Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S, C. YI7HEN you are adding up the ’ ' higher spots of 1944 in a sport ing way, don’t overlook the rebound of one Joe Medwick of Mel Ott’a Giants. This has taken place in his 15th year of pro baseball, the great- er part of it spent with the Cardi nals, Dodgers and Giants. Apparently well over the hill through 1943, Medwick has suddenly turned to prove that his batting eye is still intact by keep ing in close pursuit of Dixie Walker and Stan Musial for the batting champion ship of the National league. Joe hasn’t the speed and dash that he once car ried to the field, but he can still handle * b a‘- GrantUndRIce It was just 10 years ago when Medwick first came to national fame by batting .379 in the Cardinal-Tiger World series and acting as the leading target for a barrage of Detroit tomatoes, lem ons, apples—in fact, anything Tiger fans could find to peg in his general direction. The tumult and the shout ing grew so loud that Judge Landis had Medwick removed from the famous World series battle to pre- ivent a riot. * Joe was the type that played the game out to the limit and his fiery temper was nc great soothing force. But he was a great outfielder who could hit, run, throw and cover his territory when the Gas House Gang was at its peak. He hit .353 in 1935, .351 in 193S and .374 in 1937, his peak year, when he was named the National league’s most valuable player. Shortly after this he was traded to the Dodgers where the beaning he took in 1940 was no help. In the 1942 campaign Medwick dropped to an even .300, which is still supposed to be a pretty fair mark, so in 1943 he was traded to the Giants. Joe wasn’t any too hot last season. But while he has been no consistent ball of flame this sum mer on the defensive side, which is a natural matter after 15 years, he has shown that he can still use a baseball bat. Colorful Ball Club My first meeting with Medwick took place at Bradenton, Fla., in the spring of 1935. I went down to put In a week’s visit with Dizzy Dean, •where I ran across the most colorful ball club I’ve ever known. Frank Frisch was the manager then. Dizzy and Paul Dean were the two leading pitchers. Pepper Martin apparently was trying to wreck himself diving into bases through exhibition games. Leo Durocher and Medwick were pals. I dropped by to call on Duro cher and Medwick one day and ran across more suits of clothes than Adolph Menjou ever wore. Medwick suggested a golf game next day against two rugged opponents I felt we couldn’t beat. In the next day’s round at St. Petersburg Medwick had a 70, which included a 7 on a short par 3 hole. His long and his short game were both high class and he has remained one of the better ball playing golf ers. As strong as the Cardinals were around that time, Medwick re mained their star for some years, a fine outfielder and one of the best (Utters the National league ever knew over a stretch of time. “I suppose one of the reasons I’ve held up,” Medwick says, “is that I’ve tried to keep in shape, especial ly my legs, before any training sea son ever started. Too many ball players wait until a training cam paign opens to get back in condi tion.” Medwick, bom in Carteret,'n. J., is now 33 years old. While the N.L. batting race has been a hot scramble between Musial and Dixie Walker, with Hopp also in the running, it would be no great shock to see the old timer who has a lifetime batting mark above .325 give all three a ride down the stretch. When the present season opened up no one figured that two such vet erans would be up there with the brilliant Musial around Labor day. The Cardinal was supposed to be a kick in for his second year in suc cession. He is one of the best young bitters that baseball has known in years. But the two old-time hitters. Walker and Medwick, refuse to be shaken loose with only a month of play left. After all, the arms and the legs may begin to develop kinks but the batting eye is the last to go. FISHERMEN BEWARE! A woman bopped her husband ott a pier in Rhode Island 30 feet into the water the other day with a shout “Fishing, fishing, fishing! That’s all you ever do, and the porch screens still out I • If this develops into a movement few men will feel safe. This is the time of year when piers, docks, beaches, and seawalls are lined with so-called anglers. For every fisher man there is a little woman quietly sitting at home nursing a suspicion that he is ducking his homework. • She knows it is not mainly the love of fish. He seldom gets any. He would not get up at daybreak, spend it happily wet, hungry and frustrated just for those bullheads, blowfish and eels. • He would not sit in the rain 12 hours at home and call it fun. A loud “No” would be his reply to her proposition, “Look dearie, get into some sopping clothes, hang around home all day with a line in your hand and I’ll buy you a halibut.” ♦ She knows it is something else. She is sure he is escaping some thing. • < She could swear he is getting away from repainting the porch chairs, putting up the screens, clip ping the hedge, washing the dog and helping her with the home-garden ing. • So far she has borne her sus picions with restraint, but this Rhode Island incident may be the shape of things to come. It may be necessary to throw guards around those piers. • Elmer Twitchell, always playing it safe, has already taken pre cautions. He now fishes only from piers from which he can jump. • And he is talking of organizing the Fishermen’s Protective asso ciation. He doesn’t think there is much sense in trying to get any guaranty from wives that they will not follow the precedent just estab lished. “Once a thing like that is started, it is pretty sure to go far,” he said today. “I look for a lot of fishermen to be shoved off wharves by irate wives. But I am for the establish ment of certain rules!” • Elmer thinks they should be drawn up for the signatures of fish ermen’s brides at once, and that they should embrace the following regulations: 1— No wife should shove a hus band off a pier without first ascer taining whether the water below is of rock or mud bottom. 2— In case of a rock bottom she should first propose adjournment to another pier. 3— No wife should assault a fish erman without a preliminary warn ing. 4— This warning must be in writ ing. 5— In no case shall any wife approach him by stealth and obtain a running start before shoving. • “I also think," said Mr. Twit chell, “that before shoving me off a dock my wife should agree to see that my fishing rod is saved. It is pretty hard to get tackle this year. • • • Donald Nelson has issued orders permitting the manufacture of many items cut off during the war. The list includes bobby pins, electric pads, garbage cans, escalators, bi cycles, vacuum bottles and bottle openers. Ho, for the open road again! •_ * • The order also permits the manu facture of wire coat hangers. This depresses us no end. We had hoped the postwar world would definitely exclude them. • Factories may also reconvert to making insecticide spray guns, too, a sufficient supply to take care of the Nazis having been assured to the forces abroad. • • • The Japs have a new slogan: “Hd, waki, konki, sookeeki.” It makes about as much sense as their war effort. • Iki, waki, konki sookeeki. For the Japs the outlook’s bleeky; How they wish their hopes so weaky, They had never been so sneaky! • • • “Six More Nazi Bases Taken by Russians”—^headline. • Stalin is hanging up a new record for stolen bases. Football Material We were wondering where all the Rood football players were coming from this fall. I asked Chip Robert, one of the leading factors in south ern football for over 20 years. “The woods are packed with good football players,” Chip said. “You ought to know in the South alone bow many young fellows, under 18, there are who can pass, run and kick. The same thing is true all over the map. It has largely been a matter of getting many of them into college. _ The WPB is permitting the pro duction of some auto replacement parts. Those rattles had become so loud that they were getting to be a definite blow at morale. • It will seem good to go to a garage now and not have them demand “Don’t you know there’s a war on?” when you ask if there’s any chance to buy a couple of bolt-washers. • • • Sign on a New England road— “HUNGRY? TRY WEEDS — 100 YARDS.” By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. T HOUGH the world wasn’t aware of it, there’s been a crisis in Hollywood — because of old age, the original chim panzee, who played Cheta, Tarzan’s mate, couldn’t work, and a new Cheta had to be found for “Tarzan and the Amazons.” Kurt Neumann, director of the picture, searched far and wide, finally found the new ape right in Hollywood. The per ennial Tarzan, Johnny Weismuller, liked the new Cheta at once, and Cheta reciprocated. Now the prob lem is—how will Cheta get along with Brenda Joyce, Tarzan’s new mate? * Betty Hutton received her first let ter from an American soldier in a German prison camp only to dis cover that he was a boy she went to school with in Battle Creek, Mich. BETTY HUTTON He said he hadn’t seen any new movies as he’d been out of circula tion for the past 14 months, but asked her to send him an auto graphed photograph, as pin-up pic tures were allowed in the camp where he was imprisoned. * Alan Marshal, borrowed from David Selznick by RKO to star with Dorothy McGuire and Herbert Mar shall in "The Enchanted Cottage,” has had to give up the role because of what his doctor diagnoses as nervous exhaustion. Marshal has combined bond tours, army camp appearances and other war activi ties with months of studio work on two long productions. * So nobly has Ted Malone acquitted himself on his Monday, Wednesday and Friday night human interest broadcasts from the invasion fronts, on NBC, that his sponsor signed him to a five-year contract. His postwar efforts will be on the Alexander Woollcott style. —*— Bettejane Greer is making her film debut simultaneously in two RKO features, the musical “Pan- Americana” and “Two O’clock Courage.” This calls for consider able bicycling between stages, so she doesn’t have to take time out for exercise, at least! * The War Production board has ap proved “Paper Troopers,” written by Mutual network composers Sun ny Skylar and Henry Sylvem, as the official marching song of the waste paper drive. Skylar, you know, is the composer of “Besame Mucho” and “Amor”; Sylvem is a noted mu sical conductor who is on the Jane Cowl show and “Cisco Kid” as well as on the Mutual show he does with Skylar. * Roy Acuff, his Smoky Mountain Boys and little Rachel, of NBC’s "Grand Ole Opry,” have been se lected by the army to take part in a speciaP movie which will include many top-flight stars of stage, screen and radio, and be shown in army camps all over the world. * “The Great Gildersleeve” is prob ably the only stooge who’s risen to having his own radio program and also starring in the movies. He sur rounded Fibber McGee and Molly in various stooge roles until in 1941 his avalanche of fan mail inspired a sponsor to build a show around the character Hal Peary had built up — a fellow with big ideas, but simple, warm-hearted and jolly. —*— At the age of five and a half, Dickie Jones, of “The Aldrich Family,” had his own radio pro gram on a local station in Texas. Today, at 17, he’s played more than half a dozen major films—in fact, he had his first film layoff in more than 10 years in 1942, when he broke a leg while playing the lead opposite Shirley Temple in “Miss Annie Rooney,” then broke it again in “The Major and the Minor.” * ODDS AND ENDS—Away back when, Jim (“Here’s to Romance”) Ameche and Ann (“Joyce Jordan”) Shepherd were typ ical American boy and girl in their first big radio program, out of Chicago—now they’re together again in “Big Sister.” . . . When Lum and Abner travel by train, Lum gets the lower berth and Abner the upper; this teas settled 12 years ago by flipping a coin. . . . “Mr. Skeffinglon” set a record for Bette Davis by running 14 weeks at a Broadway theater. . . . Arturo de Cordova has played with only five feminine stars—but they're Ingrid Berg man, Luise Rainer, Joan Fontaine, Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamourl IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago^ Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for September 24 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by Bermission. RELIGION IN THE LIFE OF A NATION LESSON TEXT—H Samuel 7:17-29. GOLDEN TEXT—The Lord ihall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Isaiah 60:19. “Righteousness exalteth a nation” (Prov. 14:34). True religion is vital to the life of a nation and is the only foundation for national sta bility and growth. David, the man after God’s own heart, knew this, and was not content that the ark of God, the center of the nation’s wor ship, should be without a suitable house. He was not one to be con tent with a fine palace for his own comfort while the ark of God had a temporary abiding place within curtained walls (v. 2). Although the prophet Nathan en couraged him in his plan (v. 3), the Lord revealed to the prophet that David was not to build His house (see I Chron. 22:8, 9), but to prepare the materials so that his son Solomon could do it. David’s response to that message reveals the true religious attitude of a king and a people who fear and worship God. They were ready to— I. Receive God’s Grace (w. 18- 22). The great Davidlc covenant, which is yet to have its final ful fillment in David’s greater son, our Lord Jesus, was made with him at this time. He was promised that the throne of his kingdom was to be established forever (w. 13-15), a prophecy to be fulfilled in Christ. But there was also the great promise of blessing upon David’s son Solomon, and the reminder of God’s grace upon David, the one brought up from the sheepcote to be king (v. 8). In humility of heart David re ceived this grace and thanked God for it. Note such expressions as “Who am I?” “What is my house?” “What can David say more?” and “For thy word’s sake thou hast done these great things.” David knew and admitted his unworthiness; he realized that this was indeed un merited favor from God, but he ac cepted it as God’s gift. II. Recognize God’s Power (w. 23, 24). Israel had seen the mighty hand of God at work on their behalf re peatedly, since the day God had brought them forth out of Egypt. God had literally redeemed them for Himself, a purchased possession, protected by His limitless power. That redemption was not only na tional but spiritual—they were set free from the gods of Egypt (v. 23) and confirmed to the Lord (v. 24). It is a great and noble thing when a nation recalls its past and thanks God for His powerful hand upon its destiny. It has been said that a na tion which does not remember its past will not have a future worth remembering; and when it remem bers, let it recognize God in its his tory. He is the God of the nations as well as of individuals. III. Rest in God’s Promise (w. 25-27). “Do as thou hast said.” That is a perfect prayer for any nation. Let the will of God be done, and all will be well—now and in the future. There is nothing commendable about doubting God’s promise or limiting Him in fulfilling it. It glori fies God and magnifies His name to take Him at His word and to confi dently expect Him to fully meet His promise. To do anything else is to reflect on His power and His integrity. It was the prayer of David that the Lord’s name might be magni fied forever in the keeping of the covenant which He had made with him. That squarely put all of the authority and dependability of God behind the keeping of the promise. David found peace of heart there. May not we do likewise, resting on the promises of God? IV. Rejoice in God’s Blessing (vv. 28, 29). David praised God for the as surance that His words were true, and claimed the promise of a blessing upon his house, “That it may continue forever before thee.” He evidently saw beyond the im mediate fulfillment of the promise in Solomon to the coming of Christ (cf. w. 18, 19; Rom. 4:5-8). And his heart leaped for joy at the un speakable honor which had thus come to him. This is substantiated by the trans lation of verse 19 by the Hebrew scholar Adam Clarke: “O Lord God, thou hast spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me in the arrange ment about the MAN that is to be from above, O God Jehovah.” Little wonder, then, that David raised his voice and heart in praise and worship. His “adoration and thanksgiving at the revelation of this great truth is beautiful. Its humility, faith, and gratitude reach a sublimity unequalled sines Moses” (James M. Gray). After grating cheese, rub a potato over the grater to clean it. Sprinkle talcum powder on a ribbon knot that you wish to loosen. If yon have an old windshield wiper, it may be used when wash ing the windows of your home. —•— To elean berry stains from the teeth, bite into a cut lemon. (Hope ydur face straightens out.) —•— If new tin pans are greased and put into the warm oven before using, they will not rust. —•— Keep a package of paper spoons in the medicine chest. Use for dol ing out fish-liver oil and medicines and you won’t have to worry about ill-tasting or stained silver spoons. Slip an oiled-silk bowl cover over the hand wheel of a sewing machine. Keeps small children from getting their fingers and hands caught when it’s turning. —•— Should the cane seat of a chair sag, wash it with hot water, then set it out in the air (not in the sun) to dry. The cane tightens as it dries. —•— When setting posts, dig the hole a foot deeper and fill the bottom with rocks. 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