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Bulldogs Defeat Epsom, Wortham Allows 3 Hits Highs Gallop Around Base Paths to Roll Up Big Score; Epsom Bat ters at Mercy of Wor tham; Norlina Here Today; Zeb Vance Comes Friday. Henderson high school's inmpag in;; Bulldogs bolted out a -7 to I) victory c>ver Epsom there yesterday afternoon to run their total runs scored i*i two games this season to 57 a:. >st none for the opposition, and " o' tham allowed Epsom just thro ' "its during the six tuning con test. cutis leaving the pitching record of the highs at just three safe blows for two games. Boone let Zeb Vance down last Friday without a single safety. The Bulldog.-, scored in every in ning on the Epsom bail yard, and did so lustily. Henderson opened the first inning with nine runs, including a circuit clout by Bobbitt on his second turn at bat. The hard-hitting right field er had singled on his first trip to the plate. The Bulldogs kept up the scoring pace, with Epsom being held at bay. First baseman Eaves collected two of the three hits of the losers, both singles as Wortham toyed with the boys from the Franklin county line. Henderson got to Epsom pitching as often desired, driving it to all corners of the lot. collecting twenty hits. The Bulldogs were at home this afternoon to Xo"!iua. and will play hosts to Zeb Vance here Friday aft ernoon. The lineups: Ab R II E 3 4 3 3 2 2 3 0 t) Henderson Turner ss Bobbitt rf Powers rf Punish h Warwick lb McGhee. c Allen cf Hunt 2b Nelson 2b Mitchell 3b Wortham p Totals Epsom McCauley 2b Weldon 2b Grissom 3b Edwards c. p Medlin p Avscue p Eaves lb Jones rf Wynne cf Hicks cf Stone If Wilson ss Dickerso n ss Totals Score by innings Henderson Epsom Two-base hits: Hunt. 2: Allen, 2. Three-base hit: Powers. Home run: Bobbitt. Struck out—by Wortham, 7: Medlin I. Ayscue 4, Edwards 1. Losing pitcher: ?>Iedlin. 3 I 3 0 2 0 1 0 I) 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 .5 2 0 0 5 3 3 1 43 27 20 3 \b K H E 3 0 0 1 10 0 2 3 0 0 U 3 0 10 0 0 0 1 10 0 0 3 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 24 0 3 6 R 043 23G—27 000 000— 0 Princeton Boys Are Training At Carolina Pr-Mf-eton University's strong track squaii. which is spending a week at Chanel Hill, loosening up its mus cles for a meet with North Carolina Saturday and other contests to fol low, has a well-rounded 15-hour pro gram each day. From their quarters in the Kenan Stadium Field house they get up at 8 o'clock, breakfast a hall hour later, and at 9 take their books to the University Library and get in an hour and a half of study. At 10:30 they gather in one of the smaller H)oms in Woollen Gym nasium for a brisk 45-minute session in volley ball. At 11:30 they go to Fetzer Field for a bit of calisthenics and some jogging and road work and at 1 have lunch. The afternoon work out gets under way at 4 and lasts un til 6. Time trials, discus, shot, and javelin pitching and calisthenics give the trackmen an unusually busy aft ernoon program. Supper comes at 6:30 and the movies or the library at 7. Lights must be out by 11 o'clock. Cowboys Top Sprinkle Oil The Cowboys took the measure of Sprinkle Oil Co., bowlers last night on the Centre Alleys, winning 1502 to 1444. N. H. Hobgood was high for the winners with 313. Alvis Farris. of the losers, top ped the field, with 325. The lineups. Sprinkle Oil Company. Woodrow Nethery 67 76 91—234 Wesley Adams .. 11)0 82 86—268] "Rabbitt" Brame 102 109 100—311; Alvin Farris 124 93 108—325; Bob Neathery 95 85 126—306! 1444| Cowboys Walter Stone 82 99 90—271 N. H. Hobgood 99 101 113—313' Pulley Rideout .. 102 88 122—312 Taylor 79 104 112—295 Junnie Satterwhite 109 102 100—311 15021 Field Events May Decide This Clash Chapel Hili. April 3.—Saturday's 1 intersect ional track headliner at • Chapel Hill between the University of North Carolina and Princeton Uni versity is expected io hinge on the outcome of the six field events. The contest will get under way at 1 2 o'clock on Fetzer Field .so as to I give fans an opportunity of attend ■t ing it as well as the Southern Con ' ference baseball game between Car olina and Washington and Lee set for 3:30 on Emerson Field. The Tar Heels and Tigers appear i evenly matched in the eight running . contests. Princeton apparently has an edge in the sprints, 440 and 880-yard \ runs and Carolina a slight advantage in the one mile, two mile, and hur I dies. i"B's" Defeat I Aycock High ! The Henderson high school "B" team turned in a 4 to 3 victory over Aycock school Tuesday afternoon on the high school diamond. Frazier. Aycock hurler. struck out 14 Henderson hitters, and gave three passes to first. He led his team with the stick, with a single and a double. Edwards and Moore, with singles. Clark, with a double, and Boyd, with a triple, accounted for the remain ing four hits oi the losers. Tippeit worked on the it ill for the Henderson team fanning 10 and walking two. Powers, with a triple, and Clark and Muray. with singles, accounted for Henderson's three hits. I Henderson was enjoying a three to edge at the end of the sixth. Aycock came back into the picture with Edwards' single to right, and theft of second. He went to third' on a wild pitch, and scored on an at tempt to catch a runner at second. Henderson won the game in the ta^t of the seventh when Turner was safe on an error. Grissom walked and Clark cracked out his single to, send Turner home. Score by innings: K Aycock 200 000 l—-3 Henderson 100 002 1—4 Clemson Nine Looking Good Clemson. April 3.—In his second year as a vanity coach Young Randy Hinson has suddenly bobbed up with what looks like the best Clemson | baseball team since the colorful j pellet-pounders of 1931. The Tiger diamond crew has' knocked out two victories in three, starts this spring—excluding, it you please, the 26 to 1 wallopping handed them by the Baltimore Orioles—and the third game, with Michigan State, ended in a 3 to 3 tie when the game j was ended by mutual agreement in the seventh inning. Davidson fell be fore the Tigers 15 to 2 and Wofford tasted a 13 to 7 defeat. Winston Holliday, a burley sopho FIRE ACCOMPANIES FLOOD Adding considerably to the danger already present, exploding gasoline storage tanks burn in flooded Kingston, Pa. The tanks blew up with a terrific roar soon after the swollen waters of the Susquehanna river. Waters carried away burning gasoline which set fire to many buildings. It was believed that a short circuit or a care lessly tossed match or cigarette might have caused the blast. Authorities expressed the belief that the blast had not increased the toll of lives (9) previously taken by flood waters in Pennsylvania. I James Carney in "The Fighting 69th"—Stevenson Thursday and j Friday. more rind from Kings tree, won on the nioiind for both of those vic tories and allowed but five earned runs in the eighteen innings. He has sent 1:> batters to the bench aftei the customary three strikes and granted seven passes to first base. The Tigers take the field next against Krskine in Due West Sat urday and clash with South Caro lina in Columbia the following Thursday. Reds Meet Boston Sunday j In Durham A parade of major league stars will perform in Durham Athletic Park Sunday when the Cincinnati Reds clash with the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition j'ame which starts at 2:30 j o'clock. The largest crowd ever toj attend - >::ajor league exhibition at-j traction in Durham is expected toj jam the Bull park. Such outstanding performers as Ted Williams, likely to succecd Joe DiMaggio as American League bat ting champion. Manager Joe Cronin. shortstop. Robb Doerr. spectacular second baseman, Jimmy Foxx. home run king. Lefty Grove of the Red Sox and Ernie Lombardi. Paul Der ringer. Bucky Walters. Johnny Van der Mcer. Frank McCormick, Ival Goodman. Bill Werner, and Junior Thompson of the Reds will make Sunday's game the outstanding base ball event of the year in Durham. McCormick and Vander Meer are local favorites in Durham, both be ing members of the 1936 Bull club. McCormick led the Piedmont League: in hitting that year while Double No hit Vander Meer lea the pitchers in j setting a new strike out record for1 the league. In addition to this duel' interest will center in Bill Werber, i a product of Duke and rated by! Coach Jack Coombs as his outstand ing college star. Lew Riggs .whose j home is in Mebanc, N. C. also will j play in the game. Neither Manager Bill McKcchniej of the Reds nor Manager Joe Cronin; of the Red Sox have selected their | pitcher.-- for the game, but in ail lik-! lihood Vander Mcer. Derringer, and I Walters will hurl for the Reds with ! Lcl'ty Grove. Jack Wilson, and! Emer.in Dickerson pitching for the! Red So::. George Bernard Shaw says lion j taming is much easier than man training. Majbe he's right because, I for one thing, there aren't as many j of them. Steels Lead Stock Rise Now York, April —(AP)—A burst of buying in .steels prodded the slock market into another move for ward today. With trading extending on the ad vance, some prominent shares rose more than a point to new tops for the spring upturn, including United States Steel. Prices were about the best of the day near the fourth hour. Most corporate bonds and major commodities veto inclined to move ahead with stocks. American Radiatoi 8 7-8 American Telephone 172 7-8 American 'lob i) 88 7-8 Anaconda 29 7-8 Atlantic Coast Line 17 3-4 Atlantic Refining 22 7-8 Bendix Aviation 35 1-8 Bethlehem Steel 79 3-8 Chrysler 88 1-2 Columbia Gas & Elec Co .. G 3-8 Commercial Solvents 15 1-2 Consolidated Oil Co 7 5-8 Cu.liss Wright 9 7-8 DuPont 187 1-8 Electric Pow & Light 6 5-8 General Electric 39 General Motors 55 1-4 Montgomery Ward & Co .. 53 7-8 Reynolds Tub B 42 1-8 Southern Railway 16 7-8 Standard Oil N J 43 1-2 U S Steel G1 5-8 Closing Grain WHEAT May 104 3-4 July 103 3-4 Sept 103 1-2 CORN May 56 3-4 Julv 58 Sept 58 5-8 OATS Mav 40 1-2 July 36 3-8 Sept 33 Wife Preservers ror quicK cane irosung, pui a oar 01 chocolate candy on hot cake, and when it softens, spread over cake. B RI-CHARp/HOUGHTON WRITTEN FOP. AND RELEASED BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION /ft *■ CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE CORONER resumed his questions. "Did anyone besides you know that Markham had these dia monds on him?" "I don't think so." I signaled frantically to Jerry. It was apparent to me that he didn't believe the diamonds would link him to Alfred Markham's death. I wanted him to stop talk ing-, but I couldn't catch his eye. "Did you know where he carried the diamonds?" Coroner Silver asked him. "No. Now that I've learned, I think he hid them cleverly." I turned to Harvey McGuire. "Look here," I expostulated. "Jerry's talking himself into all kinds of a mess and doesn't know it. Can't we stop him?" "He's doing wonders for you," my attorney advised dryly. "Let him talk." "But he's a friend—" The coroner was moving on re lentlessly. "And why did you want to see him about the diamonds?" Jerry colored. "Well, you see, sir, Muriel promised to be my wife, and—" "Muriel ?" "Miss Benson, sir. Markham promised to fix me up a particu larly nice ring. Eecause I worked all day and couldn't get down to his jewelry store, I telephoned and asked him to bring some diamonds to the party and I would pick one out." "Unmounted ?" "Oh, yes, sir. I know it was strange, but you see I—we—had already picked out the ring. It was just the stone I wanted to see." "But thesf are all much finer stones than you could afford, Mr. Montcalm—that is, you are a clerk In a clothing store, aren't you?" "Yes, sir; but you see, he was a friend." Jej-ry swallowed. "He was going to make it easy for me." He looked down at the floor. "And I wanted to get the best." The coroner nodded. "I under stand. That will be all, Mr. Mont calm. Mr. St Clair, you are next." The young stock broker and president of the Rio Vista club was nattily attired in a gray suit. He had assumed an air of amused boredom. "Do you know," the coroner asked him, "if Alfred Markham was in the habit of drinking intoxi cating liquor?" St. Clair gaped. Of all the ques tions that might have been asked i him, it seemed that this was the 1 most unexpected. It threw him completely off his stride. "I—I don't see the connection." "I am conducting this inquiry," the coroner reminded him. Or. .sec ond thought he added, "By way of explanation I will say at this time that preceding witnesses have indi cated how Mr. Markham was , killed, and at what time. We now' are going back to review events I leading up to the fatal moment, j Alfred Markham's conduct, espe cially if it deviated from his usual habits of life, may have had im portant bearing on this case. I ask the jury to pay special attention. Will the witness please answer?" Captain McDonald was biting his cigar and glowering. An inquest, in police opinion, should be a rather perfunctory ceremony. The coroner, being an ambitious young man, was out to make headlines. "Mr. Markham," said St. Clair, "was strictly against intoxicating! liquor." "He never drank?" "N-no. I never saw him drink,1 until Tuesday night." "Ah! So he drank Tuesday night? He must have been under unusual stress, then, to break a life-long abstinence?" "That is an assumption. I can't testify as to that." "Quite right. Did you notice that he acted any differently than usual, aside from taking the drink—or was it several drinks?" "I wasn't paying any special at tention to him. 1 don't believe there could have been anything unusual, or I would have heard someone re mark about it. And I saw him drink only one glass. He gulped it down, and coughed." "I don't blame him," said the coroner. "It was remarkably bad liquor. The autopsy revealed a trace of it, and analysis indicated chat it was no better than some very bad bootleg liquor that is being peddled in this city." St. Clair's face went white. Belzer nudged me in the ribs. "I knew it!" he whispered. "Knew what?" I asked hine. The coroner rapped for silence. St. Clair stepped down from the witness stand, obviously ill at ease, nervously straightening his neck tie. I saw his lips move as he said something to one of his friends. "Mr. Berry! Mr. Jack Berry," said the coroner. Jack stepped out front. His face | was serious. He pave the imr>re». sion that he recognized the gr;.v. v of the investigation much m >o than St. Clair, and was r< ady t< co-operate the best he coul I. In response to the coroner's questions he told about the earlier happenings at the party. "... ami then St. Clair came in th<> doora from the garden," he narrated. "He was pale. I don't remember what he said, but it was something . 1». 11 'Alfred, murdered.' Wo stood Mure, stunned a moment, and Stii<'ld:.!,d came down the stairs. lie li.'i be- a up there all the time, and—" "How do ycu know he bad brrn up tlKre all the time?" "I saw him go up. He came in with Jerry about ten minutes be. fore, and went up the stairs. He couldn't have come down again without my seeing him, because I was standing at the piano, facing that way." "Are you sure there is no other way down?" My heart beat faster. Was my alibi going to break down? Would the jury decide that I might have oeen able to get down into the gar den to murder Alfred—because I had been able to get down later to hunt for my knife?" "There is no other stairway," Jack said. "How about a window? Is there any way a person could climb the outside wall after jumping down?" The witness frowned, thinking. "No-o," he finally declared. "Hf could have jumped down, I suppose He must have jumped later, when lie went down looking for his knife and was tackled by the kidnaper. But he couldn't have jumped earlier in the night without going back un by way of the stairs." "Think! You are well acquainted ivith the building. If Mr. Strickland jumped at all, he must have ex pected to regain the second lloor unnoticed, or his violation of in structions would have been discov ered." Harvey McGuire spoke up quick ly. "I object to the coroner draw ing inferences," he said. The coroner flushed, but Harvey's objection was too late to help me. rhe jury saw the point plainly. Jack was frowning. Slowly he said, "There is—a light well. I be lieve it connects with the kitchen, ivhich has an outside door.!* My alibi was broken! (To Be Continued) B.E.F. Practices for 'Things to Come' A group of British Expeditionary Force members in divisional exercises are shown on a village street, "Somewhere in England," practicing for the war "over there." The photo, passed by censors, gives some idea of the modern equipment used by English soldiers. (Central Press) State Sets Up Barriers (Continued From Pace One) is that federal and state relation ships are getting all gummed up. He not only wants Senator O'Ma honey's committee to straighten them out—he wants a permanent organ ization to keep them straightened out. He asks the O'Mahoney organ ization to sponsor such a body. The United States supreme court is sup posed to attc-nd to the job, but Dr. Bane's story is that the supreme cburt is not now either rapid or thorough enough to do it. Dr. Melder's testimony implies that he agrees. Of course, Drs. Banc and Melder ^bove is shown a scene from "Ten, Nights in a Barroom", being snons-: Dred Thursday night by the Minis :erial Association. don't maintain that the United States necessarily will split up into j 43 separate countries; there may be some groups—eight or 10 or more of - 'em. And they won't formally separate i themselves. However, the two doctors foresee j a gradual splitting up (not political j immediately but economic) unless ! the current trend is counteracted. j The two doctors want that tend ency fought. Wagner Act To House (Continued From Page Onej for one year as wholly effective any j contract approved between employ- j ers and employees. The labor committee recommenda- ' tions are certain to run into opposi- j tion from supporters of the far more sweeping changes asked by the, Smith investigating committee which I has suggested creation of an entire new labor board as one of its point:;. Senate Group Throws Plans For Economy Further Out of Joint •'Continued Frum Page One) economy moves, meanwhile continu ed its efforts to hold down federal spending in the fiscal year beginning July 1 by reporting to the House an Army appropriations bill $67,357, 660 below President Roosevelt's ree- i ommendations. The measure totaled' $785,999,094. The Senate continued debate on a bill continuing the administration's reciprocal trade program for three years. Senator LaFollstte, Progressive, Wisconsin, proposed that public- hear ings be required on all propwed trad< agreements. '195 QUARTS SJOO PINTS 100 PROOF Distilled arid Bottled by THE K. TAYLOR distilling: co.
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