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/S® PERSON mpriiTm SOSLAN TS By J. S. MERRITT Carolina Wins Opener . ..... Carolina won her opening baseball game Thursday by a score of 7- 4. The game was played with May Hosiery of , Burlington. The opening baseball game is a little different from the opening football game. The state papers carried a small ac count of the game and no one over here seemed to get excit ed about the affair. Os course there is a large amount of interest in baseball, but not as much as there is in football. At least that's the way it is here. Baseball may be the national sport, but foot ball is the national thriller. 0" *O ll *0 o Tennis Is Here The following people have already been seen on the ten nis courts of Roxboro: Wheeler Newell, Jim Winstead, Gene Thompson, Curtis Oakley, Bill Walker, Sam B. Winstead, E. B. Craven and Maynard Clayton. There have been others on the courts too, but we couldn’t remember all of the names. Several young ladies have been playing a bit and are get ting m good shape. Tennis is very popular in Roxboro and seems to be growing in interest every year. There are several good courts heie and all that are in good shape will probably be crowded over the week-end. o_o— 0 0 Golfing In Roxboro ...... The golfers are golfing in Roxboro. Although the course is not as good as some, our fans say that it is really in fair shape and that you can play a very good game on it, that is if you can play a very good game anywhere. Playing on the course should help it about as much as any other one thing and if our golfers will stick by our home course we will soon have a place where you can play with satisfaction. o—o—o—o White Phantoms Up North It has been said that Carolina will play N. Y. U., Col ombia and Lehigh in basketball next winter. It is also said that they will play some team in Madison Square Garden. The opponent is yet to be named. We are glad that basketball fans in the North will get a chance to see Carolina’s Glamack in action. We think that he is one of the greatest basketball players ever to come from a southern school and we want the boys up North to see him in action. OPENING GAME Opening game of the season be tween the Roxboro Negro Athle- Jk l Mfet. Dolly Madison THEATRE ADVANCE PROGRAM From Easter Monday, March 25th through Wednesday March 27th. Motion Pictures Are You f' Best Entertainment Easter Monday - Tuesday, March 25-26th. John Garfield - Ann Sheridan . Pat O’Brien with Burgess Meredith - Henry O’Neill - Jerome Cowan - Guinn “Big Boy” Williams - John Litel, in £ “Castle on the Hudson” \ (First Run) ' You'll see a new kind of love and a new kind of lover f when a guy who can’t get away with murder, meets a girl UrrbawiT Illustrated No, 2 (In : Fox Movietone News - “News «f the Nation” No Manning Shows; Easter Monday afternoon 2:30-4:90; Tuesday afternoon 3:15-3:45; evmdngi daily 7:15-9:00. Ad l*-25c. I pi I WUtem Gargan . Wallace Ford - Gilbert Roland jTHi&ed in a Tropic Wllder | seas of White Savages! Bjjfji SboWy rsjki'.: . I tic club’s baseball team and the Mebane Sluggers will take place Easter Monday afternoon at the new fair ground, according to an nouncement from members of the Roxboro club. Palace Theatre ADVANCE PROGRAM From Easter Monday, March 25th through Wednesday March 27th. Motion Pictures Are Tout Best Entertainment Easter Monday - Tuesday, March 25-26th. Priscilla Lane - Thomas Mit chell - Dennis Morgan - Alan Hale with Virginia Grey - Ir ene Hervey - William Lundi gan, in “Three Cheers for the Irish” You’ll love this story of an Irish policeman whose heart is practically broken when be has to turn his badge over to a rookie and a Scotsman at that! Color Cruise: “Cuba” Hearst Metrotooe News - “News While It Is Still News” No Morning Shows; Easter Monday afternoon 2j:30-4:00; Tuesday afternoon 3:15-3:45; Admission 10-25 c; evenings daily 7:15-9:00. Admission 10-30 c. Wednesday, March 27 Lupe Veto with Leon Errol - Donald Woods - Linda Hayes - Elisabeth Risdon, in “Mexican Spitfire” A heartache one minute —a headache the next as she looses her Latin lure on looney Leon! The Three Stooges in “Saved by the Bede” Morning Shew 10;80; after aeen 3;15-1 : «; Odmilm l*. 25e; evening 7:15-040. Ad- SPORTS OF THE TIMES’ PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. I PAIR OF GRID ACES CAPTURE DIAMOND JOBS: WITH DUKE A pair of (football heroes, All- America George McAfee and Place-kicker Deluxe Tony Ruffa, have won places in the starting lineup of Duke university’s base ball team which opened its 1940 campaign against the University of Pennsylvania in Duke park Friday afternoon. Fast-stepping Gorgee, the half back sensation of the Blue last fall, will be in center field and will bat in the No. 2 spot. A left hander all the way. MicAfee has improved amazingly since report ing for the team and Coach Jack Coombs sees a great baseball fu ture for him if he continues to come along. McAfee can go get ’em in. the outfield, is a gcod hitter, but it is his speed that makes him dan gerous. George has shown in prac tice sessions that any little in field grounder can be a base hit for him. He gets down that line to first base mighty fast. Ruffa To Catch Ruffa, the stocky 205-pound football tackle, is slated to start behind the plate and he will work for three innings. Ruffa can hit, can throw and is a good man at working the pitchers. He should get better as the season rolls along. Both are taking to baseball for the first time in college. Ruffa was quite a star in high school, but McAfee has played little base ball—except in the summertime. In high school, MicAfee was a track star and he was also a track star at Duke his freshman and sophomore years, winning the Southern conference 100-yard dash championship his sophomore year. Tomorrow Duke offers the big gest attraction of the baseball season by going against Mary lnd’s always tough Old Liners in a Southern conference Easter Monday double-header. o Parker and Yount Farmed Out To Syracuse Club San Bernardino, Calif. Ace Parker, football sensation, has satisfied Manager Frankie Frisch of the Pirates that his ability is not confined to the gridiron. . The sturdy athlete, who per formed brilliantly at Duke and later in the National Professional Football League, has been op tioned to the Pirates’ Syracuse farm in the International, along with Pitcher Bill Clemsen and Outfielder Floyd Yount. Yount, former Wake Forest athlete, last season led the Piedmont League in hitting. The Bucs obtained Parker from Portsmouth in the Piedmont Lea gue, but the deal was left open until the players could be obser ved during Spring training. Parker then learned that he wasn’t expected to dabble in foot ball if his purchase by the Pirates should be completed. He at once made it known that he was sign ed to a contract with Brooklyn’s football Dodgers for next season. The Pirates didn’t want to risk having a player turn up injured at the close of the grid season. Under an agreement with Ports mouth, the Bucs handed over part of the purchase money and gain ed title to Parker—but if he isn’t physically sound next spring, he’ll still belong to Portsmouth. Club officials think that Parker has the makings of a good shortstop but just at present there’s a reliable occupant for that berth in Arky Vaughan. Up to-the-Minute Sport News Solicited Roxboro Golfers arid Would-Be Golfers i • v mr" 4nPGB|IH• • JB mmL Sr •*< . XT \ Wap The pictures above were taken last summer as the Roxboro Country club golf course was opened. Many of these players will be found on the local coarse tomorrow, Easter Monday, as the first Monday of Spring makes it entry. The course is in fair shape and much work will be done on it immediately. ' Local M an Sets Bowliug Record Friday In Bull City Ernest Lunsford Friday night established a new Durham record i for duck pins when he rolled a' 2C2 game on the new Center M wling alleys. This mark surpas sed’ that of Charlie Glossom, who rolled a 192 game on the Morris street alleys two weeks ago. The record is also one of the highest rolled in the state, being icmly 13 pins below the state re cord of 215 held by Jack Dillon, of High Point. The state mark was set in 1937. Lunsford’s mark is also only 20 pins below the world’s record of 222 which was established by Jack Denton, of Baltimore, on April 11, 1939. Lunsford had a four-game set of 572 for the evening which is only 28 pins below the world’s record of 600 pins set by Mike Dogena, of Hartford, Conn., on January 14, 1939. Lunsford’s game scores were 136, 202, 97 and 137. Nine Straight Marks In setting the new record he made nine straight marks, tieing the city Tecord established by Bob Matthews in 1927. He lost out on a mark in the tenth box when he missed a three pin spare. The 1, 3 and 6 pins were left standing but he missed them. George Manning, instructor at the Center alleys, certified the mark saying, “Mr. Lunsford, be ing a tournament bowler, observ ed the foul line throughout.” He was bowling with N. E. Warren, also of Roxboro. His score for the game was as follows: 20, 50, 79, 118, 135, 155, 175, 192, 202-202. (0) R. A. WHITFIELD DMribater CORN About 90 per cent of the United States annual com crop of two and a half billibn bushels is used for animal feed, says Agronomists of the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. PASTURES Mo-re permenant pastures will be seeded this spring in Martin County than, in the past several years, as interest has been in. creasing steadily, says assistant farm agent John Eagles. BANKRUPTCIES Bankruptcies among American farmers were at their lowest point in almost two decades dur ing the 1939 fideal year, showing a2l per cent drop under the previous year. WANT ADS CASH PAID FOR CEDAR TlM ber, either on the stump or in logs or lumber—Geo. C. Brown and Co. of N. C. f 1730 W. Lee. Greensboro, N. C., Phone 4118. 8-21-ts-ts U. S. APPROVED QUALITY BRED BABY CHICKS All breeds at popular prices. Place your orders now to insure delivery when wanted. Quality chicks pay good dividends. See us. Phone 4533. FARMERS SUPPLY CO* Hill B. Stanfield, Mgr. 3-14-ts Watch this paper lor announce, ment o t A and M Food Shoppe soon. 3-21-2 t WANTED I would like to rent from some person in this county ten acres at tobacco land. Will pay money rent Ray K. Winstead, at Carl Winstead Grocery 8-M-ltp - .... •\ .V *■:. .... •:'-*4 V = >r IMPORTS United, States imports dicing the crop year 1938-39 were equi valent to the produce of only 7,564,000 acres, while farm ex perts represented produce from approximately 28,375.000 acres. Palace Theatre Monday - Tuesday, March 25-26 No Morning Shows; Hi SOT TO Gy gIMESEKtyi* ;U&HDEST S(ioty |lyilLKQullU|j|M^H 113 k I 'lLjMli'i I t'illil ■MiwmiJß VIRGINIA GREY . IRENS HERVEY WILLIAM LUNDIGAN DM* fcr uona> BACON A WARNER mot-urn MM Mn MagW* Mill i »iausfcwWbM No Morning Shows; Monday af ternoon 2:30-440; Tuesday after noon 3:15-3:45; ftlfmtwlf IOJSo. Evenings dally 105445. Admis sha 1049. 9-21-ts-ts SUNDAY. MARCH 24, 1940 DOLLY MADISON THEATRE Monday - Tuesday, March 25-26 m * ■ W \ ihß' |jOMmD| I AMERICAN I ,o ■ - H I I I ■ Hn Im> S'Whr, Bmm IWfaa <M' C«ianTi|M.FmhMtiMiSUM No Morning Shows; Monday af ternoon 2:34 . MU Tneaday as- n Jt*.. •*.’ ■ • 4 •
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