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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
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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
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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?
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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-
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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.
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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.
Strong faculty, attractive curriculum, comfortable, dormitory
accommodations, excellent table fare, a homelike atmosphere in
the “City of FViendly Folks.”
Total expenses, including tuition, room and board. $45.00.
For catalog address JAMES C. KINARD, Director.
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