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. XVI. MARCH, 1905 NO. 3
THE GOSSIPS OF AN OLD GOLFER THE ETHICS OF GOLF DRESS By "Grey Thistle." Shall I venture into the thorny himself to his own club, or any other, •subject of the ethics of golf dress? I where strangers will surely congregate, think I will. It is time somebody did, and ladies participate in the same, •for our men are showing unmistakable then nothing less is his duty than the signs of careless degeneracy, to give strictest regard to every detail. Yet it the mildest name, and the gossip of I have seen prominent players at great an old golfer may attract their atten- public championships, where they were tion to their duty. Of course, we all amidst strangers and must have known Tecognize that the ethics of dress is they would be the observed of all ob- largely a question of latitude and lon- servers, flaunt about all day long gitude and environment. Dress in fragments of suits which would which is perfectly becoming both to disgrace a sea fisherman on a brass TTien and women at Manhattan Beach, band and free beer excursion to the would be shockingly scandalous, not Cholera banks. Trousers ten sizes too to say unlawful, in Central Park. It large and exceedingly shabby sus- is the same the world over, and the penders over very questionable shirts. subject needs no laboring; but therein A sight to make the angels weep! And lies the root of the question, and it yet these men were in good social po- Tiehooves every golfing man to con- sitions, and would have stood in the sider every time he dons his golfing pillory rather than have appeared at •clothing what is the occasion for which a ball in their own social circles in • lie is making his toilet. If it is a stag Prince Albert coats! They had not party of his particular cronies, at his the excuse of old Pursell, the Scotch •own club, where he knows no strangers, landlord of the inn at Aberlady, who or ladies, will be present, he may, if he always appeared on the courses of Gul- feels so inclined, but I would not ad- lane in his shirt sleeves "that it was his vise him to, take a certain amount 'full dress.' ' To tell the truth, the of liberty, but if he is about to betake jolly landlord had superlatively fine
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EIGHTEENTH. EARLY NINETEENTH. THE GOSSIPS OF AN OLD GOLFEK. 135 linen, and it was his best. He had open championship in the Fall of 19°3 made an honest effort to look smart. which I will refrain from naming, In the days of old, golfing dress, es- where the greater proportion of the pecially in Scotland from laird to cad- twoscore professionals taking part in die, was a matter of great pride, as it ought to have been ordered off the many a fine oil portrait of the end of course. A shabbier, untidier, dirtier, the Eighteenth Century testifies, and unbecomingly dressed set of golfers even amongst ourselves special uni- could not be found, search the whole forms ranked higher, much higher, ten world round; yet every one of these years ago than they do to-day. I men when imported were patterns of should not be surprised if there were neatness. If those of their home links more scarlet golfing uniform coats could have seen they would have felt with club collars in the second-hand as I did—hot with shame and disgust! old clothes shops of Seventh avenue, This is not random talk. Not only in the metropolis, than will be seen on have I a memory of the early pro- all the metropolitan club links in a fessionals, but I have a commonplace season. I saw three hanging in sepa- book in which are many pictures of rate "old clo'' windows there last the early days of American golf. One Summer, and I don't recall that num- is now open before me from Leslie's ber on club members' backs in all my Weekly of October, 1904, in which year's peregrinations. "the old professional" is given as a Of course I can hear the easy way model of what was correct in costume, out of it, saying: "Yes, uniforms and it is a picture which it is a pleas- are all very well in England and Scotland, but look at our climatic con- ditions in Summer." Well, I have looked at them for years, and borne them, and I never found it necessary to tear off a light, short flannel jacket and roll my sleeves up to my arm- pits, and undo every button down the front of my shirt. Ladies don't do it and they survive the toil and moil of the hottest day without a murmur. It is not only indecorous in many men, but, in some positively indecent. I have seen men exposing thin, bare, hairy, perspiration - covered chests, even on gala days, with a bravado which would hardly be excusable on board a yacht of Corinthians, ten miles from land. Yet no officer of the club gave them even the gentlest of hints. If I wanted to give one instance in bulk, showing the evil consequences of this laxity, and its influence, I should only have to recall to mind an GOLFEKS IN 17i>0. 13G THE GOSSIPS OF AN OLD GOLFER. ure to look back to. I turn over the next page and there meets me a set of illustrations from photos by Sarony, of New York, made for the first issue of Golfing, May, 1895, of Willie Park, Jr., who had then recently arrived. In tvery one of them he is the very pink of fashion and the mould of form. We have fallen upon evil days since then, and many professionals are the shock- ing examples resultant. The spirit of democracy and liberty is a fine spirit, but it should not be allowed to degen- erate into license. The American amateur of the early nineties was just as particular in mat- ters relating to his golfing costume as the ancients were. There was great freedom in the selection of the style You CAN WBAB ANY OLD CLOTHES. of dress, everybody suited his own in- eluded C. B. Macdonald, Robert dividual idiosyncrasies, some wore the Lockhart, L. B. Stoddart, H. J. banded Norfolk jacket and knicker- Whigham, J. G. Thorp and scores of bockers to the knees, some wore white other pioneers, who were sticklers for flannel trousers and short flannel good form and practiced what they jacket, and so on, and so on; but every preached. one had a strict regard to the courte- Now, I am not preaching. I am sies of society. Let me instance from simply calling attention to the down my collection of old timers, Mr. A. L. grade we are on in one department of Morton, the winner of the 1893 season golf, a deterioration which, if not challenge cup of the Shinnecock Hills checked, will rob the game and its Golf Club, whose portrait is also be- surroundings of picturesqueness and fore me. Everything he wore marks charm, and I do so not only in the the sportsman and the gentleman, well interest of men, both amateurs and selected cheviots of sober tints, easy fit- professionals, but in justice to the ting yet snug to the last button,and not ladies, who have consistently main- a detail but tells of the polished man tained the highest standard of ethics of the world aware of what he owes to in golfing dress, even refusing to bow society on a summer links of high the knee to the Baal of fashion, rather character. It would be invidious and than introduce one jarring note into verge on the impertinent to further the harmony of the conventionality of particularize; every golfer who has dress on the links. Every reason, de- watched the course of the game from cency, self-respect, club pride and the those early days can recall many simi- maintenance of discipline, call for a lar men from the veteran John Reid, better observance of time and occa- and the United States Golf Associa- sion, and a quiet insistence on the tion's first secretary, H. O. Tallmadge, ethics of dress in our clubs and on through all the old brigade, which in- our golf courses. THE ART OF GOLF By Sir Walter Simpson, Batt.
ANNOTATED BY THE HON. MR. RECORDER WEIR. PART II. CHAPTER IV. For instance, A. makes himself knock- OF PECULIARITIES AND FAULTS. kneed when he addressed the ball. {Continued.) Once, long ago, when he drove a Even minor sensations, too earnest- beauty, there was a feeling of grip- ly attended to, may, however, do a ping the ground with the balls of his great deal of harm. When, by pa- big toes. If you question him warily, tiently keeping his attention fixed on he will tell you the year in which, and hitting', the golfer has got into his the hole at which, the sweet shot was best driving form, he is tempted to made, that he had grown knock-kneed luxuriate in the sweet balls; to note in endeavoring to repeat. B. sits how he gets his shoulders into the down, because once, when he had a ':. Robert work; or how he feels like a whipcord, habit of falling forward (very likely 5 -,. H. I. from the point of his toe to the head he now falls back), it restored his • IB ; of his club; or, how, without effort, game. C. turns in his toes because it ' i his palms feel glued to the rind of the cured him of swaying his body. Of what they club; and to determine that in future course, it was stopping swaying, not these joys shall be repeated every standing like a crab, which restored ; shot. Fool! he might as well expect his driving; but he did not know at the the don to repeat the pleasure of appeased time what he was doing wrong, and so ptmotoi hunger by a second dinner, or make he has made a fetich of his toe, which, tuion which, ii not a pleasant dream more vivid by he thinks, is the god of driving. I ok the game and is wakening. Pursuing these agreeable know a golfer who does all these . gess ami sensations he will lose them, and go things, and a good many more. In his off his game besides. Disappointed, case they have long ceased to have is and he will return to the drudgery of hit- any meaning or effect upon his play. They are like labels left adhering c ir ting the ball, when lo! some, or all i - - MSttfltly main- of them come back too. Again he will to our traveling-bags—records of . , ; ethics be off in pursuit of the will-o'-the- former trips. wisp, and again break down. It takes Besides the innumerable kinds of . rather long, long experience to convince a missing to which we are liable, cer- golfer that he must give up all the tain players get into a way of driving , cntionality"' pleasures arising from a shot, except exceptionally high or unusually low. I .. fl.de- that caused by results, if he is to drive Those who have acquired the latter pride add the far and sure. Imitating one's own peculiarity are not, like their oppo- style is only less bad than copying a sites, dissatisfied, although they ought • ^iac. call for a neighbor's. "Know thyself" may be to be ; for, of the two, they are likely . •* good philosophy; it is bad golf. Some to be the worst players. The high . d on players remain with the marks of sen- driver is inclined to be impatient at sation-hunting on their style for life. finding himself always playing the •^•••J
138 THE ART OF GOLF. odd; but the other, although never vance of the club head. If he is in steady, is reluctant to part with his the habit of standing square to the reputation for length from the tee, line he is going, it will be observed and therefore seldom reforms. Nor is that a low driver has his ball more it so easy for him to do so as for the nearly opposite his left foot than is other, whose fault is clue to simpler orthodox. This manner of address is causes. not the cause of his abnormal trajec- High driving is the result of too tory, but a correction necessary to upright a swing. I do not mean that make his scheme of hitting succeed; the onlooker sees the club go over as his hands are to pass over the ball the player's head, or anything of that before the club head (not at the same sort; but he may detect that the club instant, as in the case of a true driver), reaches, and also follows the ball at he must thus stand behind, because too steep a gradient. The typical high if he did not, there would be no room driver has a neat style—a little too between his grip and the ground for easy, perhaps. He stands open, and the club to continue its course after with the ball too much opposite the impact. By standing behind, the limit right foot, on which he very decidedly of arm's reach is touched immediately leans his weight. The position makes the ball is struck, and the hands sweep it difficult for him to take a sweep up to the level of the shouldei, leaving back near the ground, and his easy, room between them and the ground flipping swing tends to make the de- for the club to follow. There would parture more abrupt still. Of course, be no objection to this mode of driv- many a skier does not stand in this ing, so efficient when it comes off, way. So much the better for him ; he were it not bristling with difficulties. will have less trouble in describing a For one thing, a hook must be ex- full segment of a circle, and of a pected from time to time. The ball is larger one. It is not the position, but too near the extreme point to which the way of coming down on the ball it is possible to sweep the club along which skies it. A man standing for a the line of fire, the point at which the pull, and pressing, often skies. If he hands must do one of three things—- asks his caddy how that was, he will stop altogether, rise toward the level say, "You swung too quick." So he of the shoulder, or sweep round the did; but in this case quickness was the body. The first contingency has noth- result of lifting the club too straight ing to do with golf. If the hands are up, in his hurry to be back. I have at the rise before the ball is reached, often noticed that when a long, pull- so is the club, and we have a skimmer ing shot is intended, the sky can be oft" the horn, or a top. If they are foretold if the player place himself kept down to prevent it, the club must with the ball less opposite the left foot sweep round and hook the ball. To than it should be for a bow-shaped see that this must be so, take an ex- raker. aggerated case. Let the player stand normally—that is, parallel to the line In driving low, it is essential that of fire; but let the ball be placed as the weight of the body rest more on far in front of the left foot as it ought the left than on the right leg, and that properly to be behind it. By leaning- the hands pass over an imaginary line well on to that leg, it may be driven between the eye and the ball, in ad-
• Hi 77/£ . GOLF. 13» * If k i straight, but it would be easier to ing club is the putter, because it is so- drive it at right angles. Low driving upright; but of course it is too short is prone to deride its votaries in an- to carry far. M|I|IC other way. For them, a topped, or a Getting both hands well under the heeled, or a toed ball is the same thing club also produces a low carry, and ' than is as for others; but woe betide the low fairly long shots against wind, or driver if he takes it thick! His adver- where the ground is favorable. But raultaJK. sary's "sclaff" will send as far any- players in this style are not long thing else, provided he has his grip drivers under ordinary circumstances. - succeed; firm. A little grass and earth no more Indeed, but for their balls flying low • r the hall checks a club than a little skin a razor. they would be short, this grip, as al- ' ••• tie same Let the other touch ground, and his ready shown, making a free, full ""•f driver I, ball will spout into the air, and land swing impossible. twenty yards from the tee ; or he may Although short drives are scarcely | give a wrench, turn his club, and a class by themselves, it is convenient drive away to cover point. His hands now to treat consecutively some of -•':. the tail being in advance of it, they are nearer the causes of shortness not already t -••• and there is a raker to whatever coun- half swing. Very properly beginning ; m^rn it try lies in that direction. With a hook with this, they put a check upon their to begin with, and a shot like this to growing suppleness, and trust to follow, the player, after two long powerful clubs and clean hitting. shots, may find himself again at the The toll is There is much to be said in favor of tee. Instead of standing parallel to such procedure. They sooner arrive their intended direction, low drivers, at maturity, and they escape (by and those who are so foolish as to try keeping back from them) all the man- to be against the wind, sometimes get traps laid for the long-swing hunter. p- rid of the risk of sticking in the A half swing will never enable a man ground by standing for a pull. They to say that he has driven the longest • god the sweep the ball round, the club passing ball on record—at least truthfully, .. nothr over the ground as does a scythe, in- which is doubtless different—but it • stead of straight over it. The great is effective, and will last. What a . reached, disadvantage of this expedient is its slogger loses in carry by shortness of i sknnmer wildness. The ball must go off at a sweep, he nearly regains by tautness tangent from the circular sweep, and of muscle. The slogger has a great there is only one which is straight. advantage in this, too, that he is For low driving an upright club is never tempted to press through take an «" best. It is easier to stand over it—an wounded vanity. If he is outdriven a • iver stand essential. If you play for a pull, the little, what of it? Is it not wonderful to the Hne arc of the circle described over the that he should get so far? How toed ground is larger, and the tangents at strong he feels. Better still, how which the ball flies off more easily • strong he is admitted to be. It is a coincident with it. The lowest driv- simple proportion sum. A. drives 200 driven . 140 THE ART OF GOLF. yards with one shot, B. 190 with half the thing is to be done, of which they a shot; how much stronger is B. than never get rid. Once formed, it is of A.? Whilst his biceps is being ad- no use for them to hit harder, unless mired, A.'s, which is, perhaps, bigger, they make a fresh start altogether. must remain in its sleeve; or if pro- These are usually neat players, who duced, what is it? Had meat, evi- stand too near the ball. But it is no dently, to judge by the driving. A. use to get further away. Their mus- may indeed, perhaps, be evidently a cles have accustomed themselves to clumsy player, and his reputation for work in a certain way. strength will, in consequence, be A common cause of short driving, saved; but it is a prior alternative to apart from eye (of course, in these choose between being an awkward paragraphs I am speaking of players, Samson and a puny fellow. Of all not duffers ), is a loose grip. There is short drivers the slogger is the happi- confusion of opinion as to how tight est ; whilst his converse—he whose one ought to hold. One fine driver swing is short after impact—is the will tell you that he grasps his club most contemptible in the matter of 1 lightly; another, that he clings as strength. As I have before pointed firmly as possible. The difference of out, no one notices where a man's 2 opinion arises from quality of hands, club goes after bitting the ball. The re- and it may be assumed that neither versed slogger is merely written down lets the club move in the least degree a fraud if he has broad shoulders. from the beginning to the end of the The onlooker will conclude that they stroke. A soft, well-padded hand, or are tailor-made. To make it worse, a strong one, is firm unconsciously; his driving is even shorter than the a bony one must hold tight; a weak, slogger's. For some reason, which bony hand, no matter what its owner I do not know, the second part of a 3 is otherwise, conduces to short driv- swing is the more telling of the two. ing. If it holds tight, other muscles We have seen that if a man has not become sympathetically too rigid, and a first-class combination of hand and the ball is nipped. If it holds natur- eye, he will not have a game at all if ally, the swing must either be easy, he aims at very long driving. At or else the club slips a little. All three the same time, many err on the side of conditions of matters produce short hitting too easily, especially at first. driving. The golfer with weak hands Both mind and muscle accustom must learn to hold tight without tele- themselves to a conception of how graphing the exertion to other mus- cles—a very difficult feat—or accept 1 Short drivers are usually slicers, and they shortish driving as his lot. If he does are slicers because the face of the club does not fairly hit or sweep the ball. this, the second alternative—to hold 2 O, yes; Sir Walter. We all watch the finish naturally and swing easy—is the best now-a-days to see what sort of follow through there is. to adopt. To the first he cannot set- 3 It is in the second part of the swing that the tle, the third will rub and blister his hitting comes off, which is a good reason, one hands. would think. (To be continued.) •:>«^j *4fc, Uisof »«thatfe A GOLF STORY 4 • • owner of all the neighboring property, On their way home, when nearing j and the most popular landlord in the Beech Park, they suddenly met a very . '1 hand, or country. He was president of the handsome young fellow hurrying Golf Club and had taken much inter- along with his golf clubs; he raised „ i weak, est in it from the first; he gave the his hat to Lady Parker, and when out ground at a low rent and a large sub- of hearing, Betty turned quickly to . - ft driv- scription towards building the club her sister and asked who the Adonis house. was, declaring she had never seen a Sir Samuel Parker and his wife handsomer fellow. Is itatur- were also very enthusiastic members Lady Parker explained he was Dr. of the new golf club, and most Traver's son "Jack." "I did not know . • V:! three anxious that the opening day should he was at home at present," she addedr be a great success. and for some reason did not seem too- ik hands Lady Parker had undertaken to give well pleased. :it tele luncheon to the members and visitors That evening when all were sitting •-,: mis- at the Pavilion, and her husband had after dinner in the drawing-room at - accept arranged a competitor! for gentlemen Beech Park, some gathered round to take place in the afternoon. They Betty Trevellian, who was singing, but invited many friends for the occasion, Sir Samuel took a chair beside his- and also visitors to stay at their resi- wife ; he thought there was no lady in dence, Beech Park. the land half so beautiful, good and On this particular Friday afternoon clever as Lady Parker; in general he ^ n,b and blister Lady Parker, accompanied by her sis- took her ideas as gospel, and rarely ter Betty Trevellian and Miss Maggie did anything without her sage advice ; Clarke—a Scotch cousin—went to the however, he told her now he had met golf links for the last time, to see that her old favorite, Jack Travers, and had all was in perfect order for the mor- asked him to drop in that evening to- row ; beautiful flowers had been deftly be introduced to their young ladies, as. 142 A GOLF STORY. he thought it might make it pleasanter ful strains of "Kathleen Mavourneen'' for them the next day; but Lady and "Dermot Asthore," and Jack felt Parker was not pleased and said in a as if every note pierced his heart like low, vexed voice: one of Cupid's little darts; it was evi- "Oh, dear, I do wish you had left dently a case of love at first sight with him alone. I particularly wanted Betty him, and hovering round Betty he not to make friends with Jack before found out in the course of conversa- your cousin Algy arrives to-morrow; tion that she had never yet played you know dear"—in a still lower voice golf, although fond of most outdoor —"it is the dearest wish of my heart games, whereupon he offered to be to see darling Betty suitably and well her instructor, and they settled at married. Lord Algy adores her, and once, to the girl's great delight, to 1 thought a quiet fortnight in the begin operations on Monday morning. country together would help matters Lady Parker was seriously annoyed. tremendously—and now handsome, She tried to show her sister Betty she detrimental Jack Travcrs turns up and must not trespass on Dr. Travers' time may spoil everything— as he had only a short holiday, but Poor Sir Samuel was very contrite, Jack declared it would be a great though not quite understanding the pleasure, and that he was certain he •drift of her argument. would have an apt pupil; then he said Almost immediately after this con- good-night, hoping they would all en- versation, young Dr. Jack Travers was joy the day to-morrow. announced. Lady Parker welcomed Very general after his departure Tiim kindly and introduced him in a were the admiring remarks of the general manner to all present, and ladies on Dr. Travers' handsome per- particularly to her cousin, Maggie son and engaging manners. Clarke, whom she described as a "fel- Sir Samuel said he had known him low golfer"—and an excellent expo- all his life; that he was a fine young nent of the game. fellow, but one who had yet to earn Maggie Clarke was not very attrac- his own fortune; he had no money tive in appearance, but she was a and had only started a practice that pleasant-mannered, good-natured and year, was, in fact, at the foot of the very athletic girl and a devoted ad- ladder, but he trusted he would in time mired of golf. She and Jack had some reach the top. talk on this subject of mutual inter- When all had retired for the night, est, and then his eyes wandered to the and the house was silent, Lady Parker piano and rested admiringly on Betty kept thinking of Lord Algy, Betty, and Trevellian's lovely face. Jack Travers. She made up her mind She had a fine voice, which had been that it would be a most suitable match well cultivated; some one requested lor her sister, to marry Lord Algy, her to sing again; turning round sud- who, although devoid of good looks, denly she asked Dr. Travers: had a large fortune and sincere ad- "What kind of songs he liked?" miration for Miss Trevellian. He rose quickly, joined the music The following morning was radiant- lovers, and begged her to give them an ly fine, and when Lady Parker and "Irish song," so her sweet voice was the fascinating contingent of the fair soon warbling entrancingly the beauti- sex she brought with her, arrived at •Hi A GOLF STORY. 143 the golf links, great was the admira- general favorite, as well as being the - lack teit tion they aroused, but no one could idol of his mother. 'ican like compare with sweet Betty Trevellian; Betty whispered to Jack, "It is too she was dressed in creamy white and bad you did not win," but added that pale blue, which suited her brilliant the ladies would now enjoy another complexion and golden hair to per- day's excitement. I tan*. fection. That evening Jack did not turn up l played When Lord Algernon Campbell at Beech Park and Lord Algy had his ": "Utdoor Tiad arrived that morning he thought innings. Betty was passionately fond red tobe he had never seen the girl look so of music, and it was a real delight to ** *(j settled at lovely; they had always been the best her to hear Lord Algy sing; then some of friends, but, alas, he wanted more duets were found, and their voices than friendship, and now he hoped, blending well, the singing proved a •! annoyed. with Lady Parker on his side and great pleasure to both performers and being thrown together for a quiet audience. rants'time fortnight in the country, he would be Lady Parker was charmed, and gave able, ere long, to secure her promise her husband a knowing nod of satis- x a great to be his wife. faction, as much as to say, "All is ii hf vns certain ke But we must return to our story and going on beautifully." • the Pavilion. Everything went off The following week was perfect as BJ» they would alia- well; luncheon, speeches and the gen- regards weather, and the mornings tlemen's competition ; the latter proved spent on the golf links were a dream his departure most exciting and interesting to the of joy to Jack and Betty; she thought rag tamrks of the spectators, and ended in a tie between he was an ideal teacher, so patient and Lord Algy and Jack Travers; it painstaking, nor did he ever laugh seemed strange, for both men instinc- when she missed hitting her ball, and tively felt they would be rivals for every day he thought his pupil grew something far more valuable than a dearer, lovlier and more winsome— : to cam golf prize—the love of beautiful Betty she laughed so merrily too at her fail- Trevellian. ures, and, in spite of many, got on I .-:;«tkit The two men decided not to play well—so much so that at the end of a •eff the match for a week, which would week he told her she was quite good lintirK give them both time for a little much enough to play a foursome with him needed practice. Betty watched the against Lord Algy and Miss Clarke. • K night two golfers as they talked, and Now, Lady Parker and Lord Algy did Parker thought how different they were in ap- not approve of the morning golf les- tty.aml pearance. Lord Algy was short and sons and they were delighted that the duet could now become a quartette. . t op her tnind •commonplace looking, with sandy hair .. :c match and mustache, but he was kind, gen- The next day a hard fought match erous with his money, athletic and -, id * was played; Jack was extra careful possessed of a fine voice which he :k with his strokes to make up for Betty's - used to the best advantage. Jack deficiencies, and to her delight he and Travers had a tall, muscular and his pupil won by one up. Naturally, graceful figure, dark hair and soft Miss Clarke was rather annoyed at brown eyes, was affectionate and con- this, and insisted on having a return fiding in disposition, and was indeed a match, which proved more eventful 144 A GOLF STORY. than any of the players could possibly dreadful awe and danger of the situ- have imagined. ation. Suddenly, after a more than It was a very sultry morning in the usually vivid flash of lightning, they following week when they started for heard a crash, followed by a human their game. Dr. Travers was not in cry, and saw with horror that some good spirits. When spending the pre- pine trees had been felled to the vious evening at Beech Park he had ground, and disclosed the figure of an felt decidedly "de trop," Lord Algy old man who had been sheltering near having kept Miss Trevellian singing them. with him and playing for him all the "Poor old chap!" Jack exclaimed, evening, and the idiotic words too of "I must bring him here." some duets, quite spoiled for him the "Awfully risky, Dr. Travers," re- pleasure of listening to the music. monstrated Lord Algy, "the storm is Now, again, however, fortune fa- right overhead." vored him, as he had sweet Betty for "But you would not let him remain his golf partner. exposed to such dreadful danger?" The players had just reached the Jack answered in surprise, as button- tenth hole, where Betty and Jack were ing up his coat he darted off to the two up, when a long, loud peal of rescue. thunder startled them. Now, Betty Alas, what a task he undertook. was a coward in a thunderstorm and Strange silence, broken by awful had to confess it, as she was trembling thunder, dread darkness rent by snd her face white with fear. lightning, and sheets of rain; he stag- "Look," she cried, "there is light- gered in the storm, but at length ning, and, oh, we are so far from the reached the man who looked old and Pavilion." feeble. The sky was black with clouds and The return journey was truly terri- big drops of rain began to fall. Jack ble, and of great danger, but half car- rying, half dragging his companion, Travers, looking round in despair, Jack at last, dazed and exhausted, noticed a small shelter intended for reached the hut. Here, to his con- herds and sheep at the side of the sternation, he found Miss Trevellian field. had fainted, and at once Jack lapsed "Sec!" he said; '"let us run to that into the professional. The girl was hut fur shelter." lying on the ground, her head on Mag- They started, but when half way to gie's lap. and Lord Algy was rubbing their refuge, very vivid lightning, fol- her hands. Jack felt her pulse, and lowed by terribly loud thunder and rushing out filled his cap with water torrents of rain, seemed to completely from the dripping roof with which to- overwhelm them. Betty gave a little bathe her face; consciousness soon re- cry and would have fallen, had not turned, and when her lovely eyes Jack caught her in his strong young opened she murmured: "Is he safe?" arms and brought her safely to the hut and Jack's heart rejoiced as he thought which the others had already reached. if was anxiety for him perhaps which What a storm it was. The strong- had caused his darling to faint. est and bravest could not but feel the It was a very forlorn, drenched little •• WKKKKM A GOLF STORY. 145 'IK site. party that reached the Pavilion after hers, his father had won her love, but than the storm was over. Sir James, she believed, had never The old man had spoken little, but married. all saw at once he was a gentleman, The following day was fine and de- some and he eventually turned out to be an lightfully fresh after the storm. The I to the old friend and guest of Lord Carlton's. two men met on the links after lunch- ' fl&t oi an When dried and rested he said a few eon and started off to play the golf -tig near words of touching gratitude to Jack, match that meant so much to them declaring he had saved his life, for the both. Dr. Travers had to give his op- rest of the pine trees had collapsed ponent six strokes. At the ninth hole soon after his rescue had been effected. he had gained on his handicap, and Later on when Lord Carlton ap- then fortune deserted him, and he ex- peared he introduced his dear old perienced one piece of bad luck after friend as Sir James Miller, a cele- another, lost heart and saw Lord Algy tan remain brated Dublin doctor, and Jack was was playing as well as he, and still the dreadful strokes had to be given him. danger?" again thanked for the part he had taken in the trying adventure. At the last hole Jack drove the : to the The day had now cleared up, so green, but the ball, getting a bad kick, they all separated, but not before Lord it rolled off again, giving him a long Algy asked Dr. Travers if he might and difficult putt. Lord Algy's ball lay call that evening and speak to him on on the lip of the hole for two and he . brcfar b] awful an important matter. Jack assented, holed out safely; Jack knew unless • rat by and great was his surprise when he his ball went down for two, he was discovered the object of his visit; to beaten. It was very exciting; he got it Jength put it in a few words, he had found the line to the hole but happened to ••oldand out they both loved Miss Treveilian, look up and found the two girls were and were rivals for her hand and watching with profound interest— • heart; he proposed they should play Betty looking lovelier than ever. The •:: halt car- off the tie for the Carlton Golf Cup strain was too much, the ball travelled the following day, and that the loser straight, but Jack had played short should go away for a short time, and and the ball stopped about four inches - • leave a clear field for the rival lover. from the hole. .. Treveilian Jack agreed to play this strange game "I am afraid it is all up with me," of Love and Fate, but feared if he did Jack exclaimed, and when the cards -• not speak first, he would have a poor were handed in he had lost the match chance; but Lord Algy insisted their by one stroke! chances were equal, for although he The rivals had previously arranged - be and could offer the girl a title and fortune there were to be no farewells; an . water and sincere affection, still his rival had urgent telegram was sufficient reason good looks, winning manners, and had for one of them to give for a hurried . ..*.«• proved himself that day a tender- departure. hearted, courageous man. But Jack Betty kindly said to Jack, she was only smiled and shook his head. sure the strain of nerves and muscles When his visitor departed, his lie had experienced in the thun- mother—who had heard of the morn- der storm had played havoc with his ing's adventure—told him he had golf, and thanked him shyly for being • • S rescued an old friend and admirer of so good to her. •^M 146 A GOLF STORY. Poor Jack longed to say many not a very exalted one to offer, but he things in answer, but in honor bound was young and strong, very much in was tongue-tied. He bid a hasty love, and determined by hard work good bye, pleading an engagement, to make a mark in his profession. and rushed home, where, strangely Sweet Betty confessed her love and enough, a telegram in truth awaited willingness to wait and for the time him. It was from Lord Carlton, who they were blissfully happy. intimated that his friend, Sir James The following day, Dr. Travers Miller, was dangerously ill and wanted was preparing for a trying interview to see him. with Lady Parker, who, he felt sure, The next five days passed like a would not favor the suit of an impe- dream; it was an acute case of pneu- cunious doctor; he felt nervous and monia—from exposure and chill—and wished the next half hour well over, although everything possible was done but just before leaving the house, who for the invalid, he succumbed. Short- should arrive but Lord Carlton ? He ly before death he told Jack he knew had a private communication of im- now that he was the son of the only portance to make—it was to deliver woman he had ever loved and begged to Jack a letter, dictated by Sir James that he might see her. The meeting Miller shortly before he died. was very affecting, but Mrs. Travers What was Jack's surprise to find, had the joy of soothing and brighten- after reading the contents, that his ing the sufferer's last hours on earth. mother's old lover had left him his A full week had passed before Jack house and fortune, which proved a and his mother returned home, and great help to him in the career he had after making some inquiries he found chosen; his heart was filled with Lord Algy had left Beech Park, and gratitude and joy, and he said, half the news seemed to give him wonder- aloud : ful hope and courage. "Why, after all, the game of love That very evening Jack managed and fate has ended well," and with a to have an interview in the park with happy smile, he added, "and the latest Betty, and poured out to her willing match arranged can be played off ears the tale of his love. As a strug- now, as soon as we like." gling young doctor his position was «*toof|ffii [fflochiB mtd by hu ' the time FABLES IN GOLF lly happy, By W. B. M. Ferguson. ! *J, Dt. Turns s :ntem« Once there was a Looker who had a week with Maud. The Price of rr. who. h« ielt sure, vague Purple Yearnings after the Admission was after-dinner Suppers : an impe- Whatness of the Aint and a sixteen and tickets for the Drammer. inch Belt Line. But her father was By dint of a Persevering Imagina- a Brewer so she could Afford to yearn. tion and Carefully Concealed ignor- In the irreproachable atmosphere of ance, Algy convinced the Fashion ariton? fit East Harlem's select society she was Plate Oracle that he was the Choicest vunmanicitw oi in- •considered the Main Exhibit in Dress Sample of Confectionery that ever Goods. She had Soulful Navy Blue came down the Great White Way. /. Sir James eyes and Accordion Pleated hair and The things she didn't Know he did, died on the Burning Topics of the Times, and what neither of them Knew, rise to fed, the newest style in Improvers, or the both said they did. They were Mu- latest Spasm of the Smart Set, she tual Deception affinities. .he coot Tiad the Menu assimilated from Soup The game required a lively imagi- m ha> to Nuts. She was long in shape but nation, so Algy, who had been left ck prod i Short in temper and so her name was at the Post several times, began Re- jmheW Maud. plenishing his Vocabulary. He Read n One of Maud's principal Joy Pro- L^p on all the Swell Games, Polo, Ra- ducers was J. Algernon Slathers, who quets and Golf, until he could Talk "wore Carefully Greased hair parted, so he couldn't even Understand him- • | : like his name, on the Left Hand side. self. Algy knew all about Reggie Vander- One night Maud, who had been ttilt and all the rest of the Devilishly giving Ibsen and the Drammer a rd can be Wicked Chaps. He was on intimate Look Over for the past week, saw her Reading Terms with them. Algy chance to Steal a Lap in the Intellec- belonged to the Common Herd. He tual Race, so she took up the Bit in her liad a form like one of Heinz's Fifty- Teeth and Hit it Up. Algy would be seven Varieties and he averaged ten Running Yet if he hadn't Flagged her Large Dollars per week Assaulting by Switching the Conversation to his •a. typewriter and making himself Gen- Special Department of Polo, Ra- erally Useless in a Wholesale Grocery quets and Golf. To his surprise, Emporium. Maud didn't Sweat a Drop, but car- Now Algy despised the Simple Life ried a large bunch of Discussion right which necessitated the patronage of to him. They had a Real Elegant the Ten-cent-double-action-feedery, time and then Algy, who had lost his Reversible Cuffs, and the Saturday head in the Shuffle, asked Maud if she night Shave. He longed for an Up- wouldn't play a game of Golf with lifting and Wealthy atmosphere. So him the following Sunday at Van he got to Hooking Up three evenings Cortlandt Park. Algy didn't know 148 FABLES IN GOLF. Golf from Plug Tobacco and Maud was ready for Fireworks and after thought it was some kind of an Abor- Algy had shed his Coat and his Moral- tion between Croquet and Pussy in ity and was Starting all Over again, the Four Corners. But being an she said he was a Bigger Fool than he Oracle she couldn't Back off the looked, and that was saying Plenty, Dump, so she said yes. And then and that he was an Automatic Liar Algy nearly Fell off. Next day Algy and No Gentleman. Then Maud invested in all the War Paint and Ac- grabbed the Putter to show him how coutrements that go with the Game. to do it. After she had Tied herself He sat up nights assimilating the in a Knot, and Stepped on Herself,, Golfiac's Dictionary. Maud was on the and her Back Hair had come down, same Tack. Sunday found them ready and the Teeing Ground looked like a to Put Out the Fire at a moment's no- Muck Heap, and the Ball was Still tice. There, she said she guessed she had After being Rescued from Impos- Played Enough, and, anyway, some sible Places they finally discovered Joint of her Harness was hurting her. the First Tee. There was an En- Algy wanted to take another Fall out thusiastic Gallery watching their Con- of the Ball, but the Gallery said the vulsions. Both balked and it took Vaudeville was over for the day. some time to decide which should Then Maud said the Gallery was a lot take First Lick at the ball. Maud of Common Rowdies, and she hit the was a Kicker, so it was up to Back Trail for the Station. Algy. Then Algy forgot the name of And after That, she was never every club in the Feed Bag. He Home when Algy called. Algy is asked Maud for the Stymie. Maud now keeping Steady Company with was in an Impenetrable Forest, so a Perfect Lady, who chews Gum and she shut her eyes and handed Algy the thinks Laura Jean Libbey is Just Putter. Algy took it and Whaled Grand. Maud is Holding Hands with Away and after he had Sat Down sev- An Actor who uses Musk and has a_ eral Times he said he guessed he'd got voice like a Steam Roller. And they the Wrong Club and he asked Maud are All Happy. for the Driving Bogey. And then Moral—If you play Golf, keep it a the Gallery Howled, and Maud got Secret until you can go round under Red in the Face and Algy Sat Down One Hundred. If you play Society- three times Running just to show he Bluff, never come to a Show Down. hadn't any Hard Feelings. Maud 4 liter mm IS SKILL ADEQUATELY REWARDED «K ill Over ^ UNDER THE PRESENT RULES lv a Automatic Lur OF GOLF? ••* Then Mai i fa hi By F. P. Betts. ritbdTi The spirit of innovation is abroad in ly criticism in the English papers, the the land, and it seems inevitable that, need of a thorough revision being rec- ' ilon, at no distant day, even the sacred ognized by every one." Wllu realms of golf will be invaded by the There seems, indeed, in the nature -he had sacrilegious army of the iconoclasts. of things to be no good reason why, ft. ad. ajny, some Even at the present time indications when everything is being subjected to the ameliorating spirit of the age, golf •»« hurting htt. to that effect are not wanting. One rails at the time-honored alone should be assumed to have \n There has recently come into the with the game is supposed to emanate. have full scope possession of Mr. Adam Wood, mana- The clubs were found in the town of ger of the Duke of Portland at Troon, Hull. They came into the possession AE stroke «p* a and ex-Captain of Troon Golf Club, a of the present owner through Mr. W. - iii fe set of clubs that are quite unique as T. Hammond, manufacturer, Skeldon, - being by far the oldest extant imple- Ayrshire, to whom they were sent by t ments for the practice of golf, as well Mr. J. C. Sykes, merchant, Hull. Mr. •-K he receive as being without doubt the most an- Sykes is the proprietor of an old man- ncrement cient relics connected with the game. sion which is now and has been for The clubs themselves bear the impress many years occupied by him as busi- ;. not re- of great age, and the circumstances ness premises, but which was, during under which they were discovered the greater part of last century, the some months ago confirm their an- residence of a family of burgesses of ^tenth part* tiquity. It is not a little suggestive the town named Maisters. The house that they came to light south of the was, while in their possession, burned •it Tweed, and not in Scotland, from down in the year 1700, some members t0 the mak- which everything that is old connected of the family losing their lives in the 152 A SET OF OLD GOLF CLUBS. fire, and the tenement then rebuilt is tion, to carry conviction to the mind that which stands at the present day, of an unskilled observer that they have and is No. 160 High street. come down to us from a far distant In the course of recent internal past. To the golfer a comparison of structural alterations a boarded-up them with old clubs of known age fur- cupboard or closet was discovered, the nishes evidence that they are the sur- existence of which till then had not vival of a stage of the game that is been suspected, and in this receptacle, long anterior to the beginning of the along with a quantity of old docu- present century. There are a consid- ments, among them a Yorkshire news- erable number of clubs of known age paper bearing the date of 1741, were preserved as relics in various club- the old golf clubs. How they came houses on both sides of the Border, to be deposited in that place, to whom which are from seventy to a hundred they belonged, who played golf with years old. These look antiquated as them, and what clubmaker designed compared with the clubs now used on and made them, are matters which may the links, but they are quite modern as or may not be eventually determined. compared with the clubs under con- It is certain, in any case, that we owe it sideration. to their having been laid away in this The golf club, like most other imple- forgotten recess that they have es- ments, has been constantly changing, caped destruction, and that they have and our latter-day clubs are the result been preserved intact to the present of a marked evolution from those day. Whether or not they belonged to used in the practice of the game a the Maisters family is a matter for hundred years ago. The change of speculation, but, as some of the mem- fashion is not so great nor so apparent bers of the family were of the mili- in this case as between the century- tary profession, it is not improbable, old clubs and the earlier specimens. for, as they would be transferred from The design and especially the work- one military depot to another, it might manship stamp these latter with the well be supposed that they came into impress of belonging to a remote con- dition of society in which the arts and playing relations with the game of crafts were in a less advanced stage golf very possibly in Scotland. Be than even a century ago. and warrants that as it may, however, we may as- us in deciding that the best part of two sume that the clubs were deposited centuries at least has elapsed since where they were recently found some these golf clubs were made. How time after the fire, which they could far they in their turn are removed not have survived, at the end of the from their prototype it is of course im- century. That, if it were the only evi- possible to say, but it may be inferred dence by which to measure the age of that they are a considerable advance in the clubs, gives a very wide margin. the process of adaptability. It may There is, however, other testimony be mentioned that Mr. Balfour, the which seems to establish the antiquity leader of the House of Commons, has of the clubs, testimony which would seen the clubs, and gives it as his 1 appear to throw them back at least to opinion that the} may belong to the the earliest of these dates. The char- period of the Stuart Kings. acter of the clubs themselves could The clubs evidently form a set used hardly fail, even on a casual examina- by a golfer of the time. The set con- ^m BH A SET OF OLD GOLF CLUBS. 153 'fltt sists of six wooden clubs and two iron broad, is prolonged into a sharp spur clubs. One of the things that would beyond the nose, which was clearly strike a golfer is that they must have meant, like the coulter of a plough, for prison oi been designed and made by the same cutting purposes. The head is alto- person, and that person a golfer and gether a piece of rough blacksmith experienced club-maker. Their finish work with a socket 3 1-2 inches in -ne that is would denote that, were there not also circumference, into which the shaft is the begin- certain delicate differences in the mat- fixed in exactly the way it is fixed at ^ >f a consid- ter of spooning that would attract the the present day. The cleek, which attention only of a golfer. The clubs might be named an iron, is of dimen- nrioas di are all noticeably heavier in the head sions and character in keeping with •b of ft Border, and longer in the shaft, and in all re- the iron. The wooden clubs are also I a hundred spects bigger, than modern clubs. The built on the same general plan as those '-"lquated as wooden clubs comprise drivers and of the present day, but there is a spoons, there being nothing corre- marked variance in the size of the '• modem B sponding to the brassie and the putter, bead and the length of the shaft. In - under an- and the heads are of unequal weight every case they have a flatter lie, that and the shafts of unequal length; and is, have a greater angle between the the iron clubs appear to correspond to shaft and the sole of the club, which is Mil L_., our cleeks and irons of to-day, but are to some extent accounted for by the it the result much heavier and clumsier, while a great length of the shaft. The whole • in those thick coating of rust adds to the un- appearance of the clubs is in striking jamea comeliness of their appearance. The contrast with the style and finish of the . The change oi iron might be described as being as clubs which golfers are now accus- ^•parent much of a niblick as an iron, so evi- tomed to handle. The longest of them l brtiwn the centun- dently it is adapted to playing in sand. has a shaft that is 6 inches longer than d* tufa specimens. It is a formidable looking implement, the driver Fernie uses, and measuring k rot and has more the appearance of a the two clubs from the nose along the . • - with the weapon than a golf club. Its weight sole to the top of the shaft Fernie's MM to 2 remote con- is 28 ounces, as compared with 16 1-2 is 46 inches and the old club is 54 Ik arts and ounces, the weight of the irons with inches, also a very remarkable differ- .. idoncd stage which Fernie, the ex-champion, plays. ence. The head is abnormally large This is a very remarkable difference. according to modern ideas. There is The length of the club from the top of at least twice as much wood in it as the shaft to the ground is 43 1-2 inches in the average club of the present day. Ho* —about 4 inches longer than Fernie's The difference in weight of the two iron. The greater part of the addi- clubs is about 4 ounces, and most of . (ursc an- tional weight is in the head, but the the extra weight is in the head, which interred shaft, which is a very stout piece of has the lead inserted at the back, as wood, materially contributes thereto. usual. The general character of this f' The face is hollowed out to an extent part of the club furnishes as great a • nt, * that seems exaggerated to our ideas, contrast with the corresponding part IB. k« and the concavity is that, in greater de- of the modern club as the head of a gree, which has been made the subject collie does with the head of a bulldog. of a recent patent. One of the char- Though they are not such efficient- «•* acteristics of the head is that the sole, looking instruments as those univer- which is three-quarters of an inch sally adopted now, they are certainly 154 A SET OF OLD GOLF CLUBS. not lacking in elegance of design, and of the nartural color of the wood, while in that respect, if not in superiority of the ground was black, so that the fig- finish, they bear favorable comparison ure must have been impressed by with the modern article. There is no stamping and not by stencilling—a alteration of the attachment of the common form of mechanical reproduc- head to the shaft. Then, as now, they tion in early days. The outline of were bound together with cord pre- the characters is rude and irregular. pared with pitch. The cord is rotten, 1 n the case of the wooden clubs the im- in spite of the pitch, with age. The print is placed on the head where the grips are, however, essentially differ- name of the maker is now found, and ent. Three of the clubs have no in the case of the irons it is placed on added grip at all, and it is not certain the shaft adjacent to the grip. On- if they ever had. The grips of the each of the wooden clubs one figure others consist of a single thickness is repeated six times so as to imitate of coarse woollen selvage wound the general shape of the original, and round the shaft and fixed thereon by on the iron clubs four times, with the its ends with horse nails bent into the same intent. What relationship this form of a staple. The now universal combination of letters and symbols- sheepskin over the woollen wrapping bears to the clubs, whether it denotes was then evidently unknown. From ownership, or identifies the maker,, the fact that the shafts are in some cannot be said with certainty, but it cases a good deal bent we gather that may be assumed that the letters do- they were natural sticks straightened represent the name of the maker, and and dressed. The wood of the head that the symbols may denote special is not unlike apple-tree, and of the permission on the part of one or other shafts not unlike hickory. of the Kings of Scotland, equivalent Perhaps, however, the most interest- to a monopoly of the kind that is. ing feature of the clubs is a stamped granted to certain tradesmen of to- device which every one of them bears. day in the use of the Royal arms. The apparently black coloring matter That the markings furnish data which used in the impression has grown very would throw light on the primary his- dim and is much defaced, but as it has tory of these interesting old clubs if been repeated forty-four times over they could be interpreted is not to be the clubs its details are certain. Es- doubted ; but there can be no hesita- sentially it consists of a figure whose tion in deciding that the clubs belong; outline may be described as a rhombus to a very early period in the unwritten with the obtuse angles rounded, or an history of the game of golf, and that ellipse with the ends run to a point, they bridge over a considerable hiatus- containing a series of characters. In in the continuity of that history. To- the upper angle there is a Royal the antiquary they are of much inter- crown, in the lower a Scotch thistle, est, but to the golfer they are of sur- in the middle between those emblems passing interest as showing what man- a five-rayed star, on the left-hand side ner of implements they were with of the star the letter I (which may which his ancestors at some remote,. stand for J), and on the right-hand if indefinite period practised the game side of the star the letter C. The of golf. specific characters are isolated and GOLF COURSES AND CLUBS. 155 "'While lU outline oi irregular. m ^ the head where the :• 'und. and -placed or, • :• :,;•• &"**»as to imitate :m with the Nut rtktionship k letters and > k »hfdifr it denote Ktotititt tk maker. with certamry, kt it •^ that the letters fa m of the maker, ami b BBT denote special THIRD GREEN, BRAE BURN GOLF CLUB, WEST NEWTON, MASS. he p«n oi one or other j thud, quinta • • W that i> -- mdOBB •:'- « oi tk Rod m old dubs if J. and that •]._W*hutll> •;-•'• - * |R Of HA'10' ^fer they are of sur- ,re # SCAK8DALE GOLF CLUB, HARTSDALE, N. Y. WESTERN DEPARTMENT Conducted by Alexis J. Colman. Both the Western Golf Association sociation. Then there were many and the Women's Western Golf As- western clubs, both in the allied and sociation have now decided that clubs associate classes, which belonged to applying for membership need not the U. S. G. A., and it was exacting hold prior membership in the United no hardship of these clubs, which al- States Golf Association. These dec- ready belonged to the U. S. G. A., to larations of independence, as it were, come into the W. G. A. Also, the fact are indicative of the spirit of self- of a club's belonging to the U. S. G. reliance which every organization, in A. was deemed sufficient guarantee of any field whatsoever, must now and the club's fitness to come into the then assume ; and the action taken in W. G. A. the present cases is solely with the idea that the associations may thrive. Now the Western Golf Association numbers sixty-two clubs, and there are Clubs which might hesitate before comparatively few clubs in the West joining a Western organization be- which belong to the U. S. G. A. and cause of the extra fee involved as a which are not in the W. G. A. There necessity in joining the United States are a number of clubs, however, which Golf Association, have now no bar to belong to neither organization, and keep them out. The main reason for these clubs, or some of them, both the joining any golf association is that the Western Golf Association and the club's members may play in the cham- Women's Western Golf Association pionship of that association, and in the would like to include as members. open club events to which only mem- bers of clubs in that association are The annual meeting of the Western eligible. If, therefore, a western club Golf Association, March 7. proved a has players who have aspirations lively session. The main argument toward the western events and have took place over the repeal of the by- no ambition to play in the national law requiring players in the western championship, it surely is asking too amateur championship to hold regu- much of such a club to have it come lar membership. This barred the into membership in a western asso- junior element, or that part of it whose ciation via U. S. G. A. allegiance. collective papa had not put up the J- extra fee requisite to make the boy When the Western Golf Associa- expert a regular member. As some tion was founded it was a wise enough fathers did this and others didn't, provision to stipulate that all clubs to some of the boys were forced to sit become members must first hold mem- by at the championship last year and bership in the United States Golf As- see boys of their own age play in the •HH WESTERN DEPARTMENT. 157 tourney. The amendment repealing A. at all affect their allegiance with this by-law was passed, 24 to 6, and the S. G. A. once more the arbitrament of amateur golf in the West will be by skill alone. The Trans-Mississippi Golf Asso- ciation clubs, almost without excep- tion, belong to the W. G. A., and the 1 "** »«re many It was pointed out at the meeting, territory of that organization is en- allied and by Director-Elect Straw, of Midlo- tirely within the W. G. A. boundaries, . thian, that the restriction was purely yet no friction has occurred, and the a financial one. Retiring Secretary T. M. G. A. men have taken consider- • which al- Carpenter, whose forceful arguments able satisfaction in the fact that their to the V v in favor of a championship open to all team has twice defeated the W. G. A. recognized western amateurs whose team in matches. eU.SG clubs vouched for them, proved most potent and impressed the delegates «Aciem guarantee oi The western amateur champion- l into the most, made the point that as the United States Golf Association had never ship was awarded to Glen View, and seen fit to make such restriction, he that club will hold with it, as a sub- saw no reason for the Western's so ordinate event, the annual tourna- doing. ment for the Glen View cup. • -j j there are J* the fact that Glen View is to - TI the West The proposition to amend the con- be host insures a great tourna- 5 stitution so as to permit all clubs in ment, for the club is immensely and i A. There the territory west of the meridian pass- deservedly popular. Dates and con- ing through Buffalo to become mem- ditions are fixed by the W. G. A di- :itia. ml bers in the W. G. A., was passed, so rectors. Dates and links for the an- • diem, both fte that now any club in the United nual open championship and for the ml the States west of Buffalo is eligible to Marshall Field team trophy contest •• membership in the Western Golf As- are yet to be determined. as sociation. This certainly is quite a big country; in fact it is the same An event which is to be open to as the territory of the United States teams of amateurs representing any Golf Association, with the exception national or sectional golf organization of the strip east of the Alleghany in the world, will be that for the • :he by- Mountains. Olympic trophy, the immense cup won western at the Glen Echo Club, St. Louis, by The point was made in the discus- Captain Chandler Egan and his team red the sion of the amendment, that the pass- of nine sturdy Chicago youths last it whose age of such a clause might be inter- September. The competition is to be up the preted by the Southern Golf Associa- held annually on the links of the Chi- . * Iff tion as an encroachment upon its ter- cago Golf Club at Wheaton. Con- ritory, but this was more than met by ditions are to be framed by the W. G. the statement that the clause made A. directors, but it is probable that the nothing obligatory, but simply held teams will be limited to not more than out a privilege to these clubs of join- five or six men, as that will insure ing if they saw fit. They do not have more organizations competing than to, nor does membership in the W. G. would be the case were a larger quota 158 WESTERN DEPARTMENT. of amateurs to represent the organiza- it for golf. The Westward-Ho Golf tions. The Olympic team cup is iden- Club, deriving its membership from tical with that won by George S. Lyon, Oak Park and River Forest, offered who won the individual Olympic to take in River Forest's 100 members championship. in consideration for the transfer of all of River Forest's property. The During the past year five clubs River Forest Golf Club was organized joined the Western Golf Association, in 1899, and the Westward-Ho Golf and one—the Ellerslie Country Club- Club was formed in 1898. The present is about to be admitted. Hhe member- officers of Westward-Ho are: Charles ship of the Association, at the begin- H. Wells, president; Perley Lowe, ning of the year of its existence, has first vice-president; C. B. Samson, been as follows: 1899, eleven; 1900, second vice-president, and I. N. Con- twenty-two; 1901, twenty-eight; 1902, ard, treasurer. thirty-nine; 1903, forty-four; 1904, fifty-seven; 1905, sixty-two. Arthur W. Copp, who as one of the Associated Press' bright young men R. II. McElwee's good work in used to play in the early-day matches Florida has pleased his Chicago of the Newspaper Golf Club, of Chi- friends. The Onwentsia man won cago, has returned from Utah, and the South Florida championship, will again play golf at a Chicago club. February 25, and as this is sent, he Copp holds the title of champion of has just made low qualifying score, Utah. Once, in a team match between 144, in the open tournament at Palm Salt Lake City and Butte, Copp, play- Beach. ing for the Mormon city, found him- self pitted against the Butte profes- Harry Collis, the English profes- sional, one Green. Copp did not know sional who has made a good record until he had defeated his antagonist— at Indiana clubs, is to be at the Home- 167 to 171, medal play—that he was wood Country Club this season. Dur- the professional, so his kudos was all ing the three years that Collis was at the greater. Note that Copp beat the Country Club, of Indianapolis, he Green—cop usually precedes green, developed several good players, among anyway. whom are Mrs. Harry New and Miss Gladys Winn. The nominating committee of the new Jackson Park Golf Club, which By its amalgamation with the West- has the public course at that park as ward-Ho Golf Club, March 11, the its links, has renominated Dr. H. W. River Forest Club ceased to exist as Pierson for its chief executive. The an independent organization. The club has every encouragement from land upon which River Forest's the park commissioners, who promise course was located did not belong to an 18-hole course of grandeur and the club, and the owner decided that ample playing possibilities for the lie could no longer let the club have coming season. Ho Golf tifati HANDICAPPING The most delicate, as well as the enter upon a scoring competition with most difficult, duty which the commit- jubilant enthusiasm, a very small per- s organiied tee of a golf club have to discharge centage have the courage to return •i-Ho Golf is that connected with the equaliza- cards showing how they have fared tion of handicaps, says the Field. Few in the course of the day's play. It ••<•: diaries of the members of any large and well- is this large percentage of "No Re- rtey Lowe, organized club are aware of the time, turns" in competition play which is trouble, and anxiety which are ex- a source of permanent anxiety to the pended throughout the course of the handicap committee. Being deprived year in arranging the handicaps of of any authentic guide as to the char- players so as to make the competi- acter and quality of their play, tions in which they engage fair all through the failure of the players to round. To realize the nature of the return their scoring card, the com- "work it is needful to serve for a fairly mittee naturally have no guide to the long series of years as a member of system of handicapping which should - •committee. The service thus rendered be followed as applicable to those par- Utah, ml to one's fellow members may be ex- ticular players. Their policy of hand- acting, and, for the most part, thank- icapping, therefore, for any subse- .•hampiai oi less ; but there is no denying the value quent competition must be, to a large r-etwtta of the insight which the work gives extent, guesswork, because, where into the variety of human character, there are no intermediate scores to irawn city, found ten- as well as the futility of attempting guide them, the committee, as a rule, to realize the ideal counsel that an at- have no option but to leave the mem- tempt should be made, if possible, to ber's handicap untouched at the figure . 3- please everyone. Apart from that ad- which it stood on the last day when i, fu\-4hat be was vantage, service on the handicapping a scoring card was returned. Cases, -committee brings with it the highly however, are constantly arising where instructive experience of teaching the this procedure adopted by the major- member how to estimate the capabili- ity of handicap committees errs on ties of players, and to penetrate, in a the side of being too generous. Hu- few rare cases, into the policy which man nature, with its proneness to is always struggling to conceal hid- lapse into weak and tortuous ways, den motives. As a method of esti- is not always proof against the at- .. which mating one's fellow golfers no better tractive chance of being able to gain •self-imposed training could be en- aii advantage at a fellow member's I dured. expense. Hence it is found in the I The difficulty which always con- actual working of handicaps among fronts the handicap committee is the players that many members are more large proportion of players who, on than suspected of adopting a policy «very competition day, refrain from of settled calculation not to return a • :r scoring card unless there is a toler- • •sending in a scoring card. Experi- ence always shows that, however large ably good chance of being near, or may be the number of competitors who within the limits of, the prize list. 160 HANDICAPPING. It is the handicap treatment of such rience, must have met from time to players on a basis which will be fair time players who tore up their cards and impartial to all the other members under pretexts which could not fail of the club which constitutes the puz- to strike them sometimes as being- zling and anxious problem of the rather flimsy. handicap committee. Handicap committees have occa- No golfer likes to suggest, or even sionally tried to deal with such cases, to entertain the idea with willingness, not according to any official records that such players who scheme to keep of the play, but according to the gen- their handicaps unchanged are more eral drift of conversation among worthy of denunciation than of ju- members in the club. What has been dicial attention by the committee. The the result ? The members whose hand- competitive traditions of golf clubs icaps have been treated on the basis throughout their history have been of the general criticism of their fellow invariably high, as well as unsullied members, and not on the figures of a by the taint of sordidness. Yet it is scoring card, have rarely failed to en- quite certain that as long as scoring ter into protesting and sometimes competitions have been held, there angry controversy with the handicap must have been a fractional propor- committee. Those members have felt tion of the members who have acted that their personal honor was im- in a way which the majority of their pugned, and proof has been demanded fellows are frankly of opinion is of the committee to show the grounds neither straightforward nor morally upon which they have had the un- defensible. The temptation, indeed, to heard-of temerity to change a handi- act thus is really too strong for some cap when no scores have been re- natures to resist, for, where a prize turned to justify the alteration. That of some value is being struggled for, is a perfectly sound position for the there is sure to be just a little ethical aggrieved members to take up. From looseness here and there, which the their point of view there can be no players themselves would be hard logical defence to the contention that, pushed to palliate, and much more to when all is said and done, the lower- defend. The question, however, of ing of the handicap has been made consistent failure on the part of play- on no official record of scores. On ers to return their scoring cards last- the other hand, the position of the ing over a long interval is a subject handicap committee is as fair as it which should always excite the vigi- is morally justifiable. They are con- lant attention of the handicap com- scious of the general report among mittee. The fact that no scores are members of the club that between the returned does not necessarily imply time when one handicap was fixed that the competitor is either off his and the other is alleged to be arbi- game, or that his general form is so trarily altered by the committee the bad that he would not have been quite members who have returned no cards competent to win had it not been for are known to have improved in their a trifling accident at some particular game all round, and to be really play- hole. The contrary, indeed, is much ing a better quality of golf than their more than often the case, and every old handicap justifies them in receiv- golfer, even of limited playing expe- ing. The committee, therefore, have HA ND1CAPPING, 161 > no other recourse open to them but gregate prizes. Where the prizes are to listen to the prevailing conversa- valuable the competition is sure to be tion, and to mark the general trend more keen, and thus it is right that of opinion among the members. safeguards should be taken by all The handicap committee, indeed, is means which can be justified as in the ^ oca. in the position of a judge on the interest of the general body of play- bench, who sometimes is more guided ers, to see that every competition is in coming to a final judgment upon played according to the principles a case which is being argued before which constitute the strictest honor him by the personal demeanor of the and individual fair play. When, there- ^\Tut has bea principal witnesses than by the facts fore, a handicap committee alters the (members Khosbl- and incidents which go to make up handicap of a player who seems to the dramatic story of the trial. The have pursued a calculated policy of handicap committee's duty is to see making "Xo Return" over a series of that its action in fixing handicaps for competition days, and does so for rea- cdtoa- all the members of a club should be sons which seem to them to be per- fS»? and wmetie scrupulously fair as among all likely fectly fair and justifiable, it is quite :!i the hanfap competitors. This duty is, perhaps, certain that their decision will be ap- more necessary to discharge to-day proved and supported by the con- • •nor vas m- than it was formerly, for the tendency census of opinion throughout the . • \m demanded of late years has been to increase membership of the club. . largely the value of individual and ag- hry haw had the it . shank • have been n- itenM Bn said pcmtioii iof k ,fcBhitakeop. Fnn « net• therr can be» iti tkal ^ ad to. the to- BR£CV has been mA Inton • ,i Ik poarioo of k .rasrt ^ They are coo- i L.,.-M•»1 tilt 1 CLUB HOUSh:, LOG CABIN GOLF CLUB, MACON, GA. U. S. G. A. RULINGS ON CHANGE OF RULES A meeting of the sub-committee on spot from which the ball was lifted, rules was held February _>8, when cer- the player shall keep that spot, or in tain rulings were made in conse- the case of water, the spot at which quence of Rules 14 and 15 having the ball entered, in a line between him- been revised lately by the Royal and self and the In lie. Ancient Club at St. Andrews. For Wherever it is impossible to drop convenience, the rule as well as the a ball prescribed in sections (a) and ruling is set out. (/>), it shall be dropped as near as RULE 14 (o) If a ball lie or be possible to the place where it lay, lost in water or in casual water in a but not nearer to the hole. hazard, a ball may be dropped in or (d) If a ball lie in casual water on as far behind the hazard as the player a putting green, a ball may be placed may please, under penalty of one by hand behind the water without stroke; but if it be impossible from penalty. want of space in which to play, or The penalty for a breach of this from any other cause, to drop the ball Rule shall be the loss of the hole. behind the hazard, the player may RULING OF THE U. S. G. A. drop a ball at the side of the hazard as near as possible to where the ball Penalty for breach of this Rule: lay, but not nearer to the hole, under In Match Play, loss of hole. penalty of one stroke. In Medal Play, two strokes. A ball lifted from a recognized (b) If a ball lie or be lost in casual water hazard may be dropped under water through the green, or if casual a penalty of one stroke, even if the water through the green interferes hazard be dry at the time. with the player's stance, the player If the water in a recognized water may drop a ball, without penalty with- hazard overflow its usual boundaries in two club lengths from the margin the overflowed portion of the course directly behind the place where the shall be considered as part of the haz- ball lay, or from the margin nearest ard, and not as casual water. to the place where the ball lay but not nearer to the hole. If the ball The banks of any recognized water when dropped roll into the water, or hazard are considered part of the rest so that the water interferes with hazard. the player's stance, it may be re- RULE 15. A ball shall be dropped dropped, without penalty, as near to in the following manner: The player the margin as the nature of the ground himself shall drop it. He shall face permits, but not nearer to the hole. the hole, stand erect and drop the (c) In dropping a ball behind the ball behind him from his head. 'Vji-i: FOOZLED. 1G3 If the ball when dropped touch the RULING OF THE U. S. G. A. player he shall incur no penalty, and Penalty: if it roll into a hazard it may be re- In Match Play, for improperly dropped without penalty. dropping the ball, loss of the hole. HANGE OF The penalty for a breach of this In Medal Play, two strokes, the ball Rule shall be the loss of the hole. to be re-dropped properly. • FOOZLED By E. M. Griffith. • i • WITH APOLOGIES TO MR. NORMAN GALE. The Tyro Loq : bate. • . water is Foozled the drive ! Deuce take it! Foozled the drive. Caddie, what d'ye make it ? Mow much ? Not five ! Rather rough when you've studied the Grip, ; the loss of the hok. The stance and the swing through shine and drip, And given the Pro a handsome tip, Foozled the drive! Rife: Duffed the approach ! O dash it! What's that ? Thirteen ; • Hang this brassie, I'll smash it— Vilest I've seen! nijfc Five at the tee, and the one I topped, One that right in the bunker dropped, Five down there where I whacked and chopped, One more—thirteen. Foozled the putt! De'il's in it! Confound the ball! JO 'Fraid I shall swear in a minute. Twenty ? That all! Play by the book or by sheer brute force— - Equally certain to land in the gorse. " Keep your temper!" O yes, of course! Confound it all! olavver BlBier:T *« He !0n 104 EDITORIALS. a calamity is inconceivable for many QOLF reasons. The U. S. G. A. has acquired EVERY MONTH a prestige which no other golf asso- By S|ii'H«l Appointment Olllriiil liiillilin of the ciation could, by any possibility, at- r lilted StntCN Golf Association, I?• t•• •-«•.>H•• ITii«I•• tain ; and secondly, Western golfers, Holf Association, Central NPW York liiilf I incur. Metropolitan t.oll Association, Western (.oil A.8- are thorough sportsmen. The last Kociiitlon, inn! Southern (lolf Association. reason is conclusive, because no true Entered at Post-office at New York as Second Class Matter. sportsman would have a part in art ONE YEAR, $2.00 I SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS attempt to set up a rival golf asso- Postage free United States, Canada, and Mexico. ciation with pretentions to be con- To other foreign countries, 30 cents per year. Re- mit by Express Money Onler, Post office Order, sidered a national authority. To do Repistered Letter, or ('heck payable to ARTHUR POTTOW. so would unquestionably injure the Edited by van Tassel Sutpben U. S. G. A. somewhat, but it would do» much more than that. It would strike Publisher: ARTHUR POTTOW, a deadly blow at the game. Golf is- of vastly more importance than any as- 313 East 24th St., New York sociation of golfers, whether western or national, and to introduce the bick- The Editor will be glad to receive erings and strife which have cre^L for consideration Photographs and Con- into so many games, would be most tributions on the general subject of the deplorable. If there were two rivaL game. Stamps should be enclosed for organizations, each claiming to be return postage if found unavailable. Contributors arc requested to write national, such a result would follow. their Names and Addresses on the back The game in this country has been of all MSS. and Photographs. Pho- maintained hitherto on an even higher tographs should be carefully packed plane than in Great Britain. No friend and accompanied by descriptions of of golf will aid in the enterprise, and their subjects. Club Secretaries will where are golf's enemies? confer a favor by notifying the Editor of the dates and particulars of coming club events, especially open and invita- ONE DAY TOURNAMENTS tion tournaments. The Women's Metropolitan Golf Association has made a proposal that golf clubs should during the A FALSE ALARM spring give one day tournaments for The Western Golf Association at them. It is a very wise suggestion,, its annual meeting annexed every- and its adoption is calculated to give thing except the Pacific Ocean. Like an impulse to competitive golf amongst Clive in India, it must be astonished at women of the metropolitan district, its own moderation, for it might have which is badly needed. It will en- taken in the Philippine Islands, courage some of our players to take Hawaii and Guam. Certain timid part in the more important events, souls in the East have seen in this ac- such as the Women's Metropolitan tion the approach of the octopus and national championships. The whose tentacles will eventually crush metropolitan district is strong in the life out of the U. S. G. A. There women golfers. They simply need need be no such apprehension. Such encouragement. ' » ! ' no tnf J nri . •I nthorii lit. h « At pr w thehick- ifc which have cup Through ftie Green 'ii be most • -; to tie There are signs that the Metropoli- 14-16. GOLF has been agitating for tan Golf Association means to be this fixture for some years and nat- bsbn more active this season than it has urally feels pleasure in making the n an even higher been for some time. One of the first announcement. fruits of its increased activity is the d B ft inauguration of a new system of hand- • icapping, which should prove more Some golfers advocate the estab- satisfactory than anything which has lishment of a fixture to be called the hitherto been tried. The basis of it Eastern open championship. It would is that the par of the course will be be necessary then to fix the limits la tf taken into consideration in fixing the of the territory to which the compe- handicaps. The whole scheme is set tition should be open. The Western h. shosM forth in a little book written by Leigh- open championship seems to be open ton Calkins, secretary of the Metro- to the world. This is rather too large an order for effete Easterners, though . . . politan Golf Association and chair- it has been suggested that we might - man of the handicap committee. For the convenience of clubs throughout copy to some extent the methods of - the country GOLF has published this the Western Golf Association. That wNpoii distnd. book, and it can be obtained at the enterprising body has just spread it- -office of this magazine. self very largely over the earth, tak- ing in practically unlimited territory. o If an Eastern Golf Association is Metropolitan Another encouraging sign is that started it has been suggested that an open championship of the Metro- Chicago should be included in its jur- politan Golf Association is to be held isdiction. The Windy City is only at the Fox Hills Golf Club, September one-third of the way across the con- THROUGH THE GREEN. tinent, and is clearly more East than The members of the New York West. Golf Club are making a strenuous ef- fort to induce the Park Commissioner to complete the eighteen-hole course Prof. Lord, of Columbia Univer- which has been planned for the Je- sity, having proclaimed the rightful- rome avenue side of the Park. The ness of gambling, we can bet our box congestion on the present course is of balls upon the game with an easy such that it is all but impossible to- conscience. play on Sundays and holidays. Any increased facilities will be welcome. Last month GOLF commented on the frequency with which changes in the methods governing the amateur The present officers of the New championship had been made. The York Golf Club are: President, James- Sun prints this record: 1895—All R. Turner ; treasurer, Alfred Craven ; match play, final at 36 holes; three secretary and captain, Geo. W. Dor- days. 1896 and 1897—Qualifying land. Five new members were elect- round, thirty-six holes, sixteen to ed to serve on the board of managers r qualify; eighteen hole matches, ex- David H. Thomas, Albert B. Lawyer, George P. Lawson, John T. Duff and cept semi-final and final; four days. T 1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901—Quali- Frederick L . Adams. The monthly fying round, 36 holes, 32 to qualify, class handicaps of the club will be- all matches at 36 holes; six days. 1902 gin in April, and an attractive pro- —Qualifying round, 18 holes, 64 to gramme is being prepared for the sea- qualify; 18 hole matches, except semi- son. John Pepper is the present final and final; five days. 1903—All champion, and Charles Marshall the match play, final at 36 holes; five holder of the President's Cup. days. 1904—Qualifying round, 54 holes, 18 the first day with 64 to con- The final for the Women's Cham- tinue at 36 holes the second day; 18 pionship of Southern California was hole matches, final at 36 holes; five played at San Diego, March 15, the days. 1905—Qualifying round, 36 winner being Miss Saltonstall, of holes, 18 on first and 18 on second Boston. day; ^2 to qualify, 18 hole matches except final at 36 holes; five days. j* Ormond, Fla., is to have a new golf course next season. It will be Walter Fairbanks won the amateur of nine holes, as it is at present, but championship of Southern California it will be vastly superior in playing" at the Los Angeles Country Club, quality, and will offer more variety. February 25. William Frederickson, Ormond is the course where Ber- Los Angeles, was his opponent in the nard ' Nicholls beat Harry Vardon in finals, but Fairbanks beat him by 5 1900. Vardon and Nicholls each made up and 4 to play. Fairbanks learnt a 34 then and the record has re- his game in England, where, how- mained till this month. Then Willie ever, he was better known as a Anderson had a round of 31, taking; cricketer. 67 for the eighteen holes. w 167 THROUGH THE GREEN. vuous tj. Preset course is ' the X« ••'«. Junes i members TO elect- T. Duff and Them* l dub wiB be- nd in attractive p K prepared f« the sea- ON THE GOLF COURSE, SAN PEDRO, MEXICO. 'eppfr is the prsa! - • | M the J. Frank Turner, Wyoming Val- opening events of the season of 1905. ley Country Club, Wilkesbarre, Pa., A number of players formerly on the won the Nassau, Bahamas, champion- list have been left out, as the commit- ship, March n. H. E. Bemis, Bed- tee has eliminated those who cannot - Oatr ford Springs, Pa., was the runner-up. play up to the 18-stroke allowance mia ns The winner of the medal in the quali- limit. The Country Club will have in | fying round was R. W. Turtle, Nas- 113 players on the new list and Oak- - stall of sau. Mr. Turner played in the ama- ley and Wollaston each will have 98. teur championship at the Nassau The other clubs handicapped and the Country Club in 1903, when he was number of players are : Medford, 68; put out by J. D. Cady, Rock Island Burn-Brae, 66; Allston, 57; Myopia, I a new Arsenal. The handicap cup went to 55; Tedesco, 46; Springfield, 45; Al- .,. It ft-illbe J. C. Van Riper, Glen Echo, with a bemarle, 39; Fall River, 38; Arling- Best, W card reading 83, 8—75. ton, 38 ; Kenilworth, 37 ; Lexington. nor b> m 33; Commonwealth, T,^ ; New Bed- • •« "*•' „ where Ber- It is expected that about 1,600 golf- ford, 31; Salem, 28; Segregansett, ers will be handicapped this year by 24; Tatnuck, 22; South Felds, 22; mr \"ardonin the Massachusetts Golf Association. Tekoa, 17; Chestnut Hill, 13; West- . ..h made Of the forty-nine clubs in the asso- on, 12; Somerville, 12; Hyannisport, ciation twenty-six have been heard 9; Wellesley, 9. from, and the State committee has handicapped 1,063 golfers for the Golf is flourishing in Indiana. The 108 THROUGH THE GREEN. championship of the Stale Golf Asso- Sidney Carpenter, Philadelphia, won ciation will be held this year at Fort the Seminole Cup. V. Longley, Provi- Wayne. dence, took the third cup; C. P. Bul- J* len, Haverhill, won the fourth cup. The Knollwood (N. V.) Country W. E. Edge, who was runner-up in Club held its annual meeting March this division, received a somewhat un- 16. The following officers were usual prize, the well-known book, elected: President, John D. Archbold; "Hints to Golfers." Mr. Edge ought Vice-President, Oliver Ilarriman; to be a dangerous man to meet in the Treasurer, Henry J. ITemmens; Sec- future. retary, Judson S. Todd; House Com- mittee, J. J. Knox; Green, Henry W. March 7, at Palm Beach, George Hayden; Handicap, Judson S. Todd; Low, of Baltusrol, won the first prize Admission, Melville E. Ingalls, Jr.; of $200 in the open tournament with Tennis and Squash, Ernest M. Price. a score of 136. Arthur Fenn was sec- The club will hold its annual tourna- ond with 138; Willie Anderson, third, ment in June. with 139. C. B. Cory was the best of the amateurs, taking fourth prize with J. D. Travers, the Inter-scholastic 144- champion, is ineligible for this year's Inter-scholastic Golf Association Arthur Lockwood, the Boston ama- championship, which will be held at teur, is in England for the winter. the Garden City Golf Club, May 25- February 25 he played in a handicap 2y. The dates conflict with the Met- at the Weston-Super-Mare Golf Club. ropolitan Golf Association champion- He went round in 82 and was handi- ship, but probably this is not consid- capped plus 3. The scratch man took ered detrimental. It is a very good 85- way to secure the absence of a gallery. Mansfield Hunter, who was over The Outremont Golf Club, of Mon- here with the Oxford and Cambridge treal, has engaged as professional Society, was married recently in Lon- Davie Black, of Troon, Scotland. don, to Miss Louise Stevenson, a god- Black comes with the highest recom- daughter of the Duchess of Con- mendation from Willie Fernie, the naught. ex-open champion, and he is likely to be a valuable addition to the contin- Mr. Hunter is secretary of the Bar gent of Scotch and English profes- Golfing Society, of London, which sionals on this side of the water. He numbers some of the leading English has gone round the links at Troon in lawyers in its ranks. Why not have 68. a Bar Golfing Society in New York? Nothing but good conies from the as- February 27, R. H. McElwee, of sociation between the elder and young- Onwentsia, won the South Florida er members of the bar, which such golf championship at Palm Beach. In an association makes possible. Golf the finals he beat Paul Waterman, of is a great leveler, and it takes the con- Englewood, by 3 up and 2 to play. A. ceit out of a great corporation law- THROUGH THE GREEK. yer to find he is not so supreme on **1 Olf the links as he is in the Supreme Court. The lesson does him no harm. March 10, the trustees of Prince- ton University accepted the golf club- house erected at the Princeton golf •course by the class of '86. Princeton is better off in regard to facilities for playing the game than any university in the country, and it is surprising it does not make a better showing in the intercollegiate championship. Should the "1" be sounded in "golf?1 This question is of great mo- ment to bards who seek a word to rhyme with it. It seems that some- one who took an interest in the mat- ter went to the annual meeting of the • U. S. G. A. for the sole purpose of making notes on the way the speak- WILLTE SMITH, CHAMPION OF MEXICO. i sanfa ers used the word "golf." This per- • son says without exception they all spoke of "goff." Now a representa- At the annual meeting of the Wom- • - - nan t«t tive of GOLF was also present at this en's Golf Association of Philadelphia, meeting, and his conclusion was en- March 3, Mrs. Caleb F. Fox, of the tirely different. In his opinion the ma- Huntingdon Valley Country Club, was jority of the Americans, Scots and elected president and chairman of the English who spoke at the meeting pro- executive committee. The other of- nounced the "1" even if ever so slight- ficers are: Vice-president, Mrs. Theo- ly, but it was there all the same. dore Wr. Reath, Riverton; treasurer, - - Miss Frances Dallett, St. Davids; sec- One of the recent additions to the retary, Miss M. C. Maule, Philadel- phia Cricket. Other members of the list of golf clubs in the metropolitan executive committee are: Miss Flor- district is the Wykagyl Country Club, [the B» ence McNeely, Merion; Mrs. Alfred of New Rochelle. The playing length London, *» Lowry, Aronimink; Miss Roberts, of the eighteen holes will be 6,300 West Chester. yards. By May nine holes will be in Teadiness. Martin J. Condon is presi- dent; George J. Pelham, vice-presi- The spring season will open on dent; William Pond, treasurer, and T. i young- April 25 at Wissahickon Heights, L. Jaques, secretary. The latter is West Chester, St. Davids and on the chairman of the green committee, the Aronimink Club links simultaneously, other members being R. J. Beach and and the team matches will be con- J. A. Lynch. tinued until June 6 inclusive. Octo- 170 THROUGH THE GREEN. Edgecumbe; chairman green commit- tee, J. B. Marston. j» Club books are now coming in to GOLF fast, and it is regrettable to see that the error "greens" instead of "green" is still perpetuated in many cases. One player, who called at the office of this magazine recently, sturd- ily contended that "greens" was cor- rect. "The committee has two greens to look after," he said, "the fair green and the putting green," and he found this argument conclusive. Frank O. Reinhart, Murray Oly- phant and D. Laird, of last year's Princeton team, will be on the team this year. Others expected to get places are M, G. Cockran, Wr. T. West, one of the semi-finalists in last year's amateur championship, and MEXICAN CADDIES. Raymond Russel, a Western player from Detroit. ber ij has been chosen as the date for the women's individual champion- In the annual club championship of ship, and the course of the Philadel- the Tin Whistles at Pinehurst, N. C.,. phia Cricket Club, at Wissahickon J. D. Foot, Apawamis, defeated Allan Heights. Lord, Washington, by 1 up in a nine- teen-hole match. Mrs. M. D. Patter- son, Englewood, runner-up in the The Cranford (X. J.) Golf Club is women's metropolitan championship preparing for a very active season. It last year, had the best gross score in has one of the longest nine hole a handicap, 103, and Miss E. A. Rob- courses in the country, the playing erts, of Moorestown, N. J., took the length being 3,355 yards. The course net score prize with 97, having a is somewhat flat, but is none the less handicap of 18. In the Inauguration difficult on that account. David Pat- Day handicap, C. L. Becker, Wood- rick has the professional record of 77 land Golf, Auburndale, Mass., won for eighteen holes and Frank Rein- the men's gross score medal with 91 ; hart, the amateur, with 78. Willie and Dr. W. E. Fisher, York Harbor, Anderson did an 81 there and Mr. took the net score with 80. His handi- Travis an 84. The officers are: Presi- cap was 15. dent, Silas P. Wood; vice-president, William M. Sperry; treasurer, G. AI. Walter J. Travis and C. B. Mac- Hendricks; secretary for golf, J. 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At the annual meeting of the Brae- Burn Country Club (West Newton), the following officers were elected: President, G. A. Frost; vice-presi- dent, Win. B. H. Dowse; secretary, E. F. Woods; treasurer, W. A. Young; directors, H. B. Day, Wm. B. H. Dowse, H. L. Aver, G. E. Gilbert, G. A. Frost, B. S. Palmer, C. I. Travelli, W. A. Young, F. B. With- erbee, E. F. Woods. J- Everett Smith has been elected cap- tain of the team of the Mohawk Golf Club, Schenectady, N. Y. The hand- icap committee is made up of Everett Smith. Rudolph Romeling and A. H. Armstrong. The green committee consists of S. M. Hamill, chairman; J. R. Lovejoy, H. L. Towne, P. T. Hanscomb and A. C. Savage. GEORGE T. BROKAW, At the annual meeting of the Hud- WHO IS PLAYING GULF IN THE SOOTH. son River Golf Association held last week the following officers were elect- ed : President, James S. Taylor, rnuda, which possesses three nine- Powelton Club; vice-president, Ben- hole golf courses. At the St. George's jamin H. Adams, Saegkill Club; sec- •course the British champion made a retary, Charles F. Cossum, Dutchess record of $2. In a four-ball match Club; treasurer, Philip T. White, Travis and Major Bigge, the resident Nyack Country Club. The individual amateur scratch player, were beaten championship tournament will be "by Macdonald and A. L. Norris, played on the links of the Twaalfskill Dyker Meadow, by 3 up and 2 to Club, Kingston, in June. play. The next day Travis and the major had their revenge, winning by 4 up and 2 to play. Later Travis beat The Eureka Manufacturing Com- the best ball of Macdonald and Hor- pany, of Cleveland, Ohio, did a very ace Rawlins, the professional, open good business last year with lawn •champion in 1896, but the tables were boots. Certain changes have since turned in the next match. Macdonald been made to give greater strength and Travis closed their trip by play- to the boot, and it should, therefore, ing the best ball of six soldiers and give greater satisfaction than ever. "beating them. There is some novelty Hosts of testimonials have been re- on account of the numbers, but when ceived from purchasers, including" you are vastly superior you might as presidents and representatives of golf well play sixty as six. dubs, and professionals. Green com- •wi; t'lwf«J THE FIRST few Balls , we turned out were sectebn made with a button center- ' i, \\ { Good balls they were, too— Uilk better than others. But but c I we soon found that, good as they were, they could be improved upon by making them without any center at all. I Thehmi Now they are Perfect — perfect in every way a?, well as "PERFECT" in committee name. '•'. daman: If you don't think so, too, we will cheerfully refund your money. S j Ask for Illustrated Booklet telling all about 'em—ready about March ist. Meanwhile try them and we are sure you will find they are easily the longest and best balls you I a held hi ever played with. • • . James S I; TOfreidflt Ben- niK. S*egidll Gnb; sec- . Dutchess i Pfcty T. ft Price: i Onk. The intfui monument ril k ^9.00 per (Dozen Tntf or a Sample (Ball $1.00 .< postage prepaid ring Com- ad. Ohio bt jm "* toT jja^v hare fflW . «^ • otto «nct»n than ever. THE PERFECT GOLF BALL CO. ::r, 253 Broadway, New York City • •' 2 174 THROUGH THE GREEN. mittees will act wisely if they give the caps. Some of the players were C. T. boot a trial. Shannon, Mrs. Gilbert B. Perkins, Norman Towne, Mrs. C. T. Shannon G. II. French, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Geilfus, Miss Fitzgerald, Charles W. Allen and Nathan Allen. Alex. Smith, of the Nassau Country Club, has won the open championship of Southern California for the third time. This year's fixture was held at Coronado Beach. 72 is par for the course, and he went round in J2, 78, 77 > 76—3°3- James Maiden was sec- ond, with 320, and A. Rigby third, with 335. Walter Fairbanks led the amateurs with 325. The chief prize in the open tourna- ment for amateurs at Coronado Beach was won by Fairbanks. Hugo John- stone, who played, was put out by C. L. Williams, of Los Angeles, by 1 up. Willie Anderson, the open cham- pion, took first prize in the open cham- THE BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP CUP, WON BY W. J. TRAVIS. pionship of the West Coast of Flo- rida, which was played at Magnolia The British Championship Chal- Springs. His score was 146. Bernard lenge Cup, won by Walter J. Travis, Nicholls was second, with 147. remained in this country just long George Low had 148. George Thomp- enough to inspire American golfers son, 148; John Pearson, 157 and with the idea that it ought to pay us Philip Honeyman, 158. a return visit. Probably that will not be long deferred. Undoubtedly the principal events of the winter season are those comprised A golf dub will be organized at within the periods from April 4 to the Ashtabula, ()hio, this spring. The 8th of that month inclusive. The pro- course will be laid out over 150 acres gramme begins with the grand An- of ground near Lake Erie, and close nual United North and South Cham- to the Lake Shore Club House. pionship for Women, which occupies April 4 and 5. There is an eighteen The golf course at Belleair, Fla., hole medal round with eight best lias been well patronized during the scores to qualify. A gold medal is given past month. There have been team the player who has the low score. matches, mixed foursomes and handi- The winner of the championship gets 1904 (4tn j WILLIE ANDERSON, Champion, GILBERT NICHOLLS, X«ho Alb. Runner up .* and four others in the money used the CHAMPION BALL GILBERT NICHOLLS WILLIE ANDERSON in the Open Open and Western Champion Runner up in Open Championship Championship v i *• 8M A . The Champion not only appeals to the expert but has made liter Fiiil friends with those who are looking for a durable ball. Our records, under a liberal guarantee, will show the Champion to be about as near indestructible as it's possible to make a rubber cored ball. • 1905 "I have tried the 1905 Champion and like it even better than last season's ball." WILLIE ANDERSON. "I drove every one of the Champion balls you sent me 350 yards —distance measured. I want you to send 5 gross these same . . Benuri balls to me, care Denver Country Club, Denver, Colorado." - GILBERT NICHOLLS. "The 1905 Champion is a cracker-jack—the best ball I ever played with. Played 72 holes with one and it looks good enough for 72 holes more.'' • :" WILLIE NORTON. If your dealer or club does not keep the Champion send $6 for -A| a trial dozen. WORTHINGTON BALL CO. ELYRIA, OHIO 175 176 THROUGH THE GREEN. a sterling silver cup, and a gold medal ganized at Pinehurst, N. C, at rewards the runner-up. There is sure the International Advertising Golf ti» lie a good field . Last year Tournament, is already preparing for the championship was won by Mrs. a big tournament to be held at Cleve- M. D. Paterson, of Englewood, a land, O., the latter part of June. The lady who afterwards distinguished officers of the Euclid Golf Club have herself by being runner-up in the Met- invited the Association to hold the ropolitan Championship. tournament on their course, which is. one of the finest in the country. It April $—~ is allotted to the Fifth is believed that the New York Ad- < irand Annual North and South vertising Golfers will join the Ameri- Championship. There is to be a can Association and participate in this qualifying round of 18 holes, with a tournament. gold medal for the low score. The winner of the first sixteen division Persons interested in advertising gets the President's cup; the Secre- may become members by paying $2, tary's cup is for the second sixteen ; the yearly dues for 1905, under the the Treasurer's cup for the third six- following conditions: At a recent teen, and the Captain s cup for the meeting of the directors of the A. G. fourth sixteen. Gold and silver A. of A. I., the membership commit- medals are given to the runners-up in tee decided to waive the initiation each division, and cups are given to fee of $5, and persons interested in the winners of the beaten eight divi- advertising may become members sions. Last year the championship under the following conditions by was won by Walter J. Travis, who simply paying $2, the yearly dues for also took the medal for low score. 1905: First—Any one who spends not less than $2,500 per year in advertis- Friday, April 7. there is an 18 hole ing in newspapers, periodicals, street handicap, and on Saturday, April 8, cars or bill boards. Second—Any the United North and South Open one who has authority to place adver- Championship will be played for. tising to the extent of $2,500 or more This is at 36 holes medal play, and is per annum for any firm or corpora- open to amateurs and professionals. tion. Third—Any one whose sole Last year Alec Ross won the cham- business is soliciting, writing, or plac- pionship after tieing with Jack Hob- ing advertising. Fourth—Any gen- , ens. The eighteen hole course, and eral or special advertising agent. Fifth—Any manager of the advertis- also the nine hole course are in ing department of a paper or other splendid condition, and the week's publication entered in the U. S. mails golf is bound to be most successful as second-class matter. Sixth—Any and enjoyable. Last year there was a one exclusively engaged in preparing large entry in each contest, and the or selling advertising novelties. numbers playing this year are sure to Seventh—Any one exclusively en- show an increase. Pinehurst has gaged in soliciting or placing adver- firmlv established itself as a great tising in street cars, or on bill boards winter golf resort. or boarding. Application for mem- bership shall be made to the Secre- The American Golf .Association of tary-Treasurer, who will present the Advertising Interests, which was or- names to the Membership Committee. • c i June. 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The TON GILLE8PIB, PIONEERS OF THE In ile was within reach of the drive— GAME IN AMERICA- being 198 yards in length. C made a Every member shall pay $5.00 ad- tremendous swipe at the ball, and mission fee, and $2.00 annual dues. mirabile dictu it went straight up into Dues to be paid annually in advance. the air and fell into the water pail standing by the tee box. What to do? The plan for 1905. as informally Unable to arrive at a decision, the discussed by the Tournament Com- plavers sent to the club house for the mittee, consists of running special chairman of the green committee. trains from Xew York and Chicago, After studying the situation, that offi- and holding a three-days tournament cial asked the players if they were wil- at Cleveland. It is also probable that ling to abide by his decision. They the Xew York members will hold an answered in the affirmative. "Play the Invitation Tournament in the spring ball as it lies," said the chairman of on a local course. the green committee. Despairingly Particulars regarding the asso- D took his niblick and spooned the ciation and application for member- ball out. C shut his eyes and whacked ship should be addressed to Mr. Wm. away, the ball resting stone dead six H. liters, Secretary-Treasurer, 31 inches from the hole, a certain four. Union Square, New York. A and B were so flabergasted by this J* remarkable tour de force, that they The annual tournament of the Pal- foozled and took five for the hole. C metto (iulf Club, Aiken, S. C, opened and D won the eighteenth and the March 14 with a good entry. C. M. match. Of course, the decision by the Hinkle won the chief cup. chairman was wholly wrong, but the explanation may lie in the fact that he j* An English golf club is evidently is rather fond of a joke, and the op- not persuaded that Dr. Osier is right. portunity was too good to lose. 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Sherman has been elected The Women's South Florida cham- president of the Apawamis Club of pionship was decided at Palm Beach^ Rye, with William Mathews as vice- March 5, the winner being Mrs. Ed- president ; J. L. Pool, treasurer, and win H. Fitler, Philadelphia. The run- Sidney A. Lawton, Jr., secretary. The ner-up was Mrs. James Wood, Pitts- retiring governors were Richard T. burg, and she finished one down. Wainwright, George S. Dearborn and J. S. Wheeler. The first two declined a renomination and the three elected, W. P. Foss, the ex-amateur billiard to serve until 1908, were J. S. Wheel- player won a handicap at Palm Beach er, E. S. Nash and D. S. Cowles. The on the same day. The delicacy of golf committee will consist of E. S. touch necessary with the ivories is- Nash, U. D. Eddy, S. Ward Double- equally serviceable with the rubber- day and F. S. Wheeler, as chairman cone. Sidney Fry, the English ama- and captain. Willie Anderson has been teur billiard player, was runner-up to re-engaged as the professional. Charles Hutchings, in the English amateur championship two years ago. At the annual meeting of the East Jersey Golf Association, held Febru- ary 28, George P.. Jenkinson 2(1 was Dr. Osier's theories would scarcely elected president; P. O. Dickinson, be acceptable to golfers. Many of vice-president, and M. D. W. Thurs- our finest players who are over forty ton, secretary. There will be a gen- are doing the best work of their lives. eral handicap as well as the champion- Mr. Travis, Mr. Horace Hutchinsorr ship tournament, and, with the New- and Mr. George Lyon, the Olympic ark Golf Club in the place of the Mor- champion, are conspicuous instances ristown Field Club, the usual team of veterans who are still better than championship. the best of the youngsters. 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GOERZ, HENRY C. FRESHOUR, Bridgeport, Conn. Room , 52 E. Union Square, New York City 1H1 I X T April i.—Pinehurst Golf Club, Mixed June 7-8. — St. Andrews, Scotland. foursomes, Handicap tournament. British Open Championship. April 4, 5.— Pinehurst Golf Club, Grand June 8-10.— Huntingdon Valley Annual United North and South Cham- Country Club, Fifth anual invitation tour- pionship for Women. nament for the Lynnwood Hall Cup. April 5-7.—Pinehurst Golf Club, Fifth June 17-21-24.—Merion Cricket Club, Grand Annual North and South Cham- Golf Association of Philadelphia. In- pionship. dividual Championship. April 8.—Pinehurst Golf Club, United June 13-15.—Baltusrol Golf Club, Wo- North and South Open Championship. mens' Metropolitan Golf Association Championship. April 13-15.—Country Club of Atlantic City, Spring tournament. July 1-3-4.—Mount Airy Country Club, Philadelphia, Second invitation tourna- April 15.—Pinehurst Golf Club, Han- ment. dicap tournament for Harvard Cups. 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It tells the whole truth about every phase and every product of the cigar industry, brings to your very door all the advantages of our great chain of 3(ib retail stores ; makes it easy, for you to get the cigar exactly suited to your taste ! If you live in the country or in a city where we haven't a store, scud for our Cigar Book; you need it. It enables you to get more satisfaction out of your cigar money than you ever dreamed of Before. It enables you to prove this at our expense, without the risk of a single penny. It brings the smoker nearer the sources of production than ever before. If you are at all particular about the cigars you smoke you ought to know us. We take all the responsibility of suiting you. Every cigar we send out is shipped on approval, because no sale is considered complete until t ne customer is entirely satisfied. Here, for instance, is one of our best sellers—one of the extraordinary values that have helped build up our big business— C APT. MARRY AT. "Superior." i Exact Size and Shape, i $5.00 per hundred. JUIaffvat C*idftY Filled with rich Havana Tobacco, rolled by hand and wrapped with lJM.aM.ljav vlga1 • a fine selection of Sumatra leaf. Really a locent cigar in quality, but our system enables us to sell the Superior Size—a big, generous smoke—at Ss.oo per hundred—in our stores or by mail. Or, if your preference is a Clear Havana, we gladly stake our reputation on the polrna Hf* f ilh/1 f idflT* Made entirely of the best Havana Tobacco, by skilled hand workmen, X ai-Uid Uv vuua vlgai i it is the equal of many Imported Cigars. Our system brings you the Bouquet size at SS.OO per hundred. We send you KKi of either of these cigars, prepaid, on receipt of price, and if you don't find them exactly to your liking we exchange them or refund your money, just as you wish. We'd like to have you send for a box of these cigars; but send now for our Cigar Book anyway. It will be worth your while, no matter what you smoke—cigars, cigarettes or pipes. We have sample boxes containing thirteen cigars of assorted sizes and shapes, the prices and name of each being indicated. Sent postpaid on receipt of $1.00. Mention whether Clear Havana or Mild Domestic ia f preferred, or send $2.00 and we will send samples of both kinds. Bear in mind that our cigars are delivered prepaid at exactly the same prices as charged In our great chain of 300 stores in the principal cities in the United States. UNITED CIGAR STORES CO. Mail Order System, 109 Flatiron Bldg'., New YorK ^m/m •• in H6e nejct number of GOLF i ...t&ill contain... The Art of Golf (continued). is "• TOiriob No. 4 of Mr. Fergusons Fables in Golf. Hn A fully illustrated and descriptive account of the I Bpaa an kaUj Championship tournament at Pinehurst To Golf Clubs and Professionals GOLF will be very pleased at all times to assist competent golf professionals in procuring positions, and will also aid golf clubs in filling vacancies. Prompt attention will be given to all applications. • rl>- 'x-<«-' to 12.00 101 "It's the Man Behind the Club" HAT is responsible for remarkable results in golf, yet T there is satisfaction in having the feeling that your clubs are right—then if you are not able to get results you think you are entitled to, you will not quarrel with your clubs, but be very liable to look to your swing to locate the difficulty. We do not maintain that the models used by Willie Anderson in winning the U. S. Open Championship three times and the U S. Western Championship twice are ex- actly suited to all golfers; still, from long experience in the WILLIK ANDERSON, manufacture of Clubs we think we know good clubs when KN AND WESTERN CHAMPION. we see them, and are willing to stake our reputation on pronouncing them models of exceptional merit, and we believe in nine cases out of ten with his Driver and Brassie the first and second shots would show decided improvement. One could surely have confidence in the Clubs, which is a great factor, for it has been proven by remarkable exhibitions that these same clubs are capable of extraordinary results. If you are not entirely satisfied we believe it worth while to give these Anderson Clubs a trial. You could relieve yourself of that mental strain of the possibility of your clubs not being correct models, and devote your time to form. The Clubs are of the best material procurable and made up under Mr. Anderson's personal direction, and his ideas as to what a Driver and Brassie should be are carried out in every detail. EACH CLUB BEARS THE CHAMPION'S SIGNATURE AND IS FULLY WARRANTED, jt jt jt jt ^ jt PRICE $2.50 If your dealer or club does not keep these Clubs, send to us. By care in selection of material and workmanship our line of NICHOLL'S SPECIAL MODELS have become standard the world over. Write for Catalogue. WORTHINGTON MFG. CO. ELYRIA, OHIO. FOR. SALE Beautiful shore front estate, 40 to 45 minutes out on the N. Y.,N. H. & H. R. R. Nearly 100 acres, about half mile fronting on the open Sound. Several acres in lawns, shrubs, shade trees and flowers. Large house, 25 rooms and 10 bathrooms; stable and gate house. In the vicinity of two fine Golf Courses and Yacht Clubs. Also beautiful country estate, 200 acres; 40 acres in lawns, shrubs and Italian gardens. Large house and stable, built of brick and stucco; extensive conservatories; within one hour of New York on the L. I. R. R. Price $550,000. Country estate, 20 acres in lawns, shrubs and gardens, near the water, 30 miles out from New York on the L. J. R R. Large house and stables built of brick and stucco. Near one of the best Golf Courses and Country Clubs on the North Shore. Price $175,000. Many other fine shore, front, and ridge lands to rent and for sale. For full particulars, apply to CHAS. H. SEELY, 23 WEST 39th ST., N. Y. CITY. \ 7ropW« /'or We Fifth Grand cAnnual &(prth And South Championship Tournament • Mbtnookii AND PRICE (2.50 • ;.: LYR1A. OHIO, (POUNDED BY JAMES W Til- I S LY,RM GRAND ANNUAL NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP •as. Lai? toft- TOURNAMENT will be held on the Pinehurst Links as follows: Tuesday, Wednesday, April 4th and 5th — Grand Annual North and South Championship for women. 18 holes, qualifying round, scratch. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, April 5th. 6th and 7th — Fifth Grand Annual North and South Champion- ship, scratch. Qualifying round, 18 holes .•:£'• Friday, April 7th — Fifth Grand Annual North and South Championship Meeting. lS holes, handicap, medal play. Saturday, April 8th—United North and South Open Championship. 36 holes, medal play, scratch. Open to all professionals and amateurs^ Cash prizes, Gorham silver trophies and appropriate medals will be awarded. GOLF, SHOOTING and TENNIS TOURNAMENTS are held weekly throughout the season. Bt Through Pullman Service via Seaboard Air Line or Southern Railway. Only one night out from New York, Boston and Cincinnati. Write for programme of tourr.aments and full information. Address. Pinehurst General Offices PINEHURST. NORTH CAROLINA or LEONARD TUFTS, Owner, Boston, Miss. COLDWELL MOTOK- Lawn Mowers I1 Only costs $600. Does the work ot 3 Horse Lawn Mowers and does it better. 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