Colerain Drops
Sunbury in Two
Saturday Tilts
In a doubleheader at Colerain,
Saturday, the home team won
both games over Sunbury to drop
the latter nine into last place in
the league standing. The first
game was an 8 to 2 victory for
Colerain and the final tilt ended
7 to 4 in their favor.
White took the mound for
Colerain in the opening game
and held Sunbury to four singles
while Colerain batters pounded
out 14 hits off Powell of Sun
bury. The game was a close con
test with the score tied at two
apiece until the eighth when
Colerain went on a hitting spree
and wound up six runs to the
good. Powell with two safeties
for three trips led for Sunbury
while Williford with a single and
two doubles for four times up
took the hitting honors for Cole
rain.
In the second game, Colerain
took the lead from the beginning
with four runs in the first frame
and an additional one coming in
•the second. Sunbury scored twice
in the fourth as did Colerain to
maintain a five run lead. In the
sixth, Sunbury again pushed
across two runs but failed to
score .again during the game.
Corbett with two singles for
three attempts led for Sunbury
with Sharpe’s triples in three
trips leading for Colerain.
Reports on the games played
between Sunbury and Colerain
Sunday, have not yet been re
ceived and have not been con
sidered in figuring the league
standings.
First game: R. H.
Sunbury . 002 000 000—2 4
Colerain . 010 010 OSx—8 14
Batteries: Powell and Corbett;
White and Daniels.
Second game: R.
Sunbury .».. 000 202 0—4
Colerain .....» 410 200 x—7
Riddick, Clark and Corbett;
Mizell, E. Daniels and L. Daniels.
Negro News
By Elizabeth T. Andrews
Gates County
Represented at Camp
The State 4-H and Wildlife
camp was held at Camp Whis
pering, Pines August 5, through
August '9. Dennis Raseoe, a
member of the Hinton’s Grove
4-H club accompanied the home
agent to the camp. Dennis was
selected because of the great in
terest he shows in wildlife. The
camp proved quite successful
with eighteen girls and twenty
four boys representing forty
counties.
Home Demonstration
Achievement Day
The county home demonstra
tion achievement day v/ill be
held on Monday, September 30,
at the Reid’s Grove school at 2
o’clock. It was necessai'y to
change this meeting from Sep
tember 12 as was once planned.
All clubs that have not had their
club contest will hold them at
their regular September meet
ing.
CANDIDATE FOR MAR
TIN’S SEAT . . . Mrs. Waitstill
H. Sharp, Wellesley, Mass.,
who seeks election to the 14th
Massachusetts con gressional
seat now held by Rep. Joseph
Martin, Republican minority
house leader.
Ahoskie Gains
Even Split With
Harrellsville
Harrellsville, playing on their
home grounds, Saturday, nosed
out Ahoskie 4 to 3 only to be
defeated Sunday, at Ahoskie, 5
to 2. Fairless was credited with
the win Saturday to earn his
fourth victory in five starts.
In the first game, both teams
were scoreless until the third
when Harrellsville capitalized on
three Ahoskie errors and hits by
Fairless, H. Holloman, Newborn
and Cornett to score four runs.
In the fourth frame, Ahoskie
scored once on hits by Callis,
Umphlett and Grimes. Neither
team scored again until the ninth
when Ahoskie gained two
through having a man on when
Grimes pounded out the only
homer of the game. While Ahos
kie scored only three runs, they
took 10 hits from Fairless while
Barnes limited Harrellsville bat
ters to eight safeties.
On Sunday, Ahoskie atoned
for their defeat and handed L.
Holloman his first loss.
Harrellsville took an early
lead by virtue of hits by Hollo
man and Newborn. Ahoskie
came up from behind in the third
to score two runs and gain a
one-run lead. In the fifth, Ahos
kie increased this margin by
three singles and a triple by Cal
lis to bring three runners across
the plate.
In the ninth frame, Hgrrells
ville pushed one run across on a
triple and a fielder’s choice.
Barnes, hurling for Ahoskie,
allowed but seven hits while L.
Holloman' and C. Holloman gave
up 13 hits. Callis with a single,
a double and a triple and Barnes
with two singles and a double
led the attack.
R. H. E.
Ahoskie .000 100 002—3 10 4
Har’ville ...004 000 OOx—4 8 2
Batteries: Barnes and Eure;
Fairless and Cornett.
R. H. E.
Har’ville ...100 000 001—2 .7 2
Ahoskie .002 030 OOx—5 13 2
P. Holloman, C. Holloman and
Davis; Barnes and Jenkins.
SMITH’S GARAGE
IN NEW LOCATION
Having moved from Mrs. O. C. Turner's Tractor
Business. Smith's Garage is
Now Located in the Old
i J. W. Brown Garage
NEAR THE HOTEL.
We are now ready for all kinds of Tractor
and Automotive Repairs.
Authorized Sales and Service
DESOTO AND PLYMOUTH
L. L. SMiTH, Owner GATESVILLE
Gates Takes Two
From Gatesville
To Gain Lead
Gates jumped to first place in
the league this weekend by vir
tue of two wins over Gatesville.
On Saturday, Gates took the tilt
4 to 3 pounding on Mullen, the
Gatesville pitcher, for 15 hits.
Gatesville managed to stretch
five hits into three runs. L. Hay
es with four safeties for six
trips to the plate led the attack
for Gates.
Gatesville took the lead in the
first frame when Hobbs and
Greene scored on an error on
Baines’ roller to third base. Gates
evened the score in the third
with a series of singles !by Hay
es, Butler, Lawrence and Tay
lor. Both teams added a run in
the eighth and the game went
into the tenth inning tied up at
three apiece. Gatesville was held
scoreless in the top half of the
tenth while Gates went on to win
on singles from Pierce, D. Hor
ton and L. Hayes.
On Sunday, Gatesville again
got off to an early lead with
three runs scored in the first and
one added in the second frame.
Gates evened things up in the
third inning only to drop back
again as Gatesville brought in
two more runs in the fourth.
The league leaders stayed one
run behind during the next three
innings but rallied in the eighth
to add three runs in that frame
and three more in the ninth.
Gatesville scored twice in the
eighth but were held scoreless in
the ninth and the game went to
Gates by a score of 11 to 8.
R. H. E.
Gatesville—
200 000 010 0—3 5 4
Gates—
002 000 010 1—4 15 1
Batteries: Mullen and Powell;
Butler and Taylor.
R. H. E.
Gates ..103 100 033—11 14 2
Gatesville—
310 200 020— 8 11 7
Batteries: P. Hayes, F. Hor
ton, Butler, Lawrence and Tay
lor; C. Eure and Powell.
The Seventh Army was activ
ated while enroute from North
Africa to open the campaign on
Sicily.
Shows Sundays at 3:15 and 9:00
Other Days 3:15, 7:00 and 9:0C
Thursday-Friday Aug. 15-16
Irene Dunne - Rex Harrison
ANNA AND THE
KING OF SIAM
Saturday August 17
Wild Bill Elliott
Sun Valley Cyclone
Anita Louise
Devil's Mask
Sunday August 18
Zachary Scott - Janis Paige
Her Kind of Man
Monday August 19
Roy Acuff - Adele Mara
Night Train To
Memphis
Tuesday August 20
Ken Curtis - Jeff Donnell
Cowboy Blues
Wednesday August 21
Anita Louise - Michael Duane
Personality Kid
— ON STAGE —
Kilroy and His
Hubba, Hubba Revue
Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell estab
lished a world’s, speed record of
224.38 miles per hour over a
measured kilometer course at
Selfridge Field, Michigan, flying
an Army Curtis Racer on Octo
ber 18, 1922.
Within the next 30 days every
farmer in North Carolina with
more than two head of livestock
should plant a temporary grazing
crop for extra feed in the fall and
during early spring.
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THEATRE
GATESVILLE, N. C.
Wednesday and Thursday
Alice Faye - Dana Andrews
Linda Darnell in
FALLEN ANGEL
Comedy and Newsreel
Sh<?ws 8:30. Adm. 20c-40c
Friday
Bob Steele in
SIX-GUN MAN
Also Comedy.
Shows 8 and 9:10 P. M.
Saturday
OREGON TRAIL
with Sunset Carson
Also Comedy.
Shows 8 and 9:10 P. M.
Sunday
MY REPUTATION
with Barbara Stanwyck
Matinee 3:30; Night 8:30
Monday - Tuesday
Rough, Tough
and Ready
with Chester Morris and
Victor McLaglen
Comedy and Newsreel
Show 8:30 P. M.
The “push-button” airpane
that flies from point to point
without a human on board will
become an invaluable weather
conquering freight plane of the
future.
The principal evidences of
world starvation today are high
death rate among' children and
older people, increased incidence
of disease and death from di
seases ,and inability of an adult
to do a day’s work.
TAYLOItl
THEATRE
^^EDENTON, N. C.
Wednesday August 14
Double Feature
Allan Lane in
Gay Blades
Richard Crane in
Johnny Comes
Flying Home
Thursday-Friday Aug. 15-16
John Wayne and Claudette
Colbert in
WITHOUT
RESERVATION
Saturday August 17
Roy Rogers - Gabby Hayes in
MY PAL TRIGGER
Sunday August 18
Edmund Lowe - Brenda Joyce
THE ENCHANTED
FOREST
Mon.-Tues. Aug. 19-20
Alan Ladd - Geraldine
Fitzgerald in
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