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JANUARY, 1922 PAGE 9 Country Club Notes All the golfers are looking ahead with much pleasure for the- events to come, which will attract to Pinehurst practi cally all the leading professionals and many of the foremost amateurs. The next big tournament on the Coun try Club schedule is the eighteenth an nual St. Valentines tournament, and will be played on January .'50 to Febru ary 4. With the exception of the Spring tournament, this event usually attracts the largest entry list of the year. Everyone who lias read the Donald J. Ross stymie plan appears to favor it and it is likely that it will be accepted by the United States Golf Association at its annual meeting in Chicago this week. are enthusiastic concerning Johnson, for the St. Paul golfer beat Francis Ouimet on the 36th green in the amateur cham pionship at St. Louis, and gave Jesse Guilford his closest match, carrying the Boston player to the home green to lose, 1 down. It. Murray Purves, winner of the medal in the qualifying round of the Advertisers' tournament, is one of Ihe finest medal players in Massachusetts and has frequently returned the low card in open tournaments which in cluded as starters many strong golfers. Owen Moore, the motion picture actor, has been making an extended visit here. Mr. Moore reports that California is a Major Elliot Ranney has missed only four out of the last 800 clays he fired at. lie should be a factor in the big shoot this week, although he is devoting most of his time to golf at present and scoring well. Torn Boyd, Carl Anderson, Johnny Golden and Cyril Walker are visiting professionals now in Pinehurst. W. W. Windle, member of the Tin Whistles, writes from his home in Mill bury, Massachusetts, that the Worcester Country Club has put in a bid for the national open championship in 192:5. Mr. Windle is chairman of the Greens ' com mittee and fully capable of making a success of that end if the national goes to the fine Worcester course. The time schedule allowing foursomes two hours and forty minutes to play the Number 2 course is now in effect, and Jack Williams, one of the starters, finds that practically all players are able to make the round inside the time limit. Mrs. John I). Chapman did the Num ber 1 course in i)l in the Silver Foils handicap 18 holes medal play tourna ment. This is the lowest round made by a woman golfer this season. Mrs Chapman played the last nine holes in 42. Donald Parson and John I). Chapman will play in the qualifying round of the national amateur championship at Brook line this year. nfl - fix. .-? Tic Pinehurst Country Club fume.. -J j-- . ''7- This plan rules that the near ball must be at least two feet from the cup and the stymied ball at least two feet from the near ball for the stymie- to be in effect. It. Murray Purves obtained a two the first time he played the new sixteenth hole on the Number 3 course. He drove on the sand and sank a fifteen-foot putt. B. II. Sanborn, an all-season guest at the Pine Crest Inn, has invited Lesley Mercer of Rutland, Vermont, the 16 year, old amateur champion of Vermont, to be his guest during the North and South amateur championship. Mercer went down to the championship last year and tore through a field that included some of the " lions" from the famous Equinox club of Manchester. Pinehurst golfers would like to see Harrison R. Johnson of St. Paul here for the North and South. Westerners who have visited Pinehurst this winter "golf mad" country and that at the end of one of the car lines Avhere a municipal course is situated the motor lm'u and conductors play a few holes during their half hour layoff between trips. Johnny Farrell has returned to Ncav York after making his first visit to Pine hurst. He will return for the North and South and come here as often as he can in the future. Richard Tufts is playing better golf than eVer'-'b'ef ore and has-.finished well-up' in the last three Tin Whistle tourna ments. A 1 on the seventeenth hole and a net score of 40 for the best 12 selected holes are two' of his recent accomplishments. B. V. Covert returned to Pinehurst this week after a very successful duck shooting trip, the spoils of which were served on the dinner tables of many of Mr. Covert's friends. A. S. Higgins seldom visits the Arthur Yates, of Rochester, former water in front of the tenth tee. He All-America linesman at Yale is here for had not driven a ball in it this season the season and is surprising some of until the qualifying round of the Ad- the cracks by his long drives. When vertising men's tournament. Then he he hits one it goes away from there, as put his first and second in and took a some of the professionals have learned, nine to the hole. Jock Bowker won a prize in the pre liminary tournament of the Advertisers' tournament but was unable to take it, as the board of directors found that Jock had not made application for member ship in time to participate in the. dis tribution of this year's prizes. He was unable, to start in the champion ship proper. James Barber was fortunate enough to shoot the lowest round of his career (ii the Number 2 course while quali fying for the Advertising men's tourna ment and his gross of 90 minus his handicap of 23 gave him a net 67, the lowest of the field bv three strokes. Roy Blackington of North Attleboro, writes that he will soon be in Pinehurst and will stay at the Carolina. He says that up north he feels like the man in Brigg's cartoons, who is depicted as locked in a cell with his golf clubs whilo Old Man Winter, in the garb of a keep er, sits outside with the latch keys. : Pinehurst folks say that they will never become excited again over a ru mor that President Harding is to visit here. They have been twice fooled and will now sit back and wait until the President actually arrives before becom ing enthusiastic.
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