RAPIDS-WELDON LOSE
SEMIFINALS SERIES
TO JOHNSON COUNTY
The Roanoke Rapids-Weldon
American Legionnaires dropped
the eastern semifinals series to the
Johnson county club Friday after
noon in Weldon when they lost the
fifth and final game 3 to 2. The
local boys won the first game of
the afternoon by a 11 to 3 margin,
but could not get to Farmer in
the second fray for but two runs
while some rather erratic playing
gave the visiting team 3 runs and
a victory.
An eight run rally in the fourth
inning of the first game decided
the contest. Philip Burnette, Roa
noke Rapids boy, allowed his op
ponents only six hits while his
teammates were collecting 12 off
Walls. Wright and Edwards with
a double and a single each, and
Howell and Warmack with two
singles each led the winners’ at
tack. Canaday with a double and
a single led the Johnson ciunty
club.
In the second game, which went
for only five innings because of
official deadline for playing set at
5:30, the Rapids-Weldon boys out
hit the winners 3 to 2 but were un
able to hold on to the ball when
men were on the bags.
Edwards with a double and a
single led the losers’ attack while
Canaday got a double to pace the
winners.
FIRST GAME
Smithfield _ 110 Olx—3 2 2
Rap.-Weldon 218 000 OOx—11 12 2
Walls and Smith; Burnett and
Wright.
SECOND GAME
Smithfield _ 110 Olx—3 2 2
Rapids-Weldon_ 200 000— 2 3 3
Farmer and Smith; Edwards and
Wright.
AMERICAN LEGION TEAM
HAS SUCCESSFUL SEAS'N
The Roanoke Rapids-Weldon
American Legion baseball team
brought its season to a close when
it lost to Smithfield in the final
game of a five-game series in Wel
don Saturday afternoon, July 22.
The Rapids-Weldon legionnaires
played nineteen legion games dur
ing the season and won fifteen of
them. In the first round, which
consisted of teams in the Number
2 district, they defeated Rocky
Mount four times, Wilson three
times, and Greenville three times.
In that round they lost one to
Greenville and one to Wilson.
These ten victories gave them the
right to meet Raleigh in the east
ern quarterfinals.
In the quarterfinals, the local
boys defeated the Raleigh boys,
under the supervision of Coach
Chick Doak, in three straight
games—11 to 2, 6 to 5, and 6 to 3.
As Wilson, runners-up in the Num
ber 2 district, defeated Burlington
in the Number 1 district, Rapids
Weldon met the Johnson county
team in a five game series while
Wilson met the Harnett county
team. Wilson and Roanoke Rap
ids-Weldon lost in the semifinals,
giving the Harnett boys and Smith
field of Johnson the right to meet
two teams from the West for the
final playoff.
,On the Rapids-Weldon team were {
'five boys from the Weldon high
school, eight from the Roanoke
Rapids schools, and one from the
Gaston school. The boys from
Weldon were Billy Rabil, “Bug”
Edwards, Haines Gregory, outfield
ers; Jack Warmack and Dooley
Taylor, infielders. From Roanoke
Rapids were Dallas Wright, catch
.
er; “Pig” R'iggan, Chester Simms,
and Henry Howell, infielders;
James Acree, outfielder; Ford Buf
faloe, Alfred Hall, and Ed Boyd,
pitchers. From Gaston school was
Philip Burnett, pitcher.
Coach Hoyle, who directed the
playing of the Rapids-Weldon
team, says that he is well pleased
with the showing the team made
this year and contributes their suc
cess to the fine spirit of coopera
tion the boys showed, individually
and collectively. He stated further
that there was never any friction
between the boys from the two
different towns and that the mem
bers of the legion post were always
at hand to lend whatever aid they
could in any way possible.
As a nucleus for a legion team
next year, there will be from this
year’s team; pitchers Boyd, Buffa
loe, and Hall; infielders Warmack,
Riggan, and Taylor; outfielders
Edwards and Gregory.
Coach Hoyle considers Warmack
and Edwards the two most improv
ed ball players on the club this
year.
At Convents©!!
C. W. Davis, superintendent of
schools in Roanoke Rapids, left
early this week for Ridgecrest
where he will attend a Superin
tendent’s Convention. The conven
tion began July 26 and will con
tinue through July 29.
Mrs. R. F. Marks and daughter,
Gwendolyn, from San Francisco,
Calif., and Mrs. Lynn Hirsch are
spending this week with Mrs. M.
C. Maddrey.
FLASH!
At exactly three minutes past
11:00 on Wednesday night, July
2H, in the year of our Lord, nine
teen - hundred - and - thirty-nine,
in the year he crawled out on a
limb—in that year on that night
and at that time, Oscar fell off
Out On A Limb
With The Owls
and Oscar
Oscar almost fell off the limb
Sunday afternoon—what with its
shaking so when everybody kept
jumping off. • Ya know how it
would spring as each one let go.
But Oscar managed to hold on,
even if people did look' at him
kinda queer-like.
—o—
The first thing Oscar would like
to ease his readers’ mind to is the
condition of that little bit o’ dyna
mite what roves the center garden
(but he doesn’t stop to pick the
flowers) for the Owls and Oscar.
Frank had an ex-ray made of his
rolled on shoulder and the doctors,
even, found it okay. He is just to
carry it in a sling for a week or
so—so long as he is in seeing dis
tance of said doctors. The way he
hit after he was injured Sunday
caused some to make some rather
unlikely remarks—about he should
have been hurt long ago. Now
was that a nice thing to parley?
—o—
And Mitchell was the same pitch
er—the same one the boys slammed
all over the lot in High Point for
12 runs in three innings last Wed
nesday night. Wee-1, it looks like
the elements ain’t with us. But I
guess that outcome and Sunday’s
comeout was just a reminder that
no one is invincible—not even Os
car. But watch the boys come
back.
—o—
Never before in Sunday baseball
(or Monday baseball for that mat
ter) did Oscar see a triple swipe.
George seemed a bit off balance on
the play and had to right himself
momentarily. Some argue that
anyone would have been off bal
ance if he had seen three men
running around the bases like
loose horses. And probably so. Os
car thinks that the boys have play
ed some mighty fine ball to be
criticized too harshly on just a
little mistake or two.
Mac McLeod summed up the si
tuation pretty well. He said that
the boys thought they had it in
the bag, after the start against the
same pitcher in the previous rain
ed-out game. Then Sunday they
suddenly found, in the early stages
of the game, that some joker had
pulled the zipper. That threw a
scare into them and they tightened
up. And Oscar thinks that Mitch
ell tightened up too. One of the
players dropped a hint in Oscar’s
ear—a hint that went out the oth
er and then came in again along
about the seventh. Said he,
“Mitchell made a mistake the oth
er night when he was throwing all
those fast ones. I don’t think he
will make the same mistake again.”
Wee-1, what do you think?
—o—
Doc Moore, manager of the
Luckies who wouldn’t even give
Oscar a pack of Luckies this time,
said before the game that he hoped
the Owls would limit the number
of runs to eight so his team would
not look too, too bad. And he also
said that his two regular outfield
ers did not get here and he had
to play two pitchers in their places.
If Oscar were managing that club,
he would make some permanent
changes.
—o—
It develops that Jock Pettit, who
goes under the name of Bottoms
and whom the fans will remember
on the McCrary Eagles team, was
once the bat-jerker and fly-shag
ger on a team that Oscar used to
play on. It’s a small world after
all.
Attend Dance
Attending the Jan Garber dance
in Wilson Thursday night were
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Edwards, Joe
Dickens, Miss Virginia Wilson,
Wade Myrick, Randall White, Ed
Glover, Miss Miriam Smith, Jenks
Knight, Miss Millicent Faison,
Singleton Wolfe, Miss Lois Ewart,
Monroe Starke, Miss Margaret
Speight, Raine Wilson, Miss Lou
Matthews, Tom Mullen.
Scot. Neck Club
Win Camp Honor
The Scotland Neck Young Tar
Heel Farmer Chapter tied for sec
ond place in their rating last week
at White Lake, where one of the
state Y.T.H.F. Camps is located.
There were twenty-one chapters
from thirteen counties over the
state represented with 270 mem
bers attending.
The boys were impressed with
the many improvements that have
been made in the camp since last
year. The camp has been moved
to the lake front and consists of
twenty cottages for boys, a large
dining hall, and kitchen, a visitors
cottage, a recreational hall, and a
directors cottage.
The rating at camp was based
on the following: (1) baseball; (2)
softball; (3) volley ball; (4) horse
shoe; (5) swimming; (6) stunts;
(7) clean up in cottages; (8) num
ber present at roll call; (9) per
cent of members attending camp;
and (10) conduct while at camp.
Those attending camp from Scot
land Neck with E. K. Veach, agri
cultural teacher, were Spencer
Allsbrook, Oscar Braxton, Edgar
Braxton, Huett Braxton, Lawrence
Harris, Wilmer Johnson, Herbert
Johnson, Bennett Jones, Eddie
Pendleton, Alvin Wilson, Claude
Whitehead, Lloyd Winslow, Mrs.
Veach and Kermit Veach.
The Scotland Neck Chapter made
a remarkable record at camp and
were commended by members of
other chapters for their fine
sportsmanship. These boys were
especially enthusiastic in all the
events entered and handled them
selves as Young Tar Heel Farmers
should, according to E. K. Veach,
adviser.
Misses Virginia Lee Thorne and
Elizabeth Beckwith have returned
from a vacation spent at Camp
Cheonda, Lake Junaluska, N. C.
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