Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IT"""tHE town crier i (BY FRANK H, HEATH) fiber when u "resurrected" mes came to town? Heralded re, a sound wagon, a grewsplay u{r^thographa and a toy iu a Musket, a man clalmm the famous outlaw made appearauoe ou the atage of leater. - <! * ipected at the time thla was he seventaan fakes touring ry. Now we know. The exbb from none other thau Joe -anddaugbter of the famous ho declares Jesse was killed made the mistake of stand* its back to a camp follower* name of Bob Ford. * * * . ies Is the daughter of Jesse and she says everyone of people who knew her granduroed at his bier after he No sooner had the outlaw 3d impostors began to crop eady the family have listed the granddaughter esti * * * dor Just how those westernwere In Camden and who >uohed for the faker ? will 3w of the disclosure. The iow was Just another rackI Joe James is an expert In escrow Bn s Los Angeles bank. Her father Ejt retired Kansas City lawyer. Joe B&s started to write a biography of S?r famous grandslre. It Is nearly Eady for the printer and it is so well B*fUten and the details so accurate Bhat a Hollywood studio has bought Bhw screen rights to make it Into a Bupor-speciui Western. ~ ? B Well folks, too bad about the messy Bpding of the Junior American Legion Baseball program In Camden. Being Bamlllar with the situation we want Bo say with due emphasis 'that no Blame can be attached to the Legion Bpst committee, the coach or anyone Bonnected with the team. The Legion committee took the high school rec ord of Wllbert Williams and honestly believed he whs of eligible uge. Personally wo and members of the commit toe do not know otherwise right now. The high school record says he Is. the grammar school record says otherwise. What record Is corieot we do not know. Neither does ^ the committee, but the gan^ were sportsmen enough to withdraw the I Camden team froi^competition In the I Legion program. The committee Is : to be commended for this fine example ! of sportsmanship. If you want our candid opinion, we J think the rules regarding this age proposition are cock-eyed. There should be a time limit for teams to scan the roster of other teams and start a hell-raising program. The way things have been going the past few years isn't doing the baseball program a bit of good. We think It particularly childish. * * It may be before this column appears in press there will be additional explosions along the baseball front. And if so and this Ineligibility complex has generous dimensions, it Is just about time for a swell house-cleaning. * Congratulations to Miss Margaret Land, Camden girl, who won the title or Miss South Carolina, ih the recent Btate beauty contest and who will go to the national event at Atlantic City in September. This charming girl should make a strong bid for the honor of being named Miss America of 1938. Camden Is truly proud of her. Your Skipper Is rather cocky about' it all as he selected Miss I>and as MIbs Camden for the Azalea event. Hey! Hey! Hey! (meaning a horse laugh). We played a round of golf Sunday and being the first time we have had a stick in our fist in a year ?well, you can imagine, I was wilder than a wildcat and if you want to know what makes a wild cat wild, ask me and I'll tell you. ?????^???- ? j Camden Swamps Rock Hill, 15 to 3 i * DI8TRICT FIVE Results Last Week Camden 15; Rock Hill 3. Great Falls 8; Cheraw 1. Great Falls 5; Cheraw 1 (doubleheader). 8tandlnps W L Pet. Camden 5 1 .833 Great Falls 4 2 .667' Rock Hill 3 3 .500 Cheraw 0 6 .000 By Ed Gault < > Sports Editor Rock Hill Herald Rock Hill.?Rock Hill's hopes of a Fifth district championship Junior baseball team lay buried July 7 beneath an avalanche of hits and errors which Rave Camden a 15-3 victory last Thursday before one of the largest crowds to enter Highland Park stadium. The tattoo of the Camden boy's bats off four local pitchers beat out "taps" for Coach Jakie Todd's Juniors unless a protest brought against Camden by Great Falls is upheld by State Athletic Officer A. C. Watson, of Greenville. Such a ruling would' put Rock Hill and Great FallB in a Fifth district playoff. Handicapped by the loss of two regulars Franklin and Plexlco, who were ?n the injured list, the Toddmen saw Camden roll up a total of thirteen hitft against their ten. Cox, of Camden. and Lyle, of Rock Hill, led their resjie, tive teams it*-hitting." Cox got two for three while Lyle pounded out three hits put of_four attempt*. A first inning rally gave Camden a lead that was never threatened by the Toddmen. Cox heat out a btngle through shortstop and) advanced to second when Red Snyder UtrfiW ori s grounder away at first Darby, who started on the mound for c the locals, missed Cox at third on McLaur in's bunt, loading bases. A beautiful hit over second by W. Lynch scored Cox and Hearon. Two fluke hits by Mays and West were followed by a lucky drive oyer third by Holden, which was good for a triple. The visitors wound up the first Inning with five hits and six runs. The local boys brought In their runs In the third and fourth Innings. Blackmon pounded out Rock Hill's first hit In the third inning?a beautiful drive over shortstop. Snyder and Franklin walked, loading the bases. A single by Estrldge scored Blackmon and Snyder. The Toddmen's other run was a homer by Blackmon in the fourth. j The catching of Estrldge, hard-hitting receiver for the locals, was an outstanding feature of the game. Several runs were made on wild pitches of local hurlers, but young Estrldge stopped many balls that required good catching ability and probably wo^|d have accounted for more scores. R H E Rock Hill ... 002 100 000? 3 10 3 Camden 603 230 100?15 13 1 ! Batteries?Camden: Horton and Cox; Rock Hill: Darby, Lyle, Moore, Hooper and Estrldge. Three base hits: Holden, W. Lynch, Pursley. Home runs: Blackmon. Double plays: D. Lynch to Hearon. Umpires: Reader and Lytle. Qreat Falls In Protest Rock Hill?V. C. Angel, Fifth district athletic officer for the American Legion's Junior baseball program, said he had forwarded to Dr. A. C. Watson, state athletic officer at Greenville, a protest filed by Great Falls against Camden. s The protes^ alleged that Camden had played one boy, Wilbur Williams, a pitcher, who is beyond the age limit for Legion Junior baseball players. The district athletic officer said Great FaUs offered what they said were records to show Uiat Williams is ineligible to play, ? ? These records were secured from the Great Falls public schools where Williams is alleged to have entered school and the records also Included what was described as a birth certificate setting forth that Williams is beybnd the 17-year age limit, Mr. Angel said. Contrary to reports that Rock Hill hat entered a protest. against Camden, Mr, Angel said n6 such protest had been placed before him. Camden Out Legion Play Greenville, Jfnly 4.-:-Dr. A. O. -Watson, state athletic officer of the American Legion, said here today Camden tanom baseball competition, making unnecessary Miff hearing of a protest entered by Great Fans. Camden allegedly had an ineligible player. Watson "said Camden's withdrawal. TROTTING AND PACING RACES every Wednesday and Saturday* Washington park "flten At Tmt i#m? * SurtfL?i. PQ8T TIMS 2:30 " Rotary Swamps Rival, Team In Lurid Game( (By 8kipper> 1 The Rotary All-Stars, under tha1 leadership of Basil Bruce, flashed au all-powerful offensive In four out of| six frames in the annual Rotary-JtCl-) wants softball frolic at Lahrens Held Wednesday, to administer a crushing defeat to their rival service club talent. The score was 22 to 7. The Kotartans uncorked a veritable storm of home ruus, triples and doubles until they had Pitcher Dewey Creed looking for a Vander Meer or Bill LeeWith Mayor Francis N. McOorkle strutting his stuff as arbiter on the first base line, aud a galaxy of softball league players handling the decisions on first, second and third base lines, the annual classic, long awaited by the rooters of the respective clubs, swung into action at six bells. The Ktwaniana looked troublesome in the first frame when two hits from the slants of Horr Basil, coupled with an error by Undertaker Komegay, gave them a tally. But their hopes of victory went astray in the last of the first when the Rotary club wielders wont to work on Cfreed and a home run with six base hits and a walk sent seven runs cantering across the rubber marker. " Neither team threatened in the second but in the first of the third Kiwanls staged a rally that a home run bv B, Rhftrne EWi llt^i!! ~V WltSSBr* fcreed, Herbert and T. Bruce put four counters over. The Rotarlans put together a single by Cliff McKain with a hotter by Bill Nettles for two more runs in this same Inning. | | After the Kiwanis team had annexled a lone counter in the fourth on a single by Mackey and a slashing double by Bill Cox, the Rotary really put ! op a scorttg apree In their half. The i entire team batted around to register eight blows, two being homers by Lee Mays and Cliff McKain, a triple by Tom Ancrum and singles by NettleB, Moore, McCarthy, Kornegay and McArn. Nine runs clattered over the block and the score was 18 to 6. The Klwanians were blanked in the fifth but the Rotarlans raised their total I to 22 with a four-run splurge.- Bruce lied ofT with a triple and came home Ion Lee Little's , screfeching single. Ancrum and Whitaker skied out to McArn at short but Nettles was safe on an error. McCarthy and Burns came through with singles and four rhns were in. Kiwanis scored one in the sixth on a single and two infield outs. They pushed ft runner to third in the sev-1 enth but when Bill Cox decided to, wanted to chin with his team-mate, Tommy Bruce on third, two were out and the rally was killed. The game was featured by the hard hitting of the Rotarlans, some really j fast double plays by both teams and the base running of Sheriff McLeod and Carl Schlosburg. Lee Little contributed a pictorial feature with his Scotch pants?several spectators nilstaking him for Harry Lauder. The game?played for Chinese relief?netted a neat sum to the group sponsoring It - . The score *? ? Rotary *? ? * Kiwanis Batteries: Bruce and Mays, Creed and T. Bruce. The club members who appeared in action during the game were as follows: Rotarlans Lee Mays, Jack Mullen. Bill Bates. John deLoach, Basil; Bruce, Lee Little. John Vtllepigue, Sam Karesh, Thomas Ancrum, Jack Whitaker, A. C. McKain, William Nettles, Jr., R. McCarthy, Bill Moore, M. B. Burns, Grainger Kornegay, D. McArn and I. Pe^rce. Kiwanians John Davidson, Bill Cox, H. Wilson, D. Creed, B. Herbert, Dr. Humphries, Boykin Rhame, T. Bruce, Sheriff McLeod, Marlon Williams, Carl Schlosburg and Dan Mackey. Wolves Win Over Merchants The first half of the Municipal Softball league came to a close last Frt* day with the Wolves defeating the Merchants 3 to 1 in one of the hardest fought contests of the season. Bunching hits with errors In' one frame turned the trick for the boys In and scarlet. Clarkson Rhatte allowed the Merchants but four hits Haynes, the talkative heaver of the retail tribe was touched for 10 blows. The Wolves played an errorless game and according to the records it was the first bootless battle to be played in the league this season. There Is much unofficial talk bf a possible extra session of congress to be flautenitiBi' or November, mostly for the purpose of studying the problems of the railroads. which he considered "good sportsmanship," left the Fifth district race to Great Falls and Rock Hill for the boat two out of thro# games. Th^ winner of this series wflt pisflr Spartanburg July 1L IS and 18 to datermine the The flnattef'tn this bracket will play tha winner of the Belton Pelser series which wffl be determined by the final MERCHANTS DEFEAT E8SO TEAM BY 5 TO 0 SCORE -v*; , , With Jltnuiy Williams Installed u? player-ma uagor, a peppy Merohant jteaip -buiteixxl the Ksso Oiler? under .h 5 tod score in the obctitnK gums of the BtHonil half race of the Municipal Softball league. The game wan without any frills outside of three sparkling double plays by the winners. Jakie Haynee pitched another of his sterling exht-i bltlons, holding the Kssoa to two lonely blows. Haynes' support wobbled several tlntea but at no time did the Khsoh threaten to count, although they ntunaged to get C. Jackson around to third base In the sixth op an error by Lyuch. Jackson was the only Oiler to see the third station during the pastime. The Merchants staged one big inning?the fourth, when they collected two doubles, twQ siugles and mixed with several errors to score four runs. Lynch and Williams divided the hitting honors each getting a double and single. Lynch's blow went for the circuit as Clybnrn. playing In right flrtd for Esso. mussed up on the ball and kicked It Into the auto section. The score It H H Merchants . . 5 7 4 Khbo Oilers 0 2 2i Latteries: Merchants, Haynes and William a; Easo, Robin BOIL Hasty and Shirley. .j DEVIL OF THE DEEP la the Octopus. But the 8ea Denizen Also 8ervee Mankind. No mythical monster was that 10foot octopus recently reported to have been killed ofT the coast of Oregon," after an attack on a 30-foot fishing boat. One of nature's more nightmarish creations, observes a bulletin from the Washington, D, C., headquarters of( the National Geographic Society, the octopus Is as tangible as breakfast kippered herring?and is, in some parts of the world at least, an equally familiar dish on the family menu. With the giant squid, chambered nautilus, argonaut and others, this marine animal Is a member of the class ^cephalopoda (meaning "headfooted"). Found In deep and shallow water of most of the world'b seas, Its various species range in size from less than 12 inches in full arm-spread to a super "boarding-house reach" of nearly thirty feet. Unlike the nautilus and argonaut, however, celebrated for their bfcauty In story and verse, thd octopus, with the squid, has long been relegated to the role of villain In atrocity tales of the deep. Since sailors first spun their adventure yarns, the octopus has been associated in popular fancy with such legendary creatures as the Minotaur and the sea-serpent. With his mournful, hoodlike face, his bulging, lldless eyes, and eight writhing arms bristling with suckers, his appearance .alone is terrifying enough to provoke a raconteur Into fiction. Both Jules Verne, for example, and Victor Hugo In. his "Tollers of the 8ea" present vivid and fearsome?but inaccurate accounts of fights between men and octopuses. In addition to quivering, striking out with his tentacles and otherwise expressing menace, this eight-armed prize fighter also has a disconcerting habit of showing emotion by rapid changeB in color. An octopus at bay turns red with rage, squirting toward the assailant an inky fluid that pollutes tjie water and forms an effective protective screen about him. While stories of his misdeeds are often exaggerated, the reputation of an Infuriated octopus Is not wholly undeserved. This "devil flsh'Mias been known to make vicious attacks on other large oceaji denizens as well as on men and boats. Many of the smaller species are inoffensive and even timid, but the "big shots" of the ocean are ferocious In action. And unlucky is the deep-sea diver who comes within range of the clutching tCUl24CleS. " The diet of the octopus vconBlsts largely of crustaceans and similar sea food. When the menu Is especially plentiful, he may pursue several items at once, holding his captures In some of his arms, while stretching out for others. (Apparently the octopus has more arbis than brains, for he has been observed In captivity to eat his own arms, even when provided with plenty of food.) An acrobat of sorts, some species of octopus, when ready to spring, balance themselves by attaching several tentacles to the sea floor, at the same time reaching out and grasping the prey With those Teft oref. Once Ihd victim Is snared the octopus weighs anchor pounces upon him. With umbrellalike membranes dropping about the- trapped creature, the powerful, parrot beak of the octopus Is then- la position to do the rest. Miniature varieties of the octopus, on the other hand, while no more prepossessing the* the large muusleis, are such harmless creatures that one could safely trust them with the baby, ti is recorded, in fact, thai the Greeki In ancient times need to present the I animals to a five-day-old child in or-j der that play with their numerous arms might strengthen the little handgrip. More conventional, and credible, is the use of the animal's glandular product of ink, or sepia, for water-color work and dyes. This sepia was the ancient "India ink" The octopus also makes good fiBh bait, its main value among western nations. For human t consumption, cephalopoda have been prised by various peoples since apcient times. The octopus is a favorite oriental dish, and in split and dried form is frequently found in eastern stores. Over in the Mediterranean regions, pickled cephalopoda are popular. One interesting/method- of capturing the beasts is practiced by Tunisian fishermen of North Africa, who tie earthenware jarB together and rop them to the floor of the sea. Attracted by the smooth, white surfaces of these containers, octopuses creep Inside, to be raised later when a profitable number have been caught. Tobacco 1b another weakness of the octopuB. Men use it for bait, together with fleabano, the smell of which ooaxes the cephalopoda to loosen their grip on a rocjc when knife Hashing only makes them cling more stubbornly. Aristotle men* tlons the bait method of capture. "A favorite recipe of ancient Creeks and Romans was octopua pie. Removing the arms, cooks stuffed the body with spices and baked It." Today, their descendants along the Mediterranean still find octopus good. One Italian restaurant lb New York city makes It a specialty, displaying an advertisement in the window when the dish is in Beason. r?????? I 'F. D. R. AND ME' Columbia, May 31.?The unemploy* ment situation today was analyzed by a prisoner in the South Carolina penitentiary. This Is his analysis: "The population of the United States Is 130,000,000. Of that number 35,000,000 are eligible for old age pensions and 20,000,000 more work for. the federal, state, county and oity government. That leaves 76,000,000 to do the /work,,; "But 60,000,000 are Ineligible for work under the child labor laws. So that leaves 16,000,000. Of them 14,999,998 are unemployed. "That leaves two?me and the preeId on t?to do all the work, He's gone fishing and I'm in t1re>3>ettfteatt?y/*~ I For Vacation Timel . when you think of vacation at the beach or elsewhere, think of ui. 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