North Carolina Newspapers

n lelPtoekifsi 00 II till I I VOL. VI., NO. 14. PINEHURST, MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FEB. 27, 1903. PRICE THREE CENTS SEVENTY-EIGHT ENTRIES! Saturday's Golf Tournaments Bring On an Immense Field. Mm. Arthur C. Ketcham, O. F. Par risli, W. JI. Oler and J. . Thorpe Cup Winner. The golf tournaments of Saturday were conclusive proof that Pinehurst's season is well along. In the two events were seventy-eight entries. The stated fixture was an eigh teen-hole handicap match play event for men and women, who have never made eighteen consecu tive holes in less than one hundred, and the handsome trophy was given by Mr. Frank Presbrey, of New York City. As a special feature an open match play handicap event was also played with cups for the best net and best gross scores. Mrs. Arthur C. Ketcham, of New i'ork City, (17) won the Presbrey cup, with a net score of ninety-five, with J. W. Wilcox, of Boston (scratch) a close second in ninety-six, and Miss Helen Barnett, of New Haven, Ct., (17), third in ninety-seven. The next fourteen players finished under a hundred and eleven. There were many ties in the long list. G. F. Parrish, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., (20) and V. M, Oler, of Baltimore, (27) were tied for the net score cup in the open handicap, with seventy-six each, four strokes better than their nearest op ponents, C. R. Corwin, (22) and W. M. Whiting, both of Boston. (10) who finished in eighty net. J. G. Thorpe, of Boston, (scratch) won the gross score cup easily in eighty-eight. E. A. Free man, of Montclair, N. J., who was gen erally regarded as the winner, was pre vented from playiug by a sprained wrist. The day was a perfect one and many onlookers were on the course. -Presbrey Cup. The players were as follows : Miss E. B. Post, New York City ; Mrs. St. John Smith, Portland, Me. ; Miss Barnett, New Haven, Ct. ; Mrs. Arthur C. Ketcham, New York City ; Mrs. Chas. Fay, New York City; Mrs. J. B. Miles, New York City ; Miss M. A. Crary, War ren, Pa. ; Miss Carrie Check, East Or ange, N. J. ; Miss Helen Barnett, New Haven, Ct. ; Miss Ethel Check, East Orange, N. J. ; Mrs. M. A. Crockett, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Miss Davis, Tenafly, N. J. ; Miss Priest, Boston ; Miss Stackpole, Ridgeway, Pa. ; Miss Bradbury, Provi dence, R. I.; Roy H. Keith, Watertown, Mass. ; Dr. T. J, King, Boston ; F. J. Bailey, Chicago; F. H. Brown, New Haven, Ct. ; Dr. F. W. Skaife, Toronto, Can. ; Walter A. Berg, Boston; E, B. Lockwood, Jamaica, L. I,; George C. McNeir, New York City ; J. M. Merrill, New York City; H.N. Burroughs, Phila delphia; J. McCutcheon, New York City;H. Eldridge, New York City; C. F. Wills, New York City ; W. J. Noonan, Boston ; George Baird, Washington, D. Ketcham, New York City; Sj'dney L. Smith, New York City ; V. J. Fleming, Cleveland, O. Open Handicap. The participants were as follows : R D. Reynolds, New York City; W. C. Cady, Brookline, Mass. ; A. T. Leavitt, Wollaston, Mass. ; W. T. Morton, Al .fY XJ - ' r I - , -a.- fc " " r .sr--- - rr Cieorg-e C. Itutton of the Oakley Club, Iloitton, and Winner of the Pinehurst (lOOl) Championship. Photo for the Pinehurst Outlook by Merrow. C. ; J. B. Jtfiles, New York City ; George W. Brown, Boston ; J. W. Wilcox, Bos ton ; J. S. Seabury, Boston ; S. L. Mather Cleveland, O. ; George II. White, Boston, C. S. Caldwell, Washington, Pa. ; A. S. Malcolm, New Haven, Ct. ; Geo. C. Clau sen, New York City ; H. W. Mason, Bos ton ; Dr. G. W. Murdock, Cold Spring, N. Y.; W. F. Merrill, New Haven, Ct. ; John Pierce, New York City; Willie bany, N. Y.; W. M. Oler, Baltimore; M. D. Crary, Warren, Penn. ; M. D. Ma son, Boston ; II. O. Curtis Davis, New York City; D. W. Cooke, New York City; A. Shiland, New York City; W. M. Whiting, Boston ; J. F. McLain, New York City ; Capt, J. P. Crane, Woburn, Mass. ; A. L. Hill, Weymouth, England ; W. S, North, Chicago ; J. R. Whitteuiore, ( Continued to second page) THE FROLICSOME ' SHOOTERS ! In Pajamas and Impossible Attitudes They Shoot Clay Birds. C. A. lockwood of ew York City, Takes Silver Cup-Lait Friday's Shoot. The "Novelty Shoot" for a silver cup by the "Frolicsome Shooters," which took place at the Trap Shooting grounds, Saturday afternoon, was mainly to fur nish amusement, and in this particular it was eminently successful, but some ex cellent scores were also made. A feature of the program was the ludicrous rigs worn by the participants, pajamas, sum mer suits and the like being conspicu ous. C. A. Lockwood, of New York City, won with ten kills. There were seven events in all as fol lows : Five birds, gun below the elbow. Five birds, any old way. One bird, "blind shooting," each shooter to shoot sitting in a chair. One bird "flushing shot," shooter to advance toward trap, trap sprung with out call. One bird, shooter to stand on top of trap house and call for bird. One bird, "mysterious," gun to be loaded by outside party, and shooter not to know which barrel was loaded, one trigger only to be pulled, gun to be ex amined after each shot. One bird, "battery," shooter to lie on back, feet toward the trap, gun pointed toward the feet, to call for bird and rise to a sitting posture before shooting three birds pulled. The participants were : C. A, Lock- wood, Arthur C. Ketcham, Dr. L. J. Davis, New York City ; II. Nelson Bur roughs, F. A. Potts, Philadelphia; Carl Gildersleeve, M. C. Parshall, VVarren, Pa. ; M. II. Wilson, Cleveland, 0. These were the scores : Lockwood 1st Event 2nd Event Other Events 10110 11111 1001 010 Burroughs 10001 10111 0100 07 Potts 00110 11110 0001 07 Gildersleeve 00111 10010 0100 06 Parshall 01000 11101 100006 Davis 00000 10111 0100 05 Wilson 00110 11101 0000 05 Ketcham 00000 11100 100004 The afternoon closed with a sweep stake shoot which Lockwood won. Other events of a similar nature are al ready planned which promise to furnish plenty of amusement for participants and onlookers.