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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940.
Nogrady To Face Budge
In Semi-Finals Today
Barnes Plays Skeen in Other Bracket of
Singles of North and South
Tennis Tourney
Champion Makes Straight Set
Victory of Clash With Ted
Rericha, Who Battles Vali
antly Against Super-Tennis of
Californian.
gallery thrilled
By Fred Hawthorne
New York Herald Tribune
Tennis Editor
Don Budge, professional cham
pion of the world, John Nogrady
of New York, Richard Skeen
of California and Bruce Barnes,
the blond Texan, all gained their
semi-final round brackets yester
day afternoon in the Pinehurst
Country Club's annual profes
sional championship tennis tour
nament.
Skeen will meet Barnes at 2
o’clock today and at 3:30 Budge
and Nogrady will start play.
The final will be played on
Saturday. The semi-final* brack
ets in the doubles were also
filled out late in the day, with
Don Budge and Barnes, Skeen
and John Faunce, Frank Reri
cha and Nogrady and Lloyd
Budge and John Hendrix as the
winners.
The gallery that filled the
stands to witness the singles
matches was again attracted by
Budge. The dynamic red-head
defeated Ted Rericha, Pinehurst
pro, at 6-1, 6-0, 6-3, and in do
ing so treated the spectators to
a dazzling exhibition of play.
Budge was keen and merciless
yesterday, and while Rericha
put up a notably fine fight, his
was a hopeless battle from start
to finish, for the world’s great
est player unleashed the. full
power of his stroking, raking
Rericha’s court with unretum
able deep court drives, and oc
casionally advancing into fore
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WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Third annual North and South
Professional tennis tournament
continues today at Pinehurst
Country Club.
Bridge luncheon at The Berk
shire today. '
Blind bogey golf tournament
at Pinehurst Country Club to
day.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Today at 3:00 and 8:30,
Tlorianwith Robert Young
and Helen Gilbert. Also, The
March of Time Magazine, “Arn
ica’s Youth—1940.”
• Southern Pines -
Today and tomorrow at 8:15,
Hjatinee tomorrow at .3:00, “Too
any Husbands,” With Jean Ar
j r> Melvyn Douglas and Fred
MacMurray.
Aberdeen
Tonight at 7:30 and 9:30,
|lrginia City,” with Errol
Hin, Miriam Hopkins, Ran^
olph Scott, Alan Hale, Humph
rey B°gart and Frank McHugh.
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TODAY’S NORTH-SOUTH
TENNIS MATCHES
Singles
2:00—Skeen vs. Barnes.
3:00—Budge vs. Nogrady.
Doubles
4:30—Budge and Barnes vs.
Nogrady and Frank
Rericha.
4:30—Skeen and Faunce vs.
Lloyd Budge and Hen
drix. *
MRS. DONALD PARSON
AND MRS. ZELIE TOP
FOILS EVENT CLASSES
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Miss Carol Hotchkiss Also a
Prize Winner in Selected
Scores Best Six Out of Each
Nine. Tourney.
Mrs. Donald Parson with a
net score of 47 was winner in
Class A of a selected score best
six out of each nine tournament
of the Silver Foils yesterday.
Mrs. J. S. Zelie Jr. with 43
and Miss Carol Hotchkiss with
45 were first and second respec
tively in Class B.
Twenty-five members partici
pated. |
The scores:
Class A
Mrs. Donald Parson 26-21—47
Mrs. Edward Nesbitt 24-24—48
Mrs. J. 0. Hobson 23-25—48
Miss Anne Hotchkiss 24-25—49
Miss Helen Waring 24-26—60
Mrs. J. O. Weeks 27-23—50
Miss Lucy Perkins 24-26—50
Mrs. J. A. Ruggles 27-23—50
Mrs. Julian Bishop 25-26—51
Mrs. J. C. Prizer 25-27—52
Mrs. G. K. Livermore 28-25—53
Class B
Mrs. J. S. Zelie Jr. 23-20 43
Miss C. Hotchkiss 23-22—45
Mrs. George Dunlap 24-22-—46
Mrs. J. D. Hathaway 23-24—47
Airs. M. W. Marr 24-24—48
Miss Frances Johnston 23-25—48
Mrs. H. V. Campbell 23-27—50
Mrs. M. W. Phillips 26-24*-50
Mrs. E. S. Blodgett 25-26—51
Mrs. J. C, Musser 24-27—51
Mrs. #W. D. Elwell 23,-28—51
Mrs. H. J. Forsythe 26-26—52
Mrs. Eberhard Faber 25-27—52
Hoey Will Support‘d
HuD For President
RALEIGH, kpril 18.—W—
Governor Clyde R. Hoey, who
has kept a firm hand on the
reins of the North Carolina Dem
ocratic party for the last 3 and
1-2 years, announced today he
was supporting Cordell Hull for
President, and expressed the
hope that North Carolina votes
in the Democratic convention
would be cast for the secretary
of state.
The governor said he hadj
very good reason to believe;
that President Roosevelt would
support Hull, and predicted Hul
would be nominated. ,
PROFESSIONAL TENNIS
TOURNAMENT CIRCUIT
WILL BE ESTABLISHED
John McDougal, Treasurer of
Pro Association, Says Means
Have Been Provided For Tour
Similar to That Conducted by
Golfers; Icely, Aiding.
John McDougal, chairman of
the tournament committee and
treasurer ojf the Professional
Lawn Tennis Association an
nounced here yesterday that
means had been provided for
the purpose of establishing a
circuit of professional tennis
tournaments, and that the as
sociation would began work ,on
this promotion at once.
More than twenty profession
als are gathered here for the
third annual North and South
professional event, and will move
on to White Sulphur Springs,
where an event has been held
for a 1 number of years. These
are the only two tournaments
on the program at this time,
but McDongal expects to add
others.
“Practically ^ all of the star
players,” said McDougal, “are
in the employ of the equipment
companies, and officers of these
concerns have promised support
and to provide the stars in
building up professional tennis
tournaments in a similar man
ner as professional golf.”
McDougal reports that a
number of chambers of com
merce are interested in having
professional tennis tournaments.
Some of these would be indoor
during the winter months.
It is known that Donald
Budge is playing in the Pine
hurst tournament because of his
connection with a sporting goods
firm, the Wilson Sporting Goods
Company. L. B. Icely, presi
dent of this concern has done
much in aiding the promotion
of the pro golf tours, and is
how lending similar assistance
to the Professional Lawn Ten
nis Association, along with other
manufacturers.
POLO TEAM PLAYS
PRACTICE GAME FOR
SUNDAY SKIRMISH
The Pinehurst Poto Club in
vincible foursome, with eleven
straight victories to their credit,
held a practice game at the
No. 2 home field yesterday aft
ernoon. (
The event was a forerunner
of and preparationj for the game
with the crack" Durham team,
which they will meet Sunday
afternoon in Pinehurst.
Judging by the interest shown
in Pinehurst polo this season,
in view of the borne .team’s
clean record and repeated vic
tories, a large crowd is ©^P^ct
ed at Sunday’s game, with many
members of tjie cottage colony
and a large contingent of hotel
guests expected to be on hand.
PEACH CROP HIT
RICHMOND, Va., April 18.—
(^P)—On the basis of preliminary
reports from peach growing
areas of Virginia, Henry M.
Taylor, state agricultural statis
tician, estimated today that the
cold wave of the past weekend
impaired the commercial peach
crop in Virginia between 40 and
60 per cent.
i
OIL CITY PAYS LAST
TRIBUTE AT BIER OF
SAMUEL Y. RAMAGE
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Body of Esteemed Citizen Lays
in State in Presbyterian
Church as People From All
Walks of Life Pay Respects;
Templars Conduct Committal.
(Special to Outlook)
OIL CITY, Pa., April 18.—
Oil City paid homage at the
bier of its “first citizen” today
when the mortal remains of
Samuel Youhg Ramage, one of
the city’s builders and a pioneer
in refining and crude oil pro
duction, arrived home this loom
ing in the midst of a hard
downpour of rain, and was taken
in charge by sorrowing rela
tives.
A delegation of Knights Temp
lar in uniform escorted the body
from the railway station to the
Second Presbyterian Church,
where it lay in state from 11
a. m. to 3:30 p. m., many people
from all walks of life paying
a final tribute to one endeared
to all who knew him for' his
sterling character and many
benefactions.
Funeral services were con
ducted in the church, the Rev.
A. B. McCormick, the pastor,
officiating, assisted by the Rev.
Thomas L. Small, rector of
Christ Episcopal Church.
Interment was in Grove Hill
Cemetery, with the Knight
Templars in charge of commit
ment.
Capt. and Mrs. Charles H.
Maddox of Newport, R. L, ac
companied the body here. Mrs.
Maddox is a daughter of the
deceased magnate.
PAN AMERICAN DAY
IS CELEBRATED BY
SCHOOL CUSSES
April 14 has been observed
[for fifty years as Pan American
Day. On this day the three
Americas—North, South, and
Central America—shake hands
with each other and show their
friendship by raising flags, mak
ing speeches, singing songs and
giving various types of pro
grams.
The Pinehurst school took a
part in this national celebra
tion on Tuesday morning. Two
classes, Miss Sherrill’s fifth
grade and Miss Lilly’s seventh
grade, combined their program
and presented it before the two
groups.
The seventh grade has just
completed a study of two Amer
icas, South and Central Amer
ica. Each student selected one
country from these Americas,
*and pretended that he represent
ed that country in the Pan
American. meeting - at Washing
ton. Each one had drawn his
country’s flag and map. These
were demonstrated during the
talk that each made about his
country.
The foreign leader in charge
of the Pan American was Dor
othy Wescott. She called on the
representatives to bring greet
ings from their respective coun
tries. ;
The fifth grade has completed
a study of United States and
1 Canada. Each child in the' class
chose a state in the union and1
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Norwegians Confident
As Major Battle Looms
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Germans Concentrating Troops at .Trond
heim, as Allies Contact Defenders
in North
STRETCHES WIN
KANSAS CITY, April 18.
-— (IP) —The ~s-t-r-e-t-c-h girl
has h/er wings.
Kathleen Hildebrand, 19
year-old red-head who had to
add an inch to her height in
a month to meet requirements
for federal aviation student
training, took her first solo
flight today.
“The nicest solo Fve ever
seen for a beginner,” said her
instructor, James F. Selby,
after the eight-minute hop.
Five months ago Kathleen
won her s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g
battle by pulling on doors,
taking special exercises and
consulting a chiropodist and
chiropractor.
MEMBERS OF FORUM
ATTEND BREAKFAST
ON HOLLY INN LAWN
\
Homer H. Johnson Elected Presi
dent at Organization Meeting
of Advisory Board, of Which
Dr. Nettleton is Named Chair
man.
A very enjoyable Forum May
Breakfast was held Thursday
morning on the lawn of the
Holly Inn. ■
Those present included Mr.
and Mrs/ Warren Bicknell, Dr.
and Mrs. DeWitt B. Nettlet^n^
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Tufts,
Mrs. Homer J. Forsythe, who
had as her guests Mrs. Harry
B. Salmon, Miss E. Lillian Coons
and Mrs. Frank Ellsworth; Mrs.
J. D. Hathaway, Mrs. Lansing
B. Warner, Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Fuller, Miss Alleetah Hilton,
Father Dillon and Father Gal
lagher, Miss Dorothy Pierce,
Mrs. Robert E. Harlow, Mrs.
Louis Koch, Miss Douglas Doak,
Miss Mary Jean Thompson, and
Miss Gertrude ProUdman and
her sister, Mrs. Eliner MacDow
ell of London, England.
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DUTCH TELL JAPAN
INDIES TROTECTION’
IS UNACCEPTABLE
THE HAGUE, April IS.—(JP)
—The Netherlands government
has informed Japan that it
neither will ask any foreign
government to protect the Neth-*
erlands Ehst Indies in case the
war should spread to Holland
nor accept an offer of protec
tion »if it is made, it was an
nounced today.
Meanwhile the Dutch received
with guarded satisfaction the
statement by United States Sec
retary of State Hull insisting
that “the interests of many
Countries” would be affected by
any attempt to intervene in the
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Nazis, Still Holding Oslo and
Narvik, Claim Britain Already
Shown it Cannot Establish
Naval Bases; Assert Cruiser
Sunk.
EXPECT OSLO BATTLE
STOCKHOLM—(Friday) — W
; —Norwegian ^purees reported!
| early today0 that Norway's civil1
and military authorities north oF
Trondheim have declared their
confidence in their , ability to*
hpld their present - positions, with.
German troops concentrating at.
I the key port in ' expectation of.’
a major battle. u
The'' Norwegian, troops, thprr
legation here said, have est&b*:
lished a connection with forces
of the Allies in the area both
by sea and by air. An oral
stimmary of the situation by the
legation said the Germans had ^
attempted to take ; Nansos, i
port 100 miles north of Trond
heim,. by planes, * but . were, be* j
lieved to have been, forced baeje ’ |
by Allied troops.
In the south, about Oslo, the J
Germans still hold Narvik, and
are attempting to push north
ward toward the junction of 4;he
Swedish and Finnish borders. . j
They also control the railway
to the border, fchey are ex
panding their gains in the Oslo
district, where three Norwegian ;
forts are putting up stout re
sistance.
The Norwegian legation made
public a proclamation by the
Norwegian govprnment from
"somewhere in Norway” that
the Nazi government in Osip
was not legal, and was not ex
pressing the will of the Nor*
wegirfn people.
NAZrS CONFIDENT
BERLIN, April 18.—Germanyr
fought toward 'the conquest of .’
(Continued on page three)
NAVY WILL MATCH
HUGE BATTLESHIPS
BUILT BY JAPAN *
WASHINGTON, April 18^
UP)—Convinced that Japan i*
building at least 43,000 ton bat*
tleships, Admiral Haroli B*.
Stark said today that the navy*
contemplated future construe*
tion of superdreadnaughts of,
150,000 to 52,000 tons.
The chief of ftaval operations-,
told Hhe Senate naval affair^
committee that he believed Ja
pan was building eight of the
large type vessels but doubted!
reports that 12 were now un
der construction by the islandf
empire. .
Earlier in a statement tho.
navy renewed its advocacy of &
major air and submarine base*
at Guam, tiny American island!
outpost 1,500 miles from Tokyo*.
THE WEATHER ^
Showers and cooler Friday,
Saturday, partly cloudy, pre
ceded by* showers in east por
tion; cooler, in eas't portion.’ ""
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