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"OVER THE SPORTS DESK’ wiA TIm Skipp« Jott recclred • card from Major H. A. Small from El Paao, Texas, and he tells me that hell be op this way soon. I note that Dick Richards has him down to take orer as asfle teach er at the hifh school. t P , \ 44 i t The return of Small will be re- ceired with much satisfaction on the part- of the good people of the com- munlty. He’s a swell chap and will fit In nicely with the school profrsm, particularly in the agricultural pro gram and athletics. Small gsTe Camden high school some of the' heat beahetball in its history. And.he sure isn't any slooeh as a baseball mentor. What a team he and Lindsay Pierce will make. Both fine chaps and each a specialist in ahtletlca. In oar opinion Pldrce is just about the best as a t^tball coach and you can't BsMlL^whan it comes to basketball. ‘And when They are stlU talking about the performance of /immy Cox In th^ Darlington ganm on July 21. That home run clout orer toward Quaker cemetery was s beauty and Jimmy circled the bases to glre Cam den the run that won the ball game. In the defensive role of catcher he performed sensationally. Twice he raced back and collided with the brick wall to reach over and catch some towering foul popups. The sec ond attempt caused him to bounce back and fall. He hfild on the to ball, however. The crowd certainly went for the kid’s performance in a grand way, cheering and applauding him on every appearaaea. The opening Sunday ball game for the Palmetto league games found a record turnout of fans and one of the wwsr-tnfne^ Jams this comer has they combine on baseball—well—just watch out j s Hal Middleton, new bandmaster at Camden high school has issued a call for band members. He lyants all stu dents from the fourth grade up who are interested in the band program to turn in their names. That’s the righb.ldea Mr. Middleton. We can foresee a mighty good band for Cam den High within two years. witneMed in years. There‘wasn’t any effort made to park cars in an intel ligent manner and as a result many drivers almost went nuts in seeking to extricate • their vehicles from the snarl. A Kinggtree And Camden Winners In Extra Frames r DONT LET rOKR. CLOTHING GO TO THE DOOSJ t Lervs MeiP ywfrtsp yovX IVAAOMBe m ftKSr. CLASS SHAPS Phone 153 Wo Pickup and Doliwer I DeLuxe Cleaners Rojola Dofoot Hsurtewillo 1 To 0 In Fiftoon liiniiif. Cam* don Downs BishopwUlo A fifteen-game with a 1 to 0 score with Kingstree victor over Hsrtsvllle, gave Klngakree tans a great baseball feast last Friday evening. The same was oae of the most ex citing and brilliant ever wtntessed in Kingstree and the crowd of over 2.000 fans ware kept on the anxious seat Hartsville threatened again and again but brilliance on defensive play pulled Kingstree out of many holes. Over in Bishopvllle on the same night before a capacity crowd, the Camden White Sox palled out a 10 to 8 win over BUhoprllle by dint of Bill Mims’ triple smash in the 11th Inning. In addition to Mims three base clout the game was featured by a cir cuit smash by Lee Robinson. Infield errors by Camden in the early period of the game enabled Bishopville to. push ovMT several scores and take an early lead in the fracas. The score was tied at the end of the ninth and also St the end of the tenth, but MlmsSsame across with the necessary clout to give Camden the game in the 11th. Jimmy Cox k Hero In Victory Of White Hose FifiMB Ymt OU a EUMi Cgtrtidi~ PoIm Houmf ' To Win Gamu Jimmy Cox. 16.year-old brother of the three Cox brothers, Hugh, Dickie and Carol, who has been baseballing around these diggings this past 'sea son, first with the high echoed team and later with the Junior Legion out fit here, stole the show at Legion field Sunday afternoon. The yonng ster, who has been sharing the catch Ing job on the White Sox team with his brother. Deckle, and Bob Hicks, was back of the bat for the Sabbath tilt with the Darlington team. Not only did he pull two sensa tional catches of high pop fouls by racing back to the brick bulkhead in front of the grand stand to pluck the ball out of the ahr, but ^ won the game for Camddh in the eladhth inning by a home run clout into the setting sun in the right garden. The game was all tied up at the time an d there were two down. Bo Hioks had whiffed for the third time and Wilson had rolled an easy one to first. Cox watched three balls go by, oae being a strike. The fourth ball looked good and he swung. The ban soared far into the right garden, close to the foul line, dropping fair and rolling out into the tall grass. When it was retrieved and fired back intd the infield Cox had circled the sacks. Hollis Lynch, .who had pitched five hit ball througn the eight frames, pulled up his pants, tightened his belt and retired the Darlington bat ters in one two three orders ' in the ninth. Darlington started the game w^th a rush, singles by Strickland and Co wick followed by Yarboro’s triple putting two-runs over the pan in the first inning. Camden came right back and converted a walk to W. Mims, Bill Mims singled and a single by Les Robinson, mixed with sn error by the Darlington catcher into two runs. The Sox forged ahead by scoring a run in the second on Wilson’s single mixed with two errors by the visitors. A fourth run came in the third on a single by Les Robinson, his stolen base and single by Wilson and an infield out. Darlington scored a run in the sixth when the Camden infield checked in with the only two bobbles of the game, which with a hit bats man and a long fly put‘one counter home. The game was tied up in the seventh on two hits, a stolen base and an infield out, one run scoring. Then came the Camden’s eighth round with Cox stagiag his boms run attack. Fans Jam Field To See White Smt Dowg Sgmter 10-9 Dickiw Com . Tetttfi Om Poifoct Swmooao Piny From The Press Bax m I i . lit 'i ! n:!- ►I A. J. Beattie Formar SUte Sonator from Korahow County and former Ctunphroller General of South Csiro- lUMf CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR Advocates a strictly business adminis tration of the’State GoWnment; ’ I Extensive advertisement of the State’s resources and advantages. Hospital facilities in every community in the State. Camden Junior Legion can do a lot Jnn! of crowing, for their youngsters the satisfaction of defeating the Sui ter Juniors in the final tilt of the season, 6 to S. This game will be re membered for the fine pitching per formance of Max DuBose and the all- around strong defensive play of tbs locals. A daring squeese play in the last of the tenth inning gave Camden a 10 to 9 victory over Sumter in Cam den’s first night game in history with Chandler at bat and Dickie Cox on third and the score knotted at 9-all, Cox started with the windup and reached the counting haven as Chand ler laid down a perfect bunt to break up the long battle that was witnessed by some 1,200 fans. Camden fought an uphill fight all the way with Chandler going the en tire route. Sumter took an early lead registering a run in the first and two in the third. Camden was blanked in the first two frames but tied up the score in the third with three mns. SumWr took a three-ruh lead in the fifth and added two in the sixth to make it 8 to 2. Camden scored two in the slxth,^ added two in the eighth and tied up the count with two in the ninth, after Sumter hgd scored a single run in the top half of that round, Sumter threatened in the tenth, getting a runner to third but failed to score. Then came the lower half of the inning 'with the Prank Merrl- well finish. The crowd was a gay white shirt affair and all seats In the stand and bleachers were occupied, with hun dreds standing at vantage points along the first base area. The attendance .exceeded expecta tions, as It had been’ announced by Dr. T. B. Bruce, Sr„ at 5:15 o’clock In the afternoon, fhe grounds were too wet to play on. But members of the Sox team and other fans went to the park and by dint of brooms, many gallons of gas. managed to dry saw them down the district champs, 6 to 8, ahdi wallop the Hertsville Junlora, runners-up to Sumter, by a wide count If Pleroe can get those kids to gether next sinring. Camden will have a team that will just about outbid anything in this area. Pierce will have just aiwut every member of the 1948 squad back, Sumtar and Hartsville will lose the kids who helped to put them up a^ the top this Frimetto fhe foiloiwlng was tk. atanAic of tka Palmetto v-L at the does ei play July H: Sunday 5 up the base Hue was om It ivas Mi sBthnslastlc throag and the gam# was usUivenad and madu dothle interesting by the big tiuse play-by-play broadcast over the pub- Ue addreas systeai by Gene HeinHclm, former fefg leagae ball player and tor some, tfaid sportscaster at Radio Station WIS id Columbia. The parking problem was well taken oars of and in marked contrast to ths confusion in evidaace last Sun day. City police aided by State Patrol Officer James Hammond had tba alt- nation in hand ail avaning. Camden took to nlgbt baseball like a dttok to water. The fine liidHlng BM#«vi»a system came in for much approval ^ ^ and. as this comer has frsquently sta^ lights mean the difference be tween success and failure in Ofunden ^*T?m*pUylng area in part was l»4»baU tilts ujjJJ es deep In water and tha Pitchers. d Chandler of Camden and Olteen of Sumtar, pitched splendid baU despite cause ^ ^ U.. hMdlcw ot . .Ilppry ^ "• t tlcagna and to Junior ofto. 5 BennettsvUIe Kingstree ... Hartsuille ... Fknrenc e.... CAMDSI ... Darltogton Ug •jLi 17 • t 7 If 7 1 U 7 17 U ... 5 It JUF FLUVIU8 18 Wim«^ ^ JbP Pluviaa ^ _ baxahaii dU4. Drhre Carefttlljr--a li^ otfc. Attic Fans Don’t Stew In Your Own Juice! BELIEVE IT OR NOT You will sleep cover every night this summer. IF you have an attic fan installed. M. E. FORTE RETAIN Pou Taylor Sumter won the district honors and want into a three-game series with the Columbia Junlora. This series last Just two games as Sum- took the first, 9 to 5 at Sumter, aid then jaunted to Columbia to win again 6 to 4. The last game was an epic in how not to play baseball as 14 errors were hung up by the players. Sumter next battles the winner of the Charleston-Florence series for the lower state honors. V. that What we are driving at is Camden Started out from zero, so far as baseball material was concerned. The boys were just about the green est baaebali specimens this writer had ever gazed upon.. Pierce expressed the pre-season guess that they would not win a game. He said he was building for next year, the year after, and the ruture“”bf“ Juhfbr 'LeglOh basebrffr in Camden. Those Camden kids stumbled around , most of the season, gradually getting on to the tricks of the spoyt, playing better and better and h&ving fewer defensive lapses. Then came the final week ot competition which l.P.CLkRE Rapid completion of farm to market roads. c/ys some folks TWO SiASSiSAKDTm mee SFecTACLts OF Tuemseives. Liberal support of public education. I Fair treatment to labor with good pay in pu"blic andsprivate enterprise. ^ Jt Those who know him best ^y he is the * candidate best qualified by EXPERI ENCE AND ABILITY to serve the State as Governor. AS YOUR SOLICITOR His record shows that during his 17 months as Solicitor he has served with signal success. He has been vigorous in his prosecution of ofr fenders. f . A good raputatioa and proof of a worthy ntod is about all that Is naadod far a loaa h«ra. His administration has been fearless but and at all times the innocent have been 25ealou8lyj[^ tected. / . . • He has every qualification to fill the office. ‘He Stands On His Reeofd 17 months as Solicitor and 21 years exp^iepce in the prsictice ot Criminal Law. No acquittals in thei 17 months he hmemmi you. Camden l^Nui & Realty Co. Au r«a. .11 FlitT NATIONAL BANK BLDO.' CmmAm, S. C ^oke (Paid Pcdltieal Adverltaamagj)