The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 18, 1939, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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plenty of sporting thrills oa tho
menu these days. The all-star game
touifiht" and the booster baseball game
tomorrow.
We venture to predict that with
fttl, weather prevailing this evening
there will be a goodly crowd in grandstand
and bleachers at Zenip stadium
when the Giants and Pirates clash In
the benefit game. <
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. And we are wondering Just how interested
the Camden* Bport followers
are i? seeing baseball continued here
next *sea8on. The booster game tomorrow
between tho Chiefs apd the
Sumter Gamecocks should be a fine
battle to watch. It should bring out
every loyal fan in Camden.
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Those who have given of time and
money to promote semi-pro league
baseball here this season are entitled
to the support of the public. It is a
severe challenge to Camden sportsmanship
to have to admit the city
rates lowest of the other five towns
in the Palmetto league so far as attendance
Is concerned.
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Some of the blue-bloods "We have
talked with refuse to admit Camden
lacks sporting spirit and point to the
fine support offered the Camden football
program. A certain degree of
this support is due to the fact that
night games are played, but the biggest
hulk of this support is due to
tho fact that a swell, brainy coach has
given Camden winning football. We
wonder Just how hot the support would
be if the Bulldogs should take four
or five trimmings.
Frankly, It takes some real redblooded
sportsmanship to support any
kind of athletic group when that group
or team is taking a regular beating
from opposing teams.
We have broadcast by radio, by
newspaper and by magazine^ in booklets,
and the like, the fact that Cam-j
?-?HenTs the sporting center of the mid
south. We wonder.
I Just to show me how mistaken I am,
let us have a big turnout tonight and
tomorrow.
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And by all means, do not forget the
Generals' race program to be offered
at the Cherokee race track on Labor
day, September 4.
Wouldn't it be a nice gesture If the
stores would close that afternoon so
everybody could enjoy the race program.
Camden is one of the very,
very, fine communities in America
that does not- observe Labor day aB a
holiday,
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Speaking of roadside signs: Up near
Jackson, Ohio, I spotted one that rend
'"Eat Edward's Barbecued Ribs."
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Driving through the golden grdln
fields up in Wisconsin I was reminded
of a poem that I put together a number
of years back, which goes like
"In all the fields the binders are binding
G '1 i.-ii grain bundles with twine
they've entwining
I won't be long when the winds will
be winding ,
A-1' then comes the blizzard that s
Minding."
X > matter which way we turn, we
always drift back into the sport lane.
W.- just want to say that you fans who
mtssed that ball game last Thursday
b-tween Camden and Lancaster missed
a:i afternoon of interesting baseball.
The Chiefs really doused their bat':ng
jinx for a change and aided by
some nice path work by Hugh Cox and
Benny Robinson, amassed enough runs
to down the Roses. _
Major Thompson, Palmetto league
s-cretary, has notified all club owners
'hat all postponed games must be
played and the slate cleared by August
jg. as the-playoff series get under
way on August 23.
First and third place teams and
s?- ond and fourth place teams will
meet in a series of best two out of
'aree and the winners will battle for
the championship. In the event Of the
' tie series going to three games, the
taird and deciding game will be played
in Columbia.
We welcome Charley DeLoach and
Joe McKaln to the ranks of the grid*
iron brain trusty The executive group
now comprises Jack Nettles, E. Clarkson
Rhame, Charley Klrkland, Joe McK&in
and CbarUa
All of Which forecasts a. football
team that wOl hare airarythfng It
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takes to make a championship outfit.
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The appointment of Jim Raley as
street commissioner has our sincere
approval. Jim showed his mettle
when called upon to do some Jobs at
the softball field, the air port and other
places when fast action was required.
We feel Jim is going to prove
a big asset to Mayor Francis McCorkle
and crew.
Regarding Junior Legion baseball.
Unless there Is some change made In
the Setup of what has the possibilities
of being the finest sporting program
In the nation, It Is going to fade right
out of the picture.
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Instead of a baseball game or series
of games, the Legion program has become
one of quarreling, bickerings,
protesting and what not between team
managers. The squabbling has not
been done by players, but by adult
members of baseball committees.
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.. The latest black page In- Legion
sportsmanship took place at Charlotte
when the'Charlotte team management
protested some six Baltimore players
just before the Charlotte and Baltimore
teams were to start playing. If
the six boys were ineligible at that
time they were ineligible early last
Jane.
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This cheap sportsmanship will kill
Junior Legion baseball as dead as a I
dodo bfrd. Sport writers and baseball
fans are sick of it. And, it la always
the big gays ruling the works who
Uge the kid staff.
Tommy Jenkins
Gives Land Sumter
Tilt* Sumter Dally Item carried the
following in reference to the gijt of
five acres to the city of Sumter by
Tommy Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins is a
brother of John F. Jenkins, of Cam!
den, and Hddie A. Jenkins, of Columbia.
and often visited Camden when
John and Kddle conducted a plumbing
and bicycle shop in Camden.
"The purk and recreation area of
tiie city of Sumter is to be enlarged
by the acquisition of live acres fronting
on Oukluud, Wright and Dingle
streets.
"Yesterday Mayor Creech received
a letter front Thomas B. Jenkins, of
Richmond, Ind., offering to donate to
Sumter for public park and recreation
purposes twenty-three lots, located as
above descrioed, containing approximately
five acres. At the next meeting
of oity council the generous offer
of Mr. Jenkins will be considered,
and, *lt goes without saying, that the
gift will be accepted.
"Mr. Jenkins is a native of Sumter
and was successfully eugaged in business
here several years until bis expanding
nation-wide auto accessory
business impelled bint to remove to a
more central distributing point in St.
Louis, Mo., and later to Richmond.
Ind., where he had established a factory
for the production of automobile
springs and other accessories. When
his home office and warehouses were
in Sumter Mr. Jenkins maintained
branch offices in St. ""Louis and Fort
Worth, Texas.
"The donation of this valuable tract
of land in the residence section of the
city shows that Mr. Jenkins has not
lost Interest In his birthplace and the
scene of his early success In the business
world. His boyhood associates
and the people of Sumter as a whole
will be sincerely appreciative of bis
public spirited and generous gift to
I his old home town.
"While no definite plan for the utilization
of "Jenkins Park" have been
formulated, it is understood that members
of city council look favorably
upon the suggestion that it be used
for a community athletic field for
baseball and other sports."
PORT OF INSOLVENCY
Clermont, a town of a thousand people,
not far from Orlando, in the State
of Florida, has put into the port of
Insolvency under the amended Wilcox
Municipal BSnkrTplcy act~and^p r a y s,"
legally speaking and perhaps otherwise,
that its bonded debt of nearly
nine hundred thousand dollars be subjected
to "composition" at the rate of
fifty cents on the dollar.
The mayor explains that this is 'a
necessary procedure" and no doubt
that is a statement one hundred per
cent correct.
The incident is mentioned not to
the discredit of Clermont for it is
far from being the only town in that
fix, both towns and ndlviduals bog
down financially speaking at times,
but it is mentioned as a sort of reminder
to other towns both of the
danger of getting too deeply in debt
and how sometimes relief has to be
had.
Surely, however, no South Carolina
town of not more than one thousand
people owes so much as nine hundred
thousand dollars. If so, it is time for
prayer, legal and otherwise, especially
for the creditors.?Greenwood IndexJournal.
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Never argue with a woman whose
shoes are killing her.
I Simplification of Words
In Writing Is Gaining
William the Conqueror was to
blame for many of the orthograohleal
peculiarities of the English language,
according to Professor De
' Witt Clinton Croissant, head of tho
English department at George
Washington university, writes Hoy
t Eastin in the Washington Star.
"English was originally a phonetic
language, and the Norman scribes
i thought that they were writing it
1 phonetically. But they heard the
i language differently and they used
a different set of symbols," Profes!
sor Croissant Bald. He has advocated
simplified spelling for more than
20 years.
His fight is gradually making
progresa, he believes, and cites the
changes In government documents
In spelling "catalog" Instead of "catalogue"
and "cigaret" instead' of
"cigarette."
The adoption of some newspapers
of such forms as "thru," "nite" and
"tho" are considered steps forward
by the professor.
As examples of the progress
made, he cites James Howell's
grammar of 1062, which recommended
that "logique" be changed
to "logic" and "sinne" be changed
to "sin" and that "bodilie" be made
"bodily," all of which have come
about.
Johnson's dictionary of 1775 is
blamed by the professor for "crystalizing
our spelling."
"The worijs with their unnatural
spellings were embalmed and since
then it has been considered sacrilegious
to disturb the corpse," hs
said.
Noah Webster was an advocate of
simplified spelling, and his first dictionary
contained forms far more
simplified than even the Simplified
Spelling Board recommended. Henry
Holt, late publisher, estimated
that a 15 per cent reduction in the
I cost of books could be brought about
by leaving out silent letters.
| Diamond-Backed Turtle
Saved by U. S. Fisheries
Diamond-backed terrapins, headed
for total extinction a few years
ago, apparently have been saved
as a species through the efforts of
the U. S. bureau of fisheries, according
to the Washington Evening
Star.
In the gay nineties this reptile
was a symbol of sinfully extravagant
living. Such high prices were
paid that all the sounds, estuariea
and swamps along the south Atlantic
coast were scoured for the
creatures. By the turn of the century
they were fabulously srnrce.
The demand dropped off with
prohibition. This probably saved
the terrapin, since it gave a breathing
spell and an opportunity for
the government biologists to get the
race on a secure footing again. Up
to date more than 125,000 young
have been shipped from the bureau
of fisheries station at Beaufort, S.
C., for restocking the salt marshes
of the southern states. The brood
stock of the station, most of which
was born in captivity during the
past 15 years, consists of 570 males
and more than 2,000 females.
New methods of incubation dovised
by Dr. H. P. Prytherch promise
a considerably larger production
in the future.
All-American Roofing
The asphalt shingle is the only
ail-American roofing material. It is
not only used on three out of every
five houses, but it is the only popular
type roofing to be originated and
developed in this country. The first
mineral surfaced asphalt shingle
was made by H. M. Reynolds, of
; Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1902. The
shingle was an immediate success,
but it was not until the war that it
received its first great acceptance.
Since that time its use has increased
steadily, spurred by an increasing
demand for a fire-resistant
roofing, and by a growing popular
preference for more colorful roofs.
Tar Heels Proud of Tarnish
North Carolinians are proud of the
green-tarnished dome of the state
capital in Raleigh. Built 100 years
ago, the capital was given a bright
i copper-coated dome; time and
weather has turned the copper to a
bright blue-green. When a bill came
up before the legislature, a few
years ago, to re-copper the dome,
or at least shine it, the motion was
shelved as lobbyists claimed that it
- would take away much of the atmosphere
and antiquity of the building.
Europe Uses Most Fertilizer
Consumption of fertilizer" in the
United States is at the rate of five
pounds per acre per farm. Nations
of Europe rank far ahead of
this country in fertilizer use. Holland
uses 99 pounds of chemical
plant food per acre annually, Belgium
80 and Germany 67. Then'
come Denmark with 40, Norway
with 29 and Sweden with 22 pounds.
France uses 21 pounds per acre,
Italy 17 and Great Britain 12.
Eternal City
Rome was known as the Eternal
City among the ancient Romans,
because the people thought that no
matter what happened In the world,
no matter how many other empires
might rise and fall, Rome would go
on forever. In Virgil't Aeneid
' Jnpiter tells Venus that he will giv*
tee Romans an eternal' empire.
Pittsburgh Pirates
Buy Big John Gee
Camden baseball fans who saw big
John (!eo in exhibition guinea played j
hero this spring will be tuteroHted in
the following which appeared in last
week's Sporting News under a Syracuse
date line: (Cut by courtesy of
Charlotte Observer)
Syracuse, N. V.?Before skyacraplng
John (lee joins the Pittsburgh Pirates,
the $75,000 prise pitching package of
the minors has considerable business
to attend to with the Syracuse Chiefs,
(lee has his heart set on twenty victories
and he ulso would like to see
Dick Porter's Chiefs clinch a playoff
position lu the International League.
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Twenty-game winners have been]
scarce in the league for several years.
Gee, six feet nine and one-half inches,
who was sold to the Pirates early
last week in the biggest baseball deal
in which a Syracuse player ever figured,
now is endeavoring to better a
record of sixteen wins and five losses.
Strange as it may seem, the lanky
23-year-old southpaw, the first native
Syracuse portsider to go to the majors
since A1 Grabowski hurled for the St.
Louis Cardinals a decade ago, pitches
his best ball on the road.
Four of the five defeats charged to
Long John. when this was written,
were suffered at home, three of them
being shutouts. The blankings in
which Gee has been beaten can be attributed
to the fact that he is with a
club low in run production.
Gee jumped into Double A ball from
the University of Michigan in 1937,
following his graduation. His advance
to the majors will bring the Syracuse
club $75,000 in cash and players. Delivery
of four players oh the Pirate
roster, now unnamed, but who must
be acceptable to Syracuse, is -due on
or before the opening of the 1940 National
League season.
Gee is not to join the Pirates until
the Chiefs have completed all their
chores for the" season, and if they get
into the playoffs, starting about September
12, It is possible that he will
not be able to report at all this season.
Wfyen the Chiefs left on a road
jaunt, bound for Toronto, August 7,
the club's remaining schedule called
for thirty contests away from their
own park, and only nine at Municipal
Stadium here.
A possibility existed that another
Syracuse pitcher, Jake Mooty, a righthander,
who leads the league in number
of complete games twirled, might
be sold. Jpke, who had hurled better
ball than his percentage of around .500
would Indicate, is said to have attracted
the attention of the New York
Giants.
Coach James Walsh of the Chiefs
has been suspended for a total of 180
playing days for a run-in with Umpire
Chester Swihson. The severe penally
was imposed by William G. Bramham,
president of the National association,
after Walsh had been suspended
indefinitely by League President
Frank Shaughnessy.
Shaughnessy, who sat in on the
PitUburgh-Syracuse trade conference,
interviewed Umpire Swanson and his
colleague, Charles Donnelly, over the
trouble 'with Walsh while here and
then made his report to Brambam.
The trouble between Umpire Swaneon
and Walsh resulted from the
coach's banishment from the SyracuseToronto
game, July. 29. Words fol
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THINNING PINE STANDS
GIVES GOOD TREES ROOM
Expanded markets for pulpwood
present an opportunity to many landowners
in Kershaw county to thin
their pine forests by cutting all crooked,
forked, rough and defective trees
that would never produce good poles,
piling, or sawtimber, according to \V.
C. McCarley, county agent.
"Thinnings provide an opportunity
to sell a portion of the timber crop
while the more valuable timber products
are being grown," says the
agent. "Frequently, by cutting out the
undesirable trees,. landowners can remove
as much a^ ten cords of wood
per acre, and still have the desirable
number of trees left for growth for
poles, piling and sawtimber.
"Thinnings for pulpwood, us contrasted
with destructive clear-cutting,"
permits the landowner to earn three'
to four times more from his pine timber."
?Asserting tHatTYhesanie princIp 1 es
can be applied to thinning pine timber
as those applied to thinning corn or
cotton, Mr. McCarley explains that the
idea behind thinning is simply to give
more growing space to the moat deBirable
trees.
Frequently, in pine stands, the trees
are crowded as a patch of corn would
be in which a stalk occupied every
square foot of the land. Naturally a
heavy thinning is needed in each case
to encourage development of the best
trees or stalks.
lowed and one report had it that
Walsh had been invited into the umpires'
dressing room. Details are lacking
as to Just what happened.
HOME TOWN JOBS
1111 u southwestern town of 2.000 is
a young follow who has been to the
city and hud his fling. Now ho Is
buck homo und expects to stay there.
Not because ho failed in the city, but
because ho has decided he can go
farther and live more whore he is.
In the city he worked for a chain
food store, learned Its aggressive merchandising
methods, care in buying,
elimination of waste, et cetera.
He became a- store manager, then
resigned, went, back home and bought
a small meai market.
He has been there only a few
months and the business Of the market
Is already double what It was;
up-to-date merchandising pays on
Main street, too.
Nowadays with Increasing frequency
one hears those new-type Horatio
Alger epics of home town boys who
came back and made good at home.
They find competlttom too- tei i Iflc In
the city, but apply successfully at
home their experience acquired in the
hurly burly of urban life.
The efTort necessary to reach even
mediocrity in the city may achieve
real success back home, writes Ruel
McDaniel in Nation's Business.
The keen young man from the country
stands a godd chance of being a
big duck if he is content with a little
puddle?Greenville Pledmdnt.
Some of the citizens who worked as
extras on the film "Jesse James" last
year still are receiving Income as an
indirect result, at Plneville, Mo. They
applied for unemployment compensation.
Even some small children are
getting it.
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