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The Oldest Sandhills Publication
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VOLUME
44, NUMBER 106.
Price 5 cents
THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1940.
POSTMAN HOME LEADS EY A NECK AS JUMPERS EY OVER TIMBER
Photo by Hemmer , Outlook Engraving
Postman Home, fleet timber horse owned by Mrs. Eva S. Spillman and ridden
by John S. Harrison, winner of the Sandhills Challenge Cup race, three miles over
timber, is seen at the right, taking a jump with Home Sweet Home, number five,
fighting for the lead. Home Sweet Home fell at the final jump. Only two of the
six starters in this event finished. -,- - —• -- »• - •••
Amateur-Pro Golf and
Polo on Today’s Menu
Tourney is Curtain Raiser for North and
South Series: Pinehurst Four
The North and South championships will have an informal
opening today when an amateur-professional bestball will be played
over the championship course. Amateurs with handicaps up to
22 may compete and will play with an. allowance of 5-8th. With
®any of the nation’s star pros here, some excellent golf should
result.
Polo again will be in the sport spotlight this afternoon when
to® Pinehurst Club four *will oppose Fort Bragg on No. 2 field,
toe game to start at 3 o’clock. '
Pinehurst players are rounding out into top form with each
Same they play, and can be relied on to give the gallery a bril
llant exhibition of both riding and stick work. Fort Bragg is
Ringing picked players, and the best ponies the officers possess.
Phe lineups:
^nehurst
F,0-V<1 Carlisle
^ P* Green
Merrill Pink
k Brown
Position
'1
2
3
4
Ft. Bragg
Capt. Cooper
Capt. Erskine
Capt. Miller
Lieut. Powers
Referees: Col. G. P. Hawes and W. V. Slocock. Timekeeper,
W- & Baker.
Starting Monday at the Southern Pines Country Club the
|"e,fth annual Mid-South 54 holes medal play golf championship
p°r Won,en will bring Miss Patty Berg and Mrs. Estelle Lawson
*fe Jr 5n competition. A fine field of women will participate.
ls tournament will continue through Wednesday.
On
P'onshi
Tuesday the 38th annual North and South open cham
lp "iB be played with an all-star cast. The best group of
(ft UrS en^er *n a number of years will be leaded by Marvin
Ward, the national amateur champion, Ellsworth Vines,
enn,s champion who has turned golfer, Wilfred Wehrle and George
Dllnlap J?.
Mel ^ USual f*®ld of touring professionals will be here. Byron
S°n’ ",nner last year, will defend his title.
DlNEHURST SCOREBOARD
■ by ROBERT E. HARLOW
The advance soldiers of the winter golfing campaign began to
shuffle into Pinehurst last week bringing inside stories of what
has been going on down in Florida, over in Texas, and even out
on the Pacific coast.
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“CALLING” ALL AMATEURS!
One startling tid bit had to do with officials of the' United
States Golf Association who have been south this winter looking
over the amateur tournaments for both ladies and gentlemen, held
in resorts and by Chambers of Commerce. The officials, so it is
rumored, want to find out what makes these simon-pure events
tick at such a lively clip.
Last winter the U. S. G. A. put out a letter to the lady golfers
just by way of reminding them of their obligations as true ama
teurs not to accept anything in exchange for their skill which
might be in the nature of a barter, and therefore have to be enter
ed on the books of the U. S. G. A. as “trade.” Amateurs are not
allowed to be in the “golfing trade.”
That this is a serious situation has been brought out recently
by a number of amateurs who have lived up to the letter of the
law no matter how badly it has hurt to do it. They figure that
if the U. S, G. A. insists on a 100 per cent amateur code being
the same for all, that the U. S. G. A. should do something more
important than to write letters, if there has been any violations.
Anyhow, last year the U. S. G. A. wrote letters. This year
this organization has had representatives in the field. They might
not be classified by such a harsh word as “investigators,” but they
have had their eyes open, and perhaps “opened.”
Next year a private detective agency might go into this mat
^ Off hand, Miss Mary K. Browne is the only woman ever barred
from amateur golf by the U. S. G. A. She was formerly a tennis
pro. She was later reinstated into amateur ranks.
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SEMINOLE POOL $56,000
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The pool at Seminole was $56,000. Sounds like a lot of money
in these days of the “left handed” deal. Jim Demaret and his
partner and Dick Metz and his partner tied for first. The persons
holding tickets on these combinations won $23,000 each.
Thfe Demaret ticket was purchased for $3,000 by one man
and the report is that Jimmy was handed $5,000. The Metz ticket
(Continued on page six)
Steeplechase Summaries
THE CATAWBA
One Mile and One Half Over Hurdles
Frozen North, 145 (J. Magee) ._.— 1-1> 2-5, out
Betty Tour, 133 (E. Russell) .... 2-1, 1-1
Any Play, 165 (E. Mitchell) . .._.;. out
Marc Aurele 2nd, also ran. Johnny Tight lost rider.
(Continued on page two)
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A BAD SPILL WITH HORSE AND RIDER DOWN AT A TIMBER JUMP
Photo by Hemmer ' Outlook Engraving
Yesterday’s races were marked by an unusually large number of spills at the
timber and brush jumps on the Barber course. There were four cases of “lost
riders” in the Sandhill Cup race which had six starters. In the Yadkin, two horses
lost their riders and one fell in a field of seven. In our photograph King Cob and
his rider Jockey Voss are down and spectators are rushing to their aid. All told ten
riders were unseated during an interesting afternoon of sport which attracted a
large and enthusiastic crowd. The day was perfect and the Sandhills scored again as
one of the foremost sporting communities of the nation. ___ __
10,000 at Races See
Postman Home Win
Mrs. Spillman’s Entry Captures Feature
Steeplechase Event as Spills
Thrill Throng
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i By MURRAY TYNAN
(Turf Editor of The New York Herald Tribune)
SOUTHERN PINES, March 16.—Mrs. Eva S. ‘ Spillman’s Post
man Home, a veteran fencer, won the Sandhills Challenge Cup
here this sunny afternoon and made good. on a prediction Bill
Streett, his trainer, ventured three years ago. A former post and
rail rider of prominence and now a rising young trainer, Streett.
said that Postman Home would win over timber when the horse
was retired from brush racing.
It took two years for the old fencer to make the assertion:
stand up, but he finally accomplished his objective today while
horses were tumbling and spilling all over the fine course midway
between this resort and Pinehurst.
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Pro-Amateur Golf tournament
at Pinehurst Country Club to
day.
Polo game this afternoon.
Pinehurst-Fort Bragg. Public
invited.
Buffet supper at Holly Inn
tonight.
Putting tournament at Pine
Needles.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Tonight and Monday night
at 8:30, matinee Monday at 3:00,
“Grapes of Wrath,” starring
Henry Fonda.
- Southern Pines -
Tomorrow and Tuesday night
at 8:15, matinee Tuesday at
3:00, “The Ghost Comes Home,”
with Frank Morgan, Billie
Burke and Ann Rutherford.
Also, March of Time magazine,
“Canada at War.”
WEATHER
Fair and continued mild Sun
|day. Monday generally fair.
umy two oi tne six starters
that went out after the chal
lenge cup came back, but in
justice to Postman Home it may
well be sdid that the tumbling
steeds made little difference to*
him. He probably would have ,
won anyway, because he was al- ;
ways close enough up to strike
after Paul G. Daly’s surprising
Mansfield Park went down, and
Jie had what it took to wrest
back the lead after losing it a
half mile from the last jump.
It was a hard hunt all the
way, and Postman Home finally
earned the right to the badge
of courage, a right that was de
nied him in his brush racing
days at Saratoga and other im
portant tracks. ;
Most Exciting Gallop
The Cup race wasn’t the bestj
gallop that ever was run off
over this course—maybe you
wouldn’t even call it a .good
race—but it certainly was the
most exciting since the after
noon two years ago when Jack
Skinner*' was unseated by Com I
Dodger and then remounted and
won. While all six starters were •
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