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Slaughter To Perform In Durham This Afternoon ] ALL-AMERICA FIGHT WILL BE OPEN AFFAIR i j) Marshall Goldberg And Bind Holland, of 1937 Stan,, Leading Parade. New York Since nine of the players who made the 1937 As sociated Press All-American foot ball team were seniors, the race for positions on this year’s all star squad is bound to be an un usually lusty and wide-open one. The two holdovers,. Marshall (Biggie) Goldberg of Pittsburgh and Jerome (Brud) Holland of Cornell, have gained a lap on the field by submitting very de termined bids with the season barely started. NOT SLOWED UP Goldberg, who doesn’t appear slowed up a bit by his shift from halfback to fullback, probably will show the way to his Panther mates when they meet their Pittsburgh neighbor, Duquesne, on Saturday. Holland, a constant threat on end-around plays, scor ed one of Cornell’s two touch downs against Colgate on his specialty and, with George Peck, Hal McCullough, A1 Van Randt and others who make the Big Red and Ivey league stand out, will be gunning for big game once more with the Ithacans play Har vard this week-end. Nine of the 22 players who Won places on the second and third All-Americas still are up holding the honor of their alma maters and the coaching systems of their tutors. Os the five backfield men, the one who has taken the biggest step toward promotion is Sid Luckman, Columbia’s quadruple threat who will operate behind one of Lou Little’s best lines in one of the East’s main battles a gainst Army at West Point. Luck man and Bob MacLeod of Dart mouth were third-team backs in 1937, and it is MacLeod who should be spearhead of the In dians’ attack on Princeton in a game that may prove whether Dartmouth’s advance rating has been the product of inflation. Last year’s second-stringers in the running again are Davey O’- Brien of Texas Christian, a star forward passer in a section where passing on the first down is or thodox rather than heresy; “High-Knees” Bill Osmanski of Holy Cross, the best of many good Crusader backs,and triple-threat John Pingel of Michigan State. O’Brien and T. C. U. meet Tem ple at Philadelphia Friday night. Osmanski and Holy Cross enter the serious part of their cam paign against Manhattan Satur day at Worcester, Mass., and Pin gel and the Spartans should have a breather with Illinois Wesley an. FOUR LINEMEN LEFT The four linemen left over from 1937 reserves would form a neat nucleus for any coach. One is Ki Aldrich, O’Brien’s teammate and one of the finest centers the Southwest conference has produc ed. The others are Gregory Zit rides of Dartmouth, Francis Tweddell of Minnesota, and A1 Lezouski of Pitt. Tweddell’s Sat urday assignment will be to help the Gophers open their bid for another Big Ten title against a Purdue team that is fast and shifty but lacks Minnesota’s bulk and experience. >[ FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard 00 Co. Products. Telephone Sendee No. 4711 ~ROCK INN SERVICE STATION WJVVWWVWWtfWWWV I BUCK*JONES I i I FOB •iTransfer Service:! i; jj Public Hauling jj SPORTS OF THE TIMES PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. SID LUCKMAN RATED HIGHLY FOR 38 HONORS Colombia Back Is First Real Candidate For 1938 All-American Grid Honors New York—Sid Luckman is the first real 1938 candidate for an all-American position. He plays more left halfback than is good for opponents of Columbia’s spectacular Light Blues, whom experts say could not have requlsed Yale without him. Luckman was a towering figure on a weak team last fall. He was almost as brilliant in the Morining)side Heigjhts clubPs 21- 18 defeat by Army a year ago as he was against the Elis this trip running a kickoff back 80 yards for a touchdown, among other things. After that engage ment, Lieut. Gar Davidson, who retired as the Cadets’ coach, call ed him the perfect football play er the greatest back that he had ever seen. Old-timers, including Ducky Pond, the Yale coach, can recall no individual not even the Elis’ Clint Frank who ever stood out so magnificently in a game as Luckman did against the Blue. He gave a demonstration of the aerial art which would cause a Sammy Baugh, Benny Fried man, Harry Newman, or Dixie Howell to snort with envy, com pleting 10 of 17 for a total of 169 yards. He did not make a poor pass. Not once did he miss his man. The passes that were in complete were dropped or bob bled. Luckman carried 20 times for 102 yards. He punted seven times for an average of 35 yards from the line of scrimmage, which means an average' of 48 yards. One kick was blocked. He thrice picked up extra points with placeVkiclqs., Ace of Air Luckman is no gazelle, but he ir, far from being slow and is a determined runner. He is a blocker, a tackier, an imaginative and commanding field general and signal caller, a safety man who makes no mistakes, and the slickest kind of a faker. So while he is entitled to his campus title of Ace Luckman, king of the air, he is vastly more than that. Lou Little, his coach, calls his prize senior the most remarkable passer he ever set eyes on. You drag out the dictionary of superlatives in discussing Luck man. Grizzled observers consider his 50-yard pass in the Yale game the most unusual football feat they ever witnessed. Shortly before the half ended, fourth down, with six yards to go, Luckman went back in kick formation, faked a run, faded a short pass, shook off two tacklers who apparently had him pinned, and made his Titantic toss. The ball settled in Frank Stulgaitis’ arms in the end zone for a touch down. That wasn’t the way the play was supposed to gq, but Luck man is an instinctive athlete capable of making his own way and picking his spots when some thing goes awry. Like Ken Strong Luckman stands 5 feet 11 in ches and comes in at 194 pounds, six of which he lost In the Yale Game and picked right up again. He is a product of Erasmus Wall high school of Brooklyn. He plays another varsity sport or two but not very well Luckman was football-minded |Up'tO'the«Minute Sport News Solicited Co-Captains Tar Heels s. J# v- '\M iKiMSiw •/ sl /"A ppp I i ' s x , ,%x yy ; ■> George Watson, Carolina’s ace blocker who also does a good part of the ball carrying, is probably the most valuable man on the Tar Heel squad. On defense Watson helps back up the line and is one of the most accurate and hardest tacklers on the team. Last year he won the coveted award as the “best blocker in the Southern Conference. Flash Gordon Is Big Star In World Series Game as a boy, when his idol was Ken Strong, famous New York uni versity and New York Giant back. Modest to extreme, he is unaf fected by sports page comment. Someone said to him just before the Yale game: “I hope you get a good start toward an all-Ameri ca berth.” “I’d trade that all-America stuff right now for two touch downs against Yale,” replied Luckman. He scored the first of four and engineered the other three. You have to see Sid Luckman to believe what you hear and read about him. SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN ROXBORO. (Q) R. A. WHITFIELD Distributor Roxboro, N. C. WE BUILD FOR Roxboro and Person County With all Work Guaranteed. N# Job Too Largo and None Tao SaaalL GEORGE ff. KANE Roxboro. N. CL Chicago Joe Gordon is with out doubt baseball’s greatest walking advertisement for mar ried life. Whether or not his “taking the step,” had anything to do with his work on the ball field isn’t definitely known, but there’s no 1 denying the fact that from the day he eloped with his campus sweetheart, he changed from just another disappointing rookie to the classiest second baseman to come down the pike since Char ley Gehringer. In case you haven’t heard the statistical details, he’s handling the keystone sack assignment for the New York Yankees, baseball’s No. 1 ball club. He’s 24, up from the Coast league byway of New ark, can hit in the accepted the ory of the Yanks which is that you can’t field a home run and' can field anything and everything in his general direction. His single Wednesday prolong ed the Yank’s winning rally in the series opener. He also clout ed a double and turned in the fielding gem of the game full of’ classy fielding taking a short from Ripper Collins’ bat with his back to the plate to rob Ripper of a sure hit. Gordon started out this season as Tony Lazzeri’s official successor on the Yankees’ varsity, which was no mean job. His start was strictly poor. So manager Joe Mc- Carthy benched him. For a while it looked like cur tains for our hero. So one day, to while away the time, h$ eloped to Elkbm, Md., with his campus sweetheart in his days at the University of Oregon. Some few days later the Yanks, trailing 2-1 in a ball game, nominated Joe for pinch-hitting job with a mate on first base in the ninth inning. The rival pitcher served up a high inside pitch, and Gordon parked it among the paying customers in the left flud stands. Duke-Tech Battle Heads Homecoming Wademen And Forces Os Bill Alexander Continue Rivalry Saturday. Durham, Oct. 8 While the football Blue Devils of Duke were occupied with Andy Kerr’s Col gate Red Raiders at Buffalo-, N. Y., this afternoon, the attention of the home folks had already be gun to turn toward next Satur day’s gala homecoming clash with the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech in Duke Stadium. Os course, Blue Devil follow ers, to the man, were deeply con cerned with the outcome of this afternoon’s intersectional tilt which will mean so much to the men of Wallace Wade. They were clustered about their ra dios and watching anxiously for bulletins. But this Georgia Tech game the sixth in a series which has become famous all over the country for its breath-taking episodes has aroused early in terest in no uncertain fashion. For five years now, Duke and Georgia Tech have been meet ing on the gridiron. The Blue Devils hold the edge in the ser ies with three victories to two for the Yellow Jackets. Each one of the five games has been a thriller in its own right, butt there is no genuine football fan in the South who can forget last year’s titanic struggle when Duke grabbed victory in the last two minutes of play to triumph, 20-19. Duke-Georgia-Tech football re lations have developed one of the finest coaching rivalries in the history of the game. Coach Wal lace Wade of the Blue Devils and Bill Alexander of the Yellow Jackets are ranked highly among grid mentors in this section and throughout the nation. There will be many features attendant to next week’s Duke - Tech battle. It will be Homecom ing day for Duke graduates, and on this, the centennial year for Duke university when many ev ents will commemorate the found ing of the institution in 1838, the They put him back in the line up the next day, and from that day until he retires to tell the children about it, they won’t get Him out of there without an earth quake. 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Palace Theatre New RCA High - Fidelity Sound Equipment ADVANCE PROGRAM From Monday, Oct 10 thru Wednesday, Oct. 12 Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment Monday - Tuesday, Oct. 10-H Spencer Tracy - Mickey Roon ey with Henry Hull - Leslie Fenton - Gene Reynolds in “Boys Town” (This is one of the Movie Quiz $250,000 Contest Pictures.) Popular Science No. 5 (In col or) Hearst Metrotone News • News while it is still news. No Morning Shows; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Evenings dally 7:15-9:00; Admission 10-26 c Wednesday, Oct. 12 Edith Fellows - Leo Carrillo with Tommy. Bond - Mary Gordon - Helen Jerome Eddy In “City Streets” Two Lovable Characters in a Heart-Thrilling Story! Clyde McCoy and his Orches tra: “Saturday Night Swing Club” Pictorial Revue No. 11 featuring “Plastics” and “Perfumes.” Morning 8how” 10:34;~dftcr noon SdUdS; swing 705. 9:00. Admission 10-2<c ftj ROXBORO FANS PLAN TO ATTEND ALL-STARGAME Slaughter And Riggs To Perform Before Home* folks; Vender Meer To Hurl Many residents of Roxboro and Mebane are planning to go to t Durham this afternoon to see their favorite sons—Enos Slaugh ter and Lew Riggs—perform in the all-star game at Durham Athletic park. The contest, presenting an ar ray of major and minor league baseball stars, will get under way at 3 o’clock with Double- No-Hit Johnny VanderMeer on the mound for one team and Buck Newsom for the other. Slaughter, Roxboro youth, held down the rightfield post for the St. Louis Cardinals during the 1938 season and he did a good job of it. He hit the ball at a lively clip and won several ball games with his home run ability. Riggs, whose home is in Meb ane, is the regular third baseman of the Cincinnati Reds. He played a bang up game all year and played an important part in the Reds drive from last place to fourth place in the National league race. Leon Fields, who arranged the game, announced today that Gil bert English, of Kansas City, may be unable to play here today be cause of his team’s participation in the American association play off series. Fields, however, said he has arranged for Hal King, sensation al Jersey City third baseman, to replace English. King only a few weeks ago was purchased by the New York Giants and ordered to report to Bill Terry’s training camp next spring. His home is in Smithfield. Other stars slated to play to day are Bennie Huffman, Mace Brown, Bobby Durham, Chubby Dean, Floyd Young, Wallace Goodwin, Beverly Ferrell, Dusty Cooke, Buster Maynard, Dewey Williams, Kent Wicker, Julius Beck, Jimmy Bucher, Lynn Johnson, Paul Dunlap and Jack Lindley. Bunn Hearn and Jack Coobbs, baseball coaches at Carolina and Duke, respectively, will serve as managers of the two teams. “Let your light so shine be fore men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Fa ther which is in heaven.” Dolly Madison THEATRE New Simplex Projection ADVANCE PROGRAM From Monday, Oct 10 thru Wednesday, Oct. 12 Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment. Monday - Tuesday, Oct 10-1. Stan Laurel - Oliver Hardy with Patricia Ellis • Minna Bombell - Billy Gilbert • James Fin] ay son in “Blockheads” (First Run) (This is one of the Movie Quia $250,000 Contest Pictures.) Colortour Adventure: “Hermit Kingdom” Paramount News “The Eyes and Ears of the World” No Morning Shows; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Evenings daily 7:15-9:00; Admission 10-26 c Wednesday, Oct 12 Jack Holt with Bobby Jordan (of “Crime School”) - Char lotte Wyntons - Grant Mit chell - Frankie Darro in “Reformatory” (First Ran) Ripping the lid off America’s “reform” schools! - $ RKO : “A Western Welcome” Moral* Show 1*1*1? aria*. 9*o. 10-Mo
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