Still On top—
Southport Loses
To Seagate Here
By FOXY HOWARD
The Southport Sails are still on
top of the Cape Fear League by
virtue of Ogden’s win Sunday
afternoon over the runner-up
South Wilmington entry.
The local ball club ran into a
stone wall Friday night at Taylor
Athletic Field when they lost to
the powerful Seagate team by a
score of 10 to 6 in a game that
saw each team deplete their ros
ter of players and call on all of
the pitching talent that they could
muster. Larry Edens was the win
ning pitcher while Bob Schopp
took the loss for Southport.
Edens started on the mound for
Seagate and gave up four hits
and no runs while striking out
eight and walking six before turn
ing over the pitching duties to
Paul Turner in the seventh. South
port hopped right on Turner for
two walks, two hits and four
runs before Edens was recalled
from first base to finish up the
hurling for the visitors. In his
last stint on the mound Edens
gave up two runs on two hits
and one walk while adding two
more Sails to his strikeout total.
For Southport it was Schopp,
Swain and Russ on the mound
with Doug Watts doing the receiv
ing. Schopp started, giving up 5
runs on 7 hits while fanning three
and walking two yr his three and
one-third innings on the mound.
Swain relieved in the fourth but
gave way to Russ in the fifth af
ter giving up three runs on two
hits and hitting one batsman.
Russ finished the game with only
three hits and two unearned runs
being charged against him.
In the field the Sails had seven
errors chalked up against them;
the Seagate fielders committed
two errors. Southport left eleven
rrlen on base as compared with
eight for Seagate.
The visitors' big inning, and
the one that saved the game for
them, was the fifth when Edens
led off with a single to centerfield.
J. B. Wallace was hit by one of
Swain’s fast balls and Bert Chiem
mego, the Seagate centerfielder,
followed with a double to left,
scoring Edens and sending Wal
lace to third. Russ was called in
from leftfield to do the pitching
for the Sails. Jim Worthington,
the first batter to face Russ, drew
a free pass to load the bases.
Clyde Best, the Seagate catcher,
hit a slow grounder to Chris Hol
land at shortstop and Holland
elected to throw to the plate in an
j effort to cut off the run, but it
was too late on a bad throw that
let Wallace and Chemmego score
and moved Worthington to third
and Best to second. Lewis Tartt
hit a routine fly to rightfield that
got away from Jerry Spencer in
the lights to let Worthington in
with the fourth run of the inning
and move Best into scoring posi
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tion at third. A grounder by Bud
dy Tilden, second to first, got A
man out but let in the fifth run.
Plug Porter hit a grounder to
Bobby Spencer that the big first
sacker handled unassisted fo- the
second out and Emory Hewlett
ended things by flying out to
Dick Brendle in centerfield.
The Sails' big inning came in
the seventh when they finally
settled down to play the brand of
baseball that has kept them at
the head of the league the whole
season. Seagate, feeling they were
safely ahead with the score ten to
nothing, called Turner in to do
some relief hurling and let Edens
relax on first for a while. Turner
got Swain on strikes and then re
laxed a little too much himself as
Holland and Watts both drew
walks. Red Best followed with a
long double into left-center, scor
ing Holland and moving Watts to
third. Tebo Rogers lashed a Texas
Leaguer into centerfield and that
was all for Turner as Watts and
Best came in for the second and
third Southport markers. Larry
Edens returned to the mound to
face Foxy Howard. Howard greet
ed Edens with a single into right
field that Ivan James let slip
past him. Rogers scored on the
error and Howard ended up on
second base with a big grin on
his face. Jerry Spencer grounded
out, second to first, with Howard
moving over to third on the play.
Russ came through with his sec
ond single of the night to score
Howard and bring the Sails with
in striking distance of Seagate.
Brendle went out pitcher to first
to end the rally.
Southport added one more in
the eighth to keep the-hopes of
the large crowd of Southport
rooters alive as Swain belted a
long drive into centerfield that
Chiemmego caught up with at
the last instant. It was a leaping
over-the-head catch that would
almost certainly have been a hom
er if it hadn’t of been an out.
Holland went down on strikes for
the second out. Watts drew a
walk and Best moved him to
second on a single into center
field. Rogers swung at a third
strike that got past Clyde Best
behind the plate and made it safe
ly to first as Best recovered the
ball in time but threw the ball
into rightfield to score Watts and
send Red Best on to third. How
ard went down on a called third
strike to end the Sails’ scoring
for the night.
Southport now leads the Cape
Fear League with a record of 9
wins and 3 losses, followed by
South Wilmington with an 8 and
4 slate. Seagate and Ogden are
tied with 7 wins and 5 losses for
Public Cooperates
With Regulation
In connection with the new
parking: laws just gone into ef
fect in Shaliotte, Mayor Roney
Cheers stated this week that he
would like to express appreciation
for the fine cooperation of motor
ists in obeying the regulations.
Cheers pointed out that the new
regulations, in view of the steady
growth of Shaliotte, "were in
evitable, and serve merchants and
their customers alike.”
"All effort will be bent,” con
cluded Cheers, “toward the cre
ation of new off-street parking
areas in the immediate future.”
The mayor added that speed
limit signs have been conspicuous
ly posted on all city-maintained
streets in Shaliotte.
"We fully intend to keep our
town a safe place to drive, to i
walk, to play and to live,” said !
Cheers emphatically.
third place while Leland, 4 and
8, and Shaliotte with a lone win
against eleven losses bring up the
cellar. Soutrport’s one-game lead
was preserved by Ogden Sunday
when they came from behind to i
take the measure of South Wil- j
mington 6 to 5, the winning run I
coming in the ninth inning.
The Sails past record indicates
that when they lose a game they
come back strong. That is exactly
what Southport has left-three
more games—so the fans in
Southport should be in for a treat
as all of the Sails remaining
games are to be played on Taylor
Field. The first one is scheduled
fof Sunday against Shaliotte, to
be followed next week with a
double-header against Ogden. In
the double-header the Sails will
be making up a game that was
rained out on June 25th that saw
Southport ahead 4 to 1 after only
one inning of play. Two wins will
assure the Sails of at least a tie
for the league championship even
if South Wilmington wins all
three of their remaining games.
PATRICIA CLARK, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Clark of
Whiteville, was named “Little
Miss Majorette of Dixie” last Sat
urday at Windy Hill Beach, S. C.
The contest was sponsored by the
Drum Majorettes of American.
The new title winner is 11-year
old and will be a seventh grader
at Whiteville School in the fall.
Patricia, also a dancing student
of Patricia Tupper, was competing
with entries from Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes
see, Florida, George and Alabama.
The talented young lady has
several uncles and aunts living in
Brunswick county.—(Photo by
Baldwin).
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Women Seek Aid Of
Demonstration Agent
Five spokesmen for the Bruns
wick County Home Demonstration
clubs petitioned the Brunswick
County Commissioners to employ
a Home Demonstration Agent
when they attended a meeting
held at Southport Monday.
The ladies, representing five
clubs, pointed out that Brunswick
County, one of the largest in area
in the state, had no qualified and
trained person to put on home
demonstrations before the organiz
ed clubs. The spokesmen stated
that “it is only rarely and with
difficulty a visiting demonstration
agent can be brought in to help
teach and inform these groups of
farm wives in the household arts
and sciences.”
College Campus Is
Open To Visitors
The plant of St. Andrews Pres
byterian College in Laurinburg is
nearing completion. Work on the
new school is progressing rapidly
and the campus is nearly ready
for its first classes to start on
September 18.
Most of the finishing touches
are being added at present as
grass is being planted and furni
ture is being distributed to its
proper place.
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is called, appropriately enough,
the Ocean View Methodist Church.
The thick groves of Yaupon |
trees with which the property is |
dotted serve a double purpose,
providing shade in the summer
and as a wind shield in winter.
The trees, a species of holly, are
evergreens and bear a beautiful
red berry.
Perhaps the most promising
straw that blows down Yaupon
Beach way, is the growth rate—
a whopping 30 percent in 1960.
Gib Barbee, Jr., a short, in
tense young man with the en
gaging grin of a young Mickey
Rooney, is unmarried. Asked if he
were too young for matrimony, he
still managed to look serious.
"My romance is my family and
all this", he waved a hand in a
wide, sweeping gesture. “I am
head of a household of six people”
he said. "I wouldn’t like-to let
them down.”
Somehow you know he is speak
ing of seven persons, and he has
not let a single one of them down.
Asked of future plans, Gib, Jr.,
studied that for a long moment.
“The projects I have in mind,"
he said, "are the extension of the
boardwalk to its" full mile-length;
the enlarging of motel units and
the addition of new motels; the
building of many more permanent
homes here, and the developing of
our two park areas into full play
grounds free to residents and visi
tors alike. I mean to bring in
swings, seesaws and other play
ground facilities.
Judging by the young man’s
past performance, these things
are as certain as the tides to
come to Yaupon Beach.
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