VOL. XVI, NO. 4
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1912
FIVE CENTS
SILVER FOILS' TOURNAMENTS
Hew Year Inaugurates Extensive
Program of Golf Tournaments
Forty-nix Attractive Trophies Provide
' tor Twenty Event from January
Vtli to April 5th -
INDICATIVE of the im
portant place the Silver
Foils, the women's golfing
club, now occupies in the
activities of the Village,
is the schedule of season's
tournaments. Beginning
January 7th and concluding April 5th,
twenty events round out the weeks, the
majority of the forty-six attractive tro
phies offered contributed by members
and interested friends, among them : Mrs.
R.C. King, Mrs. W. C. Fownes, Jr., Mrs.
R. C. Shannon, 2nd, Mrs. I. S. Robeson,
Mrs. Allan Lard, Mrs. L. E. Beall, Mrs.
A. C. Aborn, Mrs. N. J. Scaminell, Mrs.
T. J. Check, Mrs.C. S. Waterhouse, Mrs.
F. G. Barnes, Mrs. C. N. Phillips, Mrs.
J. R. Price, Mrs. II. L. Burrage, Mrs. J.
t P. Gardner, Mrs. Spencer Waters, Mrs.
II. L. Jillson, Mr. and "Mrs. Leonard
Tufts, Messrs. II. C. Fownes and D. J.
Ross, and the Misses Hazel Shannon,
Myra Helmer, Gwendolyn Cummings and
Louise Elkins. The full program is as
follows :
THE PROGRAM
January 7 Medal play. First and
second prizes presented by Miss Shannon
and Mrs. King.
January 14 Handicap vs. bogey.
First and second prizes presented by Mrs.
Fownes, Jr., and Mrs. Shannon, 2nd.
January 18 Putting contest. Prizes
presented by Miss Helmer and Club.
January 21 Swatfest. Match play
vs. the field. Prizes presented by Mrs.
Robeson and Mrs. Lard.
January 28, 29, 30, 31 Three ball
match ; twenty-seven to qualify, play-off
on six point system. First and second
prizes presented by Mrs. Beall and Mrs.
Tufts.
February 1 Putting contest.' Prizes
presented by the Club.
February 3 Foursome medal play.
Prizes presented' by Mr. Fownes and
Mrs. Scammell.
February 11 Prize for best net score
in qualifying round St. Valentine's tour
nament. February 15 Approaching and put
ting contest. Prize presented by Mr. Ross.
February 18 Best selected twelve
holes, six in each nine. Prizes presented
by Mrs. Check and Mrs. Waterhouse.
February 25, 26, 27, 28 Team match ;
twelve to qualify from scratch, two
classes. Play-off at match play under
handicap. Six cups presented by Mrs.
King.
March 1 Putting contest. Prizes pre
sented by Club.
March 4 Cemetery contest. Prizes
presented by Mrs. Barnes and Miss Cum
mings. March 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Round robin.
Twenty eight to qualify. The best eight
gross women play a round robin at
scratch and the remaining twenty form
five divisions of four, each to play a hand
icap round robin. Prizes presented by
Miss Elkins, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Price,
Mrs. Burrage and Club.
March 18, 19 Silver Foils Champion
ship under handicap, thirty-six holes
medal play. Eighteen holes No. 1 course,
eighteen holes No. 2 course. Cups pre
sented by Mrs. Barrows. Prize for best
gross score in championship presented
by Mr. Tufts.
March 20 Mixed foursome. Medal
play. Prizes presented by Club.
March 22 Team match for first an
nual Club dinner. Details later.
March 29 Putting contest. Prizes
presented by Mrs. Aborn and Club.
Atril 1 Handicap against bogey.
First and second prizes presented by Mrs.
Gardner and Mrs. Waters.
April 5 Approaching and putting
contest. Prize presented by Mrs. Jillson.
Putting contest on clock. Prizes pre
sented by Club.
Miss Gwendolyn Cummings, the Club's
secretary, arrives early, in the coming
week and will arrange final details. Plans
are also being made to display the tro
phies and quite a feature is to be made
with an innovation in the form of an an
nual team match and dinner at The Caro
lina, announced for March twenty second.
SPORT FAST ARD FURIOUS
Rattling: Runs Open Fox Hunting
Season Augpiclotiitly
The week has been an auspicious open
ing for the fox hunting season, opening
with a moonlight meeting, a rattling race
and kill, and concluding with a lengthy
hour run which outdistanced the field ; a
variety which has rarely been combined
in three hunts. For rollicking fun the
moonlight run was easily a leader for
full details ask Huntsman Nat as the
"field" did not participate in the finish.
Half a mile out the run opened with a
desultory chase of short duration in
which "Lauder" sang a solo part with
occasional assistance from the pack as
chorus. Presently the group paused at
the foot of a gum tree in which Uncle
Nat's keen eyes almost immediately
spotted a 'possum which was promptly
bagged with great glee.
Not long after Sir Reynard was dis
covered hot on the trail of a rabbit and
promptly found more urgent business in
distant parts, with the hounds in full cry
and the hunt following suit. Through
swale and up hillside he sped doubling
back to cover only to be routed for a
wide circle with the distance constantly
lessening and the music rising to concert
pitch as the end drew nigh. "Get 'im
next time he turns" gasped Nat, and sure
enough he did and good and plenty, for
Foxy ran amuck of a Polar kitten and
with scant ceremony departed for haunts
unknown to let the midnight wanderer
welcome the pack. Nat, close up, wit
nessed a strange commotion and plunged
in ready to snatch the brush fiom the
dogs. But Nat had things all his own
way. "Not for mine" chirped the pack,
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FINAL ROUND IS THE CLIMAX
Keen Play Adds Zest to First Annual
St. Thomas Tennis Tourney
Five Rrllliant Sets In Men'- Rouble
and Play Slng-le Equally Fast
Mill Adsit Ijvada Women
BRILLIANT play in the
final round of the men's
doubles event in the first
annual St. Thomas' ten
nis tournament.concluded
a week of fast play Satur
day las.t, Ct Lloyd Pierce
of New York and C. M. Bishop of Brook
lyn, the victors over W. B. Findlay and
C. J. MacGuire, both of New York,
Taking the first set in 6 2, they lost the
second 6 8, won the third 7 5, capture
the fourth 8 10 in a bitter struggle and
won the decisive set 6 4. Both pairs
were playing very fast, making the con
test one in which not only skill but en
durance figured largely. . In the semi
final Bishop and Pierce defeated James;
D. Foot, Jr., of Rye and Charles C.
Adsit, Jr., of Chicago, 64, 63. Mac
Guire and Findlay advanced on the de
feat of A. W. Rockwood of laconic and
A. W. Pearson of Greenwich, 62, 63;
The final in the men's singles was
equally keen, John Tunis of Cambridge
defeating C. M Bishop of Brooklyn. .
Winning the first set, 3 6, Mr. Tunis
lost the second, 119, and won the two
remaining sets, 6 4, 60; Mr. Bishop
being somewhat handicapped by a bad
fall. In the semi-final, Tunis won from
Mr. Foot, 64, 68, 62, while Bishop
defeated W. Lloyd Pierce of New York,'
26, 61, 62.
Mr. Foot and Miss Helen Barnett of
New Haven, won 61, 61, in mixed
doubles over Mr. Charles Adsit, Jr., ;and
Miss Elizabeth Adsit of Chicago. In the!
semi-final Mr. Foot ; and Miss Barnett
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