The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 11, 1944, Image 3
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PAQC THRKS
SPORTS
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The national baskethall pictaro
changed over the week-end with. Mar
quette dropping out of the honored
top five listing bf rirtue of a lacing
received at the hands of a Great
Lakes wrecking crew.
Iowa tops the nation’s teams as of
Wednesday while the Kentucky Wild
cats, beaten only by Illinois, got re
venge on Illinois last Monday by win
ning 51 to 40 and wiping out the
Bulldogs and every time one of them
contacted a Gamecock—toot, toot,
toot, fool. The Bulldogs were afraid
to do any close guarding and thereby
hangs the story of the game.
Some of the folks who are con vine- previous licking,
ed that politics aren’t so important ( Great Lakes and
■Hg some of the politicians would have
The public believe are agreed that
Chicago, known as the “Windy City,”
is a good place for the conventions of
th the Democrats and Republicans.
Kentucky are
given a second place rating, the sail
ors getting this recognition by reason
of a €3 to 40 plastering they gave
Wisconsin.
Dartmouth continues to hMd third
Those new income tax forms which
of us have been struasUng over
ire a bit confusing. After everything
ps figured out the answer to the
thirty-two dollar question looks worth
lore than the sixty-four.
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place while Northwestern, defeated by x\on*\ game has ever known. It was
T^e trouble with Congress is that
the longer it remains in session the
longer the country has to wait for a
lot of things
Notre Dame last week has gone to
fourth. And that’s the picture of the
national cage ladder.
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Have you over tried to fix a looao
Reading in the press of ths seH^e
illness of Joe Tinker ddwn In Orlando,
Florida, memory carries mo back
many, .many years when Joe played
an infield berth with the then fantous
Chicago Cubs. It was during Tinker’s
time that the famous sport lines,
‘Tinker to Evers to Chance,’* came
Into existence. That Infield combi
nation of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers
and Frank Chance was the sweetest
double play production lino the na-
preclslon pnd accuracy plus.
Sumter Gamecocks
Get Sweet Revenge
On Camden Cagers
Jinx and Whistle Tootin* Ref
eree Add To Bulldog
Terrors.
and second periods and scored , in the
third when Cooper gathered a field
goal and Parker a free throw.
Tommie Hughes was high scorer of
the game with 14 points. Stroman
had 6, Booth 3, and Jones 2. Sumter
scored 5 points in the first period, 4
in the second, 5 In the third, and 11
in the fourth.
Cam'den sharpshooters were jinxed
by the Sumter baskets. *1116 Bulldogs
took frequent shots which in many
instances rolled inside the loop but
spun out.
Old Man Jinx and a tooting referee
combined to put the Camden ftuUdog
Thirteen pleasure steamers which
cagers at'the' short end of a 25 to 3 used to take passengers to the peace-
final score in one of the most ridtcu- ful spots of the Clyde coast of Scot-
lous cage contests seen in these parts land are now pn coastal defense and
in many mootw on the wood of the minesweeping.
Edmunds High school gymnasium at -
Getting over into the football file
we note where Sid Luckman, the mas
termind of the famous Chicago Bear
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)le had a little goat—
rhe goat had halitosis
tnd everywhere that Ols went
rhe people held thein noses.
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Anthropologists say that one time
|n the life of a man might be termed
Ihe “B” period—Baldness, Bifocals,
liridgework and Bulge.
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Dave Baum, that dynamic insurance
.vriter, tells a good one on the insur-
tnce agent who when called on the
parpet for selling a policy on a 92-
^ear-old man, stated that statlstlee
khow that very few men die after 92.
electric connection and found that team, has been adjusted the
every tl^ you touched the wire you national football league’s most vslu-
recelved s neat kick in the form of sn.nble player for the 1943 season. Six
electric shock. It made you feel rath-{pjgyej-g were considered in the ballot-
er relucUnt to fool around with those jng. Don Hutson of Green Bay. was
wires didnt It. We mention this as.runner up And only a few points back
an analogy to the Camden-temter jof Luckman. Don won the award In
cage game of last Friday ait Sumter, 1941 and 1942. The players and potnta
when the Gamecocks gave C«mden a in this year's poll were as follows:
26 to 3 lacing. Camden fans who Luckman 36, Hutson 33. Baugh 18,
CHARLES A. SHEFFIELD
IN GERMAN PRISON CAMP
Sgt. Charles A. Sheffield, son of
W. L. Sheffield, Hermitage Mill vil
lage, Camden, reported missing in ac
tion last July, has been located in a
German prison camp. Father just re
ceived atf* medal with oak leaf cluster,
conferred on Sergeant Sheffield for
Jaunted to Sumter to watch the game
admitted that Sumter had it on the
Bulldogs, but "not that bad.”
‘ The Sumter players were those
“hot” wires we refer to In the pro
ceeding paragraph—the referee was
the heat and the Camden talent were
' the victims of touching the hot wires.
That chap sure kept his eyes on the
Coff 6, Brock 2, Paschal 2.
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We note in.the Sumter Item that
the Gamecocks, Sumter High baaket-
eert played the Headquartecs Squad
ron team from Shaw Field last Tues.
day night and lost 27 to 26. This
Squadron team Is reported to hsvs
been the ssme thst downed the South,
ern AIrwsys by a wide scors.
Along Broad Street
I noticed In a paper last week fhat
fellow named John C. Bunn, had
ba-ssed away at the age of 78 years In
|he RingUng hospital at Baraboo, WIs.
ind thereby hangs a story.
We echo many inquiries when we
inquire why tome kind of a bond rally
has not been held in Camden.
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Back in those halycon days when
used to mess aroqnd In the hunt for
Lews up in Wisconsin,. I had occasion
j^o visit Baraboo, then the winter
luarters for the Ringling circus. Strqi-
slong the main drag of this
lountainous-like Wiaconain * city, 1
(ame to the big bridge spanning ihe
Wisconsin river. Neath the end of
ie bridge was one of the most at.
ractive bake shops 1 have ever seen,
['here was a sign on this shop which
ead: "Bunn the Baker of Baraboo.”
That sign was made after a Chicago
In reply to these many inquiries
we have expressed our complete con
fidence and faith in the managerial
qualifications of the outstanding gen
tlemen who have thd fourth war loan
bond drive In charge.
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They did a magnificent job in the
other drives and accomplished their
objective in each instance without any
fanfare or fire works.
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But we also know the Am^ican
people have a desire for parades,
martial music and the like and per-
Orchids and Onions
eourage and bravery In five raids over
a«rfnany
Sumter last Friday night.
, Fresh from a brilliant perfot;mance'
a week ago when the Bulldogs smote
the Gamecocks 20 to 16 in a thrilling i
fracas on the home floor and also a |
bit chesty over a wide victory over
the Summerton cagers during the |
week, the Bulldogs ran up against a*
procedure at Sumter that was quite
oat of the ordinary.
According to the Sumter sport
scribe the tone to zone defense of the
Camden team which boxed the Sum
ter offensive the week before was
solved this time and penetrated at
will. Ball out-oLbounds rule found a
Can You
Drive a Car?
This Cadet Had
Been In Camden
Before As Poloist
H. G. Barnard Played With
Pinehurat Here In 1941.
haps thwe is something to this system
lumnift, itruck by the aTTHefliron ofti^ ^o real Yank needs a parade or
a brass band to build up his patriotic
fever. There should be no need for it.
Ir. Bunn’s name and his occupation,
ad used the slogan in hla paper.
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lou still can get licker
|t exhorbitant coat
Jt you have to add alky
protect It from frost.
State Theatre
KerahaWf 8. C
FRIDAY, FEB. 11
“SO. PROUDLY WE
HAIL”
WUb-
Over in Dillon last Tuesday they
staged a bond rally and featured a
big parade with a speech by the govei^
nor of the state and an auction sale.
It was a novel affair and drew tome
four thousand people to the town com
mon. The auction sale alone netted
162,000. A augar-cured ham brought
$7,000 in bonds. a
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Well friends, when you hear the
air-raid sirens begin to blare and you
find the blaring repeated at hourly
intervals. Just make your plans to go
to an Inspirational mass meeting that
evening. It will mean that the
Hilda tends a postcard to express
the opinion'that mustard tastes awful
without meat on IL
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Margie says that jitterbugging Is a
crazy dance done to Juke-Joint jive in
which the dancers eventually throw
themaelves*out of joint, which In the
larger cities where such jitterbug
joints prevail In plenty, saves the
bouncer a lot of trouble, _
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Dr.. John’s prescription for today:
"When trouble la headed your way and
worry la getting you down, you don’t
mean the things you tay and your face
it marred by a frown; then it’s'time
to view your reflection, pause a bit
and change to a smile, take a walk In
a new direction, with thoughts that
afe lofty the while. Keep busy from
daybreak to. darkpeas jmd ilnd joot jP.nejoiLn<^cinitr»i
minute to ahirk; for men have sue.
cumbed to worry, but none ever died
from hard work."
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By the way—whatever happened to
the co-ordinators? And by the same
token, did we or did we not have a
March of Dimes campaign in Cam
den?
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pne of the Camden lads who went
to New York last summer tells of a
new drink that he had in a tavern
on the Bowery. They call It the con
coction ‘‘Yankee Stadium.” Two drinks
and you want to slide home.
U’Tien H. G. Barnard of Chattanooga.
Tenn., came to Camden during the
winter of 1940-41 and played with a
Plnehurst polo team against the. Cam
den Yellow Jackets of the lodal polo
group, he/did not dream that three
years later he would be back in Cim-
den, training to be a flyer. .
For Barnard Is an aviation csdle at
the Southern Aviation school here.
He is a former student at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, attending
that institution for three years. He
has Ttdden horses all /his life and
played polo when attending McDonegfa
school. He also attended CDT at
Clemson.
Barnard .recalls the Invasion of the
Plnehurst team in that February of
1941, glibly giving the names of Joe
Bates, Kirby Tapper, Bubber DuBose,
Cyril Harrison, anxi others who were
on the Camden team. He recalls that
Plnehurst was given a bad beating
new interpi^tation however, as the
leather waa invariably given to the
honie team. As a matter of record
Camden received It but five times
during the fracas.
Adralltedly Sumter had the best
team that evening, but not as superior
as the soore might indicate. The of
ficiating was bad, terrifically so, and
fouls were called on the Camden tal
ent so rapidly the boys became jittery
and were Inclined to regard the Game
cock players as “untouchables.” And
body contact resulted in a personal
foul being called. Sumter rolled up
a surprisingly total via the free sbot
route as the “Roosters” are skilled at
tossing them ip from the gift line.
Camden went scoreless in the first
When you were a kid, did
you always pester to “go alonfe”
on every ride? “And now, do
you get a kick out of handling
the wheel like a man?
Women with mechanical abil
ity are. ueedt-d In the, WAC at
once. Other skills are needed
too. And untrained women can
learn skills that will be useful
all their lives. 239 types of
Army Jobs need WACs to fill
them.
Get full details at the nearest
U. S. ArtPy Recruiting Station
(your local post office will give
you the address). Or write:
The Adjutant ’General, Room
4416, Munitions Building, Warh-
ington, D. C.
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Heard in the soda shop. Fjjrsr: "
told her I was Irish and aha said I
Claudette Colbert, Paulette
Goddard and Veronica lAke
SATURDAY, FEB. 12
“BEYOND THE LAST
FRONTIER”
r —with—
[Eddie E)ow and Smiley Burnette
Chapter 5
"SECRET SERVICE IN
DARKEST AFRICA”
ave started their invasion of HHler’a
Ekiropean Fortress via the JMglish
dnumeL
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^at wrong, that i waa Russian. Said
1 was always making advancesJ*
We hope that when thic invasion
starts and we hear the sirens ehr>k,
every Tom, Dick and Harry In Camdtn
will make it a point to attend the
mass meeting that will be held at 8
p. m. This meeting will not be a
celebration. It will be a spiritual and
patriotic affair with prayers being
offered for the safety of our soldiert.
Some of the things In the memory
book I like to remember: Well dressed
men wore derby hats . . . Just before
exams at school we all went down to
the book store and bought a dlme’a
worth of foolscap paper . . . How
Grandma always hung hBr.plAlil flhaifl
back of the kitchen door and never
ventured out without throwing it over
her shoulders . . . When some fellows
wore celluloid collars and cuffs and
hen Ihe LC»fG INSTANCE dzculte
YOU want arej^w Jed, th© operator
will say.. .. "PLEASE LIMIT YOUR
Mt. Moriah Church
Has An Anniversary
CALL TO
Last Sunday. Jan. 30, was the 78th
anniversary of Mt. Moriah Baptist
church, and was made occasion for
an anniversary^ervleei this taklngr
place at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
The maih address at the Sunday
aftehioon service was made by Mayor
F. N. McCorkle. In the morning at
11:30 Rev. J. W. Boykin, pastor of
Ihe church, preached a sermon In
which be traced the prograes ot Mt
Moriah during the 78 vaara.—Suoda:
evening a pageant depicted the prog-
r.eaex>f tho^ eteireh and in eloelhg, the
roll call attracted the congregation
which had filled th© church to ca
pacity.
Herodotus described auction of
Babylonian girls of marriageable age.
KimH AW LODdl NO. tt, A. F. Ifc
SATURDAY, FEB. 12
Late Show, 10:30 p. m.
“THE CHANCE OF A
UFETIME”
marines, sailors and flyers. There will leaned them every day with soap
and water.
[!be Inspirational addresses—short but
— with —
iChester Morris & Jeanne Bates
lON^TUES., ^HEB.
‘DESTINATION TOKYO"
— with —
-JDl.. Grant and John Gfufidd
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16
“IS EVERYBODY iJAR..
FYf”
—with—
Ted Lewis and Nan Wynn
to the point. There will be singing
Won’t you plan to be one of us?
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So many sad events have transpired
in the past several weeks that the
effect has cast a pall of gloom over
the community. ’I'he tragic death of
--ctep, UhTtetOpher
Vaughan, and later the sudden demise
of an old and true friend. Charles R.
VHlepigue, have taken aWay much
from the.-ettitenry of Camden. They
were truly worth while citizens. Our
deepest sympathy goes out to their
loved onM.
Regolar Commuaicatlos,
First Tuesday of Badi
Month. At'l P. M. VlMtocu
Welcome.
Yes Mary, your Ijre la about worn
but when the air begins to show
through.
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I noticed in a Chicago paper the
Lielhet d«r-wbepfr a woman used tear
gas to rob a bank. Ho! Ho! Same
old feminine formula—tears for
money.
J. C. HOFFMAN, W. M.
J. 1. ROSS, Secretary.
rHURS..FRI., FEB. 1748
“LETS FACE IT"
Bob Hope end Betty Huton
latlne
-Adults 88e; ehfidren
under 12, lie
ivening—AduHs, lOe; ehlldren
under 12, lie
Much of the credit for the efficient
firs department Camden has today can
bo traced to Charlaa VHlepigue. It was
during his tarm at councilmaq and
member df the city council that lha
start at modernixing the fire depart-
ment was taken. The purchete of the
fin# American LaFrance pumpar took
place at this time. Brevard Boykin,
now a major In tha army, was ehiaf.
' in this partioular Mr. Viilepigue was
fortunate In getting jood iMdere for
hie unit, for when Brevard Boykin loft.
1 Buddy Danton, who has done an out
standing jeb as chief, earn.# Into the
picture.
HARRY H. HYMAN, JR.,
GRADUATES FROM RADIO SCHOOL
Pfc. Harry H.'Hyman, Jr., son of
Mr. and_ Mix.- Hyman, fopmerly tit
Camden,-is on hia first ^rlough, visit
ing his parents in Charleston. He
graduated from Radio school at Truax
Field, Madison. WIs., on Jan. SI. He
will leavsu for Godman Field, Fort
Knox, Ky.,! on Feb. 14. Many trieuds
greeted him In Camden.
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