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What Next in the World
Things . . and games do have away of being settled.
The calm of a Sabbath afternoon saw the World Series, 1939,
go over lock, stock and the other word, to the Yankees of
Manhattan. As the headlines had it, “Cincinnati Blows in
Final Two Innings” and that Is all there is to say. And now
the housewives and husbands and the on-the-street agonizers
will have to wait another year before baseball’s mercury
climbs the thermometer tuble of public interest, though it
does seem true we do still have hot and most unfootball wea
ther right here with us in Person and Roxboro.
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What “Red” Thinks •
Our young friend, and we hope our good friend, “Red”
Day, some times known as Louis, is a two and three job man.
He makes good as a Roxboro Rambler full-back, studies La
tin and the like, when he has to, and fills in nights with
courteous curb-service at one of our few later-at-night food
spots. Over a friendly and harmless glass we talked to “Red”
about the coming Friday contest with the South Bostonians,
in Virginia. Reports have it that the South Boston men have
a goodly number of their best men left over from the 1938
season and “Red” thinks the game will be full of fight. Also,
he thinks, hopes and believes his own team can continue its
good record of the present season.
Too, he tells us that Charles White, of quarter-back fame
will be back in the game after an enforced on the bench per
iod following the injury he received in the Ruffin game. We
can just guess that will be good news in Charles’ own house
and on the Roxboro gridiron and we wish the boys good luck,
in advance, while they don’t need it.
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Pugilistic Social Note
From Las Vegas comes word that Maxie Rosenbloom, who
is, as the AP has it, “33, fighter and Hollywiid night club
owner”, has married one Muriel Faeder, of New York. Maxie
never was the playboy or the fight would-be-big shot that
the other “Maxie” (Baer) wanted to be but the lesser Maxie
of whom we are writing has had a certain ring-side color all
his own.
And the good people who have never gotten used to this
hail and farewell marriage business of New York and Holly
wood famous folks will rejoice in knowing that this marriage
is Maxie R’s first, as well as Mrs. Muriel’s. But it is true
that the two of them had to observe a mere trifle of Holly
wood conventionality—they flew from the celluloid holy wood
to Las Vegas.
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Southern Pigskin in the News ....
Looking over a first of the week edition of one of our
across county dailies we discover that Bill Boni, the New
York sports writer who has come down south for some of
our better intersectional football contests, says that “Goth
am”, the wise one at last, “wakes up to Dixie football”. This
opinion, as Boni says, was aired at a session of the Mertopo
litan Football Writers association.
This news is, however, no news to us. Person county has
l he good luck to be within a most convenient 50-40-30 mile
driving distance of some of the best football in North Caro
lina. And that, brother and sisters ot the sport, is the equi
vilent of saymg, are close to some of the bestest best
Dixie” special and' across the counter football, service a la
King. »
Last week the Tar Heels, of the hill where the chapel is,
won by a close but respectable 13 to 6 score from V. P. I , and
Duke ready whipped Colgate, 37 to 0. And our neighbor of
the Durham Herald, Ed Mitchell has observed quite sanely,
i3?th a gentlemanly touch, that the weather as well as
the Blue Devils had more than a mite to do with the undoing
of the men from Andy Kerr’s Colgate.
But Mr Kerr, if “Old Professor” Whitney Martin quotes
aright, speaks m this wise. “When you are struck by light
ning, you don’t even know what hits you . . . The McAfee
brothers may yet become as famous in football as the Broth
ers Karamazov in literature”.
vr keep North Carolinians from being too proud
.N. C. State came out on the small end, but Wake Forest piled
up a score against Florida’s Miami and Davidson, in charac
tenstic fashion dealt a small, if losing score to V. M. I
J h j s jing I e figures belongs to past history now.,
,We can took forward this week to Carolina and N. Y. U., and 1
t nd Pl + t ’ t 0 , mentlon on, y four-star events, and we
tw +° Ur typ , e , wirte r keys (because we have no money)
Imp! ! W ° + or * bree Roxboro gentlemen of our acquaint
“ to th e finish this time, ’cause last week they
on «f b tv, Ck h °,T f blt to ° soon ’ and were Properly cheated
orite team Slght ° f S ° me *°° d laSt minute work by the ir fav-
BLUE DEVILS ARE
OFF TO ENCOUNTER
PITTS WARRIORS
Durham After a final hard
workout this afternoon, DukVs
Blue Devils entrain tonight for
Pittsburgh whe<re on Saturday
afternoon they will meet the bril
ilant Panthers who rolled over
Washington and West Virginia.
The Duke Special, which also
carries the big Blue Devil band
and a host of followers of the
team, is slated to arrive in Pitta
burgh Friday morning at 9:30.
Duke wlil make headquarters in
the Hotel Schenley and will work
out in Pitt stadium Friday after
noon,;
PERSON
spokts
SLANTS
By THOMAS J. SHAW, JR.
As the boys worked today,
they were in good physical con
dition for the battle and the same
lineup that started against Col
gate last week was slated to go
against the Panthers.
The game looms as one of the
greatest tests a Blue Devil out
fit has ever faced. True, Duke
won it’s two opening games
26-6 over Davidson and 37-0 over
Colgate, but the Wademen didn’t
face the tests in those two games
that the Panthers did in defeat
ing Washington 27-6 and West
Virginia, 20-0. i
Duke has worked hard all
week in attempting to build a
defense for the mixture of Pitt
passes and running plays. Where
a year ago all that was needed to
do was to look out for the Panth
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SPORTS OF THE TIMES
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C.
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Big Ed Boell (above), New York. University’s 205-pound quar
terback and one of the nation’s finest passers and punters, will lead
the Violent Violets against North Carolina Saturday in one of the
biggest intersectional contests the State will see this year.
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Ready to go is George McAfee, left halfback, of the Duke Blue
Devils. George and his brother, Wesley McAfee, right halfback, are
slated to face Cassiano and Narick, who play similar positions on
the Panther team, in Saturday’s game at Pittsburgh.
WAKE FOREST AND
STATE IN NIGHT
GAME ATRALEIGH
Raleigh Wake Forest’s De
mon Deacon football machine,
ranked as one of the best in the
Southern Conference, will be
holding the heaviest odds in many
years over North Carolina State
when they meet under the arcs
of Riddick Stadium here Satur
day night
Wake Forest’s stock gained
considerably after the Deacons
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ran up a 33-0 score over Miami
University last Friday and are
given a better than 50-50 chance
of subduing the Wolfpack this
week.
Saturday’s game not only will
have a big bearing on both teams’
standing in the Southern Confer,
ence and Big Five, but also decid
es the championship of Wake
county— a championship that has
gained in importance over a span
of 30 years.
In that period the Deacons have
beaten the Wolfpack only eight
time. The State boys enjoyed 21
victories. The other games ended
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Stevens Leading Strongest
N* Yo U. Against U. No C*
Ta:- Heels Expecting Hard
est Game cf Home Season;
Slimy “Will Be There.”.
Chapel Hill With New York
U. reportedly bringing the strong
est eleven Coach Mai Stevens has
put out, Carolina is expecting and
preparing for the hardest game
cf the home season Saturday.
The big Violet grid machine is
the first Tar Heels have gone up
against with a good or strong at
tack on both ground and air.
And Coach Ray Wolf and the
players, who are noted for their
own wide open attack and light
ning air thrusts, did an about face
today and concentrated on stop
ping the powerful and driving
New York attack.
The clash between the two un
defeated powers and wide-open
offenses is expected to produce
a brilliant exhibition and dogged
contest which will draw a near
capacity crowd to Kenan Stad
ium.
G. E. Shephard, Assistant Ath
letic Director, said today that
the advance ticket sale was well
ahead of the Wake Forest game,
which drew 20,000 and set a new
early season record, but plenty
of good seats were still left.
With General Stirnweiss and
Frank O’Hare alternating with
Sweet Lalanne at quarter, and
Bob Smith and Jim Mallory also
rounding into shape again at
center and end, Tar Heel strength
today was on the rise over last
week.
Stirny and Frank were both
held out of the Virginia Tech
game with injuries. And Lalanne,
who sparked the victory and
scored both touchdowns, had to
play 53 minutes, his only relief
coming when Redman shifted
from half to quarter for a few
minutes late in the first half.
The Flying Dutchman’s return
would round out two Carolina
attacks and permit the Tar Heels
to muster their full backfield
strength for the first time since
Stirny was hurt in the opening
minutes of the Wake Forest
game.
Two sophomores, Harry Dun
kle at fullback and Bill Fair
cloth, at right guard, have been
seeing considerable service with
the first string this week and
may possibly get the call over
Sadoff and Abemethy Saturday.
However, Carolina scouts say
the Tar Heels will have to be at
their best Saturday, and it is a
question then whether they will
be equal to the test.
New York with its 198-pound
line and 188-pound backfield has
long been noted for one of the
finest aerial games in the nation,
and the Violets have shown an
even stronger running attack this
season.
Big Ed Boell, 205-pound tail
back and one of the best passers
and punters in the country, leads
the offense. Other standouts in
clude LaManna, Campanis, Mik
ulka, Frank and Barmals, backs;
and Conlin, center.
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Ramblers Go
To Virginia City
For Annual Classic
> Facing a strong South Boston
team, Coach George Wirtz’s Rox
boro Ramblers will leave here
about noon Friday to meet their
Virginia foes on South Boston’s
gridiron. The game will start at
3 o’clock Friday afternoon in the
Virginia city.
A survey of the proposed local
lineup for the contest reveals the
fact that the team’s regulars will
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Hilltoppers To
Play Hosts To
Wakelon Friday
Bethel Hill plays Wakelon High
of Zebulon Friday on the locals
field at 3:15.
Bethel Hill is handicapped due
to the injury of several players.
Shotwell has not taken part in
heavy scrimmage during the
week due to an ankle injury but
it is thought that he will see
action in the game.
Coach Gibson has been work
ing on punting, passing passing
defense and timing of plays dur
ing the week and it is believed
that there will be an improved
ball club on the field Friday. It
is not known yet who will start
the game as substitutes are push
ing the regular members. Reports
from the visitors are that they
have a fast, experienced ball |
club so Bethel Hill is looking for
a hard fought game.
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Here is “General” Stirnweiss,
Carolina’s quarterback and co
captain of stellar grade, who is
expected to put extra punch in
to the Tar Heels’ contest with
New York University Saturday
afternoon in Kenan Stadium.