the management of the Country Club has made arrangement with Charlie Sadler to become a year round employe and he will remain with the club through the summer making his headquarters there and having a general supervision of the Club house and the players. It is proposed to keep the club house open and make it a social center for those who wish to patronize it. Various summer functions will be featured and the good times can be anticipated in advance. Mr. Sadler is fitted by his hotel training and his pleasing and diplomatic temperament to make an excellent host, and the managers are to be congratulated on securing his services.
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Pro. Emmett French has departed for his home at Youngstown, Ohio, and his few months of service here has ended. Mr. French retains his popularity as in the past and has proven himself no mean opponent when stacked up against the champions. The only draw back to Mr. French’s services is the fact that Southern Pines gets no credit in the newspapers for the brilliant plays that he makes, although under salary from the country club, when their plys(?) are made. He is always credited to Youngstown, Ohio. why not next year have him reported from Southern Pines in the winter?
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Norman Hall, Mr. French’s assistant and club maker, has packed his clubs and departed for the West. Hall should be Pro. to some club. He is a good instructor, a player in the professional class and a genial fellow to meet. It will be well to keep your eye on him for when he does start, the public will hear of some considerable number of successes from him.
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Andy (Gump) who sold his old clubs a while ago felt so homesick for them that he bought one of them back. Then things seemed to be more cheerful, so Andy went out and played the 11th green on the No. 2 course in three. He had an idea that if he could buy them all back and could have played in the Hagen-French match, the result would have been different.
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Tom Kelly was piloting Mr. Brown of the popular magazine, Golf Illustrated, around the course a while ago. The playing of Mr. Brown was only human, and he got into some difficulties that would have proven good to illustrate. In the end, Tom was in his old form and came in sufficiently in the lead to make it interesting for his visitor.
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Although our regular Pros have left us, the local Pros remain during the summer and there will be many hotly contested matches played on the local courses during the summer months, and there will be a fair sized galley following the players too.
From the front page of the Sandhill Citizen, Southern Pines, N.C., Friday, April 18, 1924
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