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    *C' Herb Thomas Signs Up Hh Two Major Stock Car Races r DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Ml ’ Herbert Thomas, 1958 Grand Na -1 tional circuit champion from Ollv - la, has filed his entry for the aea r son's first two Major races of the season scheduled for West Palm , beach, Fla., Sunday, February 7, ‘ and Daytona Beach Sunday, Febru -1 ary 21. The Tar Heel star wll: drive a 1954 Hudson Hornet in both these events. . The Daytona Beach program . and 1954 calls for five days of speed trials and time trials in addition > to three major stock car races sche . duled for the famous 4.1 mile beach ; and road course and the tourna ment of champions program for top modified and sportsmen’s driv ' era at the local city stadium Tues day night, February 16. Speed trials for American and foreign cars are scheduled from i Sunday, February 14 through the Spruill On Sports By FRANK SPRUILL, JR. Record Sports Writpr With the present basketball sea son two-thirds gone, barring tour naments anil other post-season en gagements, eight of the 10 Harnett County Basketball teams will play tonight. Boone Trail and Benhaven have open dates and the rest of the 10 teams will be out still at tempting to gain ground on un defeated Lillington. It looks like a hopeless cause in most cases for no team is likely to bea,t Lining ton's boys! any tune soon. These sharpshooting boys from the county seat have won 12 straight ball games this season. For any team in the conference to over take them in time to represent the conference in the State Class A Tournament now would take quite some doing. , 1 Dunn, the team with the nearest mathematical chance of doing this, would have to njn the rest of it’s games while Lillington was drop ping three games to teams they have already defeated this season. And the rest of the teams would have even greater odds to over come. The only team left on the Lil lington schedule that should even make it interesting for the Lilting ton boys is Coats. At present Coate has won six and lost six, but the Goats boys started slow this seae son and are just now approach ing their peak. They should give somebody a rough time m the tournament in a few weeks. Buie’s Creek and Dunn should also be two of the teams to watch in the tournament. Dunn has lost but three games (two to Lillington and one to Buie’s Creek) and Buie’s Greek has only lost four. GIRLS’ SITUATION Tlie girls' race Is still wide open and not likely to be decided any tin* 30on. In fast, it may go right doWn to the wire on the last play ing date, February iff? Benhaven is in the drivers' seat as they have lost but one. (Nc score has been found on the Ben haven-Boone Trail game but all other scores are in). Dunn has lost two and Coats has dropped three. Being in first place with two thitds of the season gone means something, but the Benhaven girls will have to work harder than the ; Lillington boys if they are to re peat as champions this year. Tonight they have an open date : ’.n order to prepare for the last six games. ! : Bwwn plays tonight Tonight the Qreenwaves will W i playing at home again. They wfll meet Erwin in the Dunn Armory tonight in three games—the first , 'starting at 6:30. The last time the two schools met, Dunn took two of the three games played. The Erwin JVs won 1 * to 1G in the opener, but the Dunn gffts cadie out on the long end of a 41-38 situation. The Dunn • boys ran wild In running up a *6-41 score on the HecßKins. ! Since then, Erwin, has won three games while the £>unn boys have wen seven more, but the RedskjaA beat LaFaryette Worse than the Wa ves did last week. (Dunn wori by two. Erwin by ton). Wire Bunn boys are . averaging 52.r0 points p«f game—making 626 in 12 games. They have given up 479 or 39.92 per game, - - Daley OofT is Tea,ling Dunn scor ing wuh 253 points which is an average of 21.08 a game. Ae also had looked good with hie wdrk untfcr the backboards. Mac Turllag . ton is averaging ail With {fit points and Bobby Godwin is aver aging iotas. AB of me 61aver age* arC under three points. Tfct Tfrscve* hoW wins offer L*- (2), Buies Sleek, Efenixav en, Boone Trail, Angler. Coate,- Er win and Anderson Civet. Tfce Erwin bote have defeated Anderson CfeCk, Angler and Laffay ; Currently the Dunn boys are ill stand , f«Tfi weekend races. Approximately 10* drivara are i expected to compete in the Ho rn tie sportsmen’s stock Car race over the bench and mad course Friday, February 19, starting at : 8:30 p. m. i Practically every type late model will take part in the 160-mile Grand i National cicuit race Sunday, Feb- 1 ruary 21, starting at 3 o’clock With . little BUI Blair of High Point de fending the championship Won last i year with a 1953 Olds 58. Blair ave raged 89.5 per hour for the 160 rtiiles. ] The Friday and Saturday races ] will be wide open battle with new records assured for b6th events. Ev- I erett “Cotton” Owens of Spartan- ! ] girls have usually been involved in ! close games too. They have won 10 ; games. i The Dunn girls have scored 606 points this seasor for a 50.5 average ; while yielding 44.5. Kack White has been the big gun ' in most games and is now sporting a 19.47 average which is somewhat under her usual performance. Alice Prince is averaging lg.O a gatfle and ‘ Mary Lou Westbrook Has’ a 10.57 average. Margaret Godwin, who has turned in some excellent plftying in the past few games, is averaging 4.57. Margaret has scored 56 points this year and 48 of them have been in the last three games. The three Greeqwave starting guards—Hack Butt, Nancy Jemtgan ' ' and Jean Sorrell, rank with the best in the county, but tbeylf have \ to be good tonight to stop Gerry ' Matthews. Her exact scoring CvC#- 1 age isn’t known, but ft is some where near 46 points per game. Erwfn is currently tied with La- Fayette for fifth place; the Wives are in second. Harnett County Conference games tonight: Erwin at Dunb; Lining ton at An gler; LaFayette vS Anderson Creek at Lillington: Buie's Creek'at ©oat**, Boone Trail open; and Benhaven open. Games Tuesday; Dunn at Coate; Boone Tra« at Buie’s Greek; An gler at Benhaven; Anderson Creek at Erwin and Lillington at LaFay ette. Harnett Training School Team Wins Harnett County Training School basketball teams, both boys and girls, have had a top week with three games being played. Monday night the school played Bladeh County Training Schfcfcl with the game between the girls ending in a tie 23-23. The boys Horn the local school won over Bladen by a scote of 55 to 34. Tuesday night LaOrange school played the local teams with the Dunn girlswlnning over the school 30 to 13. The Dtmn boys also won with a score of 49 to *4 being racked up. Thursday night both teams lost m a game With BhsatJeth town; with the Bote Idfclng S3' to 38 and the girls 31 to X. The most outstanding offensive man for the local school was- James Toon. Fcr the girls Ha set Lee ra ted best. Best defensive players ra ted the most outstanding were Frances McLean and Lena Ccunail. Next Thursday night the teams meet Lincoln High School of Louie-' burg. George Washington To Test Strength RALEIGH, N. C. UP George Washington Univer sity, basKethall pride of the old Sduthem. ConfeMtoce w ades into the “tough’’ ®f it* Schedule next ***& and l Coach Bill Reinhart Witt dtoeeter how good his sqttott rtally is. lt*i li ; 'g^ccrlug * tactics . W WmM m Si' burg won the 106-mile raoe last; year which Was open to raodlUeti mid sportsmen's cart, averaging 9154 miles Per hour. Owens am paced the qualifiers with aft aver age of 130.48 miles per hour over the straightaway Measured mile course. Heading the Held for the Grand National event this year will be Herb Thomas w>d Le e Petty of ftandleman, N. C.. runner up in the 1054 campaign, chiving a 1954 Dodge. Fonty Flock of Decatur, Oa„ one of the Ideal favorites, will Be driving a Bulek Century, and Jim Heed of Ossining, N. Y, the 1963 short track champion, will drive a 1954 F6rd. Joe Weatherly, Norfolk, Va.. 1953 modified champion, and John ny .Roberts of Brooklyn, Md., 1953 national sportsmen's champion, head the field of entries for the Saturday and Friday races. SPORTS SHORTS FLEMING Macken’s scoring fam ine ended just in thrie to lift the Boston Brutes into a three-point lead over the New York Rangers today In the battle for the final playoff Berth in the National Hook ey League. Mackeß, who- had gone iff straight games without scoring, had a hand in all three goals Thursday night as the Brutes beet, the Chicago Black Hawks, 3-2, to gain ffroUnd oh the Rangers, who tied Detroit, 3-3. The Hershey Bears took over sole possession of third place in the American Hockey League to day on the strength Os a lopsided victory over the Hague-leading Buffola Bisons. Buffalo jumped off to a 1-0 lead in the opening minutes of the game at Hershey, Pa., Thurs day night but then the Bears took over and went oh a roll up an 8-3 decisions as Arnle Kuilman, George Sullivan, and Obfe O'Brien led the attack with two goals each. —— Most National Basketball Asso ciation teams own one good, center but the champion Minneapolis Lak- ’ ers have' two— George Mlkan and rookie Clyde Lovellette. The two giant Lakers combined to score 40' L prints Thursday night to lead Min- F neapolis to a neasy, 104-82, victory ( over the Baltimore Bullets. And in turh Mikan and tovelette held Bul lets’ canter Ray Felix fa a mere, 13> points, after’the skinny center had collected 32 against the Lakers Wednesday night. HaiN FRaN«SC’G rtW Having conquered just about * everything else in the world of sports, Bob World’s Greatest Athlete Mn thias, today is turning his hand to the job of becoming a top-flight golfer, “fra through as a track and field man,” says the youngster who captured the world Olympic decathlon championship at the ago of 17 in 194*. ’T dOh’t particularly care to piny football or any othe* sport. From now on Its golf for me." And so saying, the 2teyesf-old graduate of Stanford University ts applying all the work, zeal arid general thoroughness that he pot Into other sports. .. NEW YORK Iff! J. Noiman Lewis, the baseball players’ ney, charged today that they stiff art being given the rite-around oil their pension plan and that their prdpostta would be ignoMRT during Saturday's joint meeting of the American add National Leagues Lewis was particularly Irked be cause he felt the owners had suffi cient UiSe fa frame their answers to tee player's proposals. “9 can not understand why our proposals will not 06 cdHtMtefed as ffiai meeting Because they MMW Hitt plenty of time td thififc them over," the attorney shift Reinhart ffkes, will be the fourth all tdaton, Reinhart feels confi dent, however, that his squad dan w*Bpi I*** i FACES SC Cg^Ug^and nrilefti ie. Lee a 4 3a vi, ison-South Carolina. sectional gum* • They Write Songs About Everything : NEW wont m Ratwy Sosnik B urn dwtafci 0* two types of mafl he'll He getting early to the ;heW year the Christmas MB* and songi aimut the H«h*-Rubi rOsa romanoe. “The amateur songwriters a round the country lea* no time in turhteg out ditties based l hwA irith , -*v - mt M A - k ' -<4h\ i, 4 f^S that stwffect that r fe wer* “The Dari* That Bared tHe Deep” and 'He Gave Davey Jobes the- Deep SbL* "At felr years tick there were «MhO songs inspired by the ball point pen. “My Pen Is Writing Un der Tears’ Was one title. Another writ ‘Get On the BbU Point Pfffe and Write I Love You.’ “The"first KteSUy report wax productive. A couple that I recall offhand were 'DOST Lfft Mr. Min aev Foot Yds? and 'Love Is Ncit A Matter of The second Rinaey Voltttoff didn't serito to in spire the amateurs, however. FVe only heard of ohe title stemming from it Wf. Hteaey, How nee You!' “Among the more sedate ’ titles of songs inspired by the Chris tine Jorgenson case were ‘FVe Meter Been To DenmarW, So IB&nr and Tve Been Fooled.’ "Florence Chadwick, the English Channel swimmer, came in for her share of attention at one time. There were ‘Watch Flo Go’ and ■There’s Nothing Fishy About Flor ence.' “It seam* a shame that people waste- their time writing this sort of firing. Even if by a miracle one such song should be good, the event would be ancient history be fore anything could be- done with it,” Paar's variety show on CBB-TV from Ml to II ajr. BBT each Fri day is exactly what he’s always wanted. U’s true that he hae sing ers and- good ones soch as Richard Hayes and Edith Adame, ifigOnue lead in Broadway’s "Won derful Town,” on the program. He alto has air Miptok Latin nameri Plipl Eampo, who is something of . a comic in his own right ffi welf as beteg the show's oriyo test lead- I if. But none of these get in Paar’s i ' MOSTLY AD-LIB “We jus* ran the show on w i cateh-as-caFch-can basis,” Paar ex plained. “Thff mueie numbers have to be refiearSed, of course, but the I reto of the program to pretty much) os an ad-lib. basis.” A good example Os Fear’s meth ods oScur during the program. TV* ever don*/’ they ate listening from 'wTHwte calls are compiled the industry's rating that, seems to be sot im portant to advertising agencies and "I just told the listeners they h fsbfttbteg; W«t to btf called,’’ ihtaM said, ‘'After all, bow many peOpie T dd you know who’ve ever racetvCd one of those phone ehecls? I an nounced the Chicago and New York phoht numbers of ohe of' those outfits and said It might be a nice switch if the people called Up and skid they were listening to tee Jack Paar show. “Actually, I did that hi satiric vein, Without thinking anyone would take It seriously. But Utter I found out—in no uncertain terms— that them two switChMtifde had faeeh jammed for hour*. The com pany didn’t like ft. CBS offletal* told me never to do such a thing, again, then added that it was a pretty neat stunt anyWay.” One way to test the temperature of f4t for deep frying is with a cube of breed. A one-inoh square# of bre&tS will brown in 40 seconds,' in set hot enough for deep fa*, cooking of potatoes or croquettes. 6*r Pink Anti-Freeze Today Just Received A Car Lead Don't Be A Last Minute Man MTMOTIVE simm eva—* oiAo mr etl i | ii ||| ' l (i I"! i■ r .• '#l