From Days Gone By June 23, 1922

June 23, 1922.
    Local baseball fans are making considerable plans for a hot season of this popular game in Wrightsville and near-by towns with a strong line-up of the community's own boys who are among the best amateures in South Georgia.
    Laudice D. Lovett has been elected the manager and Prof. E. N. Anthony the captain. The season proper opened last week. The principal players on the team this year will be Bill Tyson, catcher; Clay Jenkins, J. B. Kitchens, Edward Sanders and Charlie Rollins, pitchers; E. N. Anthony, 1st base; Chatty Johnson, 2nd base;  Eugene Cook, short stop; Albon Hatcher, 3rd base; Laudice Lovett, Lewis Lovett and Lon Smith, outfielders.
    The team will be strengthened by Forrest Jackson and possibly others as the season passes. The boys are expecting a winning record for the season and are open for games with teams anywhere in this part of the state.
    A clipping from a Kentucky newspaper received at home here shows that "Red" Martin is playing good ball with that team this season. In this game with Paris, Kentucky, he went to bat 4 times, drew a homerun and 2 singles, a total of 3 hits. Stole one base among all the other features in which he figured. S. M. Johnson is down in Jacksonville making a good ball record also.
    Prof. E. N. Anthony and family last week moved to the city from Bartow and are making their home in the school building rooms. They received a strong welcome here as residents, everyone being glad to have them. He is chosen the head of the school for the next year and is getting familiar with the people and school and finding out just what the definite needs are locally. During a few weeks of the summer months he will direct some special work for a number of pupils who are wanting to make up in a few studies. Besides being a splendid teacher, he is a firm believer in athletics, having been identified with the basketball fans players for years and he is good at the game himself. He plans to build a strong team here next year.
    The very largest hog sale ever held in Wrightsville from a money standpoint was pulled off here. There was 412 head of hogs brought to this sale and they were auctioned off by Mr. W. W. Webb at a nine and a half cents for tops. The others brought the usual differential. There were 4 car loads of them 60,173 pounds and the cash this left in the county amounted to 8 and 9 thousand dollars, far exceeding expectations.
    The chicken sale was a success also. One car of chickens, possibly 9,000 pounds brought in more than $2,000.
    This was a $10,000 cash proposition for Johnson County and shows what is being done to keep the wolf from the door. The people are now deeply embedded in this industry.