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VOL. XXIV JANUARY, 1909 No. \ GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE By H. C. S. Everard DRIVING

OLF consists of driving, iron play, and for their unquestioned superiority is prob- G putting; "an art, a science and an ably due to exceptional physical advan- inspiration," to quote the happy aphorism tages, but even they are sometimes ap- of Mr. James Cunningham. Now, un- proached by mortals of more common doubtedly, the two last items contribute clay, and much virtue resides in the exact more to material success, or dismal fail- center of your club. Nothing is more ure, as the case may be, than the first; for surprising at golf than the unaccountable if a player manage to scramble along a manner in which a ball properly struck, fair distance and keep clear of difficulties, with no great effort, often ranges itself invariably holing in three from his ap- alongside of one of these apparently un- proach and in two when on the green, he approachable swipes of the sort that elicit will unquestionably prove a very dan- grunts of astonishment from the admi- gerous antagonist. Nineteen matches out ring crowd. How, then, are we to learn of twenty are lost and won at short range to drive? Let us first of all consider how from the hole. But ask that proportion the motive power is obtained. As a fair of golfers what in their estimation is the working hypothesis we may say that there most enjoyable part of the game and are three parts of the body, each of which they will tell you nothing can compare contributes its share of the power re- with long sweet driving from the tee and quired to make the head of the club move through the green—it is the very poetry of in its orbit, and these act in circles which the game. Is this much-vaunted art, are concentric or nearly so: therefore, so difficult of acquirement ? We 1. The loins and back. answer pretty confidently, no; provided 2. The arms. always that the learner be not absolutely 3. The wrists. paralytic of limb, and, most important of Now let the learner take a club and he all, that in his early days of initiation he will find by experiment first, that if he enlist the services of a thoroughly com- keep the arms and wrists stiff, by use of petent instructor. We cannot all, it is the loins alone he will be able to make the true, become Rollands and Blackwells, club head travel over an arc of about qo

will experience a very gratifying sensation of power. The power of the wrist, again, is well exemplified in the speed with which we flick off a thistle head with a walking- cane; while that of the arms helps to contribute, al gn]|", the necessary weight and pith. These several subdivisions of power doubtless shade away, blending at the last into one harmonious whole, and driving will be good or the reverse, according to the accuracy with which they syn- chronize at the psychological moment— to wit, that of impact. How far the long drivers are indebted DIAGRAM OF THE ACTION IN DRIVING to physical advantages is a question not easy to answer. To the onlooker it would degrees, a quarter of a circle; secondly, appear, for instance, that Archie Simpson that the wrists being stiff, the arms alone, effects his purpose mainly by swift loin without assistance from the loins, will rotation accompanying a full and perfect carry the club head over a semicircle, and swing; Rolland, Mr. Tait and William thirdly, that without the full use of the Auchterlonie impress one by their grasp wrists and of loin rotation he cannot complete the circle. In the accompanying diagram let E represent the position of the player, that is the center of these re- spective circles, then I F T will represent the arc of the circle described by the club head, by means of loin rotation alone, K G L the semicircle made by the arms, and D C B A the full swing before hitting the ball, D Ai A representing the course of the club head in following on after the stroke. Now it would appear from the foregoing remarks that, roughly speaking, in the downward swing the club head travels from A to B chiefly under obedience to wrist impulse, from B to C to that of the wrists and arms, and from C to D to that of wrists, arms and the body, swung round by loins and hips. Each one of these dynamical processes, apart from the other two, is of considerable value as a motive agent; let any one stand with the feet twelve inches or so apart, and rotating the body from the hips upward, bring the right shoulder again to the front with all the speed of which he is capable, and he WRONG METHOD WITH LEFT FOO1 GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ceeded upon sufficiently scientific principles in their instructions. " Full of wise saws and modern instances," like "the Justice," they left too much t<> the imita- tive faculty, which in some is imperfectly developed. "Can ye no swing your club like Mr. Bruiser?" they would say, and the right answer would often be, "No, I can't, unless you show me how." The apple-faced sage with his nostrum for all, Dinna hurry the swing, keep your ee on the ball, he and other worthies ejusdem generis, reigned supreme. Excellent advice they gave, of course, but applicable rather to the fairly advanced player than to the absolute tyro and essentially lacking in explanation of fundamental principles. When her Majesty catches a raw recruit the first thing she teaches him is the use of his legs. He is not supposed capable of taking his part in battalion drill until he ROTATION OF SHOULDERS. FIRST HALF OF MOVEMENT has mastered, inter alia, some minor and power of forearm; Mr. Edward Black- well by his strength of wrist and perfection of style; Andrew Kirkaldy, again, could not drive as he does were it not for his physical strength. But one thing they all have in common, good wrists. The muscles on those of the " General," Lloyd of Pau, stand out, the writer has been told, like cords, and the old Hoylake player certainly holds his own in the long game with anybody. The wrists have a large share of work to perform. They begin first of all to act upon the club, as we have seen, when the upward swing has died out, and they also impart the final pressure at the last moment, between C and D in the diagram, a sort of indefinable shove, as it were, which is of such inestimable service. Thus much by way of theory. The next and not unimportant step will be to reduce it as far as may be to practice. Now, the ancient sages, peace to their ashes, and with deference be it spoken, ROTATION OF SHOULDERS. SECOND HALF do not commend themselves as having pro- OF MOVEMENT GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

without turning on it. This, of course, prevents loin rotation, which, as we have seen, is one of the prime requisites. There- fore, as a first practice, we should say, separate the feet some fourteen to sixteen inches and rotate the body from the hips upward, turning the feet and bringing the right shoulder again to the front with all available speed. One result of this will be found to be that the right foot turns to the left when the shoulders come to the front, to such an extent that the right knee knuckles over into the hollow of the other leg. Rolland in driving has this to perfection, and after his stroke frequently sinks almost on his right knee, the right heel being lifted pretty sharply from the ground. Beginners are apt to overlook this important fact, that the body must turn on the right foot during and after the downward swing, this point being to the full as important, or more so, than the reverse turn with the left, for if the right

ROCKIXG OR SWAYING—THE WRONG STYLE foot remains planted and stationary the whole force of the stroke is lost in an evolutions which primarily concern him- instant and the result is a feeble slice, for self alone—the goose step, for instance, the club cannot finish in the right place. and the different methods of turning. Another point now has to be most Thus ought it to be at golf, which should strongly insisted upon, for failure to ob- be taught ab initio, each part of the swing serve it will lay the foundation of a most by itself separately, finally the har- fatal and common fault—another of the monious whole. If this were done, besetting sins, in short, of which we just adults (we leave boys out of the question) now spoke. This fault is known as would have better swings in a fortnight or "rocking" or "swaying," and once again three weeks than if they were, so to speak, the power of the stroke is lost on the in- turned out to grass for two or three years stant. Moreover, it is a particularly se- to pick up for themselves styles which in ductive form of error, one, too, from the end would be but caricatures. Pre- which very many excellent golfers are by liminary drill may be learned perfectly no means free, for one has the sort of well in a room, and without any club at feeling that by all justice the force of the all, or with a walking-stick, or, perhaps, blow ought to be increased by its means, best of all, with a toy club without lead. whereas, as we have ventured to indicate, Our recruit, as at soldiering, first of all or the precise contrary is the fact. Let the at an early stage, must learn to manage his learner, therefore, imagine his spine to be feet. Beginners are prone to three beset- a vertical spindle, round which his ting sins, one of which, and the worst, is shoulders revolve as round a pivot, with- that of lifting the left foot straight up out any lateral shifting of this spindle. GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

The next step will be a stick or toy club. Put the right hand behind the back or in the pocket, grasp the toy club with the left, knuckles nearly upward, and put the club round your neck as far as the left arm will let it go, but, during this process, attention must be paid to the proper management of the wrist, for here is another rock upon which, according to Tom Morris, a surprising number of beginners founder—the third, and, on recon- sideration, notwithstanding what has been said of number one, the worst of the three besetting sins. Some demon of perversity appears to tempt the tyro to raise his club with the knuckles of the left hand downward throughout the upward stroke; this method effectually paralyzes the limb; the wrist joint becomes locked, and by no con- ceivable scheme of action could the ball

LEFT-HAND EXERCISE—HALF WAV THROUGH THE SWIXG

The all but universal tendency of the natural man is toward a yawing away on the right foot, a shifting of the proper center—E, on the diagram, to the right, in the direction L B. This is absolutely fatal both to steadiness, to direction and to length—in a word, to good driving. Buy a bright red tie, something that will readily catch your eye, align it on the ball when you begin to play, and never let that lie wander laterally away to the right; in short, while observing the aphorism "keep your eye on the ball," supplement it with the assonance "keep your tie on the ball." Of course, it must move a little, but min- imize the lateral motion as much as possible: so shall you keep the pivot fixed and insure even rotation about a vertical axis. Noteworthy examples of correct- ness are William Auchterlonie, Mr. H. G. LEFT-] AND EXERCISE—THE SWING Hutchinson and Mr. John Hall, Jr. COMPLETE IO GOLF IX THEORY AND PRACTICE be driven much further than an athletic which the player is facing. In the wrong gentleman could kick his hat. Watch the style the contrast is readily seen, for then club head of a good golfer during his up- they are at right angles to their proper ward stroke; it revolves, so to speak, round position. It might be supposed that in the axis of the shaft: addressing the ball, thus turning over the nose of the club in the 'club face points in the direction of the upward swing the player was prepar- proposed flight of the ball; when the club ing for himself a certain slice, but it will is half way to the shoulder its face will be be found that if the left hand be kept pointing to the sky, and by the time the tight (and only by so swinging can it be end of the swing is reached the head will kept tight) the action of the wrist will have performed a whole revolution and bring the head of the club back to the will be observed to be hanging downward position it occupied in addressing the ball from the shaft like a pear from a branch, before the swing. When the right style is with the face forward; mutatis mutandis acquired, and with the left hand it is re- the same follows on the downward stroke. markably easy, it is a good plan to ad- Bui if we try to swing keeping the dress an imaginary or, indeed, a real ball knuckles of the left hand pointing down- placed on some well-defined straight line, ward, by the time the club is half way to say on a carpet. When the learner has the shoulder its face and the knuckles will reason to believe that his one-handed be found pointing, not as they ought to swing is correct, by observing how the point, to the sky, but to the ground; per- club head goes up, relatively to the direc- severe a little further and the wrist joint tion of the straight line, he will be the becomes locked and will not allow the better able to acquire the next two exer- club to proceed. No more logical proof, cises, of which the first is merely a repeti- apart from the physical discomfort of the tion of the one above described, but with thing, could be wished for in demonstra- the right hand instead of the left. Re- ting the utter impossibility of this style of garding the right-arm exercise as a means play, in as much as during its whole up- to an end—namely, the acquisition of a ward and downward journey, at every good swing with both hands—a tendency point thereof, the club face is never in the to allow the club to ramble away to the position in which it ought to be—relatively full extent of that arm must be sternly to the ball. repressed; on the other hand it must not But to return to our drill. As this is a be pinched in too close to the side, but stage which is really important, some at- allowed sufficient scope of movement to tention should be devoted to the acquisi- clear the point of the right shoulder and tion of the proper wrist and arm move- take its position at the back of the neck. ment, and, if possible, it will be well to Having arrived at a correct method with take advice from some experienced player. each hand separately, the next step will On beginning to raise the club, therefore, be to combine the two, swinging the club the left wrist will simultaneously turn with both hands and inducing them to gradually over, so that the little-finger act in unison. Power is immediately lost knuckle works outward; half way up, if the hands are separated, thus they knuckles and club face will be horizontal should be as close to one another as pos- and pointing upward; continuing the sible, otherwise the wrists work in antag- wrist movement, by the time the upward onism. The recognition of-this point is swing is complete the knuckles will point, deemed so important that two of our lead- roughly speaking, toward the direction in ing players, in the language of poker, "go GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE II

one better" than the rest. J. H. Taylor ' and Mr. J. E. Laidlay so grasp the club popa that the third and fourth fingers of the I thai it right hand overlap the first and second fingers of the left, thus bringing the wrists into still closer juxtaposition. The grip •:l itwill of the club is to be carefully considered; If it hand that of the left hand hardly varies to any - gcanitbt extent, and all are agreed that it should be grasped very firmly, knuckles nearly, id to tin not quite, upward. The left arm plays a very important part j in driving, contributing, as it does, much of the hitting power; therefore its muscles should be braced up and the whole kept taut as the shaft of the club, of which night ix practically it forms a part, with one hinge, aim In viz., the wrist. Anybody familiar with rackets knows the sort of stroke that is I wit required for a hard back-handed return ; :hefc this, but with the left hand, somewhat re- -. ill be tbt sembles the necessary stroke at golf. Ex- periment, then, will at once prove the fact that if we grasp the club with the knuckles underneath we are bereft of the power RIGHT-HAXD EXERCISE—THE SWING to make that particular stroke and the COMPLETE club travels in a flabby half-hearted sort • of way, whereas if we hold the knuckles error, that of turning the nose of the club over, the elbow is turned more outward too much inward and bringing the face to and the difference in our command of the the ball at an angle with the proposed line zombie. club is at once felt. Of course, this mvst of flight, when "foundering," digging into il mii^t 4 not be overdone, the juste milieu must be the ground, and other horrors too numer- preserved, or we fall into another class of ous to mention, will follow in the train.

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"A duel's amang ye takin' notes had a foot rule in his pocket, and he An' faith he'll prent it." stepped forward with it and did the meas- RECOLLECT an occasion in which uring. The ball was found to be less 1 I was cast for the not very pleasing than six inches from A's ball. It was part of handicapper. It was an eighteen- lifted and B won the hole and afterward hole medal-play competition and in the match. How did the trouble arise? Florida, where there used to be a lot of A, that perfect sportsman, had measured golfers who would be really flattered if you off seven inches on the shaft of his putter ! put them in the duffer class. After I had given out my handicap one of the competi- Never play golf with an ornithologist. tors came to me and protested against his I did once, and it was at Atlantic City, in handicap. "But I've given you 45 the spring. The match proceeded without strokes. Isn't that enough ?" I demanded. incident until I was playing my second at "Enough!" said he. "Why, it's too the ninth hole. Just as I was swinging my much. I'm not a pot-hunter, and if you club I heard a wild shout and flubbed. give me 45 you might as well give me the My opponent was running madly in the cup. Playing's simply a farce." 1 as- direction of the first green. The caddies sured him that I thought I had handi- were after him and I was left to pursue capped him fairly and after some further protestations on his part he was persuaded the game alone if I cared to do so. In to remain in the competition. After the about fifteen minutes the party returned. play was over he came up to me and said, "I must apologize," said the ornithologist, "You knew my play better than I did my- "but I saw a rare bird—that is, rare for self." He had taken 54 for three holes ! this part of the country at this season of the year. I ran after it to verify my observation and possibly capture it, for I A golfer is somewhat like an actor. When thought it was not able to fly far." " And the Thespian takes a holiday he goes to a the caddies ran because they thought you matinee, so I, not being able to play golf were going to kill something." "They just then, found myself following a match are boys," he said. I laid my iron shot between two of our prominent players. At on the green. "That's a bird'." said the a very critical stage of the game one man, caddie. We all laughed and harmony was A, stymied B, his opponent. "I think I restored. can lift. I'm within six indies of your ball," said B. " I'll soon tell you," was the To rejoice over the sorrows and troubles reply. " 1 have six inches measured off on of an opponent is not only un-Christian the shaft of my putter." The measuring but is not golfing form. It is not every was duly done and il was clear that B's one who is able to preserve absolute ball was more than six inches from A's. stolidity, and an incident came to my The stymie was unplayable ; the hole was notice which shows that this is so. It was gone and probably the match. But there at Glen View, at the amateur champion- was a goiid Samaritan in the gallery who ship of T002. During a match one man

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was bunkered badly on his second. His Going back to these early days of golf opponent immediately threw his club in I recall an incident which happened long the air and did a dance of triumph. "Hur- ago in southern Illinois. I was traveling rah ! hurrah 1" he shouted. "It's my on business and made the acquaintance of •BOOK hole! He's bunkered!" And so, as it a citizen, and when he found that I was a proved, it was his hole, but his exuberance golfer of some experience and ability was not long lived. Trouble came to nothing would suit him but I must agree him in turn and he lost the match. to go out to his club the next day and play "and did the ma- the club professional. The club was a small one, of not more than fifty members. The gentleman who introduced golf into It had just been started and no one knew Florida will never forget the reception he anything of the game. Most of the mem- met with on that occasion. He was a bers were assembled at the first tee when member of the Royal and Ancient and we got there. I thought I detected a the Honorable Company and had played peculiar expression in the professional's in many lands under strange surround- eye as he looked at me. To my amaze- ings. Wearing his red coat he made his ! ment he played his tee shot with a mashie, appearance on the land bordering the lake the hole being 435 yards in length. He at Kissimmee armed with some clubs missed his stroke, the ball going about and balls. But the entire town was on forty yards. But the gallery was per- the scene before he had swung his club many times and it took quite a long time fectly silent and I realized that they did mi iubbd and much talking to persuade the in- nut appreciate how bad the shot really habitants that it was not a lunatic who was. I got off a fair tee shot, for those I he otic had dropped in on Kissimmee. days, of about one hundred and seventy yards, and for a moment the crowd was speechless. Then it went wild. Such a e the put] Soon after I was staying at a prominent stroke had never been seen there before. hotel in Florida where they had what The professional came up to me. "Say, passed then for a golf course. Standing mister," he whispered, "let me down

- • • on the piazza my attention was attracted easy." "Can't you play?" I asked. by an individual near the first tee. There "Play!" he echoed, contemptuously, "I were two ladies with him and they seemed never saw a golf club till I took this job to be observing him with remarkable at- on three days ago. I'm a scene shifter tention. He was swinging a club in such at Chicago, but the theater's closed, so I a grotesque manner that I burst into took this on." Well, I let him down as laughter, in which I was joined by the lightly as I could, but to save him was manager of the hotel, who was standing impossible. Even these beginners de- near me. "Why, it's Roberts, your tected the imposture and never was a clerk," I said, recognizing the club prophet less without honor in his own swinger. "What is he supposed to be country after the match was over. He doing?" "Teaching golf." "But he is still a scene shifter. knows nothing about it. Has he ever ' . no! played?" "Never," laughed the man- One of the most amusing members of a ager. "Then what's he doing it for?" ibs club to which I formerly belonged was a to "I "Two dollars an hour." There are man who may be called a book golfer. phrases, as Dumas said, which close a He had read and studied every golfing discussion. This was one. writer. Park, Hutchinson. Vardon, Braid LEAVES FROM MY NOTE BOOK and Taylor were household words with a narrow escape had been mine. He him. One day I was going round with never said he was sorry or expressed any him—it was rare for me In do so, for regret, but the next day when I met him he bored me—and before lie played a he said, "Did you ever meet a man with shot he searched his memory and re- a worse temper than mine?" which I peated some phrase from a textbook. suppose was intended for an apology. This walking lexicon was about in play a wrist shot and 1 heard him say, "When "All is vanity," said the wise man, the club comes through"—he was quo- but he would have been more correct if ting from Alex Smith's " Lessons in Golf" he had said "All men are vain." I was —"the hands do not go after the club, in the habit of meeting very frequently in but the left one is held back a trifle," etc. lnisiness a man who posed as a golfer and I don't know what he did with his hands who seemed to like nothing better than to but his ball went three yards. Then talk of the game. He always carried a when he was on the green he quoted Jack number of photographs of himself in va- White, "For short putts I find it helps to rious golfing attitudes. Passing them rest the left wrist very slightly on the left round among myself and my friends we knee," but he missed his putt just the expressed our great admiration for the same. style he displayed. And in truth but for the difference of face and figure it might have been Braid at whom we were look- He'd studied Taylor, Braid and Smith ing. There was our friend—his name And all the scribbling pack, And was in actual play a fraud, was Jackson and he came from Iowa—at the top of swing, finish of swing, address- In theory a crack. And so his caddie volunteered ing the ball, and all the other poses with Counsel which was unkind: which photographs of golfing experts have "You ought to bring a bag of books, made us familiar. It was all very lovely And leave your clubs behind." and Braid himself would have looked at these pictures and have realized that he had a very capable understudy. One Golf is a game of temperament, so we day I found myself at a golf club with are told, and there are occasions when it a friend of mine and there at the first tee is decidedly a game of temper. I was I saw Jackson. Alas! there was nothing playing with a man once—a total stranger of Braid apparent. It was all Jackson. whom I met at the club—and the game The style, if it could be dignified by such proceeded without any noticeable inci- a name, was grotesque in the extreme. dent until we reached the fourth green. The club professional saw me smiling. My opponent had not shown anything "Looking at our American Braid," he singular in his conduct up to that time said, laughingly. "Well, he's only Braid beyond a remarkable taciturnity which when he's in front of the camera. He'll had kept his lips sealed since the start. take 120 to go round and he'll be Jackson I holed a 4-foot putt and he had a 3-foot from start to finish." putt for a half. ' He missed, and in- stantly, without the slightest warning, he I was playing in a tournament at Cleve- hurled his putter away madly. As it flew land and fortune favored me with the past me it was so close to my eye that 1 services of a caddie who, like the heathen felt the wind from it, and I realized what Chinee, was "peculiar," and some of his HOW THE NEW RULES DIFFER FROM THE OLD

Vvn mint, Ht ways were decidedly dark. For instance, When the ball's in a cup I never by chance found my ball lying I'll just tee it up badly, and if I drove, as I thought, into the And so we shall get on much faster. rough, I was certain to find my ball lying & M1 on the fair green when 1 came up to it. I once had the pleasure of being attended ! This caddie, too, paid some attention to by a caddie who was given to irony and \ my opponent and his methods were de- sarcasm, and though most of his remarks cidedly ingenious. "Don't do that," I were made at my expense I was more heard my opponent say, angrily, and as we amused than indignant. It was a day on 1 were walking to the next tee my caddie which my ball seemed to find every -rJtnilyr said, "He got on to that, but I'll think of bunker on the course, so that he had something better before long." He had plenty of occasion for the exercise of his wining btiier tlm t been waving the flag so as to attract my wit. I recollect that I had pulled my ball fs aired i opponent's attention and caused him to into a sand trap, and as I walked up, miss his putt. It was quite apparent that anxious as to my fate, I shouted to the the caddie thought it was a team match caddie who was standing at the trap, "Is and he had to do his share of the work. my ball lying well?" He replied in his best manner, "Fine, if you were left- A caddie remarked to his master, handed." The ball was unplayable, for Bad lies are a source of disaster, I was not ambidextrous.

- 1 •..- HOW THE NEW RULES DIFFER FROM THE OLD - -ed that tx stody. fc HE following summary of the chief if the ball has been driven out of bounds ..: dub «t T alterations which have been made in from the tee another ball may be teed on the Rules of Golf is given by an English the teeing-ground. authority. The new code comes into Under the old rule teeing was inad- - J. force in Great Britain on January i, and missible. in this country when the rules have been 4—A ball lying in casual water on a ! adopted by the United States Golf Asso- putting-green may be lifted without penalty ciation with the rulings of that body. and placed within two club lengths, but ' ..... i—A ball must be dropped over the not nearer to the hole, so as to afford a shoulder instead of the head. putt without casual water intervening, and 2—A player will be entitled to remove the same course may be taken if casual sufficient sand to enable him to see the top water intervenes between the ball and the of the ball when lying in sand, whether in hole. a hazard or otherwise. Under the old rule a player could only Formerly this could not be done. lift and place immediately behind the 3—When a ball has been played out of water. bounds another ball must be dropped at 5—Dung, wormcasts, snow and ice on the spot at which the shot was played, but the putting-green may be removed by i6 HOW THE NEW RULES DIFFER FROM THE OLD scraping them aside with a club, but the Under the old rule, playing two con- club must not be laid with more than its secutive strokes with the wrong ball did own weight upon the ground, nor must not disqualify, provided that the player anything be pressed down, either with the discovered his mistake before playing club or in any other way. Brushing with from the next tee, or, in the case of the the hand will not lie permitted. last hole, before handing in his card. Formerly it was permissible to brush d—If a competitor play more than one away earth, sand, wormcasts, snow, etc., stroke with a ball other than his own, in a lightly with the hand. hazard, and the mistake is discovered be- 6—If a player plays before his oppo- fore he has played a stroke with the wrong nent's ball is at rest on the putting-green ball outside the hazard, no penalty will he will lose the hole instead of a stroke, be incurred, provided that he then play as formerly. his own ball. 7—The following changes relate to e—If a player play within 20 yards stroke play: of the hole before the flagstick is removed a—The committee in charge of a com- and the ball hits the stick or the person petition will now be responsible for add- standing at the hole he will incur a penalty ing up the scoring-cards, not the secretary, of two >trokes. as formerly. The old rule, which provided that a b—If a player play outside the limits of player who played within 20 yards of the the teeing-ground he will lose a stroke, pin without having it removed was, ipso and the second stroke must be played in- facto, liable to a penalty of one stroke, has side the teeing-ground. been rescinded. Under the old rule the penalty was dis- /—Players must play in couples, and if qualification. a player is left without a match the com- c—Except when in a hazard, if a player mittee must provide him with a companion play two consecutive strokes with a wrong or a marker. The rules are silent as to ball he will be disqualified, but if he play sex. only one such stroke he will incur no Formerly three players could play to- penalty if he then play his own ball. gether.

\ THE NEAR-AMATEUR

ROM all parts of the country have around him, the near-amateur was per- F come letters to the office of this maga- force driven to the golf professional's shop zine in commendation of the article pub- and there he purchased a box of balls.

• lished under this caption in last month's After the match was over the near-ama- GOLF. Many of the writers suggest that the teur again went to the professional. "I article should be reproduced in pamphlet don't like these balls," he said; "I wish form, a proposal which will be taken into you would take them back." The pro- consideration. It is not necessary to fessional opened the box. "Why, you've print these letters. The tenor of them used three of them," he said; "I'll give all is the same. Some are from profes- you nine new ones in exchange for the sionals, some from well-known amateurs nine not used." But this did not suit the and they all agree in this that the near- near-amateur and no doubt he went away amateur brings discredit on the game. from our club in anything but a happy .ied that. "It is not so much," writes one man, frame of mind." "what he makes out of his business Another correspondent sends a little methods which hurts, it is the very pro- poetry, whether conceived in irony or ceeding itself which is the offence; the sympathy it is difficult to say: necessary secrecy and deceit which are He had to earn his daily bread involved are altogether foreign to one's And so we must forgive The man who did not live to golf, idea of an amateur sportsman, who should But merely golfed to live. be clean as a hound's tooth." Another correspondent writes that if • Another correspondent sends an amus- the authorities do not put the near-ama- ing letter in which he relates what hap- teur out of business we shall soon see •idplap pened at his club when it was honored by curious advertisements in the advertising a visit from a very prominent near- columns of golf magazines. He sends amateur. He writes: "A few years ago a these specimens: well-known near-amateur was brought to "A near-amateur who desires to make our club one day by Roberts, one of the a Southern trip is open to offers from leading members. It so happened that proprietors of resort golf courses. Fine the near-amateur had forgotten to put player. All expenses such as traveling, any balls in his bag and afterward we living, laundry, etc., must be guaranteed. shrewdly suspected the forgetfulness was The advertiser is in the grocery business, intentional. Several times he remarked and as an indispensable condition of his in meaning tones that he had brought no playing in any tournament he stipulates golf balls, which was a hint to Roberts to that any hotel requiring his services must provide the same. Roberts was not, how- purchase its grocery supplies from his ever, built that way. He was glad to have firm. Address Grafter, P. (). Box Num- the great man with him, to catch a little ber One, Sokum, Conn." of the halo which surrounded him, but he "A firm of sporting-goods manufac- was, withal, a thrifty man and set a limit turers, finding itself overstocked, Invites to his expenditure. Finding it hopeless to near-amateurs to come to its store to get assistance from the uncharitable folk inspect its stock and help themselves iS THE NEAR-AMATEUR freely to any golf clubs, balls or other fessionalism.' We all know what a pro- article they may see in the store which ap- fessional is, and we are supposed to know peals to their predatory instincts. The what constitutes an amateur. The rules firm regrets exceedingly that near-ama- of golf merely state that, 'An amateur is teurs have hitherto passed over its store a golfer who has never made for sale golf in favor of others offering a more limited clubs, balls, or any article connected with variety of goods. Softy, Green iV Co., the game ; who has never carried clubs for America." hire after attaining the age of fifteen years, "A golf club near New York, which and who has not carried clubs for hire at keeps a near-amateur, wishes to secure any time within six years of the date on the services of a professional to amuse him. which the competition begins; who has Must be first-class player and club maker. never received any consideration for play- The job is easy and enjoyable though not ing in a match, or for giving lessons in the exactly lucrative. Successful applicant game, and who for a period of five years will have the pleasure of playing con- prior to September i, 1886, has never re- stantly with near-amateur and of provid- ceived a money prize in any open coming clubs and doing repairs for him. The petition.' near-amateur is quite tame except when a "Now this definition was probably suf- bill is presented to him by the professional. ficient in 1886, when amateurs played for The club declines to be answerable for the the love of the game, but I think the last consequences of such a rash action. A two or three years have shown cause for a great opportunity for an enterprising, am- further and stricter definition of the ama- bitious man. Apply Buncoville Golf Club, teur status. In my opinion the American N.J." definition of an amateur, as given by the It is not alone on this side that people United States Golf Association, is far are discussing the near-amateur. In better: ' No person shall be considered an Great Britain a correspondence has been amateur golfer, or shall be eligible to com- going on in the pages of Golf Illustrated pete in the amateur championship of this on the subject of " veiled professionalism," association, who receives a monetary con- which is the same thing. The methods of sideration, either directly or indirectly, by these questionable characters is not the reason of connection with, or skill displayed same in the two countries, but there is a in, playing the game of golf, or other kinship between them which makes the branches of athletics.' correspondence interesting to American "Now here we have a definition which amateurs. Harry Fulford, the profes- must appeal to all golfers as distinctly fair. sional, writes a letter to Golf Illustrated The position of the professional to-day is which is reproduced. It will be noticed very different to what it was a few years that Fulford's letter sets forth the defini- ago. I am not stating without knowledge tion of an amateur in the two countries, of the fact that, with a few exceptions, a and the points of difference between them professional finds it hard to make ends are conspicuous. Neither definition is as meet. The reasons that have brought comprehensive and clear as it should be in about this state of affairs are many. In order that the near-amateur may be the first place, nearly all athletic outfitters caught and thrown out of the amateur sell clubs, balls and all accessories for the ranks. This is Fulford's letter: game. We cannot take exception to this. "It is a well known fact that the past But in hundreds of cases the proprietors few years have seen the rise of 'veiled pro- themselves are members of golf clubs and WESTERN DEPARTMENT

play as amateurs. Surely these are ar- a monetary consideration. I know of ticles for sale connected with the game. plenty of 'amateurs' who have bought ;i Thetules Are they not jeopardizing their amateur large quantity of balls which has enabled uteni status in playing as amateurs? And, them to sell at a profit to their fellow mem- I again, it is becoming quite the thing for bers a dozen balls at £1 per dozen, and clubs to call in the services of well-known this is in clubs where a professional is kept, amateurs, who at a good fee go round the and who to make a living has to sell at the course and peg out bunkers, etc. Here, usual price of 24s. per dozen. Is not then, we have the amateur who takes this hitting below the belt? I certainly money for his connection with the game. think it time the Rules of Golf Committee What is their position? They are cer- should frame a stricter definition of the tainly not amateurs in the strict sense of amateur status. I am sure that professionals have the sympathy of all 'gentle- . the word. They are identical with the professional who does the same thing for men' players in this matter."

WESTEKN DEPARTMENT

Conducted by Joseph G. Davis

Charles F. Thompson, of the Home- of Columbus, O.; W. L. Yule, of the wood Country Club, has been nominated Kenosha Country Club, and William - to lead the Western Golf Association by a Donaldson, of the Indianapolis Country committee consisting of Messrs Wendell Club. Erectly, ij Hertig, of Minneapolis, John M. Wither- ;;idisplaffi spoon, of Chicago, and Fred. S. Borton, The ticket is exceptionally strong, as of Cleveland. Horace F. Smith, of the with the exception of Messrs. Engler, - Nashville Golf and Country Club, has Waller and Thompson all of the nominees been selected to succeed himself as vice- are presidents of other associations. president, while E. A. Engler, of the Glen View Club, of Chicago, secretary last year, Mr. Thompson, who served as secretary has been chosen for treasurer. Trigg in 1907 and treasurer the following year, Waller, of Exmoor, a nephew of William was also a member of the executive com- Waller, Western amateur champion in mittee of the United States Golf Associa- 1900, has been named for secretary. tion last year. He is in the lumber business, with extensive interest in Mississippi. The directors nominated are John D. Horace F. Smith is vice-president of the • Cady, of the Rock Island Arsenal Golf Louisville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Club; Albert B. Lambert, of the St. Railroad. Louis Country Club; Judge W. O. Hen- HP**! derson, of the Arlington Country Club, John D. Cady, of Molinc, 111., last year 2O WESTERN DEPARTMENT was a member of the executive committees Club, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and the of both the Western and U. S. G. A. Minikahda Country Club, of Minneapolis. A. H. Lambert, Judge W. O. Henderson and W. L. Yule were on the board of The Michigan Club was an unsuccess- directors last year. ful bidder last year but did not send a single player to the tournament at Rock Trigg Waller has for several years been Island. As usual, there is no great crush prominent at the Exmoor Country Club, to get the open event and should no clubs where as captain of the team and a mem- outside of Chicago go after it it is likely ber of the sports and pastimes committee to go to Onwentsia or the Chicago Golf he accomplished a great amount of work. Club.

The annual meeting to be held at Chicago on January 16 is likely to prove Other proposed amendments to the con- exciting, as apart from the awarding of stitution are for the purpose of giving each the amateur and open championships, the club a voice in the annual meeting and Olympic cup competition and action on a deal largely with voting by ballot. number of proposed changes in the con- Voting by proxy in the past has not stitution, there appears to be a well-de- proven satisfactory, and following out a fined movement on foot to change the broad-minded policy the officials are de- name of the organization to the "Golf sirous of putting every club in the organi- Association of America." It is asserted zation on an equal footing. that a delegate will move an amendment J- to the constitution providing for a change The proposed changes are as follows: of name and that such proposed action is Resolved, that Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the outcome of the failure of the nomina- Article VIII of the Constitution of this tion committee of the U. S. G. A. to association be and are hereby repealed recognize the West in the matter of the and in their place the following sections presidency. It also is intended as a pro- be and are hereby adopted, as follows: test against the present plan of the U. S. Section 4. Each club, a member of this G. A. of permitting only a few clubs to association, shall have the right to be have legislative and voting rights at its represented at any of its meetings by two annual meetings. delegates, appointed by their club, and duly certified to by their club secretary, Following the change of name there is each of whom shall be entitled to cast one likelihood of a motion to extend the terri- vote; or each club, as above, may be tory of the W. G. A. from shore to shore, represented by one delegate, who shall be which would mean a declaration of war entitled to cast two votes in the name of against the U. S. G. A. This, of course, his club, upon proper certification by his may be a movement on the part of a few club secretary that he is authorized so to radicals but it appears certain the matter do, and further, will be brought up, even if it gets no Each club, a member of this association, further than the "discussion" stage. shall have the right to cast two votes by a mailed ballot, under the seal (if the dub The Homewood Club has put in an ap- so voting, executed by a duly authorized plication for the Western championship, official <>f the club, in accordance with the other bidders being the Kent Country Article 5 of Section VIII of this Constitu- WESTERN DEPARTMENT 21 ,w44i tion, upon all questions or elections com- name of the club, the name of the official ing before any meeting or meetings of the authorized to sign the ballot, and the association; provided that no club in this authority by which said ballot was cast, association shall cast more than two and the official signing said ballot shall ! votes on any question coming before the mark a cross in ink in the square which meeting and that it shall not vote both by shall indicate the ballot, whether "Yes" a delegate or delegates and also by a or "No," and shall affix thereto the seal mailed vote. And further provided, that of the club. a club having previously mailed a ballot More specifically the form of ballot to the secretary of this association, in ac- shall be as follows: cordance with the section of the constitu- M Yes tion of the association therein provided, • No said club may by duly authorized (CLUB) \™$] action of its board of governors or direct- (OFFICIAL) By ors, or other governing body, rescind said By order of action and ballot at any time before the In the event a members' ticket be in the meeting shall convene, and may appoint nominated, in accordance with the by- a delegate or delegates who shall bear laws, the secretary shall prepare and mail certified credentials from the club under to each club secretary, as above, a ballot . its seal, to such effect, to attend said meet- containing the nominations and it shall ings, and vote in the manner first herein be headed "Members' Ticket," and it in this section provided, and the mailed shall be mailed to each club secretary as ballot cast shall in such event be null and above, at least fifteen days before the void. meeting at which said ballot may be cast. Section 5. The secretary of this asso- Section 6. Any club, a member of this ciation shall mail to the secretary of each association, desiring to hold any cham- ! are hen' i club, a member of this association, at pionship tournament, given under the least thirty days before the date of the auspices of this association, upon its annual meeting, or any special or other course the ensuing year, shall make such meeting of the association, regularly request in writing to the secretary of the called, a full and complete report of the association at least forty-live (45) days be- - business to come before such meeting, so fore the date of annual meeting, specifying far as the same shall relate to any amend- the tournament it desires, and the secre- ment to the constitution of the association; tary shall prepare and mail to each club any election of officers or directors; any secretary, as provided in Section 5 of this matter which may be submitted by the article, a ballot for each event, at the top directors, and the assignment of the of which shall be printed as follows: "The ****** principal tournaments of this association. following clubs have requested the (in- He also shall prepare and send to each sert event) for the year of ( )." Then club secretary, as above, a ballot, at the shall follow the list of clubs applying for top of which shall be printed the business such event, opposite to each club being to be offered, or in the case of an election, two blank square spaces, thus: the regular or members' ticket, as the U Yes case may be, or both, and at the bottom • No rJjulr auth of said ballot shall be printed two squares, and the club desiring to vote by mail shall opposite to which shall be the words mark a cross in ink in the square in which "Yes" and "No," and blank lines for the it desires its ballot to be counted and sign 22 WESTERN DEPARTMENT same in the same manner as is provided in The addition of the club to the group Section 5 of this article. along the line of the Illinois Central Section 6. A majority of the voles cast Railroad brings the total to seven, a good shall decide all questions at the meetings record for twenty-three miles of road. of this association. The public course at Jackson Park is Section 7. All mailed ballots received eighteen holes with a practise course of by the secretary of this association before nine holes. Windsor Country Club, Calu- six o'clock P.M. of the day of the annual met Country Club, Homewood and or other meetings, as herein provided, Ravisloe each have eighteen-hole courses, shall be counted, and not otherwise. while Homewood has a nine-hole practise Section 8. The foregoing sections of course and the South Shore Country Club this article do not preclude the right of any a nine-hole course. These with the new club, a member of this association, to vote Idlewild club probably make a string of by proxy, in lieu of by a mailed ballot or courses more closely bunched than any in by delegate, or delegates, as the case may this country and when the golf special is be, should it so desire. running the furthest of them can be Resolved that Article X of the Constitu- reached in thirty minutes. tion be and is hereby amended to read as follows: At the annual meeting of the Chicago Amendments to this constitution may Golf Club, held last month at the Union be made at any annual or special meeting Club, Joseph T. Talbert was elected presi- by a vote of at least two-thirds of all votes dent, the rest of the ticket being as follows: cast; provided, that written notice of any Vice-president and captain of the green, proposed amendment has been mailed to Walter J. Feron; treasurer, William P. the secretary of each club, a member of Martin; secretary, Morton Otis ; directors, this association, at least thirty days prior Frank B. Noyes, Gilbert Porter, X. B. to such meeting, as provided in Section 5 Henrotin, Frank O. Wetmore and Potter of Article VIII. Palmer, Jr. President-elect Taft has been elected an honorary member of the club. As an outgrowth of the prosperous and likewise congested condition of the Rav- The Birchwood Golf Club of Chicago isloe Country Club, of Chicago, the Idle- has elected the following officers: Presi- wild Country Club was permanently or- dent, William A. Grant; vice-president, ganized last month. 155.83 acres of land W. J. Williams; secretary-treasurer, Wal- have been purchased just north of the links ter L. Jackson ; chairman of grounds com- of the Homewood Country Club for a mittee, Fred W. Alack; chairman special consideration of $35,062. committee on permanent grounds, W. Y. Gilmore; chairman organization committee, Charles H. Thompson. Work will be started on the course as at soon as the weather will permit. Plans The formation of the North Shore Golf for a $25,000 club house and a locker Club brings the total of the Chicago dis- room patterned after that of the Ravisloe trict up to thirty-one, nine of them being in Club are being drawn. Tom Bendelow the north side of the city. The new club has laid out the course. Fred Newman is located at Wilmette, on the Chicago and is president; Henry Felsenthal secretary, Northwestern line, and will be limited in a and Martin Ascher treasurer. membership of one hundred. Fifty 11r ES TERN DEPA R TMEN T

fo group members have been enrolled. Oscar W. • Qlimvs i, 1 Schmidt is president and J. E. Maas treasurer. Tom Bendelow has laid out a nine-hole course which will be ready for ! Park i play on May 1.

•• Jt • Chi Western golfers predict that the proposed amendments to the constitution of the United States Golf Association, drawn up by J. William McKinley, of the Colum- mCottatrjQi bia Golf Club of Washington, will be de- These with the new feated at the annual meeting at New York on January 8. His proposal to change thanaojio the classes of membership to active and associate, it is thought, may go through, B can IK but the abolition of the nominating committee by the elimination of Article VI i of the constitution will probably find little favor with the Eastern clubs. Mr.

• :he CHI McKinley for some time has advocated the selection of the officials by vote at the THE LATE PHELPS B. HOYT annual meeting and this is the intent of his proposition to delete Article VI and friends. In him were combined all the renumber the succeeding articles. . •:• William F qualities that go to make up the genuine sportsman, as coupled with fine athletic Phelps B. Hoyt, of the Glen View Club ability was a spirit of rare amiability. of Chicago, was killed as the result of an automobile accident on December 12. ::ha>te Accompanied by John Borden and Judge Graduating from the scientific school at : ihe dub. George B. Carpenter Mr. Hoyt was re- Yale in ISQS Mr. Hoyt, on his return to t turning home from a trap-shooting con- Chicago, became interested in golf, and I Cliia? test at the Glen View Club. Going from the time of its inception was a power through Rogers Park the speeding main the Glen View Club. In igoi he won t [ire^ident. chine crashed into a heavily laden coal the championship of the Western Golf BDff, U wagon. Mr. Hoyt was thrown out of the Association, defeating Bruce D. Smith, - car and sustained a fractured skull, and then quite a youngster, 6 up and <; t" play. I although he was operated upon at the This was the greatest achievement of his . \\ . Evanston hospital he died at 11.50 o'clock, golfing career. I five hours after the accident. The other He served his chosen love, the Glen occupants of the machine and two men View Club, in a number of capacities and on the coal wagon were bruised badly but in 1006 was elected president. In T 0,06 he * not seriously injured. was chosen president of the Western Golf Association after having served as secre- nteing» In the death of Mr. Hoyt Western golf tary in ISQQ and as a director in TQOO. . fie new club loses one of its most popular players and Mr. Hoyt was a member of the Glen View, ago and one of its stanchest friends. He had no Onwentsia, University, Saddle and Cycle enemies and all who knew him were his and Chicago Automobile clubs. Fifty

\ THE GOLF OF 1908 By "Oldcastle"

O ONE disputes that in the year just improvement in the general average of play N closed there was more jjjolf played in is not confined to any particular section of this country than ever before and to many the country. Our promising young golf- people this came as a surprise. It had ers are innumerable, and how good they been supposed that the business depres- are is shown when they meet in tourna- sion, which began in the autumn of 1907, ments the recognized cracks of former would seriously affect the game. It is per- years, whose game has not fallen off in the fectly true that some clubs experienced a slightest degree. The young golfers have falling off in their membership, but the de- fairly held their own. cline was only slight and was far more than The amateur champion, Jerome D. counterbalanced by the accession to the Travers, still easily heads the list, and we ranks of golfers of those who joined the have never had a golfer in this country many new clubs formed in all parts of the whose position in the game was so indis- country. putable. He is the best golfer we have The leading professionals report that the ever produced—the best because of his average attendance of players at the vari- mastery of all parts of the game—and if he ous clubs was never so great. Cynical should pay his promised visit to Great Brit- people have intimated that this was be- ain British golfers will find him a difficult cause the members found it was just as proposition. Of the rest of the well- profitable and far more pleasant to put in known players there is nothing much to their time at the golf clubs rather than re- be said. Relatively there has been little main in their offices with nothing to do. change in their positions. Mr. H. L. There may be some slight measure of truth Fitzpatrick, writing in the New York Sun, in this assumption, but the true reason is gives this rating of the leading sixteen that year by year we are acquiring the out- players for 1908: door habit in an increasing degree, and J. D. Travers, New York; W. J. Travis, that we are recognizing the necessity of en- New York; H. C. Egan, Louisville; H. H. joyinga little more relaxation from business. Wilder, Boston; T. R. Fuller, Boston; J. So far as competitive golf is concerned G. Anderson, Boston; F. S. Douglas, New we have never had so many tournaments York; Fred Herreshoff, New York; E. M. and it is doubtful if the average entry list Byers, Pittsburg; W. C. Fownes, Jr., has ever been so high. Some critics are Pittsburg; M. E. Phelps, Chicago; Ken- disappointed because the battles on the neth Edwards, Chicago; P. W. Whitte- links have not resulted in the discovery of a more, Boston; W. K. "Wood, Chicago; golfer of stellar magnitude. But great John M. Ward, Xew York and X. M. golfers arc few and far between everywhere Whitney, New Orleans. both in the amateur and professional The curious in such matters may like to ranks, and it is not to be supposed that compare the present year's list with those each year will produce its Kgan or its of previous years—compiled by the same Travers. Undoubtedly we have more authority: really first-rate golfers than ever and the 1907—Travers, H. C. Egan, Travis

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Herreshoff, Byers, Anderson Fownes, |r., been to a tournament since, and for the Douglas, Knowles, Wood, Sawyer, A. same reason such fine players as Archi- Graham, ('.. P. Tiffany, Ward, Abbott, bald Graham and Gilman P. Tiffany fail Rowland, Jr. to make their appearance in the sixteen. 1906—H. Chandler Egan, W. J. Travis, Young Western golfers have made an un- J. D. Travers, E. M. Byers, D. E. Sawyer, usually strong showing this year on their Archie Graham, W. C. Chick, G. P. Tif- home courses. Eastern players are per- ' fany, Robert Abbott, Dwight Partridge, haps inclined to underrate them somewhat Fred Herreshoff, W. E. Clow, Jr., T. M. because they did not go very far at Garden Sherman, W. E. Egan; Warren K. Wood City in the amateur championship. If the and John M. Ward. amateur championship should go West 1905—H. C. Egan, Travis, Travers, F. next year the West has at least half a dozen inoiinii S. Douglas, Lockwood, W. C. Fownes, Jr., men who will make the best Eastern men W. E. Egan, Byers, D. P. Fredericks, A. L. travel their hardest to win. The most White, Sawyer, Abbott, Herreshoff, Ward, promising player of the younger set in the C. H. Seely and Graham. East is the intercollegiate champion, H. 1904—Travis, H. C. Egan, Travers, H. Wilder, of Harvard. He was unfor- Douglas, Fownes, Jr., G. A. Ormiston, tunate in being beaten at Garden City White, M. McBumey, W. E. Egan, H. B. through illness, for he played better golf

• McFarland, Fredericks, Ward, C. B. Mac- than his opponent. donald, Lockwood, Byers, Frank (). Rein- Turning to the women golfers, it may be w-ndil hart. said that we have now a very strong body 1903—Travis, Byers, H. C. Egan, W. E. of players and considering their numbers •ill dnd hit Egan, Douglas, Lockwood, Bruce D. they are perhaps relatively stronger than I the ri Smith, Ormiston, Macdonald, Reinhart, our amateurs. It would be easy to form a Allan Kennaday, G. T. Brokaw, McFar- team of ten players from the ranks of our j there hai been fc land, W. C. Chick, Seely, Norman S. women golfers which would be capable of - Mr. H. • Campbell. winning against any foreign combination S 1902—Travis, Douglas, Byers, H. C. on American courses. Many of our women i tk leading si* Egan, Macdonald, Ormiston, Reinhart, golfers have paid visits to Great Britain Seely, Lockwood, W. E. Egan, C. Hitch- and have not done badly on strange W-J-T«n cock, Jr., McFarland, Kennaday, H. B. courses. British women golfers should -nlle:Hi Hollins, Jr., and L. P. Myers. return the compliment and endeavor to 1901—Travis, Douglas, Seely, W. E. take the measure of our golfers on their Egan, W. Holabird, Jr., Lockwood, L. own soil. Livingston, Kennaday, Byers, Hitchcock, Our women's champion, Miss Kather- \\ C I Jr., Myers, W. P. Smith, Phelps B. Hoyt, ine C Harley, has well earned the title. - ' Macdonald, C. M. Hamilton and Halsted Our open champion, Fred McLeod, ,i- nil* Lindsley. proved himself equal to the best, not only It will be noticed that Boston has no less in the national event, but in other competi- than four out of the sixteen and that Phila- tions. But speaking generally of profes- delphia is without a representative. Cer- sional golf, there has been no one single • tain well-known players are omitted for player who has predominated over his good reasons. A notable instance is brethren of the club as has happened in Charles H. Seely, the metropolitan cham- former years. We have no big three or pion, who gained such a striking victory four here, as they have on the other side. over Travers at Baltusrol. Seely has not The comparatively small encouragement 26 THE GOLF OF 1908 given to professional golf in I IT is country is six holes as they would have done at not calculated to breed Braids and Taylors eighteen holes. Yet though the ultimate and Vardons. It is true thai we have more result was only slightly affected the loser professional competitions in the Kasl than had the satisfaction of knowing that he formerly, but competitions are < nly a had had every chance afforded to him of small part of the game, as it is played by proving his superiority. To get rid of professionals in Great Britain. All the the first round of eighteen holes it has year round over there professionals are been suggested by Jerome D. Travers, meeting each other in numberless matches. that, instead of having two days of qual- Here in the whole of the metropolitan dis- ifying rounds at 18 holes, 64 to continue trict two matches are the utmost we can after the first day and 32 to qualify, to run to for the whole of one season, and this have a one day qualifying round at 18 is not very encouraging to the leaders of holes, 64 to qualify, and then use all the the game. rest of the week for matches at 36 holes. It is to be noted with satisfaction that But it seems that this plan involves the there is less objection on the part of the trifling drawback of having seven days' clubs to the holding of professional com- play and unless we are prepared to start petitions and the report of the Metropoli- the tournament on Sunday as they do in tan Golf Association will be beneficial. some countries there is no way to bring it Speaking of the Metropolitan Open Cham- off in the same week. It might be done in pionship at Baltusrol, it says: "It is a six days by limiting the qualifying number pleasure, in reviewing the tournament, to to thirty-two. This is not likely to hap- add an emphatic word of commendation of pen, for although we are all now in favor the professional players who took part. of a qualifying round, it is felt that to By promptness and adherence to schedules limit the number to thirty two would be and regulations; by sportsmanlike conduct too drastic a measure when the medal in play, and by quiet, unobtrusive, and round is at eighteen holes only. Even wholly creditable behavior throughout, under the conditions at Garden City there they succeeded, individually, and as a were many complaints against the system class, in advancing by just so much the from first-class players who did not standard of professionalism in America. qualify. No tournament could be freer of all ob- Every golfer seems to have his own jectionable features than was this one. system for holding the amateur, judging It was a credit to those who took part, and by the number of plans which reach the remains an example to be followed with office of this magazine. Here is one of profit by all." the latest: GOLF'S correspondent proposes The amateur championship this year that the U. S. G. A. should revert to the was played under novel conditions. The plan of having a thirty-six hole qualifying object was to secure as far as possible that round with thirty-two to qualify. This only thirty-six hole matches should be was abandoned after the iqoi champion- played, and this was carried out except in ship at Atlantic City, because it was found the first round, which was at eighteen. impossible to run it off satisfactorily in one On the whole the result was satisfactory. day. There was great congestion on the Of course, the best golfers did not always course and much grumbling on the part of win their matches, but then this will never the competitors. Our correspondent has happen under any conditions. The vast a method of preventing this. He pro- majority of the matches ended at thirty- poses that a limit shall be placed on the m

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1 ions number of strokes a golfer may be allowed in this number are included twelve players «u\Umate to take in the first round and still continue who qualified. And supposing you look tithe ha in the game. It is not possible to exclude at what happened at Garden City in 1908. all men who finish, say nine strokes behind There were 131 starters. The par at the leader, because the low-score man will Garden City is, say, 75. Proceeding on not be known until all the competitors our correspondent's plan, and allowing have completed the first round. But it is any one to qualify who was not more quite possible to arrive at a method of than twelve strokes above par, this ridicu- elimination in another way. You can lous result would have been achieved.

• take the par of the course or bogey at a Including the withdrawals, there would qualify.'. certain figure and stipulate that any one have been thirty-one players left in, so - •-and it t who takes a certain number of strokes that our correspondent is quite right in more than this figure in the first round at saying there would be no congestion. We medal play must withdraw. GOLF'S cor- have gone into this matter somewhat respondent says there would be no con- fully on account of the prominent position gestion under his system, for so many occupied by our correspondent in the players would be dropped after the first world of golf. If he will give further con-

• round that it would be an easy matter to sideration to the subject he will realize its finish the thirty-six hole qualifying round impracticability. If we are ever to have a before darkness set in. The qualify- thirty-six hole qualifying round in one day ing thirty-two having been ascertained in at a championship it can be effected only this manner, the rest of the week is to be by an elimination which takes place before IT are all 1 devoted to thirty-six hole matches. All the entries are sent in, as they are propos- we can say of this plan is that it is, if ing to do now in Great Britain. limited to such a figure as ten strokes, So much for the past. As to the future s;rt ""hen ihe u. quite impracticable. In 1900 the bogey of every prospect is pleasing. Those whose Garden City was given on the card as 76, opinion is worth having are satisfied that but 81 would have been a fairer estimate. 1909 will be the greatest year in the history Taking 81 as the bogey and excluding all of the game in this country. It is quite M did 1 players who took ten strokes more than fitting that this should be so, for the year bogey in the first round would have elim- will be memorable by reason of the in-

• inated sixty-two players in the amateur auguration of our first golfing Presi- championship at Garden City in 1900 and dent. 1

in/nni • ; .,:n on * ! PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE YEAR

U. S. G. A. Connecticut—B. P. Mcrriman, Waterbury; runner-up, Amateur—Jerome T>. Travera, Montclair; runner-up, Max K..Ker II. llovey, Hartford. Bchr, Morris County: medalist, \\ .1 Travis, Garden Des Moines—Bert McKee, Grand View. City, 153. East Jersey G. L.—Spring. F. W. Baldwin, Glen Ridge. Women's—Mi—i K. C. Harley, Fall River; runner up, Mrs. Fall, S. F. Jones, Elizabeth. T. H. Polhemus, Richmond County; medalist, Miss II Florida—Walter Fairbanks, Denver. Women's, Miss C. Curtis. Essex County, 85. Douglass, Open, W. Anderson. Open—Fred McLeod, Midlothian;runner-up, Willie Smith, llu.lson River G. A.—Gilman P. Tiffany. Poweltonj runner-up, D. H. Alpin, Jr., Briar Cliff. Mexico. Illinois Valley G. A.—H. W. Lukins, Strealor. Team, Streat- Foreign or G. C. British—E. A. Lassen; runner-up, H. E. Taylor. Women's, Indiana—Edgar Zimmcr, Highland; runner-up, Richard Miss Titterton; runner-up, Miss Dorothy Campbell. Wolfe, Highland. Women's, Miss Jameson, Indianapolis; Open, James Braid; runner-up, T. Ball. Canadian—Alex Wilson, Royal Montreal; runner-up, runner-up, Mrs. Hammond, Indianapolis. Fritz R. Martin, Hamilton. Women's, Miss Thomson, St. Iowa—B. F. Guinand, Des Moines; runner-up, J. J. Elbert, John; runner-up, Mrs. Mussen, Montreal. Open, Albert Des Moines. Murray, Montreal; runner-up, G. Sargent, Ottawa. Irish—L. O. Munn, Londonderry; runner-up, A. B. Bab- Kansas—Paul Hyde, Wichita; runner-up, T. B. Griffith, ington. Royal Dublin. Open Amateur, J. F. Mitchell, Wichita. Edinburgh ; runner-up, H. N. Cairnes, Ireland. Women's, Kansas City—E. H. Seaver, Evanston. Miss May Hezlet; runner-up. Miss Florence Hezlet. League of Lower Lakes—Geo. S. Lyon, Toronto. Team Open, James Edmunson; runner-up, Bertie Snowball. Toronto. Sectional and Miscellaneous Maine—F. R. Upton, Jr., Baltusrol; runner-up, H. M. Forrest, Philadelphia. American Golf Association Advertising Interests—J. B. Massachusetts—Thos. R. Fuller, Commonwealth; runner- Schlotman, Detroit; runner-up, W. H. Yule, Akron; up, H. H. Wilder, Vesper. Open, Alex Ross, Brae Burn. medalist, E. W. Alexander, Detroit, 83. Michigan—J. B. Schlotman, Detroit; runner-up, Wylie Eastern Professionals' G. A.—Isaac Mackie, Fox Hills; run- Carhart, Detroit. ner-up, Jack Hutchinson, St. Andrews. Middle Atlantic G. A.—F. O. Horstman, Chevy Chase; Intercollegiate G. A.—H. H. Wilder, Harvard; runner-up, T. Briggs, Harvard; medalist, J. W. Coe, Harvard, 159; runner-up, Hugo Charteris, Chevy Chase. H. H. Wilder, Harvard, 159. Team, Vale. Minnesota—Harry G. Legg, Minikahda; runner-up, Lynn Metropolitan G. A.—C. H. Seely, Wee Burn; runner-up, J. H. Johnson, Minikahda. D. Travers; medalist, W. J. Travis, Garden City, 159. Missouri—Christian Kenney, Algonquin; runner-up, Bart Women's, Miss G. M. Bishop, Brooklawn; runner-up, Mrs. L. W. Callan, Englewood; medalist. Miss Mix, En- S. Adams, St. Louis A. A. A. glewood, 93. Open, John Hobens, Englewood; runner-up, National Freight Traffic G. A.—Horace F.Smith, Nashville. Alec Campbell, Brookline. Nebraska—Frank H. Gaines, Omaha C. C.; runner-up, W. Southern G. A.—Xelson L. Whitney, New Orleans; runner- J.Foye, Omaha C. C. up, H. C. Egan, Louisville; medalist, H. C. Egan, 73. New Hampshire—H. W. Stucklin, Mt. Vernon; runner-up, Trans-Mississippi G. A.—E. H. Seaver, Evanston G. C; T. F. Flanagan, Portsmouth. runner-up, H. G. Legg, Minikahda; medalist, E. H. New Jersey—-Jerome D. Travers, Montclair; runner-up, Seaver, 161. Max Behr, Morris County. Western Professionals' G. A.—W. Anderson, Onwentsia; New York City—William Wallace. runner-up, Stewart Gardner, E.xmoor. New York Golf League—W. W. Patten, Schenectady. Women's Eastern G. A.—Miss F. C. Osgood, Brookline; Northern California—Frank C. Newton, Claremont. runner-up, Miss M. B. Adams, Wollaston. Griscom cup, Ohio—T. Sterling Beckwith, Cleveland; runner-up, Rev. Boston W. G. A. O. B. Milligan, Canton. Open, Arthur Smith, Columbus. Lesley Cup—Metropolitan G. A. Oregon—C. T. Spooner, Portland. Professional Tournament, Van Cortlandt Park, New York Pacific Coast G. A.—Frank C. Newton, Claremont; runner- Cit\—Gilbert Xicholls; runner-up, H. H. Barker. up, Dr. D. P. Fredericks, Claremont. Western Amateur—Mason Phelps, Midlothian; runner- Philadelphia—Dr. Simon Carr, Huntingdon. Women's, up, H. W. Allen, St. Louis Field; medalist, K. P. Ed- Mrs. C. F. Fox, Huntingdon. Open, Jack Campbell, wards, Midlothian, 152. Overbrook. Western Women's—Mrs. W. F. Anderson, Hinsdale; run- Rhode Island—A. S. Yennerbeck, Metacomet; runner-up, ner-up, Miss Grace Semple, St Louis C. C.; medalist, H. E. Kenworthy, Metacomet. Miss E. Young, Calumet, 93. Rochester—Gurney T. Curtiss. Western Open—W. Anderson, Onwentsia; runner-up, Fred McLeod, Midlothian. Southern California—Paul Hunter, Annandalc. Women's Olympic Cup—Western Golf Association. Miss R. Chapin, Annandale. Marshall Field Cup—Midlothian C. C. Staten Island—J. W. McMcnamy, Fox Hills. St. Louis—S. G. Stickney, St. Louis C. C. State, City, Etc. Syracuse—Fred R. Peck. Texas—R. H. Connerly, Austin; runner-up, Thomas Chil- Adirondacks—A. W. Tillinghast, Philadelphia. ton, San Antonio. Arkansas—A. G. Williams. Toledo—Harold Weber, Inverness. Boston Interscholastic—C. H. Anderson, Winthrop. Vermont—Fred Herreshoff, Ekwanok; runner-up, Freder- Boston Women's G. A.—Miss M. Curtis, Essex County. ick A. Martin, Ekwanok. California—Women's. Mrs. J. R. Clark, San Francisco; Western Junior—Chas. Evans, Jr., Edgewater. runner-up, Miss Alice Hager. Western New Y'ork—Parke Wright, Buffalo. Central Illinois—Will Sinnock, Quincy. Western Pennsylvania—E. M. liyers, Allegheny ;runner-up, Chicago—Chas. Evans, Jr., Edgewater. Women's, Miss E. E. Giles, Pittsburg G. C. Open, Fred Brand \lle- gheny. Same Ainslie, Westward Ho. Chicago Interscholastic—Chas. Evans, Jr., Edgewater. White Mountains—J. C. Punderford. Cleveland—C. H. Stanley. Wisconsin—Fred R. Pettit, Kenosha; runner-up, Frank W Colorado—F. W. McCartney Denver; runner-up, Waller Jacobs, Madison. Fairbanks, Denver. Worcester County—J. W. Coe, Worcester, j m W

| NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

By Percy H. Whiting

**.mc. The coming of the first of January findc All of the big winter-resort courses are the South quite the busiest section of the coming out with their schedules of events golfing world. All the courses save those for the season and many really elaborate hM ;-:,;• of subtropical Florida have been running tournaments are already listed. for a month or more and the " Farthest Pinehurst offers about the usual tour- South" links are now being opened up. naments and the programme which has The regular patrons of the winter-resort been so popular in the past will be con- courses are finding vast improvements tinued, with some improvements. ti -."•••:. this year over all past seasons. Probably The big January event at Pinehurst is no winter has found so many improve- the sixth annual midwinter tournament, ments under way or completed as this year L-Bmtl i with a bewildering array of prizes and and the money spent during 1908 has divisions. Six sixteens will be qualified been verv considerable. in the regular event and as a special in- •ft rn** Voolriiir. m» g

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THIRD TEE, ATLANTA ATHLETTC CLUB ducement there will be a consolation event ()n March 24 begin the annual united as well, with three flights of eight each. North and South tournaments. The Two of the Pinehurst "fixtures" are first of these is the championship for listed for decision in February. They are women. It ends March 27 and March 29 the fifth annual St. Valentine's tournament the ninth annual united North and South for men and the third annual St. Valen- amateur championship begins. The usual tine's tournament for women. The former six sixteens will be qualified and the usual event is set for February io, n, 12 and 13 dazzling array of trophies offered. and the latter for February 17, iS, 19, 20 On April 3 the "pros" will have their and 22. innings in the united North and South In the event for men five sixteens will open event. This always attracts a qualify and there will be consolation goodly field of high-class performers. divisions. A new event at Pinehurst will be in- Four big events will be decided in augurated April 15 when the first annual March and one early in April, giving mid-April tournament will be started. Pinehurst practically continuous tourna- It will last three days and will be run ments from March 10 to April 3. along the usual lines, except that only two This series starts with the fifth annual sixteens will be qualified. club championship event, open only to J- members of the club. Right on the heels The St. Augustine Golf Club has issued of this comes the fifth annual spring its annual announcements. As usual, tournament, held March 17 to 20. most of the events are for club members, Ninety-six golfers will be qualified in though the annual spring invitation tour- regular (lights and there will be consola- nament will be held as usual. tion events as well. This event always The president's cup will be played for draws out a record-breaking field. March 15 and this affair will be closely NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

followed by the annual spring invitation tournament, which begins March 22. In this event the first sixteen will qualify for the St. Augustine cup, the second sixteen for the consolation cup. The eight players having the lowest scores will be placed for match play, No. 1 will be No. i, No. 2 will be No. 16, No. 3 will be No. 8 No. 4 will be No. 9, No. 5 will be No. 4, No. 6 will be No. 13, No. 7 will be No. 12, and No. 8 will be No. 5. The others will be drawn by lot. The first eight in the second sixteen will be similarly placed. Willie Anderson, who has had charge at the St. Augustine club for two years, is there again this winter.

One of the last courses which will be opened in the South is that of the Belleair Club, which will be ready for play Janu- ary 14 and which will run until April 10. MILTON DARGAX, ATLANTA, GA. Sin ihc annul HIE This club has not announced its tourna- Nominated fur Vice-President of the U. S. G. A. ments as yet but will have its usually good list. The vast work of adding nine holes record is 64, made by Willie Anderson. to the Belleair course has been completed Mr. Palmer's card was: to the satisfaction of Laurence Auchter- \ - Out 434 344 545—36 - lonie, which is saying considerable, and In 254 433 433 31—67 the course now ranks very close to the top. . feed. At a recent election of the Jacksonville have lit' The tournament season of the Florida Club the following officers were elected: Country Club at Jacksonville started Montgomery Corse, president; Walter - Thanksgiving Day and will extend to May. Mucklow, secretary; E. B. Wells, chair- In the finals for the Greenleaf and Crosby man golf committee. ail! bet cups played recently F. C. Groover won the main trophy, defeating A. B. Gilkes 4—3 in the finals. T. W. Palmer won the The Chattanooga Golf Club has de- consolation cup. The Greenleaf cup is a cided not to open its new eighteen-hole rill be» standing trophy and must be won twice golf course until next May. At that time in succession or three times at intervals. the Tennessee club will have completed The previous winners have been F. W. an eighteen-hole course of 6,100 yards. Heyward, B. F. Bowen, W. H. Cristopher The greens will be of grass, 75 to 100 feet and E. B. Wells. in diameter, and the fair green will be as good as that on the old course, which T. W. Palmer recently set a new ama- is twelve years old and practically perfect. teur record on the course of 67, one stroke Play still continues steadily on the old

• less than the previous best mark, made by nine. On Thanksgiving Day the usual M. G. McDonald. The professional events were played for the Rose and River- NOTES FROM THE SOUTH view cups ami on New Year's Day the same programme was repeated.

The annual golf tournament of the Log Cabin Club, of Mamn, (la., was in prog- ress during December. In the qualifying round \Y. C. Redding won the low-score cup with an So. The bogey is 76. Several changes have been made recently in the Macon course. Hole number 5 has been lengthened 75 yards and is now 325 yards. Number 6 has been lengthened 50 yards and is now 260; 7 has been lengthened 40 yards and is now 426; 8 has been lengthened 20yards and is now 310, and 9 has been lengthened 160 yards AT HAMPTON' TERRACE, AUGUSTA, GA. and is now 450.

The annual tournament of the Hamp- sey, 85, 14—71; A. L. Hopkins, 90, 18— 72; J. A. Massie, 93, 20—73; H. P. Ham- ton Roads Golf and Country Club for the Dr R President's cup was begun November 7 mond, 91, 18—73; - J- - Bagby, 82, 8 and brought out a good held of twenty-five —74; Major R. P. Davis, 89, 14—75; Dr. golfers. Dr. George F. Freeman, U. S. N., Parramore, no, 34—76; F. L. Small, 83, was the winner after playing off a tie with 6—77; James McMinnamen, 84, 6—78; Dr. B. f. Pressey, winning with a score T. H. Parramore, 96, 14—82; R. H. San- 86—91. Some of the scores turned in derson, 102, 20—82. were: Dr. Freeman, 83, 12—71; Dr. Pres- The chief November tournament at the Charleston (S. C.) Club was for the Allen cup. It was won by Miles Chisolm. The trophy becomes the property of the man winning it three times. Last year it was won by E. F. Mayberry. The Charles- ton team plans the usual number of inter- city matches this season. It will play teams from Summerville, S. C, and Camden and very probably several others. The match with the Camden golfers will be for the Withers cup. This has been won twice in succession by the Charleston players. If they capture it again it becomes their permanent property. The Charleston Country Club has recently elected the following officers: E. W. Hughes, president; Charles YV. Kollock vice-president; T. M. Robertson, .secre- TEED-UP ON AN ALLIGATOR tary and treasurer. NOTES FROM THE SOUTH 33

The Mobile golfers recently distin- firmed earlier predictions and the honor guished themselves by defeating the Pen- went to J. P. Edrington. He did not lose sacola, Fla., team by a margin of eight- a single one of his fifteen matches. J. W. een points. Mobile won ten out of the S. Rhea won second place| in the playoff fifteen matches and one of the others was with Percy Galbreath, with whom he was tied. tied. Gilbert D. Raine, Jr., captured the During the course of the match Ellis choice score event, the handsome Flippin Knowles, the ex-Yale player, made a new cup, with the remarkable score of 55. record of the course, 36, 37—73, cutting This was Mr. Raine's first home victory, two strokes off the old mark made by though he has won man)- handsome cups Robert Hunter. The score of the match in the East. Irving Massey, Jr., won the was: Selden cup, for the second best choice Mobile Pensacola score, with 56 strokes to his credit. Here Clarke o Knowles 3 Monk 1 Reade. arc the figures in the championship: Horn Hagerman... Powell Muldon Lost Pet. Ruse Played Won Riley J. P. Edrington • 15 15 1000 Wheeler Hayes J. W. S. Rhea • 15 800 S. K. Taylor Cross P. Galbreath IS f.800 Luce Blount G. D. Raine, Jr Waterman - 15 733 McGaughy.. D. D. Saunders • 15 733 Buck Bellinger R. G. Morrow Harnden 15 W600 Haynood W. W. Simmons IS • 533 •. H.fL- Davis Maxwell W. Richardson 4 »5°° Hunter Bullock R. F. Tate 7 -285 Dr.J.il }*; P rather C. L. Johnson 4 250 Simpson J. A. Omberg, Jr o 222 J. b. Taylor W. D. Mallory 0 ''222 • - • 26 C. O. Pfeil...' 6 166 C. C. Selden 7 143 J. H. Doughty 6 OOO At the Dallas Golf and Country Club . wK.Hv the monthly medal for November was won The Hampton Terrace course at Au- by C. E. Fargo. A tournament for the gusta, Ga., is now one of nine holes, with a President's cup and a sweepstakes com- length of 3,120 yards. John Inglis, of the petition was played on Christmas Day. Fairview (N. Y.) Country Club, who is professional at Hampton Terrace during the winter, is engaged to lay out an ad- fciE D The wind up of the tournament for the dition of nine holes, and these new nine golf championship of Memphis only con- holes will afford first-class p-olf. The

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LOOKING FROM TENTH TEE, NASHVILLE GOLF AND COUNTRY'CLUB 34 RECENT DECISIONS ground is rolling and there are some fine eye from the many golfers who dropped in natural hazards. during jqo-j.

Then the people of Asheville awoke to That neither winter resorts nor summer their need of a golf course and in conse- resorts can exist successfully without golf quence organized the Asheville Country courses is a truth brought home with great Club, which owns outright the land on force to the citizens of Asheville, N. C, which the new course is laid. It bought a last year. The old Swannanoa Country portion of the old course and some new Club, of Asheville, had, until 1906, a very land and laid out a remarkably good nine- good nine-hole course of 3,200 yards. hole course. The six holes which were The grounds were merely held in lease, laid out on the old land are already in fine however, and in 1Q07 the land was sold condition. The other holes, which were and the course broken up. placed on the newly purchased land, are in fair shape this winter and will be good The result of this was that in 1007 by next spring. The Country Club is Asheville had nothing in the way of a making steady improvements in the golf course save a temporary arrangement course. A large force is working every of four holes left from the old course. In day and Asheville will soon regain its old consequence, that city received a black prominent place in the golfing world.

DECISIONS BY THE RULES OF GOLF COMMITTEE OCTOBER. 1908

LESMAHAGOW LADIES' GOLF CLUB.— of competitors required to make a com- Q.—Postcards were sent to all members petition possible ? of the club giving notice that a stroke com- .4. (1) Certainly. (2) Yes. (3) Un- petition would be held on a certain day less otherwise stated in the conditions of and at a stated hour. Five competitors the competition, one competitor would' appeared at the appointed time, drew for take the first prize; two competitors would partners, received cards and started. An play for the 1st and 2d prizes. hour later two ladies started to compete BULWELL FOREST ARTISANS' GOLF without consulting the secretary or com- CLUB.—Q.—A competitor in a stroke mittee and having as caddie one of the competition omitted to return his card best players in the gentlemen's club. until the day after the event. The card (1) Was the committee justified in dis- is correctly marked and signed. Should qualifying those two ladies under Stroke the card be accepted? Rule 13? (2) Is it allowable for a golfer ,4.—The card should not be accepted. to act as caddie and give advice about play BORROWOOD LADIES' GOLF CLUB.— during a competition? (3) In a stroke Six ladies qualified in the monthly puttin" competition where there are two prizes and approaching competitions to play in (1st and 2d) what is the smallest number a final competition at 2.30 P.M., September RECENT DECISIONS 35

30. One competitor could not reach the petition to play at a time other than that links until 4 P.M., by which time the other advertised, and, therefore, her card is in competitors had finished. As the secre- order. The two unsigned cards cannot tary could not stay on the links after 3.45 be accepted. P.M. she deputed one lady to take the PERTH ARTISAN GOLF CLUB.—Q.—In score of the competitor who came late; a stroke competition A played his second this she did and signed the card. Two of shot on to the putting-green, when a 1' the other competitors seeing her do this shower came on. A took shelter under a remembered that they had omitted to put tree about eight yards from the putting- I their signatures on the cards they had green and allowed B, his fellow com- acted as scorers for. They at once went petitor, to play his third and then hole Mland an down to the secretary's house, she having out. A then started for the green, but taken the cards with her. The secretary the couple following had by this time allowed them to sign the cards but ex- played on to the green. A waited and plained that the competitor who had allowed them to hole out before he holed played late had just been to give in her out. A and B, however, then kept their :>i will ber card and had lodged a complaint that the place on the green. The shower only other cards were unsigned. The two un- lasted three or four minutes. Is A dis- signed cards are the winning cards and qualified for sheltering? the competitor who lodged the complaint A.—A is disqualified, having delayed is third. Must the winning cards be dis- to play by allowing another couple to pass in the ctMtins wrii qualified ? him on the putting-green. The fact that A.—The competitor who started at 4 A went under a tree would not disqualify P.M. appears to have received the sanction him provided he was ready to play his OF GOL: of the committee in charge of the com- ball when his turn came.

NOVEMBER. 1908

EDINBURGH MEAT TRADE GOLF CLUB. should have been added. The opinion of —Q.—Early last season members were the Rules of Golf Committee is requested. inquired: informed that there would be four home A.—As members were informed that competitions, the dates of which were the prize would be awarded to the com- given, and one holiday competition, on a petitor who had the best aggregate score aitd in i date to be fixed upon later, and that a in the five competitions, and the holiday l, one prize would be given for the best aggre- competition was one of thirty-six holes, gate score in the five competitions. The the Rules of Golf Committee is of opinion ind id Pr ' home competitions were eighteen holes that the scores for the thirty-six holes each. The holiday competition was should have been added. : in I * thirty-six holes, two rounds of eighteen ALWOODLEY GOLF CLUB.—Q,—A holes each, and the prizes were awarded handicap stroke competition for a cup was *ft on the result of thirty-six holes. For the held under the following conditions: Two purpose of arriving at the best aggregate rounds of eighteen holes to be played for score the committee added half the scores the cup. Optional sweepstakes for both t of competitors in the holiday competition morning and afternoon rounds of eighteen to the four scores in the home competition. holes. The competitor who made the best This has been objected to on the ground score for thirty-six holes did not hand in that the result of the whole thirty-six holes his card for the first round until the com- RECENT DECISIONS pletion of the second round. Was he dis- ber had no intention of protesting until qualified for the cup for the morning the tie was played off, but on becoming sweepstake, or both ? aware of the rule of the club he made a A.—Assuming that there is no clause in formal protest in writing on October 20. the conditions of the competition stipulat- 1. Can a protest for an infringement of ing that scores shall be handed in on the rule be lodged against a player after the completion of the first round the question round has been completed or must it be must be settled as regards the thirty-six lodged at the time the infringement takes hole competition by the custom of the place ? club. If it is the custom to hand in cards 2. Can a member wait till a tie is played on the completion of the first round the off, or about t<> be played off, before pro- competitor is disqualified for the cup, in testing, or must he protest at the time when any case he is disqualified for the optional the infringement of rule takes place? sweepstakes in the first round. It is cus- .1.—The rule of the club referred to tomary in thirty-six hole competitions to does not state that protests must be made hand in cards on the completion of eight- in writing and does not provide for the een holes. new situation created by the disqualifica- ARTISAN GOLF CLUB, PERTH.—Q.—A tion on October 13 of the competitor stroke competition was held on October who had apparently won. The verbal 10. On October 13 the committee protest was, therefore, in order and should settled the prize winners and disqualified have been investigated by the committee. the competitor who had returned the best 1. A protest can be lodged after the score. Two other competitors tied with completion of a round. the next best score. After the disqualifi- 2. A member should lodge his protest cation of the competitor referred to a as soon as possible after becoming aware member made a verbal protest that one of of the incident which is to be the subject the competitors who tied had infringed the of his protest, whether he acquires this rules. The rule of the club on the sub- knowledge on the day of the competition ject is: "All protests on points of play, or or subsequently. It is then the duty of otherwise, must be lodged at the comple- the committee to investigate the matter tion of the round." The protesting mem- and decide whether action should be taken. m

THE GRAND STROKE By an Amateur

F A golfer ever sheds tears he must to rest upon the greensward two hundred I surely do so most copiously on the putt- yards away! Hence it seems to us that ing-greens and in the immediate vicinity the grand stroke is worth the constant of his tees. For, beyond question, there study of all serious golfers who reject is nothing so exasperating as the loss of the Dogberrian maxim that golf, like read- that putt that was so easily puttable— ing and writing, comes by nature, and nothing so heart-vexing as the failure of covet earnestly the long drive. that drive, so awfully sliced or pulled, so Now, as it is not given to every golfer wofully topped or foundered, or—so com- to command that rare thing, good pro- pletely missed. Of the two strokes the fessional instruction, recourse is very com- foozled drive probably occasions the monly had to bad exponents, or to the -•; compeGEr keenest grief, for the drive is the grand literature of the game, with dire results in stroke of the game. The preparations either case. It is not always easy to ar audit necessary are so much more elaborate understand what one reads in golf. that the shock which follows failure Writers on golf are usually advocates of is, correspondingly severe. Behold the special styles, and the student is often golfer, indeed, as having carefully selected perplexed to know from the books how his stance, he tees an immaculate ball; the grand stroke should really be delivered. essays, it may be, a preliminary swish or For instance, Mr. Horace Hutchinson two in seemingly perfect form; addresses thus lays down the law: "Let your arms • the ball with more or less appropriate swing well away out from the body as - waggle; poises, gathers himself together you draw the club back from the ball." and finally delivers that mighty stroke— "By the time your club, in the upward all for naught or most scant purpose! swing, has gone to an angle of about | r thPHHS What can equal the contending emotions forty-five degrees with the plane of the that stir his honest, well-meaning soul as horizon, your arms should be stretched he meekly follows his wandering, per- out to their fullest." Now this may be chance his lost ball, or, should it still very sound advice, but any one who at- crown the tee, blushingly plays two ? tempts to carry it out is almost certain While your true golfer is never happy to develop a style very different from that so long as any part of his game is weak, of, say, J. H. Taylor, who says: "The he certainly grieves most over any break- club must be taken along the ground, down in his driving. It is all very well and rather around the legs as far as the to remind him that most games are won arms will permit, keeping the right elbow on the putting-green. Not even the gain close into the side, this being done before of a hole from an equally or still more the club commences to go upward," etc. erring opponent can quite console him Let any one attempt these two styles for the loss of that sweet impact upon a and he will soon perceive their amazing ball that was fondly expected to soar for difference; nevertheless, the player must a few delicious moments as well-driven make his choice between them. He cer- balls only can, far and sure, and finally tainly cannot combine them. His choice, THE GRAND STROKE therefore, should fall upon that method place as in the address, it will serve to which best suits his physical conforma- check too free a follow after. tion. Above all, he should reject that 4. It is a good thing to analyze one's style which subjects him to a sense of swing by arresting it at various stages constraint in the arms or body. Such for examination. Most profitably, per- constraint he may successfully overcome haps, can this be done by looking over for one or two holes, but eventual break- the right shoulder as the club is stayed down is inevitable. at the top of the swing back, and noting The intelligent golfer should, therefore, how the club head lies and points. If consciously make his choice between the the face of the club is looking upward, open Hutchinsonian style and the closer something is wrong. The right knuckles style of Taylor, Hilton and others. There are too much under as we grip, or the are styles, indeed, which are variations of wrists have not been allowed to turn the these, but in the main they can all be toe of the club in the proper divergent sorted out into the two methods succinctly way. The club has been taken back with described by leading exponents as above. rigid wrists. As Vardon says, "As you But assuming that such choice has been glance over the left shoulder at the top made, there are a few injunctions, apart of the swing the face of the club should from the well-known elementary ones as be facing you, not the back of it, nor to stance and grip, which, perchance, even the part where the club maker's some schlaffing, slicing, topping or other- name usually is." To do this and get wise too frequently foozling golfer, chast- the club back to the ball again involves ened by calamity into humility, may read, wrist action, without which there is no if not with profit, at least with interest. golf and a minimum of distance for the 1. It is doubtless wise to analyze the player. swing back because of its effect, so oft 5. The tighter grip practised by modern proclaimed, upon the swing forward. masters is possibly responsible for many But in the act of driving, the mind should breakdowns in weaker disciples. It is rather dwell upon the swing forward, be- well to remember that the great players cause it is thus the ball is met. Many of a decade ago, or more, advised a some- a player is so intent upon an accurate what relaxed right-hand grip—tightened swing back that he becomes semioblivious in the downward swing, which certainly of the ball in the swing forward. harmonizes with the idea of rhythm in 2. Keep your eye on the ball, of course. swinging, the grip being tightened as the But there is such a thing as looking at speed downward increases. Moreover, it the ball too long. To know how easily is easier to get the sense of a swinging the eye is fatigued, reflect how painful it club, rather than of a lifted one, with a was to look steadily at the spot indicated relaxed right hand. Does not the tight by your photographer when last you sat grip betray us into lifting rather than for him, for even five seconds. swinging? 3. Certainly there should be no falling H. H. Hilton says the club at the top back or holding back after the ball has of the swing rests lightly between thumb been swept away. Rather should there and forefinger, and says that perfection be something of a follow by body as well is hardly attainable without this golfing as arms. And note that if the left toe touch. But there is no golfing touch is not allowed to turn in the direction of in a tight grip, whatever else in the way flight, but resumes and firmly keeps its of power and accuracy there may lie.

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6. There ought to be a certain rhythmi- drive in that it gives something like a cal proportion between the up and down sense of pause at the top of the swing, swings, and without it good driving is although no pause is perceptible to the scarcely possible. The swing back is not onlooker. This sense of pause is a sort necessarily slow, but it certainly should of consciousness of that brief instant be- be slower than the swing forward. tween the two swings when the club is, "Slow back" is a purely relative term, as a physical fact, actually at rest! for as a rapid swing forward is essential A hurried swing is an unrhythmical to distance, a truly rhythmical swing re- swing. quires a certain rapidity, even in the swing The perfect stroke is rhythmical. back. For "slow back" we should sub- 7. In the wide sense rhythm is the stitute "slower back." But how much secret of the grand stroke. But it must slower? What is the proper ratio of include feet and legs, body and arms, and speed between the two ? It cannot be even the head. All must join harmo- measured, and every man must find it niously in the impact, and with all the out for himself. Only let him be sure to rhythm and harmony there must also be find it. This rhythmical swinging is energy and elan. The grand stroke is commonly called the timing of the stroke. never a feeble one. The descent of the It should be applied to all strokes, even club may be musically described accele- the putt. It may be identified in the rando e sjorzando.

A DUFFER'S RONDEAU By Clinton Scollard

I "pull" and "slice" (ah, woe is me!) Whenever I assay the "tee," Unless you spell it t-e-a, And then methinks I'm quite au fail— Ceylon or fragrant "Japanee."

If morn increase or daylight flee Till autumn doffs her pageantry, In just the same exasperate way I "pull" and "slice."

And yet, and yet, forsooth, I see Large compensations, verily !— She vows she thinks my style of play Is "grand"— (true love is blind they say!) And so, in rapt content, pardie, I "pull" and "slice." EDITORIAL

he does nothing of the kind, and what GOLF happens is merely some slight modifica- EVERY MONTH tions of his previous practice. If we were By Special Appointment Official Bulletin of the United lo disinter the golfer dead for two cen- States Golf Association, Intercollegiate Golf Asso- ciation, Central New York Golf League, Metropoli- turies and revivify him and bring him on a tan Golf Association, Western Golf Association, and Southern Golf Association. golf course, would he be surprised at what he saw? He would wonder at the im- Entered at Post-olTice at New York as Second Class Matter. proved greens, he would be astonished at ONE YEAR. $2.00. SINGLE COPIES. 25 CENTS the far flight of the rubber-cored ball and Postage jree United States, Canada and Mexico. To other foreign countries, 36 cents per year. Remit by Express the clubs used by the players would give Money Order, Post-office Order, Registered Letter, or Check payable to ARTHUR POTTOW. him room for thinking. But what of the Edited by Van Tassel Sutpiicn players ? If you were to point out to him Western Representative those of our players who tend most to Joseph G. Davis, Cliicago Tribune, Dearborn modernity in their methods, expecting to and Madison Streets, Chicago surprise him, you would probably be disappointed. He would cry, " Eh, mon, he Publisher: ARTHUR POTTOW 48 West 27th Street New York drives like Sandy McNab," or "It's Geordv Ferguson putting," recalling to The Editor will be glad to receive for considera- mind two of his contemporaries. Yes, tion Photographs and Contributions on the general golf is in some respects as unchangeable as subject of the game. Stamps should be enclosed for return postage if found unavailable. Contrib- the laws of the Medes and Persians and in utors are requested to write their Names and other respects it seems to be always new. Addresses on the back of all MSS. and Photo- graphs. Photographs should be carefully packed and accompanied by descriptions of their ANNOUNCEMENT subjects. Club Secretaries will confer a favor by notifying the Editor of the dates and particulars In the next issue of GOLF there will be of coming club events, especially open and invita- an article by Mr. Harold H. Hilton. This tion tournaments. great English golfer will write for GOLF each month upon some phase of the game, THE NEW YEAR and what he says will be marked by that With the new year we shall have the independence and freshness of thought new rules, and this is practically all that which always distinguish his work. is new in the game. Nothing changes so " Golf in Theory and Practice," by Mr. little as golf, and though the centuries Everard, will be continued. It is as in- may bring better balls and clubs it is teresting and instructive now as the day doubtful if they bring better golfers, and it was written. " Leaves from My Note these golfers arc playing in the same old Book1' will appear in each issue, and way. Here and there a golfer takes a Seymour G. Dunn, whose articles on resolution to do something new. His driving were so well appreciated when they game is not what it should be and he will appeared in GOLF, will commence a series introduce novelty into it. But, of course, of papers on the playing of the game. v fed, B

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• rants. 1: The United States Golf Association will well. Especial mention must be made hold its annual meeting at Sherry's, of Mr. Heebner, who has been treasurer . January 8. The nominating committee, since 1900. He takes with him the good consisting of G. Herbert Windeler, Fred S. wishes of all golfers. Mr. Morgan has James and Charles B. Macdonald, have been secretary since 1904, but as he re- recommended the following ticket: Presi- mains as secretary his services will not be dent, Herbert Jaques, Country Club; V I KENT lost. vice-presidents, Silas H. Strawn, Glen View Club, and Milton Dargan, Atlanta The new officers are men who are fitted Bflton. B Athletic Club; secretary, Robert C. Wat- for their positions. Mr. Jaques, who is

D son, Garden City Golf Club; treasuier, nominated for the presidency, is an ex- W. Fellowes Morgan, Baltusrol Golf Club; ceedingly popular and capable man and committee—Jarvis Hunt, Chicago Golf may be trusted to fill the office acceptably .rkedbvc Club; C. T. Jaffray, Minikahda Golf to the golfers of the country. Objection Club; Joseph S. Clark, Philadelphia has been raised in the West to his election, Cricket Club, and Arden M. Robbins, St. but not in the least degree, be it said, to Andrews Golf Club. him personally. The West claims that the president of the association ought to grind A more complete change in the personnel belong this year to that section of the of the committee has never been made. country. Since the formation of the as- Those who retire are Daniel Chauncey, sociation the office has been filled either - president; Alex Britton, vice-president; by a Bostonian or a New Yorker, and re- articles« Samuel Y. Heebner, treasurer, and sentment is felt in the West at this treat- .n Leighton Calkins, John D. Cady and ment. seiw Charles F. Thompson, committee. All J* these officers have served the association Threats are heard that the Western _.;/W. THROUGH THE GREEN

easily it seems a pity it should not be done.

The new secretary, R. C. Watson, has been noticeably in the game for the past ten years and holds a high position as a player. He qualified in the amateur championship and was put out in the first round by W. P. Smith. Since that, he won the medal at the Morris County tournament with the fine score of 76.

|. W. McKinley, of the Columbia Golf Club, Washington, D. C, has given notice of these amendments to the constitution: Resolved, That the membership of the United States Golf Association shall con- sist of active and associate clubs, the active clubs to be those now known as associate and the associate to be those now known as allied, and that the constitution of the association be amended and changed ac- cordingly. R. C. WATSON Nominated as Secretary of the U. S. G. A. Resolved, That the constitution of the United States Golf Association be and is Golf Association will organize itself as a hereby amended by omitting Article VI national body and will throw off all alle- and renumbering each succeeding article giance to the U. S. G. A. It would be un- by giving one number lower to supply the reasonable to resort to such extremities to omission. the injury of the game in a matter which seems capable of a satisfactory and ami- The first amendment seeks to apply the cable adjustment. There seems no reason proper names to the two classes of clubs why the president should not be a Western belonging to the association. The second man. How would it do to let the choice amendment is to abolish the present alternate between East and West, with an method of electing officers, which is done understanding that the president should after a recommendation from a nomina- fill the office for one year only? So far as ting committee, and to throw the affair into the game is concerned it would probably open meeting. make no difference if all the officers were taken from the West or all from the East. Chicago Golf Club and Deal Golf Club They would not allow sectional feeling to have applied for the amateur champion- interfere with the success of golf. Golfers ship. Englewood Golf Club and Chicago generally are not much interested in these Golf Club are applicants for the open, and matters, which seem to be of vital im- the Country Club of Lakewood is the only portance to golf politicians. It is more a applicant for the women's championship. question of sentiment than anything else, The Nassau Country Club is ready to take I but when sentiment can be gratified so any of the championships. Englewood THROUGH THE GREEN 43

wanted the open last year but it went to 40—85 ; F. D. Hooper, Nassau, 47, 38—85; Myopia because a metropolitan club, W. K. Gillett, Wykagyl, 43, 42—85; Garden City, had the amateur. For this C. E. F. McCann, Englewood, 40, 45—85 ; * pan lot i year a better selection than Englewood F. C. Jennings, Nassau, 43, 42—85. could not be made. Lakewood's fine 1 main course is well suited for the women's The most noteworthy match in the first I to lit fa championship and is at its best in October round was that between Douglas and Rob- S • • when the event is generally held. It bins, the former winning at the extra hole. would be advisable for the meeting before Gillett beat Batterson at the nineteenth

• coming to a decision in this matter to as- hole. In the second round Knapp, i certain beyond question what is the Herreshoff, Douglas and Waterman won general sentiment among women golfers. their matches. Herreshoff beat Knapp Perhaps, also, it would be well to bear in by 3 and 2 in the semifinals and Douglas mind what Miss Harley said on the sub- beat Waterman by 4 and 2. In the final ject in the December issue of GOLF. The Herreshoff used a cleek or spoon for his new rules will be adopted in all probability. tee shots. Douglas missed his drive at the first hole, the ball going a few yards The unconscious humor of the press is only and his second shot was poor; his usually the most effective. Describing a third landed him hole high to the right of certain prominent golfer it says, "He is a •• sportsman and a gentleman and has >. guarded his amateur standing with especial care." "Guarded" is delightful. tkmbeaii Over eighty players finished in the annual autumn tournament of the Country Club of Lakewood, November 26-28. John Reid, Jr's., 74, which took the medal, was a very fine performance. For business reasons he had to withdraw after the qualifying round. H. M. Forrest has the hf mo As amateur record, 73. First sixteen: John Reid, Jr., St. An- . the pre*- drews, 41, $3—74; Fred Herreshoff, Gar- den City, 41, 35—76; F. S. Douglas, Nassau, 42, 37—79; P. W. Kendall, Deal, 40, 40—80; Paul Waterman, Englewood, 43, 38—81; M. K. Waters, Lakewood, 41, 40—81; J. P. Knapp, Garden City, 41, 40—81; Jasper Lynch, Lakewood, 43, 40 —83 ; A. M. Robbins, St. Andrews, 45, 39 —84; R. H. Robertson, Shinnecock, 42, 42—84; Theodore Cassebeer, Lakewood, 42, 42—84; J. G. Batterson, Lakewood, 46, 38—84; Walter Smedley, Atlantic City, J 42, 42—84; H. F. Whitney, Nassau, 43, ARDEN'M. ROBBINS 42—85; H. M. Forrest, Philadelphia, 45, Nominated for U. S. G. A. Committee 44 THROUGH THE GREEN the green, and with his fourth, ;i mashie, At the annual meeting of the Metro- he holed out for 4. No wonder Herre- politan Golf Association, held at Del- shoff lost the match after tin's. He was 3 monico's December 8, these officers were down at the fifth and 2 down at the turn, elected: President, Adrian H. Larkin; 1 down at the sixteenth and the next two vice-president, F. S. Wheeler; secretary, holes were halved. The cards: W. D. Vanderpool; treasurer, Frank C. Douglas: :1 Jennings. Executive committee, the above Out A 4 4 4 4 5 4 6 4—30 In 3 3 4 4 4 A & S 5—38—77 officers and John Reid, Jr., J. L. Taylor, Hevreshoff: John M. Ward and G. P. Sheldon. Out 54554445 5—41 In 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5—37—78 For the second cup H. M. Forrest, There are now fifty-nine clubs in the Philadelphia, beat Fred Snare, Engle- association. Larchmont and Roseville wood, by 6 and 5. J. W. McMenamy, resigned and these clubs were elected Fox Hills, won the third cup, beating J. F. members: Scottish-American Golf Club, Shanley, Sr., Forest Hill, by 2 up. The Ridgewood Golf Club, Upper Montclair fourth cup was won by Frank Sears, Fox Golf Club and Inwood Country Club. Hills, who beat W. C. Stevens, Riverton, by S and 7. J. F. Shanley, Jr., Forest The treasurer's re] >ort for the year shows Hill, had best net and gross in the handi- a balance at the present time of $832.10. cap with 79, 6—73, and took the gross The balance a year ago was $863.66. score prize. W. K. Gillett and H. Cozens The receipts this year show $15 more from Hardy, Fox Hills, tied at 76 for the net. annual dues, $40 more in entrance fees for the amateur and $359.79 in entrance fees, etc., for the open—a total increase in Imitation is the sincerest kind of flattery receipts of $404.79. Additional expenses and so we ought to appreciate the action of of importance this year have been $308.49 The Yellow Golfer. In its November for the entertainment of the Lesley cup issue it proceeded to lighten our darkness teams, an expense which comes only once on the propriety of using the word "green " in three years, and $609.79, the expenses or "greens" in indicating the committee of the open event. But as to the latter, charged with the care of the course. It the receipts for account of the open were adopted almost exactly the explanation we $359.79, leaving the net cost of that event gave of this matter two months previously exactly $250. The receipts from the ama- in the September issue of GOLF. A Daniel teur event were $372, and the expenses come to judgement, belated it is true, but $352.45, showing that it pays for itself. It still a Daniel. will be seen that the association is in a strong position financially, having prac- The "uninformed writers on this side" tically the same balance on hand as a year will persist in giving pain to the Oracle. ago, although $250 was expended for the In reporting the election of officers of the open and $308.49 for the Lesley cup con- Montclair Golf Club the New York test, a total of $558.49 over and above the Globe uses the expression "greens," not expenses for the year 1007. green committee. This is how it reads: Greens, C. B. Droste, chairman; Jason President Larkin said it was always a Rogers, J. A. Kelsey. Well may the pleasure to work for golf, as it was a labor stylist and purist of Garden City cry, of love. He indorsed President Taft's re- "Save me from my friends!" mark that he would "do his part to make m

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49 5° THROUGH TIIF. GREEN to play. At the turn Hamilton was 3 down, but lie took (he next six holes, end ing the match on the sixteenth green. C. P. Fay, of Springfield, Mass., won the consolation trophy from John R. Goodall, of the St. Louis Field Club, by 5 up and 4 to play. In the qualification round Ham- ilton took the cup offered for the best score, with a card of 86.

The annual meeting of the Massa- chusetts Golf Association will be held at the Exchange Club, Boston, January n. The annual dinner will take place immediately after the meeting. The ticket in full is: President, G. Herbert Windeler, Country Club, Brookline; vice-president, Alfred L. Ripley, Oakley Country Club; treasurer, Edmund B. Conant, Vesper Country Club; secretary, Richard R. G. HERBERT WIXDELER Freeman, Wollaston Golf Club; execu- Nominated as President of the Massachusetts Golf tive committee, with the officers, Nathaniel Association B. Borden, Jr., Fall River Golf Club; Ed- ward A. Wilkie, Allston Golf Club; C. E. times an advantage. Mr. Hicks writes: Stickney, Springfield Country Club; C. T. "It is my contention that there is some- Crocker, Jr., Alpine Golf Club C. I. times an advantage in not playing first, Travelli, Brae Burn Country Club. Mr. and that the decision of St. Andrews con- Windeler has been nominated for the struing the rule that the honor is a priv- fourth time. ilege to mean that it is compulsory vio- lates the true meaning of the word December 7, the executive committee 'privilege' and calls in question the of the Eastern Professional Golfers' As- club's ability to revise and interpret golf sociation held a special meeting, when rules properly. I understand that the re- a gold watch was presented to Charles vised rules on the subject of the honor Kirchner as a mark of appreciation for says: 'The side which plays off first from the services rendered to the association by the teeing-ground is the side to have the Kirchner as secretary during the past three honor.' If that is all the new rules say, years. Herbert Strong, of the Apawamis the question of who is to play first is still Club, is now secretary. left in doubt. Cannot the rules plainly state that 'the honor is the privilege or A New York golfer, Mr. W. E. Hicks, option of playing first from a teeing- who published an article some time since ground by the winner of the previous hole on "St. Andrews and the Honor," sent a and that the winner—individual or side— copy of it to James Braid, the British open may play first or not as he chooses.' Such champion and requested his opinion. a rule would put into the game the very Braid wrote in reply that he quite agrees sportsmanlike and seductive option of that playing second from the tee is some- playing first or second. If playing first is "GOLF IN WINTER" MENNEN'S 'Bermuda BORATED TALCUM Weekly from New York, forty-five hours by TOILET POWDER twin screw S. S. " Bermudian." Fortnightly to Bermuda and Nassau in February and March by S. S. "Trinidad."' West Indies New S. S. "Guiana" and other steamers fortnightly tor St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, Guada- loupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes and De- merara. For illustrated pamphlet, passages, etc., write "Baby's Best Friend" and Mamma's greatest comfort. Mennen's relieves and A. E. OUTERBRIDGE

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He may say to the arbiter of his fate, " Am I to play first ?" The other replies: ''I'll let you know in a minute. I haven't taade up my mind." Thus you are con- fronted witli the necessity for a new rule inflicting a limit mi the time required to make a decision. All this is apt to place the two players in an unpleasant position toward each other and is not calculated to promote that friendly spirit which ought [GEORGE 1 STEBBINS, CRESCENT ATHLETIC; to actuate all golfers. It is not clear that Who Gets I'p Annual Caddie Tournaments the old-time Scotchman thought the first play was an advantage at all times. In hazard to guard it. The sixth, formerly deciding that the winner of the hole was the third, will be an island green. The to play first he was simply putting into old fifth hole will be lengthened to 585 practice at the start that which goes right yards. Many side traps and deep pits through the game, which is that you must are to be put in. take the good with the bad. A well-known writer says, "of all the republics that have existed in the dreams of philosophers, the The Fox Hills course will be kept open golfing course is the one unique and per- throughout the winter, and other sports fect." When you allow one player to such as trap shooting and curling will also dictate to another it ceases to be a republic. be available. J* The Crescent Athletic Club holds a The Saegkill Golf Club, of Yonkers, tournament every year for the caddies, N. Y., will soon have its new club house and George F. Stebbins, a member of the finished. It is at the Broadway end of club, has a great deal to do with the suc- the course and is in the modified colonial cess of the event. About eighty dollars is style. There is a pond near the new club raised for prizes and no one goes away house for skating and curling. disappointed. The winner gets ten dollars and those boys who distinguish themselves only by playing round the course Alex Smith took up his duties at the get fifty cents each. Wykagyl Country Club, New Rochelle, N. Y., December 1. He is still held in Certain changes are to be made in the remembrance at Nassau and was invited course at Atlantic City, and when finished to attend the club's annual dinner. The it will be more than six thousand yards Nassau members have arranged to give a long. The second hole becomes the fifth testimonial to Smith in recognition of his and the green will have a wide water services. GET A GRIP ON THE GAME BY USING THE INGLIS PERFORATED GOLF CLUB GRIP

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Sydney Sharwood, of Haverford, won nection with its executive committee I the interscholastic golf championship of certainly wish to take exception to his re- Philadelphia. He beat A. T. Hall, Epis- marks as to the standpoint he claims they copal Academy, by 5 up and 4 to play. have taken on this matter. The event was held at the Merion Cricket "' True Sport' can rest assured that the Club. executive committee of the U. S. G. A. have had, and always will have, the same solid ideas on the amateur question that he The following letter has been received has, but he must remember that the from Mr. G. Herbert Windeler, a former IT. S. G. A. is not run as a detective bu- president of the U. S. G. A. "In the reau but for the protection of the mutual December number of your magazine it interests of its members and as a court of gave me pleasure to read an article on reference with final authority in matters 'The Near-Amateur' by 'True Sport,' affecting such interests. full of excellent ideas which all who have " If 'True Sport' has the interests of the true interests of the game at heart can- the true sport at heart and will lodge his not fail to indorse. protests against any of the near-amateurs "In the last paragraph of his article, he may have in mind, together with the however, 'True Sport' lakes occasion to solid facts bearing on each case, I am sure cast a slur on the U. S. G. A., and as one he will find the executive committee of the who has had in the past quite a little con- U. S. G. A. in no way lacking in their re-

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57 FIXTURES sponsibilities to the world of golf and golfers generally in this country."

There is some talk of extending the boundaries of the Philadelphia Golf As- sociation so as to include the whole of Pennsylvania. It is to he hoped that something of the sort may he done so that the competition for the Lesley cup may be a reality for three, not two, competitors. It may he objected that the change would make the title "Tri-City" a misnomer, but it can be easily changed to "Tri- State." Neither Boston nor New York will lie appreciably stronger by extending their territories to include the State. But Philadelphia would have quite another kind of team with such men on it as E. M. Byers, W. C. Fownes, Jr., and George O. ENOS W. D. VANDERPOOL, WILDER Secretary of the Metropolitan Ormiston. Golf Association

November ,6, Charles H. Hill won the Golf Club, defeating Hugo Catty in the president's cup at the Oakland (N. Y.) final.

FIXTURES

March 15.—St. Augustine (Fla.) Golf Club. January 2.—Coronado (Cal.) Country Club. President's Cup Tournament. Play for Mr. A. W. Black's trophy begins. January 11-13.—Pinehurst (N. C.) Country March 17-20.—Pinehurst Country Club. Club. Annual Midwinter Tournament. Fifth Annual Spring Tournament. January 1^.—Coronado Country Club. Wo- March 22-24.—St. Augustine Golf Club. An- men's Handicap Competition begins. nual Spring Invitation Tournament. January 14-16.—Pinehurst Country Club. March 24 to April 3.—Pinehurst Country Eastern Advertising Men's Tournament. Club. North and South Open Championships. February 1.—Coronado Country Club. An- March 31.—Coronado Country Club. Wo- nandale-Coronado Match. men's Consolation Handicap. February 1-5.—Coronado Country Club. Coronado Championship. April 10.—Coronado Country Club. Men's February 8, Q.—Coronado Country Club. Consolation Handicap. Coronado Championship for Women. May 17, etc.—Birkdale, England. British February 10-13.—Pinehurst Country Club. Ladies' Championship. Fifth Annual St. Valentine's Tournament. May 24, etc.—Muirfield, Scotland. British February 17-22.—Pinehurst Country Club. Amateur Championship. St. Valentine's Women's Tournament. June 8-11.—Deal, England. British Open March 6, 8, 9, 10, 11.—Coronado Country Championship. Club. The Hotel Cup Handicap. June 24-26.—La Boulie, France. French March 13.—Coronado Country Club. Annual Amateur Championship. Women's Handicap. LITTLE GOLF LESSON HOW TO BUY CLUBS THREE (3) GOOD WAYS FIRST. GO TO YOUR PROFESSIONAL. If you need an IRON CLUB insist on his selling you one with this TRADE MARK on the head. When he sells you this you are Retting the very best HAND- FORGED RIGHT HERE

SECOND. GO TO YOUR DEALER, sure that the clubs he sells h you are stamped like THIS think that there are no better clubs made. Players who USS them say that there are none as good. If he does not HAVE them he can GET them THIRD. WRITE TO OUR MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT. We have placed this department in the hands of a FIRST-CLASS SCOTCH CLUB-MAKER of long experience in just such work. If you KNOW exactly what you want HE will SEE that you get it. If you don't know exactly what you want he will gladly assist you. NO TROUBLE to answer inquiries. WHEN YOU ORDER enclose your check, P. O. Order, or Express Order to cover amount. Or ask us to ship C. O.D. EASY TO FIGURE, $2.50 for each Wood Club. $2.00 for each Iron Club

ROBERT WHITE, President WM. YEOMAN, Secy, and Treas. The P. Q. Manufacturing Company Composed of Professional Golfers and Club Makers Manufacturers of (5olf Clubs anb Supplies

HERD & YEOMAN, Chicago ROBT. WHITE, Ravisloe Country Club DAVID FOULIS, Chicago Golf Club W. H WAY, Euclid Country Club JAMES FOULIS, Calumet Country Club HOMEWOOD, ILL. A. J. CHRISTIE, Omaha Field Club

. ALEX SMITH GEORGE LOW United States Open Champion, 1906 GOLF CLUB MAKER Western Open Champion, 1906 Eastern Professional Champion and Florida Open Champion Has always on hand a large stock of Clubs of every Has a large and well-selected stock of description. Drivers and brasseys made from the best HAND-MADE CLUBS always in seasoned wood obtainable. stock, made from the very best material, Stewart's Hand Forged Iron Heads carefully finished and well seasoned PRICES ON APPLICATION Mail Orders Receive Prompt At- tention NO MACHINE MADE CLUBS Every Iron Head warranted hand forged Why struggle with a cleek any WRITE FOR PRICES longer, get a " Baffy Spoon" Mail orders promptly attended to ALEX SMITH GEORGE LOW WYKAOYL COUNTRY CLUB BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK Springfield, N. J. Great Golfers BY GEORGE W. BELDAM, with contributions by H. H. Hilton, J. H. Taylor, James Braid, Alex Herd and Harry Vardon. With 268 action photographs. S3.50 net. Post- age, 22 cents. The Complete Golfer BY HARRY VARDON. Cloth. 8vo. 50 illustrations. Postpaid, S3.65. Practical Instruction in Golf BY LANCELOT C. SERVOS. Cloth. 60 illustrations. Postpaid, S2.00. Advanced Golf By JAMES BRAID. Postpaid, S3.18.

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bi s< T H G! MRS. WIHSLOW'S Sr B u'? T H E ,\ KXT NUMB E R O F - FOR CHILDREN TEETHINC For nule by ull DruBeUte. 25 tVnt» a bottle. GOLF A Record of Over Sixty-five \VI LL CONTAIN Years AN ARTICLE BY For over sixty-five years MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTH- HAROLD H. HILTON ING SYRUP has been used by mothers for their children while teething. Are you disturbed at night and LEAVES FROn HY NOTE BOOK broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and cry- BY TANTALU >N ing with pain of Cutting Teeth ? If so, send at once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE for Children Teething. The value is incalculable. DRIVING CONTINUED It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. BY EVERARD Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about WESTERN DEPARTMENT it. It cures diarrhoea, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Colic, softens the Gums, reduces BY JOSEPH G. DAVIS Inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole SOUTHERN NOTES system. "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for chil- BY PERCY H. WHITING dren teething is pleasant to the taste and is the pre- scription of one of the oldest and best female physi- A ROUND OF GOLF WITH cians and nurses in the United States, and is for sale SEYnOUR DUNN by all druggists throughout the world. Price, twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP." Guaranteed under GOLF the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. Serial 48 West 27th Street, New York Number 1098. Hotel Resent NEW YORK CITY AT SHERMAN SQUARE Broadway and Seventieth Street

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62 GOLFERS' HOTEL DIRECTORY I ft 01 Length Course Rates City Hotel < >pen Greens ili! Holes Yards Day Week „ Asheville, N. C The Manor . . 9 2 45° All year Clay Sand > H.HILTON Augusta, Ga Bon Air 18 5.853 Dec.-May Turf Belleair, Fla Belleview 18 5,800 No chg. Jan.-Apr. Camden, S. C Kirkwood. 9 2,800 Sand Coronado, Cal del Coronado . 9 3,000 All year Sand Pinehurst, N. C*.... Carolina 18 6,013 Nov.-May Sand Pinehurst, N. C.*.. Holly Inn 18 5*797 Nov.-May Sand Pinehurst, N. C*.... Berkshire Q 2,906 Dec-May Sand le, S. C... Pine For't Inn 18 Dec.-Mav Sand

• *Guests at Pinehurst hotels can play on all of the three courses. ii;k'\ NOTES SEYMOUR G. DUNN H. F. HIGHTON, professional instructor and green- >LF WIT Is open for a winter engagement as keeper at Thousand Islands Golf Club, is open for golf professional. Good player and winter engagement at club or hotel course. Good experienced greenkeeper and club maker. Has made a special sludy player and instructor. Laying out and improving of the art of instructing. courses a specialty. Highest possible references. Write care of GOLF, Address Highton, care of GOLF, 48 West Twenty- 48 Wesl 27th Street, seventh Street, New York. New York.

POSITION WANTED—As Super- EORGE SARGENT, professional to Ottawa Golf intendent or Steward of Golf Club; Club, will be open for similar engagement in United States after November 31. First-class any part of country; thoroughly L ;. player, teacher and club-maker. Sober, honest experienced. Excellent references and obliging. Fourteen years'experience. High- from present employers. Address est reference. Apply Box 176, Hull, P. Quebec J. HILTON, P. O., Rye, N. Y.

HERBERT STRONG, professional ANTED—A man of long business experience would like a position with a golf or country club as to the Apawamis Club, Rye, N. Y., MANAGER or SUPERINTENDENT. Is is open for a winter engagement in .thoroughly competent to take care of club's ac- the South. Good player, instruc- counts. Not particular in what part of the coun- tor and club-maker. Best of refer- try club is located. Highest references given. ences. Address HERBERT STRONG, lIKl! •• Write "Z," care GOLF. Apawamis Club, Rye, N. Y. I(;£R5, W«_ LESSONS IN EVERY GOLFER BY SHOULD READ GOLF ALEX SMITH

OPEN CHAMPION JIND WESTERN OPEN CHAMPION, 1906

HE latest and best book on the T Royal and Ancient game. Every part of the game is discussed in these " Lessons," and the instruction is furnished in simple, clear and direct language. The directions given are free from complication, concise, and absolutely to the point. Every golfer who wants to improve his game should give the book his most careful study. In addition to what has appeared in GOLF the book contains a large number of new illustrations and much added text of a very valuable nature.

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"Whatever he may have to say upon the game is certain to "The new book covers the subject in a comprehensive find readers who will benefit by his instructions."—N. Y. manner."—Chicago Record-Herald. Evening Post. "The book is highly interesting and instructive."—JV. Y. "Beginners and even experts can derive any amount of Tribune. help from the book. The test is remarkable for its clearness " His instructions to golf players are plain and to the point, and simplicity. It is an authoritative and complete guide The pictures are particularly fine examples of half-tone that all golfers and intending golfers will want."—N. Y. Sun. printing."—Philadelphia Press.

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