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VOL X, No. 9. SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY TWENTY-SIXTH, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS
DINED AT THE TENTH HOLE
Down and Out Club Entertains in Novel
and Unique Manner.
Also Some Fact and Fiction About
JLinehurst' II rami Jtfew Coif
ing Organization.
i N INTERESTING' result
of the Midwinter and
Advertising tournaments
is the formation of the
"Down and Out Club of
Pinehurst and America'
which held its first annual dinner at The
Carolina during the week. Fi om first to
last it was, without question, the most en
tertaining and unique affair of its char
acter ever given here, and of merriment
there was no end.
Covers were laid for twenty, and the
decorative feature of the table was an
accurate reproduction of the tenth, or
pond hole, of the local golf course. In
the foreground was the tee, sand box,
wind mill and all ; just in front of it, the
pond with its bridge, and liberally be
sprinkled with golf balls ; just beyond
and at the left, the sand pit, with more
balls; half way up the steep hill, the
ditch, with more balls ; and on the hill
top the putting green, with two balls
lying near the tiny flag; and, surround
ing the whole, the scrub oak growth,
which is a characteristic feature of the
course and the dread of the golfer who
cannot play straight.
S. Keith Evans of New York, a guest
of the Club, acted astoastmaster,andthe
fun began at eight and lasted until long
after midnight. The purpose of the
evening, to emphasize the club's name
and put "Down and Out" every one who
tried to respond when called upon, was
carried out with marked success ; no one
succeeding in making a speech in spite of
the fact that the club's "member" tried
no less than seven times.
The club is formed of golfers of the
"skidoo" or "twenty-three" class, as
demonstrated by the recent tournament,
and its real purpose is to provide
honest means whereby its members may
obtain golf trophies, experience having
proved that it is impossible otherwise.
The membership is unique in that it
consists of seven presidents and one
member, listed on the club roster as fol
lows, all hailing from New York with the
exception of Presidents Ostrander and
Clymer, who come from Philadelphia and
Chicago, respectively :
First President, Ralph Wayward Tilton.
Second President, Dog Gone Evans.
Third President, Louis De Veauxque.
Fourth President, William Money Ostrander.
Fifth President, Ernest Porch Clymer.
Sixth President, Ernest Elmo Calkins.
Seventh President, Ralph Razor Tilton.
Member, Robert Belicose Frothingbam.
At a meeting following the banquet, it
was voted to make the organization per
manent and to meet monthly during the
winter in New York, and annually at
Pinehurst in January, where various
tournaments will be held and with never
der and Mrs. Robert Frothingham Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Ridgway, Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Koenig, Mr. J. J. Hazen, Mr. S.
Keith Evans, all of New York, and Mr.
C. C. Meek of Toronto, facetiously known
as Canadian Club Meek.
DOWN AND OUT GOLF.
In connection with the formation of
the "Down and Out Club" was the hold
ing of the first annual golf tournaments,
the program including a preliminary
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less than eight prizes, so that none may
be disappointed. Any member who
makes eighteen holes on any course in
less than one hundred and fifty, will be
liable to expulsion, and upon no consid
eration will the membership be extended.
Dues will come like the Philistine, "every
little while."
The guests included besides the Presi
dents and the Member, and their wives
Mrs. Ralph Ilolden, Mrs. E. E. Calkins,
Mrs. Ralph Tilton, Mrs. William Ostran-
handicap, twenty-seven hole handicap
and a match play tournament with no
less than eight prizes in each event.
There were also prizes for both the high
and the low scores, not to mention prizes
for those who did not win at match
play.
In the preliminary handicap Mr. Evans
was first with a card of 102, playing with
a handicap of 14, with Mr. Ilolden (22;,
second in 103. Mr. Calkins (37), and Mr.
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A. L. SQUIER THE WINNER
Defeats John J. Hazen in Final Round
of Midwinter Tourney.
Clone Matches are the Itule In the
Moat SuccenNful Content of a
Ilrillianl Series.
IIIRTY-SIX hole final
rounds in all divisions
brought the fourth an
nual Midwinter tourna
ment to a brilliant close
Monday, interest culmin
ating in the battle royal for the possession
of the President's cup, between A. L.
Squier of the Rrae Burn Club, Newton,
and John J. Hazen of the Fox Hills Club,
Long Island. From start to finish there
was never a time that the final result was
not in doubt, and a big gallery followed
the players both morning and afternoon.
At the end o the morning round the
Massachusetts player had the Fox Hills
man three down, which lead he increased
to five up by taking the eighteenth and
twentieth holes. From this point, how
ever, Mr. Hazen more than held his own,
reducing the score to dormie three at the
thirty-thiiu, and making a brilliant try
for a win. The thirty-fifth hole was won
by the narrowest kind of a margin, Mr.
Squier failing to make a ten inch putt for
a halve, and a stymie was responsible for
the halving of the short thirty-fifth, thus
giving the Brae Burn player the match
by two and one.
David Fleming of the Mount Airy Club,
Philadelphia, had an easy match in the
first division consolation!
The second division cup went to Col.
J. E. Smith of the Wilmington Country
Club, Delaware, and the consolation to
J. A. Middleton of the Auburn Pmk
Club, Chicago ; E. E. Rinehart, Jr., of
the -Wee Burn Club, Stamford, won the
third, and C. II. Rosenfeld of New York,
the consolation ; W. E. Edge of Atlantic
City, took the fourth, and II. C. Morse of
Bellevue, the consolation; J. R. Towle
of the Jackson Park Club, Chicago, took
the fifth, and Dr. George S. Hill of Mar
blehead, Mass., the consolation, and the
sixth and last division went to C. G.
Moses of New York.
There were also trophies for the run-ners-up
in the principal divisions, as well
as the division winners and the winners
of consolation classes. The full story of
the week's play is told in the summaries
which appears upon pages two and three
of this issue.