The weekly news review. (Florence, S.C.) 1922-1923, June 22, 1922, Image 3
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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:
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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
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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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