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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1936
Page
5
Associated Press preview notes the New York Giants and New York Yankees, both finishing third in their leagues, prepare for a six to seven game World Series. Hubbell holds a strong edge for the Giants, while Manager McCarthy faces lineup choices.
High Point faces Reidsville at Willis Park at 8 o clock hoping to end a three year undecided series. The Bisons seek a win after last year s controversial rule call and a tough opponent with a stronger team this season. Coach Bolick plans to use tricks to counter Reidsville s offense and aerial threat if needed.
The Enterprise will publish a complete World Series account after each game, ending its Play-O-Graph replays. Most papers in similar cities have stopped replaying and provide the game summary immediately. Call 4567 or 4568 for the score, and watch The Enterprise after the game ends.
Chief Sunoco, a 318 pound Cherokee, headlines Curtis Denning’s wrestling card in High Point with Ivan Vaduroff in the main event. Al Maynard and Dixie Dick Powell open the show and Maynard faces Henry Graber while Powell battles Jim Henry. Powell and Sunoco recent top draws, Russian and Redskin clash expected rough and action packed.
Construction work on a municipal polo field in Columbia, South Carolina, was expected to start the next day. The project, budgeted at 6800 dollars with 4500 provided by the WPA, aims to enable stables to school polo ponies in the city.
Chicago reports butter at 9,882 pounds with weak creamery specials and assorted grades ranging from 30 to 33 percent. Eggs total 4,981 dozen with prices holding steady as market assessment remains easy.
The piece surveys the New York Yankees famed power era with Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Babe Ruth lineage. It weighs DiMaggio’s rookie potential, Ruth’s absence, Mel Ott’s Giants impact, and pitching rotations led by Gomes, Ruffing, Malone, Murphy and Hadley amid Monte Pearson’s injury.
The writer backs the Yankees yet admits secretly hoping the Giants win the World Series in Gotham. He notes strong pitching by Hadley Malone Gomez and Hubbell facing McCarthy’s lineup, and admits suspense over a streak of correct guesses in six years.
At least 2000 spectators watched the Sanford game as the crowd crowded the sidelines. Ropes were missing and youths pressed onto the field forcing stoppages and hampering view from the grandstand.
Nearby readers urge action to control crowds at Willis Park for Friday night games. They propose a boundary wire and four officers to manage overflow, noting current patrols are insufficient without a defined area. Chief Friddle is expected to help supply officers and the high school may install the wire this week.
Dizzy Dean asserts he will be the first 1937 holdout and that the New York Yankees will win the world series. He blasts the Cardinals as having bush leaguers while praising four infielders and notes his tour with Pepper Martin amid a barnstorming swing.
Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill won the qualifying medal in the 40th U S women's golf championship at Canoe Brook Country Club finishing two strokes ahead. She broke the course record with 78 and greeted Robert J Murphy of Summit, a former teammate of her father, who watched and wired the news. Her father, Bob Lawson, is a former Boston pitcher and UNC professor, and trained his daughter in golf. She began playing tournaments four years ago and has since claimed several Carolinas titles and the North and South title.
The article notes a humbled Dean praising Carl Hubbell, declaring Hubbell the top pitcher in baseball and better than Dean himself.
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