Canadian Golfer, September, 1915
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. ee wt / hie hSEPTEMBER é' Features in This Number: The U.S Golf Championship \ rhe First President of Lambton } X History of the Royal \ Montreal Golf Club | aN Golf in South Africa ro s at IC 3¢ IC IC 3c = CANADIAN GOLFER Subscription price 25c per copy. $3.00 per year. Office of Publication, BRANTFORD, Canada. c I = Vol. 1 CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER,1915. No. 5 c I VPage Cursors Rhymes... syed Cle Bouimteth orelstereTe e's my REA WON W. HH. Webling 266 Editoriais—Sport for Sports’ Sake; The Greate et AMAteUR .)...54 Cris bo cree Vix 266-270 Chip Shots siete Za lerdia tore SMV ATT EAS POCO CE tek SSS 271 Golf in Sonth Africa : ie IR ORION Sis nave Te Cetera ee T. G. Gray 272-275 Lhe Score jah (aioe Tigers Tels eMC a TRIE a AG CAAT Lene ee ee ole hs Jande H. Gamble 275 Mind or Muse Oia save se eto Bvcteterenenere re Sis cary are ae . W. d, Thompson 276-277 Appreciations of “* Oanadian GLTON’ tye aviv lier Weise Bentele eid cr oysin ate teee in trie eoterece: ahve 277 Canadian Team of Lady Golfers Sis SPeie hip Ete athe eV ws wheter euros ala als Die) We cpreaseees Sip. he. 806, S79 278 “Canadian Golfer's" Celebrities—Mr. A. W. Austin. ............5.0.00. The Editor 279-282 Royal Montreal Golf Club.... ey, wpe WOT Niblick 284-290 3 The Golfer's Prayer. 290 Calgary Sets a Splendid Example. 291-292 Simcoe—A Progressive Golf Club. 293-294 A Prominent Financier and His Interesting Reminiscences.... 294-295 Be SUB RATE aa Geeae 2Gea is 23 5a 70s acta race acho Copeec reveeusnep bie yh raion ele iyo 295 ¢ c 1 Photogravure—Walter Hagen and Bob MacDonald. 296 3 Vhotogravure—Gilbert Nicholls as eye Wisc einre's ca eae iaelts A 297 Golf in Massachusetts, 1.05... 0c ce vaceees 5 S BIBTeip en Bp 298 The “Majority” Meet of the United States Golf Assoc ations 5... .... The Editor 299-306 Carleton: Place Gots Into thé Games. c csc sies wise epese ye Dis Bible cere Nee 306 f I Lintios’ =Goll “Departmenbrs ac cis cs sews let lore ARN pie 6 siete ae Wis Glete ret cee Ox“Miss Harvey 3807-309 The Officers of the C, L. G. U. Tage piarecc big sealer clam tere t ckcais ere eee y .. Miss Harvey 310-311 The Newspaper Golf Writer. Bit eee m Golf and Golfers in the East. 342-314 2 Golf in Muskoka ‘ 314-316 With the Professionals 316 In and Around the Club-House 318-324 e b The Orillia Country Club AS 325 l a PROBUS TOT GO oo acs 5055's 8.0.09 nirorsle sieve B25 n The Golfers’ Roll of Honor........... 326-327 o f o Extra Notes Around the Club- House. 827 c C I I Advertising Rate Card CanadianGolfer c C I I Single Insertion Rate £os.d L MUMBO srctovynew stricto seeahe $40.00 ; Sterling currency Be SC OC ESCAPE etre 8 02".0 SG PAPO ont eee euch taoenee $20.00 ; Cs REM eee cn senn se dene Seo 4 0 0 i Page... cee ee 11 2G10500 5 i ASOT Ae tic got eee ee come 2 ONO) Readers, per line,. “ see Sed); * ie ARCS o AR eee tuet ees Or eed c c I I Space Discounts Total'S:Pageswithitsl =Veaty, o.ccpssersssecesrso nerre re BEE Eee Ne ee ete aa donne Set Total 6 Pages within 1 year.. 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Wilson Co., Ltd., Toronto Hingston Smith Arms Co., Winnipeda S Tisdalls Lid., 618 -620 Hastings St., Vancouver a e E B o Whenwriting advertisers, kindly mention CANADIAN GOLPER . s o u “Cursory fibymes”’ IN NINE HOLES (1) (5) Christopher Crocker went to his locker Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your household thrive To get out his golf clubs to play, With you away most ev'ry day But when he got there the locker was bare, Learning to ‘‘ Putt’’ and to “' Drive '? His son had the blamed lot away. For your sake your patient mate Is working awaylike a nigger, (2) While you, methinks, are out on the links Becauseit is good for your “‘ figger.”’ Little Jack Horner “‘ sliced” to a corner Where grass grew unpleasantly high, (6) Like a saint then he looked, while he kicked Little Roy Clew would not follow thro’, with his foot Nor yet keep his eye on the ball; The ball to a much better ‘‘lie.”’ Did he but that, he might be a “ Crack"’, But he’s just a dub, thatis all. (3) (7) Dr. Dillapproached the hill, Sing a song of sixpence, His stroke was just immense, Sir, A pocket full of mon, But the ball went smack, right into a trap, Four and twenty ‘‘birdies’’ (The rest won't pass the Censor.’’) Marvellously won. When the DREAMis over (4) The boys begin to sing You owe us just ‘‘ Two-fifty’’, There wasan old golfer Which spoils the whole blamed thing. Bought everything new, (8) Had dozens of clubs, Tho’ he used but a few; Ride a Cock-horse to any golf course, To see some old duffers get awfully cross; The caddies objected, With foozled ‘‘approaches’’ and ‘‘putts’’ Quite right, nowit’s true, never on, Thatsilly old golfer Their game may be weak, but their Just carries but two. languageis strong. Humpty dumpty had a closecall Of losing a perfectly ripping good ball, A hen passing by to hatch it did try, Remarkable case of ‘‘Hen-deavor’’ say J. W. H. Webling. anadian Galter Vol. 1. BRANTFORD, SEPTEMBER, 1915 No. 5. ‘There can be no question at all that Canabdian Golfer in the past our American cousins have “played to win” in their amateursports Official Organ Royal Canadian Golf Association Official Organ Ladies’ Canadian Golf Union in a manner that to the average ama- Published Monthly teur in Great Britain or Canada has Ralph H. Reville --- Kditor sinacked altogether too much of pro- W. iH. Webling -- -- Associate Editor fessionalism. No onelikes a man to Mr. George S. Lyon, Toronto; Mr. J. T. Clark, be indifferent in his efforts to play the Toronto; Mr. T.J. Gray, Ottawa; Mr. T. Black, Montreal; Contributing Editors best gamein him, but thereis a divid- n ing line between good sportsmanship a Ladies’ Golf Section edited by Florence L.Harvey m and an undue keenness to win out at e c Subscription Price -- Three Dollars a Year a any cost. An amateur should never p Entered at Post Office as Second Class Matter. sink to the level of a mere ‘“pot- Editorial and Business Office - Brantford, G@raude hunter.” He should play any “sport for the sport’s sake,” and not solely for “SPORTS FOR SPORTS’ SAKE” the glory or reward that is in it. Golf has been fairly clear of many of the A Philadelphia paper says: disagreeable features that have un- Francis Ouimet, the American amateur golf champion, more fully expressed the spirit of real doubtedly permeated other forms of amateurism and good sportsmanship, following amateur sport. There is no place in his defeat in the Open championship, than we have ever heard it described. When he finished, the Royal and Ancient for anyone who clearly beaten, with a broad smile and a hearty handshake for his great rival and the winner, cannot “play the man and act the gen- Jerome ‘Travers, Ouimet was asked whether he tleman,” whether in victory or defeat. was not sadly disappointed and disgruntled over his failure. THE GREATEST AMATEUR “When I begin to put winning a championship above having a lot of fun at golf,” he said, “then The “Golf Monthly,’ Edinburgh, I hope I’ll never win another.” What better illustration of the sentiment, takes exception to the Chicago “sport for sport’s sake,” could have been asked. “Golfer’s Magazine” and the “Canadian We have been only too severely, yet properly, condemned in recent years because we place the Golfer” in reference to placing the late victory too high, and do not give enough regard Captain John Grahamas the greatest to the pleasures of the sport itself. It may be that the placing of so much stress upon victory amateur in the world.