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j. “ m % - By J. S. MERRITT Many Thanks Due to a little more cooperation on the part of school players and school officials this paper is now giving more accounts of basketball games. If the games are reported to this office we will try to publish them, otherwise it will be impossible for us to find out much about them o—o 0 0 Spring Football Spring football practice has been going on for some time among college teams, but there has been little said about it in the papers. You can get a fair idea about what the teams have lor the coming year by seeing the boys in spring prac tice, but sometimes the situation will change before fall. Players may drop out of school or fail in their work. Then too, some may get injured and not be able to play when the regular season rolls around. There has been little said about Duke and Carolina in spring practice, but we have an idea tnat there is a lot of hard work going on o—o—o—o Carolina Does It Well, Carolina came through with a nice,3l-27 victory over Duke Thursday night. It was the first time the Dukes had been defeated in their new gymnasium and it was their age-old rival that did the job. It looks like it might be Duke and Carolina in the Southern Conference tournament and •when they meet you never know what will happen. Duke has won the state championship, but that doesn’t mean a thing to Carolina and if these two teams do meet in Raleigh, you can watch out for a game that will make the fur fly. Both teams would like to win the conference crown and both have an excellent chance. o—o—o—o Tennis Time About Here In a short time the boys and girls, men and women, will be playing tennis. Already plans are being made to get ten nis courts in shape and to buy tennis equipment. There are several good courts in Roxboro, the Winstead c ? u !, t ’T ong Harris court, two at the high school, one at W ill Walkers and one at Ca-Vel. Two courts are under construction at the Country Club, but it is not known wheth er these will be completed by summer or not. You might say that Roxboro has nine courts if they are all fixed up. That 5 is enough unless more people start playing tennis. tennis ls a great game and old as well as young can play it. It may be that the old do not play as fast a game as the young, but Wheeler Newell does very well on a court For Home Sites of Distinct ion see— “SUNSET HILLS” And For Real Estate Os Any Kind See— THOS. B. WOODY BROUGHT TO YOU IN AMBEB S REGISTERS EASY BOXING WIN PERSON COUNTY BY OVER BUMMY DAVIS THE MAKERS OF New York > Feb 23 Lightweight Champion Lou ADAM’S HATS Ambers played “Little Man Who Wasn’t There” tonight as he bewildered, befuddled and You have probably heard a thoroughly beat Brooklyn’s number of broadcasts of fights ® ummy >av * s i ll a 10- r ound non-title scrap before a stand by the makers of Adam’s Hats, ing-roomjcmly crowd at Madi- Now come in and see these 8011 Square Garden weighed 139, Davis 146%. $2.95 In Roxboro At -•••- Foushee Clothing Co. fimi'p (^U^JlavN.r' 9 ’\\ W^^Bh It’s Spring Time Bruit’s Paint Time ySEm/>| I L* All we ask is to get our prices. Lj yf 1/ /] / / \ Let us refinish your old floors 1 1 i w I \s/ | and make them look like new. *' 'j^—f ARCH WHITT PERSON SPOXTSI (SLANTS FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard Oil Co. Products, Telephone Service No. 4711 ROCK - INN SERVICE STATION SPORTS OF THE TIMES PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBOJRO. N. C. CONFERENCE PROSPECTS FOR BOTH ANCIENT RIVALS <*—p I n. I. - ;-'--- --• v> *w<''-vw*.-.v.•.-.•.•••.•MMOMMOOM Qbo/zqe QL-ftr/iQ ck, C£ntzk>, dn. e. Above are pictured two of the greatest cage sharp shooters ever to venture on either the Blue Devil court or that of the University of North Carolina. They are George Glamack Glamack, U. N- C., and Glenn Price, D. U., who are expected to be guiding stars for their respective teams in the Southern Conference title tilts to be held in Raleigh m a few weeks. Price has been out with an injury for the past several games, but is likely to be in good shape soon, while Glamack has been ringing the basket right on down the line. CUBS’ BOX ARTIST REJECTS OFFER Dallas Ole Diz Dean, the man of a few thousand words, boiled down his annual holdout skit to blunt Qcmment: “I won’t sign for no $10,000.” Frankly, the lame Chicago Cub pitcher is vexed about the whole thing and may take his new role of gentleman farmer a little more seriously than he thought when he purchased a few acres of black land on the outskirts of Dallas several years ago. “Guess I'll just get my farm ready and sit there all summer,” remarked Mr. Dean after once again going over the details of Owner Phil Wrigley’s SIO,OOO of fer and Player D. Dean’s refusal to sign for anything less than $15,000. The great Dean, browsing a round his several acre, first milk ing Betsy, a mild 1 old cow, then chasing down seven squealing pigs which his wife, Pat, gave him, burst out with: “Naw, I don’t want to quit baseball, but I’ve got will power them other players haven’t. When I set my mind and’ know what I want, I stick to it “I worked out a little up at my Mississippi baseball school. I ran quite a good deal and exercised my arm. Felt pretty frisky. “I feel like if I £auld get to gether with Mr. Wrigley I would go good this season. But things things aren’t so good right now. Nothing has changed for several days.” Diz, deep in the problems of plowing under several acres of crops in accordance with govern ment programs and installing a water tower “over there on the side of the him,” seemed far more worried about getting construc tion under way on his farm house than anything else. But he perked up and started asking questions when informed that ithe Cubs, minus only the great Dean, had shoved off for their Santa Catalina island train ing base. “Say, tell me, what did that Up-to-the-Minute Sport News Solicited TOURNAMENT The Person County Basket ball tournament, February 26, 27, 28, and 29, will begin sharp ly at 7 o’clock Monday night. Games to be played the first night are as follows: First game - boys - Allens ville vs. Helena. Second game - girls - Rox boro vs. Bushy Fork. Third game - boys - Hurdle Mills vs. Mt. Tirzah. For Tuesday night, they fol low: First game - girls - Mt. Tir zah vs. Bethel Hill. Second game - boys . Bethel Hill vs Bushy Fork. Third game - girls - Hurdle Mills vs. Helena. story say? So training has start ed, has it?” Regardless of what happens in the next few days, Dean is going right ahead with his farm plans. “Whether I play baseball or not —and I won’t unless I get what I want—l’m gonna have a good farm. ’Spect I’ll build about a $12,000 or sls’ooo home out here and fix it up real nice.” Something in Deans conversa tion led you to believe that the future of the right-hander would be decided in about ten days. He Started out after several sheep when a cameraman asked him to pose with some of the newly acquired Dean livestock. Diz got a hoild of a rambuncious ram—“my first feel of a sheep”— and took a wild ride before he was released. - Fanner Dean, slipping into baseball’s past with a wrecked arm, is a Stubborn individual. His annual holdout act may end with the finale this season. WHY Suffer from Colds? zzzz non zr—- OQn Liquid - Tablets - Salve • Nose Drops MBH : : W WSkiS- A ▼ v , ... jj|2 - .\?Ji -“V N®. /. B. J? HI - *'*&' *nH ■ \ ■ s Glenn Frice Padgett Balks At Card Pact Orlando, Fla. Don Padgett, St. Louis Cardinals’ catcher, re turned his unsigned 1940 contract to St. Louis the latter part of last week and left for his home near Forest City, N. C., to await a new salary offer. Padgett, who batted .399 in 92 games last year did not reveal the terms of the contract, but he was obviously disappointed at the figure. Henderson Takes Two From Locals Henderson high Bull Dogs took a double header from the Ramb lers in Henderson Friday night in two fast games. The girls winning their game by the score of 48 to 22 and the beys winning a nip and tuckaffair in the last half, the score being tied four times, by the count of 20 to 19. Neal, for Henderson, was the outstanding player of the evening, accounting for five goals and two foul shots. Red Day and Wallace Moore, of the locals, tied for high sooner, each getting six points. In the girds’ contest Lula Chan ey accounted far 15 of the locals’ 22 points. o Jacob Lines Up Heavyweight Card New York Mike Jacobs an nounced a switch in the dates for the Joe Louis - Johnny Paychek heavyweight title fight and the Ceferino Garcia - Ken Overlin middleweight championship fight at Afadisom Square Garden. Louis and Paychek will meet March 29 instead of April 3 and Garcia and Overlin on April 3, in stead of March 29. New York A parade of heavyweights unlike anything seen around here in recant months is forming. In the order of their appearance, with everything brought up to date, Lee Savold of Drs Moines well meet Bob Pastor of New York on March 1; Buddy Baer of the large California Baers, will face Valentin Campolo of the Argentine cm March 15; Champion Joe Louis will mingle with, square off against and tie into Johnny Paychek of Des Moines on April 3, and in June there will be two so-called ma jor attractions. That is, if the cus tomers haven’t fled by that time. The June festivities will open with Louis fading Savold, if the iatter beats Pastor, or with Billy Conn, the light-heavy weight champion, against Pastor, if Pas tor beats Savold. Meantime, Conn will defend his lightheavy title a gainst Gus Lesnevich at Miami. Tony Galento, Tommy Farr and Arturo Gcdoy also will be fitted into the situation. Putting all this another way, there has been no change in the program outlined from time to time by Promoter Mike Jacobs as a tentative list of presentations to keep the heavyweights well-fed well-punched and happy. He isn’t even droping Campolo, despite despite the fact that he Argentine slugger lost to Jack Marshall of Dallas, Texas, last week. Having thug made his plans in to June, Promoter Jacobs is fret ting now about the rest of the year. That’s where Galento comes back into the picture and he pro hably will ’take on Louis some time during the sumer, with Conn as a possible opponent for the champion later on, say in Sep tember. Yes, they still are toying around with the idea of giving Conn a Louis fight this year, and if no other opponent is available and Conn comes along against various and sundry second-raters in the meantime he probably will be in there. Not tong, of course. But What are they going to do? After all, Louis must be kept busy. And if you don’t think that is a problem you need be wily re minded that they disinterred Go. doy for the champion and are bringing Buddy Baer back as a contender. That gives you a rough idea. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1940 BOTH TEAMS OF LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL BEAT VIRGINIANS The Hoxboro high school has. ketball teams, boys and girls, de. seated a strong aggregation from South Boston, Va., Thursday night on the local court. This was the second time this year that the two schools have met, with the Rambler lassies taking both eon. tests, while (the boys lost the en counter “over there”. Lula Chaney and Ethel Newell Winstead were outstanding for the Roxboro girls, while Lee scor. ed most for the visitors. In the boys’ game Wallace Moore and Sam Paul Davis were tops, with Davis taking the honor of high scorer for the evening. The lineups: Roxboro Girls (21) Crumpton, F ' 6 Chaney, F 14 Eleanor Winstead, F 1 White, G Ethel Winstead, G Cushwa, G Substitutes: Ellmore and Jones. South Boston Boys (9) Loftis, F Lee, F 9 Spencer, F 7 O’Bryan, G Sneed, G Weatherfcird, G Substitutes: Parsons, McLean. Roxboro Boys (14) —— Moore, F 4 Clayton, F 2 Holeman, C 1 Day, G 2 , Davis, G 5 Substitute: Dixon. Scuth Boston Boys (9) Ccllins, F 8 Glass, F Haymes, C ........ 1 Staples, G Williams, G Substitutes: Smith, Green. “When troubles come, they I come not in single file, but in batallions. Shakespeare , , ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS. {3HKLI3 >jiir Change To SHELL STOP AT YOUR SHELL STATION FOR ECONOMICAL SERVICE Humphries Oil Co BETTER PREPARED I have just bought a new modem electric sanding ma chine and am now equipped to take care of your work in the best possible man ner. IF YOUR FLOORS NEED ATTENTION SEE G. B MASTEN
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