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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1931
Page
9
A breezy 1920s style column mocks predictions on the World Series. The author alternates bets between the South Carolina Gamecocks and Duke, then shifts to the American League, backing the Cardinals over the A’s and commenting on interviews, golf, and impending games at the Paramount.
Burleigh Grimes showed strong form last year with five-hit games and two losses in five games. Wild Bill Hallahan shut out the A’s, Jess Haines delivered a four hit game, Gabby Street as ace in the hole looms. Paul Derringer emerges as a bright rookie powering the Cardinals' staff.
The speaker projects Derringer to win the Cards two games while Grimes and Hallahan add wins, totaling four. He notes the premise should suffice and announces plans to detail the rest of the team tomorrow and discuss sensible ideas.
In the YMCA pool meet Clifton brothers topped the under and over 13 year classes with high scores. Claude Wright led the under 18 dash winners list and Oscar Smith won the 18 and over sprints. The event also included medley, backstroke and diving victories by Clifton and Hartley among others.
Vanderbilt beat Western Kentucky Teachers 52 to 6 in Nashville to start the 1931 football campaign. Dixie Roberts scored four Vandy touchdowns, with runs of 64, 40 and 42 yards contributing major gains.
Mercer, favored for the S I A A title, overwhelmed Citadel in Charleston. The Bears’ big line opened gaps for Walden Zinkowsky Cimperman and Trommerhauser while Mercer's defense shut down Citadel’s attack. Mercer led 26 0 at halftime and held Citadel scoreless with five first downs to Citadel’s three.
Memphis racing notes show an inboard and an outboard motoboat racing along the Mississippi to set a new New Orleans to St Louis time record. The Miss Evinrude I of St Louis led, running four to five hours ahead of the Miss Pentz Jones from Memphis, and by Helena Ark late today was seven hours fifteen minutes faster than the existing Greyhound of Memphis record.
The article argues that three pitchers will win four games for the Philadelphia Athletics, led by Connie Mack, as the team pursues another World Championship. It highlights each pitcher’s strengths and the club’s expected dominance in the series.
Reports from Tokyo and Peiping describe continued confusion over Manchuria politics. Chang Hsueh-liang orders shift of the provincial capital toward the Great Wall while Chang Tso-hsiang commands Manchurian troops north of it. A Chinese delegation sought Japanese aid to establish a separate Mukden government, but General Honjo declined to intervene in internal affairs.
Jack Cecil pitched a near perfect game for O B Kearns, holding Thomas Mills to one hit and seven runs in a 7 0 victory at Willis Park. Lefty Young, once a standout with Mills, saw his team shut out as Miller and Cecil led the Kearns offense while Jake Cecil homered for Kearns. The series resumes next Saturday at 3 PM.
The leaderboard lists Campbell and White Burns and Browns Schulte Browns Ferrell Indians Dipjack Tigers Manush Senators Cullop Reds Ruth Yankees Gehrig Yankees Averill Indians Klein Phillies Foxx Athletics and others. Totals appear garbled with numbers like 573 and 406.
Marshall Crichton the 39 year old Durham pro captured the Carolinas open golf title at Pennrose Park Golf Course with a 301 total over 72 holes. Andy Gray Wilmington plus Pete Webb Shelby and Clarence Owen Greenville were runners up as tough conditions included sun rain and windy strokes.
Helen Hicks, 20, from Long Island, defeats five-time champion Glenna Ware Collett to win the 36th annual national women's golf championship in Buffalo. Hicks clinches the match 2 up with two holes to play after a tightly contested final that see-sawed through 35 holes.
Rosie Edwards age 18 of Asheboro road and Ed Brown age 19 of Idol street were jailed early today on drunk and disorderly charges after being arrested at a dance on Hedgecock place northwest of the city at midnight. Brown also faced a prohibition violation due to a bottle of home brew found in a car with them.
Marion North Carolina September 26. David Cline who shot Sheriff Oscar Adkins and Deputy George Duncan when they tried to return him to the state hospital at Morganton was taken there tonight.
G. J. Deal swapped four sacks of wood and twenty cents for a pint of liquor. He was arrested on Washington street for drunken driving and disorderly conduct. He admitted the purchase, named his supplier, prompting a liquor raid that jailed four others at 115 Brooks street on prohibition charges.
In Darwen Lancashire Mahatma Gandhi toured a textile center and met jobless workers and schoolchildren while reaffirming support for India's boycott of British cotton goods. He urged followers to stay the course, saying the effort supports India's starving millions amid Lancashire unemployment.
Winston-Salem judge upholds the appeal of J. R. Hawkins a retired businessman from a 38700 verdict in Forsyth county court. The suit by his daughter-in-law Mrs Alexandra Hankins claimed alienation of affection prompting a new trial. Hankins has appealed to the supreme court.
Wynn W. Hackney of UNC and Southern Board of football officials provides daily knotty problems and answers. Readers may send questions to the Sports Editor of the Enterprise. Example: A runner fumbles as he crosses the goal line. no touchdown. Rule references explain plays and touchdowns for various scenario outcomes.
N M Cates Sr superintendent of the Harris-Covington Hosiery mill suffered a painful head cut when his Hudson coach, traveling toward Thomasville, was struck by a hit-and-run vehicle and careened into B H Cook's house on the Thomasville road near the city limits. He was treated at High Point hospital and released. Local officers investigated as onlookers and dozens of autos paused at the scene.
Hundreds reach for relief packages as a plane search party struggles to distribute aid in a crowded riverfront scene. Dr. Lia efforts fail amid hunger and chaos while Col. Lindbergh and aides confront a desperate, helpless crowd near starvation. In the confusion a fisherman nets a large catch as the moment of relief turns perilous.
Funeral services for Lara Patterson wife of Archie Patterson and mother of John Patterson will be held at Calvary Baptist church at 2 PM. The elderly Greensboro resident died at her Hilltop home on Friday night. Interment follows at Greenhill cemetery. Archie's job at Alma Desk Company is noted. John Patterson had been acquitted recently in Superior court of murder related to Johnnie Gilliam's death.
The High Point Ministerial Association will hold its regular meeting tomorrow at 10:30 AM at Wesley Memorial Church. All city ministers are urged to attend.
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