A Review of the Week
Christmas brought many of the younger set back from school and college to join their parents during the holiday period. Informal parties and entertainments, a treasure hunt and Santa Claus party at the Carolina, couples with two dances, one on Christmas Eve and the other Christmas night, added to the gaiety of the occasion. Santa peeked in, nodded his white head in approval and headed his reindeer team for another locality.
Among the most recent to arrive to unite with the colony of young folks already here were the Misses Dorothy and Virginia Marshall, Newtonville, Mass.; Miss Betty Grayson and her chum, Miss Adelaide McBride, Philadelphia; John Chickering Jr., Boston; Samuel P. Hopkins Jr., New York; Marshall and Patrick McLeod; Robert Bryant, Detroit; Richard and John Chapman, Greenwich; Miss Elizabeth and John Rudel, Montreal; Arnold and Burrell White Jr., New York; Henry M. Dingley Jr., Auburn, ME.; Richard J. Morgan, New York; Forbes Wilson, John and Miss Lillian Ross; William, Hubert, Morgan and Miss Mary Grace O’Brien, Detroit; Henry, William, Hewitt, Walter and Miss Cora Swoope, Merion, Pa.; George and Peggy Parson, Youngstown; Jacob Ancona, Pottstown, Pa.; Curtis Crocker, Cincinnati; and Miss Mary Woolfolk, Washington, Pa.
The father and son golf tournament was another affair in which the young folks joined. Colonel Albert Dillingham and his son, Daingefield, were victors, with Henry B. Swoope, Merion, Pa., and son Walter, close behind. George T. Dunlap Jr., who won the qualifying round in the men’s event with his father scored the low gross record for the senior and junior tourney.
Halbert J. Blue of Aberdeen and Joe Hotchkiss of Pinehurst, who once previously this season combatted for the laurels of the links, opposed each other in the finals of the men’s season, Blue winning the close match, one up. In the ladies’ competition, Mrs. John D. Chapman repeated a performance of a week previous when she won the Carolina tournament, and emerged victor.
“Long” Jim Barnes, the winner of the British open, and Freddie McLeod, former American champion, returned to their homes for Christmas after a round of exhibition matches here. McLeod, who was suffering from a stiff side, enjoyed one morning thoroughly when he beat Leo Diegel, the Canadian title holder, in a friendly match, 2 and 1. Jim, as he phrases it “did his stuff” by preventing P.W. Whittemore and Joe Cappello, and on another day, Emit French and Joe Cappello from beating McLeod and himself. Both matches ended even and were settled only after the rangy champion sunk his putt on the nineteenth.
The Silver Foils handicap against bogey competition was won by Mrs. H.H. Rackham, Detroit, with an even score. Mrs. C.S. Waterhouse was two down and Miss A.S. Gilman, Cleveland, was three down. The weekly program arranged by the club is one of the most interesting parts of the women’s golf activity.
Miss Anna Rabinowitch, the Rumanian pianist, gave a recital at the Country Club Sunday evening, the 20th, for the benefit of the parent-teachers’ association. She also played at a bridge given by Mrs. Leonard Tufts. Among the guests were Mrs. P.W. Whittemore, Mrs. John D. Chapman, Mrs. George Howard, Mrs. Herman Ellis, Mrs. John Tuckerman, Mrs. John C. Spring, Mrs. Ralph Page, Mrs. T.A. Cheatham, Mrs. Jackson Boyd, Mrs. James Boyd, Mrs. Myron Marr, Mrs. W.B. Merrill, Mrs. Roger Derby.
A drag hunt was held from the Carolina recently while motion picture men took pictures for Grantland Rice’s sport films. The party included Mrs. A.W. Mittendorf, Albert and Dorthy of New York; Mrs. Joseph C. Quirk, Greenwich, Conn.; Miss Cora Swoope, Merion, Pa.; George and Frances Stanley, Kennebunkport, Me.; Miss Peggy Parson, Youngstown; Dr. P.B. Magnuson, Chicago; W.V. Slocock, Pinehurst.
Mr. and Mrs. Almon C. Judd and E. Webster Judd arrived by motor from Waterbury, Conn. Hector Hughes, dean of Harvard’s engineering school, is spending the holiday vacation here.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Given of New York and Mr. and Mrs. C.P. Adams of Worcester have returned to their homes until January. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Brahm, St. Louis, Mo., are spending their wedding tour here.
Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Truesdell, New York, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leatherbee of Boston, are among recent arrivals. Mr. and Mrs. W. Percy Arnold of North Abington, Mass., are at the Pine Lodge Cottage.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Beall paid a visit to Mrs. Nat S. Hurd of Pittsburgh enroute by motor to Alabama.
Judge Edward R. Finch of New York and General A.J. Bowley are among the guests at the Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sherred Jr. left for Merion, Pa., following their wedding tour.
From the front page of the Pinehurst Outlook, Saturday, January 2, 1926
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