Vi I Mitchell Writes About Stirnweiss .... Ed Mitchell of the Durham Herald, has the following to say about George Stirnweiss of Carolina: “For the benefit of all major league clubs in general, the Cincinnati Reds in particular, this column will state that the club which lands Stirnweiss will get a “five-star leader”. He tops the Tar Heels in runs batted in, 19; runs scored, 21; extra base hits, 7; stolen bases, 9; and homers, 3- Until re cently he also led the Carolina boys in batting, but this hon or now is held by Shortstop Matty Topkins. On the football Held Stirnweiss was a star booter, his punts averaging with the best of them, but he goes from one extreme to another, for on the baseball field he hardly knows what it means to boot one. Stirnweiss has fielded 78 out of 80 chances. He’s a great fellow along with it, and the club which lands him will get what the professional baseball boys term a “good man on a ball club’’.” Roxboro people are interested in Stirnweiss. Many have seen him play football and a few have watched him on the diftfnond. We all like the boy from New York State and hope that he makes good in league baseball. o—o—o—o What’s Wrong? Tuesday Morning Before the baseball season opened everyone said that the St. Louis Cardinals had one of the best teams in the National League- Now the figures show that St Louis has played fifteen games and has won only five. Enos Slaughter stated that he thought the Cardinals would be good this year. Something must be wrong somewhere. Enos has been doing his part. He has been hitting the ball at a better clip than ever and looks like he is going places this year. The real reason for the slump will have to show up sooner or later and we think the Cardinals will be on top be fore long. —O—O-O Elon Does O. K Elon College has just won the North State baseball conference championship. The boys from Elon won 20 out of 21 games and the reason they didn’t win more was because they did not play any more People who saw this team play say that it was a great ball club and the players and Coach Hendrickson deserve con gratulations. C\\im box | r this box ei Candyl know you selected the rin addition to tho do- ® rtniont oi Gales finest ~ ly she goto this hand- L PArnUB i s tho linos oi a beauti ther. And it's chock lull ‘ In its fine assortment of olatosk Package is a < Also Siollingswortfa Mother’s Day Candy Hambrick, Austin & Thomas Phone 2271 The Friendly Druggists We Deliver Koxbore, North Carolina ff Baby Chicks Reduced Barred Rocks $6.00 per 100 N. H. Reds $6.50 per 100 Until May 16 only, the Homaday Hatchery is cooperating with us to offer U. S. Approved Chicks at this extremely low price for Quality Chicks. See or call us at once! Phone 4533 M'j Farmers Supply Co. v PERSON SPORTS *SLANTS > Bv J. S. MERRITT SPORTS OFJLHE TIMES Up*to*the*Miiiiite Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 9,1940 Roxboro Defeats Bethel In Monday Slaughter Rcxboro high school again de feated the Hilltoppers of Bethel Hill on the local diamond Monday afternoon by a score of 22 to 5. The Ramblers secured a total of 24 hits while Bethel came through with nine. “Red” Day for the lolcals poled out two home runs while Hassell Whitfield, Gus Holeman and Fred Woods got four j safe hits for five trips up. Shot-! well for Bethel got three hits for times at bat. The box: Roxboro Ab R H A Yarboro, ss 7 2 2 3 Day, c 7 4 3 1 Whitfield, If 5 5 4 C Holeman, cf 5 3 4 0, Woods, 3b 5 2 4 2| Moore, lb-p 5 3 3 0 Davis. 2b 5 11 2 T. Clayton, rs 5 11 0 B. Clayton, p-lb 5 1 2 2 Totals 49 22 24 10 Bethel Hill Ab R H A B. Buchanon, ss 3 11 2 Wrenn, Milam, 2b 4 0 0 0 Boswell, 2b 0 1 0 0 Shot well, cf-p 4 2 3 0 Honeycutt, c 4 1 0 2 Powell, lb-p 4 0 0 0 J. Buchanon, 3b 1 0 0 0 E. Wrenn, rf-3b 2 0 0 0 Nunn, rf-3b 4 0 2 0 Difckerson, rs 0 0 0 0 Hall, If 5 0 2 0 Totals 36 5 9 4 Score by innings: Bethel Hill .... 011 000 003 5 Roxboro 204 731 05x 22 Errors: B. Buchanon 2, J. Buch anon 3, Nunn 2, Hall 2, Yarboro, Day, Woods, Moore 2, Davis. Runs batted in: Holeman 5. Day 4, Nunn, Shotwell, Woods 3, Davis 2, T. Clayton, Moore, Yarboro 2, Honeycutt2, Powell. Two-base hits: T. Clayton, Whit field, Holeman, B. Clayton. Three base hits: Woods, Moore. Left on bases: Roxboro 10, Bethel Hill 13. Base on balls off: Clayton 2, Moore 5, Wrenn 2, Shotwell, Po well 2 Struck out —by: Clayton 1, Moore 3, Wrenn 2, Powell 2. Hits off: Wrenn. 6 in 3; Shot well, 7 in 1; Powell, 11 in 4; Clay ton, 4 in 6; Mloore, 5 in 3. Passed balls: Bethel Hill 3, Roxboro 1. Losing pitcher: Wrenn. Winning pitcher: Clayton. Time