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Roxboro Country Club
.By the latter part of May the Roxboro Country Club
l?olt course should be in fairly good shape. Right now the
couise is a little rough, but by the time grass comes up on the
fairways and a few more rocks are picked up the course will
be in much better condition.
Seven greens are now in nice shape and grass has been
sown on the other two. In a short time this grass will be up
and there really can be little complaint along this line.
V ery few have been playing out there. To be frank you
can't blame them, but this summer should find our people
using our course and doing all that is possible to make thi
Country Club a popular place.
The club house looks good and is good. With just a few
touches here and there the house will be in the best condi
tion possible and ready for parties, dances, etc. Roxboro has
a nice location for its country club and we have an idea that
we may be proud of it some day.
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Looks Like Smart Thing
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-Duke and Carolina did the smart thing when they built
the large gymnasiums that they now have. Basketball is a
popular sport and people will go to the games if they are sure
of getting seats. If there is any doubt in their minds they
might stay at home. Now the fans know that they can get
seals at Duke and Carolina and they are going to turn out.
Basketball is going to pay big dividends at these two insti
tutions.
We only wish that the Southern Conference Tournament
could be played at Duke. You never know when you will be
able to see a tournament game, but if it could be moved to
Duke there would be little difficulty in handling the crowd.
11 l ilow ® ver » might not be fair to teams other thai
Duke as it might give her team a distinct advantage. There
nae been a rumor that the team playing on its own court has
an advantage.
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Out In The Open
The following news item comes from Raleigh, N. C.:
Alumni of North Carolina State college announced that
athletm scholarships would be openly award students who
meet qualifications at the institution for at least the next
nvc years. . e nexi
D. W. (Dutch) Seifert, of Weldon, elected president of
the group whcih organized the Wolfpack club, said the club
wouid provide athletic scholarships for all sports from con
irioutions made by alumni and supporters
f• £ S , tate is a member of the Southern conference.
, j Atkinson of Greensboro was elected vice president
ana VV ade Ison of Raleigh secretary treasurer ”
We admire the move. If schools are going to award '
scholarships of this kind it might as well be done “openly.” ]
Belmont Stakes
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Close February 15
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February 15 is a date few,
horsemen will overlook this year.
Fourteen richly endowed sea-!
tures at Belmont Park will have
their closing on that day, making
it the largest and most important
stakes closing of the year for any
one track.
The events for which the lists
will be closed include nine spring
meeting fixtures, among them the
$20,000 added Suburban Handi
cap.
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Bethel Hill To Play
Allensville Friday
Bethel Hill high school will
play the strong Allensville high
school basketball teams at Beth
el Hill gymnasium tomorrow
night, Jan. 26 at 7:30. Mr. Carey
Smith of the Durham Y. M. C. A.
is expected to be the referee.
The girl’s game is expected to
a close one with Allensville hav
ing the edge. The Bethel Hill
girl’s team is made up of inex
perienced players and has lost
two games this season, while Al
lensville has lost only one. The
Bethel boys have lost only one
game this season and that was
to the strong South Boston five
recently.
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profitable
Promhis one-acre tobacco pro
ject, <2f»4» Baas si the Kenly
4-H Club in Johnston County,
harvested 1,794 pounds of tobaoco,
wfcl* netted him CNfcSl after
expenses of SSIJI were <*duct-
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SLANTS
By J. S. MERRITT
Packers Announce
Installment Plan
For Grid Tickets
Green nay, Wiis., Jan. 24
The Green Bay Packers, Inc., an
nounced recently inauguration of
of an installment payment for
season tickets to 1940 Packer
games.
E. A. Spachmann. in charge of
ticket distribution for the Nat
ional pro football league champ
ions, said purchasers could pay a
small amount weekly or month
ly.
Rangers May Set
New Ice Mark
New York, Jan. 24 Hockey
players don’t like too much talk
about things that may happen,
but the amazing New York Ran
gers may surpass the 1929-1930
feat of the Boston Bruins, who
lost only five times in a 44-game
National Hockey League cam
paign.
The Rangers have played 28
of this season’s 48 contests already
and lost only four. From the
way they played against Boston’s
world-champion Bruins last Sun.
day in capturing the league lead,
there seems to be no reason to
believe they will be beaten often
in the next 20. They already have
gone through one 19-game stretch
without a loss to set a new. lea
pt® record. Last Sunday’s 4-2 vic
tory over Boston was their sac.
[»d win since that streak ended.
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Up-tU'tte'Mmutc News Solicited
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ItOXHORO. N. C.
Specialist Advocates Two Types of Facial Macsagc
A specialist in facial massages is A1 Nettlow of Detroit, Mich. He combines within himself the two
great arts of boxing and beautifying. At the left he is shown giving a quick massage to a sparring partner
as he tones up for a forthcoming bont in Philadelphia against Bob Montgomery. At the right he is pictured
at work in his Detroit beauty parlor, which he owns and operates. His ring activities are carried on in any
locality where there is a demand for this type of beauty cniture. O
Court Games In State
Rapidly Turning To Offense
Elon College, N. C. Jan. 25.
If the North Carolina basketball
fan is watching his cage sport
closely this year, he probably
has already observed that there
has been some change made in
the offensive play of most of the
collegiate teams of the state.
If Mr. John Q. Fan looks more
closely he Already has discovered,
or probably will before the sea
son is over, that the change has
some to do with a system of ball
handling known as the inter
change, or wheel type of offense,
which is considerably different
from the old style of passing and
breaking all the time.
Those who saw the original :
New York Celtics in their heyday;
will immediately recognize the j
present interchange as a varia-j
tion of the play which the great j
professionals used. Or if they!
have seen Long Island Univer
sity, Duquesne, or some of the
other top notch eastern teams of
the past several years play, it is
easy to recognize the form.
Indirectly, Horace Hendrickson,
young basketball coach at Elon
college, may be responsible for
the introduction of this style of
play in the state. As far as can
be learned, Elon college was the
first collegiate team in the state,
or perhaps in the south to use an
interchange, and the present sys
tem which Tar Heel five are us
ing is merely a variation of the
play which Elon has been using
for the past three years or dur
ing the period in which Hendrick
son has been coaching here.
When Hendrickson first came
to Elon in 1939 he had six good
men who were experienced bask
etball players, an ideal situation
for the introduction of new plays.
He immediately taught his team
a three man interchange system
which Elon used with good re
sults that year in the North State
conference.
The entire method throughout
is designed to be used against a
man to man defense which is the
style of play most colleges in this
section use. The three man inter,
change used two of the five mem
bers of the team as pivot men,
placing them under the basket
just outside the foul circle. Hie
other three men play back al
most against the center line,
working the ball back and forth
between them from one side of
the .court to the other. The ball
is screened on the actual inter
change and by use of legal block
ing the defensive team is prevent
ed from securing the ball or ty-
Still Life Study
A familiar figure on the desert
near Phoenix, Ariz., is Bob Zuppke,
■ eteran University of Illinois foot
ill coach, who spends much of
liis time reproducing desert scenes
on canvas.
ing it up. The constant motion of
the three players and the ball
tends to confuse the defensive
team so that .the man with the
ball when he sees the opportuni
ty can dribble in to the basket
for a crip shot, stop and take an
unhurried pot shot, or pass the
ball in to one of the men under
the basket who either can ma'
the shot himself, pass to his fel
low pivot man or hand the ball
to one of the outside man who
has cut in for a crip shpt.
In _ 1937-38 Elon defuddled
North State conference teams
with this style of play consistent
ly and managed to beat Washing
ton and Lee and V. M. 1., South
ern conference fives, mainly on
the strength of the interchange.
Last year the Christians continu
ed to use the same style play al
though there was but one man
playing regularly in the lineup (
who was a member of the team |
which originally had mastered (
the system. It still continued to
confuse teams using the man to
man play despite the efforts of
opposing coaches to map out a
defense which would keep their
players from running into each
other in following the men they
were supposed to be guarding
across the court. It is easy to see
the situation which would result
since the keynote of the play is
for all offensive three men and
the ball to keep in motion con
stantly.
This year a majority of North
State conference schools and
several of the Big Five teams are
using a variation of the three
man interchange which Son in
augurated. However, some of
them place only one man in the
hole under the basket, using four
1 players out near the center line
to handle the ball.
Elon, not to be outdone, has
also installed the four man
system and has gone most of the
clubs one better by using a five
[ man interchange, the play which
Oaklahoma A. & M. uses to a
large degree. The five man, or
full wheel system, will so hope
lessly confuse a defending team
if werked correctly by an offen
sive club that in a short time one
man of the interchange, which
works completely around the foul
circle is left wide open under the
basket ready to take a short pass
from out front for two points.
The main difference between the
five man and three man inter
change is that the two pivot men
move out to the edge of the court
and then move up to ta'ke thei
turn in carrying the ball across
court on the actual interchange.
With the opposing players run
ning into each other and befud
dled as to the whereabouts of the
ball, it is comparatively easy for
a good ball handling team to
score two points off of each series
cf interchanges.
All of this system is patterned
around the play of the great
Celtics, and it is a known fact
that the outstanding college teams
of the past several years, includ
ing Long Island U. and others,
have used variation of plays
which the Celtics used to a great
extent. Hendrickson admits that
he learned a lot of his basket
ball from an acquaint
, ance-ship with one of
the stars of that combination and
from watching the top eastern
teams play. The fact that he
learned the cage sport well is
seen in the compliment ' which
! was paid the Elon team recently
by a professional team which the
Christians defeated. The pros
rated Elon with Oklahoma A. and
| M., New Mexico A. and M. and
| other top flight fives. Elon was
! given credit for being one of the
[ best outfits they had seen or play
ed against this year. Tidewater
Virginia papers called Elon “the
best team to appear here in
years” on a recent tour.
So, if big time basket ball is
moving in on North Carolina, it
may be that young Horace Hen
drickson and his Elon college
teams indirectly have a share in
establishing a system of play
which will enable Tar Heel fives
to perform with the nation’s best
Hie average minimum require,
ment of Vitamin A for adults has
been found to be from 3,500 to
4,000 international units daily,
but more is recommended.
Three National Loop Pilots
Pick Cards To Take Pennant
BETHEL HILL WINS
TWIN CAGE BILL
*
Bethel Hill basketball team
scored a double victory over the
Mt. Tirzah school teams Friday
right in the Bethel Hill gymnas
um. The Bethel Hill girls won
oy the score of 50 to 13 while the
Bethel Boys won by the score of
31 to 13.
Bethel Hill got off to an early
lead and at the score of 18 to 0,
the half ended.
C. Humphries was the outstand
ing forward on the Hilltoppers
team, while Dunn and Z. Woody
I were outstanding on the defense.
• Garrett and! Clayton were out
standing on the Mt. Tirzah team.
S. Shotwell with thirteen points
led the scoring for the Bethel
boys while Buchanan also starred.
Whitfield and Aikens played
best for Mt. Tirzah.
Bethel Hill Girls (50)
H. Woody, F
Humphries, F
D. Hall, CF
Evans, CG ‘
Z. Woody, G
Dunn, G
Mt. Tirzah Girls (13)
Jones, F i
Cash, F 5
Garrett, CF . 7
C. Clayton, CG
V. Clayton, G ....'
Gay, G
Bethel Hill Substitutes: F. Davis
(2), Dixon (1), Dickerson, Ram
sey, M. Hall.
Mt. Tirzah Substitutes: Duke,
Wilson.
Bethel Hill Boys (31)
S. Shotwell, F 13
Powell, F 4
Hall, C 3
Buchanan, G 6
Tingen. G 4
Mt. Tirzah Boys (13)
Blalock, F 1 2
Whitfield, F 6
Jones, C 2
Aiken, G 2
Satterfield, G 1
Bethel Hill Substitutes: Monta
gue, T. Hall, Boswell, Gravely,
Rogers (1), Pentecost, E. Shot
well.
Mt. Tirzah Substitutes: Pulliam,
Blalock.
Referees: Knight (Furman),
Humphries.
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THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1940
New York -u Three National
league managers have picked the
St. Louis Cardinals to win the
pennant this year. While this
may be considered a form of
strategy, it also is, in plain back
fence words, a dirty trick to play
on Sophomore Ray Blades.
Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs,*
Bill Terry of the Giants and Do<i
Prothro of the Phils perhaps made
their statements without tongues
in checks, but it is more than
slightly possible that they real
ized that by shifting the fire to
Blade’s chair they would take a
little heat off themselves.
In other words they might fill
their pockets with pennants while
pointing to the boy running down
the street, and even if they could
n’t get away with it, nobody
would be the wiser.
Logic Behind Choice
They can back their choice with
logic, pointing out that in this
first year Blades had a team
which came close, and he’ll hive
the sqme team back, fate aiilffl
Judge Landis being willing it al
so might be mentioned, however,
that a frog’s first hop may be its
longest.
Anyway, it’s a tough spot for
any manager to be on, particular
ly a fellow who a year ago was
n’t sure whether he had a ball
team or nine men in a raft. We
still have a vivid picture of him
down south, rubbing his baldish
pate thoroughly and venturing: -**
“They tell me I’m weak around
second. I don’t know—”
Naturally Joe McCarthy and his
Yankees are on a spot every year,
but its practically home to them,
and anyway, the Yankees are a
team apart. What applies to them
doesn’t necessarily apply to 15
other major league clubs.
Reds On Spot In ’39
The Cincinnati Reds were on the
spot last year, but they weren’t
generally picked until just be
fore the season started. At that
they had a tough time makings
good, what with Johnny Vander
Meer’s bad arm, Lee Grisson’s
failure to do as well as expect-
ed, and an emergency ward as
sortment of injuries and ailments.
Other clubs last year were in
the might-have-been class. Pitts
burgh had to get along without
a couple of pitchers who had been
counted on, Cleveland felt the
loss of Johnny Allen, the Giants
came loose at the seams after a
winter of operations.
The first thing that comes to
mind in mentioning the Cardinals
is the power of Johnny Mize and
Ducky Medwick, but there al
ways is the chance that one, or
both, may be incapacitated, and
taking Mize and Medwick from
the Cardinals would be like tak
ing the apples out of applesauce.
Chalice To Juggle
The pitching staff, with Davis,
McGee. Bowman, Weiland, Shoun,
Warneke and Cooper working
units, gives Blades plenty of
chance to juggle, and he .does love
to juggle. ' "
Brown, Stu Martin and Slaugh
ter should be at least as good as
they were last year, and Owen
would seem due for a good sea
son.
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RECORDS
Henderson county growers are
showing a steadily increasing in
terest in farm records, with the
total keeping account . books
mounting each year since 1936.
RESULTS ■ TT^ri wr !
•• . - . "S. '-'V- i •«
J. C.- Little of Clifton, Ashe
county, has reported
successful , result* in the of
serkea laspedeaa to buUd up bad
ly eroded places in his gaatare.