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~ ' Minimi Junior Baseball I Rules For 1931 1. All trainee shall be flayed under the official playing rule* of baseball, and on regulation diamonds. The ball used will be a standard league ball. , 2. The competition Will be open only to boye who are amuteura (that is, boys who have not been paid for v playing baseball), and who will not ? have attained their seventeenth birthday before June 30, 1031^ (Note: A boy born prior do midnight, June 20, 1014, is not eligible.) 3. Each player must be u bona v fide resident of the community served by the Post sponsoring the team in which he enrolls in accordance with the regulations laid down by the Department Athletic Committee or the <- Department Executive Committee of the respective Departments, 4. Every nlayer must fill out a certificate o/ entry and eligibility and each team must register on a certificate of entry. To each player's certificate of entry and eligibility there must bo attached a certified copv of his birth certificate along with player's signature, for identification purposes. (Note: Where a certified copv Of the birth certificate is not available, (then a certified copy of the baptismal certificate or player's school record age should be attached.) Where a player i? a high school student, his certificate of en Iryumist give the name of his school o as shown by the school records on February 16, 1081, Each Department will adopt its own form of certificate which, however, must Include the provisions herein mentioned. 5. In cities or towns having pop^ ulationa of 60,000 or more, according * to 1030 Federal Census, no team will be allowed to draw persons from more than one high richool. The high school record as of February 16, 1031, will govern as to bona fide enrollment of player. (This rule Is enforceable as to public, private and denominational high schools giving the regular accredited high school curriculum. The rule is enforceable as to all high school pupils regardless of whether or not they have ever participated in high school athletics. "Junior high schools," "intermediate high schools," . "night commercial high schools." "brivate and denominational high school curriculum1" are not considered high schools within . ... \he jn^ning of this rule.) o. ii a piayer m lounu to ut ineligible, he shall be disqualified immediately from further competition; and if such ineligibility be determined prior to a regional tournament, the entire team having used such ineliJible player will be automatically isqualiified and barred from further competitions and all games won by such team shall be thrown out of the records. All protests on eligibility of players must- be specific and set forth reasonable basis for protest and be accompanied hy proof. 7. No team may carry more than fifteen players, and all players must have been enrolled before June 30, 1031. The player personnel of a team can not be changed after date of official enrollment. Substitutions for purpose of strengthening team will not be allowed under any circumstances. Only in cUse of death may a vacancy be filled with a substitute player, and then only when authorized by the Department Athletic Director for competitions with in his Department, and by the National Director of the Americanism Commission for Regional. Sectional and Final Tournaments. * 8. No local, county, district, state, regional, sectionul or final tournaments shall be played under the auspices of any newspaper or commercial concern. P. All tournaments to decide state ?' Ill --1 J-l II I Jllll champions will he under the direction of the %tate organization of The American legion. The Athletic Of* Acer, or the Department Athletic Committee of each etate, shall formulate such rules and regulations not in conflict with'these rplea as are best suited to the conditions j>f that Department for the playing of local, county, district and state to^nat /nc-nts. Such rules and regulations as will stimulate and protect competition shall he established. The State Athletic Officer, or his duly appointed representative of The American Legion, shall have the power to disqualify, Suspend or remove any manager, coach or player violating any of these rules or other rules promulgated within his jurisdiction'. All questions and disputes within a Department shall he decided by the Department Athletic Officer or by the Department Executive Committee. There shall be no appeal from such decision to the National Headquarters of The American Legion or elsewhere. 10. The state championship teams must be certified by their respective Department Athletic Officers to the National Director </f the Americanism Commission not later than August 10, HKM. This certificate must bo accompanied by a certified copy of each player's original certificate of entry and eligibility, birth certificate, photograph of player, etc." 11. Since this is a public.spirited enterprise of The AmoricAn Legion in the interests of good citizenship, it is required that players' uniforms shall bear only lettering or insignia of The American Legion, the Legion Post or Department, or tne town, city or community represented; except that the name, monogram or other desgination of persons or organizations sponsoring a team will be permitted on the sleeve or on the ..back of the uniform shirt with letters not over two Inches in size. Teams failing to comply with this requirement will be disqualified. 1<2. In order to qualify its Department championship team for entry into the regional tournaments each Department must comply with the rules nerein set forth. Suspending or nullifying, by any Department, any of these rules will automatically disbar its championship team from entry into a regional tournament. 13. All regional and sectional tournaments and the Junior World Series will be played under the direction of the National Director of the Americanism Commission. All questions and disputes arising within regional and sectional tournaments and the Junior World Series shall be referred for final decision to the National Director of the Americanism Commission, or ?uch persons as he may designate. Did You Know? That the UJ&8 was the first German submarine captured by the United States in the World War? It was captured by the U. tS. S. Fanning. That the first glider flight from a dirigible was made by a naval officer ? That a Navy submarine, the U. S. S. 0-12, will be used by Sir Hubert Wilkins, the noted explorer, in an attempt to reach the North Pole under the ice ? That the Navy maintains 235 substations located in important cities throughout the United States to aid young men in their efforts to join the Navy? There are four of these substations in the State of South Carolina. That each capital ship of the U. S. Navy has a registered U. S. Post Office on board? That the information above was furnished by the U. Navy Recruiting Station, Florence, South Carolina? ? 11 1 ' LOOKING BACKWARD Takes From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago THIRTY YEARS AGO May 29, 1901 Amos Hough fell at one of the depots in Camden and broke his jirn\ while loading shingles. WotTord College confers I). D. degree upon Rev. Mark L. Carlisle former Camden pastor. Willie E. Osteen, of C&mdea, married to Miss tla Montev Rice, of Denmark, S. C. New jail on West DeKalb street completed and invitations issued by Supervisor Phelps to the public to inspect same. Mrs. .John B. Cureton, mother of R. Lee Cureton, died at her home in Columbia. Atlantic cotton oil rmll of Camden absorbed by Yirginia-C-arolina Chem ical Company. Proprietor of The Chronicle makes trip to Atlanta to buy additional supplies for printing plant. Sydney Hurst, 14 year old son of S. D. Hurst, of Pisgah, drowned in canal of Camden Cotton Mill. Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. James Team dies. Mrs. Caleb Huggins died at her home on Rutledge street. Henry Moore, ?who conducted a business near corner of Main and DeKalb street, died suddenly. Buried at Kershaw. ; JOdward Nettles returns from service in United States army in Philipines. Camden firemen, fresh from victory P nt Newberry, tendered banquet at Workman House with M. Baum as toast master. B. B. Clarke, M. L. Smith, T. J. Kirkland, Mayor E. O. McCreight, P. T. Villep?tru?? A. D. Kennedy and Henry Savage made speeches. A heavy rain at Florence made the traeta n? lent* aetfrtrmater, bat a half hour later the moon was thinirrg out of a clear shy. t. . ' | FIFTEEN YEARS AGO June 2, 1916 Mrs. Hessie Lindsay Thompson, 83, died at her home on Monument Square. Attorney B. B. Clarke, of Camden, named by Governor Manning to preside as special judge at criminal branch of Richland court in ColumI bia. I Auto and buggy collision between N. P. Gettys and J. L. Hinson, of West Wateree results in smashing of thirty dozen eggs and damage to horse and buggy. Chalmers L. Young and Miss Minnie Jordan, of Westville, married. Cooper GrifTin, formerly of Camden, but later of Ninety-Six. tiead from typhoid fever. T. Lee .Little repairs Air IMme theatre on DeKalb street and has it reopened. - Judge Mendel L. Smith delivers commencement address at ConverseCollege, his subject being "Patriotism." Wilmot Kershaw died at North Augusta and body brought to Camden for burial. Malcom Bateman wins first honor at Baily Military Institute. I. C. Hough property on Broad street sold to George T. Little. Scott Dunn property on DeKalb street sold to Mrs. Sallie E. Truesdale at price of $3,000. Winter home of Mr. George R. Cook being completed by W. G. Adams. Engagement of John Smyrl Hnlsall to Miss Rhetta Wilson announced. iMendel L. iSmith, Jr., leaves for a stay at Shrevepont, La., with Sidney Smith, manager of the Shreveport base ball club. (Miss Ethel Smith goes to Georgia to be maid of honor in marriage of Miss Ruth Holley to Mr. Covington, r HilHard W. Rebel iff and Miss Stella Watlrins married at Lucknow. [ ^SSBtSSSsesssamfmmmmmmmmmmm ? Bethune News Notes Tnld by Correspondent Bethune. May 27.?On lust Sunday mor ning the Rev. J. E. Williams, tor of the Baptist church, preMhsd, u splendid sermon to the graduating Has* oi the Bethune high school. The church wa* beautifully and artistically decpra<ted with ferns and baskeis of pink roses, pink ami grwen were the class colors, and tha pink rose the class flower. Special mU#i<J( numbers were given by a quartet composed of Mrs. T. R. Hethune, Mlssl Stella Bethune, Mr. J. A. McOaakillj and Mr. T. R. Bethune with Mrs. J. C. Foster accompanying at the piano. ] The graduating class numbers twenty-six?sixteen girls and ten boys. Mrs. C. L. Mays delightfully entertained for her Sunday school class last Friday evening. After, the business period a social hour was enjoyed. A sweet course was served during the evening. Miss Mary Louise McLaurin spent several days last week in Columbia with her aunt, Mrs. C. M. Wilson. Mrs. W. R. Rozier, Miss Clara Gordon and Mr. Zeb Gordon . spent last Sunday jn Lumberton, N. C., where they went to visit Grler Gordon who has been in a.hospital there for jnore than a week as the result of ah at*1 cident while employed on the highway construction. Friends of Mr, Gordon will be pleased to know he is getting on nicely. * ^ Misses Thelma Davis and Lottie Outlaw gave an enjoyable weinie roast ,in the grove at Lane's Ailing station last Friday evening. The Rev. Mr. Keels, of Columbia, who supplied at the Presbyterian church here last summer, was a visitor in town during the week end. Miss Mary Louise McLaurin had as her guests during the past week end Lucile Mann and Alice Tate from Calhoun Falls. .* Miss Lizzie Kate" Davis who has been teaching in Kershaw is at home. Miss Minnie Crawley.,of near Chesterfield is visiting Miss Clara Gordon. Mack Davis has gone to Dothnn, Alabama, to spend a while with relatives. f Messrs. M. G. King, J. M. Clyburn, lioring Davis and T. R. Bethune spent1 a d?ay last week at Cope, the guests of Mr. J. D. Lafitte. ggg?can ,i mi mmrnmmmmw General News Notes A. L. M. Wiggins, vice-president of' the Hunk of llartsville, was elected president of the South Carolina Hankers association at the end of the etate convention of bankers at Columbia, inoperative shipments of hog# no far this year of 1031 have totalled 32 cars and a half million pounds from Orangeburg, which i? equal to the shipments during the entire year of 1030. Year round bus service to Myrtle 1 leach starts the first of June qy>necting that resort yith the network of bus lines extending all over the country. There will be a round trip to Marion every day. The state railroad commision refused to allow bus line to extend its service from Gaffney to Hates burg on the ground that not enough evidence of public necessity and convenience had been presented at the hearing. The Anderson grand jury reported the court house facilities there as entirely inadequate and recommended that a plan be worked out with the city for a joint city hall and court house. Cotton prices of 8 cents, 6 cents, and in one instance & cents a pound next fall and winter are being forecast in different papers in South Carolina, but none reports that the farmers around it are lessening the acreage appreciably. * The board of hospitalization announced that it stood pat on its election of a gite for a new hospital within ten miles of Columbia, as was expected, and refused to reopen the matter of location at the request of about 6,000 veterans of this state. D. W. Lewis, who was acquitted in sessions court on a charge of robbing a freight car sued the Atlantic Coast. ^Line for $25,000 for malicious prosecution, but the jury at Florence did not give him a cent. * " : A party of Hungarian-Americans numbering 600, now living in the region of the great lakes and headed by the editor of a Hungarian language newspaper in Chicago, came, to Columbia by train and then motored south and east from the capital to investigate the advantages of their people moving to South Carolina tp farm. They have a farm expert with them, and Clemson college assigned an agronomist and live stock expert to accompany them. The visitors prefer truck growing, dairying, poultry and hogs but they know and care nothing about cotton. They are the investigators for thousands of others in the great lakes region who are looking for better 'localities than there. They go to Sumter, Florence, Bisha^ville, Hartsville, Orangeburg, Society Hill, Cheraw and 'Bennettsville, among a long list of places. i ; 'jr.."j. ^ f|fp A nine year olif white girl tacked by a negro boy near Pamplico, l||| in Florence county, and the child, the I|j| daughter of a well known farmer, was left in a serious condition. The negro is named LeroysJftostwick, and was arrested by a constable soon af. ter the attack. He was ti^jken to the H penitentiary .Sunday, after being kept Sff Saturday night in the county iail. 'M A Bowman, N. C., concern which was refused a license to haul freight Jfe in trucks between Charlotte and Co. lumbia via Lancaster . and Camden IS early this year, has returned to the BR South Carolina etate.iailrnAd ~?o?-? mission with a request for a peroitm for interstate traffic between Tarheel I Jg and Palmetto points. This last is so S skillfully drawn, that the railroad commission has asked the attorney general to tell it <m what grounds it can be rejected* ,, I I VEGETABLES IN I Tempting Variety ' I They're "chockful of vitamins," as I the doctors say. Eat more daily, fl Get Jem fresh, crisp, as tasty as Na- I m ture grows them. 9 Telephone 47 I WE DELIVER 81 R. S. Williams Store I v^ww?r^r yotvi c4aamj cyyy ;; * I Don't Rasp Your Throat I With Harsh Irritants ] "Reach for a LUCKY instead" Nowl Please!?Actually put your finger on your Adam's Apple. Touch It?your Adam's Apple? Do you know you are actually touching your larynx??This Is your voice box?it contains your vocal chords. When you consider ydur Adam's AddIo, j you are considering your throat?your^ vocal chords. Don't rasp your throat with " harsh irritants ? Reach lor a LUCKY instepd ? Remember, LUCKY STRIKE Is the only cigarette in America that through its exclusive "TOASTING" process expels certain harsh Irritants present In all raw tobaccos. These expelled Irritants are sold to manufacturers of chemical compounds. " They are not present In your LUCKY STRIKE, and so we say "Consider your Adam's Apple." TUNBIN?^ TMLdbtirik nMNOrdUM^ **ry Tu*U+y. Tkur&dmy mmd SigHKfftt "It s toasted" I Including the use of Ultra Violet Rays I ' Sunshine Mellows?Heat Purifies ? ? ??. ^Tita -?* eiSS?eP' Iwl 1 wu' InnniT rrvTwvnOn?OQOInlT IITinillPH^W] v!;S