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/g§ PERSON t-*ISLANTS By J. S. MERRITT o—— Sutherland To Brooklyn Dan Topping, owner of the Brooklyn football Dodgers, announced this week that Dr. John B. Sutherland, former Pitt coach, had agreed to coach the Dodgers for three years at an undisclosed salary, believed to be SIO,OOO or $12,000 a year. Smiling broadly, the millionaire Topping said he was "tickled to death” to get Sutherland, who for 15 years had been one of the best coaches in college ranks. He said the formal signing of the contract would oe carried out Wednes day at a luncheon for New York newspapermen in a New York hotel (New Yorker) / For a long time people have been wondering where Suth erland would coach. Reports have had him at about a dozen places. He has been placed at Duke several times and then moved all over the country. It is generally agreed that Suth erland is an excellent coach and he will probably fit into the professional league better than he did in college ball. Ball players in the big leagues are paid and there is nothing con cealed about it. Ace Parker, former Duke player, will be playing under Sutherland and a few more boys from this state mSy see ser vice under this famous coach as the years roll by. o—o 0 0 How Much For A Dollar? Basketball fans in Durham, a few at least, are kicking a uout the amount of money that Duke is charging to see a basketball game. This university is charging one dollar and some people say that is too much. It is true that Duke has a nice place for the fans to rest and see the game, but after all is said and done a dollar is a nice sum of money. ■fr’ans do not kick at ?2.50 for a football game, but then basketball is not football and a dollar looks like a lot of mo ney for forty minutes of action. o—o—o—o Send Them In Basketball teams of this county are not reporting their games to this paper- Even Roxboro High School is not send ing an account of her games. We would like to carry accounts ot all the games played, but it is impossible for us to cover each game in person. It looks like it would be a good idea for the coaches ove the county to appoint one person as reporter and let that per son cover each game. Then let the winning team report the game. ihis sport page would be more complete and more inter esting if it could carry accounts of more games. o—o—o—o Football Again Within the next two or three weeks spring football prac tice will begin. (We call it spring practice for want of a oetter name). At that time we may be able to get a small idea about our favorite college teams for the coming season. ‘“J 1 b .® a Jew practice games, but generally speaking che public will not be admitted. Millionaire Ump Amsterdam, N. Y. A million aire who loves baseball will be calling balls and strikes in the Canadian-American Class C Lea gue this year. He is William Hayes, 22, of Rochester, N. H., chosen as one of the three new umpires Mon- “Now I’m Schoolgirl Complexion All Over” rift Palmolive Soap, 3 for 20c Super Suds for washing dishes) Regular Size, 3 for 27c Giant Size, 2 for 38c Con. Super Suds (for washing clothes) Regular Size, 3 for 27c Giant Size, 2 for 45c Giant Octagon Soap, 4 for 19c Special Octagon Soap, 2 for 5c Large Octagon Powder 3 for 14c Special Octagon Powder 2 for 5c Octagon Toilet Soap, 3 for 14c Octagon Cleanser, 2 for 9c Octagon Granulated Soap,. 2 for 19c Octagon Soap Chip*, 2 for 19c Crystal White Toilet Soap, 3 for 14c Hollywood Toilet Soap, < . 3 for 14c KICK (Pumice) Soap, 2 for 9c Universal Toilet Soap, 3 for 14c Ml* Sex Toilet Soap, » 4 for 18e mS«ES CASH MARKET ‘ ■iwiirr. r r day. Hayes officiated in the Pied mont league last year. The arbiter, who inherited his fortune from a grandfather, Or rill H. Hayes, of Philadelphia, owns a semi-pro team in Roches ter. He recently announced he would be a candidate for the New Hampshire Legislature in next Fall’s primaries—he emphasized that he did not plan to forsake baseball in general and umpiring in particular. o Joe Gordon Is Not Pleased With Terms Eugene, Ore. Joe Gordon, second baseman of the New York Yankees, received his 1940 con tract , but said he would return it unsigned. “I think I’ll write a note with the return of the document and see if I can’t have the salary item boosted,” he added. He refused to say how much more he would ask. Gordon was reported to have received $lO,- 000 last season. o Cubs Purchase New Shortstop Chicago The Chicago Cube purchased Shortstop Harvey Sto rey from the San Francisco Seals recently, but be won’t join the National League team until the spring of 1941. Charles Drake of file Cubs office staff reported the transitions involved two imn«im ed players and an undisclosed bundle of cash. SPORTS OF THE TIMES 1 , .m; Up'tO'the'Minute Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. WOMEN BREAK PAR IN MIAMI MEET Coral Gables, Fla. Grace A mory, of Palm Beach, won the qualifying medal in the Miami Biltmore women’s golf tourna ment Monday with a two-under par 80, a single stroke better than the favored Patty Berg, of Min neapolis, and three others. . Miss Berg, minus of the appen dix that forced her to the side lines several months ago, sliced a stroke off par with Betty Jame son, of San Antoino, Tex., the National champion; Marion Mil ey, of Lexington, Ky., and Dor othy Kirby, of Atlanta. Elizabeth Hicks, of Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Hunter S. Rob bins, of Spring Lake, Mich., scor ed 82’s, making a total of seven golfers who shot par or better. Shirley Ann Johnson, of Win- netka, 111., carded an 83; Clara Calender, of Long Beach, an 84, and Jane Cothran, of Greenville, S. C., and Mrs. Leon Solomon, of Memphis, Tenn., scored 85’s. Miss Amory, who competed in foreign tournaments for several years, equalled par on 40 on the first nine by two shots with an other 40 coming back. Altogether, she had five birdies and three bogeys and scored par on the other holes. Miss Berg, back in the form that carried her to the National title before her illness, whipped a first-nine 40 and came home in 41. Although the scores indicat ed Miss Berg was in for plenty of competition, she remained the favorite to win her fifth conse cutive Biltmore tournament. Match play, which begins tomor row, is Patty’s forte. The nine-hole scores for Miss Jameson and Miss Miley, winner of the recent Punta Gorda tour nament, were 41-40, while Miss Kirby, runner up to Miss Jameson in the National, went out in 39, back in 42. Dean, Wrigley Agree On Terms Chicago The perennial squab ble over Dizzy Dean’s salary ap peared to have come to an abrupt and unexpectedly early end, with both the pitcher and his Chicago Club owners well satisfied. It was reported that Dean and Owner P. K. Wrigley had agreed over the telephone on a contract based on production. If Dean doesn’t make good next season, he’ll get about SIO,OOO. But if he makes good, he’ll get more, pre sumably something like the $20,- 000 he has been accustomed to. That suits Ole Di, for, as us -1 ual, he is supremely confident he will make good. The new contract has been mailed to him. Dean, who believes his lame arm is now cured, previously said he was tir ed of the publicity annually at tending his contract difficulties. o Sisler Re-Elected Semi-Pro President Chicago George H. Sisler of St. Louis was re-elected national semi-pro baseball commissioner recently for a one-year term. Following his re-election, the board of directors of the semi pro congress voted to make the position a lifetime job at the end of Sister’s 1940 term. Ray Dumont, president of the congress, reported that the game showed an increase of 25 per cent in the past year, estimating that close to 400,000 players par ticipated in the organization’s summer program. o LAND POSTED SIGNS AT THE TIMES OFFICE ■ v ' " -vs, &I | lf«t[.i. -I.UUUImL f j , jL - , flHs ' ' f v PftOj- €E'/EQIN> 0.N.0. Paul Several, U. N. C. all-America football player and basket ball star, showed great sportsmanship in the game against Wake Forest Tuesday night. The Demon Deacons won the contest by a small margin. Rudy York Glad To Take Up Job Os Playing First Again Cartersville, Ga. lt’ll be old home week fcr hefty, hard-knock ing Rudy York when he shifts from catching to first baseing on the Detroit baseball club. Asked what he thought of news reports that long Hank Green berg would go into the outfield in the 1940 Tiger line-up to make room for the Georgian at first, York grinned widely, and said: “It’s mighty fine. I like it mighty well. I’ll feel more at home over there. I believe it’s my spot.” The records back the six-foot, 210-pound slugger because it was at that position that he won most valuable player awards both with Beaumont of the Texas league and Milwaukee in the American association. Wanted Job York admitted he always had wanted the Detroit first base job but “how could I get over there with Hank hitting the ball into the next country and field ing just a little under George Eisler?” The Detroit management could n’t figure, either, for quite a spell and shifted the weak-field ing walloper from catcher to third to outfield and back' ''to catch again before finally decid ing to move Hankus Pankus. York believes the move will lengthen his span in the majors and improve his batting. In ad dition, hopefully, “it should mean that I won’t be bothered with any more broken fingers and thumbs. I had two last year.” The 26-year-old socker said he hadn’t received his 1940 contract but had talked with Jack Zeller, Tiger general manager, by tele phone and expected the docu ment to arrive any day now, br inging with it a bit of a pay boost Wallops 35 Homers Coming up to stay in 1937, York delighted the customers by walloping 35 home runs, driving in 103 runs, averaging .307 while playing in 104 games as a third baseman and catcher. Working in the outfield and behind the plate next season, he played 135 games, hit 33 home runs, drove in 127 markers and averaged .296. Han dicapped by his injuries, his hom er production dropped to 20 in 102 games last year and his runs '.M ;i|l .: MEADE ANALYZES HIS HIALEAH SLUMP Miami, Fla. Jockey Don Meade, with chalked cue poised adroitly, leaned over a pool tab le in the track room at Hialeah Pork, banked the 12-Griped-ball perfectly in the comer pocket and then wound up —of all places—directly behind the sight ball. “Ho, Ho! That’s exactly where I am, all right—right behind the eightball,” chortled the diminu tive, dark haired jockey, now in one of the worst riding slumps of his colorful track career. The country’s leading turf rid er in 1939 with 256 victories, Meade brought home only five winners in the first two and a half weeks at Hialeah. Little Ed die Arcaro headed the pack with well over 20, more than twice the number scored by his nearest competitor. “I may be having some tough luck on the track, but did you see the neat way I sank that 12-ball just then?” Meade’s remarks were address ed to Arcaro and a group of oth er jockeys, garbed in their silks and boots, as they gathered a round for a friendly little game while awaiting the bugle call for the first race. “It looks as though I do a bet ter job of playing pool than I do at bringing in a winner,” joked the 27-year-old rider, who realiz ed a jockey’s ambition by win ning the Kentucky Derby back in 1933 astride Col. E. R. Bradley’s Broker’s Tip. “My streak of bad luck isn’t hard to figure out, though,” he said, “but there’s not much that I, personally, can do about it I’ve just been getting some slow hor ses to ride, that’s all. You can’t win races if you don’t have hor ses capable of winning. “Kit Fm going to start riding some good mounts before long, and then maybe my luck will change.” driven-in totalled only 68, al though his average moved back to .307. Basketball Tournament Set . For Feb. 26-29th Jock Sutherland Agrees To Coach Brooklyn Pros Pittsburgh Dan Topping, owner of the Brooklyn football Dodgers, announced Monday Dr. John B. Sutherland, former Pitt coach, had agreed to coach the Dodgers for three years at an undisclosed salary, believed to be SIO,OOO or $12,000 a year. Smiling broadly, the Millionaire Topping said he was “tickled to death” to get Sutherland, who fcr 15 years had been one of the best coaches in college ranks. He said the formal signing of the con tract would be carried out Wed nesday at a luncheon for New York newspaper men in a New York hotel. Sutherland’s agreement to coach the professional team end ed a year of speculation over his next job. Tie had been linked by rumor with a score of big-time colleges and with at least three professional teams. Sutherland boasts one of the best all-time coaching records in football. In 15 years at Pitt, his teams won 111 games, lost 20 and tied 12. During five years at La fayette his teams won 33, lost eight and tied two. He quit at Pitt early last year after a controversy with the school administration over ath letic policies. He was said to have felt a new athletic code in stalled by Chancellor John G. Bowman did not make provision fcr the calibre of teams in Pitt’s schedule. Sutherland said he had “no de finite plans” for the Brooklyn set-up, but added that he expect ed to spend as much time there as possible during the next six months. Brief Sketch Os William F. Lange William F. Lange, basketball coach at the University of North Carolina, age 42, 180 pounds, 5 feet 11 . . Graduated Witten berg college in 1921 . . . Took master’s degree in physical edu cation at Columbia University . . At Wittenberg played on unde feated football team for three years and was named All-Ohio in both football and basketball for two years . . . Beginning his first season as head basketball coach at Carolina, having suc ceeded Walter Skidmore who re signed last spring . . . Has had wide and varied experience as coach . . . After graduating from Wittenberg played and coached the famed Cleveland Rosen blooms, one of the Mid-West’s leading professional teams in the early 1920’s ... In 1923 and 1924 served as head basketball coach at London High school in London, Ohio, and West Tech High in Cleveland, respectively . . .From 1924 through spring of 1936 served as football and bas ketball coach and Atheltic Direc tor at Muskinguum college in Ohio . . . Turned out several out standing teams in both football and basketball . . . to North Carolina in 1936 as tant football coach under Ray Wolf . . . Has been instrumental in success of Tar Heel football teams of past four seasons, do ing fine job coaching ends and scouting North Carolina’s oppon ents ... Is married, two child* ren. THURSDAY, FEB. 1, 1940 Roxboro High WiH Again Act As Host For Meet; Of ficials to Come From One Os Big Five Colleges. Roxboro High, once again, will serve as host to the 1939-40 Coun ty Basketball Tournament. The tournament will b# held Febru ary 26, 28 and 29 in the Roxboro High gymnasium. Two officials will be secured from one of the Big Five colleges. A tournament ball will be pur chased from the proceeds of the tournament and will be sold at the close of the tournament to the highest bidder. Officials of the tournament will be: Committee in charge, Gaddy,' Yates, and Gibson; doorkeepers and treasurers, Cannon and Sat terwhite; timekeeper, Garrison; scorekeepere, Mrs. Satterwhite and Miss Charlotte Peebles. Just how the teams will be matched will be announced at a later date by officials of the tournament. The following awards will be offered: two beautiful cups to the winning teams in the tourna ment, one to the boys team and one to. the girls. An award will be offered to the best all-round player among the boys and a similar award will be offered to the best all-round player among the girls. One award will be given to the boy showing the best sportsmanship in the tournament, and a similar award will be given to the girl judged the best sport in the tournament. In addition, individual awards will be given to eight boys and nine girls on the winning teams and on the runner-up teams on the last night of the tournament. A total of 22 complementary tickets will be issued to each school entering the tournament. The proceeds of the tourna ment will be divided on the bas is of the length of time each team remains in the tournament. In other words, a team eliminated the first night would not receive as large a percentage of the pro ceeds as a team going through t* the finals. The committee in charge wish es to assure the teams desiring to enter the tournament that every effort will be made to secure com- ( petent, impartial officials for the tournament, that every effort will be made to keep the gymnasium as warm as possible and that all money collected will be handled in a strictly business-like and op., en manner. o McFadden Given Lewis Teague Cup Charlotte, Jan. 29 Banks Mc- Fadden, Clemson college’s all-A merica football player, was a warded tonight the Lewis E. Tea gue Memorial trophy, presented each year to the athlete adjudged the most outstanding by Carolinas 1 sports writers. The award, ofered by the Caro linas association of the amateur athletic union, was presented at a banquet here sponsored by the Charlotte Quarterback club and the Oharlote chapter of Clemson, alumni. . The 1939 winner of the awards Dan Hill, of Asheville, former Duke university footballer and now connected with Duke es as-* sistant athletic director, was pre sent, as well as George McAfee, runner-up for the 1940 award. 1 Flug Osborne, Oharto^)|grts. t man, made the presentation of the J trophy to McFadden. — 1 O—■ ■' ' » -- / SELL YOUR TQBAOOO INI ROXBORO.c
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