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RAWNESS, Record Sports Editor ’•
Bold headlines, were in order
yesterday after the completion of
National and A*
mefltan baseball games. .
Probably the biggest news was
the report on the tight pitchers
duel between Vern Bickford of the
Braves and Ewell Blackwell of the
Reds. This is a news report that
has been forgotten during the past
few years. \
Bewilderment
. No one seems to know just why
the pitchers’ duels are ( a tiling of
thupast. There are various schools
of thought such as the batters
have reached the stage where they
can hit any kind of pitch as long
as it comes across the plate, and
they have learned to let the bad
pitches pass; others think that the
boys now days just don’t have the
strong arms that the old-timers
had, and as a result, the guys now
days caa’t throw enough twisters,
don’t have a hard one, and can’t
last long; then there are fans that
belwve that baseball is ’ passing
through a pitcher- shortage stage
the same as in other sports, or in
any personnel field, passes through
a shortage phase of some sort from
time to time
This column is inclined to agree
with the first and third fields of
thought. That would eliminate the
belief that the fellows now days
are inferior athletes to the per
formers of old.
records alone are sufficient
to destroy this line of thought.
Athletic records are being bettered
every year in all sports. Men can
throw farther, run faster, jump
higher, lift more, swim farther
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In baseball, for Instance, John
ny Vandermere pitched two no-bit
games in a row a few years back
to become the first pitcher ever
to do this. Bob Feller had the
fastest ball of any pitcher ever to
pitch Major League ball (It has
kinda faded). Ralph Kiner hit SS
home runs a couple of years back
to prove that he has the powerful
bat that the best ever known swung.
Sam Jethro stole 35 bases to show
that the moderns aren’t exactly
slow. Gill Hodges hit four H. R. In
one game last season for power
and eye evidence. Ted Williams
hit over .400 not long ago to place
himself with the all-time hitters,
and he has 300 home runs to his
credit and should boost it to 500
before he ends his famed career.
This all adds up to enough evi
dence to cancel the Inferior player
thinking.
No Control
It seems that lack of control
is the fatal enemy of the pitcher
today. Lots of young fellows start
the climb up to the big show now
days with plenty of speed and
plenty bf curves, but they can’t
put their strong arms to good use
when they don’t have any idea
where the ball is going. A good
pitcher must be able to pitch for
and hit an Imaginary spot over
the plate that is about the size
of a grapefruit or less.
There are three different ap
proaches to the plate and batter
and only one of these makes a
successful hurler. The first is the
pitcher with no control and plenty
of stuff who just throws toward
the plate, he has no idea where
his throw will go. This type of
pitcher’s success is limited be
cause good batters won’t go for
bad pitches. The second approach
to the plate Is used by the above
moundsman after improving his
control or on his good days after
learning control Is necessary, and
the pitcher who knows that he
must get the pitch over the plate
but has a little trouble doing so;
therefore, these two hurlers aim
their pitches right through the
middle (there are control pitchers
who do this also!, and the batters
Cadets Down
Camels By
16-1 Score
By GEORGE WILLOUGHBY
Oak Ridge's baseballing Cadets
downed Campbell Junior College
yesterday on the Camels home
grounds by an over-whelming 16-1
scoring barage.
The Cadets collected fifteen hits
off of five Camel hurlers. The
visitors scored eight runs In the
big fifth inning. The Camels scor
ed their lone run in the sixth.
Roby Hicks led the hitting for
the Cadets with two home runs
and a single In five trips to the
plate. Holland Pickard and Kelly
Byrum each had two hits for the
home squad.
Jack Powell scattered seven
Camel hits effectively.
Paul Davis started on the
wait for the fat ones and slap
them away. The third and pnly
successful method is the controlled
pitch that is aimed for the inside
and outside edges of the plate,
high and low. The strike zone in
cludes all pitches that cross the
plate between the batters knees
and his armpits and over any por
tion of the plate and the only
pitches that are likely to give a
potent hitter trouble, are the ones
that are cleverly placed around
the edges of the strike zone. These
facts are known to many who ne
ver think them out and use them.
Booming Ted
The temperamental Red Sox
outfielder and one-way hitter, Ted
Williams, (One-way refers to both
rightfield and way yonder) hit his
300th home run Tuesday. This
was reaching fame and you can’t
take it away from him, but some
of the Boston fans that he has
spit at, hollered at, and given the
high sign would like to take it a
way.
Williams is a great ball player,
and he Is setting records that will
go down in the record books and
place his name on the lips of the
future kids who will not even re
member his playing days; how
ever, It doesn’t seem worth a fam
ed background to go through an
unpopular and hated present.
Williams is extremely disliked In
Boston, although his ability Is re
spected. But who wants to be re
spected. if they are disliked.
Include Hodge
Gil Hodges hit his 10th and 11th
home runs of the early season in
Tuesday’s game against the Chi
gago Cubs. The Brooklyn power
house, who hit four round-trippers
in a single game last season, Is
knocking the ball out of the parks
at a rate that, if he could possibly
keep It up, will give him approxi
mately 63 at the end of the year.
That would be enough to top the
Bambino.
THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C
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THE FASTEST GROUP IN HARNETT COUNTY is shown In the view above. That is, the fastest high
school students in the county, and that most likely means the fastest of aIL The two girls, Deans
Mason of Erwin and Barbara Hickman of Llllington, tied for first place In the M yd. dash in the sooty
wide Field Meet, held at Buies Creek on last Thursday night. Billy Joe Johnson of LUUngton, the bey
in the center, won the 106 yd. dash. Delores and Bill are Juniors in school, and Burners is a Fresh
man. (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart.)
Southern Conference Baseball
Playoffs Start Play Tomorrow
GREENSBORO, May 17 (UP)-
Clemson and Duke will represent
the South and Maryland and
West Virginia the North tomorrow
as the leaders of the two Southern
Conference Baseball Divisions tee
ass in a twoeday series to settle
the Conference Championship.
Duke obtained a clear title to
second spot In the Southern Di
vision yesterday as North Caro
mound for the Campbell boys but
was relieved In the fifth by Bill
Page. Mickles came in during the
seventh with Red Hooper taking
over for him In the eighth. John-
McAden finished the game by
pitching the ninth.
Coach Earl Smith’s squad had
previously defeated the Oak Ridge
team by a 2-1 score. The loss was
the first conference loss for the
Camels in their last five starts.
Campbell meets league-leading
Wingate Junior College Saturday
night at 7:45 on Taylor Field.
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CJC 000 001 000— 17 9
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James Snipes, Joe Leslie, Nathan
Bass, Bert Alabaster, Charles Lee
and Earl Jones of Dunn spent
yesterday afternoon golfing at
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lina lost to North Carolina State,
6-4. The loss left the Tar Heels
with a 10-7 conference record and
Duke with 11-6.
Clemson, the Southern leader,
Is paired with West Virginia In
the second game,
the 6 P. M. opening game tomor
row. Maryland leading the North
ern Division, will play Duke in
the second game.
NEW MARINE FIELD
CHERRY POINT, N. C., (15
May) - Playing their second game
of the current baseball season, and
their first on a newly constructed
diamond, the Cherry Point Marine
Flyers will tangle with a Langely
Air Force Base nine In an after
noon-night doubleheader on Armed
Forces Day, 16 May.
It Will be a read-letter day for
sport fans in the Cherry Point
area, as it marks not only the
inauguration of a new Class “C”
diamond but also the first night
baseball -encounter to be staged
at the Marine Corps Air Station
since its birth in 1941.
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Chicago 14 Brooklyn 4
Cincinnati 4 Boston 3
New York 2 Pittsburgh 1
St. Louis 5 Philadelphia 3
Standings: W L PH.
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Pittsburgh 13 13 £OO
Chicago 13 13 £OO
Cincinnati 13 14 £Bl
St. Louis 12 13 .480
New York ’ 14 16 £67
Philadelphia 13 15 £64
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Chicago 9 Boston 5
Detroit 7 Washington 1
St. Louis 10 Philadelphia 9
Standings: W L Pet.
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Chicago 14 0 £OO
Detroit 14 9 .600
Washington 13 11 £42
Cleveland 12 11 £22
Boston 12 12 £OO
St. Louis 8 19 £O6
Philadelphia 7 19 £BO
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TomftbiA
Win Over PJC
The Campbell CoOese tennis
team defeated the Presbyterian
flmhff (Vfffff on
PJC bone court Monday after
noon by a aeon of #4. The Camel
natters wen never behind to any
of the matches and showed a
sirong superiority over uic noire
team.
The tey Campbell student*,
taking their matches wen; Bobby
Jack Martin, Billy Patterson,
Jones Davenport, Helton
Burton.
The Campbell team if coached
by Mr. C. C. Warren, Jr. They
have played one other match be
skies tlie PJC encounter# Tfck
game was against the strong Oak
Ridge Cadets. The Camels drop
ped the match by a 0-1 aeon.
This year's team at Campbell la
considered one of the bast to
coma oat of the Baptist school.
Patterson and Burton an consid
ered two of the better players in
the Junior College circuit. Bur
ton won the only match to the
Oak Ridge affair. Through the
two meets, he is undefeated. Both
of the games were conference
clashes.
The Campbell team was hamp
ered at the Oak Ridge match be
cause the courts were not as togg
as regulation courts.
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