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l PERSON | SLANTS | By J S. MERRITT ‘ o—o—o—o The Part We Can Play Well, next week the schools of this county will open for their 1940-41 session and from all accounts Roxboro high school will have good prospects in its three leading sports, football, basketball and baseball, of which the pigskin comes first. While talking to Coach Wirtz early this week we dis covered that he expects to have under his direction one of the strongest lines ever known to this county. Not much was said about his backfield except that he had a couple of good regulars from last season back and some smart looking ma terial. This year the Ramblers are members of a conference for the first time in quite a number of years and this should have something to do with the fighting spirit of the team. When boys have some goal to dig for it makes cross-stripes look much prettier and to young boys prettier things are the things for them. This year we hope to see a strong Athletic Association at the local institution with all students as members and many townspeople making up the honorary list. An associa tion is essential to good sports and a credit to a school. We remember back in 1933 and 1934 when the local gridsters were engaged in playing a smooth brand of ball, going on the field in just a little more than rags at the first of the season. But these boys were lucky enough to have a strong student association behind them. One morning a meeting was called and in less than an hour enough money was raised to clothe the players in new pants. That's just an illustration of one of the things an Athletic Association can do, so folks, let’s see if we can't have a strong association to help your Ramblers bear some of the burdens. We don't have to tackle and block, just join. We Think So, Don’t You i—- — : ,r ■ ||p IKMV -■••■. x -j $/c* white, tackle, nortK CARoum This year, over on Tar Heel Hill, we are expecting to hear quite a bit about a nice looking young fellow who will have a lot on his shoulders on offense and from the defense, He is none other than Dick White, one of Carolina’s promis ing tackles whom no one has said much about. Laurence Leon ard, Greensboro Daily News’ sports editor, said this in one of his releases this week, “One complaint we find with the an nual is ignoring of Dick Whit, Carolina lineman ... Brother, if he’s not a star now, ’twon’t be long before he will . . . The time draws nearer every minute ...” ,and we think the same. One other thing we’d like to see happen over on the Hill and that is for them to put Bob Whitten, Person’s pow er-house, right there at left guard. He’s fast and mighty. Their Final Fight Is O. K From the looks of things the St. Louis Cardinals have truly been making hits count and Enos (Country) Slaughter has been getting his. The Cards have won ten of the past twelve games and are now in third place. One of their losses was in a double-header, but Enos took the spotlight even if he was on the losing end- In that game Slaughter got two of the Cardinals five hits, a double and a homer. The circuit blow was the only run the St. Louis team got. SOLUTION Because they feel that poultry offers a solution to at least part of the income problem on Beau fort county farms, many families are undertaking this enterprise, says Farm Agent W. L. McGahey. — WOOL As a result of the national de fense program and improvement in consumer incomes in this coun try, the outlook for domestic mill consumption of wool continues favorable. SEED F. W. Leary of Cclerain sav ed 1,700 pounds of crimson clo ver seed this year, of which he will sell 1,200 pounds, reports R. D. Smith, assistant farm agent of Bertie county. TOURS Community farm tours have proved both interesting and edu cational for farmers and farm women of Henderson county, says D. W. Bennett, assistant county | agent of the Extension service. SPORTS OJJLHE TIMES Up*to*the*Miniite Sport News Solicited Ca-Vel Wins Two Games From Durham Team Here L 1 During the past weekend th?' ' Ca-Vel baseball club downed two Durham clubs in hard-fought con • tests at the local playing field. . The first, on Saturday was a 3-2 ; win over the Durham Steers. • Tommy Crowder, plant south paw hurled for Ca-Vel and al lowed only seven bingles, while' 1 his mates were securing the same! number from the offerings of■ Parker, None cf the visitors col lected more than one safe blow and these were well scattered. On Sunday the locals engaged i , Golden Belt and won 7 to 5. Blanks and Shotwell shared pit ching duties on this occasion and held the visitors to eight hits. Hitting honors for the day went to Carlton Slaughter and Guthrie Gentry. Gus poled out a two-run . homer and Carlton got three doubles for five trips up. The Box: , Durham Steers Ab R II A Hunter, 2b 4 0 1 2 Clarke, rs 3 0 0 0 Leighton, cf 2 11 0 Ferrell, c 2 11 2 Longee, lb 4 0 11 Mitchell. 3b 4 0 11 Hall, If 3 0 0 0 Sanders, ss 3 0 1 4 Parrish, p 3 0 11 a Williams 1 0 0 0 Totals 29 2 7 10 Ca-Vel Ab R H A Gentry, 3b 4 0 1 2 James, ss 3 0 0 3 C. Slaughter, cf 4 0 1 0 Briggs, rs '4 11 0 H. Salughter, lb 3 0 0 1 Anders, 2b 4 11 2 Shotwell, If 3 1 2 0 Dunn, c 3 0 11 Cro-wder, p 3 0 0 0 Totals 31 3 7 9 (a) batted for Hall in 9th. Score by innings: Durham Steers .. 200 000 000—2 Ca-Vel 020 001 OOx 3 Errors: Slaughter, Ferrell. Runs batted in: Longee 2, Shot well, Dunn, Crowder. Two-base hits: Mitchell, Shotwell 2. Three base hits: Longee, Ferrell. Stoler bases: Gentry. Sacrifices: Leigh ton. Double plays: James to An Hers to H. Slaughter. Left on bases: Durham Steers 6, Ca-Vel 7. Base on balls—off: Parrish 6, Crowder 5. Struck out—by: Par rish 6, Crowder 8. Time: 1:40. Umpires: Crowder, Walker. Golden Belt Ab R H A Morris, ss 5 1 2 2 Fortune, cf 5 1 2 0 Beck. If 4 0 0 0 Hawkins, 3b 3 0 1 0 Byrd, c 2 2 1 0 Johnson, rs 4 0 0 9 Ball, 2b 4 0 0 5 Overman, 3b 4 0 12, Parker, p 3 11 11 a McArthur 1 0 0 0 Totals 35 5 8 10 Ca-Vel Ab R H A C. Slaughter, If .... 5 2 3 0 James, ss .... 4 11 3 R. Gentry, 3b 5 1 2 3 Briggs, rs 5 0 1 0 H. Slaughter, lb .... 4 0 0 0 Anders, 2b 2 11 1 G. Gentry, cf 4 1 2 0 Dunn, c ..4 0 1 0 Blanks, p 1 0 0 0 Shotwell, p 2 11 3 Totals 36 7 13 13 (a) batted for Parker in 9th. Score by innings: Golden Belt 010 130 000—5 Ca-Vel 000 025 OOx—7^ Errors: Dunn, Fortune .Slaugh-, ter. | Rups batted in: Byrd, Ball, G. Gentry 2, James, Briggs, R. Gen- Air ‘Scarf’ i i Australian air force observe! vrears a scarf of bullets around his neck before going aloft at Sydney. i j try 2. Two-base hits: C. Slaugh ter, R. Gentry, Anders, Shotwell. Three-base hits: James. Home runs: Byrd, G. Gentry. Left on bases: Golden Belt 5, Ca-Vel 8. Base on ball off: Parker 4, Blanks, 2, Shotwell 1. Struck out —by: Blanks 2, Parker 4. Hits— off: Blanks, 7 in 4 2-3; Shotwell, 1 in 4 1-3; Parker, 13 in 9. Losing pitcher: Parker. Winning pitcher: Shotwell. Time: 1:50. Umpires: Mangum. o WHITFIELD FANS 13 TO VICTORY “Big Hass” Whitfield, who last year gained state-wide re cognition as a football player and will again this season be with the Roxboro high school Ramblers, is now doing fine on the baseball front. Whitfield, a righthander, has pitched for the Bushy Fork •club several weeks and during this time he has been the starter in six contests. For the six he has a total of 73 strike-outs, and is batting well over .300. Last Saturday the Bushy Fork team engaged Jule Warren’s Five Forks aggregation and took the game by a score of 18 to 5. Has sell hurled and allowed only eight bingles, while he and his mates were securing 28 safe blows Whitfield batted 1.000 in this con test, getting five hits for five trips to the plate, he also fanned 13 Five Forks men. Next Saturday the same two teams will hold a double-header at Bushy Fork and a benefit brunswick stew will be held at F. T. Whitfield’s store after the two games. o Packers Favored In All-Star Game Chicago, Aug. 27 The Green Bay Packers, champions of the National Professional Football league, ruled 8 to 5 favorites ov er the college All-Stars tonight i as both squads concluded prac i tice for their game at Soldier l Field Thursday night. ; Th| game, seventh in the ser . ies, may break all attendance re- I cords with a throng cf 85,000. The advance sale was far beyond that of any previous year for the all-star attraction. After the most spirited and 1 . best defensive drill of the two weeks training period, the All [ Stars reported to Soldier Field to | right for a secret drill under the towering lights of the massive . lake-front stadium. a BILL LANGE TALKS ON CAGE GAME Chapel Hill, Aug. 26 Basket ball has gotten to be almost too fast for the spectators, as well as the players, and even the score keepess find it difficult to keep up with the game so dizzy is the pace, Bill Lange, who coached the University of North Carolina to the Southern conference cham pionship in the first year as bas ketball mentor here last winter, told coaches attending the Uni | versity’s Coaching School today. I Coach Lange felt something ought to be done to slow up the game a bit, but he wasn’t sure what the best remedy might be. “Larger squads might provide one answer,” he said. “Five boys, no matter how good they are, can’t be expected to stand the present fast pace for the entire game. “A return to the topoff has been suggested as another answer, but the tipoff, I think, is unfair in that it often gives the weaker team an advantage that enables it to win.” Coach Lange’s lectures on bas ketball marked the opening of the second week of the Coaching school which closes Thursday. Lectures and demonstrations also were begun today in track and baseball. Instruction in track was given by Coaches Bob Fet zer and Dale Ranson, and Coach Bunn Hearn conduucted the base ball classes. Basketball seems to be going through the same growing pains football experienced some years ago, Coach Lange said. “Many basketball teams are putting practically all the emphas is on offense, and that’s why you hear of teams scoring above 100 points. Forty-four points us ed to be considered enough to win any basketball game but not these days.” “The trend is certainly more and more towards the offense but I personally don’t like it. I like to see a team with a well-balan ced offense and defense. The sit uation reminds me cf the arrival at Ohio State some six or seven years ago of Francis Schmidt who proceeded to stress offense in a manner unheard of in the Middle west before.” Coach Lange said he thought the rule markers had made pro gress in every change to date save for the fact that the game has been speeded up to much. He showed motion pictures to ill ustrate interpretations of the 1940 rules. I o Charlotte Trotter Sets New Record Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 27 Sea son records went by the bords in the grand circuit feature race at the New York State Fair to day as Bill Gallon beat Florimcl in the $7,000 Noyes stake for two-1 year old trotters. Florimel, owend by the Arden Homestead Stable of Goshen, N. Y. and driven by Pwnall, won the first heat and trotted the fastest mile by a juvenile this year, 2:05. ; but Bill Gallon, owned by R. H Johnston, Charlotte, and driven by Lee Smith, came back to cut half a second off that mark in winning the second heat, and then bested Floimel again in the two horse run-off. Nine horses faced the barrier for this event, but the i heat winners proved much the | best, and the total time for the i three heats also was the best for two-year- olds this year. o—— A total of 3,709 North Carolina > drivers had their licenses revoked | the first six months of 1940. % ' John, the Jolting Pole a Jin —-v 4 * - IFr; .' - &. : v ' x '■ :*■ ;/ ■ dOHN 'POLfWSAZ! John Polanski, the 205-pound battering ram of, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, not only led the nation in tallies last year, but was the stand-out ball-carrier. Ted Mann' Duke’s veteran observer, says he’s the best full back ever seen in the Virginia-Carolina sector. Denny Shute Out For Several Months Hershey, Pa., Aug. 27 Den ny Shute, star professional golf er, was “doing as well as could be expected” tonight after an em ergency operation for appendici tis. Dr. David A. Johnston, who per formed the operation, said it would be two or three days be fore it could be said that Shute was out of danger, and that it would be several months before he could play golf again. Shute, who won the P. G. A. championship twice, was strick en late today after he had com pleted his second qualifying round in the current P. G. A. tournament. He scored rounds of 75-76 to qualify easily. Shute won tht British Open in 1933, beating Craig Wood in a play-off. South Leads In Production Os i Cotton Wastes Prof. Earl H. Hostetler of the State College Animal Husbandry Department says that one of the reasons for the eroded and gul lied fields that are so common throughout the cotton belt is that the South has lagged in recog nizing the value of by-products of the cotton crop as a livestock feed. “Livestock feeders in other , of the United States and in Europe have long recognized the importance of cottonseed pro ducts as food for both plants and animals, and they have prosper ed through the purchase of by products of the South’s so-called ‘king’,” Prof. Hostetler declared. “The present changes in South ern agriculture and the univer sal recognition of the necessity of livestock for the conservation and improvement of soil fertility has emphasized the need of re -1 taining the hy-products of the i cotton crop cm the farm. Experi ments and farm experiences have shown conclusively that cotton seed meal is a satisfactory pro tein supplement for horse 3, mules, cattle, and sheep and swine. It has also been found that cottonseed meal is a very defini THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1940 National Defense Is Luring Caddies Philadelphia, Aug. 27 Nat ional defense is luring Philadel phia caddies away from their job of trundling 25 pounds of golf clubs over hill and dale. James McLaughlin, caddymas ter at the Whitemarsh Country club, said today about half of his boys have netered defense indus tries or have signed with the na tion’s armed forces. Only this morning five caddies left for jobs in a mill which turns out underwear for the army--a job not as romantic as keeping a sharp eye for a slice, shile [ stifling chuckles, but the pay is better. Top caddies usually earn : about sl6 to $lB a week at White i marsh for six months in the year. ; McLaughlin’s situation is typi cal. One third of the caddies at the Pholadelphia Country Club’s Spring Mill course are away on defense jobs. te aid in the production of firm pork. “It is encouraging to see,” the animal husbandman continued, “the present trend in the South toward livestock, which means a greater use of cottonseed meal and cake and other high protein feeds as well as more and better pastures and hay crops. This trend will mean a more prosper ous and contented rural popula tion in the cotton belt.” PRINTING SERVICE Say it in print and sfell your mercnandise. Ask for our tow prices on smart circular | printing. Phone 4501 Person County Times I ~~
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