TEE PINEEUEST OUTLOOK
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Country Club Notes
By Robert E. Harlow
If a veteran sporting writer were ask
ed to name the big league circuits of
American athletic competition he would
probably start with Madison Square
Garden, and then name the Polo grounds
for baseball, the Harvard Stadium and
Yale Bowl for football, the Thames
river for boat races, Newport and the
"West Side Tennis Club for tennis and
Pinehurst for golf.
There has been more high-class golf
competition in Pinehurst than in any
other spot in the world in the period of
twenty- five years during which the resort
has. been built to its present place of
leadership. It is the ambition of all
golfers to play at Pinehurst and hun
dreds of thousands have had the privi
lege. Each season, hundreds of old
friends return and new comers are in
itiated into the mysteries of the sand
greens.
This season opened with a new event for
Pinehurst, a professional-amateur best
ball foursome, and it proved so successful
that it will become one of the important
tournaments on the program. The money
prizes given were large, and attracted a
fine lot of professionals. Next fall the
entry will undoubtedly be the strongest
that ever played in an event of the kind.
Golfers are looking ahead with much
expectation for the events to come, which
will attract to Pinehurst practically all
of the leading professional golfers and
many of the foremost amateurs. It is
likely that Francis Ouimet will defend
his title as North and South amateur
champion, and, if so, he will have plenty
of competition.
Chick Evans, National Amateur cham
pion, has written as follows: s
"I do hope that things will arrange
themselves so that I might be in Pine
hurst sometime this winter. ' '
D. E. (Ned) Sawyer, Metropolitan
champion writes:
"I am looking forward with great
hopes to getting down to Pinehurst dur
ing February or March.' '
James D. Standish says he will be
on hand later unless all the bridges are
burned down. J. "Wood Piatt, un
doubtedly the most picturesque young
man in amateur golf, informed the writer
that he would like to take a crack at the
North and South amateur and bring
George Hoffner along with him.
Piatt arid Iloffner, with Max Marston,
are Philadelphia's leading amateur
golfers.
Atlanta is not far away and Bobby
Jones might possibly come up for the
North and South. If there is any golfer
in America worth looking over it is Bob
by Jones. For those gentlemen who spend
hours at the Pinehurst clubhouse and in
the lobbies of the hotels, discussing the
intricacies of the swing, Bobby would
be a real treat, for the Atlanta lad hits
the ball so well that even a committee
of Tin Whistles could not point out a
blemish.
Besides these cracks of the game there
will, of course, be the usual quota of
first-class amateurs, not quite champions,
but fully capable of making it interest
ing for champions. Some of this number
are Pinehurst regulars and their inti
mate knowledge of local conditions make
them even more formidable than might
be expected.
E. Blackington of the Highland Golf
Club of North Attleboro, Massachusetts,
had a most unusual experience while
playing the 17th hole in a match in
the mid-winter tournament against R. C.
Blancke, of Montelair. His tee shot
landed in a bunker, close up to the side.
He smashed into the sand with his niblick
and later found the ball in a pocket of
two, one in three, and four in one. This
was better than has been done in a num
ber of contets for men.
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A. L. Walker, Jr., (Winner), and J. D. Chapman, (Eunner-up)
Final of Midwinter Tournament
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Members of the Recent Eepublican-Democratio Tourney played at Pinehurst
Left to Eight Justices Edw. E. Finch and John M. Ticrncy, Thos. W. Churchill
and Elihu Eoot, Jr.
Pinehurst golfers are finding the usual
excellent service at the club, under the
able direction of Donald Ross From
the minute a player steps into the locker
room and is greeted by Lester's "Yass,
S-a--rr I got your num-BER," until he
leaves, he finds everything arranged for
his comfort.
The next big tournament will begin
January 31, and continue until February
5. It will be the Sixteenth Annual St.
Valentine's Tournament, which usually
attracts the largest entrance list of the
year
his leather golf jacket. Without inform
ing Mr. Blancke where it was, Mr. Black
ington inquired if he had to play the ball
wherever it happened to be. Mr. Blancke
said that ho did, and had a good laugh
when Mr. Blackington emptied his pocket.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Blackington lost
the hole when the ball struck him.
W. E. Truesdell of Fox Hills, Long Is
land, twice Seniors' champion, can still
hold up his end with the younger golfers.
He played recently in a foursome with
A. It. Walker, Jr., former Intercol
legiate champion, James Ward, Trans
Mississippi champion, and Bill Donahue,
winner of the medal in the qualifying
round of the mid-winter tournament, and
held up his end remarkably well. Trues
dell and Walker won the match one up.
Jack Jolly of the St. Mungo Golf
Ball Company, has returned to Pine
hurst for his annual visit and is enter
taining members of the Country Club
with tales of his experiences last sum
mer, when he played on practically every
golf course in Scotland. He declares the
Glen Eagles course to be the best he
visited. Jack will remain in Pinehurst
for some time.
Emmet French shot a round of 70 on
the championship course Friday while
playing with Mrs. Donald Parson in a
match against Mr. Parson and Mrs. John
D. Chapman. The match was scored
with a point for the best ball and worst
ball at each hole, and Mrs Parson and
French won by 8 and 6. French was out
in 33, as follows: 444 442 44333.
The names of Frank Presbrey of New
York and Dr. R. E. Sproule of Boston
have been proposed for life membership
in the Tin Whistles, Pinehurst 's famous
golf club. Dr. Sproule divides his time
between England and the United States.
He is a member of the Mid-Surrey and
other British clubs of Belmont Spring
and Woodland in Boston. He has cross
ed the Atlantic more than 50 times,
carrying his golf clubs along on most
of the journeys. Dr. Sproule is now
registered at the Carolina and enjoys
Pinehurst so much he will make a long
stay here.
II. B. Swoope, a member of the Over
brook Golf Club, scored a two on the
third hole of the Number Two course last
week. He drove a ball down the middle
and then hit a brassie shot into the cup.
lie searched some time for the ball be
fore finding it hidden in the cup. H. B.
Porter obtained the first "one" of the
1921 season, when he dropped his tee
shot at the sixth hole on Number Two
course. A. S. Higgins later had a "one"
on the ninth hole.
Women provo to bo as adept at putting
on the sand greens here as men, and in
a recent putting tournament Miss Claris
sa Metcalf won with the fine score of 21
for 12 corners making seven corners in
Detroit golf clubs may join in a move
ment to provide good caddies for courses
in that neighborhood. It is proposed
that Charles Gordon be appointed caddy
supervisor for all clubs, with the under
standing that he establish rules and
regulations that will make for better
caddving.