JANUAEY, 1921 PAGE IS 1 GOLFERS Tennis and Base Ball Players use ALLEN'S FOOMASE The Antiseptic Powder to shake into the shoes be cause it takes the friction from the shoe, freshens the feet and makes walk ing a delight. Shake Allen's Foot-Ease into your shoes before go ing on the links and no tice the difference in your comfort, which often af fects your score. The Government sup plied 1,500,000 lbs.of Pow der for the Feet to the troops during the war. Be sure to get the genuine Allen's Foot-Ease. At dealers everywhere. Sam ple Free by mail. Address ALLEN S. OLMSTED. La Roy, N. Y. Merchants & Miners Transportation Co., STEAMSHIP LINES Between Boston and Norfolk Moit dtlightful rovtt to and from PINEHURST Tickets include meals and Etateroom ac commodations on steamer A. E. POETEE, C. H. MAYNARD, General Agent, General Agent, NOEFOLK BOSTON RRONJWJIARR, M. D. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN FOR PINEHURST Office at the CAROLINA Office Hill's: 10 to 11 A. M. or by Appointment FOR SALE The very best house with the very best Furnishings in the very best Location Th very best Oarage property in best location including some of the very best vacant business Lota I can give you the very best price. WIIDQAJI SOUTHERN PINES, N. O. Visit JACKSONVILLE On Your Trip South Two great attractions are the 18-hole golf course at Country Olub and HOTEL WINDLE Tou will enjoy your game on the course and your stay at the hotel. European plan, com plete, modern, steam heat ; convenient to every thing. Cafe in connection, next to City Hall. WINDLE W. SMITH, - PROP The Kirkwood CAMDEN HE I GTS CAMDEN, S. O. UNUSUALLY ATTRACTIVE SOUTHERN WINTER HOlE TO LEASE FOR WINTER MONTHS Modern furnished home with beautiful spa cious grounds overlooking Winy ah Bay, 54 miles from Georgetown, S. O. One of the most picturesque places on the Carolina coast; 233 acres. Great live oaks hang with Spanish moss and an avenue of japonicas and azaleas lead to a modern house of IS rooms. Garage and out buildings. Saddle horses and Motor Boat, good servants, fine hunting grounds, duck, deer, turkey, quail and other game. Por further particulas ad dress, OWNER, Belle Isle Plantation, Georgetown, S. 0. AS WE KNOW GEORGE W. STATZELL By Sandy McNiblick George W. Statzell is well enough known to Pinehurst habitues as a golfer to need no introduction. One good rea son why Mr. Statzell comes to Pinehurst is to continue his golf when the course he plays in Philadelphia becomes swept and cold with the winds of a whistling win ter. The Statzell cottage was opened up for the season the second week in De cember at Pinehurst and this veteran resident, as a matter of course, wasted no time at all unpacking his clubs and shak ing them out over the links. As head of quite a remarkable golfing family, there is an interesting story on the all-around athletic proclivities of his sturdy clan. Just before he left for the South, Mr. Statzell, for instance, entertained the members of the Penn Charter interaca demic championship football team. And in his paternal eye beamed the proud light of pride in the fact that it also meant toasting one grandson, Harlan Statzell, captain of the team, and another "Bob" Statzell, captain-elect of the team, the first time in the history of this expert schoolboy grid team that one brother had ever succeeded another to leadership. Both boys were chosen for positions on the Philadelphia all-academic team this year. They're both golfers so that the Statzell family is represented by three generations of linksmen. George W. Statzell is the father of Harlan P. and George W., Jr. They were both football players. When the Pater and Filius golf tourn ament is played in the district the ap pearance of the Statzells in the competi tion presents a puzzle in family relation ship that the players are fond of un solving for the newcomers. Although only four of them play, the family is represented by a grandfather, two fathers, three sons, an uncle, a nephew and a grandson. This makes it more in tricate. Harlan P. plays with his son Eobert, while George W. Jr., plays with his father. George W. Statzell, Sr., is one of those rarities in athletics who combines play ing ability with executive power. For five years he has been president of the Aronimink Country Club, Philadelphia and one of its moving geniuses. When he was first elected president of that or ganization he announced that golf would be placed above every other there and he has stuck to his premier platform. This is the more interesting in view of his past history. He reached his pinnacle as a youth in athletics along an entirely different line of endeavor. Bowing thrives in Philadelphia. Raised along the Schuykill, Mr. Statzell set out to be an oarsman with the same enthusiasm he later took up golf. Endowed with the strength of youth and the skill in athletics he always had, he won a national rowing title. This will be a surprise to most who have known him only as an ardent golfer. But many old-timers of his native heath are able to recall that proud day when, seated in a shell with Pat Dempsey, since a professional coach, they entered from the Pennsylvania Barge Club, famous for its doubles, and won the national regatta championship. Mr. Statzell also captur ed the singles championship of Pennsyl vania one year. With laurels such as thesee resting on his modest brow, it must have been strange for him to turn from the glamor of a regatta, the plauditsof the throng along the banks spurring him into the use of every ounce of energy and power, to become interested in golf, the game of "noisy silence.' ' But George W. Statzell, Sr., took to the game like a thoroughbred.lt wasn't till he had had a thorough career in row ing, however, and with interestsin it which might well have occupied many another in the time of life when passing youth bars one from entering the actual competition. He was commodore of the Schuylkill Navy and held the honored post of president of the National As sociation of Amateur Oarsmen. About twenty years ago, another sport also engaged the interests of this re markable personage. He was one of the best cricket players in Philadelphia where the sport flourishes above the average district. He was captain of the Belmont team which several times won the cham pionship of the city. He played point, a hazardous and vigorous occupation on any cricket team. Came a nervous breakdown, and Mr. Statzell was compelled to play the role of spectator for a time. It was the cue for his entrance into golf for one day he had planned to go to a football game but his son Harlan P., who had been playing golf for about four years, sug gested his father go out to the club with him that morning and look on, if he did not care to play. George W. Statzell, Sr., went, saw, and was con quered, just like many another good man. One look was enough. He never saw that football game. He joined a four some, played golf all day, and, like the saying,, "has never used any other since. ' ' The next time you catch George W. Statzell, Sr. out there on the Pinehurst links, take a look at his sun-kissed, beam ing, grand-daddy's features and you will find there the answer to that old one "why is golf?" (Continued from Page 12) ten miles, and also good road extends for some distance out of Raleigh, indicating that the South has awakened to the necessity of building permanent high ways. The roads in the vieinity of Pinehurst are deserving of special mention, for in addition to the regular routes through the village there are numerous others which afford the motorist pleasant side trips. From Pinehurst to Augusta the road is rough but no danger of being stuck as all it needs is an occasional dragging which it does not get often enough. Arriving in Augusta, the mo torist is recommended to take a shorter road via Waynesboro, Midville and Swainsboro, for Jacksonville, a distance of 194 miles, as against 299 miles via Maeon. Pinehurst Warehouses OWNED AND OPERATED BY PINEHURST INCORPORATED 1 BUILDERS SUPPLIES FARM IMPLEMENTS SPRAYERS AND SPRAY MATERIALS BARB WIRE AND FIELD FENCE FEEDS, FERTILIZERS m WHERE SERVICE IS PARAMOUNT WHERE YOUR BUSINESS IS APPRECIATED m PHONE 121-M PINEHURST, N. 0. FOR RENT at Southern Pines, N. C. Magnificent Country Home, two and a half miles from town. Ideal loca tion for large party interested in hunting and sports. Weymouth Homestead A large winter home with extensive grounds. Seven master bedrooms, five baths, servants' quarters, garage and stables. Other attractive places at Wey mouth Heights. For particulars, address Sand Hill Insurance Offices, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Cottage School for Bos anb (Sfrls Why not bring your children with yout They can continue their grade work here. MISS MARY CHAPMAN Principal The Pinehurst TEAM LAUNDRY OFFERS FinST-dLASS WOItK PROMPT DEI.1VJBRY Dr. Ernest W. Bush OSTEOPATH Southern Pines, North Carolina

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