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By JACK ALEXANDER
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Baseball Lore
You may be crazy about base
ball, you may be able to rattle off
the totting averages of every
player in the major leagues, you
may know all there is to know
about every team from the Cards
to “Dem Bums”, but it’s ten to
one you don’t know how the game
started.
In colonial times, Americans
played a game called “Rounders”,
a game that was similar in many
respects to the present day base
ball. Because of this similarity,
“Rounders” was originally be
lieved to be the first form of
baseball, but it is now generally
conceded that baseball started
from a strictly American game
named “One Old Cat”, “Two Old
Cat” or “Three Old Cat” and so
on meaning the number of bases
the batsmen had to touch before
regaining home-plate.
From this crude method of “bat
the ball, run and score”, devel
oped the game of “Town Ball” in
which teams competed against
other teams. The first Town Ball
Club was organized in 1833 in
Philadelphia and in 1839, from the
rudiments of “Town Ball”, Col.
Abner Doubleday devised and
named the game of baseball.
At the time Col. Doubleday laid
down his rules for baseball, the
ball was larger than now and the
pitcher was required to toss the
ball or pitch with an underhand
swing as in softball. No gloves were
used and an ax handle made' a
perfectly suitable bat. But while
the rules and equipment have
changed with the times. Double
day’s fixture of base locations and
distances between bases has never
been changed.
Today, baseball, the American
national game, is rapidly con
quering the world. In Canada, it
is becoming more popular every
year. Cuba has its professional
team, and we all know what is
happening in Mexico. It is played
by the Japanese, the Chinese, and
Filipinos. American soldiers in
World Wars one and two spread
baseball everywhere. Baseball may
turn out to be better propaganda
than anything our statesmen can
devise.
But regardless of what it does
for world policy, it’s still plenty
of fun to watch—So pass the pop
bottles, Mister, and let’s sec a
game of “Three Old Cat.”
NICE FOREHAND YOUVE GOT THERE, MISS SMITH
Ecusta To Play Martel Mills Here
Saturday Afternoon At 3:30 O’clock
Second Half Is
Now In Progrress
Inter-departmental baseball
managers voted affirmatively at a
meeting on Thursday,, July 18th.,
to extend play through a second
half of two rounds. It was also
agreed that the winner of the first
alf play a three-game series withh
the winner of the second half.
The decision to continue play
resulted from a demand of the
majority of players on all teams.
The present schedule proved, in
sufficient to all concerned. The
continuation of play will in no way
affect the winner of the champion-
Expecting Tough Game. Lo
cals Have Split Four
Games This Month
Employees And Their
Families Can Learn
To Swim At Sapphire
All employees and their families
are cordially invited and urged to
attend swimming classes taught
daily at Camp Sapphire. Swim
ming can afford many hours of
pleasure and safety for you and
your family. Ecustans from ages 6
to 60 are welcome. Parents, come
—bring your youngsters! Watch
them leam—or better still, be a
student and leam together. The
beginners classes are daily, except
Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.
fa. to 12 and from 3 p. m. to 4..
Second Half
Schedule
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
July 31—Control vs. Pulp
Mill.
1—Machine Room vs.
Champagne.
7—Machine Room vs.
Pulp Mill.
8—Control vs. Cham
pagne.
Aug. 14—Machine Room vs.
Control.
Aug 15 — Champagne vs.
Pulp Mill.
Aug. 21—Control vs. Pulp
Mill.
Aug. 22—Machine Room vs.
Champagne.
Aug. 28—Machine Room vs.
Control.
Aug. 29 — Champagne vs.
Pulp Mill.
Sept. 4—Machine Room vs.
Pulp Mill.
Sept. 5—Control vs. Cham
pagne. '
The Ecusta baseball team in the
Western North Carolina Industrial
league will play the improved Mar
tel Mills team here Saturday after
noon at 3:30 o’clock in a regular
scheduled league game.
These two teams have played
once before on the visitor’s field
and Grover Suttles held them to
one run, while his Ecusta team
mates collected 20 runs. The game
Saturday, however, promises to be
a close one, since the Martel
Mills outfit has won its most re
cent games from other teams in
the Industrial league.
Manager Alexander announced
this week that two men have been
added to the local club in an ef
fort to increase the batting power
of the team. “Knuckle-Ball”
Morris, one of the leading hitters
in the inter-departmental league,
will probably take over the cen-
terfield position, and “Footsie”
Case will most likely be substitut
ed for Rick Orr, who was injured
in the Beacon game. -
During the past month, the Ecu
sta ball club has split four games,
winning from Enka in the Big
Fourth of July home-game by the
score of 6 to 0, and from Canton
on the previous Saturday, 7 to 2,
and losing to Enka, 7 to 1 and to
Beacon Mills, 5 to 2.
Should the locals win Saturday
and the Beacon team lose to Ha
zelwood, the league-leaders, the
Ecusta team will again be in sec
ond place in the league.
Batting Averag®*
Footsie” Case and jj
eadiDs
batting averages in the W ®
Machine Room, are now ^
partmental baseball
complete list is shown bel®"'
CONTROL-MAINTENANC®^!^
Player AB ® 0
White, B. 7 ^
Byrd 26 ^
Com 17
Morris, C. 17
Thomas 6
Sexton 17
Gilreath 26
Dom 20
Sams 10
Vance 15
Head, R. 10
DeBrabant 5
Edens 5
Nicholson 6
Rigdon 6
Wilbur 20
Rhodes 3
Jennings 1
Orr 2
Bradburn 1
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Player AB *
Case 31
Orr 27
Head, R. 18
Gregory 24
Suttles 22
White, E. 23
Fisher 19
Miller 24
Pace 15
McCuriy 31
Pickelsimer 9
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ship since it was agreed at first
that the winner of most games in
the three round play would be de
clared the champions of Ecusta,
CHAMPAGNE
Player AB
O’Dell 4
Riddle 26
Dockens 16
Taylor, M. 20
Landreth 12
Carter 14
Misenheimer, H. .-22
Wilkie 19
Qayton 26
Taylor, O. 12
Misenheimer, W. 13
Drake, T. 20
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Player AB
Russell 3
Alexander 20
Meixell 3
Whitesides 3
Merrill 28
Allison 25
Morris, R. 23
Holt 15
Lindley 5
Bradley 15
Bullock 16
Cagle 14
Loftis 15
Newbury 16
Wilson 3
Drake, F. 4
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