In order to avoid the delay incident to waiting for the Portsmouth ferry, a party of four motoring to this city from East Orange, New Jersey, took the road by Great Bridge and through Camden and Currituck counties, in preference to the George Washington Highway along the Dismal Swamp Canal Saturday.
Hence it was that the trip, instead of requiring something less than two hours, took them more than five. They saved five or ten minutes at the ferry, of course, but this was lost a good many times over when their car stalled in the mud in Camden County several miles from this city, where highway construction work is being carried out. It was well after nightfall when they arrived.
The members of the party were Jack Hiner and his mother, Mrs. Mary Hiner, of Plainfield, and Jim Shyne and Chris Crosby of East Orange. Hiner and Crosby are golf professionals. They had heard there was a vacancy at Elizabeth City Country Club and had come down to see for themselves. Both grew up with the game, having started as mere kids by caddying on various Jersey courses. Both since have golfed as professionals pretty much all along the Atlantic Seaboard, they declare.
“You’ve got a fine outlook for a course here,” Crosby commended Monday, after having played over the club’s nine holes Sunday. “It’s exceptionally good for a course that is still less than a year old.”
The visitors state they expected to remain in Elizabeth City for several days before returning to Jersey.
From the first page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday evening, Jan. 4, 1926
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