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SPORTS SENSE AN1) NONSENSE ^ C , | ,-|n||| V By J FRANK H. HEATH beet wisheB aud a *>lg buuch| 0~LhjdiJ to Ina JJeLoache, a game' who after making eyes at old Wter decided she want^l to stick Lnri and ?"e ller Kb8? *lrl8 c?i) city title in the girl's division of *TwillgUl league. And Ina is makjj lhe gmdo, bleae her heart. Well We've often Wondered what k g'oup tlavored with red pepper jabaaeo sauce and a atick of dynaJ. might taste like. We asked Jack Idea and as Jakie Iiaynea had Just fbioi Bomu out of a apoon we knew ' iack spoke the truth when he Sped out "Hell." * well, those Merchants sure turned ithe Wall Street gang and surprised E own followers who had felt that Etakipg a 9 to 3 defeut Tuesday E, this fine Wolf machine, they Em jjot make the grade, r Speaking of Jack Nettles, I sort of sorry for him when he pulled that Ehty Casey stunt in the first Inning fwith the bases loaded struck at whiffle bugs that Haynea shot ^?* ? be way Nolan shot that long drive Bill Nettles Into Jimmy Williams third was a awelligant peg, for the came into Jimmy's glove right on E (tck and lie had several feet to I Ere when Nettles charged In. i * * rhfi Kerslmw Guards made an enEle showing at camp last week, , By won the First Hattalion softball E by defeating Hartsville 9 to 3, | E taking one from the Charleston Eg. J to t>. Then there were three K games that the boys won from Er&l military teams. Russell pitchBill the games and in one day'he Eked in three games. Not so bad. * * Eel! gang, the season in softball Ever. We have had a wonderful Bof fun, both the players as well Bhe spectators. We played to over Boo spectators in the period the Boes, men and girls, were in acB want to thank the team captains Btbe players for the fine support E gave my office. I cannot find Eds to express the gratitude that Be! toward each and. every particlB In our summer program. I hope B will ac cord trie the same coop [eration and loyalty in the winter program we are planning on. ? And thank* to Beth McDowell for taking care of the girl'* division, to Mary Helen Khume for scoring and bulletining for me, and to the several men who have ho kindly helped to run the gume by umpiring. 1 think ull of uh understand each other u great deal better, that our friendship!* are stronger and more closely knit together and that we are ull determined to pull for a bigger and better Camden. Orchids to Grainger Kornegay as the champion flght prognostlcator, Grainger, in his forecast of the IxmisFarr scrap said the bout would go the full fifteen rounds with Ixntis getting the decision. And that my friends is just whut happened. * * It's Just as we predicted. Mike Jacobs won the fight. Mike has already announced that a return bout between 'Louis and Purr is in the making. And how the fans will fall for-it. Mike can bet on a million gate. * We get a laugh out of the scoring of the flght, The United Press experts gave Farr seven rounds, Louis six and two. even. The Associated Press gave Louis 8, Farr 5 and two even. * ? The referee and the judges gave Louis 10 rounds plus and Farr three plus and one even. The ring side experts gave Ixniis from 7 to 9 rounds, Farr 6 and the remainder even. * * Louis said that he landed only one good punch on Farr during the whole flgh't. How about it fellers, can anyone of you get a picture of a great fighter?rated as one of the fastest and hardest hitters with both hands to ever step in a ring?only landing one solid punch in fifteen rounds. There sure is something wrong with the picture. Well, its all over and so is softball. And how the gang is grouching bocause all the fun of the summer comes to a close Monday next. About a score of the players have persistently begged for two or three weeks more of the sport. Nixie gang, we give the ball field over to the football team next week. I Softball Games (By The Skipper) Merchants Defeat Wolves k Nettles said it was duck soup, ips it was but we suspicion that lid soup was highly flavored with es red pepper, for it certaiul/ Jack a deuce of an attack of in;ion. Anyhow in plain United i, those peBky Merchants after I a 9 to 2 lacing from the Wolves Tuesday came back Thursday af011 and applied the whitewash i to a 4 to 0 victory and a somefirm grasp on the bunting for econd half. r is favored the Wolves when the l took the field at 3:45 o'clock."" iked as if the Wall Street crew really going to duplicate the Uy result for Vilbepigue opened j single and went to second ; (Ernest Wooten singled after F ClarkBon had popped to Wil18. Clarkson popped to Moseley \ pilly Nettles singled to fill, the, I with, good old reliable Jack NetIt the willow. But like old man I, Jack fanned out. Nufit said. I P that first frame the Wolves I saw third base and only one F got to second that being Billy . N in the last Inning. Billy tried fetch a double into a triple but Mtlful throw by Nolan to WilIkilled him at the third sack. _ I the Merchants they added their |carefully but methodically. One me in the second inning when I walked and scored on Good-1 F'ple. Goodale tried to stretch low into a homer but was naijed ; I Plate by a relay from Kirkland Igarkson to B. Nettles. ! Pe third inning Birchmore was P Rhame's error and scored on Pall's long drive. In the sixth l ine Merchants put the game1 when with one down Qregory \ P. Nolan poked out a hit' and Pcored on Jake Hayne's long j Pe gave seven hits and Haynes i I Guards Defeat Sox kershaw Guards motored from ! la?on lo Play a double head- j I ik w,Hsht league. They de 1'fie Sox in the opener, 6 to 4. W a fifth and sixth inning rally E k S?ljiers the game for a 4 10 3 ?dse on them up B, "V Russell pitched for the nd was nicked for seven1 J?. of them coming in,-the j jnninK when the Sox scored. a * , J Hasty pitched for the 5^ yielded nine hits. Jackson's j ?na with a triple by W.! th * a 8ln^le by Reeves in the Guards-the game! *0r*<l three runs. Pros Upset Dope on??kSRiona,f' 8taged a vicious i tiJ n offertPK8 of Butch SanI ?f .v?'Quard ?ame? the third U ' the afternoon Thursday, r u?f8 8eYe? runs. It was LrJng, ,n whlch ^s them %but !t wa* ?nough J1 & 7 to 3 victory over oat o?rd.K?0tflt and tbe it ih e tor s atJL 6 Betond rsg. th,rd ,nBhlK L interesting. Reeve* VoS fSSu,w?S came around on some infield outs. In the sixth four hits sandwiched with an error gave them two runs. DeLoache Defeats Hinson In the girl's division of the Twilight league the Ina Del^oache team defeated the Hinson team and took undisputed possession of the city title for women. The score was 14 to 4. The DeLoache team won the flrBt half of the league race with an unbroken record of wins. They came from behind in the second half but won out by two full games. ^ White 8ox Upset Merchants The unexpected happened "last Friday when Percy May's White Sox up"?^t the apple cart and spanked the Merchants, 5 to 3, in a sensational five inning contfest. . Screw-ball Hasty's home run smash in the third with Watts on the path gave the Sox a two run lead and they widened it to a safer margin in the fourth when a series of doubles by Laney, Rose and Shirley, mixed with Moseley's error allowed three runs to canter home.The Merchants did not wake up until the fourth when hits by Goodale and Birchmore scored' a run. Two more counters came over the pan in the fifth when Nolan singled and Williams hit *or circuit. Bruce Forfeits Game The Hinson team defeated the Bruce team by a forfeit score in the last game of the season for the girl's division Friday evening. The girl's division honors went to the DeLoache team, this group taking both the first and last half honors, making it unnecessary for a playoff. Hinson finished in second place and Bruce third with Zemp bringing up the rear. The bureau of recreation is now getting the names of all the girls who will play in the basketball league, to be launched in November at the high school gymnasium. The bureau has made it plain that the basketball program will be for the girls who are able to give their time to the schedule. During the softball season just closed, it was necessary on a "number of occasions to cancel or postpone games because of conflicting social engagements by the players. Motor* Win Over Merchant* ' An adonis of7 the diamond, Beck Russell by name, kicked the Merchants out of any chance art 'winning a second half or season pennant in the Twilight league raoe when he set them down by a 2 to 0 whitewash defeat Monday evening in a game that hung up a record for brevity, the teams battling the full seven **ln* ning In Just 82 minutes of time. Not only did the Camden Gable hurl a beautiful three-hit game against the crack Merchant outfit, but his mates gave him glmost 100 per cent support. Only one bobble, that an insignificant boot by Williams, marred an otherwise perfect defense. The bureau of recreation'had set the game up to 0 o'clock whon both managers requested a full seven inning struggle. It was Hoar minutes past the hour when Haynes made his first heave of the game. It was twenty-four minutes to seven when the elusive Beck caused Bo Bo Goodale to pop np a abort fly to retire the side in (be last inning. " Only one member of the Merchant's brigade bed a look at second base, that being WHsoiL who scratched a tingle to right and took second on passed ball. Ouly four of the MerchuudlbB crew put ihelr footsies 6u first buse. three of them on hlte and one on an error. The Motors with Carl I.lghtfoot playing a dazzling game lu abort center, Williams performing beautifully at short, Rabin doing a Hank (Jreenbcrg at drat and the reat of the gang playing bung-up baaeball outplay ed the Mercbanta and deaerved to win, ultbough bud it not beeu for an error at Aral in tbe initial inning, we bave u auaplcion that the game might have gone into durkneaa with a HcorclcuH tie. That error at first when Ituaaeil gained a life *paved the way for the Motor offenaive which featured alngloa by Idgbtfoot and Cutoe which put two runnera across the counting pan. The error came with two down and would have retired the aide. The game wua not without lta brilliant apota, eapecially the noae dive catch that Gaskln made out in the left garden. That boy did more than take it oft hia ahoe atringa, he just dove for the apple and anugged it with hia outatretchod pawa aa he alid along the ground. It waa aa lino a bit of holding aa we have aeon thia aeuaon. The game put the Merchunts out of the running for any title chancea. Aa the raco now looma up, the Wolvea are leading but the Wedneaday game with the Guards may rob the Wall atreot group of any iltuc honor, ua a win for the ^soldiers will put them in a tie with the Wolvea and make a playofT neceaaary on the "day following. Thia will atretch the title aeries over to Friday and Monday. Essos Defeat Pros 1 he Ebbob wound up their regular schedule by taking the Pros into camp Tuesday evening in a seven inning fracas by an $ to 0 score. Hcrew-ball Hasty pitched a good game, giving up but throe hits while Special Delivery Russell waa nicked for 18 blows. The Pros, after taking the Guarda into camp last Thursday were doped to give the Ebbo team a real light but for some reason or other the team had slumped badly and In addition to being tied up by the puzzling slow ball delivery of Hasty, the defense crocked wide open at critical periods. Girls Stage Game While the regular season for the girl's division of the Twilight league closed last week, quite a number of the dames are showing up dally in shorts and jerseys to play "choose up" games. Wolves Defeat Guarda With Basil Bruce pitching a Buperb brand of ball and with the Wolves slashing the offerings of Charley Russell, Guard slabbist to the four- corners of the field, the Wolves effected a complete tipover of the dope bucket Wednesday evening, defeating the Guards 8 to 6, to win titular honors for the second half of the Twilight league race. A big delegation of feminine, tans i who had rooted vigorously all through the game for their favorites went Into hysterics when W. Sanders popped out to Z. Clarkson to end the conteBt and rushed ojit on the field to shake hands with the grinning Wolves. The assault on Russell waB led by E. WootAi who In five tripB to the plate hammered out a homer, double and two singles. Debonaire Chuck Klrkland, who resembles a Wall Street magnate did some fancy shooting with his stick by poling out three lusty swats to the outfield in four trips up. No one gave the Wolves a chance when they took the field against this snappy Guard outfit. The team was without the services of the favored sons, Clarkson Rhame, pitcher, Jack Nettles and John Villepigue, second baseman. But as a matter of fact the stars of the Wolves were not even needed for Bruce and Billy Nettles staged a battery act that was better than anything the team has offered this season. Despite the fact that they were up against a slugging aggregation, the team of Bruce and Nettles kept the eight hits registered scattered over all seven innings, two of them coming In the first frame when the Guards scored two runs. The game started off as If it might be a tight affair. Both teams scored two runs in the first and one in the second. In the third the Wolves poked out three hits which with a walk gave them a run. The Guards were retired in one, two order in the last of the third. In the fourth Inning neither team scored but In the fifth the Wolves added a run while the Guards were helpless. In the -sixth the Wolves ran the count to 8 to 3, when they pushed over three rum in which Wotten's homer was a feature. The Guards got the range in the last of the sixth and pushed over three markers to raise their count to f. Ia this half of the sixth there was hut one hit made, dpt .the Wolves went haywire and hung up three errors. Neither team scored in the seventh. The game gave the second half honors to the Wolves and they played the first game \>f the city series against the first half winners, the Ksao White Sox Thursday afternoon. . The second game will be played Friday and if a third game is necessary, it will be played/Holiday. J. 8. Decker, landlord, operating a farm of 200 acres near Sumner, Miss., is under bond on a charge of peonage. It la alleged that Decker chained a woman tenant to a bed with a trace chain around her neck, being "afraid his .tenants would leave bis' place witlput paying their debts," so the tenants, allege. NOTICE, TO DEBTORS AND S, CREDITORS All parties to the estate of Mrs. Eliza Amnions are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any: having claim* against the said estate win present them likewise, duly attested, within 4he time prescribed by iaw" r . DeLuiche Wins In Both Half* Orchids to thu girl's of the DoLouche team of the girl's division of the Twilight softball league. This sijjfudld team, captained by Ina Del -ouche, now confined to the Camden hospital, where she has been critically 111, went through thu season with but one defeat to mar what would have been a perfect recprd. This teuin of "dames" as the funs affectionately termed them, was un-1 der the coaching of Perey Mays, captaiu and manager of the Ksso White Sox of the Men's division of the league. Maya showed his ICsso girls how to run bases, how to hit and also taught them some of the huer points of the game, ills coaching resulted in the team making a runaway race in the first half and coining from an opening defeat in the second to take all the remaining games and nose out tile Hinson team. lua Delxiacho gave personal attention to her players until illuess com-1 polled her to turn over tho captalucy to Kludge Myers. When tlieii captain was stricken, the players Instead of giving up, were determined to carry on und spurred by the thought that by winning they would help their leador fight off a serious illness,' they cut loose .und rolled up burlul ground, scores on all opponents in /.the last' two weeks of the race. And I can say witli frankness thut these victories, the fact that her team wuh winning the second half and ulso j the city title helped ina to fight off the grim reaper. We look for Ina to be on the sidelines when the basketball season opens and when she is fully recovered you'll see her flitting over tho maples, spurring her team mutes to victory. The girls huve been fine sports. Especially do 1 want to compliment the Zemp team. This team won one Rtimo all season but tho team never quit. | They were on the spot for every gunio and never agreed to any forfeiture,1 even though they hud but a handful of players to put against another team. Gertrude Zemp, Billy Clarkson, Faith del-ouch, Genevieve Halle and all the rest of tho girls on tho team? thanks for some real 100 per cent sportsmanship. * Gertrude Gillis, who later became Mrs. Hinson was another fine girl. And Minnie Sue Bruce, captain of her own team, never missed a game. Beth McDowell, who looked after the girl's division for the bureau of recreation, was dependable at all times. N ? : I T. N. Morris, wanted for the robbery of the Lake City bank of $114,000 some time ago, was arrested by G-meti near Fayetteville, Ark., on a charge of banditry in Texas. Ho was wounded, not seriously, in the leg by tho posse. When he will be brought to South Carolina is unknown, after his trial and sentence in Texas. The Gmen could not assist^1* the Lake Cityrobbery, because it was a state bank robbed there. A Real Trlplo Threat I Know it folks. Something seemed to tell ine all season that this chap, Jimmy Williams, third baseman for the Merchant* team of the Twilight leugue wuh a reul triple threat type of Individual. Clot hold of u "Hickory Log," not the kind you think 1 mean, but \i year book of the Hickory, North Carolina high school and thureiu 1 found all about Jimmy. Jimmy was captain of the footbull team und earned the honor of being named ub end for the All-South Piedmont conference for two years in aucceatilon. He watt also captain of the basketball team, wan a wtar baseball player, a whiz on the truck, sang a swell tenor in the glee club, rated as the best all around boy in the school. Jimmy was also president of the junior class and dramatic club, a member of the 111-Y, was one of the stars ol the boxing class and business manager of the "Log," Now folks I'm Just wondering if Jimmy hadn't better take over my job. He sure bus a back ground that is swell. Hut I'm not surprised?for the way that chap capers around the baseball held proved to me a long time ago that he is of the stuff that stars are made, AIRPLANE PA88ENQER8 8EE STRANGE LAND PATTERNS Sky-travelers these dayB often see strange laud patterns from tho air. Ordinarily they look down on checkerboard fields with straight crop rows, but occasionally an ungeometrlcal doslgn which curves and twists with no apparent rhyme or reason meets their gaze. These world-looking areas, tho Soil Conservation Service explains, are simply farms laid out on the contour with crop rows winding around the slope. Every furrow Is on the level?to trap rain-water and prevent soil erosion. Antonla Rivera Cordora, who gave .authorities information concerning the attempted assassination of Judge UoJ bort A. Cooper in Porto lUco, was found dead Sunday, a suicide. An army airplane of the cargo type, after a flight of several minutes at Dayton, Ohio, was safely landed by a set of radio and electrically operated controls, making a perfect three-point landing. Tho apparatus, which of fleers said, could bo "packed in a small sized locker trunk," Is tho pro duct of two years' resoarch by air corps engineers at Wright field and was understood in authoritative Quarters to be the forerunner of "complote blind-flying" whereby plane operation from take-off to a distant landing may be accoinplished entirely Without human aid. cite* Baseball School * At Spartanburg Spartanburg, Sopt. 30.-^Offerlng ua opportunity to break Into professional baseball to all young players betweeu the ages of 17 and 22, the Durham 'chit) of the Piedmont league will open a school here September 10, which will run a solid week. ' Manager Paul O'Malley of the Durham Hulls, President Paul Florence, who formerly caught for thg York QlanU and several Glass AJL clubs. Manager l'at Putterson, of Deland, in the Florida State league and several well-known ^scouts of the Cincinnati Hods will he In charge of the school, giving expert Instruct ton In 1 playing the various positions, j No tuition will be ^charged, but. those attending must furnish thslft own transportation to the school, bring their gloves, shoes and uniforms nnd be in position to finance a week's room and board. Reaspnablo rates will be obtained in good quarters for the students. They should I have sufficient funds to return them to their homes. I Hnseballs and bats will be furnished j by the club, and any player who shows sufficient ability to be tendered a contract will have all expenses refunded. The contracts will assu-e them of trials next spring In one of the farm cumps of the vast Cincinnati ' organization. | President Florence has made a generul survey of the territory and believes there are hundreds of good ' young players In the two Carollnas and northern Georgia, ami he prevailed upon the Cincinnati head office to conduct the school here, a central loi cation for the territory. The major leagues are always on the lookout for a player who can handle a big league Job, and many a diamond in tho rough may come to . light in this school. The players' op* ; portunitles will bo limited only by - their own abilities, and with competI ent Instructors to help them, they will have a real opportunity to get a start in the national pastime. The German press Is now using an entirely now style of death notices exi pressing worship in Adolf Hitler and . nationalism. In place of tho customi ary phrase announcing a porson "died Li with belief in God," fervent national , j socialists use "died with belief In l[ Adolf Hitler," or "died with belief In I his Fuehrer." , , ^ ^ gt. w?? Notice, Motorists! I I - On September 1st, I re-entered business at my I I fl old stand, the II Esso Service Station I II 1 I at DeKalb and Lyttleton Streets. I hope to see 11 II my friends and customers soon ? I sincerely ap- 11 ^ 1 I * II preciate your business in the past and hope to be || || favored with your continued patronage. || H I .?? ; H I I I JOHN LANGFORD I Bl B Ml * * ~ * Mi I ; Complete ESSO Service and Products Including the Full Line of || Atlas Tires, Batteries and Accessories || II : / HAPPY MOTORING, M? I] 4 JOHN || II ||