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North Carolina D odgers of Kernersville played in N. C. and Virginia
1948-1951. Names listed page 96.

Kemp Whicker, local southpaw pitcher, became Kernersville's baseball
hero. H e pitched for several major league organizations and was a success- Sports have always been important in Kernersville.
ful minor league manager for several years. In 1937 he helped pitch the
ew York Yankees to an American League p ennant and that fall he pitched Baseball was the great favorite for the boys of the com-
in the World Series against the Giants, which led to a Yankee W orld
Championship. munity and when Kemp Whicker went to the major
leagues and pitched in a World Series aspiring Kerners-
ville ball players had a home town hero. Tennis was a
The bicycle riders (1940): L ollie Spears, Ellen Cooke, Octavia long ago and long time favorite and the town boasted
Korner.
numerous good tennis courts. Croquet had its vogue
and hard fought croquet matches are still remembered.
It is recalled that two prominent ministers (who shall
be nameless) almost came to blows during a notable
croquet tournament. Bicycling and horseback riding
had and still have their enthusiasts. Chess, checkers,
domino whist, rook and later, bridge, filled many hours
on cold winter nights and hot summer afternoons.

Miss Will Stockton and dog, Peggy, standing by the Stock-
ton family's new T-Model Ford, one of the first cars in the
South Main Street neighborhood.

Some neighborhood tennis champs around 1912: Max Greenfield,
Johnny Greenfield, Carl Weatherly and Kenneth Greenfield.

A tennis match around 1900. William Morton, Daisy
Leake, the Rev. William Porter, (who later married Annie
Kerner), Zora Paddison, DeWitt Harmon.

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