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The ■ — yssssi BY EDWIN J. HAMLIN Bees Have Sting Baseball fans in Boston were satisfied at the beginning of this baseball season that Tom Yawkey’s gold plated Red Sox were capable of giving the Yanks a run for their money in the Americon League but little did they suspect the Bees from the hive of Casey Stengel to swarm all over the Nat ional League in the early stages of the race. But that is ex actly what the Bees have been doing and instead of a one-way dither over Joe Cronin’s team, the fans in the Hub city are getting a double helping of victory sweets. The Bees began to claim attention even before the high flying Giants moved into the city, but it was not until their series was over that the experts began to sit up and take notice, as the saying goes. Now the Bees are perched up on the top rung one and a half games above Cincinnati, the fa vorite son. / And Casey Too Speaking of the Bees re minds one of that day in the 1923 World Series in the Yan kee Stadium, so the story goes, when Casey was playing with John McGraw, who as his idol. Stengel clouted a mighty home run into the bleachers and as he trotted a round tne oases, he blithely thumbed his nose at the Yan kee bench, and kept on thumb ing his nose, to the amaze ment of the dignified Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, the high commissioner, and the delighted crowd. “No “Never Meant Muc Lou Gehrig, the old Iron Hoss, voluntarily retired to the Yankee bench last week to the accompaniment of col umns and columns of gab by the sports writers from Maine to California. Last Tuesday the Yankees played a Major League game without Gehrig in the lineup for the first time since May 30, 1925. By tak ing to the bench “for the good of the team,” Columbia Lou ended at 2,130, his con Ruth Had Big Edge Many people have the impression that Lou was as good as a certain forgotten man by the name of Babe Ruth but the records reveal that the first sacker was never in the Babe’s class. Ruth was a super star. If Lou could play for seven more years and averaged as many home runs as he did last year (29) for each of these seven years—he will still lack 17 homers of equaling Ruth’s grand total of 714. Here’s the records which show just how the two stack up: Ruth’s Records Ruth. Gehrig. Edge. Years played 22 16 6 Games 2503 2156 347 Times at bat .'. 8399 7973 426 Runs 2174 1887 287 Hits 2873 2717 156 Doubles : ; i 506 535 Triples 136 161 Home runs ; 714 494 220 Total bases ...5793 5056 737 Extra-base Hits -»......... i...... 1356 1190 166 Extra bases *•... v........ 2920 2341 579 Ruu? batted in ■„... ........ 2209 1988 221 Years 100 Rbi .......... 13 13 Years .300 average ...... . .-.. 14 i 2 2 Total bases ... ;.. 1356 1190 166 What About That Winter Worn Oil In Your Cars Crankcase? It needs changing, doesn’t It? Grit, sludge, and gas oline accumulated in wint er motoring may have con- taminated your thin, light bodied oil and you are risking possible damage to your motor. Change now to clean, fresh Esso Motor Oil—and be sure of proper motor lubrication. DRIVE IN TO-DAY ROCK INN SERVICE STATION J. LESTER CLAYTON, Manager. South Main St. Roxboro, N. C. Phone 4711 Angle more thumbing your nose, Stengel,” thundered Landis . . . “Aw, just a little quick one —like that—eh, Judge?” replied Casey, and the laugh ing eyes ana curled lips might have meant anything. One has an idea that the capable Ca sey might be silently and mentally thumbing his nose to the rest of the National League right now and there are many who’re hoping he’ll get away with ft and lead his bees into the Yankee Stadium for another World Series as in ’23. secutive game streak, his bat ting average having slipped to a mere .143. Now that the streak has ended Gehrig told sports writers that the long record never really meant much to him. One can hardly believe this however in view of the circumstances. If Geh rig has conserved his strength over these 13 years with periods of rest, it’s likely that he might still be going strong. SPOBTS OF THE TIMES Up'to*the*Miiiute Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Giants All Three New York Giant mainstays in other years are shown a bove. Carl Hubbell, right, called the “Giant’s Mealticket,” is on the sore arm list this year so far. Others in the above picture are Hal Schumacher, left, and Cliff Melton, center. "Leans” And "Fats” Clash In Big Soft Ball Spectacle The “leans’ and the “fats” had it out at High School park Friday night with soft ball and bat as the chief weapons, with the boys on the slender side getting the best of the bargain. Liniment and other first aid equipment were brought by the players and a few of the wives who were present for the first sports classic here under the lights. Sponsor of the event was B. B. Knight, local baseball en thusiast, and the proceeds were to have been given toward a final payment on the baseball park. The lights were furnished by a traveling company from Virginia. What the final score was would be hard to tell. Even the score keeper would probably be afraid to say. One version was 50-some to 20-some but this would never be admitted by the “fats.” HgPijgV > ■ B WEm! |p lilted ■Si*: ; r?l pT ffull C iC' i w Hi Cleaned Suit . ♦. ]g|JL You shave because you want to present a Jg|||M good appearance! You should keep your ■fttiT c *°^ es fastidiously dry cleaned for tfie WPP same reason! Men who make a good im -11 pression find our call-and-delivery clean ing service perfectly satisfactory! Call 2961 and 2771 J. C. WHITT DRY CLEANERS RPXBORO, N. C. One of the highlights of the game was a homer by Officer Charlie Wade which didn’t count because he didn’t touch first base. The officers have a habit of cutting comers, it seems. B. B. Knight, pitched a “mean” ball for the slightly chubby team, while Jimmy Millican started the hurling duties for the leans. Others missing balls and fan ning out for the fats were Clar ence Holeman, Henry Gates, Cliff Hall, Henry O’Briant, Mack Saunders, W. T. Gibson, Brodie Riggsbee, Artie Watson, T. K. Glenn, Claude Hall, Sam Barnett and Others. , Out to “do or die” for the dear old lean cause were Earl Brad sher, Sr. and Earl Bradsher, Jr., Bordon Brown, Coy Holeman, J. B. Snipes, Charles Gentry, Red Day, Chief Sam Oliver, Dave Brooks, Jimmy Millican and host of substitutes. Ca-Vel Plays Lucky Strike Here Today In Feature Tilt RAMBLERS TOP ALLENSVUIE NINE The Ramblers of Roxboro High proved too strong for Allens ville here Thursday and the locals eked out a 4-1 decision. Elsie Lee Taylor, the Rambler’s ace righthander, let the visitors down with a measly three bing les during the afternoon while his mates were getting to Robert Slaughter for seven. Holeman and Talley divided hitting honors with two hits a piece out of three trips to the rubber, one of the former’s blows going for a home run. Green and Slaughter got trip les and Dixon a double for their hitting contributions for the day. Taylor fanned 12 during the ball game. The lineups: Roxboro Ab R H A Green, If 3 11 0 Taylor, p 3 11 3 Holeman, cf 3 2 2 0 Dixon, 2b 2 0 1 0 Woods, 3b 2 0 0 1 Whitfield, rs 0 0 0 0 Clayton, lb 3 0 0 0 Yarboro, ss 1 0 0 0 Day, c 3 0 11 Stanfield, 2b 1 0 1 0 Moore, lb 2 0 0 0 Buchannon, ss 2 0 0 0 Totals 25 4 7 5 Allensville Ab R H A Averette, c 3 0 0 0 Knott, lb 3 0 0 0 Talley, ss 3 0 2 0 Young, cf 2 1 0 1 Slaughter, p 3 0 1 0 Long, rs 3 0 0 0 Hicks, 2b 3 0 0 2 Crumpton, If 1 0 0 0 O’Briant, 3b 1 0 0 0 Totals * 22 1 3 3 Score by innings: Allensville 000 100 o—l Roxboro .......... 200 020 x—4 Errors: Talley 2, O’Briant, Crumpton; Runs bated in: Green, Holeman, Dixon 2, Slaughter; Two-base hits: Dixon; Three-base hits: Green, Slaughter; Home runs: Holeman; Stolen bases: Young; Left on bases: Roxboro 4, Allensville 3; Base on balls—off: Taylor 3, Slaughter 1; Struck out —by Taylor 12, Slaughter 7; Hits —off: Slaughter 7, Taylor 3; Hit by pitcher: Slaughter 1; Dild pit ches: Allensville 1; Passed balls: Roxboro 1; Losing pitcher: Slau ghter; Winning pitcher: Taylor; Umpires: Riley. o “There are no birds this year in last year's nests. —Tennyson \CCID£NTI tHEALTHJ NSUKAK<4 The best medicine of all f m THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C. Deaf-Dumb Star Hr M .;>' -. x ' ' JSgXft? HI <y Handicaps of lack of speech and hearing have not prevented John Gray, seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gray of Canaan, Conn., from following in the footsteps of his famous uncle, the late John McGraw, former manager of the New York Giants. Gray is a natural ball player both in the field and at bat. In addi tion to playing first base fo*; the school team, he captained the basketball team of the Mystic Oral school from which he grad uates this spring. Major Leaders BATTING The three leading batters in each Major League for play to date: Mazzera, Browns 545 Wasdell .Senators 452 Kuhel, White Sox 443 Myers, Reds 425 May, Phillies 415 Medwick, Cardinals 378 RUNS BATTED IN American League Greenberg, Tigers 14 Hoag, Browns 14 Etten, Athletics ...... 14 Selkirk, Yankees ... .... 14. National League Goodman, Reds . ,14 Cuccinello, Bees ~...,11 Camilli, Dodgers ~... 11 HOME RUNS American League ■ Gehringer, Tigers ........... 3 Selkirk, Yankees 3 Williams, Red Sox 3 Foxx, Red Sox 3 Congratulations To the Graduates of Person County and Vic inity As you look into the future and plan life’s work — keep in mind these “7 Deadly Sins” suggested by E. Stanley Jones: * POLITICS without PRINCIPLE * WEALTH without WORK * PLEASURE without CONSCIENCE * KNOWLEDGE without CHARACTER * BUSINESS without MORALITY * SCIENCE without HUMANITY * WORSHIP without SACRIFICE Roxboro Beverage Co. O. Y. Clayton Ivey James SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1939 Ca-Vel’s inter-city league base ball team will meet Lucky Strike, strong independent team, this af ternoon at 3 o’clock at Ca-Vel park in a game celebrating Nat ional Semi-Pro day. National Semi-Pro day, spon sored by the National Semi- Pro congress, is another feature of the Centennial Celebration be ing observed this year by base ball throughout the nation. One hundred years ago this year, Ab ner Doubleday was supposed to have drawn off the first baseball diamond and set up the rules for the first game. It is to this Centennial celebra tion that the game here is being dedicated, Manager Baxter Man gum said yesterday. A capacity crowd is expected to be on hand for this game, which promises to be one of the best exhibition games on the local schedule. Mangum has not indicated whom he will send to the mound for today’s classic but it will pro bably be Tommy Crowder, ace of the Ca-Vel mound corp, or Harold Clayton. At the other positions will pro bably be Clyde Wright, catcher; Haywood Slaughter, first base man; Lester James, second base man; Cotton Powell, short stop; Howard Anders, third baseman; and Morris Briggs, Carlton Slau ghater and Reuben Wheeler, out fielders. National League Camilli, Dodgers ............ 3 Lazzeri, Dodgers 3 Mize, Cardinals- 3 Goodman, Reds 3 Ott, Giants 3 I Fertilizer We have the following brands ready for you: ARMOURS AGRICO BAUGHS BLACKSTONE EASTERN FISH BRAND FARMERS " OBERS RICHMOND ROYSTERS ZELLS Pass, Hester And Jones At Hyco Warehouse
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