The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 26, 1946, Image 4
"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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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A. J. Beattie
Formar SUte Sonator
from Korahow County
and former Ctunphroller
General of South Csiro-
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CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR
Advocates a strictly business adminis
tration of the’State GoWnment;
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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 ^ ^
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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.
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Fair treatment to labor with good pay
in pu"blic andsprivate enterprise.
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Those who know him best ^y he is the
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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. / .
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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
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