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PITCHERS CHECK BATTERS IN AMERICAN; NATIONAL LEAGUE INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE SEASON HERE TO OPEN MAY 13 WITH What The Stars Did Yesterday BATTERS GO ON BIG SPREEi BORDEN PLAYING MEAD TEAM Ruth Slams Out Fourth Homer of Season as Zachary Hurls First Swamp Giants By HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. (Associated Press Sports Writer) Baseball io a Nutshell Fast Baseball Expected in Local Has Last is Also Strong 30 ENTRIES FOR KENTUCKY DERBY I if in spite of his Philadelphia rom." Nor is he by Cleveland Jonathan Thompson Zachary of 4 New York Yankees is not idtypgt pitcher in tne American "League Tom the youngest, Tom became JKJ years old yesterday and he celebrated his birthday in harness the youngsters a few things. Last year Zachary led the American League pitchers by winning 12 games without a defeat. He also had the best earned run rating.

giving but 33 in 120 innings. Up to yesterday, Tom had not done so during the chilly spring days but with the advent of summer weather he scored his first victory, beating the Cleveland Indians, 8 to 7. Ruth Hits One 'Babe Ruth contributed largely to the five run rally which decided the inline by hitting his fourth home run of the season with two on base. Except in three National League games yesterday, the pitchers had the better of the major league batters. Bennie Frey of Cincinnati and (ieor- Earnshaw of the Phil- rlTdelphia dletics turned in the best performances, each allowing only three hits.

Frey won his 1 but Earnshaw lost. Two of rhe three hits off Earnshaw were made by the opposing pitcher, Walter Stewart of the St. Louis who piehed a six hit game. -Ike. third was a homer by Sammy Hale with one man on base which gave the Frown a 2 to 1 decision.

Frey won his third straight game 1 and his second 1 to 0 contest by 4 stopping the Boston Braves. Earl Whiten ill of Detroit had the beter of three Washington pitchers, holding the Senators to six hits for a to 1 triumph. Horr ace Li sen bee allowed the Chicago White Sox a dozen hits but kept I the harmlessly scattered while young Tom Oliver led the Boston Red Sox to a (I victory. er, who has hit safely in 16 secy live games, got four blows in It five times at bat. Cards Hit Heavy The St.

Louis Cardinals were in front rank of the heavy hit- 5 yesterday as they hammered rfivg Philadelphia pitchers for a lb victory. The game produced hits, of them for extra bases and five home runs. Not far behind came the Pitts- burgh Pirates and New 5 ork Giants, dividing 31 hits in Pitts- i burgh's 16 tty 8 victory. The I (Pants got 16 of the blows but 2 Pittsburgh greeted the debut of Roy Parmelee as a starting ier with a six run burst and never ere overtake n. The Chicago Cubs continued the on Brooklyn pitching by steadily and at the proper to gain a to 5 victory liifter Brooklyn iiad opened the game with a home run drive that four tallies in the first in- Glenn W'right and Del Bis- 5 hit successive homers in phis frame and Bissymette added jgp second in the; sixth inning.

AMERICAN LEAGUE land Washington Chicago St. Louis New York Boston Detroit 12 12 12 8 6 6 8 1 10 7 10 7 12 7 15 Cleveland New York 8. Chicago Boston 6. Detroit Washington 1. St.

Louis at Philadelphia. Chicago at Boston. Cleveland at New York. Detroit at Washington. The Industrial baseball league season will open on May 13 with 1 Borden Mill playing Mead Fibre, This game will be followed by Eastman-Press tilt on May 14 PCI' Dobyns-Bennett high school field.

All of the teams are rapidly rounding into form and from all indications some of the best amateur baseball in the history of the city will be in store for fans in Kingsport. The Eastman team is well fortified in the hurling department while Mead Fibre boasts of a strong team. The Kingsport Press has one of the finest teams in the city while Borden Mill will have practically the same By ORLO ROBERTSON .667 .667 .632 .500 .474 .474 .368 .318 NATIONAL LEAGUE Clubs New York Chicago ----Pittsburgh Boston Brooklyn Cincinnati St. Louis Philadelphia 10 11 11 8 9 8 7 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 12 11 PCT .625 .611 .611 .500 .500 .444 .368 .313 Results New 'Fork Pittsburgh 16. Brooklyn 5 Chicago 9.

Boston Cincinnati 1. Philadelphia 11; St. Louis 16. Games Boston at Cincinnati. New Y'ork at Pittsburgh.

Brooklyn at Chicago. Philadelphia at St. Louis. that waded through all opposition last year. Weldon MeCullum, former Milligan College star, will be on the hill for the Eastman when the second contest is played.

He will probably be opposed by Slim Spencer, Press star hurler. McCullum has a zipping fast bail Associated Press Writer NEW YORK, May 8 With the fifty-seventh running of the Kentucky Derby only ten days away, the probably starting field has narrowed down to some thirty of outstanding three-year olds. If more than 22 answer the bugle call on May 17, it will be a record for the Kentucky turf classic. Two years ago Reign Count conquered twenty one of the best in his memorable mud victory. Whether a record number goes team to the post depends much on the performance of William Gallant Fox in the $50,000 preakness to be run tomorrow at Pimlico.

Trainers and racing fans alike agree the brilliant son of Sir Gallahad III is the derby standout but there is a chance that the vice-president of the Jockey club may not (By The Associated Chick Haffey, home run and triple in fifth inning, driving in five runs as Cards defeated Phillies, 16 to 11. Frank Phillies Took first place in National League batting with five hits in five times at plate, including three doubles. Del Bissonette, Robins Hit two home runs but Robins were defeated by Cubs 9 to 5. Babe Ruth, Yankees Fourth home run of year helped Yankees defeat Indians 8 to 7. Sammy Hale, Browns Home run with man on base defeated Athletics 2 to 1.

George Earnshaw, Athletics Held Browns to three hits but lost. Bennie Frey, third straight game by holding Braves to three singles. FOOTBALL STAR IS ADVERTISING SHOW SOUTHERN LEAGUE Clubs Memphis Birmingham Chattanooga New Orleans Little Rock Atlanta Mobile Nashville 18 5 11 10 13 10 10 10 11 13 9 12 9 13 .7 15 PCT .783 .524 .565 .500 .458 .429 .409 .318 Results Little Rock New Orleans 2. 4 Mobile 2 Atlanta Birmingham 2. Chattanooga Nashville 6 Games Little Rock at Mobile.

Nashville at Atlanta. Chattanooga at Birmingham. Memphis at New Orleans. TUCKS CONTINUE LEAD SOUTHERN Major League Leaders ATLANTA, May 8 by veteran pitcher, the Chicks won their e.gh- 5 tenth victory of the season in the Association yesterday, 4 3. Walker, held the Mobile Bears Ikcoreleiis until, the eighth when ney scored their two runs.

Wad- leties 26. Chick outfielder, got a home in the seventh (By The Associated Press) Including games of May 7. NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting Phillies .500. Pirates, and Herman, Robins 19. Hits P.

Waner, Pirates, and Frederick, Robins 34. Robins 9. Pirates 5. Home and Jackson. Giants; Klein.

Phillies; Wilson, Cubs, and Herman and Bissonette, Robins 5. Runs driven Pi rats, and Herman, Robins 22 Stolen Cubs 5. AMERICAN LEAGUE Indians .459. Athletics 21. Red Sox 35.

Doubles Regan, Red Sox 9. Regan, Bed Sox 4. Home Athletics 5. Runs driven Ath- Stolen White Sox; Combs, Rice, haltanooga defeated Nash-) and Johnson and McManus, Itlie 7 to 6 as both clubs slugged ipr total of 32 hits, resulting in on- 13 runs. Yol first got his fifth homer of the lieason, while Bayne added to his 4 itching with a homer for the "lookouts.

Atlanta took the final game of series from the Birmingham Barons, 5 to 2. Red Oldham, Atlanta lefthander, ley the way to) 1 he gave only three fiits during the game. Little Rock pounded three New, Orleans pitchers for 14 nibs to 9 to 2, while Pipkin allowed Ihe Pelicans only four safeties. were made for the I ravel- by Rose and Joutdan. Tigers 3.

BLUE GEM COAL Phone 101 hurlers in college circies. Bralley Leads Press Pete Bralley, veteran amateur star, again will be at the helm of the Pres team. Pete is a veteran of many campaigns and will place a fine team in the field. William Bishop, manager of the champion Eastman team back in the early days of the City League, will pilot the wood reduction boys. Bril is roping in a lot of fine players.

Ratcliff will manage the Mead Fibre team while the veteran Y'ow will pilot the Mill nine. F. Lee Meredith, popular young football and basketball official, will have charge of the indicator. Lee is an official of high standing and fans are assured of splendid umpiring with him in charge. A finer selection than Meredith could not have been made and the executive board is to be congratulated on the wise choice.

It will insure fast games without tiic usual wrangles. The season will be split. The schedule for the first half of the season follows: May Mills vs Mead Fibre. May at Press. May Fibre at Eastman.

May at Borden Mills May at Borden at Mead Fibre. May Mills at Pr ess May Fibre at Eastman. May at Eastman. May Fibre at Borden Mills. May Mills at Mead Fibre.

May at Press. June Fibre at Press. June at Borden Mills. June at Eastman. June Mills at Mead Fibre.

June Fibre at Eastman. June Mills at Press June at Mead Fibre June at Borden Mills. June Mills. June June Press. June 21 man.

June at Press. June Fibre at Borden Mills. June Mills at Eastman. June at Mead Fibre. July Fibre at Borden Mills.

July at Eastman. July Mills at Press. July 5 Eastman at Mead Fibre July Mills at Eastman. July Fibre at Press. July at Mead Fibre.

July at Borden Mills and a good curve. He was rated choose to ship his star west for by Edwards, Milligan Col- blue grass feature. If Gallege mentor, as one of the finest jant Fox wins the preakness, the grapevine telegraph says he will be withheld for the Belmont Park and Saratoga three-year old stakes, features his owner would much rather win. Gallant Fox 4 to 1 Gallant Fox is now being quoted at 4 to 1 in the future books but a victory tomorrow at Pimlico would lower his quotation to 3 to 1 or even shorter. The only horses given a chance by the future bookmakers to defeat the Woodward ace are High Foot, Tannery and Gallant Knight.

Right now the latter two are considered the good and 8 to 1 depending on the section of the country7. Tannery, which will carry the silks of E. F. Prichard, has been backed down to 10 to 1. Gallant Knight is quoted at 12 to 1.

The probable derby field with the owners shapes up as follows Ante P. Headley. Breezing IL Bradley. Buckeye 11. Bradley.

Broadway Limited Three Stable. Stable. Crack M. Cassidy. Crazy P.

Whitney. Chimney P. Whitney. Gallant Stud. Flving Stud.

Gallant Audley Farm. Zeigler, Ji Sarazen Graham Fair Vanderbilt. Full Riddle Farm. Her Parr. High Lake Stable.

N. Camden. C. Stable. Michigan L.

Pontius. Ned W. Foreman. L. Salmon.

N. aniden. F. Prichard. Farm.

Stable. Quarter L. Schwartz Sun S. Kilmer. Gold Stable.

at Borden at Mead Fibre. Mills at Mead Fibre at East- Dick Abernathy is Advance Agent For Redpath Soon Richard Abernathy, star tackle of the Vanderbilt Commodores last year, and selected on the mythical all-southern team for two years, is in Kingsport today, advertising the Redpath Chautauqua that will appear here May 13 through 19. Abernathy is well known throughout the south, having been outstanding in football and basketball while a student at Vanderbilt. is a small boy, standing six feet four and one quarter inches and weighing 225 pounds. Abernathy played end his first two seasons at Vanderbilt but was transferred to tackle last year to plug a yawning gap in the line, and how he plunged it is known throughout the south.

He is one of the few football players to make all-southern end one year and all-southern tackle the next. is the advance man for Redpath Chautauqua. It might be said that he is tackling the business world. He finished Vanderbilt in March. GRADUATION T.

H. BAILEY Jewelef Phone 560. Next lo Strand Broad St. BLUE OEM COAL Phone 101 NEW RECORDS SET Heel Put BY TOM MURREL Hornsby on Bench CHICAGO, May 8. by was back on the bench with his Tom Murrel, one of the most sore heei today while the Cub brilliant athletes ever to attend management and his physicians Kingsport high school, set two! pondered over his condition.

records on the track in the Big Five meet held here two Ever since the spur-like growth was cut away from his right heel weeks ago. Tom set a new 10U iasf winter, the rajahs ankle has yard dash record when he paced been sore. At first, it was decid- the distance in 10.8 seconds. How-1 ed he only needed a short rest, ever, he bettered this mark at1 When the pain did not cease, it Knoxville by clipping .4 of a sec- was decided Co try work as a cure, ond off the time. Murrel also That has failed, too, and his physi- holds the records for the 220; rian as perplexed, yard dash at 23.1 seconds.

Hornsby had two teeth extract- Many of the records are several days ago and niaY be by Kingsport. Reasor holds the! forced to part with his tonsils, too. record for distance on the discus i feel good at all, he with 108 feet and 2 inches. Led- raid, I think some hot weath- dead at hHs Dorchester home today after a illness. Before playing with Boston, be had been with the Memphis, and Louisville, Ky.

teams. DERBY CANDIDATES (By The Quarter Deck, W. L. Schwartz third to Panuao and Ironsides in the Ancona handicap run over a mile and a sixteenth in 1:45 2-5 at Pimlico. Gone Away, William Zeigler, of money in Arizona handicap at Pimlico.

better holds the record on the er and a little more rest will fix high jump and broad jump with hie up 5 feet 6 inches and 20 feet and i 3 1-2 inches respectively. Paul jlace at second. Bellamy set a new record for the 440 during the past meet with 55.9 seconds. Smith holds the mile and half-mile records with 4 minutes 38.3 seconds and 2 minutes and 6.6 seconds respectively. Grills holds the pole vault record at 10 feet 5 3-4 inches.

Kingsport holds the record for the 880 yard relay at 1 minute 36.9 seconds. The records: Pole Kingsport, 10 feet 5 3-4 inches, 1930. 12 pound shot put Johnson City, 41 ft. 10 1930 High Kingsport, 5 ft. 6 1929.

Kingsport, 108 ft. 2 1929. Broad Kingsport, 20 ft. 3 1-2 1929. Johnson City, 159 ft.

8 1929. 100 yard Kingsport, 10.8 seconds, 1930. Mile Kingsport, 4 minutes 38.3 seconds, 1930. 220 yard Kingsport, 23.1 seconds, 1930. 120 yard high Johnson City, 17.9 seconds, 1930.

440 yard Bellamy, Kingsport, 55.9 seconds, 1930. 220 low Johnson City, 28.3 seconds, 1930 880 yard Kingsport 2 minutes 6.6 seconds, 1930. 880 yard Kingsport high school, 1 minute 36.9 seconds, 1930. JJ Clyde Beck is filling Camera Matched With Real Foes SPOKANE, May 8. Evans of the entourage of Primo Camera, said here today that the Italian heavyweight has been matched with Kayo Christner in Detroit, May 31 and George Godfrey in Philadelphia June 13.

Evans raid that a long string of Louis 1 exhibition and other matches had BALLPLAYER DIES BOSTON, May 8. Lehman, 60, widely known pitch-j brought the genoey: Goliath into er for the Boston National League, excellent condition and he was baseball team of 30 years ago, ready to meet stiff er opposition. The End is within Your reach ID you ever feel so desperate you wanted to jump out of a window? the wrong end oi the rainbow. Ill health is a burden on body, mind and friends. But Nature never fails to signal her dangers.

Lack of appetite, flabby flesh, loss of strength and skin troubles is a warning from Nature This is her a pleading IF u.i." Jfl indicated for Help. you it to yourself to try it. Say Society Women MELLO-GLO Face Powder is preferred by beautiful women because it leaves no trace of flakiness, pastiness or irritation. Stays on shiny noses. Made by a new French process large pores.

Spreads more a youthful bloom. Very pure. Use MELLO-GLO Face Powder. Drug 1 Holston Pharmacy. If you desire firm flesh, a glowing complexion, energy, vitality and the blessings of health you must keep your blood in good condition.

S.S.S. has been a blessing to millions of people who have taken advantage of its wonderful medicinal properties. It gives to Nature what it needs to build you up so that your system may throw off the cause. All good drug stores sell S.S.S. in two sizes.

Ask for the larger size. It is more economical. Makes You Feel Like Yourself Again £AR A FLOWER for your I mother Mothers Day. We wilij Lae them at the drug on Huu b-w 0i Regular plate lunch 50c Business hour lunch 25c Ye Dutch TEA SHOPPE Broad Street Phone 220 DARBY EGG $5.50 Per Ton CITY Coal Co Phone 304 Thompson and Fields Ready DKTROIT, May b. Fields and his challenger, young Jack Thompson, San Francisco gro, today had practically completed training for their welterweight championship fight at Olympia stadium Friday night and their managers expressed satisfaction with the results of the workouts in local gynasiuims.

Thompson already is safely below 147 -pound limit, while handlers reported that he will make the weight easily when the fighters go on the scales at 3 p. m. tomorrow. Prince of Wales Plays With Jones SUNNINGDALE, England, May 8, The Trinee of Wales played as the partner of Bobby Jones in a four-ball match this afternoon. Wales arrived at Sunnmgdale shortly after lunch, was introduced to Jones and the other of the American Walker Cup Team and soon was deep in conversation with Jones over golf.

The Americans had completed their morning practice and a four-ballet v.a* quickly arranged Wales could play with Jones. REDPATH Chautauqa Week Here May 13 to 19 PRESENTS Hon. Smith W. Brookhart U. S.

SENATOR FROM IOWA Veteran of three wars, champion marksman, noted member of Farm Bloc, whose motto is: Human Rights Above Outstanding Chautauqua Attraction Senator Brookhart is so well known and so lre- tjuently 011 front pages of newspapers, it is unnecessary to say anything more concerning him and his ability as one of the foremost and most sought for speakers of the Senate. A Season Ticket For All Attractions of redpath week $3.00 REDPATH Chautauqua Week Here May 13 to 19 as MICHAELS-STERN CLOTHES Whether the weather is favorable or otherwise MICHAELS-STERN CLOTHES Will weather it out in good style You simply cannot embarrass a Michaels-Stern suit. It is too staunchly perfectly to lose its superb appearance under the stress and strains of ordinary day-in-and-day-out wear. And comparison with other suits only serves to emphasize the ultra-smart styling that Lord Rochester, the supreme dictator of young fashions, puts into these. a comfortable thought that your Michaels- Stern suit represents an excellent investment In service as well as Fuller Hillman Popular Price FASHIONED BY LORD ROCHESTER.

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