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Evening star., 1937-09-05

Browns and one of the greatest baseball
players of all time. More fans pay their money
to watch Sisters clubs than to see the major
league Cardinals and Browns put together.
What is this softball? How does it differ
from baseball? To begin with. the term soft
ball'' is misnomer. The globule, pill. apple
- call it what you will - in the new game is
almost as hard as the one used in baseball.
But it is larger (about twelve inches around),
while the bat is smaller.
The principal differences between softbal
and baseball lie in the size of the diamond,
the dimensions of balls and bats, the under
hand pitching and the rules governing base
stealing. A runner cannot leave his base until
the ball has left the pitchers hand. 1t is un-
lawful to take lead off the base - or to
score on wild pitch.
Ten men make up the team - the extra
player is an outhelder who covers the territory
behind the shortstop. No bunting is allowed
you've got to take good cut at the ball
and if the batter is hit by pitched ball, he
doesn't get his base; all he gets is ball.
The rules about pitching are most strict and
specific Not only must the ball be delivered
underhand, but snap, or jerky release of the
ball at the hip. is prohibited.
With such rules to hamper them, the tech
nique developed by softball pitchers amazed
the spectators at Soldiers Field last September.
The scores were mostly in small figures: 80,
TO- 81, etc. Eight men pitched perfect games
except for one single hit Matt Rupert is
credited with having pitched one hundred
games without single hit. Ecclestone of
Toronto established record by pitching two
no-hit games in one tournament. Coon"
Rosen of Chicago pitched three games in one
day and won all three, coming in as relief
pitcher in the last. Among the ladies, the
comely Miss Williams of Houston, Texas, was
favorite, pitching hitless game until the
last inning. with two out. And Vera Vining, of
the champion Cleveland players, never lost a
game, though she yielded several runs.
As Arthur Noren pointed out to me, one
reason for the growth of softball's popularity
is the comparative smallness of the diamond
Bases are only sixty feet apart. This makes
the game accessible to millions who never
could be accommodated if Large fields, with
80 feet between the bases (as ON baseball
diamonds) were necessary.
My first experience with softball happened
when it was comparatively little known in
the East. Our Methodist Church needed a
new pipe organ and lot of US in the neigh
borhood needed exercise. So somebody sug-
gested that we promote softball game and
turn over the gate money to the church.
We did but we made one mistake. In
our neighborhood we have two distinct COM
munities. the Hill and the Town - Quaker
Hill and Pawling, N. Y. In the old days, l am
told, there was no love lost between the
two communities. But, having only recently
moved there, was blissfully ignorant about
this feeling and, indeed, everybody thought it
had died down.
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-HE score was 20 in the final inning of
the tournament for the world champion
ship On the short end of the tally were
the previous year. s champions, the spec
tacular Weaver-W Wall team from Cleveland.
When they went onto the field that day last
September. they had high hopes of holding
the title for another year.
But for six innings they had gone to bat
in vain - softball game lasts for only seven
innings - against the Kodak Park players of
Rochester And the Rochester lads had
pitcher named Gears, nicknamed "Shifty."
Through six games of that 1896 tournament,
''Shifty' had pitched unbeatable ball. At the
start he had famed the first fifteen batters to
come to the plate. In the next game, against
the champions of Maryland, he struck out
twenty men. He followed that up by shutting
out the champions of Chicago, TO- and the
top-notchers of Connecticut, 1910.
Such was the moundsman the 1895 cham
pions faced at Soldiers Field in Chicago in
last years final round. Up to the seventh
and last inning they had bare couple of
hits - and not run to their name. But
with two men out in the last frame the Cleve-
land lads dug in their toes, whammed out two
safeties and, before the invincible "Shifty"
knew where he was, two runners were on base.
The next Cleveland batter drove sizzling
hit through the box. Shift" made desperate
lunge for it - and missed. 1t looked for all
the world like safe hit, bound to bring in
two runs to tie the score. But young man
named Kremble, at second base for Rochester.
accomplished one of those miraculous bits
of fielding such as we see only few times a
season, even in major league baseball.
Kremble dived for the ball, by miracle
managed to come up with it. put out the
runner on second base - and there was your
ball game. as we'll as the tournament and the
Worlds Softball Championship.
Women play softball. too - have their own
worlds series" - and in the final game of
last years women's tournament the excite
ment was just as keen. The Montgomery V-8
team of Chicago was fighting it out with the
young ladies of the National Screw and Manu-
featuring Company of Cleveland. And for
three rough-and tumble innings it was real
battle, with several players. mostly on the
Chicago team, injured. Then rainstorm
halted the game, with Cleveland in the lead,
1875
When play was resumed the next morning
at the point where they had left off, the
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and Canada. And that is a oonserva-
tive estimate.
A year ago there were 1855 softball
diamonds in 8O5 cities and towns,
with 10, O,144, ,252 active players of both
sexes. So we learn from Leo Fischer,
president of the Softball Association
of America, who was principally re-
sponsible for organizing the first world
championship tournament at Chicago
in 1888. l asked Arthur 7. Noren,
secretary-treasuer of the ANA
! teur Softball Association and
Superintendent of Recreation
in Elizabeth, N. J., how
many were playing the
game this year.
The number of clubs
has increased 200 per
cent in New Jersey
alone" he said. ''Of
course the East has been
slower to take up the
game than the rest of
the country. But you
will be conservative if you
say that over the country
there are so per cent more
Evening star., 1937-09-05

lllC lNlO Will SCVCA al SukS0S4-
tutes. And despite the handi-
cap they played such a des-
perate game that they batted
out seven runs and were
within an ace of evening the
score. But meanwhile the
Cleveland girls scored 4more
- winning the tournament
and championship.
Of such quality we're the
exciting episodes of the
Fourth Amateur Softball
Tournament at Soldiers
Field, Chicago. Seventy
teams were entered
forty-eight teams of men
and twenty-five of women.
They we're the champions
of forty-one states and nine
metropolitan areas - the
pick of more than $1,000
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N. C.. ASSEMBLY WILL
OPEN ON WEDNESDAY
CONTINUED from page one)

4. Labor -, The child labor
amendment is up. again. A AS
hour week in industry and 40
hour week in textiles is expected
to be-, presented as "a bill. The
state. legislative council decided
Saturday to present such bill.
5. iAgriculture-Control Of to-
bacco, production by state con-
tracts is expected to be presented
as bill. s.
6. Miscellaneous - lnclud n x
bigger school appropriations,
charges in administrative, set-up,
possible reorganization of state
highway and public works COM
mission. expansion Of supreme
court from to 2 members. leg
islation dealing with funds claim
cd by counties as due for highway
building. possible provision for
advertising the state, free school
text books, possible provision for
100000 addition to. state tuber-
cuiosis hospital at Black Noun
tain, and provision for new tax
ing amendments to constitution,
including classification of proper.
ty, exemptions of ohmesteads, and
increased income tax rates.
z. NConservation-A bill is be-
ing prepared to stimulate timber
growth through classification of
wooded lands, creation of a four
per cent minimum tax rate. and
inauguration Of a 10 per cent tim
Der yield tax. ~
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PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS

Jimmy Lampley and guest, Da-
vid Gunter of Gaffney. S. c., have
returned to Furman University in
Greenville, S. c.
Mrs. NJ. E. Whitehurst has re-
turned to Grey, Pa. after visit
to her daughter. Mrs. Yates w.
Little, and Mr.. Little.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Leconey,
who have just returned from q
trip of ten days to Florida, had
with them for the weekend their
son. Horace Leconey, who had
spent the holidays with friends in
Maine. He has now returned to
Raleigh.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. R. Whitley
have returned home after a visit
of two weeks to relatives in the
eastern part of the state.
Miss Kate Dotson. who had
been visiting friends in New York
City for a few days, returned
home Saturday morning.
Mrs. C. w. Groom and baby
have returned from Raleigh where
they spent the holidays. Mr..
Groom came back several days
ago.
Mrs. Frank Gaybeal and little
Miss Edna Byers left last night
for Fairmont, W. Va. where she
Is q member Of the faculty at the
West Virginia Teachers college.
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NORTH BLUE RIDGE. Jan. 4:
This community was saddencd
whga the death angel came ior
RAYMOND Hill on December Is.
He had been i'll for several weeks
but had borne his pain with q
smile. He will be greatly missed
by all who knew him for his KIND
deeds to Others. He is survived
by his widow, formerly Miss Euro
Coston; One daughter. Barbara;
his parents. Mr.. and MRS. =. \;
Hill, and one sister. Mrs. George
Penn. Funeral services were con-
Quoted from the home December
10. BY, the Revs.r M. L. Lewis, N.
r. Phillips and Row. Huntley. The
body was laid forrest in Oakdaie
cemetery. A.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Brownlow MGR.
rili and Mrs. w. d. Greene visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Allen Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Pace
wcr supper. guests Christmas day
of the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Grant Pace.
Stanley Merrill has accepted a
position in Florida. His wife, who
has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. j..
II. Merrill, will leave In a few
DAYS to join her husband.
Mrs. Dock Case and son, sum.
ter, of Charlotte, were the dinner
guests of Mrs. C. N. Allen Satur-
day. ..
Mr.. and Mrs. R. H. Lincoln,
who have been in this community
for the past four years, left Wed
ncsday for West Palm Beach, Fla,
where they will make their home.
John Pitts, of Statesville, visit
cd Mr.. w. T. Willis last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Allen and
children, Jimmie and Dixie, Ben.
son Gale, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ray.
mond Pace were dinner guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. b. S. Justice on
Christmas day.
A Christmas program was given
by the young folks at Refuge Bap-
fist church last Thursday night,
after which a Christmas tree was
enjoyed. Every child and every
old person received a gift. After
the tree had been unloaded men,
bcrs of the church played Santa
Claus to Rev. N. B. Phillips, with
a shower Of many good things to
cat. .r-
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Gloria have come home after a
visit to relatives in Asheville. :.
Mr.. w. F.-Hafner has returned
to Chicago after a holiday visit
to Dr.. and Mrs. L. b. Mcdonald,
with whom Mrs. Hafner will re-
main for awhile longer. ...i
Miss Martha Hill is at home af-
ter. a visit to Miss Ruth Dale at
Spruce Pine. = '.-g.
Miss Frances Shipman has re-
turned from Union, S. c., where
she visited. friends. .
Mrs, Louis Sherman. and daugh-
ter, Miss Frances, are back from
Rocky Mount: they were guests Of
Mrs. j., Gold while there. y
Miss. Nell Stepp is at home af-
ter visiting several points in Flor
ida. -.-...
Mr.. Temple Robinson. who
spent awhile with his family, has
returned to his work at Fayette-
vile. s., ~ .
Charles Bryson left yesterday
to resume his studies at the Uni
versity Of st. Louis in st. Louis,
Mo. -
George Turner has resumed his
studies at G. NJ. A., College Park,
Ga.
Miss Julia Oates has returned
to Louisburg, where she teaches.
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EAST EDNEYVILLEs

EAST EDNEYyILLE, Jan. 4.
Mrs. Luther Edney visited Mrs.
James Carver, Friday. -
Mr.. James Wells, Of Alabama,
spent the holidays here with his
family. 49,. -
Mr.. Jim Ward and Mr.. and Mrs.
Willie Ward, of Fletcher, visited
Mrs. Luther Edney Christmas day:
Everyone welcomes Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Allison and family
into this section. ,, -
Miss Louise EdIey was the
overnight guest OF Mrs. Arthur
Allison Thursday might. j,
Mrs. Clarence Frady, Of Green.
hill; visited Miss Katie Williams
Christmas day. !
Thelma Edney called. on Mrs.
James Wells last Tuesday. %
Mrs. Charles Edney called on
Mrs. John Green Friday after.
noon. ,us.t,s - u
Misses Myrtle Rogers, May and
Katie Williams visited in this sec.
ton Saturday. -. NJ .i:..%
Claude Edney. is visiting his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jim
Ward, of Fletcher. ~.
Julia and David Seamore, of
Asheville, are visiting their grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Law
renee.
Forest Fisher and Forest Pryor
Of Fruitlsnd were visitors in this
section recently.
!, .Frsht Green is, visiting relatives
I Billiej,Lspghter, Of. Biltmore,
visitedOhis parents here recently.
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Whereas, default was made in
the payment Of the indebtedness
secured by that Deed in Trust OK.
ccuted by r. Mckinley Blackwell
and wife, Nellie Kate Blackwell,
to Charles French Toms, St.,
Trustee, dated October "a, 1895.
recorded in Book .ii2. Page 2G3.
Records Of Mortgages and Deed,
in Trust for Henderson County,
on account OF which the power Of
sale, after due and proper notice
has become absolutely -
Now, therefore, the undcrsign.
cd will, at the request Of tho own.
CT and holder OF the note, and in
order to satisfy said debt, and by
virtue Of the power Of sale con.
tanned in said deed in trust, sell,
to the highest bidder, for cash. a,
public auction, at the CourthouS
door, in Hcndersonvillc, N. G.. oh
January II, 1887, at 12' O'Clock
noon, all the property described
in said Deed in Trust, to-wit:
BEGINNING at a stone, III,
Northeast corner of the May
Jane Pace lands, and runs South
IVA. 4 dcgrccs) l0l poles to an
iron stake; thence North sc DEF.
West 9 l-2 poles to an iron stake;
thence North 4 deg. E. 10l poles
to a stake in the old line; thence
East Iva. 4 deg.) 8 IL poles 10
the BEGINNING, containing sa
acres, more or less, and being ID,
same land described in. a deed
dated, May z, 1882. and recorded
in Book 200, at page 1l3. OF th
Records Of Deeds for Henderson,
County.
This sale to be made subject 10
outstanding taxes.
This 18th day Of Dec. 1886.
CHARLES FRENCH TOMS, ST..
Trustee,
By Rcddcn & Rcddcn, Attorney
12.l4.Mon.4tp
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BIG WILLOW

BIG WILLOW. Jan. 4.-Miss
Martha Bell is visiting relatives at
Tuxedo.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. L. F. Drake
have been visiting relatives at
GaStonia.
Funeral services were held at
Beulah church Wednesday for i.
b. Middleton of Valley Hill, with
Rev. F.. A. Kilstrom officiating.
Mr., Middleton has many relatives
in this community.
Newell Drake spent the night
recently with Max Drake.
Albert Gibbs and James Mace
have returned to Washington, d.
c., after spending the Christmas
holidays with relatives here.
e. Rev. and Mrs. j. E. Osteen Wis
tied ut the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
T. A. Drake Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Flave Cantrcll
and son.. Allen, of Hendersonvillc,
spent Christmas with relatives.
Mrs. s. F. Cantrell is i'll.
James Mace has purchased the
General Hill property and plans
to erect a dwelling.
A marriage of much interest to
q wide circle Of friends was that
of Miss Oleta Higgins, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Higgins, to
Mr.. Robert Cole of Greenville, s.
c.. on December q. They will re-
side in Greenville. Their many
friends wish them much happi.
ness.
Mr.. and Mrs, Xix Summey, Of
Indian Cave, spent Christmas with
the lattcr's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. c. Higgins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Higgins, Of
Hcndersonvillc, visited relatives
here recently.
Levi Cantrell made business
trip to Hendersonville Friday.
The Strick Dalton twins have
been very i'll.
Everette Higgins and family
arc moving to Pleasant Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roane Blythe and
family are moving to this com.
munity.
Miss 1Annabellc Raines, Of Bal
four, spent Christmas with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. C..
Raines.
George Bell, Of Tuxedo, who
died recently, was given burial in
the Beulah cemetery.
Miss Oberia Revis, Of Royal
Pines. spent the holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. G. Revis.
Mrs. s. C. Higgins is i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lenell Higgins
mad son. Leary, Of Hendersonville,
spent Christmas with relatives at
this place.
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D. Mrs. c. r. MeMsnaway
-, -. Society Editor
eAons 90 Before II Noon
tEfuRNING TO
W e. OF v. N. c.

!SiAmeng The girls returning to
enc Woman's College of the Uni
sefsity Of North Carolina, Green's
bofoftoday are: Misses Sybil Cur
ley. Bessie Mae McFadden and
Matte Jean Cely. Mr.. and Mrs.
George NJ. Flanagan left by mo-
Tor this afternoon with their
@9gtter. Miss Elsie Flanagan.
And We're accompanied by Misses
Massey Rose McManaway and Al
fene Pcndleton. Mrs. Otis Powers,
who motorcd there also, had with
her Misses Alice Louise Powers,
Bessie Bremen and Maude Sta
con. Miss Martha Kelly will go
from Tryon to Greensboro and
Miss Dorothy Kelly to the Uni
yersity of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill.
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about $500. 900 when finished and
equipped and will employ about
100 people in the manufacture OF
ladies' full.fashioned hose. .
On the basis Of expansion al
ready announced or anticipated
for 1887, 1t is believed that en-
ployment will be given an add.
tional $50 people in industry and
that industrial payrolls will be: in
creased By about 5000 during
1887. Should the expansion 'ex.
coed anticipa jon and thesineressS,
be as much as that Of 1885, I'M
,dustry in Henderson county will
exceed the raahoh.dollar mark IN
1887. - "'s
Several new industrial plants
have been located here during the
past three years. At present, &C
cording to T. H. Franks, chair
man of the Chamber of Commerce
industrial committee. there is no
immediate prospect for new in
dustries.
nOSIEHI, i6H bhS
LARGEST INDUSTRIES -.
Industry in the county is diver
sified and there are some dozen
or more plants in operation. The
hosiery industry is the largest In
the county and employs slightly
more than so per cent. Of all work
crs. Textiles are second and EN-.
ploy about 81 per cent of the
workers in the county. Among
articles manufactured are print
cloths, fine combed yarns, brick
and ceramic products, naper box
es. hosiery of all grades for men
and women, cords and window
sash, bedspreads, bath mats, beach
clothing, polishes, finishes. 10
tions, wood novelties, tool handles,
canned goods, flour. meal ana
feeds. ..y.
Retail trade for 1895 was cs-
timated at $2,275,000 my the fed
cral government census. The estl.
mated increase of is per cent IN
this line would bring the total to
about S2,6l6.250.
ALL CLOSED BANKS
ARE NOW LlQuiDATED
In the financial line. local hold
ings increased during the year.
Liquidation of all closed banks in
the county was completed during
the year, and depositors may ex-
pect a small payment in dividends
during 1887. Bank deposits reach
cd the million.dollar mark in June
of last year for the frs. time since
all banks closed in November,
1880. Deposits in june Of 1885
showed an increase Of 10 per cent
over the same month Of 1885. Dc.
posts in December of the past
year showed an increase Of 10 per
cent over the same month OF
1886. Deposits at the close Of the
past year increased over those OF
June of the same year.. An esti-
mated. $4,000 was brought, to
the, county by the so.called SOL
diers' bonus. :, f.