THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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THE JEFFERSON RICHMOND, VA.
With the addition of 300 bed rooms, cafe, private dining rooms, etc., this far-famed Hotel Is
more magnificent, attractive and secure, than ever before. Rooms single and en suite, with and
without private baths. Long distance phones in every room.
The many points of historic interest in, and around the City, makes Richmond a very desir
Able stop-over place for tourists, where they can enjoy the equable climate, thus avoiding extreme
changes of temperature. For moderate rates, booklets or reservations, address,
P. M. FRY, Manager
Your Summer Tour
Will be incomplete, without rMVAH I C mat lJ
a run through picturesque LJI A. V llL-tZ. INIvJ I VM
You will find there the best service and homelike comfort ;
and a well equipped garage.
DIWILIE OTCII,THE BALSAMS, lew Hampshire.
Winter address, 1800 Lehigh Ave., Write fo interesting
Philadelphia, Pa. illustrated booklet.
THE MT. KINEO HOUSE
KINEO, Moosehead Lake, MAINE.
Nature's Ideal Summer Wilderness, Lake and Mountain Resort for
? ocatlon, Climate, Scenery and Recreation.
Mead far Booklets,
C JUDKINS. - Manager,
HOTEL WOODWARD
Broadway at 55th Street, New York
Combines every convenience, luxury and home comfort and
commends itself to people of refined tastes wishing to be within
easy access of the social, shopping and dramatic centers.
T. D. GREEN, Manager.
Dobbin & Ferrall Co..
Ilaleig-n, If.
123-125 Fayette
Tille Street,
C.
NORTH CAROLINA'S LEADING
DRY GOODS STORE.
High Class Merchandise, Dry Goods of All
Kinds and Kindred Wares. Ready to Wear
Garments, Shoes, etc. Wedding Preesnts, Cut
Glass and Pottery.
Pinehurst
Steam Laundry.
First Class Work in All
Departments.
Done with Neatness and Dispatch.
PINE FOREST INN
Winter Resort, Summerville, S. C, Now Open,
High Class Hotel, strictly in the Pines, catering to a select clientele, rooms ensuite
with Bath, Elevator, Electric Lights, Steam Heat, and Open Fire Places Ptire Water
from our own Artesian Well one thousand feet deep and perfect sanitary cenditions
Finest Golf Links, Saddle and Harness Horses, Fine Hunting, Fine Boulevard for Auta
mobiles to Charleston, distance about thirty miles.
Address Manager, Pine Forest Inn, Summerville, S. C. or F. W. Wagner & Co., Charleston, S.C.
THE KIWVOOD
I One of the Best Appointed Hotels in the Middle South.
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CAMDEN HEIGHTS
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Camden, South Carolina.
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O THE timid man who
has mowed a large field
with a dull club for the
first time,golf is an over
grown game of hide-and
seek which is played in
a reformed cow pasture with clubs and a
vocabulary. A golf course consists of
eighteen four-and-a-half-inch holes of
the best quality, carefully concealed
about a one-hundred-and-eighty-acre
field. The object of the game is to put
an undersized ball into each of the holes
in succession without breaking a blood
vessel. Kicking out the ball, or attack
ing it with a knife is forbidden. One
must do the trick solely by striking it
with the club, counting each stroke dog
gedly and in a rich, redolent undertone.
The clubs which are used in herding
the balls over the course are many in
number. There is the driver, which is
used for driving the small rubber tee into
the ground; the lofter, which raises
small chunks of sod over trees, bunkers,
and other obstructions ; the cleek, for
weed-clipping ; the niblick, for throwing
sand at an adversary ; the mashie, for
pounding the ball into the earth, and the
midiron, for punishing it until its maker
would not recognize its battered shell.
Other useful clubs are the brassie, the
putter, the excavator, the whacker, the
digger, the smasher,the chopper, and the
caddie driver. The latter is a common
club, not turned up at the end, and is to
be used to keep the caddie awake. A
caddie is a parody on a small boy, who
carries the clubs and helps lose the ball.
Expert golfists can drive both a ball and
a caddie over the course at the same
time without help.
All of these clubs are finely made;
most of them with iron heads, fitted to
little hickory handles. They are excel
lent for beating carpets, doing light gar
den digging, mowing weed patches, kill
ing chickens, and repelling burglars. It
is a point of honor with a golfer, how
ever, to use them only upon the golf
course where their limitations are pa
thetic. A golfer will spend half an hour
digging up a small patch of ground with
his clubs when he could have done it in
two minutes with a spade.
Other ic struments which are very use
ful in playing the game are a long slim
waisted bag, with a handle for carrying
clubs, cash registers at each tee for tabu
lating the strokes, a pair of hip boots for
pursuing the quarry into the water, a
rake, a scythe, a red flag to stick beside
your ball so that it will not crawl away
when you take your eye off of it, and a
funnel to assist in chasing the ball into a
hole. Extra balls are most conveniently
carried in a small push-cart. You can
do without some of these articles, possi
bly,but not without great inconvenience.
It never pays to skimp while playing
golf.
The rules of the game are very simple.
You must hit the ball with your club.
After you have hit it, you must find it,of
course, before you hit it again. It will
take you several weeks to master these
two rules. After driving the ball, you
must hit it wherever it lies. Good lies
are as important in golf as in fishing.
Losing a ball costs you two strokes and
fifty cents. Hitting a caddie with a ball
is justifiable homicide.
Preparing a golf course is a difficult
and expensive task. In the first place
one must have a field in which the face
of nature is considerably wrinkled. The
wrinkles help to conceal the holes. In
case they are not present, they must be
supplied by building miniature mountain
ridges and scooping out ravines, A little
water on the course adds much to the in
terest of the game. By driving the ball
into a pond occasionally, the golfist keeps
it clean. Having distributed the eighteen
holes judiciously so as to keep them so
far apart that the first stroke leaves the
ball three hundred yards short, and yet
so near that the last stroke puts it fifty
yards beyond the hole, the expert will
add a nineteenth hole. This should be
large enough to hold several hundred
golfists and enough high balls to go
around several times.
The proper course consists of two
greens the fair green and the putting
green. Most of the playing between
holes is supposed to be done on the fair
green, which is kept nicely mown and
turfed. Muscular novices, playing on
the fair green, have been known to
knock sections of turf one hundred yards
at one stroke. A novice, if he choose,
could frequently hole a piece of turf in
three or four strokes ; but, absurdly, the
rules oblige him to cling to the ball and
take the regulation thirteen every time
The putting green surrounds the hole.
It is smooth and covered with velvety
grass and is a beautiful place to lie down
and die after you have played "ring-around-the-hole"
with your ball for a
few minutes.
Even when a golf course is erected as
prescribed above, it is by no means com
plete. The most costly work is yet to
come. It must be seeded down with golf
balls. This is a job which cannot be done
by mere hirelings ; neither can it be done
in a day. It takes at least a month of
hard, devoted work by the whole mem
bership. As every one knows, it is no trick at
all to lose a small rubber ball in a quarter
section particularly when it has lost the
first bloom of youth. A mere child can
do it. An amateur can go out and lose
$3.50 worth of balls without even work
ing up a perspiration. In fact, most of
the beginner's time is spent in poking
around in the grass, trying to find the
ball that he has just succeeded in hitting
with a club. This makes golf discourag
ing at first and leads sarcastic people to
hint that it is best played by a retriever
pup.
The new golf course is especially well
equipped for receiving balls and not giv
ing them up. Day after day you will go
blithely out, your bag stuffed with small
rubber pellets and return discouraged,
after a weary afternoon of hunting, with
no balls at all. However, in a month or