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ii i. i mm mi jui yy i PAGE PINEHURST OUTLOOK TOWSEp'S TRIPLEX (PATENT PENDING) .IS yfVv I U ' . . M... '""I .S i.S i rc, I . - I. The Greatest Grass-cutter on Earth Cuts a Swath 86 Inches Wide Drawn by one horse and operated by one man, the TRIPLEX will mow more lawn in a day than the best motor mower ever made, and cut it better at a fraction of the cost. Drawn by one horse and operated by one man, it will mow more lawn in a day than any three horse-drawn mowers with three horses and three men. Does not smash the grass to earth and plaster it in the mud in Springtime, nor crush out its life between hot rollers and hard, hot ground in Summer as does the motor mower. Write for Catalogue illustratin g all types of Lawn Mowers in cluding Townsend's Golf Wonder for putting greens. (Free). S. P. TOWNSEND & CO., lltiTIT i .1 -('-: v 4 :rh: ! i HOTEL WENTWORTH NEW CASTLE, PORTSMOUTH, N. H. The Leading New England Coast Summer Resort. Every facility for sport and recreation : Golf, tennis, riding, driving, yachting, fishing, bathing and well equipped garage under competent supervision. Fine livery. Music by symphony players. Accommo dates 500. Local and long distance telephone in every room. Send today for illustrated booklet. WENTWORTH HOTEL CO., H. W. Priest, Manager Address Until May 1, The Carolina, Pinehurst, N. C. lOnSKOTABLB WATCHES Detail the Week' Plaj Among- the Expert of the President' DivUlon Just as against all human probability he got out of the hole in the end so con-, trary to any precedent Carter got into it at the beginning of his match with Skehens. Skehens gave him the second hole, having driven by the left flank across the railroad track into inaccessi ble country. He practically presented him with the third by landing in a bunker in the fringe of the woods. CARTER TWO UP We will credit Nassau with some fancy work on the fourth, where he made the green, 325 yards distant, in two and holed a pretty eight foot putt for a three. CARTER ONE UP But on four of the next five holes nobody could recognize the form of the junior metropolitan. He went hunting bunkers as if he had a passion for them. And once in these kindly havens remained, burrowing like a prairie dog. Woods Hole made a straight and beautiful four on the fifth. But he had no need to. Carter proceeded with a woodchuck brand of golf in and out among the canons at his leisure. To be sure, as an augury that there still remained in his locker a shot or two he made a perfect three on the sixth. But on the seventh he ham hered away into the rough, from the rough into a pit, and there dug himself in. His drive on the eighth was clean and true, landing in the trap fair and square and staying there until Skehens had rolled within a few feet of the hole. He missed an easy putt for a three to halve the ninth, and came onto the turn two down. Here the tide of misfortune turned long enough to even up the match. Skehens began winding off into the bushes, wasted a shot recovering from his drive on both the tenth and eleventh, and lost both holes against fours. EVEN AT THE END OF THE ELEVENTH A prettier second shot than Skehens on the twelfth coidd hardly be imagined. The drive was not very long, and the hole is but little short of 400 yards. Yet this tremendous approach was as accurate and straight as a base line, the ball com ing to rest within the magic ten foot circle. A good put landed the hole with a three. SKEHENS ONE UP The thirteenth is credited to Carter and stymie, and the fourteenth was halved in four, the result of a most remarkable putt from the edge of the green made by Skehens when all hope seemed gone. Car ter had long since stopped any funny business, and was coming home some what under par, as steady as a five day clock. But Skehens was not done with his exhibition by any means. He fol lowed this long shot by another almost equally as lengthy on the fifteenth, tak ing the hole and the lead again with a three. SKEHENS ONE UP Phil Carter was now wide awake to impending catastrophe, called on patron saint and put his utmost care into the game and made a perfect par on the sixteenth. But the stripling from "Woods Hole clung to his advantage in spite of a drive to leeward, and halved the honor.. ON THE 17TH TEE, SKEHENS ONE UP It has been told how Skehens drove the green on this hole, playing a perfect game, and still lost to an impossible two. He had Carter in a close place on the eigh teenth also. He lay right beside the cup in three, and a great throng congregated rank upon rank, the infantry and the red cross, the press and the rocking chair brigade, the champions from the arena and the moving picture man to see if Phil Carter would make a seven foot putt and halve the hole and the game. Needless to say he did. And he won the match on the nine teenth in this wise. He set out for the flag, -130 feet distant, by the railroad route through the bushes. For mortal men this is a dangerous even if pictur esque adventure. But not so when fate helps wield the midiron. On the third shot the ball emerged from the wilder ness and trotted up on the green as casually as if it had done nothing else all its life. Skehens meanwhile had stormed a trench and had to be content with a four on the same position. There was still a chance. The winning ball lay twelve feet from its haven. Slim chance. They are shaking hands oyer ancient history almost before the gallery had grasped the fact that it was all over, and the hole and the match Carter's. Wondering mightily, and expressing the great delight men have in rehearsing an extraordinary event or a skilful con test, the fans following the match ram bled back towards the club house, saying they never expected to see the like of that finish again. But this was a day of wonders, the very banner day for those fond of watching the ancient game. For as the rambling host mounted the hill two other balls rolled swiftly and surely upon the two extreme sides of the eighteenth green, and a hush fell over the coucourse. For it was whispered that these were Dyer and Paul, even to an inch, on the green in two apiece, com ing home under the strain of a deadlock. So with another thrill the host lined up to see what the end would be. Paul of Mecklanburg, without a peer in the Carolinas, addressed his ball on the edge of the green nearest the club house, and showed the finished skill of a veteran in a studied and careful shot which missed the hole by an ell, and lingered an inevitable four. Dyer was in bad straights. He lay on the other side of the green, thirty feet away, and was all but stymied. The debate was whether to take council of safety and play a fairly certain two, or put fate to the touch, and risk all in a daring shot for a three. Ned Beall, caddie and right hand man, gave him the putter and the high sign, his keen sporting instinct came to the surface and he let it go, stymie or no stymie, for better or for worse. A finer shot has never been seen under such con ditions. Paul joined the amazed applause as the ball dived into the -cup, and the A. P. man made for the Western Union on the lope. GUILFORD VS. DYER Jesse Guilford, champion of New Hampshire, and at times one of the best
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