By Wade H. Lucas
Duke, Oct. 21—Down in the state, where the longhorns thrive and the six shooter was once the indispensable article of every man’s wearing apparel and the men often died with their boots on, a Harnett county boy the past summer “burned up” the sagebrush of the Lone Star state of Texas. This boy was “Doc” Smith, hailing from Angier, and who made a big record with Fort Worth baseball club in the Texas league.
Smith was traded last winter by Little Rock (Ark.) to the Texas city club, and proceeded right off the reel to make good in that torrid region. The Angier citizen is a catcher, and reports eking into this section bring news that “Doc” was a good one but his bid for fame came in the punch he packed with his big bat.
Smith was fourth in a list of nearly 200 hitters in the Texas wheel, his grand average being .363 for the season. He took part in 96 games for Fort Worth, a bald-headed person answering to the name of “Possum” Moore dividing the work with Smith.
As Fort Worth captured the pennant and subsequently won the championship of the South with Atlanta, the logical reasoning is that Smith and Moore formed a very capable couple. How many of the welcome “grands” Smith received for his year’s work the writer is unaware, but the thousands he got is a certainty as baseball players of ability do not play for nothing.
Smith, a country lad, got his start in baseball on the back lots of Harnett, later graduating into the Piedmont league. Reports have it that Smith will play winter baseball in Florida. He spent part of last winter in Harnett.
From the front page of the Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., Thursday, October 22, 1925
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