Brevard Baseball Team Loses to Hendersonville, June 17, 1921

Defeated but undismayed the Brevard base ball team left the diamond Tuesday afternoon, where the record stood 7 to 4 in favor of the “All Star” team of Hendersonville, with a still firmer determination to pluck the laurels from the brows of the temporary victors.

The Brevard line-up was slightly different from what it had been in former games. Hatcher was catcher again, Overton Erwin held down 1st base as usual, Frank King played second, and Joe Clayton shortstop. But there were some changes. Fred Miller had been switched over into left field and Hartman put in right field, while William Marchant, a new man, played third base, Mackey, another new man, played center field, and an entirely new pitcher, Johnson from Greer, S.C., occupied the mound. Muller Albert, who had done some fine work in previous games, was suffering from an injured hand, and so debarred from taking part in the contest.

The defeat was one of those accidental calamities which happen in the best regulated of ball families. Whatever it was due to, the home boys are well aware of the fact that they played good ball and were not in the least bit outclassed by the visitors with the ambitious title.

Many visitors from Hendersonville were on hand, and the contest in rooting was quite as fierce as, and more spectacular than, the game itself.

Another tug is scheduled for Friday afternoon at Hendersonville.

From the front page of The Brevard News, Friday, June 17, 1921