Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ ^^1-' T'-." rif -■.: :• '. • ■' v ' ^{'-y.,^ r ^ ■^Ti y : ^A(te TWO SPOl^ Prom tho •kippor'a •ill^Simmono, In a aporteaat laat Tuoaday wtak, andoraad *our allMa•^ tien aa to tho kind of ourflloal apora- tion and modlcal attention nocooaary to cur# th# Junior Loglon b#i#b#ll propram of tho advanced eaae of pro. tootitia, a dieoaoo that, jf not curbed, will wreck the baooballj proprom. * • • • Briefly our Bupgeetion. and one that came in for a lot of lauditory <iom- meat from Simmons was that each Legion Poet athletic officer submit to the state athletic officer and com- tnUtee a llat-of hie-playing pemonnel —at least three weeks before the round-fobln play starts. Then let said athletic committee have the play- er list of all teams in the Junior com petition pHhted and eenl to the ath letic officer of each team. The team leaders would have a week to check these lists ^nd make their eligibility cballengee. These challenges could be investigated by the state commit- tee and either sustained or dlsnslssed. A final list of players wo^ then be sent to the team leaders, the names on these lists to have the “protest proof” approval of the state com mittee. • • • • vMany ethers besides the Wit sport- caster have approved our suppestien, which If followed throuph next year, wilt give the fans and players free dom from the worry of proteeta • « • e Worn our own observation of Junior Legion baseball In the Palmetto State, it would appear that quite a few of the leaders appear to have completely forgotten the fact that the program I was conceived with the idea of ivo- motlng sportsmanship. The desire to win games at any cost seems to have displaced the fundameatal purpose. • • • • Received some nice letters from the Brooklyn National isspue offtee expressinp appreoiation for the many courtesies extended te the preup dl- reettnp the boye baeebsl! sohool here August t. 2, S and 4. e e e e plonehip record is scanned. Three of the 11 national chantpe have come from North and South Carolina since the Inception of the program in 1t33 Oaetonia, N. Cn won it In IfSS, Spar tanburg In 1tS6 ai^ Albemarle, N. C., In 1M0. • • • • San Diego, Cal., leads the title list with top honors in 1928 and 1941. Los Angles In 1941, Cumberland, Md., Chicago won In 19|2, Omaha In 1989, in 1934, Lynn. Mass., In 19S7, and Minneapolis in 1948. • • 4 • The oMef ptmasnr df fho Cdirspo All-Stars in their charity class wHh the Chloapo Bears on August 80 at Dyche stadium In Evanston, 111., will be Lynn Waldorf, veteran coach of Northweetem University. Waldorf will bo aided by Bo McMillan of In diana, Henry Franks of Tulsa and Jeff Cravath of Southern, Cal. • • • • ,' Believe It or not, the issup in the protest filed by Spartanburg Junior ^jogion against Greenville Involved a Greenville player who It developed lived, according to Spartanburg, some 12 foet Inside of the city limits at Greenville. Seems that players living in Greenville were not eligible to play on the Greenville county Legion team. • • • • Prom affidavits allegedly submitted to the Stats Legion Athletic commit, tee, the daddy of the Qreenville player in question has boon paying his taxes to—you gueased It—the Qreenville country treasurer, end not the Green- vIHe city treasurer. Which seems to this comer te prove conolusively that there Is eomething screwey In the Loglon setup in South Carolina, ea. far as this eligibility stuff goes. • • • • From where we sit it looks as if the Legion baseball regulations should be revised. A lawyer in one of the Caro lina-towns, who was asked to look over the rules and regulations likened TNB CAMDEN CMRONtCLB, CAMDBN, SOtlTH ^y.iNA. rWIDAY^AUQUST_!S;_IS4^ OUR YOUNG BALL PLAYERS Last week, Wedneaday afternoon to be exacL 4# kids gathered at the Camden ball park. The occasion—-a game with a midget team from Sumter. Unfortunately and to the deep regret of the kfda, the Sumter team failed to show up. Rather than disappoint the. fans who had gathered to watdi theoe kids play, the boys chose up sides and put og a game. ' We are telling you this becanse we think this taming out of these smaU kids to pUy basebaU Is Just about the finest thing that has happened In Camden In many moons. And don’t get the- Idea that these kids put on any burlesque of tho national sport. They wore out there to play ball and even If there were ragged plays In evidence, the boys were-trylng hard. Best of all—they were developing Into ball players, ball players who will, someday, wear the uniform of the Camden High school team, or the Camden Junior team. NOW—This Is what we are getting at Camden has been shy of base- bail material as long as 1 can remember. Other towns In the State hare plenty because they started the kids playing basebaU when they were 10 11, 12, etc., years of age. Camden has never sponsored this kind of a pro gram. L Now we have It and from now, if thel move Is encouraged, Camden will always have ball players on hand lor high school and legion play. We think this midget basebaU should be encouraged. We would’llke to see the LeRoy Belk Post American Legion foster It Provide the kids with bats and balla Do It now and some day when the Legion needs material for Its Junior Legion squad, those kids you helped will be Johnny On The Spot - Let'g gtart our kids playing baseball when they are 8, 9 and 10 yea^ of age. When they reach the high school and Junior Legion age, the^ti'Ill be polished performers. I can remember back over a long span of years when I was about 7 or 8 years of age, we had our comer lot ball team. And up tlmni^ the years we played baseball. Perhape that is why we lore “Bie gM^ as we do today Camden kids should have tho ewF>rtanlty to play/hall. They should be encouraged. No matter what you think of the s^ort f<dks. It’s the na tional game and by aB the rtgkts In tho world, your kids should have the opportunity to strut their stuff In this greatest of sports, basebaU. btarmed complicated. There should be a revision, which would provide against a rapetltinn of the 1944 lyo- ered In the timber that offered for instruction. A left-handed pitcher from Anderson, a lanky first baseman from Whltevllle and a righthanded pitcher from West. Columbia, wera outstanding according to the scouts of the Dodger group. A report that a youth named Arthur Mack from Lexington, had been tendered a con tract was termed “bunk” by the Dodg er outfit. m m m Lefty Mason Leeper, the Qastenla youth, who was teeeed into the spot light of mid-eeuth fame when he pitohed for the Terheei team In the Al Uttar Carol Im olaeelo at Charlotte, N. C., and who went te New York te play on the East team in the Eequlre AlUAmerloan game, wee Just another baseball player from the eandiots in the New York event BiH Fleroe, a 17-yearveld‘ DetroHer, Wen the big noise in the game as pitcher for the East team add he was the one tb receive the almost unanimous vote of the Polo ground crowd to get the uni vorsity scholarship awarded the most outstanding player. « e e e Leeper, was given a face-saver by being permitted to pitch the ninth in ning. Pierce worked six innings and a New York lad worked two. e e e The Brooklyn gentry here for the tmeeball echoot had many chuekloa over reading the baeebail eolumne of a Charlotte, N. C,, paper, which wao Offering dally allbit regarding Leeper. Poeitively mushy. « • • « The Carolinae, frequently referred to ae the “cradle of baeobair haa a moea ro of justification for Ha ropu- tatlun whsTT the-Junior Logtpn ]amden Jimiors State Ouunpioiis Via Protest Road NAtkmal Director Saatame Bulldog Proteft On Rod HoUia. The confused Junior Legion bas^ ball aitnation, which to(A a torn for Jbe worse last FViday, when the state onnd Itself without a repreaentativo to participate in the regional tourn^ ment scheduled to begin at ColuinJ)m Saturday, was hastily remedied/fate iaturday when-j^o Natlonid ^iincUiT, lomer L. Chafllaux of tramrtoiTed the play Uk Greenville, the games to start Moatuay. The predicament airoee Friday even ing when. folIowjB^ a five hour sea- elon, RlehlandyO^tr Americaa Leg ion Poet Na^. withdrew the Oolnm- )la team Irom the tourn^. Thla wlth- drawaLdune on the heels of an order from^Dlrector Challlaux disqualifying aeeoiMl Iwseman Red HoUia ot the Spartanburg, Oreenvllle C^ombia team. Hollis, one of the'cities to have a new oit,. , wst players In the Booth ^^arollna; prevail another year, some reguig^ fonior Legion ranks and the one who that wUl place a deadline for a|tr»j sparked the OotumMa team during the ower-state games. Reports from Columbia Indicate that the members of the Columbia Jf- TMUTLIiHogg Legion team were Indignant over Urn il^CiHlljlall ■K^olRtlS action of the Poet committee. All * “ members the equad wanted toi carry on in tbo tournament, but the tost committee preferred to with draw. Columbia fans In general. It Jr. LeidonPopoffs State Chanqiioiis Unable To Defend Title In Tourney Jake Todd, state Legion J^btotto director, haa a real peeve. The ^ lumbls State declares Jake haa taken heated objection to the action w Homer Challlaux, national hase^ director, who reiverood ToM’s fl^ ings twice la two days. First w national dlreotor declared Red HoUia, them to an income tax return—too^ Columbie Infielder, Ineligible after Several fine proepecte were uncov- jteet mess In South-Carolina. • • • Stop end thilik you baooball fane. There were 18 South Carolina tabma In Legleh eempetHlen In the ctate thie year. Thero were 11 proteite fRbd. What kind of darned noneenee le thatr • • • Other etetea having the Legion baseben program and that includes tone 44, we believe, are not having tMa protestltls epidemic. At least. If to, they have been keeping JoUy quiet about ft. • • • • Here In South Cero|lna It wee a leaolng sport topic for many weeks. Let us hope that the Palmetto Loglon has aeon the laat of such uneports- manlikt taeties. • • • • We are glad to eey that our sug- geetion regarding the fixing of a time limit for challenging players has met with universal approval all over the slate. Bill Simmons, WIS sportcaster, who went into detail about our sug gestion last week, tells us that he has received many reports from hia listen ers and all endorse the idee. Jake and hia lUte committee had ruled otherwlae. 'Theu the nattonal dliecUa deelgate Will^ fourinotn dUfM Track drawMfwCer /UpM Traefw TOO Who sessr Bush peiai< tuiteitofBr-Mait eR B. ftilBasBk Tsgrtsbii to rsbsve Bii ^ ol'dlioettoiis. ' uME.nNnnrs8SaB “Dad Blast It,” Hay Fever Here Mid-Aufuat Brinfs Misery Te The Victima ol This An nual PUfue. With the arrival of mid-August comes hay fever time. That friend of vours with th^ rnu died voice will tell you he does not have e cold—Just hay fever. To the friends of the hay fever victim, with hie reddened nose and feverisb byes, he may seem an amusing spectacle, but to the victim, it Isn’t any Joke. Anyone who ia bothered each year by the affliction will admit that from mld.Auguat to the first froat, life Is Just one sneesing round of_niis4^. Hay fever is the |64 question which medical speciellaU flhd Impossible to eaewer. Ragweed pollen Is the devil- lek little fiend that ecoousts for moet of the reactions known as hay fever. Sad to say however, euthoiitiee on the subject are at a loss to tell what makes some individuals react to the Agweed pollen, while others do not. Rain Delays Games In State Tourney In the South Carolina regional play, offs of the Junior Legion baseball pro gram at Greenville, Oreenvflie defeSL ed West Palm Beach and Tbomaston. Oa. defeated Btrmingbeao. Recause of rain Taeaday afternoon it wee hecessery to play a double header that evening with Birmingham and West Palm Beach playing a 7 p. m. and Greenville and Tbomaston later. So NAtional Dirockor Names Greenrille To Play In RefioBal Ewenk. Beaten In two games by Columbia. by Cheraw that bed already been kicked ont of state Legion competition by reason of Todd*a declaHm. Jkka dechtref that thb ecU»'W Challlrta M ‘"dl#' tatorlal and widwut radWd to ciaion of stata officials who had pre- vloasly pasied en tha apeclfic ques tions.” « • • • A Columbia papar Ofi Sunday eairiad ^ tour or fivo ooparate atoriM on ^ Saturtey, July M, when sport P*#«» Camden, after some difficulty In ee- onoe duiteg the seaaen,' the Camden Junior Legion ban taam emwged from mass ef some 11 protests to become tbe 1944 state chammona. Colunbta Is diepuflbg the title claim of the Camden teaat, but ln<vlew of the recent action by Homar Chall- laux, national dlreetor of Legion base ball actIvlUee th sustaining the Cam- den protest, the date-of the protest Legion meae. Andtn eabh ktory the wHtera wwb- earefM to etopbabMe DM lumbia toam did not In any nray affect it's sUnding at aUte champion. Well, that’s Just wiehfurthinking, for aa a matter of feet the action of tho na tional director In auotainlag the Cane* den protest on Helllo put Columbia Juniors right out of the race. • 0 • • We think the action of the Rich land County Legion In withdrawing the Cape from the competition just because one player bed been ruled in. eligible was without any doubt about the most childish action we had ever heard of. It was a far cry from the spirit of sportsmanship which most Legion members live .up to. • • o' The baseball season in Camden—we refer te ^o recent Junior Legion ooaoon—eras the beet in the history of thio bailiwick. The gross reeelpU for tho homo games totaled a trifle over a thousand bueke. • a .0 While arranging corsages for the lads who made the program a success, Jot down the names of Dr. Carl West, Wiley Sheorn, Arthur Clark. Wylie Hogue, Lindsay Pierce, Art Robinson and the lads who wielded the bate. : —■ coring the Oolqmbla fbam roster, took actloii. This wai before any serlea had fact that the withdrowal of '•••..®^Seen atarted to determfae the state title end antonutieelly eliminates Co lumbia. In as much aa Greenville and Spartanburg had been kicked ont be cause of having Ineligible players, tbe title goes to Camden. But Camden gets little glory In hollow cbemplonshlp such as this 1944 title package of tbe Junior Legion. Columbia, although routed out ef the regional games, etill bad packed away a lot of Jack as a result of the two games played with Spar, tanbnrg in the state capital. And because of the delay caused by jthe bickerings of the state atbletto head and tbe final wrong Judgment by the state committee in supporting tbe action of said athletic leader In throwing out the Camden protest, the Camden team had disbimded. ^me of the boys had left the city, one to a baseball camp, another to college an( others on vacation trips. And there fore it was impeesible to gather the ieara and take up where €<dumbia t eft off in the regional series with he champions of Georgia, Florida am Alabama. , These games would have been play ed in Camden and would have attract- ed thousands of fans here daily TF was, Camden bad to refuse the honor of entertaining the regional teams. So, to the utter emasement What we liked about tho Camden effort was that it was olean—free from Ohoepnoso. Camden was one of tho few toamo in the state to oecapo Ineligibility stigma. When you realise that the record ohowo that there were IS teams engaged in Junior Legion beooball In South Carolina this year of the Columbia fans and fans about the state as well the nMJbnail dlreetor named Oreenvllle to be state cham pion in Camden’s place. Greenville had already been declared Ineligible and we have an Idea that the national and that 11 protests were filed. AiUdkector has got hold of the tall otm Of the teams In tha Upper State die-,bear similar to the one Jake Tod( trict were put out becauoo of player grabbed end will have to do a tall For Prompt.. i Dependable Service CALL TAXI PHONE 128 24 Hoof Service LbIb Hovn: ffoas 3. A4n. to 6t90 A.ia.« PHONE S16-W Fuaengers Insured MAMON HUDSON, Ommt ineligibility. 9 m m m ^ ThiT bandllng of tickets “for'"Iho' local' Junior program was taken care of by Wylie Hogue. While Wylie le not a member of tbe Legion he le one red hot baseball fan and contributed a lot of belp to Meears. West, Sheorn and Cjark this year. V • • • We had the pleasure of having members of the athletic eommittoe hoedod by Or. WooL visit our Hamp ton etreot domiello last Friday even- ing to listen to the returns from the Columbia eonforence ef newnpaper men, Jake Tedd and others. The boys over in Columbia sure were sweating blood fellowlng rooelpt ef the wire from Honter Chauilaux in lot of explalnnig in the Palmetto State jks to “bow can do?” An<r Camden is not likely to forget that In the mess made of the program by tbe state office, Camden lost heavily on the financial froot. There Indianapolis holding Red Hollis to be ^gtble. • 0 • • KThat did not mean that the Colum 5 tin team could not play in the round dbin with the champa from Oeorgtn, Alabama and Florida. It meant only tltet HoUia could not play. But the Colombia Legion Post sulked and re- funed to play without Hollis. That Is why Columbia did not participate In the playoff games this week. lyziANNE ’ ■- kV .y. I gil more good slroiig cups per lOZIANIIE ^fffflBfCBMBfT* («t . . affldavlt that he paid his . the treaaurer of GreenviUe not to tbe treasurer of the iw/** Greenville. This f*ct •houM^Jj been suffldmit to have expiodflg^ RMrtAnhiiiv turotest But Qr*' ^ Spartanburg mroteet later got back at the S flUng a protest based allegation that a S; kri nrg had signed n mrofesfkinal coUteS ^ out ofS took tk« ^ caUed title snlto 8 games to t ^ though the ><at ganoe was bOlM a cbarltryinUr. . Then the hog another leap and thk ^ it vtai Columbia that felt Uie s^ tint up the situation, este filed In South Carolina > Legion baseball dlrclee, Columbia, Oreenvllle and frt>m title consideration and wS xduunplooshlp oTtlie state tort, disbanded Camden kMs. Out of the meee that the 1944 Sena Carolina Junior Legion basebiai gram turned out to be. some cm may come, for there appears to kTI determlnatlOB on the port ot ^ state commltteq. also the i members from Legion Posts la den, Sumter, Florence, Laacaihr and®5, one of the. cities to have a new order of af^ challenges on a date before the Ing of the state-wide ronnd-roWaF* As Supiter Coach Camden sport fans wiu be him ested to learn that Johnnie who has been doing such a as head coach of Sumter High sdM has resigned and will accept tki JR Boy War BoDdb and Slaa^ KERSHAW, a C ^ said, regarded the withdrawal ae being an exhibition of poor sports- menship. As a rosult of the n^onal dlr^tor ^ aselatent coach at the holding Red Hollis as being Ineligible, south Carolina. McMillan is a former UnlverM,rf Jake Todd »nd later by the state com- Carolina player and wiJiM mittee, was upheld. This means that merterback. *He Is belnc sat^^u whatever rtatehraors are being dish-T sumter High S H?rold^^ An effort was made by Todd lute friday night to have the Camden teem enter the regional play aa the nrihig by Challlaux had eliminated Oo- umbia from any championship claim. Spurtenburg and OreenvUle had al- readv been ejec^ becansc of having aDeged Inel^Ie players on the teistt. I Tbdd ws Informed by Dr. Carl West of the Camden Legion-athletic com-^ ralttSe that the Camden team had dMMinded and could not play. That recttKed In Todd going Into a huddle wtth Columbia sport writers and oth-, ers in a desperate eftmt to Iron out the sftuatkm so that the Palmetto, State would be repreeented In the regional tourney.' I Camden officials never approved of the Spartenborg protest against Greenville, as It was built about the merest technicality relating to a boun-, dfery between Greenville City and, Jreenvllle county. Tbe Siuu'tenburg potest, filed just a few hours be-i ore Greenville end Columbia were to' play was sustained by lV>dd, who leld that one of the GreenfiUe play ers resided Just Inside the city limits, and was not eligible to play on the county teem. ThU rldlcuksu aspect In this case was shown when thej father of the Greenville player made is a measure of real satisfaction on the part of the good fans of this com munity In knowing that Camdan stands vindicated .before the tans of South Carolina and neighboring states,. who had .an idto from. .ndlo brcAd*i casts and press releases that the Camden team leaders had been rather unsportsmanlike. For the tnrndown of the protest by Jake Todd, the ap proval of this act by the state com mittee indicated that tiie Camden argument was all wet. Now comes the national director who sustalna the' Camden* protest, thereby Informing' the good fans of the state that Cam den had sufficient grounds upon which FRIDAY, AUa U ‘OWS LAQY AND THE MCNSIER” Vera Hruba Balaton and RidMrd Arlen SATURDAY, AUG II *THE VIGILANTES RIDP Russell Hayden SAT., AUG. 19, 10:30 p. ■. **ROSIE THE RIVETtir Jane Prases and Frank Albertsoa - —F " N' ■" ' MON.-TUES., AUG 21-21] “THE INVISIBLE MANt REVENGE** Jon HaU and BVelyn AnkBi WEDNESDAY, AUGB **W£1RD WOMAN* Lon Chaney and Anne THURSDAY, AUG It “LADY IN THE DAMP Ginger Rogers and Ray MlQcM Admitaioo: liBtlBBB Ni^t 86c—GKttdrBD 12 zeBiB of Afo, 12e. 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