Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(arolinas Famed For Sports Events (Hy Sally Hroomoll) Sentiment has done much to asyon?te the aunny Caroltnas with visions at moss-covered live oaks towt-nnK t,V4'r plantation manors, darkies singing outside cabin doors, cottages covered with lavendur wistaria, and the fragrant magnolias, Cherokee roses and yellow jasmine in the moonlight, but tradition,, which is apt to go unheeded until firmly formal, has gradually woven into the history of the Carolina* a background of .society and sports which is unequalled in this country. Aiken and Camden in South Carolina, and Pinehurst and Southern Pines, in North Carolina, have a certain similarity in the activities, but each is outstanding .} in some one sport which has gradually been built up over a long period of time. Aiken has been the polo center of the United States for over fifty year^j, and is today, with three or four games r^very day on several of its fourteen polo field*. In 1931 the Aiken colony celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the first polo gume there, where members of the old fn?ternational team had their schooling ground, including Thomas llitchcock, only nine-goal player in this | country; J. Watson Webb, only noted left-handed player; Devereux Milburn and Lawrence Waterbury. The more recent Aiken team, composed of I). Stewart Iglekart, James L. Mills, Elbridge Gerry, William Post and Cornelius llathorne, former Aiken Prep School boys, are now the -out-standing high-goal polo, players in this country, and still come every winter to play at Aiken. There are also boys' and girls' teams, madeup of students at exclusive private schools in the vicinity. To the late Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock belong the distinction of organizing the Aiken Hunt. She was active master-of-fox-hounds almost to the time of her death last year on Easter Sunday, the result of a seri' U- fall. Her daughter, Mrs. J. Avert i. Clark, is now M. F. H. and hurt- held three times a week. .Mrs. Hitchcock and a small group ><>cial Kcgisterite friends formed v :.- was facetiously called "The A\e Club," who did all the active wn-k in making their own drag m-s, chopping trees, cutting away 'r.e brush and erecting the jumps. The various lines are still named lifter those who did the work in clearing them. The crowd would start out early in the morning and knock off at noon, when a barbecue in the1 long-leaf pines would bo the order! of the day. Many an old album holds pictures of Mrs. Hitchcock ami her! friends in shirts or sweaters and riding 4>reeches, wielding an axe. Mrs. Hitchcock was also master of the beagles und was off early u couple of mornings a week during the season with a crowd on horse-back. The country in the Carolinas is too rough to chase the hare on foot, as is customary in the North. Since her death, the 'beagle hunts have been discontinued. The big event in Aiken Is the official opening of the hunt and steeplechase season, which will come this year on March 23, The circuit then moves slowly North through* North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland -and Delaware in the spring; Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Long Island in the fall, ending with the Pickering Hunt, Pennsylvania, this year, on November 2. Aiken is the most exclusive resort town in the country meant in the real sense of the word. The handsome estates are all owned by Social Registerites of nfany years standing, incidentally very wealthy, or they could not afford to live there at all. Just two years ago, since the depression, Wilcox's Hotel was charging $40 per day and up. Strangers are not encouraged to settle in Aiken, no matter what their social standing is, and it is almost impossible to enter the charmed circle of the elite there, except by birth or marriage. Camden, S. C., has an entirely different atmosphere from other Carolina resorts. Even before the Civil War, it was a flourishing little town, and lost out only by one vote of being the eapitol of South Carolina instead of Columbia. Camden, the oldest inland town in America, is the only mid-South resort town that has remained typically Southern. The old plantation manors, many now used as winter homes by Northerners, have been renovated and made upto-date but the architecture and the original charm have been enhanced rather thun obliterated. The town and surrounding country is rich in historical lore. Many battles were fought there during Revolutionary days and Washington and Lafayette both visited the town. Six generals of the Confederacy were burn in Kershaw County. K. G. Whistler, who died in Camden on February 10, this year, at the ago of seventy-two settled here thirty-live years ago from the West and was instrumental in promoting I Camden as a winter resort. He orgunued the lirst polo team here and was a member of the National Polo Association. With the high tide of golf popularity, Camden gradually became a golf center, but interest in j>olo was revived every few years, as it has been recently with the appointment of Major Grove Cullum, former chief of the Remount Service, II .S. Army, as coach of the Camden Polo Club. ' Recognizing the /aft that Camden,! I in the heart of tn? mnd-hill, longleaf pine belt of So\tH tyafolina, has a much milder tempe)(a|tire than usual in the mid-&outh, for the I training of horses, llarr^ -^. Kirklover and Ernest L. Woodward, ttfo I noted sportsmen from the Genesee I Valley, came to Camden eleven years J ago and built the now famous I Springdale Course on the site Of the I old Hawthorne course there, where I many of the finest thoroughbreds in I the country raced over a century ago I by the plantation-owners in the Curolinas. The first Carolina Cup Race, a I strictly amateur event, took place on March 22, 1930, and the crowds of hunt race enthusiasts have been inI creasing yearly, until now, when 25,1 000 are expected to be here for the I big event on March 30. j The Camden Hunt Hounds had an I humble beginning thirteen years ugo J when several of the girls, who are still here every winter, decided to have some hunting. They made their I own drag-lines and hired hounds J from the farmers at fifty cents apiece. The hounds being untrained, I would be let out of the cart, where I the scent began and the end of the 1 hunt would lead them right back into the cart. Mrs. Dwight Partridge is I now M. F. H., and among her earnlest assistants were Mrs. Lucy Pomeroy Deans and Mrs. Ralph Chase, w-ho still retain their interest in the I activities of the Hunt. Pinehurst and Southern Pines, J North Carolina, are practically one resort, being only one mile apart. I Southern Pines w as originally a I health resort. In 1913 when James I Boyd returned from Cambridge UniIversity, England, he settled in SouthI ern Pines on the slope now* called KVeymouth Heights. His brother, I Hackson Boyd, soon joined him and 1 11 ... ??? they established the hunt colony. From (hat small -beginning has developed one of the best drag-packs in the country, owing to its similarity to a real fox-hunting. James and Jitikson ure joint inasters-of-fox hounds for the Moore County Hunt. (While there ure foxes, both g'ey and red, in the Carolina* one might not 1m* scented by the hounds for an hour or two, and then only in the early morning. Ju>t before a diughunt, a darkle drags u bug of annice seed over the proposed course so that the scent is hoi for the hounds and a fast hunt is the result.) A few years ago Pinehurst was considered the greatest sports centre in the mid-South, but its chief attraction at present is golf, having four beautiful golf courses and a number of fine hotels. It is one of the most attractive resort towns in the country with "House Beautiful" homes and a smart business section, the buildings red brick and whitetrimmed and the pavements built around the stately old oaks. Pinehurst is a real resort town, practically the whole population being migratory, mostly Northerners, either cottagers, or visitors at the hotels. Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, Jr., is M. F. 11. of the Sandy Run Hunt there. This season Pinehurst und Southern Pines have been making a bid for the hunt race crowd with a new steeplechase course on the Midland Road between the two re-sorts. The newly-formed Sandhills Steeplechase and Racing Association has set the date for its first meet for Saturday,' March 1C, one week before the big' established race program at Aiken and two weeks before the noted Carolina Cup at Camden. The course is being put into condition by Noel Laing, prominent gentleman rider and trainer, and P. S. P. Randolph, Jr., racing secretary of the Sandhills Association, who recently visited Camden to use as models the brush jumps of the renown Springdalc Course there, the best in the country.1 Almet Jenks, president, is appointed on the committee for the event. The Carolinas are a veritable paradise for rod und gun enthusiasts. The season for quail continues all winter until the first of March. Bird dogs are available most anywhere and there are numerous shooting clubs and preserves on old plantations open to the hunter. Other game includes wild turkey, deer, dove, ducks, geese, woodcock and raccoon. Yeaman's Hall, a ten-mile tract i General News Notes A bunk ut Discoe, N. C., wu? held uj> and robbed of $.r>00 or more by two unmasked bandits Wednesday. They made their escape in u green Chevrolet. A. peddler traded candies for old clothes, dishes and so forth in two Italian villages. Forty children were made very sick from eating the can-, dies. A bandit ftred a barn outside of Kounn, Ind., and while the populace | was watching the blaite, he held up a bank in the town and got away with over $1,000. An airplane unable to gain altitude with the pilot and two passengers, landed atop a box car at Senora, Texas. The plane was damaged, but the occupants were not hurt. Four men have been indicted at Dallas, Texas, charged with the killing of a narcotic agent some wooks ago. Sheriff, a deputy, a veterinary and a physician are the men indicted. The sheriff did the killing and claims self-defense. Legend of the Paction Flower The legend of Die passion (lower follows: The leaf symholi7.es the spear; the fixe at.titers, the five wounds; the tendrils, the cords or whips; the column of the ovary, the pillar of the Cross; the stamens, the hammers; the three styles, the three nails; the fleshy threads within the Mower, the eroxvn of thorns; the calyx, the glory or nimbus: the white tint, puritx ; and the blue tint, Jieaxen. between Charleston and Summerville, S. ('., is an exclusive cottage colony with its own very sporty golf course. The members, mostly millionaire graduates of Yale University, have their own shooting preserves in that vicinity. in a battle between a 20-foot shark ami six sea lions in a covo on the coast of Oregon, the sea lions were victorious, killing the shark. It was a wild battle the spectators say. It took a doctor, a nurse, threo male attendants and a policeman to subdue a crazed patient in a New York hospital, who suddenly went haywire with an iron bar wrenched from a cot. Zoar Methodist church in Sumter county was destroyed by lire on Sunday from a spark on the roof. The building was valued at $2,500 with no insurance. Mrs. (icori^p A. Waters, woman warden of the Oklahoma reformatory, from which prisoners recently escaped, 14 .being recaptured, and removed by tho governor, is not going out of office after eight years, she says, until a senate Investigation proves her to be incompetent. President Roosevelt has approved the 1936 seed loan bill carrying $60,000,000, asking that the money be taken from tho $4,000,000,000 relief funds, not yet appropriated iby congress. Tho money will bo loaned to farmers up to $500 on oaths that tho borrower is unable to get funds elsewhere. Judge Wilson Warlick of the superior court, broadcasted tho infor-* mation in court at Asheville, N. C., that when a drunk driver comes before him, no-matter how high he may be in the social scale, tho defendant on conviction is going to the chain gang. Arthur W. Mitchell, negro congressman from tho first Illinois district, told an audience of negroes at Wilson, N. C., that if the nation Is to be saved, it can only bo dono through tho Democratic party. He said that for the first time in history the seat of government is now in Washington, at the White House. 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