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The Sports Paper of the Sandhills
Daily Except Monday — Mdmberof Associated Press
Since 1896
VOLUME 44,
NUMBER 24
Price 5 Cents
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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK* PINEHURST, N. C.
^SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1939
SMOKE!
Southern Pines blaze
draws apprecia
tive crowd
smoked out roomer,
rent paid, rueful
(By A staff Correspondent)
SOUTHERN PINES, Dec. 9—
Southern Pines provided unique
entertainment last night for its
weekend visitors when an infor
mal fire was given in William
Roth’s barber shoppe, and the
rooms on the second floor of a
brick building on East Broad
street.
Spectators, wishing to obtain
a closeup view, went into the
smoke filled building with the
fire fighters and kibitzed. They
went about poking their noses
here and there, getting smoke in
their eyes in ah effort to locate
the center of activity. Smoke
drove them out.
There was some doubt as to
the cause of the fire. Some said
it started from an overheated
argument in the barber shoppe,
which spread quickly to a kero
sene water heater. Early, in the
evening there was a small con
flagration in this apparatus but
the. barbers put it out. ^Nearly,
two hours later, smoke began, to
roll into the shoppe, and the bar
ber chairs were quickly emptied.
Blame Mickey Mouse
It developed that the premises
were formerly occupied by H. A.
Lewis, who conducted a meat
market and owned a cork insu
lated cold box. Some advanced
■the thought that Mickey Mouse
had crossed wires and caused the
ice box to ignite, and that the
smoke was the result of burning
cork.
The smoke filled the two story
building. Roomers were driven
out. They were John Lavoie,
M Warner and A. R. Jertshn.
Mr. Jensen stated that it was a
bad break for him, inasmuch as
it was the first time ip years he
bad paid his room ' rent in ad
vance.
Mr. Jensen rescued his pet al
ligator and an odd shoe.
Mr. Warner, well known auto
mobile salesman, when asked if
be had lost any of his property
said that he had his clothes on
bis person, with the exception of
a dress suit with tails. He did
tl°t' consider this a serious loss
as he-has had little opportunity
bo wear it since the panic of 1929.
Cook Enjoys Fire
^r> Lavoie is a cook, and said
he rather enjoyed the fire.
• V. O’Callaghan, fire chief,
enied that the Pinehurst depart
ment had been asked to send as
S1stance.
was not a tfiree alarm fire,”
ai Mr. O’Callaghan.
he Southern Pines depart
ed handled the job very well,
removed two barber chairs
om the Roth shoppe and these
tore f °aded a duck and moved
cl Sa e^’ Some said the barber
irs were removed to the office
mak SandhiHs Daily News, tc
edit6 11 m°le convcnient for the
ouf°,!S skave after getting
the Sunday edition.
Wh°W lasted for raan>
acted’ HTard Burns’ city clerk
^ as Master of Ceremonies.
a. m 0ld Was g*ven at about one
Damage slight.
DlNEHURST SCOREBOARD
I by DOUGLAS DOAK
Some of the best all round
“cussin’ ” that ever originated
was caused by that stubbornest
of quadrupeds, the mule. The
colored folks in the vicinity of
Lakeview have no doubt done
plain and fancy swearing of late.
It’s all on account of a crow
with a sense of humor.
“Hop-along-Cassidy,” the vil
lain in the piece is a crow be
longing to Mr. Will Hanes, who
lives right outside of Lakeview.
“Hopple,” as he is called by the
family is a/real believe it or not,
for “Hoppie” can talk.
Though there is an old saying
that by splitting a crow’s tongue
he can be taught to speak, me^t
people no doubt believe a talking
crow belongs in the class with
swinks, snipes and other mythi
cal creatures. But “Hoppie” is a
real live bird who can not only
speak intelligibly but says whole
sentences. It wasn’t necessary to
split hiS tongue or perform any
other weird machinations, he just
picked it up, much as a child
learns to talk.
But getting back to the mules,
it is a pet trick of “Hoppie’s” to
perch high in a treetop by the
side of the road, out of sight of
passersby. From his hiding place
he lies in wait for mule teams,
and as they pass below, screams
out “whoa” in an unbelievably
human voice. Naturally the mule
stops, and the mystified driver
has to go about the task of
starting his beast again, while
“Hoppie” yells “whoa” at inter
vals. “Hoppie” wifi probably, fall
out of the tree laughing some
day, and giv6 his little game
away. - V’
; The crow was picked up about
two years ago when Mr. Hanes
son, John, found “Hoppie” with
two other baby crows in a nest
not far frdm the house. One of
the crows flew away when it
was old enough, and another
was accidentally killed, but
“Hoppie” remained to become one
of the household, which also in
cludes a pet squirrel.
. “Hop-along-Cassidy,” who is
named after the western star
whose exploits thrill juvenile
cinema-goers at the Saturday
matinees, is fully grown now and
looks just like any other crow.
He dines on table scraps but
jtist to prove he is different, re
fuses to eat corn. There are no
doubt farmers who would like to
have “Hoppie” instruct his
feathered brethren in the advan
tage of not eating corn.
“Hoppie” is free to fly where
ever he wishes but has never
left home, in- spite of the high
pressure salesmanship of the
wild crows who often fly by and
spend an hour or two arguing
with him in crow language.
“Hoppie” no doubt likes his three
meals a day, and knows a good
thing when he sees it.
No special effort was made to
teach the crow to talk, other
than the habit most people have
of talking'to their pets. “Hop
pie” jifst picked it up by him
self, imitating the everyday
words and phrases he heard. His
vocabulary includes “momma,”
“whoa,” “come on,” “hurry
up,” and one phrase of which he
is particularly fond, “Fm wait
ing for you George,” in which
he is referring to one of the boys
in the family.
In case' you want to see, or
rather hear, for yourself, Mr.
Hanes’ place is three-quarters of
a mile outside of Lakeview on
the airport road going towards
Pinehurst.
At the top is shown a typical,
crowd at a Pinehurst Field Trial,
which annually add color and an
imation to the resort's sporting
life.
In the lower picture are Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Vare Jr. of Mer
ion, Pa., enthusiastic bird dog
fanciers attending the local meet.
Mrs. Vare is the former Glenna
Collett, national golf champion.
OUR CONGRESSMAN,
WINSTON-SALEM DOG,
IS DERBY WINNER
,px.-S»i<ter's. Entr jl Top . m Rteld.
Trial; Miss Phelps’ Homerun
Corrigan Scores in ' Puppy
Stake ,
Our Congressman, white and
liver pointer owned and handled
by Dr. R. W. Spicer of Winston
Salem, running in the first brace
of yesterday’s members’ derby
stake field trials of the Pointer
Club of America, won first place
in that stake.
Second honors went to Bob
bitt’s Peerless Pride, a white and
black setter owned and handled
by Louis M. Bobbitt, Winston -
Salem,' with third going to Stein’s
City Joe, a white and orange
pointer owned and handled by R.
Z. Cates of Spartanburg, S. C.
Mr. Cates’ pointer bitch, Shuffle
town Farm’s Frances, placed
first in the coveted all-age stake
the day before.
Spicer’s Congressman had one
good find. Peerless Pride ran
a good ground-working heat but
didn’t find birds. He was judged
a class dog. Stein’s City Joe
showed a good bit of class and
looked into likely bird spoils.
. The open puppy stake was won
by Homerun Corrigan, a white
and liver pointer dog owned by
Miss Claudia Phelps, handled by
Charlie Prickett* Second prize
went to Kilsyth Girl, a white and
orange pointer bitch owned - by
Gerald M. Livingston of New
T£ork and handled by R. D. Bevan.
Dr. Sam’s Charlie, a white and
orange pointer owned by DrC S.
0. Black of Spartanburg^ placed
third. Charlie' was handled by
Prickett.
Drawings for the free for all,
competition for all comers, and
the open derby will f)e made at
the Carolina Hotel tonight, with
the trials scheduled to open
Monday morning.
FOOTBALL SCORES
So. Calif. 0 — Univ. Calif. 0
Tenn, 7 —* Auburn 0
So. Methodist 13 — Rice 6
WEATHER
Fair and slightly warmer Sun
day; Monday, generally fair.
MURPHY-HARLOW
DUO TOP WHISTLES
They Card Best Ball of 68 in Tussie with
[ Par; Dunlap L&nds Ace on
! 18th of No. 1 • .
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Two Aces In One Day!
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Pinehurst must have establish
ed another golfing record yester
day when two-holes-in onfc were
recorded on the same day on lo
cal courses.
j George Dunlap Jr., playing in
the Tin Whistle event holed his
tee shot at the 18th hole on the
number one course. Joe Mur
phy, playing in the special win
ter tournament for members of
the Congressional Club of Wash
ington, D. C., holed his tee
shot at the ninth hole on the
number, two course.
For Mr. Dunlap it was his sec
ond hole-in-one over Pinehurst
courses. Late in the spring of
1937, the day before he left Pine
hurst for his summer home on
Long Island, Mr. Dunlap holed
out from the 17th tee on the
number two course.
‘H’Ther ace ~made'ijy~ Mr: Murphy
aided him in winning the prize
given in the Congressional Club
tournament for the lowest net
score on the first nine, a 35. He
used a mashie for his stroke.
JACK STRJUT LEADS
CONGRESSIONAL-CLUB
I Jack Strait took the lead in
the 36-hole tournament for 27
members of the Congressional
Country Club of Washington yes
terday at the Pinehurst Country
Club when he played the number
ty£ championship course in 78
10—68.
Strait managed to keep his
tee shots down the alley and by
remarkable putting played each
nine in 39 blows. This gave him
a five stroke lead over the field,
Frank Johnson being in second
place with 86-13—73.
| Murphy had low net for 9 holes,
with a 35. A. D. Johnson had
low net for the second nine with
35. Carl Weigle won a prize for
hieing in the largest" number of
bankers. He visted 27 of them.
|| The tournament will be com
pleted Sunday. The members
had* their winter banquet at the
.Carolina Hotel last night.
| Wiffy Cox, Congressional Club
professional returned a very fine
looking round of 70 gross,
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Prof. Douglas in Free
Lecture at Holly Inn
| Professor E. C. Douglas, for
mer editor and publisher, will
give a free lecture on Astrology
ai the Holly Inn tonight follow
ing the regular buffet supper
there. All cottage residents and
hotel guests are cordially invited
to attend.
! Tonight at the Holly Inn, Prof.
Douglas has promised to make
his lecture inspirational-educa
tional, as well as humorous. He
stated that he plans to use part
of his^ lecture time analyzing
birth dates of members of his
audience.
Marr and Ward, Robertson and
Thomson, Pearson and Wil
liams, Bowker and Cheatham
in Four-Way Tie for Second
Place
LEADERS SIX UP
George D. Murphy, New York
and Robert E. Harlow, Pinehurst
won Saturday’s Tin Whistle tour
nament at The Pinehurst Country
Club, and shared the honors of'
the day with George Dunlap Jr.,,
who scored a hole in one on the
18th hole of the number one.'
course, playing in the sanie ‘com
petition. V
The event \jas a besttjall of ^
pair against par and the winners,
playing on the number three
course, were eight up. As this
course called for a two point
penalty the top score was six up.
There was a four way tie for
second among C. B. S. Marry and
W. H.. B. Ward; F. C. Robert
son and~E. D. Thomson} H. -SU^
Pearson and C. I. Williams; J.
R. Bowker and Rev. T. A. Cheat
ham. These pairs were three up
on par.
Mr. Murphy, handicapped at
six and Mr. Harlow, at two,
teamed perfectly. They had a
best ball of 68 and this low gross
medal play score, aided by hand
icap strokes, enabled the winners
to give par a severe beating. .
Their net medal score was 31-31
—62. >
The Myrphy-Harlow combin
ation won nine holes from par,
lost one and tied%8..
The net card of the winners,
vs par.. v :*" ' -" ; •
Out
444 433 454 —3S'
435 423 34a—31
In *
445 434 354—3(fc—TO ,
434 334 334—31—6£
Par Fig.
Mur.-Har.
Par. Fig.
Mur.-Har.
Mr. Murphy, with an incfivid
ual gross score of 75, won. five
holes from par and Mr. Harlot
with a gross score of 73, wcm
four holes from par. Only hols;
on which par defeated tie paijr
was the third.
Summary: •
R. E. Harlow and G.. D. Mr -
phy 6 up.
C. B. S. Marr and W. H. B.
Ward 3 up.
F. C. Robertson and E. D.
Thomson 3 up.
H. S. Pearson and C. L Wil
liams 3 up. 1
J. R. Bowker and T. A. Cheat
ham 3 up. ,, „
(Continued on page'sixj -
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Putting tournament this after
noon at Pine Needles. Prizes
awarded. X
AT THE THEATRES
; - Pinehurst -.
Tonight, tojnorrow night at
8:3d and ’matinee tomorrow at.
3:00, “Henry AGoes to Arizona,”
starring Frank Morgan.