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Brannon Hits Homer To Beat Cleve-Cloth In 12-Inning Scrap Circuit Blow With One On Defeats CC’s 9-7 Iwrt Ewrp. New Shortstop, •hows Up Well; Play Aragon Today. The Cleveland Cloth mill lost another close game to Forest City last night, making It two victories in a row for the Owls. A home rhn with one man on the bases by Roy Brannon. “Rutherford's K&oe Ruth,” was the deciding factor in the 9-7 twelve inning game. The Cee Cee’s piled up a six run lead In the first four Innings, but Lute Roy weakened In the last half of the fourth, and the Owl pulled up behind. The Rutherford aggregation touched Roy for a total of throe home runs, one each by McAber, Bell and Scott. Brannon’s circuit bloaf was garnered off Sherrill Hamrick, who relieved Lute In the eighth frame. This afternoon at the city park, the powerful Bleachery-Aragon outfit from Rock Hill, 8. C., Is here for a ga$ie. This outfit won the South Carolina semi-pro championship last year, and copped the first half honors In the fait i Catawba loop this year. The game j should be one of the season’s best Saturday afternoon, the Cleve cloth goes to Valdese for a West ern Carolina league game with Ihe Brewers. Three Twin-State League Gaines Set; I Athletics Winners LUy Mill Is Swamped By Strong Athletics; No Gaines to Be Played Here. Only three games are scheduled for the Twin-State series Saturday Since the Lily mill and the Kings Mountslrt played oft their engage tr"Tit.yosiciday afternoon. No games will be placed “here. ihe Qcodfellovs will meet the recently re-organized ahd threat ening Dover-Ora club at Kings Mountain; the Mooresboro Wild cats will attempt to stage a come back against the Shelby mill at Mooresboro, and The Blacksburg Tigers will play the Minette mill nine at Blacksburg Athletics 1% in yesterday afternoon, the Ath letics overwhelmed the Lily mill here by a 20-5 count. Layton was the big gun for King:. Mountain, getting five hits out of the same number of trips to the plate. His , blows Included a home run. a doubh and three singles. Falls, also from the mountain city, got three fo- five as did his mate. Huffstetler. Red Ormond, manager of the team, goi a homer and a single. Peters lilts Hunter Lan Farris started Williams on the mound, but he lasted only three Innings. Peters succeeded him. and was a power at bat, socking a h: ater with three on to score four of the Lily's five runs. Morgan started twirling for the Athletic ciub. but gave wn to Fulk erson after Peter., got hi' circuit blow. The Athletics will take on the Newton Indians in a play-off in the state semi-pro tourr.r.ment Sat urday. Each team ha:; won one game in the three game series. rare well Message Dr. Wall’s Subject *A Farewell Message," will be the subject of Dr. Zeno Wall, In the service at the First Baptist church, on next Sunday morning at 11:00 o'clock. Much special work is being done this week by the Classes and De partments of the Sunday School in an effort to show nine hundred In Sunday School at 9:30 o’clock on next Sunday morning. Every mem ber It asked to bring someone. The twenty Unions invite every member of the Church to be present in the evening at 7:15 o'clock. Two hundred and sixty-four on last Sun day evening was very encouraging for the vacation period. Some echo es from the State Convention will be heard. “Our Omniscient Christ,” will be the subject of Horace Easom. in the unified worship and preaching serv ice, which begins at 8:00 o’clock on Sunday evening. Mr. Easom is supplying the pulpit In the absence of Dr. Wall, who will begin his va cation period. Splendid musical programs are be ing planned for all services during the day on Sunday. Every member of the choir is requested to be pres ent this evening at 7:45 o’clock. An important business meeting will be Dover-Ora Beats Wildcats Again The rejuvenated Dover-Ora Twln State league outfit under the coach ing of Hal Farris, State college star. Wednesday afternoon handed out an 8-0 defeat to thl Moorea boro Wildcats making It two In a row. This game was a non-league con flict however. BUI Davis, tall Lat tlmore youth, was a powerhouse on the mound and let the slugging ’Cats down with five hits. Davis Is a new addition to the Dover-Ora club, and In his first appearance showed plenty of skill. Withrow and Wynn were the two Wildcat hurlers who attempted to stop the Dover-Ora barrage. With row gave up 11 safeties In eight In nings, and Wynn four In the last. _iL__ 8 15 0 0 5 3 Dover-Ora Wildcats . Shelby Eliminates Belmont Legion 9 By Huge Majority Local* Roll Up SO Run* While Hold* In* Younger Opponent* To Only Four. The ‘ dark horse” Shelby Junior American Legion baseball outfit Wednesday stepped Into the second round of the state elimination tourney and the chance to meet the winner of Gastonia-Kannapolis by handing out a 20-4 defeat to the Belmont Juniors here Wednesday. The locals won their first game by a 11-9 count, but showed up Still stronger in overwhelming Casey Morris' charges in the second fra cas. Blanton Goes Good "Tater” Blanton on the mound for Shelby, limited Belmont to only seven safe hits, and showed plen ty of power in pinches. All In all. he kept the Belmont blows well scattered, and though a trifle wild, pitched superb ball. Belmont employed four twlrlers against the battery of local slug gers, but each fared as badly as his predecessor. H. Ervin took off slugging honors with four safe blows out of six trips to the plate. J. Ervin and Wad* Vaughn followed on his heels with three for six each. Beal. Belmont second sacker, was best for his team getting four for five. Gastonia and Kannapolis axe playing in the first round of tb'» tourney this week, and the locals will take on the winner of that conflict In the second division. The box score of yesterday's en counter is as follows: Shelby AR R H E Husky, ss . . 5 2 2 0 H. Ervin, 3b.. 6 3 4 1 J. Ervin, c.. 5 2 3 0 Bridges, lb. 5 4 2 0 Peeler, rf..5110 Vaughn, cf . 6 3 3 0 Blanton, p . ......._ 6 2 2 1 Sanders. U . ....._ 5 2 2 0 Ponders, 2b...4 1 o 2 Totals. 49 20 19 4 Belmont AR R II E Simpson, c . .. 3 0 10 Broom, ss . ........... 3 0 0 3 Edwards, lb.4 10 0 Cashion, If „ _....... 3 10 0 Beal, 2b. 5 2 4 0 Horton, cf . .. 5 0 0 1 Hoover, 3b . .. 3 0 0 1 Howe, rf.. 5 0 10 Burwell, p . .. 0 0 0 0 London, p . _ 4 0 11 Total . ............ 36 4 7 6 Indians Triumph Over Conover Sox Youthful Newton Pitcher Shuts Out Strong Conover Team 3-0. NEWTON, July 12. — Robert Hampton, who graduated from Newton high this year, and latest twirling addition to the Indians hurled three-hit ball here Tues day afternoon to shut out the Con over Blue Sox, 2 to 0, in the first game of the second half of the Western Carolina league. He whif fed seven batters, three consecu tively in the fifth stanza, and only two Sox reached the midway sack during the afternoon. Randleman was best at the plate [ for the winner*, collecting a double ! and a single for four. Three times ' the Indians had the bases loaded, one time with no outs, and were i unable to score. A double and two i singles gave them a tally in the I fifth. Chick Gantt started on the mound for Conover but was pulled early in the third frame. Conover __ 0 3 4 Newton ___ 3 7 0 Gantt, Johnson and Matheson; Hampton and Reinhardt. Fanning Out This department today Is going to be devoted entirely to the Shelby Junior American Legion baseball club. The team certainly deserves It, as shown conclusively by the tremendous power they demonstra ted against Belmont In the first two games of the state elimination series. And deserving It. they’re going to get It. Shelby fans In general—and we sheepishly admit this department has been rather skeptical also—have failed to stand behind the team as they should have done during the first part of the season. Little has been said about the comparative merits of the outfit, and Its chances of going somewhere In the state tournament. » • • • However, those boys have gone out for practice day after day, con fident that they have a great deal of natural ability, and have strug gled desperately to keep the team going. At one game, the gate re ceipts were so low that we’re asham ed to mention the figure. That, lowever, failed to daunt the fiery snthuslasm of the boys themselves snd the coaches, H. A. Logan, Jr., and H. C. Long. • * • • But all Is passed now. Shelby is it last awakening and Is discover ing that this old city is going to be put on the map by the young team, rhe attendance at the game with Belmont here Wednesday was al most as large as any semi-pro game has drawn this year. Fans are dia nussing the team on every street corner, and everywhere may be heard such expressions as “I didn’t realize that Shelby has such a team.” The coaches have had no support from the citizens of the town. At Belmont Tuesday, all merchants closed the doors of their stores In order to add their number to the attendance, and all In all, approxi mately 1,000 people turned out for the game. If we possessed all the orchids ip the two flower shops here, we would strew a path for the coaches and the hoys. • * * • However, the danger In too much praise lies in the possibility, and we should say the probability, that some members of the team might “get It in the neck.” Overconfidence Is the rain of many promising ath letic aggregations, and we don't want it to happen here. It wasn't because Shelby was so much super ior that they won by such a ma jority,. It was because the Belmont youths lost their heads and went to pieces. • • • » Numerous errors gave Shelby the first game, and they served their part In the second. The possibility that the locals will do the same thing against Oastonia threatens. Those Oastonians have been play ing bigger teams all season, and performing like veterans. They have some hefty sluggers on the outfit, and also some smooth pit chers. Coach “Kid” Elberfeld has been working them to the limit, and they know plenty of baseball. • * • • The entire Gaston county outfit was here Wednesday scouting the local outfit. In our opinion, what they saw will probably make them open their eyes, for strong slugging and pitching power were clearly demonstrated here. Yet the fact remains that Gastonia has a power ful team. If the locals keep their heads, they stand an excellent chance of knocking last years champs off. If they blow up, Its, going to be too bad. • • • • And Casey Morris has no reason to feel badly about h>t team’s show ing. Of course it was disappoint ing to him for a bunch of boys who had been looking fairly good dur ing the first part of the season, who had fought the fast Charlotte nine to a fourteen-inning 4-3 game, to so completely go up in the air in the two crucial games. At that, they showed the evidences of his train ing, and we repeat as we have stat ed before many times that in our estimation Casey is one of North Carolina's outstanding coaches. If the boys went to pieces, you can’t blame him. Smite fan asked one of the re porters "Who was it that got soft hearted In that lousy ’Fanning Out’ column and sncceeded In getting me out t© the game." If our little plea did persuade several fans to attend the game who otherwise would not have loaned their sup port. then It was not absolutely, useless. When the locals take on Gastonia here, let’s see if we can’t pack that park and stand them along the sidelines all the way to right and left field fences. Gastonia Juniors Spank Kannapolis In First Conflict Haven Clouse Blanks Towel City Boys With Seven lilts; Whit aker Gives Up Five. KANNAPOLIS, July 12. — The Gastonia American Legion Juniors took the first game of e three game series from the Kannapolis Juniors 4-0 here today in the state elimina tion series. The two teams meet to morrow in Gastonia in the second game. The third, if necessary, will be played in Oastonia Saturday. The winner of this series will play Shelby in the state semi-finals. Haven Clouse pitched the defend ing state champions to victory to day, striking out 15 locals Clouse gave up seven hits but kept them well scattered. Poor Support Fred Whitaker tossed good ball for the Kannapolis nine holding the hard-hitting Gastonia team to five hits but errors enabled Gas tonia to score three of the four runs. Gastonia took the lead by scor ing twice in the opening inning. Burroughs popped one over the second baseman’s head and the ball fell for a hit with Burroughs taking two bases on it Pitts drop ped Moss’ fly and Burroughs scor ed. Moss scored latter on a passed ball. In the fifth Burroughs was safe at first on Payne’s error. He stole second and scored on Moss’ double to centerfield. Clause hit one over the left field wall in the ninth in ning to give Gastonia their fourth tally. Play Good Ball Both clubs played good ball and looked like first rate clubs. Kan napolis’ infield was especially good which Gastonia’s Catcher Beal and Centerflel<fer Dilllnger stood out. The surprise of the game was the rallure of the Gastonia club to hit. Kannapolis will he hard to elim inate' from the state race although this is the first time the city has seen represented In the Legion pro gram. Valdese, Newton Open Series Today HICKORY, July 13.—The Valdese Brewers defeated the Hickory Reb els 9-8 here Wednesday night In the final game of the first half of the Western Carolina league and tied Newton for the title. The contest went ten innings. Camp, 42-year-old first baseman of Valdese, doubled in the tenth in ning to score Ingle with the winning run. Valdese scored five runs in the second and two in the third to drive Andy Ferguson from the mound. Lee scored in the tenth on a wild throw. -The locals came back one In their half of the tenth but fell short by one run. Valdese will meet Newton in a three-game championship series for first half honors. The first game of the series will be played tomor row at Newton. W. Carolina Loop (Final First Half Standings) W. L. Pet. Newton . 9 6 .600 Valdese . 9 6 .600 Hickory Rebels . 8 7 .533 Conover 8 7 ,533 Brookford . 7 8 .466 Hickory Spinners ... 4 II .266 Leading Pro Ellsworth Vine, Jr., nas mae a clean sweep of sectional pro-tennis tourn ament, and will enter national com petition In August an overwhelm ing favorite. K.M.A.C. Wallops Newton To Tie Up Athletic Club Evens Count With Indians In State Semi-Pro Tourney. (Special to The Star) KINOS MOUNTAIN, June 13.— On Wednesday afternoon, the Kings Mountain Athletic club even ed the three game series with the Newton Indians by a 4-1 victory Newton having won the first en counter the count now stands one and one. The rubber game of this series will be played at Newton cn Saturday at 2 p. m. This game will decide which team advances into the second roUnd of the Observer's semi-pro tournament. Henson Stan Henson on the mound for the Athletics let the Indians down with six scattered hits and had a shut jut until the eighth when an error »nd two singles accounted for the one Indian tally. Kings Mountain scored two in the second by virtue >f a walk, an error and two hits; snd two in the fourth off three walks and two hits. Robinson, who started for Newton, gave way to Buzz” Phillips In the fourth with the bases loaded and tWb outs. Jenkins, first batter to face Phil lips doubled to center and the two runs came in. Jake Earley was the only player of the day to get more than one hit. Early secured two for four for the Athletics. Besides his hitting Early caught a nice game behind the plate as Henson was pitching his excellent game. The Athletics entertain the For est City Owls at Kings Mountain Friday at 3:30. On Saturday the Athletics play Newton at Newton and then journey to Hickory to take on the Hickory Rebels in a night game. Team R H E Kings Mountain _ 4 7 5 Newton_16 2 Batteries: Kings Mountain, Hen son and Early; Newton, Robinson, Phillips and Gilesple. Penny Column YOU CAN GET BUTTER milk fed friers at Eagle Poul try Co. Phone 6S4-W. ltc s n^BAHEMh NO. 4 Look! Just what you need for the house. Good quality, slightly irreg ular in patterns. 46 inches wide, OIL CLOTH Special YARD It Can’t Last Long! Association Board i To Meet On Monday The general board of the Kings Mountain association will mcit Monday afternoon at the First Baptist church here at three o’clock, instead of ten o’clock a. m. the usual meeting hour, according to an announcement by the Rev. J. W. Buttle. “All Aboard” Is Star Theme Song 'Continued from page one.) of these grand trips may obtain complete Information and instruc tions in several ways. Either read the instructions carefully as thev appear in The Star, write to this newspaper for them, addressing The Century of Progress Exposition Club, or call at the World’s Fair Tour office of The Star and learn them at first hand. No matter how you become ac quainted with the requirements tor becoming one of The Star’s guests on this trip, get busy now. An early start often means a great deal. And don’t forget the reward i that will come for earnest effort such a reward as does not often come to people in the ordinary walks of life. The penguin is found in New Tea land, Australia, and the Falkland Islands in plentiful numbers. More than 169,100 new homes were built in Great Britain during the year which ended September 1, 1933. Hie tusks of a mammoth were recently brought to the surface of the North Sea by a fishing boat. The temperature of the moon goes down as low as 400 degrees below sera Grasshoppers can be hatched from unfertilized eggs; these fatherless insects are always female. A bridge foursome could play 24 hands etery day for a period of 6,123,828.480,455,803,565.917 years and never have the same distribution of cards. Raleigh Bemoans Removal Of Iternal Revenue DepL > A RALEIGH, July 12.—Removal this week of the headquarters of the North Carolina division of the Internal Revenue department from Raleigh to Greensboro is bemoan ed by Raleigh folks as a great lass to the Capital City Orders are for the office tob e moved by July 15, and July 12 has been set as "mov ing day.” Naturally, Raleigh dislikes to lose the office located here for many years, but there seems very little reason why the headquarters should not be in Greensboro, or some other piedmont city, nearer the center cut, the area paying the bulk of the federal taxes. Of course the biggest amount is paid by Winston-Salem in tobacco tax, while Durham comes next and Reidsville third. Greensboro pays only a small part of this, on its cigar business, but centers the tri angle of the heavy paying towns But the cause of the moving is interesting. It is a part of the big Republican building program, in augurated under the administration of the "great engineer” and with the hope that the commodious federal building at Greensboro would be a continuous abode for > Republicans. But just about the time they got their house in or der, they had to move, giving iwm to Democrats. The same conditions prevail In Washington. The Republicans start ed a huge expansion program than, only to have the buildings complet ed during a Democratic administra tion and to be occupied first by Democratic officials. This mu> commented upon recently by Soli citor General J. Crawford Biggs. Raleigh, on the occasion of a re cent visit home. He occupies one of those huge offices. “The Repub licans can’t criticise, since they started the buildings, but it dee get them to see the Democras oc cupying the spacious offices,” Judga Biggs said. Raleigh had only one advantage that of allowing the occasional man who had to visit the internal reve nue office from out in> the state to attend to other business while here, probably with state depart ments. Otherwise, and but for the fact that Greensboro is nearer the center of the heavy tax-paying, the office apparently might as well be at Asheville, or Wilmington, or elsewhere. Beauty To Be Adorned In Maine Despite “SyntheticBlush”Law AUGUSTA, Maine, July 12.— Beauty need not be unadorned In Maine, state officials Insisted to day, despite the new cosmetic law Dr. Elmer W. Campbell, chief of the state division of sanitary engi neering, gave this assurance to ap pease the qualms of women who feared their favorite vanishing creams were about to do Just that, so far as sources of supply were concerned. Threats to withdraw their prod ucts from the Maine market were reluctant to divulge their formu lae, as required by the law, or to pay the prescribed registration fee of one dollar for each preparation sold in the state. Whatever the outcome, Dr. Campbell said, corner drug stores still will sell synthetic blushes so that Maine’s maids and matrons can match the cultivated complex ions of their sisters in other states. “Every variety of cosmetic imagin able,” said Dr. Campbell is includ ed in the 3,000 samples already submitted for registration by 150 manufacturers. Only 3 per cent of the samples tested so far, he added, hatfe been found to contain a high percentage of cautic poison. Sale of these pos sibly harmful "beauty aMs" will not be permitted. They must, however bear a special label describing their ingredients. 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