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38th Hole Before winning North-South TourneyPinehurst, N. C., April 8 () — George T. Dunlap Jr., the former national champion, wae carried to the 38th Kreen by a young druggist from Luraberton, N. Johnny Johnson, today before winning the North and South amateur golf title for the fourth time.The alender New Yorker and the dark horse of the tournament were all square when rain halted their 36-holes final match Saturday afternoon on the 31st hole.Jtesuming play today, the pair were again on the 36th.On the final hole, the 3Stb, the Lumberton entry caught a trap with his second and had to take a six, while the New Yorker's perfectly-played par gave him the match.MANY STARS*T0 PLAY IN MASON-DIXON GOLF________White Sulphur Springs. W. Va., April 8. UP)—Some of the east’s high rankiug amateur golfing star* will match strokes tomorrow in the qualifying round of the seventh an-i nual Mason and Dixon golf chatn-I pionsbip tournament.IT would appear to me that my good friend Bill Bess, Huntington Advertiser sports editor, and his codeputies of the Huntington deputy boxing commission, have stuck their ears out for targets.Several days ago a couple of colored boys waged a bout In The GYP CITY and at the conclusion of the bout The Alabama Kid was suspended for not trying his best. Or anyway it was announced hy Bill and lus fellow deputies that the Kid was suspended.The Huntington deputies overate pped their authority Just as deputies, not only in Huntingon. hut also in Bluefleld, have a babit of doing. It Is not in the power of deputies to suspend boxers or anyone else. All they are supposed to do is to act more or less as observers and when they see a boxing law violated to inform the show promoters Then, tf the condition Is not corrected. it Is their duty to report the «f-faii to the state commission and lei that body act.But In Huntington, evidently, as in Binetield, some of the deputies want to he Big Shots. Over-officious and selt-important. they want to he dictators of the sport.Following the affair In Huntington. Commissioner Kenna Clark of Fairmont, In no uncertain terms put in their place the Huntington deputies, pointing out that the state commission still had something to say about the sport, regardless of wliiit nvnlliwl nntninn Incut rleniltlesthat st floor, t the boy adherre tinued. sponsor to cone law. at tection ClapT.V1 n* v A
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Tue, Apr 09, 1935
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