Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 1924 Page: 3 of 16
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WISE COUNTY MESSENGER
Friday, April 11th, 1924.
Decatur Indians Won Two
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championship again this year.
now Crabtree, 2b.
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R. Green and the be spectacled pro-
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Christian, 3b.
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talk about “getting rich quick” got his
money in a “wild cat” scheme—when it
blew up he worried around and the boss
had to let him go. He had lost the “pep”
that he used to have. Now look at him.
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he would have a bank account—and job.
Honorable Roy C. Coffee addressed
the voters of the Fonder community
I in that town Tuesday night.
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Cody, cf...........
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White, 3b........
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Seal, if
Kelly Was Star of First
of Indians on Home
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—The Wise County Home Protective Association,
the first mutual insurance company to be organized in
Wise County, has a record of which it is proud. For
twenty-two years this association has stood the test and
today it is one of the most vigorous and the strongest
associations of its kind in the state.
—It has been conducted in a busienss-like manner
and all along its career it has been sound and reliable.
Very particular pains have been taken to see that the
association is kept upon a high plane; that only good
risks are taken into its ranks, and at all times thoro
business men have been at its directing head. As a
resut the Wise County Home Protective Association is
today one of the best and cheapest insurance men and
women can carry.
—This home institution, managed by home people,
has paid policy holders’ beneficiaries the huge sum of
$262,900.00. This money has gone into the hands of
your worthy friends and neighbors.
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Summary Two-base hits, Gentry,' Alaska has been found to have rich
Sebastain, Biddy; hits off Watson, deposits of al mast every useful min
eight; hits oft Maddox. six; hits off eral.
Cody, one; struck out by Watson, ___
When these local fields became exhausted, it
was rare indeed that a local company had the
resources to go further afield in search of more
gas, and consequently whatever advantages
there may have been in local arrangements
were mure than counterbalanced by scarcity
of gas.
Combination of a number of local systems
into one large system made many fields avail-
able for all, and permitted the constant explora-
tion for additional supplies that is so marke 1
a feature of our business.
Since then, in this company, three score or
more of communities have had the benefit of
an augumented supply and good service, with
the assurance that their interests were in the
nine; struck out by Cody, four;
bases on balls, off Watson four, off $$+$$664
How would you like to work hard
and faithfully for many days and then
find that no one appreciates your
efforts? No super-coach, no ensem-
ble of stellar players, no amount of
strenuous work-outs can take the
place of good, whole-hearted, unsel-
fish backing from Decatur citizens of
that bunch of Indians at D. B. C.
never
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to be seen every day on the newly Cody, p-lf.........
manicured courts, and we prophesy Gardner, rf......
that the team which wins the flag Paulk, C...........
this year will have to do some high Henderson, 1b.
stepping to eliminate the Indian rac- Louis, cf...........
queteers. Among those to be seen White. 3b. ......
armed with tennis clubs are Frank Maddox, p.......
Killough, Ralph Hoyl, Sam Hardy, Seal, if..........
H Bentley Glass. J. C. Smyth. Lloyd Beccum, 3b.....
Decatur high has developed some
first-class tennis players, who waded
thru the county meet with the loss
of only a few games. If Decatur
would get behind the high school
athletics and give the boys a few
words of encouragement rather than
carefully directed kicks, the Alvord
bunch wouldn’t be holding the county
championship of the recent meet.
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Maddux four; sacrifice hits. Hardy
two, Kelly.
Decatur plays two more games this
week— Friday and Saturday after-
noons— and she expects to cop them
both. If you enjoy baseball, if you
are a booster for D. B. C. you will
be at these games and root for the
local bunch. These exhibitions will
go a long way in determining the,
state championship, and it's going to
take all that we have to offer to carry |
away the long end of the score.
Boost Decatur high and D. B. C.
athletic endeavors at any and all
times and places. Stand behind ’em!
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Did pou know that Decatur Baptist
College had two of the best little
pitchers in the junior college confer-
ence? Anyway, the supposedly un-
conquerable Bruins of Burleson think
so—and so do we.
Natural gas history shows very clearly the
advantage of the supply of a community being
derived from a large system.
In the earlier days of the use of gas, many
municipalities were supplied by local companies,
and these companies were usually dependent
upon local fields.
Decatur
Beverly, 2b
Christian, 3b
Watson. cf.
Biddy. rf
Boyd, if...........
Johnson, ss
Sims. 1b..........
Sebastain. c .
Kelly, p
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.Games from Burleson Nine
Coach Dickson's proteges have a
good chance to cop the junior college
bunting this year if you will come
out and support them in Friday’s
and Saturday's games. Little Sam
Kelly will strut his stuff in the first
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The Indians have now played six
games, and have won one-third of
them. When all things are consid-
ered, that's a pretty good average.
Coach Dickson started out with an
almost entirely new line-up, worked
it into tip-top shape, and then had
to go on the road with it. But now
they have hit their stride, and they’ll
make that Terrell bunch, to whom
they lost games by only one-marke r
margins, turn up their toes.
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Old D. B. C. Is our for the tennis
When the Burleson Bruins jour-
neyed to Delightrul Decatur lor a
two-game baseball aeries with the
Indians of Decatur Baptist College
they were suffering from two recent
defeats at the hands of the Wesley
bunch of their own home town, so
they had blood in their eyes and were
determined to down the locals in easy
style because of our recent loss of
four games on a road trip. Despite
the argumentative ability of their
coach and the supposed starring
abilities of the team members, how-
ever Coach Dickson’s gang walked
away with the long ends of both
scores, 4 to 3 and 7 to 6.
The first game started with Sam
Kelly for the locals and Gardner for
the visiting team doing mound duty.
Both were hit rather freely, but the
score would undoubtedly have been
smaller had better support been ren-
dered by their team mates. The
score was knotted for several innings,
but the D. B. C. bunch met the
oecasion with the necessary run.
which won the game. Kelly was the
individual star of the game, for he
not only exemplified line qualities as
a mound artist, but garnered the
first two blngles which Decatur made
off the offerings of the visiting
pitcher. His last hit started the rally
which proved to be the winning factor
in the game. Watson, also one of
our pitchers, who was playing eenter
field during this game, poled out
three safeties out of four trips to
the plate.
Cody, Burleson husky center field-
er. secured two safe hits out of three
attempts, while his team mat", Hen-
derson, batted for an average of a
thousand. Gardner was successful in
pitching a pretty steady game, but
hits that came in pairs and unsteady
support at times proved his un-doing.
Lewis, the somewhat antiquated
coach for the invaders, seemed to
resent some of the decisions of our
own John "Eagle’’ Gunn, and let his
thoughts find expression in vocifer-
ous language at times. After several
verbal encounters between the two,
J. C. C. stepper out and Zack Lillard
was called upon to accept the various
and sundry responsibilities of an
arbiter. We must admit that there
were some rather ragged decisions
called, but as both teams suffered
from these, we contend that the visit
ing coach was influenced by some-
thing other than that peddled by the
Decatur druggists.
Box score of Friday's game:
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Beverly, 2b...........4
Hardy, c................1
Kelly, K...........—.3
Biddy, rf...............3
Watson, p..............4
Sebastain, cf.........3
Sims, 1b.......-.......3
With Watson and Maddox as the
opposing pitchers in the second game
of the Burleson-D. B. C. two-game
series, the fans were presented with
a little different brand of baseball
than on the day preceding. The old
pill was knocked with a little more
regularity an<i fielding was almost
rotten at times. Watson was more
liberal than usual in allowing his
offerings to be found and the ulti-
mate outcome was often hazy—until
the glorious fourth. Sebastain pried
open Decatur’s half of the fourth
with a solid rap for two bases.
Before the Burleson hurler could
recover, three men bad crossed the
platter and three more were on base,
while only one out had been regis-
tered. Maddox was then pulled in
favor of Cody, who managed to retire
the locals only after two more runs
were scored.
Until the inning above, the score
was even, both teams having scored
two runs in the third. The fourth
was the turning point in the game,
for not only did the visiting pitcher
weaken, but the entire bunch seemed
to have been thrown off their feet
for a few minutes. Our glory was
soon over-shadowed by the Bruins,
who came back with a vengeance in
the fifth, scoring three runs, and
bringing the count up to a seven to
five standing.
Again in the sixth the Greenville
gang made matters still more press-
ing by sending a runner across the
pan. From that time out the game
was more like a real exhibition of the
national pastime, for everyone tight-
ened up a little, and no more runs
were made.
Box score of Saturday’s game:
4212243123131151211 13 31*3*3*3*33
Totals.......28 4 8 27 13 2
Notice is hereby given that by virtue
of a certain order of sale, issued out
of the honorable 78th district court
of Wichita Falls, Wichita county, on
the 3rd day of April, 1924, by district
clerk of said court ror the sum of
11,145.83 and costs of suit, under a
certain judgment, in favor of Peery
Hancock in a certain cause in said
court. No. 11341-B and styled Peery
Hancock vs. J. M. Redin, and placed
in my hands for service, I, W. M.
Workman, as sheriff of Wise county,
Texas, did, on the 5th day of April,
192 4, levy on certain real estate,
situated in Wise county, Texas, de-
scribed as follows, to-wit:
An undivided one-third interest in
lots Nos. 1 to 15, inclusive, in block
No. 22, being a part of the F. S.
Sepulveda survey, near the town of
Paradise, Wise county, Texas, on
which lots is located a cotton gin,
and levied upon as the property of
J. M. Redin and that on the first
Tuesday in May, 1924, the same being
the 6th day of said month, at the
court house door of Wise county, in
the city of Decatur, Texas, between
the hours of ten a. m. and four p. m.
by virtue of said levy and said order
of sale, I will sell said above de-
scribed real estate at public vendue,
for cash, to the highest bidder, as
the property of said J. M. Redin.
And in compliance with law, I give
this notice by publication, in the
English language, once a week for
three consecutive weeks immediately
preceding said day of sale, in the
Wise County Messenger, a newspaper
published in Wise county.
Witness my hand, this 5th day of
April, 1924.—W. M. WORKMAN,
sheriff of Wise county, Te xas. By
Totals........28 7 7 27 4 3
Burleson—- AB R H PO A E
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T. M. C. vs. D. B. C.—Friday and
Saturday—you be there!
Ledbetter, If 1
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Totals........40 6112410 2
Totals--------36 3 7 24 13 2
Summary—Two-base hits, Kelly.
Paulk, Cody; three base hit. John
son; hits off Kelly, eight; hits off
Gardner. seven; struck out by Kelly,
two; struck out by Gardner, six.
bases on balls. Kelly one, Gardner
six. sacrifice hits, Biddy. Johnson.
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An Englishman was umpiring a
basebail game in the United States, ।
The bases were full and the pitcher
threw four balls. “You're out,” the
umpire told the amazed batter. “I’ve
got no place to put you.
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