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,ISAY, AUGUST 20, 1941 CAETEEET COUNTT NEWS-TIMES, MOBEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. PAGE T Picture Story of Babe Ruth-- - Brought to You by the news - time? The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is on the campus of New York University. SATURDAY LAUREL & HARDY "SWISS MISS" o o GEORGE O'BRIEN in 'TAINTED DESERT R0YAL THEATRE SUNDAY MONDAY ROY ROGERS The Weaver Bros & Elviry in 'The Arkansas Judge' Beginning this Issue, THE NEWS-TIMES brings its readers part one of the five-part picture story of Babe Ruth, baseball's immortal, who died Monday night in Memorial hospital, New York City. The dramatic story of The Bambino, illustrated by Artist Hank Barrow, begins with his life as a kid on the streets of Baltimore, follows him as he hits the big time, gets suspended for breaking training rules, signs contracts for as high as $80,000 a season, smacks homers into the bleachers as he seeks lobs man aging ball teams, and finally, as he started the downhill trail the winter of '47 when his health began to fail. It's a story of heroism, pathos, fun, failure and success. It's another of America's legends. It's a story every sports-lover won't dare miss. Let F. R. BELL Be Your Druggist Satisfaction With Every Purchase BEAUFOitT JEWELL'S Sh ore Di nner ATLANTIC BEACH. N. C. Continuous Service From 11 a.m. 'til 1 a.m. Every day including Sunday Drop in lor a snack alier ihe races Seafood Chicken Steaks Sandwiches DOG RACES Every Night (Except Sunday) Rain or Shine Post Time 8:30 P. N. Legalized Pari Mutuel Operations, Under Supervision of Morehead City Racing Commission. HEfsJUttMs l tm : ; CAROLINA RACfM?"i!9StlATION GREYHOUND RACE TRACK MOREHEAD CITY . . . Soure Old Fashioned I X lace ! I Every Saturday High! at TAYLOR'S COMMUNITY HALL On Route 101 13 Miles Beyond Huntley's Protests Upheld by Sailing Club Rules Committee; Three Racers Disqualified Both protests handled by the rules committee of the Morehead City Sailing Club Wednesday after noon were allowed, making Toddy Parker the winner of last Sunday's comet race and Henry O. Wade the victor in the 18-foot division. Both Booker Cunningham and Sammy Pou, who finished one-two in the comets, wore disquali fied when they failed to follow the proper course. Major C. L. Bright, who came in first in the 18-footers, was disqualified for the same reason. Here arc the corrected point standings for the season: Comets Points Sammy Pou 19 Booker Cunningham 17 Toddy Parker 14 Phil Moore 13 Sandy McClamrock 10 Edwin Pate 5 Arnold Davis 3 16 Foot Buddy Baily 7 Bobby Matthews 5 Handicap Thurlow Whealton 10 Charles L. Nelson -. 8 D. G. Bell 5 18 Foot Henry O. Wade 7 C. L. Bright - 6 The Buunker Hill and Sullivan Mine in Idaho, one of the great zinc and silver producers, was dis covered in 1886, when a prospec tor's burro stumbled. BEAUFORT THEATRE Beaufort, N. C. SATURDAY Double Feature WILLIAM BOYD in "SILENT CONFLICT" also Kent Taylor "Half Past Midnight" and Chapter I - G - Men Never Forget SUNDAY - MONDAY A But-Sallor of bold and Intimate tmotlcnt! m i JJMHBfll ANN DVORAK. PLUS LATEST NEWS t ' ... . filended Whiskey. 90 Proof. 60$ Grain , Neutral Spirits. $970 SElEr-rTrJ Vi.lM 7 JJJi I f JwU I lindedwhiikeY ilpis a i selected D IHS GIBSON DISTUWG COMPANY, NEW YORK, V. t. SATURDAY AL "LASH LaRHUE in "STAGE TO MESA CITY" with Fuzzy St. John o o ROLAND WINTERS Manlan Moreland in , "SHANGHAI CHEST" CITY SUN MON fO The IAUGH5 are kfUlONSTERou! rrv bud & Lou tangU with TITANS e jCSS v XjERROR! with ' ma Wolfman iliyri 10K CHANEY Oracula .iimi beia iugosi TheMonster.Urrt hr GLENN STRANGE T U 7 THE BAI1DIII0: Ho. 1-Coming Up the Hard Way 1 Big George on Baltimore Streets As a left Handed Catcher An International League Rookie Off to the Big Leagues THE story of Babe Ruth bfjan in the Baltimore, Md., streets. He hardly knew his parents although his mother lived until he was 13 and his father, who owned a saloon, lived until Ruth was 24. However, at the age of seven Ruth was placed in the St. Mary's Industrial Home, a Catholic institution. It was there that Brother Matthias took personal charge of the youngster and was to help him often during the rest of his baseball life. "Brother Matthias was the greatest man I've ever known," Ruth often said. Ruth was born February 6, 1895, but he never knew it until 1934 when he went on a barnstorming trip to Japan. His birth certificate, necessary to obtain a pass port, showed that Ruth was actually a year younger than he believed himself to be. Many brothers took a liking to Big George, as the kids called him. They taught him a trade as a child and he became fairly proficient as a shirt maker. But base ball was his lirst ami only love. St. Mary's had a number nt baseball teams hut Ruth caught for the No. 1 team and he was an unorthodox southpaw catcher, lie caught with the mill on his left hand, dropping Ihe glove each time he made a throw to the pitcher or to one of the bases. When Ruth was 17, he laughed one day when a St. Mary's pitcher was being pounded. Brother Matthias didn't think it funny. So he forced Ruth to try to do better. From that time Babe was a pitcher. A year later, Brother Gilbert, a teacher from Mt. St. Joseph's, another Catholic school, interested Jack Dunn, Baltimore Oriole maniger. in the raw IliO-potind six-foot-two recruit with the flat nose and spindly leqs. In the sprin? of Pill Ruth was on his way. He hart signed his lirst contract $000 a year. After one month his salary was doubled to $1,200 and after the second month it went up to $1,800. One of the Baltimore coaches, seeing Ruth following Dunn, said in jest: "Here comes Dunn with his newest Babe." The nick name stuck and it became the most famous baseball hat) ever known. Before the season mmnt Dual fetd Mid Ruth to the: Boston Red Sox foi ma variously reported between $2,900 and $10,000. But the left handed pitcher wasn't ready for the majors. After a month during which he won two games and lost one the Red Sox sent him to Providence, It. I., and he helped the team win the Inter national League pennant. The seasoning Ruth obtained in Providence was just what he needed. AP NEWSFJiAIURES Last Rites Held Yesterday In Manhattan for Babe Ruth Standings TIDEWATER I.EAGU Funeral services wore held yes terday morning at 10 a m in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathed ral in New York for the greatest slugger th;it baseball has ever known-Babe Ruth. Francis Car dinal Spellman presided. Now 'that the llabc is dead, sports writers and fans all over the world are reminiscent of the many incidents and gestures which contributed to the "color'' that made him famous. There may be other ball players who will hit more home runs, others who may top his pitchinR feats, still others who mav be come crrater all-around sluRRcrs and hitters. But one thinR is sure there will never be anyone who will supplant the Babe in his po pularity with the fans and especial ly kids. All the fans who saw Ruth play, and many of those who didn't, still TCmeirmer his famous -"called" home ruiu in the 1932 World Se ries against the Chicago Cubs, when Ruth pointetJ to the spot in the bleachers where he intended to hit a home run and then did. There were two things that Ruth did for baseball that should earn him the eternal gratitude of all the fans of the "national pastime." The first contribution was thai he restored the confidence of the fans in the game after the famous, or rather infamous, Chicago Black Sox scandal of 1919. Everytime he hit a home run or performed one of his colorful gestures, the fans began more and more to return to the game and they loved the Babe for it. His second achievement was raising the salaries of almost every nlaycr in organized baseball. His famous pre-scason holdouts for higher salary eventually made him the highest paid player in the his tory of baseball at $80,000 per year, thereby forcing bigger pay checks for other players. The tragedy of Ruth's associa tion with baseball was that he was never able to return to the game permanently after he once left it. His greatest ambition was to man age the New York Yankees, the team for which he performed his greatest feats, but he was always bypassed for someone else. And it was the same way every where else in baseball. Toward the end of his life, base ball men began to realize the mis take they had made in ignoring the man who restored baseball's integrity. He was given a job with the American Legion and the Ford Motor Company in a promotional scheme which was to enable thou sands of youngsters around the country to play ball. Commissioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler, upon viewing the Babe's body Wednesday, said, "When I became commissioner, I was plan ning to get the Babe back in ac tive baseball in some capacity." Others thought the same thing, however, but nobody ever did any thing about getting Ruth back where he belonged in the majors. Mill Creek Wins Over Wildwood Mill Creek strengthened its hold on first place in the Salt Water League over the weekend bv pro during a one run victory over Wild wood at Mill Creek, 4 3. Hurling for Mill Creek was Frank Langdalc and catching was Bill Gillikin. On the mound for Wildwood was George Murdoch. Tom Dick called the signals. Mill Creek opened the scoring with one in the initial inning, but Wildwood rallied for throe in the top of the fifth, making it 3-1. From there on in, Mill Creek had to peck away for one in the lower half of the fifth, the eighth and the ninth. The winning run was knocked in on a fly ball by Nick Culpepper in the last inning. Leading the Mill Creek attack was Oglesby with a triple and a single. Charles Stuart topped the losers with 3-for-4, banging a home run and two singles. Gordon Mc Cabe, also of Wildwood, had 2-for-3. It. II. E. Wildwood 0000 030 000 3 11 4 Mill Creek .. 100 010 011 -4 7 3 Softball League Steps Up Pace i Morehead Swanslmrn M.irshallherg Beaufort .. 'cw pol l Jacksonville llaveloek II I. Straits W. 23 21 10 14 13 13 II . 10 Light Poles Painted Tide Water Tower company started painting Beaufort's street light poles Wednesday. A first coat of red lead paint has been given them and a second coat will be tut on later. Slopping up the naeo oi its sclie tlule, Ihe Carteret Sol'lhall League played a lolal of six games this week, or two games for each team in Ihe league. In Tuesdays games, the Beaufort Oddfellows won their first game by defeating Hie Morehead .laycecs. 5 3, at Beaufort. The same day at Wado Brothers hall park in More head City, the Morehead City Tech nical Institute topped the More head Fire Department, 11-0. Wednesday Ihe Morehead City Lions Club look a close !) il decision from the Tide Water Power com- ' pany at Wado Brothers park. M. C. T. I. continued its winning ways with an 11-5 win over the Oddfellows at Beaufort. Two games were played yester day, but the results of both were received too late for publication. The games in question wore the ! Jayeors against the Lions Club in 1 Morehead and Tide Water against Ihe Fire Department in Beaufort. The league disclosed yesterday that plans have boon formulated to hold Shaiighnessy play-offs among the top four teams at the close of the season. Hue are the league standings as of 12 noon vesterday: CARTERET SOFTBALL LEAGUE W. L. V.'-.T l 4 M.C. Lions Club 3 M. C. Jaycoos . - 2 Tide Water Power Co 2 M. C. Fire Department 1 Beaufort Oddfellows 1 SALT WATER LEAGUE W. Mill Creek 10 llaveloek 3 M nshallborg 1 Wildwood 5 Beaufort -- 4 Bogue 2 L. II !) 12 17 17 HI 211 22 COASTAL PLAIN LEAGUE W. Tarboro lint kv Mount Kinston Goldshoro New Born Wilson Roanoke I Greenville Greenville pids 77 (il on 59 S3 4(1 44 44 I NATIONAL LEAGUE I W. L. Boston 63 48 Brooklyn 59 47 St Louis 59 50 Pittsburgh - 55 50 New York 55 53 Philadelphia 52 57 Cincinnati 47 63 Chicago -- 44 (i(i AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Cleveland (ill 42 Boston (id 45 Philadelphia 67 46 New York (12 48 Detroit 53 55 Washington 44 66 St. Louius 43 65 Chicago 36 74 The mountain bluebird is the Idaho state bird. Beaufort Races Are Discontinued It was disclosed Ibis week that the Beaufort Yacht Club sailing laces have definitely been discon tinued for the rest of this sum mer and yacht club trophies have boon awarded to Robert Thompson and Bill Springle, leaders in the 14 and 16-foot classes, respective ly The reason given for the cancel lation of Ihe remainder of the sail ing schedule is that there was lack of active participation. The troph ies, recently made rotating awards, were donated by Beaufort mer chants. Thompson, in his "Old Iron sides," had amassed a point total of four, and was trailed by Bill Lewis wilh one marker. Springle and his "Flying 8 Ball" were one j point victors over Charles Chapel i in the lfi foot division. Springle had four points and Chapel had ! throe. There had been only two rpees run this year over the yacht club course on Taylor's Creek. Club members will try again next year to organize the races and agitato active participation. SOLO MMS.f Tidewater Schedule IX Saturday, August 21 Morehead City at Beaufort. Swansboro at Marshallberg. Harkers Island-Straits at Jack sonville. Havelock at Newport. Sunday, August 22 Beaufort at Morehead City. Marshallberg at Swansboro. Jacksonville at Harkers Island Straits. Newport at Havelock. African palm oil. used in pro cessing steel plates, costs about five times what it did before World War II. OP 4 WOGLPi SBJZJBS "m JVfrflft'r, fT"l a jjta-t.- .lilt' IVJ ' J J A O W! At SOL.O 9 w . 2,000 Cadets Needed In Navy Aviation Program The U. S. Navv has offielully opened the door to 2.000 CHets in it's Naval Aviation Cadet.lbro grain during the coming flpcal year, and will continue thcipro gram with large yearly quotas thereafter. The program is being reirrlple mentcd to insure a eontinimus fjow into flight training facilities to man the Fleet Air Groups with young aviators, and to provide a supply of newly trained personnel for Ihe Naval Reserve. ' All Cadets enlisted under '.this program will be released to 'Wine tive dulv to await calls to active duty. They will permitted tit: in dicate their desired time of entry into flight training, and wilt be ordered to duty as early as pos sible to the date specified. V At the successful completing of flight training, the Cadets are torn missioned either as Ensigns iW.the Naval Reserve, or as 2nd liieu- tenants in the Marine! Corps Re sreve. To he eligible for enlistment in this program npplieanls must have ; uccessfully completed two acade mic vears nt an accredited col lege, university, or junior cortege. Candidates who arc completirlg' the latter requirement during the cur- l III BCHHflui iiin.y apt';,. - Some J&zli&P ' 2L Annliefinla nhnliM nnnlv nf thu Office of Naval Olficer Procure ment. 1400 Pennsylvania Av& N. W, Washington, D. C. , Hogs Inhabit Pound - Stray dogs are still being picked up in Beaufort. Two dogs affe in the pound now and will be destroy ed if not claimed very shrirtly, William Hatsell, town clerk said to Catch in Creek Beaufort saw n little of the unusual Wednesday when the "Lloyd T." n menhaden boat own ed by W. II. Potter, Beaufort,FisH eries, fished Taylor's creek and pulled in a full load of menhaden. Estimates of the catch put-the haul at 120,000 to 125,000 fish. After 20 National Football League clashes, only 14 points se parate the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagle8,V,The Tribe has scored a total of ;,:378 points to the Eagle's 364. l! Charley Grimm of the Chicago Cubs, who has been with that club since 1944, is the oldest manager in point of continuous service with any team in the National Leaue.
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