The weekly news review. (Florence, S.C.) 1922-1923, June 15, 1922, Image 3
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. D. Branhart, who
asked that he interest himself in
getting “good Democrats to run for
committeemen” here, expressed the
“earnest hope that candidates will be
found for the offices you mention, so
that our ranks may be full for the
great contest by which our renewed
triumphs must be won.”
The telegram, which was sent yes
terday, added that “these triumphs
are undoubtedly at hand.”
Seattle.^—The committee named by
the Democratic state convention to
felicitate ex-President Wilson on his
improved physical condition and ex
press to him the loyalty of the state
organization received this reply:
“The message from the Democrats
of Washington has given me deep
pleasure and encouragement. I am
proud to be associated with such
men and women in pushing forward
for the realisation of ideals which
alone can lift the world out of its
present difficulties and despair.
Please convey my earnest greetings
to all of my generous friends and
express to them my complete con
fidence in the future of the great
party to which we so gladly acknowl
edge allegiance.”
Seeing Things
Some one in America claims to
have seen a blue caterpillar. There
are bound to be these troubles so
long as prohibition drives people to
home-made whisky.—London Opinion.
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