Whiteville Will Have Professional Baseball Team
sk—
Local Group May
Take Over Dunn
- Erwin Franchise
Paul Williamson Now En
gaged In Securing Stock
Subscriptions To Enable
Carrying Out Of Project;
Whiteville Favored City
TO MEET LUMBERTON
HERE THURSDAY NITE
Preliminary Plans Made At
Fayetteville Meeting To
Transfer Playing Rights
To City On June 15th
BY JIGGS POWERS
(News Reporter Sports Editor)
It is almost a certainty that
Whiteville will have professional
baseball during the 1950 season!
Only minor details remain to
be cleared up before the franchise
belonging to the Dunn-Erwin
club of the Tobacco State League
becomes the property of the
Whiteville organization. A meet
ing of Dunn officials, headed by
President W. W. Stanfield, an<f
representatives from Whiteville
which was held in the offices of
Tobacco State League President
A. R. Moore in Fayetteville on
Sunday (yesterday) afternoon
practically closed the deal.
The Dunn-Erwin Twins team,
which has been a member of the
Class D Tobacco State circuit
since its formation in 1946. has
not been having the attendance
necessary to support professional
baseball during the current calen
dar and is being forced to surren
der its franchise to the league
president on the 15th of June be
cause of financial difficulties.
Several other towns, besides
Whiteville, were interested in se
curing ihe territorial playing
rights of the DE organization,
but the loop officials favored
Whiteville because of its location,
which will facilitate travel with
in the 8-team league.
Should plans go through as
they have begun, the Whiteville
team will play its first home
ICTUS SHOW YOU HOW
TO GET WORK POWER
OUT OF HORSE POWER
jgjgjjg 7W£ FARM ALL S(/P£# A
e WE WILL SHOW YOU RIGHT
) ON,YOUR OWN FARM.
• WE WILL SHOW YOU ON ANY
JOB YOU WANT TO DO.
* CALL US TODAY FOR A
r, FREE DEMONSTRATION,
lARMALl-PROVED POWER FOR IMPROVE: FARMIHB
Marks Machinery Co.
Wilmington, N. G.
Marks Truck & Ti actor Co.
WHITEVILLE, N. C. PHONE 11
“Your International Harvester Dealer”
Leads Drive
PAUL J. WILLIAMSON, who
is currently spearheading a cam
paign to raise funds for the pur
chase of the Dunn-Erwin Twin
baseball franchise for Whiteville.
It is expected that enough stock
will be subscribed to in order to
buy the DE’s playing rights by
June 15th.
game at Legion Field here on
Thursday night, June 15, when
the Lumberton Auctioneers will
be met. Gametime of all Tobacco
State League contests is 7:45
o’clock.
A campaign to raise the neces
sary funds to complete the moving
of the Dunn-Erwin outfit (it is
expected that Whiteville will fall
heir to most of the players now
owned by the “folding" Twins,
should the deal go through as
planned) is being headed by Paul
J. Williamson, local automobile
dealer. Williamson stated that
stock would be sold during the
next few days in a last-minute
effort to give Whiteville the first
professional baseball team it has
ever owned. Williamson, along
with Clyde Williams who has
managed Whiteville semi-pro clubs
for the past two seasons and
Sportswriter Jiggs Powers, re
presented Whiteville interests at
the Sunday meeting.
Williamson was president of the
Whiteville Red Comets of the
semi-pro Border Belt League here
last year, and has always had a
top interest in local sports teams.
Wilmington Gets
Legion Win Over
Tabor City, 7-4
WILMINGTON — Tabor City’s
Junior Legion team bowed to
the Wilmington Junior entry in
an Area 1 League game played
here on Wednesday night. The
score was 7 to 4.
A big fourth inning put the
youngsters of Coach Bert Kite,
former Wilmington Pirate man
ager, ahead to stay. The local
crew counted a quartet of tallies
< 11111
CtieeifAese 6enef/fc
OF PAYING BY CHECK
Saves time and effort in paying bills.
Systematizes your financial affairs.,
Avoids dangers of carrying cash. ;i *
Builds prestige and establishes credit.
*r
Cancelled check proves payment, t -
Checks are cheaper than money-orders.
DEPOSIT IN THE NEAREST—
Your Financial Friend
in
MEMBER P.D.I.C.
WHITE YIliIiW
t'HADBOL'KN
SOUTH I’OKT
KEWANSVILLB
CLARKTOW
FAIRMONT
TABOR CITY
8HALLOTTK
ROHE UILL
in this inning. Both teams had
been served a dish of goose-eggs
until this time, with Tabor City’s
Doug Cook and Burt Grant, local
moundsman, tying up in a hill
duel.
Cook became the losing pitch
er, however, and was releived
by tiny Ray Reeves in the third
frame, who finished for Tabor
City.
Grant, the winning pitcher, was
not around at the finish either,
but it was a sprained ankle,
suffered when he slid into second
base in the sixth frame, that
caused his removal. Strong-Arm
ed Sonny Jergenson finished for
the Wilmington crew and did a
good job of it.
Statistics showed that Doug
Crook was touched for 7 hits in
2 2-3 innings, Reeves gave up 8
in 5 1-3, Grant 8 in 6, and Jer
genson 4 in 3. Bases on balls
issued by Cook numbered 2,
Reeves 2, and Jergenson 1. Strike
outs were divided as follows:
Cook 2, Grant, ^5, Reeves 4, and
Jergenson 3.
The Kitemen went on to add
another trio of tallies in the 4th
inning. Tabor City counted once
each in the 4th and 9th and had
a pair of runs in the 6th.
Leading the batting for the
Wilmington entry was Grant, the
winning pitcher, who had a 3
for-3 average before he was
forced to retire from action. Bill
Hardee, former Whiteville High
School athlete now catching for
the Wilmington entry, pounded
the agate for a triple and two sin
gles in four tries, as well as
playing a bang-up game behind
the bat.
Bermey Stevens, Tabor City
centerfielder, led his mates with a
three-bagger and two singles in
5 attempts. Tommy Lewis, initial
sacker, hit 2 for 4.
It was the first game of the
season for the Wilmington team.
The loss gave Coach Sil Caruso’s
Tabor City team a 1-1 record in
league play.
‘Wormy* Stevens
Hurls, Clubs TC
Nine To Triumph
Little Righthander Has No
Hitter Until 7th-Inning;
Gives Up 3 Safeties, Hits
4-For-6 As Team ^\venges
Former Loss
TABOR CITY—It was sweet
revenge for the Tabor City Ajme
rican Legion Juniors here, on
Thursday night, as they blasted j
the Wilmington Area One entry
to the tune of 15-2 in a contest
played at Civitan Field.
Behind the brilliant three-hit
pitching and superb batting of
their diminutive righthander, Ber
mey Stevens, the Yam-Town boys
raked the offerings of three Wil
mington hurlers for a total of IS
base-hits to avenge a 7-4 loss suf
fered by the locals in Wilmington
on Wednesday evening.
Stevens, who plays centerfield
for the Post 101 club when not
pitching, was working his first
game of the Legion season for
Coach Sil Caruso’s outfit. He did
a whale of a job—having a no
hitter until Catcher Bill Hardee,
former Whiteville boy, singled j
solidly to center in the 7th frame.
The other safeties off "Wormy’s'"
slants came in this inning also,
with Delane Eason pounding a i
triple to right-center to count
Hardee and David Alford singling
to count both of the Wilmington j
tallies. Stevens fanned 10 and
walked just two of the Port
Citians.
The local club had already won
the ballgame by scoring once in
the first, four times in the third,
three times in the fifth, and
capping it off with a 7-run burst
in the sixth.
The leader in the batling par
ade of the Caruso-coached team
was also Bermey Stevens—he
compiled an average of 4 for 6.
Two of his blows were doubles.
Following him were Bobby Wad
dell and Worth Barnhardt, each
with 3 for 6. Barnhardt had a
double in his collection.
The win gave Tabor City a
record of two wins against a
single loss in Area 1 play for:
the first week of the loop’s acti- j
vation. The local team plays in
Whiteville on Wednesday night
and meets Wilmington back here
again on Thursday evening.
Wilmington—
000 000 200—2—3—5
Tabor City
104 037 OOx -15—18—3 j
Galog, Gere (5), Cribb (7) and
Hardee; Stevens and Floyd.
SHALIiOTTE VISITORS
Rev. and Mrs. Billy Rivers of
Chesterfield, S. C., have been visi
ting Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Russ
at Shallotte. Rev. Rivers is well
known in the Shallotte communi
ty as he held a youth revival at
Chapel Hill church last fall. He
recently graduated from Furman
University and is entering the
Baptist Seminary in Louisville,
Kentucky.
Read The Want Ads.
i
Whiteville Jrs.
Smother Post 10
In Lop-Sided Go
Coach Ed Thompson’s Local
Legion Team Wins First
Area 1 Battle As Elbert
Smith, Tommy Edwards
Star
WILMINGTON—Pitcher Elbert
Smith, of Hallsboro, and Bladen- \
boro's Tommy Edwards were the j
leading lights in a star-studded
lineup that lead Coach Ed Thomp
son's Whiteville Post 137 Ame
rican Legion Junior nine to a lop
sided 13-2 triumph over the Wil
mington Juniors at Memorial Park
on Friday night.
Smith, who had his curve-ball
working to perfection, tossed a
brilliant two-hitter, fanned 5, and
walked three. He had a no-hitter
until the 6th- inning, with Post
10 Rightfielder Lawrence Pen- j
nington breaking the spell with a I
long double to rightfield. Smith j
retired the first dozen Wilming-1
ton batters in order. It was the
best-pitched game of the Halls- !
boro boy’s career, to date.
Tommy Edwards, wno caught
for the Bladenboro High School
nine of Coach Vince Colombo but
has been an outfielder for the
Whiteville Legion crew for the
past two years, could not seem
to miss at the plate. The Hustling
gardener smacked out four hits
in five trips up, with one of them
being a triple. He also had an
inside-the-park homer in the 4th
frame but received credit for a
single when he failed to touch
second base. He also played a
bang-up game afield, handling
four chances without miscue.
The 137 team jumped on Sonny
Jergenson, No. 10 starter, for
four runs in the first inning.
Commie Caswell lived on an er
ror. Doug Watts walked. Sonny !
Lewis had an infield safety to
load the sacks. Edwards hit his j
triple to right-center to count all I
runners, and scored himself when !
Thurston Barefoot flied to right. |
Jergenson was lifted in the 7th
when Thompson’s boys garnered
four runs off him, after having j
added two in the 6th. Two more
tuns came across off of A. C. i
(Bryant, his relief, when Commie
Caswell tripled down the right
field line. Whiteville added one
run in the ninth for good mea
sure.
Wilmington had scored in the :
5th when Dave Alford walked
and scored on what should have ,
been a three-bagger for Mack j
Overton. However, the latter fail
ed to touch first-base and he was
out.
Smith had a one-hitter going |
into the 9th, but a walk, an in
field hit by Victor Batson, a sin
gle to right by Altord, and an in
field out gave Wilmington their
other run.
Besides Edwards, Whiteville
batting leaders were Commodore
Caswell and Sonny Lewis, each
of whom had a pair of hits.
Wake Forest Is
Beaten In NCAA
Diamond Tourney
Favored Wake Forest and
Alabama opened the tournament
with victories on Thursday night;
the Deacons copping a 9-4 win j
over Kentucky, while Alabama,
turned back Clemson, 6-1.
Moe Bauer, Wake Forest’s
southpaw ace, gave up 8 hits to
the Blue Grass boys and walked
one, but fanned 13 of their bats
men. Meanwhile, the Kaintuck
hurlers, Hirsch and Hatchett, were
granting the Baptists only 7 safe
ties but, between them, issued
15 bases on balls.
The losers led Wake Forest,
2-1, until the Deacs rallied for
three runs in the 4th, after which
they were never headed. All
American Second-Baseman Charlie
Teague led Wake Forest with a
3 for 4 average, and Shortstop
Art Hoch had 2 for 4. Best for
the Kentuck team was Shortstop
Parilli with a 2 for 4 ratio.
Kentucky—
011 000 002—4—8—2
Wake Forest—
100 311 30x—9—7 1
Hirsch, Hatchett (5) and Fucci;
Beuer and Brooks.
Whiteville Jrs.
Lose To Marion
MARION, S. C.—Marion's Jun
ior nine defeated the Post 137
team of Whiteville, N. C., here
on Thursday night by a score
of 8 to 5.
It gave the locals an even
break in the two-game exhibition
sei'ies between the two outfits,
Whiteville having won a 5-4 vic
tory in Whiteville on Tuesday
evening.
Poston, the Marions' ace right
hander from Johnsonville, allowed
the Whiteville nine four of their
five runs in the initial three in
nings but Caulder, his relief, gave
up only one over the remainder
of the route. Altogether, the two
pitchers allowed the Tar Heels
just 6 hits.
Tommy Edwards led Whiteville
with 2 for 4. Centerfielder Felix
Smith hit 1 for 2 before he was
removed in the 4th inning be
cause of a jammed thumb. For
Marion the big gun was First
Baseman Billy Pope who hit a
pair of triples arui a long homer
in 3 trips for a perfect night at
the plate. His four-master, com
ing with one on, was a long belt
over the right-field wall in the
7th inning when Marion tallied
their eventual winning markers.
Shortstop Jerry Page hit 2 for 4.
Whitewille—
103 000 100—5--6—1
Marion—
002 012 30x—8—9—2
Price and Council; Poston,
Caulder (4) and Altman.
IN BAPTIST HOSPITAL
Dempsey Atkinson, head man
on the Reigel Paper Company
rach, has been in the Baptist
hospital at Winston-Salem since
May 9th. He has been suffering
from kidney trouble and has un
dergone two operations. Writing
a friend in Southport Mr. Atkin
son says he hopes to be able to
return home soon.
VISITS PARENTS
Miss Gertrude Maultsby of Wil
mington spent Sunday in Winna
bow with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Maultsby.
COURTNEY ROOFING COM Inc.
Roofing and Siding Contractors
TELEPHONE 3121 -SOUTHPORT, N. C.
— also —
CRESCENT BEACH and CONWAY, S. C.
Suild-Up Reefing, - Asphalt Shingles
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF
Folks, I have one more kind favor I want to ask of you in behalf of
my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff of Brunswick
County. I am satisfied how most of you feel about me, but I want to re
mind you that the only place you can help me on Saturday, June 24th, it
at the polls.
I hate to ask you to again take time off from your work and to go to
the trouble and expense required to go vote, but if you will back me up
one more time, I will be your faithful servant ih the interest of clean, hon
est law enforcement when I serve you as your Sheriff.
Ed V. Leonard
You can haul more loads..,
more miles... for less...
with Chevrolet Trucks
Take time out to talk to some Chevrolet truck users. You’ll find it revealing. You’ll
discover that Chevrolet trucks pay their way by hauling more loads—more miles—
for less! And you’ll find that this extra measure of value is even more apparent in the
new Chevrolet models. Definitely, they’re America’s first-choice trucks. Heavy-duty
units feature a brand-new 105-h.p. Valve-in-Head engine wfth the power to pull
heavy loads and conquer steep grades. They offer new Power-Jet carburetion for
smoother, quicker operation. They bring you the fast, safe shifting of Chevrolet’s
4-speed Synchro-Mesh transmission. But whatever your
hauling requirements, Chevrolet trucks are your best bet.
See them in our showroom. You’ll agree.
EVROLET
ADVANCE-DESIGN TRUCKS
Elmore Motor Company
BOLIVIA, N. C.