BADIN bulletin
MIDGETS, 1920—SOME FUTURE DIAMOND STARS
Page Eighteen
High School Baseball
Team Shows Promise
The Badin H'gh School baseball team
played its first game of the Fall season
on Friday, September 24, when it met
'the team -from the Albemarle High
School on the diamond at Tallassee Park.
The Badin boys played the better field
ing game, but Albemarle hit the ball.
Burns pitched a strong game for Badin
High School, allowing but five hits in
seven innings. Hatley, for the visitors,
improved as the game progressed. Poor
fielding behind him gave Badin enough
runs to win, the score being five to
four. Arthur and Mabry made some
nice plays for the local boys.
The local support of the school pupils
and the townspeople helped the Badin
team, as a large crowd was on hand to
encourage them. The material for a
good, fast team is in the school this
year, and indications are that Badin
High will have a winning team on the
field next spring.
In the second game of the series,
Badin journeyed to Albemarle, and won
from the high school team in another
close game, the score being three to two.
Badin presented practically the same
line-up as in the preceding game, with
Burns pitching even better than before.
The Badin boys scored three big runs in
the first inning, while Burns struck out
the first three Albemarle boys in their
half of the opening inning.
Albemarle played an improved and
better game, as Hatley pitched great
ball, striking out fifteen batters. The
game was a pitchers’ battle. Again
Badin played better ball in the pinches.
Long, playing second for Albemarle, led
in the hitting, and he made the third
out in the last inning when he attempted
to steal home with the tieing run.
Albemarle High won a five-inning
game from Badin High on Monday,
October 4, when the two teams met on
Tallassee diamond. Burns was hit hard,
the Albemarle boys reaching him for
nine hits, three of them being for extra
bases. The score was five to four in
the fifth inning, when Hatley, the star
of the Albemarle nine, hit one of Burns’
fast ones and drove it to 'Center field
for three bases, chasing two of his team
mates across the plate. He scored a
minute later on a single by Carter. The
Badin batters rallied in their half of
the fifth, but Hatley fanned Swagerty
with three men waiting to score.
Onf Thursday a(ftern0(0n, the high
school team from Mount Gilead played
the Badin team on Tallassee diamond,
and won a free-hitting game by the score
of ten to five. Mount Gilead presented
a strong line-up, and their hitting was
the best seen thus far in high school
games. Skinner and Haywood each col
lected three hits off of Mabry, who
pitched his first game for Badin High.
Although Mount Gilead scored four
runs in the second inning, the home
players kept plugging along, and in the
sixth inning the score was six to four.
This display of fighting spirit is mighty
encouraging, and speaks well for the
team’s work next Spring. Badin High
shows improvement in each game and,
if the weather permits more fall prac
tice, the team will be well on its way to
a successful season before basket-ball
practice begins.
Mabry and E. Arthur found De
Berry’s pitching much to their liking,
and hit him hard. Mabry got three
out of five, one being a circuit smash.
Arthur got two safe blows for two bases,
his other trips to the plate resulting in
hard chances for the outfielders. The
Badin infield played another fine game,
but the outfield made some bad errors
again. Still, the outlook is encourag
ing, and Badin High will be on ,the
baseball map for sure next season.
Molasses in January may be slow, but
a candy sale on Hallowe’en isn’t
anything like that, as the Methodist
Ladies’ Aid society can tell.
Badin Enterprise
It seems that one of the
stations'^’ undei: promotion in No^” ^
Carolina is located at the new town
Badin, a populous and thrifty cent®^
where five years ago there was nothin?
but woods and open field in sight. Tn
riub
the promoters of the Badin Canning ,
were alert to their opportunities is
cated by the report just published.
Badin Tribune says that during the P
season “more than 4,700 quarts of
vegetables, jellies, and jams were P
up,” and it is enthusiastic in expres®^^^
of pride in the Badin record, as it
cause to be. The report of operatio’^^
at Badin may be taken as typic^^
what was done throughout every county
in North Carolina during the fruit
vegetable season just closed. The
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jar and the tin can are brmging
enormous volume of prosperity to
State. The people everywhere
turned to salvaging that which was
merly permitted to go to waste,
inspiration of the community and county
fairs being held in all parts of the
is displayed in the departments of hon= ^
hold economies and domestic science,
in which the canned article is king-
North Carolina women and their
working in the home cannery, are
a great work for themselves and
State. The co-operative results of
workers in the corn, pig, and cann
clubs is something of prideful con^
plation by the entire State.—The
lotte Observer,