Newspapers / The Pinehurst outlook. / Dec. 15, 1917, edition 1 / Page 1
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THIE 1MMF PIT II NO. 2. VOL. XXI, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1917 FIVE CENTS BECKER'S DAY Wins President's Tropby in Annual ' Fall Tournament Sharninn Taki th Medal. Lan caitcr, Nlcholaen, Shannon Hid Hitchcock abare tbe Honors C. L. BECKER com mander in chief and arbiter elegantium of the links came into his own last week and salted away the great Silver flagon that im mortalizes the winner of the fourteenth an nual Autumn golf tournament of the Pinehurst Country Club. The veterans of the game were lined up in fuller ranks than usual at this time of the year, but the youngsters, terrors of the champions, the Bealls and Carters and Armstrongs were missing long smco having swapped niblics for bayonettes and established themselves in the per manent bunkers in Flanders. Nobody disputed the right of way with R. R. Sharman of Youngstown in the Medal round. lie hit a 41 pace on the way out, came in easily in 43, and gracefully accepted the medal without serious competition. R. C. Shannon IT led Frank Gates, the Carolina Champion home for second place by one stroke these three, "VV. M. Crooks of Egremat and F. J. D. Mackey from the Virginia Country Club being the only ones in the whole parade to crack a 90. The opening day of the competition for the President's trophy found Gates the favorite, with Becker and Clarence Ilobart next best bet in a field includ ing such reliable players as Phillips and Kelley, Armstrong, Hudson, Goodall and Wrenn. The first round developed two surprises. C. F. "Wood of Virginia sprang a fast and a long game, and put Hobart out on the sixteenth green. And C. B. Hudson, the North Fork expert, who has come back here with a system of golf that might have been devised for him by an engineer with a transit, hung onto the medalist all the way, tied him up at the home green and work" "' a rabbits foot for the match on 19th. This match was something to watch. Sharman hits his balls from the tee after the fashion made popular (and difficult) by Jessie Guilford. That is, he shoots for the horizon. And on this day he was making it. Nevertheless this straight and narrow game of Hud son's was right there putting with him, whether it was for a two or a five. And in sight of victory all the way, Youngstown still failed to land the match at the 18th. On the 19th Shar man as usual drove out of sight, and was still waiting to play two when Hudson had taken his fourth. A com edy of errors ensued. And before the medalist had negotiated the precipitous route he selected to the pin, he had consumed 7 shots, which was just enough to loose him the hole and the match. GATES FINDS A TARTAR Next day Spike Hennessee tried in vain to stop the champion's triumphant progress. Wood kept up his streak and a nervy and accurate putter, and is ac customed to ward off defeat in many a close place by sinking long shots. And this day was no exception except for the attitude of the Gods. No less than eight times during the battle he rimmed the cup, and still lost the shot by a whisper. BECKER VS. PHILLIPS. At this stage of the game Phillips and Becker took command. They just went out and beat the Virginia pair, and that's all about it. And then hav ing done this in good old Pinehurst style, they had a final match such as we used to have on old home week at Saugus. It was a friendly and casual affair, under none too good conditions PERSHING'S RETURN ? ; J1 j waEfBsare ' ' ''- L'""L,. Jlth t3H3S3lS3S(3lS mm'-tM iz ' milSS I ' torn issbb mmm y f lv ; .us. J 'jtaa&y ess , ' i - . ctJtafwsOT THE OPENERS. Annual Advance Guard of the Golfing Legion. They took the Lion's share of the Honors in the Autumn Tournament. C. L. Becker, in the centre, won the President's Trophy. Second from the left is C. F. Lancaster, winner of the Gov ernor 's division, and between the two J. G. Nicholson, consolation winner in this flight. put Howard out where he could go hunt ing. Philips mixed his threes and sev ens so judiciously that he had the con servative Hudson five down by the time they reached the short fifteenth. And then it was that the first big reversal took place. Mackey from Virginia sailed out after Gates. It was a hard thing to the fourth hole. And there, as he has be come accustomed to doing, the Broad acre champion knocked the Virginian's ball into the hole for a win, and started himself a line of might-have beens and almost weres which left him leisure to farm after the sixteenth hole. Gates is in which two brilliant threes on the 6th were balanced by two indifferent 7s on the 7th, and everybody reached the turn all even. Becker then hit a steady pace of fives with a seasoning of fours at the short holes. Phillips made him a pres ent of the 12th and 14th, cut the lead to one on the sixteenth, and then they both sailed . home with even scores, with Becker one up, and champion of the event. LANCASTER LEADS THE FIELD. C. F. Lancaster of the Woodland Club was up against a stiff proposition in (Continued on page nine) In Historical Pageant; Scotch Lassies in Picturesque Dance at Harvest Ball Itoyal Berkshire ihow und Two Ilays Trotting: Matinee Feature The Annual Handbill Fair LUCKY were they that had come to Pinehurst by the 22d of November. And there were plenty of them. It certainly a included ho less a dis- tinguished company than Christopher Columbus, ! lifl John Alden and the fas cinating Priscilla, the Marquis de La fayette, John Brown, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Kaiser Bill (hind-side before on a mule, where he belongs) in charge of General Pershing, the hardy De Soto, George Washington and other lesser celebrities, not the least of whom were the famous Flora Macdonald sex tette and the Queen of the Harvest Ball. What with 13,000 spectators, the full squadron of our allies, the congress of Berkshire brccdcrs.of the World, endless jockeys wearing the brilliant colors of their stables chohorts of nurses in their immaculate regalia, platoons of soldiers, brigades of farmers and mechanics and sailors and canning club girls and repre sentatives of all the rest , of the reserve army that is backing our expeditionary force to run the Devil out of Flanders what with all these the Sandhill Fair took on the aspect of an international carnival, or a madigras. Not the least of the spectacle were the thousand or more flivvers interlarded with the proud limousines and the humble buggies scattered all over the teeming landscape. And even the permanent resi dents were astonished to find buildings and equipment for all this display had sprung up over night. The Fair centered about the race track where any well conducted fair natu rally gravitates. The booths and exhib its of the products of the fields and or chards were assembled in a fine new ex hibition hall constructed of concrete a permanent addition to the village, and the home of many fairs to come. Barns for a hundred race horses lined the way, and special and elaborate apartments for the aristocracy of hogdom flanked the pounds. In their astonished comments and con gratulations the press of the State paid
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