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VOL. XXIX
MARCH 20, 1926
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at PINEHURST, N. C., Subscription, $2.00 per year.
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Meaning of the North and South
By E. Ellsworth Giles
S1"* OMETIMES those who are
intimately connected with
any given event fail to
grasp its full significance. This
may or may not be true of the
nationally known North and South
Tournament at Pinehurst with its
three big fixtures, including the
women’s, professionals’ and the
amateur championships, the first
of which starts March 25.
Whether the golfers who come
from the four corners of the
earth to participate in one or the
other of these events from year
to year fully appraise their sig
nificance as feeling the national
golfing pulse, and setting the
golfing styles for the season
north, west, and east, it is nev
ertheless true that the stay-at
homes everywhere turn their
eyes to Pinehurst to see just who
is tuned to concert pitch for the
big events just ahead, both in
Britain and in the United States.
In like manner attention will
be focused upon our national
woman champion, Glenna Col
let, to see if the standard of her
game holds up after a year of
brilliant play and almost contin
uous competitive golf. They will
be watching to discern as far as possible if the Providence
“queen of the links” has not grown a bit stale, and will be fit
and keen to enter the summer arena just ahead where the
real test is staged. Then there are others coming to dispute
the sway of the popular champion, golfers who have brought
their games up to her level, at least on their best days.
Helen. Payson, the Portland, Maine, miss who defeated
Miss Collett but recently, will be here and we are hoping
that the season’s sensation, 17-year-old Virginia Van Wie, of
Chicago, will also stop off and show us her game. She showed
Glenna a game good enough to defeat her when the champion >
admitted that she had not played as well since she met Joyce
Wethered. Mrs. J. Raymond Price of the Oakmont Country
Club, the present champion of the Western Pennsylvania
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Miss Glenna Collett, National Woman Champion tmd former„
holder of the North and South titleK arrives this week and
will he a leading factor in the renewal of this event
which starts March 25.
Golf Association, a title which
she has held often, and defended
many times, is here and is sure
to be a factor in the tournament
as will her former club-mate and.
links companion, Mrs. M. Johnson
Scammell, nee Miss Mary
Fownes, a sister of the president
of the United States Golf As
sociation.
One hundred and thirty-one
women started in the 1925 event,
and the championship went to
Mrs. Melville Jones of Chicago,
with Miss Marian Bennett run
ner-up. Miss Louise Fordyce,
the Youngstown star who has
been sojourning at the Highland
Pines Inn, and practicing over the
Southern Pines course, won the
qualifying medal last year, but
was defeated in the penultimate
match round, 1 up, by the ulti
mate champion, Mrs. Jones. Miss
Fordyce is out for the champion
ship this year.
With Collett, Fordyce, Pay son,
Price, Scammell, Mrs. John D.
Chapman, Mrs. Emmett French
and others of their class compet
ing, this year’s event should be
one of the best in its history.
It is altogether likely that
MacDonald Smith the exponent of the old St. Andrews full
flat swing, will be back to defend the title of Open North and
South champion which he so brilliantly won a year ago.
Smith stepped out in front of a field of sixty-seven pros and
seven amateurs, returning a card total of 281 strokes, com
piled over the No. 2, or championship course. Among his
rounds was a choice 68. The modest Mac led the next man,
Walter Idagen, by eight strokes.
As this is written the entry of the diminutive Bobby
Cruickshank, the former Scottish amateur, barrister, and
all-around college athlete, has been received among the first
of the professionals for the North and South. Bobby battled
another Bobby at Inwood for the open title three years ago,
and lost by a putt on the home green after a brilliant and