The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 30, 1939, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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Inaura Safaty. Avoid Highway
Hasarda. Traval By Train, AirConditionad
Coaohaa on
Through Trains.
Chester Takes Lead
In Palmetto Race
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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.
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Camden Bats Rout
(ireat Falls Hurlers
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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. Wo aro sure that everyone
present today enjoyed what Dr.
Crow had to say and we sincerely
hope that he will he coining to Cumli
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