adams of Southern Pines, U. S. Walker Cup team which! pulled out all the stops, Eddie Ar- throttled the British sauad. stretcn at uuustream ran lo ask the rules committee to elimi was ridden by he sua, Dooley, the nation's top steeplechase rider for the last five years. Fiddler's Choice The Army gets a big hand from u.y ui woodvale Farm's Goyamo nate the quarter system In favor him to a length victory in the 1146, of two halves, thus cutting down Also in the Sandhills Cup were But it was Correlation, whose only other stakes victory was 260 Florida Derby, on the number of stalls.

McGlnty jloore. owned by Mrs golf enthusiasts In general and the Masters tournament officials in particular for permitting 22 year old Venturi to participate. He's stationed at Fort Ord. with the 6th Engineer Combat I scored in the Charles S. Howard A crowd of 31.764, the largest Bunn's proposal was accepted by F.

T. Patterson of Pittsburgh eatherlmr of turf fans ever jammed stakes at Hollywood Park last JuIv.Im. O. Walsh and ridden bv Bev. unanimous vote.

It would apply only to common foul. Into the track watched Robert who was the best horse in the Gray, who was thrown near Infractions while a player was In Lytle's hope for tne triple crown arive to payoii am. the end of the race: Barugnt, the act of shooting would still draw victory come roaring from far back Correlation, flown here from CaK owned by William J. Brewster of Venturi was Invited to play In two free throws. Coach Eddie Hlckey of St.

Louis the Masters because of his Walker I In the bulky field of 16 three-year- ifornia 10 days ago, paid $17 20. is pines; Reynoldstown, Cup competition, long before his olds under the guidance of Jockey I $6.60. and $5.30 across the board I owned by Lowry Watklns: and Induction. And there is a story be-lwillle Shoemaker to grab the 100'as he raised his lifetime earnings Farmer Joy. owred by George F.

hind the story. Gen. Robert Mc-'grand Gulfstream Park had guar-ito $195,804. iBrannon of Tryon. University, retiring president of the association, pointed out the new proposal would k.ep the play ers working all the time." "Under toe present rule every Tri-State Baseball League Schedule For 1954 body except the shooter can walk away from the cene of activity on the first shot of a common foul." Hlckey said.

"If Bunn's pro posal becomes the rule then everybody has to line up because bat first toss might be missed." The coaches recommended tht present one-and-one rule two years ago. There a good chance they will get It remodeled by the rules committee tomorrow. played and won the championship at Waynesvllle by handing Weldon Doe the worst defeat he ever suffered a 10 and 9 ticking. J. C.

breezed around the momlng 18 In 66 strokes and Doe never von a hole until the 21st. But there was one tournament J. C. wanted to win and he failed to win It. He was sorrier about It than he has ever been about any other tournament.

It was at St. Augustine and the tournament was the Ponce de Leon-Invitation, a meet to which only champions were Invited. J. C. advanced to the semifinals but lost there.

This made him unhappy because had he won he would have had a chance to meet the great Harvle Ward in the finals. Ward won the tournament but not against J. C. Now J. C.

will always wonder how he might have done against the great British Amateur champion. J. C- Is employed by the city as manager of Memorial Stadium. In the winter during football season It gets cold down there and early this winter J. C.

came down with a cold. He' had It about all winter, plus an Infection in his ear. Consequently he's played only two or three times since last fall. The ear Infection has affected his hearing but the doctor says It's going to be okay. J.

C. feels his golf game has Improved with age. "I don't hit the ball as far as I used to," he says, "but that's intentional. "I've found out that accuracy la more Important than distance. Used to, I would step up to the tee and try to see how far I could knock the ball.

I hit it a long way, but I dldnt know where it was I don't hit them to far. but I have a lot more control. I think I'm playing better now than I ever have." he said. J. C.

says ha hopes to play in about three tournaments this sum-Bier the Beaver Lake, Waynesvllle and Carolina Open. But there is definitely no chance of hit turning pro? "No, H't too late now," J. C. says. "An opportunity to do a thing like that comes along only once In a lifetime and when you pass It up well, 1ft Just too late now.

"Sometimes I'm sorry I dldnt go ahead and turn pro. But when was younger I didn't have the money and didn't think I could play well enough to make the grade," he said. One of his long-time friends and admirers said the other day that C. should have turned pro and went on the circuit, J. c.

hat had something ever tinea he was a real young fellow that It takes to make a champion golfer. Maybe he should have gone ahead and made hit move," this life-long acquaintance tald. He's had that "something," all right the perfect physical coordination and ability to concentrate it takes to play peerless athletics. J. C.

It also a tough man on a billiard table. If you get the idea that because he's 32 year old now hell soon fee fading out of promlnance in golf around here, strangle it J. 0. would rather play golf than eat and nobody ever saw him through tlx dinner courses In less than 155 strokes. There are a of solid strokes left in hit deft mitt yet.

Bo hopes to get to playing again toon if he can shake that cold nd it bo can start getting a little rest. But in hit colorful Stengelese vernacular, he said the other day that "with thla cold and tor car, ain't been getting enough rest lately to cum a eat." Also given strong consideration but voed down was a proposal by Alvln Julian of Dartmouth that a jump ball follow free throws with the fouled team having its choice of Its jumper naturally the tallest roan. The player committing the foul would be the other Jumper. A recommenaatton by Coach Howard Hobson of Yale that the free throw lanes be widened from 10 tolfeet also was beaten. HtxaixaaiiBMiiHMBsnBsiiSHBiHBKBsmsiiiaiiiaiiiBKxixaiX4iBiiiiiiivaaiHBMvvaKB At Anderson At Atheville At Greenville At Knoxville At Rock HOI At Spartanburg 10 May 3, 4, 5, 31 Apr.

19. 30. 21 June Miy 18i ,7 lg Apr J0.30 Mty ,0 ANDERSON FOLLOW June II, 12. IS Aug Juy July 23.23, 24 July 1, 2, 3 July 15, 16, 17. 20 gjpj Aug 12 13f 14 is Aug.

23, 24, 25 Aug. 16-16. 17, It AUg. I ii 3i May 6. 7.

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12. IS. 14 July 7. 36-26. 37, 28 July 8.

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28 rDrcmmir TniTPIW May 1. 3, 27. 28. 29. SO June 10, 11-11.

12 June S-S, 4, 8 GREENVILLE July 8. 13, 13. 14 June 24. 25. 26.

17 TOURISTS JulJ 3j J4 July 15i 16i 17 Juy j9 26, 37. 28 iffte10'" Aug. Vie. 17.18. 9 Aug.

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19. 20. 31 KNOXVTLLP June 3-3. 4. 5 June 14, 15, 16 lai June 24, 25.

26 May 24. 25. 26 KNOXVILLE juj July 29. SO. 31 Ju IN July Juiy Aug.

26. 27. 28 JM, Aug. 8. 6, 7 Aug.

16. 17. 18 Aug. 19. 30, 21 May 13, 14-14.

15 May la. 17, 18. 19 Apr. 19. 20.

31 Apr. 32. 23. 24, JJjJ Rnrir UII I June 14. 15, 1 June 17.

18, 19, May 34-24. 35. 2 June 7-7, 8, Tup jui, 31 ROCK HILL July June 28-28. 29. 30 July 30.

21. 23 A'T i Aug. 8. 6. 7 Aug.

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3, 37. 28. 29. 38 June 17. 18, 19 June 10 11.

12. IS. July 8, 13, 14 CITIZEN-TIMES SPARTANBURG jui, 21-21. 22 July 11'. 23.

21 35 July 7-7. 20 27, 38, 29, SO lug 10 11 Sept. 3, 3. 4 Aug. 8 32.

23. 24 Aug. 12. 13. 14 Aug.

I. 2. S. 4 g. 30 Teams Entered In AAU Tourney ST.

JOSEPH, March 20 A field of 30 teams starts the six day scramble for the Women's Na tional AAU basketball champion ship here tomorrow with Hanes Hosiery of Winston-Salem, N. C. seeking an unprecedented fourth consecutive title. Eight first-round games, starting with the 1 p. m.

CST affair between the Davenport, Iowa, Brammer-cttes and the WAFs from Offutt Air Force Base (Omaha) will be played tomorrow. Six additional first-round contests are on Monday's Boldface date denote Sunday Date with asterisk () designate visiting team game. Hyphenated double dates are doubleheaders. Beaton opens April 1. Closet Sept schedule..

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