VOL. XIV, NO. 4
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1910
FIVE CENTS
THE MIDWINTER TOURNEY
Eighth Annual Event Sets Pinehurst Golf
Season In Fall Swing
Tim Early Larg-e and Representative
Field is AMird for the IBig-g-eat
Week of Entire Year
THE SEVENTH an
nual Holiday Week
golf tournament booked
for Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of the
coming week, sets the
golf season in full
swing, immediately preceding as it does
the eighth annual Midwinter Contest
a gold medal for the best qualification
score and the President's, Governors',
Secretary's, Treasurer's, Captain's and
Club cups to the winners of the match
play rounds. There are also sterling
cups for the division runners-up and the
consolation division winners as well as
sterling cups for the division winners in
the match play rounds of the overflow
field.
they're on their way
William C. Freeman as chairman of
the committee of arrangements, is
"pushing'' the publicity end of the Ad
vertising Men's golf tourney, which im
mediately follows the Midwinter Tour
ney and he promises the biggest crowd
ever, a wealth of trophies and "some
thing doing every minute."
The latest announcement with page
two illustration, tells the story. Here's
the text :
Carolina our home where we haven't
time to think of anything but the joy of
living.
It is up to the Tournament Committee
as usual, to arrange details and the
boys have asked me to plan things, and
after I have done that they will help me
to carry them out.
I am going down to Pinehurst early to
arrange a program also to practice up
a bit.
When you get down there everything
will be ready for you.
There will be something doing every
minute.
The prizes will be numerous, valuable
and suitable, and there will be as many
eights and sixteens as there are people
to play.
I hope to meet you, as I have for many
years on the broad piazza of The Caro
lina on the morning of January 7th
and soon after we will all get busy.
'TWAS A GOLFING MARATHON
Not to Golfer Bnt the Fleet Was Annual
Monkey Tournament
Mercury Lcadt in Itace to Heat
Crowd to Ball, with Start from
Scratch and Wo Ileferee
MONKEY" GOLF it no
longer is, thanks to J.
B. Bowen of the city of
City Hall fame, and not
unknown among his
intimates as "J. Bunker
Bo wen, S. G.". Early
in the annual contest Mr. Bowen saw
that things were apt to be rather tame
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and the Advertising Men's meeting sched
uled for January 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th,
13th and 14th ; the biggest week, with
out question, in American golf. Thus
early the entry list for the Midwinter
tips the hundred mark and it promises to
climb much higher ; special trains bring
ing various delegations from New York,
Philadelphia, Washington and other
points.
Six divisions of sixteen each are pro
vided for in the Midwinter with special
additional divisions for those who fail to
qualify under the Pinehurst system in
which the entries are divided into six
classes and the best sixteen scores in
each class qualify. The trophies include
Are you getting ready to go to Pine
hurst? Some of us are already on our way
as Cartoonist Goldberg suggests.
The tournament will start on Mon
day, January 9th,and will end Saturday,
January 14th.
Ttis really one tournament for the
Advertising Boosters, because we are
just as much of a factor in the Annual
Midwinter Tournament, which starts
on the 9th and ends on the 11th, as we
are in our own tournament, which starts
on the 12th and ends on the 14th.
It is good to think of Pinehurst again.
It means casting aside cares of every
kind and meeting once more at The
We'll surely be happy.
You won't know the details of the
Tournament until you get there, but I
promise you that you won't be disap
pointed. Yours sincerely,
(Signed) William C. Freeman.
R. M. Purves of Boston ; W. W. Mam
lokof New York; Willis It. Roberts of
Philadelphia and Edgar M. Hoppes of
Wilmington, are other members of the
committee.
A. fait Trio
Prominent entries for next week's
Holiday tournament are Robert Hunter,
Intercollegiate champion, his cousin,
Paul Hunter of Midlothian and P. W.
Whittemore of Brookline Country club.
and he suggested making -it a Marathon
on the forty-yard dash installment plan
and a Marathon it was to the eighteenth
green. In a word the contest was not
to the golf er,but the jf!ee,with Mr. Bowen
as Mercury and pacemaker not peace
maker ! The trick was to beat the crowd
to the ball to be played or all was lost
and it required some maneuvering to ac-.
complish this for a few of the group
were not only sprinters, but former
football players. The man who
couldn't run couldn't play the ball that
was all there was to it and the start
was from scratch with no referee !
"Lor' sakes, boss," commented old
Concluded on page three)