Newspapers / The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, … / Nov. 5, 1939, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
/fifi PERSON Mszna t^JSLANtS By THOMAS J. SHAW, JR. Clean Ball For All Over in Chapel Hill John McCauley operates a bowling alley. Now, bowling is, shall we say, one of the minor sports, much believed in by those who like to knock the ten-pins down. And Mr. McCauley is an alley operator, with a dif frence, according to a “Special’' dispatch sent out by Bob Madrey’s crew of newshawks. The story goes that Mr. McC., watched the big balls rolling down and as he watched he not iced how dirty they were. Having noticed, he then set about discovering a method whereby the spheres could be dipped in a germ annihalating solution and brought out clean. The idea is perfectly good. We wonder someone had not thought of it before. But where will the end be? Will our foot bail, basketball and baseball players be wanting their coaches, and mangers to purify their balls between halves, periods and innings The handling these balls receive is not nearly so multiple as the handling given a bowling alley ball but there must be any number of kickable germs on them. shall wait and see what happens. And if ever we should bowl—we would really prefer going over to Mr. McCauley’s place. o_o 0 0 Drug-Store Work In one of the local corner drug stores, which does not happen to be on a corner after all, though it ought to be, foot ball chatter rules any day that comes. Saturday many of the talkers went over to Chapel Hill to become money-takers, one way or the other, on the Carolina-State game. Several others, if they had had the cash would have liked to have been go ing to Atlanta for the same purpose and pleasure, but not many Roxboro-Personites were able to say they saw the Duke-Georgia Tech kickoff. In Greensboro last night there was a game between Elon and Appalachian, not a game to draw great crowds, but a good game never-the-less. And out of the state circles had 'their interests tied up in such contests as Army vs Notre Dame. Tennessee vs Louisiana State and Kentucky vs Ala bama The latter part of the past week Laurence Leonard, ol the Greensboro Daily News and several other daily sports ■editors over the state got out their weekly and to be expect ed check lists of “Predictions”. Sunday morning is too late for a nice big check list, unless you go in for scores for the coming Saturday. How about sending in a few personal opin ions before then ? o—o— o o Local Garden The other day we were talking to a Person county wo man, a resident of one of the township communities near Roxboro. This lady, it so happens, works in an office open to our daily calls on matters not much concerned with sports. Also, we have known her for some several years longer than we have known Roxboro and Person county. When we first met her she was a “business girl”, a sec retary, to be exact. Later she married and moved to Person county. Now she has two or three jobs, where once there was only one and right now she and the residents of her com munity are concerned with the building fund for a gymnas ium at their school. To help the fund the women of this com munity have given benefit suppers, school programs and par ties almost beyond counting. We commend them for their ef forts, for we think the county should know it takes all man ner of turning to promote and keep going the sports instinct in a rural section. “Six Days Shall Thou Labor” - PLEASE DO NOT BRING WORK ON THE SABBATH. Satisfaction Guaranteed Phone 4141 Duncan Radio Service LONGHURST Better Prepared To Serve You Due to the increased business that the good people of Roxboro and Person county have favored us with, we have added two new members to our firm— to give you better service. We give you iT MISS LOUISE TATUM ( v ~ .. and MR. FLINT OLIVER Everything is spotlessly clean at the Diner. If you like to dine where nice qgpple dine—Dine at Roxboro Diner SPORTS OFJLHE TIMES Up-to-the-Minute Sport News Solicited _____ ~ — l ' PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. ||||j Hp - ° 1 - ■ ■ ww*# Jim “Sweet” Lalanne, who alternates with Stimweiss as the Tar Heel’s quarterback, is one of the three mentioned for this posi tion as All-Southern conference selection. He may also get a berth on one of the All-America teams. INFORMATION ON THREE STARS If you want three good exam ples of why pickers of all-star teams sometimes go around mumbling to themselves, take a look at the performances of Geor ge Stimweiss, Jim Lalanne and George McAfee. Stimweiss and Lalanne alter nate at quarterback on the North Carolina team. McAfee is the regular halfback-quarterback of Duke’s Blue Devils—he plays many of the quarterback assign ments, but usually doesn’t call signals. There’s only a shade of dif ference in their amazing statisti cal records. All are heady players and dependable safety men. All can punt, pass, and run in very fast top-flight company. One of the three is almost cer tain to become the All-Southern conference, and possibly even the All-America quarterback. But which one? How They Stand Their records to date this sea son stack up this way; Average yards gained by rush ing—Stimweiss, 7.4; Lalanne, 7.2; McAfee, 6.9. Percentage of passes complet ed—Stimweiss, 58; Lalanne, 51; McAfee, 55. Number of touchdown passes— Stimweiss, 3; Lalanne, 7; Mc- Afee, none. Punting average, in yards from line of scrimmage—Stimweiss, 28; Lalanne, 11; McAfee, 22.2. Points scored—Stimweiss, 18; Lalanne, 36; McAfee, 36. Here’s Another Angle While Stimweiss and Lalanne have an edge on McAfee in sev eral departments, the Duke quar. terback might be rated as more versatile, because he receives— as well as throws—forward pass es. McAfee has caught seven pass es for a total gain of 188 yards. Three of these were for touch downs—39 yards against Colgate, seven yards against Pitt and 46 yards against Syracuse. McAfee has intercepted three passes, and returned the ball for a total of 47 yards. He raced 40 yards to the end-zone on- an in terception in the Davidson game, but the score was nullified and the gain cut ot 23 yards by a clipping penalty. Lalanne has intercepted one pass, Stirnweiss, none. Lalanne’s interception was in the Virginia Tech game, and he returned the ball 47 yards and put the Tar Heels in scoring position. Their Long Runs. The longest run was made by Stirnweiss, who raced 87 yards off tackle for a touchdown in The Citadel game. McAfee gained 58 yards on a play, from scrimmage in the Syracuse game. Lalanne made a 45-yard touchdown run against The Citadel. McAfee is the fastest of the three—he is a member of the Duke track team and has been clocked at 9.7 seconds for the 100-yard dash. Carolina -has played one more game than Duke, but since Stimy and Lalanne alternate at quar terback, McAfee probably has seen more action than either. For further details on their respective abilities, we refer you to the Duke-Carolina football game on November 18, when Mc- Afee will meet Stirnweiss and La lanne. o NEW MENINGITIS CURE DISCOVERED Chicago Announcement that sulfapyridine cured eight of 17 persons sufering from pneumo coccic meningitis—a disease here tofore virtually always fatal— was recently made in the Jour nal of the American Medical as sociation. The high recovery rate—47 percent—gives asurance that physicians for the first time have a definitely effective treatment for the ailment, which causes in flamation of a mebrane of the spinal cord and brain. The successful cases contrast ed sharply with a mortality rate of 100 per cent in 29 victims who did not receive the new drug be cause they had the disease be fore this treatment was develop ed. SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN ROXBOBO. *r LITTLETON WHIPS RAMBLERS BY AIR After having won four of five games of the current season, the Roxboro high school football team met defeat for the first time this year Friday afternoon in a 20 to 6 game against Littleton, played on the Littleton gridiron. Opening the game with a touch down, the first two plays, the Ramblers from Roxboro missed an extra point. In the second quarter Littleton, completing a pass, carried the ball to the Rox boro second yard line in the final play of the quarter. At the half the score stood 6-6. In eth third quarter Littleton’s boys intercepted another pass and scored a touchdown. Roxboro took the ball down to the five yard line but failed to score. Lit tleton intercepted another pass in the fourth quarter for a touch down and the game ended 20 to 6 in favor of the Littleton boys. Members of the Roxboro team reported that it was a good game and that Roxboro made as many first downs, or more, than their rivals. Wallace Moore, center, and Fred Woods, guard, did good work for the Ramblers. Considerable fumbling was done by the local aggression which resulted in several costly losses. The Ramblers play three more games this season, all at home, unless the schedule is revised. On November 11 the locals meet the Methodist orphanage in an Armis tice day game sponsored by the American legion; on the 17th. the boys play Warrenton and cn the 24th. they close the season with a game against their old rivals, Bethel Hill, on the local gridiron. Naval Disaster Near victim of the aea waa Gay C. Avery, (tqpet) Imm navigator who attempted a sole cruise from Tampa, Fla., to Europe to Ms IS foot yawl. Avery left Tampa a yea* sgo, and when ptokad ap by aa Italian freighter waa lent M nUtol west of Gibraltar. • SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN ROXBORO. 7bA/y ‘Roprfit True-toe Tony Ruffa, Duke’s starting left tackle, is the nun who works hard in the line and also does all the place kicking for the team. Duke Teams Are Away For Weekend Durham All Duke fall sports outfits were in action on foreign soil over the weekend. While the gridders were in Atlanta meeting Georgia Tech Saturday, the cross country team clashed with Caro lina at Chapel Hill in their an nual setto. The soccer boys went against Davidson at Davidson to start the weekend’s activity. Coach Jerry Gerard planned several changes in the soccer team lineup which started against High Point in the hopes of devel oping some scoring punch. These included the shifting of Johnson from fullback to halfback and TRAINING IS IMPORTANT • The well-conditioned athlete is always ready to tackle the job in hand with maximum vigor and minimum wasted effort. • We are ready to serve, likewise, without costly delay and with the skill that only comes through training and experience. , •• Settling estates is a business with us. We under stand the job to be done and have a thoroughly trained staff to carry it through to completion. We sincerely believe that we will save time and money for your family if you name us as Execu tor in your Will. ✓ The Peoples Bank ROXBORO, N. C. SUNDAY, NOV. 5, 1939 using either Venall or Ryan at the fullback post. The remainder of the lineup consisted of the forward wall of Aufhammer, Beatty, Asan, Clayton, and Jones, Cowdrick and Palmer at the oth er two halfback positions, Wolley at the other fullback and Morris at goal. (Q) R. A. WHITFIELD , Distributor Roxboro, N. C.
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 5, 1939, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75