r le TT 7 Country Club Tournament Starts Today Morning watch 73 GOLFERS ENTER Just Before The Battle, Brother DUKE * » TRACK >5i WITH mimw**mirmn* T > V' S- v ... *. 'Li '\-t*•• CLUB Edward Sachs CAPE FEAR GAMES LOOKS PROMISING Jimmy Herring, Agnes Blue Devil Thin PIP .. Baseball, PIP, ,. Clads State meeting Friday Morton Medalists Of Season Sitting in the Tobacco league Open Saturday about this thing called base- evening, we got to wondering Qualifying Rounds With Gamecocks office we fished around ball. So when we got back to the to in the annual Britanmca (Baitim Match play spring DURHAM, March .. ? until we found the Encyclopaedia 30.—,./p,_q, golf tournament of the Cape Fear university's track and we the real lowdown. team WiU Brazil) got club under way today, Country gets stronger in. two fields club last than l- officials of the said night. year’s team but bases and is weaker and so called from the ball, will run through April 3 BASEBALL, Play certain in all other events. in which a ball, bat and bases with 18-hole match play featuring a game played by two teams Coach Bob Chamber;. guys named Di- the earlier rounds. ran are employed (to say nothing of several squad through time trials Included -in who if* the 73 players week in preparation for the Maggio). in oocn _ qualified earlier was Miss mg meet play against South Carolina was long disputed be- Aggie Morton, women's here next and Origin of Game. The origin of the game champion. Saturday found th- so far as we know She turned in a 78 to third material for the cause of its resemblance to rounders, (a rounder, place distance event, bad and whistles March- in the round. was plentiful and is a guy who beats his wife, writes checks, qualifying promising h',t whenever he is in Atlanta) a game originating the track mentor was in” Through Georgia” A score of 75 placed Jimmy Her- none too on modification of games grouped timistic over the in°Great Britain and its similarity to as medalist of the talent, m ,hP and "One Old Cat, ring qualifying 0Ul* under the common designation of Town Ball, er fields. Old Cats/ (Now round. Robert Strange, Jr., with a “Two Old Cats.” “Three Old Cats,” and “Four “We 77 was should be call “Blind Toms.”) posted runner-up. stronger this rear you know why they affectionately umpires in the distance and Matched in the first are middle distant, flight but weaker in the about American base- sprints," Chaw, After about 1,500 well-chosen words Jimmy Herring and Paul Bergen; bers we said. “Prospects in ball, in which the E. B. seems to be miffed because Charles J- Blake and J. M. John- most of the field events are between it up this nugget: A still Vorp,,.i don't serve tea innings, gives son; Robert Strange, Jr., and J. i Abner doubtful.’’ commission, says E. B„ decided that Col. Doubleday James Mctts bases and Holmes Davis, Jr., S. devised the of posi- me ocaomi wm <=. xum, Leading contenders in of the U. Army diagram and Fred Louis Orrell and umciais ol the various rooacco btate league ciuhs pose wim league omciais as mey mei iu majj yiaus ^ the dis is not to be Little;; tance runs are tions for players in 1839. (However, baseball Kite and Pollock of and J. E. Jackson of Dunn. Back row, W. B. Williams of Angier, Brodie Smith of Bill Palmer different Robert Davis; Miss Agnes Morton row, left right, Bert Wilmington Balt,' confused with the Old Army game, an entirely L. C. Kerr of Clinton and J. E. L. Wade, league more, Md.; Jim Davis, Ben M. L. L. Smithfield, Zeb Harrington of Sanford, Morris Wade of Dunn, league secretary-treasurer, Birmii,E. and Washburn, Jr.; ham-, Ala.; and amusement.) president of Wilmington. Chuck Dowm-s Doss, Sr., and Dr. Donald Koonce; _ Baltimore. Md. Downes and Pall the E. B. tells us that the Washington Nationals Robert Black and W. A. Fonvielle: mer are Further down, returned servicemen vh„ a lulu in 1867 when they made the first. Trans-Allegheny Second flight: Walker Taylor and won letters for the really pulled Blue Devils two The team went as far west as St. Louis (they contacted a few L. L. Doss, Jr.; James H. Sloan and and three tour. Bucs Outfielder Lancester years ago. Davis was the Indian tribes to the west of St. Louis but couldn't get any games L. Steve star runner Tommy Morton; Barefoot Wilmington Sign for the cross countrv without a guarantee of 10.000 beads, five pounds of dry-fish' and a and Walter E. Curtis; Harold Alex- team last fall. as Juice.") ★ ★★ ★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★ gallon of what the Indians referred to “Laughing ius and L. E. Clif- Woodbury, Sr.; The middle distances will be led ford Mayfield and E. N. Hines; by A1 Bodine. In that same year, the Rockford, 111. club began the Rochester, N. Y. William Redder and Clark James; Loren Young, quaint practice of paying salaries to some of its players. Huntington. W. Va E. A. Metts and Marion A. Wood- and Bill Simmons, Charlotte. (Now you know why Clark Griffith doesn’t like Rockford.) Wildlife Calls Constitution AH R J. Doss and I. B. Meeting three are newcomers to bury; Grainger. Group the squad. --- i In the Bill In 1871, (this may not come under the heading of news) the Na- Third flight: W. T. Benton and sprints, Aumcnj 1 Braintree, John tional Association of Professional Baseball players was organized Thomas Orell; W- L. Bozeman and Mass.; Maxwell', (a name for a bunch of disbarred turtle- Pasadena, Calif.; and Aus! very long jockies wearing Frank Bailey; Tom Cobb and Rich- PIRA1 FIELDER Vernon COURTHOUSE SCENE Doug neck sweaters and chewing Durham plug). Of this group, our favor- Stephens Jumps bon, Durham, have shown the best ard Phelps; N. W. Humphrey and ites have always been the Troy (N. Y.) haymakers. This was a times with Tom Cordell, Bartles- W. B. Love; Pete Jeffreys and R. team that worked like mad, on sunny days, causing Horace Greely. ville, Okla., leading the way m P. Jobb; R. B. and J. F. IS TEXAS NATIVE OF MONDAY PARLEY then covering baseball for Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly, to say "If ; Gwathney Browns For Mexican Ball the hudles. Zapf; Hooper Johnson and John B. one makes Hay while the Sun shines, one need not worry on days : Ausbon, recently a member oj D. H. and Paul of precipitation.” Howell; Earp Wil- Served Three Years In (Compiled from AP and UP) start and was clouted for seven State Federation Will the basketball team, has also son. Open shown the best marks in the Vernon star shortstop runs In the six innings he work- broad The E. B. takes to Stephens, great pains explain what the heck the Fourth flight: Gordon Doran and Coast Former Haefner and Ver- Drive jump and high jump. Guard; St. Louis stated ed .. Mickey Membership different players are supposed to do. For instance the short- for the Browns, Aumen and J. E. of Phila« J. M. Snow; Tom James and Allen non Curtis divided the Washington Curry stop has a longer throw' to make the first baseman on most U. Star On 1. Gravely; H- H. Marks and H. T. Baylor last night in Nuevo Laredo, M.exi- nine April delphia, Pa., are the only two let* of the balls batted toward the shortstop position. The short- pitching, the former giving up Newland, L. B. Howell and B. S. ico that he reached an agreement termen returning from last yes* i stop may be called the of the markers in five frames Lefty “Handy-Andy” infield. (There By EDWARD SACHS the Mexican for a Members of the New Hanover a Norwood and D. H. Gren- with league Ken Holcombe com- squad. is standing offer of S100 to be given to the man who calls Whaley; Joe Page and Star Editor contract. Stephens, a county chapter of the North Caro- Leo Durocher “Handy Andy” after the have lost shaw; Dr. D. R. McEachern and Sports five-year bined on a three-hit pitching job Dodgers been ARMED WINS AGAIN a Albert Forbes and holdout who had seeking $4,- lead lina Wildlife Inc. were double-header.) Bergen; George C. W. Lancester, a well-built na- yesterday at New Orleans to Federation, 500 more than the he said CORAL GABLES, Fla., March W. H. Averette; W. D. McMillan $13,000 the Yankees to a 10 to 1 decision last of staked out urged night by chapter offi- —(U.R)— Fhe F. B. us tive Texas, last night was offered him by the American 30 Armed, Calumet Farm tells that the right fielder is the man “who and Herbert Bluethenthal. over the New Orleans Pelicans. guards cials to attend a of the hit right field. (Anyone who saw Babe Herman a claim on one of the starting league team, will discuss final meeting handicap star’, completed play right field knows Fifth flight F. P. O’Crowley and The Yanks only collected sev- that this is propaganda, pure and Our terms with Pasquel, presi- group in the courthouse Monday sweep of the double events stakes simple.) favorite is “a play- A- positions in the Wilmington Pirate Jorge en safeties but were helped ei or A. Marshall. Drawing byes in they tripped pocketed is a runner who is dent of the Mexican league consider the at Tropical Park today, winning successively prevented season he re- 15 walks ..