By J. S. MERRITT
Golf In The Spring
Many Roxboro people are making their plans to play
golf this spring and summer and they are planning to play at
home.
The Roxboro Country club course is not completed, but
it is being completed and if the grass comes up the course
will be in very good shape by summer.
No one claims that this course will be among the bet
ter courses of the state, but it will be good enough for peo
ple to play on and have lots of fun-
The club house is now ready for dances and parties. Lit
tle needs to begone on that except the house needs a little
more furniture. The tennis courts have not been com-i
pitted. However, it will take only a little work to complete the
job there and these too, will possibly be ready by summer.
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Enos Is Ready
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Enos Slaughter has left for spring baseball practice and
Enos says that he is ready for the big leagues. He had a
splendid record last year and is looking for a better one in
1940. We understand that he received a nice raise this year
and we think that he well earned it- Enos' hit over .300 last
season and led the league in two base hits. He is a ball play
er worth having and right now is bringing more favorable
publicity to Roxboro than any other one individual.
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Watch William and Mary
We understand that William and Mary is trying to get
on Carolina’s football schedule in about two years- William
ana Mary is definitely ready to play big time football and
Coiach Voyles has already started. He had a splendid team
last year and expects a better one this year.
This college opens with State in the coming season and
most people figure that they will give State.one “whale of
a game”. Don’t be surprised if they win the game.
Voyles went to William and Mary from Duke. He knows
something about football and he is going to teach it to the
boys who go out for football at his school.
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The above group of court stars are one of the best cage teams Duke university has ever spon
sored and they proved this over the week end in what turned out to be one of the best Southern con
ference tournaments ever staged in Raleigh.
Roxboro To Enter
Henderson Cage
Event Tuesday
Henderson, March 2 The
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Golden Belt Invitational High
School Basketball tournament, i
sponsored by the athletic asso- 1
ciation of Henderson high school |
wil be held in Henderson during
the week of March 4 through 8,
Monday through Friday inclus
ive. A boys’ game’ and a girls’
game will be played each even
ing.
An outstanding team from each j
of six counties will compete. Gold
basketballs will be awarded the!
winners in both girls and boys 1
tournaments; while silver basket-'
balls wil be given the runners
up.
The following schools have ac
cepted invitations to enter teams
(boys and girls): Roxboro (Per
son county); Creedmoor (Gran
ville county); Franklinton (Fran
klin county); Roanoke Rapids
(Halifax county); Macon (War-j
ren county); and Henderson I
(Vance county). All of these
teams have made very good re
cords during the curent season.
The fblowing is the schedule
for the tournament:
MONDAY
Creedmoor vs. Henderson
(Boys and Girls)
TUESDAY
Roxboro vs. Roanoke Rapids
(Boys and Girls)
WEDNESDAY
Macon vs. Franklinton
(Boys and Girls)
THURSDAY
Winners of Monday and Tuesday
Nights Play
FRIDAY
Winners of Wednesday and Thun,
day Nights stay.
The Friday night winners are
the Golden Belt Champions.
Several special events have
been planned for the visiting
teams: motion pictures before the
games; supper in the high school!
cafeteria; drills by the Hender
son Junior High School’s Drum
and Bugle Corps; a dance on Fri
day night honoring the teams
which play in the finals.
The Henderson High school
gymnasium has accommodations
for 2,000 spectators including
000 seats. W. D. Payne, Principal
Os the school, is Director of the
Tournament.
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"Civilization is simply a ser.
ies of victories over nature.”
—Harvey
"Chastity is the cement Os civ
il iatien and progress.”
Mary Baker Eddy
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worthy of wearing one .of .the
big "S’s” issued by the college.
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ALL REDS READY
FOR SERIOUS DRILLS
Tampa, Fla. lnfielders and
outfielders reported yesterday to
virtually complete the roster of
Cincinnati Reds in training.
First in unform, over protest of
Manager Bill McKechnie, was
Eddie Jccst who won his argu
ment that he be permitted to start
v.l rking a day ahead of time.
Four Cubans were due in camp
yesterday but late advices indic
ated a gunboat on which they
were to come from Havana, would
not put into Tampa bay before
late* l'; day.
General Manager William C.
Giles was enroute here, having
left Cincinnati shortly, before
r.oon.
Anaheim, Calif. After a
week’s work some of the Phila
delphia Athletics pitchers are be
ginning to bear down in the A’s
training camp.
George Caster has been cutting
loose with his fast ball curve and
knuckler while Chuibby Dean,
Herman Besse, Pat McLaughlin
and Les McCrabb are breezing!
them ever in great style. Buck
Ross and Nelson Potter are still
taking easy, however.
Miami. Fla. “Dole” Prothro,
manager of the Phillies, isn’t
making any predictions as to how
the Phils will fare this year.
“Anyhow, we won’t be worse,”
he declared when asked if the
Phils wiould be stronger than in
1939.
Prothro and President Gerry
Nugent headed the first training
camp arrivals to arrive yesterday.
The workout is scheduled
tomorrow morning.
Lakeland, Fla. Four days
late and 12 pounds overweight,
Louis (Buck) Newsom, talkative
right-handed pitcher, arrived at
the Detroit Tiger training base
yesterday and announced that his
team—and not Yankees—would
win the American league penant.
Newsome said that business
detained him at his Hartsville
(S. C.) home. His arrival brought
the group of Tiger batterymen
here to full strength.
The temperature soared in
Lakeland and Manager Del Ba-
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Roxboro Boys; Allensville
Girls Tournament Winners
ker sent his athletes through
strenuous csnditioning drills.
St. Petersburg, Fla. After a
sh.rt chat with Manager Joe Mc-
Carthy, during whiirh he agreed to
salary terms fer 1940, Second
Baseman Joe Gordon, of the
Yankees, said that he would be
cut in uniform for practice to
morrow, even though he officially
isn’t due to report until next
Monday, when the second squad
appears.
Gordon, signed for $12,500, a
$4,000 rise ever last year’s sal
ary, looked in fine condition.
Jimmy 11. x, cf the Red Sox.
was another visitor to the Yankee
camp. Tie is many pounds lighter
than last year, and apparently
untroubled by the sinus infection
which has harassed him in the
past.
Clearwater, Fla. Pete Coscar
art, the Dodgers holdout second
baseman, reached camp and will
confer on salary with Bbss Lar
ry McPhail. The difference be
tween the player and the club is
not known but Coscarart describ
ed it as not much and intimated
he caon wculd sign.
The workout was featured by
a five-inning game between the
Dresseens and the McGrews and
won by Dresseens, 9 to 8. Casey
and Nahem pitched fl„r the Dres
seens, Kimball and Carleton, for
the- McGrews. Ripple, Moore,
Phelps and Chapman hit homers.
Ready for Work
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Bennie MoCey, the $15,0M second
baseman, dots off his spikes after
arriving at Anaheim, Calif., with
Crania Mack and his Philadelphia
Athletics. McCoy has a contract
which guarantees him SM,*N a
jrpar far Iws years. The Athletics
are training at La Palma park.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1940
Final Games Played In
Roxboro Thursday Night
Before Large Crowd.
Roxboro boys and Allensville
girls were winners cf the Person
county basketball tournament
that was completed in the Rox
boro gymnasium Thursday night.
The Roxboro boys defeated the
Bethel Hill boys by a score of 25
to 19, while the Allensville girls
won from Bethel Hill girls by a
score of 15 to 13. Bethel placed
both of her teams in the finals.
Individual and team awards
were made at the conclusion of
the games. F. O. Carver. Jr. pre
sented the awards.
The tournament was one cf the
best that has ever been held in
this county. Good crowds were
cn hand to see the games and good
sportsmanship was evident a
mong the players at all times.
Trophies for the tournament
were awarded as folows
GIRLS
Winner’s Trophy - Allensville
Best All-around - Miss Mooney,
Helena
Best Sportsmanship . Miss Ger
aldine Moorefield, Allensville
BOYS
Winner’s Trophy - Roxboro
Beat All-around - Red 1 Day, Rox
boro
Best Sportsmanship . Hugh Cates,
Hurdle Mills
Referee - Lawrence, Durham Y
The lineups for the finals:
Bethel Hill (13) Allensville (15)
11. Woody,
F H. Woody, 2 Solomon, 4
F Humphries, 6 Tuck, 5
C Hall, 5 Crumpton, 6
G Dunn G. Moorefield
G Z. Woody .......... Brann
G Evans Averette
Sub.:' Allensville, W. Moore
field.
Bethel Hill (19) Roxboro (25)
F Buchannon Moore, 7
F E. Shotwell, 1 Clayton, 6
C Hall, 5 Holeman, 4
G S. Shotwell, 13 Day, 3
G Tingen Davis, 5
Subs.: Powell (Bethel Hill), Dix
on (Roxboro).
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