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SPORTS SENSE . ?y AND NONSENSE FKANK H HEATH Ah we K" to press the c ream of < umden softball talent 1h playing I" the Ktute ehufupioitship tournament at ('oluinbla. * I'nder the management of I'ercy Maya, the teum u|fioldlnK the kioi y of old ('umden la made up of C. Ithame, W Woolen, Jack Nettles, I'drehmoro, Stanley Mahill, .lac k Halle, W Reeves, Jim WllllaDiH, Lee Went, T M Hruce, JenkliiH, Meyers, Hockman, Lharlle ItuaBell, Joe MoHeley und Hec k HuhhcII. ? ('umden liaa hud Hofthall only Hlnce ihe- middle of May unci yet the boys have become so proficient that they can take- cure of themselves against the heat of teama Which If I may nay la aome record for about three* motitha playing the game. * Hurvla Samlera la back from Moa ton,deah old place of pork and beana and the Moaton tea party I'urvls saya to keep an eye on the Guards from now on. * Well, I poked the little vs h11< ball around Sunday morning ancl believe it or not, deaplte the difficulty of pluyiDK billards on thoae hard aand greens, grubbed me a fairly good a< ore. What a course that Kirk wood layout would lie If there wan a nice patch of green grass over thoae miserable sand surfaces The ('umden News Service ante* could put that courae on the map It we had the chance of tolling the golf Ing fana that we have grass greens. Well, gctt ink warm writing sport comment so Hupposlng wo drift into a more or Iohh exciting line, near comeel> if I may so designate it. We crack a smile at the postcard .that Don Morrison sent uh from Myr I f|<- lleurh In which In* ?ii)'H that the distance fropi the altar to tin* ill vorce court In '?!? k smiles ' " Dr 'I' It Uruce In Kohln /.enip's drug emporium reading from the Churlottc Observer, "Physician hhwh 11 p IiIh own wound after operation." * Dr O It Kunrjorhtirk, sitting nearby and looking bored us he attacked a 2o ?ent platter of lee cream, murmuring. "Darn his hide," * Talking to Dr. Wllllford a few duys ago and when I mentioned how a physician over in Columbia had removed a coin from a man'h lungs, Dr. Wllllford said, "Well, It sure la uncanny the way theae surgeons can make people cough up." Oh hum * * .funic, .Janle, you'll alay mull The Idea of getting all liet up and peeved becauae you thought "The ltoae Howl"wna a picture of rare (lowers, and then found out to your utter disgust that It was a football story ? A headline In one of the state papers says "(ioal Stands (ironed and Defies Locomotive" (iuess the darned critter must have been feeling his tin < ana, eh w hat ? ? ? I noticed In one of the state papers that the gal up at Mullins who won the beauty content substituted tobacco leaves for lig leaves Oh well, that is her privilege If she "chews." Listened to that ColumbiaColumbus baseball game last Monday night and what a farce It was 2'.i to .'I for the Ited Hirds. I'd suggest that Hun jo Smith sell his Senators and buy up that Spartanburg Junior Legion outfit to represent the South Curolinu eapltol In the Sally league. Mebbe the Columbia fans would get something for their gate feea. PLAYERS TO REPRE8ENT CAMDEN IN STATE TOURNAMENT As a result of a poll taken by the Rurcaii of Recreation among tIt** cap tains of the loams in the Cumden Twli i k; 111 basoball league, tbo following players in the loop will represent Camden in the stale ehanipion.ship tournament to be hold at Columbia August f>. t> and 7 Rhanio and Woolen. pitchers; Nettles and Lightfoot, catchers; Rabin and Hailo, lirst base; Reeves. second base; Williams and Mays, third base; West and Mosuley. short stop:! Staley and Rruce. short center; Meyers and Russell, tenter Held; Jenkins, left held; Reckmun. right Held. Softball Games ( Ry The Skipper) CAMDEN WINS DOUBLE-HEADER AT TWIN LAKES LAST FRIDAY Camden softball talent demonstrated that they are the equal of the best . in the state when they took on the best that Columbia can offer, winning a double header at Twin Lakes last Friday evening The track McMaster team of the Columbia city league, touted as being the hist state champion, bowed to a top noli I) C.imden squad in a ninej 'ni.in.: ha' I le h\ a 1 (u o s< 01 e ' V'ei going I \\ o extra innings to1 ''tin the M M a ' r l e.i m i he bins' ' :n )n i ii.r; -,t me- a ?>i t le- -.n:t: i ' ' U tie- S w t: t team of Co " ' i n 1 - \ . t In m a .. ,t t *. ' i: ib I *i I i i 11 : ,'|| I I ' t I ' .Midi n ' ; 'mi lip : ' ' > '. it tilling- aid w a '? !' !' dan I'he i };;;!i>i\ >v ; I' r: g ' O :' * .< fin I: g a t. -1 I le uuii ; i m an! i: a \ cib-d t \ tunings i ' en.|, he .Petite:! - I v . Walter W oo'ep. a i hatn e tit the enem> I he Caind.-n team was made up of Khatlle ? pltehe! . Wootetl. pit* her; Nettles/ catcher; Hallo, tirst base; i K.'t'tvv second base; Mays, thud j base; Lightfoot. short. Clarkson, short. Russell, short renter; Stale), but. Rruce. center; and Jenkins, right Camden will he represented in the state championship games to be played next week at Columbia The run that won the tirst game at Twin Lakes came in the ninth Inning Rhamo led oft with a single but was retired at second whon the next batter rolled to short. Reeves got a life and managed to work his way around to third hasp With two down. Reck Russell rolled a tantalizing slow grounder to third base and before the Columbia third sacker could pick up the ball, Reeves had splinted across the plate and Reck had beat the throw to tirst. DeLoache Wins Two Straight l-ast Thursday and Friday games in the Girl's Twilight league found Ina Del-oache's team winning two games one by a 14 to 3 score over the Zemp team Thursday aud by a L'2 to 1 score over the Little team Friday. Rruce's team won over Little by a forfeit score Thnrsdav ef'-?*-noon As result of the last of the week games the DeLoache team, first half winner, was within a half game of the leaders and going oa thoy have after a temporary setback to open the second half they will probably take the lead before the present week's schedule is concluded. The ('.illis team appears to be the only team that the DeLoache team has to fear in this second half of the race, for in Davis, Miss Lulu has one of the best players in the league, although Meyers of the DeLoache team is dangerous at all times. Pros Take Double Beating Doctor Oscar Horatious Funderbul k's Professionals soared to heavenly paths of glory when they trampled mi the C.uards S to 1 in the not so distant past, but they sure suffered I r? versa I of torm on Thursday and I'liday. losing to the White Sox. 12 to and t<> the Wolvos. 11 Io t> in 'o two .lay- The game |'rida\ was i .t.;. <1 ,ii i bo lot of ibe lir>I ball' of i i I:' I !i i: 11;; 11 : as some ot lb. pay - ibo \\ >l\o to.mi w.-r-' 'o take ' ai .i ano at "I w in 1 .ak s Pros Jooi Forfeit Group Do. Futi'b rl'W rk's 1'roio--io!.a' s ... 1 . n > in a t < v ft \ . a: t of some i. in. . n pla>? i- at th'- ball park Monda. Mictit al.d > > i hrtrt to forfeit to the M > i'( Ii.i lit s I - . it: l i !.e forfeit put the Mor. bants out 'l tioin in the -> < end half league ia?e by a half game over the Wolves. I t'o-e two stellar teams were to have 111. t Thursday afternoon and what a battle it would have been Hut the state title tournament at Twin Lakes Thursday dashed the hopes of the tans for a Merchant Wolvo meeting i his week and the game goes over until a Inter date. The vacation period is raising havoc with the rnnks of the various teams and for the next week, there may be other games either canceled or forfeited Carl Lightfoot. captain of the Motors has gone to Oklahoma for several weeks hunting Indians aud desperadoes while Larry Staley has also left the the home town for a vacation Jaunt Guards Stage Comeback The Kershaw Guards after taking It on the chin for three games, came back like a ton of bricks to wallop . the Motors IX to X Tuesday evening I in a Twilight league game. The Guards, with Purvis Sanders back on the Job and with Robinson working a major league brand of ball at third, looked like a new team and will make the Merchants and Wolves travel at top speed from now on. Woodrow Sanders led the assault against the Motors, getting a double and three singles in four times at bat Wilbur Reeves, the tiny terrier, that we said would hear watching as a pitcher, hurled a three hit game for his mates and was really high class in every sense of the word Hroome's home run with two on saved the motors from a neat whitewashing. The circuit clout came in the fifth Inning The Guards scored in every inning but the third, getting one in the first, one In the fourth. Ave In the second, four in the fifth and sev#n in the sixth Inning Jewel Thieves Visit Home of Gary Cooper Los Angeles, July 30.?Hurglurs broke into the palatial home of Gary Cooper, Him star, and stole jewelry valued in excess of $18,000 early today. The burglary was committed while Cooper and his wife, the former Yer oniea Halfe. were out visiting friends. A housekeeper, awakened by the actor's dog. discovered that many rooms had been ransacked Returning Just as police were making an investigation, the Coopers made a hurried appraisal of their losses, which may total more than $2.r?,()()(). Soaring rice prices are causing much worry in Japan. Pisgah News Notes I PlsgHh, Auk 4. ? Rev. J T. Little John, of Bishopvllle; pastor or Pingah Baptist church. assisted by R?v I. I) Leppard, of Max ton, N. con dueled a splendid revival meeting hore laat week Miss Marion Crocker. I of Spartanburg. an leader, conducted a very successful dally vucation Bible school then also Miss Crocker had an her assistants Misses (Jrace KIIKore, Elizabeth Dlckeson, Louise An hill, of Bishopvllle; Mm K. it. Kenny and M 1mm Leila Drown, of Humbert, Mm Cecil Rogers, Mim. Leroy Rogers and Misses Theiinu Baker and AureUa Stuckey. About fifty boys and girls. aKCH 4 to 17, rroin Hombert, Hprlnghill and the Pisgali neighborhood were enrolled. The church wan very grateful to MImh Crocker and , Hfci hoi porn and It ih to bo hoped that lane cuii come again next year. On I hurnday and Friday W H. Shiver and J, L. Shiver entertained the whole school with twenty visitors from Mizpuh with a watermelon slicing. On Friday after services Hev's. LittleJohn and ia?ppard, and MIhm Crocker and her helpers enjoyed a picnic at the home of Mr. Llttlojohn. After wards they visited the Jail In Bishop Hie. taking lunch to the prisoners, and having services with them. Mrs. C. C. King, who visited relatives here and In Sumter, has returned to her home in Iliad In, Georgia Mis. T. m Rogers, of Rembert Hpent last Week with Mrs. Cecil Rogers. Luring the revival meeting Rev. Llttlejohn, Rev. Leppard, and Miss j rocker were entertained in the homes of Mr. and Mrs. VV II Shiver Mr" 7."' Mr; '' F ''"I""-. Mr. and' ' M kblver, Mr and Mra I toy Rogers, Mr. and Mrs K R KenItey. of Rembert. and Mr. and Mrs < harlie Jackson, of Horatio. inM,'H J 1 Watson spent vv u ?,!n?Hday with Mr. and Mm. >> l'. Baker. Mrs Charlie Jackson, of Horatio. Jame with Miss Ellen Misses Elizabeth Dickersou and wm, \tt a .?punt lasl Thursday with Miss Aurelia Stuckey. M|ss Ellen James spent Thursday at Rembert with her sister, Mrs James Reams. *'? , ',oh" Hawkins and daughter, Wi!?,' m' ?/- '^ombert, spent Friday with Mrs. Cecil Rogers. Mm Clarence Dunluy and Mrs. Belon M(Manus were supper guests of m. . shiv'*r Saturday night. ,, 1 and Mrs. Leroy Rogers spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. VV H Shiver. Miss Anna Hawkins and Mr. and with vV,rn?8\ V,tManUS Sundav \f,- i> ) Ml'I,on MeMailu.With / ,{ak,'r ?pent yesterdav her R'trents. Mr and Mrs J T Watson. ,n su, Duke And Duchess Dance Three Hours Venice. July Uiwrhe Duke and Duchess of Windsor "did the Lido" last night?and part of this morning. They returned to their hotel earlytoday after dancing for three hours at the Pergola night club, topping ofT a full day of recreation, their first of a week on this famous beach. AMELIA EARHART AND DUKE OF WINDSOR OFFER ADVICE in an extremely timely article appearing in this month's (September) Issue of Real Charm Magazine, Amelia Earhart offers her own advice to those young American women contemplating Aviation as a career. In aviation women are outnumbered forty to one." writes Amelia Larliart. 'but more will gain admltance when a greater number knock uL the door." It and when you do knock at the " '"'-.lit in: well to bring an a\.< .tiling, Miss Larhart (ontinaes, you may ha\e to chop y?uir way through. I i ad it ion Mill bar- many! door- to till- leuiab'. Of tin- -p.-, ies. L i- a question m my mind whether rl,-"uts tor i*mploy nn ni are not just as numerous in those holds not u-ual1> (onsidered open to women as they tue in more conventional ones because die latter are so very much overcrowded.1' Sharing the spotlight with Amelia Earhart in the current Real Charm Magazine is no less a personage than H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, in which the former King of England Is quoted as saying: In my travels I have found that American girls are the best dancers in the world. 1 danced with heaps of them during the short visit 1 paid to the United States. Generally speaking. they are better than the English fiiria because the*- are not so absurdly nervous." Continuing, the Duke of Windsor has the following to say on the subject of marriage: "I don t think any man should marry before he Is thirty-two. l once said that twelve hours out of everyday 1 had to be what other people wanted me to be, and the rest of the time being myself. If I married. I said that I should have to spend the rest of my time being what my wife wanted me to be." Itorolhy Parker, Lily Pons. .M?rvyn LoRoy. Josephine Runn. llelene Van I)yke and Then,lor,. Jr,?, ?re am.ng Ihe other principal contributors to this month s Real Charm Magatlno Greenwood Index-Journal South Africa Is threatened with a shortage of gold miners. h a Former Slave. Dies Rock Hill Hock Hill. July 27.-~n remember it Just like yesterduy," the wo in an said, "I wan put up on the block and sold 1 remember them bidding $900, the price that bought me." A wrinkled old black woman rocked in her chair in the muii one day and watched u? a world?to her more than a century old uml yet so astonishingly new moved and changed about her. Beside her, a young man who liked to write stories listened to her words. She wan telling him she hud lived 10f> years and recalling scenes of bygone years. Recently the writer went back to the sunny little yard where the wrinkled old bluck woman hud Hut and found Amanda Cornwell?that was her name?gone from her chair near the big oak tree. "Aunt Amanda is dead," they told him. Stripped of her own colorful telling, Amuhdu's story loses much of its originul flavor. Briefly it was this: She lived approximately 105 yeurs; she was a slave; she remembered much of her long life's experiences. Her daughter, instructor in a negro college, says that to the best of her knowledge her mother was really more than 100 years old. "The time is so long. 1 just can't think," Amanda kept saying that day as she sat in the sun. Then she would bring out another wisp of memory and begin searching again?searching in the pust for what might be recorded there. "I was born in Danville, Va. I'm not sure, but I think we'uns belonged to a family named Street.' But I was just with them when I was ve^y young. Me, uiy mother, and three other young'uns were sold. I was Just about six years old. "Slave speculators (Amanda stumbled a bit over the word) used to come around and look us over. One day 1 was sold and carried to Chester, S. C. "1 remember it just like yesterday. I was put up on the block in Chester and sold. 1 remember the man bidding $900, the price which bought me. Big. husky men, like my grandson here (pointing) brought $1,000. I was bid In for $900, as I said, a good price. The man who bought me was named Robert Kennedy, and he was my master. 1 did every kind of work tor him. "Mr. Jesse Corn well had a plantation near where I lived. He owned my husband. He went to the Big War with the North as a body servant for Bill Thomas, who was Mr. Cornwell's son-in-law. "Just as soon as me and my husband came to Rock Hill to live. We have been here a long time. Nigh on to forty years in the same house. My husband died years ago. I don't know how long it's been. "See them children playin' out there in the street? They're my greatgrandchildren. I had sixteen kids, but only one of 'em is living now. "What made me live to be a hundred and five?" That's easy. I always had a good master. I've worked hard all my lit"**, too." Amanda was a living link with the past with the times when slaves worked groat plantations in the south, and i lie Confederacy nourished. While tie- War B- tue. ti the States ram d, Amanda 1< ok-.1 en and wonderd. Her" passion wa> like the tearing of a page I rem a hook before it could he completely read, Julius Brittlebank. the globe trotting Charleston business man, 79 years old. who was on his 18th world tour, died suddenly in a Honolulu hospital, after becoming sick on a steamship. He made his first circuit of the earth 2f> years ago. He was in China when the Boxer rebellion broke out, the start of the Russo-Japanese war found him in Russia, and at the nare-up of ihe Balkan wars, he was in Montenegro. When the World war began, Rrittlebank was among the last foreigners to leave Germany. He was in Ethiopia when that recent war loomed, and In Spain at the beginning of that war. He was taken as a baby to the inauguration of President Lincoln, ami 1907, he saw Edward VII crowned emperor of India, at Delhi. He was bom in Indiana, his mother a Virginian and his father a naturalized Englishman. He began business in Charleston over fifty years ago. He leaves a son in Washington, D. C. Infant Dies Hu*h Catoe- four months old. died at his home in the Providence community on Friday. July 9.? 8Grvlces were conducted at the 1 easant Hill Baptist church by in i . ?uten on Saturday, July r *ml interment was in the church>ard cemetery. Surviving are his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Catoeth 9 Wtftrl' I)oro,h>' ftnd Betty, and w brothers. Malcolm. Van and Howard Sincere sympathy is extended the family tn their bereave Two Executed In N, C.,Gas Chamber Kulelgh, N. C., July 30. -ThomaH Perry, 23 year old Wake county negro, and A, W. WttUon, 21-year old nutlve of Athens, GJa , died by gud toduy at slate's prison In the two quickest asphyxiation* on record here. Ferry was convicted of ravishing a degress at Wake Forest and prison i officials said he was the first negro' to die for attacking a member of his ' own race since Walter Morrison, of Robeson county died as the first vietim of electrocution in 1910. Watson died for the roh^ery-inurder of Thomas Holliduy, a tilling station attendant in Martin county, but contended to the end that though he participated in the crime he did not do the killing. Cias was administered Ferry for 9 minutes and 29 seconds and Watson for 8 minutes GX 12 seconds. MEMORIES OF MANNING'S MILL PERMEATE POINSETT PARK Manning's Mill Fond was a name known to many a farm and plantation boy and girl as a place where the mill wheel turned, accompanied by the merry song of falling waters. A pluce where the corn was ground into yellow meal between the rough . mill ^(jynes at a speed which permitted it to retain a flavor old residents claim cannot be equaled by more modern methods of grinding. Nearby were the great plantations with their vast acres of corn and cotton and the enormously big palatial houses of the owners. Today the boys and girls who remember all this delightful spot have reached the reminiscent stage of life or have passed to their rewards. Those who are still with us recall the Joy of Ashing in the placid waters of the pond and the frolicking picnics on the shore. One venerable and highrespected citizen of Sumter county visited the pond again this week. In appearance, bearing and mental attributes this gentleman typlAes the highest qualities one usually associates with the old South. He was heard to remark that he regretted to see this area made into Poinsett State Park as it was the last wild area remaining In that locality and he enjoyed so thoroughly to drive near to it and walk the balance of the way along a winding woods road to the old dam and foundations marking the mill site. With the construction of the park came a well graded road, reconstruction of the dam, construction of a combination building housing the bathhouse and refreshment room with an attendant increase In visitors so that the solitude and some of the wildness of the area in the vicinity of the pond was destroyed. However, had an individual secured and posted against trespass this delightful area only a few would have been permitted to enjoy its beauties. I Bathing in the waters of the lake would no doubt have been closed to the public. The wild life would have ! been for the sport or pleasure of the few Instead of retained and made in ! violate for the observation of many, j The pangs of hunger after a swim or a hike could not have been appeased b\ tie- purchase ot a delicious country cored (litIII sandwich or a dolecti able :r.e,| chicken lunch served in j 1 nu : ' :'M to he eaten in the I i sha( , > - urdy coqnjna shelter, !iM ' " u 11 I ec.i'-d MM rear ion room j<>r ' r1' '; ::i( shelters u bu ll i oiler protection' frotu both sun and rain. (In a nearby hiH are found simple comfortable vacation cabins available at modest rental price to those who wish to spend all or part of their vacation in this charming and delightful park where one can learn to know and to love the dowers and trees as well as the wild life of the old South, all within less than an hour's drive of the State H^use at Columbia. > LOOKS AS MAR8HVILLE HA8^ BEEN SLEEPING BY Ukr What appear* U} be an undergo lake of pure free spum, w^ter ha* b dtbcoveretif juat ohe-fourth mil,. ** of Marahvllle 0u Marvi,, place uuil the town l? line from the main water ||0e { well that Mr. Stewart drill, d abo1 ten yearn ago. from which ti,e l0 will be supplied provided jt profn sufficient to take care of the t0w * needs. The new BUpp|y ()f wute^i! expected to be turned into th,. ... . v vu*. maim today. For all these many yeara the water ! supply here haa been a major proh. | lent, the wells from which the towa has been supplied all being bad br^t lab water and furnishing only tt limm jed supply of that. Strangers coming to Murshville have never liked tht water. It will not wash, makes poo! coffee or tea and the taste is unpalM. ^ahlo. If the new discovery pr0Veg what those who have investigated believe, our water worries are over Mr. Stewart states that when lu | drilled the well he went through | about eighty-five feet of soft day and rock, then struck a ledge of Hint about five feet thick. After piercing th? ledge the drill simply dropped |mo | space und that water rose to a depth I of sixty-five feet and stands there well and dry weather. A few days agol die town pumped five thousand gall Ions from the well without lowerlng| it at all. These facts lead to thel belief that under the ledge of running on what is known as the Jtm| Richardson hill, there is an under! ground lake of as fine water as Is t0| be found this side of the mountains. I In fact, the Richardson hill i8 ||.| self almost a little mountain. Sur| veyors say it is the highest point lnl this section and a Geodetic Surrey! party a few years ago established i| bench mark on the hill, from whichl surveying in this entire section may| be reckoned. It is twenty-five feet| higher than the point where the town| water tank stands. Other wells drlll-l ed In that neighborhood supply the! same kind of lasting water and experB fence of well drillers shows that thel ledge of flint is located from fifty tol ninety feet below the top of thel ground A number of years ago the tovil drilled a 1.300-foot well but got llttlel water. Three wells from 75 to lOtfl feet have been supplying the townl with enough water except in very dry I seasons. j It now appear8 that, while waferB could not be found within lh? townB limits, just outside a quarter of a mlltfl we have been sleeping by a veritable I Make of the kind of water we hare I been wanting. Let us hope the dream I comes true. We shall know withinH a few weeks' time after the town be-fl gins using from that wonderful well I Mr. Stewart has bargained with tbel town to furnish this water at a rerfl reasonable price and it cost only |WB to extend the line to the well.?Mod-B roe Enquirer. v Pleasant Grove Club Meeting B The Pleasant Grove club held ltil regular meeting July 27. Miss M&ritfl Vaughan was hostess. Miss FeweilM was present and gave an interestlnlH talk on "What the Home DemonstrfrB tion Club Was For." She also books to each club member telliniH I how to can and plant gardens. MrtH Oliver and Mrs. Jones were present,? also. During the social hour the chbH 1 :t.l music and singing with guitar? The hostess served take. lemonade? | and sliced watermelon. Snatched Bald-Headed j Spokane. Wash.?The train stopped? in Glacier National park. P. Weiga^? of Buffalo, N. Y? leaned out the wi?? dow to watch the antics of a big blart? bear. "Swish!" Went the bear's paw. I Off came Weigand's hat?and btf? The latter, fortunately for Weip*? was toupee. I I "Children and pet* running in and - V \ out let hies Into the house no mutter ' y how careful we are. To get rid of \ them I've u*ed different sprays, but \ nothing kills like black flog. Just a whiff A of Black flag and the By Is dead." W \ 1 "=?sSw2sg2 1 7 i n v^ ESSi*"*?^ I 11TO I