FEBRUARY 2, 1922
PAGE 9
Mid-Pines Club
Midway between Pinehurst and South
ern Pines, at a spot which only a year
ago was a trackless sea of long-leaf pine
and stunted oaki, there now stands
fully complete the greatest country
clubhouse that has ever been erected in
the South and one of the largest and
finest buildings of its kind in the United
States. The best motor boulevard
south of the Mason and Dixon line, con
necting Southern Pines with Pinehurst
and passing through the fast growing
residential development known as Knoll
wood, sweeps past its portals and,
stretched below the clubhouse and al
ready in play, is an eighteen-hole golf
course, the latest masterpiece of Donald
Ross and one of the most interesting
tests of golfing ability that Mr. Ross has
ever laid out.
The clubhouse of the new Mid-Pines
Country Club is three stories in height
and five hundred feet in length or to
speak more exactly, it will be five hun
dred feet in length when the projected
additions are built, which will probably
not be for a year or two to come. As
it stands at present, the building is over
three hundred feet long and contains
sixty-five private rooms, each with bath,
in addition to the locker rooms for men
and women, the living room, the lounge,
the sun parlors, the great ballroom and
dining hall and the culinary department,
servants' quarters and offices. "When
the contemplated additions are made,
there will ibe one hundred members '
rooms which it is figured will amply
meet the requirements of all members
and friends of members who are likely
to be living at the club at any one time.
The membership is to be limited and it
costs $2,500 to get into the club.
The Mid-Pines golf course, opened for
play at the end of November, deserves
more than a passing paragraph. In
scenic beauty it far surpasses the best
of the Pinehurst courses and some of the
leading golf professionals of the coun
try, who have already played over it,
consider it to be at least two strokes
harder than even the difficult Number
Throe course at Pinehurst proper. The
length is six thousand two hundred and
sixty-five yards, with a par of seventy
two and a bogey of eighty-four as
against a par of seventy-one and a bogey
of eighty-one for Pinehurst 's Number
Three circuit. Its relatively narrow fair
ways, heavily wooded on both sides, and
the manner in which it is trapped, offers
to the short driver a fighting chance for
his life and his money against a long
driving opponent who deviates from the
straight line down the middle.
The texture and resiliency of the
brand new turf on the fairways is al
ready remarkably fine and you can
"take turf" with an iron shot on the
Mid-Pines course to the extent that
would hardly be safe on the sandier
courses which are usual in the South.
But the fact remains that it is a diffi
cult course and the consensus of opinion
among the professionals who have played
over it was well summed up the other
day by Bobby Cruikshanks of the Essex
Country Club, when he said that "the
man who breaks eighty on that course
on his first or second time around, is a
golfer. "
Jesse Guilford, the national amateur
golf champion, drove off the first ball
to be played at Mid-Pines and the course
was declared officially opened. Tho oc
casion was a joyous single-club tourney
in which Guilford took part in company
with a group of professionals, includ
ing Cyril Walker, Pat Doyle, Bobby
Cruikshanks, Emmet French, George Mc
Lean and others.
. The clubhouse itself was thrown open
in January, and on January 25th a
handicap medal play tournament was
staged on the links. This event, by
courtesy of the Club, was open to all
amateurs and a large entry participated
Among the leading spirits and back
ers of the Mid-Pines Club are: Leonard
Tufts, President of Pinehurst, Inc., L.
M. Boomer, Donald Ross, S. B. Chapin,
James Barber, Mrs. F. Talfourd Keat
ing, George T. Dunlap and William
Hamlin Childs, of New York; Thomas
G. Plant, of Boston; Charles Crocker of
Fitchburg, Mass.; H. B. Swoope and
James W. Oakford, of Philadelphia;
George N. Clemson, of Middletown, N.
Y. ; Horace H. Rackham, of Detroit;
Judge William A. Way, of Pittsburg;
and Thomas E. Wilson, of Chicago.
The Mid-Pines Country Club is not a
hotel or resort proposition in any sense
of the word nor has it any commercial or
money-making features save such as may
arise through the increase of value in
real estate held by or surrounding the
club and the increase in the number of
people attracted to Pinehurst and South
em Pines by the facilities and privileges
offered by the Club. It is a private
club, pure and simple, and the privileges
of the club house, the golf links and the
tennis courts will be limited to members
for the usual fees.
MRS. JOSEPH N. PEW, JR.
WINS WEEKLY RIFLE
CONTEST
Mrs. Joseph N. Pew, Jr., of Ard
more Pa., led the field in the weekly
rifle contest at the Gun club with a score
of 144 out of a possible 150 points.
Miss Helen Cope of Delaware Water
Gap, Pa., finished second, at 142, and
Mrs. D. C. Wharton Smith of Roland
Park, Md., was third, at 138.
Mrs. A. L. Gillispie of Tenafly, N.
J., formerly Christie MacDonald, light
opera Prima Donna, was an enthusiastic
contestant in this event and finished
fourth with the creditable score of 136
points.
A little bit of Taffy,
When a fellow's here, I'll say,
Beats a ton of Epitaphy
After he has passed awray.
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