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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940,
Don Budge Will Play
first Game Here Today
Famous Californian Star Will Have as
Opponent Otto Bernadin of Florida;
Match at 3:30
Champion’s Brother, Lloyd,
Draws Big Gallery as He
Wins Contest With Frank
Voight in Straight Sets; Ted
Rericha Stops Napier.
BARNES VS. J. KENNEY
By Fred Hawthorne
Eight matches in the first
round and two in the second,
on the opening day of play in
the annual professional tennis
tournament of the Pinehurst
Country Club Tuesday afternoon,
reduced the field ! to fourteen
contenders.
Today the Pinehurst gal
leries will get their first glimpse
of Don Budge of California, the
No. 1 player of the entire ten
nis world, and all Pinehurst is
awaiting the debut on these
courts of the brilliant red-head
from the shores of the Pacific.
Budge, located in the top
bracket of the upper half, drew
a bye today, but this aft
ernoon at 3:30 o’clock he will
go into action against Otto Ber
nadin of Florida.
As an indication of the in
terest shown in the world’s pro
fessional champion, a near ca
pacity gallery was out Tuesday
afternoon to see Lloyd Budge,
the great Don’s elder brother,
play his first round match. Lloyd
has the same flashing red hair
and is stockier in his build, but
any tennis follbwer would im
mediately recognize him as a
Budge.
Lloyd defeated Frank Voight
of Florida, 6-0, 6-3, 6-1, and to
day he will face a real test
^the person of Richard Skeen
of California, second in the seed
ed group. Skeen ran away to
a speedy victory in his. match
with Herbert Stead, scoring at
6-2, 6-0, 6-2.
Bruce Barnes of Texas, form
er world’s professional doubles
champion, drew a l?ye in the
first round, and will face James
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WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Third annual North and South
Professional tennis tournament
continues today at Pinehurst
Country Club.
Weekly bridge party at The
Carolina this morning beginning
at 10:15.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Today at 3:00 and 8:30, “It
AH Came True,” with Ann Sher
Jflan and Jeffrey Lynn. Added
attraction, “Court Favorites,”
* Southern Pines •
Tonight and tomorrow night
^ 8:30, matinee tomorrow at
“It’s A Date,” with Deanna
Durbin.
Aberdeen
Tonight at 7:30 and 9:15,
lug of the Lumberjacks,” with
°hn Payne and Gloria Dickson.
a^h award night, $100 free,
and consolation.
TODAY’S NORTH-SOUTH
TENNIS MATCHES
2:30—Coghlan vs Ed Kenney.
2:30—Skeen vs Lloyd Budge.
3:30—Don Budge vs Bernardin.
3:30—Weisbuck vs Nogrady.
3:30—Barnes vs J. Kenney.
4:30—Faunce vs F. Rericha.
MARY WARD ELECTED
HEAD OF SANDHILLS
WOMAN’S EXCHANGE
Officers of Organization Named
at Meeting Yesterday in Caro
lina; Mrs. Nettleton is Vice
President.
At the meeting of the Sand
hills Woman’s Exchange, which
was held yesterday at the Caro
lina Hotel, Miss Mary Ward was
elected president; Mrs. Dewitt
B. Nettleton, vice-president; Mrs.
Charles Franck, secretary, and
Miss Laura Kelsey was re-elect
ed treasurer, for the 1940-1941
period.
Mrs. Harry W. Norris is re
tiring president, Miss Ward was
vice-president, and Miss Birdilia
Bair, former secretary..
^Members present at the meet
ing included Mrs.. Harry W.
Norris, Mrs. Leonard Tufts,
Mrs. Dewitt B. Nettleton, Mrs.
George Percy Hawes Jr., Mrs.
M. P. Miller, Mrs. F. H. Gun
ning, Mrs. Paul Dana, Mrs.
William T. McCullough, Mrs.
Norwood Johnston, Mrs. An
drew S. Burke, Mrs. Harry
Hogg, Mrs. George Dunn, Mrs.
H. P. Hotchkiss, Mrs. Charles
| Warner, Mrs. George A. Har
wood, Mrs. S. A. D. Sheppard,
Mrs. T. Hogsett, Mrs. Wesley
M. Oler, Mrs. Thomas H. Mc
Graw and the Misses Birdilia
Bair, Mary Ward, Laura Kel
sey, Helen Childs and Francis
Johnston. Tea* fallowed the
meeting.
Funeral Services Held
For Millard H. Turner
‘ Millard Henry Turner, who
died in his home on Weymouth
Heights last Sunday, was laid
to rest amid the quiet and peace
ful surroundings of Mount/ Hope
Cemetery yesterday afternoon.
A short funeral service was
conducted in the Powell Funeral
Chapel by the Rev. F. Craig
hill Brown, which was attended
by many friends who had known
him during the years he had
made this community his home.
Masonic funeral services were
conducted • at the cemetery by
the Southern Pines lodge.
the weather
Clou4^ Wednesday. Thursday,
showers, cooler in afternoon in
west portion, cblder at night.
DOGWOOD
Virginia State Flower
There is'a legend, that at the
time of the Crucifixion the dog
wood had the size of the oak
and other forest trees. So firm
and strong was the tree that *it
was chosen as the timber for the
cross.
To be used thus for such a
cruel purpose greatly distressed
the tree, and Jesus, nailed upon
it, sensed this, and in His gentle
pity for all sorrow and suffering,
said to it:
DINEHURST SCOREBOARD
■ by ROBERT E. HARLOW
N. Y. SELLS OUT FOR $2.00
Politics in New York state became a bigger business than
ever before yesterday as the spoils from pari-mutuel wagering
be^an pouring into the state treasury.
On opening day at Jamaica, $821,946 was wagered by a (trowd
of 22,474. The state’s cut was better than $40,000- for this one
day of racing. The New York season will extend until* fall and
when Belmont opens, the experts estimate that $2,000,000 will
not be too much to expect the public to lay on the line at the
pari-mutuel windows) for one day of sport. -
The state will realize from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000 out of
horse racing, depending upon how many tracks are permitted to
operate.
Race tracks Operate only under the sanction of the state.
Some of the older New York tracks will cdntinue under the rule
of the horsemen who have been conducting the sport for years.
It would be too boldfaced to take the. franchises away from these
men, all at once.
But when new tracks are started the “pols” will have the
inside, and as time passes, even the old Jockey clubs are going
to fall into the hands’ of the mighty .politicians. Meantime, the
state gets a “cut” which in itself will produce a fat pot of gold.
In future when the whole business is in the hands of politi
cians, and if the public’s money holds out, race tracks will become
one of the principal spoils of political machines. They are just!
this in many states today.
The whole race track picture now coming into being irt New
York, state can very easily be a breeding spot for civic disinte
gration. To what lengths will politicians go to gain control of an
industry with the possible spoils of horse racing under the pari
mutuel system?
It becomes obvious that politics, created under the American
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BOONE VS. ARMSTRONG
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., April
16.—(JP)—Promoter Mike Jacobs
of New York Announced here
today he had arranged a match
between Eric Boone, lightweight
champion of the British Isles,
and Henry Armstrong, Negro
welterweight champion, for New
York in June.
“Because of your regret and
pity for My suffering, never
again shall the dogwood tree
grow large enough to be used as
a cross. Henceforth it shall be
slender and bent and twisted and
its blossoms shall be in the form
of a cross—two long and two
short petals. And in the cen-;
ter of the outer edge of each
petal there will be nail prints,
brown with rust and stained with
red, and in the center of the
flower will be a crown as of
thorns, and all who see it will
remember ...” v
WPA HEAD ACCUSED
DETROIT, April 16.—<#)—
Conspiracy to sell WPA jobs
was" charged today by a federal
grand jury against Don F.
Boggs, former chief assignment
clerk for the Works Progress
Administration in the Wayne
County ‘district, and Meyer.
Steinman, Detroit gasoline sta
tion operator.
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England Plans Tighter
Pacific Route Blockade
British Ambassador Tells of Steps to Keep
U. S. and Other Supplies From
Reaching Germany
REDS AT U. N. C. ARE
STRONG, DIES TOLD
WASHINGTON, April 16.
— (/P) —Chairman Dies (D
Tex.) said today that his
house committee on un-Amer
icanism planned hearings
within the next several
months “‘on Communism in
universities and schools/’
The Texan asserted that he
had reports, “but I don’t
know whether they are true,”
that Communism is “very
strong” at the. University of
North Carolina. He said that
institution would come under
committee study.
BOYS TO COMPETE IN
CATTLE JUDGING EVENT
HERE ON APRIL 26TH
Ayrshire Breeders Present Cup
For Contest Among ‘ Voca
tional School Students Talking
Part in Earlier Competitions.
An Ayrshire Cattle Judging
contest will take place here on
April 26th at 10 o’clock in the
ring west of the Carolina Hotel.
Three boys each from the Agri
cultural Vocational Schools of
Cameron, Ellerbe, Raeford, Vass,
Carthage and Lakeview will
compete for a cup being offered
by the Carolina-Virginia Ayr
shire Breeders’ Association. In
addition to the cup, a prize of
$15 will go to the wiriner of
first place, $10 to the boy who
takes second place, and $5 to
third place. Professor R. H.
Ruffner from the North Caro
lina State College of Agricul
ture and Engineering will award
the prizes.
The boys, who will compete
have ta^en part in a series of
judging contests held, at the
Pinehurst Dairy during the past
six weeks, for which they have
received small prizes and rib
bons. The competition on the
26th will be in the nature of a
final event for the year.
It is hoped that the experience
gained by the boys in these con
tests will encourage them in
handling and owning live stock
of their own in the future.
Box lunches will be on sale
at the dairy at 12 .o'clock fol
lowing the judging. A sale of
some 30 Ayrshires will be, held
in the afternoon under the spon
sorship of the Carolina-Virginia
Association. Jack Johnson of
Greensboro will auctioneer.
FEW LEAVING SWEDEN
WASHINGTON,. April 16.—
(£*)—Frederick A. Sterling, min
ister to Stockholm, reported \ to
day that only about one-tenth
of the 1,500 Americans in
Sweden were trying to leave.
The 100 to 200 desiring repa
triation to the United States
probably will go to Germany by
ferry service, and then to Ge
noa, Italy.
Lord - Lothian Says Greenland
and Iceland Will Not be Seized
by Britain or Canada Unless
Nazis Threaten to Move in.
MORE BRHNS CALLED
iRljpfNS
WASHINGTON, April 16.—
(JP)—A tighter British blockade
in the Pacific to keep American x
and other supplies from reach
ing Germany by the long route
through Russia was forecast by
the British ambassador, Lord.
Lothian, today. /
At the same time, the treas
ury took action to protect the*
American customs structure from.'
the effect of wartime foreign
exchange. fluctuations.
ft ordered that tariff rates on
British imports be based on the
value of the pound “officially”
fixed by the British government,
$4,025, rather than the exchange
rate of about $3.50 prevalent in
the “free market.”
These two events headed a
list of Washington developments
traceable to the war. Others
included:,,
1. Lord Lothian said neither
Canada nor Great Britain would
attempt to seize Greenland or
Iceland unless there were im
minent danger of Germany tak
ing them over.
2. Secretary Hull, as had.
President Roosevelt, implied that
in his opinion, Greenland lies
within the western hemisphere,
and consequently comes within
the scope of the Monroe Doc
trine.
V
MORE BRITONS CALLED*
LONDON, April 16.—An un
expected mobilization order for
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HAY BREAKFAST OF
FORUM TO BE SERVED
TOMORROW MORNING
\
Tomorrow morning at 9:30, a.
May Breakfast will be served’
under the auspices of the Pine
hurst Forum, and—what's more;
to the point—under the trees of
the Holly Inn. It is not an en
croachment on the Paris and
Manhattan side-walk cafe idea,
but a reversion to the good ole
Yankee tradition on celebrating
the first of May out of doors
with strawberries and griddle
cakes. This will be the first
occasion within memory that
one has been held south of the
Mason-Dixon line. What's more,
we are two weeks ahead of our
3tay-at-home brethren—possibly 4
because May comes to I Pinehurst
before it heads north.
Today is the last day to make
your reservations. If you haven’t,
done so, just call 4881. G. Ed
ward Horae, manager of the
Holly Inn, has promised all the*
griddle-cakes that the breakfast
ers can eat. The Forum hereby
publishes a special notice to the
effect that it will not assume
any . responsibility for medical
attention necessitated as a re
sult of gormandizing.
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