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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1940
GULDAHL AND SNEAD
DROP FOURBALL TILT
{0 WOOD AND BURKE
Defending- Champions at Coral
Cables Lose 1 Down in Scorch
ing Quarter-Final; Winners
Have 67-63.
heafner-harrison win
CORAL GABLES, March 4.—
(iP)—Ralph Guldahl and Sam
Snead, top heavy favorites to
ffin their second consecutive
fourball championship here,
were defeated in the quarter
final today by Craig Wood and
Billy Burke.
Two down at noon, after
Snead had played seven consecu
tive threes during the morning,
the Wood-Burke team dropped
three holes behind at the 27th.
Then Wood and Burke began to
click.
Wood dropped a 15 foot putt
for a deuce at the 30th to Iwin,
and Burke whipped his tee shot
within two feet of the hole at
the 145 yard 32nd hole for an
other win. Wood squared the
match by chipping into the hole
from 20 yards for a birdie three
on the 34th hole.
Burke, finding his ball fifty
feet over the green at the 35th
hole, played from a difficult
lie, and holed out for a three
and a win, to put his team
one up. The final hole > was
halved in birdie fours.
Wood and Burke were 67-63,
with nine birdies in the after
noon.
E. J. Harrison and Clayton
Heafner moved into the semi
final with a 4 and 3 victory
over Jimmy Demaret and Wil
lie Goggin.
Paul Runyan and Horton
Smith, only seeded team re
gaining, turned back National
Open Champion Byron Nelson
and Harold McSpaden, 5 arid 4.
Dick Metz and Ky Laffoon,
the winners in 1938, moved
along with' a 6 and 4 victory
over Stanley Horne and Jules
Hoot, the Canadian team.
Tuesday pairings:
^ °od and Burke vs. Harri
son and Heafner.
^lotz and Laffoon vs. Smith
and Runyan.
A-P FLASHES
BRITAIN STANDS PAT
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 4.—Britain,
Punished hard at sea, and in
'oDed in her first important
isPute of the war with non
^ligerent Italy, stood diplomat
^aHy pat tonight in her deter
mination to blockade Italy’s
erman coal supply, while Lon
°n buzzed with predictions of
a cabinet reshuffle.
There was a note of defiance,
0 owing Italy’s sharp protest
0 Great Britain that a “gen
cnien’s agreement” regulating
t,e Mediterranean relations of
e Dvo nations had been
hreatened as a result of the
rihsh blockade of Italian sea
01 ne coal imports from Ger
many.
Italy, asserting that her in
i les^s Were “seriously injured”
* is blockade, made public a
fectl0US protest a&ainst the ef
o/p non'Belligerent nations
Britain’s “economic war ”
(Continued on page 2)
SNEAD DRIVES 315
CORAL GABLES, March 4.
—Sam Snead won a driving
contest with a \ 315 yard
smack today, staged as a
side light to the' fourball
matches. Johnny Bulla was
second with a 313 yard poke.
Heafner was third with 300
yards. Earl Christianson, Mi
ami’s golfing policeman, was
the best of the amateurs with
280 yards.
PINEHURST GIRLS TRIP
VASS-LAKEVIEW, PLAY
CAMERON IN FINAL
Local Basketball Stars Score 24
to 17 Victory for 18th Con
secutive Triumph; Foe Tonight
Formidable.
(Special to The Outlook)
ABERDEEN, March 4.—Pine
hurst and Cameron girls will
compete in the local high school
gym tomorrow . (Tuesday) night
for the Moore County High
School basketball/ championship.
Pinehurst moved into the final
round by defeating Vass-Lake
view tonight 24 to 17. It was
the 18th straight victory for the
Pinehurst girls.
In the final the Pinehurst
girls will be playing for the
honor of going through the sea
son as an undefeated and un
tied team. That this game wjll
be a treat is certain. During
the regular season Pinehurst
defeated Cameron by one point,
24 to 23. Cameron has been
eager for a second try ever
since. Cameron ’won a final
bracket by defeating West End
in a close ?game.
Southern Pines and West End
will play the final in the boys’
championship. Southern Pines
won last night from Carthage
23 to 22. The Southern Pines
lads had this lead for the fi
nal four minutes, when no
points were scored. With thirty
seconds to play a Carthage for
ward was under the enemy cage
and had a great chance to score
a winning basket. He missed.
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
. Today
Annual Tin Whistles Seniors
Championship begins today.
Bridge luncheon at Pinehurst
Country Club today.
Keno and dance at The Caro
lina tonight.
Disney Pinocchio drawings ex
hibit at the Carolina.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Today at 3:00 and 8:30, “Pin
nochio.”
- Southern Pines -
Today at 3:00 and 8:15,
‘'Northwest Passage,” starring
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young
and Walter Brennan.
- Aberdeen. -
Tonight at 7:15 and 9:15, “I
Take This Woman,” with Spen
cer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr.
WEATHER
Partly cloudy Tuesday and
Wednesday. Slightly colder m
ist and central portions Tues
ay, with slowly rising temper
ture in the mountains Wednes
PINEHURST SCOREBOARD
1 by LOU KOCH
ABOUT POLO AND A CHAP NAMED SHAW
A temperamental 1940 weatherman couldn’t seem to make up
his mind Sunday whether he should permit-a Camden-Pinehurst
polo game or not. The result was that he took a middle course
and left it up to the two teams to decide. In doing so, he also
left the newly revamped polo field in a condition whereby the
polo gentlemen said to themselves, “Maybe we’d better not have
th game, but on the other hand, it doesn’t look too bad, so let’s
go ahead.”
Spurred by the quest of revenge for the 7-6 setback they suf-;
fered at Camden several weeks ago, when a pony kicked the win
ning goal, the members of the Pinehurst team made up their
minds to have a go at it, in spite of the fact that there were
intermittent showers from the heavens, some of the sprinkler
type and others of the come-down-in-buckets variety, beginning
around one o’clock Sunday afternoon. One rain of the latter spe
cies came on around two and lasted for about 15 minutes. A few
minutes later Old Sol peeped out from behind a slowly moving
cloud and the “have it” side finally decided that way.
In the meantime, the telephone exchange of the Sandhills
had the busiest afternoon in a long time, of calls to and fro. All
the hotel desks were besieged with queries on whether there
would be a polo game or not. Cottagers were calling their
friends, some getting a busy signal because their friends were
calling the party of the first part. The Pinehurst Outlook tele
phone kept hammering at its sounding disc until the tingle turned
a bit sour.
• The final outcome was a thrilling game, the largest crowd
ever assembled around a Pinehurst polo field, a Pinehurst 4 to 3
victory and Pinehurst’s top polo man landing on his back in a
private ward of the Moore County Hospital with an incompletely
fractured wrist, a badly bruised face, a general shaking up and
unconfirmed reports of the loss- of one or two of the famous
smiling Earl Shaw molars. The editors of the Outlook staff paid
Mr. Shaw a short visit, at his. Moore County Hospital “bedpost”
to see that noted smile still there, peering out from behind a par
tial screen of bandages and ice-packs. Mr. Shaw’s principal con
cerns seemed to be to get out of the hospital as soon as possible
(Continued on £age two)
MAYOR OF HARTFORD
LANDS UP A TREE IN
SUDDEN TURN OF AUTO
Hizzoner W. E. Batterson Proves
Equal to Occasion, and Soon
Is Extricated From Atop Post
of Country Club Grounds.
W. E. Batterson, mayor of
Hartford, discovered yesterday
afternoon that stout guard
posts and flowering Carolina
bushes do not mix so well.
The mayor and Mrs. Batter
son were leaving the country
club grounds yesterday via mo
tor, and upon making a sudden
turn ran upon a post that was
partially hidden by a flowering
bush. It left the touring cou
ple up a tree post, but the
mayor was equal to the occa
sion and soon had at his beck
and call a group of willing
helpers.
With the aid of a half dozen
kibitzers, including “Happy” of
the Carolina bus, and a half
score of darkies, the mayor and
Mrs. Batterson were soon on
the way to their destination—
the home of Richard S. Tufts.
Note—Mr. Tufts arrived on
the scene a few split seconds
after the car had been removed
from its position atop the post
and flowering bushes.
A HUMAN PRETZEL
Winstead’s Mighty Minstrels,
a bang up show, put on by an
all-star cast of colored dancers,
singers and comedians enter
tained a tent full of their
brothers and sisters and a num
ber of white folks last night
at West Southern Pin£s. Best
item is an acrobatic dancer, a
young woman, who has a per-1
feet “figger” and- is a human
pretzel. The show will be re
peated each night this week.
AUSLANDERS AROUSE
FORUM ENTHUSIASM AT
POET'S SYMPOSIUM
Bard and Wife Read Their Own
Poems, Giving Background of
Verse; Ask Maginot Line of
Pbetry for Restless World.
The Pinehurst Forum last
night at the Country Club, was
most enthusiastic in its re
sponse to Joseph Auslander’s
plea for a universal Maginot
Line of poetry to protect us
from smug comfort, blind in
justice and the apocalyptic mon
ster, hatred, which is envelop
ing the world in its present
crisis.
Audrey Wurdemann, in pri
vate life Mrs. Auslander, read
several poems,, the first of
which were taken from her col
lection “Bright Ambush,” 'for
which she was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize.
That there is a kindred spirit
existing in what Mr. Auslan
der referred to as their “sis
ter act,” was clearly shown
when Mrs. Auslander completed
a poem for which her husband
had written the first verse. To
a lay audience the difference in
style and expression was quite
imperceptible.
TIN WHISTLE SENIORS
The annual Tin Whistle Se
niors championship will be play
ed today at the Pinehurst Coun
try Club. There are three di
visions, starting at 55 years of
age. The championship will be
contested over the number one
course.
'NAZI* SUB RETURNS
A 'German submarine com
mander returned t o Berlin
claiming his boat sank 36,000
tons of shipping.'
DOG KILLER JAILED
CARTHAGE, March 4.—
Otis 'Siler was sentenced to
serve 30 days by Judge J.
Vance Rowe in Recorder’s
Court today for shooting
“Rex,” a valuable bird dog
owned by Dr. Clement Mon-’
rde, of the Moore County
Hospital. Siler was guilty of
killing the dog one night
about 11 o’clock in front of
Dr. , Monroe’s West End
. house.
MRS, JOSEPH V. WOOD,
HURT SUNDAY IN CRASH
REMAINS UNCONSCIOUS
Husband Suffers Broken Ribs
When His Automobile Collides
With Gasoline Truck on Aber
deen Road; Both in Hospital.!
A sad note was struck in this
community over the weekend
with the news that Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph W. Wood, two very
popular Sandhills residents, met
with a serious automobile ac
cident on the Aberdeen-Pine
hurst road Sunday evening.
At a late hour last night the
Moore County Hospital report
ed that Mrs. Wood, believed to
be the more seriously injured,
had not regained consciousness
since the accident occurred and
that Mr. Wood’s condition was
“good.” Mrs. Wood suffered
head injuries, and Mr. Wood
had several ribs broken by the
impact.
Two other cars figured in the
accident, a heavy petroleum car
rier and another pleasure car,
reported to have been driven
by a Negro. The gasoline truck
was being driven by Neil Alex
ander Monroe of the Fayette
ville Petroleum Carrier Corp.
According to the version of
the accident given by Pinehurst
Police Chief A. F. Dees, who
was called to the scene by Mrs.
Meredith Herndon, who lives
nearby, the Wood car was com
ing toward Pinehurst and took
the curve, located. on the road
between the Chapin House and
the Aberdeen sandpits, on its
left side of the road. Going
toward Aberdeen was a car oc
cupied by a group of Negroes
and a petroleum carrier behind
that.
As the Wood car seemed to
stay on the left side of the road,
the Negro driver decided to go
(Continued on page 2)
Original “Pinocchio”
Drawings in Exhibit
The three day exhibition of
the original Walt Disney
“Pinocchio” picture opens to
day at the Carolina at 2 p. m.
It is the only showing of
these pictures between New
York and Palm Beach.
Among some of the newest
pictures, which arrived yester
day from Hollywood, were some
lovely undersea-scapes of both
Pinocchio and his “conscience”
Jiminy Cricket.
Also of extreme interest are
a few of the very first por
trait sketches of Figaro at a
period when he was little more
than a gleam in Disney’s eye.
They will be available * for
anyone to see from this after
noon until Thursday evening.
i
SLEET STORM WREAKS
DESTRUCTION AMONG
NORTH-EAST STATES
Some Sections Worse Hit Than
in Hurricane of - 1938; Ice
Crust Ruins Orchards, Breaks
Power Lines.
MANY ACCIDENTS
(By Associated Press)
Wind borne ice and snow
weighed heavily last night on
the North Atlantic seaboard
states with a cost in property
destruction greater in some sec
tions than that of the disas
trous New England hurricane of
September 1938.
The most apparent . damage
was in Northern New Jersey,
New York city, and Westches
ter county areas, which were
on the fringe of the storm of
! 1938.
Kain, freezing as it fell,
sheathed farmland and cities
from Northeastern Pennsylvania
to Boston, with an icy crust
which ruined orchards, shrubs
and utilities networks. Power
lines snapped, leaving many
communities without lights or
telephone service.
The rapid freeze removed a
flood threat in upper New York
st^te. Sleet halted Connecticut
factories at Waterbury, New
Britain, Norwalk, Naugatuck,
and other cities. At Norwalk
one in every three trees had
been felled by tons of ice.
Scores of storm accidents were
reported over the area.
The American Museum of
Natural History called it “the
worst ice storm” irf the history
of the east.
Airplane travel was at a
standstill. Trains were delayed
on some lines.
On Long Island’s eastern tip
the wind was blowing at a 70
mile-an-hour clip.
The sleet storm was one of
three outbreaks of nature in
the country. Elsewhere a big
cave-in, a tornado and a flood
wrought heavy damage.
BIG CROWD AT GAME
PROVES POLO HAS
HIT POPULAR FANCY
Record Attendance of Fans
Brave Rain to See Home .
Team Triumph Over Camden
by 4 to 3; Earl Shaw Hurt.
That polo has taken a tre
mendous hold on' popular sport
sentiment in tjie ’ Sandhills was
abundantly demonstrated Sunday
by the great crowd that at
tended, the Pinehurst vs. Cam
den match despite rain showers
that too plentifully besprinkled
the countryside before and dur
ing the game. The splendid at
tendance showed clearly that
the sport fans have faith in
their polo leaders here, and that
they like the game. They were
promised a thrilling congest,
and they got what they were
promised, for a faster, more
dashing, more spectacular bat
tle by knights of the mallet
never has been seen on a local
field.
Back of the desire of the polo
promoters here to stage a razor
edged competition also was the
added wish to avenge a defeat
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