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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1930
Page
8
An outburst of miniature golf courses, likened to dandelions, fuels a local craze as a public nine hole course is planned. Many new players, once skeptical, now pursue golf alongside baseball, hoping municipal courses ease expenses and boost participation.
A Raleigh report notes a whiskered team visiting the Caps for a Wednesday afternoon game before a crowded gallery. The writer, amused by oddities since boyhood, vows to witness the bearded exhibition or suffer a lasting regret.
Phonograph records are sold in Egypt in ten languages reflecting diverse cultural tastes. The market shows growing interest in multilingual recordings and international music.
The Red Sox defeated the Senators 4 to 3 in Washington as opening day crowds near a quarter million across eight games. Despite the win Boston leads the league for a day while Philadelphia is still forecast to win the pennant and meet the Cubs in the World Series.
CHAPEL HILL April 15 Thrilling contests in distance races mark the North Carolina Penn State track meet. The Tar Heels boast four straight southern cross country titles and eight years of unbeaten duel meets. Penn State counters with veteran stars led by Paul Rekers C I A A A A two mile champion and Dick Detwiler, part of their cross country trio.
Glenn Wright returns to boost Brooklyn Dodgers with a strengthened throwing arm and steady infield leadership. The club, aiming for a pennant, credits his fielding and hitting, plus a refreshed defense and pitching depth, as key for a top NL finish.
Guilford College baseball opens a crowded week at Memorial Stadium in Greensboro against the Patriots, then hosts Wake Forest and Virginia Medicos at Hobbs Field. Injuries from a car accident weaken the squad as Meadows Jamieson and Pierce miss time. Charlie Zachary excels with four strong outings, three wins.
Great jockey Earle Sande returns to the race track after retirement to own train in Havre de Grace Maryland. He rode Rockslide for Frank Hayes but finished out of the money as backers bet heavily on the Hayes entry. At 32, Sande aims to reach 1,000 victories from 11 years of racing with 942 wins in 3,532 mounts and $2,642,225 in prize money in total earnings.
The annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of the First Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church will be held at Chalmers Memorial church in Charlotte on April 17 and 18. Rev. B. L. Hamilton of Montgomery, India, will give the principal address at the opening session and Mrs. W. B. Lindsay, president of the Chalmers society, will preside.
In Asheville April 15 the High Point Piedmont League club rallied in the ninth to tie 2-2 and then exploded for seven runs in the tenth to beat the Asheville Tourists 9 to 2. Rhame doubled home the tying run in the ninth and again drove in two in the tenth as the Pointers pulled away.
The first annual track meet between High Point College and Catawba College will be held tomorrow afternoon on the high school field, starting at 2:30 p.m. The 14 events feature entrants from both schools including Mulligan, Furehes, Perdue, Boone, Evans, Simeon, Hughes, Maust, Zacovic, and others.
Lexington high school has received the first trophy cup awarded in the South Piedmont Conference by the Western North Carolina High School Athletic Association for winning the conference basketball crown this season. The trophy is a permanent award.
Bull Montana, famed for villainous screen roles, was disqualified in a Dallas wrestling match with Boston grappler John Kilonis last night after a heated struggle that left him bloodied but praised for bravery.
England attracts about 250000 foreign visitors annually. Germany receives eight times that amount and France six times as many, signaling strong tourism appeal across these nations.
Mrs J W Ritch of Charlotte reports a 12 pound gain and relief from indigestion after using TROGEN. The ad touts thousands of locals sharing the same experience with this famous prescription.
Durham reports that outfielder Tom Wolfe and pitcher DeWitt Perry will rejoin the Durham Bulls before the season opener. Wolfe hit .345 and led homers in the Piedmont League last year after a stint with Albany. Perry, traded to the Orioles, also returns to bolster the Bulls pitching staff.
Greensboro report says seven colleges Elon Guilford High Point Lenoir Rhyne Catawba Atlantic Christian and Appalachian State form the Little Seven athletic group. S J Marion of Lenoir Rhyne elected chairman C M Cannon of Elon secretary. Committee to draft plans to meet in Salisbury Tuesday night ahead of football season. Coaches Boylin and Yarborough of High Point College support the move.
The 15th annual state tennis tournament and 18th annual track championships will be held at the University of North Carolina during high school week. About 200 tennis entrants and fifteen track teams are listed, with Charlotte high defending track title and Winston-Salem high expected in tennis.
New York tonight features Allie Wolff former Penn State eastern inter collegiate middleweight champion in his professional debut at Broadway arena facing Jerry Garfield of New York in a six round main event.
New York April 15 Babe Ruth said his minimum goal is fifty home runs this season with a challenge to hit more if pitchers give him opportunities. He spoke before leaving for Philadelphia for the opening game against the Athletics.
California boxing commission opens probe into Primo Carnera Leon Chevalier bout amid crowd unrest after a towel is tossed and Carnera wins by technical knockout. Controversy centers on alleged prearranged aspects and purse details.
New York fighter Napoleon Jack Dorval defeated Ted Sand in Sioux City Iowa. Waterbury Bat Battalino TKO Benny Nabors in a non title bout. Chicago Tommy Rios outpointed Ted Goodrich in Atlanta.
In Wheeling Gorilla Jones stopped Gene Cardi in Akron Sammy Baker outpointed Vincent Hambright in Pittsburgh Bucky Lawless outpointed Joe Dundee in Rochester Eddie Anderson outpointed Tommy Grogan in Des Moines.
Sarasota based Ernest Sagues from Chile defeated Whitey Met her in Pittsburgh with a fifth round knockout in a notable boxing match.
In Oakland California Primo Carnera of Italy stopped Leon Chevalier of San Francisco in the sixth round of their scheduled boxing match. Carnera used his reach and power to control the pace until the referee halted the contest.
Marion Apr 15. H C Joby Hahn longtime Marion high school head coach resigns to take a position next fall with Reynoles high school of Winston-Salem. Hahn, a Lenoir Reyne graduate, came here after coaching Granite Falls one season. In three years his football teams lost just three games while winning 19 and tying three. Marion high baseball teams under Hahn dropped only two in the last two years.
Close to 90 golfers submitted qualifying cards for the Sedgefield invitation men’s dogwood tournament on Valley Brook. Adrian C. McManus led with 74, followed by R P Mayer at 76 and others in the 70s. play runs through today and tomorrow with 16 players in the championship flight and 8 in each other flight.
Rochester dispatch notes that phenylenediamines, synthetic organic chemicals, help strengthen rubber in tires. The development is part of a 15 year trend of chemicals boosting tire life.
City Stores defeated City Linemen by a slim margin in duck pins play yesterday. Final scores show City Stores 469 and City Linemen 356 with individual tallies for players including Ingram, Foust, Causey, Wills, and Strayhorn. Theodore Roosevelt was blind in one eye late in life but did not wear a glass eye.
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