May 26, 192?
KANNAPOLIS DEPARTMENT \
' (By JAMES L. MOORE)
KANNAPOLIS BASEBALL CLUB I
HEADY FOR FIRST PRACTICE
THIS AFTERNOON AT FIELD j
Towciers Unable to Remain Idle Un
til Mcnilay and Begin Warming Up
Today.—Every Man in Can*) and
Hectic Times Expected Among As-;
ph-ants.—Ralph O’Connor, Former!
Greenville Spinner and Salisbury 1
Colonial Signs for Trial at Third
Rase.
Kannapolis. May 26.—With the!
opening game just one week off and
interest among fandom steamed up to
the boiling point and then some, Boh- i
bing Bob Kirke and .his championship '
Towelers will be in uniform this as-1
ternoon at Cabarrus field for the first I
workout of the season. Lord of local
basebali, Edd E. Lady hail planned to
launch the training spasm on Monday
of next week but when Bob Kirke
poked his noble nose into Toweler
town, saw, heard and confabbed with
the prexy a decision to wait no long
er was effected and everything was
■fßltrlared ready to ramble.
T Wires were tapped far and wide
for the-flfteen or more candidates to
pack their grips and board the lim
ited for Kannapolis, ready for some
pepper drill*. i r »! t| |g|g|
~ ' Hardly before Informing his aspir
ants, Oscar Donaldson, a reliable re
ceiver. cheeked in from Spartanburg,
raked the cinders from iiix eyebrows,
and said it'd take a mighty classy
baekstopper to bump him off his pros
pective berth.'
Newberry, doped to be one of the
lenders in local chunking, was expect
ed to breeze into town this ifioming
from Kinston, where he lias been
hurling fair bull in the Virginia loop.
Rube Wilson, who is looked upon to
make or break the Toweler slab staff,
dispatched glad tidings from his Ca
barrus County farm that he was in
capital shape and would be up this af
ternoon with bells on.
The cargo of ---.“elders that will
trek out to Cabarrus park today will
include Cooper, Albemarle boy, who
will fight it out with Parker, Salisbury
Colonial, for first base. Bob Kirke
has second base clinched as has Rab
bit Mottsinger at the short field. Mott
capered at short and second base last
year for the locals and Boss Kirk re
gards him as second to none.
Ralph O’Connor veteran of the
Sally and Piedmont Leagues, is al
most certain of the position at third
bpse. although lie will confront oppo
sition in Johnnie Murphy, Salisbury
rookie and member of the MeKadden
contingent of Texas, champion outfit
of the Lone Star State last year.
For tile outfield Kirke has lined up
Whitlock, McLean, Irby and Lee.
Whitlock has seen service with Sal
isbury. biting at a lively clip anil
fielding in satisfactory manner. Ho
is a combination outfielder and in-,
fielder. lie is bookeiKto take care of
the rightfield unless the Ktring of lo
cal boys who each season go 1 Out for
a lrOTT''sno\v ’ii'fi'as’wMr iii Hltftijf, as
in fielding.
McLean returns from last year’s
outfit, and if he shows improvement
to correspond with that of last seas
on lie will beat somebody out with fly
ing colors. However, Mack is expect
ed to be retained, regardless of his
chances iu the garden, as a utility
performer. He-managed the Towelers
in years gone by and is bolirvd to be
as gpod as any amateur or semi-pro
hair player in North Carolina, bar
ring none.
Irby is in need of no introduction
to baseball fans here or elsewhere in
Turheeßa. Red is one of the smart
est outfieldrs in the state and has fig
ured prominently in several pennant
fights in the Piedmont League, where
lie was a star for five long years, be
t ing manager at one time of the Win
.ston-Balem Twins.
Lee was one of the leading per
formers of tlie local clan Inst year, and
lie will be in the thick of the fight this
summer for hatting honors. Besides
jieitig an outfielder of considerable
note, Lee can also fill the utility role,
stepping into file breach If any iu
fielder. catcher, or outfielder, happens
to get hurt.
TILDE THE TOILER TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS FOR THE BUSS
ftS: bgO Yfwwc '—sf fiosßE* T'Vake i’ you -sse- my (c?ooc> bye '
——■ i~n
I The catching 'end will be looked af
ter by Oscar Donaldson, who will c<-
I perience stiff competition in Miller,
celebrated in collegiate circles, as a
classy chap.
Against Newberry and Wilson the
prospective mound candidates will be
j Guk Hartsoe, Mt. Holly pitcher who
I rang up 20 wins in a row last yenjf,
I and Parker, Cooleeinee youngster.
| Newberry, Wilson and Parker are be
ing counted upon to make the grade,
j Since the rehabilitation of the Ca
barrus Park lias not yet been complet
ed the exhibition game billed to come
i today against Davidson or Gibson
' Mills was cancelled. The opener, as
i scheduled, will be staged here Friday
| cf next week against Fayetteville, the i
' 192,5 champions.
Newberry will be the choice for
mound duty in this fray with Rube
Wilson heaving 'em over on Saturday
in the big dedication exercises.
Watch out Concord!
FOUR DEAD AND OTHERS
HURT IN NORFOLK STORM
Portsmouth Also Hard Hit. AIF Dead
Are Negroes Except One White!
Man.
Norfolk, Va„ May 25.—Four per
sons dead, six or eight more probab
ly fatally injured and between 25
and 30 hurt in varying degrees was
the toil of a 75 mile wind and
thunderstorm that swept over Nor
folk and Portsmouth this afternoon
shortly before 4 o’clock. Richard Mc-
Williams, of Portsmouth, was killed
and upwards of 40 men, women and
children injured when the right wing
and press box of the Virginia league
baseball park fell on the crowd.
The other dead arc\ all negroes
who were killed when the wind lift
ed a section of a warehouse roof on
the Norfolk water front, carried it
200 feet through the air and drop
ped it on a gang of section hanas on
the tracks of the Norfolk awl
'Western railway near Union station
at the east end of Main street. Four
i other negroes are expected to die.
Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain
■ Landis, commissioner of baseball,
■ was in the ball park with officials of
tlie Virginia league and city offi
cials from Norfolk ami Portsmouth
. When tlie Storm broke just before
the game between Portsmouth and
. Petersburg was scheduled to start.
. | He, however, was in the left wing
1 1 ami was unharmed.
• J Approximately 40 persons were
•' treated at hospitals but a score or
i j more of these suffered only stipCr
: | tieinl injuries and were allowed to
leave for their homes after reeeiv
ing treatment. At Kings Daugmeis
, hospital^:it was said an nnidefiiifiVd
.man of'about 45 was expected fi> die.
I Others reported In scrip us condition
. there were J. 1). Rider, of West
._Hnven: J. J. Perkins of West Nor
i felk and 11. W. Nolin, of (’fnimock.
. At Pariah Memorial hospital where
, seven victims of tic storm were ear
. vied it iw-wd-H. <’. Everhart, ot
Suffolk was in a serious ikiuditfon,
. having received a crushed jaw,
. broken arm and probably internal
injuries. Two men taken to the naval
hospital also were reported badly
’ hurt.
Expect Big Crowd at Duke Finals.
, (By International News Service)
' Durham, May 25 :—More than I',-
i 000 ajjuinni and alumnae are expected
- to return to Duke University here
Tuesday, June 7th, for their animal
i class reunions, it was stalisl today
i b„v Richard E. Thigpen, alumni seerc
- tary.
Special reunions are being hold by
‘ tlie classes of ’77. 'S2. ’B7, 1)2. .'O7.
‘ and ’2O. John H. Small, Washing
ton. D. 0., former congressman. is to
• represent the class of ’77, while I)r.
Fred Peacock, Winstofi-Salbhi, will
| represent ’B7.
A„fcw tish and game law id Ohio
limits the number of minnows that
may be purchased by an individual
in one day to 100, and limits the
number that dealers may have on
1 hand in one day. to 4,000. But who is
going to count the minnows’'
HERE’S WHAT WORLD
FAMED AIRMAN SAID
Lindy’s First Word* on Landing In
Paris Wets: “I Am Charles Lind
bergh.”
Paris, May 25.—What were Lind
bergh's first words ou landing at Le
Bourfpt is a question being animated
ly discussed in Paris. According to
some, he said:
I am. I have done it,” while
others insist he said “Is this Paris?”
But an eye witness declares he simply
remarked : “I am Charles Lindbergh,”
and this is confirmed by the flier him
self.
Stephens Lausanne, managing editor
of the Matin, wanted to clear up the
matter, so he afSked the aviator per
sonally, ’’ls it trite that you said ‘I
am Charles Lindbergh?”
“Yes, that's what I said,” was the
answer.
“But why?" the editor arked.
“I was afraid they might think I
was somebody else,” Lindbergh re
plied.
“Ail the same,” M. Lauzaune ob
serves “there were not so many iieople
expected at lie Boiirget from across
the Atlantic, but Lindbergh is an
unaffected hero." *
Fenner and Beane Cotton Letter.
! New Orleans, May 25. —Cotton re
acted further today owing to disap
pointment over weekly review of good
weather bureau and prospects of good
weather everywhere except in north
west. The review while it contained
many unfavorable features turned out
to be better than expected and induc
ed some long liquidation. Another
factor was a private condition estimate
which made conditions of crop a shade
better than a year ago. Some heavy
rains fell iii (lie north central sec
tions and shfnters were reported in
parts of the drouth sections of the
east. No rain occurred in west Texas
however and the forecast indicates'
generally clear weather. High con
dition estimates and small decreases
jn acreage do not appear to be con
sistent in view of the fact that prac
tically till of the crop was planted
before this date last year while now
several million at-res cannot be planted
in the v.est aecoiint drougth and at
least 1 1-2 million acres of best lands
in belt are under water in the Mis
sissippi valley. Market may . react
further but we belive declines will
prove temporary.
FENNER AND BEANE.
Take just one day at a time and
determine to make it unique in your
whole life history for the light you
can cast about you.
WE ASK FOR YOUR IN
SPECTION OF THE
FOLLOWING
USED CARS
One Ford Coupe
One Ford Roadster
One Chevrolet Sedan
One Buick Roadster
One Studcbaker Sedan
One Anderson Coupe
Standard Buick
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PHONE 993
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
t YESTERDAY’S
RESULTS
I. .. ' r i
■ National.
I’ittsburgfi, 2; Ciuiccati, 0.
St. Louis, 8-4 ; Chicago, 5-8.
Only games played.
American.
Detroit, 0; Cleveland, 9.
Chicago, 5-1; St, Louis, 1 -Or
Only games played.
Southern.
Chattanooga, 6; Atlanta, 1. j I
Memphis, 8; New Orleans, 1.
Little Rock. 3 ; Mobile,; 9.
Nashville, 4; Birmingham, 3. -■ ’'
Virginia.
Kinston, 2;’Norfoljc, 2. (Seven in
nings, called allow players to catch
troinl.
Others rallied out.
International.
Buffalo: 2; Syracuse, 5.
Newifrk-lteading, rain.
Only two scheduled.
Piedmont.
Winstob-Salenf, 6; Raleigh, 1.
Durhairi-Salisbflry, rfiin.
Rocky Mount, 2; High. Point, 9. •
Pacific Coast.
San Francisco, 4,: Seattle, 3.
Sacrameutft', 7; Missions*. 8.
Oakland, 4; Hollywood, 3, (13 in>
uings).
Los Angeles-I’ortland, rain.
Sontji Atlantic.
Greenville, 12; Columbia, 0.
Asheville, 8; MaeOn,jl.
Knoxville. 2-4; Augusta, 1-10.
Charlotte, 12; Spartanburg. 3.
Southeastern.'
Columbus, t; St. Augustine, 2.
Pensacola, 10; Jacksonville, 24.
Selma,. 5 ; Savannah, 6.
Montgomery, 7; Albany, 2.
Western League.
Omaha, 0; Oklahoma City, 3.
Denver, 2; Wichita, 0.
Dps Moinse, 3; Amarillo, 4.
Lincoln, 1; Tulsa. 2.
Texas League.
Dallas. 3; San Antonio, 4.
Shreveport. 6; Beaumont, 7.
Fort Worth, 1: Waco, 7.
Wichita- Fall's, 12; Houston, 14.
American Association. ,
Toledo, 13; Louisville, 4.
Indianapolis. (1: Columbus. 7.
Minneapolis, 5; Milwaukee. 4.
Kansas City. 10: St. Laul, 3.
Threh-I League.
[ Terre Haifte, 4; Quincy, 8,
Danville, 4; Peoria. 1.
Governor to Get*New- Car.
The Tribune Bureau,-- J
0 Sir Waller Hots!.
• Raleigh. May 20.—At last! Qfiv
k envoi- McLean is really going to get
I a new automobile! And it will hi' a
' brand new, snappy Cadillac, in the
newest design, but the color has not
yet been selected.
It -vyill be with something akin to
regret, however, that the Governor
will say farewell to his present car,
a Cadillac sedan which has been driv.
en between 110.000 to 120,000 miles.
It was purchased by the State for
Governor Morrison, who drove it
some 30,000 miles, the remainder of
tile almost 100.000 miles having been
put on it since Governor McLean took
office. Virtually all these miles have
been rolled up with Hugh, colored
chauffeur to both Governors, at the
wheel. Hugh is smiling broadly at
the prospect of. a new car.
Pittsburgh baseball fans arc. con
-1 j fidcut that if the Pirates Can main
tain their present pace they will
beat out the Giants for the National
la-ague lVeiinniit.
Babe Until has played with oiny
two major league clubs—the Boston
Ift’d Sox and the New York Yankees.
l
igSEEN ApOUT !
New York—The gay metropolis now *
has shock absorbers for plate glass j
windows, hut they are not on Broad- '
way.
On Eighth Avenue, where there is ‘
considerable blasting for subway ex
cavation, Crossed sticks pressed against '
tlie windows are attached by wires
(gem the intersection to edges of the '
glass to take up vibration. j
New Yorkers who "go in" for futur
istic entertainments sometimes profess
-curiosity as to the inspiration of the ]
artists who produce the glaringly col- 1
ofed canvasses or the musicians who '
compose the unfamiliar sounds of ul
tra-modern symphonies.
One New Yorker, at least, believes ’
she has an rfnswer. At the lower .
end of GreCnWieli Avegue laborers are
yvorking on the new subway. The '
toads are torn up, the streets are
(boarded and the heavy derricks and
drilling machines-make endless noise. 1
Two of the muses were represented at '
the scene Saturday.
A bobbed haired girl in a smock was
sitting at an ease? on the street a 1
short distance off, trying to get the 1
“subway of the future’’ in oils, while
resting ngainst the frame of one of 1
the temporary crossings a young man 1
with an open pad, on which* music 1
eta ITs were lined, was marking notes. 1
Tinted candy Venn sc s have entered
tuio competition with candy bride* i
and grooms for places’ ,of honor on
elaborate wedding cakes, *
The ancient goddess of love is dis- i
played in this sweet guise in tlie win- i
•lows of an expensive confectionery
•Shop, aiong with candy dogs, cats. •
cupidx and automobiles labeled "just
nianied.”
. The police of one precinct are tak
ing u leaf from Bre’h Rabbit and the
Tar Baby, although the opportunity
came uninvited.
Anyone fodnd hr a certain neigh
borhood with tar on his shoes is quite
likely to be put in tlie colder without
a chance to explain. The explana
>tion is that two cops were clmshing
a much wanted fugitive, who fled over
;i roof newly covered with tar. It
fetared progress of the police, mid the
fugitive escaped.
TODAY’S EVENTS.
Thursday, May 2», 1027.
Today tlr- British people will pay
tribute to Queen Mary, on tlie oc
jJrasioii of her liOth birthday nn
. Adversary.
~ The annual meeting of tlie Mid-
States Conference oil Tuber
culosis wjll open today at St Joseph.
Slo.
i San Frunc-sco is ;n lie the meeting
wince today of the 139th session of
jpßjp General Assembly of the Norta
"■lef® VresbyToriaiis. ~ ' “
K,i>>g Victor Emmanuel will open
the; Vfcrlri Congress on Agriculture
in Home today, when seventy ’ na
tions will be represented by dele
gates.
'Today's .sessions of the National
Foreign Trade Convention iu De
troit will be featured by an address
of "Secretary, of Commerce Hoover on
tij£ subject of “American Foreign
World Congress on Agriculture.
Rome. May 2().—The Internation
al Congress oil Agriculture, for which
preparations liuvo been going for
ward for more than a year, was
formally opened in Romo today with
an address by King Victor Em
manuel'. Seventy countries have nont
delegates to the congress, the ses
sfofys of which wi l continue over ii
period of ten days. Many distinguish
ci| agricultural economists are on
llie.qirograni.
In 185(1 the great Epsom Derby
wjis won by Ellington. Tlie horse’s
ehajioes were so lightly esteemed
that in Ids two-year-old days his
owner allowed his coachman to ride
( him as a hack-
DID YOU EVER
STOP TO THINK
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John D. Dun, editor of the 'foledo, ,
Ohio, Times, csays:
v That the "Slow Club - ’ idea, launched
recently in Philadelphia and in a few
weeks time spread westward as far
as Chicago, can be applied profitably
to many other lines of activity, in
cluding both business and pleasure.
Gin, jazz and the "black bottom"
are among those things that a new
younger generation is including in a
Category of cast-offs.
So far. so good, but if this back
to-grandina’s-day movement is going
to encompass the counry; why not <
make the list of “Thou shalt note”
even more comprehensive.
■ Hetardation in the speed of living
would not be such a bud idea for
grown-ups to grab. In the tempestuous
twenties the days remain twenty-four
hours long. Only up much living
Cun be crowded into that space.
Increase in the speed of transpor
tation and communication ; addition of
many different varieties of available
entertainment and last but not least,
a bewildering national prohibition
law. which has not been universally
accepted, all have tended to substitute
new ideas for old ideals.
The human constitution, however,
hasn't been altered much. Because we '
can cover more territory today in ev- i
er.vthing we do, it does not follow 1
that more can be safely drawn from ,
'physical reserves. i
"Preserving the’ health by too strict ,
a regime lis a wearisome malady.” i
wrote la Itochefoeauld in one of his ]
maxims. But there is a happy medi- i
um and ft lighter pressure oil the ac- 1
eelerntor of living which may in the ,
long run add to the genuine good that
can be had from life, even in this
fast moving age.
CLUB STANDINGS.
National.
\V. T,. Pet.
Pittsburgh 110 11 .045
New York 1!) 13 .504
Chicago 10 13 .504
St. Louis IS 13 .581
Philadelphia 15 15 .500
Brooklyn 15 22 .405
Boston 10 10 .385
Coneinnati 11 14 .314
American. I
W. L. Pet.
New York 22 11 .007
Chicago 22 15 .505
Philadelphia 17 10 .515
Washington 15 15 .500
St. Ijoijis 10 17 .488
Cleveland 10 10 .457
Detroit 15 18 .455
Boston 0 21 .300
Piedmont.
W. 1,. l’ct.
IJifJh Point 21 15 .583
Winston-Salem 20 10 .570
Raleigh 17 17 .500
Rocky Mount 10 18 .471
Salisbury 10 10 .457
Durham 15 20 .420
South Atlantic
W. 1,. Pet.
Charlotte 10 15 .550
Asheville 10 15 .550
Greenville -IS 15 ,545
Spartanburg 18 17 .514
Macon 17 18 .480
Augusta 10 17 .485
Knoxville 15 17 .400
Columbia /... 12 20 .375
Virginia.
W. L. Pet.
Richmond 20 14 .588
Portsmouth 20 14 .588
Wilson IS 17 .514
Kinston 10 18 .471
Norfolk 10 10 .457
Petersburg 13 21 .382
San Francisco is the latest cil.v to
announce plans for a mammoth
athletic stadium—a million-dollar
structure with a seating capacity of
150,000.
One-cent pieces were among the first
coins minted by the United States.
ANSWERS
1— Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln's
political rival, and one of his two
Democratic competitors for the presi- 1
deney in 1860.
2 London. Tokio and Berlin.
3 John Bull and Uncle Saih.
4 A simpering, ladylike man who
makes himself ridiculous. i
5 Monday—moon’s day.
6 Australia.
7 Canberra, midway between Syd
ney and Melbourne.
8— Walter Burley Griffin.
o—Joseph Smith, who declared he
found the Rook of Mormon. w j
10—Virginia.
As a rbsult of lavish expeadit urgs
during the last few years, Belmont
Park, home of the Westcheatmt .Rnc- .
ing Association, is now on* .of the
most beautiful racing plants in
{he world. *si
>. . »■'
The grounds of the national Capitol
in Washington contain twenty-two and
one-half acres.
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Do not wait until you get a long distance ffom home
and become “stuck” to find out you need some automobile
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PAGE SEVEN
I This On e ? '
No' Charge.
"What <l,l you charge for a ’tiiflß
|to Podunk?”
We doD't charge anything, ifqfij
. pay eash or walk.” ' i
I Disgusted lady—" Does your mMfll
' er know you smoke?” j
1 Small Boy—“ Does your liuabajM]
! know you speak to strange nu'ftyjjfi
the street?” I
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j First Cannibal—'.'The Ol
fever ' ' ''ifig
1 Second' Cannibal—"Btrvcs J '
rjgbt. .We warned him' not to eat that
gras* widow.” .
j ■ V
Employer (sternly)—There arc
„ fwo shiUmgis missing from my desk,
'and only you and I have a* lrfs.
fWhat/.about it? N •**
Office Boy—Well. sir. lets fpa*
shilling each and say notHing übont
it.
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