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BY EDWIN J. HAMLIN Keep The Rules Softball has become a popular game in Roxboro and hun dreds are enjoying helpful recreation every week from the sport. Balls bounce out of gloves with consistent regularity, grounders slip between the legs of infielders with remark able ease, batters fan the air ingloriously but the fun still remains. However, we sound a note of warning. When a few begin to take themselves and the game too seriously the fun will begin to wane. There are a number of features of softball entirely dis tinctive from baseball and these have in large measure been responsible for its remarkable growth and popularity. The rules make it clear that pitchers must throw the ball with an underhand motion from the side of the body while directly facing the batter, thus eliminating any form of a wind-up. A few players have insisted on using an illegal motion in pitching, causing a lot of bickering and argument from the other side which robs the game of much of its enjoyment. If players don’t want to abide by the rules of the game, there’d be more fun for all if they’d stay at home. The game is played for pleasure and recreation alone and when any attempt is made to make it anything else, the thrill is gone. Watch This Pair Johnny Rizzo' and Enos Slaughter, the Person Coun ty boy, were roommates when the two played for Columbus. Slaughter went up to the Cardinals and Rizzo was sold to Pittsburgh. Last year as rookies botn were hot as Fourth of July firecrackers for a while, then Slaughter’s hitting began to fall off but Rizzo continued as a mainstay of the Pirates. Some of the experts began to wag their heads. The Cards had cast their lot with Slaughter, whose average had been high er, while allowing his team mate and friend to be sold to an opposing team. This year Saving The Pitchers The general opinion among the baseball writers around the major league circuit is that the American league has really folded up. Six American league clubs from the looks of the box scores have conceded the pennant to the Yankees and are beginning to concentrate on knocking off Boston’s Red Sox, who have been the next best thing to the Yanks all year. Saving their best pitchers for the Red Sox, they are throwing the third raters into the box when the Yankees come to town. i ' » J /. j The Red Sox got into Cleveland last week and found that the Ypkees had been there three days and won three games, but did Bob Feller and Willis Hudlin, leading Cleveland pit chers, work against the Yanks? They did not. They were held until Sunday for a double-header with the Red Sox. Os course, the answer to that was that they were being held for Sunday to help the attraction and bring more customers to the gate. But they forgot that by getting slapped down by the Yanks, they were getting their customers peeved at them, and instead of the 35,000 they expected, they had *3,000. Cleveland isn’t the only team guilty. Even the vener able Connie Mack can stand trial on the charges. He has been quoted as saying the 1939 Yanks are even better than the last-year team he called the greatest in history, and yet you don t see him using what little good pitching he has in an effort to attempt to stop the marauders. Things are really in a bad way in the Junior loop and the six bottom teams really had better start doii* something to b l? ak i v he .monopoly—not breaking up the Yankees but strengthening their own. Need Money? If you need a little extra money this summer we can help you get it. We Pay CASH For Scrap Iron and Metal 25c Per Hundred For Mixed Iron. Tom's Battery Co. Court Street Roxboro, N. C. The -—_ SPOKTS ===== Angle neither has been consistent ly sensational but Slaughter seems to be doing the better of the two. Rizzo’s average is .268 as compared with Slau ghter’s .281. Enos has raised his something like 25 points during the last two week and seems well on the way toward that .300 mark which we pre dict he’ll reach ere many more weeks have passed. Rizzo is also on the up-grade after a poor start this year but our guess is that Slaughter will continue the superior hitter. It’ll be interesting to watch the fortunes of this pair from now on. SPORTS OF THE TIMES Up'tO'the'Minute Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. SUNDAY, JUNE 11,1939 ffhe lAuthority, Shows Kids flow It’s Done Babe Ruth, former New York Yankee home-run king, and at one time the highest paid player in the history of baseball, conducting the baseball class for boys at the court of sport at the New York World’s fair. The Bambino is showing ambitions youngsters how to use the bat most effectively. Softball Thrives On League Organization As Fast Industrial Competition Sets Pace Crack Players Find Good Jobs Through Their Ability On Softball Diamond. Softball was an easy and nat ural outgrowth of the national game but it owes much of its high stage of development to the or ganization of leagues. The speedy sport soon became recognized as just the thing for school, city, church and indus trial competition, with the latter possibly playing the greater part in the game’s systematized or ganization. Although indepsndent, school and club teams represent a ma jority of the softball clubs in the country, the best and most suc cessful softball teams are those which spring from industry and business. And just as athletic scholarships have been the medium through which many boys have received college educations so is softball providing the opportunity for young men and women to obtain good jobs. , Many a stenographer, welder, machinist, clerk owes his job to the fact that he can toss that 12- inch ball plateward with blazing speed or whale it over the fence. Good Advertising Industrial firms don’t back softball teams merely for the publicity they receive. They have discovered that the good will they create and better moral es tablished among their employes is payment enough. On the other hand softball teams have provided a tremend ous advertising medium for clubs like Weaver-Wall of Cle veland; Ne-Nash-A of Kenosha, Wis.; Briggs Body of Detroit; and other teams whose winning ways have attracted national promin ence. When crack industrial teams go on the road they play before packed parks in every town. They get offers for games from coast to coast, from Canada to the Gulf, and business managers of tour ing top-notchers can have their pick of games that will draw up ward of 10,000 fans. Small merchants find it not too expensive and to their advan tage to back teams in neighbor hood leagues. Enterprising young sters who can’t find one merchant for a backer, will go out and get 10 more, with each getting the name, of his business establish inent on a uniform. The merely calls itself "East End Merchants” or ’Tenth Street Merchants,” etc. Spirited BnrtaoM Bi-State Games At South Boston » Sunday, June 11 - Mt Airy. 3:00 P. M. I Thursday, June 15-Reidsville. . 8:15 P. M. Saturday, June 17 - Danville. . 8:15 P. M. So keen has competition be come in large cities that the fight for talent is a spirited one. Be cause star feminine performers are more at a premium than men, girls with national reputations frequently receive—and accept— offers of jobs in distant cities just to play softball. In Cleveland, one businessman threatened a SIO,OOO lawsuit be cause another firm lured his star player away with a better offer. Financing a softball club is much easier than that 6f a base ball team, but according to Ver ne Fargo, veteran business man- Paface Theatre Monday - Tuesday, June 12 . 13 THE NEW ADVENTURES OF “YOUNG DR. KILDARE”... rtraaldnu off to gxoater excitement ... stranger mystery... more dan ___ garona romance! Ms. X jslte Screen PUy by Harry tuUr and Willie Qoldbeek • Directed by HareMS.Bacqmet Ne Nantaf Shews; Afternoons Daily 305-Srts; ItaWnlMli Evenings Dally 7 JMdS; Adiulurien lUOo ager of the Cleveland Weaver- Wall teams, a Double A. club can be an expensive luxury, often running as high as SI,OOO or more. This covers the cost of uni forms, jackets, equipment, some traveling expenses, refreshments and incidentals. Just as often as not, a firm will fail to get this back through any increase in business brought a bout by softball, but business men consider it money well spent. Winning a league, city or nation al championship can mean as much to employes as a bonus. America is a sports-minded na tion, and a three-base hit means a lot to the welder, stenographer or clerk. o MAJOR LEADERS BATTING i (First 3 and ties in each league.) Player, Club Pet. Arnovich, Phillies 400 McQuinn, Browns 362 Sullivan, Browns 353 Foxx, Red Sox 350 McCormick, Reds 344 Bonura, Giants 341 RUNS BATTED IN American League Williams, Red Sox 44 Greenberg, Tigers 41 Wright, Senators 40 National League Goodman, Reds 40 Lombardi, Reds 39 McCormick, Reds 37 HOME RUNS American League Greenberg, Tigers 13 Foxx, Red Sox n Selkirk, Yankees 10 National League Lombardi, Reds 10 Camilli, Dodgers 10 McCormick, Reds 9 Ott, Giants 9 Mize, Cardinals 9 (Q) R. A. WHITFIELD Dhtribotor Roxboro, N. C Legion Nine Opens Season Tomorrow CA-VE GIRLS winno-hhult HERE FRIDAY Ca-Vel’s strong girls’ softball team met Long Meadow Athletic club of Durham here Friday af ternoon and emerged victorious 8-0 behind the no-hit pitching of Virginia Wrenn. While the visitors could do nothing with the slants of Miss Wrenn, the Ca-Vel lassies' were getting 10 safeties from Long Meadow’s Miss Thomas. Bobby Grasty’s two home runs for four trips to the plate was the day’s best hitting. The box score: Ca-Vel Ab R H A Powell, 2b 3 11 1 Thorhberg, sf 4 2 2 1 Grasty, rs 4 2 2 0 Dixon, 3b 3 0 0 1 Nelson, cf 3 1 2 0 Dickerson, lb 3 0 1 0 Wheeler, If 3 0 1 0 Gravette, ss 3 0 0 0 Wrenn, p 3 11 0 Clayton, c 2 1 0 0 Totals 31 8 10 3 Long Meadows Ab R H A Riggs, lb 3 0 0 0 Mitchell, sf 3 0 0 0 Weisner, rs, 2b 3 0 0 1 C. Thpmas, p 3 0 0 1 Harward, ss 2 0 0 2 Clenn, c 2 0 0 0 Mosely, 3b 2 0 0 0 Porter, If 2 0 0 0 E. Thomas, cf 2 0 0 0 Gillam, fr, 2b 1 0 0 1 Totals 23 0 0 5 Score by innings: Long Meadow 000 000 o—o Ca-Vel 004 031 x—B Errors: Powell, Dickerson, Weisner, Riggs. Runs batted in: Grasty 6, Wheeler, Thomberg. Home runs: Grasty 2. Base on balls—off: Wrenn 1 ,C. Thomas 2. Struck out—by: Wrenn 7, C. Thomas 2. Umpires :Wheeler, Seabo. Win ning pitcher: Wrenn. Losing pitcher: C. Thomas. Time of Game: 45 min. ——— —o FEDERAL JUDGE CONVICTED New York City—Coniction of Federal Judge Martin F. Manton on charges of selling his decisions to highest bidders may precipi tate a review of 3,000 cases in which he sat as senior judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals, next in rank to the nine justices of the Supreme Court. Five cases have already been appealed on the ground that he accepted bribes in making his decisions; hun dreds of other appeals are m preparation. It was proved at his trial, first of its kind in the his tory of the Court of Appeals, that he gouged nearly $200,000 out of litigants appearing before him; that he made more than $1,000,- 000 in one year in speculations based on his decisions. Manton sent his resignation to President Roosevelt immediately on his in dictment, and now faces only two years in prison and a fine of $lO,- 000. A special court may have to be convened to handle cfeses in which unsuccessful litigants feel that they were defrauded of their rights by judicial bribery in Man ton’s Court. Local Team To Play In Northwestern District; Meet Raleigh First. Roxboro’s American Legion baseball team representing the Lester Blackwell post will open its season tomorrow afternoon in Raleigh, meeting the strong Leg ion team of that city, according to releases from district head quarters yesterday. The local team has been placed in the northwestern district com posed of Durham, Burlington, Roxboro and Raleigh. Dr. D. R. Perry, commander of the Dur ham post, was named as leader of the district. Three other districts were mads up at a mteting of repre sentatives from all legion posts in the east last Wednesday night. The other districts in the east are the northeastern, made up of teams from Roanoke Rapids, Rocky Mount, Greenville and Wil son, the southeastern, composed of Wilmington .Lumberton, Snow Hill and Kinston, and the south western, made up of Sanford, Smithfield, Goldsboro and Dunn. Second Elimination Winners of each league in the east will go into a second elimin ation with winning teams from the western part of the state. The final two teams will meet the South Carolina champs for the right to go into the eastern finals. Durham won out in the east ern bracket last season and ad vanced into the elimination with the western winners but lost out The complete schedule for the northwest district which opens Monday, June 12 and closes Wed nesday, July 5 is as follows: June 12—Burlington at Dur ham; Roxboro at Raleigh. June 13—Raleigh at Burling ton. June 14—Durham at Roxboro. June 16—Durham at Raleigh; Burlington at Roxboro. June 19—Durham at Burling ton; Raleigh at Roxboro. June 21—Raleigh at Durham; Roxboro at Burlington. June 23—Burlington at Ral eigh; Roxboro at Durham. June 26—Durham at Raleigh; Roxboro at Burlington. June 27—Burlington at Rox boro. June 26—Raleigh at Roxboro. June 29—Durham at Roxboro. June 30—Durham at Burling ton; Roxboro at Raleigh. July I—Burlington at Raleigh. July 4—Raleigh at Durham. July s—Roxboro at Durham; Raleigh at Burlington. ■ o FOR RESULTS. ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES WANT ADS FOR RENT—Six room house on highway 144, two miles out. Rent reasonable. J. Irvin OBriant 6-3-2 t-st Professional Cards s. F. NICKS, JR. Attorney - at - Law First National Bank Bldg Mafci St- Roxboro, N. C DR. R. J. PEARCE I BYES EXAMINED MONDAYS ONLY mi n i . «
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