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NUMBER 124.
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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1940. 1
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Former National Amateur Champion Has
Easy Time, Taking 7-6 Victory
in North-South '
Lengthening Out of Tees trou
bled Cooperstown Player, Who
Was,4 Down at End of Morn
ing Round With 83 to Foe’s 78.
MATCH EVEN AT 9TH
By Robert E. Hi »w
George T. Dunlap Jr. recap
tured the North and South ama
teur golf title yesterday when
be defeated Jack Ryerson, Coop
erstown, N. Y., 7 and 6, in a
36-hole final over the champion
ship course of the Pinehurst
Country Club. It was the sixth
time Mr. Dunlap has won this
title.
The final match was listless.
There were no exciting inci
dents such as prevailed in Mr.
Dunlap’s quarter final against
Chuck Alexander and in his
semi-fmal against Bobby Dun
kelberger. These games went
into extra holes with the re
sult dangling on every .stroke,
Mr. Ryerson is a very fine
golfer, but he is not quite up
to the standard of play vthich
has made Mr. Dunlap one of
the outstanding amateurs of the
world, and which carried him to
a national championship and six!
North and South titles.
During the week Mr. Ryerson
had been playing some of the
finest golf of his career, and
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HUT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Polo game this afternoon on
No. 2 field, beginning at 3:00
o’clock. Fort Bragg vs. PineA
hurst. Public invited.
Putting tournament at Pine
Needles this afternoon.
Buffet supper at Holly Inn
tonight.
Annual North and South ama
teur tennis tournament begins
at Pinehurst Country Club to
morrow. • '
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Tonight and Monday night
^ 8:30, matinee Monday at
“Rebecca,” with Lawrence
Mver, Joan Fontaine and Ju
dith Anderson.
Added attraction for tonight,
The Cotton Blossom Singers.”
* Southern Pines -
Tomorrow and Tuesday night
at 8:15, matinee Tuesday at
“Star Dust,” with Linda
Darnell, Roland Young and Char
lotte Greenwood.
Aberdeen
Tomorrow and Tuesday night
at 7:30 and 9:20, A. J. Cronin’s
^igil in the Night,” with Car
°le Lombard, Brian Aherne,
^nne Shirley and Brenda Forbes.
t°ry hy the author of The
Citadel.
WEATHER
Sunday, partly cloudy, slight
y warmer. Monday, occasional
*&ins. Slightly cooler. ~ -
ME. TO FLA.—AND BACK
Gene Buzzell’s in town.
Gene is sports ed. of the
Palm Beach Daily News. A
bachelor, he has it arranged
so that he doesn’t have to
stay home much. Between
May and October, he travels
around New England writing
publicity and managing gu
bernatorial candidates. No
vember rolls around and it's
time to go back to the Palm
Beach sports desk.
STODDARD-MARSHALL
TEAM WINS WHISTLE
BESTBALL TOURNEY
| Worcester Golfer Registers Low
_ est Round of His. Links Career,
89 Gross; Pair Net 58; Don
ald Ross Cards 69.
H. G. Stoddard, Worcester,
Mass., and H. N. Marshall, Bos
ton, . won the *bestball of pair,
medal play handicap event of
the Tin Whistle Club yesterday
over numijer one course with a
net card of 26-32—58. There
were 74 players.
Mr. Stoddard played one of
the lowest rounds of his golf
ing experiences. Ife scored a
gross 44-46—89. Mr. Marshall
was 40-47—87. They teamed
well, Marshall winning six hoies
and Mr. Stoddard four.
Their bestball net score:
Out 333 341 423—26
In 434 443 343-—32—58
The ace at the sixth hole tvas
contributed by Mr. Stoddard. lie
obtained a gross ttfo, and with
a handicap strode produced a
one for his team.
I Donald J. Ross, playing with
Henry Hornblower, took this oc
casion to produce one of his
lowest rounds of the season, a
34-35—69. It might have been
a 68, for Mr. Ross took three
from the edge of the 17th, af
ter hitting two fine wooden
club strokes. His card:
Out 454 433 353—34
In 454 434 254—35—69
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JEAN BAUER WINS
CHARLOTTE, N. C., April 6.
_(JP)—Pretty Jean Bader of
Providence, R. L>. added another
tfophy to her collection today
by defeating defending Champion
Jane Cothran of Greenville, S.
C., 3 and 2, in the finals of the
Charlotte Country Club’s fourth
annual women’s invitation tour
nament.
Miss Cothran herself started
brilliantly in the 18-hole match,
but the new champion had her
long game grooved and was
staight to the pin over most of
the route.
WINS TOURNEY FOR THE SIXTH TIME
Outlook Engratirig
Jack Ryerson (right), runner-up and George T. ftohlap
winner of the 40th annual North and Sotith amateur golf cham
pionship completed yesterday over the championship course of the
Pinehurst Country Club.
Pinehurst-Ft Bragg Polo
Game at 3 P.M. Today
Today's polo on the Pinehurst field will take on a military
aspect, with Fort Bragg sending over a strong foursome to com
pete against the invincible Pinehurst team in this afternoon's
engagement.
the U. S. Army boys are itching to come through with a win
(over the Pinehurst lads, who ran up their'ninth consecutive vic
tory last Sunday, wheh they defeated the Ramblers to the tube
of 6-5 lifter a 5-5 freeze at the end of the regulation six periods.
The te4ms decided to play off the deadlock and Pinehurst ptit
one through the Ramblers' goal after two minutes of the play-off
chukker.
Pinehurst's record book of wins also shows one against Bragg,
in their fray of several weeks back.
Today's line-up:
PINEHURST
1. Mercer. Hicks.
2. R. B. Green.
3. Merrill Fink.
4. B. R. Brown.
FORT BRAGG
1. Lieut. Alex Graham.
2. Lieut. R. Kohler.
3. Capt. Dave Erskine.
4. Capt. Paul R. Miller.
Referees: Col. George P. Hawes Jr. $nd Earl Shaw. Time
keeper, William E. Baker. Announcer, Eliott Barta.
Reserved choice parking spaces on the field edge may be
obtained by calling the Pinehurst Polo Club, Tel. 3694 or 3862,
Pinehurst. All unreserved tickets at the gate.
ORCHARDS BLOSSOM
AT BEST THIS WEEK
Hawley Pool, orchardist of
West End, says the apple trees
will be m blossom at their best
starting today, about the mid
dle of the week to be in full
blossom.
Visitors to Pinehurst who ap
preciate beautiful landscapes will
be afforded a delightful pano
rama of trees in bloom if they
1 drive along the orchard lined
highways, just a short distance
from the village.
POLICE AND PATROLMAN
BOWL AT CENTER
In a hotly contested match at
the Amusement Center yester
day afternoon Police Chief A. F.
Dees and State Highway Patrol
man Wendell Kelly bowled it out
to a finish, and it wasn’t long
before Meredith Herndon chimed
in to show the law officers
some of the fine points of the
game. The finish resulted in
victory for Patrolman Kelly,
and Chief Dees had to shell out.
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U. N, G. Entry of 40 Players Tops List of
: Contestants in Tennis Classic
Starting Tomorrow
HARLOW TO SPEAK
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Robert E. Harlow of The
Pinehurst Press Bureau and
editor of The Outlook, will
make the principal address
at the annual stag dinner of
the Rochester Club, Roches
ter, ^New York, on Wednes
day night of this week.
He will discuss golfers and
sports writers.
DEMARET LEADING
MANGRUM BY 1 STROKE
IN AUGUSTA TOURNEY
Texan Tallies 70 For 54 Hole
Total of 209; Mangrum 210;
Wood and Snead Next With
I AUGUSTA, April 6.—It is
| still Jimmy Demaret and Lloyd
Mangrum in the Augusta tour
nament. Goiiig into the final
round, Demaret leads Mangrum
by one stroke. They wei*e tied
tat the-end of 36 holes, hut to
day jimiriy scored a 70, two un
de* par, to post a 54 hole total
of 209 compared to Mangrum’s
210.
Coming fast down the stretch
I are Ctaig Wood and Sam
Snead. Snead, starting four
strokes behind after two rounds,
moved up a ribtch. Wood, six
strokes baOk at the halfway
mark, cut that deficit ih tWo,
for a tie with Snead in third
place. ..
Marian Ward, National cham
pion, led the amateurs with a
score of 217. Th& placed him
in a tie fob tenth, with Cooper,
Runyan arid Walsh.
The final tOund will be play
ed Sunday. Bobby Jones was a
spectator, having withdrawn yes
terday because of an injured
back.
PROFESSIONALS
Demaret .. 70—209
Mangrum ... 71—210
Wood ..— 67—212
Snead .-.— 69—212
Picrird . 71—213
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WALSH DUE MONDAY TO
ARRANGE GOLF MOVIE
Joe Walsh, sporting editor
for RKO will irrive in Pine
hurst Monday, in advance of
a staff of camera and sound
experts who will make a golf
ing sportscope here, with
Horton Smith as leading man
| and Pinehurst people playing
parts. <
This will be the second golf
picture made in Pinehurst.
The first one was shown in
more than 4,000 theaters. The
“shooting” will start about
April 15th. The Pinehurst
Press Bureau will work with
the RKO staff in the produc
tion of this picture.
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Duke University Will be Repre
sented in Pinehurst Amateur
Series by Team of Ten; N. C.
State to Send Group.
BUXBY, HALL, ENTEREDr
—
Topped by a group of 40 bud
ding net stars from the Univer- I
sity of North Carolina, the
twenty-second annual North ancl
South amateur tennis tourna- [
ment will get underway at the |
Pinehurst Country Club tom or- j
row morning. Play will be in? |
divisions of men’s singles, men*® ' |
doubles and women’s singles. |
The U. N. C.. team, under |
the direction of Coach Kenfield^. j
will try to take back to Chapel j
Hill the 1940 trophy, to repeat j
the singles win of 1939* which j
Charles Rider, a junior student
of the Tar Heels, retired last j
year. Rider is entered h this
year’s event. ~ “
| Duke * University will be rep- *
I resented with ten players and
N. C. State will also send sev
eral down to compete.
Other entries include Martin
Buxby, representing Florida’s
stronger players, Gilbert Hall,
seasoned veteran, Josiah Bacon,
C. A. Farrar; and among the
feminine representation, Mrs.
Sarah Palfrey of Brookline,
Mass., women’s national doubled
champion, who showed effective
work in her tour of the Florida
circuit this winter, Miss Barbara
Neilds, Cleveland’s top feminine
star, Miss Mary M. Joyce of
Brookline, and many others.
An entry of note is that of
Henry Glenn, assistant district,
attorney of New York.
I Close to 70 players are ex
pected to participate in the va
rious divisions, opening with the
men’s singles tomorrow. The?
women’s singles are expected to/
get underway Tuesday and the
men’s doubles Wednesday.
Entries for the meii’s singles
close tonight at the Country
Club. Fred C. “Pop” Baggs is
directing the competition.
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Census of Hotels
To be Taken Monday
Mrs. Paul Dixon, assistant ;
'United States, census supervisor
of the 8th district, will be in
Pinehurst Monday, April 8, to
direct the census of the local
hotels which will be made on
that date. April 8th is the ap
pointed date for the nationwide
hotel census.
R. F. Holland, assistant ’area V ’
manager, will also be here to
aid Mrs. Dixon. Mr. Holland
reports that special attention
will be given to this census,,
as Pinehurst hotels are at ap
proximately the height of their
season.
FINLAND TO RESUME
RELATIONS WITH SOVIET*
LONDON, April 6.—^—Ex
change Telegraph, British he#a
agency, reported today that Fin
land and Soviet Russia had
agreed to resume diplomatic re
lations this month. \ :
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