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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1931
Page
13
Frances Ouimet, at 38 the veteran from Boston, defeats Jack Westland in the final at Beverly Country Club to reclaim the national amateur golf crown. Ouimet leads 5 up at lunch and finishes 7 up with steady play in windy conditions.
Tar Heel football players prepare for Monday workouts as 70 North Carolina huskies report led by quarterback Johnny Branch. Wake Forest, Davidson, Duke, and State squads also begin practice with light sessions and early drills across the state and in Columbia, South Carolina.
The Dixie grid season begins with high school and college teams preparing for workouts across the region. Dugan Aycock led a Thomasville golf squad to a 24 to 16 win, while top programs like Tulane Alabama Duke and Virginia prep with 30 plus players. Camps at College Park New Orleans Lexington Gainesville and more plan two-a-day sessions ahead of early kicks.
Col and Mrs Charles Lindbergh motored over 100 miles through rugged Japanese mountain country on a sightseeing trip near Karuizawa Japan.
The report lists baseball results across leagues with Buffalo losing to Toronto six to eight, Jersey City edging Newark one to four, Reading routed by Baltimore twelve to four, and Rochester overwhelmed by Montreal nine to one.
Lefty Briggs pitched Raleigh to a 3 to 2 win over Durham for his fifteenth win of the season and ninth straight. Raleigh also took the opener 12 to 7, with Davis driving in the go ahead run in the finale as Novosel scored on a triple. The second game ended with Raleigh winning 12 to 2 in a loosely played bill.
Henderson and Greensboro split a doubleheader with Greensboro winning 14 to 4 in the first game and Henderson taking the nightcap 6 to 4. Key players included Chapman Lewis Maus Crews Ellis Benton Averette Kleinhaus Wilson Parrish and the teams combined for several runs across both games.
Henderson and Greensboro split doubleheader games on September 5. The Patriots won the day game 14 to 4, while the Gamecocks won the night game 6 to 4. Lefty Wilson earned the night win despite seven walks as Henderson piled hits. Pete Joyner, ex Wake Forest, hit a bases loaded triple and later scored on Wilson's single.
Grand Rapids authorities have devised a novel sanction for air safety violators. Pilots caught breaking rules are awarded a medal bearing a winged jackass, a symbolic reminder intended to curb future errors. The unusual discipline is described as highly effective and memorable.
A Tit-Bits item shows two boys joking about juts and work. One says they never play, while the other counters that every time 59 on a picnic they are there. The playful riddle-like line reflects lighthearted Christmas holiday banter.
Bobby Jones watched Francis Ouimet win his second amateur title at Beverly Country Club on September 5. Jones, a five time champion, called Ouimet's victory brilliant and said he pulled for him today more than in any match since 1916. He stayed a spectator, noting the emotional achievement and Ouimet's ease in the final rounds.
In Baltimore a hyper modern treatment room, named for philanthropist Thomas Bowles, memorializes Dr William Stevenson Baer, the eminent orthopedic surgeon who pioneered maggot therapy for bone disease after wartime observations. The room, built near completion at the Children’s Hospital School, recalls Baer’s wartime experiments treating osteomyelitis with maggots that cleaned infected bone and tissue.
Experiments with blue bottle flies conducted at a Children’s hospital school involve isolated maggots applied to diseased limbs. Hospital children marked the day as “Bug Day” as maggots in a bone-deep incision, enclosed by a mesh cage, began work to save limbs. Dr Baer’s nearing perfection of the method left a lasting surgical contribution.
Mrs Nark scolds her husband for loving horses while he retorts that his passion accompanied his marriage to a man they call nog. The exchange appears in Tit-Bits and centers on obsession with horses and marital quirks.
A professor cautions that a chemical experiment could be dangerous and threaten the classroom. The Edmonton Bulletin notes the risk of a blast if steps are mismanaged and urges caution during demonstration.
Miss Annie Rogers general secretary of the YWCA in Winston-Salem has resigned to take a position October 1 in Washington with the Washington federation of churches.
Sixty five candidates for Tu lane's Green Wave are expected to report to football Coach Bernie Bierman this season.
Frank Thomas, the new Alabama football coach, delivered his first public address before a Birmingham civic club, outlining his coaching philosophy and program goals.
Paris Sept. 3. Abbe Moreau director of Bourges Observatory and noted prophet says the moon’s influence on weather is negligible. He cites that the moon only affects tides and that weather changes arise from atmospheric conditions not lunar action. He mentions General Bugeaud Virgil and Pliny the Elder as ancients tied to moon based predictions.
Mrs. Fannie Phillips aged 96 celebrated her birthday by taking part in a fox hunt in Carthage where two foxes were captured. The event highlights a long life of outdoor enjoyment and community activity for the centenarian.
Edgar Hartley secretary of the local Y M C A is appointed to a resolutions committee for the Carolinas Y M C A employed officers conference at Camp Nixon Little River South Carolina September 8 and 9. He will depart Tuesday for the two day meeting where he will help finalize matters to be presented at Wednesdays business session. The program includes group meetings Tuesday morning a 12 30 dinner a 1 00 Employed Officers session budgeting and finances programs and experiences discussions and a Wednesday morning topic How Can the Progressive Efficiency of the Carolina Programs Be Promoted An officers election at 11 00 and a closing message by J Wilson Smith followed by a 12 30 dinner.
Wilmer Hines of Columbia South Carolina won the Georgia men's singles tennis championship in Macon defeating Billy Reese of Atlanta 6 3 6 3 6 3. Hines then and partner Jiarley Shuford Hickory North Carolina lost to Reese and Jimmy Halversteadt Atlanta 7 6 2 in doubles.
Paris Bank in Scranton, Pa., began operations today after attempting to open its doors. The Bosak State bank reportedly holds deposits totaling more than 4,000,090 dollars, indicating a sizable customer base and confidence in the institution as it resumes or initiates service.
The Charlotte Hornets top the Piedmont League in a tight race aided by rugged play and strong pitching, fielding, and hitting. Friction arises after a disputed first inning call as stars like Jim Lyle Stumpy Culbreth Lamar Bell and Frank Packard clash with umpires, yet Charlotte continues to battle. Packard earns praise as the league’s top third baseman, a point of debate with Charlotte contemporaries over hot corner merit.
John McGraw disputes that What aman is best and favors Goldie Holt at third base for Charlotte as the brighter star over Frank Packard. Holt’s team lacks big rallies but emphasizes individual hits and steady pitching, with Dan Boone having departed to York in the New York Pennsylvania league for further hitting.
In 25 games with the N Y P club the great Dan has 42 hits in 103 at bats for a .408 average. The tally includes 11 doubles, one triple, and two home runs. His streaks reached nine and eight games, and in the week ending August 28 he hit .600 with 15 hits in 20 at bats. Some sacking, says we. Yeah, we know you'd say that, too.
In Fitchburg Massachusetts Wilfred O Keefe of Jersey City stumbled along after alighting from his car drawing the gaze of a nearby officer. The cop, sure he was intoxicated, detained O Keefe only to learn his uneven walk came from wearing mismatched shoes rather than drink.
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