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Sports = - l * Slants EDWIN J. HAMLIN Jlsp. Basketball On The Way Sports fans can turn their attention to basketball now that all the bowl games are a matter of history and the bitter pill of the Duke defeat has somewhat left our mouths. Big Five court teams have already begun play and early season indications lead us to be lieve the coming cage campaign will be one of the hottest in many a year. Wake Forest and Davidson both have strong aggregations as has been shown in their eariy season games. Carolina, coming along slower, is handicapped by lack of experience and leadership. In Earl Ruth, the Phantoms had one of the greatest inspirational leaders in Carolina basketball history. Ruth ended his brilliant three year varsity career last season as the Tar Heels gained their fifth consecutive Big Five title. Duke although going through early sea son without Coach Eddie Cameron has shown fair promise. o Deacons And Walker Wake Forent’s Jim Waller promises to be one of the shining stars of the forthcoming campaign. A perennially high scorer, the Deacon forward has come through in his usually fine fashion, piling up high scores in each conflict. Many observers are pointing to Wake Forest as the likely winner of Southern conference honors for 1939. This point we aren’t quite willing to concede yet” We’ll have a bet ter line on the Deacons as well as other Big Five teams when we have seen them in action. o Mediocre Indications also point to a rather mediocre outfit for Roxboro High school. Coach Donald Dunlop’s boys opened the season against Helena Friday night. (This was written before that game.) Friday morning, just out of bed on his way to school, the coach in one of his rare pessimistic moods, said his boys wouldn’t score 20 points during the season. “Lousy” was the way the high school men tor described the Ramblers prospects in this year’s cage campaign. Maybe, the boys will be a little better than that but on the strength of the coache’s statement, we wouldn’t advise too much con fidence. o Won’t Budge Back to tennis now, isn’t it interesting to watch the way young Donald Budge is taking the veteran Ellsworth Vines into camp? ■When this was written, the veteran hadn’t won a set from the Cal ifornia redhead. All of which leads us to marvel at the prowess of this youngster from the west. We’ve seen Vines play and the man who beats him six straight sets really has something uncanny on the ball. However, it was the same way with Vines and Tilden al though the superiority here was never so convincing. In time Bud ge will go the way of Tilden and Vines. Men of Sports, unlike cof fee, are not good to the last drop. Age must take its toll. Incidentally Budge and his troupe of professionals play in Chap el Hill January 25 and tennis fans who want to see Budge perform at his best had better attend to reservations as soon as possible. A record crowd on this date is assured. o Diz Signs A Contract The big development in baseball recently is the singing of Je rome Herman “Ole Diz” (Aw you know me) Dean for another year of pitching at a reported stipend of $20,000. And right now this col umn will go out on the limb again for the old wind bag. This fellow Dean really has box office charm second only to the mighty Babe Ruth. In spite of his talk, the old boy has plenty of baseball brains. A colorful figure always, the big boy will probably be worth the $185,000 the Cubs laid on the line for him yet. New York City—Return of good times was forecasted in the biggest New Year’s Eve celebra tion Broadway has known for Plant Bed Fertilizer We have plenty of plant bed fertilizer on hand. Several different kinds. PASS-HESTER-JONES Hyco Warehouse Roxboro, N. C. JUST ARRIVED Carload of Excellent Mules and Mares * f r~ r Get everyone’s prices and then come to see me. I will show you how to save $25.00. The oldest animal in my load is six years old. J. W. PLEASANTS VIRGILINA, VA. ! years. It was estimated that $12,- ■ 000,000 was expended in theat res, hotels, night clubs and cases ■ in giving a noisy welcome to 1939. wwvwvwwwwwwww l buck"JONES ! ;! for ;! ■jTransfer Service!: !; or j; :■ Public Hauling I; SPORTS OF THE TIMES PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C- BOWL VICTORS PROVE PASSES CAN DEFY FOE Coaches Sure To Devote More Time To Developing Aerial Game Next Season. After what transpired in the New Year’s day games, you may rest assured that coaches will de vote even more time to the de velopment of passers and pass re ceivers next spring and fall. Texas Christian, Southern Cal ifornia and the West team in San Francisco demonstrated that good passing combinations can defy the opposition to stop them. Little Davey O’Brien of Tex as Christian was accorded his customary exceptionally tight protection as he bombed Carnegie Tech. Ki Aldrich, who won more than one leg in the competition for the right to be known as the all- America center, dropped back quickly after snapping the ball, crossed in front of O’Brien, and blocked out the first Skibo who . came in from the defensive left side. Connie Sparks, the fullback, who started operations about a yard and a half from and paral lel with O’Brien, either faked or did not fake taking the ball, and then moved up to protect from the other side. Meanwhile, O’Brien took two, sometimes three, steps backward, with the ball poised at his chest, and threw. O’Brien hit his target so often chiefly because Dutch Meyer fashioned a passing attack that offered a decoy with every re ceiver. Its equal would be hard to re call unless one wanted to g<j_back to Swede Oberlander and Dart mouth in 1925, when the Big Green did almost the same thing. Everything they said about O’- Brien was true. The 152-pound mineralogist is the equal or peer of anybody whoever cocked his arm to throw a pigskin. Ober lander, Benny Friedman, Harry Newman, Dixie Howell, Sammy Baugh, and all the other master sharpshooters. Under pressure in the most important game of his career, O’Brien exceeded his amazing season’s aveage of completions, 55.7 percent, with 17 out of 28 for 60 percent against one of the hardiest charging teams in the game. In the Rose Bowl, Howard Harding Jones trotted out pass-, ing talent in great numbers. Where Grenville Lansdel] and Oliver Day, the standbys, failed, unhearlded Doyle Nave succeed ed in the closing seconds with A1 Kreuger on the receiving end of four consecutive passes. Kreuger is the Mojave Valley farm boy sophomore who caught the passes that beat Ohio State and Notre Dame. As Nave explained, Kreuger has away of breaking away from a defender. Acting on the part of a speedy receiver perhaps is the most im portant thing in passing. Nave’s touchdown pass against Duke sailed over Eric Tipton’s territory, and Eric the Kicking Red was nothing else but the fin est defender against passes in the south. He appeared simply too tired to do much about it. That was a heartbreak to end all heartbreaks in football .... .. Duke being scored on for the first time in 10 games and beat en with 45 seconds to play after taking the ball on downs follow ing the loss of the pigskin on a fumble on its 10-yard line a few seconds before. SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN ROXBORO. Up'to-the-Mmute Sport News Solicited Contender if Jji ' - h ... 1 [ ; > YjL- / '. 9 HnHsSHjnt Lou Nova, whose recent victory over Tommy Farr came as a surprise to a majority of the nation’s fight fans, in battling posture before a picture 'of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Nova ranks second to Tony Galento *s championship contender, according to National Boxing association ratings. *' Grid Deaths At All-Time Low Only 17 Fatalities Reported, 11 Percent Under 1938 To tal, Eastwood Says. Chicago Fatalities directly attributable to football hit an all time low in 1938, the nation’s football coaches learned today. In a report to the American football Coaches association and the National Collegiate associa tion meeting here, Dr. Floyd R. Eastwood of Purdue university’s physicial education division said 17 deaths occurred last season, a reduction of 48.4 percent from the peak of 33 in 1931 and 11 percent under the 1937 total. The report rounded out the three day meeting of coaches who got down today to the selection of officers. Lou Little of Colum bia was slated to succeed Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin, as pre sident. The Eastwood report disclosed four of the 1938 deaths came in sandlot play, three in the athletic club, eight in high school and two in college. The high school J. R. Sherrill of the Vienna township, Forsyth County, re ported to his farm agent that us ing 50 pounds of muriate of pot- Gome in and tee all the wonderful New I 1939 Zenith Values on our floor. New Merchandise just received at prices that you never thought possiblel Free Home y----ijiu Trial if you desire. • IIP ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO. Phone 3881 Roxboro, N. C. mark was the best since records have been available, said Dr. Eastwood. Since 1931, the survey pointed out, college fatalities have been reduced 75 percent, sandlot 60 and high school 33 1-3. Athletic clubs number the same as in 1931 although 57 lower than the peak year of 1935. The report also disclosed: For the first time since the yearly survey was started, a death occurred in Arizona. Lead ing the fatality toll since 1931 were) Pennsylvania (32), New York (25), Illinois (15), Texas 'and New Jersey (12) and Cali fornia (11). The greatest number of fatal ities 41 percent came in October, during the first 15 minutes of a game. Halfbacks were the most frequent victims, guards the least. The head, spinal cord and abdomen were the parts of the body most frequently injured in fatal accidents and were the re sult of tackling (43 percent), blocking (11) and being tackled (9). ash an acre to cotton as a side application gave him a 30 percent increase in yield and that earlier and easier picking was noted. HILLTOPPERS TO MEET CREEDMOOR TUESDAY NIGHT Fast Game Expected From Both Girls And Boys; Creedmoor Strong. Next Tuesday at 7:30 Bethel Hill boys and girls basketball teams will play the strong Creed moor basketball teams in what is thought may be one of the fast est and best games of the season. Last year Creedmoor boys were unusually strong and reached the semi-finals in North Carolina Eastern Class B Championship race. The Hilltoppers are expect ed to give them plenty of com petition. Fred Fox has returned to the squad and should see some action Friday night. The boys squad consists of Hall, Tingen, Pixley, Shotwell, Powell, Fox, Todd, Gravely, Boswell, Montague, Pentecost, Rogers, Lowery, Humphries and Milam. The girls basketball team should have a good passing and shooting attack. This team will be attempting to uphold the good record of former teams. The girls team has been defeated only once in four years. In two games before Christ mas a total of 99 points were scored. Oak Hill High school was defeated 63-8 and Virgilina High 33 - 10. The squad consists of F. Whit field, Evans, R. Hall, Gentty, Di xon, D. Hall, F. Davis, Z. Woody, Ramsey, Shields, Seamster, Hum phries, H. Woody and Dunn. HELENA CAGERS IN CONFERENCE Conference Schedule Lists 6 Games During January; Play Bethel Hill. Helena basketball teams will play with district 3 of the con ference this year. The complete schedule is as follows: Jan. 10 - Wilton at Wilton. Jan. 13 - Bethel Hill at Helena. Jan. 17 - Creedmoor at Helena. Jan. 20 - Wilton at Helena. Jan. 24 - Creedmoor at Creed moor. Jan. 27 - Bethel Hill at Bethel Hill. WE BUILD FOR Roxboro and Person County With all Work Guaranteed. No Job Too Large and None Too SmalL GEORGE W. KANE Roxboro, N. C. Our clean, refined coal comes to you guaranteed to give maximum heat value Dial 3871 WHITT COAL YARD P. T. WHITT, Prop. SUNDAY. JANUARY 8, 1939 Soph nfi ' Ge\Jegih - FonuMev '. NORW 04/ZoklN4 • Paul Severin, ball hawking end of Carolina’s football Tar Heels of ’3B, has turned his attention to the basketball court this win ter and his cage exploits may even dim those of the gridiron. He has been in Carolina’s early games at one of the forward posts. NETFER VINES PREFERS GOLF Ellsworth Intends To Quit Tennis If Badge Beats Him Conclusively On Tour. New York Financially fixed for life, even if he never lifts an other tennis racket, Ellsworth Vines intends to quit the profes sional game for good and devote himself to golf if Don Budge beats him conclusively in their long series of exhibition match es which started Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. “Shucks,” said Elly, “I’ve made enough money out of this game and I don’t need to hang around after I’ve passed my peak and take a licking from anybody. Not like Bill Tilden’s done. I love golf now more than I ever loved ten nis. “Ncf that I think Budge is going to give me a bad beating. I’m only 27 and I’m still playing about as good tennis as I ever did. No, I guess I played my best tennis in the winter of 1935-36 against Les Stoefen. “But if Don does show me he’s the better player over the long haul I’ll put away the rackets. I mean it. I’d like to devote my self to trying to win the golf championship and I don’t see any sense in risking my legs and ankles on a tennis court against a man I can’t beat. “My golf’s getting better right I along. “Maybe the reason I’ve gone so crazy about golf is that every course I play is different from the last, whereas a tennis court is always the same. Besides, I’ve been at the top in tennis and now I’d like to be the top in some thing else.” It was with some reluctance that Ellsworth got off his favor ite topic and took up the matter of Tuesday’s match. Successful People Save Money! SEE C. B. WOOD Local Representative of INVESTORS SYNDICATE
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