Dempsey vs. Johnson
At 62, Jack Johnson is willing to fight Jack Dempsey,
45, in a “three to six round bout” for charity.
Issuing a challenge, the Negro who once was world heavy
weight titlist, said such a bout would be “a lot of fun and
draw a lot of people ”
Dempsey, who won the championship from Jess Willard,
conqueror of Johnson recently knocked out Cowboy Luttrell,
a wrestler, in a special bout at Atlanta, Ga. Johnson has been
making night club apperances with a dance band.
The bout might provide some fun, but other than that
we could hardly see how it could provide anything else.
The report is out that Dempsey is in need of money and
that is the reason he has started boxing again.
To us it looks like he might be able to make enough mo
ney refereeing boxing or wrestling matches without having
to re-enter the ring as a fighter and thus lose the fame and
honor that he won in days gone by.
His recent fight in Atlanta did not draw enough fans to
make any great sum of money and his next fight might not
take in as much as the first one
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Football Tickets Higher
Here’s a bit of information about football tickets that
may be interesting. The “info” was gathered by Ed. Mitchell
of the Durham Herald:
Carolina and Duke have sent out their pre-season foot
ball price schedules. There will be nothing less than a $2.50
game played by Duke. V. M. 1., which opens the Blue Devils’
schedule here, Wake Forest, at Wake Forest, Georgia Tech
here; Davidson here; N. C. State here, and Pittsburgh here,
will be $2.50 games. Duke’s game with Tennessee will be
$3.00, the clash with Colgate, in Hamilton, N. \\S2-75 and the
Carolina game, at Chapel Hill, $2.75. Carolina has one sl-50
game on its home schedule, the contest with Appalachian
State. Wake Forest, Texas Christian and Tulane will cost
$2-50. Home games for the two schools reveal the only increa-
Carolina’s games away from home find Davidson, $2.00;
State, $2.50; Fordham, $2.75; Richmond, $2-20; Virginia,
Issuing a challenge, the Negro wh oonce was world heavy
ses to be in the Duke-Carolnia, Wake Farest-Carolina games.
The Carolina-Duke increase was made with full approval of
athletic officials at both schools, the feeling being if the col
leges absorbed the tax on the other $2-50 games the public
should be willing to pay the additional two bits for the Duke-
Caroiina struggle
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number of stores close in this city on Wednesday afternoon
and the boys get a chance to go out and play golf. Last Wed
nesday afternoon found a crowd on the course that was a
bout equal to the July 4th. crowd.
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Women Shatter Sheet Records
At Annual Championship Shoot
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WOMEN are making sensaUon&l
scores and new records In
skeet shooting, and becoming In
creasingly enthusiastic over this
sport A striking Instance of this
was seen at the 12th annual Great
Eastern Skeet Championships at
the Remington Gun Club. Lordship,
Conn., June 21-23, when Mrs. M. L.
Smythe, of Aurora, Ohio, (right)
surpassed all previous Lordship
records In the women’s event win
ning the championship with a score
of 99 out of 100 targets in a field
of nineteen entrants
The runner-up. Miss Patricia
Laursen, of Akron, Ohio, (left)
bolder of the national skeet Utle,
was not far behind, with a score
of 98 x 100. Tied for third place
were Miss Diana Bolling of Old
Greenwich. Conn.. 1939 Great
Eastern women's champion. Mrs.
M. B. Orr of New York and Miami
and Mrs Llovd Bissell of Williama
ville. N. Y.. with 9i out of 100
targets
The contrasting personalities of
these three experts indicate that
women of all types are taking up
the sport. Mrs Smythe is a diminu
tive. vivacious brunette Miss Laur
sen is a tall. 19-year old blonde: and
Miss Bolling, is jiim reserved and
blue-eyed.
Mrs. Smythe, the new title bolder,
considers skeet ideal for women
because it requires skill rather than
physical endurance, allowing them
YANK SUPPORTERS
ABOUT READY TO
GIVE UP HOPES
New York, July 11 Here’s
a double-barreled item of interest
as the major league clubs swing
into the second half of the sea
son today:
Both Yankee fans and Yankee
club officials have about aban
doned hope that their favorites
can repeat this season. And,
strangely enough both fans and
officials grudgingly admit the cur
rent Yankee debacle may be all
for the best in the long run.
The sorry showing of the Yan
kee stars in the all-star game just
about convinced the die-hands
that the Yanks haven’t got it any
more.
The loss of Lefty Gomez, the
apparent slipping of old Charles
Ruffing, and the even more cost
ly skidding of Bill Dickey, Red
Rolfe’s eye-trouble and the fail
ure of the others to play up to
their old standard, all contribute
to the slow-down of the Yank ma
chine and indicate the approach
of a new champion.
The Yanks in fourth place are
still only seven games off the
Dace. If this were the same Yan
kee chib of last year that deficite
would be no great obstacle. But
the current Yanks simply haven't
got what it takes.
Who then, will be the new title
holder? the obvious answer is
either the Indians or the Tigers.
to compete with men on an equal
footing. To hit the clay targets as
they fly through the air like birds,
quickness of eye Is needed more
than muscle. When both Mrs.
Smythe and her husband entered
In the premier event, the All-Bore
Championships, Mr. Smythe came
out one target behind her score of
98 out Os 100. "And." she adds “it
was my husband who lauch me to
shoot skeet.”
Mrs. Smythe, who has been spool
ing for six yean, is also tbe Ohio
State women’s champion ai the
recent Southwest Ohio Champion
ship, she and her husband both
broke 100 straight This marked
the lint perfect 100 x 100 score
ever shot by a woman In all-bore
competition. Last year out of 2.000
targets she avenged more than 95
per cent hits.
Miss Launen has been shooting
skeet for three and a half years
and won the Great Eastern In 1938
with a score of 95 s 100. Her title
as National Women's Champion
was achieved in the same year with
a score of 96 x 100. and retained
last year at San Francisco She is
a senior at Rollins College flies
her own plane, swims, plays tennis
and does figure skating
Miss Bolling, who tied tot thtr>
place, was 1939 wtnnei oi h
championship and is the
of the late Captain Raynal 801 l n
war aviator for whom Bolling Fie!
Washington D C. was name!
We lean to the Tigers because
they have a little more power
than th Indians and slightly bet
ter pitching.
Ihe Red Sox are only 3 1-2
games behind the leading Tigers
today but they are that close on
ly because of their terrific hit
ting and not because of their
pitching. And, unfortunately for
them, their hitting is more apt to
fall off than their pitching is to
improve. We can forget the oth
er clubs.
What about the National Lea
gue? An unbiased observer must
admit that the clubs probably
should finish as they now stand—
Cincinnati, Brooklyn and New
York.
The Reds have the best balan
ced club in the league and their
three pitching aces—Deeringer,
Walters and Thompson—already
rave won 31 games among them.
These thfee are likely to finish
the season with at least 20 vic
tories apiece and how can you
pick anybody to beat a club with
pitching like that.
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MAN ARRESTED ON
THREE COMPLAINTS
Chicago A man who gave his
name as Edward Young Calrke,
sixty-two, and said he was once
“Grand Kleagle” of the Ku Klux
Klan in eGorgia, was held here on
three complaints that he owed a
S6OO hotel bill, passed worthless
$76 check in Atlanta and failed to
repay a S6OO loan.
Jeffries Willing
To Re-Enter Ring
Lcs Angeles, July 12 James
J. Jeffries—honest, it’s a fact. -
said today he had been reading
where Jack Dempsey had chal
lenged Gene Tunney to box for
the Red Cross, and now has an
offer to make himself.
“I would like to meet the win
ner,” said the 65-year-old Jeffries,
“provided either can go for four
rounds. And Fm serious about
it.”
Big Jim’s last fight was the
memorable loss in 1910 to Jack
Johnson.
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Dempsey Willing
To Box Tunney
For Red Cross
New York, July 11 Before
leaving for Detroit today, former
Heavyweight Champion .Tack
Dempsey said he would be glad
to meet Gene Tunney, also a for
mer champion, in a bout for the
Red Cross.
Dempsey was questioned by
newspapermen and said that as
far as he was concerned he could
get in condition in a short time.
The former champon said:
“I would do it, and of course
all the money would go to the
Red Cross.”
Dempsey emphasized that he
was talking about the possible
bout and only for himself and that
as far as he knew there was noth
ing definite in the wind to ar
range Such a match.
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their adoptions tried, graple them
to thy soul with hoops of steel.
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‘Lefty’s’ Daughter
Posing proudly at the Boston,
Mass., General hospital is Mrs. Ver
non Gomes, and her first born, a
baby girl. The infant’s dad is famed
“Lefty” Gomez of the New York
Yankees.
Dairy Grades
Announced At
Local Office
In the July inspection of Per
son county dairies made by M. L.
Linker of North Carolina State
Board of Health and T. J. Fowler,
local Sanitarian, the Elco Dairy
■owned by Mrs. E. B. Foushee
made a perfect sanitary score, ac
cording to announcement made
ysterday. The dairies are graded
on one hundred and twelve dis-l
ferent items, some of which are
cows tested, dairy barn, mil!',
house, toilet facilities, water sup
ply, milking utinsils, milking,
bottling and capping, and em
ployee’s health certificates. If one
of these items is not met with a
100 per cent a mark is made ag
ainst the dairy. “This was the
first time in the history of milk
inspection in Roxboro that a
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dairy has made a perfect score.”
says Mr. Fowler.
In a letter of commendation to
Mrs. Foushee, Mr. Fowler said
“l want to take this opportunity
to commend you on the excellent
sanitary cindition of the Elco
Dairy. Mr. Linker and I congra
tulate you on having- the highest
score of any dairy in Person
county and we feel sure that milk
produced under so ideal sur
roundings will go far in the pro
tection of the health of the peo
ple of this community”.
The Richland Dairy also rated
Grade “A” but there was sixteen
marks against it.
Roxboro Dairy Products Co.,
distributors of Quail Roost milk
is rated Grade “A”. The inspec
tion of this milk is left up to the
Durham Health officials and their
records are filed at the local
department, says Mr. Fowler.
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Ca-Vel Wins
Game From
Boydton
Ca-Vel won a ball game from
Boydton Wednesday by the score
of 9 -1. Ca-Vel scored five runs
in the fourth inning and was nev
er in danger.
Blanks did the hurling for the
locals while McKee pitched for
Boydton.
Briggs for Ca-Vel, connected
with the ball for a four bagger
while Shotwell came through with
a three-base hit.
Crowder and Montague umpir
ed the game.
a
Altus, Okla. Two private
planes crashed in mid-air, but
both pilots escaped with minor
inpuries.