Thursday Afternoon, August
TITE WATNTSTILLE MOUNTAINEER
Texas
(Continued from Pace 5)
Snipe Conlcy haj to retire mid
way in the game. His' mouth became
so swollen from putting his fing
ers in it that he couldn't talk. The
game was forfeited. Conley threat
ened suit but was talked out of it.
It might have bankrupted the
league.
Estell broke into baseball in 1916
at Waterloo. Ia., but it was 1926 be
fore he got into a league that al
lowed use of the spltball. That was
the Texas League. Tom pitched for
Wichita Falls, Dallas. Beaumont,
and San Antonio before coming to
East Texas.
In the Texas and East Texas
Leagues Estell dealt the most mis-
cry with his spitter.
"You couldn't develop the spit
ball overnight," says the wrinkled
veteran. "It took lots of practice
but once you had it, it was a great
pitch. It was my Sunday pitch. 1
thought nothing of throwing it on
the 3-2 pitch."
Slippery elm bark off the elm
tree was used. It made the saliva
very slick.
The pitcher wouldn't go to his
mouth on every throw but he'd spit
the slippery elm on the ground
near the rubber, then when he'd
go down for a handful of dirt he
Pitcher
(Continued from Pase 5)
"Oughtta be two and two," he
hurried to explain. I had to to
in for a youngster in the first in
ning the other day after he tot
a 5-0 score run op against him.
I held 'em to a couple tt singles
the rest of the way, but our bat
ters couldnt come through for
me."
The white-haired mound veteran
says he can't remember all the
teams and leagues he's been with,
but he remembers playing for out
fits in ChillicotlV. O.. Morgan
town and Clarksburg. W. Va.; ' a
couple of towns" in Virginia and
Oklahoma and most of the larger
boroughs around Pittsburgh.
R. Dale Johiff , another former
pitcher who once managed Okmul
gee, Okla., in the Southwestern
League, says Mac played for him
in 1921. .
"In his first game he pave up
singles to the first three men he
faced," Jolliffe rect-lls. "Then he
held them hitless for the rest of
the game."
Jolliffe says Marllvain in his
prime threw one of the fastest
balls he ever saw. He was a mas
ter of the spitter as well as the
knuckle ball, which he still uses.
N. C. Crops In Fairly
Good Condition Last Week
Navy Crossing
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would get the slippery elm on his Jolliffe says .., ne can slill fwl
.! . ,t ',.'...' J the youngsters with his stuff. And
Id grip the ball with my firrt hp goes , u ,)ine ,nnngs wi,h.
in iiiigua uciwmi lll stains
and with my thumb on the seams
as a guide," Estell says in explain
ing how the spitball was thrown.
"The ball would slip off mv fing
ers." The spitter, says Estell, is like a
fast knuckler. "But I could make
the spitter break in, out and up by
varying my fingers as I delivered.
The harder you threw, the faster
it broke. The break is caused by
the air hitting the spit and shoot
ing the ball to the dry side. The
catchers didn't like the spitter. Like
a knuckler, it doesn't rotate.
"The infielders always had a
handful of dirt, in case the ball was
hit to them. Naturally, we didn't
want to tip off the pitch, so the in
fielders grabbed dirt on every
pitch. Oh, and how that spitter
would break when the atmosphere
was heavy."
Estell explains how some of the
pitchers would load the ball with
phonograph needles. This doctor
ed pitch always broke to the heavy
side. Then some of the fellows
would load the seams of their
trousers with paraffin. By rolling
the ball up and down their pants
legs -while getting the sign they
had another dose of misery for the
batters.
A pitcher might also wear a belt
loaded with bottle caps, enabling
him to rough up the ball. The
business end of the belt had a hid
ing place in the wide belt loop just
over the hip.
Estell criticizes many of today's
pitchers in their selection of pitch
es. "Why, I'd deliberately get in
the hole sometimes to make the
batter hit a breaking ball. Nowa
days when a pitcher gets behind
he cames in there with the fast one.
We liked to throw that breaking
stuff so they'd hit the dirt."
Tom says perhaps he shouldn't
te telling all these things as some
of the kids in the East Texas
League might get ideas. But with
a fellow like Lstell doing the urn- over anyway.
pirlng they couldnt put anything I tricks.
out getting worn out."
Madlvain. who looks much like
Connie Mack with glasses, says
he's pitched "a couple" of no
hitters. Or.p of them lie said, was
for. Chillicothe.
One major handicap kept Mac
out of baseball's big time. Hu
has been deaf since 1912. However,
he manages to use a hand-signal
system of his own contrivance to
communicate with his teammates.
Mac has a number of other
avocations. He's a paperhanxer
and painter "when I feel like
it" and runs a soda pop haven
for his elderly cronies.
He's got one big ambition which
he explains like this;
"I'd like to manage a class D
ball club. I've got some ideas of
my ow n about handling young pit
chers. I think most of the major
league clubs today are on the right
track, but they're thirty years be
hind my ideas."
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U.S. GEODETIC SURVEY PLANE MAKES FATAL PLUNGE
All SMILES, sailor Ralph Torelli
crosses the threshold of his parents'
New York apartment carrying his
British war bride, the former Greta
Kinder, following their wedding
ceremony The couple's four-day
honeymoon will end with Ralph re
porting back to his ship at Norfolk,
Va., and a probable run to Korea.
The two met while Ralph was sta
tioned in England. (International)
No Inquest Set
In Cop's Death
Ruling Due
Negro Suit
Against UNC
DURHAM (AP Testimony in
the ease of four Negroes seeking to
enter the University of North Caro
lina Law School ended here today
In Middle District Federal Court.
Judge Johnson J. Hayes indicated
that he expected to hand down the
decision in the case within the next
three or four weeks at the close
of the summarizations of testimony
by attorneys for the plaintiffs and
defense.
Five defense witnesses and one
Witness for the plaintiffs were
heard in the proceedings.
The major witness to be heard
was Dr. Edwin Griswold, Dean of
He knows all the
CONWAY, S. C(AP) Deputy
Sheriff Herbert Allen said today
that an inquest date still had not
been set in the death of a police
man, slain while wearing his uni
form under a Ku Klux Klan robe.
James Daniel Johnston, a Con
way policeman, was shot to death
Saturday night in a Klan demons
tration against Negroes at a Negro
dance hall near Myrtle Beach.
Charlie Fitzgerald, proprietor of
North Carolina crops in general
are in from fair to good condition,1
according to the report issued yes
terday by the U. S. Weather-Crop
Reporting Service for the week
; ending August 26.
Unharvested tobacco is in good
condition, and the mountain pro
ducers oi ouncy nave lncicaiea
that their crop is very good, the
report states.
Comments on corn were about
equally divided between good and
very good, although a few reports
from the mountain districts showed
that the crop there was in only fair
condition.
Boll weevil infestation is still
very heavy throughout most of the
cotton producing counties, the re
port points out, and the cotton crop
continues to be reported as poor to
fair.
As for peanuts. 60 per cent of the
reports received placed the condi
tion of the peanut crop as fair,
while 36 per cent said it was good.
The latter reports came from the
northern coastal counties where
most of the State's peanuts are pro
duced. J
More than two-thirds of the re
ports on soybeans indicated that
the crop was good, a condition that
appeared to be general throughout
the producing areas.
The State's hay crops and pas
tures are in good condition, al
though rains have interfered with
the hay harvest. It is estimated that
80 to 90 per cent of the hay had
been harvested as of last week
end. Prospects are good for North
Carolina's late Irish potato crop,
which is grown chiefly in the
mountain areas, and all sections
report the sweet potato crop to be
in good condition.
The state of commercial apples,
produced principally in the west
ern part of the State, ranges from
good to very good, and the harvest
is slightly more than 20 per cent
completed. Peaches continue to be
designated "poor," and the peach
harvest has been practically com
pleted. A few reports were receiv
ed Indicating that the remaining
peach crop was in fair to good con.
dition.
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DEATH TO FIVE PERSONS and the destruction of two dwellings at San Jose, Costa Rica, feature in the Bam ng
crash of this U. S. Army transport plane. In the service of the U. S. Geodetic Survey, the ran
local airfield, killed three occupants of nearby houses, its pilot and co-pilot (international Sounapnoto)
Fall Down Start
Fatal To Foreman
John C. Grav ,g v.
man on a constnlciion
Durham to his death
second person k.iuj '
tion wnrk in n..L 5
period.
Gray was working 0. R
Veterans Hospital. C
Commissioner To
Consider Reports
The State Highway CoJ
wUl meet FriHav . H
cent report made fnii..
of the commission, that ft!
prison department ' h .L
under the control oMtuT
commission. Dr. Ht-nrj. w71
members of the commit
report to study, and theirT
Theatre Goers Miss
A Keal-Life Thriller
Customers attending then
theatre at Asheboro missed i
er, when three masked
held up the cashier u
u.ou ai pistol point.
The three hurried
waiting car.
the Law School at Harvard Uni
versity, who appeared for the
plaintiffs in the case.
Dr. Griswold's testimony was
centered around abstract evalua
tions of law schools in general bas
ed on his experience as a legal
educator.
He contended that it is "impos
sible for any two schools to get the
ultimate effectiveness of teaching
as long as there is segregation."
He said that this principle applied,
in his opinion, to social and eco
nomic classes as well as racial
groups.
VJm do you
ludgo an apple
by itfo skin?
Whether it's a juicy Jonathan or a tangy Wine
tap, you judge an apple by the color and gloss,
of its skin . . . that's what tells you about the
condition and flavor of the food within. It tells
you what you must know "about the goods in
the package."
And that's exactly why you judge other prod
ucts by their brand names, too. (The name the
manufacturer puts on his product so that you
can tell h from all others.) ,
Brand names enable you to judge the quality
of the product, the reputation of the dealer, and
w mw v i lalM
the reliability of Its minuf if turc nv manufac
turer knows th it if you find hi pi rxhic ts pood,
you will buy them. IE not, you won't and the
manufacturer will be forced out of business.
Brand n.imes are your protection. Brand names
tell you exactly what's tn the package exactly
what you must know to shop wisely and well.
Brand names also enable you to choose the
product that exactly fits your taste to avoid
getting products you don't want whether you're
buying an automobile, a towel, a can of peas or
a candy bar.
That's why jmart shoppers will look carefully
at the brand names when they read the ads in
this newspaper. That's why you should choose
the things you buy by their brand names. It's
the sure way to get exactly what you want.
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MORE ABOUT
Sidelights
(Continued trom Pace 1)
to the non-hunting set dogs chas
ing a fox but trying not to catch
him.
But while thumbing through
Bullfinch's mythology the other
night, we stumbled on what we be
lieve is the basis of this interest
ing tradition.
Back in the good old days, says
Bullfinch (in better English, of
course), when Zeus reigned
supreme on Mt. Olympus and Apol
low as unsuccessfully courting
Daphne, a young lad named Cepha
lus wiled away the time with hunt
ing. The gods thought so kindly of
the youngster that they gave him a
hunting dog. This particular Greek
pooch could outrun anything on
legs. And when he took off after
a rabbit or 'possum, he'd go like a
streak of light. Only the fact that
his paw prints were on the ground
proved that he wasn't flying.
One day, however, some of the
gods got provoked with the local
folks.
So they sent a fox down to earth
to worry them to death.
The harassed people organized
hunt after hunt to run down the
pestiferous fox.
But this gift from the gods was
too smart and too fast for any
hound they could put in the field.
In desperation, they turned to
Cephaliis, who loaned them his
prize pooch.
The dog, Lalaps. yapping, in
Greek, of course, with joy, took
off after the fox.
Things were going nip and tuck
for a while there. The fox tried
everything in the books to shake
off Lalaps, and he tried some
things that weren't even written
yet.
But Lalaps' teeth kept snapping
so close the fox lost some hair.
Things were going that way, and
it looked like a decision for the
dog, when the gods had a confer
ence. Things would look mighty queer,
they decided, if one gift from the
gods turned out to be nothing
more than hors d'euvres for an
other gift from the gods.
Finally, they reached the only
decision they could make which
would prove satisfactory to all
concerned except, of course, the
dog, the fox, and Ccphalus.
They decided to Call the contest
a draw.
So, just as the fox was in a des
perate leap inches ahead of La
laps' lunging jaws, the gods turned
both into stone.
Thus, the hound never caught
the fox, and the pursuer and the
pursued stood there, frozen in their
final act, until the state highway
commission pushed the new three
lane highway through there.
the hall, Is being held in an undis
closed Jail. Allen said that Fitz
gerald claimed he was beaten by
Klansmen. The officer said he did
not know whether Fitzgerald had
retained a lawyer.
Several members of the State
constabulary have been Invest igat
itig ttie case. . .
Some 300 shots were fired in the
fracas that led to Johnston's death.
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