Amateur Championship at Onwentsia. James A

AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP AT ONWENTSIA. JAMES A. TYNG DRIVING FROM THE FIRST TEE. | •

:l GOLF BY APPOINTMENT AN OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING." ESTABLISHED 1884.

UOL \J. 1899. NO. 2.

THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME.-XVIL 'By Dr. J. G. McPherson, St. Andrews, Scotland.

MANNERISM IN GOLF. STYLE, strictly outre, is learned all at once. A swell, who so easily noticed that it had been talking loud as to the sim- becomes a mannerism. plicity of the game, though he had In the beginning some never tried it, one day bought a club make a mistake in style which falls and ball and duly teeing the latter, into a distinctive type. Good scien- set himself to use the former with tific players, who have started at effect. Some football youngsters school, are generally free from any were near the teeing ground. He pectiliarities of style and play pretty missed the ball by passing over it, naturally in the prevailing orthodox he hit the ground behind it and he way; but players who have somehow nearly broke his club by smashing dropped into or forced themselves the ground in front of it. With into a style tmsuited to their irmscu- well-known youngsters' humor, one lar development get even proud of took the football, knocked the golf their mannerisms, though with rare ball from the tee and svibstitutecl the exceptions they are beyond the grade leather, quaintly saying to the swell, of third class. Everybody thinks he " Hae, man, cun ye ket that ? " has the best style, because he never A professional, going out to teach sees himself play. In this, as with a duffer for the first time, could not many other bhinders, his conceit get the prospective player to attend might be floored if he could profit to his instructions. The duffer by the prayer of Burns:— missed the ball very frequently, hut O, wad some pooer the giftie gie us, To see oorsels as ithei

~~LOVE AND GOLF.~~

Its mate the cooing wood-dove wooes Mid leafy covers; In nesting-nooks the songsters choose Their feathered lovers. Bnt Cupid to the open hies; And there, beneath cerulean skies, Within my lady's laughing eyes New charm discovers.

How trim and green the links we tread,— And girt with (lowers! How float the fleecy clouds o'erhead, Like happy hours! And, as our game of golf we play, The links of love we weld today, To bind our hands and hearts for aye, For love is ours.

~~FRANCIS BOWLER KERNE. HERBERT HARRIMAN DRIVING FROM FIRST TEE.~~

ONWENTSIA CLUB, JULY 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1899 j|T is the privilege of those casions recounted the story in the who attended the Amateur following order: The superb course, Championship of 1899 to the matchless management, C. B. recount the doings of the Macdonald's 168, Hollabird, Jr., golfers who participated in the most dimming of Asheville, Fairbanks of successful contest of its kind ever Denver and his forty holes, Linea- held in America. weaver vs. Lynch, Douglas vs. Har- Many times already have I set riman, Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, about the task with audiences vary- the crowd, the fireworks, the vaude- ing from one to a dozen, but now ville, the dances, the dinners and the there loom up before rne tens of general hospitality. But for refer- thousands of golfers who have the ence in years to come I must put in best right to hear anything that I some figures; skip them today if you can tell them. prefer, for I know you will return to Having been the only golf scribe them many times during the next from the eastern states who was pres- twelve months. ent, with the sole exception of H. L. For the moment, then, I am going Fitzpatrick, of the New York Siitt, to solemnly repeat the fact that the and R. Cracknel, of the Boston Globe, length of the championship course of my responsibilities are somewhat the Onwentsia Club at Lake Forest, overwhelming, and, for the sake of 111., was about 5,984 yards, divided convenience, I have on previous oc- up into eighteen holes as follows:— m AT TH£ CHAMPIONSHIP. 89

No. 1 Devil's Dltrh. 2 The Oaks IKS' suggest a single other golf links :i ThTh e Reservoik r 505 4 The Fool SIS which was not, for at least one good B The laddie 2<.v> (i TheLnssie ROO reason, an absolute impossibility. 7 Skokle Memlnw 8:!S K...... Boomerang . .. Those who have attended or had II The Mows 380 any part in the management of one 10 Summit 4 •],! 11 Isle of Woe 4 CO 12 Westward Hn! 510 13 Barren Land 345 M Dismal Swnmji 82:i IS Bonnie Bush 10 The Baby 17 Bunker bill 18 Home 210

Total 5,084 yards. The condition of the turf in the fair green had been brought to the highest state of perfection; and of the putting greens it is only necessary to record that tlaeir size was so immense and the approach so uni- formly even that it -was difficult to tell when you were on the green and when off. The result was that many putts were misjudged so far as distance went, as the score-cards on the opening' day duly recorded. But what puzzled the visitors most were the bunkers closely guarding a number of the greens. Opinions differed as to whether- these -were correctly placed, but 1 am decidedly of the opinion that in most cases they were correct. Some greens had been left open for long- running-up shots, HOBART C. CHATPIELD-TAYLOR- but in most cases it was necessary to of these large gatherings, where from lay the ball dead immediately on 1,000 to 4,000 rather particular peo- carrying- a rather formidable looking ple are gathered together as guests cop bunker. This shot is one of the of a club for a week or ten days, will most difficult in golf, so it is small appreciate the extent of the under- wonder that some critics questioned taking. It was a considerable achieve- the advisability of the plan in vogue. ment for Hobart C. Chatfleld-Taylor, The lengths of the holes tell of the president of the club,upon whom considerable scope for the long gfaine, the chief duties of the local manage- and there was no eastern player who ment fell, to carry the whole thing was not ready to admit that all the through without a visible hitch. criticisms levelled at the United The entertaining of several hun- States Golf Association for selecting dred players and their friends in the Onwentsia had been sadly beside the handsome residences of Lake Forest mark. I have never heard anyone for ten days was one of the simplest 1

~~WATCHING THE STARTERS AT THE FIRST TEE. HARRIM AN, DAY AND TOLER IN THE FOREGROUND.~~

% AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP. 91 preliminary features to arrange. It 1—Charles B. ilacdomild, Chicago Golf Club- Out 4 2 6 4 4 4 5 4 ft-38 was done to perfection, and those In ft D 6 ft 0 6 4 4 5—45-83 Out 5 4 li S 5 5 4 4 5-43 who had not been given abiding places In 6 5 (i ft 4 ft 3 4 3—42—So-168 3—John Reid, Jr., St. Andrews Golf Club- in any other direction were provided Out 5 2 li 5 4 0 6 4 6—43 for at Ferry Hall Seminary, a large In fi (i f> 5 4 4 8 (i 4—43—80 Out 4 8 G 5 4 5 5 (i 5—43 school for young ladies, charmingly In 5 (i 5 4 4 4 4 5 4—41—81—170 situated on high ground overlooking Lake Michigan and within sound of the breaking waves which forever roll in to shore. With the arrival of thousands of hungry and thirsty spectators, many of whom were unfamiliar with the etiquette of golf, other problems arose which needed constant atten- tion. But the details, including special trains, unlimited omnibuses and carriage service, regulation of fares, dining accommodation for thousands, telegraph and telephone connections to all parts, arrangements for press representatives who sent full reports each day to over 1,000 daily newspa- pers, scorers, caddies, waiters and a hundred other necessary matters, had all been planned for with liberality and thoughtfulness. The band, the vocal and instrumental concerts at night, the magnificent display of fireworks on Thursday evening, the vaudeville show on Fri- day and the ball on Saturday are all worthy of mention in these preliminary remarks lest I omit to dilate upon them elsewhere. It is necessary, however, to get down to the golf end of the story, O. B. MACDONALD, Gold Medalist. for with 112 entries, ninety-eight 3—Hndlay S. Douglas, Fairfleld County Golf Club- starters and eighty-six complete Out !i 4 fi C 5 B 5 5 H—4."i In 4 6 B 0 ft 5 4 4 4—42-S7 Out 5 3 ft 5 (i 1 ft 4 G—43 scores handed in for the thirty-six In 0 5 7 4 ft 4 3 5 4—43-80—173 holes in the qualifying round, there 4—David E. Forgan, Onwentsia Club- Out 4 4 ft 4 4 S 6 0 4—41 was far more golf going on than I In 4 5 "> 6 ft 5 4 4 4—42-83 Out 5 3 (i 4 4 0 6 7 6—47 can ever tell you about. In fi 0 7 4 4 3 4 6 4—43—90—173 Here, then, are the scores of the 5—Walter .T. Travis, Oakland Golf Club- Out 5 4 7 5 4 5 ft 4 5—44 thirty-five men who handed in the In 5 ft 5 0 4 4 3 4 4-40-84 Out 5 3 5 5 6 5 ft 3 5-42 best cards:— In 6 ft 8 5 4 5 4 6 4—47—89—173 92 AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

~~CROSSING SKOKIE.~~

8—Walter B. Smith, Onwentsia Club- 14—J. G. Thorp, Oakley Country Club- Out 5 4 0 4 7 S 5 4 (1—40 Out 5 3 8 0 5 6 5 5 5—48 In 4 'I 5 B 4 6 4 4 4—41—87 In 7 6 (I 4 0 3 4 4 4—44—92 Out 5 3 7 4 5 5 5 4 5-4S Out ..5 4 4 5 5 6 0 4 5—44 In 7 6 7 4 5 0 2 4 4—44—87—174 In 5 0 5 5 5 5 4 4 4—43—87—179 7—II. M. Harriman, Meadow Brook Hunt Club- 15—C. A, Lineaweavcr, Philadelphia Country Club— Out 5 5 6 5 5 7 S 5 5-18 Out 4 4 7 5 5 7 5 0 5—4S In 5 6 6 5 4 4 4 5 4—43—91 In 6 5 7 0 4 5 4 4 5—40—94 Out i 4 0 5 4 3 4 4 5—3(1 Out 5 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 7—45 111 5 7 5 5 4 7 4 4 3-44—83—174 In 6 4 6 4 4 4 4 4 4—40—85—179 8—James A. Tyng, Morris County Golf Club- 10—Jasper Lynch, Golf Club of Lakewood— Out 5 8 5 5 4 5 7 5 5-44 Out 5 4 6 4 5 7 5 4 5—45 In 7 5 6 6 4 5 4 4 4—45-89 In 5 5 6 5 6 4 3 5 5—44—8'.) Out 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 4 4—41 Out 5 4 6 5 5 5 6 5 6—47 In 4 6 6 6 5 6 3 6 4—45—SG—176 In 5 6 0 5 5 5 3 5 4—44—91—180 9—Roderick Terry, Jr., Ardsley Golf Club-* 17—John Stuart, Princeton Golf Club- Out 0 3 7 4 5 5 7 5 4—46 Out 6 5 0 4 4 5 5 4 5—4-1 In 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 4—43—89 In 5 6 6 5 4 4 3 5 4—42—80 Out S 4 6 5 4 4 6 3 5—42 Out 0 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 7—41 In 5 6 7 5 4 4 3 0 4—41—86—175 In 8 0 0 0 4 0 4 5 5—50—94—180 10—W. M. McCawley, Merion Cricket Club- 18—T. Sterling iscckwith, Cleveland Golf Club- Out 5 4 7 4 6 5 4 4 4—43 In 6 4 5 5 5 5 3 5 5—43—86 Out 6 3 0 5 9 5 5 5 5—48 Out 5 4 6 4 5 5 5 4 5—43 In 6 5 6 5 6 6 3 4 4—45—93 In 6 6 5 0 6 5 3 5 5—17—90—176 Out 4 3 6 5 4 5 6 5 4—42 11—H. H. dimming, Swannanoa Country Club- In 5 6 6 5 5 5 4 5 5—46—88—181 Out 5 4 6 4 4 4 5 0 0-44 19—Sheldon Carey, Cleveland Golf Club- In 5 5 0 5 0 6 3 5 3—44—88 Out 5 S 0 6 5 4 5 5 4—43 Out 5 3 6 4 6 5 5 7 4—45 In 6 5 8 5 4 6 3 5 5—46—89 In 5 5 5 5 5 6 3 6 3—43—88—170 Out 6 4 6 4 5 5 7 5 6—48 12—Gardiner G. Hubbard, Oakley Country Club- In 5 6 7 5 4 5 4 5 4—45—93—182 20—Walter Fairbanks, Overland Park Golf Chili, Out 8 3 5 8 7 5 4 4 5—44 Denver— In 6 5 6 4 6 4 5 5 4—45—89 Out 5 4 6 7 6 5 5 5 6—49 Out 4 4 5 5 6 5 5 4 5-43 In 5 5 6 4 5 5 4 5 4—43—92 In 5 5 5 7 5 6 4 5 4—46—89—178 Out 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 5 7—46 13—W. Holabird, Jr., Glen View Golf and Polo Club- In 5 5 8 5 5 6 4 5 4—47—93—185 Out 5 8 5 5 5 6 5 5 5—44 81—Stewart Stickney, St. Louis Country Club- 111 5 5 5 6 4 5 4 4 4—42—86 Out 6 3 0 4 6 6 5 4 0—40 Out 5 3 0 5 5 5 0 7 4—46 In 5 4 6 5 5 5 6 5 0—47—93 In 6 5 6 5 5 0 4 5 6—47-93—179 Out 4 4 6 5 6 6 5 5 5—46 In .5 6 5 0 0 6 4 5 3—46—92—185

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%2—James F. Curtis, Essex County Golf Club— First routul. rnllll'l. Tutnl Out 5 4 5 5 li 4 5 4 6—44 T. C. Jenkins, Baltimore 95 93 188 In fi fi 7 4 4 5 4 5 3—44—SS Abram t'cele, Jr., Onwentsia 02 97 180 Out (i 4 It 4 7—17 W. I). Vanderpool, Morris County.... 02 07 189 In II 5—SO—97—ISO E. L. McGlaehlin, Dyker Meadow.... 07 93 83—A. H Smith, Hunti iigdon Valley Golf Club— L. T. Boyd, Milwaukee 93 97 190 Out;.. 4 4 5—4;l ,1. P. KeiloKK, Seabright 112 08 190 in 5 5 •1—16—SI) W. A. Alexander, Exmoor ..107 S7 102 Out 5 5 5-48 II. C. Omumings. Washington Paik... 05 97 192 In 0 5 •J—'18—90- F. .It. Hamlin, Chicago 93 09 192 Thomas Taylor, Jr., Onwontsia 00 97 193 34—W. E. Egun, Onwe tsiu Club— Ralph Crac'knell, Oakley 04 99 193 Out. ....5 5-45 Alex. Morten, Westchester county, ..103 91 101 In ... 4—47—02 Clarence Moore, chevy Chase ',... 92 102 104 Out. ....•I C—l \V. li. Kirk, Onweutsin 102 93 105 In... li 5 7 4 (i 4-50—'.14— ISO W. l'\ I'illsburv, Onwentsia 07 08 105 105 35-11. MeBride, Clovel mid Golf Club— G. H. liussell. Milwaukee 92 103 103 105 4 5—45 O. D. Thompson, Allegheny 92 Out. ..5 4 (I li 4 F. ("J. Miller, Glenview 98 9S 101', in. .5 U (i 4 li 4—17-02 Glenvillc Kane, Tuxedo 08 9S 100 Out 4 4 5-45 1'helpsB. Hoyt, Glenview 09 08 107 0 li 5 4 5—49—94—ISO 102 19S In 5 5 Theodore Sheldon, Chicago 00 198 !(>—Richard Sykes, C •rlniid Park Golf Club, Den- li. S. Home, Allegliany. 01 107 105 198 vcr— II. K. Allen, Riverside 93 100 Out 5 5 5 4 5 5—45 O. A. Barnard, Rock Island Arsenal.103 00 200 In fi 5 5 5 6 4—17—92 R. G. Watson, Jr., Onwenlsia 98 102 201 Out (1 5 fi—-IS C. B. Carey, Wollaston 98 103 202 In li (i 4-4li—94-1SG Howard El ting, St. Louis 10(1 90 203 Walker iMeKittrick, St. Louis 101 102 203 !J7—Slason Thompson, Onwentsia Club— I). M. Cummings, Washington Park.. 105 98 203 Out 5 4 5 5 fi 5 5 4 5—14 (.:. W. Burr, Eoek Island Arsenal 103 100 205 In 5 5 (i 5 5 5 4 5 4—44—SS J. W. Watson, Fxmoor 9(i 100 205 Out (i 3 7 5 5 4 li 8 fi—13 G. A. McKinlock, Onwentsia 103 102 205 111 5 6 9 (i 5 7 4 7 4 - 53—OS— 18fi W. J. Osborne, Glenview 101 104 205 38—Henry P. Toler, Baltnsrol Golf Club— E. .1. Frost, Chicago 09 100 205 1'', I'. Frazier, Glenview 94 1.11 200 Out 6 5 fi 4 4 5 li 5 5—Hi \V. I), Young, Baltimore 100 10(1 207 In 5 5 5 li 4 5 4 4 4—42—SS P. K. Tynff, Bulfalo 102 105 20S Out 7 3 7 U 5 li li 5 7—52 W. J. Patton, Allegheny 102 10(1 20S In 5 5 (i 5 5 a 4 (i 5-40—'JS—18H .1. D. Hubliard, Onwenlsia 105 103 208 *IInrold C. Smith, Onwentsia Club— J. M. Kirk, Glenview 102 209 Out 7 4 7 5 4 li 5 5 4—47 G. F. Fiske, Onwentsia 103 10(1 210 In li 5 8 4 5 (! 3 5 3—45—92 H. E. Havemeyer, Knoll wood Ill 99 21.". R. S. York, Cleveland 104 109 218 Out 5 4 7 5 7 N 0 4 (1—52 222 In « 5 (1 4 5 4 4 5 4-43—05—187 F. L. Denny, Chevy Chase 104 114 J. D. Cody, Rock Island Arsenal 100 110 22fi *\Villium Waller, Onwentsia Club- D H.MeAlpin, Mount Pleasant Field. 107 1.19 22B Out 4 4 (i 4 4 fi 5 5 5—43 T. T. Watson, Exmoor 108 118 In fi 5 (1 5 fi 5 4 S 4—49-02 Out 5 4 fi fi 5 4 5 5 8—18 Those who withdrew at the end of In 7 5 (1 li 5 (i ;', 5 4—17—95—187 the first round, with their scores, *H. M. Billings, Ardsley Golf Club- were:— Out 5 5 8 5 5 5 5 5 7—50 In fi 5 7 4 4 5 3 5 4—43—93 J. J. McOloskey, Swannauoa 94 .1. M. Sellers, Glenview 95 Out U 5 5 4 4 5 0 4 7—40 E. R. Driver, Riverside 97 111 5 5 7 5 5 5 4 8 4-48—91—187 Burdett O'Connor, Staten Island OS *A. JI. Bobbins, St. Andrew's Golf Club- Albert Shaller, Sinnissippi 09 Out 5 5 6 4 6 5 fi 8 fi—51 Allan Reid, Cincinnati 00 H. H. Shearson, Chicago 101 111 5 5 7 3 (1 5 5 4 4—14—95 K. L. Ames, Exmoor 104 Out 5 4 8 4 5 li fi 4 5—47 Ralph Poole, Onwentsia 105 In 7 5 0 7 5 4 3 4 4—45—92—187 J. Moorehead, Jr, Allegheny 107 II. R. Rhea, Allegheny 109 *W. C. Carnegie, Allegheny Golf Club- E. C. Green, Onwentsia 113 Out 5 4 8 5 5 5 (i 4 S—48 In 7 5 7 6 5 0 4 4 4—48—9li The following men did not put in Out 6 5 0 6 fi 0 5 5 5-41) an appearance: B. S. Warren, Detroit;. 111 5 5 0 4 5 5 3 4 5-42-01—187 •Nicholas Longworth, Cincinnati Golf Club- J. McLennan,Cleveland; F. C. Have- Out 4 3 8 5 7 5 5 0 4—45 meyer, New Haven; J. S. Sweeney, In 5 fi 6 5 6 4 3 4 4—43—88 Out 5 4 fi 5 7 fi 5 5 5—48 Detroit; Q. A. Shaw,Myopia; George In 5 5 7 6 6 7 5 fi 4—51—99—187 C. Cafferty, Chevy Chase; W. M. Mur- "Howard A. Colby, Essex County Golf Club- ray, Allegheny; S. D. Bowers, Cin- Out 0 3 5 5 5 (> 4 5 5—14 In 5 5 0 6 5 5 3 5 5—45—89 cinnati; T. H. Newberry, Detroit;. Out 4 5 6 8 8 7 fi 4 5-53 In 5 5 (i 0 fi 5 3 5 4—15—98—187 W. R. Proctor, Allegheny; R. A. * !J!) to 33.—Tied at 187 for last four places. Rainey, Cleveland; D. Brandreth, The remainder who completed the Mount Pleasant Field; P. W. Har- full circuit were:— vey, Allegheny; Holbrook Curtis,. First Second round, round. Total Shinnecock Hills. J. I. Blair, Jr., Morris County 08 92 188 W. P. Smith, Huntingdon Valley.... 90 02 188 A. L. Norris, Dyker Meadow -:... 94 1)4 188 O. 0. Fuller, Milwaukee 95 93 18g C. B. MACDONALU AND HERBERT HAKRIJIAN ON THE SIXTEENTH GEEEN. THE SEMI-FINALISTS AND OFFICIALS. W. J. TRAVIS, C. B, MACDONALD. P. S. DOUGLAS. H. M. HARRIMAN SYDNEY WILLIAMS. H. J. MCBIRNEY. H. C. CHATFIELD-TAYLOR. W. B. THOMAS. R. B. KERR. JOHN REID. A. M. DAY.

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It should be remembered that the County, defeated William Waller, On- afternoon round was played in a wentsia, 13 up, 12 to play. drenching rain, notwithstanding D. R. Forgau, Onwentsia, defeated which quite a number of players im- H. II. dimming, Swannanoa, 2 up, proved on their morning scores, 1 to play. thovtgh the majority found the course G. G.'l-Iubbard, Oakley, defeated more difficult. The seven men who W. E. Egan, Onwentsia, 8 up, 6 to tied for the last four positions fought play. their battle out on the following James A. Tyng, Morris County, de- morning over the first few holes. feated John Stuart, Princeton, 6 up. Robbins, Carnegie, Smith and. Wal- 5 to play. ler were the fortunate winners. C. J. G. Thorp, Oakley, defeated Shel- B. Macdonald won the gold medal, as don Carey, Cleveland, 8 up, 7 to play. will be observed by the list of scores, Walter B. Smith, Onwentsia, de- and his 168 certainly places him where feated H. McBride, Cleveland, 13 up, he belongs, at the very top of medal 12 to play. players. He also took the cup William Holabird, Jr., Glen View, offered by the association as an defeated W. M. McCawley, Merion added trophy, while John Reid, Jr., Cricket, 6 up, 5 to play. secured the1 second prize and, af- Charles B. Macdonald, Chicago, ter a play off, Findlay Douglas the defeated Stewart Stickney, St. Louis, third. 14 up,12 to play. TUESDAY. Roderick Terry, Jr., Ardsley, de- This was not a pleasant day for the feated Slason Thompson, Onwentsia, spectators, owing to wet weather, but 2 up, 1 to play. the golfers put in a hard day's work, H. M. Harriman, Meadowbrook, and some most exciting matches were defeated W. C. Carnegie, Allegheny, the result. Towards evening the rain 10 up, 8 to play. cleared off and the finishes were Walter Fairbanks, Overland Park, watched by a large assemblage of en- defeated J. F. Curtis, Essex County, thusiasts. The sixteen matches were 1 up,—(40 holes). finally concluded in the following or- H. P. Toler, Baltusrol, defeated H. der :•— C. Smith, Onwentsia, 4 up, 3 to play. John Reid, Jr., St. Andrews, de- One of the most interesting matches feated Sterling Beckwith, Cleveland, of the day was that between Charles 7 up, 6 to play. • P. Lineaweaver, of the Philadelphia A. M. Robbins, St. Andrews, de- Cricket Club, and Jasper. Lynch, of feated Richard Sykes, Overland Park, Lakewood. Both were at the top of i up. their game and it was a nip and tuck W. J. Travis, Oakland, defeated A. struggle throughout. They finished Ii. Smith, Huntingdon Valley, io up, the first round all square, the Phila- 9 to play. delphian missing a yard put for the C. P. Lineaweaver, Philadelphia home hole. The second journey was County, defeated Jasper Lynch, Lake- even more exciting. Going out at the wood, i up—(37 hole). turn Lineaweaver was 1 down, but the Findlay S. Douglas, Fairfield contest was brought all even with four 98 AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP, holes to play. The next went to the sniffed at Fairbanks's ball. It had the Philadelphian, but he narrowly es- desired effect, for the long putt was caped throwing the match away on the made and the match ag"ain halved. home green. He missed a somewhat With an immense gallery behind easy put and this brought the scores them, both gave an indifferent display even up; playing the extra hole, both of golf, and the thirty-seventh was got off good drives. Lynch was halved in six. Curtis got the best short with his second, playing the drive for the short hole, but ran his odd he made himself hole high, two ball away over the cup and down the yards from the cup. Lineaweaver, who opposite slope with his approach putt. was at the edge of the green with his It cost him two more to go down and second, pitched his approach and laid the hole was halved in four. his opponent a dead stymie. Lynch Driving for the 39th (505 yards), failed in negotiating and the Phila- Fail-banks sliced into the rushes on delphian took the hole in 4 to 5 and the right and barely moved a couple the match by 1 up. of feet with his second. His third By far the most exciting match of was well away and a good brassey the day, though not the best golf, was took him up to within 120 yards of the battle between Walter Fairbanks the green. Then a perfect iron shot of the Overland Park Club, Denver, cleared the bunker and left the ball and James F. Curtis, of the Essex ten feet from the hole. In the mean- County Club, Manchester, Mass., time Curtis, after a good drive, had which took forty holes, Fairbanks played short with his brassey and re- finally winning. quired a second stroke with this club It was a match almost without pre- to get alongside the bunker guarding cedent. the green. His approach ran across The men played remarkably even the green and, on putting, the ball throughout, being even up at the over-ran the hole four feet, and the ninth on the morning round, and also score stood equal. Fairbanks settled at the eighteenth, neither having been down to his ten-foot putt and made it more than one up on the other. amidst most unseemly shouts and It was the same story in the after- yells. Curtis, not to be outdone, got noon, and they drove for the home his ball down, and the match looked green all square. The "old man" as though it might continue all night. (Fairbanks) reached the bunker on Turning for the 40th, Fairbanks his drive, while Curtis was just to the had a perfectly straight ball of about left. The Englishman played short 175 yards and Curtis was only a few to the side and approached with his feet behind. His approach was a bit next to within twenty feet of the cup. short, but in his third the ball ran to Playing one off two Curtis ap- within ten feet of the cup. Fairbanks proached to within five yards of the approached on to the green and then cup and his next was stone dead. It ran a thirty-foot putt within a few looked to be all over, but the unfore- inches of the hole. Curtis missed his seen happened. A little white dog with putt and the match was won. a stumpy tail and a black spot on the D. R. Forgan was all but put out left ear ran out from the crowd and by the rank outsider, H. H. Cum- AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP. 99 ming. When the latter essayed to sia, 13 up and 11 to play; G. G. Hub- drive off from the first tee there was bard, Oakley, beat J. A. Tyng, Morris a roar of laughter at his awkward County, 5 up and 4 to play; J. G. style. Gumming was as cool as a Thorp, Oakley, beat W. B. Smith, cucumber, however, and just turned Onwentsia, 2 up; C. B. Macdonakl, round and waited till it was over and Chicago, beat W. Holabird, Jr., Glen- then drove a corker. Thereafter the view, 6 up and 4 to play; H. M. Har- hitherto unknown southern player riman, Meadow Brook, beat R. Terry, made the Onwentsia star golfer play Jr., Ardsley, 2 up; H. P. Toler, Bal- the best game he knew how, and it tusrol, beat W. Fairbanks, Denver, 2 was only by the narrow margin of 2 up and 1 to play. up and 1 to play that the match was The best golf of the tournament was won. Cumming played in all four shown by Findlay Douglas in his rounds during the tournament and his match with D. R. Forgan. In the figures are worth recording—88, 88, morning the amateur champion made 87, 89. He certainly has a peculiar the Onwentsia crack look like a com- swing back in addressing the ball, but plete novice, and yet it cannot be said he "gets there" with a vengeance, and that Forgan was off his game more his unassuming manners will make than a stroke or two. him a popular contestant anywhere. The scores by strokes were:— Douglas let up on William Waller Douglas, out 4 3 5 4 5 4 5 5 5—40 Forgau, out B 4 0 5 4 5 7 4 7—47 in the afternoon round, so the On- Douglas, in 5 4 5 4 5 5 4 5 3—10—SO Forgan, in 0 6 5 4 0 0 3 5 4—45—02 wentsian got off with a beating by 13 In the afternoon seven of the up and 12 to play. eighteen holes sufficed in the match W. Holabird, Jr., a boy of 16, with between the two Scotsmen, as after an extremely graceful swing, gave each had won a hole and halved the W. M. McCawley a surprise. The first, Douglas captured the fourth, Glen View player is just as likely to fifth, sixth and seventh and the match take the championship West in an- by no less than 13 up and 11 to play. other year or two as anyone else in The figures read:— sight. Douglas, out 5 8 0 4 4 5 6 Harold Smith caught H. P. Toler at Forgan, out 5 4 5 5 5 C 7 the very top of his game and yet made Forgan himself was the first to ad- a very respectable showing. mit : "I was not in his class at all." WEDNESDAY. By a rather careless round in the The rounds were played today in morning A. M. Robbins, who .had fine weather and the course was left never played against his club-mate, in excellent shape after the heavy John Reid, Jr., before, lost his chance rains. The following is a summary of the match. Robbins was no less of the play:— than 5 down at the end of the first John Reid, Jr., St. Andrews, beat half and had to play a very hard game A. M. Robbins, St. Andrews, 1 up; to make the score 2 up and I to play W. J. Travis, Oakland, beat S. C. in Reid's favor at the finish. Lineaweaver, Philadelphia, 3 up and 1 G. G. Hubbard played a splendid to play; Findlay Douglas, Fairfield game against J. A. Tyng, particularly County, beat D. R. Forgan, Onwent- when it is remembered that he had 100 A T THE CHAMPIONSHIP. had less practise than almost any man pected, was now the only western in the tournament. Hubbarcl is very representative left in the bunch of nearly, if not quite, the best golfer eight. in New England, and it is seldom that The day was concluded with a good he breaks down when pushed hard. vocal and instrumental concert in the J. G. Thorp, Hubbard's club-mate, clubhouse. put out Walter Smith, but not by the THURSDAY. margin that at one time looked in- Summary of the day's play:— evitable. Smith has still to master Walter J. Travis, Oakland, beat the art of driving. He gets as long a John Reid, Jr., St. Andrews, 2 up, 1 ball as ever, and if he could play a to play. match without slicing and pulling all F. S. Douglas, Fairfield County, over the course, would make a fine beat G. G. Hubbard, Oakley Country, player. This he seems unable to do, 7 up, 6 to play. and if another season goes by without C. B. Macdonald, Chicago, beat J. a change for the better, I fear that G. Thorp, Oakley Country Club, 3 Walter Smith will no longer be con- up, 2 to play. sidered in the first rank. IT. M. Harriman, Meadowbrook, IT. M. Harriman found Roderick beat H. P. Toler, Baltusrol, 6 up, 4 to Terry, Jr., a hard nut to crack, as the play. Ardsley player stuck to the Metro- "Young" John Reid was a wee bit politan champion like a leech to the careless in the morning round. He very finish. It was a very fine match. nevertheless finished the trip one up' H. P. Toler and W. Fairbanks were with a score of 90, which was the same atfa another pair that turned for home with number of strokes taken by Walter J.. the match in considerable doubt. Travis. In the afternoon the Oakland Toler played the game of his life in the player used the advantage of his larger morning round, and his display in the experience with effect, and just wort afternoon was thoroughly worthy of the match. Although the St. An- the reputation he made two or three drews man was defeated he was by no seasons ago. It is quite a mistake to means disgraced, and will often be look upon men like Toler, Tyng and heard from again. Fairbanks as "has-beens;" they will At one time it looked as though J. be found well to the front for years to G. Thorp would repeat his victory of come; at least, I hope so. 1896 over Macdonald, but the pawky C. B. Macdonald administered to player had to give way before the the possible needs of W. Holabird, good display made by the Wheaton Jr. I like to see these younger play- crack. ers defeated now and again by the golf As night came on the whole links lions, as it will make them into much were illuminated by Chinese lanterns, better golfers later on. Otherwise and at 9 o'clock a long row of colored Holabird, Jr., deserved better luck, Bengal lights were burnt as a pre- for he is a charming player, with a liminary to an excellent display of style modeled exactly on the lines of fireworks. The rockets and bombs Laurence Auchterlonie, his golf men- were particularly successful, but the tor. C. B. Macdonald, as fully ex- piece de resistance was the remarkably AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP. J01

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H. M. HARklMAN AND C. B. MACDONALD ON THE NINTH GREEN. goorl representation of a golfer in fire- steadily outdrove Macdonald, but it works. The cap, coat, knickers and was in his putting and short iron work- shoes were represented in colors, that he particularly excelled, and it which changed from time to time, and was this that eventually won his the whole thing went off most sue- match. Macdonald's work was a dis- cessfully amidst loud and prolonged appointment to the westerners, but cheers. The figure must have been every eastern player who saw the taken from a picture of Willie Park, Metropolitan Championship, and had Jr., at the top of the swing, and while watched Iiarriman for the last year it burnt at Onwentsia Willie was be- was fully prepared for the result. Dur- moaning his fate at North Berwick ing the first nine holes of the morning that day. There were more than two round he played well, but in coming miles of carriages waiting at the club in he fell down badly on his iron work to drive the guests home that night, and lost several holes by poor putting FRIDAY. that he should have at least halved. , _ . _, . , Herbert M Harrlman, Meiidowbrook Hunt Club, rindlay b. Douglas, bairfield, beat Hempstoaa, i. L— Walter J. Travis, Oakland, 2 up, 1 to fcZZr'Z.zi VI It i It tS-« , Out I 5 5 4 4 i 6 4 (i-41 play. in 1 5 0 5 Herbert M. Harrilliail Meadow- Charies B. Maaaonald, Chioago Golf 01ub,Wheaton, brook, beat Charles B. Macdonald, out e 3*5 .11454 5-40 _., , ' , , In 0 5 7 5 4 5 3 5 4-44—84 Chicago, 6 up, s to play. Out 5 ti H i s a «-4s & ' L ' s l in 0 I! 6 5 Throughout his match Harriman * Approximated, played brilliant and steady golf. He Douglas had the closest match that 102 AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

he had played in the tournament. It "t'irty-cent" show for them. It came was not until the thirtieth hole had off in the large dining-hall on Fri- been played out in the afternoon that day night, and turned out to be a he had the match even fairly well in howling success. As a matter of in- hand. By winning the hole he was terest I reproduce on the next page 4 up, 6 to play. the poster program with which we

Findlay S. Douglas, Fairfleld County Club, Green- were all Stipplied. •wieh, Conn.— out i i 6 6 '•'• 4 * * •<-:i!l SATURDAY. In i 6 0 4 B 6 8 4 3—11—80 0"-" " I I I ,'j i I \ r4:i Perfect weather and a crowd

~~DOUGLAS DRIVING IN HIS MATCH WITH TRAVIS.~~

Walter J.Travis, Oakland Golf Club, Bay Side, L. I. of aD0Ut two thousand spectators Out 4 4 6 5 5 5*0 1 .1—18 . ,, ,. , , in *o 5 0 4 6 6 8 5 4—44—87 made the links an extreme!)' at- Out : 5 4 fi 4 4 5 4 6 4—41 . , ,. , , . , . in o 5 0 5 4 4 3 i tractivx e and lively spot long before "Approximated. the two finalists put in an appearance. Some eastern players had facetious- Neither Douglas nor Harriman had ly remarked that Onwentsia was "too been in the habit of retiring to bed far from the Bowery," and soon after very early, as the majority of contest- my arrival Chatfield-Taylor confided ants did, but they nevertheless ap- to me that he had arranged a real peared to be in perfect fettle and full

1 1 AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP. 103 of confidence when they met at the 1st his true form. At the same time the tee. The general opinion at the mo- best golfer is he who can play a win- ment of starting- was that Douglas ning game when the occasion re- would win, but immediately it was quires, and Harriman has fully dem- seen that he was off in his putting, onstrated on more than one golf those of us who watched his matches course that he is equal to any emer- at Garden City and Baltimore were gency if he really makes up liis mind to win. Over and over again I had to tell people at Onwentsia that there was only one man who could beat ONWENTSIA Douglas and that was H. M. Harri- MUSIC HALL! man, if he could only be induced to fully exert himself. At Wheaton, in Continuous '97, he had disappointed me so badly that I doubted, not his ability, but his Vaudeville determination to win. 8 a. m. to 8 a. m. The uphill fight Douglas made for supremacy in the last half of the match JULY 7, 1899. was worth traveling- all the way to Onwentsia to witness. It was one of 10, 20, 30 ? the most exciting finishes ever seen POLK & COLLINS, Worfd'a ChnnUHnn liiiijultli- in an important tournament. Stroke BABY LUND, by stroke and hole by hole he crept Infant Prodi*? CHIMiltnw. ZiSKA, up to the American player, until half the gallery fully believed that it would FOOARTY & LAVIONB, PtmhAW Km Time and Hutk DanUn. be a tic 011 the home green. The LEW HAWKINS, crowd grew wildly excited, but fortunately the management held it so INTERMISSION. well in hand that at no point were the Adjournment to [lie Smiildnit I; with Impromptu programme of Amateur Talent players really interfered with. The following is a fairly accurate prepared to cheer a real American- description of the race from start to born Amateur Champion at last. finish:— Douglas pressed on almost every tee First Hole, 388 yards, bogie 5— shot and with wonderful effect. He Douglas drove fully 200 yards, Harri- kept perfect direction and outdrove man about three yards short. Harri- Harriman at nearly every hole. It man's odd made the green, Douglas's was in his putting- alone that he fell like a few feet short to the right. A away, dimming-, of Asheville, would fine running-up approach by Douglas most certainly have made a better made up for the distance he had been show than did Douglas in the morn- short on before and the ball was within ing round. Toler, Terry and Mac- five feet. Harriman getting dead on donald had all given Harriman much the like. Douglas ran the putt down closer matches, both as regards holes in splendid style and it was halved in and strokes, and it is perfectly cer- 4- tain that Douglas was not showing Second Hole, [88 yards, bogie 4—• 404 AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP. Douglas was short of the green and was on nicely. Harriman overran to the right, Harriman getting- on fair- three yards on his approach, Douglas ly. A well-pitched mashie laid Doug- lying dead on the like. Harriman's las nearly dead, Harriman getting try for the half rimmed, and it was in the same enviable place on the like. Douglas's hole, 4 to 5, Harriman 3 Douglas failed on the short put and up. Harriman had the hole in 3 to 4. Har- Seventh Hole, 388 yards, bogie 5—• riman 1 up. Douglas pulled his honor and was Third Hole, 505 yards, bogie 6— short, getting into the road, but Har- After fine tee shots, Harriman got riman made a fine tee shot. Douglas's away a splendid brassey on the odd, second from the poor lie was short, but the ball had a slight pull and was but he made a fine recovery to the far nearly bunkered by a side trap, Doug- side of the green by a full iron shot. las on the like getting nearer the Harriman had pitched his second shot green and on the direct line. Play- over the Skokie. On his third he ing from the rough near the trap, Har- pitched on, playing Douglas's like. riman pitched within six yards of the Harriman was down in 5, but Doug- hole, and Douglas on the like was las made poor work of the putting and four yards. Harriman's fourth lay needed 7. Harriman 4 up. very close, and Douglas tried to gob- Eighth Hole, 275 yards, bogie 4— ble the hole on the like, but overran Harriman was trapped from his tee two feet. Douglas again failed to put shot and only out on his second, out, and Harriman had the hole in 5 Douglas on the like getting short on to 6. Harriman 2 up. the green. Making the green on the Fourth Hole, 315 yards, bogie 4— odd, Harriman was safe in two more, With the wind back of the ball Doug- but Douglas could not manage his las outdrove Harriman, getting a puts and he needed 4 to get down. carry and roll of 225 yards. Both Harriman's hole, 5 to 6. Harriman 5 wore on the far side of the g-reen on up. their seconds, Harriman away. His Ninth Hole, 380 yards, bogie 5— approach put was quite close, but Both made the green on their ap- Douglas was short and failed to run proaches, Douglas playing his from down his five-foot put. It was Har- the bunker. They made no breaks riman's hole in 4 to 5. Harriman 3 in putting and halved in 5. Harriman up. still 5 up. Fifth Hole, 295 yards, bogie 5— Tenth Hole, 445 yards, bogie 5— They were again over the green on Playing the odd after the drives and their seconds, and the approach shots second shots, Harriman half-topped were both short, leaving to each a with his iron, but there was plenty of three-yard put. Douglas failed to get force back of the ball and it rebounded down, but Harriman made the put in from the trap bunker and reached the grand style, winning the hole in 4 to green's edge. Douglas on the like 5. Harriman was 4 up. being within three yards of the hole. Sixth Hole, 300 yards, bogie 5— Getting" within easy putting distance, Harriman was somewhat short on his on his fourth, Harriman half-stymied second, but, using a spoon, Douglas Douglas, who failed to put around the '

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A POLO GAME AT ONWENTSIA. stymie on the like, but laid the hall Fifteenth Hole, 327 yards, bogie 5 dead. Harriman missed the easy put —They made the green on their sec- on the odd, and it was Douglas's hole onds, Harriman with a mid iron and in 5 to 6. Harriman 4 up. Douglas using his mashie. They Eleventh Hole, 400 yards, bogie 5 halved in 4. —Both were on the green in brassey Sixteenth Hole, 140 yards, bogie 3 shots with their seconds, Douglas on —Harriman drove within a yard of the the near and Harriman on the far hole, Douglas four yards short, both edge. Both were within twelve inches using cleeks, Douglas overran his ap- 011 their approach puts, but Douglas proach put and, playing another, failed on the easy chance to get down. failed to get down. Harriman took Harriman's hole in 4 to 5 and he was no chances and won in 3 to 4. Flarri- again 5 up. man 6 up. Twelfth Hole, 510 yards, bogie 6— Seventeenth Hole, 300 yards, bogie Both made the green on their thirds, 5—Harriman was on the green with Douglas playing his from the trap his second, Douglas off in the rough bunker and being short. The cham- to the right, but green high. Douglas pion had too much to do and Harri- was short on the odd, Harriman rim- man won in 5 to 6. Harriman 6 up.. ming on the like and winning in 4 to Thirteenth Hole, 345 yards, bogie 5. Harriman 7 up. 5—Douglas pulled his drive to long Eighteenth Hole, 210 yards, bogie grass and was short on his second, 4—Harriman drove to the edge of the Harriman on the like getting hole green, Douglas fifteen yards short. high. A fine half-iron made the Douglas was within two yards on his green for Douglas on his third, Har- mashie pitch. Harriman getting with- riman being on with the like,. Each in a yard on the like. Douglas failed lost a chance in putting, and they to put out, but Harriman ran his halved in 6. down on the like very neatly, winning Fourteenth Hole, 323 yards, bogie in 3 to 4. Harriman 8 Up. 4—Harriman was in the bunker be- Nineteenth Hole.—Both were on fore the green on his second, but both the far edge of the green on their sec- were, on the green in 3. The ap- onds. Douglas was short on his third, proach puts were within a foot of the but Harriman approached nicely and, cup, Harriman failing" to get down, as Douglas failed to get clown on his and Douglas had the hole in 5 to 6. long try, it was the Meadowbrook Harriman 5 up. man's hole in 4 to 5. Harriman 9 up.

_ A T THE CHAMPIONSHIP. 107 Twentieth Hole.'—Both overdrove the river and floated away. Douglas the green and were short on their lifted his back without penalty and seconds. They halved in 4. pitched it to the green, but Harriman Twenty-first Hole.—They were on had to drop and pick up a stroke pen- the green in 3. Harriman on the odd alty, and he played 5 to the green. His and Douglas on the like each missed approach put was dead, but Douglas a foot put for a 5. Halved in 6. was dead on his fourth, so they lifted. Twenty-second Hole.—Harriman Douglas's hole in an approximated 5 pulled his drive into the crowd along to 6. Harriman 5 up. the ropes, but the spectators scattered Twenty-sixth Hole.—Douglas was and the flight was not interfered with, in the trap bunker on his drive, as Har- Douglas sending a fine straight ball. riman had been in the morning. Har- Harriman made the green by a fine, riman drove well. Both men were on full iron shot, but Douglas did still the green on their seconds, but each better and was only two yards from lost a stroke in putting, and they the cup. Harriman overran his at- halved in an indifferent 5. tempt to gobble the hole, and Doug- Twenty-seventh Hole.—Harriman las won in 4 to 5. Harriman 8 up. was on the far edge of the green on Twenty-third Hole.—The drives his second, but Douglas was in the were good, but Harriman had a slight rough to the right of the green. He pull and lodged in the rough. He pitched out dead to the hole, Harri- sliced his second, nearly going out of man getting within a yard. Harri- bounds, and played 2 more to the man failed on the put. Douglas's green. Douglas, on his second, was hole, 4 to 5. Harriman 4 up. near the hole. He won in 4 to 5. Har- Twenty-eighth Hole.—Halved in 5, riman 7 up. after Harriman had missed a good try Twenty-fourth Hole.—Playing the for 4 on a long put. odd, Hai'riman made the green on Twenty-ninth Hole.—-Both were on his second, Douglas on the like drop- the green in 2. Douglas was away ping his ball within a yard of the hole. and overran the hole a yard on the Harriman was still short on his third odd, Harriman putting short. On the arid over on his fourth, and it was odd again Harriman failed to get safe, Douglas's hole in 4 to 5. Harriman 6 and Douglas ran down in fine style up. for 4 to his opponent's 5. Harriman Twenty-fifth Hole.—This was full of 3 HP- incidents. Harriman drove rather Thirtieth Hole.—Halved in 5, a short and the lie was a cuppy one. stroke under bogie, but Douglas Playing the odd, Harriman failed to nearly holed out on his approach, the hit the ball cleanly and he sliced into ball rimming. Harriman was also the road before the Skokie River. On dead on the like. Harriman still 3 account of the rains earlier in the week up. the river had overflown its banks, and Thirty-first Hole.—Both were close Douglas on the like got his ball into to the green on their seconds, Doug- a pool due to this cause. Harriman las just missing the bunker and Har- had a wretched lie, and though he riman to the left. Both were some- banged his ball out, it failed to carry what short on their thirds. Harri- 108 A T THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

man was away. He laid his approach drove the green with a brassey spoon, put very close, and Douglas., who had Harriman getting hole high with his a possible put, failed to get down on driving iron. Douglas had a poor lie the like. They halved in 5. behind some trees and hit hard to get Thirty-second Hole.—Making the a cut, but the stroke was somewhat green on their seconds, Harriman was topped and he overplayed badly, short on his first put, but Douglas was Playing two more, he again overran within a yard, but he failed to run the and he failed to get down on the next ball when the chance came, and they attempt, but was close up. Taking halved in 5. one of the 3 he had to spare, Harri- Thirty-third Hole.—Douglas had man lay dead, and he won the hole in the better of the drives, for Harriman 3 to 5. Harriman won by 3 up and 2 sliced into long grass. Short on his to play. The cards:— second, due to the poor lie, Harriman Harriman 4 3544555 5—40 1 Douglas 4 4 6 5 5 4 7 6 5—46 made the green in T.. Douglas was Harriman n 4 B 6 6 4 3 4 8—41—81 " . Douglas 5 5 6 6 5 14 5 4—44—90 over the green on his second, so it g""™'1 * \ \ \ \ \§ | f was like as they lay when the putting Hartman=5 5 5 5 s g g * began. Douglas got down in 2 more, tApproximated. *Bye holes, but Harriman failed on an eight-inch The best managed and most de- put to halve. Douglas's hole in 5 to lightful Amateur Golf Championship •6. Harriman 2 up. ever held was over, and we rushed for Thirty-fourth Hole.—Douglas over- the trains.

-I Complete Record of Play for the American Amateur Golf Championship of 1899, John Reid, Jr I, John Reid, Jr 7 up 6 to plas'. John Reid, Jr.. Sterling Beckwith f lup. R. Sykes ) A.M. Robbins A. M. Eobbins / lup. IV. J. Travis W. J. Travis 1 W. J. Travis f 2 up 1 to play. A.H Smith j" 10 up 9 to play. W. J. Travis Jasper Lynch 1 G. P. Linea weaver 3 up 1 to play. Findlay S. Douglas. C. P. Lineaweaver j 1 up (37 holes). 2 up 1 to play. Findlay S. Douglas I Findlay S. Douglas William Waller f IS up 12 to play. Findlay S. Douglas. IS up 11 to play. H. H. Cumming I D. R. Forgan Findlay S. Douglas. D. R. Forgan I 2 up 1 to play. 7 up B to play. G. G. Hubbard ) G. G. Hubbard W.E-Egan f 8 up 6 to play. G. G. Hubhard James A. Tyng "I James A. Tyng 5 up 4 to play. II. 51. Harriman. John Stuart j 6 up o to play. 3 up 2 to play. Sheldon Cary 1 J. G. Thorp J. G. Thorp } 5 up 7 to play. J. G. Thorp Herbert McBride 1 W. B Smith 2 np 1 to play. C. B. Maedoiiald.. W. B. Smith j 13 up 12 to play. 3 up 2 to play. W. M. McCawley I W. Holabird, Jr. C. B. Macdonald... W. Holabird, Jr f 6 up 5 to play. 6 up 4 to play. Stewart Stickney (. C. B Macdonald H. M. Harriman... C. B. Macdonald I 14 up 12 to play. 6 up 5 to play. Roderick Terry, Jr. I Roderick Terry, Jr. H. M. Harriman. Slason Thompson ( 2 up 1 to play. 2 up. H. M. Harrhnan I H. M. Harriman H. M. Harriman.. W. C. Carnegie f 30 up S to play. 6 up 4 to play. Walter Fairbanks i Walter F'airbanks J. F. Curtis ! 1 up (40 holes). H. P. Toler H. P. Toler 1 H. P. Toler 2 up 1 to play. H. C. Smith { 4 up S to play. PARK VERSUS VARDON For £100 a. Side, at North Berwick,

~~Reported for GOLF by Dr. J, G. MacPherson.~~

HE first half of the most in- and the adopted home of its pioneers. teresting golf match since Park, in 1898, was beaten for the the days of Allan Robert- championship by Vardon by only one son has taken place at stroke, and he challenged the victor to North Berwick. The town is a favor- a hole and hole match of 72 holes— ite resort of the inhabitants of Edin- the half on Park's green and the other burgh and a happy hunting ground to half on Vardon's, at Ganton, near golfers from all parts of the country. Scarborough. One hundred pounds The course affords a capital test of a side was on it nominally; but thou- the varied difficulties of first-rate golf. sands of pounds were really staked by On it Allan and Tom played part of hundreds of people. Both men felt their celebrated match against the that never before was so much money Dunns of Musselburgh; and many a put on a golf match, and never before keen and important contest has taken were so many interested in its es- place over it. Yet the match between pecially international character. Park and Vardon will be long remem- Besides it was a contest between bered by the 8,ooo people who turned the recognized best hole-player and out on the brilliant 6th of July to wit- the proved best stroke-player—by ness it. holes. Would Vardon succeed as Willie Park has in him a capital well in holes as in strokes? Betting caliber inherited from Auld Willie, went on freely; but, strange to say, who four times gained the first place even in Scotland, generally in favor of in the Open Championship, and was the Englishman. My sympathies a formidable rival of Old Tom's for were for Park, though good players many a day. Young Willie, at the warned me of the staying power of age of 23, gained the championship at Vardon. Prestwick, a position which he once I witnessed the part of the match more held. His uncle Mungo was a at North Berwick with no little inter- champion and his uncle Davie was a est, following every stroke with care. very fine exponent of the game. Har- Vardon is the more powerful driver, ry Vardon is six years younger; but though he is not so tall as his op- he has three times snatched the blue ponent. His style is peculiar, in some ribbon from his powerful opponents. respects not unlike my own at my He has a grand style, with coolness best. His club is short and upright, idealized. Park was considered to be and his swing is on a perpendicular a more dangerous opponent in match plane. This makes him defy the wind, play than any other man living; while and rarely does he draw his ball. The Vardon was the model of scoring. ball rushes like an arrow from the Here we had a match between Scot- bow, straight for the goal. Vardon land and England; between the birth- always takes a short blank swing be- place of the Royal and Ancient Game fore each stroke, as if to get his arms PARK VERSUS YARD ON. Ill

into thoroughly slack and easy move- put were several yards, he laid his ment. He continues the habit even ball dead; and Vardon, three times in to the putting green. succession, failed to hole comparative- Park, again, has a slower and longer ly short puts to gain the ascendency. swing. He has a peculiar preamble, If Vardon had putted as well as Park, which can be detected at a consider- he would have run away with the able distance. He has nothing of his match. Yet the putting greens were father's methodical swing. Old Wil- so very true, one could have risked a lie's exact movement of one, two, firm put. These iron articles are here three, and then the extra follow up, a disadvantage; the wooden putter were most noteworthy. And there was Las a wider sole, and Vardon with it always a look of determination on his would not have so frequently struck face which struck terror into an op- behind the ball and put it off the line. ponent. But young Willie is placid, A curious incident occurred in easy, and never ruffled. lie draws playing the tenth hole, to break the back his club slowly and rather trail- monotony. As Park was the chal- ing in its slowness; yet he plays with lenger, he had the "honor" up to this. wonderful vigor. The plane of his Vardon, from the tee, struck Park's swing is more slanted than Vardon's; ball. It fell to him to play the odds. hence his habit of hooking his balls The lie was not altogether a good one, when pressed by a longer driver. and he did not take the stroke well. I shall give you my impressions After he had played, Park was al- of the match, with some turning points lowed, on appealing to the referees-— that struck me as vital. The machine- Messrs. Broadwood, Tait and Blythe like regularity of the play was shown —to replace his ball in the position by the exceptional evenness of the which it originally occupied, and from first nine holes—all being halved at this lie he had a perfect approach, the bogie score. There was not one which he followed up with faultless brilliant stroke in all these holes. They golf, drawing first blood. were playing as if for* a medal, while Adverse fortune befel Park when each was waiting for a slip on the he pulled his ball into rough bents paft:«of the other, so as to catch at the close to the shore at one hole and advantage. Vardou generally out- when he misjudged his approach at drove Park; but he turned this to ad- another. In this way Vardon was vantage in the securing of a better ap- one up and two to play on the first proach to the holes when bunkers in- round. Here a remarkable stroke of tervened. Frequently had Park to skill was made by Park, which made negotiate a pitch at right angles to the hole a turning-point in his favor. the hazard, when Vardon had an And it is this recuperative power easier slant approach. In this way which marks a golfer of the first class, Park had generally to play the odds Any one, it is said, can play a god lie, on the green. This he did with re- but it requires special skill to nego- markable steadiness. If the put were tiate a bad one. In this case both of moderate length he holed it, on balls were short of Point Garry, which occasions Vardon drew himself against the wind, after two strokes up and halved in the like. But if the each. Park had a bad stand; but he 112 PARK VERSUS VARDON.

~~PARK VS. VARDON-SCENE AT THE LAST HOLE. From Golf JHustriltt d.~~

put too much into his cleek shot and miserable approach at the startinghole he rolled over the green on to the sea- and lost it. The play continued to be shore, while Vardon made a neat pitch machine-like, without any of Tommy on to the hole—though short, as he Morris's brilliant clashes, without a did not wish to risk the shore. Here prominent long put, without a telling Park's ball was close up to the per- iron approach (to hole off it); yet the pendicular rock, behind a brick on the exhibition of the game was splendid sand. He had to use a left-handed or. the whole. Though there was no iron, which he perfectly handled, send- brilliancy displayed, there were few ing the ball out at a "slicket" in the mistakes. bank on to the putting green. He had Vardon goes to his own green with then to play the two more—all the two holes to the good. That is heavy length of the green; but he laid the odds against Park; but the nerve of ball dead. Vardon had two for the the old man may show itself in the hole, but he messed matters in a most son, and victory may yet be in store unaccountable way for one of his for him. powers and coolness. He overran the I have put in this interlude to my first stroke and was weak in the like. series of papers on account of the im- He had still a two-feet put for a half,. portance of the match, which I went a but he missed and lost the hole, in- good bit out of my way to witness; stead of gaining it. This seemed to and I hope my readers will be pleased upset him, for at the eighteenth hole with this for the sake of my honest he missed a fifteen-inch put and lost criticism, made in company with some again, leaving Park one up on the of the best golfers still alive of the round. old school. Next month I shall con- Park, however, could not follow it tribute a paper on the too common up on the next round; for he made a Mannerism in Golf. HERBERT M. HARRIMAN Amateur Golf Champion, 1899.

O Mr. 'Amman's? Yes, sir. "His disposition is friendly and his Oh, yes, sir; Mr. 'Amman temperament even." is a real gen'lman, 'e is." And so I must record the fact that And so Robert, the groo n, the same writer, when he gave the focussed the local opinion of the champion's age at 34, was just seven now amateur champion as he whisked years wrong, the correct figure being me round to his residence at 27. Garden City. Now what Robert does It was at beautiful Rivcrdale-on- not know about golf and the resident Hudson, the family country seat, that gentry of Long Island, and of Garden Herbert Harriman was born, but alas, City in particular, is scarcely worth the score of golf clubs which now knowing at all, for wasn't he the " 'ed stretch all the way from Sandy Hook coachman" to Mr. when "Miss to Albany had never been thought of 'Oyt" was stopping at Southampton in 1872. So they teethed him with a last summer, and didn't she show him baseball bat and in a few years the herself how to clean her own golf boys at St. Paul's school, Garden City, clubs? P31ess you, he knows the had made our present amateur golf name of every one of "Mr. 'Amman's champion captain of both the baseball 'osses" better than Mr. Harriman does and football teams. He was also a himself. And before that wasn't he member of the track team and won the coachman to Sir Henry Masey interscholastic recordfor shot-putting. Thompson, son-in-law of Sir Joseph At Princeton Harriman was substi- Whitwell Pease, and doesn't he "know tute on both 'Varsity baseball and a real gen'lman when he see one"? football teams, and was on the 'Var- You bet he does. sity track team as well. Now I have given you Robert's But up to 1894 he had never seen version of the case to begin with, be- anything of golf. In that year Ii. M. cause it seems to me so much more Harriman visited Wellesley, Mass., eloquent and genuine than the stilted and caught his first glimpse of tl.e remarks which we read a couple of game on a private course belonging weeks ago commencing, "Mr. Harri- to Mr. Hunnewell. The next year he man comes of a well-known family." invested in a set of clubs and put in Glancing through some of these comic a considerable amount of practise at biographies I fail to discover anything Bar Harbor, over the links of the that will help me to tell you the truth. Kebo Valley Club. He had always There is just one thing that perhaps been very fond of outdoor sports, and did encourage me to venture on ask- observing that there was far more ing his correct age, and that was the science in the game than appeared to following paragraph in the Chicago a casual observer, he sailed right in Tim cs-Her aid :— and became enthusiastic over it after H. 41. HARRI.V1AN—THE SWING BACK. Photo by the Editor of GOLF. H. M. HARRIMAN-PINISH OF THE SWING. Photo, by the Editor of GOLF. HARRIMAN'.S FAVORITE STROKE—THE CLEEK SHOT. Photo, by the Editor of GOLF.

~~_ H. M. HARRIMAN PUTTING FOR THE LAST HOLE AT GARDEN CITY. His old school^ St. Paul's, is seen in the background. Photo, by the Editor of GOLF. 118 HllRBkRT M. HARRIMAN.~~

a few trials, and meeting with fair suc- ;'t would, 1 think, be the best of ill on cess for a beginner. The following £.cecunt of its scil and turf and its summer ([£'96) he played regularly at natural sand hazards.'' Speaking of Knollwood, winning an occasional golf as a sport and as an outdoor ex- club handicap. Harriman entered the ercise for business men, the champion Amateur Championship of that year, put himself on record in the follow- which was held at Shinnecock, but ing terms: "Golf is especially adapted failed to qualify. The next year at to business men, as it requires hardly Wheaton lie was put out by VV. R. any hard training such as a more vio- Betts in the third round, but from lent game necessitates. It gives what the writer saw of this match it splendid exercise in the open air, and did not represent Harrimairs true men playing once or twice a week can form even at that time. Last year, become fairly expert, and even the owing to a mistake in dates as to duffers can get up a good match and when the entries closed, he failed to enjoy themselves. It keeps the mind get into the Morristown event, which away from business for hcurs at a was a most unfortunate occurrence. time and is consequently a great rest The victory of H. M. Harriman in and benefit for down-town men. It is the Metropolitan Championship at extremely well adapted for people of Garden City is a matter of recent his- all ages, beneficial to health and not tory, but his familiarity with this too violent. There is always something splendid golf links must be taken into new to learn about golf, which makes account should the Amateur Cham- it intensely interesting; even the best pionship of 1900 be played here. In can fall by the wa\', consequently it is addition to these important matches, a great game." Those who say that Harriman is well supplied with gold reading about g'olf makes them play medals, which he has won for the best badly will be interested to know that gross score in open tournaments at the amateur chamoion never took a Newport, Knollwood, Oakland, lesson, but picked up all he has Meadowbrook and the Westchester learned from the books and watching Country Club. It is not the first time good players at practise. If H. M. that he has won at Onwentsia, for two Harriman sees a man make' a good years a£O he secured the Ravenoaks stroke he has a remarkable faculty for Cup over this course. Although at learning it at sight and, to use an ex- one time a member of Ardsley Casino pression of his own, "I seemed to take and Knollwood, the champion now to it more or less naturally." The practically confines his play to champion has always had a name for Meadowbrook and Garden City. In long driving, but he has told me : "My this connection it is interesting to favorite stroke is the long approach. note his opinion of American golf I think it is the most sensational courses. "I prefer," lie has told me, stroke in the game, and if it comes off "Wheaton, Onwentsia, Garden City gives most satisfaction to yourself and and Morristown to any other courses is most demoralizing to your oppon- over which I have, played, and should ent." rank them in the order named. If Harriman is a cool-headed but par- MeEdowbrook had another nine holes ticularly clashing player. He stands HERBERT M. HARRIMAN.

5 feet i \Vz inches in his stockings, and bal a:d he discovered it resting gent- is broad-shcnldered, so that when he ly on some long grass. "Ah, there she sweeps the ball away from the tee one lays!" he exclaimed, picking up the cbtains an idea of great strength held little gutta nimbly between his finger in perfect control. His swing back and thumb. Tt seemed to me that in and follow through you can see here this sentence the whole spirit of the for yourselves, and there is also a view golfer stood revealed. How harsh of the club immediately after coming; and cruel "There it is" would have in contact with the ball. The club been in comparison ! It was "she," itself, however, is scarcely discernible, the object of his adoration, the theme as it was traveling at such a pace. Af- of his every thought, the nucleus of ter Harriman had made the cleek shot his proud title of Amateur Golf here represented we walked up to the Champion of America. J. N.

H. M. HARRIMAN DRIVING FROM THE FIRST TEE AT ONWENTSIA. .*.**»*$ REMINISCENCES ***** BY "THE TRIL0B1TE"-CHAPTER V. ***

j|T this time of year especi- lake or any other powerful center of ally, many a one of your golf. readers have won a hole Sad to relate, it was prosperity by running tip an approach that sapped the life from Mussel- shot from seventy or eighty yards, burgh, and the popularity of golf instead of using his lofter or mashie, sounded its death knell. The and after the shot has been success- crowds of golfers flowing from Edin- fully made (and it is by no means so burgh (a never-ending golf stream) easy as it looks), the player ejacu- made play impossible. From dawn lates "Nothing like a Musselburgh to dewy eve it rained golf balls. after all." Now, I wonder how How the turf stood it, how it en- many, out of the thousands of golf- dured the continual hacking with ers, gentle and simple, in the United irons, bruises from brassies, cut- States, have played over Mussel- tings by cleeks, the greenkeepers burgh, one of the very oldest and alone can tell, but it could not last. honored among links of Scotland ? One by one, the powerful and rich, I believe they could be counted on clubs that supported the links, find- your fingers, and I fear that those ing that the outside public, who paid pious golfers, who conscientiously nothing, were elbowing their mem- perform a pilgrimage to the cradle bers off the course, which Avas daily of golf, will now pass by the "hon- becoming more expensive to keep est town " without regard, as they up in good shape, took to themselves speed to North Berwick, or Muir- wings and made golfing homes in field, little thinking that the turf at the wilderness, leaving the old, his- Musselburgh is truly classic, its toric, battle-scarred course to its bunkers historic, and its putting- fate. Now, I feel like one who greens an epic. The links are fast sharing the fate of all suburban stands alone on teeing ground de- open links; they are dying as Leith serted, all my lovely companions are and Bruntisfield died, but an old faded and gone, but I try to look at golfer must always remember them the dear old course, not as it is now, with affection, as, over them, for but as I saw it when a boy, many a generation, have strode the Many a Saturday morning, over mightiest golfers of a bygone time, thirty years ago, have I, with three and. on them, have sprung up even schoolmates, all Edinburgh Acade- at this late day, a crop of golfers my boys, in our kilts and bonnets, bad to beat by St. Andrews or Hoy- found our way, in the inter-regnum between football and cricket, to REMINISCENCES. 121 Musselburgh, each with his driver, whole family have withdrawn from cleek, iron (the name "lofter" was the course with a magnificent dis- unknown) and wooden putter, when dain, heaping on our heads maledic- the sea mists were still hanging over tions and hisses. (I can hear their the course, and the sun, not very clamor yet.) We have, uninvited, high in the horizon, like a huge red also witnessed the private trial of golf ball, was doubtful if it was two speedy two-year-olds on the worth his while to fight with the racetrack, and taken private notes mists any longer. How loud voices of the form of our natural antagon- sounded from the other side of the ists, the Loretto schoolboys, in train- course, and with what a crack the ing for our inter-scholastic games. ball went off our clubs, whistling We have also played a tight match into the gloom! The caddies (the among ourselves, wherein the play Arabs of Musselburgh) interfered was better than that in most of the with us not (beyond a gentle sar- matches of our elders now starting casm on our kilts) as they lay in wait —a schoolboy's golf is not to be de- for the members of the Honorable spised, and we really played well and Company of Edinburgh Golfers, who keenly. And now we near the third will come tearing down, in about an hole, at the end of which stands a hour later, from the railway station small "public," presided over by a in cabs—each cab holding a four- broad-in-the-beam, bustling old lady, some, four tall hats, four pipes, and Mrs. Forman, who kens us weel, and four caddies clinging to some part of where she dispenses to her hungry it—disgorging at the door of the laddies cheese and oatcakes, with a club, judges, loungers, soldiers, doc- bottle of beer apiece. I have been tors, merchants, with, here and a member of the Honorable Com- there, a peer of the realm, parsons, pany for more than a quarter of a and gentlemen of more or less ele- century, but I still hunger and thirst gant leisure; all of whom reappear in at the memory of that oasis, Mrs. a very few minutes in the golf suits Forman's. of the period, consisting of the As we emerge on the putting shabbiest (but most comfortable) green, we find a big foursome, just clothes in their, or some one else's, holing out, Willie Park (now "Old possession, disreputable headgear, Willie"), Robt. Clark, J. Mansfield heavy hobnailed shoes, but, oh, with and Strath, and we, with one con- such beautiful sets of well-cared-for sent, abandon our game and follow, clubs! eager critics as well as pupils, the But by the time these lords of the play of these giants. This means golf green are ready to start we of education is one of the best for boys are well on our second round. boys, who very quickly pick tip the For Musselburgh is only a nine-hole correct game from watching first- course, and not very long holes raters playing their top game. That either. is, to me, the only way to imbibe We have insulted the haughty the divine art of approaching, and gander by narrowly missing the head the stealthy skill of putting. of the loveliest of his geese, and the Now the sun, having conquered the 122 REMINISCENCES. mists, dances on the rippling waves has been lost and won, the splendid of the Firth of Forth, and Auld lunches at the club, the humors of Reekie stands out in the west, the caddies (my old caddy is now at backed by the Pentland hills, as we the head of one of the largest golf turn at the fourth hole, and face club making establishments in Eng- that most dread banker "Pandy." land), of the battles of the giants, The professionals drive it with ease, past and present. but my memory tells me of many a Is not Willie Park, Jr., ihe chal- good score spoiled for me in its yawn- lenger of Vardon the Champion, the ing gulf. I am informed that worse type of all that is best in professional bunkers exist. I am only glad that Musselburgh golf ? And is not A. J. I have not been in them. Now, at Laidlay, the old Loretto boy, at the the sixth hole, you can see how top of the amateur tree, and ex- beautifully you can run up a " Mus- amateur champion, the proper type selburgh " between the two bunkers of a gentleman golfer ? These two that yawn for an approach, a little are of the present generation. But foozled. look back a little, and what a list of Quickly our mentors near the names sacred in the memory of all home hole, having halved the good golfers appears: Gourlay, seventh and eighth in three apiece, Parks, MeEwans, Ferguson, Camp- and both balls lie on the putting bell among professionals, and almost green of the ninth, about twenty every well-known amateur's name, yards from the hole—the match all who played generations ago. even, and " like as you lie." Strath Then, pilgrim, when you journey plays a beauty, and lies stone dead, to the celebrated links of Scotland, but Willie Park, the finest putter do not omit to give a day to the perhaps ever seen, runs a bold one "honest town" (why " honest" his- down to the bottom of the hole, amid tory relates not), play round the a shout from the unwashed experts, course which for three hundred who seem to live on the home hole, years has been the arena of mighty and who extort from the unwary golfing contests; drive, if you can, neophyte many a shilling by their over "Pandy,"and, as you leave, tales of (imaginary) hardships. But impress on your mind that you have the foursome has gone for lunch, trodden in the track of dead and. and we boys have a clear green, so gone worthies, who have handed off we go again, practising, in our down to you, to make or to mar, youthful ardor, the styles we have the best game on earth for mankind lately seen. from the nursery to the extreme And all this happiness at the very limit of life, and on your return to door of the Scottish metropolis, your own green, when you play your within six miles of Edinburgh Town! next long running approach success- Time and your patience would fully, you can airily say: "Yes, a fail were I to tell of the "Graves," pretty good shot, almost as good a the "whins," now no more, the bat- one as I played at Musselburgh tery hole where many a big- match last month." THE ONWENTSIA CLUB Editors Mtt BooK

nual contests will receive our hearty good wishes. We are far too con- EUERY MONTH. scious of the fact that it is to Scotland By Appointment, an Official Bulletin of the we turn for advice in anything" per- United States Golf Association, Intrr- Colleginte Golf Association, Central New taining to the game for us to as- York Golf I,eu£ue, Metropolitan Golf Association, and Western Golf Associa- sume a high-cockalorum manner, tion. but we shall be forgiven, I hope, in Entered at Post Olllce at New York ns Second Ulasa Matter. Copyright, hy JOSIAH NEWMAN, Publisher, 1809. expressing the hope that what has

ONE YEAR, $2.00; SINGLE COPIES, 20 CENTS. now been accomplished once may be- Postage free XT. S., Canada and Mexico. To other foreign countries, 2li cents per year. Remit by Express Money come the regular crder cf procedure Order, i'oslolllee Order. ReniHlen-d LeLlur, or Check payable to JOSIAH XEWJ1ASJ. in years to come. * * * ADVERTISING MANAGER, C. F. ZITTEL. Harriman's \ictory was of course ADDRESS GOLF, G2 BROADWAY, NEW YC immensely popular both in the East CHICAGO OFFICE, 811 REAPER BLOCK. and West, for he is such a rattling VOL. V. , 1899. good fellow that our western friends will not grudge the victory to the East GOLF congratulates Herbert M. one whit. Harriman on his splendid victory in a * * the Amateur Championship at On- The western players did not per- wentsia, and the congratulations are form as well as might have been extended to all American golfers on hoped, for they had all been disposed the success which has at last attended of except one at the end of the sec- our efforts in producing a native-born ond round. This was the one dis- golf champion. appointing feature in the tournament, * * * as we had been rather led to believe The canny Scot will no doubt be to that the playing strength of golfers the fore for many a year to come yet, 'round Chicago had gone up in re- and whoever can beat an American cent years. There is certainly far player in the sportsmanlike style more golf being played, and the or- which has always prevailed at our an- ganization of the Western Golf As- 124 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK.

sociation will doubtless do much to couple of days was an inconvenience, keep the players on edge for competi- it had the desirable effect of keeping tions. the fair green in excellent order up to * * :|: the very finish. Too much credit cannot be given to * * * Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor for his Some players thought that the perfect management of the tourna- bunkers were too close to the holes, ment. He seemed to have mastered making it difficult to lay a long shot the difficult problem of how to be in dead. But that is just where one of two or three places at once, and his the fine points in golf conies in, and fine executive ability suggested to the the man who can lay them dead from minds of a good many golfers that no loo yards deserves all the credit com- more suitable representative of the ing to him. West could be elected to serve as an * * * officer of the United States Golf As- The only really poor hole on the sociation. course was the terraced green at the * * * fifteenth, but where will you find a golf The other members of the Onwent- links that has not one of the eighteen sia committee were of course diligent holes open to criticism? in their duties, and everyone seemed *• • * # to work together for the general wel- It was very amusing each day of fare of the tournament. the championship to read the fake in- * * * terviews with the more prominent W. B. Thomas, Robert Bage Kerr players and officials which the daily and John Reid were the officers of the papers published. Dr. O'Connor's Association present, and it is needless jokes seemed to be about the only to add that they undertook the re- thing they got straight. "Doc." un- sponsibilities of starting the players fortunately had to prescribe for him- from the first tee in the promptest self before the tournament fairly be- manner and with the utmost decorum. gan, and he therefore was only able to

-I- -I' •!• just get through the first eighteen Scorers, caddies and stewards of holes. the green had been liberally arranged * * * for and no hitch in the whole six days The example set by the daily press was ever discernible. was amusingly copied by one of the weekly papers, which usually has a * # & fling at somebody or other. After de- The college men and the school- voting some space to the announce- boys were not quite such a prominent ment that the writer of the article was factor as in some previous years, but present—he is a well-known English- Reid, Terry, Hubbard, Smith and man—he goes on to describe the Holabird, jr., played a lot of good tournament and of course falls into a g'olf during' their rounds. trap wherever he tries to be original. * * * So we are told that Douglas lost by The course was in perfect shape, his poor driving,—the only thing and although the rain on the first which pulled him through so well; FINDLAY DOUGLAS AND HERBERT M. HARRIMAN. THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK.

that at the sixteenth hole he took his beat, was one of the surprises of the cleek,—when he only wishes that he tournament. His everlasting grit and had; that the "Chicago pet" lost by theory that "a hole is never lost until posing for the thousand cameras— it's won" were extremely serviceable when up to the last day there were to the Overland Park player. never more than Four cameras on the * * * couise. There are very few people Cumining, cf Asheville, was an- who were not there that can describe other pleasant surprise, and young a golf match to someone who was Holabird, of Glen View, should de- theie without making themselves lock velop into one of the best western foolish. players before another championship is held. I hear that the Inter-Collegiate * * * Championship is to be held at Gar- The winners of the Amateur Cham- den City in October. pionship up to the present time are ES follows:— The Milwaukee Journal publishes 1895—Charles E. Macdonalcl, Chi- the following:— cago Golf Club, won at Newport.' "Findlay Douglas sent his stock up :ig(j6—Herbert j. AVhigham, On- about 1,000 per cent by the following wentsia Golf Club, won at Shinnecock manly message:— Hills. 'My congratulations to the new 1897—Herbert J. Whigham, On- amateur golf champion of Americi. I cannot say enough to express my ad- vventsia Golf Club, won at Wheaton. miration for his work. It is for the 1898—Findky S. Douglas, Fair- good of the sport that an American- field Golf Club, won at Morris County. born should win. I believe tremen- 1899—Herbert M. Harriman, dous enthusiasm and interest will be Meadowbrook Country Club, won at aroused as a consequence. To dis- cuss my own playing, I will admit Onwentsia. that I did not reach my speed until * * * the afternoon. The holes in the morn- There has been some talk of holding seemed to be no bigger than ing the next championship at Garden needle eyes. But let's not talk about it. Hurrah for Harriman. City, L. I., provided the club enters FINDLAY S. DOUGLAS.' " the Association, but nothing will be settled with regard to this matter before the annual meeting in February, Rut those who know Findlay better * * * would have been surprised if the gam- est sport in the golf fraternity bad not It would seem only fair that as Her- done just this thing. Dougias is the bert Harriman is now champion best loser that ever trod a golf links, would-beclaimants for the title should and always has been. journey to his local club to wrest the cup from him. But two more total- ly different championship courses AValter Fairbanks, better known as than Garden City and Onwentsia "Forty-Hole" Fairbanks, or "Faro could scarcely be found. I know banks," because he was so hard to every varcl of both. The latter is THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. probably the best inland golf course The first annual tournament for the in America today, while the former is championship of the Connecticut generally conceded to be the best golf State League Golf Association links. It is about half an hour from brought together quite an army of New York, and the handsome new golfers at Bridgeport. T. L. Cheney, clubhouse and the first tee are within of the Orford Golf Club, is the cham- five minutes' walk of the Garden City pion, as he defeated S. H. Patterson, depot. H. M. Harriman is captain of cf the Brooklawn Club, by 3 up and 2 the club. to play in the finals. * 'p * * * * The great Park-Vardon match for The Cheney family, J. P., M., N. £ :i oo a side and lots of honor, is all C, P., W. B. and T. L., also success- over. As told elsewhere, Vardon was fully landed the Orford Club on top in 2 up at North Berwick at the end of the qualifying round for the team the first half, and at the finish at Gan- championship. But when it came to ton he made the victory 11 up and io match play the Fairfield County Club, to play. Ganton is about twenty min- minus the services of F. S. Douglas, utes by rail from Scarboro' on the were too much for the South Man- coast of Yorkshire, and almost a clay's chester players, who succumbed by a journey from London, near which score of 24 to 4. metropolis the New York Sun has re- * :|: * peatedly announced the links are laid out. The interest taken in the match The man at the Oakland Golf Club throughout the whole world was truly who suggested having a trolley road remarkable, and numbers of American laid out round the course for the con- golfers journeyed to the scene. It is venience of lazy players would be said that nearly 10,000 spectators amused at the seriousness with which were present, and they must have some papers, both here and abroad, come away fully impressed with the have recorded the story. One golf importance of the occasion. Details paper even announced that the plan regarding the second half are not yet had actually been carried out. to hand. :|s * * * * * The handsome $250 cup, donated Playing with Walter B. Smith at by Prince Poniotowski for the Onwentsia the other day, G. G. Hub- women's golf tournament at Burlin- bard negotiated the course in 79, es- game, Cal., was won by Miss Alice tablishing a new record by 1 stroke. Moffitt, of Oakland. Ten players, * * * representing the Burlingame, San Rafael, Oakland and Presidio clubs The delay in the completion of the participated in the tournament. eighteen-hole course at Van Cort- landt Park necessitates my postpon- * * * ing the announcement of the competi- "At first sight," says Herbert D. tion for the City of New York Chal- Ward, in the Independent, "and to the lenge Trophy. A lack of sufficient uninitiated, golf seems idiotically easy, employees to push the work along is and easily the most idiotic of games. the cause of the present deadlock. To shove a 'white pill,' as an impres- 128 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK.

sionist has expressed it, from one hole tournament of the Deal Golf Club. into another, seems even more a waste The handsome new links were crowd- of time than croquet. The skeptic's ed with 2,000 to 3,000 people. The comparison of golf to croquet con- $500 cup offered by Mr. Wm. R. tains the final insult. Hearst, of New York, was won by C. "For golf requires of the successful H. Murphy, of Elberon, against Wil- competitor a comprehensive judg- liam Billings, of New York." ment, and a fineness of touch such as [ congratulate Messrs. Murphy and no other outdoor game has dreamed Billings on drawing such a gate. of. Accuracy of aim, sureness of eye, * * * dexterity of arm, perfection of form, a For the last week I have been critical idea of distance, and a philo- playing with the new "Thistle" sophic temper amid the most exasper- golf ball. As regards marking, it ating of happenings, are only a few of somewhat resembles the "Agrippa," the qualifications necessary to the but the price is rather less and the golfer. These train the mind and the body for the exhilarating contest to ball keeps its shape remarkably well. beat your own last medal score, or to E. K. Tryon, Jr., & Co. are the win over your opponent by at least American agents. one 'hole up.' * * * "Golf is a fight from start to finish, Bernard Nicholls, of the Philadel- and we defy any enthusiast to remem- phia Country Club, requests me to ber whether he has walked two miles state that he challenges any profes- or ten when he makes his ball soar sional in the country to a home and 190 yards from the tee, or when he has home match at 72 holes for $100 a just won the hole on a phenomenal side, the match to take place during fifteen-foot put. the month of August. Nicholls has "There should be a golf club at- deposited his stake at this office, and tached to every town parish, just as directly it is covered the match can there is a town common. It will keep be arranged. the hoys out of mischief, and the * * * young ladies will find their outlet in Did you ever try "Pirn Olas" somethingmore stimulating than chat. in place of olives ? The article is in Every country church would do well reality a pitted olive with suitable to have one. It would be more popu- seasoning inserted in place of the lar, if not more populous than the stone. If it is any satisfaction you cemetery." may like to know that the proprie- * * * tors of the delicacy are g-olfers of The Washington Star is authority renown. for the following paragraph. With * * * 200 players and 3,000 spectators on Shinnecock can always rely upon a nine-hole course I can quite under- obtaining more entries for its annual stand that the "links were crowded." tournament than can be conveniently "Over two hundred players contest- handled. This year was no excep- ed on the Fourth of July for the an- tion to the rule, and although the nual Independence Day handicap weather during the first few days THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 129 was not of the most enjoyable nature Smith won the Friday handicap with an immense field took part in the a net score of 76, but the more im- competition for the four principal portant event on Saturday went to cups. C. Hitchcock, Jr., of Point Judith, * * * with rounds of 87 and 82=169—8=161. By the use of a steam roller the lies J. W. Baker was second and L. E. through the green have been much Larocque third. improved, though as yet the obstruc- * * * tions in the shape of railroad tracks Quite a large number of profes- and telegraph wires have not been sionals have written me letters re- overcome. Until this is clone Shin- garding' the proposal to form an necock can never be the ideal golf American Golf Professional Associa- links which it certainly would seem tion. Next month I hope to find possible to make it. room for some of these, and perhaps * * * a few others which I hear are on the I hear that next year the invita- way. The idea has met with the tions sent out will not be nearly so enthusiastic support of every writer numerous, as the amount of work so far heard from. entailed by the committee in manag- * * * ing so large a fixture is more than The Newport Golf Club is this they feel called upon to undertake year vising a considerably, extended in the middle of July. course and at the same time a vastly * * * improved one. The present dis- A. M. Ripley and Walter J. Travis tances are :— Hole. Out. Yds. 1 Hole. In. Ms. fought out the finals for the Presi- ] .. 180 10,..i 207 2 , ;!S0 11 . 357 dent's Cup between them. It was ,j M34 12 1T2 1.. 127 13 188 not a very brilliant exhibition of 5 ... 424 U 340 fi... 344 15 485 golf for so important a meeting, as 7 .. S'tO 1(1 301 8 -130 17... . 330 the missed opportunities could cer- 9 ISO 18 827 tainly not be counted on one hand. 2,679 Total 2,707 As in his match with Douglas at Morristown in 1898, Travis went Another course which is being ex- completely off his putting, and the tended to an eighteen-hole affair is result was that A. M. Ripley, of the the Essex County Country Club Oakley Country Club, beat him by links at Manchester - by - the - Sea. 2 up and 1 to play. Although not ready for play by any * * * means at present, I have been given vS. P. Nash, Jr., of the Maidstone the lengths of the holes, which will Club, won the Peconic Cup from run as follows: First, 400 yards; sec- C. Tiffany Richardson by 5 tip and ond, 300; third, 285; fourth, 300; 4 to play. In the Consolation Cup fifth, 390; sixth, 400; seventh, 375; division, P. C. Havemeyer, who eighth, 400; ninth, 150; 10th, 300; made quite a name for himself as a nth, 380; 12tli, 178; 13th, 325; 14th, long driver, defeated De Lancey 300; 15th, 275; 16th, 375; 17th,180; Nicoll by 9 up and 8 to play. Gerrit 18th, 500. Total, 5,813 yards. WHEN THE HEART IS YOUNG,

~~6. Bunkered again. Strange Caddie—"Beg par- ding, Miss, but there's a foursome followiu' that wants to- feonisjjed afore Jii"~~

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During the month of August open The following scores show the tournaments will be rare in the result of the best ball of the four neighborhood of the principal cities, men:— but at the mountain resorts there Tyng and Anderson- will be no end to the golfing events. Out « s 4 4 ^ n s 5 j£jj8_78

Almost every hotel of any standing ^'•••'•••••'••''•'•J \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ^-fj_S2-n» whatever has a course of some kind Travis and Hunter— r or other this year. vSome are nat- ™ | i I ;! \ \ \ \ ip]}_81 urally pretty poor apologies for the g^;;;;;;;;:;:;:^ 5575335 4-10-79-1 no real article, but it is astonishing- how ., . , , ,, - „ . , It is more than probable that a many courses there are 111 northern „ , , ,...,, ... , \ -, T.-, -, • ITT final match at thirty-six holes will NeT w YorkT , New THampshirT e and Ver- , , .. ,_.,,., , , ,,:.,.,, be played at Baltusrol in the near mont where good golf is obtainable. , J A ..1 , 1 • -i future. A month, or even two months, can be % * * profitably spent in visiting a full T , _ , . , -. . , . c 1 In the finals for the championship score or such courses. . , r. _T XT , ^ ,.\ of the CentralNew York Golf League, * * * Otsego won from Utica, 14 to 1. In The four-ball match between Wai- the first match for the Consolation ter J. Travis and W. Hunter, of Oak- Cup, Elmira beat Trenton Falls. In land, and James A. Tyng and W. the finals Alb my beat Elmira 33 too. Anderson, of Baltusrol, the first half Marion R. Wright, of the Otsego of which resulted in a tie as reported Golf Club, won the prize for the best last month, was continued at Morris gross score made during the tonrna- County on the 19th. The play was mellt with a well-played 87. The fully as brilliant as it had been at Bogie handicap competition resulted Oakland, and the players were fol- in a tie between Marion R. Wright, lowed over the links by a large and of Otsego, and A. E. Clapp, of enthusiastic gallery of admirers. Auburn. Wright won the play-off. They put up some excellent golf,the majority of the holes being made in The Open Tournament held each bogie figures or better. Tyng and year at Niagara-on-the-Lake will Anderson had a trifle the better of take place from August 31st to Sep- their opponents during the morning tember 2d inclusive. It is likely to round, being two up at the turn,four be a very popular fixture this year. up at the twelfth hole and still two + ... -.,. at the eighteenth hole. It was not tin til the match was nearmg the close It always does one s heart good to that Travis and Hunter got in their see a host of sturdy golfers together, for they seem to be the embodiment phenomenal up-hill playing, Hunter .„/,.... . , , gettmg down a twenty-foot putt at of all that isiovial,goodnatured, con- tented, happy, healthy and prosper- the thirty-sixth hole, which halved , „, ' , ous. At 4 and again at K, you can the match. The grand totals were , ,. , . 6_, . , 160 tor each pair. The bogie of the . f course is:— see 500 at one time every afternoon on the L. I. R. R. "Annex boat, which 1 a ? 11 S I Vi-m leaves the foot of Pine street, New York, for Long island city, wending 132 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. their way down to some favorite possible to say that betting has been course for a single round before the the ruin of any of these fixtures.

sun goes down. On Saturdays, at * * s|: i o'clock, the number is increased to In the same way betting is not fully 1,000, and when they return on going to ruin our Amateur Cham- Monday morning it is one great pionship and it is absurd to raise a babel of tongues, in which the words bugbear out of a simple piece of "Bogey figures," "Bully good human nature. I have before me course," "Halved the match," the price at which every player sold "Didn't stop for the rain," " Var- in the few pools which were opened don," " Park," " Musselburgh,'' on the event and I know just about " Silvertown," "Garden City," how much was wagered and just who " Oakland," and such scraps of con- made the wagers. It shows that versation meet you at every turn. taken altogether the amount does In these days the golfers seem to be not more than average the price of having a better time than anyone a good cigar apiece amongst the else. golfers in the country, and the sur- * * * prising thing is that there is no ten- I see that a certain local contem- dency whatever to make such an porary is awfully shocked at the event of national importance a me- thought that someone made a bet dium for speculation. on the result of the Amateur Cham- * * * pionship. If we are to believe this At Ganton last week John Ball, scribe the game is doomed in con- Jr., the British amateur champion, sequence. and Harry Vardon, both represent- * * * ing England, played against F. G. Now, I do not for a moment wish Tait and Willie Park, Jr., represent- to encourage betting at golf, for I ing Scotland. It was of course a know as well as anyone all about the great match, full of brilliant work evils connected with the practise, throughout, but the Scotsmen had but I also know that you cannot in to retire defeated with the score at any way legislate against it, and that 5 up and 4 to play. betting itself has not been proven as * * * a rule to ruin a sport. ''I am in love with my driver," • * * * said the young lady golf enthusiast, Take the Oxford and Cambridge and then slie was surprised that the boat race, for example, in which rumor got abroad that she was going every other man and woman in Eng- to marry the coachman. land makes a small bet each year; or the Derby race, or the recent Park- Man Golfer.—We're like as we lie, •Vardon match, or the boat races on Girl Golfer.—Rather, we tie as we the Hudson or at Henley; it is. im- like. DIAMONDS, WATCHJ3S AND PORSILVERWARE. - DESIGNS 328 Fifth Avenue, New York. PRIZES FURNISHED 0N APPLICATION. THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY. Presented by the late Theodore Havemeyer. 138 IN FORMA TION BURBA U. Golf Information Bureau. Office:

~~5z Broadway, Descriptive booklets of the leading golf hotels are kept on hand, with railroad and steamboat timetables.~~

[The following are believed by GOLF to be reput- Mount Pleasant, N. H., Mount Pleasant able houses, worthy of the patronage of.its rentiers, House. Season, June to Oclober. where a specialty is made of the Royal and Ancient •Game.] Nassau, Bahamas, The Royal Victoria. Season, January to April. Ampersand, N. Y., Hotel Ampersand. Season, July to October. New Castle, N. H., The Wentworth. Season, July to October. Atlantic City, N. J., The Brighton. Niagara-on-the-I^ake, Queen's Royal Open all the year. Season, June to September Haddon Hall. Old Point Comfort, Va., The Hygeia. Asheville, N. C, Battery Park Hotel. Open all the year. Open all the year. The Chamberlain. Augusta, Ga., Hotel Bon Air. Open all the year. Season, December to May. Ormond, Fla., The Onnond. •Childwold Park, N. Y., The Childwold. Season, January to April. Season, June to October. Palm Beach, Fla., Royal 1'oinciana. Garden City, I,. I., Garden City Hotel. Season, January to April. Palm Beach Inn. Open all the year. Season, December to May. Hopkinton, N. H. Perkins Inn. Prospect House. Season, June to October, Season, June to September. Hot Springs, N. C, The Mountain Park. St. Augustine, Fla., The Alcazar. Open all the year. Season, November to May. Hot Springs, Va., The Homestead. Ponce de Leon. Open all the year, Season, January to May. St. Andrews, N. B.. The Algonquin. Jackson, N. H., The Wentworth Hall. Season, June to September. Season, June to October. Saratoga Springs, N. Y,, United States. Jefferson, N. H., The Jefferson. .Season, June 10 October. Season, July to September. Grand Union. The Waumbek. .Season, June to October. Season, June to October. Kissimmee, Fla., Hotel Kissimmee. Schroon I,ake, N. Y., Leiand House. Season, December to April. Season, June to October. I/akewood, N. J., Laurel House. Sheldrake, N. Y., Cayuga Lake House. Season, October to June, Season, July to October, Laurel in the Pines. Shelter Island, N. Y., Manhanset House. Season, June to September. Season, November to May. South Poland, Me., Poland Springs House. The Lakewood. Season, June to October. Season, October to May. I,ake Placid, N. Y., Stevens House. Sumnierville, S. C, Pine Forest Inn. Season, June to October. Season, December to May. Ruisseamnont. Tampa, Fla., Tampa Hay Hotel. Season, June to October, Season, January 10 April. Manchester, Vt., Equinox House. Thotnasville, Ga., Piney Woods. Season, June to October. Season, December to May. Magnolia Springs, Fla., Magnolia Springs Thousand Islands, N. Y., The New Pron- Hotel. Season, December to May, tenac. Season, June to October, Maplewood, The Maple wood, Season, July to October. White Mountains, N. H., The Profile Miami, Fla., The Royal Palm. Mouse. Season, July to October. Season, January to April. Crawford House. Millbrook, N. Y., The Halcyon. Season, July to Oclober. Season, June to October. Fabyan Mouse, Season, July to October. Monterey, Cal., Hotel Del Monte. Twin Mountain House. Open all the year. Season, July to October. A FOURSOME AT BARTON COURT, NEAR BOURNEMOUTH, ENG. RT. HON. A. J. BALFOUE, JOHN PENN, M. P., TOM DUNN, Umpire. J. H. TAYLOR, Putting GOLF RESORTS.

(F. H. ORVIS) % toy j/eara.HtlaT)tieCity has enjoyed en mancbestertn-tbe-inouMfliits enviable celebrity for the carative and FC- —tive qualities of its gepial afo?ospbepe.~-- ._ air is srogdarjy free froiiTHanjidiJy' there Ucrmont , being less ircoLsture here than at aijy other 1853—Forty-Seventh Season—1899 ioint on the Atlantic Coast '"The Temperature Now Open, Dogs Not Taken. Golf Cinks and Club house HARRY RAWLINS PllOPESSIOtUL I-I. It. SwKNYsuys: " The best Hotel Course that I know of."

NEW YORK OFFICE -MOTEL BRIGHTON-. •OPEN TT1R.OUQI1OUT TtiETYEflR- Buckingham Hotel, Fifth Ave. and 50th St. in charge of A. E. Martin equinox 6ingtr Cbampagne The Goiter's Favorite Drink Long Island Links are unsurpassed, and can be reached quickly and comfortably by the (Bolf Long Island Railroad at Fast Express Trains with Drawing- Room Cars. Cinder Roadbed. No Dust. Oil Ballast. SOME OF THE GOLF CLUBS that can be conveniently reached fay the Long Island Railroad System are: ©pen XDlntil ©ctober I NAMES OF CLUBS AND NEAREST RAILROAD STATIONS Amityville Golf Club, . . . Amityville Booklet with illustrations sent upon request. Flushing Athletic, .... Flushing Maidstone, Easthampton Meadowbrook Hunt, . . . Westtmry WOOLLEY & QERRANS, Proprietors,, Nassau Country, .... Glen Cove Oakland, Bayside Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Oyster Bay Club Oyster Bay Quogue Field, O_uogue Richmond Hill Club, . . Richmond Hill Rockaway Hunt, .... Cedarhurst ALSO PROPRIETORS Sands Point. .... Pt. "Washington HOTEL IROQUOIS, Sea Cliff Links, Sea Cliff Shelter Island, Greenport The only fireproof hotel in Buffalo. Shinnecock Hills Club, Shltmecock Hills Smlthtown Outing- Club, . . St. James South Shore Country, . . . Babylon Syosset Golf Club, .... Syosset The Island, Garden City Westbrook, ...... Great River Westhampton Club, , . . Westhampton 130