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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1940.
0 (LEE CLUB’S
J0G TO FEATURE
0 FOR HOSPITAL
Time Awaits Patrons of
Affair at Which All Are Wel
come; Sydney’s Orchestra to
play for Dancing.
draw for prizes
Grand send-off for a weekend
ff!,ich is going to be just packed
excitement and gaiety, will
^ the Hospital Auxiliary Ball
|t the Country Club on Friday
night. Over seven hundred invi
tations have been sent through
out the county, and in case the
working invitation commit
tee'failed to get around to
everybody, Mrs. Burt Hunt,
chairman of the ball committee,
wants it known that everyone
is welcome. Tickets will be
sold at the door, admission $3
per person.
Dancing to the s m o o t h [
rhythms of Sydney’s orchestra,
which is being brought down
from Washington, will be only
a part of the full evening’s
program. Through the efforts
of Mrs. James Boyd, the Yale
Glee Club has been procured to
present a program sometime
during the evening. The Yale
hoys will stop off here on their
way to Charleston where they
[will give a concert the follow
ing night.
The Glee Club will be both
entertaining and entertained.
The members of the singing
group will be the over-night
house guests of various hos
tesses in Southern Pines and
Pinehurst. And Mrs. Boyd will
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TUFTS TEAM OUSTS
CLINE-BATTERSON
PAIR IN PLAY-OFF
Mr, and Mrs. Richard S. Tufts
eliminated Miss Jeanne Cline
and W. E. Batterson from the
three-cornered tie in the Tin
thistle foursomes yesterday by
three strokes and Set up a mark
which Mrs. Donald Par
i0n and Arthur Jones are at
Hberty t0 “fire” against either
today or tomorrow.
Mrs. Parson was not feeling
enough to play yesterday,
so the replay was between
e Tufts and Miss Cline and
r' Patterson. The Tufts re
"?ed 42-45-87-10-77 and Miss
Clin
e and Mr. Batterson, 42-48
90-10-80.
* t the turn the Illinois school
jf an(I the former Mayor of
aitford were leading by three
thro es- The tenth hole cost
eni a seven and enabled Mr.
? Tufts to regain two
th10,es- They picked up the
tol Stl0^e at the eleventh and
the lead at the thirteenth,
At the short 14th, Mrs. Tufts
^Pped in from off the green
^ a two, and this gave her
e a commanding lead.
iIiss ttline, playing her first
?aine
ln a number of month
seag^ay apPeared to be in mic
evnc°n form> but yesterday .sh
d !if"ced that second “1*
after
which all golfers ha\
Mr aT^ong rest from golf,
ball Was bitting tl
ters c ’ an(* this mSde ma
asM for Mrs. Tufts.
DENNY SHUTE HAS
WRIST OPERATION
MIAMI, Fla., March 12.—
^ — Denny Shute, former
holder of the British Open
and American Professional
Golfers Association cham
pionships, underwent a wrist
operation today and will not
know for six months whether
he ever <$an compete again.
A cyst was removed from
the bone of his right forearm
at the wrist joint. /
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WEIGHTS ANNOUNCED
FOR 2 MILE BRUSH
COURSE FEATURE
La Touche Has Heaviest Impost
in Handicap Steeplechase at
Races Saturday, With Masked
Knight 9 Pounds Less.
By Howard F. Burns
SOUTHERN PINES, March
12.—La Touche, eight-year-old
chestnut gelding owned by F.
Ambrose Clark of Westbury, L.
I., has been assigned top weight
in the $1,000 handicap steeple
chase, one of the feature events
on the card of the Sandhills
race meeting Saturday.
Announcement of the weights
was made .yesterday by Secre
tary Fred H. Parks of the Na
tional Steeplechase and Hunt
Association at his office in New
York. La Touche will carry
nine more pounds than G. H.
“Pete” Bostwick’s Masked
Knight, assigned 153 pounds.
Other entries in this event of
two miles over the brush course
have been assigned the follow
ing weights:
Crooked Wood, owned by Mrs.
Lewis A. Park of Sewickley, Pa.,
149 pounds; Treford, owned by
Mrs. Marion DuPont Scott of
Montpelier, Va., 148 pounds;
The Dook, 2nd, owned by Mrs.
DuPont Ware of Unionville, Pa.,
143 pounds; King Cob, owned
by G. C. Tuke of Southern
Pines, Little Hurd, owned by
Sam Wolf of Aiken, S. C., and
Sir Koster, owned by Mrs.
George Watts Hill of Durham,
N. C., each 135 pounds.
Five races, two over brush,
one over timber, one over
hurdles and one on the flat,
are- on the card for Saturday’s
meeting here, the first of the
season in hunt racing in the
country. Forty - seven horses
have been nominated for the va
rious everits.
$655,000,000 Navy
Expansion Bill O.K.’d
A $655,000,000 expansion of
the United States navy won the
approval of the House yesterday
by an overwhelming vote of 333
to 37. The bill was sent to the
Senate after a four-hour de
bate. The bill will authorize the
building of 21 new combat
ships, 22 auxiliary vessels in
the next two years, if approved
by the Senate.
HAIL STORM KILLS 5
A hail storm which swept the
residential section of Shreve
port, La., killed five , persons
yesterday. Considerable damage
was done by the storm, with
telephone poles down, and re
ports of heavy damage over an
area of several miles.
WILL FEATURE SHOW HERE
Outlook Engraving
Champion Pegram’s Red Wagon, outstanding whippet, will be
a feature attraction of the dog show of the Sandhills Kennel Club,
which will be held at the steeplechase course on Midland Road
Monday.
May Retire Noted Whippet
After Sandhill Show
One of the most successful
combination of race and show
dogs in America is Ch. Red
Wagon. This noted whippet
started only twenty-three times,
winning 19 of his starts, and
was out of the money on only
one occasion when he was knock
ed from his feet while trying
to cut across his field to take
the lead. His American track
records of 220 yards in 14 4-5
seconds (futurity course) 382 in
25 1-5 second and 550 yards in
36 3-5 still stand.
At two he was retired from
racing, and started his career
in the show ring. Here he met
with much success, and his most
recent victory was the 1940
BEST OF P1NEHURST
POLO SEASON AHEAD;
AIKEN HERE FRIDAY
The best of the Pinehurst
polo season is yet to come. The
Pinehurst-Aiken high goal event
will be held Friday. This will
be a thriller, with those noted
sportsmen-socialites, the Bost
wick brothers, Louis A. Stod
dard Jr. and Billy Post defi
nitely coming up from Aiken
with their polo ponies .for the
action. . Fort Bragg will play
Pinehurst Sunday, March 17th.
The New York A. C. crack team
will arrive in Pinehurst for a
match on Sunday, March 31st
and the colorful and exciting
spring polo tournament is
scheduled for Pinehurst the first
week in April, and a number
of other high-goal matches.
There are still a limited num
ber of choice parking spaces
left near the center of the newly
revamped No. 2 field. These
may be obtained for $25.00, cov
ering the entire series of games
for any number of passengers
of one auto. Other spaces, at
the lower end of the field, may
be obtained for $15.00, also cov
ering the entire series.
[Westminster Kennel Club Show
at Madison Square Garden, New
York City, where he went Best
Whippet in Show.
Ch. Red Wagon will probably
make his last appearance be
fore permanent retirement in
the stud at the first Sandhill
Kennel Club Show at Pinehurst
on March 18th.
The whippet, one of the old
est breeds of the dog in the
world, first came into promi
nence in England among the
mill workers, and was known as
the poor man’s race horse.
These little dogs, standing not
over twenty-one inches at the
shoulder, and weighing thirty
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MARIONETTE SHOW
TO BE PRESENTED AT
HOLLY INN THURSDAY
Perhaps most of us think of
puppet shows as strictly a chil
dren’s entertainment, but in
New York City recently a soph
isticated audience of adults
gave an entire evening of in
terested and enthusiastic atten
tion to a marionette show. The
performance, a clever satirical
night life revue, was presented
in the famous Rainbow Room
of Radio City by one of the Sue
Hastings Marionette troupes.
Containing all the elements of
a smart New York stage show,
played by puppets dressed in
up to the minute costumes, the
performance had all the “pimd1”
necessary to catch and hold a
metropolitan audience*.
Pinehurst is fortunate in hav
ing an opportunity to see the
Sue Hastings Marionettes, which
will be presented here Thurs
day evening at 8 o’clock at the
Holly Inn.
WEATHER
Cloudy and somewhat warmer
Wednesday, probably occasional
rain. Thursday, mostly cloudy
and colder.
NOTE TO OUTLOOK
ADVERTISERS
There is every indication
that there will he a demand
for space in the issue of Sat
urday, March 16, on account
of the steeplechase. It will
assist The Outlook greatly if
advertising copy for this is
sue is prepared as early as
possible.
AMATEUR-PRO GOLF
BEST BALL TOURNEY
PLANNED FOR SUNDAY
Event Will be Scratch Contest
Over Pinehurst Championship
Course; Much Talent Available
for Professional Selection.
The North and South golfing
program will open on Sunday
afternoon when an amateur
professional bestbali tournament
will be contested over the cham
pfonship course. . It will be a
scratch competition.
As a number of star amateurs
are making the winter tour,
these combined with the local
low handicap players will pro
vide a sufficient number of
qualified partners to make the
competition keen.
Ellsworth Vines, is playing in
St. Augustine, along with such
stars as Marvin (Bud) Ward,
national amateur champion and
Jim Ferrier, the Australian ama
teur and open champion. They
will come to Pinehurst for the
North and South.
These, along with George Dun
lap Jr., Bobby Dunkelberger,
Aguila Giles, Arthur Jones,
Richard S. Tufts, F. C. Robert
son, C. B. S. Marr, W. H. B.
Ward, James Hunter, Bing
Hunter, W. E. Batterson, G. W.
Mansfield, H. J. Blue, George
D. Murphy, Carl Andrews, James
Warman, Dr. Gerald Cline,
Chester I. Williams, H. G. Phil
lips and other good amateurs,
will supply the big time pros
with plenty of assistance. Also
Eric Nelson.
KIWANIS MEETS TODAY
The weekly luncheon meeting
of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
will be held today at 12:15 at
the Southern Pines Country
Club. W. J. Spain, assistant
revenue commissioner of the
state of North Carolina will be
the guest speaker.
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Weekly bridge party at The
Carolina this morning, begin
ning at 10:15.
Silver Foils Championship for
the E. C. Bliss Memorial
Trophy today.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Tonight at 8:30, matinee at
3:00, “Isle of Destiny,” with
June Lang and William Gargan.
- Southern Pines -
Tonight and tomorrow night
at 8:15, matinee tomorrow at
3:00, Booth Tarkington’s “Seven
teen,” with Betty Field and
Jackie Cooper.
• Aberdeen -
Today at 7:15 and 9:00, “Fast
and Furious,” with Franchot
Tone, Ann Sothern.
FINLAND SHOCKED
BY SEVERITY OF
SOVIET PEACE TERMS
Moscow Reports Treaty Signed*
to be Ratified in 3 Days;
Wrests Great Slices of Terri
tory.
DIET STUDIES PACT
(By Associated Press)
Russia’s Red army hordes,
having obtained a strangle hold
on large sections of Northern
! Finland, yesterday propose d
peace upon her own terms to her
diminutive enemy.
Hostilities are scheduled to
cease at noon today, while the
Finnish Parliament is granted
three days to ratify the treaty
over which Russian and Finnish
delegates have been in confer
ence in Moscow.
There was a variety of opinion
among observers in Scandina
vian countries as to the vote of
the Finnish Parliament. Many
| thought that the terms would
| be rejected as “impossible,” but
some considered that the mili
tary position of the Finnish
army was such that surrender,
or annihilation was the only
choice.
According to the Soviet re
! port, terms the treaty pro
vide that hostilities cease at
noon Wednesday (4 p. m. EST).
The ratification of the treaty
must come from the Finnish
diet within three days.
Reports from Helsitiki said
that the Finnish people were
shocked and bewildered by the
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COMMUNITY DRAMA
RAISED TO HIGH
LEVEL BY DR. KOCH
At the University of North
Carolina, Dr. Koch has greatly
extended the field of his activi
ties and successfully handled a
group of new problems. North
Carolina stretches from high
mountains on the west to the
ocean on the east, is rich in
historical incidents and tradi
tions, dating from the coming
of the earliest settlers, and has
! a great variety of interesting
types of individual social and
industrial life. Tenant farmers
in the east, textile workers in
the Piedmont region, and moun
taineers in the west. It is to
these people that Dr. Koch has
brought immortality by incor
porating them in the works of
his student playwrights.
Beside the Carolina Play
makers, Dr. Koch has also
founded in this state a Bureau
of Community Drama as an ex
tension division of the univer
sity.
Through his work, the annual
Drama Festival and State Tour
nament for play-writing, direct
ing, and acting has become a
nationally awaited event. Sixty
five different groups from North
Carolina annually compete, and
include little theatre groups as
well as enterprising undergrad
uate organizations.
It is on these that Dr. Koch
will comment after his reading
of Paul Green’s play, “Fixins,”
at the Forum tomorrow eve
ning.