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« PERSON 1 tihnihi SLANTS By J. S. MERRITT o—o—o—o Diz Goes Again You just can’t tell about Dizzy Dean. At times you think lie is all through as a pitcher and then he comes along and .does something that changes your mind. Last Thursday he held the Cincinnati Reds to five hits and came through with a 4 to 2 decision- Shooting his famous “nothing” ball across the plate in a • 40-degree temperature, Dean bested the Red’s mound star, ”~Taui Derringer, in a speedily played game whcih had 6,000 fans giving Diz a great cheer at the finish. Dean walked jfour batters and had only one strikeout, but the strikeout came on the final out of the contest and at the expense of Finchhitter Wally Berger. It was Dean’s first .victory of the season in two starts and it snapped the string of 11 consecutive National League victories which Derringer carried into the contest. o—o —0 —o Slaughter Gets Three Enos Slaughter went to bat six times last Thursday a gainst Pittsburgh and got three hits out of six tries. This gave Enos a batting mark of .500 for the day- One of his blows was good for two bases. It really looks like the Person boy is off to a good year and he has about 26,000 people in this county who are pulling .. for him. P- S. We guess our population is 26,000. o o —0 0 About Fireball Fireball Carver of East Roxboro appears to have started again. In a game last week he struck out eleven men nd allow ed only five hits. To top all of this he went to bat four times and got three hits Carver pitched good ball last year and fans in East Rox boro believe that he has something on the ball. o—O —0 —o Football Weather Although baseball season is here the weather has been more like football time than baseball. There have been few hot days since baseball started and there have been plenty' of days that were not good enough for football or baseball. You can’t do much of either when it rains. As soon as r£al warm weather comes and we can let our fire go out you will see some baseball that is worth your time and trouble- This Is Fix-Up, Clean-Up Week . . ’ Ip' • MODERN FIXTURES FOR YOUR BATHROOM This is Clean-Up, Fix-Up Week. Modernize your bath room with new fixtures. Is yourhome of the future equipped with bath room plumlbingr that will give faultless service for many ||UT^T|U years- We are equipped to II meet any and all specifica- II Ju Visit our Show room and seen the latest, modern fix tures. OUR PRICES ARE LOW. J. T. BRADSHER W vniT ittedrits Avenue SPORTS OF THE TIMES Up-tc-thc-Minute Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. It’s Pay-Off Time for Jimmy Demaret , . ‘ ■| Jimmy Demaret, left, of Houston, Texas, receives a $1,15u check for first prize money from Bobby Jones, right, after Demaret won the sev enth annual Masters’ golf tourney at Augusta, Ga. In center is Lloyd Mangrum, who was second. Demaret shot a 280, Mangrum a 284. The victory made Demaret leading money winner of the winter circuit. Bethel Hill Wins From Hurdle Mills Friday CA-VEL DEFEATS BURLINGTON MILLS Ca-Vel defeated Burlington Mills Thursday afternoon by a score of 10 to 1. Humphries and Blanks did the hurling for Ca-Vel while Walker was on the mound for Burlington. Box score: Burlington Mills Ab R H A Saunders, fc 5 0 0 1 Cress, ss 2 0 0 2 aßarbee 1 0 0 0 Small, cf 3 0 2 0 Finlatar. If 2 0 9 0 j Weaver, If 2 0 0 0 Bivins, lb 3 0 1 0 Edwards, rs 4 0 0 0 Ferrell, 3b 4 1 2 4 Steel, 2b 3 0 0 3 Walker, p 3 0 0 2 Totals • 32 1 5 12 Ca-Vel Ab R H A Gentry, 3b 5 2 3 1 James, ss 4 2 1 4 Anders, 2b 3 0 1 5 Kline, 2b 2 0 0 2 Wilborn, cf 4 0 0 1 Briggs, rs 4 1 2 0 H. Slaughter, lb 4' 11 0 Crews, lb 0 0 0 0 Morrow,, If 3 11 0 C. Slaughter, If 1 0 0 0 Dunn, c 2 11 C Fuller, c 1 0 0 0 Humphries, p 3 1 3 3 Blanks, p 1 1 1 0 Totals 37 10 14 16 a batted for Cross in 9th. Score by innings: Burlington Mills .. 000 000 100—1 Ca-Vel ..' 061 000 03x—10 Errors: Gentry, Wilborn, Biv ins. Runs batted in: Sanders, Gen try, James, Anders 2, Wilborn 2, Dunn, Humphries 2. Two-base hits: Small. Stolen bases: Ferrel. Double plays: Walker to Cross to Bivens; James to Kline to Crews. Left on bases: Burlington 10, Ca- Vel 7. Base on balls: Walker 2, Humphries 2, Blanks 2. Struck out —by: Walker 1, Humphries 4. Hits off: Walker, 14 in 8; Blanks, 3 in 3; Humphries, 2 in 6. Hit by pitcher —by: Walker (Dunn), Humphries (Small). Pas sed balls: Sanders, Fuller 2. Los ing pitcher: Walker. Winning piljcber: Humphries. Time of game: 1:55. Umpires: Wirtz, Titus, Gibson. . o SURPLUS Despite wartime demands, the world has 1,400,000,000 bushels of wheat more than it will consume during the marketing year 1939- 40, reports the Agricultural Ad justment administration.' Bethel Hill high school defeat ed Hurdle Mills high in baseball Friday afternoon by a score of 13-3. The game was called at the end of the seventh inning. Buchanan for Bethel Hill hit for the circuit while Shotwell came through with a three bagger. The b:x: Bethel Hill Ab R H Buchanan, ss 4 2 2 Wrenn, lb 3 3 2 Milam, 2b 4 2 2 Shotwell, rs 5 2 3 Long, cf 4 3 3 Whitt, 3b 3 1 2 Hcneycutt. c 4 0 0 Powell, p .. 3 0 0 Hall, If 3 0 0 Totals 33 13 14 Hurdle Hills Ab R H R. Moore, ss 4 1 3 H. Horton, lb 4 0 0 H. Satterfield, p 4 0 0 I C. Satterfield, cf 4 0 0 A. Moore, 2b 3 0 0 Norris, If 3 11 [ Barnett, c 3 0 2 B. Horton, 3b 3 1 0 Breeze, rs 3 0 0 Totals 31 3 6 - Score by innings: Bethel Hill ...... 420 016 x—l 3 Hurdle Mills 000 201 0— 3 Two-base hits: Shotwell, Bar nett. Three-base hits: Shotwell. Home runs: Shotwell. Hits off: Powell. 6 in 7; H. Saterfield, 14 in 7. Hit by pitcher—by: Powell 1. o Baseball At Elon Has Had Unusual Season Thus Far Elon College, N. C„ April 27 Horace Hendrickson, young Elon college mentor and former Duke university athlete, apparently has put together a college baseball team molded upon the style of the world champion New York Yan kees. After 15 consecutive victories, including an 18 to 9 triumph over Wake Forest and a 2 to 1 win over Cornell, as well as wins over all North State conference base ball teams except Catawba and Western Carolina, a resume of statistics reveals that the Christ ians apparently are a miniature replica of the famed Yanks. Both hitting and pitching have combined to win ball games for the Christians. Both have respon ded when called upon. Only four games have been decided by mar gins of two runs or less. In one Talmadge Abemethy, sophomore southpaw, gave Lenoir Rhyne only two hits to win 2 to 0, and later took a 5 to 4 decision. Ro land Longest held Cornell’s Ivy league champions to one run to win 2 to 1, and R. D. Apple beat J Colby 4 to 3. In contrast to these close scores the Christians walloped Wake For est, Southern conference and Big Five leaders, 18 to 9, blasted Springfield 13 to 4, High Point 12 to 6, Atlantic Christian 15 to 2 and 14 to. 5. and Lenoir Rhyne 9 to 6. Os the approximately 160 hits secured in the 15 clashes, exactly 50 have been for extra bases. All told the Christians have collected £3 doubles, 17 triples and 10 home runs. Jack Gardner, who is pac ing the team with a .406 average, has secured two doubles, four triples and one home run in his | collection of 26 safeties. W. L. Hobson, another of the sopho mores, has four doubles, three triples and one home run out of 20 hits. Apparently this club which has a wide margin in the North State race will not be broken up for two more years. Co-Captains Joe Har dison and Andy Fuller are the only seniors while Ed Potter and Roland Longest are the only jun iors. Hardison is a regular out fielder, Longest and Fuller are , hurlers, and Potter is second , string catcher. o Death Ends Joe Jacob’s Career As Fight Pilot New York Joe Jacobs .man ager of Heavyweight Tony Galen to„ and a legendary figure in boxing circles for many years, died Wednesday night from a heart attack. He would have been 44 years old May 7. Death occurred in a doctor’s of fice where Jacobs, laughing dis dainfully at a “slight pain,” had gone to seek relief. He was ac companied by Harry Mendel, pro moter cf six-day bicycle races a round the country and Jacob’s close friend for many years. Mendel said Jacobs had felt badly Tuesday, but did not re, gard his illness as serious and went about his business as us ual, escorting motion picture pho tographers to New Jersey to make shots of Galento. Jacobs, known familiarly among 1 the fight mob as “Yussel,” man -1 aged Max Schmeling cf Germany to the world’s heavyweight cham • pionship. In 1930 Jack Sharkey . struck Schmeling low in the : fourth round and Jacobs rushed i into the ring, yelling foul so vo . j.ifcrously the referee awarded the German the title. Two years later Sharkey re gained the title with a 15-rcund decision and Jacobs achieved some sort of immortality by entering! the ring and bellowing “We wuz* robbed.” Jacobs also coined the crack, . “I should of stcod in bed”, when L one cold morning he ventured out . of a Chicago hotel with Promoter . Mike Jacobs bent on seeing a [ baseball game. . Jacobs had spent much of the , day with Galento, after being up most of the night suffering froni what he thought was an attack . of indigestion. On returning to New York he visited his personal physician, Dr. Vincent Nardiello who sent him immediately to the office of Dr. Oswald La Rotonda, i a heart specialist for a cardiogrph examination. He was explaining why he had come, and had just taken off his coat when he slumped into Men del’s arms. Five minutes later he was pronounced dead. The florid faced litle man who was one of the best known char i acters on Broadway was a native New Yorker—a product of the , tough “HeH’s Kitchen” on the West side. His father was a tailor. One of the gayest spenders of -th town, there were many fabu , low stories told about him. One Cj Butter Toasted! iWIPIH Sandwiches I iiskdl 5c DELIVER I Try Our Cream Cheese and Olive On Rye Butter Toasted Roxboro Drug Company Phone 3141 Call For Quick Service- j of the best known was the one when he took McTigue to fight in Georgia, taking along Harry Ertle as his own referee. The referee, of course, awarded the decision to McTigue, and the three of them had to dash for safety. Later, because the Georgia box ing heads had reversed the decis ion, Jacobs, got Ertle to sign an affidavit that MkAigue had won the fight—the first time such a measure had even been taken. Jacobs stumbled onto Schmel ing cne day when the young Ger man was first in this country looking for fights. “Come with me boy, and we’ll get the fights,” he said. Schmel ing was an unpopular champion, but was constantly in the public eye, thanks to Jacobs’ shrewdness as a publicist. He often wrote stor ies for the papers when h 6 was managing a fighter and had de finite flair for newswriting. Jakobs everr dared to visit Ger many when the Jewish presecu tion was beginning—but so auda. cicusly was' he that he carried through the trip in the grand manner. Possibly the second greatest night in his life was the night that Schmeling knocked cut Joe Louis in the 12th round at Yankee sta dium. The other was when he howled Max into the title with his cry of “foul” that was so in-' Palace Theatre ADVANCE PROGRAM From Monday, April 29 thru Wednesday, May 1 Motion Pictures Are Yom Best Entertainment Monday - Tuesday, April 29-30 Lew Ayres - Lionel Barrymore' - Laraine Day - Shepperd Strudwick, in “Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case" The fourth .startling .adven tuure of young “Dr. Kildare”! i Lew Ayres and Lionel Barry. I mere Again make medicine I the greatest entertainment of all! Hearst Metrotome News: Grantland Rice Sportlights: “Bowling Skill” “News while it is still news.’’ No Morning Shows; Afternoons daily 3;15-3;45; Admission 10-25 c; Evening daily 7:15-9:00; Admission 10-30 c Wednesday, May 1 Ellen Drew - Robert Paige - Judith Barrett - John Miljan, in “Women Without Names” Forgotten by the World! Fight ing for Freedom! Yearning for Love! You’ll never forget their heart-searing love story so reaFit might have happened to you! Merrie Mdlodie* “Hardships Miles Standish” Magic Carpet Series: “The Ev ergreen Empire” Meaning Show 19 : M; after mam J;ls-3 ; «; Admission 19- Me; evening 70S-»A«. A«- BWnliAi. SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1940 sistent. and perfectly timed that it caused Arthur Brisbane, who was siting nearby to yell at the referee: “You call this a foul or I’ll run iboxing clear out of the state of New York.” Promoter Mike Jacobs, grieved at the sudden death of the am azing little character, issued this statement: “I am deeply shocked. Joe Ja cobs was the most colorful box ing manager who ever lived. I admire him not only for his busi ness talents but also as a friend. Boxing will miss him.” I L_ FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard Oil Co. Products. Telephone Service No. 4711 ROCK - INN SERVICE STATION A) R. A. WHITFIELD Distributor Dolly Madison i THEATRE ADVANCE PROGRAM From Monday, April 29 thru Wednesday, May 1 Motion Pictures Are Yom Best Entertainment Monday - Tuesday, April 29-30 Merle Oberon . George Brent with Pat O’Briant . Geraldine Fitzgerald,, in “Til We Meet Again” (First Run) If there is a spark of Romance in you they will set it ablaze! She had everything a girl could hope for she was| everything a man could desire! The police of three continents wanted him . . . but so did the heart of a woman! Short Subject: “Your Town” A Story of America. Fox Movietone News: “News of the Nation”. Special Morning Show Monday 10:30; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Evenings Daily 7:15-9600; Admission 10-25 c Wednesday, May 1 Jack Holt with Hairy Carey - Sig Rumann - Irene Ware. in. “Outside the Three Mile Limit” Breakneck action in every scene as a Federal agent tracks down a counterfeit ring to its secret tropical lair! Historical Teehnieoiorr “Teddy The Rough Rider” Ne Morning Show, altar. MO; W OJM. M- I latein ifcMm I i
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