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PAGE 8 TEE PINEHUEST OUTLOOK ill. IV L HV 'ii The Pine Crest Inn Pinehurst, N. C. OPEN OCTOBER TO MAY Special Early Season Rates until January A home-like, comfortable hotel Modern in every appointment Excellent cuisine PRIVATE BATHS STEAM HEAT SUN PARLORS Donald J. Ross and W. J. Mac Nab, Proprietors A Scottish Innovation In 1603 James VI of Scotland came down to London to be James I of Great Britain. His followers set up on Blackheath a place to play a curious Scotch game they called golf. It took almost two and a half centuries for that game to capture England completely, but when the capture was complete it took the world What would have been the feelings of that Scottish train that came with James to Blackheath over three hundred years ago if they could see the noble manner in which their game is being staged at Pinehurst now. Four full eighteen hole courses, and two others in a few min. utes ride at Mid-Pines and Southern Pines. And all around the neighborhood the God-blessed Macks. Here would be the Valhalla of the upright and loyal Scot; and here is the ideal spot for any enthusiastic golfer. Nothing on earth to com pare with it. While lands are cheap and good locations abundant better pick up a site for a winter home in this capital of golf in America. Drop into the Real Estate Section, General Office, and look over the maps Philadelphia's Indoor Courses By Sandy McNiblick Sunkist Pinehurst habitues will doubt- The court is set up in a racquets court less skip over this one hastily. It's and the noise of the shots sounds like the about the world's largest indoor golf boom of the cannon in this place which course and things. Indoor golf courses closely resembles an empty swimming don't mean anything in North Carolina, pool. Gardner played there on the oc at this time of year in particular. casion of his entering the national dou- In case there's a chuckle in the Dixie bles racquets championship. He said devotees in the sad plight of their the indoor court at the Philadelphia Eac northem friends this bleak winter, how- quet Club was larger than that in the ever, the story is attached. Chicago Athletic Club which is believed Philadelphia linksmen are generally ;o be the next biggest indoor golf alley pretty fortunate in the "off" season of anywhere. golf. Last winter, for instance, there In his visit to Philadelphia Gardner were few days when an enthusiast was demonstrated that he is one of the most in any danger of being frozen stiff or versatile of all American amateur ath snowed under. The most inconven letes. ience suffered, as a rule, was the playing He first came to notice in sports when on temporary greens and the frosty air he won the American amateur golf title, which one doesn't mind too much when Three years later on Franklin Field, playing under wraps, as it were. Some Philadelphia, he appeared in a different days the ground was frozen and there role when he represented Yale in the was a fine roll to the ball. Other aays track and field intercollegiates. On that the thaw was on and the going was soft June day, Gardner was the first college and muddy. There wasn't much in the boy ever to polevault over a height of way of snow or real Alaskan blasts. thirteen feet. This year, however, the weather has His record of 13 feet 1 inch still stands been so bad that it is rare to rim across in the official records, anyone who has endeavored to make it Three years later he again carried the a round year of golf. They have been eyes of a sport gallery in Philadelphia, leaning on indoor alleys like a crutch, when he played in the final round in de To accommodate the demand indoor al- fense of his national golf title at Merion. leys are cropping out right and left . It was then that he was beaten by Chick All of the sporting goods shops are set- Evans in a great match, ting up canvas enclosures, the largest Again in the year 1922 he came t having eight courts and there are seventy- Philadelphia this time competing in un five applicants for the jobs as pros there, dershirt and flannels for the national The largest indoor court in the world doubles racquets championship, is also believed to be in Philadelphia, a If anyone can name three more widely more or less private affair built in the differing branches of sport in which it Racquet Club. The court is about bO would be possible for any one amateur feet long and thirty feet wide, with the to devote his attention so as to attain sky virtually the limit because the ceil- championship calibre, he is welcome to ing is somewhere way up there in the the floor. form of sky-lights. Gardner is one of our greatest ama in this court it is really possible to teurs for expertness, good sportsmanship see just what one is doing. A slice or and for the fact that athletic endeavor hook is easily discernible. In fact on for him is recreation and not a business. this court, there's nothing to those He thoroughly enjoys sport's tests of strokes. Anybody can make them and skill, be it before thousands in the great seem to be able to do so any old time. outdoors or on the 'carpet of an indoor Hitting the bull's eye, at that distance, putting course. is quite another matter . Maurie Talman, summer pro at Whitemarsh, does the ANNUAL INVITATION teaching in this court and is kept busy. His pupils, you might say, are assorted . There's George Brooke, famous as a University of Pennsylvania footballcoach We are requested to announce that in the old days. Jay Gould, world's the Second Annual Invitation Tourna- court tennis champion, and Jock Soutar. ment under the auspices of the Women's world's racquets champion, are trying Golf Committee of the Country Club of to build up a presentable game in there. Buffalo will be held this year on June Max Marston and Bob Gardner, the '26, 27, 28 and 29. latter twice national amateur golf cham- It is the object of the Committee to pion, and runner-up in three national make this tournament more internation- finals, including the British, have been al in its character than any of the tour- seen in earnest effort to hit the bull's naments outside of the National Open, eye. ana it is believed that this is nossible Gardner was particularly impressed on account of the Club's close proxim- vvith the putting stretch which is a mat ity to the leading golfing centers of of composition closely resembling grass. Canada. The tournament had its in- The old putter that has. dropped them ception last year and attracted much in- with such precision all these years out terest in Canada as well as in this coun- of doors wouldn't work for a darn in try, and has been made a permanent fix- Tournament at Buffalo there . ture .
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