The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 18, 1938, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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SPORTS SENSE i Z I
AND NONSENSE 1 MH-HEATH
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Hats ft to Bill Chandler's Mar
<iuette university basketball team, admittedly
national collegiate champions.
following a || to 48 victory
over the powerful Notre Dame team.
1987 title holders. The game played
on a neutral floor In the mammoth
municipal auditorium was sensational
to a?t estveme. the Irish, with a clear
slate of wins, in two years going down
only after * most stubborn battle
against one of the greatest teams
that Qhaadler. admitted to be the
greatest basketball opaoh in the conntry.
he# ever tutored.
e e e e
And from alt I read la the press,
the Marquette rooters occupying onehalf
of the seating capaoity of 80,000
In the - auditorium, literally went;
nuts."
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And so we say "Hats off to Bill
Chandler and his collegiate champions."
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From basketball to cock fights is a
long ways. But we just have to get
this out of our system. It concerns
a cock fight that never took place but
it sure caused a wild scurry on the
part of State coppers, who it Is said^
wore sent out by the governor to stop
the show. Moral?Don't believe everything
you hear in ifish market.
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That basketball game last week be
tween Camden and Brook laml-Cay cu
Was a real thriller. This girl, *Jean
Plylcr, and a Miss Hutto, the latter
of Brook land-Cay ce stated a aensa
t tonal abootiug duel. Aud by no
means let us forget petite Peggy McOulrt,
for whom I predict big thing*
In aport. This girl Is another Mary
MoLeod. in the elever way ahe handles
herself on the floor- And we all
know What Mary 4id last year.
a a
Jean Plyler gave a nioe exhibition
of shooting, She la alert and fast and
has power enough to break out of a
scrimmage without being floored.
t?t?
In regent to the boys' team of Camden
high. Do not expect many wins
this season. The team Is light* far
too light to battle against teams with
players of a six foot average. Coach
Smith is building for 1939 and 1940,
and we think his idea is right.
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This man Chandler, reference to
whom Is made in the opening para*
graphs of this column, built his presnt
national collegiate champion team
-fropi a team that was about as modiocre
mi outtlet as I ever watched play.
But Chandler built for the future and
now he is reaping the reward of his
i patience.
Marye's Hill Owned
By Carolinians
(By Frank H. Heath)
> Wvery man,, woman and child in
Camden has heard of the heroic deed
of Sergeant Richard Kirkiand. a soldier
of the Confederacy, who faced
death from rifle flre when he carried
water to wounded Union and Confederate
soldiers at the battle of Fredericksburg,
December 13, 1862.
Few are aware that the historic
battle field, known for scores of years
as Willis Hill, has now become "Kirkland,"
named in honor of the heroic
Richard Kirklund. Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. Spratt of Fredericksburg, are owners
of this property. Both are South
Carolinians, Mr. Spratt being from
Chester, and his wife from Florence.
The Spratt's (are proud of the
achievements of the famous Kershaw
Brigade, that body of southern soldTers
that achieved fame for the part
it played in the "Lost Cause." Residents
of Camden and Kershaw county
who have occasion to pass through
Fredericksburg may visit the battlefield
and pay Bilent homage to the
heroic soul of Ridhard Kirkiand.
Richard Kirkiand was the son of
John Kirkiand; a farmer, and enlisted
as a private in the Second South Carolina
Volunteers. In December, 1862,
he became a sergeant. The Kershaw
Brigade occupied a road at tne foot
of Marye's hill. One hundred and
fifty yards away, behind a stonewall,
were the soldiers of the United States
army. All day a murderous skirmish
had prevailed, fatal to all who needlessly
exposed themselves. The
ground between the lines of the Confederate
grey and the Northern blue
was bridged with the wounded, doad
and dying. A big majority were Federal
soldiers.
All day long and into the night the
air was rent with the agonized cries
of Wie dying. 'They screamed, theypleaded,
they begged for water. The
next day dawned and still the air was
filled with the cries of the suffering.
' It was afternoon when Sergeant
Richard Kirkland, with the consent
of General Kershaw, ventured forth
with canteens of water. He stepped
over the wall on his errand of Christj
like mercy. A rain of bullets fell
'about him. He reached unharmed
the first sufTerer. Kneeling, he ten,
derly raised the drooping head of_a
! Union soldier and resting it upon his
own breast, pouring the precious lifegiving
water into the parched mouth.
His mission was sensed by the
Northern soldiers who ceased their
Are and added their cheers to those
coming from the ranks of the boys in
grey. For nearly two hours Richard
| Kirkland gave succor to the dying
and woijnded. It was bitterly cold
with the temperature close to sero,
but the herp heeded not the chill. ?
Kirkland gave his life to his beloved
cause when he was killed at
the battle of Chlcamauga. In the
hour of victory for the Southern
forces In thut great battle he fell
mortally wounded. His body was
brought home to the family cemetery
In Camden and marked by a massive
granite stone and Ills name honored
by a fountain in Hampton park here.
A poem by Walter A. Clark, a Confederate
soldier In the Oglethorpe infantry,
of the Second South Carolina
division which appears In the "Libra-,
ry of Southern Literature," la dedicated
to the heroism of Richard Kirkland.
Clark, so emotionally impressed
by Sergeant Kirklahd's heroic act,
wrote the poem with tears falling on
the paper over >vhich hia pencil
glided so falteringly.
The poem, with the title "The Angel
of Marye's Heights," is a vivid
portrayal of Richard Kirkland's mercy
action and reads as follows:
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"A sunken road and a wall of stono
And Cobb's grim line of grey,
Lay still at the base of Marye's hill
On the morn of a winter's day.
And crowning the frowning crest
above.
Sleep Alexander's guns,
While gleaming fair in the sunlit air
The Rappahannock runs.
On the Plains below, the blue lines
glow
And the bugle rings out clear,
As with bated breath they march to
death
""And a soldier's honored bier.
For the slumbering guns awake to
life
And the screaming shell and ball
From the front and flanks crashed
through the ranks
And leave them where they fall.
And the grey stone wall Is ringed
with fire
And the pitiless leaden hail,
Drives back the foe to the plains
r"""r below,
Shattered and crippled and frail.
Again and again a new line forms
And a gallant charge is made,
And again and again they fall like
grain
In the sweep of the reapers blade.
And then from out of the battle
smoke
There falls on the lead swept air
From the whitening lips that are
ready to die
The piteous moan and the plaintive
cry?
For "Water" everywhere.
And into the presence of Kershaw
brave,
There comes a fair faced lad,
With quivering lips, as his cap he
tips,
"I can't stand this," he said.
"Stand what?" the general sternly
said
As he looked on the field of slaughter;
"To see those poor boys dying out
there.
With no one to help them, no one to
care ?
And crying for "water! "water!"
"If you'll let me go, I'll give them
some."
"Why, boy, you're simply mad;
They'll kill you as soon as you scale
the wall
In this terrible storm of shell and
ball,"
The general kindly said.
"Please let/me go," the lad replied.
i'May the Lord protect you, then," And
over the wall in the hissing air
He carried comfort to grim despair,'
And balm to the stricken men.
- <rfk.
And ah he straightened the mangled
limbs
On their earthen b$d of pain,
The whitening lips all eagerly quaffed
Fg>m the canteen's mouth the cooling
draught
And blessed him again and again.
Like Daniel of old in the lion's den,
He walked through the murderous air
With never a breath of the leaden
- storm
To touch or to tear his grey-clad < *
form,
t?r h*Bd of God was there. And
I am sum in the book of Opt*
SWbere the Ma?d angel writes, ~
the nhmea that are bleat of God and
I. men.
He wrote that day with his shining
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Buses Take Place
S Charleston Trolleys
j Churloatou, H. C., Fob. 11.-? Forty
I years of trolley ear history uudotl yes- '
terday lu Charleston as eleven trolleys
lined up on Calhoun street und
clattered to their barns.
Simultaneously thirteen new gaso- .
Hue buses began ringing up fare.
The swltch-ovyer was performed dur- ^
ing a program that Included speechmaking
and a tour of the city.
On the program for speeches were: (
M. Hut ledge Rivers, a director of the
South Carolina Power company.
Mayor Burnet R. Maybank, of Chap
leston. President James B. Mahoney.
of the Chamber of Commerce. K. H.
Foul not, Jr., and Thomaa P. Leaesne,
managing editor of Tlx* News and
Courier. 1
One of t^e car* will he retained as '
a memento. The others will be sold.
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Representative j. waiter i^ambeth,
of the Rlghth North Carolina district,
after being in congress for four
terms, has announced that he will not
be a candidate for re-election in the
primaries of the coming ?ummr.
THAMES RIVER BEGINS TO
FLOW INTO HEART OF LONDON [
London, Feb. IS. ?The Thames
Ivor. swollen by an SOmlle an hour |
kale driving water up it from the
Jorth huh. began to overflow 11u
ltukn tu lho heart of lxmdou loduy
Score* of families living along lh?
vaterfront w?r? warned to bo ready
o evacuate.
Ah the river mounted, police and
hundreds of couatablea remained on
Buiergeuoy all-night duty from Donlou
to* the river's mouth.
The threatened Inundation of LonIon
waa only part of a picture of deatruotton
at sea and In the Interior
j the third storm $n a month lashed
he British IsleS.
The storm, described as the worst
n forty ycfers, disrupted hipping and
piled up flood water along the Bngllsh (
channel coast that caused train ser/Ice
to be suspended in several ar#ai^
The 1,100 ton British destroyer
Walrus, broken adrift while under
ow in the North sea, waa blown
iground In North Bay. Her four-man
keletou crew managed to reach shore
u an exhausted condltlou on a rubber
aft.
Several other vessels were reported 1
in distress. j
Dr. Kirven Dies at
Darlington Home
Darlington, Feb. 12.?Dr K. G. Klr,'en,
011 Darlington dentist, died tolay
at his home. He had been in do-lining
health for Boveral months.
Doctor Kirven was born and reured
n Darlington county and had made
its home In this section of the state
nactically all of his life. He was
he son of the late G. Kirven and
Mrs. Mary King Kirven.
Doctor Ivlrven received his educa
.ton in the schools of Darlington
county and at the Atlanta Dental college.
He had been a dentist hero
for the luHt 18 years. He practiced
in Kusley for a short time several
years ago.
He la survived by his widow, who
was the former Miss Klise Blrehmore
of Camden, and one son and two
daughters, John Klrven, of Darling
(on; MittH Mary Kirven, of Columbia;
and Miss Carolyn Kirven, of
Darlington. Brothers and sisters surviving
are: Mrs. Paul D. Wilson, of
St. Charles; Mrs. Dwlght H. Wilson,
of St. Augustine, Fla.; Mrs. L. L.
Harbin, of Petersburg, Va.; J. P. Kirven,
J. N. Kirven, K. E. L. Kirven,
all of Darlington, and J. K. Kirven,
>f Jacksonville, Fla.
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