The New York herald., 1922-12-17

estate, with a 100000 clubhouse facing
the first tee and the eighteenth green.
AS usual the Battery Park Hotel. the
Manor and the Grove Park Inn are
among Asheville's social centers.
There always Is polo weather at
Aiken. 8. c.. with one of the best fields
in the country for the exploitation Of
the sport Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hitch
cock, Mr.. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. Mr.
and Mrs. F.. Skiddy Won Stade, Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick II. Post and
Messrs. Seymour Knox and Quincy
Adams Shaw have shipped ponies
there to be ready for the first tryouts.
Mr.. and Mrs Hitchcock are on the
ground, living in their small cottage
while Mon Repos. their larger house.
recently damaged by fire, is being re-
stored to living state again. The re-
constructed Mon Repos may be ready
by Christmas.
Mr.. Alfred Graham Miles, who has
been one of the chief hackers Of polo
at Alexandria Bay. will be one Of the
Aiken players. He, Mrs. Miles and
their daughter, Miss Clover Miles. who
Is a granddaughter Of the late George
c. Boldt. are now n>their Aiken house.
Sir Gilbert Parker will pass part Of
the winter at the South Carolina re-
sort. Mr.. and Mrs. William Ziegler
will have the Wistaria cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Oliver Iselin will be
in Hopelands by January 1. Mr.. Eli
phalet Mott Potter. Jr.. has taken the
Turner cottage. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
H. Sabin also will join the colony.
having taken the Robert Laird house.
This winters Aiken colony also will
include Mf. and Mrs. l.. Stuart Wing
in the Rice cottage, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Russell Grace in the Perdue house,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel c. Reynal in
the Stone cottage. Mr.. and Mrs. Win
throp Rutherfurd in The Pillars, as
well as Mrs. John r. Fell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Quincy Adams Shaw, Mrs. Fred
ericl A. Snow and Mr.. and Mrs Harry
I. Nicholas. Early arrivals have found
the Highland Park Hotel with fifty
two new rooms and Willcox''s much
enlarged and improved.
Polo Under Way at Pfnehurst.
Polo is under way at Pinehurst, N.
c., a pleasant motor trip from Aiken.
Last Thursday John A. Tuckerman of
Boston and A. v. Slocock Of Dublin,
handicap players on the team OF the
Sand Hill Polo Club there. scored s
goals each against the visitors team.
IT was the second session Of the Sand
Hill clubs annual invitation tourna-
ment. The score was 21 goals to z In
favor Of the Sand Hill players. This
North Carolina resort is nationally
famous for its golf courses.
In the next step southwark toward
the semi tropics of Florida stand out
such Georgia resorts as those at
Thomasville, Atlanta. Augusta and
Savannah. Augusta Is coming Into
her own again with the rebuilt Bon
Air Hotel, which Is to be opened on
New Years Day as the Bon Air-Van-
derbilt, under the management OF
Walton II. Marshall Of the Vanderbilt
Hotel in New York.
OF the many picturesque goif
courses at the various Georgia CEN
ters none excel in Typographical
beauty the two of the Augusta Coun-
try Club, to which patrons Of the Bon
Air-vanderbilt will be eligible.
The De Soto Hotel at Savannah is
open, and the first important incident
there in the social life of the winter
is to be the annual Hellenic
Christmas ball. There also Is to be a
special Christmas Day tournament at
the Savannah Golf Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. John It. Archbold of
New York are settled. in Chinquapin
Plantation. their Thomasville home.
for the winter. Last week Mr.. George
r. Baker. Jr.. passed through Thomas
vile with a party of friends for ten
days shooting at Lake Imonfa, Fla.
They will return to Thomasville for
more shooting before coming back to
New York. Mr.. Harry Payne Whit>
ney and several friends preceded Mr..
Baker and his party to Lake Imonia,
which Is south OF ThomasviIle, just
over she line in Florida.
Opening of the Breakers.
The opening Of the Breakers at
Palm Beach on wednesday will sound
a note in the start OF the winter
period there. The Everglades Club