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VOLUME 44,
NUMBER 22
THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1939
dog barks thanks
FOR RESCUE CREW
Pawn, Great Dane Owned by Mr. and Mrs.
John K. Weeks, Imprisoned in 20-Foot
Abandoned Well .for 24 Hours
Firemen Take Beleaguered Ani
• mal from Pit, Where Long
Search Ended After Vicinity
Combed
HOISTED TO SAFETY
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
Dec, 9_Dawn, the 130-pound
Great Dane owned by Mr. and
Mrs. John K. Weeks, was rescued
from a 20-foot disused well yes
terday afternoon by the South
ern Pines Fire department. Fire
men estimated the dog had b^en
imprisoned for nearly 24 hours.
Determined action by Mr. and
Mrs. Weeks, which caused a
search of the countryside in the
neighborhood of their home re
sulted in a negro finally locating
Dawn. The man knew the lo
cation of the well and kept
shouting the dog’s name. He was
rewarded by an answering bark.
The Fire Department was noti
fied, and five members arrived at
the well shortly after the discov
ery. Mrs. Weeks was on the
spot and wanted to climb down
and personally rescue the fam
ily pet. A ladder was lowered
and firemen attached a rope to
Dawn and hoisted him to safety.
According to the Fire Depart
ment the abandoned well was
covered by brush, which had rot
ted. It was the opinion of mem
bers that Dawn had broken
through this brush, become stun-j
ned by the fall and was unable,
for a time, to bark for assistance.
Firemen who took part in the
rescue were Captain L. S. Row
ell, C. T. Dunn, Joe O’Callahan,
Thomas Duprey and Irving Mor
rison.^
MRS. HURD'S TEAM WINS
Mrs. N. S. Hurd selected a
cowling team last evening at the
Amusement alleys which defeated
a side selected by Mr. Hurd, 996
to 971. Struthers Burt ran up
high total for the party with
239, and Edgar Ewing had the
highest individual score with 94.
^rs- J. K. Livermore led the la
dies with a 226 total and > Mrs.
urd provided the ' best single
string with 81.
WHATTO DO AND SEI
Today
ieid Trial events of Point
Club 0f America. Spectate
*elcome. Call “Sam” at T
Carolina for details.
Bridge luncheon today at T
Yorkshire. Mrs. E. S. Blodg<
hostess.
AT THE THEATRES
• Pinehurst -
onight, also matinee at 3:0'
e Are Not Alone,” with Pai
n and Jane Bryan.
* Southern Pines -
oday and tomorrow, matin(
»n°w at 3:00, “Day-Tin
j: w*th Tyrone Power ar
Dis^ ,Darne11 Added, Wa
1Sney s Donald Duck.
* Aberdeen Theatre -
9:15’ “The
Continued on page two)
TRAINERS SUGGEST
TAIL LIGHTS FOR
FIELD TRIAL DOGS
Pointer Club Event Runs Into
Darkness, and Handlers Hunt
Charges; All-Age Stake Being
Run Off
Pointers and setters running
in field trials should have some
type of tail light, according to
several members of the Pointer
Club of America who got togethT
er last night. These after lights
might be painted on the tail in
the form of a special enamel* like
that used in London during blacjt
out nights; or the kind used on
bicycles and automobiles, with
the juice for a little lamp furn
ished by a dry cell battery strap
ped to the belly, they could be
radium discs like those found on
watches and alarm clocks, or per
haps they might be just candles
tied to the dogs’ tails. .
All these discussions came up
shortly after nightfall yesterday
when judges James W. Tufts and
Ed Donovan decided to run the
12th brace, after 11 had been
completed and night was ready
to fall any minute. As a result
of this decision, judges, owners
and handlers and a few specta
jtors looked all over the country
side for Miss Pilot Doone and
June Namron, who got lost in I
(Continued on page three) |
Peter Astra Greeted Upon Return To Training Quarters
When Peter Astra returned to
the Pinehurst Race Track he was
presented with a basket of fresh
vegetables. Later in the season
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there will be a more' formal re
ception and celebration for the
winner of the Hambletonian and
eight other stake races for £hrce
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gs&i&i
year old trotters held during the
-ummer harness horse campaign.
Tn the photograph, from left to
right, James Tufts, William H.
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Watt and Dr. H. M. Parshall,
trainer and driver of the great
horse, Pete, who is being held by
a stable man. «
DlNEHURSt SCOREBOARD
1 by ROBERT E. HARLOW
Hugh Fullerton, one of the real old/timers of American sport
writing who became nationally famous for picking winning and los
ing baseball teams by his intricate system of numbers and figures,
is now located in an apartment at Southern Pines. His mission in
the Sandhills is to do a story for The Saturday Evening Post on Dr.
H. M. Parshall, King of harness horse drivers.
Hughie and Doci are “townies” from Hillsboro', Ohio, and for
the next three weeks Fullerton will spend his time at the Pinehurst
Race Track digging into the intimate and entertaining incidents in
the life of Dr. Parshall and his horses. It will make a great story,
and as Dr. Parshall often remarks that Pinehurst is the ideal spot
in the world to train horses, Mr. Fullerton may even mention this
in his SATEVEPOST story.
Hugh started writing sports in 1893, and can think of only one
man still in the game who has been engaged continuously for a
longer period than himself in this work. That man is old Jim O’
Leary, baseball writer for The Boston Globe.
In 1893 Mr. Fullerton was a cub reporter on the local paper in
Hillsboro. He removed from his home town to Cincinnati, then to
the Chicago Tribune, and into New York as sporting editor of The
New York World and later, The Mail. For five years he did sports
for Liberty magazine.
Over bottles of beer in the Pine-Needles Country Club, with Karl
Recor and Scoreboard, Hugh explained how he happened to start pick
ing baseball teams by adopting the methods of the actuary for a life
insurance company. He does not claim that the idea was original
with him. He got it from Col. Hi Hi Dixwell, a Boston man who
fought in the war of sections and spent the latter years of his life
following Boston’s big league baseball teams.
Col. Dixwell estimated the value of each position on a team
plus the numerical strength of each player. He explained his sys
tem to Mr. Fullerton, and in 1906 Hughie started to move out front
as America’s leading baseball authority by picking the winners in
the American and National leagues and in World Series contests.
Col. Dixwell got his name, Hi Hi, as a baseball fan. Whenever
his team made a fine play, he shouted, “Hi Hi.”
In 1906 the Chicago White Sox played the Cubs for the World’s
Series title. It went seven games before the White Sox won. Ful
lerton called every game in this series correctly and established him
self as the wizard handicapper of American baseball. It made him
his first newspaperman’s fortune. There were years when practic
ally every newspaper in America carried his “figures.”
Hugh has covered golf in his time. He covered a woman’s na
tional at White Sulphur Springs in the twenties when the nation
was dry, and fendeared himself to many who were gathered for this
event when he went “round the mountains” and returned to the
swanky Green Brier Hotel with ten quarts of mountain moonshine.
GRAVES’ LECTURE
CRITICIZES DEWEY
Noted Author #nd Orator Greeted by Large
Audience in First Forum Discus
sion at Country Club
1
THE WORLD
OF TODAY
(By the Associated Press)
DENY RUSSIAN CLAIM
Reports that Russian troops
had broken through the Manner
hein line, the system of Finnish
defenses on the Karelian Isth
mus, were denied by Finnish au
thorities yesterday. Finland was
reported as massing troops on
her northern frontier to drive
Soviet troops out of the strategic
port of Petsamo.
FRENCH REPEL ATTACK
French advance positions with
stood repeated shocks of savage
German patrol attacks along the
entire northern flank of the wes
tern front yesterday, after a
night of activity - in which the
French reported inflicting heavy
losses with automatic and artil
lery fire.
SHIPS COLLIDE; 9 DIE
Naval headquarters at Otta
wa, Ontario, announced that nine
lives were lost in a collision of a
British merchantship off the
coast of Nova Scotia. The ship
Manchester Regiment had been
reported rammed earlier, with
an unknown number lost.
BLOCKADE PLANNED
The Danish Ministry of Corn
continued on page four)
Sees} New York Racket Buster
As Taking Sides in Sectional
Differences Over. Market Pro
' ducts
ASKS CHANCE FOR SOUTH
John Temple Graves II of the?
Birmingham Age Herald, enter
tained a representative Pinehurst
audience last night when he op
ened the first Pinehurst Forum
series with a lecture in which he
took the opportunity to answer
Thomas Dewey’s reference to*
sectional competition between:
the south and the north middle
west-for dairy product markets'.
The Forum was held in the
Pinehurst Country Club, follow
ing the usual Thursday night
buffet. Richard S. Tufts, presi
dent of Pinehurst Inc., expained
the purpose of the Forum. Miss
Mildred Hall Mason, Boston, who
is in charge of the series of en
tertainments to be given, out
lined the plans and stated-that
next Thursday, through the ef
forts of Donald Parson, Captain
Harold Bulkley Wjllis of the La
fayette Escadrille would talk at
the second Forum -meeting on
“My Escape from a German
Prison Camp.” Captain Willis
plans to leave for France within
a short time. /
Rev. A. J. McKelway, pastor
of the Community church, intro
duced Mr. Graves.
“The Unsolid South,” was the
subject presented by Mr. Graves,
but on one subject he indicated
that the South was very solid
indeed. i This concerns the desire*,
of the farmers of the South to:
compete with other sections ., of;
(Continued on page three)
LARGE ATTENDANCES
MARK OPENING DAY
OF FLOWER SHOW
Community Church Exhibition
Attracts Visitors From Near
.and Far; Open Today From
9 a. m: to 9 p. m.
The J^n^ehurst Community
Church opened its doors to its
third annual Flower Show at 1
p. m. yesterday.
The basement of the church
was a mass of flowers and shrubs.
Many visitors attended, among
these the Garden Club of Ellerbe,
N. C.j • also a lprge number of
the winter colony and local resi
dents. Several from Aberdeen
availed themselves of the' oppor
tunity to visit the show. #
Again today the exhibit) is
open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. and
it is ,hoped many more ; visitors. *
will attend. Tea will be served;
at all hours during the day.
Judges for the show* were:- Mrs..
John Fitzgerald of Mid Pines*
(Continued on page four)
WEATHER
Fair, Friday and Saturday,
Colder Friday and Friday night.'
Slightly warmer west portion
Saturday afternoon.