Golfers Magazine Vol 28 #5, May 1916 

Golfers Magazine, Vol 28 #6, June 1916

In the Bag was republished in Cobble Valley Golf Yarns and Other Sketches in 1915. It was first published by Walter Travis in The American Golfer in 1914. In this sketch, animated clubs in a golf bag reminisce on their best days on the links playing for their Master.

Tillinghast's first work of fiction, The Cobble Valley Golf Yarns and Other Sketches was published in 1915. The King's Men is one of the sketches from this book, which was also published in the U.S. Golf Illustrated in October of 1915 and first published by Harold Hilton in England's Golf Illusrated. It is a tragic tale of an Irish golfer, Vincent O'Hara and his caddie Terry Malone, who strode the fair links of Port Ellen together, but found their fate serving in the same regiment of the King's (British) army in the trenches on the German f

In this tale, which also appeared in Cobble Valley Golf Yarns, one of Cobble Valley's most disliked members, Vollmer, plays his final match at Cobble Valley against, Bannard.

Tillinghast's mythical country club, Cobble Valley, "nestling among the hills of Everywere," is the setting for many of his short stories which were published in Cobble Valley Golf Yarns and Other Sketches. The Grouch is another story of Cobble Valley CC and was published in Golf Illustrated in December 1915 and later republished in Tillinghast's second book, The Mutt, which was published in 1925.