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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1964
SCORE ACES
Two contestants in the North-
South Amateur going on this
week at the Pinehurst Country
Club, scored holes-in-one in prac
tice rounds at the club last week.
Lawrence Feldman of Philadel
phia, Pa., planted his five-iron
tee shot in the sixth hole of the
Number Five Course and Leslie
A Fish of Phillipsburg, N. J.,
aced the 17th hole of the Number
Two Championship Course with a
three-iron shot.
Wiffi and friend . , , in January Poinl-fo-Point here.
, (Humphrey photo)
m PEACH BLOSSOM
Wiffi Smith Returns To Pro Golf,
Snaps Injured Wrist ‘Like Whip’
Dan Foster, sports editor of the
Greenville Piedmont published in
Greenville, S. C., devoted his col
umn in the April 18 issue to Wiffi
Smith, who returned to the ranks
of professional golfdom again this
month after a four-year absence
due to an injury to her left wrist
received in a motor accident in
1960. Since then, Wiffi has been
living in Southern Pines, and
working with the dogs and horses
at W. O. Moss’s Mile-Away Farms.
During the past season, she was
whipper-in for the Moore County
Hounds, of which Mr. Moss is
joint master, with Richard
Webb.. Mr. Foster’s article fol
lows.
Wiffi Smith, who used to figure
out what was needed to win the
Peach Blossom Tournament and
then shoot same, was back on fa
ir-way to a 75 and throughly
enjoying the sunshine.
She also is thinking some about
going back to the professional
tour, although the answer she
gives could lead you anywhere.
The farm-fresh, freckled face
redhead, whose victory streak
here was stopped only by a mo
tor-scooter accident, is a greatly
reduced lassie now. She has lost
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30 pounds, but she is still hitting
the ball a long way, and she is,
despite many reasons she should
not be, still a threat here.
Consecutive Winner
Wiffi won Spartanburg in 1958,
a 21-year-old travelling in
Volkswagen bus with her dog
and beating the best women golf
ers in the world. She won the
Peach Blossom that year in ’59
and again in ’60. It is significant
that no one player has won it two
times straight since.
She has changed her approach
some. This year she came down
from Southern Pines driving an
International Pickup truck; there
was no dog, and fan being fans,
the gallery had thinned a little
from the booni years.
Injured in Accident
What broke Wiffi’s streak and
directed her away from the tour
was a motorscooter accident in
August, 1960, three months after
her third straight Peach Blossom
crown.
An injured wrist required two
operations, the last of which was
in February, 1963. Further it was
the left wrist, which Wiffi snaps
like a coach whip to lash that
ball for distances.
Some indications that it is
much better: she was five feet
short of the 495-yard number 15
green on her second shot yester
day. Item two: she was on the
490-yard number 17 green in two
shots, and her putt stopped a
sneeze away from an eagle, but
she wouldn’t sneeze.
This was her first tournament
since 1960. Was she thinking
about going back on the tour?
Well, yes and no. . . and I know
that’s not much of an answer,”
said Wiffi. “I enjoyed playing the
.tour, but I just don’t know.”
Whipper-In
To understand what Wiffi is
doing now it helps to be a master
of the hounds. She is whipper-
in for the Moore County hounds
at Southern Pines, N. C. If you
knew there were such a job, and
knew Whiffi, you would know
that sooner or later she would be
in it.
“On a foxhunt,” she explains,
“when the huntsman sends the
hounds into a place where the fox
might be, it is the responsibility ]
of the whipper-in to keep the
hounds within the control of the
huntsman, to keep them from
spreading all over the place.
“Then if we see the fox, we
let the huntsman know with ‘tally
ho’.
“As you can see,” said the girl
who might easily have become
the Arnold Palmer of women’s
golf, “the whipper-in can be a
very important person to the
huntsman.”
The job keeps Wiffi in touch |
with dogs and horses and the out
doors, any two of which seem es
sential to her day-to-day living
with a third always desirable.
To be fully understood, her 75
of yesterday must be viewed with
the proper background. She has
shot only 8 rounds of golf this
year. One errant shot on the
11th hole yesterday was the |
type that multiplies itself. It
was behind a tree and she fin
ished the hole with a double
bogey.
She gave only lip service to a
birdie possibly on the par-3 num
ber 14 hole. For a girl out of
practice, the fact her tee shot on
the 160-yard hole landed within
two feet and topped two more
feet away is of passing interest.
Her putt tipped and rolled inso
lently away by four inches.
If her wrist is up to it and the
hounds will let her go—just for
the summer—^Wiffi might be
ready again
“Ihe season at Southern Pines
runs from Thanksgiving Day into
April,” she explained, in answer
to whether she could do both if
she tried.
Wiffi has the power, even with
her loss of weight, and she is a
superb putter. Of even great im
portance, she has the tempera
ment.
In the most critical holes of the
Peach Blossom in years past, Wif
fi continued to chat with the gal
lery, smile at her own predica
ments and keep everything in its
proper perspective.
She could have made a mint
she was told, if she had been able
to continue before.
Tm not interested in a lot of
money. I just want to have a
good time,” said Wiffi, which she
has always managed to do
Scholarship auditions for the
third annual summer music camp
at St. Andrews Presbyterian Col
lege will be conducted' May 16
in the VardeU Building on the
campus near Laurinburg.
Franklin West director of the
camp and of the St. Andrews
Conservatory of Music, announc
ed that the competition will take
place between 9 a.m. and noon
on Saturday, May 16.
Two full scholarships of $100
each are being offered—one by
Jefferson Standard Broadcasting
Company and the other by the
college, named in hornor of the
Vardell family.
Several other scholarships for
lesser amounts will be given, in
cluding some for string musicians.
Some work scholarships will be
given by application only.
The camp is designed for ser
ious young musicians, ages 12 to
20, and this is the first year
scholarships have been offered.
The faculty will include a resi
dent string quartet this year.
Opening June 21, the camp lasts
for three weeks. It will offer
private lessons and group work
in concert band, symphony
orchestra, mixed chorus, vocal
and instrumental ensembles, and
a dance band. Campers use the
college’s completely air-condition
ed facilities.
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