Morris May Coach Boiling Spring^
Movement To
That End Now
Being Talked
Wake Forest Alumni Rope To
Make Training Ground Of
Junior College.
Boiling Springs junior college,
just now blossoming out into a
popular school, in this section, may
become a training ground for Wake
Forest provided a movement being
talked now by Wake Forest and
Boiling Springs alumni pans out.
According to talk, kept on the
"mum” as yet, among the Baptist
alumni of the two institutions
"Casey” Morris, in his day one of
the state’s best known college ath
letes and now Shelby 3thletic di
rector. may be offered the coach
ing job at the new junior college.
Would Boost School.
Those supporting the idea argue
that the move would be a great
boost for Boiling Springs and this
section as well as for Wake Forest
college. Morris, already rated as
one of the best high school coaches
in the south and considered for
other college jobs, could produce
athletic teams at the Baptist
school of such a calibre that they
would advertise the school and
bring in many Baptist boys who
otherwise would attend other
schools because of better athletic
•dvantages. In addition to aiding
the school it is pointed out that
with teams coached by Morris
Boiling Springs would soon be on
t.-.e schedule of such colleges as
Ouilford, Lenoir-Rhyne, A. C. C.,
and others. Such college games
played in Shelby and Boiling
•Springs, the contention is, would
draw 'largo crowds throughout this
section and in addition to being a
good advertisement for the school
would draw good “gates” and take
care of a good portion of the sal
ary demanded by a coach of Mor
ris’ ability.
Good To Them.
Meantime the proposition sounds
unusually good to the ears of Wake
Forest alumni ever interested in
the athletic welfare of their alma
mater. As a matter of custom
Boiling Springs graduates who seek
higher education at other colleges,
after leaving there, go to Wake
Forest, and being trained by the
present Shelby coach at the coun
Lv's junior college would make
■Jiese boys very valuable men for
the athletic teams at Wake Forest.
With nothing but high school
boys of tender years to work upon
it the high school he ire, the col
leges of this state and South Caro
lina have for years been keeping an
eye on the high school athletes
trained by Morris, and with a
Huskier bunch of boys, such as at
tend Boiling Springs, Morris could
build up players there' who, When
they left Boiling Springs, could
greatly boost athletic teams at
Wake Forest.
A rumor of the program move
ment—which is nothing more than
propsed now, nothing being defi
nitely outlined as yet—has already
spread and in case Morris should
be tendered the Boiling Springs job
and would accept it, it is skid that
numerous graduates this year of
Shelby high, Lattimore, Forest
City and other nearby schools
would next year enroll at Boiling
Springs <nstead of a larger college.
Some Eleven.
And football enthusiasts are al
ready permittin^their imagination
to run wild upon the prospects.
They're thinking of “Buck" Coble,
Howard Moore, Cleve Cline and the
ether members of that big Boiling
Springs football line last year in
front of a backfield composed of
say “Milky” Gold and Zeno Wall,
of Shelby; Virgil McSwain and the
Weathers boys, of Lattimore. and
Thompson, Hammet, Irvin, McEn
tire and the other backs already at
the junior college.
And it is enough to start foot
balls fans in this section to hoping.
And, also enough to cause Wake
Forest alumni to begin wondering
just how last the Demon Deacon
elevens in the years to come would
be if such material as that, and
coached by ‘Casey” Morris, would
move on to Wake Forest after a
couple of years at Boiling Springs.
May Teat The Jones
Rum Law In Gaston
Gastonia—The prospect of a try
out in this section of the new “5
and 10,” Jones liquor law loomed
with the arrest and jailing of two
alleged bootleggers by Federal Pro
hibition Agent Evon Houser.
■'The two men were arrested in
Mecklenburg county, and were
brought here before Judge Capps,
deputy United States commissioner.
The men were charged with the
possession of 8 gallons of whiskey
and were held for preliminary
hearing in default of $1,000 bond
each.
In event they are held after the
preliminary hearing to be held be
fore Judge Capps Saturday, the
two will be bound over to the
April term of federal court to be
held in Mecklenburg county. Then
the Jones law will get its first test
In this immediate vicinity.
"CASEY” MORRIS
Champ To
Fight Here
Saturday
Rufus Mile* Won Lightweight
Crown In Charlotte Wednes
day Night. In Bout Here.
Shelby boxing fans will get
to see a champion in action
here Saturday night at the
Thompson building in the Leg
ion boxing card -being put oit by
Arthur Sides.
Wednesday night at Char
lotte, Rufus Miles, who meets
Trooper Clayton in the main
bout here Saturday night, won
the six-round decision from
Bob Spittle and thereby won
the lightweight title for North
Carolina.
Fast Worker.
Miles is considered one pf
the speediest and cleverest box
ers in lightweight circles in the
south and will put up a strong
effort here Saturday night to
retain his title honors in his
bout with Clayton, who Is an
experienced boxer with a longer
record.
Big Joe Singleton, the Shelby
high athlete, will do another of
his “gratis” exhibitions with
Kid Crosby. Singleton not wish
ing to lose his amateur ranking
in athletics does not and will
not take pay for his bouts, but
just goes into the ring to slug
it out with his rival for the fun
of it.
The four other bouts on the
program promise to be snappy
and fast with Terry Roberts
refereeing and keeping the boys
moving.
Girl Magistrate In
Wilkes Marries ’Em
Petite Assistant Register Well Per
forms Her 100th Wedding
Ceremony.
Wilkesboro.—Other counties may
boast of their "marrying parsons,”
but Wilkes has a magistrate with
a record for tying the knot that
probably cannot be equalled any
where, in the petite person of Miss
Gail Bumgarner, justice of the
peace, assistant register of deeds
and marriage performer extraordi
nary.
Although Miss Bumgarner has
been a justice of the peace for only
a few years, she performed her
hundredth wedding ceremony this
week. Her reputation as a “Marry
ing Miss” has been spread far and
wide and couples have come to the
register of deeds office from outside
the confines of the "state of Wilkes”
to have their lives and fortunes
made as one.
It is not known whether any of
the marriages performed by Miss
Bumgarner, who is the daughter
of former State Senator Linville
Bumgarner, have gone on the rocks
in the divorce courts or not, but
it is learned that most of them, if
not all, have stuck together with
singular fidelity, Indicating that the
young official who issued the license
and then in the capacity of occu
pant of another office performed
the ceremony, combined her talents
with those of Dan Cupid to make
the matches successful and lasting.
Shelby Coach Faces Unusual
Number Of Baseball South-Paws
With Opening Of Season Locally
Morris Overrun With Portsidcrs,
Hitting And Pitching, At
Shelby nigh.
“Casey" Morris, athletic di
rector at the Shelby high
school, is wondering if they
grow right-handed boys in
these parts any more.
Last week when Morris sounded
the call for baseball practice at the
local school, he found that prac
tically all of his pitching candi
dates threw their fast ones and
hooks from the wrong side, but
that wasn’t the worst of it.
All Hit Same Way.
When the Shelby coach formed
something like a team out of his
candidates he found, furthermore,
that practically his entire team lilt
from the left side of the plate,
meaning that unless they get ac
customed to portsido pitching he
will face disaster this spring every
time his team goes up against a
left-hand hurler of some other
high school, for according to the
natural dictates of baseball it is
hard for a player who hits from the
left side to hit anything but air
when he tries to stick the cord
wood against left-hand pitching.
But there was one consolation
about It. The Shelby coach im
mediately sent his four or five
portside hurlers to the box and for
a week he has had them chunk
ing up portside slants trying to get
his left-hand hitters acquainted
with balls coming up at that angle.
Although the season has just
opened it seems as if the high in
field this year will equal, if not
surpass, the infields of the two
Shelby teams which won state
championships in bygone years.
Three of the four inflelders this
year are veterans carried over from
previous years—Bridges on second,
I Cline Owens Lee on shortstop, and
[Milky Gold at third or anywhere
else in the infield or outfield. Last
year uoia piayea at snort ana
played a bang-up game but It may
be since Lee, an experienced short
fielder, Is back in school that Gold
"will be shifted to third. Harrelson,
a likely-looking new prospect, is
supposedly a catcher, but since
Farris, who did the receiving very
well at the fag end of the season
last year, is back it may be that
| Harrelson will be made into a flrst
sacker to complete a fast-working
and hard-hitting infield.
Therein comes the left-hand
Joker again. All four infielders are
hefty hitters, but all four of them
hit from the left-hand side of the
plate. In fact, in addition to the
heavy-hitting infield the only
other known heavy hitter on the
team is Smith, husky outfielder,
and Smith, too, is a left-handed
inner.
Will the portside hurlers Shelby
meets this season baffle this array
of left-hand hitters? Or will Casey
Morris do the unusual In baseball
and teach his five heaviest hitters
to smack out base hits when a left
hander is in the box?
Those two questions, in reality
just one question, may decide
whether or not Shelby high will
go to Chapel Hill this spring for
the town’s third baseball title. For
all other things considered the
team promises to be one of the best
the school has ever known.
LUTHERAN CHtJRCH.
Rev. N. D. Yount, Pastor.
Sunday school at ten o'clock. A
short time devoted to the study of
eternal truths.
Morning worship, eleven o’clock.
Subject, “How Jesus likes to be re
ceived.”
Evening worship, 7:30 o’clock.
Subject, "An Old Testament Gos
pel Lesson.”
Strangers feel at home, all visit
ors feel the friendly welcome, at
the Marlon street school building.
(Special to The Star).
Our weekly teachers and officers
meeting will meet with Mr. and
Mrs. E. D. Humphries.
Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Walker and
son, Cary, of Boiling Springs were
welcome visitors at Sunday school
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. Jones of Shelby
visited Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Jones
and family Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Melton visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Bird Melton Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Brooks spent
Sunday with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Brooks.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Blanton
spent the week-end with Mrs.
Blanton's parents. Mr. and Mrs. L.
B. Nolan at Dover.
Mr. and Mrs, M. E. Threat and
children, M. E. jr., and Bertie Lee
of Lattimore were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. McCurry and fam
ily Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Larkin McSwaln
and children spent Sunday with
Mrs. McSwain’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Brooks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wallace and
family spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. Lemons at Bolling
Springs Sunday.
Miss Guendolyn Doggett was at
home for the week-end from Boil
ing Springs junior college.
Misses Blanche and Pinkey Mel
ton spent Saturday night with their
cousin Miss Margaret Melton.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Padgett and
daughter, Verne, visited Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Padgett at Shelby awhile
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Purson spent
die weektend with Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence McEntire.
Mr. and Mrs. Heywood Poteat
Miss Cecelia Padgett and Julius
Wilson motored to the battle ground
at Kings Mountain Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Humphries
spent awhile Sunday afternoon t|tth
Mr. and Mrs. John Harrill.
Mr. and Mrs. Furman McGinnis
visited Mi-, and Mrs. H. H. Mc
Ginnis Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleaton Humphries
and son visited Mrs. Humphries’
parents in Poplar Springs commun
ity Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Bowen spent
Sunday with Mr. Bowen's parents,
Mr. H. G. Bowen; also Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Black.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L, McDaniel and
children from Kings Mountain
spent Sunday with Mrs. McDaniel’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Mc
Curry.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hamrick
and children spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. D. J. Glasco and family.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bridges and
family, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Bridges
and Mr. and Mrs. O. Y. Bridges
visited Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bridges
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Zeb Blanton and family
spent Saturday night with Mr. and
Mrs. R. W, McCurry and family.
Miss Myrtice Bridges delightfully
entertained with a party at her
home Saturday night. Many inter
esting games were played through
out the evening and a good time
reported by all present. A large
crowd of young people from the
Lattimore and Double Springs com
munity was present.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Morgan and
Mr. O. Z. Morgan spent last week
end in Greenville. They were there
to attend the funeral of Mr. Mor
gan’s brother who died Saturday at
his home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson of
Cherryville and Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Quinn of Shelby visited Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Blanton Sunday after
noon.
Body Of Floyd Collins Moved
By Ghouls From Cave Casket
Horse Cave, Ky.—The body ol
Floyd Collins, stolen from its metal
and glass casket in Crystal Cave,
where it was on exhibition, was
found tied in a burlap sack about
400 yards from the cave here this
afternoon.
Bloodhounds led searchers, who
included the sheriff of three coun
ties, to the body. It was hanging
over a bank of the Green river, ac
cording to reports. No motive for
the theft could be adduced by the
sheriffs. According to advices re
ceived by the county attorney, the
body either had disintegrated or
had been mutilated.
Stirred Nation.
The 17-day battle to save the life
of Floyd Collins, while he was
trapped while exploring Sand Cave,
stirred the nation in 1925, Relief
workers battled furiously lo reach
the Imprisoned man. but before
they could release him Collins was
dead.
Recently the body was put on ex
hibition in Crystal Cave. When at
tendants reported this morning they
noticed that chain barring the
door had been sawed. Inside they
found the casket had been opened
and the body removed.
Crystal Cave is owned by Dr. R B.
Thomas, of Horse Cave. Dr. Thomas
reported the theft to the sheriff’s
offices. He said that about a year
ago the cave had been broken into
and someone apparently had at
tempted to carry away the coffin,
but had been unsuccessful. The
body was in a chamber about 600
feet from the main entrance.
Dr. Thomas said he knew of no
motive that would account for the
theft.
EASTER FASHION
SALE
— AT —
McNE ELY’S
SPECIAL FOR SAT. & ALL NEXT WEEK
— COATS —
20 Per Cent Discount on Every SPRING COAT in the Store During This EAS
TER FASHION SALE.
I
$19.73 COATS ..._$15.GO
$29.75.„ COATS_$23.80
$39.75 _ COATS $31.80
$49.75 .COATS.__ $89.80
$59.75 .. COATS $47.80
$69.50 _COATS $55.60
These coats have individuality, like Mc
Neely’s things always have. They are
smart, yet not extreme, but just the coat
you will feel well dressed in for Easter.
These coats are all made of the Spring’s
most favored materials, all colors and siz
es, from 14 to 46.
DRESSES i
Extra Special During Our., ft
..EASTER FASHION SALE . ^
2 DRESSES FOR
$15.00
One Hundred Dresses in Prints and
Plain Crepes in dark and light shades at— j
2 FOR $15.00 I
OR ONE FOR <£7 gg r
These dresses are marvelous values at
this price. All of them are attractively
made, some fancy and some tailored. One
to suit every taste. All sizes.
Come early Saturday morning so you
can have first choice.
When you see these dresses you will say
you have never seen such values before in
Shelby. Any of them would sell from
$12.50 to $16.50 at regular price.
DRESSES
AT
$16.50
Another lot of dresses, including Prints,
Georgettes and Flat Crepes at $16.50’.
SILK STOCKINGS
The Regular $1.95 Kind At
$1.45
All silk chiffon and service weight; pointed and
square heels, Ml shades—100 PAIRS OF THEM.
BLOOMERS
99c
About ten dozen beautiful quality Rayon Bloomers
and vests in all shades at 99 cents. Sizes to fit the
little, medium, and large women. These bloomers
are much better than the kind one usually finds at
this price.
EASTER BONNETS
Big shipment of Hats just arrived ranging in pric
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$2.95 t0 $16.50
GOWNS
$1.00
A beautiful assortment of HAND MADE GOWNS,
in all the pastel shades at $1.00.
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