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CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, MAY 22. 1924
MANAGER JOE WOFFORD HAS -
GARNERED GREAT TEAM OF PLAYERS
Laurens, S. C., May 21.— (Special):
When the umpire calls “Play Ball”
at Union next Monday afternoon,
Manager Joe Wofford—the only orig
inal Cincinnatus of the great national
pastime—swill be among those pres
ent with as husky and withal as like
ly-looking a staff as has been got to
gether in a long time here or any
where else.
Many of last year’s pennant-win
ners are still with the team; and,
last year in the Piedmont League.
William Hines, 23, of Charleston, gave
the Laurens fans a toueh of high life
in last Friday’s practice game with
Clinton. He pitched last season
for Orangeburg, winning 7 out of his
8 starts. J. H. Flowers, 28, is rated
as not only a pitcher but also a 350-
hitting outfielder. He played last
season for Caroleen of the Blue Ridge
League, pitching 10 games of which
he won 6, lost 2 and tied the other 2.
when two days later the 1924 aggre- Jimmie Hilton, 28, was with Flowers
gation opens in Laurens with Union,
the local fans—which class includes
practically everybody in the city—
will doubtless give their several fav
orite players the heartiest of hearty ;
welcomes. And they deserve it too; !
for, in addition to knowing how to!
play the game, the members of the
Laurens club have endeared them
selves to \ he community by their gen
tlemanly demeanor always. It is not
alone, therefore, to be represented by
such successful sportsman but the
possession of so clean and well-be
haved a lot of wholesome young
Americans that makes for the popu
larity of baseball and baseball play
ers here.
Manager-Player-Diplomat Joe has
been exceedingly busy in securing the
services of outside talent as well as
attracting most of last year’s men;
and, during the try-out week, he will
have ample material from which to
select those who will be distined to
go the route to another championship.
Though temporarily oflt of the line
up on account fo an injured ankle,
“Babe” Betsill can be confidently
counted on to come across with the
speed and the curves just as he did
for the first half of last season, finish
ing the season with Rock Hill. Hisl
pitching record for Rock Hill was 8
victories and but 2 defeats., Wofford
Cooper, 20, of Simpsonville, has
pitched two season^ for his local high
school without losing but one game
during that entire time. During the
summer months, he has pitched for
several fast independent teams. J. D.
Donaldson. 31, of Charlotte, pitched
last year for Caroleen along with
Flowers who is authority for the
statement that Don was the best
pitcher on the team, being a curve ar
tist par excellence and a 290 hitter
besides.
Manager Joe fully idealizes how
many ball games are lost for the
want of catchers who can throw and
who also can think and that in a great
big hurry. So he has founded up sev
eral who are in the habit of using
their heads for other and better pur
poses than merely to hang their
hats on. “Kid” Dodgen, 20, of At
lanta, played last season with Win
chester, Ga., where he led his club in
batting with an average of 369. Joe
Kennerty, 23, of Charleston, played
with the Standard Oil team last year,
last year. The same may be said for , hitting 280 for the entire season. Of
“Lefty” Bobo, the strike-out king,
who is in priine condition and ready
to twirl a no-hit game on short no
tice.. • , . • ....
But there are also other pitchers
who are on. Jpe’s roster—eight of
them—all ready and waiting and
rearin’ to go. Hughie Smith, 24,
from Carnesville, Ga., played with
Anderson last year, his record being
9 games won, 2 lost and 2 tied. Bran
non Godfrey, 24, of Woodruff, won 7
out of 15 games pitched in 1923; but
it is to be remembered that he was
in the fast moving Virginia League.
The same applies to. E. E. Purcell,
23, of Carnesville, Ga., (he being a
townie of Hughie Smith), who won | to have taken a longer time that that
5 out of his 12 games for High Point for him to have so focussed his eye
all catchers who figured in last year’s
Carolina League scores, none was
considered to be the superior of Roy
Moore. Fortupately for Laurens, he
will be on hand when the first ball
is pitched; and, when the first ball
is pitched to him, the artist from
whom it emanates had better bear in
mind the fast that Roy’s batting av
erage for 1923 was well over the 300
mark.
When it comes to slugging, though,
the local patrons of the finest of all
sports have been privileged to see
young “Casey” Thornton, of Enoree,
in action. He claims to be only 18
years old, but it would certainly seem
on the elusive sphere aa to pile up the
slugging that he did right out in plain
sight last Friday afternoon. “Casey”
faced the pitcher from Clinton five
times; or, to put it more accurately,
the visiting moundsman was obliged
to face “Casey” that often. The ne*
result was one home run, one double
and two singles whereas the fifth one
would have unquestionably gone for
a slashing one-sacker had it not been
for the unfortunate fact that there
was a runner on first who just had to
get out at second. Hit as it was to
deep second, the ball could not pos
sibly have been sent to first in time
to kill “Casey”, nor yet to third to
successfully cut off the runner there;
but, as it happened, the well de
served base hit had to be set down as
a force-out of the runner at second
and consequently “Casey” lost out on
his almost average of 1000 for the
afternoon. “But can he keep it up?”
queried one pessimistic fan. Quick as
a flash came back the automatic an
swer: “He has thus far!”
' “Casey,” by the way, is listed as an
outfielder, in which territory he is
assured of good company in plenty.
Joe himself is on the job. Enough
said; for as well try to introduce
Charlie Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks
to a movie audience as Joe Wofford
to anybody in Laurens. Archie
O’Connor, too, is scarcely what you
would call a stranger in these parts—
Archie who covers a considerable por
tion of any outfield all by himself and,
when not thus employde, is liable at
any time to break up a game by hit
ting when hits mean runs. That he
is 23 does not in any degree interfere
with his skill or his luck; but the real
fact is that, like his ever-popular
brother Mack who inhabits the third
base station for Laurens, he just
naturally knows base ball and loves it
and plays it every minute of the time
—not for his own individual record
but for his team and his town. When
it comes to outfielding, W. T. Sigman
is far from a forgetable factor in the
success of the local team. In addi
tion to gathering in everything that
comes within his reach, Sigman slugs
around 350 when Laurens is at the
bat. Third baseman O’Connor, inci
dentally, does not do all his work
around the torrid corner, his official
average for the season of 1923 being
something like 325. Another out
fielder who is liable to be heard from
before the 1924 season is njany games
old is Willie Corn, 20, who in the
Western North Carolina League in
1922 hit for an average of 433 and
last year with the Forest City Club of
the Blue Ridge League came through
with an average of 410 for the season.
Of infield material Joe also is not
unmindful, “Red” Howard needs no
introduction either to the baseball
public here where he has played for
two years or to the art of covering
second base where he is everlasting
ly there with the goods. Equally
well and favorably known and uni
versally liked is Jimmie Briggs who
is so much at home around first base
that one cannot help wondering why
he gives his permanent address as
Salisbury, North Carolina. In the
event, however, that Jimmie should
be temporarily disabled, young Paul
Collier, 24, of Jefferson, Ga., is no
slouch around the initial sack. He
played with Oglethorpe University
and with Americus of the South
Georgia League in 1923, hitting well
over 300 for the season. The only
two 1924 pennant chasers yet to re
port are Shortstop F. L. Hunnicutt,
of Waycross, Ga., and F. G. Neale,
of Laurinburg, N. C. Hunnicutt
played two years with Knoxville and
last season was with Jackson City of
the Cotton States League. Neale is
still a student at Trinity college. Last
year he played second base for Forest
City of the Blue Ridge League, bat
ting 440 plus. Young Tidwell, vari
ously listed as an outfielder, an in-
flelder and a general utility player,
seems to be equally at home prac
tically anywhere where there’s work
to be done. He is said to far and
away the most promising product of
Laurens high school for several years
past.
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“Did you do so?” asked Senator
Wheeler.
“Yes,” Bailey replied, “except in
one or two incidents, where I had
some question as to Mr. Smith’s judg
ment and went to the attorney
general.”
. The witness related how Smith had
told an assistant chief of the bureau,
“he had to get out."
“Everybody around the Depart
ment of Justice recognised him as
the man they had to pay attention
to,” Bailey said.
4< He was the most powerful man
there next to the attorney general.”
“You understood that Smith was
a sort of a messenger for the attor
ney general,” asked George E. Cham
berlain, attorney for Mr. Daugherty.
“Well, I don’t know as to being a
messenger," Bailey responded.
“He was some sort of a represen
tative of the attorney general,
though I don’t say I was to follow
his word entirely, without some in
dication that the attorney general
approved.”
“Did Smith ever request you to
do anything wrong?” Mr. Chamber-
lain demanded.
“There were two or three little
questions we could not agree on,”
Bailey said.
“There was not any corruption in
his request?”
Smith got everythnig he wanted,
Bailey said, when Senator Wheeler
asked as to his access to official files.
The bureau of investigation files
were frequently furnished to him, the
witness declared, though all the files
he remembered Smith having were
in reference to employes.
“Everybody up there understood
they had to do what he told them,”
Bailey added.
“If they were like me, they figured
they had better take his orders, or
look for a new job.”
J. Pierce Miller, a former Washing
ton newspaper man, testified that
he met Jess Smith, in February, 1922
while assigned to get news from the
Department of - Justice and that
Smith’s “general attitude was that of
an official of the Department.” Smith
at the time had no patricular office,
he said, but “roamed around various
offices, chiefly occupying the attorney
general’s office.”
For AD the Fanuly
JESS SMITH KNOWN
AS GENERAL “BOSS”
Says He Was Right Hand Man of
Attorney General Daugherty
Washington, May 20.—-Upon the
authority of former Attorney Gen-
eral Daugherty, orders given by Jess
Smith, his friend and companion,
were taken and obeyed by the bureau
of investigation of the Department
of Justice, Lewis J. Bailey, its
former acting chief, testified today
before the Senate Daugherty com
mittee.
Bailey, new agent in charge for
the bureau at Atlanta, was acting
chief from October, 1920, to August,
1921. He said he was told by Mr.
Daugherty to take up all questions
with Smith.
Mr. Daugherty said he was a very
busy man,” Bailey testified, “but that
Mr. Smith represented him. Any
thing that came up, he told me, I
should see Smith about, and whatever
Smith told me to do would be all
right.”
r E hav« used Black-
Draught ever since
we have had a fam
ily and that was shortly
after 1874,” says Mr. E.
A. Branstetter, of St
James, Mo. “It is my first
remedy when any of us
gets sick. ... We use
Black-Draught for torpid
liver and stomach com
plaints.
“When I get.sluggish
and don’t feel so good, I
take Black-Draught—and
you have to show me that
there is a better medicine
in Missouri. I think it is
fine for indigestion or for
headache. It is a splendid
family remedy. My wife
uses it for any stomach
ailment indigestion and
biliousness. We never let
the house be without it if
I know it We also give it
to the children for chil
dren’s complaints, colds or ;
fever.” m
Keep a package of Black-
Draught in the house for
all the family.
Your dealer will sell you a
mammoth package, containing
five of the regauuseffie pack
ages. IP* cheaper.
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