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FIRST IN NEWS, T
CIRCULATION & .
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, March 17. 1939.
FIVE CENTS
15,000 Expected For Race Meeting Here
Race Information
Holders of Reserved Parking
Spaces In the Membership En
closure for totmorrow’a races
should enter the grounds at the
Clubhouse EJnclosure gate at the
west, or Pinehurst, end of the
course.
Holders of Grandstand Park
ing Spaces enter same gate.
Those desiring $2.00 Parking
Spaces along the Midland Road
side of the course should enter
one of the Entrances on the north
side of the road; purchase their
tickets and find available loca
tions along the track rail. First
come, first served.
There is no individual charge
for admission; just for parking.
Grandstand seats are available,
however, at 50 cents.
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Race Card
1st Race—3:00 p. m—The
Catawba, one and one-half miles
over hurdles. Ten entries. Purse,
$300.00.
2nd Race _ The Croatan
Steeplechase, two miles over
brush. Eight entries. Purse
$300.00.
3rd Race _ The SandhlUs
Challenge Cup, three miles over
timber. Five entries. Purse,
$300.00, challenge cup and rider’s
trophy.
4th Race—The Yadkin, two
and one-half miles over brush.
Seven entries. Purse, $1,000.00
and trophy.
5th Race—The Midland, one
and one-quarter miles on the
flat. Twelve entries. Purse
$300.00.
HUNTER TRIALS IN
SOUTHERN PINES
THIS AFTERNOON
Some Fifty Horses To Be
Shown In Three Classes Over
Course at The Paddock
Patty Berg To Defend Title
in Mid-SouthTourney Here
Field of 60 Stars Entered In 54-
Hole Medal Golf Champion
ship Starting Monday
MRS. PAGE-TO PLAY
START AT 2:00 O’CLOCK
Everything is ii» readinesss for the
second annual Southern Pines Hunter
Trials, to be held this afternoon, Fri
day, starting nt 2:00 o’clock on The
Paddock property, and the indica
tions are there will be some fifty
horses entered in the three classes on
the program. There will be parking
spaces available for those desiring to
witness the trials, on sale at the
entrance at $2.00, which Includes all
passengers. The proceeds are for the
Moore County Maternal Welfare
Fund.
Most of the finest horses which
have been following hounds here
throughout the season will be shown
over the fences of tj^ical hunting
country. There will be a class for
Open Hunters, for working Hunters,
and for Hunt Teams of three horses.
The judging will be done by H. Gran
ger Gaither of Camden, S. C. How
ard C. Pair and F. Wallis Arm-
trong of Aiken, S. C. ‘
Thoroughbreds can not enter the
Working Hunter Class. Non-thor-
oughbreds, however, can enter the
Open Hunter Class.
If entries justify it, either of the
tibove classes may be spilt up Into
a Lightweight Class and a Micldla-
welght-Heavywelght Class.
Mrs. Harry M, Vale has been ask
ed to present the trophies.
Horses entered must be on the
grounds at 1:30 o’clock, and owners
should report to the judges’ stand
the classes In which they wish to
show. The hunter trial course Is
reached by following Indiana avenue
out past The Ark School to the hill
top overlooking The Paddock build
ings.
Gordon Keith Is New
S.P.C.C. Golf Champion
36-Hole Medal of 165 Ousts Her
mann Grover, Winner Lost
Year. By One Stroke
Gordon Keith, Aberdeen golf star,
cracked out an 80 on Tuesday which,
with his 85 of Monday, won the
Tenth Annual Southern Pines Coun
try Club Golf Championship, over
Hermann Grover, youthful South
ern Pines star, who lagged by one
stroke for 166 to take second place
in the annual 36-hole medal event,
Mackie Caldwell of Aberdeen, who
tied with D. F. Kirkpatrick, Summltt,
N, J., for first place Monday, fin
ished third with an 88 for 171.
Other low scores:
Howard F. Burns. Southern Pines,
.178; John C. Barron, HaworUi
90-90—180; Charles L. Un-
Washington, 93-92—185;
Charles R. Newton, Stafford Springs,
Conn., 93.92—^1R5.
87-91
N. J.
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With entries already received from
a score or more of the country’s out
standing women golfers, and others
being added daily, Eugene Stevens,
Chairman of the tournament com
mittee at the Southern Pines Country
Club, announced that a field of close
to 60 would be on hand for the Elev
enth Annual Women’s Mid-South Golf
Championship, to be played over the
Championship course here this com
ing Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day, March 20th, 21st and 22nd.
The tournament will be a 54-hole
medal play event and heading the
entry list will be Patty Berg, women’s
national champion and defending
chartipion In this tournament, and
Mrs. EStelle Lawson Page, who held
both of Miss Berg’s present titles last
year.
Other seeded stars of the game,
whose entries have been received,
and any one of whom is capable of
wresting the title from the Minne
apolis Red Head this year, are;
Jane Cothran. Katherine Hemphill,
Laddie Irwin, Marion Mlley, Betty
Jamison, Deborah Verry, a former
Mid-South Champion, Helen Waring,
Alliene Hoover, Mrs. T. E. Wieder-
selm and Mrs. Richard Norton of
Philadelphia, Mrs. Thomas Rudel an4
Mrs. A. F. Puckett.
Most of these Stars have been in
action this winter over the Florida
circuit and their games are sharpen
ed to the point where this tourna
ment should produce some of the
finest golf ever on exhibition in the
Sandhills.
There will be, in addition to the
Championship trophy, awards for
runner-up, low net, second low net
and low gross for the first 18 holes
Following the final round of play
on Wednesday, the contestants will
be entertained at a tea dance at the
Country Club, at which time the tro
phles will be presented.
FRIENDS PAY 'TRIBUTE
TO EBERHARD FABER
A day of golf and an evening devot
ed to a dinner and bridge compris
ed the birthday celebration prepar
ed for Bberhard Faber on Tuesday
on the occasion of his 80th birth
day.
In addition to the regular Pine
hurst winter cottage colonists and
hotel guests who were Invited, a
number of frier ds came to Pinehurst
from far distant points especially for
the nr C8 Sion.
A special golf tournament was
held over Pinehurst Country llub’s
No. 1 course and in the evening
Mr Fnber was the guest of honor at
a banquet and bridge party f.lven
by The Wolves Club, Pinehurst’i far-
famed bridge organization, A The
Berk-'hlre. | ’’I
Dead Or Alive?
Miss Bess McCaskill Off To
Illinois To Settle The
Question
If Miss Bessie McCaskill, Moore
county's popular Register of Deeds,
had been asked the middle of last
Week when she plg.nned to visit
the State of Illinois, she probably
would have smiled and .said “Nev
er.” But Saturday night she was
on her way.
The United States District At
torney wired from Danville, 111., to
the Clerk of the Court here to as
certain if Max Orendorff had died
in Moore county in 1935. The
death record for that year was
wanted in connection with some
Federal matter, the nature of
which is not known here, and as
it is rot legal for the records to
be rp.rried out of the Register of
Deer.s office except in the custody
of the keeper, the District Attor
ney summoned Miss McCaskill to
p.ppear in Danville with the rec
ord, her expenses to be paid by
the Federal governmnt. There Is
no record here of the death of the
man in question, it is said.
James H. Walker
Passes Suddenly
SLOT MACHINES
SANCTIONED
REVENUE QUEST
11)37 F'lannagan Act Repealed by j
Licensing “Amusement
Slot Machines
Governor To Attend Races
At Steeplechase Course on
Midland Road Tomorrow
SCORES APPEAR HERE
Simultaneously with the "repeal”
on Monday by the North Carolina
House of Representatives of the 1937
Flannagan Act, prohibiting gamb
ling devices in the State, by the levy
ing of a license on "amusement” slot
machines, scores of the “one-armed
bandits” made their appearances
overnight in restaurants, filling sta
tions and other gathering places and
places of amusement throughout the
Sandhills and Moore county. The ac
tion was taken In an effort to find
money to justify State appropriations
in excess of the proposed $1.54,000,-
000.
Three of the State representatives,
Cherry of Gaston county, McBryde
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Kiwanians Hear
Homer Johnson
Cleveland Attorney Sees NV)
Progress In Settling World
Differences
Director of Hospital and Presi
dent-Elect of Tin Whistles
Suffers Heart Attack
James Hume Walker, 68, of Ames-
bury, Mass., and a winter resident
here since 1930, died suddenly of a
heart attack at his Pinehurst home
last Friday.
The first indication of his illness
came that day while he was playing
in the Seniors golf championship at
the Country Club. After playing five
holes he weis forced to stop and left
for his home where he succumbed a
short time later.
Mr Walker came to Pinehurst nine
years ago and since then had become
a well-known and popular figure in
local golfing circles. He was elected
vice-president of the Tin Whistles last
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WALLACE WADE TO ADDRESS
BIG BROTHER B.4NQUET HERE
Wallace Wade, coach of the Duke
University “Blue Devils” who went
through last year’s regular football
schedule without losing or tying a
game or being scored upon, will ad
dress the “Big Bi-other” banquet of
the Sandhills Klwanis Club af; the
Southern Pines Country Club next
Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock. The
Kiwanians’ guests will be members
of the boys’ Hi-Y clubs of the Aber
deen, Carthage, Pinehurst and SoU'
them Pines schools.
Rain Or Shine
Steeplechase Races Will Be
Run Tomorrow Afternoon
Regardless of the Weather
Officials of the Sandhills Stee
plechase & Racing Association an
nounced that tomorrow’s race
meeting on the Barber Estate
course will be run, rain or shine.
"If it’s raining it will be all
the more exciting,” one of the of
ficials said, intimating that it in
creased the likelihood of spills
which, though tough on the riders,
increased the thrills for the spec,
tators.
The first race is scheduled for
3:00 o’clock. Gates for the non
reserved parking spaces will be
opened an hour before that time,
and “first come, first served” will
be the order for these positions
along the fence.
42 of Country’s Top Flight Hunt
Race Horses Entered in the
Five Races
PURSES TOTAL $2,200
Former Local Pastor
Is Laid To Rest Here
Homer Johnson, prominent attor
ney of Cleveland, Ohio, and winter
resident of Pinehurst, sees no pro
gress being made in the world in
the method of settling differences be
tween nations and peoples other than
by "arbitrament of arms.” And if the
future of what he termed “the fun
damentals of civilization” are to be
maintained, protected and carried on,
some method of arbitration by oth
er means must be found. He calls
for study and action by some respon
sible body toward the solution of
this, the most serious situation in
this or any other country.
Mr. Johnson talked to the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club on the subject of
“’.\liere Are We At,” at the South- j
em Pines Country Club Wednesday!
noon. He discussed isms, especially I
the rise and development of the na-1
tionalistic spirit, in this country as
well as elsewhere, the selfish atti
tude of all nations to build and ex
pand at the expense of other.o.
"The only thing for the people of
this country to do is to wake up
and look at the fundamentals; see
if we cannot ease off the danger.
We are sitting around hoping for
old times to return, the times we en
joyed under oui' capitalistic uystem,
but what are we doln^ about bring
ing these times back? We must do
more than hope. We have got to
make our democratic form of gov
ernment work, or turn into some
other kind of a government We’ve
got to give this deep thought, study
and action. Go to it.”
Mr Johnson was presented to the
^ ilub by Charles W Plcqiiet
Services Held Yesterday For
Rev. Samuel Holden, Who Died
in Beaumont, Tex.
Attended by a throng of former
parishoners and many friends from
other congregations, funeral services
were held in the Church of Wide
Fellowship, Southern Pines, at 2:30
o’clock, yesterday afternoon for the
Rev. Samuel Holden, who died at
Beaumont, Tex., on Monday. The
services were conducted by the Rev.
W. I, Caughian, of Chicago, and the
Rev. Voight O. Tdylor.
Born in England 67 years ago he
came to the United States In 1891,
graduating from Bates College,
Maine, in 1901. Following pastorates
in Maine and Massachusetts, he
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PRO GOLF STARS GATHER
FOR NORTH-SOUTH OPEN
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, over the Championship No. 2
course at Pinehurst, all of the pro
fessional and amateur golfing stars
in the nation will match shots for
the $5,000 prize money offered in the
ThiiJy Gcvcr<th Annual United North
and South Open Championship.
Last year the surprise winner of
the event was Victor Ghezzi of Deal,
N. J. This year, however, it’s more
than likely that it will be an en
tirely different i.i.ory, for the coun
try’s ace shot-makers are presently
I gathered practicing for the occasion
I and any one of 25 or 30 of them
is apt to flash a series of sub-par
j rounds to take the champion’s purse
jof $1,000.
Most of Moore county and a large
j part of the rest of North Carolina
, will surround the steeplechase course
; on the Midland Road tomorrow after-
I noon for the biggest racing event of
I the year in the state, the fifth an.
j nual running of the Sandhills Stee-
! plechase and Racing Association,
i They are coming from every nook and
j cranny of Tarheelia to see forty-two
i horses, from the leading hunt race
i stables in the country, vie for the
I $2,200 in purse money in the five
I events on the afternoon’s card. The
! first race is called for 3:00 o’clock.
I In the crowd at the colorful spec-
■ tacle will be Governor Clyde R. Hoey
I and other State notables, promi-
j nent society people from both Caro-
Imas and from the north, leading
sportsmen from everywhere, and
several thousand others. And that
these thousands w-ill see some thrill
ing racing is evidenced by the en
tries, which include many of the top
timber, brush and hurdle horses now
in training for the 1939 season of
amateur hunt racing which the meet
ing here inaugurates.
Here are the entries; .
Entry List
The Catawba, one and one-half
miles over hurdles—Royal Thomas,
owned by Mrs. Lewis A. Park; Lance
Corporal, Montpelier; Kings Parade,
Rokeby Stables; Noction. Mrs. R.
Sinclaire; Masked Knight, G. H. Bost-
wick; Pompius, G. H. Bostwick; Ayl-
ward, Mrs. J. C. Clark; Swiftgold,
Mrs. R. Sinclaire; Careless Knight,
W. T. Northgrave; Enthusiasm, Mrs.
John Hay Whitney.
The Croatan Steeplechase Jolie
Knight, R. C. Finch; Pompius, G. H
Bostwick; Sailor’s Knot, Montpelier;
Slievereigh, Montpelier; By the
Sword, Mrs. M. B. Metcalf; Surmain.
Mrs. F. B, Wilmshurrt; Aylward,
Mrs. J. C. Clark. Two miles over
brush.
The Sandhills Challenge Cup, three
miles over timber—Postman Home,
Mrs. F_ M. Gould; Faction Fighter,
Rokeby Stables; Bunree Bay, G. A.
Laing; Captain Bill, G. A. Laing;
Little Mountain, Mrs. Stewart Spll-
man.
The Yadkin Steeplechase—two and
one-half miles over brush—By the
Sword, Mrs. M. B. Metcalf; Slieve
reigh, Montpelier; S(»i ir’s Knot,
Mi'ntpeller; Royal Thomas, Mrs. Lew
is A. Parks; Pcarfarin’ Dan, Capt.
Ewart Johnston; Torcheen, W. T.
Northgrave; Cabin Fire, L. W. Robin
son, Jr.
The Midland—one and a quarter
miles on tlie flat—Free, P. S. P. Ran
dolph, Sr.; Land of Rhelms, Miss
Rosemary Bjrme; Better Brook, Mne.
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