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Second Half Of League Season To Start Thursday;Shelby vs. Marion Forest City Msy T*ke Rhodhiss Berth. All flubs Add Strength. <By Renn Drum> The second half of the West ern Carotins league season gets under way Thursday with Shel by playing Marlon at Marion. On Saturday Marlon comes to Shelby for a return game. In other second half opening games Thursday Brookford will play at Newton, and Forest City will play at Hickory, provided the strong Forest Clty-Alexander semi-pro out fit takes the berth left vacant by Rhodhiss. Pace Too Fast. At a meeting the league directors held at Hickory Monday night the Rhodhiss club surrendered its fran chise In the loop. The pace set by the other clubs, particularly by the Cleveland Cloth team, which won nine of 10 games to cop the first half honors, was described by Rhod hiss officials as being too fast. Forest City-Alexander has been anxious to get in the league and will likely take the Rhodhiss vacancy. If the Rutherford team goes in the second half chase should be the merriest affair this section has seen since the days of the old Blue Ridge league. Forest City has a team that any club in the league will have a hard time of stopping more than once out of three tries Others Faster. Not, only will the circuit be speed ier with Forest City in, but the other clubs are bolstering for the second half fight. Hickory. Marlon, and Brookford are all added veteran players, several leaguers being in the number The dark horae of the second half may be the Marion club. Near the fag end of the first half the Marion outfit began strengthening and just now that club will give any team In the league plenty of opposition One of the players added to the Marion team, and already in the lineup, ia none other than old Molly Oox, the Piedmont League veteran. In North Carolina baseball in two decades there have been two per formers more' colorful than any others. They were and are Rube Eldrldge, the southpaw Duke of Spero. and Molly Cox The latter a long, gangly, left-handed first sacker is what is known by fans as "a fielding fool." He can do a world of tricks, despite his advanced age, scooping 'em up around first; but Molly's major asset is his ability to poke the horsehtde over the pal ings to register home runs Molly Is just one of those ball players of the Gabby Street, Hack Wilson. Art Shires type that brings tire fans out and gives them a good time He is also quite a comedian and stages numerous pranks in between his baseball for the entertainment Rnd amusement of fans. Cox isn't the only addition to the Marion, club and when the Oee Cees; representing Shelby, tackle Marion tomorrow local fans will get. a pretty good idea of how the second half race will be. But the best outlook is to be gained here Saturday when Marion comes for a return game, bringing along Cox. the Murray boys, and others well STATEMENT NORWICH UNION INDEMNITY COMPANY NEW YORK CITY Condition December 31. 1930, As Shown By Statement Piled Amount, of Capital paid up in cash $500 000 00 Amount of Ledper Assets Dec 31 of previous year $4.693 508 41 Increase of Capital during year None Total. $4,693 508 41 Income-Prom Policyholders $3,163,579 74, Miscellaneous, *446.490.96 » Total *3,6119,070.70 Disbursements—To Policyholders, $1,561.856 72 Miscellan eous, $1,739,107.82. .... Total, $3,300,964 54 ASSETS Value of Bonds and Stocks .... .. $3,845,748.50 Cash in Companys Office .. $30.302 21 Deposits in Trust Co.'s and Banks on interest... $295,048 83 Premiums in course of Collection ’ $735 5541-2 All other Assets, as detailed in statement_____ $104 960 91 Total ....... ... .... Less Assets not admitted ........... .. $5,001,614.57 .$90 680.68 ... $4,910,933 89 I Total admitted Assets 1'1/lOIU I lt» Dnpaid Claims . ---- $2,026,184.16 Expense, Investigation, and Adjustment of Claims. $28176 00 i Unearned Premiums. ' 1 Commission, Brokerage, and other charges due Salaries, Rents, Expenses, Bills, Accounts, Fees, etc,, due $1 414,601 41 >164,278.16 or aocrued _._ , . . ..-. ..... $7,033 50 Estimated amount for Federal State, county and municipal ........ $63,000.00 A. other Liabilities, as detailed in statement... $3,409 25 Total amount of all Liabilities except Capital _ ” $3,706,682.47 Capital paid up.-...._•.$500,000.00 Surplus over all Liabilities ... $704,251.42 Surplus as regards Policyholders ... _ $1,204,351.42 Total Liabilities $4.910 933 89 President H. L. Callanan; V. Pres & Secretary H. L. Kidder, Home Office 75 Maiden Lane, New York City*. Attorney for service: DAN C. BONEY, Insurance Commissioner Ra leigh, N. C. Manager for North Carolina. Home Office. State of North Carolina, Insurance Department. Raleigh, Feb 11th, 1931. 1, Dan C. Boney, Insurance Commissioner, do herebv certify that the above is a true and correct abstract of the statement, of the Norwich Union Indemnity Company, of New York City filed with this Depart ment, showing the condition of said Company on the 31st day of Decem ber, 1930. Witness my hand and seal, the day and date above written Commissioner Lily And Lawndale Clubs To Meet In City Park Thursday Afternoon Webb Brothers In Another Victory On Local Course Defeat Charlotte Plajrra In F.xhlbl tlon Match Here Monday. Shelby's golfing brothers, Pete arfci Fred Webb, stroked out another golf victory here Monday afternoon when they defeated two crack Char lotte golfers on the Cleveland Springs course. The visiting golf ers were Roy Tensley, caddie mas ter of the Charlotte Country Club, and Leonard Davis, pro at the Mc Cllntock course In Charlotte. The Shelby brothers cinched the match on the 16th hole, winning S up and 3 to go. Pete Webb, now a professional, will enter the big Southeastern Open at Sedgefleld, Greensboro, late this month and If his game holds up to that he Is playing now he Is expected to "be in the money." known to fans. With such players as the veteran Molly in the league it's pretty certain that the Shelby club hasn't much chance of win ning nine of 10 games in the second spurt. Strengthen Here. But. the Cee-Cees are not going to take too many chances them selves. Several now faces will be in the Cloth mill line-up, it is un derstood,-for the game here Satur day with Marion, Who they will be isn't, being announced just now. One will likely be a catcher, per haps Casey Morris or some other receiver with professional experi ence. That being the case. Hornsby will do the field managing from the outfield or bench. An infieirirr and maybe a new outfielder may also be added to the Shelby club There was some talk of Jarring the heavy-hitting •'Smut" Smith loose from the Asheville club of the Pied mont "Smut" can play either out field or infield In a nifty manner and he can hit like nobody’s busi ness and woud be a big help to the local team in the second hall and the play-off for the pennant; but. chances are that Asheville will keep the native Charlotte slug artist. Hitting Well. The Cloth mill club was hitting better at the end of the first half than at any time this year, and the players may keep their batting eyes through the second half, tn j the final first, half game with Hick ory. Smith, "not A1 but Homer" as Cherryville says it, socked out a home run with his golfing swing and Gilreath cracked out a triple1 and double Enough of those things win ball games, particularly behind Fisher's brand of hurling. Anyway, fans have a big treat in store Saturday when Marion and Molly Cox come down to show Shelby what brand of ball is to be played in the last, lap Lawndale Tlaa Victory Over Local Team; Lily Seeks Revenge Tomorrow. A baseball clash in which there is considerable interest and In vrhich there should be some fast ball played is sche duled for the high school park here tomorrow, Thursday, after noon. The Lily mill club of Shelby and the Lawndale independent outfit, rivals of old, are scheduled to op pose each other at 3:30. Lawndale handed Lily a licking last week. Lily doesn't think It can be done again, but Lawndale does That’s how It Is. Both clubs arc put In the field by Schenck mills and that makes it the more Interest ing. Up in the Lawndale country is where the majority of this coun try's best known baseball players came from. Quite a number of them are on the team the this year. Down at the Lily the team is built around the Parris brothers, Furman and State college stars, and "Big Boy" Peters, tffffrubber-armed high school pitcher. But there are more stars than these trio—enough stars, in fact, on the two clubs to assure a good mid-week contest tomorrow. Attendance should be good as It Is the first Thursday afternoon that many Shelby business houses are taking as a half holiday. Perhaps the trouble is not so much the hardness of the times as the softness of the people.- Buffalo Courier-Express. Proof that man is a superior ani mal Is the fact that he alone sur vives the cruelty and greed of man. Hagerstown iMd > Herald We»tern Carolina League Standing FINAL STANDING OF FFRST HALF. W. U Pet. .9 1 .900 .7 3 700 . 5 6 .500 .4 8 .400 . 3 7 .300 .2 8 ,200 SATURDAY’S SCORES Shelby 8, Hickory Chair 6 Marion 3, Brook fojd 1 Newton 7, Rhodhisa 4. GAMES THURSDAV IN SECOND HALF. Shelby at Marion. Brookford at Newton. Hickory at Forest City. Team Shelby ... Newton ... Brookford Rhodhisa . Marion .. Hickory .. Homers Give Win To Shelby Mill Marhew And Short On HltUng' On Rampage. Play Caroleen Again Saturday. Home runs by May hew and Short enabled the Shelby mill club to de feat Caroleen Saturday 18 to 14. It took eleven innings and three hurl ers to win for the Shelby club, but Sherrill Hamrick’s relief hurling in the final frames turned the trick. Mayhew had a record day at bat with two long homers, two doubles and a single in six trips up. Patter son and Bumgardner also starred at bat The Shelby team plays Caroleen here Saturday at the Shelby mill park. The hour Is 3.30. MOORESBORO COLORED TEAM IVINS DOUBLE Shorty Beams'- colored baseball team won a doubleheader Saturday taking Cliffside in camp by a score of 9 to 1 and Boiling Springs unde feated team 3 to 1 The Mooresboro team Is setting a good record this year and would like to hear from any team who thinks they can beat them. Aged Son Of One Of Barnum’s Famous Siamese Twins Now Awaiting HisEnd Inmate Of Kansas Almshouse Longs To See (Children Be for* Death. Medicine Lodge, Kan..—Patrick H Bunker, 81-year-old son of one of P T. Bar num's famous original Siamese twins, ing and Chang wants to see his children. Bunker, inmate of the county home at Medicine Lodge, is grow ing feeble Somewhere in the United States he hopes his six chil dren may still be living. This man with a life story stranger than any fiction has only one remaining am bition and that is to see them once more Bunker's father and his uncle came from Slam to America in 1830. They were joined together by a membranous band extending from the breastbone of one to that of the other. It was Ing and Chang who were responsible for the coin ing of the phrase "Siamese twins' to mean children physically at tached to each other, regardless of what race. Baroum, the famous showman, exhibited them through out the United States and Europe. Ing was Bunker s father. “My father and his brother never quarreled." Bunker is careful to explain. "Lots of people have said to me they've heard Dad and Uncle Chang used to fight. It isn't true." How He Got His Name, The aged man is asked frequently to tell why the son of a native of Siam should hava the surname "Bunker" and be called Patrick. It was like this," he says. "As soon as my father and uncle ar rived in New York they were put on exhibition. It became necessary for them to be naturalised. They went to the government office and gave their names as Ing and Chang, the only names they’d ever had. Someone told them they must have a surname. A man named Fred Bunker was standing near and he suggested they take his name. That was how my father became Ing Bunker and my uncle became Chang Bunker.” The twins were born about 60 miles from Bangkok, Siam, in 1811. When they were 18 an American ship captain saw them bathing in a river. Realising what a curios^ they would be to the American pub lic he awanged to bring them to New York. Barnum made them the featured attraction of his show and gave them widespread publicity. Twins Wed Sisters. Bunker remembers accompanying his father on several of these tours. Despite their huge incomes from these trips the twins’ money dis appeared rapidly. At the height of their wealth the twine married Sal lie and Adelaide Yates, of Dutch and Irish descent "Sallie. was my motlier," Bunker says, "and she was a handsome woman and a fine Christian. She had a wonderfully good disposition I Father and his brother were mar ried on the ¥ame day in a double] I ceremony. They each had farm.'; not over half a mile apart. They would stay at our house three days and nights and then go to my uncle's house for three days and nights Father had 11 children and Uncle Chang had 10." Chang and Ing were born face to (ace but after they leagued to walk they found it easier to get around side by side so they were almost always in. that position. They could chop wood according to Bunker. ' Father was on the right side and Chang on the left." he says, ‘so father would grasp the ax handle with his right and and Uncle Chang would take hold with his left As he was left-handed any way that gave them a strong grip. At, the table they would help each other cut the food, but each would feed himself." Temperaments Differed. Despite their physical union the twins had different temperaments. Bunkers father, for instance, was fond of playing poker. Chang never could be persuaded to join the game but he was obliged to sit by until late hours at night while Ing en joyed himself. On a return trip from Europe in 1874 Ing awoke one morning and found Chang dead bv his side. Half an hour later ing also was dead. Surgeons found that the two men had a large artery in common and declared the oft-proposed operation to separate them would have proved fatal. -BunKers descent to the almshouse is a brief story. He and a brother James Monroe Bunker, went west and bought farms in Sumner coun ty, Kansas. James died there sever al years ago. Patrick married and he and his wife had three sons and three daughters. •One day my wife told me she wanted a divorce.' Bunker ravs She asked for the custody of the children too. I said ‘Molly, you don't want to do that.1 but she in sisted on it. No man ever made anything lawing with his wife so I deeded her the farm and everything on it. After a while she married again and I reckon she set the children against me. Anyhow they don't come to see me I knew where some of them were for a while but now I've lost track.'* A few years ago, after doing odd Jobs around Medicine Lodge for a living. Bunker walked into the room in which the county commissioners were meeting and surprised them by laying *100 before them and saying, "I don't believe I have long to live. There's my savings. I wish you'd take it and give me a home for my remaining years.” ^ The commissioners refused to tak*' the money but did give the former farmer a home. He has lived ther' ever since. We don't know what schizoids are but if Lincoln was one we are f<v \ them wiorener Herald. < Patient On His Sick Bed In Arizona Writes Of Hunting Deer iBy w. n Williamson, Whipple. Arizona). The Star is a most welcome visitor here at the hospital, and 1 enjoy your "Around Our Town" and Shelby sidelights very much, after i finishing the Star. I pass it around to other ''Tar Heels” who like my self are anchored in their bed. Most of the N. C. boys here like myself have been away from the old state so long, anything to remind them of their native land is always wel come, I We have other means here of keeping in touch with the outside world besides the press. Each bed is equipped with a head set. and in the evenirifc lively musical numbers come floating to us over the radio. The fellow next to one cannot hear, but he also has a headset of his own. Attend Rodeo. Last Sunday, those of us able to sit up, were taken in a large bus to Prescott, to see the Rodeo, an annual event known as the Prescott Frontier days, where champion riders from all over the country compete In riding, roping, bulldog ging, calf tieing etc. It was very interesting and we enjoyed it very much, only it brought to me the fact that I will not likely ever be able to ride again, or take part in such galla days. I once could rope and tie a calf in 16 seconds, or bull dog a steer In 30 seconds, not cham pionship time but always in the money, but those days are past for me. I never was a real cowboy in the true sense of the word but while in the army in the mounted service 1 learned to ride and to handle a rope, and took part in several rodeos and won some prizes. I also Vork ed on a ranch in New Mexico and took part in. a big round-up and learned the cowboy language. No finer lot of men ever lived thf^i the | Western cowboy, but modern rivili | zation is fast driving them out of existence. The automobile has replaced the cowpony and most of • the large ranches are now under fence and in 25 years more a real cow hand will be hard to find in the South west. People out here are already begming to regard the booted, spur red, and ten gallon hatted feliow as a Dude when he walks down the street, but when one attends a rodeo he is convinced there are still some riders left who ran do their stuff. Sees Mountain flanges. From mv bed I have a view of | the mountain ranges to the west, j the greatest deer country in the state outside of the famous Kaibob i forest beyond the Grand Canyon The timber is rather sparse until one ascends to an altitude of about 6000 feet then the timber is thicker. As soon as the deer season opens which is usually November 1st, one can usually get a buck in the sparse ly settled sections but within a short while after the season starts you must climb to find your game and and hunting deer in Arizona has its hazards. Of times the hunter himself is mistaken for the game and some sissified society sap starts banging away at you with a high powered rifle. Only for the poor aim of one of these city fellers, 1 would not be here, today. Two years ago, 1 was hunting in the Chircahua Mountains in Cochise county. It was a very rough country and the timber was Just thick enough to afford ample cover for the deer. I had had a glimpse oi a fine looking buck about a thous and yards above me and was work ing upwards slowly to get within range for a sure shot when “zing ' went a bullet a foot from my head. The bullet richoted from a rock and •went whining towards the valley. I stepped behind a large boulder and waited a minute or two and deciding it was some hunter who had taken a pot shot at a running buck, I resumed my accent, curs ing the tact that every buck within sound of the shot would then be on the move. I had not moved ten feet until here came another bullet dangerously close, followed by two more in rapid succession which kicked up dirt around my feet. There could be no mistake this time that some hunter had mistaken me for a deer and knowing all the game would then be frighten away I dived for cover behind another large boulder and waited. Taken For A Deer. At. frequent intervals I would peek around the boulder in the direction from which the bullets had been coming. Pretty soon T saw a hunter 300 yards away with his rifle at ready and body tensed creeping my way I waited another minute or two until he appeared abreast of a. large rock and aiming about 3 feet over his head at the rock I let loose with ray 25 calibre high-power. At the first shot he seemed dumfounded and straighten ed to his full height, I sent three more shots in rapid succession splattering same all over the rock and in an. apparent fit of panic he threw his rifle away and started on a mad run for the bottom of the canyon Finally he lost his ; footing and fell rolling .sev^raureet I lodging against a clump of jurnplr.'. When T came up to him he wa; [untangling himself and trying to [get footing on a sprained ankle. He started to bawl me out for -0&J CAN Buy | To make a superior malt syrup depends ^»ot only upon the use | of the best materials, but in knowing how. Malting has been our business for over 70 years. 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If the doctors get through with me In time and I'm able to walk you'll find me out again this year at the opening of the deer season for there's no other sport in the world, in my estimation, that will equal deer hunting in Arizona dis pite the fact there are lots of fel lows who cant distinguish a deer from a man at a distance of 500 yards. Was Bowie Fishing For Hoey Support? • --- Greensboro News Wonders If Tam Was Not Trying To Land Hoey Greensboro News—Judge Tam C j Bowie's most recent pronouncement anent the probability of his candi-| dacy for the United States senate makes one thing clear and leaves another in such a state as to war-' rant well-founded speculation. Talking to an Associated Preis representative in Raleigh Monday, the prospective candidate let It be known that he expected to advise hts friend ''soon'’ whether or not he would run against Senator Cam eron Morrison and then added: "Somebody must do it.” The cer tainty of Judge Bowie's statement is the levity with which he obvious ly takes Prank Grists candidacy. Has he not been advised of Mr. Grist’s running? Isn’t Mr. Grist somebody? Or can it be that the commissioner of labor is not. con sided "a Jeffersonian Democrat"? That last query is prompted by the second, bracket of the Ashe jourist 3 statement: "If some strong Jeffer isonian Democrat from the- west wishes to make the plunge in my place I would be glad, but somebody mint do it.” And the sumisc Is that the judge was looking straight at Clyde Ft. Hoey when he threw out that con ditional line, it i* altogether pos sible-even probable — that Mr. Bowie was doing far more than granting an interview in Raleigh, he was fishing. If Mr. Hoey, or some strong Jeffersonian Demo crat from the west,” enters the arena, he can count on the support of the lost province stalwalt. But then there is the other prong. If Mr. Hoey is not going to run, he is supposed to reciprocate and offer his support to the man who does — presumably Judge Bowie. It may be a record cast that the jurist has made from Raleigh to Shelby—and the guess is that there may have been some futile private soundings before the public displav was made—but so far evidence ts lacking, that he has had a strike. If a back-lash should tangle up his line. Mr. Grist, for sure, will have good right to snicker up his sleeve. Contract Let For Highway Gasoline State Expected to Save $150,000 by Mass Purchase of 10,000,000 Gallons Raleigh, July 14—The state di vision purchase and contract today awarded contracts for 10,000,000 gal lons of gasoline at a price which A. S Brower, purchasing agent, said would save the state $150,000 as compared to former contracts. 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