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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May18, 1950
JOANNA HOLDS
LEAD IN FAST
CAROLINA LOOP
Br BONN Y WILDER
foi* both teams as they were both tak
ing: the batters in order, pretty much
three up and three down, until the
.Cavaliers caught fire in the fourth
inAing. Charles Gaffney, Cavalier
first baseman, stretched a single in
to a double and then was brought
Most of the baseball fans thought home as Mickey Livingston pounded
BRIEFS.. ABOUT
PEOPLE YOU KNOW
anna and Thornwell, two of the top
teams. This puts Academy well up
in the running. At present Florida
Charlie Buford
Passes At Mountville
known in the county. In speaking
of his candidacy he said, “I feel I am
well qualified by experience and
Charlie Buford, colored, successful training t0 serve my COU nty and state,
and if re-elected will ever be mind
ful of my duty and discharge it to
Street is in the number one position. - . “ ’
A lt K farmer of the Mountville commun-
AH five teams are playing good ball. ity( died Tuesday morning at his
The Little Leagufe film of the 1949 home. The funeral services will be
i “world” series at Williamsport, Pa., held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 from i the best of my ability.”
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MOST 01 me oaseuau m.ia w.^v.noinr ^.vin^wn i^unueu | Mr an( j Mrs Caldwell Henderson! g . h h
there would be a b,g show-dowm this^out a timely doubte The Clintomans s t Sund in Greenwood with has been shown to all the little boys | nv \ lle He i s S urWv<S by his
week when the Hornets met the were put away safely after this out-, the former . s mothei . Mrs R p Hen . | at Thornwell, Joanna, Florida Street, widow four daughters and four sons,
Cavaliers, borne thought the Hornets ( burst but they had a one run lead derson< 'Academy Street, and Lydia. Also tc one brother and one sister
were playing a type of baseball that dangling over the Hornets. In the I the Lions club, which has contrib-
wa* a little over their heads but the fifth inning, Pete Mish, Cavalier left t . ^ w c tover of navtona uted a lar 8e amount of the money
Hornets evidently closed their ears, fielder,-stepped up to - the plate, o ”w* v ' Xa \. re t.-.., i for recreation in Clinton.
to such talk at this and met the Cav-, swung lustliy at two of Moore’s of-
Beach, Fla., Mrs. Jewel McKnight, |
Mrs. Pearl C. Gray, Mrs. Juanita C.!
Little League schedule:
aliers in Joanna for the first game ferings let three balls go by and then Hardin and wister L. Copeland'of | May 18-Academy at Lydia,
ot a three game series between the stepped into a fast ball which he lift- Spartanburg, were here during the May 19—Lydia at Joanna,
two teams, Joanna won this first ed a little to the right of the 350 foot week-end visiting relatives and at-! May 22—'Florida at Academy,
game and thus increased their l.ead. sigp in left field. Mish had put the tended the anniversary celebration at| May 23—^Thornwell at Joanna,
to two games over the second tun- Clintonians out front with two runs.' the First Presbyterian church on; May 24—Lydia at Florida.
ring Clinton Cavaliers. 1 Lady luck stepped in and aided Jo- Sunday. * j — ^
Clinton will play host to the Hot- anna a little although they did their | Miss Ann Macdonald, student at lifflp Girl Dip* From
nets Friday mght and then they >vilL part and deserved the victory by out- Agnes Scott college, Decatur, Ga.,rrom
journey back to Joanna to do battle | hitting the Cavaliers, garnering eight, spent the week-end with her par- ! Accideilfal Gunshot
with the power laden Joannians. j singles while the Cavaliers were able ents, Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Macdonald. I
Clinton’s new comer Zeb Eaton, will | to pound out only five safties off the ; She had as her guests Miss Carol Ed-| funeral services" were Conducted
probably start before the local fans' swift Johnny Moore. j wards of Athens, Ga., and Miss Lilia ye sterday morning in Greenville for
next.Friday night and Whittaker will j But back to Lady Luck, with two Kate Paramore of Valdosta, Ga., a lso v| ary Hudson Adair
be the probable hurler for the Cava- out a Joannian grounded out to Huff-. students at Agnes Scott.
i Wasson Offers
iFor Re-election
Robert C. Wasson of the Hickory
! Tavern community, announces for
j re-election in today’s oaper for the
1 house of representatives in this sum-
Mr. Wasson has served in the low-
; er house several terms and is well
Automobile
News
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new 1950 models In THE
CHRONICLE.
You will find each week in
this newspaper interesting,
helpful “automobile news.”
Lers down at Joanna Saturday night.
Oudd will probably be thrown against
Eaton here in Clinton while Johnny
Moore will probably be rested up attd
ready to go again Saturday night
against -Whittaker.
Joanna Stymies Cavaliers
The Joanna Hornets looked to be a
stetler who had been playing a bang John_ Arrington of Laurens is a
up game at third base and as Huff’s P a H en t a t Hays hospital,
throw reached first baseman, Gaff- Mr. and Mrs. T. O. McKeown and
iwy's glove WKirBowie7"the base m- j of YcSt “ ven 3,ears old Tu ' sda y-
pire claimed he juried the ball and * nH ' I She is survived by h,
The little girl’s death occurred at
the family home on Hudson Road
Monday night from accidental gun
shot wounds. She would have been
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that the runner was safe. After an 1
, the week-end with their mother and' iine 15 survived by her parents,
I‘altgrandmother, Mrs. T. J. Blalock, and Mr - and Mrs. Eugene (Spec) Adair,
argument in which Gaffney tossed his | attended the and i ve rsary celebra- and one brother. Miles Morgan Adair.
Her paternal grandmother, Mrs.
Claude B. Adair of Greenville, and
her maternal grandparents, Mr. and
M. E. Hudson of Greenville
also survive.
The little girl’s grandfather, the
late Claude B. Adair, was a brother
of W. J. Adair of this city and the
late E. J. Adair.
* glove and the ball into the air and tion at the First p^yterian church.
' 1; ... !rtmtww advance a base since] George S. Betsill of Sea Island
bmed hits, tight fielding, a little time out had not been called, the Ga ., and Edwin H. BetsiU of Colum-
Juck, and a couple of freak plays to fr &m e w'as resumed. Johnny Moore 5j ai spent fog W eek-end with their Mrs - ^
nose out the Clinton team by the nar- was at the plate and he did « big job mother, Mrs. Varina Betsill, of the J county,
row : in winning his own ball game as he * frK«
orphanage staff.
Mr. and Mrs. John Pittman and
little daughter of Rockingham, N. C.,
spent the week-end with Mrs. Pitt-
Joanna took their victory the hard gapped out a sliding double into right
way as they tame from behind a two fjel d and scored the two runners. Be
nin lead held over them by the Clin- fore this hit Moore had been batting
ton club. * a slight .087. Paul Fouts then steps i man’s mother, Mrs. John W. Little,
Between the many arguments the j U p the plate and lined out a single ] and attended the anniversary cele-
two teams displayed some fine ball j M oore das hed in toward home with ^ration at the First Presbyterian
playing. Bu. between Dangerous the intention of scoring and breaking
Dan" Kirby, his temper, and the urn- the tie and hg did just that after the
p:re. the game provided several good umpire had called him safe on a close
arguments for the blood-thiry spec- , a at the home ^
tator. ArgumenU the kicking ot j oanns i““ n most of the
gloves about the held and the s t om P _ i ,.p ma ; n j no . L llf . ,, i convalescing at his home following
,ng ot athletic feet included, the e „re ir"L b , Ut il h f 7,. ^ev P h.k! a lon 31 lecto‘ m y a. Blalock cl.n.c T„‘
game only took one hour and forty- ^ on e. rough pla>s before they hadi d
hvc minutes to play. This is an extra j^® te l a he 5 mt ^. C Dr. George R. Blalock and Dr. E.
good time for a baseball game and^*> was . the victim of the biggest , N Sullivan will return today from
shows that the contest was one of a of 8 ,and larceny since the days Myrtle Beach where they have been
church Sunday.
Henry Fallaw is a patient at Bla
lock Clinic.
_ Little David Templeton, son of
Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Templeton is
last nature.
Everything
progressed
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;of Jesse James. Gaffney was robbed
smoothly of a homer, by Roy Marion who clim-
bed up on the fence and pulled in
■ i Gaffney’s potential home run while
leaning out of the ball park.
Babe Ellis moved to his right and
left in center field and demonstrated
the correct art of fly chasipg, as he
also robbed several Cliritonians ’ of
1 swings which would have been solid
base hits in an ordinary .ball game.
But this was no ordinary ball game,
j as you’ve probablfc already gathered,
i Clinton fans got to look at their
new pitcher, Zeb Eaton, in the ninth
inning when he went to the plate for
Huffstetler. Eaton had played in two
World Series with the Detroit Tigers
attending the Medical Convention
They were accompanied by Mrs.
Blalock and Mrs. Sullivan.
Roy Garrett is a patient at Hays
hospital where he underwent an
operation this week.
MASONS TO MEET MONDAY
A special communication of Camp
bell Lodge No. 44, A. F. M., will be
held Monday evening, May 22, to
confer the F. C. degree, officers state.-
All members 'are invited to be pres
ent.
EASTERN STAR TO MEET
James B. Parrott Chapter No. 9,
To Organize New
V. F. W. Post Here
A meeting has been called at the
local armory on Thursday night. May
25, for the purpose of organizing a
new V.I W. post in the city. The
meeting will be held at 8 o’clock.
State and district officers will be
present to assist in organizing and
filing application for a chJrter. All
interested veterans are cordially in
vited.
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May 19, at 8 o’clock. All members
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WRDNESDAY, MAY 24
THELMA JORDAN
With Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey
Clinton’s Little Leaguers have
started their third week of play and
several upsets have been sprung.
Academy Street has knocked off Jo-
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