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^Aftl TWO THI OAMMII CHWOWICH, CAMDttI, iOUTH rAaOtWA, FltiOAV. AUOUAT w«rc critical of was tbo lack of pap OTldaoce by tka Camden layers. Tbe boys were not on tbeir toes, dne prob-1 ably to tbe six run bolocanst that tbe| inraders stated in tbe first iniUnt. The Cemden^lunlbla lame of July 28. will remain In the memory of several thousand baseball fane for many nine days, Followere of the Camden Uam will remember the 1ft to ft smearing applied to our town hopes by a peppery invading gang. Followers of the Cape will exult In the lambasting that was handed to the locals. • see There were two outstanding r-fee* tores out of tbe game. Not , the pltcbUtg of tbe highly-touted Lan drum. Not tbe batting of tbe invad ers. But rather the fine umpiring of Carl Ligbtfoot and tbe work of Bob Scott, who came in after Wilson bad been blasted from tbe hill and but for some unfortunate misjudging of I after everything, fly balls by tbe Camden outer garden* • • • • would The lad Hollis, second baaentan of the Columbia team, was all that the I sport writers have been saying about| him. He plays a heady game. Is accu-l rate In hla covering of the second | base area and Is one eweli sticker. It is true he makes eriwrs, but what I good Inflelder doesn't? The player who plays only the safe way may not! roll up and boot-riddled record, but I Is no asset to a ball club. The] feffbw udie makes the enrom is the] ehap who takes chances and goeej defense, tbe big Scott chap have gotten by that fifth round with. out being scored on. • see At least that is the opinion of greater baseball minds than this writer poseeeeee. For Instanoe Wil liam's. hit In the fifth should have been an out but for son\e lletleea fielding. The same la true of De- Loach's blow. That would have meant twe down. McKuIre, It Is true, oafs on an error, but Face fanned. That would have set up the record of ne rune, one hit, one error. Instead of ft rune, five hits and two errors. see* Landrum is a good pitcher. But be isn’t by any means the sensation tbe Columbia sport scribes would have us believe. We wonder how much of his success has been due to the asslstaoce be has received from his pappy, a former old time baseball player, who sits in tbe grandstand and, we are told, slses up the weak ness of the invading batters and tips aonny off to what was best to pitch We were delighted to have Carl Light- foot can the act. • see How many people saw the game? VIeIttng epohto wrHere plooed the aV ' tendanee at~ between 2M and 8000. We said 2000.. Aeeerding to the blue- cemmodate 1800 and the grandatand between 800 and TOO.. Every seat was taken and the overflow amounting to several hundred pershed on the briok balhhead and aleng the right field feat Nne.. The reeielpts at the ameunted te lees than fftOO Indicating that many hundreds saw the game udthout paying a cent for the pri vilege.. Which ohows what value fenee weuM have meant In this fl- aaneiil anniyela. One of the Items many oi^Qui tans Miserable with backache'^ yWHCN kidneyi function bsdly end Tv you (uffsr s aeggiog beetle, widi ^fibiOM, burning, Ksnly or too froguant urinstion end getting up st nigM; nhen yoe feel lired. nervous, ell u|^... use Oeee's PlUs. \ Dees's eie espedsHy for poorly Nking kidneyi. Milliom of boxes MS uted every year. IKcy ere rcceei- ei ended the country over. Adi yaer ladAO Bomii J The game attracted baseball fans and experts from all over tbe state end even beyond tbe state. Seen in tbe grandstand was our old friend Sid Smith, one time bSMeball great, now in Florence but at one time a Camden resident and baseball ace, four scouts of tbe Brooklyn National, one from the New York Oiants, one from the, Yankees and one from tbe PbUadelpbla Athletics^ Seen from the scoring box were Bern Latimer and Johnny Montgomery, publisher and managing editor of The State. Alien of The Charlotte Observer, and other baseball writers and notables. • u-e • Jeke Todd, gtate Legion executive of the sthletio department, was on the Job and had a busy afternoon. When the matter of an umpire biwfc of the bat appeared st s dead-end at ft p. m.. It wee the suggestion of thie comer that Carl LIghtfoet be assign ed to the Job. Columbia balked at the Idee but finally agreed. And after i,.* Tbl the game the entire Cetumbia coeoh-rl lf||A ||| I islp r IftV Ing stuff, efficere of the Columbia•*** *ai/ax, a. j athletic eemmitteo and members of tho teem went out of their way to I Caps Batter the Offerincs shake hansle wHh LIghtfeot and ex-1 — ^ i ,, .. prase their admiration of the fine I Entire Camden HuTlmf work he had dene. | Staff XN Itoi NCR ALl1l0CK,‘rHf N A LOS ANGELES RTCHER, wALKiD eieur s/icRAMibno batters—aur Av cwmtr gmnrop rmm off first brsb/ Columbia Swamps Camden For Second e • At the ris^ of being charged with I excessive repetition, may we say that I To demonstrate that last Friday’s stand, the former is euppoeed te ao- ^Kt^ball can be made an outetandlhgj" ^ ® sport In tbe blgb school and American the^^lumbiu ors op^ Leglra program another season by ln-j'*P ?**®‘7^u** w*tn staBatlon of lldht poles and tbe r®* ^ moval of tbe light mcketa from tbaM®Jf*t football fleid to tbese poles. We took L Coj®**®® ^^©rce end Robinson of tbe tbe trouble to ascertain tbe expense I team used all of ttelr Iw- involved and It would be minimum. ®«t® It would tacrease attendance at tbeh““**** ban games fully ten fold. * splendid Rowing in tbe 1 to I tie « • • • I game reeently wee given tbe eauM ’The ball game last Friday offered f J”^*!**^^** s let of slde-llghts that earried a bIg|”W®^®f *<> •* J*®* kick to the thoueande preeenL Thi Columbia Jai^ng over ft rum errivel of a ministrei band which took J" ^® and sendiw <ke over in the north bleechftre and toot-|®** the showers. Hancock ttep Bleacher Chatter George Slsler, Clyde Sakefortb, Rex Bowen, Jake 'Todd, Sid Smith and several other baseball greats of form er years, all sat together last Friday, right up In tbe top row in the grand stand and evidenced a deep interest in tbe baseball drama being unfoldei on tbe field. 9 m m m "From e directional angle this Camden field is all wrong,” said one of the scouts. '‘Not only are the cash euifemerii Th This lonkf peiiaHied by having to sit and poor into a glaring surv but tho batter and the catcher sru under handicap for tho same rea son. Tho stand should havo been eVer there where the flagpole Is—er at the northwest eomer with the bleachers along the west base line.” « • • • All of the experts declared that Camden diamond and outfield were the best they have seen in any small town this or any other year. e • On# of the scouts asked If Camden Camden Juniors Were Stickless Wonders of Seasim RmuMttr-lfp To lower Dkiprkt Chttinpa Hod Low Swot Fifwro- The Camden Juniors, with an ap proximate team batting average of between 205 and 210 went a -long way in tbe lower state district round-robin, losing out In the eleventh hour to a bard-slogging Columbia Junior aggre gation. While the box scores of all the games played by the Camden team tWs summer are not available, tho Chronicle has tbe record of all borne g;amer and Mte game^at Laneaatar. Based on tbe bitting performance of the Camden Juniors in tbe nine games recorded the locals packed a swat pundb of a lowly .210. In com' parison with a majority of tho other teams in tbe lower district, the team record was extremely low. And In tbe face of this offensive power, tbe Camden Item toppled all of tbe rival organisations with tbe exception of Colombia. Florence and Cberaw. In tbe case of Florence and Cberaw the honors were even in the round-robin elimination. Bobble Wilson Is the only Camden player to have a'batting average of over 800 in tiie nine games on record Wilson got 18 bits out of 43 spjiear- sDces at tbe plate, for an average of .300. Bulce Is second with-5 hits out of 18 times at bat for an average of .278. He took part In but four of tbe nine games. Coleman got 7 for 20 to hit an average of .250 for seven games. Cox had'^2 for 37 to get an average of .245. Jlggs Parker with 11 for 89. averaged .220: Taylor with 5 for 20, averaged .200: F. Parker with 5 for 40 for a .111 average: Hancock 10 for 88 with an average of .208: Scott 8 for 82 for a .200 avergge: Mims 5 for 28 with a .151 average: Marshall 2 fOr 9 with a .189 average and Horton 1 for 8 with a .111 aver< age are tbe other members of tbe Camden squad and their battbig mriu la a glance over tbe scores of tbe two Colombia games played In this city during tbe summer. It Is easily dlscemable that Red HoIHs, William son ind Landrain arelfie spafl ^lii^ of tbe Caps. In the game played June 14 here I^tfanore and Sboaly did Xha pitching for Colom hurled for Camden. In that tbe Co lombia team presented a battle Uoe minus HOlls, Willtamson and lam- dmf. Otherwise It was tbe same that played here last week. In tbe Jane 14 game Wilson gave but one walk, Doans Pills took over and after ColumbU added ^ ^ XwfF IU118 Hi UiV BVtlAMl KBEi UUV VWJU I ^ 'y .. t- a'i' ''i” In the fourth and fifth, they climbed IP***^ Landia lins the ban op taama *d Ju'^ta.betMwsn Innings took th# fancy br’ths crov^. ' The playing big crowd up on Its fsst, whlls all, . w v play on ths field was suspended with ^ pleyere standing at .tuntlon and ’'®®‘t*»® ^"^Cam facing the west” 1^®® ft®^® ®® * ^®® ®^8bth. ^ •* • • • I Columbia batters were on the ram- Some of the fans got a big tbrUll®**® •“ •»<! at when five burly blue coats rafed out h*”' of the bleachers and took after white man who was seeking to makel®*®^^^ outclassed; The game was away with a new baseUllwhlchTtd h^nessed by 8,600 tims, somewhat of been fouled over tbe stand. • record crowd oven in a city as large • • * • las Columbia. What Umpire LIghtfoot said tel As a result of Ae wlm Columbia Coaeh Frank Andrews of the Colum.|ftoos In^ the state title playoff bia team may remain as much of a|®*®*“f* Greenville, the first game 1»- ry ee ♦<> Governor of|"ft playM yesterday. Games will be South Carolina said to tho Qovomorj®^^®^ thJs^ afternoon and Saterday* of North ^roilna, but from what a|*?d t®®®® ®ove to Green- llttlo bird told ua. It wasn't any Merry |”“®. “ J®® ,“® Christmas. Wo notiood that Androwo j elded. The series is a 3 out of 6 af fair. struck out 18 and yielded but 4 bita in nine innings. In the game last week Columbia got 3 bits, Wilson walked 2 men.and dished up a wild pitch, while Parker and Cox each con tributed a boot to give ColB«y.' rmna. • In tho June 14 game Talbw Columbia, who got two kits M nl gamo last week tanned three ♦«-.*** DelAack. who scored three rui^ week, fanned jtwiee In June *5? who scored a run and singled ■JS*’ time, last week fanned three maZ in June. Twin Melon Grown On Kershaw Farm J. J. TalberL a farmer locatta XJ. 8. Highway No. l, betwouT City and the Woodward airport a water melon that Is somewhm c freak so far aa shape la concernelL The mrion can be described ml ing a sort of Slamese-twin attui* that It has the appearance <g- meions Joined together. Il ls ty only one melon however, melon la of the Stane Mount^^ rlety and scaled 80 pounds. ^ Drive Carefully—Save a State Theatre KERSHAW, a C FRIDAY, AUa 4 *«PAS5AGE T(T MAIt. SEILLE** Hnmphi^ Bogart SATURDAY, AUG. I *TtAiDERS OF SUNSET PASS»» Smiley Barnette and Eddie, Dss SAT., AUa S, 10:30 p, m •mY BEST GAL** Jane Wlthera and Jimmy Lyftm M0H.-TUES^ AUa 74 <«this is the life** Donald (FCoimer and Peggy Im WEDNESDAY, AU&"»^ «*ACnON IN ARABU** George Bandars a Wyglnla Bow T11URS.-FIU., AUG. 10-11 <<OOVER GHUL** Rita Hayworth and Gene Ksfljr 4 Matinee mgbt BSooOhBdfen Date IS Team of Age, ISe. ing process. We explained that the park waa built for Syracuae and that we hid enjoyed Having Syracuae Herrieburg and T®''’®"^® h^d would welcome any major or DquUe. A club again. • • • • One of the former diamond atars got a big laugh when he said be wae a very happy man, that be bad a wife and a cigaret lighter, and both worked. • • • • The only political aqueak we heard all afternoon came frorp Rex Bowen, who rnenttone<r ieeThg iOnf# ROOie- velt fountain pane dieplayed In a Brooklyn store last week and the sign in the window read “Guaranteed For Life.” « « • e I cooled down In his Burleigh Grimes “The Camden school should be a tactics after Cart took off hla meek success,” declared Slsler. "We had and started to unbuckle hie cheat pro- 1 lector.' • • • ■A Sumter trounced Florence lest lesday night under ib« ~Ug Sumter by a score of 9 to 6. Junior Southall pitched a nice game for the winners, allowing Florence but five hits. ~~ ~~ • • • • F. J. Subrstedt, who has been coach at the Lancaster High school for tbe I>ast two years has resigned and will accept tbe position ot athletic dlrec-> tor at tbe Marion High school. Wyatt Benton, a former member of tbe Lan caster High eebooi faculty, will ooaob basketball and teseball. A football coach has not been secured as yet Tetephone Lines to tbe Front 'As bgtties roD on to victory and vast new areas are con-’ tjoered, the need for tremendoua amounts of telq>hone e^nip- nent becomes more and more nrgenL Smci tbe Mart ol tbe war tbe ha|;e telephone mannfao- ^ taring plants of the Bdl System have bean concentrating on the mannfactare of tslephene equipment for war use ex- dnahreiy, to issue tiiat there diall be no shortages ef trie- phone equipment on the war fronts. JgM before war started, Ae Southern Bdl Company com- pleled a large pro^pam of eoq^ansion of cestral offee a^ out- aide fdast 'fsdliHas. Ibia aaaHed ns te oontinue iastslKi^ td^Aones after the maoufactne of telephone equipment for ^ uiriHan use bad stopped. Now, however, tiw nonoal reaerves of switdAoazds, wiie^ uahhs aud fautraneaM beve been need ^ and we have WOT P®®pk flB am waithig hats for awrvice. But wu*s seeds gutfl ceue im, 00 lor aoBM time we «t home shaB contiirae to Hgb % most and tbe baft QM of what we MW ^ £. H. WXiaoK, CwUtm Mww: SftnmlBiiQiniiE IN roBiin Unfm •■tBIFUBOTSB Dear Skipper: I went out with a young man a few nights ago and drank two gin flstes. five glasses ot red wine, a taste ot moonshine and two coffee royals. Please tell me. did 1 do anything wrong? I wouldn’i be aorpriaed. more and better publicity on it than any of tbe other schools.” « • • •- Commenting on the action of the j diamond,, aevofsl of the sqoute ex- pressed the opinion that Camden players lacked batting technique. “No body power and a cut under swing,” wae the statement of one. • • • • Red Hollis was tbe focal point of concentration and while there were few comments. It was evident that tee scouts liked the way tbe red-bead bandied himself. Landrum was term ed “steady” but not having much otear than an out carve. Of tbe XAm- den array of baseball talent Bob Scott was in high favor. Columbia’s six run splurge in tbe fifth Inning was 'marked off as being due to poor Judg ment In tbe outfield. For PrtMttpf... 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