Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia . he usualround of calls, teas, receptions, dinners, and otherfunctions of polite society. Most of the recreationof the little colony is taken at the Augusta CountryClub, where golf is almost the sole outdoor diver-sion. There are tennis courts, but these are notused a great deal. The Augusta Country Club hasa most commodious, modern home which possessesreception rooms, billiard rooms, a cafe where
Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia . he usualround of calls, teas, receptions, dinners, and otherfunctions of polite society. Most of the recreationof the little colony is taken at the Augusta CountryClub, where golf is almost the sole outdoor diver-sion. There are tennis courts, but these are notused a great deal. The Augusta Country Club hasa most commodious, modern home which possessesreception rooms, billiard rooms, a cafe where mealsmay be obtained a la carte, and other appointmentsof a well-maintained institution of this is only moderately large, but as a matter of factvery little of the time of the club members is spentin the house, but most of it out on the links. The Augusta golf links are one of the citysgreat assets for visitors. There are now twocourses, the new, or Hill course, having a playingdistance of 6165 yards; the old, or Lake course, hasa playing distance of 5900 yards. In each of thesecourses the holes are of good length, and, withoutbeing too trying to ordinary skill, offer problems140. I * If W-M
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