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SoHthcrn Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, November 20, 1936.
FIVE CENTS
GIFTS OF $1,500
START BUILDING
FUND FOR CHURCH
Donations From Dr. Brownson
and Dr. and Mrs. Ramsey
Announced to ConKregration
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
At the close of the evening ser
vice on last Sunday, Rev. Marcus A.
Brownson, D. D., presented a gift of
$500. to the congregation of the
Brownson Memorial Church in Sou
thern Pines. This gift, made by
friends of Dr. Brownson in Philadel
phia, was a token of their appreci- |
ation of Dr. Brownson and their in
terest in the new church in Southern
Pines. At the same time public an
nouncement of the gift of $1,000. by
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Ramsey was
made. The reaction of the congre- ■
gation to these announcements was
the very fervent singing of the Dox-
ology.
At the meeting of the Elders and
Deacons of the Brownson Memorial
Church, in joint session on last Mon
day evening at the home of Dr.
Brownson, the Building Committee
of the new church was appointed as
follows: W. E. Blue, F. E. Walker,
W. H. Goldsmith, Roy R. Newton,
David McCallum, Haynes Britt, Dr.
Barber, Dr. Arthur Ramsey, Dr. W.
Marcus A, Brownson, Rev. E. L.
G. McLeod, Mrs. G. A. Maze, Mrs.
Maxwell Simpson, Mrs. Arthur Mc
Neill. Honorary members include
Mrs. Arthur Ramsey and Dr. Max
well Simpson.
This committee will meet cn next
Monday evf;ning at 7:30 o’clock, at
the home of Dr. Brownson, to out
line the building campaign.
Forty-nine members of the Adult
Bible Class greeted Dr. Brownson, the
teacher, on his return to the class
last Sunday morning.
Makes Donation
LEADING PROS OF
COUNTRY BAmE
HERE FOR TITLE
NOTED HORSEMAN DIES
KEV, M.\RCUS A. BROWNSON
CARTHAGE POLICE
OFFICER BEATEN,
PRISONER FLEES
Stewart Pounced Upon By Nte-
Rroes After Arresting Anoth
er on Robbery Charge
Carthage, county seat of Moore
county, was the scene Monday night
of a fracas that ran the gamut of
excitement. There was one arrest,
one escape, one policeman beaten up
one police aide bruised, another ar
rest, and two negroes sought.
Neill Stewart, night policeman, ar
rested a colored man named Ed Mar-
ley on a robbery charge. Otis Baker
i of Carthage assisted the officer in
leading his prisoner toward the jail.
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Hunt Fisher Honored By Election
to National Engineering Society
Present P. G. A. Champion, Five '
Former Titleholders, Elimi- |
nated in Early Play
FINAL ROUND SUNDAY '
Pinehurst has been the golf center
of America this week. The occasion:
i the annual championship tournament
! of the Professional Golfers Associa-
' tion. One hundred and thirteen of
the country's leading professions
i started play on Monday morning, the
! first cf two 18-hole qualifying
rounds which reduced the field to 64
for the start of match play on Wed
nesday. Fay Coleman of Culver City,
Cal., won the medal in the qualifying
rounds with a 36-hole total of 143.
Surviving in the match play com
petition for the title at the time
The Pilot went to press were the fol
lowing:
Harold McSpaden, Winchester,
Mass.; Leo Walper, Bethesda, Md.;
Jimmie Thompson, Shawnee-on-Dela-
ware, Pa.; Henry Picard, Hershey,
Pa.; Harry Cooper, Chicago; Craig
Wood, Deal. N. J.; Bobby Cruich-
shank, Richmond. Va.; Tony Manero,
Greensboro; Horton Smith, Oak Park,
in.; Willie Goggin, San Gruno, Cal.;
Billy Burke, Chagrin Falls, Ohio;
Denny Shute, West Newton, Mass.;
Bill Melhorn, Louisville, Ky.; Ed.
Dudley, Philadelphia; Jimmy Hines,
Garden City, N. Y., and Victor
Ghezzi, Deal, N. J.
The present champion and five for
mer P. G. A. champions were elim
inated, either during the qualifying
round or on the first day of match
play. Johnnie Revolta, present title-
holder, was defeated Wednesday by
McSpaden; Paul Runyan lost to
Clarence Doser of Rochester, N. Y.;
Tommy Armour fell before Mortie
Dutra of Royal Oak, Mich.; Gene
Sarazen was defeated by Jack Pa-
troni of Shawnee-on-Delaware in the
Son of Southern Pines Librarian,
Student at State College, Bid
den to Tau Beta Pi
W. Hunt Fisher, an alumnus of
Southern Pines High School, was last
week elected to Tau Beta Pi, nation
al honorary engineering fraternity,
one of but two juniors selected for
the honor at North Carolina State
College in Raleigh. The society ex
tended bids to two seniors and two
junior. Hunt, son of the Rev. Prak
Fisher and Mrs. Fisher, librarian of
the Southern Pines Library, is a stu
dent in mechanical engineering at
State.
Membership in Tau Beta Pi is one
of the most coveted honors among
engineering students. Distinguished
scholarship is a prime requisite for
admission, but it is not the sclecrit-
erion. After the scholarship require
ments have been met, the selection
is based on integrity, breadth of in
terest both inside and outside of en
gineering, adaptability, and unselfish
activity.
The society was founded in 18S5
at Lehigh University. There are chap
ters in the majority of outstanding
engineering colleges of the country.
The election of Fisher is a tribute to
Southern Pines School, as well as to
himself.
GIRL8’ TENNIS RANKING
IN SOUTHERN PINES SCHOOL
In President Escort
Ray Griffin of Vass Sails on
Cruiser Accompanying
FDR to South America
NOEL LAING
Sans Peur et Sans Reproche
An Editorial by Katherine Lamont Boyd
It is difficult when writing of Noel
Laing to refrain from using expres
sions which would be an offense to
hiiS spirit. For of all things a hatred
of praise, of fuss and talk, was per
haps, his outstanding characteristic,
match play. Walter Hagen and Leo ^ extraordinary modesty
For the past weeks the girls of
Southern Pines High School have
played a series of tennis matches to
determine their ranking. Each player
had the privilege of challenging the
person placed above her to see if she
could better her ranking. The out
come of the matches produces the
following ranking, in order Nancy
Wrenn, Hazel, Kelly, Sara Barnum,
Winifred Kelly, Louise Blue, Helen
Cameron, Catherine Hilderman, Hel
en Hilderman, Clarice Dickerson, Sue
Ann Milliken, June Musser, Joan
Spring, Bonnie Bamum, Katherine
Ferguson, Phyllis Harwell, Jane
Mann, Carolyn Backer, Dorothy
Doub, Betsy Jean Backer, Margaret
Rowell and Rebecca NeaL
Ray Griffin, ;son of Mrj. and
Mrs. G. W. Griffin of Vass, is a
sailor on the "Chester” which is
the escort cruiser for the Indian
apolis on which President Roose
velt left Charleston, S. C. on Wed
nesday for his trip to Buenos Aires
to address the opening session of
the inter-American Conference on
Decemberl.
Griffin who has been stationed
on the Pacific coast the greater
part of the time for the past two
or three years, reached Charles
ton only a short time ago and
came up fcr a brief visit with his
parents during the week-end, leav-
ng Sunday to return to his ship.
Stunt Nijrht by Pupils
at Pinehurst Tuesday
Half of Proceeds for Athletics
and Half for Undernourish
ed Children
On Tuesday night, November 23,
the pupils of the Pinehurst Schools
will present their annual stunt night,
one of the outstanding events of the
school year in Pinehurst. This year,
half of the proceeds will go to the
Athletic Association, and the other
half to the Parent-Teacher Associ
ation to feed undernourished children.
The following stunts will be given:
Tom Thumb Wedding, First Grade,
Miss Gilliam; The Remarkable Baby
Second Grade, Miss Moore; Topsy
Turvey Drill, Third Grade, Miss
Smith; America the Beautiful Tab
leau, Fifth Grade, Miss Gibson; La
dies Before Gents, Sixth Grade, Mrs.
Travis Wicker; A Seventh Grade Pic
nic, Seventh Grade, L. B. Adcox; The
Magic Hour, Eight Grade, Miss Sim-
kins and Tenth Grade, Mrs. Robert
Shaw; Faculty Meeting, Ninth Grade,
W. L. Cunningham; A Revue, Fourth
Grade, Miss May and Eleventh Grade,
Miss Petway.
Diegel, former champions, failed to
make the grade in the 36-hole qual- '
ifying rounds.
Large crowds have followed the
matches all week. The semi-finals and
finals will be played on Saturday and
Sunday.
Eatman Tells Kiwanis
of Resettlement Work
Gives Interesting Picture of
Hoffman Development Pro
ject at Club Meeting
that carried him without a touch of
pride, even, it seemed, of the slight
est consciousness of his own worth
and charm, through a life that touch
ed the heights in the career he had
chosen. And so in the matter of writ
ing this piece the author craves the
indulgence granted an old friend—
and an OLD friend.
For I saw Noel when he first came
to this country, brought from Ireland
as a little baby by his father and
mother. I watched him grow up and
saw as a little boy that amazing skill
with horses begin to develop. When
still in his 'teens his father bought
a racq horse, Ballast II, of beautiful
lines and breeding, but soured and
frightened from bad handling. With
Frank W. Eatman, head of the re
settlement project at Hoffman, yes
terday told the Kiwanis Club at its
weekly meeting at the Community
Church in Pmehurst that the gov- ^oel started his racing career,
ernment is now working close to 500 I training of this horse illustrates
men in the re-forestry work. He iQ- I anything those, qualities
formed the club the government had ! I'*"' horseman
bought 63,000 acres of land in Moore | ‘hat he was. With extraordinary pa-
j and Richmond counties which is being lienee and gentleness combined with
i used for the purpose of game pre- i determination and perseverance,
j serves, fish hatcheries and the grow- ; went to work. Ballast had been so
ing of pine seedlings. He pointed ^^dly frightened that at first he
I out the land was not fit for agricul- i all who came near him; it ,
But when that is said, all is not
said* “Without fear and witflout re
proach.” The phrase was first ap
plied to another man whose career
was different but to whose character
it could not have been more appro
priate. Perhaps “without fear” seems
a superfluity in speaking of a stee
plechase rider, one who had three
times ridden our Maryland course,
and finished at Aintree. But there is
another kind of courage, that is not
so spectacular, and that was not,
perhaps, suspected in such a boyish,
humorous, happy-go-lucky fellow.
Friends have said, in speaking of
Noel's illness and death: if only he
could have gone quickly, riding Oft»
of his horses, gone perhaps when his
old friend Troublemaker went, in that
fall in the Maryland Cup Race; if
only he could have gone then instead
of in this otlier way s» slow, so sad,
so full of suffering. The wish is nat
ural. the instinctive thought, indeed,
of all who loved him. But life de
mands, sometimes, the fullest of us
all. Under this boy's modesty there
lay a courage far beyond that requir-
er for riding races, and in his illness
and death that courage shone with
a brightness to dazzle all those who
saw him. IIis room in the hospital
became a meeting place for all his
friends; it seemed, ironically, as if
they gathered there for reassurance
i tural purposes and the families re-
j siding on same would in the near fu
ture be transferred to more fertile
j land in Richmond county.
I Mr. Eatman said the Sandhills had
been blessed with all kinds of recre
took weeks to persuade him to com* | and to renew their courage at his
out of his stall. When Noel finally got | never-weakening bedside. To the
on his back he would not go and last he .spoke of his horses and his
when, much later, it came to a ques- j plans for them, in which he was
tion of jumping the training and careful always to include himself. By
coaxing had to stari again. It took i no sign did he show that he knew
ations including abundance of quail 'veeks to persuade him even to step j of his impending fate. Perhaps he did
for shooting, but there was no fish- i a log laid on the ground. To not-and perhaps he knew of it and
ing to speak of in the entire Sand- "’^ke a long story short—and the went to meet it as he rode to the
hill belt. He estimated the haichery I^^ed two years—in 1930 Bal- post, head up, hands low, his racing
at Hoffman had raised 200,000 fin- ! with Noel aboard, won the Car-
gerlings during the pist year and | Cup and the Middleburg Cup
this would be increased during the front over the last fence
c:ming year. Three lakes are being going on to win again at War-
stocked with bass in the very near ' *'®nton when he broke his leg and
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I This story illustrated the boy’s
SPECTATOR DIES FROM ’ character as a horseman as well as
colours on his back.
SCHOOL GIVEN VALUABLE
MATERI.4L BY KIWANIS CLUB
DUKE G.4ME EXCITEMENT could. As a boy and as a young
man, perhaps the heading of this ar-
When "Ace” Parker of Duke ran | tide is* a fitting epitaph, though it
the length of the field for a touch
down in the Duke-Carolina football
game last Saturday, Alvis Patterson,
50, a druggist of Kernersville, col
lapsed from the excitement and died
in an ambulance on the way to Duke
Hospital. His daughter, Yvonne, was
with him.
Mr. Patterson’s wid:w is a cousin
of Mrs. Mattie Page of Aberdeen.
may seem slightly austere to that
band of devoted friends and even to
those admiring throngs who followed
his career with such affectionate
pride. For he was beloved, I sincere
ly believe, wherever he went. For
his charm, for the warmth and
sweetness of his nature, people lov
ed him—and for his always perf«(it
sportsmanship.
Southern Pines High School stu
dents are enjoying the use of pam
phlets lent them by the local Kiwan
is Club for research work in connec
tion with their English, Sociology,
and Vocati nal Guidance courses.
Twenty-s«ven pamphlets dealing with
questions vital to student training
have been placed in circulation.
SEVENTH GR.ADE ELECTS
The Seventh Grade girls of South
ern Pines School have elected the
following class officers: Marjorie
Shpnpard, president; Winifred Har
well, vice president; Betsy Barnum,
secretary and Alice Eddy treasurer.
NOEL LAING DIES;
NOTED TRAINER
OF RACE HORSES
Maintained Stables of Steeple-
cha.sers in Southern Pines
For Many Years
ILL SINCE LAST SPRING
Noel Laing, America’s leading
trainer of hunt race horses and one
of the best known and most success
ful gentlemen jockeys in the country,
died in a hospital in Washington, D.
C., at 2:50 o’clock Wednesday after
noon. He was 28 years of age, the son
cf Mr. and Mrs. William A. Laing of
Amissville, Virginia and Southern
Pines. He had been ill since last
.spring, soon after the race meeting of
the Sandhills Steeplechase and Rac
ing Association in which he partici
pated here in March.
Noel was born in the saddle, so to
speak. His parents came to this coun
try from Ireland and settled in Mill-
brook, New York, where Mr. Laing
established a riding school. Noel was
born there, and developed an early
fondness for riding, starting early in
his youth to hunt with the Mill-
brook Hounds. The family later
bought a farm in Amissville, Virgin
ia, where Mr. Laing developed green
horses into schooled hunters and
where Noel continued his enthusiasm
for riding, hunting and eventually
for steeplechase.
Mr. Laing’s success with the school
at Millbrook caused him to extend
his activities, and he started stables
in Princeton, N. J., Hyannis and
Nantucket, Mass., in summers and"
Southern Pines in winter. Upon reach-
1 ing his majority and deciding to make
racing his life’s work, Noel decided
that the Sandhills of North Carolina
was the ideal place for the winter
training of steeplechase horses. He
interested a number of prominent
owners in developing a stable here
of his own, and during the past sev
en or eight years has developed here
some of the most successful hunt
race horses in the country. Most
famc-us among these was Trouble-
Maker, owned by the then Mrs. Mar
ion du Pont Sommerville, now
Mrs. Randolph Scott of Montpelier,
Va. Noel trained Trouble Maker and
i rode him to victory in every major
timber race in America; tc^jk him
to England where he finished well to
the fore in the Grand National at
Aintree. The following year Trouble
Maker spiked himself on a fence in
the Maryland Hunt Cup at Baltimore
but finished gamely with a great gash
in his shoulder, and a year later in
the same race died like the trooper
he was from a broken neck after
falling heavily over one of the high
post and rails cf this historic course.
Other prominent horses trained
and ridden by young Laing in his
brief but but sucessful career were
Fairy Lore, The Mole, Our Friend,
Sir Gareth, Mann Blue, Spartan Lad,
Navarino, Charioteer, Oliver C. Ghost
Dancer, Racketeer, Drummer Boy,
Tereus. Annapolis and Battleship.
His entries have won every hunt
race of any importance in the east,
among them the Billy Barton, the
Meadowbrook Cup, the Jersey Cup,
the Virginia Gold Cup, the Warrenton
Gold Cup to mention only a few. In
addition to Mrs. Scott’s timber horaes
which he has trained for many years,,
he had under his charge horses own
ed by Richard Gambrill, Mrs. Ver-
ner Z. Reed, Jr., of Pinehurst, Carle-
ton A. Palmer of New York, Col.
E. I. Pierce, Mrs. Grace Eustis and
others well known in amateur rac
ing circles.
For the past few years he has been
rated by the National Steeplechase
and Hunt Association as the coun
try’s leading trainer of steeplechasers,
and at thesame time ranked with
Carroll K. Bassett of Camden, S. C.,
as the leading gentleman jockey.
He attended Pawling School and
the University of Virginia. During
his winter residence here he has
whipped in several seasons for the
Moore County Hounds. Noel had
plans drawn last spring for a new
stable on Young’s Road in Southern
Pines which he proposed to build
this fall on land acquired laot year
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