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44, NUMBER 28
Price 3 Cents THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939
I PLAYERS CARD 68
f FIRST ROUND OF
mm OPEN GOLF
B r0n Nelson, National Open
Champion Among Group to
Take Lead with 2 Under Par
Score in $10,000 Event
By Associated Press
MIAMI, Dec. 14—The nation’s
crack professional golfers
slaughtered par today as they
started on the long winter tour
nament trail in the opening
round of the Miami $10,000 open.
Eight players, led by national
champion Byron Nelson, com
pleted the round two under par
with scores of 68, while 14 sharp
shooters returned cards of 69.
Nelson also took a two stroke
lead from Henry Picard in the
competition for the Harry Var
don trophy, awarded to the play
er who scores the most points in
tournament play during the
year. Nelson led Picard by five
points when this competition
started, and the leader of these
two in the Miami touranment,
final event of the year, will win
the award.
Wilford Wehrle, Chicago, led
the amateurs with 69.
Scores of the leading 20 play
ers:
At 68
"Nelson 34-34
Guldahl 35-33
Hines 36-32
Metz 35-33
Horne 36-32
Art Clark 36-32
Heafner 36-32
Snead 36-32
At 69
Wood 34-35
Dudley 32-37
M. Turnesa 36-33
M. O’Connor 36-33.
McHale 34-35
Harrison 34-35
Moore 36-33
Wehrle 36-33
Runyan 34-35
R- Hutchinson 34-35
Hogan 36-33
Stahl 34-35
Shute 34-35
Turnesa 34-35
At 70
Picard 35-35
what to do and see
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst - v
at 8:3D, matinee at
i Nick Carter, Master De
with Walter Pidgeon
11 Rita Johnson.
* Southern Pines -
Tonight and tomorrow night,
ahnee tomorrow at 3:00, “Nin
a» starring Greta Garbo. \
Aberdeen Theatre -
Tonight at 7:15 and 9:15 “The^
P«lVatf ^ives Elizabeth and:
tssex,” i
(Continued on page two)
on will be played tonight
^Ccll School crvninQcinm
^HUrST vs west end
tlie ^ ^ basketball game of
. season will bp
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HERE’S A GOOD WHITE HORSE
A pretty Pinehurst equestrienne and a rare horse pose together
at the Pinehurst Race Track. Snow 'White is a yearling filly being
trained at the Parshall Stable . .... one of the rarest of horses, in that
she is the only pure white filly ever foaled in race track history.
Beside the yearling is Miss Mary Webber of Detroit, who, with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Webber, were recent guests at The
Carolina. It is said that Snow White's 43rd dam was a famous white
Arabian steed.
DINEHURST SCOREBOARD
■ by ROBERT E. HARLOW
Horses and Americans, written by PM1 Strong and published by
Frederick A. Stokes Company, Philadelphia, is one of the most com
prehensive books on the subject given the public.
In the foreword Mr. Strong reports:
“So that in about 300 years we have created at least two defin
itely American breeds of horses, the Morgan and the American sad
dle horse; they have been appreciative in a way not only advantag
eous to the horses — they multiplied the stock and were able to
supply a million American mounts for the general European war 'of
1914-18; and in the latest year for which figures are easily available,
1937, Americans bet about $400,000,000 on race-horses.
“The study brings up some involved incidental speculation: I
have been unable to discover anything about the horse that Paul
Revere rode, though it was almost, certainly the contemporary New
England favorite, the Yankee pacer. The white charger on which
Washington gallops over miles of oil paintings and trots through
others may be impressive art hut has done more running on canvas
than he ever did in life, as will be noted. One of the rather casual
and dogmatic authorities .says flatly that there are no good white
horses and'never were; certainly they are remarkably missing from
racetracks and horse shows. Washington’s favorite horse during the
War of Independence was a light sorrel.
“As for military horses, if we discount some impossible legends
of the old East there were probably more horses fighting in 1918
than has ever been assembled for warfare m history, and there will
be still more if another war of similar proportions is ever fought.
Airplanes and heavy artillery have made horses far more important
in war than they have been since the Middle Ages.
“The number of sporting horses will increase steadily, of course,
as the population of the country increases. It is enough to say
about farm horses at this point that their decline seems to have
leveled out, and that there is a very definite shortage of the ani
mals, which is reflected in their prices. Still, the farms could mount
every eighth citizen of the country today.
Horses and Americans is really a great book.
To add one more observation by the author before closing the
pages until another Scoreboard will reopen it, we quote again:
“To avoid argument one may well concede that Peter Manning,
Dan Patch, Equipoise, Lou Dillon, War Admiral, Billy Direct,
Greyhound and Dean Hanover (Mr. Watt) were all the greatest1
race horse that ever lived*.”
BRITISH DESTROYER
DUCHESS SINKS AFTER
COLLISION; 120 LOST
Disaster Regarded As One of
Heaviest Blows Dealt Britain
Since War Begun
LONDON, Dec. 14—<£>)—'The
admiralty reported today the Brit
ish destroyer Duchess had collided
with another warship and sunk
with an indicated loss of 120 lives.
Only three blows—all dealt by
Germany—have been more disas
trous to the British navy since the
outbreak of the war.
They were the sinking of the
battleship Courageous with a loss
of 578 men, the aircraft carrier
Royal Oak with 786 men and the
armed merchantman Rawalpindi
with 265 men.
Details of where or how the col
lision occurred were not given,
but it was disclosed' that it hap
pened yesterday.
The admiralty said the other
ship, which was not immediately
identified, was undamaged.
Only one officer and 22 men were
saved, it said. The Duchess was
commanded by Lieut. Commander
R. C. H. White.
News of the disaster came as
victories against German naval
power in the North Sea and South
Atlantic were being marked, the
latter against the German pocket
battleship Graf Spee.
The Duchess was a warship of
1,375 tons in the defender class,
and was completed January 24,
1933. She carried a normal com
plement of 145 men.
FORUM AUDIENCE
THRILLED BY TALK
OF CAPTAIN WILLIS
A tale of excitement as interest
ing as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
super thriller was unfolded at the
•Forum last night when Capt. Har-!
old Bulkley Willis told of his es-;
cape from a German prison camp.1
Capt. Willis had his audience* sit- ;
ting on the edges of their chairs;
and only his actual presence be
fore them convinced his listeners j
that he came through tthe whole!
experience unscathed.
Captain. Willis related how hei
joined the American Ambulance |
Service to go to France in 1914.
LateT he became a member of the1
LafayetteEscadrille, amd was shot;
down behind German lines after a'
“dog fight” in the air. He was*
taken prisoner, and after 14
months spent in various prisons;
was finally interned at Villingen
prison ha the Duchy of Baden.;
Throughout his imprisonment j
Capt. Willis planned and studied!
various methods of escape, earn-;
ing the reputation of a danger-1
ous prisoner by his frequent at
tempts to” gain freedom. Con
sequently he was frequently5
moved from one prison to an
other.
Villigen was the first prison in
whiph he encountered any fellow
Americans, and with Several oth
ers he planned an escape. This
was in October of 1918. The first
step in the plan was to break
th circuit of the electric light
system which surrounded the
camp. This was done by throw
ing chains, made of bent nails |
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URUGUAY WILL LET
GRAF SPEE EFFECT
REPAIRS AND SAIL
World Waits for Move by German Warship
Badly Crippled by Gunfire of
Attacking Battleships
BRITISH CRUISERS STAND GUARD
By the Associated Press
A terrific wrangle concerning international law broke into the
war news last night as the world awaited the next move by the Ger
man warship Admiral Graf Spee in Montevideo harbor, where it
sought shelter last night after a battle with British cruisers in the
South Atlantic.
At midnight Uruguay's Foreign Minister announced that the
Graf Spee would be permitted to make repairs and would not be in
terned in the event its commander decided to make a dash for thea
sea.
Experts in International law pointed out that damage caused by
enemy fire shall in no case be repaired.
Meantime British cruisers waited outside the harbor' in the
event the German ship attempted to escape.
Berlin announced that the Graf Spee had merely gone to Mon
tevideo to bury 36. dead seamen and provide hospital treatment for
wounded. The Germans claimed that the British had used mustard
gas iif Wednesday’s battle. This was denied by the British Admir
alty.
The British/cruiser Exeter limped into the Rio t)e La Plata to
a position 12 miles off Montevideo. There were reports that there,
“were'many dead^and^wonnded aboard- the- Exeter. —■ .
Berlin claimed that the Graf Spee had sunk two British mer
chant ships just previous to the sea fight. These were the Tairoa,
7,983 tons and the Streonshall, 3,895 tons.
Accuracy of the British gunners was attested by the battered
appearance of the Admiral Graf Spee, lying in anchorage in Monte
video harbor. It appeared that at least four eight-inch shells struck
the German vessel, two crashing into the armored area around the
bridge and two others entering near the bow and the stern. Smaller
shells appeared to have battered the starboard side of the warship,
but it was impossible to determine full damage from the shore.
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Passengers Thrilled By Battle
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 14—W
—Ringside spectators of the Bri
tish-German naval battle reached
the safety of Montevideo today,
still unable to believe they had
escaped, and some of them in
coherent from their experience.
They were passengers aboard
the 9,975-ton French merchant
ship Formose, intended prize of
the German pocket battleship
Admiral Graf Spee, who spent
yesterday with lifebelts about
their waists and eyes fixed on the
lashing flames from the cannon
of the contending Varships.
Shaken and halting, the pass
engers told of taut moments as
their skipper, Captain ' Buron,
maneuvered his vessel be]jind a
heavy smoke-screen during yes
terday’s battle. . .
The merchantman was pro
ceeding along the Brazilian coast
off Rio Grande Do Sul early yes
terday, they said, when they sud
denly sighted the German war
ship.
Capt. Buron rang for full;
speed ahead as he headed for
Uruguayan territorial waters andj
BRITISH CASUALTIES’
ARE PLACED AT 2,100
LONDON, Dec. 14—W—Great
Britain’s total casualties in the
first three months of war were
approximately 2,100, Prime Min
ister Chamberlain said today in
reply to a question in the House
of , Commons. This figure for all
British forces compared with 12,
[ 500 during the first two months
of war in 1914, he said.
ordered crew and passengers into
lifebelts.
The Forrtiose dragged along afr
12 knots while the warship'* her*
guns trained on the merchant
man, ate up the distance between*
them at 22 knots.
It was a race against time,,
for British cruisers were known
to be in the vicinity.
! The Ajax was the first to ar
rive and began a chase of her"
own, trying to get the German
vessel within range of her guns^
The Ajax then signalled for
the Achilles and Exeter and, lay
ing a smokescreen between the1
Formose and the Admiral
Spee, made toward the shore in
order to place her foe stark
against the horizon.
The Achilles then raced to the
theatre of operations, sped past *
the Ajax and, also taking up a
position on the land side of the
Nazi warship, opened fire.
Passengers said that then the
Exeter boiled up and immediate
ly bore the brunt of the German’s
by now desperate efforts to re
pulse the British thrusts.
FIRE DAMAGE IS SLIGHT
The Pinehurst Fire Depart
ment responded to an alarms
coming from Linden Road; yes
terday just before noon. Dam
age was about one shingle and a
half on the roof of the Hobson
Ritter house.
WEATHER
Fair, not so cold in west por
tion Friday. Saturday, increas- »
ing cloudiness and warmer. •