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By THOMAS J. SHAW, JR.
Wolf Lives To Contract
Ray Wolf, popular coach at U. N. C., decided to live up
to his contract at that institution. Wolf is a good man and a
good coach and supporters of Carolina are delighted that he
will be there for some time to come.
Tom Bost comments on the situation in the following
manner:
‘To be sure, losing money, say SIO,OO to $15,000, is
tough for a man whose days on the football field are number
ed. To keep the greatest tyrants in the world, college alumni,
placated, there must be victories, a whole mess of victories. To
get victories coaches must have material and luck. Mr. Wolf
has had his share of chance, good and bad. But there isn’t 1
a man in the country who has lost fewer games on the'
coach's account. No lesser team th°n his has trimmed him in
lour years. You don’t beat that, no matter who does your
tutoring. j
“But Mr. Wolf is more than football technician. He is a
superlative sport. He had bargained with the Chapel Hill,
people, had taken their offer and he was going to live by it.
They probably will do better by him. Not for his own advan
tage would he walk out on his associates. Nothing finer than
this comes from sports.
“And what is all the more creditable to him, he knew
that the Tar Heels would have released him from his contract
on request. He knew, too, that the going is to be tough, that!
his winnings may wane as Duke, Wake Forest, State, Virgi
nia, Pennsylvania and Texas Christian grow stronger.
"It is character. Wolf would not put George Radman, his
most necessapr man, in the Duke game because new hurts to
ah old one might have made a permanent cripple of the boy.
There is damage of lasting character done to a coach when he
fashions his future solely upon his own personal profit.
Again, thoroughbreads don’t cry. They live up to the highest
truth they know and to the clearest duty they perceive.”
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What-No Boards?
Now they are talking about doing away with basket
ball backboards. Authorities say that it will prevent many
wild shots and prevent the tall boys from having such an
advantage by being able to take the ball on the rebound from
the board.
In other words a player will have to be a good shot and
not trust to Juck that the ball will bounce from the board in
to the basket.
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Glamack Doing O. K
George Glamack shot 27 points in the basketball game
against Appalachian Wednesday night. It now looks like he
is the best player that Carolina has and all opponents might
do well to start planning a defense against this individual.
There’s one thing we noticed in the Wednesday night
game. Glamack’s opponent, Stuart of Appalachian, shot 21
points.
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The cares ol the day are erased for Chester Rlcasl, municipal play
ground heavyweight fighter, who reposes in sweet slumber on the canvas
after colliding with one of Edward Heinzinger’s rights in the diamond belt
tournament in New York.
Clean-U p Campaign
Os Beer Industry
Gets Fine Results
RALEIGH—North Carolina news
papers and public officials were
praised today for their part in the
campaign to rid the state of ob
jectionable beer outlets.
Xdgar H. Bain of Goldsboro, state
director of the
Brewers and North
Carolina Brer Din
trlbutors commit- ”
operation enabled
the committee to M k &
secure the revoca
tlon of 35 retan ? j Kmgg&f
beer licenses for
the four - month
period ended De- . tg>■; M
Colonel Bain.,
three-times mem- BAIN
her of the state senate and decorated
for- bravery while serving with the
30th division In the World War. su
pervises the beer Industry’s "clean
up or close up” campaign in North
Carolina. He was a captain during
the war and is now a colonel In the
reserve, commanding the 321st in
fantry of the 81st division.
"Our clean up or close up cam
paign in North Carolina is directed
FINISH SKI TROOPS TAKE
TIME TO GET THE
RUSSIANS
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With the Finnish forces near
Lake Kianta, Jan. 3 —Swift and
silent Finnish ski troops struck
in the border snows today to pick
off, one by one, the handful of
survivors of Russia’s defeated
army in this frozen north country
while their comrades in the
south stood their ground against
massed Soviet thrusts.
Victors in the greatest single
battle of the war, the hardy Fin
nish lumberjacks had easy pick
ings off the 2,000 wandering,
half-starved remants of the 17,-
Up*o‘*he*Minute Sport News Solicited
against those beer outlets who dis
regard the law and public decen
cy.” Colonel Bain said. "A great
majority of dealers conduct repu
table places of business, but there
are scattered outlets over the state
which our committee seeks to elimi
nate.
“During the paat four months,
special investigators for our com
mittee have visited more than a
third of North Carolina’s 100 coun
ties. They have inspected hundreds
of outlets. Our committee hes
warned more than a score of places
to clean up before we take more
drastic action.
"We have Instituted action against
50 dealers. Thirty-five of these deal
ers have lost their licenses to sen
beer, and the boards of commis
sioners of eight counties are yet to
act on our petitions to revoke the
licenses of 18 dealers. One dealer In
Iredell was placed on probation. We
lost one case and withdrew action In
another.
“The success of our campaign de
pends upon a vigorous press, and
the cooperation of local officials.
Our committee believes 1940 will
bring about the elimination of most
of these objectionable beer outlets.**
000-man Red Russian division
which tried to sever Finland’s
wasp-like waistline and failed.
INJURED SPANIEL TROTS
ALONE TO VETERINARIAN
Landsdown, Pa.—“Haile Selas
sie,” a large black half-Spaniel,
trotted unaccompanied a mile and
a half to a veterinarian after he
cut his foot.
The dog’s owner was away.
The veterinarian, hearing a
scratching at his door, found
“Haile” holding up his injured
paw, begging for aid.
“Haile” had been treated by the
veterinarian before and appar
ently remembered the route.
GALENTO-BAER
BOUT TO HEAD
HELPFORHNNS
New York Headed by a
heavyweight fight between Tony
Galento and Max Baer, a nation
wide sports program, to include
virtually every form of athletic
competition, was mapped out to
day by the sports committee of
the Finnish relief fund.
The program was outlined at
an informal get-together of offi
cials of the fund and sports writ
ers, at which ex-President Her
bert Hoover, head of the organi
zation, keynoted the proposals as
a “great sporting stunt, because
what is more sporting than an
army of 350,000 fighting a great
fight against three or four mil
lion?”
Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has
been considering the Galento-
Baer bout as a headliner on his
winter boxing program, suggest
ed the fight for the Finnish fund.
He would stage the affair some
time in March in Madison Square
Garden. Jacobs plans to give bis
entire profit on the fight to the
Finnish fund.
Also on the program, it was an
nounced, was a plan to bring
Paavo Nurmi, great Finnish dis
tance runner of the ’2os, back to
this country along with Finland’s
current two outstanding runners,
Taisto Maki and Kauko Pecuri,
to compete in a series of meets
this summer. The meets would be
held over the same itinerary
Nurmo took during his Amercan
invasion in 1925 which was a large
financial success.
Jimmy Bronson, New York
fight promoter and head of the
A. E. F. boxing program during
the World war, now acting as
chairman of the fund’s boxing
committee in smaller clubs, an
nounced that “some 15 to 20 pro
moters already agreeing to put
on boxing shows” in various cit
ies.
Several track and field meets,
a collegiate basketball double
header, hockey and pqjo are also
on the program, as well as an
open tennis tournament. The com
mittee announced that the open
tennis “can be held,” despite pre
vious opposition to a tournament
between amateur and profession
al players. Officials of the United
States Lawn Tennis association
have been contacted, it was ex
plained, and are agreeable if the
International Federation’s sanc
tion can be obtained.
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First American
Revolt Revealed
The first armed rebellion on
American soil—a historical fact
virtually forgotten in modem
text books—serves as the basis
of RKO Radio’s “Allegheny Up
rising,” starring Clarie Trevor
and John Wayne, which opens
Monday at the Palace Theatre.
The spectacular melodrama
deals with the original uprising
of the Pennsylvania colonists
against the British soldiery sta
tioned in Fort Loudon. This sig
nal event, and subsequent dissen
tions between the two forces,
laid the groundwork for the me
morable Revolutionary War more
than 15 years later.
The Pennsylvania revolt arose
when settlers were driven to des
paration by traders selling wea
pons to the Indians under army
protection only to have them
used against the small settle
ments.
John Wayne is cast as James
Smith, firebrand chieftain of the
“rebels,” while Claire Trevor is
seen as a wild, temestuous dau
ghter of the tavern keeper in love
with the courageous leader.
Football Rules Committee
Moves To Aid Short Passes
Sky Beauty
Mona Frledlander, beautiful 25-
year-old London girl, was selected
among the eight British women pi
lots who will ferry new army planes
from factories to airdrome:.
Sutherland Offered
Position By Rooney
To Coach Pro Team
Pittsburgh, Jan. 4 Art
Rooney, boss of the Pittsburgh
professional football Pirates, said
tonight he was “confident and
hopeful” of signing Jock Suther
land to coach the Pirates.
Rooney said he had made the
former Pitt mentor a proposition
of “somewhat less than $15,000 a
year” and felt that he had a good
chance of getting him to take the
place of Walter Kiesling, who
finished last season as the Pir
ates’ coach after Johnny Blood
resigned.
Rooney added, however, that he
understood Sutherland would
meet representatives of the
Brooklyn Dodgers next week to
discuss an offer to coach the New
York team.
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Jane Learns Ropes
From Star Twirler
Sam Garrett, seven times ac
claimed world’s champion rope
twirler, was engaged to teach
Jane Withens the art of lasso
spinning for her new 20th Cen
tury-Fox starring picture, “High
School,” which opens at the D«L
ly Madison Theatre Monday.
Garrett, a Mulhall, Oklahoma
cowboy, started doing rope tricks
as a youngster when he accom
panied Will Rogers to England
during a stage tour in 1907,
Jane, who first learned to twirl
a rope in “Wild and Wooly,”
learned such fancy tricks as the
“butterfly,” “roll-overs,” ocean
waves,” “skipping the smoke”
and juggles” under Garrett’s ex
pert tutelage. These tricks will
be incorporated into scenes in
which Jane, a Texas cowgirl, de
serts the ranch for the halls of
higher learning.
Featured in Jane’s supporting
cast are Joe Brown, Jr., Lloyd
Corrigan, Claire Du Brey, Lynne
Roberts, Paul Harvey, Cliff Ed
wards, Lillian Porter and John
Kellogg.
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R. A. WHITFIELD
Distributor
Roxboro, N. C.
SUNDAY,. JAN. 7, 1940
Palm Springs, Calif. _ One
major change, involving passes
touching ineligible receivers, was
written into the rule book today
as the National Collegiate Ath
letic association rules committee
wound up its annual meeting.
“The change in rules was to re
duce further the penalty when a
forward pass touches or is touch
ed by an ineligible receiver who
is on or behind the line of scrim
mage,” said the committee’s re
port.
“In the future, this penalty will
be merely the loss of the down.
“This change is made to en
courage a more liberal point of
short forward passes behind the
line of scrimmage. However, if
the passer, after he has faded
back and been trapped, intention
ally throws the ball into an ineli
gible player who is on or behind
the line of scrimmage in order
to save yardage, the penalty will
be the same as for an intention
ally grounded pass; namely, 15
yards and loss of the down.
“This same penalty will still
obtain when an ineligible player
beyond his scrimmage line touch
es or is touched by a forward
pass.”
SIZE OF CLEATS WILL
BE REDUCED BY REQUEST
The committee adopted the A
merican football coaches’ recom
mendation sepcifying that cleats
be reduced from one-half-inch to
three-eights of an inch in diame
ter, with the point parallel with
with the base. No change was
ordered in the type of composi
tion used.
In order to speed up play, it
was voted to cut the time allow
ed in putting the ball in play
from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
Other changes:
“In case of a free ball kicked
or kicked at, the responsibility
for determining whether the
kicking was intentional was again
placed on the officials.
“The penalty for roughing the
passer will in the future be en
forced from the spot of the pre
vious down. In the past, in the
case of completed or intercepted
passes, the penalty was enforced
from the spot of the foul, which
often made it necessary for the
offended team to refuse the pen
alty.
“It was made clear that on
kicks from behind the line of
scrimmage, protection is given
the kicker only when it is reason
ably obvious that he is going to
kick. This applies especially to
quick kicks made from close to
the line of scrimmage.”
The committee, with Walter
Okeson, of Lehigh, as chairman
and with seven of its eight dis
trict members present, adjourned.
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