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19:13 at ten the full speed ahead signal from ~1eadat Just the right angle and spat tmme- ~oachCostolo, and the prospects are mto the open doorway of the stove into a slight ad- mdeed promising. Although only upon ~hich his feet were propped. and tuck battle thre~ lettermen are back from last He waited for a moment to hear
changed hands year s squad, newcomers have added the hiss. and sizzle that usually ac-
greatly to the chances of the team compamed such an action; but there broke the ice During the winter, members of th~ was none. Without turning his head and the squad who weren't out for other he s~id to the ruddy faced boy who to an advan- sports worked out under the watch- sat. m the corner, "Johnny, go out quarter had ful eye of Coach Costolo and not and get some more wood for the
during the so long ago members of the team fire. It's near 'bout out."
equal and at w:nt to _the track meet at Chapel The boy slipped off his stool and still possessed Hill_. This had b~en a great aid in walked across the room and out Asheville ex- gettmg the matenal lined up and in through the door. However, in a
difficulty shape. few moments he returned with a attempting to In the hurdles, the Bishops will broad grin on his face. The long- defense em- be represented by a letterman from legged man with his feet on the aad White. last year, Paul Simmons, and a new stove was talking as he entered and lllylterious spell boy, "Bud" Brown. Both have he didn't. look around, just looked coadles in be- shown up well in work-outs. In the at the circle who sat around the
the Tourists, dashes last year's best non-letter stove and kept on talking.
High man, Preston Bellamy will carry the "I was in Washington one day the p~eding Garnet and White with Hedde~ly, when Washington was playin' the to wm over a newcomer also ~pect.ed to gwe Detroit Tigers and them was the aftem~n, V. E. S. some pomts m the five days when Ty Cobb was stealin'
up potnts meets that ~he G.. A. A. had sched- everythin' with sawdust in it. An' second team. uled for this sprmg. Bellamy was nobody was able to stop him, either. the zone, t_he o~eof the t~reeboys who made the well, there was a young catcher in played havoc w1th tnp to Car~lma and he made a ;.'ery the Washington line-up that day, uaed by the sub- good showmg although_ he. didn t and it was his first game in a 'Nat'
1kJuted a temper- place. He was seco!ld m h1s heat uniform. He'd been around the
point Co-Cap- and went to the sem1-finals, only to league 'fore as a second stringer;
really began be beaten out by .a foot, by.a boy played with Boston and some other and matdted bas- who covered the stxty-yard distance club I think but somehow Cobb
pushing his in the fine time of 6.5. had~'t ever r~n up against him and deadlock by the Stepping into the shoes left va- didn't know much about him. So Ty
cant by Tommy Crudup, we find a got on first on a slow roller to short with the blue letterman from Goldsboro High and looks down at this catcher with table the Bishops School, Francis Joyner, who was a broad grin on his face. I could see .even points on out during the winter and who went it clear as day from where I was and a foul shot to Chapel Hill. sittin,' over by third. He turned to
off every attempt In the distance events, Mitchell, Joe Judge an' said somethin' an' pme Asheville boys who was last year's letterman in the then he laughed. Well, Judge half-mile run, had been moved up laughed too, but you could see it
Spring is Here!
Chuck Clark Elected Captain By Six Holdover Regulars
PITCHERS PLENTIFUL
Peeler, Last Year's Ace, Plus Hedderly and Dashiel Round Out Gifted Mound Staff
_Six ?f last year's state champion- ship wmners return to the diamond this spring to form a nucleus around
which the '40 baseball nine will be built: These plus several promising
rookies up from the high school
"bush leagues" give V. E. S. an
exc~llen~ chance to come through agam with a pennant winning club. Acco;ding to pre-season dope the ~eam will be headed by classy pitch- mg. At the top of the list stands last
year's captain, Cliff Peeler. Peeler exhibiting some of the conference'~ best pitching, turned in three mas- terful pitching jobs to practically win the championship singlehanded. Coming up with a fine high school
and American Legion record is
Edgar Hedderly of Clifton Forge.
John Dashiel, fast ball pitcher, rounds out the lot.
The infield prospects are marked
by three veterans and one promis-
ing newcomer. Captain Chuck
Clark at second, leads the way, with
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up in the pole vault and Barco IS Peel ..............'... 10 4 Mahone, R....... 8 1
expected to take care _of the broad Walker, c....... 6 1 jumping. In the weights Wood, Joyner, w....... 3 0
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into the mile and seems to be well was a different kinda laugh from suited in this increased distance. In Cobb's. So Cobb started down on
the half mile, Jack Weston is ex- (Continued on Page Four.) pected to step into the positi