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/gj| PERSON otBZZS! *^-*SSLANTS By J. S. MERRITT Duke Has Something Duke university must have a fair basketball team. The Blue Devils have defeated Carolina once and Wake Forest twice. This, of course, is in addition to their other victories. We wouldn’t be surprised to see Duke enter the Southern Conierence tournament as the favorite, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see Duke meet Carolina in the final game for the championship. If that happens it will be a real game and one that will be worth going miles to see. When Duke and Caro line meet in anything the contest generally provides a good game. We also notice that Ed. Mitchell of the Durham Herald says that Wake Forest may be a tourney threat- Ed. is pro bably right. Wake has a team that you cannot count out of the race. Herb Cline is a real basketball player and if he gets his hands on the ball enough times, there is bound to be some scoring on the part of Wake. o—o—o—o McAfee Once Again QEOfZQE M<WFEE \ It really looks as though George McAfee, former Duke football player, will play professional football. There has been more in the papers about his going to the big leagues and we understand that he wants to play big time ball. Our idea is that McAfee has never really hit his stride in foot ball and that he will be some football player in about two years. He was out of the game for almost a year at Duke and that didn’t help his playing any too much. However, in spite of that loss of practice he was a real player during his senior year and was considered one of the best in the United States. We would like to see Parker and McAfee play together, but that is hardly possible. o—o—o—o What Again? ...... One sports writer has s3id that Joe Louis has lost his fighting ability- That he no longer has the punch and drive that he once had and that he will be defeated the first time he steps into the ring with real opposition. That may be true— out we will bet on Louis until he has been defeated. The only thing we know is that he keeps winning. sKEi, Extra Special FRIDAY, SATURDAY and MONDAY FEBRUARY 23rd, 24th and 26th ■ Dollar Days Biggest Value V r‘=SSfKl 5 Gallons of Esso Extra Gas for mS si.oo ■■■ NORTH END SERVICE STATION HBHB® O. W. LONG, Prop. faiO r j >' - . • .' • if?./ y ' *****■ it*'?«»:*.v 7^”' ,'. SPORTS OF THE TIMES * PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Baseball—Not Politics—At Writers’ Dinner Herbert Hoover, left, former Republican president, and James A. Farley, United States postmaster general and chairman of the Demo cratic national committee, indulge in a friendly chat at the annual base ball writers’ dinner in New York city. It was the sports writers’ seven teenth annual “eating and oratorical contest.’’ Over 400 Baseball Clubs Operate In Australia San Francisco Baseball men will be interested to learn that this sport lof strictly American origin is making great strides on the other sidle of the globe—in Australia. In a land where cricket is as much a part of daily life as eat ing and sleeping and Rugby foot ball is a household by-word, more than 400 baseball clubs are func tioning. With but scant encouragement, I the sp'ort has clung on and pros-, pered slowly since the days 251 years ago when the late John Me-1 Graw and Charles Comiskey took their Giants and White Sox there on a world tour. Devotees of baseball are even now struggling against handicaps such as these: In all of Australia there isn’t] a regular diamond. Temporary bases and boundaries are laid out on football fields. The game is played only dur ing the winter. Most of the play ers also are cricketeers and par ticipate in the sport the rest of the time. To meet winter require ments, Fred W. Schellnack, man ager of a sporting goods firm, , produced a water-proof ball. , Until last June there wasn’t a fungo bat in all the country. • All baseball players are ama teurs, there is not a professional i team on the continent. ; In spite of this, interest reached ! the point lof international compe tition between players of the California Intercollegiate League and picked Australians. It was ar ranged by H. Archie Richardson, American correspondent here of the Melbourne Sporting Globe. The competition was handled by mail. Three events were held— circling bases, throwing for dis tance and fungo hitting for dis tance. o LAND POSTED SIGNS AT THE TIMES' OFFICE ( p*tO'the*Minute Sport News Solicited ALLENSVILLE TO MEET BETHEL HILL WEDNESDAY NIGHT The Allensville high -■ school basketball teams will play Bethel Hill Wednesday night, Feb. 21, at 7:30 in the Roxboro gymnasium. I This will be the final pre-tour f nament game tor Allensville. Teams of the two schools have ! already clashed, in twb of the closest basketball games of the current season. The Allensville girls won the previous encount i er, 20-19, on a free throw after the final whistle. Bethel Hill girls trailed until late in the j game, when they staged a des perate rally to tie the score at 19-all. Then, in the closing re cords, a foul was Called, and Solbman shot the winning point for Allensville from the free throw line. The boys’ game was close also, and was anybody’s contest right up to the end. In • one of their most brilliant' performances of the season, the Allensville lads stayed ahead for three quarters, and at one time had a 16-11 ad vantage. But the Bethel Hill boys staged a last-quarter comeback which gave them a 20-i7 victory. A certified referee from Dur ham will be on hand to call the games. o MEDWICK IS TOPS IN BASEBALL GOLF Tampa, Fla. Joe (Muscles) Medwick, strongman of the St. Louis Cardinals, won medal hon ors in the national baseball-golf tournament at Palma Ceia Club this week, but it took him three extra holes to whip Wes Ferrell, the defending champion. They tied on the scheduled 36 holes, with 152 shots. In the sud den-death playoff, they halved two holes before Medwick was conceded a four-foot putt for a birdie-4 on the long No. 3 hole. Ferrell was five feet away with his fifth shot. On the first extra hole, both had trouble and required 6 stro kes to get down. Medwick muf fed a chance to end the match by I missing an 18-inch putt Earth scored a regulation par-4 on the short second hole. Lloyd Brown and Paul Derrin ger were the only other players to break 160. - ■ Brown had a had 84 in the morning, but came back in the afternoon with the finest round ever shot in the annual baseball tournament, a 69. Derringer waa in trouble all 'HENDERSON TO HOLD TOURNEY NEXT MONTH i —- Henderson Henderson high school will sponsor a basketball tournament here for boys and girls teams (March 4 to 8,"-inclu sive. the games to be played in the high school gymnasium, W. D. Payne, principal, announced Thursday. Four of the six needed teams already have signed their intentions of contesting in the tournament, he asid. Henderson, Creedmoor, Roan oke Rapids and Roxboro have a greed to send teams, and Macon and Edentbn will be asked to make up the remaining assign ments. Two games will be played each night, with the championship scheduled for Friday night, March 8. Ever since Henderson’s new high school was completed, there has been agitation for some kind of tournament among basketball teams in this section, but this is the first time efforts have really borne fruit. Successful boys and girls teams in the Henderson high school in the past few years have built in terest in basketball to a high pitch. The Henderson girls team has been undefeated in two years in high school competition. day. He took 78 shots in the morn ing and 80 in the afternoon. The other scores trailed out to the 201 shot by Bob Loane, a Boston Bees rookie. Loane had 106 in the morning for the du bious honor of turning in the worst score tef the day. mhiii i nii^re“ •* 1I I Friday, Saturday, Monday 1 I February 23rd, 24th, 26th. I :S We have the Dollar Day values that you ■ • want- Come to see us for real values in * H jewelry, silver, etc. I THE NEWELLS I “Jewels From Newells” ROXBORO’S February 23-24 and 26th. Friday, Saturday, Monday Come to Roxboro during Dollar Days, you will find hundreds ofsssDay Bargains that will please your eye and your purse. You will find a large array of staple stock and new spring mer chandise. Make your plans now to attend this event and tell your neighbors that February 23 - 24 -26 will be big days in Roxboro, the Courteous City. Roxboro Chamber of Commerce w. W. WOODS, Secretary - * A !.7 ,w..r -t 1 /.*> 4 / ■ f '* % ' '’ > .'■* .i.‘ ■ . “.V . . Four. Straight Wins Come To Ramblers During Week High Scorer Hv x ■grb: ;><■; yijiSjjall 11 i | Georqb Gmmol -Q&rreß. George Glamack, Carolina’s flashy center, is still going strong and holds high score record at the greater university. BETHEL WINS —— * Although unreported to this of fice the Bethel Hill girls defeated Roxboro girls in a basketball game Friday night in Roxboro. Details of the game are not avail able. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939 Ramblers Take Hilltoppers Friday by 18-11 Score For Second Time In Past Week. The Roxboro boys’ basketball team wen from Bethel Hill Fri day night by a Shore of 18-10. Friday night’s game gave Rox boro four wins for the week. Teams that have been defeated are Bethel Hill, Henderson, Hurdle Mills and Bethel Hill a gain. “Red” Day, recently elected captain of the team, was high scorer in Friday night’s encount er. “Red” rang up 12 points. Gus Holeman scored 3 and Wallace Mdore, 3. Games next week include Yan. Iceyville here Monday, Helena there Saturday and South Bos ton here Thursday. o Polo Starting Posts Sought In Sandhills Pinehurst, Feb. 15 First big game of the Pinehurst polo sea son will be played Sunday at 3 o’clock when the Sandhills club will play the second game of a series with Camden. The South Carolina team defeated the Sand hills in Camden., 7 to 6, on Sun day, February 4. A pony kicked the winning goal. A spirited competition is going on in practice games here for starting positions with what might be called the varsity team. More than a dozen players are members of the Sandhills squad and later the number is likely to be doubled. North Carolina has provided a quota of these players and Earl Shaw and Merrill Fink, who are coaching the players, may decide later to send an all-Carolina four into the Southern circuit cham pionship. There would also be a Sandhills four in this April’s tioqro*m<mt. o Don’t forget about the local cage tourney that is to be held here in a short while. Many in teresting games will be played at the High School gymnasium. —Wirtz
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