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By J. S. Merritt or Dub Hobgood, one or the other.
Ray Wolf Pleased
Raymond Wolf, football coach of the University of North
Carolina, is pleased with the changes made in the playing
code by the rules committee recently.
From Fort Worth, Texas, where he is vacationing, Wolf
sent the following wire, in reply to a request for his views
on the subject:
"Very pleased with new rule changes. Do not believe
substitution rule will delay game great deal as many might
believe it will. Used substitution rule North-South game.
Handing ball behind line should help offense and add more
deception. Forward pass rule satisfactory.”
A large majority of coaches appear to be well pleased
with the new rules and if they are pleased there should be
no reason why the fans are not.
Taking everything into consideration it looks like the
changes will help make a faster game and one in which
there is more scoring.
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Good News For Golfers
i
Johnny Bulla won the big golf tournament in Caliror
nia with a thirty five cent golf ball. That must be good news
to a number of golfers in this section who cannot use high
price balls. Now they know- golf matches can be won with
low price balls and there is nothing to keep them from going
ahead and shooting a good game.
A large number of fans in this city were pulling for
Mr. Bulla in the tournament and when he came through they;
were pretty well satisfied with everything.
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Dean Says j
Chicago, Jan 7—Dizzy Dean may have lost his fast ball
but the lanky Chicago Cubs’ pitcher showed plenty of speed
today in returning his signed contract for the 1941 season
Ole’ Diz sent the signed document in so quickly that it
became the first signed player contract received in the Cub
office. One reason advanced for the pace in which Dean join
ed the Cub fold was that his contract called for the same
salary he received last season, SIO,OOO.
The one-time pitching great won three and lost three
for the Cubs in 1940
In spite of all the things that Dean has done or has not j
done baseball fans like him. They are pulling for him to!
have a good year. One thing about the once great that calls
for admiration is the grand fight that he is staging to make
a comeback.
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PENALTY
Continues To Be
Added
The penalty on 1939 taxes is going
up each month. It will be to your
advantage to pay both’39 and ’4O
taxes now.
You always lose when you delay in
paying taxes. There is no time like
the present.
Pay Now and Save
M. T. CLAYTON
Sheriff & Tax Collector For Person 1
County
SPORTS OfJHE TIMES
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PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9,194 l“
NOVA DRAWS VOTE
OF SPORT WRITER !
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1 Experience Should Pay off
;: for Lou in ‘Battle of Come
j backs’ on Friday
’j New York, Jan.—On the sur
' face, it’s just another 10-round
| fight; just aonther headliner on j
; he time-clock schedule of boxing
; shows Mike Jacobs has lined up
.' to keep the sport and Mike Ja
“ cobs alive around here this Win-
I ter.
I, Beneath the surface, the Pat
‘ Comiskey-Lou Nova bout at the
I Garden Friday night drips drama,
, '• and pathos, arid all the other ele
, ments which are blended when
I two young men with a common
| goal meet to decide which will
j move ahead and which will back
| up for a fresh start.
“Much in Common”
j The careers of the two young
j men have much in common. Both
are fine physical specimens who
at one time in their respective
careers were rated promising as-1
pirants for Joe Louis’ title. Each,!
when apparently on the right j
| track with a green light, ran into
a setback which knocked thej
: foundation from his air castle. j
The major difference is thati
! Nova was farther along the road,
j when he was wrecked by Tony
| Galento. Comiskey’s reputation ,
j had been built on victories over!
I second-raters, and on his first trip!
j on the main line he ran into Max!
Baer, which was a slight error. I
Something like stepping into an!
j. elevator which isn’t there.
Anyway, they both were re-|
moved from the spotlight quite j
1 abruptly. Nova remained in se-|
elusion the longer, spending 15
' months recovering from a blood j
; infection which he blamed for his I
inept showing against the little
1 round man.
Comeback Trial
' Both have taken the same
I
method of mending their frayed
careers. Comiskye dropped back
| iftto the company to which’ he
j was accustomed, and proceeded
! to pick up the needed experience
cnly that kind of competiion can
bring. Nova, after regaining his
strength, went up against some
i trial horse and won handily in a
j bout which left rather disturbing
; thought waves.
| Now they are both ready to re
sume their climbs, and at each
ether's expense. A Nova defeat
might remove him permanently i
from the select circle of title pos
sibilities. His manager, Ray Carl-'
cn, has remarked that if his Louie!
can’t beat Comisky, Lou had bet - j
ter hang up his gloves and learn
a good trade.
Comiskey still is an infant, fis
tically speaking. He might sur
vive another crushing defeat,
but it would be certain to put
him back to scratch and it might
curb his enthusiasm to some de
gree.
“It’s A Natural.”
j Despite the fact that many
bouts which have loomed as ‘nat
i urals’ have turned out to be re
l sounding duds, the Friday bout
should fall into “natural” cate
gory, inasmuch as both fighters
, realize their immediate future de
pends on their showing. If the
bout is a dud they’re both out of
he picture.
! Comiskey has a terrific right
-hand punch, a stabbing but not
lethal left. Nova probably can't
punch so hard as Comiskey with
his right, but Lou’s left is more
. potent. He’s more on the pun
ishing, wear-’em-down order.
At any rate, he gets our vote
j to win a bout which should end
in a least a technical knockout,
one way or the other. If our usu-1
al luck holds out, it will probably j
j be the other.
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| SELL YOUR TOBACCO I?
| ROXBORO, N. C.
FERRIS SEES HIS ERROR
| IN STICKING OUT NECK
I New York, Jan.—Dan Ferris,
secretary-treasurer of the Ama
teur Athletic Union, said tonight
that he will recommend the
prompt reinstatement of any play
ers in the New Year’s Day East-
West football game who com
municated a desire to bo rein
| stated as amateurs under the
rules of the A. A. U.
Ferris made the statement af
ter a telephone conversation with
William Coffman of San Francis
I They Call Her "
I There’s A Reason Why She
I Won’t Settle Down . . .
Don’t misunderstand Mary. It isn’t that the boys don’t like her. They do. And
Mary likes the companionship of men. The trouble is, they can’t hold her in
-9 terest. A show, a dance, a football game—are all fun, but when a girl wants a
sound, responsible man she wants to know he has faith in spiritual things too.
She’d stick to fellow who’d add to all his social invitations an invitation to
“Come to Church with me next Sunday, Mary—where we can share the deep
est, most important interest—together.”
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I Person County Times
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co, chairman of the Shrine com
mittee which sponsored the game,
and said it was predicted on the
, theory that most of the play ers
■ were not properly informed of
. the requirements of the Amateur
> Athletic Union rules.
Ferris recently announced that
■ players participating in the East -
West game had lost theft- “anla
• eur standing” because they had
■ played with and against Tom
I Harmon, Michigan star, who had
received money for appearing .on
i a radio program. Ferris said Fred
Hartman of Rice had applied for
■ the necessary A. A. U. dispensa-l
, tion to play in the game, but all |
; others had failed to do so—and
> therefore were no longer pure in
■ the eyes of the A. A. U.
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RETURN OF THREE
STARS HELPS SPORTS
AT STATE
i Return to school of a trio of
l star performers has boosted State
i College athletic stock.
I Roy Cromartie, varsity basket
ball forward of the past two sea-
I sons, returned when school open
ed after the Christmas holidays.
He is a starter on Coacn Bob
Warren’s quint.
* Latest returnees are Sid In
gram, crack swimmer, and Bob
by Wright, Raleigh boy who star
red in freshman football
track during the 1939-40 school
year.
Ingram is the Southern Confer
ence breaststroke champion. His
home is at Arden. Ingram receiv
ed his degree last June but has
another year of athletic compe
tition.