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A T LEAST three American league
■**■ clubs have a chance to pile in
on the unhappy Yankees this season
and apply the intercostal chive. The
main trouble they face is within
their own camps—not within the
Yankee corral.
These clubs are Cleveland, Boston
and Detroit. Afflicted by certain def
inite weak departments, all three
may blow the big spot, which con
sists largely in mowing the Yankees
down after four years of complete
power.
What are these weak spots?
No. 1. Cleveland, with one of the
best ball clubs in the league, has
too many tempera
mental stars or near
stars. This isn’t the
fault of manager Os
car Vitt.
Cleveland has an
able catcher in Rol
lie Hemsley also
one of the best pitch
ing staffs in base
ball, headed by Bob
by Feller’. Cleveland
has a good infield,
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Rollie with a star shortstop
Hemsley —a good outfield.
But Cleveland also has at least
four ball players who don’t belong
in team play—at least four men who
are hard to handle, who haven’t one
fifth of the spirit that Brooklyn car
ries.
If these four men only could un
derstand the true spirit of winning
competition—even if they only could
realize they are trying to throw
away over a hundred thousand dol
lars in world series money—Cleve
land would have a shining chance to
win after 20 years in the wilder-'
ness, far away from the milk and
honey.
The Other Two
No. 2. Red Sox. The Jfawkey-
Cronin team has the infield and the
outfield. It has the scoring punch.
It has a great combination around
short and second. It has Jimmy
Foxx and Ted Williams.
But the Red Sox haven’t a first
class catching staff and they lack
pitching strength. Their main de
pendence is a 40-year-old left-hander
who has been around 16 years.
Experts tell me that Joe Cronin,
a fine fellow and a fine manager,
is no marvel at han
dling pitchers. This
may, or may not, be
true. Maybe he
doesn’t have the
pitchers.
But there is a dis
tinct art in working
your pitchers cor
rectly. Uncle Wilbert
Robinson was a past
master. Uncle Will
McKechnie of the
Reds is another. But J° e Cronin
they are few and far apart.
No. 3. This brings us to Detroit’s
Tigers. They have all the scoring
dynamite a ball club needs. They
have pretty fair pitching. But they
have a second-division infield—a
spotty infield well below any normal
pennant showing.
Detroit can go out and get the
rims. But before the season is over
the Tiger infield will show too many
gaps to match their run-making of
fensives.
And that factor will be all-impor
tant in determining final club stand
ings. If the Tigers’ infield defensive
power was on a par with their hit
ting ability, the final records likely
would be different.
So these pennant weak spots
against the staggering Yankees in
clude these:
1. Cleveland—too much inside dis
sension and trouble.
2. Boston lack of battery
strength, always a vital need.
3. Detroit—a rickety infield.
The Big Change
What about the Yankees? Their
main control in the realm of rule, in
the kingdom of conquer, has been
balance. They have great catching,
good pitching, a star infield, a fine
outfield defensive and offensive
strength just about evenly matched.
They came home in poor condi
tion for two reasons—bad weather in
the South and a killing spring train
ing tour that covered most of the
map below the Mason and Divot
line.
They also had four years of easy
success back of their fifth charge.
Each man on the club had banked
$25,000 in world series cash since
1936.
They left a big opening for some
well-rounded challenger, but if they
win this time it will be largely be
cause their main opponents had too
many soft and spongy spots.
Demaret and the Next Open
Swinging along to another sport,
they are asking now whether Jimmy
Demaret will be another MacDonald
Smith, another Horton Smith, anoth
er Harry Cooper, another Henry
Picard —great golfers who have nev
er won a National Open champion
ship.
If Jimmy Demaret is close to his
game he is capable of winning any
title or crown. His is the star of
the pack today, the best I’ve seen
for the needed combination of bril
liancy and consistency.
K
MENLO NEWS
Mrs. R. L. Rich, Mrs. Otis Ward
law and Mrs. R. B. Jones, of LaFay
ette, spent Tuesday with relatives
here.
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Miss Reita Thomas visited Betty
Story in Summerville Monday and
Tuesday.
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Roy White, Holland Thomas and
John Lester Edwards returned from
Bob Jones college Thursday to spend
the summer with their parents.
* * *
B. F- and Emmett McCamey, of
Trion, spent Saturday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Christopher.
♦ * ♦
Mr. and Mrs. John Lumbsden and
daughter, Flora and Laura Jo Taylor,
spent the week-end in Center, Ala.
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Mr- and Mrs. G. G. Adams and
children from Berryton spent the
week-end' here visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Day have re
cently moved into their new home
here.
Mrs. Gerald J. Marks and son,
Russell, of Buffalo, N. Y-, are visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. Scott Cleckler for
a few days.
* * *
Miss Anna Alexander spent last
week with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wyatt-
♦ » ♦
Miss Mildred Lawrence spent last
week in Chattanooga with Mrs. Marie
Doster and Miss Etta Lawrence.
» * •
Mr. and Mrs- James King, of Chat
tanooga, spent the week-end with
Mrs. Minnie Lee King.
Miss Helen Wyatt spent the week
end at Gore.
The auxiliary of the Presbyterian
church met with Mrs. Jack Jackson
last Saturday.
* * ♦
The Daily Vacation school will
continue through next w r eek. The
busses are running over their school
route.
* * •
Mr- C. N. Wilson is seriously ill.
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Mr. Felt Ballard returned home
from the Riegel hospital Saturday.
♦ ♦ •
Mr. and Mrs. Renzo Ratliff, of
Chattanooga, visited Mr. and Mrs. E.
W. Majors 4 Sunday.
Hershel Griffith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Griffith, has been il’
the past week.
THE NEWS
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age life a weekly ’ must" for seventeen mil- KW ord In P©l« \ ault ~
lion Americans. The! , Berkeley, Calif,
show will continue to r * * ? Cornelius Warmer-
be heard on Tuesday —r W dam of the San
nights over NBC until Z . ~. Francisco Olympic
Benny starts his sum- g>' ’7 - —■ 7Z~~ Club, who uno.-
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Novel Sleeper Van—lnspectors for the Interstate Commerce Commission / I'-
have praised the novel arrangement of the new Fruehauf trailer unit, /
supplied to Henry H Stevens, who operates a nation-wide van service /
A sleeping compartment is built in the nose of the 1650-cubic foot unit. > ,
hailed by the drivers as a great boon f /
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yl, -Z ;; V. Beauty—June Storey. Republic
Ji ' Picture star, is all set for the
.>’’A ' season's swimming With her
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. near the front. The shelter rs covered with humorous inscriptions Miss Storey is assured of many
The troops are always ready to have a little fun when the hours of delightful swimming
opportunity is presented. - - this season. 1 11
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940
THE WAGES OF SIN
Romans 6:23
BY REV. STEVE VLOUD
Pastor Menlo Baptist Church
In this age men are unconscious of
sin. They fail to recognize its dead
ly effects upon humanity. This is
due in part to the prevalence of sin.
Born in sin, reared in sin, living in
sin—is it any wonder that men are
unconscious of its existence?
Sin has not lost its effects on hu
manity. It is still wrecking lives and
damning souls. Its wages are the
same as they were when Adam and
Eve were expelled from the Garden
of Eden, and when Paul, writing un
der the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
penned this great truth.
First, the wages of sin is a guilty
conscience. Certainly, there is no
one who has not felt a sense of guilt
because of some sin that he has com-
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mitted. He cannot get away from
it; his conscience is guilty. After
Adam and Eve had eaten the forbid
den fruit, why did they hide them
selves? There was no policeman
there ready to arrest them. There
was no one to point an accusing
finger at them; their consciences
were guilty. They had sinned. Alter
Pontius Pilate had delivered Christ
to the angry mob, why did he call
for a basin of water to wash his
hands? He had pleased the people;
he had done the popular thing. Yet,
his conscience was guilty. He had
sinned. After Judas had betrayed
his Master for thirty pieces of sil
ver, why did he take the money back
to those who had given it to him, and
hang himself? No one had accused
him of anything wrong. He had
pleased the largest crowd. Yet his
conscience was guilty. He had sinned.
Second, the wages of sin is a
scarred body. No one can continual
ly indulge in sin without having it
leave its mark upon his body, and
once the scars of sin are on our
bodies they can never be removed.
The guilt of sin may be forgiven, but
the scars will remain. I know a
young man who was badly wounded
one nighit in a drunken fray. He was
cut in several places. Today he is
rejoicing in the stainless sunlight of
God’s love. His sins have been for
given, but the scars remain. They
will never be removed. Young man,
young lady, accept the Lord Jesus as
your Saviour and stop living that
dissipated, sinful life before sin pays
you off with a scarred body.
Third, the wages of sin is death.
What a horror men have of that word
“death!” Yet ’how carelessly they 1
tamper with that which is certain to
bring death- The word “death” means
separation. Physical death means
separation from the presence of God.
To me the real tragedy about going
to Hell is the eternal exclusion from
the presence of Almighty God- The
wailing and gnashing of teeth will
be bad; the eternal fires will be
terrible; but the awful thing about
going to Hell is the everlasting sep
aration from the presence of Al
mighty God.
“The wages of sin is death; but
the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.” The only
way to escape the wages is to quit
the business. The only way to quit
tho business is to accept Christ.
“As Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, even so must the
Son of man be lifted up that ,
believing in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. John 3:14,
15.
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and I seemed to go one car. Bargain $275
way and the children an-
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forms to go together. Now, conditioned; first class. A
I drive them to their .
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is something for all of us
to look forward to. It’s 1938 Ford Pick-Up. A real
like old times! buy $375
Hair Motor Co.
W. F. ALDRED, Manager
AMERICA, THE LAND OF
LIBERTY
America, the land of liberty
The land of the free.
Many a country doth envy you,
Your flag do they honor.
As ever flies over you
The Stars and Stripes forever shine.
Representing the unity for which
you have stood,
The freedom we love is forever thine.
We hold in our hearts the great sis
terhood,
Your Statute of Liberty, she forever
stands,
Holding out freedom to other lands.
She holds the book of knowledge
And the torch of light in her hands.
Little Finland looked out upon you,
Safeguarded her country with a gov
ernment ;
Which still stands true.
Ever we-have onward the call
Which echoes to all. —C. F-
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BUCHANAN. —This story should
amuse farmers who have occasion to
purchase guano. A Haralson county
farmer, his soil check in his pocket,
decided it was time for a summer
outfit- “I want some underwear,’ he
told the department store clerk.
“What size?’ queried the salesman.
“I don’t know,” said the farmer slow
ly, “but the last one’s I had were
9-3-3-”
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Myrtle’s Beauty Shoppe.
J. T. HUDKINS
BARBER SHOP
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