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Elements Halt Baseball
: Work At Sanford Field
Murdeck to Oppose Mer
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~ cer in Opening Game
5. Here Friday at 3:45.
. Play Saturday.
§¢ -~ By VALCO LYLE
. The elements played havoc with
baseball work on Sanford
field yesterdsy afternoon. j
¢ Coach Bill White came down,
seavght about three drifts of high-‘
powered - “velcoity,” ch'lled with
e, and declared “no practice to
vy," Isicht warming up exercis
' €B, and batting practice was gone
- through with, however,
t‘l\e lzst practice game before
-the Bulldogs engage the Mercer
- Bears Friday afternoon was sche-’
~duled to beg'n at 3:45 this after- |
- noon. Thursday’s work will con-’
- sist of batting and infield prac
' tice with light warm-up exercises.
~ Jimmy DMurdock will oppose the
- Bru'ns in the first game Friday.
" Both the games, Friday and Sat
urday will begin at 8:45, and 75
cents will be charged for admis
- gjon. Porter Frye will likely be,
' Coach White’s choice in the Sat-!
urday game, ‘
E% Murdock and Frye are the only'
Jetter-men back, and their experi
ence should count in the early
- games while the Bulldog mentor
is round ng some promising soph
gcmore materinl into tip-top form.
- Murdock is playing his last year.
He has been a successful southpaw
for the Red and Black cause dur-,
ing the past two years, and his
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'best ball is expected this season.
' There seemed to be a spell of
- gloom over the Red and Black
camp yesterday, for no other rea
son than Pete Herndon, happy and
ljovial leftfielder was absent. Hern
+don is lost for the year due to an
'injury received Monday afternoon.
IHe fractured a bone just above his
'left ankle.
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“LOST WORLD
{ HUNT LEADS TO
[ NEW. YORK. —(UP)—~ Dr. 8.
!H. Williams, the scientist whe
i probably journeyed farther to
lward the Lost Word than any
!other white man, is again on the
Irail of persors and animals who
.'lived g 0 long ago that their hopes
are worlth fortunes,
Florida is the scene of his lat
est adveaoture, and wready he has
rfound a tooth of a prehistoric
lhorse that apparently was twice}
' the size of the present-day ani
' mals, The pit in Florida is bg‘f
lieved to hold mary more secretsi
that may change scientists’ con |
ception of prehistoric times on
the North American continent, ]
’ Wiiliams’ work on the Lost
' World nlateau of British Guiam}
already has established him as
one of the nation’s leading re
search experts. He penetrated
that wilderness to a point wherc
‘he ran against a cliff 8,000 feet
h'gh. Before he could scale that |
obstacle, he contracted fever ard
was forced to return to civiliza
tion. ‘
Before he did that, however, h:
exchanged trirkets with yellow
Indians; saw a giant type arm:
dillo and mice that resemble’
kangaroos; reported water fall: |
higher than N'agara; and |
millions of ants that moved ir
reculer formations, driving all
an‘mal life before them, and
found also a lizard of great size
which ran on h's hird lers. almost
eract, The lizard he though’
might be a descendant of the din
osaur.
It was this vnlateau in RBRritist
Guiana that Sir Arthur Conan
Dnoyle had in mird when he wrote
“The Lost World.” At that t'me
re2ders believed the book to he
sheer imagination. but William
has uncovered data that lead:
scientists to surmise that perhap-
Sir Arthur’s fiction was nearer
truth than anveone suspected.
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WOUND FATAL ;
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— (UP) —
Three months after he shot him
self on the porch of his sweet.
heart’s home, Robert Cox, 20, of
Dandridge, Ténnessee, died in
General Hospital here Monday
night of the wound.
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SHAW IS PLEASED
LONDON. — (UP) Bernard
Shaw is rot only pleased with the
bust of himself made bv Jo Dav.
idson, New York sculntor, but is
likewise impressed by Davidson’s
full and flowing beard a distinet
contrast to the Shavian type.
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To aid scientific study, a scoop
has been built in California to
bring up samp'es of the ocean’s
bottom from depths impossible
for divers to reach.
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.- Helen Fox, 17, of St. Scholastics
academy, Fort Sm'th, Ark., score¢
120 points in one game and gave
both boy and gir! basket ball scon
ers a mark to shoot at. .
By T. LARRY GANTT
Mrs., Horace Holden savs sh
rezd with wvery great interest
and pleasure our artcle telling
about the two historic Southerr
pictures presented by Col. Sam
W. Wilkes to the patriotic ladies
~f Wilkes courty. Mrs. Holden
is a n‘ece of Hon. A H. Stephens,
vice pres'dent of the Southern
Confederacy and she naturallv
feels a personal interest in all
that pertains to our “Lost Cause”
and its leaders.
Col. W. S. Holman has promis
ed Mrs, Holden that he would
prepare for our column in the
Banner-Herald an article telling
all about the march of Mr.
Davis and his guard from Char
lotte N. C., to the Savannah river.
Generals Beckenridge and Basil
Duke had command of the soldi
ers detailed to accompany Mr.
| Davis after the surrerder of Gen.
Lee at Richmond, Va. Col. Hol
'man was a members of this guard
cvery man being a tricd znd sea:
soned veteran, A reward of fifty
tnousand doliars had been coffer
arl for the cupture oi Mr. Davis
and Virginia, the two Carolinas
and Georgia were covered with
Federal . soldicrs searching for
cur Confederate leader,
Col Holman says that after|
lcaving Charistte, N. C,, at their
crossing of the historic Catawba
tiver, a strewzm that figu,red con |
sp.ciously daring the [cc\'clution-’
ury war, the; were aitacked by
*ke eremy, and in tle skirmish
that followed Col Holman’s horse
was shot and killed. .ic borrow
ed a mule on which animal he
rode tc Athans, Ga,, wren he re
turried the arimal to the owner.
This was the last fight of thc
war and the greatest casualties
were arorg the cavalry.
On reaching Abbeville, S. C.
W. S. Hoitman, a young sold ¢
who had had four years of serv
«ce behind him, was selected a
one of the guards lor Mr. Davi
that night, President Davis —a
the guest in Abbeville at th
aandsome home of Col. Arnm istea
Burt, a promirent lawyer an
eading citizen and which buils
ng is still standing in a perfect
state of preservation. An inter
' ost:ng faet is that Col. Burt’s resi
Idence was built upon a spur of
what is known as Secession Hill
| 2 theg clad eminence in the tow:
‘ where was held the first public
| meeting that passed resolutior:
( lemanding that Scuth Carolin:
ecede from the Union, Col. Bur!
an enthusiastic secestionest wa:
he princinal speaker at thi
meetirg, and also a delecate t
‘he state convention.
While in Abbeville Mr. Davis
spent the night in the hot be:
of secessionists and in the mids:
of loyal ard enthusiastic friends
John C, Calhoun and George Mec
Duffie, two of our greatest Sou
thern leaders and orators, wer«
born in Abbeville county, as wa:
also the father of LCol. Sam W '
Wilkes member of a distinguished
old South Carolina family, wheun a
yourg mal he moved to Ander |
'son, S. C. and became one of the |
leading lawyers and most popular
men in the country, when his
state seceded and called for vol
urteers, Mr. Wilkes gave up his
practice and was among the first |
voung men to enlist from Ander»‘
son county, and was adjutant of
his regiment. His command and
the First Regient of which Maxey
Gregg was colonel, where the
first troovs from the state to
reach Virginia and they were en
gaged in the first battle of Man
assa, both regimerts losing heav
ily. After the enemy was defeat
ed and the run for Washington
started, while leaving his com
mand Adjutant Wilkes was shot
and died on the field of battle
by a Yarkee sniper. So it will be
seen that our friend Sam W.
Wilkes is one hundred per cent
Southerner by instinct, heritage
and trainirg,
Abbeville is one of the historic
old towns of the. South and is o
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA.,
business center of a section of
’country that has figured gallant
ly in everv ar. At the neigh
‘boring towll in Edgefield, Pres
ton Brooks whese caning of
Charles Sumner 1s said to have
hastened the war between the
States, lived, died ard was buried
There also lived in the town of
Abbeville Col. Foster Marshal.
whose regiment served in ti
command of Jefferson Davis ir
the war with Mexico, : |
We know that our friends wilfl‘
look with interest for Ceol, Hol- |
mars article. In order to refresh
his memory he asked that we bor'
row from the College librarv 2|
book written bv Gen. Basil Dukei
in which he tells of his conversa
tion with Gen. Davis. TF- mother
of Gen. Duke was 2 niece of
Judge Richard Gantt, of Green
ville, South Carolira, great-grand.
father of the writer. ]
Postmaster 'Smith refers to us
the following letter from R. H. |
Fall, Chiréno, Texas: “I will
thank you to make investigation‘
and ascertain if you can locate
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'Wilbur Ccoksey
3 . - .
. Wins First Prize
| OnlL E
n League Essay
| Miss Roberta Hodgson, professor
{of political science at the Georgia
!S(:nu Teachers College today an.
{nounced the winners of prizes in the
fossu,v writting contest held there a
few days ago.
! The essays were on the League of
§N:xtions- ‘Wibur Cooksey, who 8 a
student n the 28th grade of the
Model School at the College won
first prize. Four prizes were given
and the winners of the other awards
are, Louise Hodgson, Constance
Mitchell and L. H. Christian.
) The essays were judged by a com
’mittee ‘rom the Education depart.
ment of the colllege with Dean H.
B. Ritchie acting as chairman. The
essays were written as a part of
the contest conducted by the League
of Nations Assoclation of New York,
The senior class students at the
College offered to teach the 6th
grade class in the Model Sthool to
learn methods of teaching essay
writting on the League of Nations
Miss Melton's sixth grade was used
Fi‘teen students wrote essay which
have been sent to the League of Na.
tions Association to prove that the
experiment in practical teaching of
A Lenoue of Nations was suceess
ful. The essay written by Wilbum
Cooksey will be printed by The
Banner-Herald iomorrow.
QUEEN- WRITES MEMOIRS
BUCHAREST.— (UP) —Accord.
ing to the newspaper Cuvental for.
mer Queen Marie of Rumania a’y
ready has finished and delivered
to her publishe:r the first volume
of her memoirs. Two other vol.
umes will follow in the course of
the year.
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