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j' PAGE f THE FINEHURST OUTLOOK Jff 10 TOWNSEMD'S TtyPliEX (PATENT PENDING) im in mi in in ii i fip .Ty , , ii.ijn ii,i'ii)iim.ifc'.a1w t. 'Mulmii The Greatest Grass-cutter on Earth Cuts a Swath 86 Inches Wide Drawn by one horse and operated by one man, the TRIPLEX will mow more lawn in a day than the best motor mower ever made, and cut it better at a fraction of the cost. Drawn by one horse and operated by one man, it will mow more lawn in a day than any three horse-drawn mowers with three horses and three men. Does not smash the grass to earth and plaster it in the mud in Springtime, nor crush out its life between hot rollers and hard, hot ground in Summer as does the motor mower. Write for Catalogue illustrating all types of Lawn Mowers in cluding Townsend's Golf Wonder for putting greens. (Free). S. P. TOWNSEND & CO., llcTrae PINEHURST SCHOOL PINEHUEST School was constructed during the spring and summer of the present year, on a site one mile south of Pinehurst. The school receives both day and board ing scholars. In the day school the curri culum is composed of both elementary and college preparatory courses. Arrangements have been made to con vey to and from school boys who live in Pinehurst during the winter and who desire to enroll in the day school department. Gbe School Calendar First Term Begins Thursday, October 14, 1915 First Term Ends Wednesday, December 22, 1915 CHEISTMAS VACATION Second Term Begins Wednesday, January 5, 1916 Second Term Ends Monday, March 13, 1916 Third Term Begins Tuesday, March 14, 1916 Third Term Ends Thursday, May, 18, 1916 For additional information address ERIC PARSON (Headmaster) Pmchurst, - North Carolina Merchants & Miners Trans. Go. ifamihip Une BETWEEN Boston, Providence and Norfolk Most Delightful Eoute Between ALL NEW ENGLAND POINTS AND PINEHURST Florida Service between Boston, Provi dence, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Jacksonville Fine Steamers Low Fares Bait Senloe AUTOMOBILES CARRIED Marconi Wireless Telegraph lend Vor Booklet E. 0. Lohr, Agt., Norfolk, Va. 0. H. Matnaed, Agt., Boston, Mass. James Barry, Agt., Providences, R. I. W. P. Turner, G. P. A., Baltimore, Md. "Finest Coutwlti Trlpt In the World" Pinehurst Farms Dairy and Market Garden Supplying the Entire Village in their Respective Departments. Village Guests are Cordially Invited to Visit These Modern Plants. Addms Cerrespsndince to FHVBlIUnBT OBHBII1L OFFIOB A. MOINTESAINTI Tailor and Dress Maker Riding Habits and Sporting Apparel French Dry Cleaning Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines, N. C. FOURSOME PLAY The Attitude of an Old Timer Some New A up vet of an Old Subject Turning back the pages of golf ' ' as she was played" by our ancestors, we are surprised to see what a large place was held by foursomes in older golfing days. They those estimable men in top hats and swallow-tailed coats to whom we owe our being were in the habit of playing more foursomes than anything else. Per haps they were a more sociable folk than we, their descendants; for though we play and enjoy an occasional foursome, we should be very far from regarding golf so played as in any sense typical. The game as wre understand it is a game of match play a duel where man is pitted single-handed against man. Foursome play we are rather disposed to regard as a piece of by-play a pleasant relaxation from the real, stern business of golfing life, which wTe conceive to be golf in sin gles. The foursomes that our ancestors affected were not necessarily matches in which all the players were on an equality. Rather, as it would seem, they preferred games in which a strong player and a moderate player were in partnership against a pair of similar relative caliber. These matches are certainly among the most interesting and enjoyable that can be played, and one may well regret that they are not more numerous. Apart from the merits intrinsic in the foursome, its popularity in the old days of golf may have arisen from the circumstance that, wThen golf was a more costly and a less democratic game, not only did fewer peo ple play it, but those that did play did not devote themselves to it with the sin gle-minded fervor of the ardent golfer of today. Generally, the old-time golfer was a big laird, a lord maybe a mag nate, whose local duties wTere a heavy tax on his time, so that he played golf as a elaxation merely. Naturally he would not play it in its most finished and forcible manner, and naturally, therefore, t often pleased him to take as his partner a pro fessional who would help him over the hard places, retrieve his errors, point out to him their causes, and so make his day 's golfing a pleasure instead of a toil. This, or something like this, we may conceive to have been a great factor in the popu larity of the foursome in the days of our ancestors. To find the reason of the wane of its popularity one does not need to seek far. Most golfers of today do a deal of their golfing by train, coming to the course by one train and leaving by another, being bound down therefore within strict limits of time. The natural consequence is that they want to ge tall the golf they can within those limits. In a single one gets two knocks for every one that one gets in a foursome; moreover, a single goes quicker and is more easily got together at the starting point. All these reasons make the golfer of today a quickly moving day prefer singles. Just at the moment there seems to be an indication of a turn in the tide. Golfers appear to be waking to a notion that they have perhaps treated the foursome with undue neglect, and are beginning to revert to it a little. Cer tainly it is the most agreeable kind of a game for a spectator to watch. There is more variety of interest, both of strictly golfing and of the human kind. One of the best-known humorous positions with which golf makes us acquainted is the position of being confident to two part ners in a foursome, both of them bewail ing into your sympathetic ears the other 's misdeeds. A further reason that has led the mod ern player to abandon, in large degree, his foursomes is the selfish and not alto gether satisfactory one that they do not give him equally good practice for tht numerous competitions which the modern golfer takes a part in. This love of com petition by score is entirely a new feature of the game. If we look back over the minutes of any of the older clubs we find that not oidy in Great Britain were four somes the most common form of such matches as seemed worthy of record, but that the interest even in singles, as com pared with the absence of interest in scor ing competitions, was infinite. Virtually there were no such competitions. No man ever dreamed of keeping his score; it would have seemed to him as vain a super fluity of labor as counting the number of. steps he took between Temple Bar and the Mansion House. They these old golfers were content to score their matches by holes, and did not care for the decorations of the monthly medal-monger. Alailaine has played its melody on the heart strings of the American theatre-going public for seven seasons. The play, by Alexander Bissin, is the old story of the heart hungry wife, crav ing love and attention and the wrapped-in-his-business-inattentative-husband. The first of her many steps downward begins with her clandestine meeting with' Eugene, whol oves her deeply. From that she slides down the ladder of degradation rung by rung until the lowest depths a woman can sink to are reached. Jacqueline now known to the police at ' 'Madame X," has drunk of all the dregs of the cup of life until she finds herself on trial for them urder of one of her lovers. Her own son, now a promising lawyer, is appointed to defend ' ' Madame X ' ' and the famous court room scene which has the reputation of possessing more drama tic intensity than anything seen in years, follows. The eloquent pleading of her son; her acquitaj and her death in the courtroom in the forgiving Floriet's arms is a touching scene. Dorothy Donnelly, who created the title role in the original production, adds a screen triumph to her histrionic career. At the, Carolina Theatre, Wednesday, January 26. Jki Magnolia Cottage Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes has opened the Magnolia again and is entertaining her daughter, Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt of New York. Mr. Hoyt is expected to arrive for the week end. in
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