In
rfiTJ
FTC1 nfT7 "TTDi TT T7.T7 TfTr fc3 ITTni
on
1 VOL. XXI, NO. 1.
EARLY-SEASON NUMBER, 191718
FIVE CENTS
GATES WINS
Sandhill Champion ProYed Too Much for
Clarence Hobart, Winner of Medal
Shannon Sail Through Hie Second
Ilivlnlon. Wrenn Take a Trophy in
inniial Carolina Tourr-anient
is
FIRST prize in the
Annual Carolina tour
nament which officially
opened the Pinehurst
golfing season goes to
Old Sol. A more mag
nificent day than greeted
the assembled champions
cannot be imagined. The
tournament very shortly assumed the as
pect of a battle between the North and
the South a skirmish between the van
guard of the invading Yankees and the
formidable array of experts that have
been marshalled here at Pinehurst
through the agency of the Moore County
Golf Association operating on the Pine
hurst links all Summer.
Of the first five in the qualifying round
two were gentlemen owning neighboring
plantations, and the line up for the
Presidents trophy found three of them
holding the fort Franklin H. Gates of
Broadacre, and Howard Phillips and
Harry G. "Waring of Pinehurst.
Clarence Hobart, the famous tennis
player, led the onset, and took the medal
in the qualifying round. But he had to
work all day to do it. His first perform
ance of S5 45 out and 40 in was
equalled by Phillips. In consequence
these two prolonged the battle over num
ber two all afternoon, Hobart winning by
two strokes.
T. D. Armstrong of Shennecosett, an
old and reliable hand at the game ram
bled in third with 87, Gates and J. W.
Watson f Merion Cricket being the only
other two to break a ninety. Watson
naturally was a little rusty this first time
on the Southern course. It is a pity he
was called North, for he ranks high in
any tournament, holds the record at Hot
Springs and would have made it lively
or Gates.
Tom Kelley, good almost any time for
an 80, the mainstay of the Sandhill con
tingent, went out in 42, but coming in
had what he calls a lapse of memory and
before he found his way back on the
course had tallied 51 coming in.
Monday the main event opened in three
divisions. The favorites Hobart and
Gates were drawn together, lending un
usual interest from the start.
Phillips had to buck C. B. Hudson, who
for three weeks has been astonishing the
old guard. The last putt decided the
match for the Southerner. Spike Hen
nessee got into the second round through
Watson's default, but ran into a snag
there in a wonderful uphill fight made
by Armstrong. Hennessee set off like a
whirlwind and came to the eighth four
up. It looked all up. For he stays with
his game. But Armstrong was not to be
denied, and by dint of care and anguish
managed not only to overcome the lead oi
the 17th, but to take the match at the
home green.
A truly Parisian courtesy marked the
match between Phillips and Gates. The
amenities began on the ninth, where
Phillips second shot lay dead. Attempt-
match ended with Gates Carolina cham
pion, score 3 and 1.
R. C. Shannon II sailed through the
second division to a glorious finish
against Spencer Waters of Appawamis,
whoso number was taken on the 16th,
three up and two to go. In his victorious
progress he disposed of Charles Horton,
and C. F. Lancaster blithely and casually.
The longest and closest battle of the
tournament took place in the first round
in the Third Division, when J. D. C.
Rumsey was stacked up against Daniel
Good, hailing from Buffalo. All the way
out and all the way back, over the water
and through the ranges from Morn to
Dewey Eve they each held their own.
Even they started, and even they reachd
the last long putt at the eighteenth green.
And the astonished spectators saw them
disappear again into the- offing, and out
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
THE CHALLENGE MATCH BOBBY JONES AND PERRY DAIR OF ATLANTA, MEET
THEIR MATCH IN NORMAN MAXWELL AND E. C. BEALL, THE PINEHURST TEAM
of sight beyond the two visible holes on
the second round, still all square. Report
has it that during the week a runner
brought news from the chapperal that
Good finally got the best of it on the 23d
green.
Howard Wrenn of Chicago, however,
claims the principle trophy in this di
vision. Struggling for seventeen holes to
hold a lead over H B. Hotchkiss of New
Haven, he clinched that match on the last
green. He walked through Athal Den
ham, playing first division golf all the
way, and disposed of Good in the final
round 3 and 2.
SUMMARY.
Played on Number Two Course.
QUALIFYING ROUND.
Clarence Hobart Belleair 45 40 85
(Concluded on page twenty)
ing a half in three Gates took a long
chance from off the green, and made a
two for Phillips. Not to be outdone,
when the match hung on the outcome on
the 16th, finding Gates in three ten feet
or more from the hole, Phillips knocks
him up to the pin and a win, thus show
ing a marked and unusual appreciation
of past favors.
Armstrong played his usual steady
game in the final round, including a very
pretty two on the 6th. But even so he
was hardly a match for Gates' erratic
performance, a bewildering conglomera
tion of perfect threes and ridiculous
sevens The turn found Gates three up.
By the time he reached the thirteenth
Armsrong had cut this lead to one. But
Gates' two threes on the 15th and the
17th proved too fast for him, and the
Fays Tribute to the Independent Effort
of The Sandhill to Solve the problem
JPolnts to leadership of Pinehurst
District In Ration Wide endeavor
to Organize for Victorious JPeuce
THE effort initiated by
Roger Derby of Drown
ing Creek Plantation by
which the Sandhill com
munity has gradually
developed the tangible
beginnings of neighbor
hood organization and
team play, has already
attracted favorable comment from high
quarters. And with the hearty co-operation
of the cottage colony at Pinehurst,
has succeeded in establishing several per
manent institutions of fundamental im
portance to this community, arid by way
cf example of even greater importance to
the country districts of the whole union.
Recognition of the contribution made
to the philosophy of life in the country
by the leaders of this section could not
be more notably or more vigorously
made than that accorded by Theodore
Roosevelt in his latest book, "The Foes
of our Household."
In emphasizing the necessity for up
holding the vigor of our original stock,
and the economic and social indepen
dence of the country people, the back
bone of the Union, he cast about for
an example of some vicinity where the
effort was being rightly directed, and
sustained, and, so, speaking of our
humble burrough, says:
"Experiments in our own country
therefore have a peculiar guidance val
ue for us. For this reason those inter
ested in the problem of farm life can
well afford to pay some attention to
what is at this moment being done in
the Sandhill district of central North
Carolina.
This is a district of sandy, and ra
ther easily exhausted soil. It was bet
tied in the middle of the eighteenth
century, chiefly by Highland Scotch.
It was then covered with a valuable
pine forest, and there was good, natural
pasture. The people worked at lumber
ing and raised cattle. Gradually the
timber was cut off, and the wild pas
ture grazed out in our usual wasteful
fashion. A rather poor type of . tillage
was left cotton and tobacco being the
(Continued on page fourteen)