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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1937
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And Often It Burns
Everyone rakes the embers un
der his own cake.
Credit human society with one
virtue: If you had a famous an
cestor, human society will remem
ber it.
It's difficult for a man to col
lect himself when his wits are
scattered.
Some ancestors live to enjoy the
pride of their posterity in them.
Celebrations resemble each oth
er too much. This is why they
wear out with the older people.
Closely Related v
Belief and conduct act and re
act upon each other.
When a girl keeps her young
man waiting it is only a little wile.
Everything is likely to prove
more or less of a disappointment.
Even a bass drum doesn’t make
as much muse as it looks as if it
ought to.
It is fun to butt in if you’re wel
come.
Those who knew a man back in
the old home town wonder how he
succeeded in the big city. They
think he’s changed. He is changed.
The city changes everyone.
IV. Y. State Police Lift Mask
from Hollywood’s Wonder Man
John Montague Beat Bing Crosby at Golf
Using Baseball Bat, Shovel and Rake.
Of INTEREST TO
THE HOUSEWIFE
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stove-brush.
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before the article is squeezed
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wool moistened with methylated
spirit.
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and add 3 spoonfuls chopped
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Stir the mixture with a wooden
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• • •
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it removes grease and machine
oil from any fabric.
• • •
Rhubarb Charlotte—Wash and
stew rhubarb but not to breaking
point. Fill dish alternately with
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er with lemon jelly. Leave to set
and serve with whipped cream.
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Improving Cauliflower—Cauli
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lemon juice or*vinegar has been
added.
WNU Service.
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
ftOHUCKSsaid Bing Cros-
^by’s burly golf partner, “I
could beat you using a ball bat,
a shovel and a rake!’*
Now, if you have ever seen
Bing Crosby play golf you will
realize that this challenge
would not be unlike telling Joe
Louis, “I could lick you with
one hand tied behind my back.”
The dreamy-eyed crooner’s aver
age is about 74, which is golf of a
professional caliber. The arrogant
gentleman had been in the habit of
“spotting” Bing a stroke on each
of five holes and collecting with
withering consistency.
“It’s a bet,” said Crosby, and it
was decided to play one hole, for
$200.
Bing, using the regulation bag of
clubs, took two shots to the green
and two putts for a perfect par
four. The other party to the ar
rangement strode to the tee, gave
his ball a little toss in the air and
whaled it with a baseball bat,
swinging in a manner that would
have turned Babe Ruth green with
envy when he was in his prime.
The ball traveled 350 yards into a
trap. With an ordinary shovel this
remarkable athlete played an “ex
plosion” shot to a point within eight
feet of the cup. Wielding the rake
like a billiard cue, he hold out the
putt” for a “birdie” three.
“That,” crooned Crosby, "is
enough for me.” He wandered un
certainly in search of the nearest
psychopathic hospital, poorer by
$200.
Wonder Man Shuns Publicity.
Some screwy, magnificently
screwy, stories have come from
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Dead Canyon road—three quarters
of a mile—in five shots, with plenty
of room to spare. George von Elm,
a member of the club and former
national amateur champion, testi-
Hollywood, where press agents have I fi e< l that he played with Montague
the imagination of an Edgar Rice f°r a month and Monty never was
Burroughs and the conscience of ove r 68; such golf could win any
Baron Munchausen. But the screw-
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Bing Crosby, radio and screen
star, who got trimmed in the re
markable golf match, but befriended
the victor in a time of need.
jest thing about this story is that it
is true. It happened two years ago,
and since that time John Montague
or LaVerne Moore or “Bull” Moore
(depending upon your point of
view) has been the most talked-of
man in the golfing world.
John Montague, as the film colo
ny knows him, came to Hollywood
three years ago. His ability to play
golf was astounding. He was
handsome in his burly way. His
manners were delightful. He was
chivalrous with women. He appar
ently had a bank roll. He had two
Lincolns and a Ford. He could drink
a fifth of Scotch and eight gin fizzes
for breakfast and never bat an eye.
Montague shunned publicity. But
as Greta Garbo proved, one sure
way to get into the limelight is to
try to stay out of it. No one in
Hollywood knew who Montague was,
whence he came or where he de
rived his income, not even Oliver
Hardy, the rotund comedian with
whom the mystery man lived for a
while. And apparently nobody
cared.
But a man can’t do the things
Monty did and remain in oblivion.
His feats of strength were as amaz
ing as his golf prowess. He held
up a heavy automobile while a
friend changed a tire. With one
hand he picked up George Bancroft,
husky moving picture “heavy,” and
stuffed him in a locker, upside
down, during a moment of horse
play. He cojrld even lift Ollie Hardy
in one hand. He ate a dozen eggs in
less than half a minute. He (it was
whispered) had whipped from three
to six men at one time.
Drives 400 Yards.
But these exploits pale beside
Monty’s feats on the links. He
drives straight as a die, and con
sistently from 40 to 60 yards far
ther than the longest drive Bobby
Jones ever made. Driving balls
into a slight wind he has averaged
more than 300 yards per drive. With
the same slight wind in back of him,
375 to 400 yards per drive!
He seldom putts; his approach
shots are so perfect they leave him
putts conceded by his partners. To
win a bet he drove a ball from the
first tee of Lakeside club across
championship in the world!
At Palm Springs, Montague broke
the course record four times in four
consecutive days. The last day he
turned in the unbelievable card of
61! He wears out the exclamation
marks on a reporter’s typewriter.
Still John Montague preferred ob
scurity. He refused to play in tour
naments. Only once, after much
pleading on the part of his friend
.Hardy, did he consent to compete.
That was in the annual club cham
pionship play. He sprained his an
kle on the sixth hole, but finished 18
holes anyway—with a 64! Then he
dropped out.
Turns Down $20,000 Offer.
He refused to talk to reporters.
He would never allow himself to
be photographed. Once when a pho
tographer, concealing himself in
bushes, managed to expose a few
plates before Montague discovered
him, Monty smashed the plates and
paid the man $100 for the damage.
Offered $20,000 to demonstrate his
ability in a moving picture “short,”
he said: “I won’t permit one picture
to be taken of me; why should I
ppse for a whole reel?”
Despite Montague’s reticence, a
light like that simply can’t be hid
den under a bushel. Grantland
Rice, the eminent sports authority,
was reluctant to believe the stories
which came via the grapevine from
the Lakeside club. They couldn’t be
true. For instance, the one about
the time Monty, calling his shot,
picked a bird off a telephone wire
170 yards away with a brassie shot.
Or, the one about how he didn’t get
a wink of sleep for five days and
five nights, then shot a 70. Or the
one about how he could hit a dozen
balls from any distance within 200
yards, bet $100 on each one that
it would stop within 10 feet of the
flag, and win money. Or the one—
but why go on?
He Couldn’t Prevent Fame.
Rice determined to find out for
himself. He went to Hollywood and
played a round with Montague. He
decided all that had been said was
true. During the round, Monty
“picked up” on the eighteenth hole,
where he could have had a 64!
Impressed beyond measure, Rice
told of John Montague and his golf
feats in a syndicated sports col
umn. Westbrook Pegler wrote a col
umn aboi^t him, describing him as
a combination of Paul Bunyan, Pop-
eye the Sailor Man and Ivan Ska-
vinsky Skovar. Soon there were
other stories.
These found interested readers.
Some were even fascinated. One
such fascinated reader was John
Cosart, of Troop D, New York state
police, Oneida, N. Y. Somehow this
thirty-two-year-old Montague, with
his golf genius, his strength and
his huge 220-pound frame, seemed
familiar.
Cosart reflected. Wasn’t this
Montague a dead ringer for La
Verne Moore—“Bull” Moore, as
“the boys” called him—whom the
policeman had known seven years
ago? Moore, the son of a steel
worker, had been a mighty youth.
He, too, had been able to lift one
end of an automobile with one hand,
could lick three men at once. He
used to smash dozens of cue balls
while “breaking the rack” in pool
games. He had been a prep school
football and baseball star—once he
John Montague, strong man golfer
of Hollywood, equipped with the
“clubs” he used in taking a $200
golf bet from Bing Crosby.
struck out 19 batsmen in a game.
Young Moore’s golf had been
good enough to land him a job as a
professional at the Clayton, N. Y.,
country club. He once had played
the nine-hole municipal course at
Syracuse in 28.
Moore Had Police Record.
Moore had a passion for making
records, and some of them were po
lice records. He got a six-months’
suspended sentence in 1927 for pos
ing as a policeman and taking $50
from a grocer accused of selling
liquor.
On the night of April 5, 1930, four
young men held up a roadhouse
near Jay, N. Y., taking $700 from
Kin Hana, the owner. When Hana’s
father-in-law. Matt Cobb, objected,
they gave him a vicious beating.
As the robbers made their get
away, one of their cars struck a
culvert. One robber was killed. Two
were captured and got 16-year pris
on terms. The fourth, believed to
have been “Bull” Moore, dis
appeared.
The New York state police sent
Moore’s fingerprints to the Los An
geles police department. On last
July 9 Hollywood’s strong man was
arrested in the Beverly Hills apart
ment which he shared with Oliver
Hardy, and charged with the New
York robbery. When they took him
to jail he admitted that he was
“Bull” Moore and that there was no
longer any reason for avoiding pub
licity. He posed willingly for pho
tographers, but refused to discuss
the charges against him.
Arrest Shocks Hollywood.
The arrest was a bombshell to the
many celebrated friends of “John
Montague.” To a man, they backed
him. Dozens of them, all influen
tial, wrote pleas to Gov. Frank Mer-
riam, asking that he refuse extra-
Guy Kibbee, screen character ac
tor and friend of Montague, who tes
tified to the golfer’s good character
before Gov. Merriam.
dition. Montague—or Moore—they
said, had rehabilitated himself and
was now an admirable citizen.
“Monty is one of the finest fel
lows who ever lived,” said Hardy,
who arranged for John’s $10,000
bail, “and I’m here to do what I
can for a friend.” Bing Crosby said:
“He’s a great guy and a grand fel
low. We’ll all back him 100 per
cent.”
Among Monty’s additional spon
sors appeared such names as Bert
Wheeler, Spencer Tracy, Charlie
Chase, Guy Kibbee, Frank Craven,
Andy Devine, Gene Tunney, How
ard Hawkes and George von Elm.
Nevertheless, he went back to New
York to face the music.
The one mystery none of them
was ever able to solve was the ori
gin of Monty’s bank roll. He ad
mitted he bet $200 a week on the
races. He was always flashing a
handful of hundred-dollar bills.
Some rumors had it that he owned a
gold or silver mine in the desert,
to which he returned when in need
of fresh capital. But anyone who
ever attempted to follow him was
lost in a cloud of dust.
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★
O NCE more Rudy Vallee has
shown that he is the great
est talent scout in the radio busi
ness. Tommy Riggs, the two
voiced personality who has been
appearing on his program the
last few weeks has made an
outstanding success and will
soon have a program of his own.
The brash little girl that Mr.
Riggs plays with such devastating
humor promises to be as popular
one of these days as is Charlie Mc
Carthy, the famous ventriloquist’s
dummy. Incidentally, the people
whom Vallee started on the road
to radio success ought to get to
gether and put on a gala program
as a tribute to him. It would in
clude such headliners as Walter O’
Keefe, Bob Burns, Edgar Bergen
and Charlie McCarthy, and Tom-
my Riggs. And what a program
that would be!
Mona Barrie is the latest screen
belle to seek a change from Holly
wood on the New
York stage. While
rehearsing for “Vir
ginia,” a great mu
sical spectacle that
will open the Center
Theater in Radio
City, she told
me about her last—
and she thinks best
—picture. It is Jim
mie Cagney’s
“Something to Sing
James Cagney About,” in which
Mona plays her first
real comedy role. She plays a for
eign actress with a heavy accent
and has a glorious time swooping
through scenes in the grand manner.
Shq says that Jimmy is just tops to
work with, which makes the verdict
practically unanimous.
—-k—
The greatest picture of the year,
perhaps of many years, has re
ceived a chorus of critical acclaim
such as has never been heard be
fore. It is “The Life of Emile Zola”
with Paul Muni. As crusader for
the oppressed, as the most elo
quent and forceful man of his time,
Paul Muni gives an inspired per
formance. Don’t let the praise of
this picture drive you away from it
with a faint suspicion that it may be
educational, but dull. It offers the
most exciting and thrilling evening
you could spend in a theater.
With radio’s summer lull over
soon dozens of big programs will be
angling for your attention. Irene
Wicker, the greatly-beloved singing
lady, moves to the Mutual network
early in October offering a series of
original sketches with music. Jack
Benny returns to the air at the same
time.
——
Margaret Tallichet, who aban
doned a newspaper job in Texas .to
break into the movies, has found
that even after a career is well
started, it still has as many downs
as ups. You may recall that she
appealed to Carole Lombard for
help and through her got a smcH
contract with Selznick-Internation-
al. Well, Miss Tallichet played
small roles in “A Star Is born” and
then the studio decided to gamble
on her to the extent of sending her
east to dramatic school for further
training. She appeared at the Mt.
Kisco theater opposite no less a per
sonage than Henry Fonda and
proved conclusively that she needs
a lot more training before she can
play big roles.
Up in Dennis, Massachusetts,
Gertrude Michael appeared on the
stage in a play of
early Colonial days
and made a big hit.
A regular parade of
automobiles made
the long trip from
New York to see
her, and when she
came out on the
stage the rafters
rung with applause
from her Broadway
friends. They were
saluting her courage
in winning a two-
year battle with se
rious illness as well as her fine skill
as an actress.
ODDS AND ENDS—After trying to
borrow Kenny Baker, or John Payne, or
Jimmy Stewart, or Cary Grant, or Didt
Arlen, the producer of Lily Pons' nest
picture has finally given up the search
for a new leading man and given the role
to Gene Raymond who played in her last
picture . . . Jack Benny's friends are sav
ing all the reviews of "Artists and
Models" which rave about his perform
ance to show him when he returns from
Europe. All through the making of the
picture he quarreled with the director
and objected to his lines and felt utterly
dismal over what he expected would be
the flop of the year . . . Joan Crawford
likes to run her pictures at home for her
young niece to see. The child howls every
time she sees Auntie Joan on the screen
. . . John Barrymore is working up a
hilarious imitation of Edgar Bergen and
Charlie McCarthy to amuse his friends
between scenes at the studio.
e Western Newspaper Union.
Gertrude
Michael
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Something Else
Chorus Girl—I stand in front of
my mirror for hours admiring my
beauty. I suppose you’d call that
vanity?
Friend—No—-im agination.
A Bare Hope
“Mother,” said little Mary,
“they are going to teach us do
mestic silence at school now.”
“Don’t you mean domestic sci
ence?” inquired her mother.
Then the father interrupted:
“Possibly our little girl meanr
what she is saying.”
HEARTLESS
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Author—This article is the child
of my brain.
Editor—Drop your child in that;
waste basket.
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bet’s off!”
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