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By J. S. MERRITT
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Two More Holes
We heard Thursday that two more holes will be ready
at the Country Club golf course by today. If that is true the
golfers will have a real course to play on. Nine good greens
with good fairways give the people of this country plenty of
room for golf.
It really seems that more .people are playing golf here
each week. The game is attracting the ladies as well as the
men and all appear to be having a big time. The golf course
is a real asset to this city and county.
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Henderson Is Good
Editor Stephen Wallis Merrihew in his latest issue of
American Lawn Tennis, popular national magazine, calls
Archie Henderson, Jr., graduate at the University of North
Carolina and one of the best of the Tar Heels’ long list of
stars, the spring sensation of 1940.
Editor Merrihew singles out the four tournaments Hen
derson won in as many weeks this spring, with the loss of
only two sets in the first, and an upset victory over Bobby
Riggs, No. 1 ranking amateur in the country, as the top
achievement so far this year.
Commenting on Henderson’s play Merrihaw said: “Here
is a young man who has the markings of a great player. A
lovely backhand, the ball traveling with the speed of wind;
an overhand almost as good, as I discovered a little later when
he played doubles; and a serve that was better than it look
ed.”
Henderson plans to play the circuit this summer. He will
make his first appearance of the three-months season at
Charlotte June 10 and will go from there to Chicago for the
Clay court championships the following week. He is some
what indefinite as to his plans from June 24 to July 8 but is
certain to return to action July 8 at Spring Lake, N. J. Hen
derson will also play in the Maryland State (grass), Sea
bright and Southampton tournaments as well as several
others.
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Sport Shorts . >
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Davey O’Brien, T. C. U. 1938 All-America quarterback
and his school-days sweetheart, Frances Buster, were mar
ried last week .... Johnny Paycheck says that he is
through with the ring . . . . A1 Schacht says that Dizzy
Dean is through as a pitcher. Schacht had trouble similar to
the ailment that Dizzy now has and Schacht could not get
over his ... . Joe Beggs, Cincinnati pitcher, speaks six
languages, we doubt if that helps him pitch .... A brother
battery may be functioning for the Cards in another year.
Mort Cooper pitches for St. Louis now. At the No. 1 Card
farm, Columbus, is Walker Cooper, catcher. The younger of
the Cooper boys was with Asheville in 1939 and was the
Piedmont’s best backstop.
Best Wishes
and
Congratulations
to
FRED LONG
and
Those Who Are
Connected
With His Organization
On Their
Twentieth Anniversary
We Hope
That You May Have
Many More Successful
Years.
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YOUNGER SIGNED
TO ST. LOUIS
CONTRACT
Tommy Tucker, 17 Years
Old, Is Hero Os Jasper,
Ind., Residents
Jasper, Ind., June 6.—Little
Tommy Tucker may be slinging
for his supper in major league
baseball—at 17.
The tall right-handed pitcher,
who finished high school just the
other day, signed a contract to
day with the St. Louis League
club.
The Browns told him to report
to the Mayfield' (Ky.) Kitty
League Club tomorrow for a try
out.
That set the whole town talk
ing up Jasper as a rival of Van
Meter, lowa, for producing boy
wonder pitchers.
Because Van Meter—popula
tion, 400—has turned out only one
famous young moundsman—Bob
Feller of the Cleveland Indians.
Two Youngsters
This southern Indiana wood
working center—population, 4.000
—thinks it has two youngesters
who some day will be just as
famous.
There’s Tucker, of course—just
at the age Feller was when he
joined the Indians in 1936. And
there’s his high school teammate,
a Iboy of 16 with the quaint name
of Roman Pfeffer.
Together these two hurled Jas
per’s Wildcats to mythical State
high school championships this
year and last and the local junior
American League team to State
tournament finals in 1938.
On the high school team, Tom
my won seven games in a row,
six of them shutouts and one a
no-hitter, in 1939 and eight of
nine in 1940.
Nine Victories
In junior baseball, he had nine
victories and one defeat in 5933
and six victories and one defeat
last year.
The St. Louis Cardinals, De
troit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds,
Philadelphia Nationals and even
Feller’s Indians made him , offers.
But Charlie Gilliland, Browns’
scout, got his name on the dotted
line. Terms of the contract were
not disclosed.
Young Pfeffer still has a year
to go in high school, but the big
leagues have been flirting with
him, too. So far he’s unattached.
Canadian Girls’
Team Was Just
Little Too Strong
Edmonton, Alta., June 7 The
Edmonton Grads, one of the great
est women’s basketball clubs of
all time, have disbanded because
they were too good.
The Grads began their rise to
fame 25 years ago, and for the
past 18 years they had held the
senior women’s world title.
The club disbanded after its
silver anniversary banquet Wed
nesday night because of lack of
competition and the resulting
financial problem.
Bringing teams worthy of com
petition with the Grads to this
northernmost city of Canada pro
ved a heavy financial burden,
and the monotony of'such a con
sistent winner undermined at
tendance.
J. Percy Page, school principal,
coached the team to the hoop
heights after he got the job by
losing the flip of a coin with the
only other male member of the
high school faculty in 1914.
The Grads won 528 games, lost
22, scored a total of 19,971 points,
against their opponents’ 8,924, in
cluding contests at Olympic games
in Paris in 1924, Amsterdam in
1928, Los Angeles in 1932, and
Berlin in 1936.
It’s Moving Day for Mercury
pis.:. Jess Steel god of speed is
coming down from his airy
rr'i Jr»gU above I' c front entrance
to th» Ford Exposition. He’ll have
an eveii more imposing position
now that the new all-glass entrance
f-ca-Ie for the 13-10 New York
World’s Foil- is completed.
Here is Mercury being moved to
Lis la-id place on a platform in
front of the 74-foot glass tower. At
night the three-ton figure of shining
metal will stand out in bold relief
against the powerfully illuminated
facade, a beacon for Fair visitors-. v
Behind each of the 130 glass
panels in the new entrance will
glow six 4S-inch fluorescent tubes
creating a solid wall of brilliant
light that will be seen for blocks.
Besides F.ie entrance changes, a
BLADES OUSTED
AS CARDINAL BOSS
BY CLUB'S HEAD -
St. Louis, June 7.—Ray Blades,
hailed as one of the greatest tac
ticians of baseball last year, was
fired outright today as manager
of the faltering St. Louis Card
inals.
He was replaced by Billy
Southward, successful manager
of the Rochester Club of the In
ternational League, in a sudden
shakeup aimed at getting the
Redtoirds’ back into the National
League race.
Picked by the experts as al
most a “cinch” pennant winner
this season, the club has been a
Palace Theatre
Mondlay-Tuesday, June 10-11
EDWARD ARNOLD
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No Morning Shows;
Afternoons Dally 3:15-3:45;
Admfasion IMSe;
Evenings daily 7:35 ■ 9:15;
half-million dollar theater '
added to the Ford pavilion. It liar
the latest in revolving Etagr- r~<i
other theater equipment, and its
air-conditioned depths will offer a
cool haven for summer visitor..
There they will see a humorous
stage show, sound movies and other
features. Adjoining the sealing
area is a luxurious car salon, where
presentations of a novel nature will
be given.
Other changes in the Ford Ex
position for 1940 include a new dis
play space for commercial cars and
an enlarged Edison Institute ex
hibit. vhere boys from Henry
Ford’s Greenfield Village schools
will demonstrate their class work
in a model of Thomas A. Edison's
machine shop.
dismal failure and was only one
game out of the cellar before to
day’s game with the Giants.
In making the announcement
—not altogether unexpected—
Pres. Sam Breadon said South
worth would -take charge of the
team Monday. Meantime, Mike
Gonzales, veteran Cuban Cardin
al coach, will act as manager.
Crabtree Advances
Estel Crabtree, veteran mem
ber of the Rochester team which
is leading the league by 4%
games, was named to succeed
Southworth.
'SfSST
THEATRE
Monday-Tuesday, June 10-11
WHAT NAS LOVE LIKE
A MILLION TEARS A6O?
Special Morning Show
Monday 11:39;
Afternoons Daily 3-.15-3:45;
Evenings dally 7:30 - 9:15;
Adaiarian 19-25 r, >
Both South worth and Blades!
are graduates of the Cardinals’
vast chain store system and it
will be Bill’s second fling at pil
oting the Cards. He had his first
chance in 1929 but was dropped
back to Rochester in the middle
of the season “to get some more
managing experience”— and has
been going strong ever since.
He won the pennant three years
straight (1929-30-31) at Roches
ter; lifted Columbus from fifth
to second place in 1932; scouted
for the Cards in 1933-34; came
back the next year to win the
Piedmont league pennant at
Asheville, N. C.; managed Mem
phis from midway in the ’35 seas
on through 1938, and then suc
ceeded Blades at Rochester; when
the latter was promoted to the
Cardinals.
Southworth, 46, was a star out
fielder on the World Champion
Cardinal team of 1926. Blades al
so was an outfielder on the same
team, after having reached the
peak of his playing career a year
earlier when he batted .342.
Unorthodox System
Hot criticism was directed at
him last year because of his un
orthodox system of handling
pitchers. He believed in changing
hurlers at the first sign of danger
and there was not a single defeat
in which a pitcher pitched from
start to finish.
Despite all criticism, Blades’
system worked and the Redbirds’
landed in second place after giv
ing the champion Cincinnati Reds
the score of a lifetime.
Taking the break in his fortun
es in stride, Ray simply com
mented it was a bitter disapoint
ment but that he realized there
was “nothing else the club could
do.”
Breadon said there was no
Palace Theatre
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Monday, June 10th thru
Wednesday, June 12
Motion Pictures Are Tout
Best Entertainment
Monday - Tuesday, June 10-11
Alice Faye - Don Ameche -
Henry Fonda - Edward Arnold
- Warren William - Leo Car-J
riilo, in Darryl F. Zanuck’s
production cf
“Lillian Russell”
The Life and Loves of the Wo
man whose beauty had the
world and its most famous
men at her feet yet whoj
longed to love one .man .soj
madly nothing else in the
world could matter! The first
and greatest of America’s gla
mour girls the most vivid
personality of a fabulous era!
Paragraphic: “Television Re
view”
Hearst Metro tone News •
“News while it is still news”
No Morning Shows;
Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45;
Admission 10-25 c;
Evenings daily 7:30-9:15;
Admission 10-30 c
Wednesday, June 12
1 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
with James Finlayson - Ben
Turpin . Dick Cramer, in
“Saps At Sea”
Rock with laughter and roll
in the aisles as Stan and
Babe put out to sea in a tidal
wave of hilarious mishaps with
merimaids stowaways and
harbor police! They’ll scuttle
your Blues to the Botton of
the Sea!
Color Rhapsodies: “Blackboard
Review” Magic Carpet
“Flying Stewardess”
Morning Skmr 18:38; after
noon 3:15-3:48; Admirnkm 18-
25c; evening 7:30.9:15. Ad.
mission 18-SBe.
SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1940
other place for Blades in the
Cardinal organization at the pres
ent time. i
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Actors Escape
Big Rock Slide
In Fire Valley
Husky, handsome Victor Ma
ture, starred in the Hal Roach
prehistoric picture, “One Million
B. C.” now on view at the
Dolly Madison theatre, stepped
on a loose rock and precipitated
a small avalanche that threatened
serious inury to himself and
studio workmen. The film was
being made in isolated Fire Val
ley, five miles from Logandale,
Nevada, with Hal Roach direct
ing.
Mature, who has the role of
Tumak, ran along a narrow ledge
of rock scrambled down the face
of a cliff, then leaped off to do
battle with a wild beast, as call
ed for in the script. As he took
off into space, his foot dislodged
a rock. That started a rock-slide
which rumbled after him.
Workmen standing under the
cushioned platform built to break
Mature’s fall scrambled to safety.
Mature haastily rolled off the
platform and hung by his hands,
just in time to escape the ava
lanche. The platform was bad
ly damaged by the rampaging
bonlders.
ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES
FOR RESULTS.
Dolly Madison
THEATRE
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Monday, June 10th thru
Wednesday, June 12
Motion Pictures Are Youi
Best Entertainment
Monday - Tuesday, June 10-11
Victor Mature - Carole Landis
- Lon Chaney, Jr., in
“One Million B. C.”
(First Run)
So amazing you won’t believe
your eyes! Greatest thrills on
earth Wonders never be
fore beheld by man. The am
azing spectacle of the world at
the dawn of time. See! what
love was like . .a .million
years ago! See! actual living
animals of a Bygone age .re
created. If you are a drinking
man we don’t advise you to
see it—However, to those who
have red hot blood coursing
through their veins and to
those who love thrills, adven
ture and romance. You then
must see “One Million B. C”!
Walt Disney Cartoon: “The
Duck Steps Out”
Fox Movietone News - “News
of the Nation”
Special Morning Show
Monday 18:38;
Afternoons dally 3:15-3:45;
Evenings daily 7:30-9:15;
Admission 10-25 c
Wednesday, June 12
Frankie Darro with Marjorie
Reynolds - Mantan Moreland -}
Milburn Stone, in
“Chasing Trouble”
(First Run)
I “Cupid” is wearing long pants
now He spells his last name
D-a-r-r-o! There’s never a
dull minute with Frankie when
he finds a boy friend for a
lonesome girl and picks a
guy who has a “date” with the
police!
Broadway Brevity:
“Alex h Wonderland”
Ne Morning Show, after
noon 3:15-3:45; Ortmlml— 18-
Mej evening 7:30 - 9:15. Ad
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