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SATURDAY, MAY 13, 19.00 Taylor Gams Southern Roddey Gains Other Berth From Atwater Carolina Track Teams To Meet Duke Today daily jb;d neck Tennis Finals DAVIDSON, N. C, May 12 (P) Top-seeded Clark Taylor of - the University of North Carolina gained his expected berth in the finals of the Southern Confer ence Tennis Tournarnent today, but the real fireworks were pro vided by no. 3 seeded Oliver (Bo) Roddey, slim star of Davidson's host team, Roddey thrashed William and 1 Mary's Howe Atwater, no. 2 ranking man of the tournament, with the loss of only one game in their free-set semi-final, 6-0, 6-1, 6-0. - ' X; Taylor got by Tommy Boys, Atwater's teammate who was fourth seeded, 6-3, 6-1," 4-6, 6-4. The ; best-of-five finals will be played tomorrow afternoon. Roddey, a straight set semi finals loser to last year's eventual champion, Fred Kovalcski of ; William and Mary, never was better than in his match with At water. Tire latter was simply swept off his feet by the un beatable, aggressive game of the Davidson pernor li om Charlotte. . Roddey 's brilliant play all sea Bon had convinced observers that he had a definite chance against Atwater, but no such , rout was anticipated. Last week in a reg ular season match Atwater took two of three sets from Roddey. Taylor appeared in commend at all times against Boys, whose fighting play gave him the third set, but at no time did Taylor appear in danger of losing the match. In regular season play Taylor won from Roddey this year, but lost to him last season. All four semi-finalists, hrrd ad vanced with straight set" morning victories over the bottom four in the seeded list of eight. North Carolina's top-seeded . "v team of Taylor and Charlie Rice had won the first set from Dav idson's fourth-seeded Allan Fan joy and Ted Keesler, 7-5, and was leading, 3-2, in the second when the semi-final was cut short by rain. A best-of-five affair, it will be resumed in the morning. The other semi-final did not even begin. An opponent' for Davidsons Roddey - Whit Cobb duo had not yet been determined when the rains came. William and Mary's Atwater Boys combination led, 4-2, in the first set against Duke's Jack Walmsley and Bob Silkett when their quarter-final was halted. B Frank Allston. Jr. Carolina's undefeated varsity and once-defeated frosh track- sters will engage the two squads of Duke University in dual meets to be held at 2 o'clock on the Duke cinders today. Plenty of hot action is prom ised in both meets. The Tar Heel varsity runners need this meet to preserve a two-year undefeated dual meet record while the Tar Babies will be seeking revenge after a previous loss to the Blue Imps, their lone defeat of the year. The varsity action will find the Tar Heels slight favorites to whip the Devils for the fourth straight year. The frosh, however,, will be the underdogs in their meet. Top individual action should find Bill Albans and Duke's Tom my Reeves hooking up in broad jump and low hurdles competi tion.- Albans will be favored m both as will Carolina's Frank Scott over Blue Devil Henry Poss in the 100 and 220. Hal Holden ana Duke's Henry Bullock, one-two in the confer ence half last year, will hook up in a duel in that event this af ternoon. The two Durhamites both ran slightly over 1:56 in dual meets last week. uiner top pertormers will be Scholastic Meet The North Carolina stale high school track and field meet will be held here this af ternoon on Fetzer Field. There will be a coaches meeting at 10:30 o'clock this morning at Woollen Gym for drawings. The meet will begin at 3:00. Carolina's Bob Kirk in the jave lin, Sam Magill, mile; Gene Brigham, quarter; Jack Moody, high and broad jumps; Bob Mor row, hurdles; Ben Perry, weights, and Dukes Jim O'Leary, Penn Relays discus vking. Doublchcader Slated Two games are scheduled in the Carolina baseball picture this afternoon at 3 o'clock as the var sity travels to N. C. State and the freshmen entertain the State freshmen here on Emerson Field. Henry Schacht or Doc Gaston will probably , be the starting pitcher for the Tar Heels as they seek to even the season series with State. State has won two of the three game so far this year. Army Khaki Panti $2.95 Nary Grey Pants . ....$2.95 lit Quality T-Shirii .38 Full Line of Jackets' & Sport Shirts SURPLUS SALES 425 W. Main St Durham, N. C. SENSATIONAL SALE SURGES Oil Many Good Books Are Still Left But Hurry! They Won't Last Long. 20 to 50 off iiBERIIETHY'S Intimate Bookshop Chip.l Hill. N. C. ' ' ' THERE IS DRAFT a: ;! THERE IS BALANTINE BEER ALE BOCK ON TAP TASTE THE DIFFERENCE AT THE RATHSKELLER l'fr;:::::::-:Ml i n Ay nw a v::: . : : . iC ' $ 51 n r ' ' .V. T)i srt0i DMr-..-iiiiiiiii iiii.i-iii- in h i -akoud ir.DHDKi -jcwKLnt: by momton srrwi 0J 1 -1 Vs- "4 Yes, Cornell ore SO MILD that in coaN te-coatt lest of hundreds of men and women who smoked Camels and only CSmels for 30 consecutive days, noted throat specialists, making weekly examinations, reported 1 -rsr y7X,r V w w v vy SV .
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