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BROOKHAVEN 8—FLORA 7
A quarftette of circuit clouts, a
duet of double, fifteen single cylin
der knocks, six bases on balls, a hit
batsman and a sprinkling of errors
accounted for a total of fifteen runs,
apportioned eight for Brookhaven
and seven for Flora, in the third and
final game of the series played before
a meager gathering of the faithful
Wednesday afternoon. And it wasn’t
a bad game at that. There were
lots of high spots that sparkled with
considerable brilliance.
One feature that has been lacking
in any previous game, was the evi
dence of aggressiveness and fight
on the part of the Brookhaven bunch
in overcoming a big lead. The fans
have seen how our boys perform
when way out in front, and Wednes
day they had the pleasure of seeing
them come from behind, pile up e
nough to tie, then win the game in
the final frame.
Home runs by Williams and Untz
aided materially in the pleasant task
of taking the conceit out of Flora.
Stick larruped his four-ply blow in
the fourth stanza, with Cupit al
ready en route. Untz slammed one
for a quartette of cushions in the
eighth, with Weeks and Miller ahead
of him.
Long, the visiting pitcher, drew
quite a merry hand from the grand
stand on two occasions when he ra
ced across the first sack inches a
head of the runners and took tosses
from Slater that retired Fos and
Williams.
Miller showed he had the stuff by
tlghtning up in the critical stages
and holding the visitors. In the
ninth inning, after the first two to
face him had singled. Miller, expect
ing a bunt, instructed Pete Castaing
to remain on the third cushion.
When Alliston laid one down. Mil
ler scooped the ball up and chipped
it to Castaing for a very pretty force
out. He made the hard-hitting
Smith fly out to Cupit, and then
whiffed Hunnicutt for the last out.
ONE AND ONE WITH
HATTIESBURG GANG
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Brookhaven Won First 7 to 3—
“Stick” Williams off Form
Drops Second 4 to 0.
A phone message from Hattiesburg
Thursday night stated that the wil
low wielding of Hunnicutt and Cas
taing won the first contest for the
Brookhaven team in the series be
tween the locals and Hattiesburg,
and the fellow who covers the base
ball games for the Hattiesburg A
merican puts it that Hattiesburg er
rors lost for Hattiesburg; so there
you are. Take your choice. Proba
bly both are partly right. Anyway,
the score was 7 to 3 in favor of
Brookhaven.
Elkins—called "Babe” in his na
tive bailiwick of Hattiesburg—ped
dled his hits out in small dribbles,
doing strictly a retail instead of a
wholesale business in the safe blow
line. On the other hand, as Roy
Grove would say, Creel allowed his
hits to get sorter choked up in gobs
and bunches, which, with the afore
mentioned errors, netted the Brook
haven boys a tubful of tallies.
The young man getting the base
ball assignment for the American is
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Brookhaven Batters Could Not Solve
the Efficacious Delivery of the
Hattiesburg Flinger.
constantly writing of the ‘‘Brookha
ven Beefers”—which is only natural
as this young K. C. B. worshipper is
from the cattle country of Tennes
see—and goodness knows one could
forgive, gladly, all remarks about the
“beefers” if it will keep his mind
off those efforts to imitate K. C. B.
As to the second game, won by
Hattiesburg 4 to 0, the only data
to percolate this far was the bare
statement that Haynes, who flung
the shutout game, is a New York
state league twirler of considerable
twirl, and that Stick Williams was
weak from taking medicine—kind of
medicine not stated. From this dis
tance it looks, as though the Brook
haven team started in to take liber
ties with the Hattiesburg boys, and
got caught at it. The defeat may do
the Brookhaven team a world of
good, and cause them to work their
best in each and every contest.
The Brookhaven team is playing
Hattiesburg again this afternoon at
that place and will return tomorrow
and on Monday and Tuesday will
undertake to take the measure of the
Chattanooga Southern League team
in Brookhaven.
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TISM.
Do you know that nine out of ev
ery ten cases of rheumatism are sim
ply rheumatism of the muscles or
chronic rheumatism, neither of which
require any internal treatment? The
pain may be relieved by applying
Chamberlain’s Liniment, which mak
es sleep and rest possible, and that
certainly means a great deal to any
one afflicted with rheumatism.
Charles Hollands, one of our most
esteemed young students, is back
torn A, A M, College.
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There Is not an infleld on any club
in any league with stronger hold on
the hearts of the home fans than the
Brookhaven infield has on the Brook
haven fans. Fish, Untz, Fos, and
Castaing have simply compelled the
admiration and loyalty of the home
fans. These boys will boot one now
and then, but they come right back
and pull off plays that no infleld in
the big show would even thing of
attempting. As a first line defense,
Brookhaven’s infleld wall is just a
bout the best the ordinary human
has ever seen., Selah.
Any of you birds who are honing
and pining for something to help to
pass the time, just amble out to the
park Monday and Tuesday and watch
Tony Weeks flip a few of those
Chattanooga rtfnners out at second.
Tony don't look much bigger than a
whisper crouched behind the big
mitt, but, oh, baby, what an arm!
And his peg to second is usually nine
and three quarter in'ches above the
southwest corner of the sack, just
precisely right for Untz or Fos to tag
the sliding stealer. No wonder the
girls rave over Tony—and his de
pendable arm.
"Flash” Hunnicutt, Sally league
slugger who played with Jackson in
the Cotton States league until he
came to Brookhaven with the Flora
team, took Kckardt’s place in the
Brookhaven line-up in the Hatties
burg series. "Flash” walked away
with the batting honors of the first
game, and contributed more than his
share of bingles in the other con
tests.
Hollingsworth established himself
still more firmly in the hearts of
Brookhaven fans by the excellent um
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fracas with Flora. It was the one
game of the season where practically
every decision met with the full ap
proval of fans, friend and foe, in
grandstand and bleachers. And Hol
ly had any number of close ones to
call. He’d be a good one to call ’em
in the Chattanooga games.
There are a few in Brookhaven
who have not yet grasped the fact
that Brookhaven’s baseball team is
the city’s greatest asset; that in talk
ing of Brookhaven’s ball team the
people all over the country are talk
ing, and discussing, Brookhaven.
Those who know Brookhaven tell the
others of the city’s wonderful ad
vantages and opportunities; those
who don’t know of the city wisely
surmise that It must be S-O-M-E
city, else It would not have the
strongest baseball team in the state.
And this class will always make fur
ther inquiries.
Florida has always had the same
kind of mild winters since Adam and
Eve held their little petting party in
the shade of the old apple tree in
Eden’s famous orchard. But Flori
da was known to comparatively few
until winter baseball scores carried
the fame of Florida weather to ev
ery part of the world through the
medium of the sporting pages. Base
ball is, indeed, the national sport.
Ministers and mechanics, bankers
and bootblacks, financiers and farm
ers, in fact from every walk of life,
every strata of society, from prince
ly palace to humble hovel come the
fans. No gathering is more cosmo
politan than the crowds at a base
ball game.
The fame of Brookhaven’s base
ball team has gone forth to every
nook and corner of the United States.
Such publicity—such worth while
publicity—could not be bought with
all the money ever minted. While
the benefits, in many ways are im
mediate, yet the future generations
will reap desirable reward on ac-,
count of the 1922 baseball team in'
Brookhaven.
Now get this:- Montgomery, capi
tal of Alabama, tried to get the se
ries with Chattanooga, Southern
League Club, that will be played
here Monday and Tuesday. Other
cities, from three to ten times the
size of Brookhaven bid for the se
ries. McComb not only bid for the
games, but, after Chattanooga decid
ed to come to Brookhaven,' offered
the Brookhaven manageemnt a sum
for one game equal to what it is
costing Brookhaven for the two
games. But Chattanooga signed to
come to Brookhaven even in the face
of hundreds of offers from much
larger cities. Why? Think it over,
the answer will come to you in a
few minutes.
ab iu me son oi games you may
expect here Monday and Tuesday
Just bear in mind that Mitchell, who
pitched the opening game here for
Demopolis, shut out the Atlanta club
pf the Southern League in his first
start Thursday, allowing the Crack
ers only five scattered singles. The
local team made a score off this
(linger and batted out eight safe
blows. Just a little mental arithme
tic will give you the right estimate
of JBrookhaven’s strength, as com
pared with an average team of the
Southern league.
The publicity given to Brookhaven
by reason of this series cannot be
overdrawn. Every paper in the Uni
ted States carrying Associated Press
dispatches will have the box scores,
carrying a Brookhaven date-line.
If President Harding announced
his intention to open a hurdy-gurdy
show on the Whitworth college cam
pus, it would not create the comment
and discussion that has followed the
Leader’s announcement that Chat
tanooga, of the Southern League,
would play Brookhaven two games
of baseball on the local diamond.
And the excitement has spread from
town to town until now the main
topic of conversation from Jackson
to Hammond and from Natchez to
Hattiesburg is the coming series —
and the probable results. Which
shows the people of Mississippi are
still normal and the country is safe.
It’s a good thing the stores of
Brookhaven are going to close for the
big games here Monday and Tues
day, when the Chattanooga team
tangles with “Ham’s” hirelings, for
if they didn’t, there’d be more dead
grand-mothers than all the under
takers in the country could bury in
a month. As it is, the clerks and
office girls can get away to Bee the
cromna uri thnut a trl n »
grandma’s funeral dirge.
Big Springs Picnio.
On Friday evening, June 23rd at
7:30 a picnic will be held at Big
Springs. All candidates are invited
to speak. There will be music; and
suppers will be sold for benefit of
the church. Everybody is invited.
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g <J Every dollar that you send away from home for goods that may be had at home, is a blow at the growth of your own town—a “blow below
„ the belt.” CJ These thoughtless out-of-town purchases in the aggregate are keeping home people—maybe your friends and neighbors_out
0 of employment. The greater the volume of business done at home, in all lines, the greater will be the volume of money kept at home, the great
0 er number of people employed. <JThe business houses of other cities contribute nothing to the maintenance of our institutions. They sell
HJ nothing that cannot be bought at home. <J Your shoe man can get you the shoes you want just as quickly, or more so, than you can order
them. Your home merchant can get you a particular dress that you want just as satisfactory, and more so, than the out of town man can. It £
0 matters not what the article may be—your home merchant can give you better service. CJThe purchase from the home merchant MUST be I
0 satisfactory—while you have little chance of getting satisfactory adjustment of a complaint from out-of-town houses. Cf If you get your in- I
Pjj come from your own town—if you are in any way dependent on this community, Be Loyal—Don’t Hit Below the Belt! _ <JSpend Your Money
f=J at home and be known among your fellow men as true citizens of YOUR HOME TOWN.
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Aylward’s Department Store
The Store Where Your Money Buys More.
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We ask for a share of your patronage, assur
• ing you satisfaction. It has always been our aim
to make friends of every patron of our store and
to handle the kind of merchandise that can al
ways be depended upon. Dry Goods, Ladies’
Wear, Shoes “Verilite” Clothes for Men and
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g E. B. Guess Tailoring Co.
1 “THE MEN'S STORE.”
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Caters to the Men WhoXare. When you
purchase the needs for your wardrobe you have
the satisfaction of knowing that you are receiv
ing style and quality.
The Home of the Famous “Boyden” Shoes.
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KAHN TAILORING COMPANY AND
M. BORN & COMPANY
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1 “A BULWARK OF STRENGTH”
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A LIVE BANK IN A LIVE TOWN
where every individual receives prompt and
courteous treatment. Every item of business
handled with as much care as though it were
the individual business of the bank.
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YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT APPRECIATED
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| Brookhaven-Hardware Co.
“Have Everything for the Home and Farm”
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pendable Hardware, Stoves, Harness and Arti
cles for your Home. Screen Doors, Screen Wire
GO and Iron and Wire Fencing always on hand
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SCREEN DOORS AND SCREEN WIRE
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Hoffman’s
A special line of Toilet Articles and Prepara
tions. Everything in Stationery and School
Supplies. Firestone and Silvertown Cord Tires.
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MOST COMPLETE FOUNTAIN SERVICE IN
BROOKHAVEN
Hobbs Drug Store
WHERE QUALITY IS PARAMOUNT
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HEADQUARTERS FOR THE BETTER KIND
OF ALL. DRUG STORE ARTICLES.
Accuracy and Promptness is our slogan in Filling
Physicians’ Prescriptions.
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Brookhaven Cotton Oil &
Fertilizer Co.
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We are fully prepared to meet the demands of
the people of the community for our products. Feed
your Horses and Mules and Chickens Cotton Seed
Meal. If you feed your Cow cotton seed meal and
hulls you’ll be surprised at the increased flow of milk
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PATRONIZE YOUR HOME INDUSTRIES
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The local agent brings insurance to your door.
He is on your wire and subject to your call. You
very well know that you cannot get along without
him in general. But every now and then probably
you feel tempted by the offer of a bargain from a
mail-order house, to buy your insurance “direct” and
at cost. Bear in mind that the acceptance of sucfc^
an offer means the “scalping” of a charge for a ser
vice essential to your protection and convenience and
will involve you in a speculation of which you are
probably ill-qualified to judge. ,
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As a good-will asset the kindly feeling of
our depositors is priceless. We know we pos- 0
sess it, and that the measure of our success de- pjj
pends largely upon it. Accordingly we are alert
to please. No details of a customer s request is hjj
j t°° nunute to be ignored or neglected.
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Brookhaven Bank & Trust Co. 1
The Guaranteed Bank.
Capital and Surplus-$200,000.00
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General Electric & Plumbing
Company
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We are prepared to execute your work in
Plumbing and Electrical lines in the best way and
at the least possible cost. Agents for FairbankS
Morse Electric home lighting and power equipment.
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W. L. Andress Motor Co.
Ford Authorized Sales and Service Station
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The garage of satisfying service. Where
. you get a little more than you expect. Exclusive
agents for LINCOLN MOTOR CARS—The Car L
of Distinction. Headquarters for Federal Tires.
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THE FORDSON TRACTOR.
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