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Number 19
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The Week in Review
By E. Ellsworth • Giles
UCH like the Arabs, the itinerant golfers, who are the
winter guests at Pineluirst, folded their tents recently
and silently stole away, leaving a great quiet in the
hotels and on the links. But following in the footprints
and divot scars of the regulars, however, came others in
organized companies for convention sojourns.
At this writing, and following the Electrical association,
the Executive Council of the American Bankers is assembled
in convention here, some 350 strong, and the unoccupied
moments find the delegates and their wives on the clock
putting surfaces and roaming the fairways in mixed four
some matches and other golfing events.
Headmaster Currie tells us that courses Number 2, 3 and 4
will eventually be closed to summer play in order to rest
them and put them in shape for next season. Number 1
course will be open all summer for the use of the guests
who come, as well as for the many who spend the summer
here as a part of the Pinehurst organization. Recognizing
the appeal which the game makes to one and all, and recog
nizing also the value of contentment and cooperation among
all those who contribute to the well-being and success of this
great golfing resort, an arrangement has been put into oper
ation whereby employees of the corporation may play golf
and tennis for a verv small summer-time fee. Last summei
nearly a hundred players availed themselves of this oppor
tunitv to plav regularly. In addition to the resident players
there were something like three hundred and fifty transient
guests who paid a daily fee of *1. each, being considerably
less than the winter-time charge. One may easily play 18
holes here after 5 o’clock during the three summer months,
and that is the very best part of the day, accoiding to those
who have spent their summers here.
As this issue of THE OUTLOOK reaches its readers the
nation’s golfing pulse will be beating fast in anticipation o
what may or mav not happen on British soil. Man\ the
are who will be left behind and who believe that oui chances
for lifting all three of the championship title trophies i
never quite so rosy. Surely not since the triumph of r^is
in 1904 has our invading amateur team looked so f01*11
while the pros will g'o to St. Anne s-by-the-sea P ^
much their full strength, and Glenna Collett, Nationa c
nion and runner-up in our North and South, is goo> e &
O turn the trick alone for . the women. With 1 ia^ .
|7ownes, Jr., of Pittsburg, as the head of the nite
>olf Association, the 'executive committee, inspir y
Fownes’ well-known inclination to thoroughness, has not
only recruited a great Walker Cup team, but the whole
U. S. G. A. Executive Committee has gone along to lend en
couragement to the boys, and to further cement the cordial
relations which already exist between the two golfing nations.
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WE’VE WON EVERY MATCH
Of the four international team matches already played, the
United States has won all of them, so there can be no new
thrill in taking the fifth, but with the British championship
it is quite another matter. We have tried and tried again
during the past twenty years but to no purpose.
Each country has a win to its credit, Travis coming through
at Sandwich in 1904, while Harold Hilton came to Apawamis
in 1911 and carried away our championship title.
If Bobby Jones, George Von Elm, Jesse Guilford, Jess
Sweetser and Francis Ouimet can’t stop the British at Muir
fleld at the end of this month, then the Britishers must be
pretty good this year. Jones and Von Elm look like our best
bets.
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Soon after this reaches you in print the Americans will
have their first competitive baptism, a 36 holes medal test
which should put them right on edge. The occasion is a
tournament at Sandwich for the historical St. George’s Vase,
an event won by Ouimet three years ago.
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We see they are installing some fifty new traps and
bunkers at St. Anne’s-by-the-sea, England, the course on
which the. British Open Championship will be played in June.
The stiffer they make the course the better for the class
player, and the less^ likelihood of an ordinary golfer shoot
ing “over his head.” The standard scratch score at St.
Anne’s is 76, and the new bunkering is expected to make
this score difficult of attainment. , .
With the eight men who have been selected to represent
this country as members of the Walker Cup team to try to
win for this country the British Championship, it seems ap
propriate and fitting to say something of their qualifications
for the job and their characteristics as golfers of parts.
It is a mixture of youth, age and seasoned experience
that we are offering the Britishers, and many there are who
believe that these boys and men will give a good account of
themselves.
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