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July7, 1938
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Paul Richards, manager of those Atlanta Cracker,
I D aid » visit Kiwanis to our club. town Richards last Thursday hails from afternoon as
I of the a small town
I [' j n Texas and he likes our town. their
pau! kept everyone on toes by answering ques
tions about baseball, big league and minor. It was he
' who caught Carl Hubbel, ace Giant pitcher, when he was
going 44 scoreless innings.
There was one tale told by Richards that everyone
liked. It was about Bob Feller’s fast ball. Bob was pitch
ing an exhibition game and the weather was murky. It
was hard to tell one player from another, says Richards,
w ho was seated in the grandstand.
In the ninth inning Bob got wild. He had a shut
out up until then. There were two outs and Feller
walked the bases full. The count was 3-2 on the bat
ter. The catcher walked out to Bob and told him not
to throw that ball in there. The catcher slipped the
ball under his breast protector. Feller made the mo
tion to pitch. The catcher jerked the ball from under
his protector and popped it in his mitt. The umpire
bellowed: “STRIKE THREE, you’re out!” The hatter
threw his bat on the ground and yelled at the um
pire: “That ball was outside a foot.’*
All of which leaves you with an inkling of Feller’s
fast ball.
Richards also expressed the belief that the great Diz
zy Dean will come back. He says the Cubs will spend
plenty of money to get the “great one’s” arm back in con
dition.
The Cracker manager also revealed that Paul
Dean, younger brother to Dizzy, ruined his pitching
arm in Atlanta. “He was pitching against the Crack
ers in an exhibition game. It was a damp day and
“Daffy” didn’t warm up like he should have done,”
said Richards.
Richards won a host of friends by his visit here. He
is a likeable chap and it is easy to see why Atlanta likes
him and his Crackers, who are in first place, at this writ
ins’.
ANOTHER BIG FISH
History was made early last Thursday morning!
Tommy Callaway signed one of the best softball pitchers
ever to grace the local diamond. He has a fast ball that
just won’t wait, has this pitcher Tommy signed. Also he
is in possession of a change-of-pace that gets the batters
tangled up.
sports-minded people of Cov
ington astounded made his
debut Monday afternoon
with Callaway. He
one run in the first
Then he settled down
pitched un-scoreable
until the seventh inning.
hunch of errors, a base
balls and a hit (got on a ball
that was supposed to be a
walk) let in two runs, losing
the game for this
one,” 3-2.
Despite the loss of the
game this famous hurler
picked himself a fish. A
fish that bit at his fast
one. Swallowed his change
of pace, hook, line, and
sinker.
This fish, that
with a bat instead of with
fins, is a Covington Citizen
and a good friend of mine.
He took the trouble to wear
his tongue to a frazzle all the
week telling people about
1he home run he would get
Tuesday afternoon off this
pitcher
Well, did he get the home run? The answer, before you
go further, is NO !
It would be unfair to this great big fish not to re
port just what he did do, though. He proved himself
to be a sucker with sportsmanship in his veins. He i
fell for the bait. He got singles—three to be exact. ■
Yes, he nibbled on the single bait all the afternoon. He i
got one every time he came to bat. Little does he realize
that this bait only leads to a strikeout sometimes with the
bves loaded. Sometimes when the manager wants a pincji 1
hitter. Then and only then, will he find that the bait is
a hook ball to get him out of there.
The singles he got Tuesday were at times when a
didn’t really mean anything.
Take a good look at this fish. He has a kind face.
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King-Hicks Holds Last Half Softball Lead
Covington Mill
Beats Callaway
In Close Game
Seventh Inning Rally Gives
Covington Mills A
3-2 Win
By Clyde Castleberry
Covington Mills defeated Calla
way Tuesday afternoon In one of
the best games of the last half, 3-2.
It was the third defeat Callaway
has suffered in the last half battle.
Ralph Watkins, on the mound for
Covington Mills, gave up only five
hits. Callaway's team gave poor sup
port to their newly signed pitcher,
Tom Kinney. The 13 hits that Kin
ney gave up were well scattered.
However, two bingles were got in
the seventh inning, coupled with
three errors, gave Covington Mills
two runs and the ball game, 3-2.
Tommy Smith continued his war
on pitchers with two for four. Pug
McLeroy banged out three for four
and Alford got three for three.
Tommy Callaway blasted out a
home run to put his team ahead,
2-1, in the fourth inning. Callaway
led, 2-1, until the seventh.
Castleberry-Rainey slipped out
from behind the eight ball and de
feated Covington Mills, 7-3. James
Johnson faced Grady Carter and
emerged the winner. Johnson gave
up five hits and Carter yielding
nine.
Castleberry Rainey's players
bunched their hits to score their
seven runs, being aided with a
flock of Covington Mill errors. John
Lovern and Howard Bray continued
their hitting attack by getting two
bingles each.
King-Hicks’ team increased then
league lead by defeating Callaway,
8-6. It was a pitchers’ battle be
tween Herbert Vining and Billy
Faulkner, (future brother-in-law?)
Both pitchers were wild, Herbert
walking four, and Billy giving six
free passes. They had their good
moments, however, each getting
four strikeouts to his credit.
Covington Mills handed King
Hicks their first defeat of the last
half, 8-5. The pop-up pitching of
Doc Vining failed to get the Coving
ton Mill batters out of there. They
got to Vining for 11 hits, including
a home run, triple, and a double.
Watkins pitched for the winners.
Herbert Vining and Grover Mor
ton hit best for King Hicks, while
Tommy Smith did the batting act
for the winners with a home run,
double, and a single.
City Pharmacy and Cohen staged
a slug-fest. both teams getting 26
hits. City Pharmacy emerged the 1
winner, 15-12.
Guy Roberson started the game
for City Pharmacy and pitched
three innings. He was relieved by
Howell Anderson, who turned in 1
the best relief pitching job that has f
been seen this season. He allowed;
no hits in the four innings he
hurled. No one reached first base
off him. t
Castle pitched all the game for
Cohen, giving up 16 hits Patterson, two)
hit best for the losers, getting
for four, including a home run. P.
D. Smith, Joe Heard, and Tom
ley hit best for the winners.
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TEAM W L PCT : l
King-Hicks -------- M 1 .750
Cov. Mills_________ A 2 .668
City Pharmacy______ W 2 .600 I
Cohen _____________ M 3 .400
Callaway---------- M 3 .400 !
Cberry-Rainer______ M 4 200
Povterdale Defeat8
THomaston Saturday
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The Porterdale Men Fast Soft
Team defeated the fast Thom
Team here Saturday Night by
the score of 8 to 4 the feature of
the game was the pitching of Adams
for Porterdale, Thomaston could not
get onto that fast ball of Adams’ and
he kept them well in hand through
out the game.
The Porterdale girls lost to the
Thomaston girls by the score of 13 to
8. Porterdale girls lost their game
through errors having made about
10 errors in the game, it seems they
could not get used to the lights and
catch the balls, the Porterdale girls
hit as well as the Thomaston girls,
but they could not handle the ball
in the field as well as the girls from
Thomaston. i
We had one of the largest crowds
we have had at any of our games;
there were approximately 1200 peop
le out to these two games and every
body enjoyed seeing them play.
The Night Hawk Club s Soft Bali
Team won the first half in the Por
terdale Soft Ball League, which end
ed July 1, 1938. The Second half
will begin July 4, 1938 with six teams
in the race. The Boy Scouts have
entered their team in the League
and will give the boys a good race
Games will be played six nights per
week and all league games will start
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RAJAH IN NEW CAREER—Rogers Hornsby, the "Rajah,” famous
leading right-handed batter and manager of the St. Louis Cards
when they won the World Series in 1926, shown in the uniform
of the Chattanooga Lookouts, cellarites of the Southern League,
as he assumed his duties as manager-coach. He was retired as
manager of the St. Louis Browns last year.
SOFTBALL BIG TEN
PLAYERS TEAM AB H PCT
J. T. Satterfield ____Callaway _____ ----18 9 .500
Tommie Smith ______Cov. Mills . _ _____ 5.9 28 .475
John Lovern _____C’berry-Rainey _____ 46 21 .457
R W. Stephens________City Pharmacy_____29 13 .448
Joe Hunt *______ ______King-Hicks ______.__27 12 .444
Bonham Johnson ___—Callaway ______ ___49 21 .443
Howard Bray ___ _____C’berry-Rainey ____40 17 .423
Charlie Medlock _____Cohen _________ ;____64 28 .437
Pub McElroy_________Cov, Mills ____41 17 .415
Billy Faulkner______.-.Callaway _________46 19 .413
Herbert Vining King-Hicks ______56 23 411
BOX SCORES
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 29
COHEN AB R H PO A E
Savage, rf________ db 110 0 0
Medlock. If _____ jb 112 0 0
Hitchcock, 3b ___ W 11110
Castle, p _________ 110 5 0
David, sf . ------ w 10 110
Patterson, lb----- 4 2 2 5 0 1
Randle, 2b _____2 2 110 1
2b____1 0 0 3 2 O
Chi j dera ss 1 0 0 2 0 o
w ___ _1 0 0 2 0 o
c ___ 2 10 4 1 o
cf ___ 3 1121
Totals . 33 12 10 21 12 cr
CITY PHAR CY AB R H PO t*J
D. Smith. 3b 3 3 2 3 *-•
sf __ __ 2 3 1 0
ss 2 2 3 4 o*—*ooo
W. Stephens, c 3 12 0
Bray, 2b . 2 10 3
Smith, rf _____ 110 0
Wiley, cf___ 2 2 0 0
p_____ 0 10 0 ooooo
p .___ 0 110
lb--- 0 1 10 0
If ______ 0 0 *-» 0
If______ 0 0 ►-* 0
------- ___ to 0 6 o O o 0—12
Pharmacy m 1 2 in 3 to 0—15
Runs batted in, Henry Bray 3,
2, Robinson 2, R. W. Ste-
1, Patterson 3, Childers 1,
Summers 2 Savage 1. Medlock; two
base hits, Castle; three-base hits,
none; home runs, Patterson; base
on balls, Robinson 4. Castle 3; strike
cuts. Castle 2; umpires Rowe and
Payton
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
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COV. MILLS AB R i
P. McElroy, cf___4 112 0
B Baker 3b_____4 2 13 3
T. Smith, ss_______4 2 3 0 3
Simmons, lb-----4 0 0 7 0
Yarbrough, If -----4 2 2 5 0
Burt, rf. 2b 4 12 10
Patrtch, 2b. rf _____4 0 10 0
Brown, sf-------3 0 14 0
Lingo, c ________3 0 0 2 0
Watkins, p ,3 0 0 0 1
Totals 37 8 11 24 7
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A Masten, Morton, Hunt, Butler, Ramsey, Gardner, KING-HICKS C. Vining. rf rf 2b ss c sf ------- ------3 ___ p ____4 _ —1 __4 __3 AB 5 5 R cn»-p©p»»©©©i—i©©Oio©© H CO © O * e-* 1 PO 0 2 5 2 2 0 1 A 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 oooooooW I |
Hamby, If __.------4 O 2 0 1 j
Hicks, cf 3 M 0 0 o
Weavor, cf ____1 O 0 0 o
Dan Smith, 3b----4 9 3 3 CO i
McKay, lb _____ 2 O 6 0 O
H. Vining. lb ______2 tJ 1 0 o
Totals ___40 10 24 7 to
Cov. Mills 0 2 CO O o 0 © I
King-Hicks 0 0 o Cl o 0 OJ
Runs batted in, Tommie Smith 4.
Burt 1, Lingo 1, Yarbrough 1, Pat-
1. Hicks 2, Butler 1, H. Vining
D two-base hits, Tommie Smith;
home runs, Tommie Smith;
on balls, Watkins 2; winning pitch
er, Yatkins; losing pitcher, A. C.
Vining. Umpires, Rowe and Ste
phens.
THURSDAY, JUNE 30
CALLAWAY AB R H PO A E
B Johnson, ss ______4 1 1 2 3 1
Faulkner, p 3 12 15 0
W Day. 3b ______ 3 2 1 0 3 0
T. Day 2b . tfb. 0 113 0
Satterfield, lb rfx 0 MOO 9 l 1
Bartlett, cf _____ CO 0 0 0 0
Hamby, If ________ CO 0 1 0 1
Holcomb, c ______ IsJ 0 15 0 0
T Callaway, sf to 1110 1
Baugh, rf . _ 110 10 0
Totals 29 6 9 21 15 4
KING-HICKS AB R H PO A E
Gardner, sf . 4 2 2 0 0 1
Masten, ss______ 4 0 0 2 1 0
H. Vining, p_____2 10 1 Ob-*OOOOU>C/» 0
Morton, 2b __4 1 2 w 0
c .__ 4 0 1 in 0
A. C. Vining. cf_____2 0 0 O o
E. Hamby, If 4 1 0 K) 0
Butler, rf ____ 3 I 0 a 0
D. Smith, 3b_____2 1 0 > 0
L. T. Wiley, lb ___ 2 1 0 * 0
Totals __.31 8 5 21 so 1
Callaway _____ 3 2 0 0 1 0 0—6
King-Hicks ______1 3 0 10 1 2—8
Runs batted in. Faulkner 2, W,
Day 1, T. Day 1. Satterfield 2, Mor
ton 2, Gardner 1. Wiley 1, Ramsey
1; base on balls. H. Vining 5, Faulk
ner 6; strike outs, Foulkner 4, H
Vining 4; umpires, Rowe and Pay
ton.
FRIDAY, JULY 1
COV, MILLS AB R H PO A E
Pug McElroy, ss 3 0 1 4 0 0
Baker, lb _____ .4 0 0 6 0 1
Tommie Smith, 3b 2 1 0 2
Yarbrough, If ____3 1 2 to 0 0
Burt, rf 3 0 1 0 0
J. Brown, sf_____2 1 0 Zai 0 0
Butler, cf _. ,2 0 1 to 0 6
Patrich. 2b____3 0 O l o
D. McElroy, c____2 0 O O 0 1
Carter, p .2 0 O ►-* 0 0
Totals 27 3 21 5 4
Watkins batted for D. McElroy in
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ss ________4 0 0 WCdOAHMOWOUt 2 1 j
Bray, 3b________4 2 2 1 1
C’berry, rf 4 11 0 0!
Lovern. If __ 4 1 2 0 0
2b 2 0 0 0 0
Bray, sf _____3 1 2 0 0
C. C’berry, c___3 0 0 1 0
p________3 0 0 3 0
cf___3 1 1 0 0
lb __. .311 0 0
Totals _____ 33 7 9 31 7 2
Mills ___ .-1 0 0 0 0 0 2—3
berry-Rainey — 1 12 0 0 1 2—7
Runs batted in, L. Bray 1, C.
Milstead Teams
Win Two Games
Monday afternoon the Milstead
first team swamped the Hossier
Waste mil! club of Atlanta, 13-1, on
the Milstead diamond. The second
team defeated Magnet, 12-1.
Saturday afternoon the first
team nosed out Chamblee at Cham
blee in a league game, 10-9. It was
a close game throughout with the
locals overcoming a two-run lead
late in the game to win.
Castleberry 1, Lovern 1, T. C. Cas
tleberry 1, Montgomery 1, Carlton
1, Yarbrough 1. Butler 2; three-base
hits, C. Castleberry; base on balls,
Johnson 3, Carter 1; strike outs,
Johnson 2; umpires, Huston Rowe
and Olin Rowe.
BOX SCORE OF GAME
TUESDAY, JULY 5
COV. MILLS AB R H PO A E
Pug McElroy, cf _ 1 3 3 0 0
J. Brown sf _____ LJ 0 0 10 0
Z. D. McElroy _ 10 0 C 0 0
Tommie Smith, 3b 4 0 2 M 2 0
Simmans, lb ____3 0 1 <£ 0 0
Yarbough, If ______2 0 occsioooroc-Jco C 0 0
Ed Rowe. If_____1 0 O 0 0
German, ss ____3 0 M 1 o
Burt. 2b _ ____3 0 l l i
Lingo, c_______2 0 6 1 1
Joel Bowen__.__0 1 ooo
Alford, rf___ 3 0 ooo
Watkins, p____3 1 0 5 0
Totals ... 32 3 21 10 1
D. McElroy batted for Brown in
7th.
Ed Rowe replaced Yarbrough in 5th.
Joel Bowen batted for Lingo in
7th
CALLAWAY AB R H PO A E
B. Johnson, ss . .3 1 2 3 5 1
W. Day, 3b_____ 3 0 1 2 2 0
Tom Callaway, lb 3 1 1 5 0 0
W. Johnson, If — 3 0 0 1 0 0
I Hamby, sf______3 0 0 CeJ i o
| Holcomb, c______3 0 0 O 1
[Haynes, 2b _ —2 0 1 to 0 0
) Baugh, rf __________2 0 0 03 0 2
j C. L. Butler, cf____2 0 0 o 0 0
Kinney, p___.____ 2 0 0 o 0
Totals ___26 2 5 9 3
Cov. Mills____1 0 0 0 0 0
Callaway ___1 0 0 1 0 0
Runs batter in, Tommie Smith
W. Day 1, Tom Callaway 1;
runs, Tom Callaway; base on
Kinney 1; strike outs, Watkins
I umpires, Huston Rowe, Olin
and Grover Morton.
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COVINGTON MILL SECOND TEAM
PLAYS FIRST NIN E R S 3-3 TIE
Second Team Has Won Six
Straight Games Thus
Far In 1938
By Pug McLeRoy
The Covington Mill Cubs, as part
celebration of the Fourth of July,
played the mill first team a 3-3 tie
Saturday morning at Trojan park.
Both clubs agreed to play a seven
inning game, win lose or draw.
Gene Hamby hurled the whole
game for the second niners and al
lowed but four hits. Lefty Kinney
pitched five innings for the first
team, giving up six hts. He struck
out 10 batters, though Hackett
pitched the last two innings and
struck out six batters.
John Brown hit best for the Cubs
with a triple and a double for three.
The Cubs have won six straight
games. They are as follows:
Cubs 8; Mnnroe Mill 1.
Cubs 8; Milstead 2.
Cubs 6; Newborn 3.
Cubs 10; Newborn 9.
Cubs 3; Livingston 0.
Cubs 18; Monroe Mill 2.
Homer Doster. Cub pitcher, has
hurled two games and given up only
three hits. Collins, portsider. yielded
six bingles in the two games he
pitched. Tommy Smith, Olin Rowe
and Pug McLeRo.v are the leading
batters of the Cubs.
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BOX SCORE
NO. 1 TEAM AB R H PO A B
German, ss 3 0 0 0 1 1
Baker, 2b-3b___4 0 10 10
J. Smith, c___ 2 0 0 7 0 a
Bowens, 3b-c___3 1:900
E. Rowe, If_______2 2 1 0 0 0
E. Arnold, lb__ 3 0 1 5 0 0
R, Butler, rf____2 0 0 0 0 0
D. Hamby, cf__ 1 0 0 0 0 0
A. Bledsoe. 2b__ 2 0 0 0 0 0
Kinney, p_____ 3 0 0 0 1 0
Hackett, p_____ 2 0 0 0 0 0
TOTALS ______27 3 4 21 3 l
NO. 2 TEAM AB R H PO A B
Arnold, cf______4 0 0 0 0
Butler 2b _________3 0 aOMQOHMMM 2 0
T. Smith, lf-ss___3 1 0 0
Brown, lb --------3 1 o o
° Rowe. 3b----3 0 a-4 a
Carter, ss-lf----3 0 C2 a
Doster, rf ------3 0 G o
Lott, c ____3 8 C? 0
Hamby, p------3 1 CC 0
TOTALS _____ 28 3 a
SCORE BY INNINGS
No. 1 Team_________000 201 0—3
No. 2 Team______,____012 000 —3
Three base hits: Brown; two base
hits, Brown; base on balls, off Ham
by, 3; strike outs, by Kinney, 10; by
Hackett. 6, by Hamby, 7. Umpire,
Skinney.