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SPOB^l^ Prom th« Skippor's D«sk A' majority of tho sport writers who were ^th«red In the press box at the South Carolina stadium last week for the South Carolina^lemson game ex pressed the opinion that the weather man was the beat player that Clemson had in iu lineup, that had the weather been sunny and the field dry, the aerial offensive of the Gamecocks would have clicked and there would have been a different story so far as the result Is concerned. think very highly of the Gamecock quarterbacking • • e Anyhow, the result o( the game gave the state title to Clemson, which Isn't anything to ■'write hdme about, since Clemspn was slaughtered by Georgia Tech two weeks before. • • e * • • There is one good football fan In Camden who doesn’t ^Ink.that way, Tom Ancrum, who Is an ardent Clem- eon fan, believes the Tigers had the best team, Irrespective of weather conditions. Getting away from football for minute, ws note where Van tingle Mungoj'^the Pageland baseball whiz, and former New York Giant and Grooklyn Dodger pitcher, has been given a medical discharge from the Army." Va a “says “he“ Is gol ng lo pitch the Dodgers to a penant in 1945. I^gskin Chatter Vfe wonder Just how those chapa' who murmured "Why Camden?* when we suggested a state title game as a charity affair at Melton Field between Camden and the oatstanding team si the upper state area? • • • We baVe an idea that the thought uppermost in the minds of these followers was “Why not Columbia?" Orangeburg Is Hummed By Fast Bulldog Eleven That Idea was Jolted out of their craniiims last Friday night at Sumter when a Gamecock eleven rose to su preme heights to hand the real socke to the Cape 25 to 13. VictM'y No. Six b Posted By *ntle-Bound Caunden • Team. Cox Is Piling Up Impressive Scoring Record By Art Robinson '*Cjillopmg .Ghost” Haa^Mlkdo 84 Points In Six Games. • • o s Well, we didn't see the game, so we cahnot express an opinion. Sta tistics seem however, to give Clemson a big edge. • • ■ The game was played in a drizzle of rain that in the closing /quarter be came a downpour, converted the grld- irnn Into a sea of mud and made fhe ball as slippery as the proverbial greased porker. • • • • Quite a number of the Camden "ex- perta" who saw the game, did not I Undoubtedly a greal many Camden football followers read the story of the Sumter-Columbla game appearing In a Columbia paper last Saturday. If anyone can tell us Just what the story was about we’d appreciate the Infor mation. For Instance^ that line which read “With the score tied Nussinceeth rikesztahrfldior axdmfwyp,’’ gives ns the idea that it must be some kind of a front line in the FIJI Istimds. To- review a wee bit of recent his tory. Camden defeated Sumter 2S to 14, and Sumter buttons ihe“Capt Ijy The Bulldogs made it six in a row at the expense of the Orangeburg ! Highs last Friday night by a score of 33 to 6. ’The game was played on • soggy field before a crowd of some 8lhl spectators. ) Carol Cor, the whirling dervish of -the^ Bulldog backflekl, ralaed his-sea^ Carol C<^, the "galloping ghoet" of the Camden High school football team has scored a total of 14 touchdowns. Or 84 points In the six‘games the Bulldogs have played this season. Cox Is a brother of Hugh “Shot" Cox who was an outstanding player on the North Carolina Unlverslt3| team. Dickie Cox, ai^her brother, played at Qeorylft nnlveralty.All of the almost the same score. Charleston, trounced by Camden 20 to 5, bumps off Florence. • • • • • • • • Quit# a number of- Sumter fans commented on the manner in which the Camdqn rooters present cheered the Sumteir griddere. • • • State 'Hieatre KERSHAW, S. C FRIDAY, OCT. 27 ”c6bRA WOMAN” —With— Maria Montes, Jon Hall and Sabu SATURDAY, OCT. 28 “HIDDEN VALLEY OUT LAWS” —Wlthr^ Wild BUI Elliott SAT., OCT. S8f ‘*tHE PORT OF FORTY THIEVES” —with— Stephanie Bachelor and Richard Powers MON.-TUES., OCT. 30-31 “SONG OF NEVADA” —with— Roy Rogers and Dale Evans WEDNESDAY, fiOV. 1 “THREE MEN IN WHITE” —with— Lionel Barrymore and Van Johnson THURS.-TRI., NOV. 2-3 “THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL” —with— Gary Cooper Admbsioiit Matinee 80 Nbr^t 36c—Children Under 12 Yean of Age, 12c. Sumter spi^t writers and fans are delirious with joy over the victory of the Gamecocks in the tilt with Co lumbia. One of the sport writers In describing the game said in part; "It is doubtful if any team in the state, including Camden, could have stop ped the Gamecocks. • • And over in Columbia the sports editor of the State refers to thw Cepe’ defeat as being "Aimoet unbelievable and atartllng." “ • • • a If those Columbia folks think the Sumter defeat was bad, it is a mighty good thing that the Caps do not meet the Bulldogs this season. ’The effect of juch a meeting would be heart failure pure, .and simple-ior the. Cap fans. _ . Sumter Rises To Great Heights To Defeat Caps No matter how you figure It out, the lower state football situation boiie down to a big X, and that X is Cam- dsn. Camden, Columbia,> Sumter and Charleston are the "big four" in the southern part of the state high school grid picture this year. 4 • • • We suggested to Columbia news son total of touchdowns to 14 by scor ing two in the Friday engagement. This gives him a total of 84 points for the six gam^s this season. The game bad scarcely started when the Bulldogs' annexed . their first score, Cox going off tackle on the third play of the game,to ramble 40 yards into the end zone, Norris added the extra point by crashing through on a line buck. In the second quarter both tedms scored. Cox. hung np bis second couiiter for the Bulldogs by hawks that a title gamevbelween Cauh den and the outstanding team in the upper state area would be a honey of a drawing card at Melton Field in the State capltki. We suggested that it be made a charity affair, similar to the Shrine game at Charlotte, N. C. traveling 15 yards on an off-tackle three Cox brothers have been out standing In Camden football. A fourth brother, now 13, will be a “regular" in another two years, i Camden High won its sixth straight victory Friday night at the expense of the Orangeburg team, the score be ing 33 to 6. So far the Camden team has scored 177 points as against 68 scored by opponents. The record of the Bulldogs shows the following vic tories; Camden 39, Bropklt^Dd-Cayce 13; Camden 33, Harding 13; Camden -ai. Sumter 14; Elsewhere In this Chronicle is a story scoring bee of Carol galloping ghost.. Cox points." McKay Norris touchdowns to register Parker has scored S. nings and Anderson, 1 issue of th# describing the Cox, Camden’e has -scored 34 hae scored 7 42 points. Jigge Marshall, Jen- each. We were sorry that Boyd Rush, a dandy runner, did not get credit for that magnificent 65 to 70 yard canter that he made last Friday night. Some over-anxious youth on the Bulldog line was offside and the play came back. e • e • play, rrhe visitors annexed their touchdown by passing to the 2 yard line, the toss being made by Reed and received by Edwards. Reed plung ed over for the touchdown but the try for the extra point failed. In the third period Captain Jiggs Parker carried the ball 15 yards on an end around. In this same period M. Norris scored on a spinner from the 12 yard line* and in the final garter Anderson went two yards into t^y dirt on a half spinner. Jennings passed to Gandy for the extra point. One of the features of the game, but which did not pay off in figures was a 65 yard galidp by Hoyt Ru8h7’ ’The kid really carried the mail, but got etactly nowhere, as the play was call- od back because of an offside on the part of a Camden player. The score at half time was 14 to 6 in favor of the Bulldogs. ville • 6; Camden 33. Orangeburg 6. Camden has not gone out for wide scores ' this season. * Coach Lindsay Pierce has been using many of his second string players after the "first line" has put the game on ice. ’The canny Bulldog mentor realizes that he wi]^ be losing all bis star play ers next June and he wants the year- lings to get plenty of experience this season. Jup Pluv Kind To Tigers; Deluge Stymies Aerials: GameMteks Drop 20 to 13 ciaion To Clemson In Rain Storm. A score or more of Camden foothsT enthuasists motored to Columbia lan week, Thursday, to watch the grid game Ifetween the South Cai^ Gamecocks and the Clemson played before aome 15,T)00 fans ini steady downpour of rain. Clemaa proved to be the best mudders ani wtm-Zfr to-li lt was the opinion of football « ports that the weather man wag kini to the Clemson team, for the delto that he poured on the football ar^ muddied the field and made the ha| 80 slippery that the- aerial attack oi the Gamecocks was completely halted Under dry weather conditiohs It Is be lieved that the' Gamecocks would haw mastered their rivals. The Tigers scored on a 64-7ard first period drive and were nev« beaded In the Southern conferena ^ contest—They yoteeted their W Camden 20, Charleston 6; as 40 wwrH with 66 and 40 yard scoring thruati h the third and fourth periods as thi Gqmecocks forced- over second and fourth period touchdowns. Tonight the Bulldogs invads Ches- Imlfie respect In Tonight ter, “ wMIe wis hey^e the world for the Gheeter lade, we with GIfnn Academy at Bmnaviek, Camden still has Chester, Lancaster Ga. and Florence to meet before the close of the season. Two other games oi an interstate nature are on* the sched ule, the home-coming here on Nor, 23 with Monroe, N. C., and the gaaw GIfnn Academy really believe they are somewhat out- clasaed by this Camden machine. Bif Delefution of Camden Fans Present To .Cheer Gamecocks. ‘ By a Staff Writer A crowd that pack-jammed every available aeat in the large stands and bleachers at the Sumter football field saw a Gaiirerock eleven rise- to su preme heights to down a stubborn Columbia Caps team Friday night by a score of 25 to 13. Several score of Camden fans were in evidence in the huge throng and Camden several weeks ago when the scoreboard read 25 to 14. The Gamecocks struck paydirt three times HI the second period and the big crowd did everything but tear down the stands and bleachers in a delirium of joy. All three were of the lightning bolt ‘type but the fourth, which came in the final quarter, was accomplished only after a sustained drive. It was the first defeat for Columbia by a South Carolina team and leaves the Camden High school team as the omy undefeated “big league" team In the lower part of the state to have a clear slate. Coalville, England, has issued a 14- mge„hQQk]et of suggestlong for_p(wt war reconversion. Relief At last For Your Cough Creomulslon relieves > promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help moeen and expel g«rm laden and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the tmderstandlng you must like the way it quickly allays tiie cough you are to have your money back. CREOMULStON For Conihs, Chost Colds, Bronchitis EDWARD L. WILLINGHAM, JR. PRESENTS JOE HOWARD AND HIS COAST TO COAST CBS ^'GAY nineties REVUE' IfV a two hour coaqart with a aupportlng oaaLof JSI artists Township Auditorium, Columbia, S. Wednesday, November 1st, 8:30 P. M, y I ADMISSIONS Box Seat 12.10 Arena and Dreaa Circle 92.10 Balcony .. $1.30 General Admiaaion .. 65c (All tax Included) Address mail orders to Edward L. Wilirngham, Jr., Township Auditorium, Columbia, S. Cn and enclose cheek for tickets -desired. * TICKETS ON SALE McGREGOR DRUG STORE 1306 Main Street Commencing October SOth I without an exception they were leath er-lunged In their support of the Sum ter team. 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