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CASJEZSt COUNTY Ni,. 3-1,3, lAtTCT.AN3 KCrvZ2A3 CUT If. C PAG2 -1 J Morehead City Captures Two From Beaufort Nine, 5-1, 7-3 Morehead City swept its twin bill with Beaufort over the weekend, taking Saturday's tilt at Wade Brothers Park, 51, and travelling over to Beaufort Sunday to win that battle also, 9-3. . Saturday's tilt saw a 17- year-old Hurler from Chapel Hill, Stanley Johnson, try to hold back the big bats of the Morehead City com bine. Although the young high schooler managed to gain a slight due on his nitchlna oooonent. Jim- my Webb, Morehead City as a team ueiinneiy ouipiayea rseauion to win. - .Morehead City's five rung, due to headsup play, was scored oni but seven hits, while Beaufort's eight safeties were scattered harm lessly over the course of the game. Morehead opened the scoring With three runs in the third inning. Webb singled and Francis Stoy Mat out a sacrifice bunt for a base hit, moving Webb to second, Pig gie Smith's double down the left field line scored Webb and moved Stoy to third. An ensuing wild pitch tallied Stoy and allowed Smith to take third,, from whence he scored by stealing home. Beaufort tallied its lone run in the top of the seventh frame. Tra cy Hoopen singled and took second on Tom Benton's topped ball in front of the plate which Went for a base hit. Ray Hassell's line drive base knock then brought in Hooper to toe the dish, Morehead's fourth run was scor ed without a hit. In the last half of the seventh, Wayne Benton got on via a two-base error by short stop Collier Hill. Harry Salter sac rificed Benton t third and he came in on an infield out by Webb. The final tally of the game came In the ast of the eighth. Smith singed and took second a base hit by Gordon Watson. Roland Brin son then sent a line drive into right field that went for a base knock, but a fine throw by rightfielder Ro ger Thrift prevented , Smith from scoring, a walk to Benton a second later, however, forced in a run. Beaufort played Sunday's came in its new home uniforms, but it didnt change the outcome of that contest any. Roger Thrift started for Beau fort but was replaced by West Tay lor in Morehead's four-run eighth inning. Clifton Sharpe, a southpaw, went all the way for the winners. Morehead outhlt Beaufort in this game, 12 to 6. Beaufort broke the ice with a run in the second session. Hooper walked and stole second. Benton was hit by the pitcher, but Ben Hayes forced Hooper at third. Ben ton scored from second when Thrift,' a righthanded thrower who bats lefhanded, crossed up the de fense by singling into left field. Beaufort made it 2-0 with a run in the next inning. Fenner Boyd blasted a long triple over center fielder, Jack Gardner's head and came in to score a few seconds la ter on a wild pitch. i ' Morehead's' first ran came in the fourth inning. Gardner tripled by slicing a liner into -right. Gardner reached paydirt when Smith came through with a single. Two more runs in the next in ning put Morehead in front. Brinspn singled and Hayes erred on Benton's grounder which "was labeled "double play" from the mo ment it left Benton's bat, putting men on first and second. Brinson kept on running for third and when Hooper's throw hit him on the leg, Brinson scored and Benton reached second. Benton eventually came into the i score on base hits by Salter and , Sharpe. Things stayed 3-2 until Morehead City came up with four runs in the eighth frame. Gardner beat out an infield hit and took second on Smith's single. Barrow then came through with a base hit. scoring Gardner and moving Smith to sec ond, and when Thrift made a low throw In an attempt to catch Gard ner and moving Smith to second, and when Thrift made a low throw in an attemot to catch Gardner at the plate, Smith and Barrow eneh moved up a base. A single by Brin son responsible for two more More head tallies. At this point, Taylor enmo in to relieve Thrift. Tinch-hitter Mar shall Beane then came through with the inning's fifth consecutive si. le to move Brinson to third. Beane stole second, and when catcher Ray Hasaell'f throw went into centerfield, Brinson scored. Beaufort's final run came in the last half ofvthe same Inning. Has sell walked and took second on a wild pitch. Boyd's single then shoo ed in Hassell to make it 7-3. Saturday's Game ' ' . . R. H. G. Beaufort .... 000 000 010 1 '2 M. City ...... 003 000 110 S 7 0 Sunday's Game' R. ft. E. M. City 000 120 0407 12 0 Beaufort .... Oil 000 0103 6" 4 Standings As the News-Times pointed out in its issue of Tuesday, June 22, there was an error in the official standings of the Tidewater League. The league has since found the error and the corrected standings have been released. As Was1 sus pected, the error was in the Mar shallberg standings and Marshall berg was being credited with one more win and one less loss than it deserved. TIDE WATER Morehead City Swansboro Marshallberg Haveloek Newport H.I.-Straits Beaufort Jacksonville LEAG'"? 14 13 11 10 0 B 7 7 tick Tracy Cds Tough ,'.:,v.-; ,,.y. .. ,., ,,.!- .yv:(--jr -w;$:-d$?& . - v J C:Vt . COASTAL PLAIN LEAGUE 17 m. TT VISIIUKQTIn fcij KalllUcjt Harris I CHAPTER 9 HILDRED did not meet Randy with his battered coupe, but wiicn nuoin uruve ner nome irom the great house at eleven o'clock that following evening the little coupe was pamea in front of her aoor. I She could not suppress the leap of delight her heart gave, the way her footsteps quickened. She had eeen a loolish girl, thinking he did 'hot care; she should not question his love. It was just that it was pot Randy's nature to show how he felt or to betray his emotions wiui woras. Action must nonir .for him. And he was here, wasn't me, waning tor ner? ! He was there, all right, stretch td out on the couch sound sleep I "Poor boy," Mrs. McNaughten whispered. ''He is all in. H' hA sleeping like that, my dear, for almost two hours." . fUlA UaiA filmne iwImIh T11 lust sit here and see how long be fore he decides to come to. You un alone to bed. darline. vou jnusi De urea oi Keeping lonely tlgiL I'll take over." Hildred settled down on the end Of her spine, putting her feet on a sow nassock, upholstered with a Piece Of her mother's nepHlpnninf aha might as well be comfortable. ne ciosea ner own eyes. When she ODened them vimmiu "Wa shaking her aentlv. but horoughly. ' "You were snoring," Randy said, iy way of greeting. Talking too. art of mumbling. And you looked ery comical, Hildy, with-your noutk hanging open and your ad as loose as a rag doll's." , kit I looked . . . was snoring '. . mv head!" She vm wiU awake now. She sat up, holding her head as straight as if it had J been wired. "Well, I like that! I You were the one who was asleep .and making all kinds of noises. lAnd you did not look any too Ipretty yourself, Dr. Baird!" i.nauay cnucKiea ana reached (down to pull the hassock from un der her feet so that they hit the floor with a harder thump than ner shoes had made and pro ceeded t' sit down on it "I'm sorry I fei. asleep. I wanted to tell you about the operation,1 mat was it that was the CO O reason he had waited so long. Not because he had to see her, not ior any oi tne reasons she had wanted to hear! She said. "Well, po nn tnll about it the operation. "It wa a tremendous success," he said, his lean, hard face coming to life, as it alWBVS did when he talked of his work. "I had quite an audience, not only Df. Jordon, but some of the hospital staff and a few other visiting sureeons. All of them had said it could not be done. Muscle transferring has been a success for some time, but to transplant a nerve ... qtfeHriWy, I did it! 1 proved it o mem. Ana max uuie oiri a arm will be as good as if it never naa Deen oaraivzed. That's whv i stayed on, almost the week. Had to make certain everything would continue to to an irht. Rut rtr Jordon and the, rest, too are convincea now. Tm so fflad for viml lianriv Now you'll be famous and impor tant, as you should be." "Hardly that." Ha shook his sandy head. "They want me to write an article for soma mdiei journal But I told Dr. Jordon to do it for me: I'd furnish the data. Youltnow I don't care about being famous or any of that, Hildy." He chuckled softly again. "They seem to think that was what I wan ner. wo - wanted ma to con sider joining the staff. Jordon as sured me he could get me the ipRpintment" TUld you wouldn't?" "And givo Up the clinic!" She had known that wnnld ha his answer.- It was the oae she Would want him to give. "I'm terribly nroud of vou." Hil dred said, her voice choked with emotion. i It's nice f vou to aav that. Hildy. I could not wait to tell you because I knew you would feel as I do about it" And then he said the thing that was like a blow in Hildred's face. "You surely are the best little helper and pal any man ever had." Instinctively Hildred drew back, her hand sliding out from beneath his. The impact of the blow was that strong. For now she knew with a sure certainty that Randy did not love her. That was all she was to him all she had been all' these years, throughout all the days aj)d hours spent together. She said. "Randv. I'm still awfully tired and it must be get ting on toward morning now, I'm glad you waited to tell me. But you must go now, please." . , He cot uo instantly. "Of course You're right, as always." He did not know the irony of that He said, '1 gUe. 'Bg naWtm you, my being away. Why don't you stay home tomorrow and rest? Mamie and I can manage." "Thanks. I believe I will stay home, Randy. I've things to do." 1 "Good girl!" He nodded his ap proval of her obedience and com-' mon sense. Hildred sank down on the couch' where he had slept She no longer, felt tired, not for sleep. She lelt' beaten and old. I It certainly was high, time she' really woke up and stayed awake and quit all dreaming and wishful! thinking. She was a good nurse;, she ought to school hi;elf to be nothing more. She could resign ' from the clinic and obtain work, elsewhere. But like him this small clinic had grown close to Hildred's I Heart; the children she helped' were very dear to her. She could 1 not desert them now. f No. that was not the way out 4 either, she decided. She would I have to go on. Just as she would go on loving Randy, though he would never know. Yet there must be some way . . . somehow . . hope was eternal and she was not afraid. . N Tnrboro Rocky Mount Goldsboro New Bern Kinston Greenville Wilson Ronnoke Rapids W. 48 4fl 40 3D 38 31 28 25 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. Boston Pittsburch St. Louis Philadelphia New York Rrooklyn Cincinnati Chicago 40 36, 36 36 33 29 31 29 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. Cleveland 41 Philadelphia 43 New York 41 Boston 33 Detroit 32 Washington 31 St. Louis 25 Chicago 21 I, 27 27 32 35 36 42 47 49 L. 29 30 31 35 33 35 38 39 L. 24 28 27 32 36 37 40 43 The gent in the .einbarasslng position pictured above is Norwood Rose, who had the unhappy experience of drawing a black donkey by the name of "Dick Tracy" for his ride to first base in Thursday night's donkey baseball cirrus at Wade Brothers Park, sponsored by the Morehead City iLons Club. The Lions Club, by tallying three runs in the last half of the fifth inning of a five inning game, defeated the Donkey Serenad ed, 5-4. The winning run was scored by Raymond Garris who, ironical ly enough, was the only one who was able to ride "Dirk Tracy" around the bases. Proceeds of the game will go toward sicht conservation and aid to the blind. Photo by Luther Earl Lewis Sprinqle, Thompson Win Beaufort Yachl Club Races "Flying 8 Ball," sailed bv Billv r'JWfle copprthtftfst plifcf'KiBd four points in a 16 foot handicap race around a seven mile course last Sunday afternoon to initiate a summer series of sailboat races sponsored by the Beaufort Yacht Club. First place in Jhe 14-foot handicap class went to Robert Thompson by default. Only two classes participated. Springle won the rac unham pered when his three competitors disqualified themselves. One point is awarded for each boat finishing in its class and nn additional point for every boat it precedes. Nehtm Wins Comet Title In Fourth of July Races White canvas billowed in a southwest breeze at 21 sailboats raced a five mile course around Bogue Sound Sunday afternoon, competing for honors in the annual Fourth of July Regatta sponsored by the Morehead City Sailing Club. The event was the official commence ment of sailboat racing here this season and it will he followed bv Sunday afternoon races until Labor Day,-when a sailboat festival will bp held and awards will bo presented for points scored in races dur ing the season. 1 There were five divisions of boats and prizes awarded for first place in each division. The races began at 2:30 p.m. and the start and finish line was fixed at the Kighth street pier in Morehead City. Rules and regulations of the International Sailing Association were followed. The handicas allow ed was seven seconds per foot of boat per mile of dfstance. Edgar Bell was official timekeeper. "Popeye", under the guidance of Charlie Norton, of Durham, cop ped first place in the popular co met division by gliding home in 42 minutes and 30 seconds. Marines Top Morehead, 17-8 The Cherry Point Flyers defeat ed Morehead City yesterday aft. ernoon, 17-8, in an exhibition game played at Wade Brothers Park in Morehead Citv. In 1800, Bedloe's Island, now site of the Statue of Liberty, was given by New York State and City to the Federal government in con nection with plans to fortify New York harbor. PROBLEM r -t-i - ... , - ." ' PRINCIPAL jr rWW.HArYU 13 STUFF1- A BUT THERE'S OUT )-" WWflOPS 1 Y HOW'M I CJviii I 4- rkrULf m UA.HA 5UI?MS5ES4LLMYj THIWG MrGOT fuS 1 K HIM STOP ' p L . f,,:i S n 1 1 I ffMMSBMMiaaaSMiSiSilMMMMHaHBM II I'M 80RRT mjTr f but vou? wow perfump JTrAf "Ape Me feel sort . M In the dead rise skiff division. Gib Willis piloted "Twilight" to- victory, in 36:40, while Thurlow Whealton sailed the "Ace of Spades" in to win the handicap division at 39:20. The 16-foot division was cap tured by Buddy Bailey in the "Sea tfing." His time was 50:42. Charlie Wickham from Camp Morehead nosed the finish line in the four teen foot division in exactly one hour. Toddy and Hane -Parker, both of Goldsboro, gained second merits in the comet division by sailing the "Tar Bucket" in at 43:10 ahead of Phil Moore, Greenville, who copped third plarp in the division. He clocked 45 minutes. "Thclma," under Dr. Don E. Ro hirtiion of Burlinrfton made the course in 36:55, just 15 second? too late, in the dead rise skifl division. In the handicap, Charlie Nelson riding the "Salty Water." a 21-fool sloop, ran second at 40:05, but t 35-second handicap brought him tn 39:30, just 10 seconds behind the winner. D. G. Bell, in "I John IV," came in third at 46 minutes Second honors in the 16-foot di vision went to Bobby Matthews ra cing the "Wei Del" in at 50:52 ahead of Morehead Stack, 51, 51: 55. Tommy Cordova was just sec rmd in the 14-foot division when he was nosed out by one second The time was one hour and one second. Other results were as follows: Comet: fourth, Ed Pate of La runberg, 45:20; fifth, Coon Cun ningham of Wilson; 45:25; sixth, Pen Watson of Wilson, 46:00; sev enth, Sandy McClamrock of Chapel Hill. 49:06. McClamrock broke his mainsheet at the first turn. Handicap: fourth, H. O. Wade, 19-foot sloop; fifth, Bright of Cherry Point, 18-foot condor class. For leading the eomet division. Charlie Norton was given a two- gallon thermos jug donated by the fljlllffe ktk vrki AT zrv Km inni iuu vl jl .STOPPED LAUCWIM' J 1 KIM SEE TH EFFECT IS 0WLY TMttfcAY -I rr was wonderful) so i saw but WHILE IT ) T THE UNUSUAL USTED.ijfe FEATURE C THr3 -sx-Mi tnemwe 13 that it "" ... -.-"-. THEW WHV OIDMT ITjL' " vi h it rii rni l a HYGIENIQ PRODUCTIONS through the management of this theatre present' a picture vitally important to the rising generation! It deals frankly with the subject rarely spoken . of ftbove a whisper ONLY it 27 p.o. ALL-1TAK HOLLYWOOD CAST! m II fEKCJ n TKE tutt ELLIOT FORDG3 riARLIM MTtltNl COMMINTATOR nit tt r.it I I AT IS 2j mm ...rBCVl 3-DI5 DAYS -3 I2cn.-Tucs.-Ucd. was built by Kenneth Wheafton, Willis, first in the dead rise skiff division received a gallon of De lux yatch paint, donated by the Hardware Building supply Co. of Morehead. A portable refrigerator contri buted by the S & W Drug store went to Thrulow Whealton, win ner in the handicap division. Bud dy Bailey won a barometer given by the Dee Gee gift shop, for the 18-foot division. Captain Pat Craw- lord Of Camp Morehead awarded a trophy to Charlie Wickham for first place in the 14-foot division. Charlie Norton's comet "Pop eye" is 10 years old and has gain ed nationwide acclaim. In 1940 Charlie sailed his 16-foot sailboat from here up the Atlantic to the world's fair in New York. "Pop- eye" placed 3rd in the South At lantic Regatta held at Wrights ville Beach last summer. In the dead rise skiff duel, both the "Twilight" and the "Thelma" crossed the line- wearing topsail. Winning the handicap, Thurlow Whealton sailed the windward part " of the course with a singlereef.""t This is the second summer for his , boat, "The Ace of Spades", which was built by Keneth Whealtoh, Thurlow's brother. , . ,r Lions no longer exist in South"' Africa. SUNDAY MONDAY EXCLUSIVE! Fight Pictures Return Natch Joe Louis vs. Jersey Joe Wilcox CITY THEATRE TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY Glenn Gord Evelyn fceyes "THE MATKG OF MILLIE" CITY THEATRE THURSDAY FRIDAY ROYAL Theatre Morehead City TUESDAY . WEDNESDAY MICKKY nOONF.Y ANNK BLYTIIE in "KILLER McCOY" THURSDAY - FRIDAY AHBOTT & COSTKLLO in "BUCK PRIVATES CONE HONE" 24 era ENTERTAINMENT , drum witk sup -.11 my invM"" r.ioot... . ofiQln J Itrod'',8 .nt ill -.'1 RODA THEATRE ATLANTIC BEACH o Admission: 20c & 40c (Latest Niwt) Saturday & Sunday Continuous Shows From 5:00 P. M. Other Days 1:00 and 9:00 P. M. BUSES LEAVE MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT 30 MINUTES BEFORE EACH SHOW Tuesday July 6 "mb sf riri ric" n n . nil v n u WILLIAM EYTIIE - BARBARA BRTTON "TREASURE CHEST NIGHT" DRAWING FOR $55.00 8 Wednesday - Thursday July 7 "CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE" TYRONE POWER JEAN PETERS . CESAR ROMERO Friday -Saturday July 9 -10 "THE PIRATE" JUDY GARLAND - GENE KELLEY ALSO ON STAGE IN PERSON "GAY NINETIES REVUE" Presented by Camp Morehead Sunday inly 11 "ROCKY" roddy Mcdowell gale sherwood Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday July 12 -13 -14 "MOM AND DAD" Thursday July 15 "DARING YOUNG MAN" WITH AN ALL STAR CAST Friday - Saturday July IS -17 "GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" Gregory PECK Dorothy McGUIRE . John GARFIELD Sunday Monday v July 18 19 "SONG OF MY HEART" AUDREY LONG - FRANK SUNDSTROM Tuesday July 20 "CRIME ECCTCH'S GAMBLE" WARNER BAXTER Also "TREASURE OIEST NIGHT" Wednesday - Thursday July 21 - 22 "ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU" ESTER WILLIAMS . PETER LAWFORD Friday - Saturday July 23 24 "HOMECOMING" v ... 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