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Sports m faHgj olants iSSkUMI EDWIN J HAMLIN Speaking Os Baseball Baseball, the great National pastime, is off to a good start in dear old Person this Spring. High school teams have already inaugurated their schedules and boys are playing •with the horsehide with more vim and vigor than in many a year. For several years, baseball has suffered seriously arOUnd here from lack of interest. This year, this writer hopes, will see a revival of interest necesshry to bring it back to its old position as the king of sports. Roxboro High and several others in this county are re suming baseball after a lapse of several years and the offici als are to be congratulated in their efforts to give the boys this form of organized recreation in the Spring, a time of the year when it’s needed possibly more than any other. Prospects Look Bright If things look bright for high school baseball the same is true in the sandlot and semi-pro ranks. Ca-Vel, al ways a hot baseball center, East Roxboro and others have, already begun to organize for the approaching season. We haven’t heard anything from For Young And Old On still another level of competition, B B. Knight and the local Legion post are sponsoring Legion baseball in the county for boys under 18 and this division will make its bid for the interest of Mr. Fan this summer for the first time. All in all, it looks like there’ll be plenty of baseball for the discriminating enthusiast before the summer finally fades away into the football days of tutumn. Follow The Ball Good news this week is the announcement that seven holes are absolutely ready for playing on the Country Club golf course at Loch Lilly. This afternoon will probably see several golfers on the course enjoying the bright Spring sunshine and walking after the little white ball which has made more than one good man go wrong. Soon the final two holes will be ready and a dream of many of us will be a reality. Exhibitions Those who have a yen to see some of the major leagues in action this spring will have that opportunity next Sunday and Monday in the neighbor ing Bull City- Cinncinnatti’s Reds and Boston’s Red Sox prill play an exhibition in Durham Athletic park on Sunday afternoon, Easter, while Connie Mack’s Athletics .Will meet Duke’s slugging Time Will Tell About the only thing that hasn’t been mentioned in to day’s column is the little game called tennis, whose support ers in Roxboro probably number nearly as many as any other sport. Last Sunday the boys swarmed the courts for the first time this year and the enthusiasm was as high as ever- “You’ra Genius” Thompson still talks the best game in town and may wind up the season as self-proclaimed champion. Barden Winstead, who’ll do quite a bit of starring for the High School courtsters this spring, dropped a hint to thiis writer that Thompson would probably be just a breeze to him this summer but for the present he was keeping quiet. Time will tell. LIST YOUR TAXES I will be at the courthouse on Mon day and Saturday of each week dur ing April for the purpose of listing your taxes. On other days I will be in the country on the premises to list your taxes there. Dpn’t forget to list your taxes in April. Geo. W. Walker save . •* ' 1•• : "■'•’ '• - Tax Lister. - J. \\ r 77 ’ Longhurst yet but that com munity is sure to have its usual strong contender and its rivalry with Ca-Vel is sure to rage warmer than ever, as the heat of the summer begins to bear down and throwing arms loosen up. powerhouse at Duke park on Easter Monday. Both events are sure to attract capacity crowds, with large numbers from here probably journey ing over for each contest. The big league teams have a habit of putting on pretty good shows in Durham and fans may expect some pretty good baseball on these two days. SPORTS OFJLHE TIMES | Up-to-the-Minute Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1939 Ramblers Win Contest From Mt, Tirzah 54 Cardinals Rejoice As Enos Clouts Hard It? Exhibitions •Jilfißfefi&fofc., lIIBPpL '*' mKk r * * <&%"*<% !8?<: There’s rejoicing in the camp of the St. Louis Cardinals. The reason is the way Enos Slaughter is pounding the balL Slaughter, who came up to the Cardinals last season and was the club’s regular rightfielder, started slowly this spring. But in his last four games the chunky North Carolina fly hawk, belted seven hits, among them two home runs, a triple and a double. Slaughter played a major role in the Cardinals’ 4-1 victory over the New York Yankees to squars the city series at three-all as he walloped a home run over the right field fence and hit two sin gles. Slaughter’s hitting and the con • ••DRINK MORE MILK FOR BETTER HEALTH ... | *. ILK , ,'* an «<"”•"* food for children and adults alike. • » contain* valuable minerals for body building i»w«e and is a rich source of the anti-inf active Vitamin A. , ?** . r * c * l » creame iT hotter; fresh every day, Made from pore cream. Roxboro Dairy Pr<#jwct% fit). n °’" ! 2921 .< ' t tinued fine fielding and batting of Joe Orengo, rookie shortstop, have been the highlights of the Cardinals’ play and have had much to do with keeping the Cards up near the top of the Grapefruit league. Their record is nine wins in 15 games. The closing game of the city series produced two ‘fine pitching exhihitons by Bob Bowman, a righthander, and Southpaw Clyde Shoun. They held the Yankee sluggers to four hits, all singles.’ The Gas-Housers belted Monte* Pierson and Red Ruffing, taro of the Yankee mainstays, for 11 blows. One of these hits was Joe Medwick’s first blow of the sea son, a single. DIXON, HOLEMAN HIT HARD IN SEASON OPENER • | Roxboro high school’s baseball j Raiphkrs inaugurated the 1939 softarto with a 5-4 victory over Mt. Tirzah on the latter’s diamond Friday afternoon. Elsie Taylor, Roxboro right hander, did the tossing for the Ramblers and gave up only three hits during the encounter. Lawrence Holeman, lanky cen ter!ielder for the Rorboro team clouted a homer on his first trip to the plate in the first inning, putting the locals off to a good Start. Luther Dixon, reserve second baseman who started the game Friday also banged out a triple bn iris first trip to the rubber in first frame, scoring a few; minutes later on a single by Tay lor. Dixon also knocked in two runs in the fourth inning with a steaming double when the score was 4-2 against the Ramblers. Mt. Tirzah scored three of their runs on an error by Roxboro’s Whitfield in right field in the second. Their final tally came in the third. Buddy Clayton, starting the game at first base, turned in a creditable game afield as did Henry Yarborough, catcher. o FAMOUS DETECTIVE PPS London, England—Sir Basil Thomas, one of the world’s greatest' criminologists and for years head of the Criminal In- Pay Your Telephone Bill By The 10th S DOLLY MADISON ■ theatre Monday - Tuesday, April 3-4 • *. 0| Jk|| iS I WmmmfyT * it /'^xc HrHoniai JUivm; AMMiMy lilUiit; ■ttigi Ditty 7:lSJ>:t»; J Ate l*-39c. (Tax Instated) I Lvk. .ItfyL Shotwell Leaves For Trial WWr Farm team Os Bees By EDWIN J. HAMLIN Sam Shotwell, ace of the Beth- | el Hill mound staff, who struck 9 out 19 men in a Class C. game a- I gainst Littleton some time ago, , left this week for Cooleemee to j try out for the Boston Bee’s farm j team of that town. The 19 year old star pitcher, who j is also not bad as a hitter, has . been approached a number of | times since he led the Hilltoppers : to a runner-up position in the j Class B. race last year. Continued j pressure by professional scouts, 1 it is believed, is largely responsi ble for the lanky youth’s decision [ to give the pro game a trial. The local youth was spotted by Blackie Carter, who has had his eye on the boy for several months. Cooleemee is a Class D proses-j sional team in the Boston Bee’s farm system. Should Shotwell be unable to make the grade, it is believed, he will probably be back with the Hilltoppers within a week or two and may possibly lead his former mates in another championship campaign. vestigation Division of Scotland Yard, is dead at 77. He wrote 1 many books, including a history j —of the famous “Yard”, center of Britian’s National Dettective organization. STUDENTS EAT LIVE FISH Cambridge, Mass.—Because an undergraduate of Franklin Marshall College at Lancaster,' Pa., recently swallowed three live goldfish, Irving M. Clark, a Har vard sophomore, announces that he downed 24 live fish in about five minutes and “could easily have eaten fifty." A SSO bet is said to be at stake in the matter of live goldfish consumption. j Dolly Madison TIIAfll ADVANCE PROGRAM From Monday, April 3 thru Wednesday, April 5 Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment Monday - Tuesday, April 3-4 Claudette Colbert - Dim Am eche with John Barrymore - Francis Lederer - Mary As tor - Elaine Barrie in “Midnight" (First Ron) Two of the screen’s brightest stars in the happiest hit of the spring season! Community Sing No. 4 (The audience is invited to join the singers on the screen) Paramount News - “The Eyes and Ears of the World” No Morning Shows; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Admission 10-25 c; Evenings Daily 7:15-9:00. Adm. 10 -30 c (Tax Included) ! Wednesday, April 5 I Ken Murray - Johnny Downs • Kathryn (“Sugar") Kane - Eddie Quillan . Ernest Truex - Ted Weems and his Orches tra, in “Swing, Sister, Swing”' (First Bun) Small town kids but when they started to step Aey tot the whole world on its .ear! B*m*way Brevity: 4f«te with evening 7:15-94*. Adm. 19- *** (Tgx Inch, v . II s ' A»J J Mte '-y. I i i SAM SHOTWELL j _ i FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard Oil Co. Products. Telephone Service No. 4711 ROCK - INN SERVICE STATION ’ ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES I FOR RESULTS. Palace Theatre Monday - Tuesday, April 3-4 culver 1 I 1 ■ OihjlMl mlifiw to* ' Whtur frlHr rid West Dir.cf.d I>T lOStttl ShWTLtY Aiaoelat. Prod.o.r: BUZIT KJU-LY a ijftf UMMTOM PICTTOS On The Stage “Doc Schneider's tanas and Company at NBC late Start In rtnoar A4m. IMto TO?'’
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