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Vol. XXVIII
Number 1
NOVEMBER, 1924
Entered as second class matter at the post office at PINEHURST, N. O., Subscription $2 00 per year
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Autumn Tournament Opens Golfing Season
mHE winter golfing season at Pine
hurst was officially opened Tues
day morning, November 4, with
the playing of the qualifying round of
the twentieth annual Autumn tourna
ment, one. of the oldest events on the
Country Club's schedule and the first
of a long and interesting series of
tournaments to be played during the
fall and winter.
Donald Parson, of Youngstown,
medalist and winner of this event last
year, had no trouble in repeating his
victory in the qualifying round, leading
his field by five strokes, but went down
to defeat at the hands of Halbert J.
Blue, of Aberdeen, in the final round
after a see-saw match that ended 1 up.
It was these two golfers who fought
it out in the finals last year, and by a
peculiar coincidence they were brought
together in the deciding match again
tflis year. The winner played splend
id golf all the way through. He quali
fied in second place and had no trouble
in winning his match-play rounds.
Those who made the first division, besides the winner and
runner-up, were Francis T. Keating, Rev. X A. Cheatham,
Percy W. Thomson, H. P. O’Neil, George T. Dunlap and N. S.
Johnny Farrell and Harold Bloch, of the Quaker
Ridge Club, who repeated their victory in the
Annual Amateur-Professional Best-Ball ,
Event this week and now hold two
legs on the Club Trophy.
Hurd, who qualified in the order named.
John D. Armstrong, Shenecossett, car
ried off the second division prize after a
scintillating twenty-hole victory over
Clive Alvord, a Nutmeg State golfer
from Hartford. Armstrong was 3 up
at the eleventh and apparently had an
invincible lead, but his youthful oppon
ent was not to be outdone and after
some splendid golf on intervening holes
he squared the match on the sixteenth
and stepped into the lead on the seven
teenth. Armstrong took the eight
eenth with a 5, making the match all
even-again. The first extra hole .\yas
halved but Armstrong settled matters
at the second where he came through
with a brilliant 4 and won the hole and
the match.
Jack Bowker, of Plainfield, N. J.,
won the third flight award%from F. P.
Jones, of the Mount Bruno Club, Mon
treal, 1 up, and James Barber, the
Englewood veteran, vanquished J. j.
Whiteacre, Brookside Country Club,
for chief honors in the fourth. Bar
ber, too, experienced a twenty-hole session when he was carried
that distance before disposing of F. E. O'Brien, of Detroit, in
(Continued on page 14)
following the Champions. This view shows the gallery following the findb round match in the Women’s North and South Championship last Spring
"between Miss Glenna Collett and Miss Louise Fordyce.