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r page iHfSBB." PINEHURST OUTLOOK "I had a somewhat amusing experience .,! Sandwich. After the first day or so, t jienny' Sayers displayed a strong interest i:i my play an( asked me if I ever went in for training. Now it happened that about a year fifter I commenced golf I conceived the idea that my game would be improved if I stopped smoking and drinking not that I consider I do either immoderately drinking at all events. So a couple of weeks prior to one of the tournaments at LakewoodI cut out both. 1 found that while it made no difference in my long game, my work on the green was simply childish I couldn't putt at all. 'So 1 told 'Benny' of my experience, much to his horror and surprise. His system of training, it appeared, not only tabooed all indulgences of this sort, but also embraced massage treatment rub bing an embrocation all over. In return for his kindly interest I compromised on the rubbing, and to cement the bargain lie loaned me his favorite spoon. 1 don't know that the perfunctorily performed massage treatment had really any real virtue, but I do know that the spoon was of valuable assistance. Many a time since, 'Benny,' have my grateful thoughts wafted over to you at North Berwick, and also to Taylor, Harry Vardon and Braid, for the keen and sympathetic in terest taken iu my welfare that week." 1)1 1 NOT WIN lY PUTTING ALONE. To put Travis' victory at Sandwich down to his putting alone is to disregard his ability to carry out his set determina tion not to attempt very longdistance shots, but to be sure and keep on theline, just carrying the hazards. Jack White, who won the open championship at Sand wich just after Travis' victory, lays his success to copying this plan of the American player. Travis, who had been playing poorly on other courses in Great Britain before reaching Sandwich, writes : "Singularly enough, at Sandwich, with almost the first ball I struck, I realized my game had come back. For t he first time since land ing I could 'feel' the ball a sense that was hitherto entirely lacking in every department of the game. Confidence thus reestablished, I played a number of prac tice rounds with growing improvement. In the St. George's vase competition everything went well except the putting, which was rather ragged. In the ellbrt to get back to form in Scotland 1 had managed to add considerably to ray stock of clubs, and was then using a putting cleek 1 got at North Berwick. "One of my compatriots suggested my trying his Schenectady putter. I did so and it worked so well that in almost every round during the meeting I ran down two or three unusully long ones and missed only a few short ones. I recall one of the latter at the Maiden in the final with Mr. Blackwell." LOSS OF COMPETITIVE SPIRIT. The closing sentence of Mr. Travis' article is significant and one that he has' frequently expressed in private during the last year, but the "feel" of the ball evidently was with Travis recently at Palm Beach when he won the open cham pionship of South Florida against a strong field of professionals, including Alex Herd, Bowland Jones, Andrew Kirkaldy and Peter Barrett, by scoring 6569 134. Even without his "thrills" Travis is usually more than a match for ama teurs here and with his "thrills" he is liable to accomplish anything. He writes : "I question very much whether I shall ever indulge myself in the pleasure of participating in another of your (British) championships. For one thing, I am sorry to say, that keenly as I love the game I believe I am more attached to it than ever I have lost in a large measure the keen competitive spirit which for merly animated me in big events. Now I no longer have the 'thrills,' that ecstatic feeling which I have foundhelpsso much toward success." Spring- of Natural Gin and Invisible City Among: It Wonders. Weird and wonderful are the stories which have come out of the great Salton desert in California. It was there, on the lower Colorado river, that "Capt. Smith" found the lame turtle, and so won its gratitude by heal ing it that it returned in later years and ofl'ered its services as an animated ferry when the Captain was on an island threatened with a rising flood. On yonder mesa, sloping upward from Volcano springs, is the "invisible city" where the clangor of street car bells and all the hubbub of a metropolis can be heard, but where only gravelly soil, the dreary mountains, and the scant, dwarfed vegetation can be seen. Near Superstition mountain is the spring of natural gin, where the coyote, the gray wolf, the fox and the wild fowl are on perpetual debauch ; and near by is the hill from which Hows natural ink. In the same vicinity is the mine of crystals which make perfect pens, and the deposit of asbestos where one can tear oil' sheets of blotting paper ready made. It was in the Superstition mountains that Otto Schmidt found the invisible ser pents with glass cups on the tails that re volved and produced beautiful music. It was in this desert, too, that an in genious Yankee found a group of camels, abandoned in early days by the army, and, by syphoning the water from their sacks, was able to irrigate a farm, while the animals plied back and forth between the river and the farm, ever keeping up the water supply. Now the grim valley, rendered wonderfully fertile by irriga tion, is the home of 8,000 thriving people. Recently the Colorado river, breaking through its old bounds, began again to run into the valley, which it formerly oc cupied, but now steel and concrete dams are being built and by May 1 the river will be shut out, except as it is needed for irrigation purposes. My Little luie. I've some dear little Pussies, All dressed in gray fur. Such odd little Pussies, They never will purr. Not a tail can they boast of, And no little soft feet. They're just Pussy Willows, But oh! they arc sweet. Louise Jamison. The GRAFTON Wash,"eto"-D-c -x-.-.m "A CONNECTICUT AVE. THE GRAFTON is rituated A on tho most fashionable thoroughfare in 'Washington, very convenient to all points of interest and within five minutes' walk of the White House, Sfcite, War, Navy and Treasury Departments, and' Corcoran Art Gallery. Cars parsing the door run direct to Capitol and depots. The bouse and furnishing are new. The rooms are arranged both slnirle and en suite, with pri vate baths, and is conducted on the American plan. Ilatea $:i.OO per day ami up- .Long ai'tance 'ieio- K spec-ladies wunl. Dhone in every room tally attractive for travelling alone. HARRINGTON MILLS PROPRIETOR. SUMiWBR SEASON, White Face Inn, Lake Placid, Adirondacks. A. Itesort Hotel of the II iff he t Class. Social and Scenic Center of the White Mountains Maplewood Hotel and Cottages, OPEN JULY TO OCTOBER. The Standard of Excellence. Milk and Vegetables from Maplewood Farm Maplewood Golf Links. Unsurpassed by any in the State, having a range of 2.C50 yards. Pure Mountain Spring- Water. High and Dry Invigorating Air' Hig-h Altitude. 3 liar Fever. IBeautiful Casino. Heading' llooni. Ladies' and Gentlemen's llilliard lloom Howling, Fine Tennis Courts and Ilaseball. Symphony Orchestra morning and evening. All the accessories of a first-class summer resort. LEON H. CILLEY, Manager, Maplewood, N. H. "E & E Invincible" " It is a largegenerous smoke of the Best Imported Tobacco. Packed 25 in a Box. The price is two for a quarter. You will have to pay more than that for its equal in any other cigar. It is one of the best productions of Estabrook & Eaton. 22:2 & 224 WASHINGTON STREET. r Masonic Temple, 53 Boylston St., Boston. 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Historic and picturesque surroundings, invigorating oueau ureeiea lempeieu uy utuu oiream An ideal accessible stop-over point North or South. For Information and booklet address, WJI. 1. lluiTElt, manager.
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