New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Sulphur Springs
Prepares for Big
Exodus From South
Golf Courses Made Ready
for Nor.lsbound Tourists,
Many of Whom Have Made
Greenbrier Reservations
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, ". Va,
March 4.-North bound tourists. who
have spent the winter in Florida re-
sorts and who will break the homeward
journey by few weeks of golf and the
baths at White Sulphur Springs, will
find many interesting developments
here since last season. The two ia
nous Raynor Macdonald golf courses
have been improved and put in first
class condition for the second annual
open golf tournament. April S, z and
s, and for the spring and summer play
ln~
Conspicuous among the changes is
tn d negro "quarters,"
opposite the Casino, which has per-
mltted an extension of the fairway on
the first hole and has extended the
rough back of the seventeenth green.
The old bridge over Howard's Greek at
the first tee will be torn down, as we'll
as the footbridge from the eighteenth
tee to the eighteenth hole, and a new
bridge to be erected at point midway
between the two will accommodate in
coming and outgoing golf players, as
well IS enhance the beauty of the view
from the front of the Casino.
The fourth tee on the new course has
been raised two and half feet above
the falrway, an elevation golfers will
take much satisfaction in, and the
trap to the left Of the thirteenth green
has been greatly enlarged. making the
hole more sporty. A line of bunkers
is extended diagonally across the fair
way at the fourteenth hole. about 100
yards from the tee, adding interest
here, and the putting green in front OF
the Casino, as we'll as the tennis courts,
are being retopped and built up inches
under the supervision of an expert
The latter will be in splendid shape for
the second annual spring tennis tour
nament to open here April 18.
Wallace Merrihew is chairman of the
tennis committee, which includes Beals
c. Wright, Howard Voshell and Harold
Throckmorton.
Trap shooting will be installed near
the Kate's Mountain Club about April /
The tournaments will attract a large
spring colony here, which will overflow
the Greenbrier and fill many of the
hotel cottages. Mrs. H. J. Topping, OF
New York; Mrs. Eugene A. Moore. OF
Greenwich, Conn; Mrs. Charles A. Otis
Of Cleveland, and Mrs. John Sherwin
, of Colorado Springs, all have taken
cottages in Florida Row, as well as DR.
John Freeland, who will return next
week from New York
is planning to spend the spring season
/ here. She is daughter of Arthu,
Martin, of Chicago
Adolph Lewisohn, of New York, will
arrive from Palm Beach in few DAYS
in his private car, bringing a party Of
/ friends with him. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Palermo, of New York, are among those
coming up from Palm Beach, anc
others who will arrive shortly are
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Post, Captain
and Mrs. Marion MacMilIin and Mr.
and Mrs. Lorenzo +. Woodhouse, O.
New York, who spent the winter a.
! the Everglades Club; Mr.. and Mrs
I Edward S. Hardness. Mir. and Mrs
/ Henry Auerbach, Mr.. and Mrs Howard
| Brokaw. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A
Sprague, Mr.. and Mrs. Effngham Law,
renee, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hone Auer
bach, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Couper Lord
John N. Steel and Mrs Joseph E
| Widener, Of Elkins Park, Pa.