The Oldest Sandhills Publication
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NUMBER 55
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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940 ,
P1NEHURST girls
rout west end to
0 record clean
Bi.h School Basketball
Runs Winning string
Row; Boys Defeated
Squad
to Six
The Outlook is a day late with
,k ncws that on Tuesday night
■he Pinehurst high school boys’
.sketball team lost to West End
coreof44to8. This story
.about the Pinehurst girls, who
son from West End 27 to 12. It
•earns that the young man who
,,as to “cover” these games for
got to come to the office, and we
Ke)-e wondering if the score
fot End boys 44, Pinehurst
tejs 8—could have had anything
m ,jo With the Outlook missing
this item on* time.
The real story was about the
girls, who won their sixth
straight victory,. and are on
their way to a nice record for
this season. They have 12 games
remaining on the schedule, the
next being Vass-Lakeview , at
home on Friday.
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10 TEAMS OPEN
HATCH SERIES ON
DAY AFTERNOON
Undaunted by the setbacks of
mfavorable weather twice when
he opening game was scheduled,
Miurst’s polo teams will saddle
ip Sunday afternoon for a third
|ry to get the match series
punched.
This time it looks as though
Iae clash will really eventuate,
or the long range weather fore
is for glorious weather both
aturday and Sunday-*-Satur
ay to assure hard turf for the
fe, and Sunday to permit a
In'ong of spectators to enjoy the
antest under genial skies.
teams selected for Sun
jays battle are the Sandhill Polo
and Blind Brook club. The
layers on both teams are ex
erienced and hardy poldists.
W know every angle of ' the
aille> and promise to give the
pctators a fast and thrilling ex
n of the pony sport.
r° other sport or pastime has
f exciting moments that crowd
lIr‘ost every minute of a polo
^lnnsh. Rallies in the open
e^’ or °n the boards, or near
3e goals, are always tense af
tlrs’ aiKl drives by individual
[ayeis with ball at mallet end
hise ar°use the enthusiasm
[ t o spectators to the highest
Itch *
- Sunday’s game marks the
|^ln t° the Sandhills of polo
I several years’ suspension
Jay’ there is certain to be a
_a^e attendance to greet the
V) ^or P°hj had a very exten
I following in the Sandhills.
I o *e !°e a practice game
p0 P-m. today.
|The line-up;
B]ind Brook Club
lCriy^lbson Barnard Jr.
L ^ilmshurst
1^111 Fink
rPtain Dave Erskine
I Sandhills Polo Club
I ' *• Green
I ' *• Green
|barl Shaw
IaPtain Paul Miller
Supplymen’s Prexy
FRANK BENNETT
LITHE, STAHL AND
KRUEGER LEAD COAST
GOLF WITH 70 SCORE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17—
UP)—Clayton Heafner of Linville,
N. C., is getting the publicity
“breaks” on the winter tour as
well as playing plenty of start
ling golf. Yesterday in the first
of two qualifying rounds in the
San Francsco match play event
he lost his ball in the pocket of
a spectator. He dropped without
penalty to finish in a tie with
eight others at 72 in 12th place.
Lawson Little, ,Alvin Krueger
and Marvin Stahl led the field
with rounds of 70. Darkness pre
vented 35 members of the large
field from finishing. They will
complete their first' round early
tomorrow. The second qualifying
round will be completed tomor
row to select 32 for match play,
beginning Friday.
Leading scores: Little, Krue
ger and Stahl 70; Beer, Byrd,
Sheppard, Machado, Wood, Metz,
Demaret 71; Lynch, M. Fry, Col
trin, Oliver, Heafner, Thomson,
Brown, Keiser and Diflaurie 72.
HELEN DETTWEILER IN
AUGUSTA LEAD WITH 253
AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 17—(A*)
—Blonde Helen Dettweiler of
Washington took the lead in the
open tournament at the Forest
Hills course with a third round
of 83 for a 54 hole total of 253.
Mrs. Helen Hicks Harb was 85
today for a total of 25o. Both
of the ladies are professionals.
Amateurs trailing the two pros
were Jean Bauer, Providence, at
260, Mrs. L. G. Pray, Washing
ton, 281; Miss Elizabeth Dunn,
Indianapolis, 285; and Mrs. Dor
othy Manice, lone Augusta start
er, 306. The final round will be
played tomorrow.'
2 DIE IN BLAST
GIBBSTOWN, N. J., Jan. 17
Two men were killed today and
a third injured in a nitro-glycer
ine explosion that wrecked a
unit of the Dupont company and
shook an area of 20 miles.
WEATHER
Mostly cloudy, light snow in
the mountains, much colder in
the west and central portions
Thursday. Friday cloudy and
* cooler.
AIRMAIL SERVICE
FOR SANDHILLS IS
TOPIC AT MEETING
E. S. Blodgett Attends Session
at Fayetteville Where Repre
sentatives from Vicinity Dis
cuss Plans
(Special to the Outlook)
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., Jan.
17—Edwin S. Blodgett, president
of the Pinehurst Chamber of
Commerce, and Shelby Cullom of
the Bank of Pinehurst ,were
among the 14 who attended a
meeting at the Prince Charles
hotel here today to discuss steps
to be taken to bring regular pas
senger and air mail service to
this section.
Stacy Lee,. Charlotte, outlined
to the representatives from Wil
mington, Fayetteville,, Pinehurst,
Charlotte and other cities, the
procedure of applying to the'Ci
vil Aeronautics Authority, Wash
ington, which must sanction new
routes before airway companies
can establish regular mail and
passenger service.
Mr. Blodgett stated that it
would require probably a year
to establish a line which would
serve the Sandhills, but he felt
confident that it would be done,
and that the Knollwood airport
would be hooked up to regular
north and south service via Char
lotte.
Communities interested in es
tablishment of such a line must
present figures to Washington
indicating the amount of airmail
and passenger service which
would be handled. Two of the
four large airway companies are
said to be interested in a Wil
mington to the west route, with
stops, including Knollwood.
Howard Bums, Southern Pines,
wired the meeting . that illness
had prevented him from being
present.
R. B. Page, publisher of the
Wilmington Star-News, and L. R.
Ash, Fayetteville banker, attend
ed.
Those present decided that
committees should be named in
each interested city to survey
the general situation such as ter
minal facilities.
Rotarians, Will Hear
Talk by Globe Trotter
Rotarians will have the pleas
ure of hearing another winter
resident of Southern Pines tell
tales of the outside world at the
club’s weekly luncheon meeting
to.be held Friday at 12:15 o’clock
in the Southern Pines Country
Club, when Harold Wallace (Wal
ly) Smith, globe trotter, interna
tional photographer and lecturer,
will be the guest speaker.
Mr. Smith has traveled far and
wide with his camera, and his
tales of travel and adventure
should prove both instructive and
entertaining.
TEACHERS CLUB BOWLS
A team captained by M. P.
Wilson was victorious over a
team captained by Miss Lillian
Moore at the Amusement Center
last night. Both these teams
are from the teachers dub and
are composed of seven players
on each side. This match will be
a weekly feature until the end of
1 the season.
Highland Pines Guests Play Southern Pines Course
Photo by Eddy Outlook Engraving
Left to right front row: Rodger H. Pippen, sports editor, Baltimore
News-Post; C. H. Bauer Jr. ace photographer, Baltimore News-Post,
Harry E. West, Baltimore realtor, and Charles M. Balder, president
of the Independent Life Insurance Company, Baltimore. Left to
right top row: G. S. Wise, general manager of Sears-Roebuck
branch, William Baskeryill, general manager of the Balitmore News
Post, Harold Tschudi, prominent Baltimore attorney, and C. Dorsey
Warfield, publisher, Baltimore News-Post.
PlNEHURST SCOREBOARD
I
Dennis R. Scanlon, New York, frequent Pinehurst visitor, is
trying to collect by court action $92,0p0 he says Sonja Henie owes
him for past favors as an agent, including his services in convincing
Olympic officials of 1936 that Sonja was still an amateur and, to
use his best effort to cause to be named as judges . . . persons who
were known to be not unfavorable- to the defendant.
Sonja was not the only top lady amateur skater in the 1936
Olympics, but she was the only one whose fond parents had been
electrified by tales of the cash to be made in “the States,” and knew
that the Olympic .title would be needed in exploiting their child
when she turned professional. There is plenty about the Olympic
competition among the girls that year that has never been published.
There were buckets of tears by the ladies. Miss Cecilia Colledge,
the English star, who competed in this 1936 Qlympic championship,
could really call the cops if she wanted to put in the w.k. rap.
From Cleveland Sonja said Mr. Scanlon’s suit was “the most
ridiculous thing I ever heard. Scanlon is going to be in for trouble
because, I am going to New York next week to testify, and tell
plenty.”
Scoreboard is well acquainted with Dennis Scanlon and knows
that Dennis was the man who first interested the Henies, particu
larly papa and mama Henie, in the possibilities of exploiting their
skating daughter in America. Dennis brought them over the first
time. .
If Sonja talks, a lot of people who have skated in the Olympics
as aipateurs, and a lot of stuff that was not exactly cricket will be
brought out, some of which might backfire on the Norwegian star
herself, whose parents could make; out an expanse account that
looked like what Herb Graffis would call, “the national debt in
pennies.” ,
(Continued on page three),
Who Likes New Books?
Library Has Them
The Pinehurst Library would
like to call the attention of the
reading public to the fact that
new books line their shelves. The
main section has many and on
the subscription shelf the follow
ing books have been * received
and been added:
In Place of Splendor; "Kitty
Foyle; The Nazarene; The Coun
try Lawyer; W atch F or the
Dawn; New England Year; Dark
Horse, by Will James; Sea Island
Lady; Land Below the Wind;
Wind Sand and Stars; Capt. Ho
ratio Hornblower; European
Jungle; Southward Ho; Sister of
the Angel; The Great Tradition;
The Orchid Hunters and Four
Part Setting.
Citizens Bank Elects ,
Stutz to Head Board
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Citizens Bank &
Trust company yesterday, D. G.
Stutz, former president. of the
company, was elected to the office
of chairman of the board.
The board of directors also re
appointed Norris L. Hodgkins to
the office of cashier arid Miss
Ethel S. Jones to that of assist
ant cashier.
TOBACCO EXPORTS DROP
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—W
— Exports of unmanufactured
leaf tobacco from the United
States dropped almost 50 per
cent during the first 11 months
of 1939, the department of com
merce reported today.
V
CARD EXPERTS DUE AT
BRIDGE TOURNAMENT
IN CAROLINA HOTEL
Mid-Southern Series Opens on
Friday, Jan, 26 and Ends Sat
urday Following; Grand Prizes
Awarded
A number of bridge enthusiasts
among those attending the dairy
convention will be interested to
learn of the annual Pinehurst
Mjd-Southern bridge tournament,
which will be > held Friday and
Saturday, Jan. 26 and 27 at the
(Carolina Hotel. Players are re
quested to make reservations as
early as possible, and theae will
be a registration table open from
2:00 to 6:00 p. m. on Friday, Jan.
26 at the Carolina. The Caro
lina offers special rates for ac
commodations during the tour
w
• ^he.; first qualifying match, for
which everyone is eligible, will
be held Friday .evening, Jan. 26
at 8:00 p. m. ,Trophies will be
awarded for North-South and
East-West winners in all sec
tions. The Mitchell Movement
will be employed.
The second qualifying match,
in which all are eligible, will he
held Saturday afternoon, Jan. 27
at 1:30 p. m., with trophies be
ing awarded for North-South ant}
East-West winners in all sec
tions, also under Mitchell Move
ment.
The championship play - off,
composed of the 16 highest pairs,
will be held Saturday evening at
8:00 p. m. under the Howell
> movement. Grand trophies willv
go to series winners.
The single session for the
Carolina trophies, in which every
one is eligible, will be held Sat
urday evening at 8:30. Grand
trophies will be awarded for
highest North-South’and highest*
East-West pairs, with trophies
also for North-South and East
West winners in all sections. The
Carolina trophies session is an *
inauguration this season.
BRIDGE FOR VISITORS
The bridge party in which la
dies of the dairy convention par
ticipated was one of the high
spots of the entertainment pro
gram yesterday afternoon. There
were five tables in play. First
prize was won by Mrs. Herman
Dixson of Winston-Salem, sec
ond by Mrs. J. T/. Moore of Ral
eigh, the bingo prize going to
Mrs. William A. Rigsby of
Greensboro.
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Silver Foils Golf Tournament
today. Medal play.
Buffet supper at Pinehurst -
Country Club tonight.
AT THE THEATRES «v
- Pinehurst -
Tomorrow at 3:00 and 8:30,
“He Married His Wife,” with
Joel McCrea and Nancy Kelly. ,
- Southern Pines -
Today at 8:15, matinee at 3:00,
“Raffles,” with David Niven and
Olivia de Havilland.
- Aberdeen Theatre -
Tonight and tomorrow night at
7:15 and 9:15, “Remember,” with
Robert Taylor and Greer Garson.
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