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44. NUMBER 89
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THE PINEHTJRST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1940
[1ST MILE COVERED
(TRACK WORKOUT
IT HITHER HANOVER
Delvin Miller Steps Colt in 2:26 h
As Spe^y Time As Probably
geen On Southern Course This
Winter.
MANY WATCHERS
By Wayne Groves
The season’s first mile as good
as 2:30 was seen out at the
pinehurst race track Saturday
when Delvin Miller stepped the
big brown colt, Luther Hanover
in 2:261, last half in 1:10, last
quarter in in :34f, final eighth
in :16f. This a remarkably fast
work for a two-year-old colt this
early in the season, and is per
haps as fast a mile as has been
seen over any Southern track
this winter, when one takes in
to consideration that the local
course is a half-mile oval, while
the training rings at other
points are one mile in circumfer
ence.
Miller calls this colt his “dream
colt,” and there is an interesting
little story goes with it. Luther
was purchased for Mahlon N.
Haines of York, Pa., at the big
Harrisburg sale, last fall and
was thought to be a trotter.
However, the big colt was some
thing of a headache for trainer
Miller, at that way of going.
One night the last of January
he dreamed he won a race with
him on the pace. Thinking, this
might be a good hunch, he pro
ceeded to put a set of pacing
hopples on him the next morn
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What Did Dinah Do?
A kidnap scare at the Caro
'■na Hotel Saturday morning
Proved to be nothing more than
the work of a prankster. And
Aunt Dinah, the lifeless but gay
colored mammy is back on her
dummy job at the Woman’s Ex
change after a hectic Friday
n'ght, as if nothing had hap
pened.
^0w> Aunt Dinah is and al
Ways has been a steady-living
keh who never, never goes out
|n the evening. As a matter of
ac't the ladies of the Exchange
ock her in every night. How
j"veb the ladies thought it would
e quite appropriate and clever
0 take Aunt Dinah up to the
eno same which was held Fri
ay night at the Carolina for
benefit of the Woman’s Ex
anSe> She was planted up
eie where she could greet
Veiyone and vice versa, in her
^est Party costume.
certain gentleman guest of
v 6 ,faro^na book that “vice
fo|.Sa . ra^er heavily and fell
^^nah, as the saying goes.
e)l> my dears, the next
fv01'nmS the ladies of the Ex
anSe went up to the hotel
holf6^ an(t 1° and be
foun7slle Was just not to be
look a anywbiere, and everyone
and looked and looked.
anH° ,ma^e a long story short
abom Tr an air °f mystery
• 1 the yam, Aunt Dinah ~
back
Sa at ^er usual spot. Peop]
outl f1 comPlexion and generj
B°t n°n are more sprue
erl , ah Won’t tabk- Whetl
A»a,ef saybug to herself “Nev<
will never be known
WEEKS AIDS POLO HERE J
John K. Weeks has been
added to the Pinehurst Polo
Club committee, and will go
into action with others in an
effort to build up a strong
schedule.
Mr. Weeks was recently in
Aiken, and talked with lead
ing polo players there, who
expressed the thought that
the game would be helped in
the mid-South with Pinehurst
back in.' ,
The Aiken men stated that
they would very likely be
able to get a team to play
in Pinehurst later in the sea
son.
DEMARET WITH 286
WINS NEW ORLEANS
1ST PRIZE OF $2000 ,
Guldahl, McSpaden and Snead
in Three-Way Tie at 287 »for
Second Place Get $1,066 Each;
Stahl Next with 288.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26.—
(/P) — Jimmy Demaret sneaked
under the wire today to win the
$2,000 first prize in the New
Orleans $10,000 open, for his
fourth victory in eight tourna
ments this year.
In an eighth place tie and
four strokes behind the leader
yesterday, Demaret forged to the
front* with a four under par 68,
to bring his 72 hole total to
286.
Tied for second, a stroke be
hind, were Ralph Guldahl, Har
old McSpaden, and Sam Snead.
Each captured $1,066 of the
purse.
Scores: Demaret 218-68-286
$2,000, Guldahl 217-70-287 $1,
066, McSpaden 214-73-287 $1,066,
Snead 215-72-287 $1,066, Stahl
217-71-288 • $700, Runyan 220
69-289 $550, Hogan 214-75-289
$550, Wood 217-73-290 $425, L.
Mangrum 215-75-290 $425, Har
per '219-72-291 $325, Metz 219
72-291 $325, Penna 219-73-292
$240, Ghezzi 220-72-292 $240,
McHale 218-76-294 $190, Sarazen
221-74-295 $146, Hines 221-74
295 $146, Revolta 222-73-295
$146, Dodson 220-75-295 $146,
Nelsdn 225-70-295 $146,' Perelli
224-72-296. $50, Grout 221-75
296 $50.
WHAT TO i)0 AND SEE
Today
Bridge luncheon at the Pine
hurst Country Club today.
Pine Needles Best Ball cham
pionship continues today.
Keno and dance at The Caro
lina tonight.
AT THE THEATRES
- Southern Pines -
Today at 3:00 and 8:15,
“Broadway Melody of 1940,
with Fred Astaire, Eleanor Pow
ell and George Murphy.
- Aberdeen -
Tonight at 7:15 and 9
“The Shop Around the Corner*”
with James Stewart, Margaret
Sullavan and Frank Morgan.
- Pinehurst -
Tomorrow at 3:00 and 8:30,
“My Little Chickadee,” with
Mae West and W. C. Fields.
Finns Lose
Face Fal
HELSINKI, Feb. 26.—(By the
AP)—The Finnish high com
mand acknowledged today that
Finland had surrendered to in
vading Russians the strategic
islands of Koivisto, armed with
great coastal batteries anchor
ing the western end of the Man
nerheim line.
These islands, situated off the
town of Koivisto, are 20 miles
south of Viipuri, lying in the
Gulf of Finland near the en
trance to Viipuri Bay.
(Possession of the islands pre
sumably would give the Rus
sians a new advantage in their
drive on Viipuri, normally Fin
land’s third largest''city, by aid
ing an attack from the sea as
well as from land).
To take the city by a frontal
attack the red army must crash
through the Finnish second land
defenses, from Kaislahti to Lake
Muola.
Military informants say the
Finns still are holding the cen
tral section of their first line
defenses, as well as the Eastern
half of the Isthmus to Lake
Taitale. -
_•_
^ ALLIES SINK 2 SHIPS
BERGEN, Norway, Feb. 26.—
Allied warships whi6h only last
! week began an Arctic blockade
Koivisto,
I of Viipuri
i to halt German sea traffic along
Norway’s irregular coast were
reported tonight to have sunk
two German vessels in an ac
tion near Vardo, 50 miles north
west of Finland’s Petsamo, now
occupied by Soviet forces. The
report did not say whether the
sunken German vessels were
warships or freighters.
' Earlier a 4,000 ton German
steamer was reported aground
175 miles west of Vardo. There
was no indication whether Brit
ish or French naval action had
resulted in her grounding. The
attacks today were reported
from the Northern tip of Nor
way, where a British naval de
tachment of unknown size was
known to have been patroling
last week. Reports said French
ships had joined this patrol.
PLANES DRIVEN OFF
.PARIS, Feb. 26. — Bursting
anti-aircraft shells in skies
lighted by searchlights brought
out thousands of Parisians to
night to watch German planes
being driven from the environs
of the French capital. The ships
dropped no bombs and no air
raid warning was sounded. Anti
aircraft guns fired for 15 min
utes.
PlNEHURST SCOREBOARD
By Douglas Doak
(With Apologies for Our Southern Accent)
Scoreboard has contributed its $1.10 to the $20,000,000 which Gone
With The Wind is expected to gross, for which we trust the producers
are duly grateful. On a Sunday eve we settled into our ninth row j
balcony seats, cleaned off our specs and gazed with some misgivings
at the screen which was a mere smear some quarter of a mile below.
At that we were lucky—we might have been in the last row, four
seats back..
Some four hours later we unwound ourselves, wrung out our hand
kerchieves, and charged through the slowly moving theatre goers in
front of us, sounding the Rebel yell as we went. !
Did we like it? We hope to tell you, honey chile. We’re planning
to pack up a lunch of corn pone and fat back and catch us a ride
right back to see it again this week.
First off three rousing cheers for Susan Myrick, the voice coach,
who was responsible for the noticeable lack of Hollywood’s usual idea
of a southern accent. Except for the voice of Leslie Howard, from
which even Miss Wyrick could not remove the flavor of tea and
crumpets, the dialogue fell painlessly upon the ear.
“As to the players, we’d be as bad off as a woman trying to pick
out a new spring bonnet if we tried to say which we liked best. We
just think its a doggone shame if they don’t cook up a special mess
of Academy Awards for the whole bunch. That Leigh gal (we’re
just waiting for the United Daughters of the Confederacy to announce
they’ve traced her family connections to. the Robert E.’s) is just the
spittin’ image of the Scarlett we’ve always imagined. jr
Most pleasant surprise of the picture, to us at least, was Olivia De
Havilland’s Melanie. We wouldn’t have believed the winsome Miss
De Havilland could have been made over so thoroughly into the plain
little Melanie, even though we were prepared for her grand acting.
Clark Gable we liked even better than the original Rhett of the
novel, although it was perhaps that seeing the character on the
screen gave him a lustier personality than our imagination could
endow him with from the printed page. Or maybe it was jpst Mr.
Gable.
Of the rest of the cast we have no fault to find with any except
Laura*Hope Crews, whose role w&s a bit too heartily done to portray
the gentle ladylike Aunt Pittypat as we saw her.
The most outstanding thing about the whole production is ; at the
same time an achievement and a fl6w. We liked it because it fallowed
the book so closely and so perfectly preserved the sequence of; events
in the novel, but that was because we spent many a long hour closeted
with Miss Mitchell’s brain child. To anyone who had not read the
book (though evidently the producers regarded this as gross treason)
we believe the picture might be a trifle confusing, in that there is
such rapid transition both in time and place. So we’d advise j you to
cancel all appointments and gulp down the book in big doses before
you see the show. ■ *
/
ADD TO BODYGUARD
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—
(-#>)—The secret service added
45 agepts soon after the out
break of war in Europe, it
was disclosed today, to “pro
tect properly” the President
and his family.
Frank J. Wilson, secret
service chief, explained to a
house sub - committee the
agents were increased “in
view of the conditions in this
countrys arising as a result
of the wars in Europe.”
MALLAGHAN-WARMAN
TEAM WINS MATCH IN
PINE NEEDLES EVENT
Providence Municipal Links
Champion in Sandhills for
Spring Season; Dunlap and
Blue Eliminated.
First of the Yankee amateur
golf stars to pop up in the
Sandhills for the spring tour
nament season appeared yester
day at Pine Needles, when John
Mallaghan, Providence munici
pal links champ, partnered with
Jim Warman of The Dunes
Club to win a first round
match in the first annual hand
icap bestball tournament at Pine
Needles.
Louis Zeigler, Philadelphia,
and W. C. Heasley, Bradford,
Pa., were victims of a 7 and 6
count from the merciless attack
of Warman and Mallaghan. The
Providence youth, who is Inter
scholastic champion of Rhode
Island, hails from La Salle
Academy. He will locate in
the section the remainder of the
season.
Mr. Warman declared that he
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RECORD CROWD SEES
PINEHURST POLOISTS
NOSE OUT FORT BRAGG
The attendance at the Pine
hurst-Fort Bragg polo game
Sunday was the greatest in the
history of Pinehurst polo, offi
cials estimated. Included in the
crowd which lined the No. * 2
field were many cars from all
parts of this state and South
Carolina, a large contingent
from Fort Bragg, and many of
the society set of the Sand
hills.
The Pinehurst &quad defeated
Fort Bragg 7-6 in the exciting
match, with Fort Bragg start
ing with a handicap of 4 in its
favor.
Lieut. Charles Murray, play
ing position three and Lieut.
Alexander Graham, at' the No 1
spot, scored goals for the Army
men. Lieut. George Powers
played 2 and Captain Paul R.
Miller, back.
Merrill Fink of Rye, N. Y.,
and Pinehurst, playing No. 3 for
Pinehurst, carded four goals,
singles going to Floyd Carlisle
Jr., Earl, Shaw and Bucky
Green. !
WEATHER
Considerable cloudiness and
warmer Tuesday. Wednesday
cloudy, light rains beginning in
west portion Tuesday night;
warmer on coast. i
BUDGE TO COMPETE
IN PRO TENNIS MEET
ON PINEHURST COURTS
Net Star on Sunday Defeated
Fred Perry for Southeastern
Title at Miami; Leaders Ex
pected for North and South.
BARNSTORMING OUT
Don, Budge, still the best of
the tennis players, through his
manager, Jack Harris, an
nounced in Miami Saturday that
he would compete in the North
and South professional tennis
tournament to be played on the
courts of the Pinehurst Coun
try Club in April.
On Sunday Budge defeated
Fred Perry in three straight
sets to win the Southeastern
championship before a large gal
lery at Miami Beach. Perry
floundered before the precise
tennis of Budge.
Buuge ana rerry won ine
doubles championship, defeating
Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards
in the doubles finals.
It is likely that Tilden, Perry,
Richards and the entire group
of big time tennis stars will
play in Pinehutst. The days of
the barnstorming stars in ten
nis appears to have run into a
slump for the tirpe being, and
with no “big shot” in sight to
stir up interest in another tour,
the players are falling bafk on
the old reliable in sport, which '
is something approaching real
competition.
The golf pros found out a
long time agd that tournaments
could be established on a per
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’Chase Reservations
Parking spaces along the fin
ish rail' of the Barber course
for the Steeplechase race meet
ing on March 16th are being
taken by members of the colony
with the usual alacrity.
From Mid-Pines: Mr. and
Mrs. S. E. Comstock, Mrs.
Crystelle Waggoner.
From Southern Pines': James
McBreed, Mr. and Mrs. - Law
rence B. Smith, Mrs. John R.
Drexel Jr., Mr. and Mrs. George
Jenks, Mrs. Reid Healy, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Crowell Jr.,.
Ernest White, Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Trousdell, Mr. and Mrs.
James Boyd, Mr* and Mrs. Al
met Jenks, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
K. Trix, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
C. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Vale, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. War
man, Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Mud
gett, Mr. and Mrs. Walter I.
Ives, L. E. Stoner, Mrs. John
L. _ McKinney, Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick H. Burke, Mr. and
Mrs. Julian T. Bishop, Mr. and
Mrs. Jackson H. Boyd, Mrs. M.
F. Tompkins, Mr. and Mrs. Pres
ton Kelsey, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
ton Wicker, Mrs. J. H. Towne,
Miss Birdilia Bair, Mrs. W. D.
Hoxie, Mr. and Mrs. (J. W. Mid
dleton, Mrs. W. H. Bamum,
Mrs. T. K. Ellis, Mrs. M. G.
Nichols, G. Frederick Farrell,
Mrs. Barbara F. Lansing, Mr.
and Mrs. M. Struthers Burt. .
From Pinehurst: Stuyvesant
Leroy, Mrs. Louise McCagg, Mr.
and Mrs. C* H. Bowden, Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Tufts, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard S. Tufts, Mr.
and Mrs. James Tufts, Mr. and
Mrs. Verner Z. Reed Jr., Mr.
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