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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1933
Page
6
Winchester Country Club twelve man team defeated Millwood Blue Ridge Country Club 25 to 11 on the local links. Ten locals won their matches, four by shutout, while no visiting golfer posted a 3 0 score. Lead names include Rutherford and Hayled for W and Page and Goss for B R with multiple wins.
Park team records list results against multiple opponents with scores, showing wins and losses by date range. Notable entries include Millwood A C and Blue Ribbon Wash among many others, reflecting a crowded schedule and varying margins.
A close-up profiles Mrs. Har old S. Vanderbilt, Gertrude Lewis Conaway, 32, Philadelphia socialite, as the bride of America’s richest bachelor. They wed in New York. The bullfighting spectacle interest notes 1,300 bull rings across the Iberian peninsula and France.
Cecil Smith, captain and star of the West polo team that won the world title, appears beside Judge W. R. Brightmire after being released on $2,500 bond on a criminal attack charge filed by Miss Eugenia Rose, 23, a nurse. Smith, shown in action in the inset, denied the accusations.
Famous bridge teachers discuss a contest between declarer and East as they duel over a 9 trick deal. The declarer executes a sequence of finesses and discards to force a trump victory and secure seven tricks, culminating in a decisive game by careful reading of East and West signaling.
Congress man Hamilton Fish Jr endorses Roosevelt's economic reorganization, seen as radical by conservatives. In New York, Wall Street frets over Wallace hog price plan and a 55 million dollar tax to buy swine, while AT&T expands payroll and Western Electric spending. Roosevelt warns coal operators to sign a code or risk industry decline and communism.
Loudoun pursellville fair at Purcellville on September 6 and 7 features 36 horse show classes with heavy draft, half breed and hunters on day one and thoroughbreds, hunters and ponies on day two. Irvin Beavers and Joe E. Norman lead the horse and pony show and heavy draft show respectively with a dog show by Charles King and Dr. Herbert Howard.
D. C. Fisher reports in Battlefield Park that wasps wiped out a large caterpillar infestation on a 50 acre oak tract after a swift attack. Prof. Ralph Hayes of North Carolina was called in but found no caterpillars when he arrived, the wasps having eliminated them.
Jud Tunkins asserts Barnum grew rich by discovering the public enjoys being fooled and pays well for it. The record ocean voyage from New York to San Francisco by the Santa Catalina oil burner took 45 days 21 hours via the Straits of Magellan in 1914. The fastest sailing ship time noted was 89 days.
A season record shows Sunnyside Athletic Club County Nine with 177 runs for and 85 against across 18 games. They have won 16 of 18, with two losses to the Ball Hawks of Winchester, who have twice preyed on the Sunnyside countions.
This week features Aug 23 South End Ind versus Sunnyside. Aug 24 Old Timers meet Ball Hawks. Aug 25 Lions play All Stars. Next week shows Aug 30 Old Timers vs South End Ind and Aug 31 Lions vs Post Office Sent. Also Aug 31 Ball Hawks against Va Woolen Mall.
During the annual picnic of the Frederick County Sunday School Association at Vaucluse several contests were completed. Sack Race winner James Inskip Cedar Cliff with Melvin Carbaugh Stephens City second. Wheelbarrow Race victor Victor Carbaugh Stephens City Lutheran first. Thomas Fawcett St. Pauls Opequon second. Potato Race Katherine Bly St. Pauls first. Katherine Cooper Stephens City Lutheran second. Boys could not finish due to rain.
The table shows standings with New York leading at 68 46 596 and Detroit 59 86 60. Yesterday Cleveland beat Boston 10 to 1 and Philadelphia defeated Detroit 12 to 7. New York beat Chicago 3 to 1 in nine innings before darkness halted play. Today's games include Washington at Detroit and New York at Cleveland with Philadelphia at St. Louis and Boston at Chicago. Tomorrow's schedule follows.
National League standings show New York 68 43 and Pittsburgh 62 52 with Boston 63 453 St. Louis 64 54 Chicago 62 53 Philadelphia 48 464 Brooklyn 45 65 Cincinnati 44 12. Yesterday’s games were all rained out. Today’s schedule lists Pittsburgh at Boston and multiple matchups including Cincinnati at Philadelphia Chicago at New York St. Louis at Brooklyn Pittsburgh at New York Cincinnati at Brooklyn Chicago at Philadelphia St. Louis at Boston.
Photographs capture needle workers in Philadelphia protesting for union rights under NRA codes. One image shows strikers breaking police lines to reach scab workers in a plant riot, while another shows a parade after a riot in which several demonstrators were injured.
A discussion on how certain English words have shifted meaning through irony. The piece notes that terms like silly once implied blessing or happiness and explains this semantic reversal in historical usage.
Trustee announces a public auction at 2 p m on Friday August 25 1933 on the premises of I N Painter Frederick County Virginia two miles southeast of Stephens City Canterbury road for three Guernsey dairy cows one black cow near freshening one young black cow late springer one young black cow and one large black Holstein heifer all dairy type home bred Terms: cash Ames P Reardon Trustee.
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