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;^#PERSON SLANTS By J. S. MERRITT Lfi» 4m ■ «4 o—o—o—o The Golfers Are Golfing Seen on the Roxboro golf course last Thursday after noon —Jimmy Long, Jr., Mrs. Jimmy Long, John Fitzgerald. Henry Gates, Guthrie Gentry, C. A. Harris, Martin Michie and Bill Walker. The course seems to be getting better each day and we still insist the big thing that is needed is playing. A hund red people walking over the course each day will improve it to no little extent. Sooner or later this little course is going to be consider ed one of the best around here and that time can’t be so far off- O O (l o What’s Wrong Howard? Dear Howard Strang: The other day this writer was passing your nice village of Ca-Vel and noticed that your fence around the tennis court was being torn down. He also noticed that the court had grown up in weeds. Evidently the court is now a thing of! the past. It’s really bad, Howard, when boys get too old to play! tennis and have to resort to other sports, but why couldn’t I you let the court stay where it was so that Baxter Man gum’s children could have a place to play or you could have invted Bill Walker to play on your court. Seriously speaking we do hate to see Roxboro lose a tennis court and hope that it does not mean that interest in this game is dropping off. Yours in sport, • • • Ye Editor. -o—o-o Moonlight Golf Below is an account of a Moonlight Golf tournament. As far as we know it is one of the first, if not the first of its kind: Sanford Something new under the moon was Sanford’s moonlight golf tournament, held here this week and won by Buckie Williams, young son of Mayor Warren Williams. Local golfers believe their moonlight tournament, played beneath a full moon, is one of the few ever held in the country. Williams, after playng six holes, had a score jof 30 and was adjudged winner of the tourney. Warren Grover, Jr., .with a 29, was low-scorer, but as he is lessee of the local club he was ineligible for the prize. Only two balls were allowed players—and flashlights were prohibited, although matches could be used in search ing for a contrary ball. Lost balls eliminated players. o—o 0 0 Dots and Dashes . . . - - • Ca-Vel seems to be going fine and East Roxboro is also doing 0. K. . . . Both are playing real ball . . . Wonder if Longhurst is going to do anything? Banks McFadden of Clemson is going to play pro football this year and will pro bably get plenty for doing it . . . Ace Parker is not expected to play, his broken leg will hardly heal in time Carolina expects to have a good football team this year ... So does Duke Better see about getting your tickets now . . . WANT ADS Greensboro, N. C., Phone 4118. CASH PAID FOR CEDAR TIM- FOR RENT Six-room dwelling, ber, either on the stump or in Reams Avenue. See— logs or lumber—Geo. C. Brown H. W. Newell and Co. of N. C., 1730 W. Lee, 5-26-lt NOTICE! To All Handlers Os BEER and WINE i In Person County Wine and beer licenses for the period from May 1, 1940 to April 30,1941 were due on May Ist. All handlers of beer and wine in Person County are ur ged to pay their license fee today and avoid penalties of 5 percent. These Must Be Paid At Once! I M. T. CLAYTON Sheriff and Tax Collector tor Preson County SPORTS OFJTHE TIMES Lp-io-tlie-Minute Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Who’s Afraid of the Bijr. Bad Pups? Not Susie! 1 Jack fell down and lost his crown (as best pot), and Jill came tumbling after. Both pups wore decidedly glum after Susie, coy maiden in the center, was named bine ribbon winner in the New t Fork Boys’ club sixth annual pet show. And look at the kittenish twinkle in hor queenly ego as the lords it over the droopy-eared pops. Jack, incidentally, 1b pietnrod on the left. 1 Home - Grown Talent On Tar Heel Freshman Freshman spring sports teams at the University of Maryland did well this year, turning in 16 wins against only five defeats . . '.. Only the tennis aggregation, with a record of one win and two loss es had a mark of less than .750 . . . Joe Murphy, the Old Liners” midget football and track ace,,] won both the 100 and 220-yard dashes in the Southern conference | meet for two years in a row . . . And the Terp netters scored four shutout victories in nine matches. | All of the starting members j of the University of North Caro- : lina freshman baseball team 1 were batting over .300 when the season ended . . . The leader, 1 • < was outfielder Jack Roberts, of ' Cedar Grove, who belted the hor- ' sehide for a neat .429 average, : or a total of 15 hits in 35 times ' at bat . . . And Bob Saunders, another North Carolina boy who will be making a close fight with : “Bo” Reynolds for the first basa berth on next year’s varisty, was the slugging champion with a to tal a total of three home runs, four triples, and a double driv ing in 14 runs . . . Football prospects for next fall are on the upgrade at Washing ton and Lee . . . Due mainly to the fine showing made by the boys in spring practice which was said to be one of the most sprited off-season drills at the school in years . . . Both lacrosse and crew racing, two of the most popular spring sports at W. and L., are supported almost entire ly by the boys who participate . . They busy practically all their own equipment and finance their trips. o Winning Outfit Being Sought By Greenville Team Greenville, May 24 lf offic ials of the Greenville baseball club do not assemble a winning team, it will not be for lack of trying, as changes are being made in the line-up almost daily in an efort to provide a winning com bination. Bill Shelton, of Danville, Va., who has starred at shortstop on the East Carolina Teachers col lege team for four years, is the latest player to be signed. Drodz is being released to make room for the college ace. John Walters ioind the team yesterday and cau(sit in last night's game, and showed up very well. Maine Governor Wins ‘Doughnut Duel’ : r 1 KiiHr*"— ITS- "• JnlPfl i f -i ~ mr . L khßl I s * s Which state can claim honors for being the home of the inventor of doughnnt holes? That question was decided in a doughnut-frying contest * in Bangor, Maine, between Gov. Lewis Barrows of Maine, right, and Secretary of State Harry Jackson of New Hampshire. Barrows’ claim that Hanson Gregory, a deceased Maine sea captain, invented the hole in the donghnut was upheld when he was declared winner of the contest. James Chnte, hotel employee, dressed as the sea captain, stands in center. Negotiations for two pitchers from Oglethorpe university, from which Greenville secured Andy Johnson and other star players of former days, have been com pleted and the new men will pro bably arrive here Monday. Ne gotiations are also under way wit\ Duke and Carolina players in an effort to bolster the local team. David Williams, a pitcher, has been released to make room for Walters. o Beer Dealers Are Getting Response From Their Drive Raleigh, May 25 The cam paign initiated by the Brewers and Norh Carolina Beer Distri butors Committee against retail beer outlets which permit prac tices contrary to law and decency is making progress, State Dir ector Edgar H. Bain announced today. Formed on May 18, 1939, by a ■ majority of shipping brewers and ’ beer distributors of the state, the : committee has translated its pro i mises into performances and won . the support of public officials, community leaders and the pub , lie. i Greatly improved conditions in • retail beer outlets throughout f North Carolina have sustained the : widespread public interest gener i a ted by the committee’s forma i tion. Director Bain reported to [ day that the committee, during its ; first year of operation, inspected 727 outlets in 73 counties, warn. ed 113 dealers to correct certain unsatisfactory conditions, and se cured the revocation of the retail beer licenses of 78 dealers in 30! counties. In addition, four dealers were placed on probation by local authorities upon petition of the! committee. “I am pleased with results in our drive to weed out establish ments which have no regard for, law and public opinion,” Colonel j Bain remarked. ”We commend, the law enforcement officers and law-abidinig retailers in their ef forts to enforce and observe the laws regulating the sale of this beverage.” “Our efforts have been encour aging this first year, and we hope j to make even greater progress during the next 12 months in our campaign to rid communities of undesirable beer outlets.” o ■ “Social case work” is a MBss of personal council whiJPWi phsizes a full the problems of the family dividual in trouble and stressed an attempt to work out, with each family or person, an indi vidualized plan of treatment to help meet those particular needs or problems in such away as to conserve the indivdual’s own ability and right to help himself. “Categorical relief” is relief to special groups in their own ■ homes. There is one condition com -1 mlon to all who receive public assistance; they must be in need. If the rest cure is properly car i ried out, practically all cases of early tuberculosis can be cured. , Chicago Turf Season Opens 25 Days Late ■ —— 11 Chicago, May 24 Twenty-five | days late, Chicago’s 1940 turf ! season of 114 days opens tomor- | row with 25-day meetings at Lin- * coin fields. Failure of Aurora to | take up its dates caused the dc- | layed opening. From tomorrow on, there will | be continuous racing in this area | until at least October 5 with a | total purse of $1,500,000 at the I four major tracks. Fashionable j Arlington park with its rich stake £ program, will follow Lincoln f fields. Washington park and Haw. j thorne come next in order. The j season may be extended to Oc- | tobcr 31, provided the Illinois ■ racing commission grants dates to 1 Sportsman’s park. < The commission refused to j grant dates to Sportsman’s pari: , a half-mile track, following the i unsolved slaying of Eddie O’Hare, - president of the operating com pany shortly after the close of t last season. The commissioner de- a manded a management re-organ i -7ation. Lincoln fields will offer six takes of $5,000 and a total distri bution of $200,000. Tomorrow's attraction is a six-furlong dash. Top weighted and probable fav orite the Calumet farm’s Easy 1 Mon carrying 122 pounds. 1 Mere than 1,500 horses from T Churchill Downs, the west, south 1 and eastern tracks are quartered at Lincoln fields, with the over flow at nearby Washington park. The rise in the pari-mutual “take” from 6 1.2 to 7 1-2 per cent will be used to increase the value of purses. An innovation * that will be watched 1 is the new electric starting gate which en closes each horse in a separate stall, with front doors that close and spring open at the touch of ] the starter’s button. Person County and Roxboro Residents Who wish News Items released to the State Press are requested to send informaton to THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., PERSON COUNTY TIMES, PHONE 4501, ROX BORO, who is correspondent for the Greensboro Daily News News and Observer Durham Morning Herald Special Attention to Weddings, Parties . Wedding Notices and Photographs should be sent in a week in advance, when possible. No Sunday copy af ter Wednesday. Thomas J. Shaw, Jr. Phone 4501 P. O. Box 380 SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1940 Powerful Patricia Patricia O’Keefe, who weighs only 64 pounds, holds 200-pound Wayne Long on her back at Venice, Calif. Her trainer says she is one of the strongest girls of her age and size in the world. “Neither a borrower nor lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” —Shakespeare bSHELLd Change To SHELL STOP AT YOUR SHELL STATION FOR ECONOMICAL SERVICE Humphries Oil Co
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