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A WEEKLY GOLF NEWSPAPER
VOLUME 2, NUl\lBER 16
PUBLISHED AT PINEHURST, N. C.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 19-IR
CANADIAN Chuck Congdon Wins • Last week the Royal Canadian Golf Association sponsored its 39th annual open championship on the Pacific Coast and the results were highly satisfactory. Officials declared it brought out the largest galleries in the history of the event. Reginald :\Ioir, sports editor of The Vancouver Province, telegraphed GOLF WORLD; "there were 10,000 on the course when Chuck Congdon came home the winner.'' \ ancouvcr is the third largei,t city and chief seaport of Canada. Its chief ex port is wheal and the city contains many grain elevators. Other exports are tinned fish, limber, apples and flour. The popu lation is 271,597 according to the last census. l\Iany Britishers retire to Van couver because of the fine all-year C'li mate.
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Situated in a residential sector •1f Vancouver is The Shaughnessy Heights Golf Club. As the city has grown, this old and beautiful club has become com pletely surrounded by private homes (sec cut, Page 4). It was the first time the open had been played at Shaugh nessy, and although the event was dom inated by US professionals galleries appeared to enjoy the sport. There was some satisfaction lo North west golfers, on both sides of the Inter national border, when a home section professional, Chuck Congdon, won. Chuck had played well the week before in his home club city of Tacoma, Wash ington, where he tied with four others for first. and lost in the replay. Ed Oli ver, who had won at Tacoma, dropped far down the list at Vancouver, and for the two events in the Northwest, Cong don was strokes ahead of the field. The troop is playing in Portland, Ore gon, this week. Dick Me1z, leader for three rounds, was unable to sustain his winning pace (Continued on Page 4)
ROB HARLOW. ROITOR
These young men won the 8th aimual Southern Golf Association Four Ball cham1>ionship for the Roh Jones Tro1>hy, played at The General Oglethorpe hotel golf course this month. (Golf World September 22). On the left is Gardiner Dick• inson Jr., and his partner is Presley Thornton. They arc from Alabama and were the only Alabama team in the competition. They scored 69-68-70•64-271, in the better ball of pair compelition.-(Southt>rn Photo Service. Savannah. Ga. l
MISCELLANEOUS GOLF Hole-In-One Odds
• Hole-In-One contests are a popular promotion with a number of metropoli tan newspapers. We have not heard of any metropolitan newspaper which spon sored an annual Hole-In-One contest pl'ior to 1932, when The New York World Telegram ,md The Detroit News entered this field Joe Williams. noted sports columnis1. ancl formE>rly sports
editor of The World-Telegram startect the World-Telegram contest in the spring of 1932. Arcording to the World Telegram's figures, the odds against making a hole in one, based on sol}le 50.oo'o shots which have been fired in that newspaper's 15 contests. are now approximately 13,660 to one. Five aces have been made in the history of the event. This year Ar(Continued on Page 12)
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