J. H. TAYLOR, OPEN CHAMPION OF GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE FIFTH TIME GOLF WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING," ESTABLISHED 1894

VOL. XXXIII AUGUST, 1913 No. 2

EARLY GOLFERS OF WEST VIRGINIA

BY F. F. FLYNN

The writer is evidently unaware of the number of known instances where golf was played in the United States previous to its successful introduction at the formation of the St. Andrews Golf Club. However, as this is a delightful account of one of this number of early outcroppings of the game in the United States, it is with pleasure we are able to place on record so full and interesting an account of it.

ACK in the Allegheny Moun- climate was ideal, the scenery grand and tains, a couple of miles from his neighbors congenial. B the famous resort nearly three It was in the early days of the first thousand feet above sea level, on Cleveland administration in 1884 that Dry Creek, there nestles between Lionel Torrin, a young Scotch tea two commanding ranges a valley planter, arrived from Ceylon, India, that is more Scotch in the character- with several sets of clubs and a quantity istics of its scenery than anything to of balls to visit his uncle, George Grant be found in the South. Here, at "Oak- of London, whose place, Greycliffe, was hurst," the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rus- one of the magnificent estates in Green- sell W. Montague, of Boston, was the brier County. In India, England and first golf organization in the country. Scotland Torrin was noted as a crack It was informal and there were half a golfer and when he wrote George Grant dozen members onlv but regular medal that he was coming for a visit to the plays were a feature and for six suc- States, the latter knew that time would cessive Christmas days the players met hang heavily for his nephew if there in what might be termed the first series were no links. of annual tournaments in the United At an adjoining estate were Alex- States. ander and Roderick Mclntosh Mc- In the '60s, '70s and '80s a small Leod of Dalvey, near Forres, Moray- coterie of Scotchmen and Englishmen shire, Scotland. When Grant sug- with varied interests settled in Green- gested a golf links, the two McLeods brier County. They were all gentle were enthusiastic, as was Mr. Monta- folks; one was a hardwood lumber ex- gue, a Harvard '1\ man, who had porter, another had vast fruit orchards, played at St. Andrews and a number a third tarried and settled because the >f the other clubs in the old country.

Copyright, 10n, by CLIFFORD L. TURNER. All riglils reserved. RUSSELL W. MONTAGUE. GEORGE GRANT

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They hadn't thought of it before. the drivers and brassies were longer But why not? The country was like a and narrower than those now used. bit of the bonnie heather hills of Scot- The balls brought over from Edin- land set like a jewel in the heart of the burgh were gutty, larger and much Alleghanies. heavier than ours and always sank in Mr. Montague offered his place as water. They had little or none of the the most convenient and centrally lo- bounce of the present-day ball. How- cated for the proposed course. The ever, the Oakhurst players have al- two young Scotchmen from Dalvey ways insisted that they never got as were assisted bv Grant and Montague. much pleasure out of the game any- They all set to work, and, with the where as at their own links with their assistance of their farm hands and old clubs and balls. negroes, the course was ideally laid out. Many and amusing were their ex- It stands today a monument worthy of periences. They were looked upon by

A VIEW OF OAKHURST, SHOWING THE SEVENTH HOLE IX THE DISTANCE AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN

the most famous and ambitious of pro- their neighbors and friends as victims fessionals who have laid out and de- of an insane fad or hobby. They were veloped well-known courses throughout the subjects of great curiosity. One the world. The Montague place was afternoon a tally-ho party drove over admirable for golf links, and, the first in from the hotel to call on the Montague the States, was the sportiest to be had. family. They alighted to find a game Conditions were entirely different on. They watched the progress of the then. The cups still in the ground are players over several holes without cumbersome, thick and heavier than comment. Finally, one of the men ex- those used today. Clubs, too. have pressed the disgust of the others when changed somewhat when the latest are he remarked: "Well, I did play compared with those first used in the marbles when I was a kid. but by gad United States and still in Mr. Monta- this is the first time I've seen men gue's possession. Solid brass was used play! It may he a fine game for a in the construction of all the heads in canny Scotchman, but no American will the iron clubs and the wooden heads of ever play it except Montague."

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Rev. R. H. .Ma- ditch. After he had son, a well-known played over a hun- Virginia clergyman dred strokes h e of the time who had made the hole. He heard much of the closed the incident odd game that was by remarking that being played back it was a "science," in the mountains, not a game. went over one after- From time to time noon in time to see various members of the golfers drive off the organization, from the first tee. which called itself As the last player, from the beginning Mr. Montague, in the "Oakhurst no uncertain terms Medal," went expressed his dis- abroad to their gust when he sliced homes in the British a drive which took Isles and brought him into the ditch. back the latest in D r. Mason re- clubs and balls, as marked that it was well as Scotch easy and insisted tweeds and other that any baby could golfing clothes. play. Montague The fact that the handed him his clubs and balls driver and told him were passed by the to see what he could RUSSELL W. MONTAGUE AT THE Customs House at do. Mason missed PRESENT DAY AND ALECK SMITH New York without and topped the ball several times be- any question was extremely interesting fore a sliced drive landed him in the in the light of an experience had several

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years later by George M. Donaldson, "Your what?" demanded the minion **• another Scotchman, who joined the of Uncle Sain. Oaklmrst coterie. "My golf clubs, my sticks." He arrived from his native heather, Then noting the blank amazement and after all his luggage had been of the man, who by that time was

ORIGINAL CLUBS USED IN UNITED STATES AS THEY LOOK TODAY. A GUTTY BALL IN FOREGROUND

stamped with the official seal passing deeply engrossed in a minute examina- them into this country, the inspector tion of one of the clubs he had taken noticed his bag of golf sticks. from the bag, Donaldson asked: "What's this you have here?" he "Surely, my man. you play golf?' asked. "Play what r" "My golf sticks," laconically replied "Golf," almost screamed the then ,Grr HOME Donaldson. irate Scotchman. 80 EARLY GOLFERS OF WEST VIRGINIA

"You don't mean to tell me you plav Young Torrin, the inspiration of tne a game witihh thish— h this " stam- Oakhurst Medal, has interests in India, mered the inspector. "Well, it may he though, since his marriage several a stick that you play a game with, but years ago, lie makes his permanent home I don't pass these until I know more in England. about them. I never saw anything like The McLeod brothers, dashing, them before. I shall have to get an handsome chaps, now live at their an- official ruling about them." cestral home at Dalvey, and George H e called Grant, though in another in- he retains his spector. I t interests i n was finally de- Greenbrier cided to hold County, and the bag up, 0 w n s thou- after Mr. sands of acres, 1) o naldso n 1 s living i n considered he London at had bee n present. grossly insult- Grant w a s ed by one of one of the the inspectors most popular remarking residents ever that " t h e y known in the w ere in o r c West Virginia like elongated Country. H e blackj acks or j was a crack implements of I shot, had hunt- murder. ' ed big game Three weeks India and, later, after an ' imong the best official ruling of hunters in had been sent the state, sus- on b y the tained a repu- Treasury De- tation made in partment a t England when Washington, he was a mem- the clubs were ber of the f o r w a r d e d Cambridge without fur- team that de- ther ado to feated Oxford Donaldson a t LIONEL TORRIN in the first Oakhurst. English i n - Ten years or more ago the club dis- ter-university shoot in the '60s. banded. The coterie of golfers broke George Donaldson lives at Wood- up with the departure for various parts man, W. Va., where he has big lumber of the world of the plavers. interests that do not prevent him from Mr. and Mrs. Montague still spend playing the good old game at the Vir- the greater part of the year at their ginia Hot and White Sulphur Springs, charming mountain estate, the scene of and at various country clubs in Phila- the original links in the United States. delphia, Baltimore and Washington. The same charming hospitable atmo- He married Sail if Ould, daughter of sphere, which prompted the offering- Judge Ould of Richmond, and step- years ago of the estate for the links, sister of May Handy, the famous still pervades Oakhurst which from beauty, now Mrs. James Brown Potter, early May to November is kept as open in tht' heyday of her fame as a toast house for all who tarrv. and belle. GOLF IN A WIND

Bv EDWARD RAY

HERE is no doubt that, to the proper understanding of tlie various majority of golfers, the game is strokes, the wind can be made to give rendered doubly difficult when valuable assistance, as I hope to show. • •• T Boreas takes a hand, and to con- WITH THE WIND AND AGAINST IT. f t-mntj. mj quer the difficulties that now arise, Let me first deal with the stroke from calls for more the tee with than an aver- • i the wind i n t! living i| age amount of the player's skill, for favor. It is everything — fairly obvious style, stance, that what is drant rii and disposal of

• desired is alti- the weight— tude, and as a • must now be means to this altered. W e end we should often hear a first see that player refer the ball is teed with pride to a trifle higher. it- a cm a "wind-cheat- The next thing er" that he is in regard to has obtained, the stance. If but whilst he we assume that m i g h t have under ordin- done so, yet a r y circum- • it has been stances y o u brought about stand with the ...,., ,j, • by a combina- ball midway tion of circum- between the stances over feet, your plan • which he has now is to get - had little con- a trifle more trol, for it is b e hind the given to few EDWARD RAY ball; that is i ' players to be to say, have able to keep a low ball at will. the ball in a line with the left This is certainly advanced golf, but a heel. The wind so invariably pro- it *«* knowledge of how it should be done is pels the player forward when swing- the first step towards practical demon- ing down on the ball, that to stand a stration. The ordinary golfer is gen- little more behind is merely to allow for erally quite content to see his ball down this. But the great point to observe, the course, and seldom strives to obtain when altitude is required, is to guard the assistance of the wind for the bet- against the probability of the weight ter accomplishment of the stroke; he getting in advance of the ball at the tells himself that worse might befall, moment of striking. The player should and up to a certain point, there is some brace himself firmly on the right leg justification for the belief. At the same when addressing the ball, and see that time it cannot be denied that, given a the club is allowed to go through first. 82 GOLF IN A WIND

If this be done, the club meets the ball my mind that I will go out into the just when it is about to rise, and the ball eye of the wind witli a slight pull. I is consequently lifted, and not smoth- want the wind to help me, and only by ered as it would be if the body was per- pulling away from it can we obtain this. mitted to go forward in advance of the I stand then to face the right of the club head. Now, assuming the wind course; the position of the feet is not to be dead ahead the position is re- altered, but I merely aim more to the versed, you now stand more in advance right. of the ball, which should be teed low. My own method of addressing the The weight should be evenly distributed ball differs slightly from that of others, on both feet; and the swing should be for I address it with the toe of the club shortened. When the club is brought looking "off." At first glance this through, the body must go forward at would seem that I am deliberately in- the same time. When this is done, and viting a slice, but wait a moment. When bearing in mind the position of the ball, my club is brought down, and at the it will be at once seen that the club head moment when it meets the ball, I turn meets the ball before it has reached the the right hand over slightly; in fact I lowest level of the swing, and the re- know that the right will come over, and sult of this is that the ball, being struck therefore, at the moment of impact, the more above its center, is prevented from nose of the club responding to the turn- soaring, and t lie "wind-cheater" re- ing of the hand, meets the ball turned ferred to should naturally follow. The in, and the result is a pull. manner in which the club meets the ball •when playing with the wind is just the This, then, is how the wind can be reverse of when against, for one is utilized to advantage when blowing raised and the other kept down. Should from the right, but if in the attempt the ball fail to rise at all when trying your ball turns up wind, then it will the latter, it will be for the reason that have been due to a slice or a "push- you have overdone it; that is to say, out," the reasons for which have no the body had been allowed to go for- place in this article. I can only say ward too much in advance of the club, that to turn the toe of the club out and which, when it mets the ball, drives it see that the right hand does its work, down; but when the ball is struck in will effectually prevent both the faults the manner I have described, the wind, referred to. In the case of the stroke being against, will raise the ball slightly pushed out, the hands have come and a low trajectory is obtained. through in advance of the club head.

WHEN THE WIND IS ACROSS THE LINE PLAYING UP TO THE HOLE. OF PLAY. And now let me explain the correct So far the two strokes described are method of playing up to the hole with not considered very difficult, but it is the wind from the same quarter, that is, when the wind is across the line of from the right. Instead of standing play that the real difficulty begins. It out for a pull, we now endeavor to play is difficult to keep your stance; you have to the left of the green with a cut, so a feeling, when addressing the ball, that that towards the end of the ball's flight you will either be blown over, or back it will swerve into the wind. The rea- from it, according to the direction of son why this "left to right" stroke is the wind; and. thinking of this one better than playing with a pull is that factor alone, makes the player oblivious with a pulled ball a lot of run is ob- to everything else. Now, if I am play- tained, and this is no good when we are ing a brassy through the course and not trying to reach a confined space. You able to reach the green—for which an- cannot control a pull stroke as you can other kind of stroke is necessary, as I a cut, and in cutting the shot up to the will explain later—and the wind is hole we rely on the wind to check it blowing from right to left, I make up after it pitches. To play the shot, THE CHOICE OF GOLF CLUBS 83

whether with a brassy, cleek, or iron, have stated, and it now remains for the we first aim to the left of the green, player to put it into practice. and in taking up the stance we keep the There now remains the stroke up to left foot a little farther back, the ball the hole with the wind from the other still being in a line with the left heel. side, from left to right, and here the The reason for this altered position of stroke played with a pull must be em- the left foot is that in playing the ployed, and this I have already ex- stroke, it is necessary to bring the club plained. Both strokes are wind strokes, across the ball, and the foot being out for the wind plays an important part . of the way makes this much easier to in their successful accomplishment. Al- do. The toe of the club is again kept though I am always in favor of hitting out, but this time the right hand is not hard, yet do I think that, in a wind, the allowed to turn over to any great ex- swing should be curtailed, for the long tent, for the club head must come rambling swing is dangerous, and through at the same angle as it was greater control is obtained by cutting when addressing the ball. The result it short. In the shorter strokes, say J.miidl of this swinging across with the face those up to a distance of 100 yards, care should be taken to prevent an un- • , pointing out. is that the ball is struck due amount of loft, especially against a glancing blow, and although it pro- the wind, for the lower the trajectory, ceeds for some distance to the left, it the better is the direction obtained, and at last feels the effect of the cut and this is the one thing most to be desired then turns into the wind, so that com- when playing on a windy day. Per- ing to earth its force is spent and little sonally, I always consider a little wind run ensues. This is somewhat of an ad- to be a help to the player, and it un- vanced stroke, but the method is as I doubtedly adds interest to the game.

THE CHOICE OF GOLF CLUBS

Bv HARRY VARDON

ANY details contribute to the or a similar distance farther behind the perfect condition and equip- ball than usual, brings about an extra- M ment for the pursuit of golf. ordinary difference in the flight of the Indeed, if I may borrow a phrase object. This is just one instance of irter. that is. from Mr. G. K. Chesterton, I would the influence of what may seem to be a say that the game is composed trifle. The game is crowded with po- of "tremendous trifles," each of them tential items, and none of them deserves important and some of them over- closer attention than the choice of clubs, looked with a frequency which is as- of which I propose here to write. tonishing to the man who has made a Very many golfers handicap them- deep study of the pastime. It is a steadily-moving, delibera- selves far more than they imagine by tive game, the devotee of which is al- using implements which come into their lowed the choice of several clubs, possession in a more or less promiscu- several stances, and several methods of ous way. They walk into the stores; execution when playing a shot. The see a club which takes their fancy; and difference of an inch or two in a per- emerge five minutes later with what son's ordinary stance, created by stand- they fondly regard as a treasure, but ing cither an inch or two more forward which ultimately proves to be a traitor. SI THE CHOICE OF GOLF CLUBS

Time after time one observes players it the easier tool to control. The shots using a driver and a brassie of dis- may not be so long as those obtained similar "lie." Such a condition of af- by a good golfer with a driver, but it is fairs cannot lead to other than dis- something for the novice or the duffer astrous consequences, since the stance to hit the ball cleanly and get it into and address for the drive and the bras- the air. It gives him confidence, which sie are. to all intents and purposes, is a great asset. The iron should have identical. Every golfer has his natural a medium loft, and the mashie should stance, and the "lie" of the club should be deep-faced, here again so as to make suit it. When that "lie" is one thing the strokes as simple as possible. He in the driver and another thing in the is licensed to choose whatever form of brassie. lie is placing himself at an putter he fancies. That is generally enormous disadvantage. If the "lie" agreed. Putting is the strangest part of the driver is Hat and that of the of the game, and there is no stance for brassie is upright, the toe of the latter it, and no procedure for it which may will be cocked in the air when he ad- be described as the sure means of suc- dresses the ball with it. Only the heel cess. So let him seize upon the putter will be grounded. that feels complaisant in his hands; In such circumstances he cannot hope very likely it will serve him well. to make many effective brassie shots. Later, when he is convinced that he The iron certainly must be a little more knows the finer points of the pastime, upright than the wooden implement be- he probably will be particular about cause it requires a stance nearer to the having what he regards as a putter of ball, but there is always the danger of perfect balance and finish: I hope it having it too upright. A point which will be kind to him. The putter has a cannot be too firmly impressed upon the way of being wayward. indifferent player is that, when he ad- Personally, I would recommend the dresses the ball, he should see that the beginner or the indifferent player to do full length of the sole of the club is nothing but practise with these four grounded squarely behind the ball. It clubs for a month or six weeks, giving is no use having either the toe or the twenty minutes or so to each implement heel off the hoof, although it is a com- and trying to think out for himself what mon enough error to do so. It is he is doing that is wrong. Very often bound to cause faulty hitting. An in- he can secure the desired end by recol- experienced player cannot often tell lecting how he hits the ball when he to his complete satisfaction whether the is right. Directly he accomplishes a "lie" of his clubs is correct, and I know good shot, let him pin down the man- of no cheaper or better investment that ner in which it was performed and he can make than to consult a profes- ponder over it. If he feels that he must sional on the subject. A little advice play matches, let him add a niblick to may be the means of his winning many his collection (it is possible that he will matches which otherwise he would lose. get into some bunkers), and sally forth I always recommend the beginner or in his quest for victory. But I would the player who finds after some time advise him not to coquet with any clubs that he is not making appreciable pro- other than these five until he feels gress at the game to focus his atten- tolerably sure of making a shot of some tion for a month or so on four clubs, merit with any one of the number. namely, the brassie. the mid-iron, the Then he may begin to launch out in mashie, and the putter. The brassie the world. He will pick a driver. It should have a nice bit of loft on it, so will be of the same "lie" as his brassie, as to facilitate the task of raising the which will now be relegated (or per- ball, and I suggest practising with it haps I should say promoted to the task instead of with a driver, partly because of playing long second shots through of the helpfulness of that loft and the green. The straight face of the partly because its stitt'er shaft renders driver and its more supple shaft will

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not cause him to suffer anguish after ing could take its place. At no greater his training with the brassie. Then he expense of energy, it secures greater will want a cleek, or he may have a distance than the ordinary mashie or driving iron or a spoon. It is possible niblick. Its weight carries it through to make a greater variety of skilful the rough, and the shape of the head shots with the cleek than with either keeps the ball low. and thus obtains of the other implements mentioned;, distance. Once you capture a good but I suppose that it is equally pos- mongrel, do not part with it. sible tn perpetrate a greater number of The iron is—well, just the iron, a bad strokes. Many people fear the general favorite. If I were taking part cleek on account of its narrow face; in a one-club competition. I should they are justified in having recourse to choose the iron for the trial, and give a driving masliie, which has a no thought to any other club. Very deeper face, or a driving iron seldom does one go utterly oft it. I or a spoon. The only drawback have to confess that I went off my own to the spoon is that a fairly favorite mid-iron in the autumn, and al- good lie is almost essential for the mak- though I carried it during the "News ing of a telling shot. Moreover, it of the World" tournament. I did not seems to me that some innate affection use it. I selected instead an iron which for the club is necessary for the produc- I happened to see shortly before that tion of satisfactory results. It perhaps competition, and which proved very generates more confidence than the kind to me. It had a much straighter cleek, but the latter, once mastered, is face and a longer shaft than my former superior as an agent of straightness. love (indeed. I had to hold almost on And, all this while, do not forget the the wood) but I fancied it directly I brassie, which, a trusted friend, may came across it, and with its assistance serve you better than the cleek, the driv- I was fortunate enough to win the ing iron, the .driving mashie, or the tournament. There is a lot in fancying spoon. Experiments and experience a club, always assuming that it has the will tell you much where the second right "lie." shot on to the green is concerned. At the present time I carry eleven A jigger is a profitable club in the clubs. I am on good terms again with hands of many golfers. They find it my old mid-iron. I have altered the irn '.'iiuj valuable for the execution of running- • "lie" a trifle, and that has put matters up shots. Its long face makes them happy. That sounds paradoxical, but a right. Still, I have ready for an long face in a golf club often produces emergency the iron that served me so in the player a sense of security. He faithfully at Sunningdale. Then I is satisfied that he is going to hit the carry a driver and two brassies. Of ball with some part of the face, and thus the latter, one is straight-faced while encouraged, he hits it with the right the other is lofted so as to help in cuppy part. Then a second masliie is a use- lies. I have a cleek and a driving iron. ful possession. It should be heavier The former makes the greater distance, than the first mashie; and it should have but the driving iron is useful when the less loft. Indeed, it should be largely shot is of a length which does not de- Jtll K " a club for shots out of long grass and mand the use of a cleek. There are the strokes of such distance as could not be two mashies which I have already compassed with the first mashie, which recommended the golfer to use (the one would be employed for ordinary pitched for ordinary approaches and the other approaches. My own second mashie is for odd jobs, especially in long grass or one of my favorite implements. It is against the wind) and a niblick and a a sort of general utility club—a mon- putter complete the armament. I think grel in a sense, but worth its weight in it is just about sufficient for anybody. gold. A club of this kind is often a An undue profusion of implements often savior. It gets you up against the leads to hesitation in the selection of a wind; it gets you out of long grass; club for a particular shot and a general there are circumstances in which noth- state of confusion. JEROME D. TRAVERS' GRIP FOR THE DRIVE—FIRST VIEW CONCERNING GRIPS

BY R. STANLEY WEIR

Harry Vardon remarks in "How to or the waggle—they tried to note the Play Golf" that there are two primary action of fingers and palms midway, and all-important points to remember. at the top, and at the finish of a full These are: to grip the club properly drive and of lesser shots. In fact, and to keep the head steady; by more than half the troubles of golf, "steady," he means as still as possible hooking and slicing certainly, can be until after the ball is despatched. The traced to defective gripping and it is intelligent golfer soon discovers that rather singular that the grip through- keeping the head still depends largely out the swing has been discussed so upon a correct swing with the arms, little. including a timely turn of the It is common to classify grips as of wrists. The swing, again, owes much two kinds: the overlapping and the to the grip; while the test of a good two-V. This classification is suggest- grip is not altogether the position of ed by the appearance of the first grasp thumbs and fingers during the silent of the club as though that were every- and solemn moments when one address- thing. But there is really no merit in es the ball, but their changing position either kind of grip per se. They are and pressure as the swing progresses merely a preparation for the gripping and finishes. As the grip, through the throughout the swing, and unless one hand, is the connecting medium be- understands the essential principles of tween club and brain it is clear that how good gripping as something which, as we grip is, as Vardon says, of primary said, varies and changes with the swing importance; but as a good grip is not from beginning to end, he misses a maintained throughout the swing with keen delight of the game and a means stiff, unvarying degrees of pressure or of avoiding otherwise inexplicable and tightness in either hand it is also clear exasperating break-downs. This two- that the question of grip, not merely fold classification, then, tells US noth- at the start of a stroke but from sbart ing of the secrets of good gripping. to finish, is well worth analysis and It is claimed, indeed, that the over- greater consideration than it has, per- lapping grip unifies the power of the haps, hitherto received from sedulous two hands. If so, it merely accen- golfing scribes. tuates error as well as merit. The ad- It seems to me that the most charac- vantages of that grip, however, are teristic feature of a good grip (which not the unifying of the power of the is, true enough, part and parcel of the hands but, as we shall see, in enabling swing itself) is this ever-changing and the hands to accommodate themselves varying pressure or easing of the hands to each other. By taking thought one throughout the swing. Many a good may unite the power of the hands, if golfer does this unconsciously but that is desirable, with the two-V grip misses the pleasure and satisfaction of as well as witli the other. a scientific analysis; that is, he does not No. If I were to classify grips I really play scientifically. Most players, should classify them as, (1) the grip I do not hesitate to say, would enor- chiefly with forefingers and thumbs mously improve the steadiness of their and (2) the grip chiefly with the small- play if, instead of concentrating atten- ler fingers. And I would add that, tion upon what I might call the sta- given a good swing, equally good golf tionary grip, the grip at the address may be played in either style. Further •• It TRAVERS' GRIP FOR THE MASHIE—BACK VIEW aiP «itl fc

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"wi»?ftt. CONCERNING GRIPS

YARDUX'S GRIP TAYLOR'S GRIP

I would submit that the whole matter between the right forefinger and of good gripping which, I must repeat, thumb. This practice has been con- is a continuous performance through demned by overlappers and others; the entire swing, is based upon an and for those who grip with forefin- application of the good old maxim, gers and thumbs it certainly would left hand firm, right hand loose. For seem quite wrong, but, for the second the word "loose" we should perhaps kind of grip described it is almost a substitute "easy," and we should also necessity; moreover, its complete justi- recognize that, at the finish of the fication is found in the play of such swing, the left hand. too. is frequently masters as James Sherlock and Aleck loose or easy. To put the matter in Herd whose words we shall presently another way, the grip with forefingers cite. and thumbs requires that the palms There is also a composite grip which of the hands open accommodatingly might be mentioned, that uses the little and gradually, if one may use that fingers of the left hand and the big word for so brief and swift a per- fingers of the right. In this case of formance, and close correspondingly course the right-hand web is not a in the down swing. This is the appli- feature. It is almost, if not quite, as cation of the ancient maxim cited. The good a grip as the others, particularly grip, then, is no rigid, stiff unyield- in iron shots where firmness and ease ing grasp. It is a nice adjustment of are both essential. changing pressures. Similarly, the We have now fully disclosed our grip with the little fingers, which is theory of grip and it is only right that the stronger of the two, also requires we attempt to justify it by citing com- .some accommodation from the bands; petent authority. Not that we have but it is done differently; it is done by anywhere found the precise differentia- allowing the shaft to fall into the web tion just submitted in any of the books 90 CONC ERNING GRIPS of the masters, but we do find cor- of their thumbs. In fact it is safe to roborative exposition as each discloses say that there are no fist-grippers pure his own particular method. and simple among class players. They Harry Vardon, for example, is all grip either with the big or the little strong for the grip with forefingers fingers. Mr. John Ball, many times and thumbs. We should grip firmly amateur champion, gives the impres- with these members, lie says, on both sion, to look at him, that he is a fist- hands. But I found it exceedingly in- gripper; he is not; he is a little-finger teresting to read his warning against man with transverse thumbs. So, de- what players are naturally prone to do, spite of appearances, was that great and regretted player the late Lieut. K viz: to grip with the little fingers of the hand. He says (p. 84), "It seems Tate.* The use of the right-hand web to he a law of nature that the little1 in the one grip corresponds to the fingers are able to grip more securely. opening of the palms in the other, Try them, for instance, when seizing a both are legitimate and they both illus- stick. But, in golf, we leant them to trate the meaning of the maxim "Left act chiefly as guides; their superior hand firm, Right hand easy." Both per- strength must he suppressed." Not- mit that nice parallelism of the hands, withstanding the great authority of that nice turning of them together be- Vardon many will lie tempted to say, side or under the shaft according to if the smaller fingers can grip strong- the length of the stroke. er, they are the fingers for us; and it We think it should give the studious will not be surprising to find very emi- golfer much satisfaction to recognize nent golfers acting upon this law of these two (nay three) kinds of grips. nature that Yardon warns us against. If he elects to use forefingers and Aleck Herd, for instance, is a great thumbs he will grip with these with player, and he has written these equal firmness throughout, but he will, words (Fry's Magazine, Feb. 191"): if he is wise, remember to open both "I grip tightest with the second, third palms freely as the club goes back; he and little fingers; you can ohtain such will recognize, too. that perhaps the a firm hold with these members that chief merit of that style is that the cov- there is not a lot of danger of the club ered thumb ensures an opened right slipping. It seems to me to he the palm from the very start. I ought to easiest way of holding the club." enlarge on this, but refrain. If, on the James Sherlock, too. is a first-class other hand, he elects to grip with the player. In "The New Book of Golf" he little fingers he will not hesitate, in big tells us the same thing as Herd. "I swings at least, to use the right-hand hold my club with both hands close to- web. He will find it delightfully easy gether but not overlapping. The left to obtain proper circularity of swing. hand grips firmly with the three fin- He will find it much easier to keep the gers; the thumb and first finger lap hands low and prevent the left wrist round the club and find a place out of from bulging; and he will find, in put- tin' way since they are not called upon ting, for example, that he can secure to fake an acth'e part." Both Herd and a wonderfullv firm and direct line of Sherlock also allow the club to fall into retraction. Or. finally, he may elect to the right-hand web. Sherlock would adopt the composite grip with both com- be called, to look at him. a two-V grip- fort and confidence. per; Herd would be called a palm or •Mr. Jerome r>. Travers, as he tells fist gripper; but the apparent differ- us in his book, tiins to eliminate the fore- finger in his grip. He must therefore ence is owing wliollv to the disposition be a little-finger player, directly violating the Vardon doctrine and practice. OUR FOREIGN LETTER

BY BERNARD DARWIN

Y letter this month must be all cupiep d by his greag t rivals, the other two members of the "Triumvirate/ M Harry Vardon and James Braid. about the Open Champion- Taylor played in his first champion- overshadowshis p everythinplayed atg Hoylakelse. eI to n wathes ship in 1893 at Prestwick, when, hhaving 23rendered andd 24ttheh omorf Junee interestin, which gnaturall by thye knocked down all the great men like

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very formidable invasion from across nine pins in preliminary matches, and the Atlantic: Mr. Schmidt, McDermott, begun with a most brillant round of Brady and MacNamara, your native- 75, he fell away somewhat and finished born champions, and the two American- in a rather lowly place. The next year ized Scots, Smith and Campbell. I at Sandwich he won for the first time, shall have plenty to say about them in and now 19 years afterwards at the a moment but I must begin with the comparatively mature age of 42, we winner, J. H. Taylor. There lias find him winning again and winning seldom or never been a victory which one of the best of all his victories by more delighted golfers in general, be- a big margin of 8 strokes from Ray, cause by winning his fifth championship his nearest pursuer. That which made Taylor put himself once more, as was his win the more glorious for himself only right and proper, on the pinnacle and the more pleasant for his friends of exactly the same height as those oc- was the fact that since lie last won at ^ ^W

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Deal in 1909, there have been times in the championship itself did ex- when one half feared that Taylor's bolt tremely well. I do not think, more- was shot. Some while ago he had an over, that lie was particularly lucky. accident in a taxicab which hurt his Both in tlie second and in the third wrist and shook him rather badly. It rounds he was doing a wonderfully fine seemed to take him a long time quite score when he came to grief in a to recover his game. It was not that he bunker—in the second round at the could not on occasions play as bril- 12th hole and in the third at the 14th. liantly as ever, but lie seemed to lose In neither case was the shot a bad one something of his old power of produc- —it was very nearly a very good one— ing his best game when it was most but it just got trapped by inches and needed. He. the mashie player of the a six ensued. Each time that six gave world, actually had an attack of him a distinct shake and brought the "socketing." and he certainly lost a loss of another stroke or two in its great measure of his confidence in his train. There are a great many "ifs" mashie. Being a player with a highly- in golf and other people, of course, strung temperament, albeit a very also have their mishaps, but I am in- courageous one, he got his golf just clined to think that but for those two a little "on his nerves" and in the last bunkers McDermott would have been two championships, though he began very decidedly higher on the list than well enough, he did not seem quite to 5th. He seems, since last year, to have stay through the long drawn out ordeal strengthened his game a good deal, to of four rounds. Then last autumn he have acquired more complete control of won a fine victory in the tournament his club, to be less dependent on the for the German Open Championship hook and to have a greater power of at Baden-Baden and that did a great holding the ball into the wind. deal to set him on his legs again. Certainly, on the List day of the cham- Finally. I have an idea that he won pionship when a gale of wind was rag- this last championship largely because ing and great sheets of rain were pour- he very, very nearly failed to qualify. ing across the links, he played some of He had to set his teeth, and no man can his best golf, and his driving was very set them harder, and fight for his very straight and very long. life in order to squeeze into the number As compared with most of our pro- of the elect. That is just the sort of fessionals. McDermott has a decidedly thing to put him on his metal; there long swing; his style is what one might is no man in the world so dangerous almost call an "old-fashioned" one— as Taylor when he lias triumphantly then the modern professional is apt to overcome a bad start. He seems then give the ball what I may call a punch to play like a man possessed with an with a comparatively curtailed swing almost divine fury, and from the mo- and follow-through and great use of the ment that he holed the putt that en- wrist and forearm. McDermott, Mac- abled him to qualify there were several Namara and Brady seem rather to de- people who fancied him to win out- pend on a long, loose, flat swing with a right. He is a very great golfer and free turn of the body. I would not go all the more interesting because he is so far as to say that they bad estab- a study in psychology as well as in lished a national style of their own. al- golf. though their methods were wonderfully Now I must turn to your golfers, of characteristic. That which interested us particularly about them was their whom McDermott played a very con- style of putting. All three stand with spicious part. He came very near re- their heels close together—Brady and peating the debacle of last year when, McDermott. indeed, with the precision mainly through one appalling hole, he of a drill sergeant—knees very stiff, failed to qualify. He pulled himself body upright and the club held almost together very pluckily, however, and at the top of the shaft. Thev obviously OUR FOREIGN LETTER take very great pains to keep the body Cyril Walker, a complete unknown, who as still as possible and employ a stroke was once a boy in Jack Morris's shop of the "pendulum" order. It may seem at Hoylake. These two had the rather absurd for me to be describing splendid scores of 152 and 153 but to you the style of your own men but really more interest centered on the I venture to do it in order to emphasize great men who were in difficulties. the points that interested us over here. Chief among these were George Dun- It was the general opinion that their can and McDermott. Duncan was gen- method of putting, although sometimes erally regarded as first favorite for the looking just a little stilted and artificial, championship; he was in brilliant form was sounder than that of most of our and had just beaten Yardon in the In- professionals and that they gave us ternational by 5 and k Yet he failed, some useful lessons to mark, learn and and that by i strokes taking 83 and 80. ' digest. Everybody hopes that they will There is really nothing to say about come another year to give us some it except that he played badly; he was more. short with his putts all day and Now I must turn to the description played altogether in a spiritless of the play itself which extended over manner. His partner, Alex Campbell five mortal days. This is in truth a of the Country Club of Brookline, long weariful business and there is a Mass., took 88 and tin's was quite out general impression that something will of the hunt. In the morning he had have to be done, possibly by way of various bunker troubles, especially in local qualifying competitions to shorten one little pot bunker—a miserable lit- it. There were nearly 300 entries, tle trap, as he himself said, bringing needless to say a good many had no more a man to grief after traveling thousands chance of qualifying than of flying over of miles across the Atlantic. In the the moon, and this meant three days of afternoon he did some scintillating put- qualifying. The players are divided ting in a 79 but it was too late to avail. by the fortune of the draw into three McDermott started in a way which lots and they play on three successive must have reminded him painfully of days, 36 holes each day. The first last year's disaster. At the first hole twenty on each day. including all who at Hoylake one plays first along one tie for the twentieth place, survive for side and then along another of an out- the championship proper. And so now of-bounds field which is guarded by a for the first day. "cop" or wall. McDermott's first drive was a good one, and with his second he Thursday. June 1 9th . went out for a bold shot to carry a big This was certainly the "hottest" day piece of the field. He did not get down of the three in that the largest number to the ball, which hit the cop and of good players were drawn to play on bounded back into play. He exchanged it. In no other sense was it hot, be- a brassey for a cleek and tried again. ing in fact cold and miserable with a Once more bang went the ball against strong westerly wind; the wind that the cop and this time bounded still makes Hoylake most difficult. When more luckily clear. His fourth came play began, sound prophets thought near being topped but ran well and he that two 82s might qualify and though holed a very good putt for a six. Worse the weather did certainly get a little was to come, for at the 3d, a long hole better, the fact that 159 only just crept against the wind he hooked into hor- in proved how high was the standard rible grief and took 7, and then after of play. Even after much watching, a brief surcease from sorrow he had I do not ever remember to have been a six at the sixth and by 710 means more impressed by professional golf. an unfortunate six that might have been The best scores were returned by Law- an eight. This was really awful but rence Ayton, a young Scot, who has he got a fine three at the seventh and done well for some years past and that gave him heart again. He played OUR FOREIGN LETTER 95

finely for the rest of the round, and a new record for the altered course witli holed a chip for a two at the eleventh 71. He did not remain long in un- and finished in 79. In the afternoon ha divided possession of it for almost the played steadily, but even so he had a last man to come in. a young profes- narrow escape. A six at the sixteenth sional called P. E. Taylor, equaled it was nearly fatal and he had to get a and going to the 17th had a fine chance four at the last to qualify. His last of beating it. J. H. Taylor had to iron shot only just cleared the bunker struggle desperately for a place. An but it did clear it; he got his four and 80 in the morning left him behind hand so qualified, a fine performance after but in the afternoon he played finely. his beginning. Braid, too, played very He needed a four for the last hole to well after a similar fearful beginning, qualify comfortably, but somehow or .- i 6, 4, 7. His eyes were troubling him other, he put a simple iron shot into

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very much and he had to play in tinted the head of the cross-bunker. He got spectacles. Brady and Alex Smith out well and had to hole a five-foot both played well and deserved to putt for a five. He just got it in. How qualify but the pace was just too hot different history would have been if he for them. Braid took two 81s, Smith had failed! 79 and 82 and Stewart Maiden of Saturday, June 21st. Atlanta 82.and 79. Rather a dull day for some reason. Friday, June 20th. Ray was the only man to give us any This was a great day for the ama- real excitement for he seemed at one teurs. Mr. Edward Blackwell putting time likely to fail. He had a 79 in the like a book and playing magnificent morning and was for a while extremely golf throughout, headed the list with erratic in the afternoon. However, his 74 and 73. Mr. Jack Graham who had strength and length got him through taken 80 in the morning played fault- comfortably in the end. MacNamara, less golf in the afternoon and set up who, like a wise man. played in shirt 9(5 Ol'R FOREIGN LETTER sleeves—it was a fine hot day—began the very lip of the hole. He was out none too well with 4rO out, hut he was in :S7 and continued playing good golf extremely steady after this, making few —uneventful because admirable the mistakes and putting well and with 77 whole way home—finishing in 75. and 7!) he. too, lived to tight another This in the high wind was SO good a day. .Mr. Schmidt had a most disap- score that it seemed quite likely to head pointing time of it. At the very first the field, but as a fact Taylor, who was hole he got into a rabbit scrape and not many couples behind, was doing had to lift with penalty of a stroke, just a little better. Except for two and I am not sure that at some other crooked tee shots at two short holes, part of the round he did not get into Taylor was wonderfully accurate and another. His putting too had by no he put himself two strokes ahead of means the deadly consistency that it McDermott with 7.'i. This score was iflWIil had at St. Andrews, and altogether an soon afterwards equaled by Herd, a 86 put him hopelessly out of it, nor fine old fighter, who always seems full did he very materially improve in the of a cheerful confidence when the wind afternoon, It was a pitv, especially as is blowing and golf difficult. Mean- in practice he had been playing well while Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, and had always been in the seventies who were playing close to one another, hut these accidents will occur and had both made terrible beginnings and— he not done enough for enduring glory what the betting is against such a at St. Andrews? double event Heaven only knows— both took seven to the second hole, Monday. June 23d. which, to those who are not champions, The championship itself began in- is a fairly simple four. Vardon did not auspiciously with a tremendous storm recover from this disaster. His long of rain that came drumming down on game was beautiful but oh, dear, his the roofs of Hoylake at six in the morn- putting! the way he "snapped" at the ing and woke us all too soon. What short putts and the way the ball would was worse it made temporarily a not go into the hole was lamentable mountain lake of the Alps Green and and he took 79. With Ray on the other left pools and puddles all over the hand, that seven was just about the only links. However, the start was put off mistake. From that point outwards for an hour and by ten o'clock the he only took three fives, all the rest be- course was in a capital condition and ing threes and fours; and he joined there was a good fresh wind to make Taylor and Herd on the 73 mark. golf just difficult enough to be thor- MacXamara did reasonably well but oughly entertaining. At first it seemed not quite well enough with 80, and of a little too difficult for the early the amateurs Mr. Blackwell, Mr. starters who fared very ill. Robson, Graham. Mr. Lassen and Mr. Hilton a fine young golfer, though hardly yet were all in the seventies. The after- recovered from a bad illness, put three noon saw the falling away of Herd consecutive balls out-of-bounds at the and the coming on of Moran. a brilliant first hole. .Mr. Abe Mitchell hooked young Irishman, who had a 74. Mc- far away into somebody's garden. Mr. Dermott once more reached the turn Graham and Mr. Blackwel] both had in :17. and was as sound as a bell till two sixes in the first three holes and he was bunkered from his tee shot to Braid had a seven. One of the first the twelfth, a tee shot only a very, very to start really well was McDermott, little off the line. His score began to who gave the out-of-bounds territories swell and he took 80, which put him a very wide berth this time, and putted some way down the list, for Taylor had with admirable steadiness. At the another superb 75 in which there were fourth hole he came just as near to a two cleek shots six feet from the ground one as it is humanly possible without and as straight as arrows all the Way actually doing it. the ball resting on and stone dead bv the hole side at the OUR FOREIGN LETTER 97

finish, which were enough to bring pieces almost before they had started, 2 tears to the eyes. It looked as if Tay- and of the likely ones poor Moran put lor would head the field since Ray had himself out of court with the deplora- begun inauspicipusly again and was ble start 10, 5, 7. When the weather "four over fours" for six holes. Once was at its very worst Taylor started more, however, he recovered marvel- and how he did play. The short and ously, his vast length and strength rather stiff style, the tremendous telling especially at the long holes com- strength of wri.st that will hold the ball ing home and with a really wonderful into any wind, the sturdy frame and 7.'i he went to the head of the poll one the admirable firm-footed stance, all stroke ahead of Taylor, his score for these make him a great player in bad two rounds being 147. Moran was 150, weather, but I doubt if in any weather Renouf 158, Herd and Vardon 154, he has played a better round than his

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ALEC CAMPBELL IN BIG BUNKER BEFORE THE NINTH GREEN r liUatJf" M'cDermott 155, MacNamara 158. It 77 that morning. Ray was much more irilliitt is wonderful how the field trails out fortunate in that the rain had stopped after the leaders; already the cham- when he began, though the wind still ;: • • ... : !!« ' pionship was practically a duel between shrieked and blustered. Ray's golf Ray and Taylor. was certainly not so crisp and artistic • • Tuesday, June 24th. as Taylor's. His method of "hoisting" ^nnJri"' w This was one of the worst mornings the ball into the air. if one may so term •• ' • pot ta on which I ever remember to have been it with all and every club, was not out of doors. It was unpleasantly well suited to the wind, and his putting cold, and the turbulent wind drove great usually a strong point was unsteady. ifi tiiert iW sheets of rain before it across ilic He took SI to get round and thus with course. The poor players were one more round of the fight left Tav- • m (lie "MIBUl numbed and drenched and blown to lor was three strokes ahead. But nieaii-

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•.••_i-\ 98 OUR FOREIGN LETTER while the duel was threatening to be started Taylor upward once more. At a three-corner fight through the fine any rate, he now began to play beauti- play of McDermotlt. The wildest fully, reached the turn in 41, and began rumors came floating across the links to come home with a four and a three. that he had a chance of being out in Then just as he was preparing to play 33 ; that he actually was out in .'54, and his approach putt at the 12th, Ray's so on. In spite of Taylor's long lead crowd came surging over the neighbor- we began to get quite frightened on ing third green, and with them came the behalf of poor England. The truth news that Ray had taken an eight. The turned out to be not so alarming, al- news still further inspirited Taylor and though he had played brilliantly. He lie promptly laid a very long putt on began 4. 4, 5, 2 and just missed a the very edge of the hole, got a three shortish putt for another two at the at the thirteenth, and holed a pitch for seventh and was out in .'Hi, which meant yet another three at the fourteenth. a gain of four strokes on Taylor—he After that he dropped a stroke or two had started seven behind him. Com- but he finished in 79, so now we knew ing home all went capitally till the that Ray had to do a 76 to tie. and that fourteenth or "field" hole; a well- after taking an eight it was unlikely but struck second was distinctly unlucky not a bit impossible and as a fact Ray and the ball kicked into a bad place in reached the turn in 41. Then he ex- a bunker. The hole cost him six. too tinguished all hopes by beginning home- many fives crept in afterwards and he ward with a six, and as soon as that finished in 77—very fine golf in truth report reached the clubhouse we no but he was still seven scores behind longer restrained ourselves from nailing Taylor and this meant that, practically Taylor as champion. Moran pulled up speaking, he could not win. So now with a sparkling 74, and McDermott fell rather from grace, perhaps because there were really only two and Taylor he began with a seven which must have with a lead of three was. of course, been poor fun when the only hopes of first favorite. The first six holes did catching Taylor lay in a miraculous nothing to increase the spirits of his series of threes. Vardon shared third supporters: 5, 4, 6, 4. 5, 5 was by no place with Moran and nobody else mat- means good, and he had to hole quite a tered much. Indeed, the championship, good putt to get his five at the sixth. which a day before had seemed so won- Ray might quite easily pick up three derfully open, ended in a one-man show strokes on that and we (the crowd) and that one man Taylor. When it felt sufficiently uneasy. I believe it comes to the sticking point the young was getting in that putt to get a five ones cannot oust the old gentlemen and save the disaster of a sis that just yet. J. H. TAYLOR: AX APPRECIATION

Bv HON. R. S. WKIR

The great victory of the famous Mid- and down the line of flight, but round Surrey professional is immensely popu- the body. Imagine a good-sized hoop - lar. It was due. Vardon and Braid, slightly above your shoulders (not your • the other members of the famous Trium- neck), the other end touching the virate, had each won the great event ground where the ball lies, and you will five times. It was clearly Taylor's roughly visualize the Taylor swing. It turn. But could he rise to the great is not an ellipse but a circle. The

•; occasion? He has done so and proved swing itself is short, crisp, compact. beyond cavil that he is on a level with The body is kept out of it, or is only • unlikelvbut the very highest and possibly now a secondarily contributive. notch or two higher. For has he not The Taylor style has been criticized to his credit eight open champion- because certain portraits show the finish ships—the five British, two French and of a full swing with hands tucked in, a. ai m i one German ? Add points to this record as j\Ir. B. Darwin says, "in playful for the times he has been runner-up exaggeration." somewhere close to the and it will be found that he is the pit of his stomach. But the great pro Caesar of the Triumvirate. does not play all his tee-shots after this . • i MfDenoot: The victory will be popular for an- fashion. With an adverse wind he will

• • other reason. Taylor is very human. play you a downward blow off the right, He has not the imperturbability of probably giving the right hand the fin :lf «ilr hopes oi Braid or the sangfroid of Vardon. He command, and finishing in an ap- bears misfortune, bravely and manfully, parently restricted manner. This is L Vinlao shmd tliiid but not with equanimity. He suffers the explanation of the breast-pocket or when things go wrong and does not pit-of-the-stomach snap-shots which the pretend to conceal chagrin; and he is casual reader has seen. But under as happy as a boy when his golfing normal conditions his style is perfectly virtues have their reward. orthodox. The flat-swingers of the land

• r. The game of golf owes much to John are probably a minority; they will, ac- Henry Taylor. He was the first of the cordingly, add a little extra fervor -.'km Big Three to write a book; and it is to their congratulations. Like Mr. * ti* o clear that every chapter was his own. Hilton. Taylor has come back. He has He is the great exemplar of the fiat proved again the soundness of his style swing; for Braid and Vardon demon- with its round-the-body swing, his crisp strate the vertical style. He has an- mashie work with almost automatic cut, alyzed and popularized the mashie as his delicate putting off the left foot. no one else has done. He lias given us with squared elbow. A writer in The the clearest and simplest explanation of New Book of Golf says of him; "When such mysteries as the push, the pull, the Taylor won his first championship at slice and the run-up. His conception Sandwich his driving was so accurate of proper niblick play from sand is that no hazards existed for him except unique. His conception indeed of the the guide-flags, at least one of which he swing in golf differs radically from any is said to have struck. He is without other authoritative exposition that can exception the most machine-like and ac- be read; although it has been rather curate player that has yet appeared." ignored by many who have accordingly This is high praise indeed, but probably suffered. What is Taylor's idea of the not undeserved. The opinion of Capt. swing? It is that of a swing, not up C. K. Hutchison who wrote it has, in •

100 OCR BOSTON LETTER view of the tremendous fight at Hoylake is an exceptionally sturdy and strongly- where the flower of Britain, France and built man and would be confidently America contended, received something picked by anybody as the owner of like confirmation. a muscular, well-developed biceps. Mr. Harold H Hilton has an in- Queried on the point the answer from terestine article in Outing for Julv on Taylor himself came. "Soft as butter, "Physique in Golf." The amateur sir; just like a child's." "The ideal champion of Britain is of opinion that combination for long driving is a pair of Samsons or Goliaths would cut a poor long, sinewy arms," says Mr. Hilton, figure at the royal and ancient game. "combined with long powerful hands They do not seem to he able to relax and fingers." There is much virtue, their abnormal muscles in taking the too, it appears, in sloping shoulders. club up. and tightening them in the Harry Yardon and George Duncan, par- downward swing only. "If there is one ticularly the former, are ideallv built set of muscles in the human frame for golf, and a case for the man of com- which are of no use to man in the pur- paratively light physique is made out suit of the game of golf, they are those by instancing Messrs. Walter Travis, which act in relation to what is usually Jerome D. Travers, Chick Evans and termed the biceps." An interesting MacDermott of America. The article illustration is given in the case of is one of Mr. Hilton's most interesting Taylor, the present open champion, who contributions to recent golfing gossip.

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BY J. G. ANDERSON

ASSACHUSETTS golf met Ralph Cracknell. so his associates with a two-fold loss last said and wrote of him but recently, M month in the deaths of Ralph was a fine type of English-American Cracknell. for years official handicapper manhood, big physically and big of the M. (i. A., and Charles D. Sias. mentally, square and upright in his The former was golf editor of The dealings with all men. Those who knew Boston Globe and one of the foremost him most intimately feel most deeply sporting authorities in America. He his loss. He was extremely frank and had been ill eight weeks. Valvular outspoken, but he never with malice heart trouble was the primary cause of aforethought said anything which he death. knew would injure. He was a lover of Mr. Cracknell had been with the all kinds of sport. Himself a splendid Globe since 1893. He was born in cricketer, he deplored the decline of London, England, May 27, 1863, and that game in the Boston neighborhood, came to the United States in 1884. but the rise of golf in this country His newspaper career began in 1889 gave him a fresh outlet for his love when he became news editor on the and appreciation of a manly game. night staff of a Boston paper. Later he When golf was in its infancy became the golf editor of The Globe, here, Mr. Cracknell was one of its Hid was recognized all over America foremost exponents, his most notable and in many circles in Great Britain achievement being the defeat in the as an authoritative and acutely intelli- state championship of Mr. Arthur G. gent writer on that sport. Lock wood, at that time without a golf- OUR BOSTON LETTER. 101

ing peer in the State and since three it, so that he might further perfect times the Massachusetts champion. himself in the art of gifted expression. The tendency of some "mug-hunters" His great ideal for Massachusetts golf, to cheat in golf was. in Ralph SO he has confided to me time and again, was a splendid municipal or : Cracknell's eyes the greatest crime in *• • W the world; and he was exceedingly state links where for a small fee any Ik U wroth and wrote of his displeasure with person could have a round at golf. The course Mr. Cracknell had in mind • vehemence and effect at any movement Htm. which might seem to lower the gentle- was not one of mediocre length and manly plane on which the game of difficulty, but a real test of champion- •d rifr, golf has always stood. His modesty ship play. Perhaps some day his ideal - Bikouldos at the state association's banquets may be realized. We sincerely hope so. - Dnen,f» usually led him to request that he be Thousands of golfers in Massachusetts, excused from making a speech but when more in New England and America, will called upon he always responded with mourn, as I do. the great loss of Ralph such keen wit, amusing anecdote and Cracknell. sound golfing doctrine that to him was The sudden death of Mr. Charles i Ems mi accorded the real applause of the even- D. Sias of the firm of Chase and San- ing. He was blunt in speech and born, Boston, proved a great shock to brusque of manner, but in his writings numberless friends and a loss to the game of golf. Very few people knew . ' . . •• lie had a flexibility of language that was amazing. To quote an office of the keen interest which Mr. Sias characterization of him which sums up took in the growth of golf in Massa- his relations with his fellowmen. "He chusetts. His influence was more in was always courteous and polite in the "inner circle "; he was ever watch- dealing with his associates and help- ful that nothing should mar the best ful in every emergency. He cherished traditions of the game. More than no resentments and whatever of disap- one young Massachusetts player owes pointments he had in life he kept very his prominence in the game and his much to himself, for, as a rule, he was rank in important golfing events to the in his moments of recreation just a big, assistance, more or less financial, blue-eyed, healthy, happy boy. flinging given to him by Mr. Sias. His loss

. • •• his jibes and criticisms with an aban- will be keenly felt. «f him i' • don and a humor that left no sting. This is the dull season around Bos- He had a kind of pity for those who ton so far as tournament golf is con- d k would consciously do others an injury, cerned. July 4th marks the end of the -.jit in i for he said that such people were regular schedules and for six weeks or 'simply ignorant'." so the one-day open tournaments are • few and far between while the weekly • Mr. Cracknel! was practically the handicaps are not largely attended. dean of the newspaper men in America The mountains and the seashore claim who interested themselves in the game most of our golfers and a month spent

kl( of golf when it was new and young. -• * , at a little course among the hills of Only Mr. Fitzpatrick of New York Vermont or Xew Hampshire is all can claim a reputation equal to that that is needed to make a scratch man of Mr. Cracknel!. and a hero out of a handicap 12 It was my good fortune to know golfer. A word about "mountain" Ralph Cracknel! quite intimately and golf. I shall not mention the names b «rtkt t- - • each time I visited at his home I be- of the courses which I have visited if I* • came more and more conscious of his this summer and last while in the broad education. He always read the White Mountains but I must state a , m finest literature, attended lectures by few facts of more or less interest. I scholars and men of note, not, as he have played so far over five different said, to listen primarily to what they courses in Xew Hampshire, nine hole had to say, but rather how they said affairs, may I add, and the distances

• 10-2 OUR BOSTON LETTER as marked on the score cards given out double their score of the first nine at the hotel or caddy house would at holes, which was done. The 48 handi- first glance indicate that a player was cap of one lady proved disastrous to to find a course of reasonable length Mr. S , and he lost by a stroke. with a fairly severe bogey. Instead, His verdict, "No more co-educational in every instance, I found the grossest golf for me" is bound to prove as misrepresentation. The first hole at strong as his disgust, for that prize S was marked on the card as which he really won was his first. He being 220 yards. A mashie shot put summers at Y— - no more. the ball into bushes yards beyond the I have often thought that the U. S. hole; the real distance was about 125 G. A. could do untold good for the yards. The second hole at F— - was game of golf if it would have prepared marked 850 yards. It was a cleek shot a pamphlet dealing with the correct at the most. So it went everywhere management of a tournament, and until I was fairly disgusted with the would at the beginning of the holiday efforts made by the hotel management, season send them broadcast over the generally, to have a '20 handicap man land to all the summer courses. It turn in a score of 72 on a course might be a trifle expensive but it would totalling, on the score card only, about do everlasting good. 5,700 yards. If a change could be To relieve the monotony of the dull made from "yards" to "feet," it would season the Springfield C. C. held a more nearly approach the true length. three-day tournament which brought to- It is a grievous mistake to advertise gether a number of the state's best good golf links when the reverse is golfers. Dances and social gatherings true. You may catch a golfer once were held in the evenings and a more but never again. The above statements delightful tournament has rarely been of fact, which anyone who travels in enjoyed. the White Mountains knows to be true, do not apply in general to the The match play features in the six eighteen-hole courses. Xor does one divisions had their usual run of good need to go into the White Mountains and poor matches. The final was won to find overmeasured courses. Massa- by Milton B. Reach of Springfield and chusetts has them in plenty and the Chicopee, a sterling golfer, whose busi- other New England states. There is ness cares prevent him from entering altogether too much measuring "against the more important events in the the wind" and this fact has been more state. Every final match in all six keenly borne into my mind the last divisions had as participants one or few weeks while up in New Hampshire. both players from the Springfield C. The management of the tournaments at C. or some nearby club. It is a pity many of the smaller courses often pro- that more Western Massachusetts vide room for discussion. I was much players do not enter our state cham- amused last week hearing a friend of pionship. There is no doubt that sev- mine tell of his experience at one of eral would qualify; their success at these summer courses. A handsome Springfield ought to give them an en- cup was offered for the prize in a couragement as to their prowess. All medal handicap competition. My that is needed is a common initiative. friend, Mr. S— —. handicapped at 20 Disappointment, more or less keen, in the state, was placed at scratch and was felt in Boston and vicinity when the handicaps ranged up to 18. For all Brady and McXamara in the profes- that he won the prize—almost. Every- sional matches, and Stucklen and the two body had finished except two ladies who Schmidts in the French amateur cham- were still on their first round. A meet- pionship were beaten at La Boulie. No ing of a committee was held and it one dreamed that the Frenchmen would decreed that the ladies could make a clean sweep of the international contest and main- fancied that Heinrich BOSTON LETTER 103

Schmidt would win the amateur. Only par figures, the incident becomes one American was able to work his way magnified. into the semi-final, Mr. Inslee meeting Team matches between two clubs defeat at the hands of Lord Charles make up one of golf's pleasantest Hope, the ultimate winner. Mr. features. Whatever there is of rivalry Heinrich Schmidt lost to Peter is always of the very happiest; as a Gannon, a left-handed player, by the matter of fact no one cares a rap score of 1 up. It was no disgrace to which side wins for the event is purely lose to such a player for Mr. Gannon is a social affair. This year more team a plus 4 man at his home club in Ire- matches have been held around Boston land and lias won more European than in any previous year. Brae- championships than any other golfer. Burn has met Framingham, Vesper The most interesting feature, aside from and Rhode Island, 15 to 25 on a side, the early defeat of Mr. Hilton by Mr. and there are return matches scheduled. Stearne of New York, was the match Almost every club has featured these that Karl Schmidt, twin brother of matches this year and no end of en- Heinrich, played against the former joyment has come to the members. British champion. E. A. Lassen. Ten days before the championship Karl was Boston will soon have to follow in in Boston, undecided whether or not New York's footsteps in regard to a to go abroad. A bit of persuasion Junior Championship. At present we gave him the necessary courage and have a so-called Interscholastic affair the night before the French amateur which is under no definite supervision, championship he arrived at La Boulie. is run with haphazard methods and the Without a bit of practice he made a lack of system is a bad thing. Two game fight and lost only on the last years ago at the annual state golf green. meeting the matter of helping the schoolboys in their championships came While the Fourth of July was bring- up for discussion and it was agreed ing disaster to three Americans at La that such action not only was needed Boulie, golfing fireworks were being but that help would be given. Little shot off on the same date by the new was done, however, and the young boys state champion, Francis Ouimet, at his of Massachusetts are not receiving suf- home club, Woodland. Last year, on ficient incentive or encouragement that July 4th, he made a new record of shall enable them to hold their own 67 and this year he played far better against the schoolboys of New York. than par golf for a brillant 66. His Does it pay to help the young fel- score makes interesting reading for those familiar with the Woodland lows by permitting them to play over links: our best courses and taking an in- terest in them? Of course the answer Out ... 53343135 4—34 is an emphatic yes. The boy who In 3 4 5 2 4 4 3 5 2—32—66 plays when ten or eleven years of age will do better on the average than he A rather remarkable match took who begins at sixteen or seventeen. I place at the Chestnut Hill course in feel that there are not two sides to the the final of the club championship. question. For seven years I have been Mr. A. M. Crosby and Mr. Nelson a master at The Fessenden School, Raymond played the last 18 holes in West Newton, Mass., which adjoins the j 70 and 72 strokes, respectively, and Albemarle links, a nine-hole course of in par figures halved no fewer than 15 moderate length. The boys' ages range holes, somewhat of a record in itself. from nine to fifteen and every day sees It is by no means an easy performance from fifty to sixty boys out on the for two golfers to go out and con- links. Their golf will tell in years to sciously halve 18 holes, regardless of come. Recent graduates from the score: when 15 holes are halved in school have already gained honors. lot OCR BOSTON LETTER

Philip Carter lias won the Metropolitan can do. It is worth while, and Massa- Junior Championship, R. D. Pierce chusetts should at once inaugurate a didn't lose a match on the Yale 'Varsity junior championship in order to in- golf team this year. Hart Fessenden stil a greater interest among our won the President's Cup in the last youngest players. Massachusetts Interscholastic Cham- Massachusetts sends her congratula- pionship; K. Salisbury is the Junior tions to "Bob" Abbot, recent winner of Champion at Lenox, and Francis the Connecticut Championship, and to Brown is the lust golfer in Honolulu. George H. Crocker of Fitchburg whose In addition. John Hamline. '1S3 won golf at Ekwanok in the tournament just two prizes in Europe last summer. finished has given added proof that no These successes certainly tend to show man in the world of his age is his equal what early golf training and practice in golf. TilIiOVGII THE (IREEX 113

Smith and Brady: they both played fine gi)lf To the Editors b toj, under the conditions, and yet they were not Dear Sir:—I read the July iiiimher of successful in gaining a coveted place among your magazine with so much interest that the first twenty. They had to face a strong, I could not resist thanking you for the ratlier cold, wind, which was anything hut pleasure I thereby received. I have been a like our weather conditions here. I shall subscriber of GOLF for some years, as well hope next month to have something to say as of other golfing periodicals and mag- on the invasion by Yardon and Kay. azines, and, in my opinion, in this number ' 'I', and to I am, sir, etc., you have attained as high a standard as . any golfing magazine lias ever reached. .1. J. MCDEBMOTT. Very truly yours, H. T. GOODELI.,

• THROUGH THE GREEN TRAVERS'S GOLF BOOK rigid that I could not get any kind of a satisfactory snap or follow-through." BY R. S. WEIR This dictum is interesting because it It was quite in the proper course of directly opposes Vardon's advice to tilings that the thrice amateur cham- make use of the forefingers chiefly and pion of America should write his book to resist the natural tendency to grip and explain to an interested world how most firmly with the smaller ones. Tot he came by his prowess in golf. This homines, tot sententiae. Mr. Jerome U. Travers has done in The most interesting discussion of the handsome volume that has just come theory in the books strikes us as being from the Macmillan press. Mr. Travers what is said concerning the turn or has given us a highly entertaining snap of the wrists, so often wrongly hook which the sedulous golfer should conceived as merely a bend of the not fail to read. wrists. What Mr. Travers has to say Once again it appears that excellence on this topic will well repay perusal. in golf can only come by taking in- Although lie does not use the term, finite pains. Although Mr. Travers one gathers that his swing is flat rather began to play at the early age of nine, than perpendicular. "I take the club- and doubtless was born with certain head back along the ground and then gifts of temperament, his skill came to around rather than up until the shaft him not by intuition but gradually, and is parallel to the ground." This is as the result of the closest study and the Taylor method and is unquestiona- most diligent practice—practice for bly a feature of a sound golfing style. hours getting out of sand bunkers; Mr. Travers condemns a pose (Plate practice from the tee with "a peck of XIII) which nine out of ten would balls"; practice upon the putting green, certainly approve on the ground that across all possible slopes and levels— the swing is too vertical. Here again systematic, thorough experimentation the reader must make a deliberate after keen reflection and observation. choice, for Braid and Vardon. Duncan Naturally, a.s one reads Mr. Travers's and Massy, to mention no others, are book one is on the alert for some new decidedly vertical swingers. thing. The novelties, such as they are, It is clear from his injunctions to are. so to speak, adjective ratlier than take turf that Mr. Travers must play substantive, viz.: the little finger of the his cleek and irons with what in a re- right hand and the index of the left cent contribution to GOLF I styled the interlock in putting; the ordinary grip "descending blow." The forward is with the left palm and the right stance confirms my view. He is also for fingers, while the forefingers are ab- playing every shot for the full value, solutely discouraged from any activity. having no place in his bag of tricks "I could not play my game," .says our for the half shot that English theorists author, "if I grasped the club with all so strongly commend. The spoon also the fingers around the shaft as most he condemns, not very convincingly, on players do. My whole left forearm the ground that it tends to diminish and wrist would be so stiffened and power witli the other woods. We 111. THROUGH THE GREEN fancy that a special skill with the many years. Perhaps some inkling as driving-iron, used from the tee with '200 to the reason why he is such a great yard results and more in his match with putter lies in the fact that lie never Charles Evans at Wheaton last year, changes. We learn now that if he can has something to do witli his dis- adjust himself to a putter of the ortho- paragement of a club that Aleck Herd dox type, he will probably go abroad commends as well nigh indispensable next year. to the modern golfer. Although indif- ferent to the spoon, Mr. Travers extols the jigger as fitting in between the THE U. S. vs. FRANCE mashie and the mid-iron; he also be- There was much disappointment in trays great fondness for the mashie- the failure of our professionals to niblick as a trusty friend in adversity. make a better showing against the The first six chapters contain interesting Frenchmen. Massy was practically the accounts of well-contested matches, only name known to us, but it was chiefly with the redoubtable \Y. J. quite evident that the Frenchmen were Travis. It is clear from the tone of more than a match for us. It is not these that Mr. Travers is a determined generally known that in the XVIIth fighter and knows what it is to grit his and XYIIIth Centuries, France was a teeth on occasion. Much may be al- great countrv for outdoor games. They lowed to youth, but we think the re- occupied at that time the position which mark overheard at the Westbrook Club England has occupied so many years. should hardly have been repeated in For some reason or other, the playing print. An account of Mr. Travers's ex- of games died out, although quite evi- periences in Britain in 1911 would have dently the ability has only remained been of interest but we have only the latent. Alex Smith, who captained the bare mention of his defeat in the first team, states, "We were simply out- round at Muirfield. played at La Boulie. The course there is such that the long driver, even We have noticed two rather singular if he is straight, has no advantage over errors in this book. The first is in the man who may pull or slice from styling the "square stance" the "open the tee, and when they can putt like stance"; the open stance, of course, is all possessed, as they do, we simply the stance off the right; the second were not in it." We give below a sum- error is in the statement that the player mary of the matches: "rises slightly on the left toe" in the drive. What is meant, of course, is SIXGI ,ES. that the left heel rises as the left knee UNITED STATES. FRANCE. bends; the player must keep his head Tom McNamara, Arnaud Massy, still and preserve an unchanged plane, Boston 0 Nivelle ".. 1 he must not rise even slightly. Nearly Alec Smith, Wyka- Louis Tellier, La gyi •••• Boulie 1 fifty admirable photographs of the Michael J. Brady, champion illustrate various attitudes of Wollaston J. Gassiat, Chan- golfing style. The book will be read John J. McDer- tilly 1 mott, Atlantic Pierre I.affitte, La by many a golfer with both interest and Boulie profit. City 0 FOUR-B ALLS. t John J. McDer- Louis Tellier, La MR. TRAVERS GOING ABROAD mott, Atlantic Boulie, and Ar- City, and Tom naud Massy, Ni- Early last spring, Mr. Travers made MeXamara, Bos- velle ....." the remark that he would make an- ton 0 J. Gassiat, Chan- other attempt to win the British Ama- Michael J. Brady, tillv, and Pierre teur Championship if it were not for Wollaston, and Laffitte, La Bou- Alex Smith, AVv- lie the ruling against the Schenectady kagyl '.. 0 putter. As is well known, Mr. Travers has used the Schenectady putter for Total 0 Total (5 HE owner of a Pierce-Arrow Car comes as near Having a Tcar built to order as it is possible to come witHovit losing any of tHe efficiency tHat Has been p\it into tHe Pierce-Arrow. THe individuality of tHe owner can h color and uphol Him free

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Summary of match play—Tellier and absolutely spoil one, for their equal is Massy beat McDennott and McNamara, U up and .' to play; Gassiat and Laffitte beat not met with except at very few other Brady and Smith, :? up and - to play; courses in the United States. Massy beat McXamara, .' up and 1 to play; The fair-green which has been criti- Tellier beat .Smith, (i up and I to play; cised during the last two or three years Gassiat beat Brady, S up and U to play; is rapidly rounding into shape. It re- Laffitte beat McDermott, 3 up and 2 to play. ceived a thorough dressing of lime last spring, and then, where needed, a top • dressing of fine loam and seed. Places GARDEN CITY that seemed in a deplorable condition before treatment, look in some cases at The Garden City course gives every the present moment so healthy with indication that it will be in excellent their new grass that it is hard to be- turf condition by the time of the Am- lieve it was possible to put them in ateur Championship. The new water such shape so soon. Only two spots system which was put in to water both are now bothering the committee; the greens and fair-greens has been namely, a bit of ground where one's going for some time, and recently while second lands at the fourth hole and the playing a round, we could, from one 1 . O fair-green at the distance of a good green, observe fourteen sprayers work- drive at the fifth. Thev are receiving ing. There were quite a number more the most particular attention, and to- hidden from view, which is a good in- gether with new seed and constant dication that a baked and burnt condi- watering should round into good turf tion will not obtain when tlie first week condition in plenty of time. in September comes round. The course The Green Committee, of which Mr. will be about the same test as it was George Watson, a brother of Mr. R. C. in 1908. Few new bunkers have been Watson, is Chairman, have been devot- put in; the humps and hollows running ing a great deal of time and thought to along between the fourth and fifth holes their duties, and the contestants at the being about the only real change. Amateur Championship will have much This was a very necessary improve- to thank them for. ment, for players who did not get away good drives at the fourth did not usu- ally care to risk the row of pits to be THE FOREIGN* INVASION carried on the second shot, and were in the habit of placing their seconds We are very pleased to announce to on the fair-green of the fifth hole and our readers that Mr. Darwin is coming approaching in from there on their to this country the latter part of August, third. A further aid to prevent this in the interests of the London Times to is a new small pit at the short left- report our Championships. The high hand corner of the fifth green. In our position of American golf is rapidly be- opinion, this pit should be greatly en- coming recognized, as is evidenced by larged by connecting it with the pit a the greatest newspaper in the world little further on but more to the left in considering our Championships im- the rough. The third shot to this hole portant enough to report in detail, and at its present length is usually too sending for this purpose a writer of so simple, and such a bunker would add high a standing. Needless to Ray, Mr. much interest to the shot by the moral Bernard Darwin occupies a unique posi- effect it would have. Going to the tion in golf reporting, and we felt very fifth, the new humps and hollows make fortunate when we secured him to write a pull very dangerous. This hole al- our monthly letter, and report the big ways one of the best at Garden City, events on the other side. This month is improved by this change. you will find an intensely intresting The greens are in remarkably beauti- article by him on the Open Champion- ful shape at this very moment. They ship. •• FOWNES VIYELLA f\ r\ FLANNEL Registered FOR

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Our readers are already aware that ning it regardless of the fact that some Mr. Abe Mitchell will be over. His of the best professionals from abroad entry lias already been received by the will play. It certainly will be an in- U. S. G. A. for both the Amateur and tensely interesting international contest. Open Championships. There is every To defend the Woman's Champion- likelihood, too, that other prominent ship, we have in Miss Hyde, Miss amateurs will, at the last moment, de- Marion Hollins and the Curtis sisters, cide to come. golfers fully capable of taking care of Our woman's world of golf is also their laurels. to have its invaders. On the authority Altogether, we have a great deal to of Mr. H. H. Hilton, in The Golf look forward to, and this magazine will Monthly, Miss Miiriel Dodd, the pres- do everything possible to make these ent woman champion of Great Britain, events interesting to those who will be and Miss Ravensiroft. last year's unable to take them in personally. champion, are to cross over to Canada and then down into the United States, h taking in. of course, the Woman's THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP Championship in October. There is every likelihood that the Although we all looked for the win- entry list of the Open Championship ner of this year's Open Championship will be augmented to ungainly propor- to join Vardon and Kay, we have re- tions because of the fact that every pro- ceived definite word that J. H. Taylor fessional, no matter what his ability will be unable to come over. This is may be, will be anxious to see the great very regrettable, as Taylor is one men from abroad play. The U. S. G. of the few great men in the professional A. have under advisement some method ranks. This we say regardless of his to meet this expected condition. Last successes, having in mind only the in- year, the Open Championship had 125 fluence he has always exerted to place starters, and in order to get this enor- his profession on the high plane it oc- mous field around the course four times cupies. When in this country in 1900, in two days, it was necessary to start he made many friends who will re- the first couple at 6.15 in the morning. gret very much that they are not to see This proved to be exceedingly unfair, him again. for the reason that early in the morning From France comes word that Ar- the greens were slow owing to dew, naud Massy. Louis Tellier and per- and covered with worm casts. This haps Jean Gassiat. the present French year the entry list will be swelled to champion, are to sail with Vardon and probably the 200 mark or more. It is Ray on August 6th. Certainly, Ameri- likely that the tournament will be run can golf is most fortunate. This fall on the method adopted abroad; namely, promises to be a period which will there will be two or three days of quali- long be remembered. It behooves us fying. The field will be divided into to do everything to prevent this in- two or three parts, each group playing vasion of amateurs and professionals ;i6 holes a day, and a certain number of each group qualifying. Then with from winning our championships. We this reduced field, it will be possible have very little fear that they will be to have them play 72 holes under condi- successful in the amateur. If one may tions which will make it a fair test speak of a human being as being a for all. stone wall, certainly Mr. Jerome Trav- ers deserves this designation. If all At the present moment, there is others fail, we do not believe they will under negotiation an international be able to get through him. woman's golf match. Canada wishes Of course, whether we will be able to to play the United States. If this match defend our Open Championship suc- is to be played, it should take place fol- cessfully is problematic. We sincerely lowing the Woman's Championship at believe McDtermott is capable of win- Wilmington, for the reason that before

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ring^aducrti.scnirnts please mention GOLF 1-21 122 THROUGH THE GREEN this adjustment is primarily the function, tal plan or picture of what position he through the nerves, of the mind; it cannot should assume for a correct address, and lie achieved unless the mind is instantly therefore is without freedom or spontane- and constantly stimulated to action; in all ity. It is death to any free and natural rapid games the movement of the hall sup- movement. plies this stimulus, tor it cxeites the per- Before coining to the above in Mr. ceptive faculties, and, through them, the conceptivc, by which the orders fur tin- Whitlatch's article, one finds an ex- next stroke are issued; in golf there is planation of the Montessori method of little or no excitation of the perceptive teaching. We are all more or less faculties; accordingly, the conceptive familiar with this method, for it has faculties have to he concentrated ami roused to action by artificial and adventi- received a great deal of publicity dur- tious means, by percepts learned hy rote ing the last two years. This method and forcibly applied at every stroke. That came from a system of teaching dis- is the psychology of golf. In all quick covered to educate the feeble-minded, games, so strong and so rapid are the GOLF stimuli that the resulting movements might and, because of its success in that di- almost lie called semi-voluntary. Volley- rection. Madame Montessori thought ing at the net in tennis might certainly that it would be all the more success- .,.-:•••; lie so called: there is no time to think; ful if practised on healthy-minded liH the very sight of the approaching hall children. It depends, however, alto- concentrates the attention upon it and throws the right arm into position to strike gether for its success upon the impres- it. To the expert tennis-player the move- sionability of youth. What Mr. ment is doubtless semi-voluntary, as semi- Haultain has to say on the subject of voluntary as the closing of the eyelid on professional and amateur golf will be the approach of a fly—though both, prob- ably, are the result of constant response interesting, so we quote him further as to stimulus. (I believe, in tlie technical follows: language of the psychologist, the stroke in However, probably neither the youthful tennis would he classified as "secondary re- caddie nor the elderly professional is much flex" or "secondary automatic") Now, in given to any very minute analysis of the golf there is never any reflex or automatic mental factors incident to gulf. It is only action possible. Every stroke must he he who takes up golf when well past his played by the mind—gravely, quietly, de- 'teens who finds that the motor centres have liberately. And this is why there is a carefully to be taught and trained hy the psychology of golf but there is no ideational centres; and probably not until psychology of cricket or racquets or tennis the motor centres have learned to act largely or polo. If for this theory it is necessary by themselves dues such golfer improve in to show that strong stimulation of the per- his game. Prooably, the more automatic- ceptive faculties tends to strong stimula- ally one plays, the better one play:—which tion of the conceptive, one might point to means that (unless one is a born athlete, or a muscular genius) one ought to com- the effect of music upon the mind and body. mence golf very young indeed. (Zealous How easy it is to dance when the rhythmic golfers had better enter their babies' names valse strikes upon the ear! what waves of on the waiting-lists of limited clubs.) For thought and emotion are set agoing at I take it that if the mind is strenuously sound of martial airs! occupied in trying to remember this, that, We again quote from "Mind vs. or the other particular rule for the stroke, some other rules are apt to be forgotten. Muscle in Golf": This is to say, if the ideational or con- The professional represents good golf, ceptual centres of the brain are too much and his scheme of play is to feel out the occupied, some motor centres go disre- correct position in action, while the aver- garded. In the caddie and the professional age amateur represents poor golf, and his probably at the moment of the stroke there scheme is to reason out, in a pereonceived is no ideation or conception going on what- way, the correct position, with most of his soever, the whole attention of the mind he- muscles in repose, or set. ing in some incomprehensible way concen- To put it more plainly, I should say that trated in the motor centres alone. All be- the professional, through his sense of feel- ginners—nf a maturer age—find it impossible ing, allows his muscles to talk to his mind; to remember—and obey—at every stroke all while the amateur, through his reason, the rules they learn. makes his mind talk to his muscles, or con- trol them. 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pose of developing his muscles for his sum- tions from the dominance of the mind, mer's golf—his ambition was long driving. What was tlie consequence? lie confessed the lengths of these vacations being to me that that summer he was completely governed by the conduct of the muscles off his garni'! Another man 1 knew whose in their freedom. In other words, let rfri sole form of exercise that winter was walk- the muscles have as long a rope as pos- ing and swinging golf-clubs. This man's sible. But that there is anything new game improved vastly. The explanation probably lies in the fact that the nerve- in this, we cannot see. How many currents by which the muscles are con- times have we not, upon becoming dis- tracted arc very prone to run in the tracks gusted with our game, thrown the dic- to which they are habituated; and if for tates of reason to the winds, only to several weeks or months they are made to travel in paths quite different from those find the resultant relaxation of the in which they must run—and swiftly and muscles the "open sesame" to our ac- accurately run—in the drive and the ap- customed form. proach and the putt, when they are ordered to take the new direction they fail at first to find it. It was rather a misfortune that an op- portunity was not found for giving the American professionals who came over for We would advise anyone who lias the Open Championship an opportunity of read Mr. Whitlatch's article to turn meeting a team of British professionals. Without going so far as to say that the to Parts 11. 12 and IS in "The Mystery Americans really fancied themselves, it un- of Golf" to find delineated in simple doubtedly is the fact that they came in such and comprehensible language the whole numbers in the expectation of such a match. subject of the mind and its relation to However, it was not found possible to ar- range it and our friends from over the the muscles in action. water will have to wait till another time. We can well see the reason for Mr. They will not take it as any disparage- Whitlatch's enthusiasm, for of all golf- ment of their abilities if we suggest that their team is not anything like a match for ers we know, with the exception per- a side of the leading men in this country. haps of Mr. Walter J. Travis. Mr. Young McDermott created a good impres- Whitlatch represents, or did represent, sion by his play at Hoylake, but the other the mental type to a degree. His visitors did not come up to expectations. In the absence of a match here, they have muscles perhaps long ago acquired been across at Paris this week and have well-trained habits, but his habit of had rather a bad beating from six of the mind controlled all the actions of these most prominent French golfers. In these muscles. Now that he has granted circumstances it is not an unfair assump- tion that they would have fared much wor»e them their freedom, they revel uncon- in this country, and from their own point trolled along the very definite habitu- of view it may not be altogether a mis- ated lines which their old nurse, the fortune that their hopes of a contest were mind, would never consciously allow disappointed. Still from the public point of view such a meeting would have been a them to leave. We fear very much, highly welcome addition to the season's however, that before long some of these calendar of big events.—The London (Hobe. muscles will desire further liberty, and then it will be a case for Mr. Whit- [We think the London Globe assumes latch to wait for the return of these too much when it states that perTiaps truants who will herald themselves by it was not altogether a misfortune a pressing the button of "proper feeling." match was not arranged. Beaten we or else he must resort again to the mind no doubt would have been, but an ad- to collar the vagrants straightwith. ded interest would have been given to Mr. Whitlatch's article, although it the trip of our professionals, besides does not clearly bring it out, calls giving them a further opportunity of attention to the fact that we should as learning something. We do not care soon as possible try to make the actions for the apparent inference that defeat the minds dictates become intuitional or would have made us feel so badly that automatic. This can gradually be ac- we look back upon the escape with complished by giving the muscles vaca- pleasure—Ed.]

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THE FRENCH AMATEUR Air. Douglas's game, but in the whole ac- CHAMPIONSHIP. count there is not a mention of the very It was particularly appropriate that name of Mr. Schmidt, nor of any possibility Lord diaries Hope should win, because it of his going far and well. Evidently his was he who had avenged our own amateur doings will have surprised his countrymen. champion who fell most unexpectedly in the first round before a young American golfer, Mr. Stearns, The most interesting The man whom Mr. Whigham would have feature of Mr. Stearns's game appears to liked to see coming over here again is Mr. have been the number of his practice swings, .Jerome Travers, who appears to he in great which competent observers put at an aver- form now. It will be remembered that he age of four—four full-dress-rehearsal did have a try at our championship four swings-—before each shot, and, before one years ago, at Muirfield, but was knocked very critical iron shot, six. Xor was this out in the very first round. But Mr. Whig- young gentlemen left in undisputed pos- ham points out that he has had vast ex- session of tlie record, because Mr. Karl perience in tournaments since. "He is now metropolitan champion for the fifth time, Schmidt, in his match with Mr. Lassen, and has won the title three years in suc- took three hours and ten minutes to play cession. At Chicago in September it was seventeen holes. As to poor Mr. Heinrieh his match-playing ability that pulled him Schmidt, he lias lost his supremacy alto- through the grilling finals with Mr. Evans. gether, and seems to lie, as compared with He is not only one of the two most finished these others, a perfect hustler. One can- and powerful players in America (Mr. not help thinking it a great pity that these Evans being the other), but he is by far the good young golfers should make their golf best tournament player. He would find very so unattractive by this appalling tediousness few golfers in Great Britain able to stand of preparation. It may conceivably help against him." Mr. Whigham is of the great a purely artificial golfer who has begun golfing family of Whighams at Prestwick, in comparative old age, but it cannot be so this estimate may be accepted as with- necessary for a young player who, whatever out color of national partiality in the Ameri- he may add to it by taking thought, has can's favor. primarily a natural game in him. Xo doubt these young gentlemen think that they do their game good by slowness, and, if they suddenly began to play fast, would feel Altogether, this article in the American the want of all their practice swings. But paper is of exceptional interest. Spec- they surely might break themselves gradu- tators and public in this country have been ally, and both they and other people would quite keenly enthusiastic about the Ray and be happier in the end. These young Ameri- Duncan match, which differed essentially cans play the game in every other way so from most of the matches between pro- fessionals in being a hardly fought affair, admirably that one may be pardoned for with a money stake, and not a mere ex- wishing ardently for this one reform.— hibition of how the game is played. It was Bernard Darwin in Country Life. that, to be sure, but it was more. Xow Mr. Whigham, writing of the American point of view, says: "It is characteristic Seeing how great a fight the American, of American golf that the interest in the Mr. Schmidt, put up in our amateur cham- professional side of the game is extremely pionship, and how great a fight he gave us slight. In Great Britain the matches be- lest he should be about to repeat the achieve- tween the great professionals like vardon, ment, not flattering to our national dignity, Ray, Braid and Taylor draw crowds to the of Mr. Travis, it is interesting to read links and attract much attention in the certain comments on the contingent of Press; whereas, in this country no American players which are made in the any attention I., the |>rntrsMini,i^ latest received number, published while the during the week of the Open Champion- championship was in course of play, of the ship." He ascribes this indifference largely American "Town and Country." The to the fact that until McDermott and Me- article is over the initials "H. J. W.," which X'amara came to the front they had no reveal the identity of Mr. "Jim" Whigham, really) great professional talent i,h thlat country. All the rest was imported. But himself an amateur ex-champion of the he adds, "this indifference" (to the doings United States. He writes: "Our contingent of the professionals) "is not a bad sign for the British amateur championship this of the conditions in this country. Golf is week is neither very strong nor very repre- regarded as an amateur sport pure and sentative. Mr. Findlay Douglas is the best simple." There is very much, in my humble of the American players, and he, after all, judgment, to be said in favor of this view is not exactly an American. He was born of the game. It is none too well for it to and bred at St. Andrews, Scotland, and fall too much into professional hands. Mr. learned all his golf there"—and so on. The Whigham, however, looks forward to the writer discourses at some little length about BUCKWOOD INN Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa. Two hours from New York Three hours from Philadelphia via Lackawanna R. R. via Trenton Division, Penn. R.R.

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visit of Ray and Vardon to the States add- Heinricli Schmidt) the pair who provided ing, "zest to the golfing year." He also the chief attraction at the amateur cham- deems that it will, "have its uses in other pionship meeting at St. Andrews recently, directions, for it will demonstrate the nec- when Mr. Hilton in the sixth round heat essity in gi)lt' of finesse, and the necessity, Mr. Schmidt at the nineteenth hole. To- therefore, of courses that call for finesse."— day they played together for the first time Mr. Horace Hutchinsoti, since that fateful encounter, and a very fine match they had. Mr. Schmidt fully con- firmed his St. Andrews form, when, to he There is one little girl in the world whose candid, he was not expected to do so, the Christian name is Iloylake; I do not think Englishman being on his native links. that there are two little girls who have There was only one hole in it all the way, the name, for it is an unusual one, and it and Mr. Schmidt was occasionally up, hut was given to Mile. Hoylake Massy, now he was 1 down, and 1 only, at the end of just six years old. M. Arnaud Massy is a the match. Frenchman—to he quite precise, he is a Basque—and he is the best golfer there is in all France. There is not a doubt about that. Six wars ago people were wondering An Irislnnan walking along a road whether James Braid or Harry Yardon or beside a golf links was struck betweeD ,1. H. Taylor would win the Open Cham- the shoulders by a golf ball. pionship of golf, which that year wa-> being "Are you hurt? asked the player. played for at Hoy lake. It was a severe test that time. Hoylake is always severe, Why didn't you get out of the way?" but there were winds and other weather "An' why should I get out of the troubles abounding; and players—great way?" asked Pat. "I didn't know there golfer! — were taking eights and nines and were any assassins around here." tens for some of the holes, and great disas- ters were attending on many of them. The "But I called fore,' that is a sign for one man who went most placidly and you to get out of the way." smoothly on his way through that great "Oh. it is, is it?" said Pat. "Well, ordeal was this M. Massv, and he won the thin, whin I say 'foive' it is a sign that gold medal. When they gave it to him in front of the Royal Liverpool Club-house, you are going to get hit on the nose— he threw up his hands al lit and he called 'Foive'." out, "Vive FEntente Cordiale!" 1 have that scene in my mind now; a stirring It is pathetic to learn that in the pro- scene it was—unique, for no foreign player fessional match recently decided at I.a had ever won the Championship Cup before. Boulie between France and the United Arnaud Massy took it hack with him to States four balls were played in each of France, to the Societe de Golf de Paris at the first day's encounters. The arrange- Versailles, where he was engaged as pro- ment was most improper, for the occasion fessional. My friend M. Pierre Deschamps, was a ^eriiiiis one. It was desired to solve the President of the Societe, "father" of the question whether four Frenchmen were golf in France, as they often call him, collectively stronger or weaker golfers than made a suitable little speech, ami in a bunk four Americans. Xow, the four-ball match he wrote a eulogy of golf and of M. Massy, is a very pleasant pastime, hut as a test of who had been the means of so much honor golf it is worthless. A wild and bad- being done to sporting France. "Golf," he tempered player is a better partner for declared, "comes to be the national game of Vardon than his direct antithesis, J. H. France!" Those were great days. Provi- Taylor, would be. Vardon does not want dence was very kind to the big, strong M. a man who goes on halving hnles withjjim in Arnaud Massy that week in 1907, for not only did he gain a gold medal from the the par figures. He gets re championship, hut he had given to him by one who produces three flukes p Mine. Massy a sweet little daughter, and and the most reliable fluker is a furious what should he say then but, •L]'niln.'" hitter when he has lost his temper. Rut Surely she shall be called our little Hoy- when nothing depends on the issue it is lake!" Which she was accordingly. Mine. vastly amusing to make one of a party hit- Massy, rejoicing in her husband's success, ting four halls round the course. There like the good, happy little woman of Scot- is likely to be plenty of chaff and repartee land that she is, having cordially agreed — to chaff, and the gaiety of the affair is in- Henry Leach in The Illustrated London creased by the knowledge that the ultimate Newt, result is discounted by the fact that the test is not serious. Possibly the winners will endeavor to maintain that they have achieved merit, but the losers, if they do MR. HILTON AND MR. SCUM IDT. not exactly deny the truth of that pro- There was a very interesting match played position, will not feel that they have ac- between Mr. Harold Hilton and Mr. quired a stigma of disgrace. Golf has now The fearsome 6th hole at the National Golf Links of America, Southampton, Long Island. More than 500 bushels of Carter's Tested Grass Seed were sown on this golf course.

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In answering advertisements please mention GOLF 1'29 ISO THROUGH THE GREEN become a vastly important tiling, and [he qualifying round with eighty-two difference between winning and losing the most private of private singles is therefore strokes and played very consistently a matter of great moment. Therefore it is throughout the tournament, and had he a grateful relict' |o engage occasionally in controlled his putts when near the cup a game which does not matter. Far be it the final might have resulted differently. from me to suggest that the Frenchmen and the Americans should have played four- Fred Martin, the Vermont champion, somes instead of four-ball matches. The had scarcely recovered sufficient foursome is the joy of the happy few. Tlie strength from his recent illness to be- last thing that the initiates desire is that any should take part in a foursome match come an important factor although he under compulsion—nay, inure, that anyone scored third and played into the semi- should come into it save with enthusiasm. final round. George H. Crocker, the Commonly it is the habitual and instructed "sixty-years-young" man from the foursomer who says, "No! Let us play four balls. I am not playing well enough to Country Club, in some unaccountable join in a foursome." Had Massy, Mc- manner took ninety-two for his open- Dermott, and their fellows decided to play ing round, but the general high scoring foursomes at I a Boulie one at least of the let him into the first division and he two matches might have been a more or less fortuitous agglomeration of four persons immediately vindicated himself with a tu hit twn balls, an arrangement unsatis- •]•<>, ,'i.)—76, against R. M. Lewis of factory for all concerned. Wnat they should Ridgefield who was two down and one have (lone was to play an American tourna- to play, even when holding a card of ment. Being but eight all told they could have secured that in two days each of the seventy-six. four Frenchmen should meet each of the Herreshoff had rather the heavy end four Americans over eighteen holes. And of the draw and was carried to the by the second evening the respective merits of the two sides would have been deter- seventeenth green in both the second mind beyond possibility of doubt.—A. C. and semi-final rounds by the medallist M. Croome in the Morning Post. and Mr. Crocker, respectively, while Kerr forged his way to the final with [We endorse every word Mr. Croome wide margins. has to say and only regret the happy Friday afternoon was devoted entirely suggestion he makes at the end was not to best ball foursomes, a form of com- thought of and acted upon—Ed.] petition which has become very popular at Ekwanok, both during the large com- petitions and following Saturday morn- Fred Herreshoff won the Taconie Cup ing bogie handicaps. A heavy storm from a field of seventy-seven starters in broke about four-thirty and about half the Fourteenth Annual July Tourna- the field of sixty contestants forsook ment at Ekwanok Country Club, Man- their game. The best card returned chester. Yt., July 16-19. The medal showed a net of sixty-nine, but this was for the low score in the qualifying disqualified as the players had sought round went to Dr. C. H. Gardner of shelter and lost their place on the Providence, who had a card of eighty- course. A net seventy-two by J. H. one. It was singular that a card total- and T. H. Parsons of Tr^ccaptured ling more than eighty should be low, the prizes. for a number of those contesting, in- Friday's rain brought thlBrmirse to cluding the medal winner himself, are perfect condition for the final match capable of much better golf. In fact, and the weather favored both gallery the record of the first round was hard and players. Herreshoff, erratic but to explain with one ninety-three making brilliant, was at most times in the lead the first flight, as the course was in ex- while Kerr was playing very prettily cellent condition, but there was a strong from tee to green, but occasion- northwest wind, a very unusual thing ally missing putts of four feet or less. at Ekwanok, and while few players Herreshoff was putting in true form blamed the wind, it evidently had a bad and bis approaches from a distance influence. were often dead to the hole, so often, Hamilton Kerr ranked second in the in fact, that he was better than par on S U TTON'S GRASS SEEDS FOR ALL KINDS OF TURF: Golf Courses, Tees, Putting Greens, Lawns, etc. All Grass Seeds Guaranteed Purity and Germination. Country Clubs' Secretaries and Green Committees should, before placing their orders, consult Messrs SUTTON who possess an unique experience of over a century in turf formation and they are continually advising clients in every part of the habitable globe.

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four holes during the morning round Kerr with only one long putt to his credit. Out . . . 5 113 14 5 4 4—37 Both had cards of seventy-four for the In .... 5 3 4344 5 1 5—37—71 morning, with Herreshoff two up; his AFTERNOON. extra strokes having been wasted on the Herreshoff fourth and fifth where he took five and Out ... 55335455 1—39 six to Kerr's par three and four. In .... 5 345344 Kerr was unable to reduce the lead in Kerr the afternoon, but was no worse off at Out . . . 5 5 3 4 116 4 4—39 the fifteenth tee. The gallery was much In .... 5 4 4 3 3 5 4 delighted with a pair of threes at the Bye holes not jjlayed. third hole and doubly so when the feat SUMMARY. was repeated at the fourteenth, par be- Medalist—C. H. Gardner, Agawam, ing four at each hole. Going to the 81. fifteenth Kerr spared his second shot First Sixteen for Taconic Cup—Fred and overplayed his chip, thus letting Herreshoff, Garden City, beat H. Herreshoff become dormie, and the six- K. Kerr. South Shore, 3 and 2. teenth, the last hole of the match, was Beaten Eight—Sherrill Sherman. Yah- halved in par fours. nundasis, beat A. Gregory, Albany, Edward Clark of Philadelphia, play- 7 and 6. ing the course for the first time this sea- Second Sixteen for Ondawa Cup—Du- son, landed the gross score prize in the moiit Clarke, Ekwanok, bt^^^V. A. Saturdav morning handicap witli a card Barber, Jr., Princeton, 5 of seventy-six; the net score prize going Beaten Eight—E. H. Filter, to M. L. Fearey, of Fox Hills, who de- phia C. C, beat W. L. Ball, Engle- ducted four strokes for a net of seventy- wood, 2 and 1. nine. Third Sixteen—J. \V. Spratt. Florida On the whole, the qualifying round C. C, beat J. F. O'Rourke, Vale, 6 was no indication of the strength of the and 5. field and must be charged to the un- Beaten Eight—J. H. Parsons, Island usual wind. The cards of the final: G. C, beat T. H. Parsons, Island MORNING. G. C. 3 and 1. Herreshoff Fourth Sixteen—F. S. Pusey, Wyka- Out ... :> i 3 r> 6 3 i i r,—89 gvl, beat C. I). Chapman, Morris Co., NEW YOB In . ... 1 4 8 3 5 8 1 r> 1—35—74 g and 1. HaveYouTried a Colonel with the New, Hard,Tough Cover?

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Beaten Eight—W. A. Barber. Engle- the benefit of golf as a whole in Phila- wood, beat Frank Crocker, The delphia and the East generally. Country Club, 6 and 5. The new executive board, composed Best Ball Handicap—J. H. and T. H. of the officers and H. C. Fownes, of Parsons, both Island G. C winners. Pittsburgh; Dr. J. W. Nelson, of Al- 82—72. toona; J. A. Janney, Jr.. of the Phila- Handicap Medal Round—Gross score delphia Cricket Club, and Howard Per- Prize—Edward Clark, Ekwanok. 76: rin, of Merion. the retiring president, Net Score Prize—M. L. Fearey. was petitioned to consider carefully a Richmond Co.. 88, i—79. plan to broaden the scope of the an- nual State tournament SO as to interest the smaller clubs and the second-rank players. J. F. Byers. of Pittsburgh, was elected president of the Pennsylvania Golf Association at tlie annual meet- August I .'i and 1 J- are the dates se- ing held recently at the Philadelphia lected by the Metropolitan Golf Asso- Cricket Club, St. Martin's. George ciation for its annual open champion- Krump. of the Philadelphia Country ship tournament. The scene will be Club, was elected vice-president, while the Salisbury links at Gardi Roy L. James, of Pittsburgh, was Several weeks ago the elected secretary ami treasurer. sent letters to various clubs in this dis- A change was made in the by-laws of trict and received '(responses from the organization, which provides thar twenty or more, ottering the privileges the new officers will not assume control of the courses to the professionals. until January I. Hill-, making the busi- Englewood was favored by many per- ness year of the association close at sons, but Salisbury came out ahead. the same time as the fiscal year. The idea of the change was to give tin The Metropolitan Golf Association present president, Howard W. Perrin. has formally accepted the otter of the of the Merion Cricket Club, time for Upper Montclair Country Club to pre carrying out plans he las in mind for sent a trophy to the association to re- I I I I I I I I ~In I

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In answering advertisements please mention GOLF 135 THROUGH THE GREEN place the Chauncey plaque recently won links. Gil Nichols was very much im- permanently by Mr. Jerome D. Travers. pressed with the course, particularly A committee has been appointed by the with the fifth and seventh holes. He association to confer with the officials remarked to me that the seventh hole of the club regarding the name of the particularly he thought was one of the trophy and other similar details. finest short holes in the country. The course will be open for play this year and we expect will be in good condi- tion. A RECORD FOR NINE HOLES Aleck Simpson of Stonehaven, t lie Scotch professional at the White Sul- The Xew York papers of July 23d phur Springs. West Virginia, holds the recorded three very remarkable inci- world's record score for nine holes. dents: The first, the holing in one Simpson made it in July, 1911, at his stroke of the 290-yard first hole at the home links, the famous Stonehaven Home wood County Club by Mr. E. P. course, doing the stiff eighteen holes in Allis, Jr. It is stated that the shot 64, going out in '27. This is believed was not lucky in the sense that the to be the lowest score ever recorded flag in the hole helped it in any way. for nine full length holes. His card: The ball was about spent when it Out ... S 3 4 4 2 S 2 S 8 dropped into the hole. The second incident worthy of notice Simpson, who has been working hard is the record of 63 made by David to get the White Sulphur Springs Ogilvie, the Morris County jjrofes- course ready, has some ideas about sional, at the Morris County course. golf courses. He maintains the most His card was as follows: essential thing to a good golf course Out ... -2 3 3 3 3 -i -i 5 4—31 is good greens. He is also a firm be- In .... 2 4 3 53543 3—32—63 liever in leaving the rough of the out- side edges of the fair green in their The third incident is the remarkable natural condition. He does not advo- two rounds which Macdonald Smith, cate narrow courses by any means but the young Western Open Champion, has always found that the straightest made around Apawamis, the first time drivers have all been trained on courses he had ever seen the course. His morn- which might be said to be on the narrow ing round was a 69 and his afternoon side. round a 68, making together a total of 137 for 36 holes. We doubt very I much whether on a course which has The officers of the Eaglesmere Golf the reputation of being of champion- Course are Edgar Munson, President; ship calibre there has ever been made Henry E. Kirk, Vice-President; H. two such remarkable consecutive Laussat Geyelin, Secretary, and E. S. rounds. The two rounds were as fol- Chase, Treasurer. The Greens Com- lows : ttp mittee is George H. Young, Williams- Out ... 44333442 5-^52 port. Pa., Chairman; and S. P. Davidge, In 4 5 4 3 5 4 4 4 4—37—69 Short Hills, X. J.; H. Laussat Geyelin, Out ... 4434 3 4 4 3 6—35 Philadelphia. Pa.; Dr. Howard K. In .... 3 4 3 3443 5 4—33—68 Hill. Philadelphia, Pa., and E. S. Chase, Eaglesmere, Pa. The present course is nine holes, totalling a little over three thousand The tournament for the President's yards on which the par is 37. Land Cup at the Hotel Champlain Golf Club lias recently been secured to continue will occur on July 10—12. This is con- this course to eighteen holes, which it sidered the most important tournament is hoped to do shortly. The ground is of the golfing season and many will rolling and admirably adapted for golf enter. K

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In answering advertisements please mention GOLF 137 DECISIONS BY THE RULES OF GOLF COMMITTEE

MERTON PARK GOLF CLUB.—A has have made no return, and to have lost holed out. Bj who has played t, asks these holes (see Rules for Bogey No. A how many In- has played. A replies: 1). (C2) Not necessarily. For example, "Six. you have that for it. " 13 then if the maker delayed filling in the score putts and misses. A then says: "I am for a hole until the competitors had sorry. I've only played 5, you only had struck off from the next tee, no penalty that for the half." Does H win the would be incurred. (,'5) Subject to the hole under new Rule 1- (2) or does A answer to question number C2, every hole get his half under Rule .'i.'i? at which no return is made is a lost A.- Rule :'<:'• applies. There should hole. (4) and (.">) It is the duty of a have been a cross reference to Rule committee to take cognizance of, and, if .;:: in Rule 1- (l2). necessary, investigate every case of ir- ENFIELD GOLF CLUB, LTD.—Two regularity that comes to its knowledge, players play in a Bogey competition whatever the source of the information and score for each other; another may he. player plays round with them but dots MENDIP GOLF CLUB.—The conditions not intend putting a score in. Can of a "knock out" competition state that tin's he allowed ? if a match is halved "play must he con- A.— No. Playing three halls in a tinued until match is won." In the Bogey competition disqualifies the com- third round A and B halved their match petitors because they have not eon- and played another round. Did they formed to the condition stated in Stroke incur any penalty? Rule 1 (2), that the players shall play A.—Whichever player first won a in couples. hole was the winner, and the result of LITTLE ASTON GOLF CLUB.—Bogey the round cannot he considered. If A foursomes competition. At the l(ith and B delayed the conduct of the com- hole a competitor discovered that the petition by their action, they should marker for his side had entered no he disqualified. figure for the score of any hole, hut MERCHANTS OF EDIXBTRGH GOLF had filled in the signs. The marker pro- CLUB.—A player in a stroke competi- posed to till in the score for each of tion playing from the I5th tee sliced these holes from memory. ( 1 ) Is this his hall, which went over a wall (9 ft. permissible? (2) Does the fact that no high) and out of bounds. He then score is marked at the time the hole is drove off another hall from the tee played out disqualify the player? (.'!) and immediately thereafter went to Does the omission to mark the score im- satisfy himself regarding the first ball, mediately after holing out throughout which lie found within the flpfirse. the round carry a greater penalty than Thinking it had struck a tree and re- the omission to mark the score at one hounded, he played it out. After hol- or two holes only? (4) Supposing a ing out. however, the player was in- protest to he lodged by a competitor formed by another member of the Club regarding the matter, should his protest that when he (the other member) had he accepted.- (7) Supposing a protest been over the wall looking for his own to he lodged by a spectator with pos- ball he had thrown the first ball, which sibly a financial interest, should the pro- had been out of bounds, back on to test be accepted ? the course. The player informed the Committee on his return to the Club A.—(1) No- At the first fifteen House. Was he right in playing the holes the competitors must lie held to

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In advertisements please mention GOLF 139 110 DECISIONS OF 'HIE RULES OF GOLF COMMITTEE ball? If not, was he disqualified? If marker by the initials they sliould ac- not disqualified, was there any penalty cept the card. attaching? BERLIN GOLF CLUB.—In a stroke A.—The competitor is disqualified; competition, a competitor missed an ap- as he did not hole the stipulated round. proach .shot, dropped another ball and SOTTHAMPTON GOLF CLUB.—A mem- played it towards the green. He holed ber playing in a Bogey competition re- out with the original ball. The Com- turned a card showing him S down. On mittee disqualified him. (1) Was the examination it was found that his decision correct, either under Stroke partner had marked a plus at the 7th Rule 1 (2), or any other Rule? (2) hole instead of 0 (bogey .'*, .strokes What, if any, is the limitation upon the taken 1. member receives stroke at this playing of practice shots other than hole), so that the card sliould have "before starting" in stroke competi- shown A down. (1) Should the card tions ? be disqualified or should the error be corrected? (2) In the same competi- A.—By the custom of the game the tion, A takes .'! strokes at this same hole competitor should be disqualified. (2) (bogey 3, receives .stroke). B marks After teeing his ball for the first stroke in a stroke competition, a competitor his score as i, but knowing that A may not play a practice stroke at any had won the hole marked a plus. Should tee or during the play of any hole. this error cause disqualification or should the hole be disallowed? WORTHING GOLF CLUB.—In a Bogey A.— (1) The marker is only respon- competition a competitor played his sec- sible for the "marking of the correct ond stroke at the 16th hole into a number of strokes" at certain holes (see bunker. Disgusted at the shot he Bogey Rules No. I). He need not dropped another ball, and saying place the signs, which are subject to "This is how it ought to be done," correction by the Committee. (2) The drove it over the bunker and over the green. He holed out with his original figure 4 must stand, and A halves the ball. Did he incur any penalty? hole. TULLAMORE GOLF CLUB.—At an open A.—Yes. The player is disqualified meeting held here on the 7th inst., for that hole. the winner in the men's singles re- BREDISHOLM GOLF CLCB.—In a turned his card with only the initials mixed foursome competition a gentle- of the marker on it. The Committee man failed to rind a partner at the first on checking the cards discovered this, ballot, played several holes, and re- and, being of the opinion that initials turned later. He then found a partner did not constitute a signature, they de- in a subsequent ballot. The lady was cided not to award prize until they had not aware that the gentleman had al- your opinion on the matter. Xo objec- ready been playing. Both were allowed tion has been lodged by any of the other to start as competitors. Are the couple competitors. disqualified or the gentleman only? A.—The action of the marker was A.—The gentleman infringed Stroke irregular. The Rules Committee is of Rule 1 (2) and is disqualified. The opinion that if the Committee of the score made by him and his partner can- Tullamore Golf Club can identify the not be accepted. --.:,

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Catalog Sent on Application. THE LORRAINE - - . THE GOFTEN MFG. CO. FIFTH AVENUE «t FORTY-FIFTH STREET Newark, Ohio GKORQB C. HOWK GKOKOK OKVIS MONEL M ETAL MONEL GOLP CLUBS GUARANTEED NON-RUSTABLE * HAND MADE * NON-CORROSIVE MONEL METAL is a natural nickel alloy, m which nickel is the base, the contained percentage being about (ii per cent. This alloy is as strong as Steel and is absolutely non-rustable. A. G . Spalding & Bros, have secured exclusive manufacturing and sales rights, and hereafter every genuine Monel Metal club will bear both Daark8 as shown below on the back of the head.

THE HEADS OF ALL, MONEL METAL CLUBS are made after the original models of possibly the greatest Scotch cleek maker of recent times, a man of long experience and thoroughly familiar with all the popular models both here and abroad. They are finished with a "razor" polish, but are capable of being polished up to a very high degree it' desired. Many golfers prefer a club slightly dull in appear- ance, claiming that a bright polished surface causes reflection and throws off the shot. Our Monel Metal heads, after being used a short time, become a little dull and resemble almost exactly the ordinary five- cent piece which lias been in circulation, and this is the condition in which the club will remain indefi- nitely. Grass stains, mud and dirt, can be removed by washing the head in water, although care should betaken not to allow the slick to become wet. Model Ul. Concentrated Back Cleek .Model S9. Mashie Semi-Goose Neck Model SI. Round Back Cleek Model S7. Mid Mashie (Flat Back) Model K«. Diamond Back Cleek Model N3. Mashie, Goose Neck Model F5. Approaching Cleek (Braid Type) .Model C4, Mashie, Deep Face Lofting Model F4. Round Back Jigger Model C3. Mashie, Heavy Model M6. Jigger (Dunwoodie Model U7. No. 1 Broad Face Niblick Model C2. Jigger (Flat Sole) Model S5. No. 2 Niblick Model F7. Approach Iron Model N4. Mashie Niblick Model El. Flat Back Mid Iron Model Sll. Mashie Niblick Model U2. Concentrated Back Mid Iron Model E3. Mashie Niblick Model S2. Round Back Mid Iron Model D5. Niblick Model F6. Diamond Back Mill Iron Model N5. Mashie Niblick Model D2. Mid Iron (Reinforced Back) Model F3. Mashie Niblick Model S8. Mid Iron, Semi-Goose Neck (II t avy Model U8. Straight Putter Model Gl. Mid Iron, Semi-Goose Neck Model M5. Heavy Putter (Vertical Face) Model Fl. Driving Iron Model S6. Putter, Crook Neck (Narrow Blade) Model U4. Flat Back Driving Mashie. Model M7. Putter Model U13. Small Mashie Model E-k Putter Model M3. Deep Faced Mashie .Model S10. Semi-Goose Neck Putter Model S3. Round Back Mashie Model N6. Putter Shafts an' all of selected growth split hickory; grips of specially prepared calf. Each, $2.50. These beads bave been Mild in tin- past also :is "Edinburgh Golf Heads," hut hereafter every genuine Monel Metal elubs or head will hear both marks as shown above on I he hack of the head. SPALDING'S GOLF CATALOGUE MAILED FREE SPALDING'S OFFICIAL GOLF GUIDE FOR 1913 -Price 25c. Edited by Tom Bendelow. The leading annual of the game in America. Records, review* pictures and the official rule. A. G. SPALDING & BROS. New Ycrk ouse Kansas City Milwaukee Los Angeles Newark Rochester Cincinnati Indianapolis Srattle Ecston Chicago ' 'leveland Louisville New Orleans Philadelphia Ealtimore i)( river Minneapolis Atlanta Columbus Spn Francisco I '..Mas Fitlsbuigh Wash in pi on Detroit St. Paul Montreal. Canada BuffalLondono , Eng StBirmingham. Louis , Eng. Liverpool, Manchester, Rn Toronto. Canada Edinburgh, Scotland Paris, France GlasKow, Scotland Golfers should examine " Coverley Clothes "at Spalding's Fifth Avenae Store, New York EDITED BY MAX H. BEHR : EIGHTEENTH YEAR October, 1915 Vol. XXXIII. No. 4

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