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Effing) ' L Lj^b < ^^B | H m*l 11 III ^B Inaura Safaty. Avoid Highway Hasarda. Traval By Train, AirConditionad Coaohaa on Through Trains. Chester Takes Lead In Palmetto Race W L Pet. Chester 6 1 833 Hiw!-\ ill 5 2 714 lamcaster 4 3 ft 5 6 Suiiiit'i- 3 3 600 Chum'''!) 3 4 429 Kershaw 0 7 000 Scores of Saturday Games Camden 4, Kershaw 3. Sumter 4, Hartsvllle 3. Chester 10, Lancaster 10. Games To Be Played Saturday Camden at Chester; Hartsvllle at Lancaster; Sumter at Kershaw. Following the completion of the fourth week of competition in the Palmetto State league, Chester has taken the lead from Hartsvllle. The Sonoco team had won five straight games and It looked like a runaway race until Sumter upset the dope bucket by j bumping off the leaders In two games. In the meantime Chester by defeating Lancaster in a free-slugging match ; Saturday took the lead In the race and is now one game ahead of Hartsvllle. The race is tight as l^ancaster is hut two games out of first place and Sumter and Camden but three games away from the top of the ladder. The most interesting news of the week was the announced determination of a plucky Kershaw Rebel group to llnish the season in the Palmetto loop. The Rebels have not won a game to date but in the Saturday game at Camden, they definitely made v. known that they are in the race. Camden won because .the Chiefs got :/io breaks. Kershaw has been improving in every game and the Rebels are sure to bust Into the win column soon. Announcement of the all-star game at Camden on August 1 is the big topic of conversation among the fans of the Palmetto wheel. Later developments In the plans Indicate that six pitchers will perform during the game, three innings being allowed for a single hurler on each team. The team captains will probably select teams that will carry three regulars from each club. As announced in a previous press release, the game will be played between a team made up of players from the first, third and fifth teams In the percentage column and a team made up of star players of the second, fourth and sixth teams. This week's schedule may cause some changes in the complexion of the team standings. Chester, a surprisingly strong team invades this city and as Thursday Is a half holiday with the other attractions offered, a big crowd looked for at the game. 1 Lancaster will make a strong effort to defeat Hartsvllle and Kershaw goes to Sumter. Rock Hill Defeats Great Falls Juniors Rock Hill, June 23.?Rock Hill's American I^egion Juniors came home in the final minutes of a ten-inning Fifth district elimination game to beat Great Falls, 8 to 7, here Friday. At the beginning of the eighth frame, the score read 7 to 5 In favor of the visitors but Hubert Estridge, ace catcher of the locals, hit for the circuit with a man on base to tio the score. A double off the bat of Orant right fielder, drove In Rock Hill's winning score In the tenth. Rock Hill 894 Great Falls 796 Batteries: Brazzell, Moore and Eetrldgo; Cooper and McCorkle. It la estimated that from 30 to 60 per cent of the used car buyers in this country Just "drop in" the salesrooms. ?? , , , I . Camden Bats Rout (ireat Falls Hurlers l lly The Skipper) Camden to, (ireat Kails 8 That tells tho story of the wildest afternoon the new state league busoball lot lias experienced in its history. Two Junior Legion teams that fought ooth and nail tor victory, that refused to be da tinted by each others propensity to run gathering and that offered a vailed assortment of brilliant plays and Ivory boners, battled for two hours and thirteen minutes as the largest crowd, since the Syracuse-Augusta game, yelled itself hoarse In sheer excitement. For four innings last Thursday tho Camden and (Ireat Kails Juniors wuged as thrilling and tight a baseball fracas as we have seen in many moons with Camden holding a lone tally lead that loomed bigger and bigger as tho innings went by. Then came the Hfth frame. Great Falls caused the Camden fans to groan by pushing over throe runs. In the last of the same Inning local hopes rose high as Camden tied up tho count. And the Camden rooters chanted a paen of Joy as Camden scored twice in the sixth to take tho lead. The home folks had visions of going home to the supper table and telling grandpaw and grandma and the rest of the famiiy of a a to 3 victory for Camden. Then came the eighth and what an inning. Great Falls rooters became hysterical with Joy as the lade from the big venters recorded nve runs. Their bats beat a merry tattoo and the Camden team literally fell apart. Hut you haven't heard anything yet. The Camden fans in the grandstand und bleachers were like mummies after that five run splurge while the Falls gang crowed like our neighbor's prize rooster. And then came tho dawn. A fighting Camden team came to bat. They assaulted the offerings of Mister Roddy. took Mister Mosteller apart to see what made him tick, knocked Mr. Knox off the slab In jig time and finished by polishing up Mr. Gunter, who was called In from right field to stem the tide when the supply f pitchers gave out. The carnage was terrific. Ten runners flashed across the pan before the side was retired. And that friends of The Chornicle audience, is the way the game ended ?the score being 15 to 8. And by the way, it was the sixth straight win for Camden over Junior League competition and the second In district elimination competition. Just a brief resume of that battle that lasted two hours and thlrty-flve minutes, that was played alternately beneath welcome clouds and spells of overwhelming heat from a blazing sun. To our humble viewpoint we think the outstanding players in that game were Jack Marshall, who did some sensational spearing out in the left garden, Herbert Moore, who handled twelve chances at short without an error; Hunter who threw the fear of the old Nick Into the Falls base thieves when they found the ball from his unerring arm waiting them in the hands of Sorrell-Top Honeycutt down at the keystone sack. And then when we speak of this lad Hunter, we Just shut our eyes and again glimpse the two screeching triples that he uncorked into the far reaches of the right wilderness that same frame? tl at wonderful eighth. This boy Johnson showed a lot of pluck out there for the seven Innings he worked. The h?at was terrific and when Johnson started to wobble in the eighth, Coach Smith sent A1 to do some relief work. Kelly had had only one day of rest since he humbled Rock Hill Tuesday 10 to 3. but he went out and did what he could to stem the scoring fest. After uncorking a wild pitch, walking a batter his mates went haywire and added'to the rout by messing up several plays. Anyhow, when the smoke had cleared the visitors had five runs chalked up and were to the fore 8 to 5. But Kelly settled down and,In the ninth only three batters faced him and the game was over. By a strange coincidence each team boasted a Moore at short stop and both members of the Scottish family did some nice work. The Moore accepted 12 chances without a boot while the Falls Moore took seven and messed up one. ^ The fans, both from Camden and the Falls, gave Jack Marshall a big ovation when he came In from the field In the seventh after he had rushed back to the fence to leap and spear McCorkle's screeching drive into the left acreage. Jack took the ball with his gloved hand causing the big crowd io come to Us feet with a roar of apP A^ulay that seldom comes in a ball game occured In the eighth when Gunler doubled along the left field line, the ball rolling under the platform of tho score board. A colored boy rah ( under the platform, picked the ball up and threw it to Marshall. Umpire, Outs waved Gunter to third base because of this intereference. Mungo staged a track meet along i the path between second and third in the Bixth when trying to go from second to third after Honeycutt had singled. All of the members of the Falls team with the exception of the center and right fielder took part In the contest to see who would tag the elusive Pageland lad. ^ Tuberculosis claims at least oneeighth of all deaths the world over. 1--1 ! i . 1 ^ WRITER PRAI8E3 HOUSE FOR FIGHT ON HIGHWAY EXPENSES K<tltor The Cnmelon Chronicle: To the citlxeu who Is awake. tho present deadlock In our legislature is a warnIn# sign It Is the outer manifestation of the deadly political cancer that Is gnawing at the vitals of South Caro-' Una government. While the disagreement between' the House and Seuate may, to the su-J perfldal observer, appear to be just another astonishing exhibition of in-! efficiency, it Is, in fact, the most help-1 I'ul legislative sign of the puat live years It is a signal that at last the voice of the people back homo is being heard. This deadlock Is not of mushroom growth. It is signitlcant evidence of a slow growing rebellion against the good government destroying octopus that lies wlt\i its slimy head in Colum-l bia, and Its creeping, choking terms! reaching out Into many South C'aroUna counties. A large part of, but not its entire head is the political oi'f ganlxatlon existing within the State highway department. Tho most prominent of its arms are tho Tammany-, like county political gangs, the noxious weeds that destroy real detnoc-' racy. These malodorous political ma-; chines have reached their fullest! bloom in somo, qj, our coastal, and socalled low-country counties, but very fair samples are found throughout the state. Ry secret political trades between candidates for local, city, county, audi legislative offices; by hiring unscrupIlloilH nr<wtnn? WSSffkWii ii> ZSir tat crier | votes by various dubious means; by j favoritism in giving out appointive; jobs; by brow-beating intimidation of. workers dependent upon their Jobs for] a living; and some of them through support of local newspapers that they either own or can influence, these political bosses manage to keep them-j selves in office year after year. And) they become more bloated and arrogant after each election. Our state senate is infested with an unusual number of these political parasites. And they have been able to reach across the hall and hook up with some of their own species in the house of representatives. But, very fortunately, the present house has a majority of men who have the hon- j esty and backbone to stand up und light for the people. Let us hope that they will win by a tight to the flnish. j The highway department's political machine is pulling the same type of J ^ .. I- ' I'." , politics that it tried unsuccessfully to pull in the legislatures of IMS and 1931 It was then fighting against any red net ion in the prices ot automobile licenses. Ttio pitiful cry then was that tlie department could not stand a cut in prices, but its income has increased every year since the prices were cut Now the chief highway commissioner tills the air and tin* newspapers with sobs about how so much highway work will hawo to cease if two million dollars are taken away from the department to prevent putting a general sales tax, or other new taxes, on the struggling taxpay-j ors. Hut governor Maybftnk and oth-j ers have shown that even after the two million Is diverted there will still be seven million left for road work And tiiat is a far greater sum, in proportion to iH<r capita wealth, than any. other state is annually spending fori high w ays. The present fight is a desperate one. The highway department has various supporters inside and outside of the legislature. One of ]ho latter la the radio commentator, John Oauthen, j who was Senator Kdgur Brown's radio j sprcchmaker daring his last campaign for the I'nited States senate. Mr. t aut ben's present radio addresses reveal him as a very thinly veiled supporter and apologist for the highway's present light against the people. And apparently the highway cohorts have a more recent convert In the newspaper writer who signs as "Spectator." The tone of his articles have under-J gone a marked change recently. A, afce-ri titircr ?6</ her WfOtO ch?C VlU W'OUfU j" rather see a diversion of highway | funds than to have new taxes placed | upon the people. But u few days agOj he wrote that there are no highway j funds available for diversion. Ho ( seems to believe that the highway do-1 partment is Just too durn pore! Ho indicates that he lias Just had a con-j fab with the high highway officials., His reasons for a change of heart are, more lengthy than convincing. Various statistics offered by others show i that tho department can easily con-j tinue all necessary functions after the contemplated diversion. The light that the economy bloc of J the house is making for the people against the arrogant selfishness of the! highway department is a vital, fundamental one. It is a last ditch struggle to take the government of South Carolina out of the hands of tho unjust but politically powerful highway group and place it back in the hands of the people. May this house bloc of champions of the taxpayers' rights hold tight. They richly deserve the active support of all right thinking citizens. They must light, Jf necessary, until the frost is on the pumpkin and the crepe is on the doors of the mourners for the lost political empirh of the South Carolina stale highway department Carl 11. Fpps, M. D., President of the South Carolina Farmers and Taxpayers' League. Sumter. S. C.. June 29, 1939, Finest Berry, a milk wagon driver, in Chicago, hopes he will be permitted to adopt the baby girl he found on the doorstep of u grocery while delivering milk. Berry said the newborn babe would he a welcome addition to his family?Mrs. Berry and six ch 11j dren. ? ?? ????????? ... Kiwanla Notes (hio of tho beat meetings tho club has hud In quite u long time was held Tuesday at Hotel Camden. The attendance was much better, thirty present, lhive visiting Kiwanians and one visitor. The club Is again very much Indebted to Dr. Orin Crow, of the University of South Carolina for u moat Interesting talk. He gave us a full report of the recent national convention which was held In Boston The club being less than a year old, we did not fool that wo were able to send a delegate to this convention, therefore wo wore represented by a member of tho Columbia club. 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