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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1926
Page
7
High Point editor denounces a Danville press yarn about joining the Piedmont League. Letters between High Point chamber officials and Strang Nicklin of Chattanooga reveal plans to relocate the Danville franchise.
High Point high school basketball faces Wentworth in the state championship elimination opener. Eight groups host eight teams. High Point sits in group 1 with Mebane Haw River Burlington Greensboro Reidsville Leakeville and Wentworth.
The Danville club half owner Strang Nicklin will visit High Point to discuss shifting Piedmont Baseball from Danville to the Furniture City. A Danville scribe vents satire over the issue while defending Sizemore as performing official duties on request of citizens. The UNC basketball team appears poised to win the Southern title amid Wake Forest upset and Carolina’s improving form.
The piece notes LE MISS as a leading contender with eight conference wins and one loss, Kentucky remaining in the thick of the race, and the Tar Heels also in strong contention. It then lists past tourney champions: 1921 Kentucky, 1922 North Carolina, 1923 Mississippi A M, 1924 North Carolina, 1925 North Carolina.
The annual tournament of the Southern women s golf Association will run from May 26 at the Charlotte Country Club. Miss Edna Hirshinger, secretary of the association, announced the schedule today in Charlotte.
Chicago reports Walter Crowdus says Oho Ito completed a world tour studying golf for the Japanese government. Ito published a golf magazine, inspected courses in Britain and along the Atlantic seaboard, and scored 39 at Olympia Fields. He predicts golf will become Japan’s leading sport with many courses.
Mexico City reports Francisco Juill la's severed head is en route to Chicago at the urging of a eccentric millionaire criminologist who previously sought Victoriano Huerta's head after failing to pursue his hobby in the United States.
The New York cotton market opened steady with gains of 1 to 4 points as near month shorts and foreign buyers pressed new crop positions. Warch touched 20.38 and October rose to 18.34 before March selling and May buying trimmed the near month demand, leaving March at about 20.30 with old crops down 3 to 4 points after the first hour.
In New York Magistrate MacReery dismissed charges of disorderly conduct against a couple arrested by a policewoman after a girl permitted her companion to kiss her at the cinema. The magistrate said he rather liked to see it.
The Chicago Cubs depart from a snowbound Midwest for California to start practice next Monday. About 20 players travel, to be joined by eight or nine more in Kansas City, with Manager McCarthy and others awaiting in Los Angeles. Thirty one days on Catalina Island precede 23 days of exhibition games.
Bobby Jones the national amateur champion and Walter Hagen the national professional champion planned a 72 hole match play event at Whitfield Country Club Sarasota on February 28 and to finish at Pasadena Golf and Country Club March 6.
A distant solar event disrupted radio transmissions across the region, causing broadcast interruptions and requiring engineers to adjust frequencies. A soprano singer’s performance was noted as a contrasting event highlighting cultural activities amid the technical outage.
Reports say an Alaska Lumber Company caboose overturned nine miles north of Bryson City injuring several men. Early notices claimed three deaths, but physicians at the scene reported only bruises and scratches among the injured workers.
Dr Felix A Murphy died following infection from a scarlet fever operation. He diagnosed his own illness and directed an arm amputation to try to save his life, a martyr to his profession.
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