j^fPERSON
SLANTS
W By J. S. MERRITT
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Large Number of Teams
If you do not believe this is a ball playing county just
take a look at the sports page of this paper from time to
time- The high schools are playing ball and the independent
teams are playing. Then we have Ca-Vel and East Roxboro.
All teams seem to be playing a nice brand of ball and
the fans are enjoying the games to no little extent.
There is really a revival of baseball in this county. Two
or three years ago there was little baseball played here, but
when Ca-Vel started other teams began to line up and now
we have about fifteen or more. Thanks to Ca-Vel for reviv
ing a splendid game in Person.
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Collins Rated Good
There is much talk of Eddie Collins. Jr., outfielder with
the Baltimore Orioles, on option from the Athletics. Connie
Mack, the aged manager of the A’s, who had Eddie Collins,
Sr., on his great pennant winning teams of long ago, thinks
this youngster is going to be a great star—maybe an even
greater star than his father, who certainly was tops among
second sackers
If Junior Collins comes through, as Mack predicts, he
will be the first of the “baseball juniors’ to reach the goal set
for them by their fond parents.
Ty Cobb and Buck Herzog had sons they wanted to play
baseball, but the boys didn’t show a great enthusiams for the
diamond sport. Neither got anywhere.
Walter Johnson’s boys have been promising, but to date
they haven’t arrived and probably never will be top stars.
It isn’t often that excellent ball players have children
who can follow in their footsteps. The children try to follow
the example set by dad, but they never seem to do the job
just like dad. Eddie Collins, Jr. must be an outstanding ex
ample of what does not often happen
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Old-Time Game
One day last week Allensville school met Bushy Fork
school and the boys played softball. When the seven innings
yrere over the players began to count scores- After the count
ing was over it was discovered that Bushy Fork had thirty
-one and Allensville had twenty-one.
It must have been some game and we will wager that all
the players had a swell time.
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Dots and Dashes . .
Enos is still hitting the ball at a nice clip and has been
scoring a few runs . . . Barden Winstead held the No. 1 ten
nis position at Darlington all the year He will go to
Carolina next year ... The Winstead tennis court is crowd
ed every afternoon - - - Jule Warren reports that Five Forks
ball team is getting in good shape . . . People in Roxboro are
talking about softball and getting ready to play - - - Fire
ball Carver of East Roxboro seems to be doing 0. K. this
.year.
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CA-VEL LOSES TO |
MERWIN THURSDAY
On Thursday afternoon the boy* 1
of Manager Baxter Mangum lost 1
to the strong Mcßrwin team of
Burlington by ar score of 12 to 2
During the encounter three
home runs were made, two for
the locals and one for the visitors. J
iC. Slaughter and Gentry for Ca-•
Vel got homers, as did Simmons, 1
for McErwin.
The box:
McErwin Ab R H A
Groom, 2b 5 0 0 2
Collins, ss 5 1 2 2
Covington, If 5 11 0
Hahn, c 2 2 2 0,
Crotts, rs 3 11 0.
Dupree, 3b 4 2 11 j
Roach, cf 3 2 2 0.
Hamibright, lb 2 2 12:
Simmons, p 4 1 2 1
Totals 33 12 12 8
Ca-Vel Ab R H A
Gentry, 3b 4 11 2
James, ss 3 0 0 5 .
C. Slaughter, If 2 11 0 .
Wilborn, cf 2 0 0 0
Briggs, rs 3 0 1 0 1
H. Slaughter, lb .... 3 0 1 0
Anders, 2b 3 0 0 1 I
Dunn, c 3 0 0 1
Clayton, p 2 0 1 2
Blanks, p 0 0 0 0
Kline, p 1 0 0 0:
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Totals 26 2 5 11
Score by innings:
McErwin 000 552 0 l2 ,
Ca-Vel 100 010 0 2
Errors: Collins, Dunn, Anders.
Runs totted in: Crotts, Dupree,
Roach 2, Hambright, Simmons 5,
Gentry, C. Slaughter. Two-base
hits: Collins, Hahn, Roajch, Briggs.
Home runs: Simmons, C. Slaugh
ter, Gentry. Stolen bases: Collins.
Double plays: Dupree to Groom to :
Hambright. Left on bases. McEc- ,
win 5, Ca-Vel 6. Base on balls
off: Simmons 2, Clayton 5, Klin?
I. Hits off: Simmons, 5 in 7;
Clayton, 7 in 4 2-3; Blanks, 4 in
1 1-3; Kline, 1 in 1. Hit by pitcher
—by: Simmons (Wilborn). Los
ng pitcher: Clayton. Winning pit- i
cher: Smmons. Time of game:
1:30. Umpires: Crowder and Wir
tz.
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WILSON WILL BE HOST
TO LEGION TOURNAMENT
Wilson Commander Marvin
Edmundson of the local American
Legion post, anncunoed Thursday
that a regional junior baseball
tournament will be held here Au
gust 13 to 16. The tourney will in
clude Legion teams from North
and South Carolina, Maryland and
Virginia.
The announcement came Thurs
day to Edmundson from H. L.
Chillaux, director of National A
mericanism Committee of the Le
gion.
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Canaries Sing
Close Harmony
A quintette of canaries, called
on to sing close-harmony for a
scene in “Two Girls on Broad
way”, showing Monday and Tues
day at the Dolly Madison theatre,
surprised -both cast and trainer by
doing just that.
In the film George Murphy sup
posedly chashes a radio program
with his close-harmony canaries.
When the birds refuse to sing,
Murphy takes the opportunity to
plug; his own sotng.
But the birds, to everyone’s a
mazement, actually sing, spoiling
the “take”.
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BANG’S DISEASE
A court decision gave Virgin
ia the right to continue the slau
ghter at diseased cattle to help
control Bang’s Disease of dairy
cows.
Upto-the-Minute Sport News Solicited
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This may be a preview of coming
events. “Two-Ton” Tony Galento,
challenger to Joe Lonis’ heavy
weight crown, spied this $2,000 harp
in an Omaha, Neb., radio station,
and promptly went to work on it. .
Fort Bragg To
Offer Athletics At
C. M. T. C. Gamp
Fort Bragg, May 10—An out-j
standing program of sports ev_|
ents permitting every youth at
tending the 1940 Citizens Mili
tary Training camp at Fort Bragg
June 12 _ July 11 to take part in
s:me form of athletics, has been
announoed by the Camp Athletic
officer.
Featuring the athletic program
arranged for this year’s camp
will again be the baseball, soft
ball, and vollyball leagues in
which the play is expected to be
unusually fast. Each battery will
have its own team in baseba'l,
softball and vollyball, and a sche
dule of inter-battery competition ;
has been drawn up that will lead
to the crowning of camp cham
pions in each sport at the end of
the training season.
The 19-10 C. M. T. camp at Fort
Bragg each year attracts some of |
Carolina’s 'outstanding athletes. |
Equally important, it provides an
opportunity for those others who
have never had a chance to en
gage in sports competition to de
velop thmselvs into champion
ship calibre.
It is the athletic mission of the
C. M. T. camp to have each
trainee engaged in at least one
athletic sport each day. At the
1940 camp all forms of athletic
activity will be stressed at an es
sential objective of the program.
For those youths who do not
care for baseball, softball,
and vollyball, tennis, swim
ming, boxing, track events,
horseshoe pitching and gymkhana
events have been arranged. The
track and swimming mets annu
ally planned fpr July 4 at Fort
Bragg have come to be regarded
as an important part of the Fourth
celebration for this section.
AH athletic equipment is fur
nished the trainees by the Gov
ernment with uniforms also be
ing supplied, with the exception
of swimming trunks. An Athletic
Officer is assigned to carry on
the schedule of each battery and
coaches are provided for boxing
and swimming.
Some unusually fast bouts have
been staged by trainee boxers
during the period at Fort Bragg.
John Greeley Long of Columbus
oounty, light welter champ of
i last season will be back this year,
it was announced by the Camp
. Area Commander. Howard Hett
f rick, Jr., of Elizabeth City. Caro
lina Golden Gloves champ who
went to the semi-finals in this
year’s national competition, also
will be back and will be seek.
■ ing revenge for the licking that
. Lang gave him in the ring at Fort
) Bragg last season,
r An imposing array of medals,
both for battery teams and in- (
| Alan Mobley To
Pilot South Boston
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South Boston, May 9 While .
awaiting the arrival of Alan Mob-
ley, new manager of South Bos
ton, the Wrappers defeated Dan-j
ville here today, 6 to 5. It took
some good relief pitching by Paul
Walker and a timely home run by
Neb Stewart to manage the vie- j.
tory. School Boy Carey is serving
as temporary manager.
Skipper Bobley, who was man
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agor last season at St. Augustine
in the Florida State league, will ;
arrive Sunday and direct the ;
Wrappers against Martinsville <
here Sunday afternoon. j«
Mc-bley is 31 years old and has <
seen much service with class “A” <
and “AA” ball. He formerly !
caught for Valdese and Gastonia 1
in the independent Carolina lea- “
gue several years ago. He replac- ' J
es Jack Cresswhite who was de- ’
dared ineligible yesterday by J
Judge W. G. Bramham for an al- ,'
tercatipn with Umpire Zilber dur- 1 <
ing the Bassett game here Mon- j<
day. Bramham did not say when 1 !
Crosswhite would be re-instated !
but said that he could not apply “
for re-instatement within a year.'!
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dividuals, have been offered
general excellnce in each branch ‘
of athletic activity.
LAND POSTED SIGNS AT THE
TIMES OFFICE
A. J. MAXWELL
For Governor
A
Balanced
Program
of
Progress
for
North
Carolina
A Balanced Budget. Achievement of the ob
jectives outlined are of course dependent in
parts upon the trend of prosperity and resulting
effect upon revenue. I have too long insisted
upon the necessity of a balancd budget to be
willing to violate it even to achieve objectives
otherwise desirable. I submit this program as
worthy of our best efforts to achieve.
Former Program Adopted. I am encouraged
to make this announcement by the fact that a
definite program advocated in a former candi
dacy is now a fixed part of State policy, 1 en
umerate these policies as follows:
Restriction upon tht pnwer of all govern
mental agencies to increase bonded 1 indebted
ness without a vote of the people who have to
pay them. This has since been embedded in the
constitution of the State in a manner that re
quires gradual liquidation of public debts, ex
cept as additional issues are approved by po
pular vote. This has been a major factor in
strengthening the credit of State and local gov
ernments, and in the orderly reduction of bond
obligations and resulting tax levies.
Rental, on a cost basis, of public school books,
as a step toward- free textbooks. Both steps
have since been taken, and the people of the
State have the benefit of tree books in ele
mentary schools, and a moderate rental basis
for books in high schools.
Federal guaranteed batik deposits, now uni
versally accepted as a wholesome public policy,
and a guarantee against panic in hard times.
The State prison on a self-supporting basis.
(At the same tune we are following a humane
policy in treatment of prisoners that must be
continued.)
The salvage of a million dollars of value in
prevailing abandonment of the central prison.
Higher tuition fees for non-resident students
at State colleges. These institutions are now
getting the benefit at increasing few from non-
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residents and with increasing attendance of
non-residents. These fees have been made rela
tively as high as they should be, as ft is desir
able to maintain the cosmopolitan character of
these institutions.
I have undertaken tp outline a practical pro
gram of balanced progress in State policy.
Our unprecedented progress in material things
will not profit us if it is less than a balanced
—progress—if it does not vitally concern itself
with the less fortunate of every class and de
gree; if it does npt concern itself with things
that bring satisfaction to the mind and the soul.
We should be prolific in thought and concern to
improve the opportunity and inspire the hope
and ambition of the less fortunate and the less
ambitious, and to provide adequate care for the
helpless. We cannot build or maintain a civi
lization of strength and endurance that is un
mindful of these things, and no government is
worthy of public confidence that has a less uni
versal conception of its responsibility.
If the people shall be generous enough to
approve this general outline of purpose, and to
think that I may be an acceptable instrument;
to undertake its fulfillment, I pledge every
hing there is within me to carry on and promote
a continuing period ot balanced progress in the
State.
North Carolina must keep its face to the front
in every line of private enterprise and pub
lic srvice. Barring major calamity, and assum
ing our ability to maintain peace, we bave the
potentialities for a continuing forward move
ment I submit this program of progress in con
fidence in the State’s future, and in the spirit of
Ayoock’s declaration;
"I would have all our people to believe in
the possibilities of North Carolina; in the
strength of her men, the purity of her women,
and their power to accomplish as much as can
be done anywhere on earth by any people."
SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1940
Subject
to the
Democratic
Primary
May
25