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BY WILL N. HABBZn
OUR NEXT SERIAL STOfiY
will be Abner Daniel. This is one you can’t afford to miss.
A charming picture of real life, wholesome, entertaining.
You will thoroughly enjoy every line of it.
PRESS OPINIONS
Lifelike, humorous and entertain
ing. All the sentiments are sound and
good. One of the kind of books which
ran be read aloud and hold the inter
est in every chapter to the end.—
Boston Watchman.
The friends of Mr. Harben will be
glad to learn that in this later novel
his genius has at last struck the trail
which leads over the mountains to
fame. A vivid impersonation of types.
The humor of Abner Daniel is as nat
ural to the situation as the sun’s shin-
‘ ing against the gray, mountain sides.
The story is vital and well construct
ed.—Independent, New York,
w Abner Daniel is a book that can be
enjoyed by a large class of readers.—
Sjln Francisco Post’
The character sketching is done with
a light and spontaneous touch that is
, very engaging. The kumor is fre-
‘ quent and sometimes of that overpow
ering quality described in the stereo
typed way as “irresistibly funny.”
The double love story nmningthrough
the book is well sustained. Well worth
reading and has a marked original
ity.—Nashville Banner.
The quaint, rough philosophy and
keen humor in Abner Daniel will ap
peal to any reader. — Rome (Ga.)
Tribune.
The love story or stories (in Abner
Daniel) may. be compared to the
breath of violets in spring—sweet and
pure—with just enough of romance
and uncertaihty to keep the interest at
the absorbing pitch from start to fin
ish. It is a delightful laook ‘ ‘ racy of
the soil.’’—Raleigh (N. C.) News-
Observer.
Abner Daniel is good reading from
cover to cover. Each character is a
personality and one feels well ac
quainted with every one of them long
before the end of the story.—Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Abner.Daniel is more of a story ^ead
upside down than David Harum is.—
Buffalo Express.
GAFFNEY FLAYS
KING'S
Indians and Palefaces Meet
on the Diamond.
UMPIRE DECLARES A TIE-
UMNER
ATES
ON ’THE
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Game of Ititll Itetweeu Gaffney and KIuk’a
Mountain Friday IteHulted In Score of 7
to O in GafTuey’i* Favor, Though Umpire
Declared a Tie.
We have beard of a baseball team
having to play nine men and the
umpir, ,but never before in our life
have we beard of a team that bad to
play nine men. the umpire and a
tobacco sack filled with sand. But
that is just what the Gaffney team
had to do at Kings Mountain last
Friday.
The team left Gaffney on the morn
ing train, whicn was about two hours
late, accompanied by a number of
‘ rooters.” Manager Leslie McGinnis
met the ooys at the depot and escort
ed t hem to the Mountain View Hotel,
.lust here let us say that the Misses
Norris, proprietors of the hotel, are a
remarkable pair of young ladies
Tney are idealjhostesses andjleft noth
ing undone that would add to the
comfort 'iuc pleasure ot their guests.
The game cf bull was called at 4
o’clock. Manager McGinnis, of the
Kings Mountain team, acting as um
pire. Mr. McGinnis may think he
knows the game,and in justice to h.m
we will say that on ordinary things
pertaining to the gam* he is efficient,
but on some things he either will
fully perverted the rules or dis
played a lack of Knowledge of them.
Everything went along smoothly un
til the sixth inning, the score being
4 to 1 in favor or Kings Mountain.
It was at this point that the Indians
began to scalp the Pale Faces. De-
ver Little and Lawrence Wood had
crossed the rubber and Oper Rich
ardson was on first base, Leo Little
was at the bat, and there were two
out. After striking at the ball Leo
stepped ug_iB front of the plate.
This, the umpire called attempting
to interfere with the catcher in his
effort to field the ball, and for it he
was declared out; but rule 13 says
the lines must be marked, and as
they were not marked it is difficult
to see how the umpire could come
to any such decision. This retired
the side. In the seventh inning Gaff
ney scored two more runs and Kings
Mountain one, making the.score a tie.
In the eighth Kings Mountain scored
one run and shutout Gaffney. Kings
Mountain was again shut out in her
half of the ninth, and it was at this
particular point that Manager-Um
pire McGinnis began to show his ig-
calls play again, and doing the in
terim no player shall be put out,
base be run, or ruu he scored. Time
shall not be called by the umpire un
til the hall is held by the pitcher
standing in his podiuon.
Rule 12: The lines described in
rules 3, 4, 5. (5 7 and 10 must le
marked with limo, chaik or other
suitable material, so as to hi' d't-
tinctly seen by the umpire.
We invite special attention to
the following Lets, which go
to show that the Gaff ney team
outplayed the King’s Mountain
team at every point. Gaffney made
eleven hits, two of 'hem belrg
two base hits, while King’s Mountain
made but two; two Gaffney players
struck out while sixteen of the King’s
Mountain men did that act. That
shows the superior hitting qualities
of the Indians.
The following is the score:
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0
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0
0
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Byers
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0
0
1
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2
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
Jones
0
0
3
0
0
0
3
0
1
2
1
1
0
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0
2
0
0
1
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11
7
♦Called out for stepping up while striking
at ball.
tCalled out after pitcher had made a bulk.
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M O U
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7
8
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Williams ss
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0
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0
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3
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20
0
0
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Cornwell,
lb
0
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0
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1
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21 0
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National Bank of Gaffney,
Capital Stock, - - $50,000.00
Surplus and Profits, - 25,000.00
Stockholders Liability, 50,000.00
Total, - - - $125,000.00
Oepo»it« I^elvv. 6th, 1903, $209,603.73.
We solicit the business and good will of everybody in Cherokee
county.
F. G. STACY, President, D. C. ROSS, Cashier,
J. G. WARDLAW, V.-Prest., MAYNARD SMYTH, A. C.
NOTES.
Hopner pitched a magnificent game
and sustained his w- II earned reputa
tion as a pitcher. He was in great
form and kept the King’s Mountain
boys puzzled. He struck out sixteen
men and yielded but two base bit?
during the game. This was remarka
bly hue work and Gaffney has jus;
cause to be proud of “Hop.”
Stonewall Jones caught in good
form. Only one time did he miss
getting his man on the third strike
and then he threw the ball to third
when it should have gone to first.
But his work was pretry to a degree
and h« added to his reputation as a
back stop.
Lawrence Wood at first was equal
to every emergency. Nothing went
by him He knows the game from
A to Z.
norance of the game or pervert the u D'ver Little at second played good
{or bail, but made a costly error. He
made up for it, however, with stick
work and saved the day.
Stanyarn Little at third was snappy
and went after everything that came
his way.
Leo Little at short.stop was a
“peach.” He accepted every chance
and played an errorless game through
out.
The fielders—Lipscomb, Richard
son and Byers—played good ball.
y»—
WILL N. HARBEN
Author of “Abner Daniel,” Our Next Serial Story.
In this story Mr. Harben is at his best, drawing from life char
acters he has known since childhood.
The New York Commercial-Advertiser, comparing the book
with Eben Holden and David Harum, says:
Now that a really good book has come to light, a book far
ahead of most of-its class, it will be hard to induce people to
believe it. We have gained more personal enjoyment from
reading Abner Daniel than from any other novel of this par
ticular type iince the days of David Harum.
You will agree with the Commercial-Advertiser when you have
read the story, which will be printed in this paper.
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rules. Hopper, the first man up
Gaffney, managed to get to first base.
It was at this juncture that the bag
of sand was brought into the game.
A wise guy had conceived the idea
of filling a tobacco bag with sand, so
as ^to imitate a ball, and thus de
ceive the runner. The idea was to
throw the bag of sand over the base
man’s head, have him to run after^it,
and thus entice the runner off the
base. The trick succeeded. This, of
course, caused a squabble; the um
pire called time ana the matter was
discussed. In the meantime the
right fielder got the ball. Finally
i the umpire, in order to ease his con
science, sent the runner back to first
base and called “play ball.” The
men got in position, among them the
pitcher in his box, and placed him
self in position to pitch the ball with- courteously,
ont having the ball (remember the Gaffneyites in Kir
right fielder had it), the runner got
off first, the fielder threw the ball to
first and the umpire called the run
ner out. The action of the pitcher
was clearly a balk, as defined in rule
33, section S’, which says a balk shall
be : “standing in position and making
any motion to pitch without having
the ball in his posession,” and a balk
entitles a runner to his base, but the
partisan umpire called the runner
out, when by all the rules of the
game the runner was entitled to his
base. Of coarse this decision caused
dissatisfaction. The umpire was
asked to produce the rule but said no
copy was to be had, but should
Gaffney make a hit that would en
able the runner to gei in he would
reverse his decision and awatd
accepting every chance and taking in
everything that wc.it out to them.
The Gaffney team was composed
entirely of home boys while the
King’s Mountain team consisted of
five home men, three from Shelby
and one from Bessimer City.
The people of King’s Mountain are
very clever indeed and treated the
Among former
_ s Mountain are
Mr. and Cha». Elam, Louis Huygood
and D.J. Holt. Mr. Elam and Mr. Holt
are conducting thriving .merchantile
establishments while Mr. Haygood is
cashier of one of the hanks.
A Handsome Kefrifferator for Meats.
Our up-to-date market-man and
groceiymau, Mr. L. W. McGuinn, has
installed in his market a magnificent
refrigerator for preserving bis meats
and other things that he aesires to
keep cool. The ice department of the
refrigerator holds 2000 pounds, and
the meatdepartmerts about the same.
A thermometer har gs inside to show
the temperature, which is kept at
from 50 to 60 degrees, just low enough
to keep the meat nice and cool witb-
out freezing it.
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game to Gaffney. Dever Little was
the next man up and he made a two
base hit, which would have scored
Hopper had he not been called out.
, Stanyarn Little made an out. Wood
made a hit, scoring Dever Little.
Lipscomb made an out retiring the
side.
The umpire declared the game a
The refrigerator is of huge propor
tions and weighs about 4000 pounds.
It is finished in bard oil, with glass
doors and handsome mirrors in front,
and presents quite an imposing ap
pearance.
Besides doing a big business in the
meat line, Mr. McGuinn also carries
a good stock of heavy and fancy gro-
A. N. Wood, President.
It. R. Brown, Vice-President
tie and insisted on playing the tenth series and commands a good trade in
inning. The captain of the Gaffney that line as well
team insisted that they had won the
game fairly and refused to allow his
men to take the field. The umpire
then announced that he would give , _ T ,
the game to Kings Mountain by a Allein goes to open the First National
;_„j Bank of Yorkville, of which he is to
Mr. R.
yesterday
Gone to Yorkville.
C. Allein a^d family
for Yorkville. whe e
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score of 9 to 0, and the teams retired.
If Manager-Umpire McGinnis calls
that clean bull and fair decisions be
is welcome to all the comfort he can
get cut of it, but the truth is here
chronicled and by all the rules of the
game Gaffney won by a score of 6 to 7.
We wish to cite Mr. McGinnis to
tbe following rules of the game to be
found in Spaldings official baseball
: guide for 1903 :
Rule 33, section 6: a balk shall be :
standing in position and making any
motion to pitch without having tbe
ball in bis posession.
Rule 64: In suspending play from
any legal cause tbe umpire “Bbair’
call time; when be calls time the
play shall be suspended until be
be cashier. Mr. 0. E Wilkins. pre«!
dent of the new bank, will leave this
week. Gaffney severely regrets to
give up both Mr. Wilkins and Mr.
Allein and their families. In Ibis
instance Gaffney i« the loser and
Yorkville the gainer. ThG Ledger
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