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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1939
KUNES RIPS OFF 66
ROUND AT MIAMI TO
HE NELSON FOR LEAD
Philadelphia Golfer Finishes In
Dark to Shoot 4 Under Par
For 36 Hole Total of 137; Guld
ahl and Harrison 138
MIAMI, Dec. 16—(^)— Gene
Kunes of Philadelphia finished
after dark with a four under par
66 today to tie the national open
champion Byron Nelson, at 137,
for the 36 hole lead in the $10,
000 Miami open golf tournament.
Nelson had whipped out his
second sub-par score, a 69, ap
parently unscrambling an eight
way deadlock for the lead, when
Kunes came out of nowhere. It
was so dark that the Philadel
phian, a former Canadian open
champion, took five minutes to
line up his last putt.
Kunes, who recently landed a
job in the Homesburg Country
Club at* Philadelphia, was com
pletely overlooked after shooting
a first round 71 yesterday. Play
ing after a gusty wind had sub
sided, Kunes ripped off a 33 on
each nine in a magnificent dis
play of golf. He missed only
one green all day as he birdied
five holes and bogeyed only one,
the seventh, where he three put
ted. ■ .
Ralph Guldahl, two time Na
tional Open king, who had been
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Christmas Edition of
Outlook Tuesday Dec. 19
The Pinehurst Outlook will is
sue a Christmas edition on Tues
day, December 19. It will include
a special section devoted to
Pinehurst s«hools(, including*
many illustrations which were
taken this week.
Advertisements for the Christ
mas issue will be accepted up
until 4 p. m. Monday, December
18th.
This edition will reach practic
ally every home in Pinehurst, as
Well as all visitors at hotels. It
W]ll also be widely circulated in
Southern Pines and Aberdeen.
Show Yule Spirit.
Help Basket Fund!
There is probably no single
^llage of similar population in
nierica which will provide as
many excellent Christmas din
ners as WH1 be served right here
ln Pinehurst on December 25.
Ur hotels have arranged
^borate menus, and members of
e cottage colony will unques
tionably instruct “cookie” to pro
Vl e victuals of extraordinary
Astronomic merit.
Even the hard working folks,
Uch as members of the staff of
e Pinehurst Outlook, antici
! e cutting themselves a piece
° M^6 °n ^hirstmas Day.
othing is lacking to make
mehurst’s Christmas dinner
jnaJ, bOO percent of the families
l. , ® villagef but thirty X-mas
tor $75 can be provided
^oster Kelly is chair
W, °f the Pinehurst Christmas
gati’6 C0mmittee, and an investi
in orll fam^es needing help
er bhat they, too, may join
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A QUAIL HAKES THE DRAW
mmamn
PETUNIA, the pet quail of Rassie Wicker, drawing the lucky
brace in the all-age stake of the Pointer Club of America field trials
held in Pinehurst this week. Harry D. Kirkover of Buffalo and
Camden, president of the Pointer Club, watches while James Tufts, a
vice president, reaches for the number the tame quail drew.
SCOREBOARD
by HARRY yORKE
Charlie Summerson, who with Julian Bishop is operating
Horseshoe Quail Lodge at Carthage, has led a colorful life in the
scatter gun world.
For many years Mr. Summerson represented the Ithaca Gun
Company, covering a territory from Cuba to Newfoundland, east
of the Mississippi, during which time he shot in most of the eastern
states, not only as a pro trap shot, but as field expert on upland
game.
Originally from Virginia, he went north and connected with
the Remington Arms Company and conducted big game shooting
trips as far west as Bering Sea. He explored the wilderness of the
upper Yukon territory for glacier blue sheep, the rarest of big
horns, killing two large rams. He also hunted in the wilds of British
Columbia.
On one trip he took 11,000 feet of motion picture film, given
to the national museum at Washington for educational purposes.
Now, in addition to his connection at Deep River, he operates one
of the finest outfits along the eastern coast of New Brunswick,
Canada, located at Tabusintag, where Atlantic silver salmon fly
fishing is at its best. Sea run trout on light tackle tests the skill of
the most ardent and experienced angler, goose, duck, partridge or
ruffed grouse are plentiful, and withoqt doubt there is the best
wood-cock shooting to be had in the north maritime section.
Charley is a wonderful wing shot, but after years with the
scatter gun one feels he should be, for a gun to him is what music
is to most people.
“I met him,” says Mr. Bishop, “and we seemed to gee-haw to
gether, and I feel you would.”
Mr. Bishop and Mr. Summerson have joined hands to offer the
best there is in quail and turkey shooting. Hunters are invited to
come to Horseshoe Quail Lodge and enjoy good sport, good food
and comfortable quarters. The season opened December 1st, and
closes February 15. The limit is 10 quail per gun per day, with a
season limit of 150. Turkey limit is one per day and three per
season. Non-resident license is $15.25, obtainable at camp.
Horseshoe Quail Lodge offers 25,000 acres* of - wonderful quail
country, and it is exclusive for lodge guests. From two to four
hundred pairs of quail are released each season for extra covert
from stock. Naturally, good shooting, under normal weather con
ditions, is always available. The owners plant cane and cow peas,
and this season have about 150 patches.
While a sportsman may .wish to shoot over his own dogs, which
can be housed on request, good quail dogs are available at the Lodge.
Any sportsman who visits the Lodge will forever remember
his days afield with Bob White in Carolina, and the radiating warmth
of the Horseshoe Lodge on Deep River.
BOMB AMERICAN MISSION
PEIPING, Dec. 15—(#)— The
American Hebron mission at
Kunshan, Kwangtung province,
advised the United States em
bassy today that a Japanese
plane had dropped four bombs on
mission property, damaging a
building. There were no casual
1 ties.
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SACRED CONCERT
A. sacred concert of Christmas
music will be given at the Pine
hurst Community Church, Thurs
day, December 21, at 8 p. m. by
Thane McDonald, organist, as
sisted by an a cappella quartette
composed of Rev. and Mrs. A. J.
McKelway and Rev. and Mrs. A.
V. Gibson, Sanford.
EARL SHAW ARRIVES
TO START CAMPAIGN
FOR POLO REVIVAL
Noted Player Expects to Have
Team Matches Organized by
Jan. 15th; Meet Here in April
Is To Be Mapped
Earl Shaw, noted American
polo player arrived in Pinehurst
yesterday to open a campaign to
stimulate interest in the revival
of polo here. His associate, Mer
rill Fink, is expected to arrive
Sunday.
Mr. Shaw is expecting 20 of
his string of polo ponies to ar
rive either this weekend or the
early part of next week to be
quartered here during the winter
season. Twenty more are ex
pected sometime around the first
of January.
On Mr. Shaw’s program, is a
plan to stage polo matches be
tween a Pinehurst team, which
he is quite certain can be organ
ized, and Camden, Aiken, Fort
Bragg and others. He hopes to
have a Sandhills tournament
here in Pinehurst some time in
April. The team matches, he
hopes to have organized by Jan.
15th. Judging by the many con
tacts the noted polo player has
in this field of snort, it seepis,.tbat
the plan will work successfully.
Mr. Shaw and three other ex
pert polo players, including Mer
rill Fink, Jack Fink and S. A.
Healy, have been playing togeth
er for many years. The four
some is expected to have a play
ing reunion in Pinehurst in con
nection with the proposed polo
revival here.
The team of Shaw, Fink, Fink
and Healy have played in Chi
cago, at the Oak Brook Polo
Club; at the Rumson Polo Club,
Rumson, N. J.; the Blind Brook
Turf and Polo Club, Port Ches
ter, N. Y.; Fort Hamilton, New
York- and in many other horsey
and polo spots throughout the
entire country. Mrs. Shaw also
arrived yesterday, and she and
her husband are residing in the
Craven cottage.
[sham Jones’ Band
Will Play At Buffet
Isham Jones, for many years
one of America’s leading orches
tra leaders, will bring his music
to The Pinehurst Country Club
buffet supper and dance on
Thursday night, December 28.
Mr. Jones is one of the out
standing name& in American
dance music. He has not only
contributed many popular num
bers, but has provided pleasure
to dancers from days before the
Florida boom to the present.
Mr. Jones is an enthusiastic
golfer. During the Florida boom
his band was engaged at the Da
vis Island Country Club in Tam
pa Bay. A sliding roof was
rolled back on moonlight nights.
This was during the mad era in
American history.
The famous band master will
very likely get in some golf while
in Pinehurst.
Miss Dorothy Pierce, manager
of the Country Club Grill, an
nounces that those wishing ad
vance reservations should com
municate with her at the club, or
by calling 3441. *
GRAF SPEE REFUELS,
FINISH FIGHT LOOMS
German Battleship, Taking Refuge in Mon
tevideo Harbor, Given Until Sun
day to Remain in Port
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BRITISH BLOCKADE
HITS AMERICAN TRADE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—
(A*)—The effect of the British
blockade was reflected in vio
lent terms today when Secre
tary of Commerce Ifopkins
announced that Germany had
taken only $2,000 worth of
American goods during Nov
ember as against $12,210,000
during October.' Goods to for
eign countries totaled $287,
000,000 as against $323,168,
000 in October. Latin Amer
ica took more goods, but not
enough to overcome the de
cline elsewhere.
Color ecT Folks Meet
Jitterbug Band
With Calm
By A Staff Correspondent
TAYLORTOWN, Dec. 14—The
conservatism of the neighboring
village of Pinehur'st has got the
colored people of this settlement
firmly within its grasp.
Swing, the beat of which made
the shuffling feet of Chicago col
ored folks tear up the football
gridiron in Soldiers Field, was
met with the utmost restraint
by the people of Taylortown last
night.
A jitterbug band of 12 music
ians, from Charlotte, brought
over at a cost of $100, literally
blew itself out in an effort to
arouse the Gay Society Club,
gathered in the Academy Heights
school auditorium, to display
those qualities of enthusiasm for
which the race is noted.
The 12 musicians had ehough
air in their lungs to inflate to
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WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Tin Whistles tournament to
day, medal play, all four part
ners.
Putting tournament for ladies
this afternoon at Pinehurst
Country Club. Prize awarded.
You are invited to participate.
Keno at the Carolina tonight.
AT THE THEATRES
- Southern Pines -
Tonight, matinee today at 3,
“Ninotchka,” starring Greta
Garbo.
- Aberdeen Theatre -
Tonight at 7:00 and 9:00, the
Three Mesquiteers as “The
Kansas Terrors.” Matinee at 3.
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THE WEATHER
Mostly cloudy and somewhat
unsettled Saturday and Sunday.
Possibly light rains in mountain
and northwest section.
Nazi Authorities Say National
Honor Would Not Permit of
Internment; British Renew
Demand
SLAIN ARE BURIED
A Uruguayan Naval Com mis
sion announced tonight that the
German battleship Graf Spee
would be given until Sunday
night to leave Montevideo or be*
interned for the duration of the
war. The announcement was
made following an inspection of'
the warship by members of the;
Commission.
As German leaders asserted
that national prestige would not
permit internment, neutral ob
servers wondered if the stage
was being set for a finish fight
between the Graf Spee and Bri
tish and French ’cruisers watch
fully waiting outside Montevi
deo harbor for the enemy to come
out.
Early* yesterday Great Britain
made a second diplomatic demand
that the Graf Spee be interned
or forced into the high seas.
Refueling of the German bat
tleship was being rushed. Oil
was loaded into the Graf Spee
from the German freighter Ta
coma and there was every indi
cation that preparations were
being made for an early depart
ure. While these preparations
were in progress, officers and a
third of the crew huried on Uru
guayan soil the 36 men killed in
Wednesday’s battle.
British quarters indicated that
the 10,000-ton British cruiser
Cumberland and the French Bat
tleship, Dunkereque, 25,300 tons,
had joined the force blockading.
Montevideo harbor.
Air Fight
From London there were re
ports of an attack by members
of the Royal Air Force on a crip
pled German cruiser in the North
Sea. It precipitated one of the
heaviest aerial conflicts of the.
war.
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Prizers Purchase Tract
And Will Beautify It
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Prizer
of East Orange, N. J., have pur
chased from Pinehurst Inc. the
tract of land adjacent to their
home on Palmetto road. The
t r a n',s a c t ion was completed
through the real estate office of
Howard Phillips.
With the addition of this par
cel Mr. and Mrs. Prizer will have
about one acre of land bounded
by Palmetto road, Cherokee road,,
number 15 highway, along the
number two golf course, and
Spur road.*
Mr. Phillips states that Mr.*
and Mrs. Prizer plan to beautify
the property by landscaping, and -
that numerous shrubs will be
added and a lawn seeded. •
Mr. and Mrs. Prizer are en- >
thusiastic /equestrians and golf- -
ers.