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Paniberg ^eralb HSTAHUSH RI) A PHIL, 1801. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C liiUered as second-class matter Aprij 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. ~1>2.00 PEK YEAR. Volume 30. Xo. 2i. Thursday, June 23, 1921. There does not appear to be much love in American Legion circles foi Jack Dempsey, who is to battle with Georges Carpentier next month ioi the championship. The record oi Dempsey during the war was not an enviable one, they say, and it seems that although Dempsey is the American claimant of the title, the sympa thy of the "ex-soldiers is mostly witii the Frenchman, who served through the war and won the French croix de guerre, while Dempsey's attitude is generally classed as that of a slacker. Spooks have always formed the subject of a special interest on the part of the people. Ten thousand people during the past two weeks have visited an alleged haunted house in Bristol, Va. When finally ferreted out by the police the spooks were found to be rats. This ghost superstition is not confined to ignorant people; indeed, we would venture to wager that among the crowds visiting this house could be found men of education, women of culture, and children of more than average advantages. It is a condition prevalent among all people. Folks will continue to believe in ghosts, al? ? j ^ ? x a* x ^ j inougn mere is noi an unuispuieu case on record of the actual sight or sound of .a "ghost.'' Incidentally the owner of he house in question reaped a fine revenue by charging an admission to hear the ghostly rats. ~ The attitude of President Harding regarding the appointment of an American representative to the Vatican surely meets with the approval of a vast majority of the citizens of the United States. The separation of church and state is a principle of government upon which America was founded, and no action should be taken in any direction that even \ "hints at any abridgement of this principle. The United States has nothing whatever in common with the government of the Vatican. While no action has been broached upon the Qiuestion of a Vatican representative, it has been hinted at very strongly, and communications addressed to the president protesting any such appointment have been replied to that the president is in no way contemplating any such action, and his replies leave the decided impression that he is not in sympathy with the movement, though in sueh a matter he would be guided by the action of congress. What the farmers did with the money they made during the past several years is a subject the Au gusta Chronicle attempts to* discuss. The Chronicle is of the opinion that the farmers spent their money just as wisely, if not more so, than other people during the prosperous era^ They paid off mortgages, cancelled old debts, threw a good deal away, and bought automobiles just like anybody else. The paper makes a pertinent point, however, when it points out that a farmer is just as much entitled to ride in an automobile as other peaple. It is a fact that a merchant or banker is always expected to have a fine car, or at least nothing strange is thought about it when he buys one, but if the farmer purchases a Ford people think he is rolling in too much wealth. The time has arrived, though, when farming is looked upon as a necessary industry, and the industrious farmer is entitled to not only a good living, but a bank account as well, and if anybody ever earned the right to have a pleasure spin in a car once in a while it is the man who starts at daylight in the morning and quits at sundown in the afternoon putting in the hours between in labor that ought to be productive of good profit. ?J. B. Permenter, E. L. Shealev, and E. C. Lowe, of Aiken, passed through Bamberg Thursday on a fishing trip to the lower paft of the state. ?Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Johnson and children, of Bamberg, and Mrs. H. M. Brabham, of Ehrhardt, left this week for Thomasville, Ga., to visit the family of L. A. Brabham. ?Mrs. Gerald Wescoat and Miss Norma Brabham, of Walterboro, have been spending some time in Bamberg and Olar before going to "Winthrop to attend the summer school. ?Dr. and Mrs. George F. Hair spent several days in Greenville last week, Dr. Hair attending the annual session of the board of dental examiners, of which he is a member, and also attending the state dental association meeting in Greenville. < f? =_ BASE i sli mm:i: (!Vi;i;taki;s tkam. . Locals Hibernate in Ninth Inning at Lhrhardt l-Yiday. i fc Help. Horrors, Bloody Murder! ?j "My kingdom for a ball team." Bam1 ! bera' has some mighty good iiulividui ! al ball players, probably the best col1 ! lection of any town in this section*of the state. But the word team implies its own m&aning, while indi 1J vidualism has never yet accomplished > very much in anything, and a team is ' just what they haven't got. Base ' ball is a game not altogether played 1 with the hands and feet, but requires 1 a slight amount of- skill also and : each player is supposed to have a 5 head on his shoulders that wtm't L rattle like a tin can. Indifference and lack of interest never yet won a ball game. Poor judgment sometimes wins in poker but it usually ' loses in base ball. Then too in order ' to play it successfully base ball is a ' game that requires a player to get a certain amount of rest and sleep the night before, and with the interest ' manifested by some of the boys if ' any town is particularly anxious to defeat Bamberg in the future just let them hint at a big all night frolic the ' evening beforehand and send a kind invitation to our boys to go over: there's nothing like being sociable, you know. Ehrhardt was proud of beating Bamberg last Friday, and justly so. Not that they deserve any special praise or credit for licking this bunch the way they rocked along, for neither town has a' hall team; but they at least had a game hunch of fighters who wanted to win and who were in there playing hard all the way and never giving up. They were licked to a frazzle, hut they didn't know it, and that's the reason they won. And in the ninth inning with the score 7 to 1 against them those two magnificent efforts and wonderful catches by Roberts playing third for them clearly demonstrated the fact that they can't see defeat when it's staring them in the face. That's * what they deserve credit for; they have some pride, and heaven grant | that some of the same kind of spirit along with some team work and "head work may be injected into the Bamberg boys; (not team yet, you notice.) And everybody who went down there Friday except about seven members of the socalled team came back a sad, dejected and yes, sore bunch. There's no use beating aroufid the bush about it; we might as well be frank and let Ehrhardt go to it. And so long as you treat us as fairly and act as gentlemanly as you have in the last two games come to see us again. But Ehrhardt won't enjoy any merry-go-round at Rhoad park while Bamberg stages an airplane flight, because the locals don't pull that kindergarten stuff at home. But some of them are very young and some nearly in their second childhood and it might be suggested that if , nobody would follow them off from home and let them play a few games with no supporters present possibly they would become accustomed to ffpttin? awav f^om mother's apron strings a few hours and win a game on the road occasionally. Bamberg started this game with a vengeance on Kirkland in the opening inning, and Large hit the first pitched ball for a hard single to right_ Two runs were made in 1;hat inning. Bambbrg made no less than 4 6 hits including two clean doubles and a long tripple; they also uncorked four errors from their systems. Ehrhardt got 13 hits, several for extra bases, and made three errors. The visitors scored two more runs in the third by timely .batting and another in the fourth, and probably the scores would necessarily have been kept on the ground if Barker had not replaced Kirkland in this inning. In the eighth Barker, worn from the undue heat and a recent injury, weakened, and two more tallies were driven home. Ehrhardt scored one run in the second and went until the ninth without another. They seemed to be just teasing. Then I the crash came; zip, bang, bop, ana it was all over but the shouting. The Woolworth building is pretty high, but our boys could have looked down on it and not even recognized it so far below. Two men wrere finally put out but seven were put around, and even in a land of eternal sunshine with no darkness ever coming on the scene it is extremely doubtful if the third batsman would have been retired before judgment day. The game was splendidly umpired. Bamberg's 16 hits should have accounted for more runs, but an Edisto river cat fish could show them a few points about running bases. But, oh well, we have two more games to play Ehrhardt this year, and after that dose the boys will all pull together now and win them too. They . BALL i WORDS CAN'T KNPRKSS IT. Reporter's Vocabulary Fails Him in Ib^cribing' Tuesday's Came. I | In the rottenest, most disgusting. | bone-headed, nauseating farce ever ; staged in Bamberg the locals came across nine times to Denmark's eight at Rhoad park Tuesday afternoon. | The attendance was good?one of the few things about it that was?but { many fans and spectators did not have?strong enough stomachs to stick i it through the lo long drawn out innings, and finally left in disgust bej fore it was over. Every now and then | an inning would be played which slightly resembled base ball and showI ed that everything on the field wasn't completely dead and buried, and so the rottenest exhibition ever plavI ed in Bamberg, yes, in the world, j not even barring the previous game i can, if they will. It's in them; it j just didn't come out Friday; that's all. The writer doesn't know the Ehrhardt boys quite well enough to recall just how their seven runs were scored in the ninth to win. George Price made one neat play j on short which resulted in a double [ killing, while Charlie Rentz, Large and Brabham each got three hits, one of Charlie's being a triple and one of Large's a double. For Ehrhardt Zeigler and Nix got three hits apiece including a double for each. Score by innings: Bamberg.. ..202 100 020?7 16 4 Ehrhardt -010 000 007?S 13 3 Batteries: Warren, Radcliff and Cooner: Kirkland, Barker and Bullock. Umpires, Turnipseed and j Griffith. Ehrhardt Defeats "Aviators." Ehrhardt, June 20.?The return game between Bamberg and Ehrhardt was played on the latter's dia-, mond last Friday afternoon. This game of ball should go down in the annals of base ball history as the most unique ever recorded; this uniqueness being established by the fact that it was played by ten ("Oh, no, not ball players, but as the Bamberg reporter has so gallantly put it) "gentlemen," representing the Ehrhardt base ball team, and nine (who said ball players?) "aviators" from Bamberg, posing as ball players, but who really are members of the aviation corps. These aviators can ride the clouds with the best of them and set new altitude records any old day, but as for picking up hot grounders, holding them on first, pitching them where they cannot be hit, or catching them in center field?why, they are just not in a class with the "gentlemen" team. In the game at Bamberg the week before Ehrhardt was given a good trouncing. The team and its loyai fans were played, guyed and rooted to defeat. Ehrhardt. came home and waited. They waited patiently for1 one whole week. Then Friday afternoon arrived and with it the Bamberg team. Soon the old game was in progress. In slashing style Bamberg tallied twice in the first inning. Ehrhardt counted once in the second just to remind all that they would come across at the propitious moment. In the third Bamberg put two more across the rubber, and the Bamberg fans, of which there were a goodly number, began to remind us that we did not have a team of ball players and that the final result was a forgone conclusion. Ehrhardt waited. In the fourth Bamberg filled the bases with none out. Barker was called on to relieve Kirkland, which he did most nobly, holding them to one run in that frame. Even after Roberts on third had made two sensational catches and Bamberg had counted two more in the eighth, Ehrhardt was still waiting. The big ninth opened up. The score stood seven to one in Bamberg's favor. The Bamberg fans were perched high up on the top-most roost crowing lustily. Bamberg had won another game jtst as they had exepcted. But wait? the propitious moment had arrived, the moment Ehrhardt had waited for. Surely and swiftly they cut the cables that were holding the aviators to mother earth and Hard Luck Warren, infield, outfield?the whole Bamberg team went high up into the fleecy clouds where they played hide and seek with the unseen stars. The great Radcliffe was implored to stick to terra firma and finish the game but he defied all the laws of gravity and went up like a sky rocket. Ehr| hardt scored as many as the rules of ! the game allow, and then sent a wire! less up for them to come down. If it ! had been necessary for Bamberg to ! get the third out, no one knows how I many scores would have been made. Bamberg played a clean game and ! be it said in their honor they evidently have at least one very distinguished player on their team, judging from the thousands of times his name was called by the Ehrhardt fans. 1 at Ehrhardc. must be officially recorded in the Tri-county league records as a ball game. There were a few features, notable i among them being the tine pitching! of young Whitesides, who went to the box in the eighth inning, and with the score tied, shut out Denmark for live innings, with some assistance from the "aviators." who ! temporarily lit?they have been un| usually appropriately named that by the Ehrhardt reporter of The Herald. Whitesides allowed only three scattered hits, one or two of them scratches, and his performance was more than creditable. Radcliff stepped to the plate six times and got four singles and a triple; he made a nice catch in rignt field and play! Pfl hard: whilp in rhp hn\- hp did nor pitcli bad and with a ball team to support him would have walked off with the game in easy fashion without being relieved. Capt. Bamberg got four singles, and with the score tied in the fourth, "Gyp" Rentz drove out a terrific home run with him 011 second. "Gyp's" performance on the infield was worthy. "Bub" Cooner caught a fairly steady game and in the naughty eighth inning caught a hard foul for the final Denmark out and then motioned to the other eight to light as the inning was over. For Denmark Gibson pitched well after relieving Bethune, their new flinger who does not appear to be a find by any means. iMuhr made some good plays on short, and Able secured four clean hits. But the best work for the visitors was done by Christie, whose so-called umpiring deserves special though not very honorable mention, and in the eighth when the TTTinrl T-vl^n* con rl V> l c r\r? n r\ no nnnrl WAJLLU. V> OUiiQ Ail AAAO C/V53 liC the climax of all the rottenness by (Continued On page 5, column 2.) Winthrop College SCHOLARSHIP AM) ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of acant Scholarships in Winthrop College and for admission of ne students will be ^ld at the County lourt House on Friday, July 1, at a. m. Applicants must not be less han sixteen years of age. 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