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PAGE TWO Middleburg And Henderson Girls To Offer “Battle Os Forwards” Nightcap Performance To Be Staged By Bulldogs Guards Likely to be Deciding Factor in Contest; Middle burg Boys Favored A “Battle of Forwards” will be waged here tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock in Henderson high school gym as the local lassies tie up with Mid dleburg for the second time within a week in what should be one of the best basketball contests cf the fast ebbing season. The Bulldogs will turn in a nightcap performance, meeting Middle:urg boys. Middleburg and Hsnderson girls are gifted with fine sets of forwards, the score in the first meeting attesting to the fact, the visitors running up 37 points to Henderson’s 33. Middle burg boasts of Miss Jackson, who scored 25 points in the first meeting. Miss Ellington, and Miss Hendrick. These forwards have consistently piled up wide margins during the season. Henderson looks to Captain Blake, Becky Mills and Mary Florence Houghtaling tor its scoring. Misses Blake and Mills tied with 12 points each again- 1 Middleburg last Wednes day night, and Miss Houghtaling ac counted for nine points. The guards will probable hold the balance of power in the contest. Hen derson probably has the edge in this department in Carolyn Duke, Rebecca Beasley and Minnie Lee Huffman, al though the visitors, headed y Miss Short, gave the local forwards a tough tussle in the previous engagement. If Henderson can stop Miss Jack son and hold Misses Ellington and Hendrick, the lassies have a fine chance for a winning decision and keeping their record intact of hav ing defeated every team they have met at least once this season. Middleburg boys are expected to hand Henderson lads another licking It was Nelson and Jackson that took the Bulldogs for a 29-15 ride in the first meeting, Henderson showed very little in a basketball way during the entire contest, but since that game, the aggregation looked impressive in whipping Warrenton, and Coach Bing Milier is expecting his boys to turn in a better performance tomorrow night. Henderson will close its season Fri day night with Aycock teams furnish ing the opposition. STATE, CAROLINA CLASH IN RALEIGH Chapel Hill, Feb. 22.—North Caro lina’s White Phantoms, with 15 vic tories, in 18 games, will be gunning for their fifth consecutive B : g Five basketball championship Tuesday night when they meet N. C. State in a return game at Raleigh. A victory over Techs would give the Tar Heels undisputed possession of the crown. A State win would give the Red Terrors at least a tie for the title. Should Carolina lose both games this week, the Techs would win the state championship. A loss to State and a victory over Duke would re sult in a first-place tie. PHYSICAL ED CLASS IS NOT TO GATHER The Men’s Physical Education class, usually held each Tuesday evening at Henderson high school gym, will not meet tonight, due to the Kiwanis Bridge Tournament in the gymnasium Members of the class will be noti fied of the next meeting date. ‘SLINGING SAM’ TRIES COACHING Jet, '' 1% aljj||l J jj|J i 11 |||||pg :> >% W. : '"v £raraß||6ng^ “Slinging Sammy Baugh, ace of the professional Washington Redskins, took a new role in football upon his arrival at Chapel Hill, N. C., to assist Ray Wolf, head coach at the University of North Carolina, with spring practice. Wolf (right) who used to be Sammy’s gridiron boss at Texas Christian univer sity, is shown giving the youngster a warm welcome to Chapel Hill. Warming Up <-'y llPI&s 3§j Alice Marble Awaiting tournament play in the U. S. and in Britain, Alice Marble, Ame rica’s top-ranking woman tennis star, is pictured in action during practice in Beverly Hills, Cal. Tbiw » Girls Win Thriller 23-22 and Boys Romp to 21-15 Win Over Visitors Aycock racked up two wins over Gold Sand here last night in Hender son high school gym, the girls win ning a thrilling 23-22 contest, while the boys romped to a 21-15 verdict over the lads from down in Franklin county. Miss Helen Wright led Aycock to victory with 10 points, with Misses Edward and Stevenson shooting seven and six respectively. Miss Currin was the top scorer for the visitors with 11 points while Miss Watkins accounted for nine, and Miss Harris dropped the remaining two tal lies through the hoop. Puckett paced Aycock to victory with 13 points, while Hoyle shot seven, and Greenway got one tally. Harris shot eight points for the visitors, Cot trell got four, Jones 2, and Shearin one. Aycock’s second team played entire first half of the contest., and neither team turned in a field goal during that period. Clarke was the best for Aycock on the floor game, while Jones aided the visitors a great deal with his work on the court. DUKE TURNS BACK DEACONMI TO 40 Baptist Miss Free Throw for Tie at Final Whistle; Lose Tourney Berth Wake Forest, Feb. 22— (AP) —Duke’s unpredictable Blue Devils squeezed cut a 41 to 40 victory over Wake For cc f college in a Southern conference basketball thriller here last night. The Demon Deacons 1 >st a chance to tie the score and take the game into an extra period when Rex Carter, who was i'ouled as the final whistle sound ed, m.ssed a free throw. Left-iianded Jim Waller, ace Deacon forward, \ paced the scorers with 22 points. He made the first basket of the game, so put Wake Forest ahead, but O’MaraV action shot tied the shore and Duke cf.uickly took the lead and remained in front for the remainder of the contest. Trailing 22 to 8 after 13 minutes of play, Wake Fc rest came back and was only' five points behind at the half. The defeat virtually put an end to Wake Forest’s h opes to enter the Sou thern Conference- basketball tourna ment at Raleigh .next month. Ed Swindell, leading Blue Devil scorer, paced his team in last night’s victory, dropping in six goald from the floor and two for the free throw line for a total of 14 poin.ts. He was closely followed iby Bob O-TMara, who cap- A cast Entt&nnfmvK; r LEO BRUCE (®) V. COPYRIGHT BY LEO BRUCE; RELEASED BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION Vrfty CHAPTER 34 I WAS SURPRISED at the brisk pace that M. Picon set as we set out for Morton Scone. His legs were short, but his remark able agility made it hard for me to keep up with him. However, I had set myself to see as much of the methods of all three of these great men as I could, and was willing enough to make the effort. Now that they were nearing the end of the chase, every move they made should be interesting. , “I’m afraid I haven’t been able to help you much, Monsieur Pi con,” I said after a long silence. “Au contxaire, my friend, your evidence has been of the greatest service to You remembered something of the utmost impor tance, which you .might well have forgotten. “What was that?" “You do not know? But natu rally, your own part in this af fair.” “My part?” I almost shouted. “But yes. You, too, had a hand in it. Oh, but quite unconscious, I assure you. Still, a part.” “Good Lord. .What on earth was that?” “Did you not rise and open the door?” “Which door? When?” “But naturally. The door of the lounge. Just before the ■creams were heard.” “Well, yes. I did. But I fail to see what that could have to do with it Unless ...” A new and horrible idea flashed into my brain. “Unless there was some devilish mechanism in that room which I set in motion.” “Fortunately,” said M. Picon, “the machine is not yet invented which will cut a lady’s throat while she lies waiting for it, and throw the knife from the window, then disappear from the face of the earth.” “I suppose not,” I admitted. We marched on in the sunlight, which had begun to pale a little. I was glad of the fresh air and exercise, and glad, too, of some activity which filled in the after noon, for my impatience to know the murderer’s identity would otherwise have become feverish. To think that at last, after all this guesswork, I was to know the truth. I resolved to think no more about the murder, for other wise I should start once again to suspect each in turn of the people at the Thurstons’. We must have been within half a mile of Morton Scone when M. Picon suddenly took my arm, and said, “Vite! This way!” I was so' much taken by sur prise that for a moment I hesi tated. He pulled me quite fierce ly however, to the side of the road, and almost bundled me through a hole in the hedge. He had scarcely time to follow, when a car approached. I had been aware of it a moment before, when it had been in the distance nnri beyond a dip which had taken it out of sight, but I had paid no attention to it. The little detec tive, however, seemed to be in a state of tremendous excitement. “Observe!” he snapped, as he stared at the roadway we had left. It was once again Dr. Thurs ton’s dark-blue car, and since it was not traveling fast I had ample time to recognize its occupants. Fellowes was driving, and beside him sat the girl Enid, while in the rear seat, smoking a cigar, was Miles. “You see?” said M. Picon, as soon as the car had gone past. “What I have said! Look in the heart, my friend. When the mind no longer tells tales, look in the heart!” “But Monsieur Picon,” I ex claimed, “this is too much! This HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1938 ped his best performance of the year with 10 tallies as a result of four field goals and two fouls. 400 Athletes to Take Part Indoor Conference Games Chapel Hill, Feb. 22.—More than 400 of the South’s finest track athletes representing 52 teams and 40 different institutions, six states and the District of Columbia, have already filed entries for the ninth annual Southern Conference in door Games to be held at the Uni versity of North Carolina Satur day and night. This year's splendid crop of run ners and weight men is expected to exceed last winter’s splendid entry delegation, which number ed 420 athletes from 26 institutions and seven states. The afternoon events will get under way at 1:30 o’clock and the night events at 7. A new feature of the Southern Indoor classic this year will be a banked track, modeled after the famous Milrose A. A. track in Madison Square Garden. This track should make for greater speed, and several records are ex pected to topple under the assaults of this year’s entries. ROGERS, HARVEY EXCEL AT W. & L. Chapel Hill, Feb. 22—James Rogers, hurdler, and Henry Harvey, half miler, are the standouts of the Wash ington and Lee teams which will vie for honors in the Conference division of the ninth annual Southern Con ference Indoor games to be held at v ** . * He almost bundled me through a hole in the hedge. < morning I went to Sidney Sewell, and saw Fellowes with two of the suspects; this afternoon I come to Morton Scone, and here he is with another two!” M. Picon laughed. “And per haps, when you go to Jericho with the excellent Monsignor Smith you will find him there with some more!” “But what does it mean?” I asked. “Patience, my friend.” “But how did you know, while it was still a long way off, that that was the Thurstons’ car?” “I did not. But I thought it might be. I was expecting it.” “You were? What made you expect it?” “Oh, but you must understand. I was not expecting it with any great confidence. But I knew it had gone this Way, and I thought that possibly, possibly, mind you, it would return.” “You knew that they were go ing to Morton Scone, then?” “I had an idea, no more. A small idea, Hut the ideas' of Amer Picon at times come true, you see.” “Well, that one certainly did, though I’m hanged if I know what to make of it.” “And I wonder what the good Boeuf would make of it. His partner in the brave game of darts, is it not ?” I smiled at that. “Yes, I wonder. Whom do you think he suspects, Monsieur Pi con? He seems pretty sure of himself, whoever it is.” “Probably the so skilled and expert cook, I should think,” said M. Picon. “But then your Eng lish police are not of the most in telligent when it is a matter of crime.” “Not in this case,” I admitted. Suddenly I stopped short. “Mon sieur Picon!” I exclaimed. “What have yoq, mon ami? I burst out laughing. What a couple of fools we are!’ I said. “For that, in your so English proverb, you must for yourself," he returned humiy. ___ ATHLETICS CZAR IN SCHOOLSIS NAMED Charles E. Spencer, of High Point, to Shake Up the Present System Diillv Till |n Till* Sir *!• t“l. Raleigh, Feb, 22.— Appointment of Charles E. Spencer, of High Foint, to i’:e in charge of health and phy sical education for the Department of Public Instruction will prove of far-reaching importance in two phases of school activities, at least. First, it will give the State school system, for the first time, a coordinat ed and balanced program of physical education for all children from the first grade on up to the graduating classes of high school. Second, k will result in a complete revolution in the present system of inter-scholastic athletics in the State’s high schools. The two Raleigh papers and the wire news services heralded Mr. Spencer’s appointment in brief, sket chy fashion and assigned to it as near no significance as possible, but the reason for this treatment of the news is obvious —both Raleigh papers and the wire services were “scooped” on the impending development and its importance not once, but twice by thii bureau, with the result that a “What Chapel Hill Saturday afternoon and night, February 26. Rogers was the indoor 70-yard and outdoor 120-yard high hurdles champion last year. Har vey copped first place in the 880-yard outdoor run last spring. “No. But don’t you see ? We’ve walked about a quarter of a mile since we saw that car. And all for nothing. You have seen what you set out to see. We could have turned back at once.” “And who knows what I set out to see?” “Well, it was obviously the car, coming back from Morton Scone, with Fellowes and the rest of them in it.” “That was almost an accident.” “Then you still must go on to the village?” “Naturally.” “But whatever for?” “You have surely forgotten one all-important detail. The flag on the tower of Morton Scone church was at half-mast, is it not so?” “Yes. But ...” “Allonsr I obeyed. But inwardly I re volted. I began to think that M. Picon was deliberately mystifying me, or that, having absent-mind edly continued walking to Mor ton Scone as I suggested, he now pretended that it was necessary, in order to save his face. But as we were approaching the village I had another idea. “I know!” I said, “you think it was a double murder. The doctor in this village died the same day. You connect the two?” “The doctor was very old, and had a weak heart. He knew him self that he might die at any time. His death was perfectly natural.” “Then what has Morton Scone got to do with it?” We had reached a point on a gentle hillside from which most of the village was clearly visible. It was a pleasant Sussex village, whose predominant color was tflyM - - quiet red to which bricks and tiles are toned in the process of time. There were houses with plaster fronts and houses with timbered fronts, and an inn sign hung across the footpath. “Perhaps nothing at all. Per haps a great deal,” said M. Picon very thoughtfully. (To Be Continued) Heaviest Ballplayer Walter Brown » • • may win if he loses Wa’ter Brown, 283-pound pitcher of the New York Giants, has to lose some excess fat before he can hope to win baseball games this year. And that’s what Walter was doing when this pic ture was snapped in a steam room at Hot Springs, Ark. —Central Pretm of it?” attitude was adopted as a cover-up. ' In announcing Mr. Spencer’s ap pointment, Clyde A. Erwin, superin tendent of public instruction, took oc casion to say that, “It is not our in tention that Mr. Spencer shall be an agent for policing inter-scholastic athletics, or that he shall act as .an arbiter in athletic disputes.” All of Which is true enough, so far as it goes, but when questioned bv ypur correspondent Mr. Erwin readily conceded that Mr. Spencer’s appoint ment will result in a complete revamp ing cf the present athletic set-up in the high schools of the State. The new director of the physical education division. Mr. Erwin said, will be no “czar” of athletics alone but will be in charge of a compre hensive, inclusive program of physicr.. training for all students. :But as gn incident to physical ed i catipn of the students, the new chie* will quite naturally be interested ir. inter-scholastic competitions and his work will go far toward deciding the trend they shall take. Mr. Spencer, according to Superintendent ErwY, will have wide “advisory” functions in connection with athletics. Naturally the aead c.~ the State’s school system did not come c:v; ilat footedly with the statement that the present method of determining State champions will be tossed into the gar bage can —he didn’t v/ant to become embrqiled in any controversy with the | Closing Out ! 61 Topcoats 9 Men, now's your chance. They are all fl this season's newest patterns and models. | We are not going to carry them over, so 1 take your choice, but do it quickly. 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Ho pointl f* lst ‘ that the function of promotin',? ° U ! publicizing school athletics h J " ( primary purpose of physical’ T a tion program; and said that th« « ferenqe system of conductin'- ~Vh l C .° n ' can be worked just as in high schools as in colleges'- ilv It was obvious that Mr. Erwin didn’t care to make any direct reflet ' nt the present conduct of inter-schol °- n athletics but it was equally that Mr. Spencer’s appointment the end of the present system- P tainly in so far as State ‘‘champion' ships are concerned. Details of the new system reman to be worked out. just a, details of the full program ol physical cduc. tion also will be determined onlv aft - thorough study. CREEDMCOR RETAINS GRANVILLE TITLE Creedmoor boys and girls repeated their basketball conquest of GranviN county Saturday night, whipping the Wilton team to retain their county championship crown in the finals of the Wilton tourney. Creedmoor boys ran up a 30 to 13 score, while the girls were pushed to win 13 to 11. Those who attended the tourney were highly complimentary of the of ficiating of Pettis Terrell, local cage n bitei. lerrell hojs also been chosen to call the Franklin county tourney. NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER'S SALE. Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Vance County N. C., made in the Special Proceeding entitled Mrs. Jessie W. Allen, widow of H. H. Allen, and Jewell J. Allen heirs of 11. H. Allen, deceased, Ex Parte, the same being No. 4057 upon the Special Proceeding docket of said court, the undersigned commissioner will, on Monday, the 7th day of March, 1933, at 12 o’clock, at the courthouse door in Henderson, N. C. offer for sale to the highest bidder far cash, the H. H. Allen lot on East Montgomery Street, in Henderson, N. C., described as follows: Begin at a pin on Montgomery street 55 feet from the intersection of inner lines of sidewalks of Mont gomery Street and Carolina Avenue and run along Montgomery Street 55 feet to a pin in the old Horton line' 1 hence along the Horton line South 54 West 101 feet to a pin; Thence South 35 1-4 East parallel to Montgomery Street 55 feet to a pin corner of W. M. Ellis lot; Thence along W. M. Ellis line 101 feet to Montgomery Street to the place of beginning This the Ist day of eonruary, V/38 R. 3. CARTER, Commissioner.