THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
self. The problem was solved in
stantly, after the approved man
ner of Augustus. The bell went
into commission again, this time
summoning an orderly of still
more imposing and regal aspect,
whose heels clicked and arm
saluted in a manner calculated to
freeze any antomator with envy.
His majesty spoke.
" 'Next Sunday morning Annie
Oakley will give an exhibition of
shooting at Charlottenburg. You
will see that the chief of police
and none other of the police are
admitted while it is going on
"Well, so it occurred when we
came out of the grounds. There
they all were, these police, lined
up outside, just as they would all
be lined up on a ridgepole or tan
dem down a well if he happened
to mention it.
THE OBSERVATION CORPS
"We had occasion enough after
that to confirm our opinion of the
trend of the Kaiser's thoughts.
The Wild West Show spent some
time in the German Empire and
we saw his majesty five- or six
times. And his thoughts were
bent upon military efficiency to a
degree almost inconceivable to us
at that time. He did not care a
snap about the show as a show.
But he saw what few other men
saw, the lessons that could be
learned from our outfit of use to
the military science.
"We never moved without at
least forty officers of the Prussian
guard standing all about with
note books taking down every de
tail of the performance. They
made minute notes of how we
pitched camp the exact number
of men needed, every man's posi
tion, how long it took, how we
boarded the trains and packed the
horses, and broke camp; every
living rope and bundle and kit
was inspected and mapped. And
they took an enormous interest
in the camp kitchen. And small
wonder. For almost thirty years
afterwards the world was to lis
ten with mouths wide open to the
wonderful travelling kitchens of
an invading Teuton army, serv
ing meals piping hot on the road
to Brussels conceived by no less
a person than Buffalo Bill, and
copied assiduously by Pomeran
ian Colonels into endless memo
randa to be improved upon for
the serving of dinner on the way
to the King's jubilee in Paris,
August, 1914.
URGES GOLF LINKS FOR
WOMEN ONLY
Miss Alexa Stirling Criticises
Practice of Altering Courses
Designed for Men
Miss Alexa W. Stirling of At
lanta, women's national golf
champion, has forsaken the mash
ie for the pen, at least tempora
rily, and has written a compre
hensive article on golf links for
women in the January number of
Golf Illustrated, edited by Max
Behr, former New Jersey cham
pion. In this article Miss Stirling
takes issue with those who think
that the way to prepare any full
sized links for a woman's tourna
ment is to move the disks up to
the short tee and call it a day's
work. She indorses the action of
the Women's Western Golf Asso
ciation in adopting a new set of
par figures for their own stand
ard of play.
Getting down to the details of
course construction, Miss Stir
ling points out that every good
golf course in the country is
laid out to demand that each shot
be a good one by a man ! In no
case does the course architect
stop and say to himself, as he sets
the distance or plans a bunker,
"This will make a beautiful mid
iron shot for a woman." The only
place on the links where men and
women meet on equal footing is
the putting green.
To the matter of using the
front tees in adjusting the course
to the needs of a women's tourna
ment, Miss Stirling answers, "I
do not believe that such action
can ever make out of a first-class
course for men one of equal quali
ty for women, because it will up
set to a great extent the system
upon which the hazards have been
placed. All the best courses laid
out in recent years have been con
structed on the most scientific
lines, and, as is natural, have been
designed for men. Consequently
all distances, traps, bunkers and
greens have been measured tor
men alone."
Taking special instances, Miss
Stirling points out that after a
drive on a two-shot hole, a man
may have a midiron shot or a
mashie shot to the green, where
as a woman would be forced to
take a cleek or a brassie. In cases
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