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% THE WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW Florence Needs \ Baseball Team A great deal has been said about a city team for Florence for this season but as yet there is no well defined movement toward organizing •ne. A great mpny people seemed gone one better and will have Clay* Tbll^v ton and the .fast Bateburg JLeeaville £#vULlll^ f U>ll3 aggregation to meet each other at the Rack Track grounds on July 4th. Batesburg-Leesville is the same High School team that forced the Furman University Varisty to extend itself to win from them in ten innings by a score of 4 to , and Furman ranked high among the college baseball teams of the State. Batesburg-Leesville did not enter For a Treat to think last season that there was money to be made in running a team the High School contest for the State in Florence and that there was little championship on account of having men who were inlegible under to do other than get together a few ball players and take in the shekels. Surely some of these who no doubt honestly believed that there Vas a profit in baseball will now come to the relief of the situation and take charge of a team for Florence this season. If there is a team representing Florence this year, it is the duty of the Florence people to back that*team and its management up to the limit both financially and by thdir pres ence at the games. If we want high class baseball here we have got to show the right kind of spirit to get it. No individual or individuals will sink their hard earned cash in put ting on a team for the benefit of the eity at large and the few faithful fans. The City of Florence as a whole, will get the benefit of the ad vertising value of a good baseball team and not those who put out the team. Then why not make it a com munity enterprise and let those who cannot attend regularly buy season tickets' and do their bit toward help ing the team. Florence as a city has received more advertising out of their High School Athletics of several years ago than ai\y city in South Carolina, our High School teams made a record in foot ball that it will take Charleston two more seasops to duplicate if they are lucky enough to win. For Flor ence High School took the^ lead in athletics in South Carolina and much of the present day State High School activities came out of the pioneer work of Florence High The plan for a State Championship game was first suggested to the University authori ties frpm Florence and the first one ever put on by the University Exten sion Department was between Flor ence and Chester^ Florence winping over Dode Phillips and his husky Chester eleven. After this Florence won three mere years in foot ball, once in Baseball and two years in girls basket ball. In those days.there was no support of any kind for High School Athletics either financial or otherwise, as people generally were not in sympathy with the movement and never realized how big it would eventually be, a few individuals hav ing faith put their time and their cash into it and made it go until it finanally became of enough im portance to obtain the interest of others. In the meantime the city of Florence as a whole obtained the benefit and we were put down as a city of good sports. Let us now really earn that name by doing our part toward supporting anybody who will put out a baseball team in Florence, we all know that unless there is undivided support — that it will be impossible for the team to go through tho season without loss. It is impossible to have a 2 to 1 game at all times as is evidenced by > the big league scores every day, we cannot expect to win every game no matter what kind of team we assemble but we can show our spirit by standing behind the team when they are losing just the same as when winning and a few ex hibitions of that kind of game sports manship will bring results that will be surprising. 4 Lets all get together and put away any, idea of ipaking money on base ball and if a movement is started toward putting a team in the field get in behind it with the spirit not how much can I make out of this but with the idea of giving all that I can in both money and support to see it through successfully. There is a great deal to baseball and hand ling it properly proper financing and good support will assist any manage ment over mo4t of its troubles. the rules. This being misunderstood by the Batesburg-Leesville management at the beginning of the season. There are many who have seen the Bates burg-Leesville lads play that believe they can trim Clayton. They won from the fast Columbia High School by a score of 12 to 0, in their last game with them, which gives an idea of their strength Boxid^ fans of Florence are due for a treat extraordinary tonight at the Airdome if the weather permits and if it is rainy the bouts will be pulled off tomorrow, Friday, night. Manager Swann has the best pro gram he has aranged yet. He has gone to considerable trouble and ex pense to put this on and hopes for as ood a house if not better than the fans. «ne of last week. The first preliminary will be be tween Red Coleman, of Timely Hitting Potent Factor Lukie Tenner wants it understood that in his bouts with Boots Smith and Irish Berger he is not going to give a sparring exhibition but there will be real fighting. That is the rea son he is taking on two boys of the class of Smith and Berger as he does not think that either of these boys would be able to go over the long route with him. Tenner is an ex perienced boxer, having just return ed froid^l trip to New York where he met some of the best in the busi ness and held up his end to the entire satisfaction of both himself and the Tenner will try to arrange to inoet Tim Odowd, of Atlanta, Ga., Athletes Should Complete High School Course never seem to realize that it will mean extra hard work for these boys to make their classes and that to pass they could hardly engage in any form of athletics. To take part in athletics and also keep up their class standing is almost impossible in the majority of cases for it stands to rea son that a boy who has not been suf- Graduates- and coaches and others who try to get promising athletes to leave before they finish their high school courses should realize at once that they are hurting and in some instances may ruin the lives of some of these youngsters as far as an edu cation is concerned. The schools are more and more requiring high schol- (From News and Courier) - - Unwittingly graduates of colleges ncientl y to tackle the col- a stic standards from their athletes in South Carolina, and this prob- iegl f. te courses cannot hope to do and an unprepared boy who quits ibly holds good for institutions in anything but study if he is to pass. high school is doing no one but him- ither States also, are trying to ruin! 0f co “” e * her ? l,0 “ e ^ wh ° *»elf an irreparable injustice. Parent#*, .he scholastic future of many prom- can ^ Ult hl * h school and make good should not urge these boys to quit^ sing athletes in their desire to get rec ° r ‘ ls » n co “ e * e ^ f“ d high school but they should uge them .hern to matriculate in their favorite "iighty few who can do so who take to finish their course for it stands college before the young boy finishes any active part in athletics. There to reason that a high school graduate here at Florence in a contest for his his educa ti 0 n at the high school I m ay be exceptions but they are de- Florence, 1 atle if proper arrangements can be wh { ch he is attendin g [cidedly few and far between. When a point and to persuade the young ath letes that they should enter college at once. They are selfish, probably unintentionally of course, in that they are thinking only of the athletic Lukie Tenner in Exhibition Bout The management of the Airdome had counted on having Boots Smith meet Steve Pender hero this week, but its doubtful if these two tough little Bantams can go on yet, on ac count of an injury to the good right hand of Boots in his bout here last week with Sailor Perkins. It is pro bable however that either the Sailor or Steve Pender will go on with a worthy opponent of their class:, Pen der and Boots Smith have fought each other several times in Charles ton each has won a bout from the other and several have been draws. Lukie Tenner who was Smiths sec ond here last week will box four rounds as an exhibition in the semi- finanls here this week. Tenner is rated as the champion featherweight of the South, he has been north lately and while there boxed in the Madison Square Garden shows making a good showing for himself against some of the real class of his division of box ers The boxing fans turned out in good style last Thursday night- and en couraged the Airdome management to a great extent, in their work of pro viding sport for the long summer months. U was the best attended match that we have had in Florence and the audience got full value re ceived for their money and trouble. Boots Smith was outpointed by Sailor Perkins his heavier opponent but he gave him a game battle for the full ten founds and retained his friends high regard for his ability to take punishment. It seems as tho there would be big doing among the large guns of the boring world this summer. Rummor, has it that Jack Dempsey will fight one or more times before the Autumn While it is a published fact that Bennie Leonard, lightweight cham pion, has at last signed articles with Lew Tendler the leading aspirant for his crown. Darlington not satisfied with hav ing staged the McColl-Clayton base ball game that drew the biggest crowd that ever attended a High School baseball game in South Carolina. Has New York.—The combination of speed and batting punch looms as the decisive factor at this stage of the major league pennant races. The runaway pace of the New York Giants during the past week, which left them five and a half games in the lead, after a defeat at the hands of 3t. Louis, and the sudden rush of the 3t. Louis Browns to the top as the Yankees faltered, can be laid largely to supremacy over their rivals in hese departments. The Browns in creased their margin to a game and i half by defeating Philadelphia, vhile the Yankees lost to Cleveland. The Giants,- whose winning streak eached eight games before it was stopped, and included four in a row aver Pittsbugh, were aided by a brace in their pitching staff, but it was timely hitting that turned the tide in favor of the McGraw men at critical moments. Proof of this is the fact chat every Giant regului, outside of the pitchers, is batting over the .300 mark. Casey Stengel, veteran of many a campaign, won two games practical ly siuglehanded with heme runs. As a result of New York’s ram page, the National.' league resolved it self into a struggle for second place. Pittsburgh meeting disaster a’t Bos ton and rout against the Giants, lost its advantage, and S£. Louis was run- nerup, although the Cardinals have is yet failed to hit their real stride in the East. Brooklyn, with improved pitchiag but still handicapped by er ratic infield work, retains fourth place. The Chicago Cubs spurted and oacked by effective hitting took the last two games of the Brooklyn scries, stopped the winning streak of jhe Boston Braves and dew ahead of Cincinnati to the leadership of the second division. The Reds continued in the slump begun when they lost four in a row to the Giants, while the Phillies braced and showed a win ning percentage for the first time in many weeks. The Browns and Tigers meanwhile played the leading roles in sensation al upsets that marked the week in the Ameriaan league, St, Louis after breaking even in four ^ames with the Yankees ontelsgged Washington and went into the lead, while Babe Ruth and his wrecking crew in a dismal slump was humbled four srtaight by Ty Cobb’s dashing Tigers. Today’s setback was 4he seventh straight the -lugm^n have suffered, after getting iway to an auspioious start in their .Vestern invasion the week before. The Tigers, who clouted New York’s ill-star hurling staff wjthout partial ly, made it seven victories out of heir last eight gamss. and with firm bold on third place threaten to make it a thre^ club race in the jun ior circuit after all. Cleveland and the Chicago White Sox gained at the expense of the weaker Eastern clubs, Boston and Philadelphia. The Indians’ array of hoavy hitters kept them in pursuit of Detroit in the first division, while hicago tendered a brief tenancy of fifth place to Washington when Wal- .cr Johnson outpitched Urban Faber in a 1 to 0 duel. The week’s record in each' league of games played, won and lost, together with runs, hits, er rors, opponents’ runs, including the American P. W. L. 135, and Young Powell, of Augusta, made. This will be aranged for Labor Ga., 134. Both of these lads are fast Jay probably. snappy aggressive boxers and will To conclude the night’s perform- keep things humming for the four; a.nee there will be a blindfolded bat- •ounds they are scheduled to go. | tie royal between several husky The next will be a three round bout; colored boys. between Lukie Tenner, feather- The management also wishes to an- ^ weight champ of the south, and Boots lounce that it will book Kewpie sta n ding of thei ° mater> Smith, of Charleston. I-.vans and Lukie Tenner for June 29 n0 £ one w hit for its scholastic stand- After that Lukie Tenner will box n a battle in which Tenner will risk j njf an( j w h a t’s of more importance, ;rish Berger, of Cincinnati, for three his title. *ounds, making a six found perform- Boxing has proven interesting to ance for Lukie against two of the .oughest battlers that have yet ap peared in the Florence ring. The main bout of the evening will These graduates use various kinds |> oy bi « h t “J 10 ? 1 be K en « rally of arguments in order to carry their has back work t0 do ln hl8 freshman jo for ten rounds and be between the sports of Florence, judging from the attendance at the last bout be- vween Sailor Perkins and Boots Smith. It is a sign that Florence is: and give battle in the friendly sports caring and thinking not of the future of the boy himself. Men who try to get boys to quit the high school and go to college Jast developing into a real city and manlike way that all such contests Steve Pender, of Charleston, and JoeUoo:* will shed its small town clothes, are intended. We have had some Russel, of Jacksonville, Fla. 1 Boxing is the favorite sport of cities good shows in Florence and every- Neither Pender or Russell have [and before the government popular- 1 thing has gone off in good style, we 3ver boxed before in Florence but] zed it in the army camps it, like hope to continue to have the regular both are well known throughout; football, was taboo in the smaller weekly boxing bouts and in a few Teorgia, South Carolina and Florida.J ;owns and cities of the south. There years create enough interest to have Pender is the only lad who holds a Is no more ancient sport than boxing a big gymnasium built for the use of knockout decision over Boots Smith, ! ^nd under the proper management the boys and business men of the :hey having boxed several times to ajund rules governing the contest there city and large enough to furnish room lyaw and once Boots outpointed him.:is no more cleaner nor manlier sport for boxing bouts. A public gym- mussel bears the reputation of being:than boxing. Every red-blooded lad nasium would be a big step forward he fastest man of his weight in Flor- feels that he would like to get into a for Florence and it will come in time^an education but they won’t worry da and some who have seen him box squared circle and fight with a clean possibly in a much shorter time than should he decide to enter another ;ay he is far above the average. Pen- < pponent who would observe the rules any of us think now. | institution. And this is but natural. year and this back work increases each year until it is either give up athletics entirely -and “bone and bone” or else fail to graduate. The main idea of these graduates, and this article refers to no one in particular nor to any school in par ticular, but to conditions which, it is believed, are fairly general over this state, is to get these men before they decide to go to some other school. It is but natural that they should want their school to be among the best in athletics but if these boys did not play football or baseball the alumnae would not care particularly if they ever visited their favorite institution. As a matter of fact the graduates would not give a “happy hurrah” where they went to college or if they went at all. You will find many institutions and alumni of many who are willing and will do all in their power to help boys who have never played a game of any kind and who probably never will get will be of more value to a team than one who is forever back in his work, who is never certain whether the faculty will let him play and who is continually kept worrying about his studies. Of course there are schools where all an athlete has to do is to make the ’varsity. He may play three or four yeras and then leave without a diploma. But most institutions are requiring every athlete to make pass ing marks or they do not play. As before stated this is hitting at no school nor at any set of graduates for you’ll find them probably from every institution in the state and you’ll also find alumni from every other institution in the state who will urge every boy to finish his high school course before entering college, that is of course if the boy can af ford to do so. Urge your prospective football and baseball stars to graduate at high school and then come to your college. You may miss one or two men but you’ll gain in efficiency on the play ing field, you’ll get more mature players and what’s more you’ll be ren dering the boys themselves great aid by not hindering them in getting an education but in helping them. Mew York 7 1 6 St. Louis 7 5 2 Washington 7 2 6 Detroit ...., 7 1 Cleveland 6 4 2/ Philadelphia ..6 1 5 Chicago _7 6 1 Boston „..7 2 5 National P. W. L. New York 7 7 0 Pittsburgh 6 0 6 St. Louis 6 8 3 Brooklyn 7 3 4 Cincinnati 6 1 5 Chicago 7 5 2 Boston 6 3 3 Philadelphia ..5 3 2 lows: R. H. E. Lb. 28 66 8 50 51 77 8 29 24 54 3 46 45 89 2 23 37 84 10 31 35 62 11 46 45 75 10 36 32 65 7 86 R. H. E. Lb. 44 75 4 13 11 49 11 45 26 66 8 41 28 64 16 29 19 48 8 36 46 87 8 25 36 61 16 36 40 56 4 24 Bowman Hurls 16 Hitless Innings Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—What is be lieved to be a record in pitching Tommy Bowman, of the Nanticoke, ichievements was made Sunday by Pa., team, in pitching 16 hitless in nings during the course of a double- header with the Pittston and Wilkes- Barre clubs. In the opening game he retired the Pittston batters in order during the nine innings for a perfect no-hit per formance and incidentally fanned 12 men. He then relieved Pitcher Mc Graw in the third inning of the second game with Wilkes-Barre lead ing, 4 to 0, and then proceeded to pitch seven hitless innings, fanning 10 batters, while 1 Nanticoke came from beMjd to win, 6 to 4. In this game one runner reached second base. Bowman recorded 22 strike-outs in all. 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