VOL. XXI, NO. 15
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1918
FIVE CENTS
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Perfect Conditions in Spring Tourna
ment Results in High Average of Play
II. C. and C. II. Fowim Divide th
Glory In the President's Division
Fancy 4 If In Bash league
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THERE were two hun
dred and seventeen of
them in all, golfers
from all points of the
compass and champions
of ?very district. And
yet not one man of
them all could beat a
Fownes. Not one. Side
by side, like Horatius and Herminius at
the bridge, father and son, the formid
able II. C. and C. B. Fownes withstood
the whole onset, and came into the final
round of the Spring tournament all by
their wild lones.
It was the Fourteenth Annual Spring
tournament. It was played under those
perfect sunlit skies and, in that soft
and salubrious climate we boast so much
about, and lost awhile. . More perfect
conditions would have been impossible.
And they were reflected in the play.
There were no National champions in
evidence, and an 80 was good for first
place Avhere in ante-bellum days some
youngster now dropping souvenirs on
the Huns was wont to slip in with a 70.
But in all other respects the- averago- of
the play was higher than we ever re
member. More thai one first class man
was astonished to find himself relegated
to a low division, and the more aston
ished still to discover that although he
was improving on his erstwhile winning
streak in the second thai he was losing
in the fifth.
Aside from the heroic defence of the
Fownes Tribe this was the outstanding
feature of the event. For instance; in
the consolation of the sixth division
Charley Horton fondly believed "he had
goods. But C. H. Schmidt got tha
ozone in hia veins and came home with
a 38 m the final round. Traveling some
fr the sixth division. T. A. Cheatham
wu the fourth after adventures that
'l like a field day in the .National.
An,l the fighting spirit so pervaded the
'ants that it was the rule rather than
he exception to find matches running
to the twenties for a decision.
Tl opening match was the hardest
experienced by the victorious Fownes
mi1?' Jt was put up by G. M. Howard
against C. B. Howard was at the crest
of his wave, and came rolling into the
seventeenth one up, and going strong.
Both players came to the immediate
vicinity of the cup on that hole in even
strokes. But right there Fownes laid
a dead stymie on the very rim, and cut
Howard from the possibility of an even
putt, squaring the match. And as it
proved, winning it. For the eighteenth
was halved, and Chick took the nine
teenth in a perfect four, with an ease
and abandon that should have warned
the field.
. The best card of this first day was
recorded by Frank Gates of Broadacre,
who was probably the favorite at this
stage of the game. He was out in 39
against Truesdell, the Senior champion,
par golf on every hole except the 7th,
where he concentrated all his mistakes
for an 8. He was only one up at that.
This match was also about as close as
could be, and was decided, as all close
the opera house. It cost him one hole.
H. C. made the edge of the second
green in two and rimmed the cup on his
third. This was too fast for the junior,
and left him two down. This pace
was maintained by the elder Fownes for
two more holes. The two putts disposed
of the third. But the fourth we must
credit to the Gods of chance. For Chick
here hit out the longest drive we have
seen for some time. It was a scream,
an horizon splitter, that never came to
rest until it was almost on the edge of
the bunker by the green, 300 yards front
its point of flight. When C. B. landed
in the pit on his second it looked as if
the tide had turned. But Chick luffed
into the chasm, and II. C. worked his
rabbit's foot for a 30 foot putt once
out of the sand, and so drove for the
5th four up. Driving into the whiskers
on this hole Chick landed in difficulties
from which he recovered just in time to
lose that also. -However he made up on
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matches are, by the merest trifle. On the
fifteenth, Truesdell lay dead for a three.
Gates' second shot was bound for the
woods when it hit the Truesdell ball, and
came to an instant stop in place for a
half. This incident gave Gates the lead
which he maintained to the end.
R. C. Shannon, the medalist, and E.
H. Wiswell of Englewood succumbed to
the Pittsburff pair in the second round,
and the Carolina champion, Gates, and
L! D. Pierce of Brae Burn in the second.
The Gates-C. B. Fownes match was
clinched bv a spectacular two on the
seventeenth, leaving Fownes up three
and one. although the medal score oi
both players was the same an 84.
FOWNES VS. FOWNES
tTia Seated battalions joined the gal
lery to see the battle out in the final
round. Chick started the fun by driv
ing a terrific ball out of sight behind
the next three, winning them all, and
halved the ninth in 4, thus reaching the
turn two down. On the long 7th he
made a spectacular recovery from a hole
midway the course, from which his
brassie landed him hole high on the
third shot.
At this stage of the game H. C. took
on his championship gait again. He
won the tenth in par, drove the offing
on the eleventh and landed on the green
in his second. But Chick was not done
yet. He duplicated both shots, and then
sank his putt from twenty feet, for an
eagle. So still H. C. Fownes was two
up. This was Chick's last stand. He
topped into a bottomless pit on the 12th,
was stacked up against two fours and
par golf on the 13th and 14th, and so
gave up the ghost, five down and four
to play.
Louis A. Hamilton of Garden City,
The Governors of North Carolina and
Pennsylyania Pledge the Last Han
Picturesque Ceremony at Great
Patriotic Gatberlar ne Plae
hurst Race Coarse Maturday
GOVERNOR Bickett of
North Carolina and
Governor Brumbaugh of
Pennsylvania .were the)
principal speakers at
the big patriotic rally
last Saturday in which
the Sandhills were
pledged to do their
share in purchasing the Baby bond
the War Savings Stamps, and their
duty in eliminating luxury and waste
from their lives. ' ,
It was the most notable public occa
sion of the section since the day wheji
the Secretary of Agriculture made his
first public address after taking office in
the school house at Aberdeen.
Long before the hour set the concourse
of Fords from the farthest comers cf
the county, bearing the country folks
from Drowning Creek and Little River,
the Clay Countree and confederated
towns had lined every inch of the race
course, and the grandstand was packed
with the veterans of Gettysburg, the
leaders of the clans, the parents of
our -Urst contingent, and the moguls
from the county seat. The red, white
and blue . streamed from every vehicle.
The last touches were put to the decora
tion of the speakers stand and the
fences were lined with artistic and stir
ring postersthe work of famous artists
now grown familiar to embattled
America.
Meanwhile the distinguished guests
were being entertained by Mr. and Mrs.
Tufts at luncheon at the Country Club.
From the coigh of vantage at the
judge's stand they could be seen start
ing for the field. This was the signal
for the ceremony to begin.
HERALDED BY INFANTRY
The Pinehurst orchestra, turned for
the occasion into a military band with
Wiley Pope Swift as drum major, struck
up a martial air, and came down the
course with great spirit, followed by the
businesslike formation of the Farm Life
School Infantry Company, marshaled by
Sargeant-major Plane. In front of the
stand the company halted and were
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