Morris Heads Independent Team
Here Backed By Cleveland Cloth
New Club Defeats Victory Here In
First Clash. Play Two, Three
Gaq^s .Week.
A strong independent baseball
club, managed by Casey Morris,
Shelby high coach and former pro
fessional player, and backed by the
Cleveland cloth mill will give Shel
by two and three games of baseball
per week during the summer.
The new organization was formed
last week and opened it season here
Saturday by defeating the Victory
team of Gastonia 11 to 4.
The club is made up of clorJi mill
' players, high school and college
stars, and former pro and seini-pro
players.
Good Games Ahead.
Games will be booked for Shelby
as much as possible on Thursday
and Saturdays of each week, with
one or two games being played
away from home each week. Inde
pendent clubs scheduled to play
with Shelby during the summer ln
1 elude Hickory, Forest City. Spar
tanburg, Mooresville, Concord Kan
napolis, Splndale, Lowell and others.
Manager Morris stated today that
his club would be composed of the
following players and others to be
added later: Hal Farris, catcher;
Lefty Smith, Sherrill Hamrick and
Sykes, pitchers: Tommy Hamll,
first base: Rooster Bridges and Tom
Kerr, second base; Red Ormand,
shortsop; Causey, third base; out
fields—Lander Farris, former Fur
man star; Bonnie Lee Walker up
per Cleveland boy who has been
starring for Appalachian college;
Hornsby, and Charley Harrelson.
Manager Morris will serve as utility
player.
In their first game here Satur
day the local outfit defeated Victoi y
11 to 4, and features of the game
were the hifrilng of Lefty Smith and
the hitting and fielding of "Preach
er" Farris. brother of the high
school captain.
The club will practice dally at the
city park until the season gets go
ing good, and with steady practice
Is expected to develop considerable
punch. Another game will likely be
played here Saturday and probably
cne Thursday.
After posing as a woman for 29
5 ears, Evan Montague Brutt, of
Tisbury, England, revealed his char
acter and married the girl be had
chummed with as a “girl friend” for
several years.
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New Baseball League Here To
Be Amateur Loop; Schedule Of
Play For Season In Two Halves
President Robinson Outlines Rules
For League and Gives
Playing Dates.
(By RENN DRUM.)
The Cleveland County Baseball
league, which opened Its season Sat
urday and is so far the only organ
ized baseball loop' in the county,
will be an out-and-out amateur or
ganization. It was so announced to
day by J. R. (Lefty) Robinson, pres
sirient of the loop.
In addition to announcing the
rules and regulations of the league,
composed of Ella Mill, Lawndale,
Boiling Springs and Eastslde, Pres
ident Robinson gave out the official
schedule.
Play-off Winners.
The season, which opened last
week, will be divided, the winner of
the first half playing the winner of
the last half.
Each club will be restricted to 14
players, and the players are to be
amateurs with no direct pay for
playing baseball. If a new player is
added to a club roster, the notice of
his signing must be given the league
president two weeks before the
player participates in a game.
Each club was required to put up
la *25 forfeit in case any club should
'drop out and muddle the schedule.
jThe schedule Is so arranged that
: each club will be able to play at
:home every other Saturday. There
will be six games in the first half
'and six in the last half, the win
I ner of each half clashing at the end
'of the season for the title.
Umpires Rule.
The restrictions have been so
outlined that the officiating um
pires will be in absolute charge on
the playing field. Each club will
furnish a home umpire—“a sound,
sober and intelligent man who
knows baseball.” No game can be
protested unless an umpire calls
a play in violation of definite base
ball rules. The game stands as the
umpire rules until a decision is
handed down by the directors on
the protest. Which is to say that
the umpire will be the boss of play,
thus assuring a stronger lire ror the
league.
The managers of each club are
directors In the league under Pres
ident Robinson. They are- Ella Mill,
Mr. Patterson: Eastsldc, Mr. McMa
han; Bolling Springs, Mr. Goode;
Lawndale, Mr. Blackburn.
Remaiiing Schedule.
The remainder of the schedule fol
lows;
June 7.—Ella at Lawndale; Boil
ing Springs at Eastside.
June 14.—Lawndale at Eastside;
Flla at Boiling Springs.
June 21.—Eastside at Lawndale;
Boiling Springs at Ella.
June 28.—Lawndale at Bolling
Springs; Ella at Eastside.
July 5.—Boiling Springs at Lawn
dale; Eastside at Ella.
Second Half.
July 12—Lawndale at E'la; East
side at Bolling Springs.
July 19—Ella at Lawndale; Boil
ing Springs at Eastside
July 26.—Lawndale at Eastside;
Ella at Boillrtg 8prings.
August 2.—Eastside at Lawndale;
Boiling Springs at Ella.
August 9.—Lawndale at Boiling
Springs; Ella at Bastside.
August 16.—Boiling Springs at
Lawndale; Eastside at Ella.
(Note: The Star will be glad to
publish the roster of each club,»the
position of all eligible 14 players
being given along with their names.
Club managers are urged to send
this information in. The manager
of the home club is urged to send
the outcome of the game in tQ The
Star on Saturday evenings, or early
Monday mornings so that the re
sults may be published each Mon
day.)
After traveling three miles while
walking in his sleep, Joe Bridlee, an
old field worker in Maud, Okla., was
found sitting on a log singing “Com
ing Thru the Rye.”
A woman plaintiff in a divorce
action in New York, charged her
husband with cracking peanuts nois
ily and eating them during the lec
ture at their eon's commencement,
purposely trying to humiliate her.
Again Leaves Flight Up in Air
I
1
Before an enthusiastic crowd at •
Hartford, Conn., the plane K.
of New Haven, piloted by Lieut.
Commander George Pond, soars
aloft to begin its 8,400-mile
non-stop refueling flight to
Buenos Aires, (Lower) Herbert
Partridge, Lieut. Pond, Bud
Fi&her and Lieut. Garland Peed.
A leak in the fuel line made
landing at Roosevelt Field, I* I.,
and postponement of the flight
necessary*
Lawndale And Eastside Winners
In Opening Games Of New League
V I
Eastside Defeats Boiling Springs, t
Ella Mill Loses To
Lawndale.
The Cleveland county amateur
baseball league open its season
Saturday with Eastside defeat
ing Boiling Springs and Lawn
dale defeating Ella mill. The
games were played on the Ella
mill ground and the Boiling
Springs park.
With Sherrill Hamrick hurling
Eftstside turned back Boiling Springs
by the score of 13 to 8.
In the Lawndale-Ella game Mc
NeiUy, hurling for Lawndale, nested
Epps, of the Ella mill, in a pitching
duel. Blackburn and W Devine led
the hitting for Lawndale with three
hits each, while Epps Anthony,
Harris, and McSwain banged out
two each for Ella.
Ella plays Lawndale next Satur
day at Lawndale, and Boiling
Springs plays Eastside here.
Remorseful because he purloined
a can of tobacco from the store of
Paul Tlchenor, at Calvert City, Ky.,
14 years ago, a Barbeton. O., man
recently forwarded 15 cents to the
proprietor.
666
Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia In
3 minutes, checks a Cold the iirst
day, and checks Malarie in 3 days.
666 also in Tablets.
Luke Reilly Says. “The Rat Died
Before Reaching the River."
"Since moving near the river two
years ago, we've always used RAT
SNAP. Watched a vicious water rat,
nibbling at RAT-SNAP outside the
house. About 15 minutes later he
darted off for the water to cool his
burning stomach, but he died before
reaching it." Three sizes, 35c, 65c,
65c, $1.25 Sold and guaranteed by
Suttle's drug Store, Cleveland Drug
Company. adv.
THOSE FAMOUS YOUNG DEMO
CRATS WHO TOOK ADVICE
AT NEW BERN
One wonders what those young Democrats, who journey
ed from Wilmington to New Bern to get the advice of Sena
tor Simmons on whom to vote for, are thinking these day*.
The following is submitted, not as an actual letter, but as ?
mere suggestion to the heart-sick and weary: From one r
the Young Democrats to Senator Simmons—
Hon. F. M. Simmons,
United States Senator,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I hrre received your letter asking me to support you for renomination to the
l nited States Senate. This is the first time I have heard from you since I went
over to New Bern in 1928 to get your advice. I am the son of Democratic parent,1••
and I was a Democrat. I had been told that you were a great Democrat, and tha*
you knew a great deal about politics.
T heard you when you urged me to vote for Hoover—you said if you had1
son you would advise him to vote for Hoover.
Well, I took your advice. What has happened?
The first thing that Hoover did was to give a tea in the White House to th
negro wife of the Negro Congressman DePriest. My eyes were opened and I wa?
ashamed. I realized that I had voted against all the instincts of my Southern
blood. I wondered that you had advised me to vote for such a man. I thought
you knew. I thought, too, that you would say something by way of condemnation
of Mr. Hoover. I thought you would write and make some apology and explana
tion. But all I get is a letter asking me now to vote for you. «
T have got to go through life with the record of voting the Republican Na
tional ticket and for a President who practiced social equality with a Negro
woman. And Now I hear that you are saying that you didn’t vote for Hoover. 1
don’t sec how you can ask me to vote for you. If you didn’t vote for him, you got
me to do it, and you ought to stand with me and share my shame. But you In
trying to stand from under and leaving me to bear the load. •
Since I voted for Hoover hard times have come. Everybody is hroke.
father is having the struggle of his life. And I am out of a job. This is a Rept|b
lican panic, and I am in part responsible for it, and so are you. My friends throw
this up to me. And when I tell them I followed your advice, they laugh at me. Can
you tell me what they mean by this? They seem to think that I should have known
better and that I made a fool of myself.
Now, Senator Simmons, I am a Democrat. I shall not vote for you. I am go
ing to vote the straight Democratic ticket as long as I live. And I want no more
advice from you. I wouldn’t go across the street to get your advice, and even
then I would get it in order to go the other way. The next man that gets me to
take his advice must agree to take it for himself.
Yours truly,
A YOUNG DEMOCRAT
An Editorial in The Pender Chronicle, Burgaw, N. C., Maj
15, 1930.
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STORE CLOSED
THURSDAY
AT 1 O’CLOCK
TO MARK DOWN
MERCHANDISE
FOR SALE
STORE CLOSED
THURSDAY
AT 1 O’CLOCK
TO MARK DOWN
MERCHANDISE
FOR SALE
ANNUAL JUNE SALE
Commences Friday Morning, June 6th
8:30 o’clock
1930 JUNE SALE PRICES
LOWEST IN 14 YEARS
Manufacturers Contribute To
Efird’s Annual June Sale
We have been unable to wait on half the manufacturers wish
ing to contribute to this sale. The depression among the mills,
however, caused them to sell hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of the season’s best merchandise at forced prices,
and as usual, Efird’s is always ready to buy a bargain and is
first to pass it on to our customers and friends. We do not
attempt to do scarecrow and fake advertising, but state the
facts as they are. Come, expecting to buy bargains. You will
not be disappointed.
SALE
Continues
Entire
Month
-—of—
June
Merchandise Included In
Efird’s Annual June Sale
It would be impossible for us to mention all items included iri
this sale. Whether you see it advertised or not, come expect
ing to find just what you want, whether it be silks, piece goods,
Hosiery, shoes, ready to wear, white goods, colored wash
goods, bed linens, towels, luggage, house furnishings or what
not, you will find it in
EFIRD’S ANNUAL JUNE SALE
SEE OUR FOUR PAGE PRICE LIST OUT TOMORROW.
SHELBY, N. C.