VOL. IX; NO 21.
SATURDAY MORNING APRIL TWENTY-FIRST, 1906.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TWO CHAMPIONSHIP COURSES
Summers Wort 'Plans Provide for Golf
Coarse Extension.
14nuU Will le IfIot Complete Golf
Equipment in the lVorldOther
Important Work.
HE most extensive of the
work planned for the
coining summer will be
the enlargement of the
present nine hole or
"short" golf course, to
an eighteen hole course of over sic
thousand yards in length, thus giving
Hnehurst a golf equipment superior to
any resort in the world, and in keeping
with its now well establised Interna
tional prominence.
Some six or seven of the present holes
will be used, extension being made by
taking the land formerly used for trap
shooting purposes,and the rolling country
adjoining it, and outside the present Vil
lage fence. The territory thus embraced
oilers, opportunity for one of the most at
tractive'and interesting courses in the
country, and including many exception
ally "sporty" natural hazards. This
work has already been begun, and it is
expected that the course will be ready for
play before the coming season ends.
The extension is a natural consequence,
coming just as the smaller course came,
to meet the demands of the rapidly in
creasing number of golfers ; just as the
annual United North and .South tourna
ment, the Midwinter, the Spring and the
St. Valentines- tournaments -have come.
Only those in the closest touch with
golf here fully realize the extent of its
popularity. No golf course in the world,
has the same amount of play upon it,
which is well emphasized by the fact
that during some weeks of the season just
ended, fifteen hundred caddy tickets were
issued. In addition to this few courses
have to contend with more unfavorable
conditions for the maintenance ; expert
opinion being that turf is more easily
produced in sections of the greater rain
fall and humidity, than in such a section
as this, where there are weeks upon
weeks, often consecutively, of clear, sun
shiny days, which, are a delight to golf
ers and those who love out of doors.
Careful study .of local conditions and
adaptation to them, however, have been
gradually solving the difficult problem,
and experiments conducted during' the
past year demonstrate that a turf much
more permanent can be produced. To
accomplish this the course was closed
two weeks earlier than usual, and work
which will continue through the summer
is well under way.
With the added equipment of another
"Championship'' course, improved con
dition of the fair green on the present
course and four annual tournaments of
National importance, Pinehurst will take
a place in the golfing world which is not
approached elsewhere, and even historic
"St. Andrews" will have nothing to rival
it, save its great age.
participants will then be divided into four
divisions, the best sixteen scores in each
division qualifying, instead of the sixty
four best scores as is now customary.
This step has long been considered by
prominent golfers, but the local club is
the first to take the initiative. Detailed
information concerning the system and
the full tournament program will be duly
issued in printed form.
THE SHOOTING PRESERVES.
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TOURNAMENT EVENTS.
The Country Club schedule of tourna
ment events in golf, tennis, trap and
pistol shooting, which has already been
arranged, includes a new departure in the
adoption of what is to be known as the
"Pinehurst System," for qualification in
the important golf events.
Entrants -will be required to furnish
their association or club handicaps, and
will be classified according to these
handicaps, the limit in each division be
ing determined by the committee. The
son for breeding, and the feeding grounds
scattered throughout the territory, are
receiving special attention. Reports of
friends who were shooting at the close of
the present season as well as information
received since then from workmen, indi
cate that quail will be even more plentiful
next season than during the past, which
showed a surprising increase. The dogs
of the Kennels will, as usual, spend the
summer in New Hampshire, in order that
they may be put in the very best of con-
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STATE CHAMPIONSHIP SHOOT
Pinehurst Only Point at Which Women
Were Competitors.
J. A. Hietz Winn National Honors
Local Team Shoot IVlatch
With Providence.
INE HURST occupied a
unique position in the re
cent state championship
pistol shoots which were
held simultaneously
throughout the country
under the auspices of the United States
Revolver Association, the Village being
the only point where women competed.
J. A. Dietz was the winner of not only
the New York state, but the national
championship as well, with a score of
four hundred and forty-seven, strings of
40, 47,41, 47, 30, 45, 48, 42, 46 and 49,
with J. B. Crabtree of Springfield, Mass.,
a close second jn four hundred and forty
three. Thomas Anderton of New York,
made four hundred and forty-one, and
twelve four hundred or better, as fol
lows :
Lieut. R. II. Sayre, New York, 440
George W. Waterhouae, New Haven, 439
William G. Krieg, Chicago, 431
A. L. A. Himmelwright, New York, 429
Edwin Sturtevant, Chicago, 428
George Sprlngsguth, Chicago, 427
I Hanford, New York, 422
Thomas Le Boutillier, 2nd, New York, 420
II. Klotz, New York, 420
I. W. Lee, Chicago, 420
F. M. Garden, Chicago, ' 406
S. B. Adams, Portland, 402
PINEHURST VS. PROVIDENCE.
An interesting feature of the week was
a telegraphic team shoot between the
local and the Providence teams, the
Rhode Islanders winning by a margin of
thirty-three points. The local team made
seventy and five tenths per cent, and the
Providence team seventy-three andv eight
tenths.
The event was twenty shots at twenty
yards for each member of the team, in
strings of five. The scores by strings of
the local team follow :
waterhouse,
Watterson,
JILLSON,
Johnson,
Tufts,
42 34 39 33-148
39 33 38 36144
31 39 37 36-143
82 41 40 26-139
37 30 32 32-131705
PROVIDENCE.
IIURLBURT,
ARGUS,
HOLMBERO,
FARKHURST,
EDDY,
39 42 44 41166
43 41 40 45-169
39 37 36 29141
38 37 44 32-151
32 22 29 23-1U-733