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Enos Drops A Line •
A nice letter from Enos Slaughter, who is now in St.
Petersburg, Florida, with the Cardinals, states that every
thing is in fair shape for a big season.
Enos says:
*1 am getting on just fine so far this spring and am get
ting m good shape, although my arm has not come around as
yet. It is still sore and stiff. I hope we will have warmer
weaiher soon so I can work the soreness out. It has been
quite cool down here for a week now, too cold to get your
arm in shape.
•‘I feel good this year and am looking forward to having
a gooci season. I never felt better at the plate hitting and I
hope that I can keep hitting the ball as I have been so far
this spring. Our young pitchers are looking fine, but I cannot
-say anything about the infield yet, it looks good.”
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More About Enos
Below we reprint a clipping from a Florida paper that
tells a bit about Enos in spring training:
“The best battingworkout of the spring featured activity
on the fifth day in camp, with Enos Slaughter, Johnny Mize,
Johnny Hoop and Terry Moore doing the heavy work. Slaugh
ter, to judge by his slugging this spring, easily may be set
for his greatest year, one approximating his record-breaking
season with Columbus before he joined the Cardinals in 1938.
Enos was bombarding the faraway right-center field fence
throughout the long afternoon batting drill, and with Hoop
hitting ahead of him and Mize after him, many spectators
remarked that they understood why experts were picking the
Caidinals to beat out the Reds.”
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Big Season Expected
Person county’s baseball teams do not have spring train
ing, but we rather suspect that a few of our baseball players
are looking over their gloves and bat with an idea of starting
to work within a few weeks.
Last year there were about ten or twelve teams in this
county and they played good ball. Interest in this sport should
be just as high this year or even higher than last year. It
really looks like baseball is on its way back in Person coun
ty.
Each Saturday during the summer of 1939 found four
or live teams playing a game and many played a game dur
ing the week. There was plenty of ball playing and the fans
enjoy ed the game.
The Times is making plans to handle accounts of as many
games as possible and managers are requested to drop by the
office in April or the first of May for a score pad.
An Hour’s Planning Saves
A Day’s Garden Work
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a STAKE OUT YOUR
GARDEN SITE
ACCORDING TO
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Four Steps to a Well Planned Vegetable Garden.
While good vegetables will grow
In crooked rows or even if the seed
Is broadcasted over beds, the work
of cultivating and caring for the
plants is immeasurably reduced if
the seed is sown in straight rows.
Take the trouble to stretch a line,
and mark the row with exactness;
it will save hours when the time
comes to push a wheel hoe down the
aisle between them.
Rows running north and south
in best to let sunshine reach the
soil after the plants are well grown.
Distance between the rows may
▼ary considerably. In small gar
dens, well supplied with plant food,
rows of low-growing crops may be
as close as 6 inches.
me best distance for crops not
exceeding 2 feet in height is 18
inches, which enables you to culti
vate each aisle in one trip with
the wheel hoe.
Time spent in thinking out a gar
den program, deciding what you
want to grow, and then drawing a
plan, will be well repaid by results.
Transferring this plan to your gar
den area is easy, if you proceed
meflkodieally. An evening's thought
may save afternoons of labor; not
that labor isn’t good for you, but
why waste it? In most gardens
there will be other things to da
Tpur plan should provide for the
Whole season. This means in some
cases, two or more civr. . wn in
PERSON
SPORTS
SLANTS
By J. S. MERRITT
the same row. Where several suc
cessive crops of the same vegeta
ble are desired, there are two meth
ods of getting them. Either sow at
about the same time early, midsea
son and late varieties, which will
come into yield at different times,
or make several sowings of the same
variety, ten days or two weeks
apart
Where directions say sow in a
drill, it means a shallow furrow.
Sowing in hills does not mean in ele
vations, unless you live in a section
of heavy rainfalL It means a se
ries of spots, evenly" spaced, at
each of which several seeds are
sown, as contrasted with the con
tinuous row which is termed a drill.
Vine crops are usually sown in
“hills,’’ and they need room to
spread.
Plan your garden so that early
sowings are made at one end, and
the rows are added in regular or
der, as planting proceeds, so that
the planted area is always complete
without vacant space, mis simpli
fies cultivation and irrigation.
Remember that to sow in straight
rows, to thin out properly go your
plants have room to grow, to culti
vate faithfully so that weeds never
grow, and protect your plants
against insects and diseases —these
four points carefully observed will
make your garden one at profes
sional quality.
SPORTS OF THE TIMES
Up'tO'the'Minute Sport News Solicited
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C.
First Lady Sees First Jai Alai Match
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Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as she saw her first jai alai game in
Miami, Fla., where she spent her vacation. Pictured with her are Or.
Frank Christian and Manager Richard Berenson, who is showing her a
ball and cesta, the “basket” which the jai alai player ties to his hand and
in which he scoops np the ball before returning it against the wall. The
game is becoming more and more popular in this country.
Ramblers In Football
Conference For 1940
Wirtz Enters School In
Class B Loop and Will Play
Hillsboro and Cary.
According to an announcement
made by Coach Wirtz of Roxboro
high school, this school has been
placed in Clasls “B” football con
ference of this state. Class “B”
football conference is composed of
four districts. Roxboro will play
Hillsboro and Cary.
Winners of each district will
meet in Chapel Hill for the fin
als and semi-finals. Semi-tfinals
will be held on November 9 and
finals will be on November 15.
Prior to the present year Rox
boro has not been in a football
conference. Coach Wirtz was pre
sent at a meeting in Raleigh
Monday and arranged for Rox
borlo to be taken in for 1940.
Roxboro had an excellent foot
ball team last year and if noth
ing hppens the team will be
stranger in 1940. The coming sea
son will mark Coach Wirtz’s sec
ond year at Roxboro and his sys
tem of playing should be even
better established than it was last
year.
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Baseball Players
May or May Not
Secure Benefits
Raleigh, Mar. 14 Baseball
players may or may not be sub
ject to the State Unemployment
Compensation Law. The Unem
ployment Compensation Commis
sion has held both ways with sets
of conditions. If professional ball
players “work” for 20 weeks in
a year —and more than the min
imum of eight “workers” is re
quired for a team—then the club
owners are required to pay con
tributions on their salaries to the
State Commission, knd the play
ers, becoming unemployed “dur
ing the season,” may be eligible
for benefits. Under the State’s
law, they would be eligible “dur
ing the season”, if otherwise meet
ing the provisions of the law, but
not after the season ends. Some
states do not have this seasonal
restriction, and players would be
eligible in such states after the
season ends.
In a recent decision, the Com
mission held that ball dubs of
Greenville, Kinston, New Bern
and Snow Hill, in the Coastal
plains Baseball league, axe not
liable as they operated only )S
weeks, when 20 is required.
Training weeks, when pkqaig
draw no pay ware excluded.
WAKE FOREST
HAS NEW COACH
TO STARTSEASON
Wake Forest, N. C.. March 14
'Under the direction of their new
! coach, Murray Greason, Wake
Forest’s baseball candidates open
ed the 1940 training campaign
March 4, and at this writing only
a shbrt time remains before their
first tilt of the year with the
University of Pennsylvania here
on Groves Field, March 21.
In taking over the Deacon dia*
mond reins, Greason has a tough
job cut out for himself, one that
isn’t exactly envied by baseball
men whb knew his predecessor,
the revered dean of North Caro
lina college baseball, Coach John
Caddell.
Coach Caddell tutored base
ball .teams at Wake Forest eigh
teen consecutive seasons—three
freshmen and fifteen varsity, and
it was only after a bitter fight
with ailing health, which is still
going on, did he relinquish his
official connection with Wake
Forest a few months ago.
At this writing, “Coach John”,
as he is affectionately known by
his friends, is convalescing at
the Rex Hospital in Raleigh and
his doctors report he is definite
ly improving.
During Caddell’s fifteen years
as varsity coach, he won three
championships 1927, ’32 and
’36. Before retirement, he was the
oldest man from point lof service
in North Carolina college base
ball circles. Coach Caddie 11 was
highly respected for his ability to
handle boys and for his knowled
ge of the national pastime.
Coach Greason came to Wake
Forest from Lexington high school
in the fall of 1933 as head basket
ball mentor and backfield coach.
He was later made freshman
baseball coach.
When Coach CacLcMl resigned
'back in the winter, Wake Forest
officials mdae Greason head of
baseball and relieved him of his
football duties, although he will
still assist with the Deacon grid
participations in the fall, insofar
as it does not interfere with Us
basketball and bsncball duties.
Coach Greason has a nucleus o t
eight let termen around which to
build his current diamond bJm
They are: infMHeta, Dick Hoyle
and Dave Fuller; outfielders, Jade
Williams and Fred Eaaon; catch
er, SOI Sweek; end pitchers. Tom
my Byrne end-Jim Benoing.
EON’S SCHEDULE
ANNOUNCED TODAY
Elon College, N. C., Mar. 14
Elon college’s baseball team will
play at least 23 games this spring,
according to a schedule released
here today by Horce Hendrickson,
coach and athletic director.
Os the 23 contests, 17 are with
North State conference foes. Elon
was runner-up to Lenoir Rhyne
for the crown last season, losing
out in the final clash of the year.
The season opens 10 days hence, 1
March 23, with the Christians;
meeting Springfield college, of
Springfield. Mass.
Coach Hendrickson has five letJ
termen pitchers, one catcher and
six outfielders around which to
build his team. Several of the
outfielders saw action in the in
field last season and will proba
bly perform there this year.
Andy Fuller, hurler from New
Bern, and Joe Hardison, out-,
fielder from Grensboro, are Co-1
captains.
Games with Duke and Wake
Forest, of the Big Five and South
ern conference, feature the sche
dule which is as follows:
March 21 - Springfield here.
March 23 _ Eastern Carolina
Teachers at Greenville (Pending).
March 26 - Colby here.
March 30 - Duke at Greens
boro.
April 2 - Guilford* there.
April 3 - Cornell here.
April 5 - Atlantic Christian
here.
April 6 - Atlantic Christian
here.
April 9 - High Point there.
April 10 - Lenoir Rhyne here.
April 12 - Lenoir Rhyne here.
April 16 - Wake Forest at Greens
boro.
April 17 - Guilford here.
April 19 . Western Carolina
there.
April 20 - Western Carolina
there.
April 22 . Lenoir Rhyne there.
April 23 - Lenoir Rhyne there.
April 26 - Catawba there.
April 27 - Catawba there
April 29 - Guilford at Greens
boro.
May 1- High Point here.
May 3 - Catawba here.
May 4 _ Catawba here.
In addition to these, contests,
two games are pending with Ap
palachian and one with McCrary'
Eagles, of Asheboro.
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GLAMACK HARD
TO MAKE BELIEVE
Chapel Hill When George
Glamack, the University of North
Carolina’s towering six-foot, five
inch center, was told by class
mates that he had made the all-
American basketball team a smile
came over his face. He thought
they were kidding him.
It took them some time to con
vince the big fellow but once
they did he grinned from ear to
ear. He was really happy. And
why shouldn’t he be? He was the
first player ever to make an all-
American basketball team from
North Carolina.
George is a modest sort of fel
low, and he’ll tell you that Coach
Bill Lange and members of the
basketball team were responsible
for his great record. Every time
you start talking about him he
changes the subject. He wants to
give the credit to someone else.
Fans Disagree
But basketball fans who have
seen him play will disagree. They
realize that his teammates were
a great help, hut at the same time
they will tell you they never have
seen any player make one-handed
hook shots In the manner George
does.
If it hadn’t been for Bo Ship*
ard, assistant athletic director at
the TiMv*ntttjr'Q*si-ge might
Frankie Frisch Returns to Diamond Wars
Frankie Frisch, who has taken over the managerial reins of the"
Pittsburgh Pirates, is shown talking to pitchers (left to right) Butcher,
Bauers and Ilerrell as they den their uniforms for an early-season
workout during the spring training season at San Bernardino, Calif. Frisch
ivas out of baseball last year, when he worked as a baseball broadcaster.
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have gore,to Duke.
After Glamack made an out
standing record at Allentown
prep in Pennsylvania several
schools in the east tried to get
him to enroll. But Gecrge had
corresponded with both Duke and
Carolina and came South to look
them over.
Thanks To Shepard
He visited both schools, but
thanks to Bo Shepard who showed
the big fellow around when he
came to Carolina
No matter where you see Geor
ge he’s always smiling. He’s the
type of person that people just
naturally like.
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William and Mary
Defeats Deacons
Williamsburg, Va. William
and Mary’s Indians defeated
Wake Forest’s Deacons by the
margin of a converted point af
ter touchdown on Cary field Sat
urday in the first of two practice
football games to be played be
tween the Southern conference
squads. The score was 14 to 13.
The Indians mloved 75 yards in
six plays in the final quarter to
lead 14 to 7, but the Deacons con
nected on two passes just before
the final whistle to fix the score
at 14 to 13.
The teams will play again Sat
urday at Wake Forest.
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Slip Madigan, Fired
-No More Coaching
San Francisco, March 12 Ed
ward P. (Slip) Madigan, fired
from the coaching jlob in which
he raised St Mary’s college from
obscurity to national prominence,
today considered abandoning foot
ball for business.
He blamed his dismissal yester
day from his 18-year Job as foot,
ball coach 'on "personal differen
ces” between hmnself and a m«n>
ber the college’s athletic beard.
-He did not name the board
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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1940
Madigan said he had “seen it
coming” and had taken prelimin
ary steps toward entering busi
ness.
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One Change Made
In Tourney Field
Durhm, March 13 Bethesda-
Chevy Chase high school of Beth
esda, Md., today was invited to
participate in the Southern high
school basketball tournament op
ening at Duke University Friday
morning
The Maryland school replaces
Runmelstowm, Miss., which with
drew because of what Runnels
town officials said were “local
complications.”
Bethesda replaces Runnels town
in the pairings, and will meet
Lanier High of Macon,, Ga., at 1
o’clock Friday in a first-round
game.
The tournament will open at
8:30 Friday morning, with Rlooee
velt High of Washington meeting
Harrodsburg,. Ky„ at 10 o’clock,
Parker High of Greeiwill®, S. C.
meets High Point High.
The feature game of the morn
ing, between Durham High’s de
fending champions and Lynch
burg’s Virginia champs, will be
played at 11:30.
The semifinals will be played
Friday night, starting at 7:30.
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Pofahl Will Do
Orlando, Fla. Manager Buc
ky Harris of the Senators today
okehed the throwing am of Jim
my Pofahl, rookie shortstop.
“His arm will <kx* said Harris
of the $40,000 Minneapolis player.
“He’ll be able to go to his rigtt
and still throw out runners far
ter than most Auntstops.”
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“Courage la generosity of the
highest order, for the breve are
prodigM'<* the meet precious
things”