Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Pride of the South! The Jefferson Standard Life Insur ance Company of Raliegh, N. C. As strorg and as safe as any company on earth. Ask the Insurance Department of your State. All legitimate forms o: policy contracts issued upon as liberal basis as perfect afety will permit. Any man worthy the name can carr- some life insurance. Have-you enough? Cal on or write: 1 LILES AND LILES Managers for Eastern South Carolina. Local and I ong Distance Phone 315. Orangeburg, 5. O. ? Jos. G. Brc wn, President; P. D. Gold, Vice President Chas. W. Gold, Secretary. THE HOME FERTILIZER COMPANY WANTS TO SHQW EATERY PLANTER IN THIS AND ADJOINING COTJ NTD3S HOW THEY MIX FERTILI ZERS. ALL WIDE AWAKE PLANTERS OUGHT TO BUY OUR MIXTURES. Desirab .e unoccupied territory for desirable men. i Good Goods for Good Money Waltham Elgin, Howard an I South Benc WATCHES. Gorham Sterling SILVER. ROGERS Plated Wai e. Waterman aid Parker Fountain P ?ns. Eastman Kodacs anc Supplies. That's the hasls upon which we solicit your trade. We have asked you to expect generous treatment, and we are going to see that you are not disappointed. We think it a pleasure to have you visit us, even when you do no more than visit For it is worth something to us to have you become better acquainted with our business. When you know all there is to learn you will know there is no occasion for ever passing this store in -search of any arti cle iu our line. Pickards Band Painted CHINA. CUT GLASS. 18K Wedding RINGS. Diamond sind Gold JEWELRY. Gold and Silver Handle UMBRELLAS Mesh Bags Lockets and Lavalleres. FIRST: Because we do not use any filler in our mixtures. SECOND: Because we are Pioneers in organizing a Home Fertilizer Company with home capital and financed and managed by home folks. THIRD: Because our goods have been proved superior by a great number of farm ers this year. FOURTH: Because we will not make low grade goods and are blazing a path of hope and success for those who buy from us by giving them pure High Grade Mixtures. FIFTH: Because we give the same pure goods to large and small buyers alike. SIXTH: Because if you have NEW GROUND, LOW LAND, STIFF CLAY, SANDY or SOUR LANDS, we make differ ent mixtures' to suit just such soils. ? SEVENTH: Because 50 Orangeburg County farmers own stock in this Home Com pany and they invite you to visit their fac tory and see for yourselves how honest goods are mixed. EIGHTH: Because, Brother Farmers, all of us already have sand and dirt enough to spare, and it is time to wake up and stop haul ing and paying freight on such stuff. We are thankful for the success we have made the first season. We promise you as' M. O. good mixtures next season as we gave you this. FACTORY?Near the Southern Frei ght Depot. DANTZLER, Pres. and Mgr. R. E. WANNAMAKER, Vice Pres. MANY CHANGES MADE BASE BALL PITCHING NOW AND AS IT USE TO BE. 5 H. SPAHR & SON, ESTABLISHED 1S67. 46 W. RUSSELL ST. ORANGEBURG, S. C The People's Bank OF ELLOREE I Velcor>es TI?e Booster Brigade to ?lloree With handsome quarters, attractive banking room, fire proof 1 ault, latest improved time lock safe, a simplified and up-to-d ite system of keeping records, burglary, fire insur ance, bended officials, splendid banking connection that facil itates tie collection of checks, drafts, bills of lading and other i ems invites the business of the general public and offers < very protection and courtesy consistent with sound bankin; % IN READING The difficult thing is often to select what to read. A person v ho has not the experience necessary to determine a good boo; by the author's name, or some unfailing sign has to TRUST TO LUCK ^ I nless he comes to Sims Book Store, where nothing i kept exce )t books that please. We have just received a ship mant of opyrighted novels selling at 50 cents. Over five hun dred titl< s to select from. We will order any book not in stock at request. We have everything a book store should have. ! SIMS BOOK STOR MR." COUNTRY MERCHANT: Just because you live in a town where there is no new spaper is no reason why you should not advertise. Thire is some one paper that is read in your town and sur.ounding vicinity more than any other, and that paper is CHE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT. Don't take our word for it. Investigate. Find out. And when you have found out, write to the man age: of The Times-and Democrat and let him quote you rat.rs on an advertising campaign during the fall and coning spring seasons. Remember THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT has about 3,000 subscribers?about twice the number of any other two papers in Orangeburg coun ty :ombined. Get your share of Orangeburg County's trade. The wa r to do it, is to advertise in the best medium. IT IS The Times and Democrat Formerly the Pitcher Use to Throw for the Benefit of the Batter But Now He Doesn't. The most interesting discovery in a chase through the rather inaccu rate and incomplete history of the national game of baseball is that the function of the pitcher has been completely reversed, says an ex change. It becomes comparatively, easy, therefore, to answer the ques tion: "What is the difference be tween the pitching of today and that of fifty years ago. The difference is that the function of the pitcher fifty years ago was to toss the ball so as to enable the batter to hit it. It was a common thing in those days for sixty or more runs to be made by each side. The function of the pitcher today is to throw the ball where the batter can not hit it, and to strive to strike him out. Though the original framers of the rules were ignorant of the fact at that time, pitcblng is and always has been the pivotal point of the great American game. It naturally follows that this part of the science has been afforded the greatest opportunity for develop ment. Practically every important change at the rules in the game has been aimed at the pitcher. The bat, the ball, the distance between the bases and the fundamental rules of the game have stood for half a cen tury while the pitching has gone through s steady grind of evolution. The history of pitching science can be divided into four distinct eras: The day of the underhand toss. The day of the overhand toss or throw. The day of the curve ball. The day of the spit ball. When the first rules weTe adopted by the old Knilerbocker club in 1845 the framers did not realize that the pitcher was to be the pivotal point of the game. They placed him behind a line that was forty-five feet from the batter's box and he was instruct ed to throw the ball so that the bat ter could hit it. He could stand at any place behind the line that he chose, but to prevent him from throwing the ball with too mioch speed he was foroed to deliver It with an underhand toss. That is to say, he could not bring his throwing hand above his waist line. Under those rules the pitcher was compelled to deliver fair balls to the batter and the batter refuse to hit at them until he got one to his lik ng. No strikes were called unless the batter struck at them. An in stance of the great advantage enjoy ed by the batter is that In the early sixties In a game between the Atlan tics and the Mutuals, Al Smith of the Mian tics pitched fifty four balls to McKeever of the Mutuals before a strike was called. Can you imagine a thing like that today? This method of pitching under handed kept up for many yenrs, un til several pitchers saw the necessi ty of lesening the number of runs ana began to find means of evading vhe rules so thait they could prevent the batter fron hitting the ball. Probably the best of these under hand pitchers was Tony Bond of Bos ton and Hartford. He kept Inching up on the rules until he was throw ing from a point several inches above his waist. That forced" a change in the rules by which the pitcher was allowed to throw with an overhand motion and put as much speed on the ball as he could. It was then that the art of pitching really began to de velop. That is getting a little ahead of the story, however, for it was in the days of the underhand toss that the curve ball was discovered. In 1867 pitching became recogniz ed as science. The Charter Oaks of Hartford, Conn., came to Brook lyn that year to play ithe Excelsiors on the Capitoline Grounds, and they were noted for their 'heavy batting. The Excelsiors had a young pitcher named Arthur Cummings, however, who completely knocked them off their pedestal. Cummings had dis covered in practice that by twisting the ball in the band and spinning it as it started toward the batter it would curve in a direction contrary to the laws of gravitation. He waited for the arrival of the Charter Oaks to give this curve a thorough trial, and when he did start It the heavy hitteTs were absolutely helpiess. They could not understand how a man could cause a ball to curve, and several of them were so stubborn over the matter that they spent the rest of their lives insisting that it could not be done. Never theless, Cummings had opened the way to many pitching discoveries, and his name went all over the coun try as a wonderful inventor. The overhand throw came Into vogue in the late seventies, but the pitcher was still hedged around with restrictions in favor of the batter. While he was allowed to throw the ball with great speed, he was com pelled to throw It at a point indicat ed by the hitter. In>. other words the batter could call for ""high ball," etc. Of the early overhand pitchers Asa Brainard of the famous Cincin nati Red Stockings was probably the ^est exponent. He could throw the ball at the point indicated by the batter and still prevent hard hitting Brainard did not pitch the curve ball, however, one of his reasons being that he did not believe In it. Asa Brainard, by the way, must have been a striking figure as he went into the box. He wore a long black beard that completely covered his face and hung down to the top button of his baseball shirt. It might occur to the baseball fan today that it was a good thing that the old-time pitchers did not have to slide to bases. A beard full of dust and gravel could not have been a very pretty or comfortable affair. Brainard pitched for the Cincinnati Reds on their famous tour, wben they went a whole season without losing a game. He did not pitch every game, but would rest every once in a while and give Harry Wright the center fielder and chance pitcher a chance. The next school of great pitchers, which came out in the early eighties, was made up of Johnny Ward, Char ley Bsdbourne, Jlm( Whitney and John Clarkson. They were great pitchers in every way. They had speed, curves and practically every thing that is used today. Either of them would have been a great pitch er on the diamond of 1911. Many old players who still take anactlve interest In the game regard John Clarkson as the greatest pitcher that ever lived. DEFENDS HIS PARDONS. Blease Advises Farmers Union to Get Into South Carolina Politics. A special dispatch to the State from Lancaster says it is estimated that fully 5,000 people attended the annual reunion of the Confederate veterans and the Farmers' Union ral ly picnic at Heath Springs Thursday, nothing occurring to mar the pleas ure of the two events. Prominent veterans spoke and Gov. Blease made an address. There was nothing unusual or sensational about the Governor's remarks He eulogized the veterans, advised the Farmers' Union to go Into politics, defended his exercise of the pardon ing power and reiterated his well known views as to the negro rapist. The governor was well received and liberally cheered. ?? Somebody in the audience cried, however, "Hur rah for Featherstone." ? The New York World is getting ready to bolt the Democratic ticket next year as 'Mr. Bryan predicted it would do. Chase of the Dollar. No people niore dilllgently chase after the almighty dollar than those who live in these United States. Very little decency is shown in this coun try when dollars and cents are con cerned. A short time ago several actors were engaged at Brady's Pond, S taten Island, to enact for a moving picture concern a melodrama, in which the hero plunges from a cliff into the water to rescue the heroine batling with the villain in the boat The actor, who played the part of the hero, was a good swimmer and made the dive beautifully, but was caught in the quicksand at the bottom of the pond and was drowned. All the time the film of the camea was reeled off and the scenes of the only too realis tic drama were thus perpetrated on the strip. Now the concern In whose service the actor lost his life wide ly advertising the film which depicts the death leap of the victim of sensa tionalism. War Cloud Blows Over. The end of the Moroccan trouble between Germany and France is in sight. Jules Cambon, the French ambassador at Berlin, and Major von Klderlen-Waechter, the German for eign secretary, Friday found a com mon ground of settlement on general lines, though the details remain to be worked out. Brought Good Price. Manager McGraw of New Yorh Giants, has purchased Pitcher John Ferrell from the Spartanburg club In the Carolina Association for $3,. 000 according to a statement giver out Thursday by the Spartanburg baseball management. The price Is the highest ever paid for a player from this league. Turns up at Last. Cable advices from Australia an nounce that the schooner Espada from Aberdeen for Sydney which was supposed to have been lost at ser has arrived at her destination. The Espada lost her mlzzen-mast and nearly all sails and was leaking bad ly. She had been unreported for months * Thtre sems to be a scarcity of in ternational marrl?aes just now at which good American gold Is ex changed for empty titles. Does it mean that American society girls are getting more sensible or is It that the supply of Impecunious no bles is running short. Whatever the reason, no sensible person will re gret the scarcity of such alliances. THE HOUSE OF McNAMARA Can You Equal This Ar ray of Talent That Will Select Your Fall and Winter Goods at the Progressive KOHN Store The giving of good service is the best way of boosting any business. Given this plus intelli gent salespeople there is no wonder that our trade comes to us from several counties. KOHN'S will absolutely be headquarters this Fall for all that is new and stylish in women's and children's wear. We are sending-to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore the following staff of buyers and department heads to see that you are outfitted a little better than any other store can do for - you. Just memorize that fact now. The Buyers Who Are Tak ing Care of You: MR. SOL KOHN needs no introduction to the trade. His best efforts will be given to selecting what you like. The long experience he has had will make your purchases doubly safe. MISS MAMIE O'CAIN?from her long exper ience as a fine judge of goods and her sterling business knowledge will be able to select just what is right for our trade. You will be glad to note that she can advise you exactly this season of the newest styles as she sees them. MISS ADELINE KOHN?her splendid exper ience will surely come in very well in the selection ?of the new millinery and dress goods as well as[ coat suits. The customers know her style ideas are excellent. MRS. $OL KOHN will assist on this buying trip. She will not only advise as to Orangeburg needs but can fill in as to the Southern styles. Her home is in Atlanta and she will visit there before her return?thereby getting the new ideas. MISS ROSALIE BARTON will select the mil linery as usual. You can rely on her judgment. In this important deparment you will be glad to know that someone is looking out for you. Fall goods are arriving daily. Mr. Kahn weiler has bought the newest styles in shoes and slippers and will be glad to give his personal at tention to your needs. Why not call and see the new arrivals? He will gladly show you. THEODORE KOHN Ayers & Williams Would like to got in touch with all prospective builders. We carry a large stock of doors, sashes and blinds on hand and all builders sup plies. Guarantee our material and will meet all competition. Our field seeds?oats, rye, barley, rape and vetch?are all tested as to soundness and purity before offering to our trade. Ayers & Williams Don't This coming fall will be in a much better position to take care of their fast growing business. Thanks to our many friends who have spent their money with us, for you have made it possible for us to do bigger and better tilings. We have bought more goods and more goods of the better kind. The kind that has made the name of McNAMARA stand for good clothes in every home in Orange burg County, where good clothes are worn.. We started this business with a determination of making it a success, and we know the only way to make a business successful is through honest treatment. This we have tried our best to do. We want to thank all for their very liberal pa tronage, and now on the eve of our fourth year, we want all of our old friends and one thousand new ones to come and see the magnificent line of men and boy's wearing apparel we will show this fall. Remember we make a specialty of outfitting vour boy for college, and we put the kind of Clothes on him AT A SMALL COST that he will'be proud to wear. Once a McNAMARA cus tomer, always a McNamara customer. Come where you can get good, honest new goods and the most intelligent service. THE HOUSE OF McNAMARA Without getting our prices and seeing our complete line of Lumber, Laths, Shingles Building Material '! and Our motto is: "High Grades, Prompt Service, Reasonable Prices." Corner Dukes Avenue and Barton St. Local and Long Distance Phone 442. ORANGEBURG, S. C.