. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . from a Boston settlement, carefully trainedand drilled for the work and handled by their instructors in alltheir various comings and goings on semi-military principles. As a rule, the various professional and amateur tourna-ments at Bretton Woods, Maplewood, Jefferson and the othermore important resorts are among the most spectacular outdoorevents of the season in the Mountains, drawing together bril-liant assemblages of society people and some of the mostprominent talent in the country. One or two of the Moun-t
. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . from a Boston settlement, carefully trainedand drilled for the work and handled by their instructors in alltheir various comings and goings on semi-military principles. As a rule, the various professional and amateur tourna-ments at Bretton Woods, Maplewood, Jefferson and the othermore important resorts are among the most spectacular outdoorevents of the season in the Mountains, drawing together bril-liant assemblages of society people and some of the mostprominent talent in the country. One or two of the Moun-tain golf clubs are made up exclusively of a few of the moreprominent society people summering in the region, and theirweekly teas are among the swell functions of the social calendar. It is by no means an uncommon event for more than onehundred golfers to play over the Bretton Woods course in asingle day. While baseball is a perennially attractive pastime all overthe Mountain region, tennis is an outdoor sport that has anineradicable hold there. There are a number of excellent. THE FLUME IS ONE OF NATURES oldest WORKS courts, but none of them is more enchantingly located, normore famous throughout the country than that at CrawfordHouse, at the very gateway of the marvelous Crawford Notch. At the annual tennis tournament here, players and devoteesof the game flock from every large hotel in the Mountains, andthe picture presented by players and fashionably attired spec-tators on a fine August afternoon is a particularly brilliant are frequently fifty or more entries, with some of themost expert players in the country in the lists. The result ofthese annual tournaments is always regarded as one of the mostimportant bits of published athletic intelligence of the day. The friendly rivalry between leading hotels and centersin the Mountains, which serves to accentuate the interest ofsummer life therein, finds its chief safety-valve in baseballmatches, however. Here, again, B
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