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Show GOLF GAINING FAVOR AMONG SOUTHERNERS Northern Tourists Taught Dixlo to Love Outdoor Game. """"" """ Yankees Do Not Have Monopoly of Courses as They Did In Previous YearsBobby Jones Won Amateur Championship. , While the golf news of Southern courses during the winter dealt in the main with the activities of Northern players, tho Yankees did not have tho monopoly of the courses as they have in previous years, for interest in the game is growing at a tremendous rnto and, with the building of many new courses, golf is on thcLwny to become an all-year Institution. Molt of the big resort courses are closed when the seuson ends, but' the locul clubs thnt are everywhere springing up afford ample opportunity for the Southerner to wield his driver and maslile regularly regu-larly In the cooler times of the long, warm summer days." That the South has not produced more players who are notional figures In the game is laid in part to the fact that the caddie class, from which a great number of the North's outstanding outstand-ing players Have come, does not exist to any large extent. Most of the bug toting Is done by colored boys, nnd there nrc thus not as many Caucasian youngsters interested In the game us In the North. Tho development of the municipal course Idea, which has found much favor with tho Southerners Southern-ers nnd has resulted In one of the finest courses in the country at Druckcnrldgc park, San Antonio, will Bobby Jones. go far to provide the youngsters with . opportunity to get on a course In other ' than n cnddylng capacity. ' Although the South Is Just starting to add Its numbers to the rank and Dip of the golfing army, it has produced several figures who now stand among the finest players of the land. Hobby .Tones, an Atlanta product, has taken the Southern amateur championship several times, and wns a member of the American team that went to Hoy-lake Hoy-lake last year. Miss Alexa Sterling, who for three yenrs stood supremo In the American women's championships, Is also an Atlanta player, .although she has transferred her alleglanco to Now York. Mrs. David Guut of Meiuplili Is another nationally known Southern figure in the game, |
