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r ' If Ton Dost Reoi ' • THE CHRONICLE Ton Don't Get The N«f I ®bf Ollttttatt Ollirnntrb THE CHROXICLK ' w - • Strirea To Be a Clean Newa« I paper. Complete, Neway, and Reliable w : • sf-pi' ‘j'i iA.'VOLUME XXXv CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930 NUMBER 20 OUR ANNUAL SPORT BILL IS HIGH COST OF PLAY RUNSTt) MORE THAN liAtF«fcfcI0N- (Written for The Chronicle by Caleb i the more valuable your land is. The Johnson, Throuifh Autocaster Service) How much the people of the United States spend on recreation, "nobody can figure'with any very "close ap proach to accuracy. But the United States department of commerce has investment in euch land for golf courses is put by the department of commerce aft over 1700,000,000, or pretty close to $1,000 an acre. It costs an average of $21,000 a year to maintain a golf course. There is $105,000,000 of our annual bill for just compiled figures which indicate I sports accounted for at once. And that that on amateur sports alone we spend probably upward of half a billion— five hundred million—dollars a year. This is not taking into account any of the professional so-called sports, such., as baseball, boxing exhibitions, horSe-racing and the like, which are more in the nature of theatrical ex hibitions than of anything which can properly be termed “sport.” If the money spent for admissions to such affairs were included, as well as the money won and lost in betting on them, and there were added in the intercollegiate football games and all other events to which people pay ad mission though they do t^-persohally participatte in them, the total would run w<dl over a thousand million dol lars. doesn’t count the cost to 1,500,000 golfers of the balls they lose or the clubs they replace, to say nothing of the money they spend for proper clothing and other equipment. Put that at $100 a year per golfer, which is probably low, and you have another hundred and fifty millions. The total retail sales of sporting goods comes to about $250,000,000 a clothes. Each sport calls for its own costume. The tennis player and the golfter ■^dress differently and neither wears the fisherman’s rubber bdots. Almost all of the games which we play„ are imp^'**^^tions fredn Europe^ but there are two of distinctly Amer ican origin. One of them is lacrosse, not yet as popular as it probably will become. The first explorers of North America found the Indians playing this game, in which a leather ball is tossed by a recquet shai>ed something like a long-handled dip-net. Many northern colleges have lacrosse teams and there are those w"ho predict that it will some ^ay rival baseball as an intercollegiate sport, because of its speed and the excitement which it af fords «p>ectators. The other purely American game is basketball. That was* invented in the early 1890’s by an athletic instructor in a Middle West Y. M. C. A.., who wanted a game which the could play in winter, betw’een the end of the football se.nson and the beginning of the baseball season. Basketball has tention that is required after the lay ing out—at no great cost—coupled year, Ur. Julius Kline, assistant sec retary of commerce, states. More than become the most popular of indoor 10,000 salesmen are employed in sell-1 games, and is frequently played out ing sporting goods, drawing salaries.^ of doors, too. And in the past'few aggiVgating above $20,000,000, while , years explorers in Yucatan have dis- with the quick response of nature’s forces, many .yards and parkings would soon .be transformed from the RELIEF FROM CURSE OF CONSTIPATION now i^into a galaxy of beauty. The effect on the would-be-resident to make his home there would soon be apparent. , ^ The way to build a city is to love it and work for it. Marked success attends the city that brings about a better feeling by co-operation, which should exist in every city, proving that by unity and a willingness to help one another wherever possible that results are al ways obtained. ' Cooperation is a great factor in the promotion of growth and prosperity. A Battle Creek physician says, “jConstipatixm-ia responsible for^more the factories making such commodi ties employ 33,000 workuMsa, whose wages run to $40,000,000 a year. ■One of the largest -items, next to golf, is fi'Shing tackle. Our national covered that ancient Mayas, that strange race whicH has ywtishedifepm: the face of the earth, leaving only great stone monuments and buildings now almost buried in the jungle, had But the department’s figures'deal i bill for fishing supplies every year is a game much like basketball, played i'. solely with the dollars and cents spent’ in amateur sports, the things people do themselves for the pleasure they get out of them, such a playing golf, fishing, shooting, tennis, “backlot” baseball, swimming and the like.- And the figrures throw an interesting light on the habits of the people of the United States as a whole. There are now more han 5,000 golf courses in the United States. And if you don’t think that it a good many, I’ll tell you it is more than there are in all the re«t of the world put to gether! Golf was introduced into .America from Scotland less than fifty years ago. The first g-)lf course in America is said to have been laid out at Sara.sota, Florida, by a group of young Scotchmen whose fathers had bought half a million acres of Florida land for iifty cents an acre or so, and , sent their sons over to see what they could do with it. That was in the early 1880’s, but it was not until the late 1890’s, less than 35 years ago, that golf really began to become pop- over $8,000,000. That is more than we 1 with an india-rubber ball which was paid Russia for Ala.ska in 1809. That' thrown through stone circles much is a lot of money, compared with what the average grown man of today has to spend, for fishing tackle when he was a boy. As President Hoovef put it when he was secretary of com merce: “We have indeed^ made stupendous progress in physical equipment to overcome the myst,eries of- fish. We have moved upward from the rude but social conditions of the willow pole with a butcher string line, fixed with hooks 10 for a dime, whose compell ing lure is one segment of an angle- worm and whose incantation is spit ting on the bait. We have arrived at the high state of a tackle, assembled from the steel of Damascus, the bam boos of Siam, the silk of Japan, the lacquer of China, the tin of Bangkok, the nickle of Canada, the feathers of Brazil and the silver of Colorado—all compounded by mass production at as are the basketts in the modern game. LETTERS GIVEN P. C. ATHLETES ICE CREAM Brick Ice Cream, qt. 40c Pints 20c Large Cones 5c BLUE BIRD Ice 4Pream Store misery than any other cause.” (, But immediate relief has been found. A tablet called Rex^ll Order lies has been discovered. This tablet attracts water from the system into the lazy colon. The water loosens the dry food waste and causes a gentle, thorough, natural movement without forming a habit or ever increasing the dose. Stop suffering front constipation. Chew a Rexall Orderlie at night. Next day bright. Gat 24 for 25c today at the nearest Rexall Drug Store. SMITH’S PHARMACY What Do P. S. JEANES Do? ^ s r Nrtubrrrg (SoUrge Summer 0ri|oal i: Men From All Branches of Sport Get Recognition for Year’s Participation. for magic and incantations we have ular, and its great vogue has been a j progressed to applications of cosmet- development of the past twenty year.s. 1 ic.s to artificial flies and to wonders When you consider that it’ takes [ m special cfothtng (for the fisher^ about 200 acres for a really goinl goITj man)—to countless varied lures and course, and few are crowded into less liniments, and to calling a bite a than 150 acres, we have some three ;‘strike.’ Nor do I need to repeat that quarters of a million acres of land de- ■ fishing is not the rich man’s sport, voted to this one game, at the lowest j though his incantations are more ex estimate. Most of it is high-priced i pensive.” land, too, for a golf course to be of i Besides the makers and sellers of any value to any considera’o!e number! sporting goods, the textile weavers, of people, must be within easy dis-1 the manufacturefs of vlothmg. shoe- tance of a big center of population, j makers and others gain a great reve- and the closer you get to a big cityinue from the production of sport Those men who made letters this year in the\arious sports were passed on by the athletic council at its meet ing last Thursday night. In addition to the matter of letters, it was defi nitely settled that football men should wear a ninednch block, and basketball men a seven-inch block. Boxing was ... J Ai made a major sport and a seven-inch Chicago, 111., and Akron, Ohio. And^T^ . letter with a glove Attached set as the standard. Track is the usual sev- r f \' Family reunions by telephone.. Nowadays you can have a family re union any time. Even though members of the family are widely scattered in different states, they are always within talking distance. Many fam ilies now have reunions once ev^ry week by telephone. These voice visits keep family .tics alive. • • A visit, by tele phone, with relatives is the next best thing to seeing them, and the cost is small when you use long distance Station- ^ to-Station service. • • Have a family reunion of your own tonight. en-inch letter with arrow. Managers wilT^ awarded letters like the stan dard for tKat sport with the addition of a white “M," wheih is to be worn in the lower right hand corner of the letter. Rules were passed making it a capital offense to wear a high school letter or a letter before it is official ly awarded. This is the best step tak en at P. (!. concerning letters and one needed for sometime. Letter certificates are to be award ed at the athletic banquet next Fri day night and footballs to those mak ing a letter in that sport for the first time. Those getting a letter in foot ball are: Galloway, Blakely, Martin, Bennett, Cheatham, Senter, Walker, N. Clinton, McNaull, Fortson, B. Dun lap, Hamilton, Rigby, manager. Those getting stars for second or third-year service are Young, O. Dunlap, Beck man, Ferrene, McQueen, Lynn and Green. SOUTHERN BELL 4- N Tdephone and Telegraph Company ( Iscarfi sr slsd ) Letters in boxing were awanled to Truesdell, A. McQueen, ,W. McQueen, B, Dunlap, Fortson, Williamson, Dick son, Blakely, and a numeral to fresh man Parker. Varsity basketball men were: Cald well, Gosnell, Green, Lynn, Wyatt, Roberts, Dunlap. Adair, (Cheatham, .Ma.-:on and Beckman, manager. . Baseball men given letters: Mc Queen, Rogers, Young, Cheatham, Roberts. Truesdell, Odiorne, Babb, PerajP. Masoa, Williams, B. Dunlap, Caldwell, Stukes, manager.' Frosh baseball: Hamer, Ckliorne, J. C. Montgomery, H. Montgomery, Nettles, Adams, McCutcheon, Clark, -Aflair, Barrett. Tennis: Johnston, Dunlap, Smith, McCall and Sherard. Varsity track: Ritchie, Green, Cha pin, K. Wyatt, H. W'yatt, Grafton, Gosnell, Collins, Gillespie, Ketchum, Senter, Lynn, Kenned\^ .Abrams, .Means, Templeton, Jackaon, manager. P'rosh track: Wood, Pollil2:er, Ed ward Graham, Bothwell Graham, Os man, Copeland, Parker, Pinson, Cov ington, Ferguson, Ewing, Stamps, and P'ulp. Did You Ever Stop To Think? By Edson R. W’aite That every effort should be made to beautify the home city. Public-spirited efforts should be made by everybody in making their property as atractive as possible. Considering the small amount of at- Newberry, S. C. JUNE 9 — JULY 18, 1930 Courses, all approved by state departments of education, of fered to I’rimary, intermediate and High School teachers for re newing and raising certificates. , Standard college courses. College entrance courses. 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