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VOLUME
44,
NUMBER 105.
Price 3 Cents
THE'PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
-SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1940.
IHERESE LUKINS WINS
automobile in draw
FOR PRIZES AT BALL
Mid Pines Cashier is “Cinder
ella” of Hospital Auxiliary’s
Annual Benefit Party; Ontario
Woman Gets Furs.
500 ON DANCE FLOOR
jliss Therese “Cinderella”
Lukins, cashier at the Mid Pines
Club was the belle of the ball,
in spite of the fact that she
didn’t attend the affair. Therese,
who never had a car of her
own, won the Plymouth two
door sedan which was awarded
for the benefit of the Moore
County Hospital at the benefit
ball, held at the Pinehurst
Country Club last night.
Others in the draw, who sat
on the edges of their seats un
til Therese, the final winner,
was called out, included Mrs.
Thpias L. Kirk, Mrs. L. F. Blue,
Mrs. Nelson A. Pomeroy and
Burke Onley.
The pair of silver fox furs,
for which Mrs. Paul Butler and
Mrs. Jean Edson worked like
Trojans to put over, were won
by Mrs. T. A. McGinnis of On
tario, Canada, a guest at The
Carolina. Mrs. Walter T. Ives'
of Southern Pines won the cof
fee set, and Lloyd 0. Yost, who
navigates a plane like nobody
else in the Sandhills, won the
portable radio.
Mrs. L. A. Friend, who regis
tered from the Norris Cottage,
won the electric iron, and Mrs.
Charlotte Coburn, who makes
ladies more beautiful in the
Pinehurst theatre building won
the silver tray.
To get back to the ball it
self, Mrs. Alice Burt Hunt,
chairman of the ball called it
“just the right kind of suc
cess.”
The attendance was estimated
at 500 or more, and dancing to
the tunes of Sydney’s Mayflower
Orchestra of Washington went
on to the wee hours bordering
three o’clock.
Author James Boyd proved
himself the inimitable master of
ceremonies.
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Putting tournament for ladies
at Country Club this afternoon.
Cottagers and hotel guests in
hted. Prize awarded.
Reno and dance at The Caro
this evening.
P°lo game tomorrow after
P>°n. Pinehurst - Fort Bragg.
Public invited.
Silver Foils Championship for
£• C. Bliss , Memorial
°Phy today.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
T°mght at 8:30, “Young Tom
ls°n,” starring Mickey Roon
Also March of Time Mag
Zlite’ Canada at War.”
at ft°morrow and Monday night
, matinee Monday at 3:00,
raPes of Wrath,” , starring
Henry Ponda.
‘ Southern Pines -
,0-ft at 8:15, matinee at
let"' ^r’ Ehrlich’s Magic Bul
son Starr*ng Edward G. Robin
. • Aberdeen -
T°night at
«P "*»v at 7:00
10ne«n Days »
and 9:00,
RANDOLPH CUP
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.Mrs. P. S. P. Randolph, in
memory of her late husband, is
presenting this handsome trophy
to the winner of the mile flat
event of the Sandhills Steeple
chase meet. It must be won
three times for permanent pos
session.
PLAY OF AIKEN POLO
STARS IN CLASH HERE
THRILLS BIG CROWD
Yellow Jackets Win Over Red
Jackets in Blazing Encounter
Featured by Dashing Horse
manship of National Lumi
naries.
High goal polo players fronj
Aiken joined with Pinehurst ex
perts yesterday to provide guests
of Pinehurst here for the week
end of racing and golf with
one of the finest sporting en
tertainments of the season.
The Yellow Jackets defeated
the Red Jackets, 6 goals to 5.
It seems that an annual game
between Aiken and Pinehurst,
as a prelude to the annual
Steeplechase, would develop into
a very fine attraction. The
Aiken players are adept horse
men, and their play was great
ly enjoyed. ...
But Pinehurst was not witn
out honor in this exhibition be
tween Yellow Jackets and Red
Jackets. Our men added to the
colorful scene and fast riding.
Scheduled as a match between
a team of Yellow Jackets and
Red Jackets, some last minute
changes were made in the line
up when la grippe caught up
with “Pete” Bostwick, and he
was forced to remain in his bed
hack in Aiken. *
With Mr. Bostwick out of the
proposed line-up it was neces
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POLO TOMORROW
Pinehurst polo team will
play Fort Bragg Sunday here
at three P. M.
The Pinehurst team will
line-up with Floyd Carlisle,
R. B. Green, Merrill Fink
and B. R. Brown. For Fort
Bragg: Capt. Cooper, Capt.
Erskine, Capt. Miller and
Lieut. Powers.
GALA STEEPLECHASE
MEETING ASSURED AS
WEATHER BRIGHTENS
Great Gathering of Sports Fol
lowers Will Assemble at Mid
land Road Course for Hunting
Classic Inaugurating Season.
GOV. HOEY TO ATTEND
By Howard Bums
Steeplechase day is here!
And a colorful, typical Sand
hill resort and residential throng
will greet the gallant horses and
their equally gallant mounts.
High society on parade again!
Listed among the spectators
will be Governor Clyde R. Hoey
of Raleigh, who announced yes
terday that he and his staff
would be here for the opening
race on the 1940 circuit for
which North Carolina has been
honored by the National Steeple
chase and Hunts Association.
Included in the crowds will
be many of the country's lead
ing horsemen, tops in society
from the north, the south, the
east and the west.
The entries include a string
of blue blooded horses, the
fastest hunt race horses in this
country.
Although the Moore County
Sandhills are comparatively new
in amateur hunt racing, fifty of
the country’s leading jumpers
are entered on the 5-race card
at the Barber Estate course mid
way between Southern Pines and
Pinehurst this afternoon.
Officials of the Sandhills
Steeplechase and Racing Asso
ciation have announced that
parking space has been in great
demand for the past month and
it is expected that upward of
15,000 spectators will Be on
hand to witness the sixth an
nual race meeting.
Richard Wallach, racing sec
retary, has reported that fol
lowing the rains thfe course is
in perfect condition for the races
this afternoon.
Paul Mellon’s Faction Fighter
will be entered in the feature
race, three miles over timber,
for the Sandhills Challenge Cup.
Faction Fighter was winner in
1939 and Corn Dodger, another
Mellon horse, was winner in
1938. If the Mellon entry wins
this year, his owner will be
come the permanent possessor
of the Noel Laing memorial cup
presented by Mrs. Vemer Z.
Reed Jr. of Newport, R. I., and
Pinehurst.,
Listed among the favorites in
the thirteen entries in the Croa
tan Steeplechase for $1,000
purse are John Hay Whitney’s
5 year old bay gelding Sweetie
Pie and Mrs. Marion DuPont’s
Scott’s 5 year old Matey. Rich
ard K. Mellon’s Frozen North,
5 year old bay gelding, is also
given an even chance in the
feature brush race.
HERE FOR TODAY'S STEEPLECHASE
Outlook Engraving
Ernest I. White, (right) ardent Syracuse horseman, and
F. Ambrose Clark of New York jOnd Camden. Mr. Clark is
America’s outstanding patron of steeplechase racing and his
horses have carried his blue and gold silks in the Grand National
in England and in all the prominent meetings of the National
Hunts and Steeplechase Association. Mr. Clark will start
La Touche in the Yadkin race today as well as horses in other
events.
pINEHURST SCOREBOARD
■ by ROBERT E. HARLOW
SANDHILLS FORM SHEET
In order to fortify readers of The Outlook with proper infor
mation so that they will be able to make profitable wagers on
the steeplechase races which will be run over the landscape of
the Barber Estate course, located, as it is, “in the middle,” The
Outlook has gone to much trouble to obtain dope on this sort of
sport, and will proceed to “tout” its readers.
According to Esquire magazine, which is not any more author
itative than it should be on sporting matters, a horse to win a
steeplechase race, has to combine the qualities of an antelope, a
kangaroo and an acrobat. Therefore, any horse which comes to
the Barber Estate course wearing tights may be considered of the
gymnast breed, and worth a shilling wager.
Beware, of a horse with a big manly chest and powerful
fores. In taking timber and brush, especially three miles of it, a,
horse with insignificant front and powerful hindquarters.' is .the
steed to put your half Vrown on. A horse needs a Mack truck
motor in the rear for lifting weight over fences, and the lighter
forward load, the more chance he has of a perfect landing.
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BEWARE OF SWITCHING TAIL
Furthermore, according to Esquire magazine, small-eyed horses
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Local Owners Enter Dogs
While the great majority of
dogs entered in the Sandhill
Kennel Club show on March
18th will come from out of I
state and other sections of North
Carolina, the local dog colony
will be well represented.
Mrs. William Kennedy Jr. has
entered her giant great dane,
Hercules, who is expected to,
make many of the outsiders |
step high, wide and handsome
fot top honors. Hercules went
best of breed at Portland, Me.,
show.
Another dog certain to give
plenty of trouble in the class
for sporting dogs is Dr. F. * L.
Vinson’s Rowdy of Rocksboro,
a beautiful English setter, that
has almost completed his cham
pionship. Rowdy will be sent
from Baltimore, Md., just for
this show.
A complete list of judges is
as follows:
Col. G. P. Hawes, collies.
Mr. Turner, Cocker Spaniels,
Scottish Terriers and Pekingese.
Mrs, Smith, Manchester
terriers, Sealyham terriers. ,
Mr. Vogt—All other breeds,
groups and best in show.
KING CAROL BALKS
AT OIL DEAL FOR
FRONTIER GUARANTEES E
I Rumanian Monarch Adamant in 11
Refusal to Include Old Guard ||
Member in Cabinet, Hitler -
Condition. ! tj
“BEGINNING OF END*
BUCHAREST, March. 15.—00
—King Carol II was reported
in official circles tonight to
have balked at Nazi Germany’s
scheme to pledge Russia and
Hungary to long guarantees of
Rumania frontiers in exchange
for unlimited flow of Rumania
oil.
Carol was adamant in his re
fusal to grant one of Hitler’s
conditions—that one of the Iron
guards, Rumanian Nazi party,
be allowed seat in his cabinet.
Carol felt that would be be
ginning of the end of Rumania
as an independent state. .
Germany was reported to feel
such cabinet member was neces
sary to Hitler’s plan.
BOBBY JONES IS DUE
IN P1NEHURST TODAY
ON BUSINESS VISIT
World Renowned Golfer From
Atlanta to Attend Spalding
Co. Session; Drive to be
Launched. ,
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Bobby Jones of Atlanta, world If
renowned golfer, will arrive in |
Pinehurst this morning, along 1
with L. E. Coleman, vice-presi- 1
dent of A. G. Spalding & Bros., *j
and A. H. Williams, Philadel- |
phia, also of Spalding. !•
Even on race day in Pine- ‘
hurst, with the village filled
with horse people and horse
talk, Jones can hardly be. over
looked. His “grand slam” ia
still the biggest rubber on the
International scoreboard, and
likely to remain so.
Mr. Jones comes to Pine
hurst each spring for a meet
ing of Spalding officials. They
select the annual North and
South championship as a proper
time to launch their spring cam
paign, and last year introduced
the tournament “dot” and
“dash” balls here. These balls,
were popular in 1939.
An important* announcement;
is likely to be made here this *
week. ‘
FIVE FAST BOUTS ON
BOXING CARD TONIGHT
By attending the boxing ses
sion at the Amusement Center
in Pinehurst tonight sport fans
can top off a day at the Steeple
chase or on the golf course 'in
an enjoyable manner. They will
see some peppy scrappers in ac
tion, especially in the main bout,
in which two heavyweight'leath
er pushers, Horace Jones and
Mat France, will mingle. These
colored boys can give it and
take it, and every moment of
every round is charged with 4
dynamic action. Jones m a re- J
cent bout at the Center kayoed • ‘
a doughty adversary in Ham
Braboy. He thinks he can re- H j
peat the act with
There are four preliminaries, 4J
Matchmaker Myfon Barrett an- *4'*•'.
nounces. There are only 53 re
served seats.
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