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South Shelby, Powell Class Start Series Tuesday Night Joint Winners To Play 5 Gaines In Pennant Play-Off Double Header To Start Series Starting Line-Up* Are Given; Fea tnre BUI Expected Te Draw Well. The South Shelby team and the Powell Bible class, joint winners of halt honors in the Sunday School Softball league, will open their five game play-off for the league champ ionship at the Cloth Mill park Tuesday night at 8:IB o’clock. A feature double-header between the two clubs, played under the area of the local park, will start the series off. Night softball has proven popular here as it hss in other cities, and recent games have drawn rather large crowds. It is predicted that the twin-hill between the two top notch clubs o( the league tomorrow night will attract the largest crowd sihfca th* local Carolina league club * disbanded. Their Records. The Powell class won the first half banner, while their opponents copped the second division honors South Shelby won 13 games ‘ while losing one the second half, while the PowelHtes copped 11 against 3 Idea**. - 5 Wednesday afternoon, the two clubs will play the third game of the series at the high school park, and if the series goes to four games, another will be played at the same place Thursday afternoon. In case the play-off tilts are tied up at 3-3 at the end of Thursday’s game. It la planned to play the final tilt at the cloth mill park Friday night. In case this Is done, anoth er exhibition tilt between clubs in the WPA league may possibly be scheduled to make the affair a double header. Player Lists. The players on the two clubs are as follows; • Powell; Wilson, c; Harrill. 3b; Connor, as; McSwain, lb; Stafford, cf; Gibson. It^ J. Magness. 3b and manager; Stitnid, p; P. Wilson, rf; Kiser, outfield; Martin, infield; Coon Magness. a. center. South Shelby; A. Kale, ss; More head, If; Vaughn, a. center; Barrett, cf; Anthony, lb; ibewns. 3b; Farris, 3b: Hutchins, c; White, rf and man ager; Robinson, outfielder and pitcher; Duncan, p; Jones, p; Glad den. outfield Batteries. The starting batteries for South Shelby will probably be Jones or Duncan and Hutchins; for Powell, Stroud or Connor .and Wilson. Umpires will be Arrowood, Dixon ihd Shytle. Duke College Tilt Will Be Broadcast DURHAM. Aug. 34.—The Duke Colgate football game, to be played In Duke stadium on September 36. • Will be-broadcast over both the NBC and CBS networks. The contest, which will feature Duke’s Homecoming day as well as other local celebrations, has been picked by the radio chains as one of the 10* outstanding games of the Season fro mthe standpoint of color, competition and national interest. Tad Husing, Assisted by Les Qual *>’. will handle the game for the Columbia hook-up and either Gra Baa McNamee or BUI Munday will be at the mike for NBC. it was said. All are nationally known announc ers. Kid Woods Scraps Negro For Youth Kid Woods, popular light weight boxer, mixed blows with a 300 pound negro in Unlontown, Pa . a few days ago and while he came out with hla clothes torn to shreds, he la retting in his hotel with some cuts and bruises. Woods resented It. when a big ne gro pushed down a small white boy acd ran him away from a show. The boxer happened along at the time and punched the negro hi the nose A fight ensued and Woods aent him flying to the ground, ms partners came upon the scene and Kid's Clothes were torn into shreds. *1 should have remembered that I was across the Mason and Dixon line, said Woods. MRS. LOMU’S SISTER AT AKRON, OHIO IS DEAD Mrs. E. M. Lohr of Shelby has been called away to the home of bar son. Cletue Lohr this week to eat* for the home- while they «■» - Vay. in. Akrpn. Ohio to attend tb« funeral of Mr* Qatua Lohr'* Rater I Dover-Ora, South Shelby Both Win Shut-Out Tilts i South Shelby and Dover-Ora rame through with shut-out vic tories in the WPA'-sponsored soft ball league Friday. The Dover-Ora aggregation pounded out 19 hits to score as tr.any runs in overwhelming the Business Men 19-0. Hawkins, Dov er-Ora centerfield, 1M the slugging with five for five. Batteries for the winners were Walker and Kiser and for the losers were Wilson and OllllAtt. Walker limited the Busi ness Men to seven hits. South Shelby trimmed the Cloth Mill 8 to 0 behind the pitching of Duncan. There were no outstanding plays or unusually heavy hitters on either club. Hutchinson was the catcher for South Shelby, and Cashion, Huffstetler and Bright were batteries for the Cloth Mill club. Lutz-Austell took good advantage of several Lily Mill errors to win 8 to 1. The winners got 8 hits against five for the losers. Batteries for Lutz-Austcll were Connor and Wilson; for Lily Miller, Peeler and Weathers. No report has been received on the game between Bolling Springs and the Salvation Army. Japan Profitably Undersells U. S. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Aug. 34.— (4*1—Figures reporting to show that bleached cotton fabrics from Japan can be delivered duty free in New York and sold at a profit at a low er figure than American goods can be quoted without a profit added I were released today by tne Rhode J Island Textile association. Calling on organized lfcbor to "face the facts before it becomes | too late," the association cited the | figures as “further proof of the de termined effcg-t being made by Japanese Textile manufacturers to capture the American market.*' ; As an example, the association in yesterday’s statement gaVe price comparison to prove its points. For a sample of 36 inch 84-44 construc tion, it said the Japanese selling price in this country was 5 3-4 cents per yard while the American cost finished was 8 3-8 cents per yard. First Open Bolls Of Cotton Shown The first fluffy, fleecy bolls of cotton, forerunners of the 1936 Cleveland crop, were exhibited at the Star office here Saturday. D. A. Palmer, of Shelby route 7 who lives on the farm of Joe Beam near the Post Road gin brought the bolls in and said there were many more opening on his place under the hot rays of the August sun. Mr. Palmer said Cleveland coun ty will make more cotton this year than farmers first thought. "The early cotton is some of the beat we have ever had, but the late stalks are not so heavily loaded." He said the drought may have been a blessing in disguise, by cut ting the yield and boosting the price. , R. L. Ramsey, who works here in Shelby but who has a farm operat ed near Salem church reported the second boll. This is the first year Mr. Ramsey ever farmed. M. L. Spake of Zoar also exhib ited a boll of cotton. Textile Worker Slugged On Head Junius Mitchem. 38, Kings Moun tain mill worker is in a serious con dition at the Shelby hospital fol lowing an affray last night with an unknown assailant. The fight occurred about 10 o’clock near the Kings Mountain post office. Mitchem was found ly ing on the sidewalk where he had ! been slugged and left. He * was ! brought at once to the 8helby hos pital. j Kings Mountain police said no ar rests have been made.‘and as yet there are no clues. Mitchem was becoming rational this morning and it was thought he could throw scene light on the situation. He is an em ployee of the Mauney mill. License 'Revoked In Recorders Court Oscar McDaniel was this morn ing tried in recorder's court on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the Influence of intoxi cating liquors. He was sentenced to four months in Jail, suspended upon payment of $50 and costs and hi* license was revoked for a period of 12 months. Willie Gentry was found guilty j of operating a vehicle without hav- i in? secured a license, and he was1 sentenced in a month in jail sus-j tended upon pav-ment of e^ts and j was fo'-bidden to dri’-* an automo |bile until ha had secured license. SPORTS SLANTS By TAP Mel Ott has been pumping home runs Into the right field of the Pola Grounds for so long that New York fans take him for granted. They have grown used to seeing him cock his bat and let fly for a homer In the 11 years he has been with the Giants. In spite of his flair for hit ting 4-baggers Ott never has been a flashy player, nor one to capture the fans’ imagination. They appre ciate that he Is a fine ball player, out there doing a fine Job day in and day out, and they are very fond of him. But somehow they Just let it go at that—seldom do they rave about him. The recent "at home" spurt the Giants flashed found the spotlftht focussed on Ott. It was his big bat that sent hip mates over the plate with the runs that spelled victory and put the Giants back in the thick of the pennant fight. The Giants scored 17 victories out of 21 during the home stay, thanks. In great measure, to the wholesale production of home runs. That short right field must h«re some thing to do with the Giants' suc cess, for Bill Terry’s crew won 40 out of 56 games played at home. Weighs Only 170 Pounds Ott's record as a long-distance hitter is all the more interesting when one notes that while he is well built, he does not shape up anything like Lou Gehrig, Jimmy FOxx and other home-rup hitters. Mel scales around 170 pounds against the 200-pounder that fur nishes the popular conception of what a home-run hitter should look like. Yet there isn’t a man in the league who can boast a record the equal of Ott's. In 10 years at the Polo Grounds (not Including the present season) Mel has poled out 242 4-baggers. Mel’s batting average seems to hover around the .320 mark. His liletime average in the majors is about that. But that average does not begin to show his real value to the team on the offense. His home runs very often come when they do the most good. Por the past eight years Mel has batted in 100 or more tallies a season. This year the fig ure is likely to be around 140. His best season he knocked in 151. That was in 1020 when the rabbit ball was used. « Mel ought to come mighty close to his bq§( season this year in the matter of producing homers. That, too, was in 1920, when he hit 42 circuit clouts. With almost a third of the season still ahead, Mel has chalked up 25 this year. In two re cent games against Boston, Mel added four homers to his total—a pair in each game. His work on the defense is just about on a par with his work at the plate. So efficiently does he go about his outfleldlng chores that he attracts little attention. Still, there are plenty of fans who delight in sitting in the right-field area Just to watch Mel play liners off the fense. He takes his hat off to no one when he comes to figuring how to play the liners as they come skidding craxily off the boards. At 27 Ott is playing his eleventh full season with the Giants. it seems like but a couple of season ago that the pink -cheeked young ster of. 16 reported to the late John McCraw. He was a catcher then. McCraw looked him over, paying particular attention to his heavy set legs and decided squatting be hind the plate would slow him up too much. The outfield' was the place for Mel, McCraw decided. Ott's natural swing at the plate in dicated to McCraw that the young ster ought to develop into a great hitter. He was not disappointed on that score Nor was he ever sorry that he chased Ott into the out field. Mel. too. is grateful that McCraw decided to make an outfielder of him. Chances are that Mel would have been about through as a big league catcher by now instead of Just arriving at the peak of his career. Boiling Spring* Softballer* Win Boiling Springs softball team in the Recreation League raised it* standing another notch by licking the Salvation Army 6 to 6 during the week-end Jones and Blggerstaff w$re bat teries of the Army team aud Greene ind Greene were batteries lor the winners. Jones struck out five men. but the No. 2 township boys follow ed Lawhon in the pinrhes to win. Lawhon so* »«o triples and » '"ome run The game went for on* extra inning Toy-Gun Moil Ltltma Dario, 18 (mbawe), weeps copious tears as police hear her con fess to a series of hold-ups in Brooklyn with a toy pistol. Police say she told them the crimes were instigated by her bey friend, Joseph Regina, who is also under arrest To Indict Six In Senate Probe WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—<**>— Federal Indictments of six officials of the Railway Audit and Inspec tion company for failure to appear before the LaFolette labor Investi gating committee wll lbe sought this week. Robert Woulforth, secretary of the committee, said today a record of the senate committee’s hearings last Friday when the officials fail ed to appear had been certified to Vice-President Garner and should be returned by him to the district attorney in the District of Columbia "within the next two days.” The officials against whom the indictment will be sought, Woul forth said, are W. W. Groves, presi dent of the company; W. B. Groves, vice president; L. Douglas Rice, sec retary; J. E. Blair, treasurer; R. 8. Judge, director and J. C. Boyer, undercover operative. Hands Off Policy Seen By Nations (Continued from page one) fighting with the Madrid forces. Faria Attitude The Paris attitude was that the government had no connection ihtti such soldiers of fortune. London also was cheered by the Hitler embargo move. Furthermore, officials said apologies from the commander of a Spanish govern ment warship bad closed the inci dent created by search of a British steamer betwen Gibralter and Span ish Mordcco Sunday. Insurgents asserted that a 21 plane armada had bombed airports of Madrid and caused heavy dam age there but this could not be con firmed from the capital. Gin Report Given WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-<F> Cotton of this year’s growth stoned prior to August IS was reported by the eeneus bureau today to haTe totaled 20g,327 running hales, count ing 452 round bales and half baler. Glnningt a year ago totaled 317, 135 running bales including 892 round bales and two years ago 354, 724 running bales including 4,424 round bales. SPORTS BRIEFS By LARRY BAUER There are a few men in this day of modern firearms who hunt for sport with muxxle-loading rifles. There are a few gunsmiths who can repair and do barrel work on the old time weapons. However, most of the old guns to be found outside museum collec tions are beyond redemption and are unsafe to fire with the Mack powder charge for which they were made. These age-worn weapons are Just as dangerous as dynamite and none should be used until examined and declared safe by an expert. There are some of the guns about which haven't been subjected to hard service. For tnatan«s. a friend whose wife is an "antique hound” accompanied her to an old farm house and, while rummaging around, picked up a fine rifle of the so-called Kentucky type with the bullet mold and powder flask. A few percussion cape were In tbe silver-mounted stock. Fairly Accurate After collecting much informa tion on loading, powder charges, rtc.. and after the gun was proven utie. he began firing at targets from a rest and found the rifle surprise mgly accurate up to a distance of 10 yards. The site of the ball is near 35 calibre. After the chap started ■orresponding he discovered there eere quite « few ’ cap-and-ba.1V •nthusiesfc} extant. On* reported he j*d killed i irtld turkev with a s8n lar weapon. Soviet Plotter* Get Firing Squad MOSCOW. Aug. 34.—<*»)—Sixteen men accused of plotting to over throw the Soviet government and to kill Josef Stalin were sentenced today to be shot. The case against the men. charg ed with collaborating with Leon Trotsky, former Bolshevik leader now in exile in Norway, in the anti government cosnpiracy, went to the Judges last night. The sentences of execution ean be carried out any time within 73 hours after conviction. The only ap pea lls to the presideum of the cen tral executive committee of the communist party. Stirs Public Interest Hours before the verdict was an nounced by the presiding judge. V. V. Ulrich, the streets of Moscow presented amazing evidence of the public interest in the case in which Gregory Zinovieff and Leon Kam eneff, two distinguished Bolshevtfel, were among those accused. Queuse of persons extended for blocks formed at every newspaper stand, awaiting the latest word from the courtroom. Hundreds gath ered at every radio to hear the news broadcast. Downtown streets were crowded. Bids Asked Again On P. O. Basement Bids are again being asked on ccmpletion of the Shelby postofftce basement which will be converted Into office rooms with an entrance from Warren street. It will be recalled that when the addition was made to the Shelby postoffice, sufficient money was not available to complete the basement! under the work room. Bids were , asked on this work last spring but j were rejected as being too high. Now the U. 8. Treasury depart- ! ment is asking for sealed bids to be j submitted by 10 a. m. Sept. 11th. Plans and specifications can be Se cured from Postmaster Prank Hoyle. Moore Will Talk Before Death Date (Continued from page one) nim, was sitting on the edge of the bed in his whitewashed cell. His long, coal-black face with Its pro truding lower lip was expression less. His eyes were bloodshot. His knees came up to bis chest, he was resting his chin on them without bending his back. His hands touched tbt floor. Other death raw Inmates were shouting basic and forth' to bach other. Tfcey ff|d no attention to Moore. The copy «t t&# PtV Tfstgipent, given hint by prison officials, was lying unopened in a corner of the cell. The above story was reported by the Associated Press pbtle in Ashe ville conflicting stories about whet the negra said were reported. The Asheville paper reported that Moore t«Ht f$||| Willi# .prison tech nician tbft he killed Helen and de scribed to him bow he did it. He ts said to baVe told a United Press correspondent that "I might as well tell I killed her, ’cause I am gonna die anyhow.” Thomas K. Brown, one of four deputies who accompanied Moore to Raleigh said he admitted he kill ed Helen, “but repudiated the con fession because he was told it would be a chance to save him j from the lethel chamber." A large group of negroes in Asheville is said to be donating money for the purpose of reopen ing his case and will appeal to the supreme court. Political Activity (Continued from page one) -- ■ -.— I Tuesday. He will consult with the! governors of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming.! preliminary to a drought conference ! With still other governors in Des Moines an September 1. Landon is scheduled to attend the Iowa dis cussion. Tuesday come primaries in Mis sissippi and South Carolina. Sena tors Pat Harrison and James Byrnes of those ’states, who have been among the New Deal leaders in con gress, both have opposition for re nomination. California makes nom inations to the national house and the state legislature on Wednesday. Delaware Republicans will make their senatorial nomination in con vention on Wednesday. There has been talk of drafting Senator Dan iel O. Hastings to stand for another term, despite his announcement that he would not run. In South Carolina Senator Byrn es, an administration stalwart. Is opposed for renomination by Thom as P. Stoney. former mayor of Char leston, and Col. William C. Harllee, former mamie officer. Nominations also will be made to morrow in California for the na tional h<xise and the state legisla ture. Delaware Republicans on T-Wj-'de:- ,ij] rnake » senatorial lamination I Your Business VITAMIN “S” When your health goes bad, you moan and groan, and see a doctor When your car needs repairing, you take it to a competent mechanic. But when business slows up, you let it go without doing a thing about it. Your business is like yourself, or your car .. .. It needs attention too! Inject Vitamin “S” into your business like you yourself would take to build up strength and regain your health. After all, your busi ness isliuman. Advertising in The Cleveland Star is add ing vitamins in dollars to your business diet... ft improves and gets back' to normal again, with less expense than any other medium in Cleveland County. The Star is more than a newspaper... it’s a tangible asset to your business. More than twenty thousand Cleveland County people read The Star every issue. They get World News .. . Local News ... Popular Comics Features . . . Up-To-Date News Photos. Where reader interest lies.... you should advertise! THE CLEVELAND STAR
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