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K' t Tain “I l^^l^reek ^ame ^ icm if li«*biil^'^ to f> PM, . ] Gmm Wm Ptojcid H*I« 1 1116 \ j The Wfld Tigen, td ^fuben7t Game witti b»ttwed Fwk Omk iU noaid TH^fldtaro Qjr 9em . / Hm itold Tbnnday afternoon at the ■':S: of 9 to 7 '«^|ft^Kn>anda here aiW defeated the With the flrat- half l3Btee^««HK aggregation » to 4 in a County Baaehall League ch^m* 8 *-lnning contest that was ab- plonahlp in sight, Wllkeeboro’s kreviated in older to allow time '^iefense cracked and the fast- fcr the Methodist-Bapnst game. Wptepplng Grier Mills club won a I Creek took an early lead, _• to‘7 victory Saturday morning [scoring three runs on one hit.Md one of the most exciting ball Jour errors in the first immg. The t. games seen here this year. .lead was short-hv^ The game was pUyed at the demonstrated their wildness with Uslrgrounds and was witnessed ® barrage of hits that ma e e hv ft ifti*ftA f^i*fkWfi |scoi*6 7 to 3* The victory of Grier Mills] During the remain^‘of the threw Grier Mills. Wilkesboro game Peak Creek sco^ one run .against two for the Tigers. BaplisrOatfit Score tt of Nieth Inniag tolled AU2-AH; To Phy Ulir Methodists and Baptii^ battied through nine innings td a 12 Jo 12 tie at ^e fairgrounds' ihpndiv^ afternoon in the tiiM of a game series between the* ''tw%^ teams. ' The game was packed with thrills, lor the spectators who saw the Methodists take a' three-run lead in the first inning, only to lose it in the second inning when the Baptists shelled Jim Haus'r from the box with a five-run at tack. The Baptists continued their assault upon the Methodists and treated Coy Billings, a good pitch- ,er if there ever was one, roughly. Battries: Wild Tigers^ Mart^ 1 Before he was yanked at the b'e- I ginning of the eighth inning, a Itotal of 12 runs had been amassed ;by the Baptists. I In their half of the eighth, .a [seven-run surprise rally by the I Methodists drove Carl Church, star Baptist hurler from the [mound, and Joe Moore had to be At called in to halt the uprising as jthe Methodists threatened to take and Purlear into a tie for. the first half title, each team having won five games and lost three. Grier Mills took a sizeable lead tn the first Inning, scoring three guns. -Wllkesboro came right back in their half to tie the score, but Grier Mills came through with four more runs in the sec ond inning and later added two more runS' to bring their total to nine. WlU.esboro kept hammering away and went into the ninth in ning with the score 9 to 7 against them. In the ninth Johnnie Os borne, crafty hurler for Grier Mills, walked the first man up, hit the next man and then torc- •d the next man to pop up. With runners on second and third, Moley l^gi^ Study Of Crimft Situation UMOtor Of Anti-Crime 0am* paign OoafontWlth Other ; OffMaia About Wort: m. Washington, Aug. 7.—-SigMl-; Score by innings: Wild Tigers Peak Creek — and Holi'.omb; Peak Sheets a id Bomlln. R 205 02 9 301 00 4 Creek, H. Baptists To Seek Methodist Scalps Will Play Final Game Fairgrounds Thursday Afternoon At 4 Robinson was passed intentional- grounds in their final game of iy to fill the bases. The next * . . batter struck out and Fred Hen derson was sent in as a pinch hitter. With a chance to tie the •core or win the game, Hender son lifted a pop fly to the pitch er and the game was over. The three teams must play two games each in an effort to break the tie for the first half title. Local Team Now In New Uniforms Business Houses of City Pur chase Suits For Members of the Club The North Wilkesboro Baseball eiub of the county baseball league is now dressed up in new uniforms as a result of .the generosity of business firms whose names are advertised on the suits worn by members of the team. The new suits have been worn for the past two Saturdays and add much to the appearance of the dub. “We are very grateful to every firm which so kindly donated to ward paying for these suits,” Mr. Clay Pardue. manager of the club, Stated Thursday. “Our boys are •at to win the second half and I feel sure, these suits will - enable the team to play better b.all than they have up to this time.” Wild Tigers Win Sixteenth Game Victorj' Is Scored Over Rock Creek, An Iredell ('ounty Aggregation Playing their 20th game of the season. Murph Mathis' Wild Tigers scored their sixteenth victory Saturday by chalking up nine runs against 4 for Rock Creek, Iredell county team, on the latter’s field. The Tigers have taken on all comers and their record for the •easou is probably the best of any team in this section. Score by innings: R Wild Tigers . 050 020 200 9 Rock Creek .. 100 OUO 300 4 Batteries—Wild Tigers. Hin- •haw and Holcomb: Rock Creek. Sprinkle and L. Sprinkle. jthe lead. With runners on first land third and two out, Moore re- I'nable to break the tie last 'tired the side. Thursday. Methodists and Bap-1 The feature of the seven-run lists will clash again Thursday 'rally was the singles by Jack afternoon at 4 o’clock at the fair- Brame and Sam Cassel, who were allowed their time at bat despite the call of Methodist rooters for pinch hitters. Dr. Sam brought in Ung the start of a new'pillfiBt^ the government's . V crime campaign, high federal otfleial| t(^ay started a series of confer ences at^the call of Raymond Moley. to seek wains of unifying federal and state activltlea. '.Meanwhile, department of Jus tice agents wlio recently have sid'ed In solving four kldnhping cases were assigned. to hunt down the abductors of Charles T. Dr- scbel, wealth/ Oklahoma City oil. man. : „ Moley, ah' assistant secretary of state appointed by President- Roosevelt to " investigate the crime situation, started his new duties by conferring at the jus tice department with Attorney General Cummings, William Stanley, first assistant attorney general, and' Jos^h B. Keenah, special assistant In charge of an ti-racketeering efforts. Keenan declined to go into details concerning the Urschel Inquiry, saying that might inter fere with the investigation. He said, however, the agents were sent with his approval. The special assistant also an nounced he had been assured by tw’o manufacturers of subma chine guns, the only ones In this Began |Vitli Rer,i Noai J^ea Pmehing; CTwo Servicts Danj- ■a A revival meeting started Sun day at N4# Hojm Baptist church at Oilreatih. Rev, Noah. Hayes is’ doing the preaching and a large congregation heard the ftait sermon yesterday. tihe revival will be in progress for a week'of ten days. Two serv ices will be held ddily, the morn ing service at 11 o’clock and the evening service at 7: SO o'clock. C9aM WUl Be Ocgmlaed tember Tli Bspect A Latge . Olaaa Mrs. J. L. Clements, who has condneted^ tueoessful Mndar-^ garten here for the past - years, announces that she ~ sill again operatte the Kindergarten in her home on Sixth stree^Tbe opening date is September 11. wa Be He 22 To; The annual eamp Fit, Ashe county, iriU begto^ out if, according to U adve? ing piwter sent out hygH. Brown, secretary. The*meet will be In progress two the season. Officials of the two teams announce that the tie will be broken if they have to play [the tieing run with a sharp single until midnight. jover second base. Everybody was The admission will be 10 and surprised and the Methodists were 15 cents and the proceeds will be elated. But good old Sam did the donated to charity. [trick and saved the day for Meth- Bld Williams says he would ‘odist backers who had all but given not be surprised if the Metho- i up hope. dists should Introduce Moses* Church, who went to the pitch- Grove. A1 Simmons. Babe Ruthler’s box to replace Jeter Black- and jimmy Foxx the way they burn when the Baptists took the have been going out after outside dead, held the Methodists in check players. He said he didn’t even [except for the eighth inning, know some of the men that were | It was announced at the end of Introduced last Thursday and he the eighth that if the 12 to 12 tie doubts whether any of the local Methodists will even attend the game, much less play. Sam Cassel denied the allega tion and declared he was Inclin ed to believe that the Baptists no longer adhered to close com munion in the selection of their teammates. Sam said he was amused at Bid in that eighth in ning last Thursday. He quoted Bidwell as reciting poetry in that were not broken in the ninth, a game to decide the series would be played at a later date. Sidelights You should have been at the game, . ■ Sam Cassel’s head drop ped and the smile vanished from his face w-hen the Baptists were seven runs ahead . . . Hyde Waller 4?lit his Ishirt rooting for the Methodists in the eighth inning ■ . Bid Williams shut up like a inning and said the following was ' disastrous eighth one that was overheard by thel_ _ _ hardly able to leave the crowd: .field . . . Sam Cassel's single was [indeed a surprise . . . And you “Boys, I cant laugh and I t LjjQyjd j,ave heard Bid Williams y®"- call Jim Hauser a second-hand And I can t cheer and shout, Baptist and Bennie Troutman a When there s not a single thing, ^ Jack Brame’s To laugh and cheer about. [single was a shock to everybody, including himself. . .The great Carl Bid cried. ’Dippers there ain’t no chance. Church looked bad in the box in Get Ed Turner s ambulance . the eighth . . . Robert Brame yell- ,ed at everybody and Jeter Black- “The last we heard of Bid w-as gaid he wasn’t afrai3 of the that he was sick in bed all day [jogai druggist . . . Carl Coffey Friday,” jwhiffed in the ninth after J. D. —J [Moore. Jr-, had done no better Miss Lucile Miller . . and this is all until that last countiT, .that they would sell the weapons onlT to the" federal gov ernment or Its Bub-dlvlslons and would endeavpr, to prevent them from falling fibto the hands of criminals through a system - of checking the numbers on the guns. . He added that when the In vestigative section of the bureau of prohibition Is transferred to the division of Investigation of the department of Justice on Thursday, prohibition agents fit ted for the work would be asslgn- I ed to criminal work. Moley spent most of the day at the Justice department, acquaint ing himself with the work being done by Keenan and his associ ates. Stanley placed an office on the eighth floor at bis disposal. t>«nsts who wlsh'to enroll ch«- Uloslng on September 8. dren JA thlg cIam shottld see Mr«. i R«v, & Cf. Mingledorff Is tfc Clement*, or if notified, Mrs,|evangeltot J. J, Ctrrnth, popular Clements will be glad to call onlkdlolst, will return and Rev. andv intercMed parents. Mrs. Clements states that con trary to 'general opinion, a kin-^ dergsrten to not merely for recre-1 first wi Lewis will again co dne^the singing. Dr. Mary H rls Armow, ndted orator and“ o^an to be admitted atlon, but definite training ‘ In habits, attitudes, music, art, reading and story telling Is re ceived. Individual. . attention is given to'each child, endeavoring as far as possible to aid in the development of his^ personality, Mrs. Clements said. A large class Is expected the coming year. the Georgia"bar, will sprti the nlgit of September 2 an the afternoon.of September 8. Sues For $25,000 Charlotte, Aug. 11—Mrs. Billie Teague, who says she swallowed a tack, wants the Carolina Baking company to pay her 125,000 for the grief it caused. In a suit filed here today she alleges the tack was [ public works program' must coirt to bread baked by the company i from concerns, which fly the hUm- and sold to her. - [eagle Emblem. Only j^ue Eagle Finas ^ To Be Ghren For Fedeoral ProJ Hyde Park, N; Y., Aug. H,: Pre^dent Roosevelt last night suedjan eotecutive order placing government contracts under tn terms of the national recovery, pw gram for shorter working bo and higher wagjes. By this move the president certain that any of the supplUf provided in the vast governmaBRji, Hurt In Collision!®"'^ deciding game is played. Second Half of . League Started Teacher In Concord verel.v ln,jured; -\ I Boone School Se- Kesides Little Tigers Lose The baby Wild Tigers lost a close game to Brooks Cross Roads Saturday by the score of ip to 7, despite the fact that fhty outhit the Yadkin boys. Ten (Watauga Democrat) Miss 1,mile Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W, F. Miller of Boone, and who hai been engag ed for two years a.s a teacher in a high school near Concord, wras seriously injured last Friday evening when a car in which she and a number of other teach ers were riding collided with a parked vehicle, when the driver's eyes were blinded by the lights of an oncoming auto. When the auto crashed, practically head on, U is stated. Miss Miller was thrown in some manner against the instrument board, a severe gash was cut in her chin and all her lower teeth except three were knocked out by the terrific im pact. Other cuts and bruises and a badly shaken nervous system Wilke-sboro, Grier Mills and Purlear Staijt off With Victories Siger errors proved their undo- contributed to the laily’: injuries tor Score by innings: R is 070 000 000 3 10 .. 001 510 000 0 7 Wild TlKers. Douthit res3; Broolis Cross er r.nd Shore. and she i.s still a patient at a Mooresville hospital, although she is showing satisfactory im provement. Physicians believe ithat iMiss Miller may return to .her home here the last of the week and that there is a possibil ity of her having the teeth re placed and returning .to her work within two or three Weeks. Miss Miller had only been teaching for two weeks kit the present term when the accident occurred and was en route to an 'tip Is Injured ;, Mass., Aug. 10.— hp, noted flier, was red when the fast that he wes piloting Bowles field here late >n. His escape from!entertainment given tho teachers rious injury was ron-|by a family in the neighborhood. I'to.ble, as the plaiie,|The young lady has a host of to a landing at 100 (friends in the community, who Troopts Put On German Border or, hurtled over when'will wish tor her an early recov- Wilkesboro, Purlear and Grier Mills, the three teams which tied for the first half championship, started the second half of the baseball league with victories Saturday afternoon. At the fairgrounds, Purlear scored a 13 to 6 triumph over the North Wilkesboro aggrega tion. The visitors took a decisive lead early in the contest which i the local boys were never able to overcome. Grier Mills had a close battle with Moravian Falls on the lat ter's diamond, but managed to come through with a 6 to 5 victory. This was one of the hardest fought battles of tho season. Wilkesboro took a 5 to 3 vic tory at Millers Creek, but only after the home team had put up a great fight. With Saturday’s games being the first of the second half,' the second halt standing follows: W L Pci. Purlear 1 Wilkesboro 1 Grier Mills 1 Millers Creek 0 No. Wilkesboro 9 •Moravian Falls 0 0 1000 0 1000 0 1000 I 000 1 000 1 000 !e gorjad, somersault- mea and came to a .f. cf wreckage. ery. Germans Must Est Fish Berlin, Aug. 11.—Re.sHents of Pomerania, in eastern Germany, >o.ss Distifyed lifd.!-rjas, N. J., Aug. Juay eat the fishing industry out 01 50 private bath- of the doldrums as the result of iantic Beach park ei.d !an erder issued today whereby uUea’a beach an San- 'citizeas were told to eat fish to- were destroyed to- 'luorrow. If the plan proves prac- Mulhouse, France, Aug. 11.—As a precaution against alleg^cd ag gressions by German Nazis such as ocouiTrd last February at Hun^ togme, French troops were again stationed on the German frontin. near here today. 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