The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 04, 1944, Image 4
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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