Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r^.r. THI eAMOM CHAOWCti; CAMi ;; ft? ® " r S-M »■■ '..2>i )S* ’ i Pr J-i', tf .44?. rv City WiH Abat« Smoke Screen At (Aty BaselmD Lot Raky AibnSCoopmratioB Of .*^^^Ball Club MaaafMuant la PUa That smoka icreen that has en* ▼elopod the baseball park at all alfht games' so Car thU season, should pass ont of the picture If plans of Jim Raley carry through. There has been such an ezpres* slon criticism against the cloud of smoke pouring from the, city dump at Magasine Hill, eoTelohing the ball loC that the mayor aeked Mr. Raley to take steps to abate the neisnnee on niidtia that iraines are played. So Mr. Raley has arranged with the hall club to notify him th^ dates of all games and on the day of the games, the fires will be re duced on the garbage dlsp<Y<al dump. Is Deplorable Condition There has been ’rigorous com plaint made against conditions which prevail in back lot areas of the city on Saturdays. In the area Just south of West Rutledge street and also back of stores on the east side of lower Broad street, the lack (rf comfort stations has produced a situation that smacks of the most medeiral times. This is a serious health menace and there is a growing demand that the city officials take steps to abate such a filthy nuisance. South Carolina Bang-Tails Win On Many Tracks Csunden’s Oim War Battle It Second In International Steeplechaae Event Last Friday and Saturday, May 9 and 10, were outstanding in the performance of South Carolina trained horses in races at Pimlico, Md., pod Belmont, L. I. At the latter track, with soma 21,000 spectators looking on the International Steeplediaae handi cap two mile event found Boojum II, owned by Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark and ridden by Magee, flrslT War Battle, owned by Kent Miller of Camden, with Passmore up, seo- ond; Hidalgo, owned by Mrs. Clark, third, and Annotators, own ed by Mrs. Marion dnPont Scott, fourth, and Chesapeake, owned by Mrs. Clark, lost its rider at the sixth Jump. It was War Battle In the lead in the first three Jumps. Then the Miller your year old dropped back to second, then regained first on the ninth Jump, bat was headed by Boojum II on the 12th Jump. Boojum was fourth over the first Jump, then drew into third place to hold it over all Jumps including the ninth and then forged to first at the 12th. War Battle displayed good speed, fenced well and ran a good race. Assault, another South Carolina trained horse and triple winner _ last year, was first in the Dixie handicap event at Pimlico. Another South Carolina trained horse was O. H. Bostwlck’s Riskolater, which took first place in the Pandora handicap event at Belmont Risko later, away well, was kept on the outside, made up ground aronnt the turn, closed with a rush and won in the last stride. From The Sports Desk Of FRAN^ a HEATli SPMITS EDITOR The Camden high schodl showed improvement in the game against the Darlington Highs at Darlington last week Tuesday, dropping a hot ly contested game, 6 to 8. Last Thursday night the Piercemen droppdS an 18 to 7 dMislon lo Breokland-Cayce on the latter’s home lot, B-C had 17 bit* 6 errors and Camden had 6^ hits and 5 errors. Sumter High got revenge over Blshopvm&\ High for an earlier defeat by spanking, the .Btehops 6 to 6 after^ trailing for six' frames 4 to 8. It vas a close contest all the way. Max DuBose, the much pub licised Bishopville right hander was knocked out of the box in the second inning and his succevsvtr Smith stood the Gamecocks on their ears until the seventh when he too was sent to cover. Tommy Foy finished the game. Junior Southall, a fine little hurler, went all the way for Sum ter and while Bishopville weired one run In the first and three in the second inning, stood the op position on their eafk the balance of the way. The Lake City game was played In near freezing weather and before the affair was half over the fe were leaving the lot. It was more like a snappy night during the football season than a May night for baseball enjoyment K Jim Raley t^s hs tkat-tte fire at the city dpmp has been burning for 60 years. It was not until night football came into axistence that ♦here was any inconvenience ex perienced. Mid now the baseball fans are getting their whiff, of at tar of burning onions and what not It happened Jnst as we predicted months ago, kingnyee was not able to Uke it. With Lake City coming into the Palmetto fold, the L. C. area cut into what had been ex clusively Kingstree territory, as Matirt Yrm Hurl For Pageland In Game With Camtoi Tonight ChmlMr WtA Bm Om Hfll For Invadort At^Logion Ball Park Tonitht l^tiat Hour SundiQT Morning The problmn that is laaiag tha managenient of the Camden Chiefs of the PaloMtto baseball Isague does not involve any players—but it does involve the vast army of fans that will be clamoring for seats at future games of the Chiefs. 1i)r. A. D. Foreaun, Jr., of Amaril lo, Texas, will be the feature speak- ^ on The Baptist Hour for the MOt two Snndi^ May II and 25, aooordfbg touthe rgdlo oommlsskm W the gonthem Baptist oonventhm, FI Lowie, diret^or, Atlanta, Oa. Ifr. Foreman, pastor 6t the First Bd^tist dinrch of. Amarillo, has selected as his subject^ for nmrt Sunday, “Man’s Chief Bad,” . i divulge in the Atlanta release. The Baptist Hour may be heard in South Carolina at ' 8:80 E8T, Sunday morning, over radio sta-. tlons WCSQCBaileston; WIS, Co- lumbla; WSPA, Spartanburg, and WFIO, Sumter. lAlso, oter WFBC, GreenAUe, at I p. m. Sunday. A L E N DA CHUBCH •ERVICet © two baiilwlcks are not very-— part. Anyhow Kingstree got road and pulled out of the loop and. is now said to be planning to enter a league with Charleston. George town. etc. * Sounds rather ridiculous, for if the Kingstree management could not find talent for a Palmetto league team, where do they expect to find any for the prospective loop they are talking of now? The Sumter Fiskateers of the Palmetto league defeated Bishop ville, 21 to 7, .to win their third straight game. .. Rube Wilson, the Chiefs left wheeler, was the talk of the entire state last Saturday, following hir one-hit chunking performance against Hartsvllle. And Manager Walton of the Chiefs was dodging a lot of bou quets himself for his,splendid p'ay and batting. Tllv lOCSi RUBE WESSON HURLS ONE HIT GAME-HARTSVILLE IS DEFEATED BY 15-1 SCORE LANKY PORTSIDER WHIFFS ELEVEN BATTERS AS MATES MACHINE GUN TWO VISITING HURLERS. A Mar capacity thronf of ahiveriiif bauaball fans saw Rube Wilson the eloufated portsklor of tho Camden Chiefs held the duffing Hartsville pastimers to a lone scratch bingla while his mates lashed the offerings of chtmkers Shore and Denham to the four comers of tho concrete doMd baseball lot of Araarkan Lagion, Inc^ Friday night. Tha Chiafs amorging victors by a 15 to 1 score. The 15 to 0 plastering given Lake City the previons evening wras repeated with but a Iona tally change in the final count. Wilson was hotter than om of Aunt Jom^na'a pan cakes and he had the opposition clubbers propping for lumbago by making ^om swing dasperately at tha elusive shoots that he was firing over the pan. Exactly 30 batten faced Wilaoc CARD OF THANKS Mr. and Mn. David L. Melton, Jr., and daughter, Rinda. wish to exprMS their thanks, appreciation for kindnesa shown to them dur ing the recent illness of Mn. Mel ton and the death of their son David L. Melton III. FRESH NEW PHILCO BATTERIES in the nine inning grind. In aix rounds he mowed them down in one, two and three order. In the fint, second and eighth four men were regiatwed per inning. In the third inning Shore, Goodson and Holoday all went down via the whiff route. The total strikeouts for the lanky lad on the hill was elevea Camden staged two big splurges in scoring during the game. After taking a 4 to 1 lead by dint of two runs in the second and two in the fourth, the Chiefs chased five runners home in the fifth and added six more in the lucky aeventhi Manager Walton of the Chiefs lead in the scoring test with four runs: He came to bat five times and reached first base on each oc casion. In the first, fourth and sixth Innings he was walked. In the fifth he was safe on an infield error and In the seventh he laced a triple to far center. Hunter scored three times during the game, while Mims counted twice. Mims gave the opposition the Jit ters through his base stealing. In the sixth he stole second and third and in the seventh he pilfered the second sack. . Hartsville played Jittery base ball, hanging up eight errors. Four of them were chalked up In the fifth frame, two being dropped out field nys. , The Chiefs played Wlnnsboro Wednesday night and tonight, Fri day the 18th, they take**on the crack Pageland team with Van Llngle Mungo, the famous major leaguer hurler, working for the invaders. . The lino score: Camden 16 1 6 Hartsville 1 1 8 Batterlee: Wilson and Hunter; Shore, Denham, Kirvu. Kromer. CAMDEN 15; LAKE CITY 0 Lake City Palmetto leaguera were St the receiving end of a bar rage of home runs, triples, doubles and one base knocks st Legion Park hers last Thursday nighL taking a 16 to 0 larroplng from the Camden Chiefs in a game that was played in 46 degree temperature. Lake City was never in the ball game. Camden scored in all but three Innings, piling up eight count ers In the eighth to make a total of 16 for the eight Innings that the pastime lasted. Camden poured on the batting heat with Joe Blalock, Lester Rob inson, Benny Robinson and others posting homers, triples, doubles and singles into a parade of run ners. The line score: Camden 15 22 2 Lake City 0 4 5 -Batteries: Lynch. Taylor and Hunter; Baker. Nolan, Hanna and Johnson. timers meted out to Lake City, 16 to 0, and B<moco of Hartsville. 16 to 1. haa served to whet local baseball appetites to a high de gree. Even though the Lake City and Hartsville games were played in 44 degree temperature, laire crowds attaaded each of them. This week’s menu lists the Royal Cords of Whmsboro for Wednesday night and the crack Pageland team, featuring Van Mungo on the firmg line for Friday niidit. The game tonight should result In a record tumput for die local park. Work on the new concrete fence at the hall park ia nearing com pletion, the long west or riidit field fence and nearly all of the center field and left field area being well along. The north tide ia all finished to the club house/ Rube Wilson’s one-hit perform ance against Hartsville last Fri day was made possible, not only by the beady pitching of the lanky southpaw, hut by errorles* support from a turprisingly strong team. Camden fans are visioning a first division club this season. The first league game will be with Lake City on the night of May 20. \ -- ■— ^ Chiefs Batter Royal Cords In Game, 12 to 2 The Camden Chiefs staged an other alngfest at the Legion base ball lot on Wednesday nighL rout ing the Roral Cords M WinOsboro by a 12 to 2 score. Roy McLemore. the Dentsvllle high school chunker, was on the mound for the Chiefs and yielded but five hits, an slaglee, during the evening. Smith started for the Cords and bunked six rounds after I which the ageing Bill Spires took over. Camden gathered 12 hits with Walton and Loman connected for triples and Byers and McI«more poling doublee. The Chiefa pushed over seven runs In the second round on one hlL three walks and three errata. Bill Mima, Chief second sacker, stole four sacks during the evening. The line score: Camiden ...,12 12 2 Cords * • * Batteries: McLemore and Hun ter; Smith, Spires and Perry. HIGHS ARE ROUTED 17-5 The Camden Highs went down before the Brookland-Csyce Highs at Legion paA Wednesday after noon by a 17 to 6 score. In a game earlier in the week at B-C diamond, the B-C boys won over the Bulldogs 17 to f. —^ Mr Elected Preddent Of OMA at Iowa OF FiRrr •ArrisT CHURCH , 10:0e A. M.--8uiiday school. 11:16 A. Jf.--Prsuchliig service. 8:45 P. M.—Tratetiig Ui^mu 8:00 P. M.—Evening preacklflf ^ Wednesday, 8 p.- m-. Midweek prayer and praise service. —«■■ LYTTLETON mtEET METHOOIST^HURCH Qeorgp K. WaPf Faster Sunday Church school at] 10 a. m.. with classes and groupe for all The nurMry will remain open dur ing the morning preaching hour. Preaching serviee at 11:11 a. m. A eordM welcome-awaitu yoatjal Lyttleton Street ehdreh. The Rev. B. Frank Hasty, a na- tlvs of Camden, and brother M Mrs. Willis MarsbslL has been elected president of the Ottumwa Mlniaterial Aasociathm at Ottum wa, Iowa. Rev. and Mrs. Hasty, who are now on a motor trip through this area, are expected here to visit with relatives. Um Chronide Want ■ETHESDA FREMYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday, May 18 A. Douglas MeAm, Paster Church school at 10 o’plock, with a Bible data for every age. The nursery class Tmr Utile children continues through the preaching service. Morning .worship with prayer, anthem and sermon at 11:11. ChUdren’s and Young Peo ple’s service at 4 p. m. Midweek service Wednesday at.8 p. m. Eveiyone is oordiaUy invited to Ads Attend'these aervicea. CHURCH OF JEttlSi OFLATTER^55r Elder Jay c. l ■Mar D. C. 7:0. Psoplss^mssUni, aL the adults). . floor (ahovs) No edllsetion Amsrican Legion pleo were worn in war dead by 26,ooo,68r last mr. Expert Automotive Repairs • Body and Fender Work. * Wreck Rebuilding SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Wrecker Service USED CARS MEUICIMMP-MAHONEY MITOIIS Rutladf* ISl PhMMM 513 Camdgii, S. C Niflit rhoiM 855.W V/ m Redfeam Compql CnV’Tmprovement Asso. Organized Farmers from all over the state met in Columbia oa May 1 to or ganisejr crop improvement sssocls- tlon.yt^e purpose of t^Ia apaMia- production lure tioiym to encokn^ and( general UMr of the^Bt varieties, seed^ught direct able b^der wlU sell certi: their fields will ed St regular intervals. lu order to have your cotton seed certified this year it will be neeessi^ for you to make application at the county agent’s office by June 1 seed of one having a repair position to ler to do this to be Inspect- RDploc«m«nts for ALL MAKES OF RADIOS • Don’t let s weak fading Imttecy rob you of your radio entrttainment. Replace it now wMi a fresh, powet-pseked Philco Battery. We have them for all makes of fxdios—old ' and new models. Come in now for your battery hi^eds. It’s Steam-Cleaning Time For Your Car BRING it in and let, us get rid' of that load of grease and grime on the engine and chasms by giving it a. good STEAM- CLEANING - IT WILL LOOK BETTER RUN BETTER RUN COOLER Don’t Delay - Camden Furniture - Company' iw That Nice Sunipier Dress i Deserves the BEST of Gait .... AND—in order to help you get LONG ER Wear and SERVICE from your Clothes we have just installed— SOMETHING NEW! it is the very latest type Garment Fin ishing Machine, as recommended by the National Institute of Laundry and Djry Cleaning, for finishing your difficult Sum mer garments. Telephone or Call by and let us tell yati about EXTRA QUALITY WORK it enables ue to give YOV. “J. T.” HAYNES added to oor staff..... ■ m We are pleased t^nnounce that Mr. J. T. Bayi been added to our staff of caurteous truck drivers. He be glad to have his friends call him for their Laundif Dry Cleaning needs. and put away in Moth~Proaf Bags. 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