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/s-jM person SLANTS By J. S. MERRITT o—o— o 0 Golfers Playing Here Quite a few local golfers are using the course at the Country club and they report that it is in fair shape. Several holes could be better, but the course is rapidly getting right ana soon it will be nearer what we want. This column insists that playing on the course will help it as much as any other one thing and urges the golfers to play at home all that they can. There must be fifty or sixty people in Roxboro who play golf and if all Os these would start tramping the fairways they would ‘come around” much quicker. o—o —0 —U Big Year Ahead m «v v v; -At- jjj *' ' v x ||py * CM»c« J ce>Szu.».cr- **•».*"«.<**« -J { George Glamack, all-America center, and Jimmy How ard, flashy little guard, Thursday were elected co-captains of the university of North Carolina's 1941 varsity basketball -team Tallest and smallest of the Carolina players, the fancy shooting of the giant Glamack and the smooth ball-handling and floor play of the diminutive Howard were chiefly respon sible for Carolina’s winning the Southern conference champ ionship at the annual tournament at Raleigh last month- Glamack is probably headed into one of the greatest , years any basketball player has ever had. His record for last year is one that will stand for a long time and if he improves any next year one of Carolina’s captains will be one “whale of m ball player”. o—o—o—o Don Budge Wins Again On Thursday of last week Don Budge defeated Archie Henderson, of Chapel Hill in a nice tennis match. Henderson playfed good tennis, but was not able to come up to the mighty Budge. Final scores of the sets were 6-2, 2-6, 6-4- Henderson is rated as one of the best, if not the best tennis player in this section of the country, but Budge is rat ed as the best in the world. He is now making a tour and seems to be taking a majority of the opposfhg players in hand. o o —0 0 Spring Tournament A prominent Roxboro citizen has suggested our Country Club officials stage a spring golf tournament on the local course. This would certainly create a lot of interest and would do much to promote the club. We pass this idea on to the officials and suggest that the> look into the matter. We believe that a large number would enter the tournament and that all would have a big time. * .-t*-,** v ,j.4. ++++++++++v+ «■» * * Thank You ++ I < • < > < • We wish to thank the people of this ;; county for the patronage that you ■ > have given us since we opened. 21 i > You have liked our prices and our furniture and we like the way you ) [ have received us. 2 2 < • Visit Us For Bargains | Pittard Furniture Co. Depot Street pi;-' ;; SPORTS OF THE TIMES PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Roxboro High Loses To Ca-Vel \ By Score Os 8-10 t On Thursday afternoon the Ca- Vel baseball iclub overpowered Coach George Wirtz’s Ramblers , in an extra period game on the , local high school playing field by a score of 10 to 8. Beth teams secured about the same amount of safe blows and hitting star of the day was Law rence (Gus) Holeman who got two doubles and one triple for; three trips to the plate. Haywood ■ Slaughter, Ca-Vel’s first-sacker, 1 hit two long line-drives which 1 amounted to a double and a trip ! le. Another Rambler, Wallace ! Moore, got a triple which aeeoun-; ted for three of the high school I runs. ■ ' I l Score by innings: j Ca-Vel 401 100 22—10 ; ! Roxboro High .... 400 013 00—8 o Plaster Doggie Made In Studio For Star Pooch Camera-fright caused Waiter Wanger studio technicians to pro vide Joan Bennett with the small est “stand-in” ever used in a Hollywood film play. The “stand- i in” was not for Miss Bennett, but’ for the two and one-half pound Chihuahua dog she carries, and also has on a leash in rhumba scenes for Walter Wanger’s “The House Across the Bay”. The little dog with the big ears was not ac customed to cameras, lights and rhumba music and when Camera.' man Merritt Berstad wanted to make closeups of him he hopped and skittered all over the place. Arranging lights for photo, graphy takes time and patience. The Wanger property men made a plaster Chihuahua the exact size ! of the real poochie and the real i dog had a poochie and the real ' double to help the cameraman ' with his preparations. Two prize bulldogs which also worked in the dance number were the cam eramen’s delight They remained quiet and undisturbed for several 10-minute periods. “The House Across the Bay”, now playing an engagement at the ‘ Palace theatre, co-stars Miss Ben. nett with George Raft. ———o FOR RESULTS. ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES j North Carolina Farmers Talk Fertilizer Prices *■■ l ", v%V** * * :7 —. Fertilizer prices lower than other eommoditiee which farmers buy. “Do you think the price yon paid i for that last purchase you made ; is too high?” Ask that of any man f or woman any time and get about - same answer as if you asked, “Are taxes too high?" Neverthe- 1 less, in a recent survey made in * North Carolina and 34 other States, 1 over 32,000 farmers were asked < point blank, “Do you think ferti- 1 lizer prices are high?" North Car- i olina farmers replied as follows: < “Yes, they are high,” said 40.7 per | cent. “They are low,” said 6.6 per cent The remainder, 63.7 per cent, i replied that prices were average. < Now the Department of Agrfcnl- I tore releases a statement which an- < Up'tO'the'Minute Sport News Solicited Capt. Russ. Bergman One of Duke’s most outstanding players of baseball during the 1930 season was this boy, Bergman. Winning Form i ■ j u. ip M |H I an. Floretta D. MeCntcheM, St, werM’a ckuqiM mnua bavbf, Seva—irate* her wfaafeg for— la Nnr York city alleys. She has rsßeS IS perfect “NT* games it—s ft* t—k ap ft* apart at ft* ag* «f K. Helena High To Meet Hurdle Mills The baseball teams of Helena and Hurdle Mills will play on the Helena diamond Tuesday after noon April 17, at 2:30 o’clock. This is the first time for these clubs to meet this year, and each club will be out to capture this first game. swers the same question. “Since 1932 fertilizer prices have been fairly stable at a little below the 1910-1914 average,” says the re port “Fertilizer prices, as a per centage of the 1910-1914 average, are considerably lower than prices of most commodities bought by farmers. In fact all commodities are 16 per cent higher than the av erage, while fertilizer prices are 6 per cent lower.” The report continues: “New de velopments in science and technol ogy, such aa the production of syn thetic nitrogen, have reduced pro costs prices* Bulls Announce Quarter Rate For All Ladies Durham, April 13, (Special)— Feminine folowers of the Durham 1 Bulls of the Piedmont league get a real break with President Fred Fleig’s announcement of a new scale of admission which will per mit the fanettes to attend the Bull games fer 25 cents. The scale will be in effect for all home games, except opening night, Sundays or holidays, when the regular Pied mont admission prices will pre vail. “There seems to be a popular de mand among the feminine fans for the 25-cent gate,” Fleig said. “I have been told by many of them that attendance would be greatly increased if we could put the scale in effect, and while the league sets a standard admission for the grandstand, we have ob tined permission to gmt the fan ettes the concession we are now offering. “I have been impresed with the baseball interest among the wo men of Durham and vicinity, and many of them have told me they would attend far more regularly if we had the 25-cent scale. Be cause of this condition and the apparent demand. I decided; to give the plan a trial. The admis sion is now such that a man and his wife can attend a game for less than a dollar.” Because of ths appreciable con cession granted the fanettes, the vogue of occasional “Ladies’ Nights” which has been in effect here several years, will be dis continued. However, President Fleig has several ideas in mind for special nights which will be sprinkled through the schedule with added attractions. Announcement of the new plan should be hailed by the Bulls’ Feminine followers, many of whom are among the com munity’s staunchest supporters of Skipper Oscar Roettger and his herd. o Dim your lights when meeting another car. Glaring headlights sometimes makes glaring head lines (fi) R. A. WHITFIELD Distributor Dizzy Dean Settles Rumpus With Boss Gabby Hartnett Chicago, April 12 Peck’s Bad Boy of the Chicago Cuibs, Dizzy Dean, had his face washed of its latest “jam” today. The tempermental pitcher will be in uniform tomorrow. His dif ferences with Manager Gabby Hartnett, involving a SIOO fine slappped on the Great Man for a curfew violation, were patched up speedily. Ol’ Diz is going to pay the fine and make no complaint to Owner W. P. Wrigley. And everyone was inclined to credit Dizzy’s pretty wife, Patricia, with an assist in the box score of Dean’s latest escapade. War Is Over “The war’s over”, she laughed as she led Ol’ Diz to breakfast at their hotel today. “You know what happens when an irresistible ob ject meets an immovable force. Dizzy go mad and Gabby got mad and you know what happened, but Dizzy’s the man of the house, so I’ll let him do the talking now.” Jerome Herman gulped, grinned somewhat sheepishly, and said: “I talked with Gabby this morn ing and every thing’s swell be tween us now. He’s square. He said he would forget all about this thing if Iwould, and I said I would. We both agree there’s no use bothering Mr. Wrigley with it. “I admit I was wrong. I came in late at Wichita and I had a fine coming. But Gabby made me paad the way l*e did it. Instead of going to his or my room he let me have it in the hotel lobby and I was all burned up.” Starts Cooling Off Ol’ Diz, however, started cool ing off yesterday at St. Louis when he met Mrs. Dean, who pointedly inferred Dizzy was go again. And under the somewhat patient wont-you-be-good smile of his wife today, Dizzy “guessed” he would see about meeting the fine shortly and hoped he’d see action in die city series with the White Sox this week-end. “Boy, my arm feels fine", said Jerome Herman, warming to a familiar subject. “It has ever sin ce I gave those Browns only two hits in five innings last Monday. I just want to get out there and pitch. Everything’s swell be tween Gabby and me.” At which Patricia stopped cut ting Dizzy's ham, crossed her fingers and grinned: NOTICE To All Taxi Owners Operating in the City of Roxboro In view of better regulation and the op eration so this traffic, providing ade quate parking stands, etc. the Board of City Commissioners ordered the City Attorney and City Manager to meet with the aforesaid owners and operators at a meeting in the Chief of Police office over the City Office at 7:30 P. M. Tuesday April 16th 1940 All owners and operators are request , ed to be present. PERCY BLOXAM CITY MANAGER SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1940 “Until the next time.” Wrigley implied that Dean was a problem apart from the other players on the club. “When we bought Dean, we bought insubordination,” he said. “If he breaks the rules, he’ll be foned, of course, but you have to expect that. If he contaminates the other players, then we’U get rid of Dean. “But you’ve got to expect those things from Dean. He’s just a great big kid and has to be hand led as such. I don’t think much of hard fast rules. Forty fellows sit up nights making rules and 40 others sit up thinking ways to d:dge ’em.” o BETHEL HILL TO ENGAGE MACON WEDNESDAY P. M. Bethel Hill high school will play Macon high, of Warren coun ty, in baseball Wednesday after noon at 3:15 p. m. at Bethel Hill. This game will foe for die district championship. The winner of this game will play West End for the East State championship. E. Shotwell will pitch for Beth el and Honeycutt will catch. On Tuesday of this week, the Bethel boys will meet Scottsfourg, Va„ at Bethel Hill. o Crossing the street between in tersections is five times as likely to result in death as crossing at intersections, records of the High, way Safety Division show. Saving seconds when you ars driving is false economy. Professional Cards 8. F. NICKS, JR. Attorney • at • Lav Pint National Bask BU* Mata St- Baxter* N. € -nw DR. R. J. 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