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i j r'"' KVVVVVVvvvvvvswl ;% * \| BETHIA ^ \ \\N V \ > \ \ V >>>> Miss Julia Link spent the week end near Abbeville with her sister, Mrs. W. J. Evans. * Miss Carrie Metts spent last Thrrrsday with MVs. Lewis Beauford. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Jester and -ofaOdren, - of Troy, have been on a visit-to Mrs.'Mattie Bedford* -Mr.^&nd Mrs. iPa'ul 4 Wardlaw, of Bethel; were with- relatives' hete for * > me week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Baughroan- and ekildren, of McCormick, visited Mr. xsd iMrs. John Baughman Sunday. . Mr. Frank Woodharst was the guest Sunday of friends at Bor 4tana. Messrs. Adger Link and Paul B&ngtan&n attended a picnic near Hodges Saturday> Bethia school dosed a very sifc cessfctl term last Friday. The prize offered for the' one nott missifiga word ill 'spelling during We term was woai by.Miss Margaret Dansby and the prizes offered for ttie most head auirlos during the term Was won by CJaade Woodhurst and David Link. : Mrs. Ada Kennedy returned to her ftoase at /Wellington Friday, We ^11 Wpe she will Teturn to teach next term for ua. " , Quite a crowd from here went to tte entertainment at WiHington ABBnua/ uig-uw Mr. Charlie Beauford, of Troy, r v iapcot Sunday here with 'his mother. PACKER CONTROL BILL TO FRONT IN, HOUSE * Washintgon,. May ;_4.?Packer 1 control legislation is to be taken up is the House following passage ' of the deficiency ^ill Tuesday. t. This, legislation has been before '< congress for more than a year but its passage has been blocked by con flicting views of house and senate as to the form it should take. There is evidence that the two branches will Mnpromise in the measure and pass > I within a month. i 'v, ' ,, < i WANTED TO RENT?A 3ix or sev en room house in town. Appliy at Feinstein's Bargain House, Abbe ville, S. C. 5, 20-tf.col. i? FOR. SALE?Best quality cream at 60 cents a pint, also fresh eggs. Pkone 1. Mrs. D. A. Rogers. 4-ltf WANTED?I will pay cash for an M Ford car. Any model since 1913. Don't care how battered or j ?nt of order so I get all of t, and the price suits me. Address X. Y. Z. care Press and Banner, 5, 25tf WANTS LOST?Thursday afternoon between Abbeville and Greenwood auto rim 33x4, casing and tube. Suitable * reward if returned to this office or to R.'Y. Simmons. 5, 20-2tcol MM'T EXPERIMENT With Your Eyesight T?nr eyes are too far valuable and precious to risk wearing glasses se lected at random. Tie glasses .we .furnish .will be mtmdm to your individual require ?? 1 Oars is a painstaking, dependble optical serrico L. V. USENBEE OPTOMETRIST TELEPHONES: Ofice 278 Res. 388 3 1-2 Washington St. Orer McMurray Drug Co. ABBEVILLE, S. C. (Becoming Glasses Cost No More) EARLY UMPIRES E WORE SILK HATS | f I Baseball Has Changed With Years? S National Sport as Played Now Has Been Remade to Bring Excitement. How many people know that base ball was once the recreation of gen tlemen of standing, such as golf is today? And that our "national game* originated i? England? .. ? ' I \|n:4<The. ISo'dk of: AiHferidd^' Pas' times,''..-published ifi '1868' by Charles A. PeMietdy^ well known j sporting man of that period, a copy of which has just been found, is much of the early history of baseball. "The game," he wrote, "originated in Great Britain and is familiarly known there as the game of round ers." It was a game for teams of five.or more players* played with a ball and bits, or sticks''something of the form of a policeman's truncheon." Instead of a home.'plate there Was a hole, abbut six inches deep knd a i foot in diameter. Four other "sta- s tions" or bases were marked with I pegs. ' n There was a pitcher, or "feeder," e who served up the balls to the bats- 'o maii, ,who, when he hit the ball, leg- s ged J} for the first station, and as t many more as he could reach in o safety. Meanwhile the opposing side tried s to put him out, either by hitting him a while he was running or by "ground- p ing" the ball, which consisted in get- t' ting it into the hole. ..V., , s The batter-could decline to strike s at any pitched ball, but should the | a ball get into the hole or should he it! miss twice, he was out. A circuit of the stations counted one, and when all players were out the other side had its innings. "The feeder is generally the best player on his side, much depending on his skill and art," said a British account." The scouts should seldom aim at the runners from a distance, but throw the ball up to the feeder or to some one near, who will try to hit or to ground, as seems the most advisable. A caught ball also puts the striker out. On this foundation America built its game of baseball. Rotinders like everything else inherited from the British fathers, did not exactly suit the Yankee taste. An Americanized form developed among the early col onists and their sons and, about 1850 suddenly gained great impetus through the formation of baseball clubs, which adopted strict rules as to the times of exercise, the manner of picking sides and the like. Probably among the first of these groups?the first of whom record has been kept at least?were those which later became united in the Olympic Ball club of Philadelphia in 1833. The town ball "circle" was only 80 feet in circumference as compared with the 350 foot circle later intro duced in the standardized game. The players made their own bats and balls, kept them at a garden on Mar ket street and after each game sip ped lemonade which the proprietor brought out to them. Such was the public prejudice against . town ball that the players were frequently chided by their friends for indulging in such '"child ish" activities and the prejudice so persisted that it was many years be fore any considerable number of Der sons loaned their enthusiasm to the embryonic form of recreation which was slowly molding itself into the national game of America. But Philadelphia must yield to New York the honor of having estab lished the game on a firm footing. In 1845 a Knickerbocker Baseball club was organized. They claimed for themselves the authorship of baseball, though their conception of it was widely different from that of today. This organization was an "exclu sive club' in which membership re quired something more than ability to play the game. Though a team contest, it was apparently regarded much as golf is today. hpu~:~ 4.1*^ xiieir xuicsy pruuauiy i/ue iir&u sutu dards for the game of baseball ever adopted, also show an ample margin of difference. The "strike" of 1920 was a "miss" 7& years ago, whereas a turn at bat was a strike in their vocabulary. A run was a "count" or an "ace" among the baseball fathers and a foul ball a "foul stroke." Other baseball rules adopted by the club were as follows: "The game to consist of 21 counts, or aces; but at the conclusion an CONOMY FORCES CUT NAVAL BILL lucceed in Defeating Pacific Coast Bate?Effort Being Made Tc> Reduce Enlisted Personnel To One Hundred Thousand Washington, May 24.?Another uccessful attack by economy forces n-the senate against, the ?49d,000, )pQ;'i)aval appropriation bill result id-today in.;defeat of the- wavaj^om;. nitbee's.plan to establish!' a Pacific :oast ha?e at Alameda, Calif. By : 'a rote of 30 to 40 the item was strick sn from the bill. Advocates of reduction in naval expenditures then launched a drive o reduce the navy enlisted person id from 120,000 as recommended by he senate committee to 100,000 men is voted by the house. A vote on thia luestion went over until tomorrow >ut with appreciation of a1 clearer esult than that on the Alanjeda base ippropriation. , ... ". In the vote on the Alameda provi^ ions 18 republicans joined with ii\ )emocrats in opposition. The com aittee amendment would have grant ed an initial appropriation of $1 00,000 to start dredging on the new ite and authorized the government! o accept free upwards of 5,000 acres! f land for the site. No further effort is planned to r<> tore the Alameda base provision.1!, ccording to Senator Poindexter, R< ublican, Washington, in charge ?if i he bill. Neither of the California enators, Johnson, or. Shortidgei, poke in behalf of the provisions nd in the absence of any fight by hese men, it was said that the new 'acific coast base probably would go I ver for consideration next year. In the opening fight on the enlist d personnel, Senators La Follette j nd Lenroot, Republicans, Wisconsin,! rged economy in naval appropria ions. The former in an address cf bout three hours charged (th&'t corrupt" influences were working i or large appropriations for profits ri government armor plate and ai> lor contracts. He charged existence f an "armor ring" and in this coll ection named S. Bethlehem, Midva'e nd Carnegie steel companies. He lso criticized the naval league and he National Security league for their ctivities in behalf of armaments. qual number of hands must be layed. "The ball must be pitched and not hrown for the bat. A ball knocked out the field, or utside the range of the first or bird base, is fool. "If a ball be struck, or tipped ai-.d aught, either flying or on the first ound, it is a hand out. "A player running the bases shall e out, if the ball is in the hands of n adversary on the base, or the run er is touched with it before he takes his base; it being understood, owever, that in no instance is a all to be thrown at him. "No ace or base can be made on a oul strike. "A runner can not be put out in laking one base when a balk is lade by the pitcher. "But one base allowed when a bs.ll ounds out of the field when struck.' One is inclined to imagaine wbit rould be the bewilderment of tho.se Knickerbockers could they rise from leir graves today and scan some jch baseball report as this: "In the lucky stanza, after Jami >n had fanned and Wamby had died n a piece of highway robbery by ipp. Speaker was passed and regia ;red on Burns' triple, Burns over iding the bag and being nipped, hen Babe Ruth came in and pasted le pill beyond the middle pasture Dr a trip." The most familiar line in the ules of 1845 deals with the umpire, 'hen, as now, the "ump" was the upreme arbiter. The players might |j fcorm and fume, the managers pull rass, or the fans throw bottles, but ' hat the umpire said went. ; Scoring The scoring of the game, however 'as radically different. It was much ke that of a game of casino or crib age. Whichever side first scored 21 ras the winner, provided the other jam had an equal number of in ings. Not until 12 years later did lie nine inning game come into be ig. Out of these early games grew the Washington. Gotham and Eagle [ubs, with whom the Knickerbockers layed annual matches, clad in thoir ashy uniforms of blue pantaloons, g(S15MSMSIeiSlMSIBJBfSJ5Ii5iSM5J3I3?SJS/5JejSIi Departm Four Stores * '. V * *V -v * 1 HA .1* A ?E\ Another shipi rived?a size suital "Alaska" Ice Goodyear".G Window Srce Oil Cook Stov v ' . ... Oar Farm Im McCormick a Disc Harrows Riding Cultivj Peg Harrows, ?! kinds. 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A few farmers have plowed ui their cotton arid are plantng con wid peanuts. Two or three thousand acres were planted in peanuts lasl season, and a somewhat larger acre ige nas been planted this year. yu farmed say that more clear monety :an be made at 60 tents per ibushel for peanuts than can be made at 1C :ents cotton, as the nuts left in the ields, together with, the hay saved From the vfnes, make it possible to jrofitable raise live stock, especially mproved grades of hogs. The Jumper Brothers are among ihe large hog grower^ of this part of ;he state. Their herd is headed by a >loody hog said to weigh 600 or 700 ,, J Nothing to >e ter n; ili i... s/on, Quali What mon if you are \ about your. When you livery of & give you a and you'll service we The Pres !J5JSjSISJ5IBt5?9/5JSf5ISISlSEI5?J5f51515J3SI5JSF? utile Co. ille, S. 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