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MARCH 3, 1921 PAGE 13 and THE VR BOROUGH Baleigh's Leading and Largest Hotel European Plan. Cafe one of the best in the South. Rooms , without bath, $1.50 and up. Rooms with bath, $2.00 to $3.00. B II. GRIFFIN HOTEL CO.,Proprietors Hrts ant) Craft Sbop (In Carolina Hotel.) Table covers and quilts of Cot ton raised and hand loomed in North Carolina and Kentucky. DISTINCTIVE ROOKWOOD POTTERY Copper and Brass Pieces from Roycrofters and Art Colony of New York. Chains and baskets from eight foreign countries. NEEDLEWORK IN BAGS AND FINE CRAFT Wonderful things in Venetian. Biltmore Home-spun articles. TRYON HAND-MADE TOYS fcrs. a. ft. dba&bourne, flhQr. Holly Tree Nursery. Southern Pines Telephone 14-21 E. Morell J. Morell Landscape Gardeners and Horticulturists We will show you how to make your grounds most attractive at least expense from a simple garden of harmonious varieties to a luxurious formal garden, a winter garden or gardenette design for the veranda. A landscape gardener's suggestions here and there often enhance real estate values by thousands of dollars We can supply evergreen, and deciduous trees and shrubs for- immediate effect and give you the fullest service on any question about your garden. THE ANTI-SKID MASHIE By Sandy McNiblick Golfing weather has been fairly pro pitious up North all winter. But the other day snow a-plenty hit the district around Philadelphia in particular, clouds of it that wafted down for twenty-two hours before there was a let-up, after which more of the same fell for several more hours just to make it unanimous. All of which has had the effect of driv ing the country linksmen into the city. A heavily-reefered golfer in the person of George Sayers was encountered on one of our principal marts of trade the other day, skidding on slushy pavements, duck ing great gobs of snow which dropped with dull kerplunks off the tops of the tall buildings. But golf was still very much on the mind of this prodigal son of Benny Sayers, the Grand Old Pro of golf. George opened up a corner of his reefer collar sufficiently to slip us quite a little data on the "stop 'urn" golf club, that anti-skid inashie, the thought of which might have been suggested by heavily-chained autos skidding all around us on the snowy street. "There seems to be a lot of agitation around about . these corrugated-faced clubs," volunteered George," and most of the information given is incorrect. They are called American clubs. They are not. My father invented the first one, made it as an experiment in our shops at North Berwick, Scotland. "The agitation seems to have started abroad when Tommy Armour returned there from his visit in America and was discovered to have a lot of the cut-faced irons in his kit. He was thought to have collected these in America. He didn't. He used to stop in our shops at North Berwick nearly every day, trying out all we had in that line. That's where he got them, right in his own country. "Reading about the 'stop 'urn" mash ie, ' ' continued George, as he wiped some snow out of his left eye, "you would think that they had just been invented over here, and that Americans were pre pared to lick the world by their aid." Sayers laughed sardonically, as they say in the funnies. "The first club was made twenty years ago abroad, though they weren't really pushed over there till 1913. It seems funny that after all these years the Bri tons should suddenly hop on them with both feet and claim that this 'American' invention ought to be barred in Great Britain." The British experts have evidently found in the "stop 'ran" club some of the menace they have reason to respect in that American invention, the "Sche nectady" putter, with which Walter Travis indirectly was the first Yankee to win the British amateur for he had a spell of uncanny putting, which the Bri tons laid to his new-fangled putter mostly. In the same way, the "stop 'urn" has now been evidently discovered as an equally dangerous tool. The chief ob jection to the club abroad is that it 's the cut-face of the mashie more than skill which is responsible for the back-spin im parted to the ball, and that a well-hit stroke with a "stop 'urn" will cut the ball rather badly. But this doesn't keep nearly every good player in America from carrying' some form of a "stop 'urn" in his bag,' which gives a line on what the 400 in' these United States think of the club. Their opinion is divided on barring it. You can argue either way. But this set tles its origin and date of birth, anyhow. ' Sayers is now at work making novel and standard designs in wooden clubs. ' He has imported a clubmaker from the famous shops in North Berwick and the two are very busy these days. "Right out of the block," said Say ers. "Wait till you see them pretty as a picture," "No golf this winter!" "Only Pinehurst," replied Sayers, as he slipped on the ice. "Of course I've got to play there. It wouldn't do to miss the North and South open. Sure, I gotta play at Pinehurst." U. S. FLAG, GUN AND NERVE SAVED 500 FROM DEATH (United Press Staff Correspondent) Kattowitz, Upper Silesia. How an American flag, and an American captain with good nerve, a trusty revolver and a bit of American bluff scared off a Polish mob and rescued 50 exchanged German prisoners, inbound from Poland, leaked out here today. The' American was Capt. Stettler, over six feet tall, born in Joplin, Mo., a globe trotter, with no knowledge of what fear means. The incident occurred during the Po lish outbreak in Upper Silesia last year. Stettler, then associated with Col. Good year of Buffalo, N. Y., on the American coal commission, was helping Goodyear to clear up the uprising. He had beet across the line into Poland, located pris oners dragged off by the Poles, and also a large group of men, women and chil dren long interned in the same camp. I Having had good relations with both the German and Polish sides, Stettler was able to induce the Polish command ant to surrender the prisoners, as the ba sis for later negotiations toward an ar mistice. With difficulty he obtained a train for the refugees, and had reached the border line where the hatred between Poles and Germans was particularly bit ter. A mob collected as the train pulled in. Each car bore an American flag. The crowd girw vicious, threatening to mas sacre the whole group of prisoners. Here is where the captain, the Ameri can flag, the nerve and the bluff come in. Taking a Polish interpreter with him, and carrying a little American flag in one hand and his revolver in the other, he proceeded to tell the Polish leader some thing. "This train is under American pro tection," he said, "and if you shoot upon it, you are shooting at America. That means not only that America will shut off all the food supplies she's been sending you here in Poland, but it means that she'll send an army to avenge this act. And, I'll shoot the first man who makes a move." The cold courage and the trice of good American bluff had its effect. The crowd growled a bit, and seemed for a moment hesitant and then backed down. Raf. U. 8. Pat. Off. MORE POPULAR THAN EVER IN PINEHURST Meets every need of the golfer in Style. Pi and Comfort. The Woman's Oolf Shoe vr hiive added to the line is most attractive. Sold by the Pinehurst Department Store. Send for the Tom Logan Golf Calendar which pictures, suitable for framing, the International Golf Match between Ouimet, Ray and Vardon. THOS. H. LOGAN CO., HUDSON, MASS. ' Pinehurst Jewelry Store Showing a Choice Assort ment of Diamonds, GolcL Jewelry, Leather Goods, Feather Fans and Novel ties in Glass and China. yiiHJiiuuiiiii ' FOR HEALTH The Perfect Table Water For over half a century America j leading Natural Mineral Water. Bottled only at the Spring under the j most sanitary conditions. Caution: Always see that seal is unbroken at time bottle is opened. For sale by local dealers cat POLAND WATER DEPOT ,1180 Broadway, New York City Telephone Madison Sq. 4748 j MMMMMNNjiwiHimiiimiMimiiiiiKiiHiiMiHHiiMnHHMMMiMiiiiiti' iittHiiii mmmtmmmtm i The Pinehurst Market carries SNYDER-CURE HAMS and BACON, SNYDER-MADE Pur" Pork SAOSAGEL IB4TCI1 ETIEII V ANITDEII CO. BOSTON, M ASS. . Makers FU LEI HAN'S Exqui.ltu Novelties from Many Lands waatari, WaUti, Japanese Kimono THE CAROLINA EXHIBITION ROOM)
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