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THE WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW fVhy Not Baseball This Summer In Florence—It’s Not Too Late! Talk Baseball! Let’s Have a Team “Yellow Streak” In the Athletes * The high school baseball season has come to a close after one of the most interesting races ever held in South Carolina. :JIcColl high school, with its wonder boy pitcvher, Thomp son, came away *ith the state cham pionship cup this year, but they had a hard fight for it, both down in the lower section and m their great bat tle with the Six Mile academy. The people />f the city fo Florence have had the opportunity of witnessing some of the best high school games that have ever been staged in the history of the state. The Lake City- Sumter game was a good, cfose, excit ing contest. The McColl-Columbia errorless game was all that could be desired, with Columbia showing in McNeill a worthy rival for Thomp son. The McColl-Sumter game, up until the eighth inning, was a xippe'- \nd only the weakening of Edwards, Sumter’s pitching ace, kept that game from going into extra innings. The state championship game between McCoU and Six Mile was as good a ball game as any one would want t see. Nolan, of Six Mile, pitched great ball and on that day Thompson show ed his best form of the season. Thor the intersectional game at Darling ton between McColl and Clayton high schools was only ten miles away. All of the Florence fans were over there to see it. We in Florence can not complain of not having seen our share of high school baseball games and it should create in us a strong desire to sup port our high school better than wc did this year for it is only by the support of its home town that high school athletics can hope to grow and improve. The crowds will create spirit and it is spirit and the right k^d of it that makes a success erf any kind of athletic team. This spirit can not come except by the presence of those who are interested as on lookers at the games. It seems now that it will be im possible to finance a city baseball team in Florence this summer or at least no one has evinced a desire to undertake the job. The whole city i full of ide^s and plans but there is no way to get around the old, old question of who furnishes the capi tal to make the start. There should be lots of people per fectly capable of engineering and financing a team for Florence that would be a success from every stand point. If they can only be inter ested it is possible that Florence may yet have summer baseball. Sportlings The Florence college boys are back from school now and there are many of them these days. Twenty years ago there were only about six or seven boys attending college from Florence. Now there are at least 6C attending the’ different institutions which is a big increase, even taking into consideration the difference in population. Among the athletes who were for merly at Florence high school are Bill Holland, Joe Wheeler, Chisolm Wallace, J. W. Wallace, Jr., James Calcutt, Robert Campbell and James Worrell, of the University; Crales Waters, Oliver McCurry, Nat Hicks and Hartley Coleman, of Furman University; Alpheus Neely, of tht Citadel; Paul Barnes, of the Uni versity of North Carolina; Edward and Gibbons Jones, of Georgia Tech It would seem this year that Dixon Boster and Zinn Beck, who run the Columbia baseball club of the South Atlantic league, are due for a set back in the pennant race. Columbia has it copped three years in succes sion, but Charleston, under the able leadership of Jimmy Hamilton, are going as the proverbial house on fire. It will be a great race before it is over, for the Columbia owners will be there fighting the whole route. The Florence boxing fans who at tended the performance at the Air dome last Thursday evening had plenty for their money for the con testants at the bout were able and willing to give their best and they did it. Sailor Parkins and Irish Ber ger, the marine, were good experi enced exponents of the boxing art and they held nothing back for the whole eight rounds. Boots Smith and Sailor Parkins will meet this Thursday night and with the fans familiar with the style of each, there should be a capacity house for every one knows that it will be a sure enough real battle. Smith has the punch but so has the sailor. They can both absorb any amount of punishment and come hack for more. Good preliminaries have been ar ranged. This promises to be the best attraction yet offered. Rhem Strikes Out 25 Batsmen Nesmith.—A beautiful game of ball was played here between the local team and Johnsonville, the locals winning by a 5 to 1 score. The fea ture of the game was the pitching of Rhem, who struck out 25 batsmen, and allowed no hits, the only score by the opposing team being made on errors. Prosser, for the visitors, also pitched well, stricking out 14 men and allowing but four hits and is un questionably the strongest pitcher the local boys have faced yet. Bat teries: Nesmith, Rhem and McLean; Johnsonville, Prosser, Eaddy and ’oston. Much has been said by sport writ ers all over the country concerning the so-called ‘yellow streak” that bobs up in promising young athletes at times and becomes so pronounced is to practically ruin their chances for getting their real ability to the fore. It is not known to us just where the term “yellow” originated *s concerning one who is weak and, afraid to turn loose all of their power and energy', possibly it has omething to do with the well known phrase concerning the “yaller houn dog” but not knowing we will not at- empt to tell of its origin. Lots of caches emphasize the term “yellow” when exasperated and out of patience with their charges at these kind of moments. It is the coache’s way of getting his team up to the fighting point and with the smarts and stings of the sarcastistic utterances of the joaeh they go back into the game md play above themselves. The “yellow streak” means in ath letes, can well be applied to several different kinds of athletes and it has een proven by experience that once “yellow” does not mean always that way An athlete may be afraid of odily harm and will shirk his duty in that way and be termed “yellow.” le may be of the grandstand variety, rnd if he does something worth while >e looking for the plaudits of the •.udience. That’s another form of yellow.” On the other hand he may be of the kind that can only play his •est when opposition is weak and he cnows that he is stronger. He can urn loose his full energy then and >ut all he has in it to the confusion md discomfiture of his weaker op- louents. He will come under the yellow” heading in that case because *rhen he is faced with his equals he cives ground and does not do his ,est. The handling of young athletes s a question for the coach for it is ip to his judgment as how to work he various forms of the “yellow .treak” out of his squad and he can ilways figure that he will come ir •ontact with it in one form or the >ther even on the best of squads, iome are hopelessly “yellow” and for hem there is nothing but the sug- restion that retire from the branch >f sport they have commenced. How- ‘ver the majority of candidates for iny form of sport can be worked out if the “yellow streaks” that they ;how while in the process of de- /elopment. Good coaches know how o gradually work on the ones so af 'octed until their whole nature is •hanged and they become full of the -ight kind of spirit and ready to go .‘orward with the best of them. There bas been many a young man dubbed >y the student body and the specta .ors as “yellow” when the coach on he sidelines still has faith and was vorking toward his goal by allowing he one so criticised to stay in the 'ame until the spirit came to him. If Bernie Thompson had been in anyway affected with the “streak” lis last game with the strong Clayton high school baseball team he would lave been batted from the box and; his team would have gone down to an nglorious defeat instead of playing their stronger opponents a good, close :ame. Thompson with, everything igainst him after the first inning buckled down to it and allowed the hard hitting Tar Heels to score but mse more, in the third, the other six nnings he pitched Clayton did not •each first base. McColl scored two uns on Sorrell in the sixth. If he '.ad been afflicted with the “streak” i»e would have faltered there and Me "oil would have won, but the lad rom North Carolina buckled down :ven harder and there was no further •hance for McColl, they not reaching .‘irst. A general definition for “yel 'ow” in athletics is one that does not io his best at all times for one rea- ;on or another. Out in life there are all kinds of ‘yell .v ’ shown but it does not come ip for ; s much discussion as when •oncerning an athlete. Big money s sometimes made on what would be ermed in athletics as simply “yel low.” The art of the “double cross” s becoming more and more complex ind its stab comes from new angles md most unexpected, but the perpe- rators escape the term “yellow” be cause they are not engaged in ath- etics. So “yellow” must be a strict ly athletic term and is to be used inly when discussing athletics. It is i hard subject to discuss and apply md with the new spirit of modern ithletics it is not used as much as in he years gone by, and rightly so for .here has been many a promising /oung athlete who has failed because le was heartbroken over being called ‘yellow” when in reality a skilful oaeh would have eased him over his troubles. Britain Is Soon To Pay Interest London.—The government has com pleted arrangements to pay during the coming fall interest amounting to 25,000,000 pounds on the British debt to the United States. It has not yet been decided whether a special mission will be sent to Washington to discuss the debt with the American government, the feeling in the United States is It is stated in British quarters that believed to favor the negotiations for the funding of the allied debts being undertaken first with Great Britain, which is the principal debtor. A model would thus be supplied for subsequent negotiations with other countries. New York Clubs Regain Old Drive New York.—Alter balancing pre cariously at the top in their respec- ive leagues for several weeks as a •esult of erratic playing, tne New fork Giants and Yankees have braced and apparently regained champion ship form for the mid-season drive. Playing better ball than any of their •ivals, the Yankees, by winning again .oday from St. Louis increased their .ead to four and a half games, while he Giants aagin trimming Cincinnati aeld a two-game advantage over the Pirates, who were idle. Resembling more closely last year’s wrecking crew than at any time this -.eason, the Yankees have gotten away o a flying start in their first West- arn invasion. Babe Ruth and Bob VIeusel have caught their batting itrides and are adding their punch .o the team’s attack that has been iacking so far. Already supplied with itellar pitching, Huggins’ crew ap parently is ready to set a dizzy pace for the Browns, the only team re garded as capable of giving the New Yorkers a real brush for the pennant. The Yankees today batted Shocker, their erstwhile jinx, from the box for the second day in succession. The St. Louis outfit with the ex ception of George Sisler and possi bly one or two others has experienced a temporary batting slump and with some erratic hurling has fallen back in the race. Washington has taken the lead in the four-club scramble for third place, displacing Cleveland after tak ing three in a row from Speaker’s men, whose hitting has fallen off. Detroit aided by some steady pitch ing, jumped back to the first division and by beating the Senators today, was within a half game of third posi tion. The return of Eddie Rommel, their star hurler, revived the Athletics, who were in the throes of a bad slump. Boston held the Browns to an even break, but lost its second straight today to the White Sox, the result lifting Chicago out of last place, and sending the Red Sox to the cellar. In the National, the Giants are un likely to outdistance other contend ers unless their pitching improves. Batting punch plus a couple of whirl wind finishes carried them to victory in the past week. Against Brooklyn a week ago the champions pulled a 6-4 triumph out of the fire with a three-run rally in the ninth and duplicated the feat yes- tearday, tallying thrice in the last inning, winning over Cincinnati. Pittsburgh, in close pursuit of the leaders, found Philadelphia easy, while St. Louis dropped three in a row to the Boston Braves before breaking the Hub jinx. Faltering pitching and ragged fielding cost Brooklyn two out of three games to Cincinnati, but Dutch Reuther won his eleventh game today, 6-1, and the Dodgers made it two in a row from Chicago. Alexander twirled the Cubs to their only victory over New York; Bos ton’s pitchers played a prominent part in the Braves’ victories while the Phillies offered little opposition to Pittsburgh and St. Lous. The week’s record in each league of games won, and lost, together with runs, hits, errors, men left on bases and opponents’ runs, is as follows: American League W. L. R. H. E.Lb.Or. New York 6 1 47 76 4 48 28 St. Louis 8 3 29 64 9 48 3S Cleveland 1 4 28 48 11 S3 27 Washington 3 2 23 49 6 41 16 Philadelphia 2 4 26 64 10 47 38 Detroit ....4 2 41 61 8 41 37 Chicago 2 4 32 69 8 82 33 Boston 8 3 24 67 7 89 32 National League W. L. R. H. E.Lb.Or. New York 4 1 32 68 4 42 19 Pittsburgh 8 1 24 49 8 89 13 St. Louis 3 3 18 68 9 42 23 Brooklyn 2 3 23 64 14 38 19 Cincinnati 2 3 21 48 11 34 16 Chicago 2 3 19 48 10 43 41 Boston 4 2 27 60 9 34 21 Philadelphia 0 4 9 30 6 33 21 ,1 M Ml.. II. Triumphs Near, Declares Wilson St. Louis v —Woodrow Wilson, in answer to a message from William H. Gruen and A. 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