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SIDELINE VIEWS i__ By JOHN STF.OK Baseball League Folds: The Patrick-Henry League, an 18-year institution in this section, apparently lias folded. Farmviile officials have just learned that Brookneai does not want to compete in a four-team league and has withdrawn, leaving Farmviile, Altavista and Amherst to scramble for independent scheduling* if they are to have baseball. Farmviile sponsors are now to tx called together with players and Manager Weenie Miller to decide w hether or not to play another year of independent, baseball as in 1954 and 1955. The slow disintegration of the P-H League has been underway for about three seasons, with Pampiin and Charlotte C H.. old-timers gone, and this season Republican Grove. Henry's Mill and Rustburg closing shop. Brookneai was ready to participate if the league could muster mx teams, but is afraid that a four-team baseball league would not have the interest the expense for a full season requires. The effort to interest community teams at South Boston and Lynchburg was not successful, and it was four teams or nothing. Now Brookneai says it will be nothing as far as that club is con cerned Country baseball is having its knocks for sure these days!

Carramba, Amigos - Ghigo: Dr. Francis Ghigo. an otherwise sedate college professor of Spanish and Romance languages, let fly with a few south-of-t.he • border hurrahs recently when he pulled the golfer’s dream of dreams — a hole in one! Playing with Paul Griei an associate at Hampden-Sydney College, the prof esso r -1 u rned -11 n ksm a n pulled his piece de resistance on the | Longwood Golf Club No. 6 hole which, we recall from the days we ; used to try for such things, is about 170 yards long. The "ace scorer fired away with a No 4 Iron and the last thing lie and his pardner saw ithe tee is lower than the green, which is partially hidden/ was the ball hit the green and head for that tiny cup They hollered to a foursome just leaving the No. 6 green, one of whom, Tony Martin, went back to investigate and. sure enough, there was the ball in the cup! For additional verification there are the others in Martin's four some, who will be glad to acknow ledge the newest member of one of America's most exclusive clubs- Johnny Harwood. Billy Hay and Henry Bittinger They Remember ‘Grand-Pa’: The Longwood Gulf Club has just circulated an attractive invi tation to surrounding area golfers to enter the third annual invitation golf tourney—The Baskervill Bowl. It was established three years ago to perpetuate the memory of the late Thornton S. Baskervill. of Worsham, who even in his 70's v.u one of the community's most enthusiastic golfers. The club committee, headed by A1 Lafoon. of Farmville. has announced three days for qualifying for the flight tournament The first and second rounds will be played May 25 and the semi-finals and finals May 26. A worthy affair, the tournament prize list is headed by a $125 set of irons to be awarded the first flight winner, with two prizes for each flight, and a charcoal burner to be awarded the medalist. The winner's name is inscribed on the handsome Baskervill Bowl which lie keeps in his possession for a year. Dennis Critzer won the tournament in 1955. its premier year, with Cliff Eley winning last season. A buffet supper and dance for the host club and visiting players will round out the first day of competitive rounds Saturday. May 25.

Side Line Shorts: WAYNE MORRIS, who not too long ago did his athletic per formances for Fannvilie High School, proved a one-man track team the other day as his Blues tone High squad trimmed Randolph-Henry in the first meet ever held at Bluestone. Morris piled up 1201 ^ points with firsts in the 100- and 220-yard dashes, the shotput and broad jump and a third in the high jump. HAMPDEN-SYDNEY’S track team, winners in three dual meets in four starts, made a good showing during the Mason-Dixon Con ference relays Saturday at American University. Roanoke's Maroons dominated the meet, taking first in six of the eight relay races. H-SC's Tigers, however, on the upgrade on the cinders, took seconds in the sprint medley and mile relay and thirds in the 880-yard and two-mile relaps. Old Reliable. Jim Frazer, captured both the discus and shotput in the field events. CUMBERLAND'S new community recreation field is expected to be used for the first time July 1. Use of the new diamond and dugouts climaxes a long effort, led by the American Legion Post, to provide the county with a good athletic field. BRAND NEW JACKETS are being sported by members of the Buckingham High School championship basketball team. The gold colored jackets, trimmed in maroon and with leather pockets, were presented during last week's banquet honoring the team. Athletic Director Bob Thalman. of Hampden-Sydney, was guest speaker. Thal man repeated the performance later at Kenbridge.

Tigers keep Up Track, Field Records Assault During Win Oxer Lynchburg i t

Eight first place finishes, in cluding J 1 m Frazer's record breaking effort in the discus, and nine seconds helped Hampden Sydney’s track team win its third dual meet in four outings 71 2, 3 to 50 1 3 over Lynchburg College Tuesday afternoon at Death Val ■ ley. Frazer added a foot and four inches to Ills own previous mark set in 1955 when lie heaved the disc 146 feet. m\ inches. The hefty Richmonder also took the shot put. an event in which the Tigers finished one. two. three. Jim Wiley took second with Fred Hoback third. Freshman Walter Chapman, of Salem, was another double winner for H-SC, taking the high hur dles with a mark of 16.4 seconds, and the 220-yard low hurdles in 25.9 seconds. Fast Quarter Bunting Brown, running his j best quarter-mile of the season, took that event for the Tigers with a time of 53 seconds — one second under the school standard. John Graves, the freshman middle distance runner, who set a new school mark last week, won tire 880-yard run with the time, of 2:04.4 minutes. Bob Lloyd's: high .lump leap of 5 feet. 8 inches was good for a tie for first with the Hornets' star Taylor Goode. Bill Benson added three sec onds for the winning H-SC squad. He ran a stride behind Lynch burg's flyer. Jimmy Harris, the meet's high scorer, in tire 100 and 220-yard dashes, and also ran second in the low hurdles Other second place finishers for the Tigers were Co-Captain Jtyi Wiley, in tin discus; Bill French in the pole vault: Bob Hippensteel in the 880. King Waddill in the mile, and Frank Moore in the two-mile run The Hornets’ Jim Harris got his 13 points with a 10-second

880 Record Breaker

H-SC'S JOHN GRAVES Whips Hornet Foes flat 100, a 22.1 time for the 220. and a leap of 21 feet. 10 inches in the broad jump. Taylor Goode was only a point behind his teammate, with a first, in the pole vault at 13 feet, 734 inches for a new Lynchburg Col lege mark: a tie in tile hi*h jump: second in the broad jump and third in the 880-yard run. The Hornets conceded the mile . relay with Hampden-Sydney al ready the winner without count ing the final event.

WELCOME BACK. STOKELEY—That’s what Robert j. Thal nian, Ilampden-Sydney College athletic director, is saying to the new athletic staff appointee. Fulton was at Hampden-S>dney Wed nesday to complete arrangements for his new post ot football line coach and baseball and basketball assistant. Assistant Coach In 3 Sports Stokeley Fulton, One of H-S( All-Time Grid Greats, To Return September 1

Stokeley Pulton, one of Hamp- 1 den-Sydney's all-time football line greats and a Little All-Amer ican center in 1954, is returning to the Hill as a member of the coaching staff, according to an announcement today by Dr. Jo seph C Robert, college president. Dukes Undefeated In League Play Meet Hues Friday Cumberland High School's Dukes have taken to the high road of win ning and tucked three well-deserved I wins under their belts this past i week. The latest win for the Cumber- j landers was an impressive 11-1 vic tory Tuesday over Montpelier. Mack White pitched a four hitter at the game played at Goochland. 'The Gocchland field was used as a neu tral diamond Charles Womack and Edmond Garnett knocked back-to-back hom ers in the first inning to give the . Dukes enough runs to win the game. \ However, the boys had their eye on the ball and clinched the game with : nine more runs, and allowed Mont pelier only one marker. Revenge Over Midlothian Monday afternoon the Dukes! cornered the Midlothian Trojans on i the, Cumberland diamond and got sweet revenge for an earlier beating at Midlothian. The score. 12-4, was identical as the first meeting only reversed. Bobby Murphy, a lefty who played ! for Powhatan last year, showed mid-season form as he cooled the Trojans on a nifty four-hitter. Conquor C. T. Smith Last Friday Cumberland journey ed to Ladysmith where they were forced to go ten innings before downing C. T. Smith 5-4. Marshall Smith. Cumberland's number one started on the ound. allowed only. seven hits, while Gordon White con tributed a home run, double and single for the cause. The winning run came in the tenth inning. White singled to get on first. George Meinhard laid down a sacrifice bunt, advancing White to second. White was driven home by a solid single from the bat of Robert Higgins, who is the Dukes pivot man.

Tax Increase t Continued 11001 page 1) would have rented for when he was a boy. Others present at the public I meeting included Mrs. J. R. Eu bank. of near Burkeville, W. A. Swann, Pamplin. and Solomon Flournoy, Rt. 3, Farmville. Tax Is Low Supervisor Gates pointed out that taxes would have been in creased before now' except for the fact that about $05,000 in bonds and surplus had been used over the past few years. "But we have used our last nest-egg," he warned. In discussing a possible loss of revenue from public utilities due to a recent ruling by the State Corporation Commission. Gates and Vaughan pointed out that tax rates may have to be raised again next year. The county income j from public utilities is about $73. 000 and the recent ruling w'ould mean that the county would lose exactly one-half of the normal public utilities tax revenue. Jenkins said that people are asking "more and more services, and if ye are going to give it to j them, we will have to have more money." Bruce said. "People say cut ex penses. but it is left to the super visors to cut 'em and frankly I can't figure out where they can1 be reduced.” Carter noted that even with an! increase of 50 cents the county's! actual tax rate would be below i the average in the state. With no further suggestions or: criticisms, the public meeting was adjourned and the supervisors! continued with the regular meet-) :ngv No Overhaul The beauty of the old-fashion- 1 ed blacksmith was when you brought him your horse to be ; shod he didn't think of 40 other j things that ought to be done to it. j —Sunshine Magazine. I

The apointment, on the recom mendation of Athletic Director Bob Thalman. carries with it the responsibilities of football line coach, and assistant in baseball and basketball. The Danville appointee, now completing a military service tour with Fighter Squadron 71 at Quonset Point, R. I., will report to Hampden-Sydney Setember 1. Fulton, a high school All-Amer ican at Danville's George Wash ington High before coming to H SC in 1950. was an All-Little 8 grid selection for all four years of college. The Little All-Ameri can honor came in his senior year. Fulton lettered in baseball, also, for four years, and captained or co-eaptained Tiger football and baseball teams his final two years. An outstanding campus leader, he was president of the student body, of DDK leadership society and of his fraternity. Pi Kappa Alpha His first year at H-SC, he was chosen the outstanding fresh man: he received the Adamson Scholarship for leadership in his junior year, and received the Gammon Cup as an outstanding graduate in 1955. Fulton was selected for the Bedford Junior Chamber st Com merce sportsmanship award in his last year of football as represent ative of the Virginia small col leges. He is married to Virgin: : Ann Perkins, formerly of Dany as, and has been in service most of the rime since his graduation. Thalman coupled' Pi t. idem Robert's announcement with art additional word of his own. We re really thrilled to have someone with Stokeley's ability pep and enthusiasm joining our staff. We anticipate the new as sociation with him with extreme pleasure."

Area High School Baseball Round-up j

Goodwyn*s (.)ne-Hi11er Whips Varina 3 to 0 Bj Joseph lewis Powhatan High shut out Varina 3-0 Tuesday on the Indians’ field : behind the one-hit pitching of Senior Archie Goodwyn. A bad hop of Ronnie Smith's fifth-inn ing smash over the third base man's shoulder robbed Goodwyn of o no-hitter. Goodwyn struct out nine and walked four while posting his fourth win against a single loss. Powhatan scored twice in the third inning on back-to-back lead off singles by Shortstop Christian Goodwyn and Third I Base-man Bobby Moore against Varina’s Dick Willard. Archie Goodwyn scored h i s younger, brother with a sacrifice fly and Moore tallied on an error by Var ina Catcher Ronnie Smith. • The final Powhatan run came in the fiftli as Catcher John Dobbs singled home Center Field er Johnny Boggs, who had walked and stolen second. The Indians who now have a season mark of six wins and one loss, next meet Goochland High Saturday night on the Bull Dogs new lighted field.

Amelia Splits With Midway, Kenbridge By James Warren Amelia High's Orioles defeated Midway 9 to 2 arid dropped a 3-1 pitchers’ battle to Kenbridge High's Comets Tuesday night in their last two starts. Senior Nelson Harris earned his first mound win of the season while limiting Midway to six safeties Friday on the Orioles’ field. Harris helped his own cause with three of Amelia's 15 hits and two RBI's. Catcher Ashton Ed wards and Outfielder Eldridge Anderson also collected three hits, with Shortstop Doug Blankenship collecting two, all off the slants of Midway starter Al Moss. The Amelia defense sparkled with action that included two double plays. Kenbndge's Willie Parrish and Amelia’s Clarence Hall hooked up in the pitching duel Tuesday night won by Kenbridge 3-1, Hall held the Comets to three scatter ed hits, but lead off walks in six of the innings proved his undo ing. The Comets' Dick Dawson pro duced the big blow of (he game with a first inning single that cored two mates. The Orioles out-hit the winners five to three, but couldn’t bunch their effort against Parrish who whiffed nine and gave up only one base on balls. TB Board i Continued from parte 1) Floyd Yates, and Prince Edward, John Steck. Farrar Shelton and Mrs. J. A. Watson. Re-elected to one year terms were Buckingham, Mrs. Sara J.

18 Panthers Walk In 11-2 Win at FHS A parade of five Farmville pitchers allowed Victoria High only three hits but issued 18 walks as the visiting Panthers took an 11-2 win over the Wolv erines here Tuesday night. FHS Starter Earl Fore had a shut-out going behind a 2-0 lead in the fiftli when he lost control. The visitors tallied seven runs be fore Randolph Lafoon, third FHS pitcher, retired the side. Six of the runs were walked in. Lafoop succeeded Buck Hartley, who made a brief appearance in the fifth, but walked those who faced him. When Lafoon lost control in the sixth. Coach Gilmer waved in Howard Claybough from center field, but he forced in a run with walks and gave way in favor of Third Baseman Ellis Duncan, who shut out the Panthers after the 11-2 score. Farmville jumped off to a 2-0 lead in the second against Vic toria's Williamson, who went the route and gave up only five lilts, all singles. Duncum. Noblin. Fahrner, Fore and Billy Hodges collected the Wolverine hits, all singles. The FHS squad will Interrupt baseball until a game May 9 at Emporia, while the senior mem bers make the annual class trip to New York City this week Wal ker Noblin. Lafoon. Duncum. Hodges, and John Carson are seniors. Carson hospitalized brief ly as a result of an automobile ac cident while coming to school Tuesday, will be driven to the Big. City Thursday to join his cut mates.

Buckingham Loses To Kenbridge ”>-4 Kenbridge won its first .amt in seven starts this season at tin expense of Buckingham Central last Friday night at Kenbridge. The loss was the third of the sea son for tlie Bucs as balanced against two wins.

Elmo Bryant started on the mound and went the distance for Buckingham with Don Davis be hind the plate The Bucs were trailing 5-3 ru ing into the seventh inning. They made an effort to rally, but were able to push across 'only one run. Buckingham will play a home game Friday against Cumberland. Bowling; Charlotte. Mrs. Vance Coleman and Mrs. S. T Paulette. Jr., Cumberland. Mrs P. L. Dun can: Nottoway. Mrs. T. R Hamil ton. and Prince Edward. James M. Watson. Speakers at the Monday meet ing were Dr. Charles W. Scott, director of Piedmont Sanatorium. W. W. Wendt, executive director >f v.i. inia Tubeioi . tion. and E.sten Shomo. executive director of the South side associa tion.

H-SC Tigers Win 1957 Little 8 Diamond Title

ROB HI Ml’llREYS Hit-Bitch Standout Goochland Takes Over James River League Fop Rung Manager Charlie Piths’ Gooch land team celebrated Opening of the community lighted baseball diamond Saturday night with a 2 to 1 win over Orchid, thereby moving into first place in the two-w.*ek old James River League In the only other league game played Cumberland opened its season after drawing a bye last week, with a 6 to 3 win over 1956 defending champion. Arvonia. The Powhatan-Cartesville same wa- postponed and was re-sched uled Saturday. May 4. at Pow hatan Amelia drew a bye foi the week — one club getting that handling weekly.

lumiaj orausnuw wem ui route for his second win in as many starts as Goochland cap tured its second decision. The former Goochland High flinger pitched himself out of a jam in the ninth when Orchid filled the bases with only one out. Two former teammates at Cumberland High were opposing pitchers as Cumberland won its opener over Arvonia. 6-3. Dave Speas was on the mound for the winners, while Bradley Carter hurled for Arvonia. ■ Team Standings YV I, Goochland 2 0 Amelia 10 Cumberland 10 Arvonia 11 Powhatan. .01 Cartersville . 0 1 Orchid 0 2 Games May 5 Powhatan at Orchid Arvonia at Cartersville Amelia at Cumberland

Clinch Crown With 11-3 Over Eagles Hampden-Sydney \s baseball squad wrapped up the Little Eight, championship and Bob Humph reys. junior righthander, took his third successive mound win, as the Tigers bowled over Bridge water College 11 to 3 Tuesday afternoon on the Eagles' field. The victory. H-SC's sixth with out defeat in the Little Eight, gives Coach Miller's squad an 8-1 record against college competi tion. They are 9-3 overall. The Tigers moved into sharp contention for the Mason-Dixon Conference southern division title with an 11-hit attack against the Eagles’ Mike Mason, knocked out of the box in the first inning, and his reliefer. Sam Ritchie.

.seven-inner Humphreys, given a 7-1 lead by the stick work'of his mates, al lowed seven hits, and a single tal ly in the first inning, and two in the fifth, when he issued two walks and Ritchie and Sam Jef fries. Eagle outfielder, singled The Tigers put the game away in the first inning with a four run outburst that included singles In Shortstop Tommy Davis and outfielder Ed Harlow. Gerald Duncan's double, a walk, fielder's choice and error. The winners’ remaining tallies resulted from strong work with the bat. which included three hits apiece by Harlow and Davis and Catcher Wayne McLean's double m a three-run, fifth inning upris ing. Tile win was the Tigers’ second Mason-Dixon conquest within the week, combining with their 10-4 defeat of American University Saturday afternoon at Death Val ley. Humphreys Homers Against American, Senior War ren Carter was the winning pitch er chalking up his third collegiate win against a loss to Ft. Lee's Travellers. Humphreys, back <jn third with someone else on the mound, belted a two-run homer as the hitting highlight of the victory in a six-run. fourth inn ing batting jamboree. H-SC’s eight hits — same num ber allowed lo the Eagles — in cluded McLean's double and sin gles by Gene Cooke. Davis and Harlow. Through tire games with Fort Li e. the Tigers had a healthy .1194 team batting average, with Mc a Richmond freshman) posting the top mark of .417. fol lowed by Cooke, left fielder at .385 and Humphreys with .333. Davis, another Richmond frosh who has been playing third and shortstop, boast., a .556 mark, but had been at the plate only nine times while being used only for spot duty by Coach Miller.

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