1952 Congrats Letter-Sports Writer Smith Barrier to Champion Golfer Estelle Page

Description: <img src="https://ti2.auctiva.com/web/aswCredit.gif" border="0"><br><a href="https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing/listing-advanced-sellers/third-party-listing-tools.html#auctiva" target="_blank"><img src="https://ti2.auctiva.com/images/sc1line2.gif" border="0"></a>1952 typed letter on letterhead from the Sports Department of Greensboro Daily News, Greensboro, North Carolina. The letter is from sports writer Smith Barrier to Champion Golfer Estelle Lawson Page. "Congratulations on another championship! ...If we can ever be or any service to you or the golfing groups, please do not hesitate to call on us, and I hope that something can be worked out for the Southern in '53. Signed in ink "Smith". The Wikipedia entry for Smith Barrier is as follows: Henry Smith Barrier Jr. (July 17, 1916 – 2 June 1989) was an American sports journalist. He was the longtime Executive Sports Editor of Greensboro News & Record and served as president of United States Basketball Writers Association from 1970 to 1971. He is a charter member of the United States Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame. In 1999, Barrier was awarded the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award for outstanding contributions in electronic and print media. Barrier is also a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame (inducted in 1980). Barrier was born in Concord, North Carolina in 1916, and was a 1934 graduate of Concord High School and a 1938 graduate of the University of North Carolina. After graduation, he became a sportswriter at his hometown paper, The Concord Daily Tribune from 1938 to 1941, before moving to the Greensboro Daily News. He became the Daily News sports editor in 1944 and later the Daily Record, which merged to become the Greensboro News & Record. Barrier's account of UCLA's Lew Alcindor in the 1967 UCLA-Dayton game in the 1967 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament earned him a spot in the book "Best Sports Stories 1970". Writing about UCLA's national champion basketball teams under John Wooden, he said, "Mister John Wooden has a watch factory out in Los Angeles. It's a bit different from most Swiss works. They don't make watches, they win 'em." The Wikipedia entry (with some additions) for Estelle Lawson Page is as follows: Estelle Page, née Lawson (March 22, 1907 - May 7, 1983) was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Bob Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He introduced basketball to the university. She graduated from Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) where she played tennis and basketball. In 1935, Lawson won her first of seven North and South Women's Amateurs at the Pinehurst Resort, a record that still stands. In 1936 she married Julius A. Page Jr. and made their home in Chapel Hill. At that year's U.S. Women's Amateur, Page won the medal for the lowest round during the qualifying matches and won the medal again in 1937. Her most important victory came in 1937, when she won the U.S. Golf Association Women's Amateur Championship (there were no professional women's golfers at the time), held that year at the Memphis Country Club. In the thirty-six-hole match play final she defeated Patty Berg 7 and 6. At the end of 1937 she was runner-up in the Associated Press voting for outstanding U.S. female athlete; Golf Magazine voted her the outstanding woman golfer. The next year she again advanced to the national finals against Miss Berg but lost 6 and 5. In 1938, at Westmoreland Country Club, the two met again in the finals, this time the victory went to Berg. When women's golf became professional in the 1940's she decided to remain an amateur. Page was part of the U.S. team that won the 1938 Curtis Cup and ten years later she was part of another Curtis Cup winning team. She won three straight North Carolina Women's Amateur Match Play Championships (1950–52), nine Women's Carolinas Amateur between 1932 and 1949. and retired with 22 tournament victories to her credit. Following the creation of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1963, she was part of the first group to be inducted. Page died in 1983 and was interred in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery in Chapel Hill. EX condition. Normal mailing folds. I use a poor/fair/good/very good/excellent/mint grading system and grade very conservatively (see my feedback). This does NOT necessarily correspond to the generic Ebay grading system that we must use. Shipping is $2.95 in the U.S. International Buyers – Please Note Please obtain shipping quote before bidding. 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