Johnson City Chronicle from Johnson City, Tennessee • 10

JS a i Page Ten Johnson City Sunday Press-Chronicle Sunday March 3 1910 OLLIE VANEK 0 -PILOT- CARDINALS AGAIN I a 16th District Quints Open Wednesday Ni ght Gaston iaNC Picked For Spring Caiup I Skipper Will Report With Rookies At Albany Ga Quarters March 18 By KYLE VANCE No Favorite Is Declared Five Seeded Ollie Vanek the Bouncing Czech whose Johnson I City Cardinals bounced up and down between first and fourth place all last Beason will skipper the Red Birds through another Appalachian league campaign this season it was announced by CIub President Carl A Jones Jr 3 Johnson Gly Gufs First Test Against Hampton In Opening Round With no outstanding team to call favorite 11 quintets of pretty 1 1 Most conspicuously missinjj from Keystone park this baseball season will be Doyle Hardin the hard-Juck champion Leo Shoals hardest hitter in history of the Appalachian league and Russell Jordan a fixture with the locals since their entry into the circuit The same old dirt diamond (there will be no gran this season folks) Sammy Lamitina's fussing and fuming at the umps Dick Bouknight's Texas leaguers Mills chaw of tobacco (now who was It said that was a baseball in Mules mouth) and other familiar scenes will be back Walter Pattee the hustling business manager will be on the Job March 15 to oversee repair work at the park New uniforms for the 1940 Cardinals came in this week They bear the Cardinal-on-bat Insignia of the St Louis Cardinals the patent organization Pat-tee incidentally expects the addition of Eiwin and Bristol Into the league tq mean some 10000 extra customers In the local paik this season On a trip to Albany Ga Card President Carl A Jones Jr- made some Inquiries concerning Lou Lucas our new shortstop and found out that he is not only a dangerous hitter but gets around on the diamond much like a rabbit So much for the baseball gossip Vanek fiery young pilot who bounced all over center field last season (his antics put his arm in sling on one occasion) will be on hand at Albany Ga March 18 when the rookie swarm settles down on the big St Louis Card- inal training camp Later the Johnson City manager will move to Gastonia where the local Cards will train this season taking along whichever prize rookies he Is fortunate enough to snag from other members of the vast SL Looey chain gang Club Finished Strong Third Under Vanek In 1939 Last season Ollie skippered the Johnson City schoolboys to a third place finish just two and a half games away from the pennant spot They led the league by nine games at the half-way mark and surrendered the seat I a a near equal calibre open play Wednesday and Thu nights in the annual 16th district basketball tournament for boys in Science Hill gym While Erwin and Happy Valley are generally regarded the teams to beat for the title supporters of mobt any of the other clubs will concede these two nothing Watauga Mountain City and Boones Creek were seeded along with the Erwin and Happy Valley entries (in no certain order) and most every other last aspirant can be called a darkhorse Half Of Teams Go To Bristol In New District The over-sized 16th was' split up this season and a new district the 23rd created Half of the teams will play at Buslol in the 23rd and thmther half comes to Johnson GTfy for the Press-Chronicle Jack Jesse SIXTEENTH DISTRICT CHAMPIONS FOR THREE SEASONS in a row SulliVkn high crack sextet is shown heie The Sullivan girls won over Holston Valley last night 61-28 Pictured are left to right (sitting Ruth Pectol Irene Duncan Agnes Duncan Dorothy Light Carlon Suit Helen Duncan and Coach Tom Lacey and (standing) Cl ansa Wexler Rachael Pectol Louis McCroskey Mavis Jackson Wilma Jackson June Morris andRuth Jumaru treworks Loom In District Tourney It likely that the state basketball champion will come out of the 18th district this year but biace yourself for some real fireworks when the quints of this district get together in Science Hill gym next week when almost every last member of the team was caught in a ting and fielding slump Playing an inspiring bang-up center field Vanek was quite a demon at the plate batting 224 In 188 games 1fnrCloudland-EIi7abcthton clash for example RighTThcre OLLIE VANEK should be a battle of championship calibre in the very first round Cloudland ti Ip ped Betsy 1 ice ri th rcgul a season but the margins wide enough to satisfy and the Cyclones were quite willing to accept the Cloudlanders as a first foe Due to the closeness of the 16th no game will bq called an upset until Erwin or Happy Valley loses! but one or two clubs are given little chance of going anywhere in particular The tourney-gets way Takes Over Baseball Club Wednesday night with three good games Unaka and Elk Mills open the program at 7 with hot melee promised for the 8 clash between Elizabethton and Cloudland Although Cloud-land won twice fiom Betsy during the season and asked a chance to meet the Cyclones again this scrap should prove one of the best of the toui nament Owner Of CaroIinaTeain To Name Manager This Week And if Johnson City gets by Hampton Wednesday Jiight at must tear into Watauga Thursday Watauga begged a spot that would give it a crack at the Hilltoppers and got it which brings to mind that the same Watauga begged a spot close to Kingsport two vears ago Remember the Take another look at the pairings and you will see that Unaka and Happy Valley are likely to meet in a second round came These teams split duiing the season with Unaka ing quite a surprise a week and a half ago when it downed the Warriors But Happy Valley we hear has a very personal account to square with Coach Clarence crack quintet We'll pick Happy Valley and Erwin to meet In the finals but ask us to go further Anyway it Is unlikely that the winner 'will go much farther before they are gobbled up by say Kingsport or Knoxville in the regional tourney Seek Coach Meet For Johnson City Coach Farmer of Johnson City high school and Coach McMuriay of Teachers college are talking in terms of landing the summer meeting of the-Tenneisce Coaches Association All a city needs to qualify for the parley is a good football field a good gymnasium and good places to stay for the out-of-towners Johnson City of course can answer the requirements with excellent facilities Johnson City's Hilltoppers hot and cold during the expect quite a test from Hampton at 9 Seeded teams start play Thurs day mgbt with Mountain City and Boones £reeM-both -highly legard- Vanek managed from the bench most of the first of last season after a stinging delivery from Pitcher A1 Bielan caught him on the wrist in a pitching session The same injury was aggravated when he fell chasing a short fly in the outfield and the arm was still sore when he left for his home St Louis at the end of the season President Jones also announced last night that Ray Yardley gang ling pitcher-outfielder does not plan to return to Johnson City this season preferring to hang onto-his-job at Mascot Term Yardley won eight games arid lost two from the box in and proved a valuable replace ment when injuries tore up the Outfield He patroled right field almost half of the season and hit three home runs New Men And Renaldi Not Yet On Dotted Line The players who have not yet sent in signed contracts for 1940 aside from Yardley are Freddie Renaldi holdover hurler and Bush Lukasiuk and Matthews all newscomers All others including Dick Bouknight Sammy Lamitina Mills Tabor and Larry Cochrane holdovers from have autographed their pacts It has not been decided yet when the team will arrive Johnson City but it probably will get here a week or two before opening of the season Some work remains to be done on Keystone park Jones said the club would have done all of its training here this season had grass been put on the local diamond The team trained last year at Albany Ga BRISTOL Tenni March 2 (46 --Jimmy Hamilton veteran minor league operator and owner of the Winston Salem Twins of the Piedmont league signed a contract with the Bristol Baseball Company Inc here today to oper-ate the baseball team the Appalachian league Hamilton acquired operating privileges under a three-year lease which provides he may in- stall lights if he chooses He also has the option of buying the baseball plant within the three year period if acceptable terms are reached Chapman Relieves Golf Helped Baseball Swing Press-Chronicle Cup To Be Presented To 1 6th Cage Champion edentries the fireworks at 6 The 7 battle will send Erwin up against the Cloudland Elizabethton winner The Blue Devils won one game from Cloudland and split with Betsy during the season Happy Valley gets its first test Thursday-night at 9 o'clock playing the Unaka-Elk Mills winner And If the foe proves to be Unaka as most observers feel it will this game would be one of the most thrill-promising of th tournament Unaka upset Happj Valley late in the season after the Warriors had spilled Coach Clarence quintet earlier in the season Johnson second round foe will be Watauga who begged a ciack-at the Hillloppeis and got it This game starts at 8 Semi-finals will be played Frl- day night with finals falling Saturday night Press-Chronicla Jack Jesse SIXTEENTH DISTRICT RUNNERS-UP AND THE ONLY team to beat Sullivan high out of the last 77 games this is the Holston Valley sextet losers the tourney final last night They are left to right (sitting) Gladys Larimer Marydell Lowry Mary Delaney Mary Lou Boling Catherine Boling Mary Blevms and Mary Dell and (standing) Coach Harmon Peters Ossie Lunsford Berdeda Jones Bonnie Arnold Gladys Arnold and Jane Owen ANAHEIM Calif Match 2 im Sammy Chapman of whom Athletic Manager Connie -Mack is pinning big hopes this year believes playing golf all winter has given him a rhythmic swing i Yestdiday he blasted out the longest hit In La Palma histoiy when he dropped one over the 400-foot center field wall figure If I can swing at a baseball as smoothly as at a golf ball I might come back this year" he declared This season's winner of the Sixteenth distiict boys basketball tournament will a championship trophy from the Press-Chronicle It must be won three times (not succession) to become the permanent propei ty of any school The cup will be specially cn-giaved for the tourney It had not arrived from the engraver last night new baseball plant Will be located on the Gate Cify highway immediately outside the Bristol Va juty Jimits Seven acres have been secured by the baseball company five of which 1 will be used for the playing field and two for parking space I Hamilton said tonight that he would assign an experienceo man-ager to Bristol during the coming Trainings camp for young aspirants will open heie April 19 The bulk of the players however will be assigned here from the i 4 Winston Salem club Claude- Shaw is- president of the Bristol Baseball Company -Inc Other-officers include an Minnich vice-president and John Clark treasurer 50 Boys Expected To Jleport Fo Spring Grid Drills Iri Toppers Camp Tomorrow Leftovers from 1939's undefeated Johnson City high school 940 Official Schedule of Appalachian Baseball League Tennis Membership Drive Started By Johnson City Club Hilltoppers some two en new aspirants will-answer the call tomorrow for opening -of -spring drills At Elizabethton At Greeneville At Johnson City At Kingsport At Erwin- At Newport At Penn Gap At Bristol -Howard Johnson Science HOT May 4-5 June 3-4 May 10-11 -June 21-22 Coach expects around 50 boys for May 28-29 June 25-25-26 May 20-21 June 7-8 May 8-9 June 9-10-10 Dcinarct Gains May 26-27 June19-20- tennis coach and manager of the new courts at Keystone field lastmght a duve is under May 16-17 June 15-16 July 5-6 KLEP UP July 11-12 July 18 July 21-22 June July 25 jJuly 7-8 -Aug 12-13-20 July 3-29-30 rAug -30 Aug 2-3-Sept 2- 8-9-26 Aug- 4-5-28 4BalI Gallery -Aug 14-15-22 the dally sessions which will continue through the next-month Farmer salcT the spring season would again be climaxed game with two graduating players being selected the Maroops and the May 23-29 'M5jT12-ir May 6-7 June May 14-13 June 23-24 17 June 13-14 May 20-21 June 7-8 July 7-8 May 26-27 June 19-20 July 21-22 May 2-3 June 1-2 July 4-31 -Aug-l-l wrrn THE June 25-25-26 July 18 July 9-10 July 1-2-25-26 CORAL GABLES Fla March 2 14 Ralph Guldahl and Sam Snead are still the solid favorites to repeat last victory the 65000 international four-ball golf-tournament but a sure thing that an easy-going fellow named Jimmy Demart will pull a big gallery when play gets under way tomorrow jw ay to secure 1940 members for the Johnson City Tennis Club The new courts improved over last season with additional beautifying work yet to be done will be opened to netters tomorrow Johnson said Several tournaments are planned for the summer Tickets for membership are on sale at News stand and may be obtained from Johnson himself Johnson expects -the to-have 100 members this season Only 30 joined a year ago first season of the cluh on the new courts Practice for Johnson City Aug 4-5-28 Aug 6-7-24-24 Sept 1 Aug 31 Aug 18-19-27 -Aug 14-15-22 Aug 12-13-20 Golds While it is far too early to stai talking of prospects for a 1940 winner Coach Farmer nevertheless ventured that another good club would Hill May 6-7 May 14-15 May 26-27 May 20-21 May 2-3 May 12-13 May 22-23 May 30-31 RACE IN June 5-6 July 9-10 June 23-24 July 7 June 19-20 July 21-22- June 7-8 July 7-8- Demart who plays the game for fun and makes it pay has captured public fancy like no one eke-since Snead skyrocketed to fame- June 13-14 July 1-2 July 25-28 Aug" June 1-2 July 4-31 Aug 1-1 Sept 1 June 27-28 July 27-28 Aug-29 Gone will be Raymond Webb Fied Dulaney Allen Chandler Sam Johnson Joe Summers and Lynn Feathers- all hard boys to replace but-several Likely prospects will graduate from the junior high team with Aug 18-19-27 8-7-24-24 Aug 14-15-22 Aug 12-13-20 high school tennis will begin In the buef space of two months he has won five tournaments the Oakland San Fiancisco Western New Orleans and St Pelers-hurg events- May 4-5 May 26-27 May 22-2 Clint Rrown Reduces olheis coming up from the May 10-11 2 1-23- May 16-17 June 15-16 May 20-21 -June 7-8 May3Q-: Chisox Holdout Price May 8-9 TunrJ-T 0-1(1 July 3-29-30 Aug 30 TRESS June 3-4 July 11-12 Aug 8-9-26 June 19-20 July 21-22 Aug 14-15-22 June 29-30 July 23-24 Aug 25 July 4-5-6 Aug 3 Sept 2 June 27-28 July 27-28 Aug 29 July 7-8 Aug 12-13-20 can add 61000 fo his pin money The Houston Texas professional is teamed with Willie Goggin of San Francisco in the same bracket with Guldahl and Snead who shot 14-under-par golf for 30-holes in last year luuW- May 4-3 Ma May 8-9 May 10-11" May 18-19 May 24-25 June 17-18 I3-f4- Loss of such handy men as the above of course leaves plenty of room to speculate and suitable replacements must be found to fill the gaping holes made by then -departure But the return- such promising lettei men as the following gives hopes of a great nucleus Ends: Gayle Cox tackles: Hairy Caughtun and Charley and Jtc Peoples center Stone halfbacks Vincent Bar- den and Jack Osborne quarterback: Kermit Tipton and Alf Taylor ai mer asked -that aHJu June 3-4 July June 25-25-26 July 18- PASADENA Calif March 2 OW I Vice President Harry Grabiner of the Chicago White Sox said today Pitcher Clint Brown had reduced his asking price in a letter to the club but added no compromise was expected in the negotiations Grabiner said Brown lowered his sajasy demaHddeclaiitti---w you can meet this just have to retire-and run my oil wells But the best of tuck to the White Sox anyhow" Biown's original asking price was reported as 115000 June 11-12 July 18-20 The sporty Miami Eiltmore course is 6 690 yards long and has par of Most of the well-trapped hole me dogkg and winding caimtvs fvt-erscct fi vu fairways June 21-22 June 29-30 'July 4-24 June 15-16 July 5-6 "Aug I June 9-10-10 July 3-2930 -Aug 1611-21- The average daily school attendance Texas 1939 was 1144 a gam of 97000 compared 1935 May 14-15 Mav 12-13 May 18-19 May 6-7 May 2-3 June 1-2 May 24-25 June 17-18 May 22-23 May 30-31 June 1112 June 13-14- June 5-6 COMTLETE July 19-20 July 1-2-25-26 July 9-10 July 4-31 Aug 1-1 Srpt 1 June 27-28 July Aug 29 July 13-14 16-17-21 July 17 Aug 6-7-24-24" Aug 10-11-23 Aug 31 Aug 18-19-27 Expecting You! Bowling heie is becoming the way to put-m aicw high boys who will be in high school next year to report to-mouow Some 15 boys should be ready for a crack at the varsity who played on last season junior eleven Fa 1 mer said -the-J40 schedule had not been completed and that it would be some two or May 4-5 May 8-9 May 24-25 MavlQ-lL -May 16-17 May-13-19- fiom the minute you pick up the ball Fitnc's with eveiy healthful poise-developing' step and swing- COV FRAGE May 30-31 June 1728 Jiffv57-58 June 11-12 July4 9-J0- June 17-18 July 13-14 Aug 16-17 -Aug 21 June 2J-22 June 29-30 -July- 21-24 June 3-4 July 11-12 -Aug June 9-10-10 July 3-4-10 A 30 June 15-16 July 5-6 Aug 2-1 tin ee weeks befoie at would be A 08- Aug 10-1 an eiioit to relied tile one ood trip for ins team and has feelers out at several distant points Sev in or eight home games ill be on the slate for our feminine patron Bowling's THE number-one! May 6-7 May 2-3 Juue 1-2 June 5-6 May 18-19 ''June 11-12 July 19-20 Aug 10-11-23 Mav 24-25 June 17-18 July 13-14 Aug 16-17-21 May 14-15 June 23-24 July 17 Aug 6-7 Aug 24-24 E1FRT DAY May 12-13 Juno 13-14 July 1-2-25-26 Aug 31 May 28-29 June 23-25-26 July 18 Aug 4-5-28 KM July 4-31 Aug l-l' Srpt 1 July 9-10 Aug 18-19-27 WRONG BAIT DUNN March Buck Guy caught a small peref ran a line thiough Us-RiU and UcdLltui (watcr A ltUclaLcr-he noticed a jack about 18 inches long flapping an the water The jatk swallowed the perch and couldn ripoe IS Off Day for All JULY 16 All-Star Gamejsf Appalachian League JULY 23 Off Day for EIizabethton-Peimington JULY 23 df Day for ErwinIJchnson AUGUST 2 Off Day for Kingsport Bristol Relesef by Riws Idgemen rtcdrient 1 IVt I 1 i.