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U>ague Sustains Camden Protest palmetto state league W L Pot. Cheater & 1 *}33 Hartsvllle 7 2 778 "um.er J ?? i^ancaster 4 b 444 Camden 8 4 ?? Kershaw ? ** * '*0 10 Scorca of Saturday Game? Cheater 4. Camden 8; Sumter 6, Kershaw 2; HartsvtlUrt7, Lancaster 4. Game* Schedulod Saturday Camden at Laudator; Sumter at Cheater; Kerahaw at Hartavllle. . The board of managers of the Palmetto State Baseball league In a special called meeting here Monday night sustained the protest of the Camden club against the Chester team and the two games won by Chester lust week were thrown out. It Is optional whether the games be played Qver, but the management of the two teams declared this would be done within the mouth. The board, after an extended hearing and discussion held that the playmg of Stroud and Petrone by Chester was clearly a violation of the league regulations relative to players being required to have residence wlth'n a twenty mile radius of the team they play with. Frank H. Heath, vied president of the league, presiding in the absence of President Raymond Blandlng stated after the meeting that the protest board, comprising the managers of the neutral teams, would have do- , clared the two disputed gaij^^ forfeit- ( ed to Camden, but the C?mueu oiu'o president, J. T. Nettles, declined to win games by forfeit, requesting only that the games be thrown out and the Camden ap<f Chester' teams play them over on open dates. j The action of the league board does not make any change In the leadership of the league. Chester still retains the lead with five games won and one lost. This week, however,, may witness several changes. Harts-^ \ille battles Kershaw and barring the j unexpected should win, while Chester J faces a fast-stepping Sumter team and may have a hard time winning. Camden and Lancaster stage a doublequarrel and If Camden wins both games, the Chiefs will step over the Red Roses in the percentage column. Mr. Heath, in a statement after the meeting, declared that the utmost harmony prevailed at the league meeting, which he held was really something in view of the Issue at stake between Camden and Chester. "Manager Martin, of the Chester team, while a ball of fire and animation during a baseball game was Indeed a fine fellow to deal with, and with Major Thompson, also of the Chester group and secretary and treasury of the league, they accepted the verdict of the protest board very gracefully and agreed to Immediately take Stroud and Petrone off the Cardinal roster. Mr. Nettles, of the Camden club, was a credit to our community and showed real sportsmanship when he declined to accept the two games on a forfeit. "It is quite apparent that all of the team managers are looking ahead into 1940, when they will all seek to have lights installed at their respective parks In order that we may have night ball. The first year of a league of this kind Is always featured by minor bickerings and explosions, but I know that every manager and every 1 player wants to see up pull through the season and insure bigger and bet- j ter baseball next year. I "I think the spirit that has been i shown by the Kershaw club in plug- < ging away in the face of a long string i of defeata is most commendable. It < certainly must be discouraging to players and fans. . Too much cannot be i said in praise of the sportsmanship i of the Rebels." 1 1 Fight miners, trapped nine hours by a tunnel cave-In, at Keetley, Utah, 1 were rescued Monday. a company an- 1 nouncement said none of the men were 3 injured. The cave-in was In a tunnel 1 used by the New Park Mining com- 1 pany as a means of egress to Its work- ? Jngs. i . a . ... i. i.[ xi?i '..J' iiHISTORY OF BASEBALL Which I? Thi? Year Celebrating Centennial of Its Origin, While historians ami psrudo historians are quarreling over tho origin of baseball, statisticians reveal stag* goring figures on the economic side of the game. Old and young, big and lit* tie, male and female?baseball is of interest to all of them, either as play* era or spectators. So strongly has the game caught the fancy of the country, that there seems to be something lacking iu the mau who cannot catch or throw a ball with some semblauce of grace, and In a woman who has not stood on the sidelines, become sun-baked In the bleachers, or sipped "pop" iu the cool of a grandstand. "Baseball's contemporary hall of fame met In Cooperstown. New York, to celebrate a century of the national game; but baseball fot; dollars did uot arrive until 76 years ago on a tleld in Brooklyn, N. Y.f wheu the first commercial game was played," says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic society. Out of that game has grown a multi-million dollar bnsluess. Compare, for instance, the open fields and the later board fence enclosures where the early game was played, with the gigantic baseball stadia of steel pud cement now in every large city. The American league plants alone, not including the value of franchises, are valued at 120,000,000, and that figure does not include the $4,000,000 munlci* pally-owned stadium used by the Cleveland American league team. The Yankee stadium In New York was the most costly, topping the Cleveland plant by $1,000,000. Like any other business enterprises, baseball has its ups and downs. Attendance figures do not remain stable from year to year. For instance, the largest number of spectators at a single game did not assemble this year or last year, but in 1932, when 73,5^2 attended a game in Cleveland. Last year, however, was a banner year for spectators at double-header when 85,421 people packed the New York Yankee's stadium. This attendance was in striking contrast to the "gate" nt the first commercial game, which was witnessed by 1,500 spectators. In the early days of baseball clubs, members were required to be in good standing for a month before they could play. Today a player may be literally bought sold, and may then play-orf a new t.eam immediately after he Is acquired. The record price paid for a player in alll the history of baseball is $250,000. Players sold by one club to another are not guaranteed the. same salary by the purchasing club. This may seem a bit anomalous in a democracy, but a saving provision Is that a player may quit a club (and professional baseball) If his contract is unsatisfactory tq him. By the "waiver route" a player, no longer prized by his team, may be put up for sale to any other team that will claim him for $7,500. The cost of running even an average big league team would amaze the throng passing through the turnstiles at any hall yard. The salaries alone of players and employes, numbering about 300 when a team is at home, amount to a quarter of a million dollars for the season. Then there are additional expenses of about another quarter million. This latter figure Includes such items as aix dozen baseballs for each of the 77 games at home and two dozen for an equal number of games away. Four dozen balls at a home game are for jse of the umpire, the remaining two dozen for practice. Bach player has four uniforms and ase about eight bats and two gloves a( season. Inflelders who play on the skinned diamond runways, wear out four pairs of shoes, and outfielders wear out three. Four sets of base jags and four plates for the pitcher's jox and "bull pens" are used each rear. While the team management urnlshes the other equipment, players nust provide their own gloves and, ihoea. In 1937, nearly 3,000,000 bats, 23,K)0 masks and 300,000 gloves were nanufactured to keep up with the donands of baseball. And manufacturers made more than 7,000,000 basemils. Covers for the balls are still landsewn In spite of other modern levelopments in the manufacture of mseball equipment. Horsehide covers largely come from Europe, and nany balls find their way back to the jountries where tolled the "dobbins" hat gave up their skins that baseball ana might enjoy the game! One basemil manufacturer, whose plant averLges about six hundred dozen balls a lay, ships them to every state and deven foreign countries. In Mexico, ^iba and Japan, the game now Is one >f the leading sports. The first amateur association of >a?+haii clubs, was organised In 1867, gad the first series of games was pisy* Kl the next year between teams from few York and Brooklyn at Plush'New York, near the present ITotM's fair grounds. The first Inter collegiate game was played July 1, 1809. wiien Amherst! college defeated Williams college at IMttstluld, Mass. The acore waa 78 to 82?large figures compared with scores of today, but in those days scores of more thau 100 were not UU-j common. ' The Amherat-Willlama game, compared with baseball as It la played on modern diamonds, presents many contrasts. The balls were smaller than those used now?crude leather-coverad spheres with metallic centers' wrapped In yarn. I The game wus planned to last until one team made 65 runs, but 1J 'continued anyway for four hours or 26 Innings. No gloves, masks or other protectors were used. The only "uniform" was a belt worn by Williams'! players with their collegiate Insignia. There were no foul balls and runners could be put out between bases by being "spotted" (struck by a thrown ball). . Kvery large city In the United States has a dozen or more baseball clubs. Nearly every college has a varsity toam. In rural communities baseball is a favored pastime. Six million spectators have witnessed American league games alone In one year. Add to that the turnstile figures of the National league and scor,es of lesser leagues, college game spectators, and the fan line at thousands of free amateur "saudlot" games and you will arrive at a figure that may almost equal the population of the United States. Teething At 71 Spartanburg, Juno 30.?J. M. Martin, 71, it) toothing. Ho exhibited today two now teeth Juat emerging from the gums, while several others soon will cut through. Ho aaid ho lost his original tooth about ulne years ago. Chiefs Drop Game | In Card Stronghold lMy Tlio Sklptfer) li required u burlesque triple play, the first to be made lit the Palmetto league to subdue the Camdeu Chiefs up at Chester last Saturday, the Cardinals (.Hipping tight ooutesi by a seore of 4 to 3. The Cards played Stroud again and for a second time "within the week, the Camden team tiled a proteat prior to the start of hostilities. Chester has tiled an affidavit signed by the team manager and team captain to the effect that Stroud and Patrono who played here last Thursday are now living iu Chester and are* therefore eligible to. play with the Cards. The affidavit oltes that Stroud and Put rone are boarding at the homo of one Paul Robinson, on Henry street on week ends and oue nite during the week; that they are employed at Martin's Service atatlou on week ends and that they are paid only for tho time they work at tho service station and not for playing ball. The writer regards the affiduvit as being somewhat of a "weak slater." In the tirat place we suspect that tho Paul Robinson home they allege they board at, Is the home of a meluber of the team and the tilling station tho two players labor at, la owned by tho manager of tho team, or at least, by some relative. The fact that the players board at some place on week ends and during one liito of the week and are employed week onds at a tilling station Is regarded by the writer as Just a subterfuge to get by the league regulation. Just what action may be taken by President Blandlng and the board of managers of the league is problematl oil. but wo believe the league head! ami team managers should take a do-j tormlnod staud on the mutter and U Chester does not like lite medicluu,j drop the Cardinals from the league I and put l?ando in their place. The success of the Palmetto league depends upon the rules being lived up to. At the recent meeting in Camden the team managers discussed Stroud and Catrone, and it was agreed they are not residents of the Chester territory, The Chester management frankly admitted It, hence the playing of the two men came as a great surprise to the Camden group as woll as other team managers who have called this writer to express their indignation. We will admit that Hock Stroud was a complete bust in the game at Chester, six, far as offensive play was concerned. Taylor, who was on the hill for the Chiefs fanned him throe times. Going into the last half of the ninth Inning Camden was to the front by a 3 to 2 score. In the first half of this tuning Camden sturted to a rally that was nipped on a burlesque triple play that was made possible by some more of that stupid and whistle-stop brand of coaching and buse-ruimlug that was so much In evidence in the game here the Thursday preceding Lyles was safe on a walk and Kicks reached first on an error by J. Co per at short. Taylor lifted a Texas leaguer between first and second and Durham went back to gather It In. The runners had started to advance and had the couches been alert, both could have returned safely to their sacks, so slow did the Chester outfield handle the ball. In fact, when the ball was thrown to first, the first busoman fumbled the throw and had to chase the ball at least six feet, retrieve it and go back to the bag, which he did while Hicks was seeking tc J' i ^ i ii mi. get back before being retired. I*yles had gone to third and bo hardly got , started buck before the bull was [ thrown t?.> the Cheater second eaokor j und a triple play, sbinowhat rugged and ou the burlesque order, had boou recorded, In the last of the ninth, with the Chief* leading 3 to 2. Taylor walked Durham. Manager Russell took Taylor from the mound and sent Mooro in to retire tin* able. J. Cooper was out at first but Durham went to third. Adklns hit to l.lghtfoot who threw to hist to retire htm, but Durham waa over with the run that tied up the ball game. Then came H. Cooper and the home run clout that gave Cheater the game. _ The score as reported from Cheater was as follows: Chester 4 ti 2 I Camden 3 9 7 flatteries: Thompson and Hunt; Taylor, Moore and lllcks. Drop Game To Cords The Chiefs Journeyed to Wlnnsboro Friday and played an exhibitlou with the Royal Cord team of that place. The game featured some lino pitching hv Cauldor, who regularly plays the third sack for the Chiefs. The Cords won the game 2 to 1 after as Hue an exhibition of tight baseball as has been offered In the Cord's park this season. In the Palmetto state leaguo games last Thursday, Sumter trampled over Kershaw 11 to 2, mainly because the Rebels had to gather a pick-up team to mako the trip. A number of substitutes were played by the Robs, duo to the Inability of the regulars getting away from their Jobs to make the i trip. HartsvlUe kept on tho hools of the Chester Cards by defeating Lani caster t> to 5 In a midweek quarrel at ,v i Hartsvlllo. -? I r t 1 1C t i I c r t ? f t c c , < { ?' > . .? s. 1 ' Incur* Bcltiy. Avoid Bynrtf ^ Huardf, Ti*i?1 Bj IVkw.lUr* 1 Conditioned Cotohoi ? I ?T ^ t I j.i nrrpprrrrra IriiVff III jAllI iii. 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