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|| Visiting Clergymen H J Former Athletes (By John W,( Lyman) That the clergy is by no means a solemn, straightlaced, gloomy profes- J ?ion as some of our Turitan fathers conceived can certainly be attested by the radiant glow and charming smiles' that adorn the faces of those most ^ welcome guest* at The Kirkvvood Hotel, Fathers John O'Brien, William Toohig and William Fox all who hail , \&r/ from the New England stutes. The, solemn-faced minister of today !A preaches to empty pews and his parishioners give him more or less a pretty wide berth, especially the young people of his congregation. | For the minister who, back in his col- I lege days got as firm a grounding in. his football, baseball, track and hockey as he did in his canon law, lattin, | Greek and Hebrew, stands the chance i of serving his profession better and more successfully. How much more interesting is that) clergyman who can take interest in tho< fcports and games of those about him. The minister who can sit down und relate incidents of some particular. game when a young utility fielder was called in a game of baseball,, caught a difficult fly in center field i retiring a side and stopping a rally, or breaking up a lie game with a: needed base hit or a home runner; orj of the sub half back gathering up uj fumbled pigskin and skirting his op-[ poncnts' end for a lone touchdown, j To have been a varsity player means j that much more for any wearer of the clothes. Fathers O'Brien, Toohig and Fox were athletes in their college days, especially Father Toohig, who played, two years' varsity football on the* Holy Cross team, and Father Fox, of the same institution, who was considered such an excellent third baseman that, upon graduation, was offered a place by Connie Mack, of the) Philadelphia -Athletics, but, both hav- j ing set their minds upon the priest- j hood, when their college days were) over, they entered the seminary, the fielders gloves and shin guards were hung up for all time, as those days we re over so fur <i*> competition Wtis concerned, but neVer in memory. Tells of Sockalexis j Back in the day 1 I" ) j when our fath? r- played tne giva. j American game and kept up with th?* j records of the tamed piayer.- A'V.o-. Kusie, J oh n M (?r:i\\, llug.iey .b n-, lling -, W illie lxeelev. B.g I'.d D' ehantey, the "Babe Ruth id the 1.*> . and such stars were at the zenith <>' their careers, father fox recall- the name "f that great Indian play*, r and, team-ma to. Socktilexi*, w(;?? hai,e*i from Old!own. Miitfttv^ "M'X . a- ne j was known t<> hj^h*iu?\ mate.-. :mmediateiy displayed sign-vd major j league calibre, and .le>-e Burke'*'. ofi the Cleveland team and coach at Holy i Cross, began watching "Sox" from the very first day he donned a un:form. It was not long before the handsome Maine redskin was burning up the pasturage in and about center field, and rapidly becoming the terror to all college pitchers. Such "mound" masters as "Doc" White, of Georgetown; Clarkson, of Harvard, and others were as careful not to groove the batter's plate when "Sox" was at bat as any modern day hurler would take chances with Ruth, Jimmy Foxx or Ix>u Gehrig. It is the opinion of Father Fox that Sooknlexis was far and above any college player during his college career, and while he has seen several marvelous college players since that time, few may have been the great Indian s equal, but certainly none his superior. After graduating from Holy Cross Sockalexis went to the Cleveland team at the time when "Cy" Young was at the zenith of his pitching career. In his many years of National league baseball Sockalexis was always an outstanding and colorful player. He ranked with the best of his day. and those were days of great players. He was the first Indian to make the big leagues, netting a precedent for others of his rac*- i*> follow like "Chief" Bender, Jack Warhop. John Myers and others. When Sockalexis graduated he immediatc!l#ver.t to the '"""/eland club. Father F>>x wa.- a.-'xed become a member of the Athl* and "Doc' White, of Georgetown, went '* the Chicago White Sox. Baseball loosing Out in College* Father Fox laments over the fact that baseball is gradually loosing out in the colleges. Football has taken its place and most of the glory. Rowing. g<df and other sports have also become more and more popular every year, and being spring sports cut deeply into baseball. Since Father Fox's college days Holy Cross, which is today the outstanding baseball college, has pro duc?<i other great players, among them being Jack Barry, the present eoaeh. Barry was long a member of rrr.? Connie Mack's famous infteld that won two world championships from 0 the Giants back in the day* of Christy Mathewson while at the heighth EL' ^ ... I Better Pastures More Livestock Clemaon College, Feb. IS.?Interest continues to grow in better pastures to provide grazing for more livestock, as may be seen from these typical reports from county faun agents. A cooperative order was placed for a ton of carpet grass seed to be used on thu lowlands for pasture. More than 50 farmers have planted carpet grass during^ the past few years and ure finding it entirely satisfactory for pastures.?S. M. Byars, Aderson. ^ In 15>27 only 21 pounds of carpet grass seed were ordered; in 1928, 486 pounds, sufficient for 60 acres; in 1032, 1732 pounds, 220 acres; in 1033, to date, 800 pounda. Cattle are grazing green carpet grass now, although we have had rather severe winter.? C. B. Cannon I^aurens. We have .ordered 6600 pounds of carpet grass seed, 5500 pounds of lespedeza, 1200 pounds of Pallas grass seed, which will he sown on 1000 acres of pasture lands during the spring.?K. C. Turner, .Jr., Green* wood. Several hundred acres of pasture land have iri recent years been planted in this county, mostly carpet grass and common lespedeza.-?J. I*. Graham, Jasper. ' There is much interest in pastures, and a comparatively large area of new pasture land is being prepared for graAVs and clover seeding.?Claude Kothell, Saluda. Small grain where seeded early in the fall for grazing purposes has offered an abundance of grazing in Chesterfield. (I. T. Little on four acre's with a mixture of oats, wheat and rye has had grazing for 15 head of hogs since November 1.?W. J. Tiller, Chesterfield. Midway High School Honor Roll Grade 1.?-Sarah Davis, Myrtle Corbitt, Lillian Jtodgers, Lillie Rodgers, I'erry Lee McCoy, Ralph Young. Grade 2.?Bessie Ia>e Corbitt, Colene Hull. Willis Tidwell. Grade J>.?Johnnie Garrison, Troy West. (trade 1.? Lunnell Elliott, Lewis Lee West. Grade ">. -Archie Gordon. Ferris .1 <.yner. Margaret West, Willien West. Grade <>,?Thelma Brannon. Mary Evelyn llunnicutt, Elizabeth McCoy, Roddy K't/.ier, Lolly Stokes. Grade 7.? Mnrgarette Anderson, Sadie Corhitt, Gene Cooper, Sidney Gardner. IL>raee_Joyner, Willie Horlon, Emily McCoy, William McCoy. Thomas Tidwell, Dorothy West, l>aurie West. Grade S.? Ethelyne Corbett, Ruth Walters. Grade lb?Oralie Brannon, Martha M< s< lev. Thelma Stokes, Blanche Threatt. Ruby Gay West. Grad<> 11. Robert lx-e, Mary MrCoy, \ ivian Stokes. A pig with a desire to scratch its back, chose a loaded rifle loaning against a fence post near Oasnge City, Kan. Mr. Fig rubbed against the trigger, the rifle was fired and the bullet went through the log of Will Regeneld, who owned both porker and rifle. Eire destroyed a grain elevator on Goose Island Chicago, with its contents, nearly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat. Thursday last. of his career. These games recall the feats of Home Run Baker. A few years ago Holy Cross developed a great pitcher, Owen Carroll, who only a few days ago figured in the deal which brought him to the Brooklyn club in exchange for the famous Dazzy Vance, Father Toohig, a college mate of Father Fox, was a member of the first varsity football team at Holy Cross. For two years Father Toohig played tackle on his team, taking part in games with Williams, Wesloyan and colleges of that class. | Holy Cross back in late 90's did not play Harvard, Vale or Princeton as i it does today. The game was different than it is today, the bigger and ; older universities then had the fa: mou* teams and the best known com he<. Today the smaller university is on par with the big universities. and to win over-Yale. Princeton, Harvard or Pennsylvania is common occurrence. During the past thirty years many new colleges have come to the fore, among them being ;X- !:e Dame, Georgia Tech and others. During their sojourn in Camden Father O'Brien, Father Toohig and Father Fox piay their daily rounds i of golf. They have seen many of the . best players in tournament matches, and they get as much pleasure out of the game as the keenest enthusiast. They still love t& turn back father time to those good old college day? and relate little incidents that 1 happened on the diamond and grid! iron, which makes them far more inj teresting and useful clergymen than had they just poured over their books ; and not taken part in those college sporta which keep their memories freah and keen. Old Log Jail Once Held Aaron Burr Warthen, Gu., Jan, 28.?A chapter , in the stirring history of America's pioneer days is claimed by this town because its crude log jiiil built in 1783 once imprisoned Aaron Burr. He had been arrested at Natchez, i Miss., on suspicion of plotting to seize a sizeable southern portion of thq new republic, combine it with Mexico and form a new empire. Federal soldiers conducting him northward chanced to reach Warthen at dusk, so they camped and lodged tho former vice president of the Uhited States in the common jail for the night. A few sentries stood guard over the I prison during th? hours of darkness while their fellow troopers made merry at tho home of Richurd Warthen for whom the town was named. Next day Burr and the soldiers continued their journey towards Richj mond, Ya., where he was tried for treason and acquitted. Fireside stories handed down from generation to generation describe the town's great excitement at having Burr as an unwilling guest. Only a few months before ho had killed Alexander Hamilton in their feud growing out of political differences. News traveled slowly in those days, but it went fust enough to make Burr's name a household word even in the backwoods. The pioneers who constructed the Warthen jail knew the sort of timber that would endure,, and they built well. The logs remain firm and intact, but less substantial timbers in the doors, windows and roof are showing the ravages of time. Another of Burr's experiences was darkened with tragedy involving the South. His only daughter, Theodosiav left Georgetown, S. C., for New York on a sailing sloop and was never seen again. Numerous theories have been advanced as to what befell the ship and all on board, but none has been agreed I upon by historians as the solution of the mystery. A persistent legend has it that pirates infesting the desolate sand strips off the North Carolina coast lured the vessel to the beach at Nags i head, N. Q., and killed all on board. Folk lore attributes the name of ; Nags Head to a pirate custom of tyI ing a lantern to a horse's head and leading the steed along the beach at j night. Bobbing up and down as the i horse walked, the light gave the ap| pearance of a ship riding the swells.. Vessels at sea would presume that j indicated safe anchorage and would 'venture shoreward to bo wrecked on the shoals and looted by the pirates. They tell you at Nags Head a portrait of herself that Theodosia Burr carried on her fatal voyage has been 'seen from time to time in the shacks of fishermen who know naught of its history, save that it was handed down | from one generation to another. Mrs. Hern Thomas, wife of a New York Giants baseball player, shot her brother, Bruce Close, ( Jtp death at Astor, Fla., Friday. It is alleged that Close threatened to kill his sister and three small children and entered her room armed with a shot gun. Following an investigation the county judge discharged Mrs. Thomas for lack of , j evidence on which to hold her for the killing. j j A big gas tank at an iron works in Neunkirchen, Germany, exploded shortly before midnight Friday night, and killed approximately 200 persons and injured about 1,000 others, besides wrecking the industrial part of the city of over 40,000 inhabitants. ; The noise of the explosion covered an ' area of 250 miles along the Rhine ; valley from Cologne to Basel, Switzerland. Baby's Bath Almost Starts Riot in a City Spokane, Wash., Feb. 12?A maid caring for the infant eon of Mr, and Mm. tames L. Canwell?while the parents were away?took the baby into the bathroom for a bath. Remembering something she had forgotten, she left him in the tub and stepped outside. On returning she found the door was locked Then things began to happen. The telephone at police headquarters jangled. "A baby is drowning at 1804 West Mallon," the desk sengeent heard. In a couple of minutes a patrol wagon was racing to the address. Another telephone jangled in a downtown office. "Your baby is drowning," Canwell was told,Slamming his desk shut he ordered his motor car and started onKa wild ride home. His car crashed into another, wrecking both, but he jumped out and ran down the street. A deputy sheriff saw the wreck, shouted "Car thief," and started after Canwell. He was! surprised to see the man run toward a polico patrol wagon at 1304 West Mallon, but continued the chase and reached the door of the house with the sprinter. Meanwhile, inside, the police had just smashed the door of the bathroom. They found Junior chasing a bar of soap, howling with glee. A member of the Arkansas house of representatives in a debate on prohibition, declared that a majority of his fellow legislators are drinkers. The house passed a resolution calling on the state's Ajpresentatives in congress to support the national Democratic platform on the liquor issue by a vote of 63 to 14. ' Oldest Railroad Man More Than Hundred Aiken, iS. C., Feb. 12.?Capt. ThoT^ nuw Washington Coward, Vnowjj ^ America's oldest railroad man, today marked his 101st birthday. Captain Howard is in good health 3 except for failing: eyesight and a 1 minor injury suffered in a fall Wv*r- i al days ago, but he did not propoa* to allow these disabilities to interfere with the celebration planned at his home two miles from Aiken to- ! morrow. He has spent much of hli life farming and until a short tine ago cultivated a garden. His services ?s a conductor oq the. old South Carolina railroad from Charleston to Hamburg terminated 68 years ago. to the day last Satur- 1 day. He was forced to abandon Ma train at Graniteville S, C., February U, 1805, during tho battle between the Confederate army and Union cavalry detachments of Wheeler and Kirkpatrick, and the railroad was de- 1 stroyed by Sherman's army. He served four months in the Confederate army and was stationed at Beaufort, S. C., but was recalled to duty on the railroad. He was born February 12, 1832, during the administration of Andrew Jackson and was a second cousin of that president. General John J. Pershing is ill at a hotel in Midland, Texas, with an at- | tack of bronchitis. His condition is not considered serious. TAX NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a one per cent penalty has been added to all 1932 state, county and school J taxes left unpaid through January 1, 1933. And on unpaid taxes after February 1, 1933, an additional penalty of one per cent will be added to i regular assessments. S. W. HOGUE, Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C. Camden, S. C., January 25, 1933. 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