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MAY 15, 1926
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Convention Time in Pinehurst
By E. Ellsworth Giles *
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LTHOUGH the migratory golfing birds who winter
at Pinehurst have followed the song birds to their
northern homes and nests, the fairways are by no
means deserted. Following each other in well regulated
order came the bankers, electricians, the legionnaires, the
underwriters, the Shriners, and so on, keeping this great
Tesort alive and the links peopled with lovers of the game,
even though the nation’s champions, some of them, may be
in the British strike zone.
As this is written many of the hundred or more delegates
attending the Southeastern Underwriters Association are
joining the itinerant divot diggers in their daily rounds of the
links.
Following the Underwriters will come the Oasis Temple
of the Shriners to the very shrine of golf with an ex
pected attendance of two thousand strong and with big
doings characteristic of this great national body, not the
least of which will be club swinging, out on the fairways
where no password is needed or asked only the flying divot
and missed putt.
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Arthur (Ducky) Yates, the big Rochester boy, whose name
is closely linked with Pinehurst tournament golf, found the
'sudden change to grass greens and northern springtime fair
ways in general a bit disconcerting to his game in his ap
pearance at the Engineers’ spring tournament a few days
•ago. Yates squeezed into the first 16 with an ample card
-of 86 shots, but he was put out of the running by the former
national public links champion. Richard Walsh, of New York,
who learned his golf at Van Cortlandt Park, that public
rendezvous for the Metropolitan unattached golfer. Yates
in full practice was looked upon as the probable winner of the
tournament, inasmuch as the good golfers of the Metropol
itan district who were entered were without much spring
practice. But “Ducky” disappointed even as he did at Pine
hurst in the North and South Amateur matches.
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The Greensboro, N. C. Country Club pulled off a good
golfing stunt a few days ago when the regular, golfing mem
bers of the club put on a. Scotch foursome tournament, each
member being partnered by an outside friend who had never
played golf. The so-called Scotch foursome requires that
partners on each side play alternate shots with the same ball,
but in this case it looked as though the tournament was con
ceived for the purpose of inocculating the innocent and
•unsuspecting citizens of Greensboro with the deadly golf bug.
virus. Perhaps this Country Club can accommodate a few
more desirable members who might help in the general wel
fare. In any event it was a rather unique tourney.
WOMEN HAVE GOOD CARD
The Woman’s Southern Golf Association’s annual cham
pionship tournament moves up to the Charlotte Country Club,
Charlotte, N. C., for the week of May 25th. In addition to
determining the year’s champion, the association has ar
ranged a most attractive list of events which will keep the
entrants busy. No less than thirty prizes are offered, and
the events are so classified that there is sure to be sustained
interest. For instance those qualifying the first 32 are
eligible to compete in a driving contest arranged for their
flight, but not in a similar event arranged for the second 32,
and so on in the putting and approaching events.
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It seems that the property custodians for both the men
and women at Pinehurst have burnished the “Tin Whistles”
and “Silver Foils,” and like Little Boy Blue have put them
-away at the club house for the summer. At any rate it is
very quiet at the headquarters of these two widely celebrated
golfing organizations.
Stick a thumb tack in these dates set for international com
petition which will stir the blood of partisans and patriots
on both sides of the big water hazard: •
May 10-16—British Ladies’ Championship at Harlech.
Glenna Collett entered.
May 24-30—British Amateur Championship at Muirfield.
Entered: Bobby Jones, Francis Ouimet, Jesse Guilford,.
Jess Sweetser, George Von Elm, Bob Gardner, Watts Gunn,
Ronald MacKenzie, Max Marston, Bill Fownes, and several
others.
June 2-3—Walker Cup Team Match engaging the first eight
men mentioned above. At old St. Andrews.
June 21-23—British Open Championship at Lytham and St.
Anne’s.
Entered: Walter Hagen, Mac Smith, Bobby Cruickshank,
Jim Barnes, Gene Sarazen, Leo Diegel, Fred McLeod, Tommy
Armour, Bill Mehlhorn.
Can the British home guard withstand this array of in
vading golfers? Perhaps, but we think not.
THE WOMEN OF HABLECH
Gentle reader, when this reaches you the decision doubt
less will have been rendered in Britain as to who will be
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