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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1926
Page
3
Thanksgiving wedding preparations unfold in Myrtle Street as Faith aids sister Cherry before the ceremony. Fatigue, love, and lingering letters color the intimate scene, with Faith's weariness contrasting Cherry's hopeful calm and a hidden past hinted in the exchange of old love notes.
Faith and family bustle as Joy prepares for a church wedding while nerves and expectations rise. Faith helps with hair and dress, Joy frets over flowers, and a door locks in a cliffhanger about Cherry’s whereabouts. Tomorrow promises Cherry’s disappearance.
Sixteen members of the Duke varsity football squad and the student manager received letters after the 1927 season. Captain Charles Bennett led the Blue Devils with Martin Garren named manager. Several players, including Weatherby Jones Brummitt Hunt er Wyrick and Hollingsworth, were noted as sophomores, while Tuttle Grigg Cathy and Frank played their last season. Tuttle praised as dependable back and solid punter.
The Chron icle notes Duke closed its season with a tough slate against North Carolina colleges but expresses optimism. It says this year was only the beginning and that Duke will be great in football, adding that the hardest year is over and winning games should come more easily next season.
The 1926 college football season saw Dartmouth Tulane and Colgate struggle. Dartmouth fell to Yale Harvard Brown and Cornell while Tulane dropped four games. Colgate, missing Eddie Tryon, tied Syracuse and lost to Pitt and Navy.
Urban Shocker posted 20 or more victories in four straight seasons. He won 27 games in 1921, 24 in 1922, 20 in 1928, and 20 in 1920, highlighting a long streak of double digit win totals across those campaigns. Tiny Hewitt attended the University of Pittsburgh before joining West Point. Bill Tilden defeated by runner up in 1919 for the national tennis crown.
Capt. George W. Kurtz, among the last commissioned officers of the Old Stonewall Brigade, dies in Winchester. He returned from the war penniless but built a furniture business that yielded an estate valued at more than 250000. He was a cabinet maker by trade.
Burglars remove numerous crown jewels from the Bangkok royal palace drawing outrage as locals note the treasures are guarded by the spirits of former kings and queens.
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