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Sports |H EDWIN J. HAMLIN Slants The Big Event Is On Basketball in North Carolina has its final fling this week before finally givng one final gasp and dying a natural death. The conference tourney, the biggest and best winter sports event of this southeast sector, is now in progress and while thousands will pack Memorial auditorium in Raleigh for the four-day series, thousands also will be turned back at the gates or won’t even come at all Decause the “Sold Out” signs have been tacked on the ticket windows long before game time. Basketball is one popular sport in this locale and will be more so when adequate facilities are made for caring for the crowds who want to folio the sport. O One Mad Scramble And while this column dons mourning attire for the popular cage sport in 1939, my mina runs pleasantly over a few details of the campaign already fading. Leading teams have been nearer equal than ever before. While Wake For est has been hotter than a a • fourth of July firecracker at — -—K'-'i'm Christmas time all year, she has nevertheless lost twice to Duke and once to Carolina and was only able to garner one leg of the mythical Big Five title. Duke and Carolina, only conquerors of this basketball juggernaut in the year’s mad scramble, barely managed to rate consideration for the tourney and then only by the grace of some unseen powers. State and Davidson had fine potent teams and finished easily in the Big Eight of the conference yet occupied the bottom rung in State race. A mad scramble, yes, but lots of fun while it lasted. . o Chances And as the big tourna ment gets under way, Wake Forest, the first seeded team, pre-tournament favorite and —i leading scorer of the year has •Se&gih - FoauMes * 1 little more chance of winning -- '^eoßlH j JMßOkffM/ ,, the title than two hoots in a hailstorm if past experiences count for anything. The favorite has never won the tourna ment since I can remember and there seems to be no reason this year. The Deacons have a fine team, a high scoring ag gregation that is capable of taking any team in the event but the strain of the three-day affair rarely leaves the favorite surviving. Maryland, Duke or Carolina in that order appear most likely winners from this distant corner, but that s a wild guess and the latter two may not even survive the first day’s battles. O Tournament Tid-Bits Carolina’s chances will be materially aided by one Paul Severin, a sophomore, who sticks with his opponent like a leach while also turning in a creditable scoring record for himself. Paul guarded the veteran sharpshooter, Ed Swin dell, in last Friday’s Duke-Carolina game and that exhibition ranked with the best. Swindell was held to four points in the contest . . . Banks McFadden, George Glamack and Chuck Holley are the tournament tall men this year and missing is the high scoring Spessard of Washington and Lee, who has held the honors for three years . . . Sure bet for the all tournament team is Wake Forest’s Jim great bas ketball player . . . Auditorium officials have installed glass backboards for the benefit of spectators behind the goals. OPPORTUNITY COUPON Good For 100,000 Extra Votes In Times Big Cash Offer Campaign Candidate’s Name VOID AFTER MARCH 4TH. This coupon and SIO.OO in subscription payments entitles the candidate to 100,000 extra votes in addition to the regular schedule. Only ten of these coupons al lowed any one candidate. Time limited. OPPORTUNITY COUPON Good For 100,000 Extra Votes In Times Big Cash Offer Campaign . Candidate’s Name * •*•*** *’" " ” VOID AFTER MARCH 4TH. This coupon and SIO.OO in subscription payments entitles the candidate to 100,000 extra votes in addition to the regular schedule. Only ten of these coupons al- OPPORTUNITY COUPON Good For 100,000 Extra Votes In Times Big Cash Offer Campaign Candidate’s Name • • ••••••• • m LLi: VOID AFTER MARCH 4TH. 3SU&&3&.SENSES to the regular schedule. Only ten of these coupons al -4* SPORTS OF THE TIMES Up'tO'the*Minute Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939 Duke, Wake Forest Tie for Big: Five Honors And all Five Enter Conference Tournament ONLY TWO GAMES BETWEEN LEADERS AND CELLARITIES North Carolina’s sizzling 1939 Big Five basketball race finally ended in a double tie for the leadership with Wake Forest and Duke sharing the honors following Duke’s magnificent fi nal spurt in the race’s last laps. Duke and Carolina were among five .500 percentage teams shov ed into tournament without need of a coin-toss when officials de cided yesterday to enlarge the. number of the starters from eight to 11 and to operate four days in stead of the usual three. The red hot state league race ended Saturday with Wake For est defeating Davidson 38 to 32 in a rough contest. The Deacons i trailed 14-16 at the half but had enough punch to rally for their 15th. conference win against three setbacks. Waller and Owen col lected 14 and 11 points to star for the winners but Cowan of Da vidson was the game’s individual hero with 18. Duke had taken N. C. State and North Carolina, 29-26 and' 41-38, earlier in the week to gain | ascendency in the Big Five. Those victories along with 59- 34 drubbing meted out to Wake Forest February 18 brought the Blue Devils from the conference depths and earned them the right to defend the title they won a year ago. Their Merriwellian late season comeback has made the Dukes the favorites of many to repeat their sensational tournament vic tory of 1938. North Carolina’s White Phan toms, Big Five champions last year, ended the season in third place, a game behind the leaders. Fourth and fifth places were shared by Davidson and N. C. State, dead-locked two games out of first place. The Big Fivers are expected to play a spectacular role in the af fair at Raleigh. Final Big Five Standings: W. L. Wake Forest 5 3 Duke 5 3 North Carolina 4 4 Davidson 3 5 N. C. State 3 5 0 Tatum To Return As Carolina Coach Jim Tatum, former University of North Carolina athlete and coach, wiho for the last three years has been head baseball coach and assistant in football in football at Cornell, will return to his alma mater July 1 to take over the direction of freshman athletics, it was announced in Chapel Hill this week by R. A. Fetzer, university director of athletics. Coach Tatum will be in charge of freshman football and base ball, will assist in coaching other sports, and will be available for scouting Carolina’s football op ponents. He will work under the general direction of varsity coach es. “We were very much pleased to learn today for the first time that Mr. Tatum had decided to join our staff;” Coach Fetzer said in making the announcement "We feel that he will be a valuable addition to athletics at Carolina. —.—■» ■ , „ FOR NEWSPAPER SB!VICE DIAL 4MI Smooth Glenn Price Glenn Price, Duke sophomore, is one of the smoothest pieces of basketball machinery seen around here in several years. A constant thorn in the side of all of Duke’s opponents this season, he hails from Beaver Falls, Pa. Durham Bulls Sign Veteran Catcher for 1939 Campaign A lack of experienced catch ing proved a severe handicap to the Durham Bulls during the first half of the Piedmont’s 1938 der by. President Paul Florence doesn’t stand to be caught short handed behind the plate at the start of the race, and for his mainstay in the all-important de partment he has secured the ve teran Orace (Pudge) Powers. Powers has been catching pro fessional ball since 1930 and knows that a good receiver has to do more than squat behind the plate and make funny noises by way of attempting to encourage the pitcher. Ot one time he was a protege of the Boston Red Sox, and has played in the old East ern and the Texas Leagues, two fast circuits where medfoerity does not get by.. Prexy Florence landed a bat ting leader when he grabbed Po wers, for the new Bull receiver topped the Cotton States League last year with an average of .345. That’s a pitcher’s circuit, and many of the best performers in the league are pushed to hit over the .300 line. Powers also blazed the trail in runs batted in, with 111 and his fielding average of .996 was the first in the list. He committed just three errors in 133 ball games, which signifies pretty OPPORTUNITY COUPON ) Good For 100,000 Extra Votes In ! Times Big Cash Otter Culprits 1 e Candidate’s Name VOID AFTER MARCH 4TH. This coupon and fIO.OO in subscription payments entities the candidate to 100,000 extra votes in addition 0 to the regular schedule. Only ten of these coupons ai- I io.edupmmusdid.-ierym.ihslt^ staunch defensive ability. Piled on top of these laurels, the circuit writers selected him as the most valuable player in the league and he will be pre sented with a trophy some time this summer. He drew down that honor with lots of room to spare, for he polled 48 points in the balloting and his nearest competitor had only 21. He was playing with the El Dorado Lions under the management of Frank O’Rourke, former big league in fielder and manager of the Char lotte Hornets in 1935. Powers has been out of his swaddling clothes for some lit tle time. He’ll be 30 years old, come April 7, but he can still hit and catch and that’s about all that matters. President Florence ic not a horsetrader and he won’t be looking at the teeth of his new steed if he can deliver the goods. The Bull Prexy doesn’t want his rivals to be catching him behind the eight ball in the catching de partment this year, and he is con fident Powers is the assurance that they won’t. A man who can dig in and toil through 133 games won’t need a whole lot of help in the Piedmont, and with Powers on deck, the Bulls can use a comparative rookie for their second-string m&skman. Winning SIC Is Habit With Tar Heels Have Won Six Titles In 10 Years; Mary land Second This Year. Chapel Hill Winning the Southern conference indoor gam es is getting to be a habit for the University of North Carolina track and field teams. The Tar Heels won their sixth championship Saturday, and the games have been held but 10 times. The supremacy of the North Carolinians was apparent from the first this time and they were never threatened. The winners piled up a team record score of 52 points. The scoring in the 29 events was split between 33 teams. The winners in the divisions other than the conference were: Non conference, Navy, freshmen, Georgetown; scholastic, Episcopal high. . ..v Maryland’s runners did “well. The Old Liners won six first places for the entire 30 points the team scored, and set four new records. J. C. Oldfield, Navy speedster, chalked up a new mark of 1 minute, 58 seconds in the non conference 880-yard run. The old record was set by Lumpkin of Richmond in 1936, at 2 minutes, 1.4 seconds. Mason Chronister, of Mary land, did the mile in 4 minutes, 16.1 seconds. The old record was 4 minutes, 20 seconds, made by Williamson of North Carolina in 1935. Most of the official timers clocked the race at an extra lap, and Chronister’s time was reach ed by adjustment of time. Bill Whaley of Washington and Lee tied the old conference 70- yard high hurdle record of 8.7 seconds, set by Everett of Vir ginia in 1934. Wallace Legg of Washington - Lee high school, Arlington, Va., equalled the scholastic 60-yard dash record of 6.5 seconds. Tom Dodd of Episcopal high tied the old 70-yard high hurdle scholastic record of 9.1 seconds. Allen Miller of Maryland did the conference 440 in 51 sec onds. The old record of 52 sec onds was set by Curl of Wash- Just Arrived ... ANOTHER CARLOAD OF FINE Kentucky Mules Ages from four to six years Several nice Brood Mares in foal. We have several good second hand moles on hand. CASH OR CREDIT SELL OR TRADE. If We Don *t Save You Money Don*t Bay! CREEDMOOR SUPPLY COMPANY B. B. BRAQG Back of Winstead Warehouse Roxboro, N. C. Indoor Games UNC Teams Senior Carolina depends heavily on this boy, Ben Dilworth, in the conference tournament now in progress in Raleigh. Dilworth, a senior, scored 13 points against Duke last week, and was a main stay of last year’s Big Five champions. ington and Lee last year. Georgetown’s freshmen mile relay team, Tucknott, Carr, Wil liams and Lyden, set a new mark of 3 minutes, 28.5 seconds. An other Georgetown team—Burke, Neumeyer, Vertcui and Aln wyck—set the old record, 3 min utes, 33 seconds, last year. Jim Kehoe of Maryland ran the conference 880 in one minute, 56.8 seconds, beating the old re cord of one minute, 57.8 seconds set by Davis of North Carolina last year. Bill Corpening, star University of North Carolina jumper, got a height of 6 feet 1-16 inches in the high jump for a new mark. The old record of 6 feet, 3-4 inch was set last year by E. Miller of Maryland.
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