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THE B. F. GOODRICH CO., DETROIT BRANCH. November 10th, 1906. GENTLEMEN:— I return to you by one of my messengers a "HASKELL MATCH" ball with something of a history. I am free to confess that superstition and that alone caused me to so abuse this, once "white pill." It was new when I started out to try and qualify in the DETROIT GOLF CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP, 13 holes. I did very well with it qualifying first, so concluded to use it again in my first match turning in a 79. Used it again in my 2nd match getting the record for the course in competition with a 77. Needless to state that by this time I commenced to credit some of my good play, especially on the "greens" to the ball and concluded to stick to it through the 36 holes finals, which I did, winning the CHAMPIONSHIP 8 up 7 to play. THIS makes a grand total for this ball of 90 holes and I consider it good for 90 more. I consider it as good as the very best off the wooden clubs as good as you need off the irons and the superior of any ball made on the "greens." Sincerely yours,

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LESSONS IN GOLF BY ALEX SMITH LESSON IV. THE SHORT GAME There are many amateurs who can drive a fine ball off of the tee and even negotiate a full second shot in first-class style. But when they are called upon to approach the green, the weakness of their game is disclosed. It is in approach- ing (including the approach putt) that the professional player has the call upon the average "class" amateur, and I think this explanation lies in the fact that the professional realizes that his bread and butter depends upon his pro- ficiency in all departments of the game. Consequently he really works at getting up his approaching strokes, while the amateur is generally quite satisfied to be driving well. It is really the difference between play and work. A scientific golfer will tell you that he gets quite as much pleasure from the nicely graduated mashie shot or closely calculated long putt as he does from the two hundred-yard drive. Very true, and yet who would play golf if driving were eliminated from the game? Full, free hitting, where the player has only to think of keeping reasonably straight, and then getting as far as he possibly can, is the essence of golf, and nothing can take its place. But this is the play part of the game, and once the full driving stroke is acquired, its exercise makes 110 particular demand upon the thinking powers and nervous system of the player. We

Copyright, 1906, by ARTH UR POTTO\V. All rights reserved. LESSONS IN GOLF all like to swipe away at the ball; we enjoy the freedom of the stroke and the opportunity it gives us to put in every- thing we possess of strength and determination. If we can drive at all, we are proud of our success ; we never get

A SIXTY-YARD MASHIE SHOT entirelv used to the pleasure of hitting- that little sphere into space. A good golf drive is "a thing of beauty and a joy forever." t

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But golf is not all play, and the long driver, pure and simple, will not win many matches. The ball must be placed finally in a hole four and a quarter inches in diameter, and it is evident that to accomplish this we shall have to abandon the pleasures of free hitting for the studious attention and masterful control upon which the success of the shorter strokes depend. In other words, we must think, we must stud)-, we must be master of our club in all its moods and tenses. Mere distance, combined with tolerable directness, is easy enough, but now we must be really straight and just far enough. This last is work rather than play, and puts a severe strain upon both the mental and moral facul- ties ; the muscles are no longer allowed to disport them- selves in careless freedom, but must become trained and obedient to their task. Now, as I have said, the professional understands that he must be able to play the short game well if he is to reach the first flight, and so he is forced to work at the problem until he masters it. The ordinary amateur thinks that he is practising approaching Avhen now and then, on an offday or for a few minutes before his match, he goes out 011 the course and plays a few "general" shots for the home green, with half a dozen long putts by way of good measure. Another reason for professional superiority in the quarter shot is that many "pros" are graduated from the caddie ranks. Xow a caddie, particularly in this country, does not get many chances to play the actual game, but he can nearly always manage to command an old iron some- where, and balls may be picked up on the course. There is generally an unoccupied piece of green sward near the caddie shelter which he may appropriate for his own uses, and if the greenkeeper is good natured he will supply a discarded cup ; or an old tin can will serve almost as well. The consequence is that the embryo professional grows up with his approaching club constantly in hand—is "teethed upon it," as they say. He learns his short game from A to Izzard, and the knowledge is a most valuable asset in his maturer years. The amateur, on the other hand, almost invariably begins by playing regular matches, and so never gets one-tenth of the approaching practise that his caddie puts in. Now, a first-class short game, with quite indif- ferent driving, will win every time against tremendous swiping and sloppy approach work. Finally, the profes- sional, as a class, is usually in better physical shape than the amateur ; he has fewer nerves and a less insistent imagina- tion. The delicate shots twenty yards away from the green, LESSONS IN GOLF the tricky putt up to the hole—these are strokes that demand the utmost balance of body and poise of mind, and the amateur is apt to let himself get out of hand through sheer nervousness and a too realizing sense of his responsi- bilities. The perfect golfing machine should be one with- out nerves or imagination, and here is where the profes- sional scores. Enough has been said to emphasize the supreme im- portance of the short game; let us now proceed to define it. What is an approach? In one sense, the short hole which we can reach from the tee, is an approach. It may be a driver or it may be a mashie which we use for the shot, depending, of course, on the distance; the essential point is that it is possible to reach the green in one stroke, and we must therefore play for both distance and direction. But these tee shots for the green are, after all, quite simple. The ball is placed so as to give us every chance, and we have only to know what our normal distance is with the various clubs, and then make reasonable allowance for the wind. Really, we shall have no excuse to offer if we fail to get within putting distance. Again, we may say that we approach when a half brassey or a full cleek will land us at the hole side, but really the play differs but little from the ordinary course of the long game. We are still driving, and distance is a trifle more valuable than direction. The actual zone of the approach shot begins, let us say, at a hundred and twenty-five yards from the green. This is a distance that everyone can negotiate after some fashion, with an iron club, and it is with our metal furniture that true approaching is done. You remember that when I gave you the list of clubs that you would need for your first essays I omitted the mashie. The reason I did so was because the mashie is a difficult club to master, and its practise should begin at the opposite end to that of the driving clubs—starting with the shortest possible stroke and working back. Full mashie shots are a dangerous form of amusement, since the increased amount of loft is very apt to hook the ball. Personally, I never play a full mashie unless I am a long ways from the hole and it is absolutely necessary to loft the ball over some exceptionally high hazard, such as a clump of trees. The mashie, that is, a good one, is not an easy thing to find. The most popular model is that known as Taylor's, with a dee]), broad face and a substantial sole. The quality of balance is important, and it is a mistake to buy a light- LESSONS IN GOLF weight club. In these mashie shots the weight of the head has a good deal to do with the making of the stroke, and if your club is too light you will try and make up for this

HIGH LOFT WITH MASHIE OVER A CLUMP OF TREES deficiency by forcing a little—striking too hard. The shaft should be perfectly stiff. Now, before we attempt any actual stroke, 1 want to say io LESSONS IN GOLF

a few words on the spin, a subject about which much has been written and which yet remains a mystery to many good players. We are already familiar with the spin to the right which produces slice, and with the corresponding spin to the left, which shows itself in the pulled ball. We know, too, that a straight ball from the tee may have either a direct over spin or a direct under spin. In the former instance, which is analogous to the follow-shot at billiards, the ball has a long run; in the latter case the ball is inclined to rise or tower near the close of its flight and falls comparatively dead. Finally, slice or a spin to the right is generally ac-

HOW NIBLICK BLADE STRIKES BALL UNDER THE CENTRE

companied by under spin, both of which tend to shorten its flight. The pulled ball, on the other hand, has both left hand and over spin and is the longest ball that can be driven. Now, all of these different spins from the play and driving clubs have a distinct influence upon the ball's flight, but their scientific use in the long game is a subject too advanced for these practical papers, and as I have already said, 1 am not sure that the "game is worth the candle" with the one exception of the pull. But when we come to iron play, we shall have to take them into account. In the first place, I advise you to leave the cut or sliced approach severely alone. It LESSONS IN GOLF 11 cut up to the hole side, falling on the green a little to the left and then sliding over towards the cup, but there are not many golfers who have really mastered the stroke so as to be able to use it at will. Moreover, since the cut is put on by drawing in the arms, it tends to get you in the habit of slicing other shots, and it is hard to get rid of the habit—slicing is the one almost universal vice. In my own game I am quite content to depend upon the simple over and under spins, and to play the ball straight. I!etter to have two shots that you can use than a bag full of fancy tricks which may fail you more than half the time. We have, then, the two straightforward spins—the over,

PIOW CLEEK BLADE STRIKES BALL AT CENTRE which corresponds to the follow at billiards, and the under, which produces in some degree the effect of the draw. How are these spins produced? My theory is that the quality of the spin depends almost entirely upon the amount of loft on the club. The mashie and niblick are laid back farther than any other club, and their natural tendency is to put an under spin on the ball. It is the lower half of the blade that first meets the ball, striking it below the centre. The consequence is under spin, or draw., just as in billiards. With the midiron, the driving mashie, and the cleek the blade is more and more upright, and it meets the ball at the centre line or a little 12 LESSONS IN GOLF

above it. The consequence is the over spin, or the billiard follow-on. Normally played, the cleek drives a lower ball than the driving niashie, and the driving mashie gives a lower flight than the midiron. The difference depends on the amount of loft, and the less the pitch of the club the lower the trajectory. The iron putter, for example, is straighter in the face than any other club, including the driver, and it accordingly drives the lowest ball of all. An interesting confirmation of my theory is a putter brought out a few years ago in which the face of the blade was hung over the ball—the direct opposite of the ordinary loft. The theory was that it would strike the ball well above the

LOOSE WRIST ACTION IN QUARTER SHOT

centre and so put a forward or over spin upon it, and this is just what it did do. We have, therefore, over spin as the normal result of play with driver, brassey, spoon, cleek, and driving mashie. The midiron stands just upon the dividing line, and then come the niashie and niblick, producing under spin. With this theory established, we may go on to put it in practise. In the first place, for all half and quarter shots I believe in using the overlapping grip, with the thumb down on the shaft. (See illustration of this grip in Lesson II.) In all iron play, properly executed, more or less turf is taken, and with the thumb on the shaft thej^is-Oiucli less danger of LESSONS IN GOLF the club turning- in the hand. Again, we need the full power of the right hand to push the club through, and this can only be obtained with the thumb on the shaft and not curled around it. In the latter position the club is apt to fall into the web formed by the right thumb and right forefinger, and power, at a critical moment, is thereby wasted. Finally, the right thumb on the shaft gives us an easy and certain method of arriving at a half swing. It is impossible to make a perfect full swing with the right thumb in this position, and we have therefore an automatic preventive against oversAvinging with our irons. Once again we will distinguish in our approach work be- tween the shots played with a stiff wrist and those in which

STIFF WRIST ACTION IN QUARTER SHOT the latter are loosened up. With the flexible wrist the shot is what we may call normal, the club head hitting the ball in advance of the hands, and as a consequence the ball is sent into the air or lofted. With the wrists held stiffly, so as not to bend backward, the hands are in advance of the club head and the result is a low ball with plenty of run. Finally, if in this last stroke we allow both hands and left shoulder to go out after the ball, instead of swinging round to the left, we shall produce the shortened form of the push stroke already described. These then are the essential principles of approach play—the right thumb down the shaft, the stiff or flexible wrists, and the hands, either kept LESSONS IN GOLF

behind the club or pushed through in advance of it. All modifications of the quarter game depend upon our knowl- edge and practical mastery of these principles. For the approach shot generally the mashie is the proper

TO I OF SWING FOR CHIP SHOT ONTO THE GREEN club, and we will now proceed to deal with its mysteries, beginning, as I have already said, with the shortest possible shot and looking back.

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Suppose the ball lies about twenty yards from the cup, with two or three yards of the ordinary course between us and the green. It is possible, of course, to run the ball up with putter or midiron, but I prefer to take a mashie and

THE CHIP SHOT. TAKING TURF AFTER THE BALL IS STRUCK play what is called a chip onto the green. This is, perhaps, my favorite shot and, lying' in this position, I am generally to back myself to hole out in two. 16 LESSONS IN GOLF

For the stance the right foot is still farther advanced, as shown in the illustration, and the ball lies nearer the right foot. The swing back is quite short, as short, indeed, as you can make it, for it is the weight of the club head that is going to do the work. The grip is firm with both hands, and be sure that the right thumb is on the shaft and not around it. A little turf is taken with the stroke after the ball is struck, and the hands are not held back, but go out after the club. As the stroke is a hit in the strictest sense of the word, the follow-on is shortened up and the hands and club head are checked about a foot past the ball. Now, with a putter or driving iron, such a stroke would have over spin, and consequently a low flight and a long run. But, as I have already explained, the excessive loft of the mashie produces under spin, and the result is a low ball with a drag on it. Such a ball may be pitched from twenty yards away to within a few feet of the hole, and its run will only be long enough to take it up to the cup. There is great control over the ball in this modification of the jerk or push shot, and the tendency of the mashie to hook the ball is almost wholly nullified. The wrists, by the way, are kept stiff—not bent back—but, of course, they must work easily, and the grip, though firm, must not be rigid. Be particular not to swing back too far; if you do you will instinctively try to spare the shot and the result will be a failure. Be equally careful that both hands are pushed through with the impact, and don't imagine that you will have to put in some extra wrist action in order to get the ball into the air ; the loft on the club will attend to that. Now, if we play this identical shot with a jigger (a jigger is nothing more than a lofted cleek), a midiron, or a driving mashie, we shall get the same results except that these other clubs will put on over spin instead of under spin, and the ball will run proportionately farther. Playing the stroke with the midiron it will be necessary to pitch the ball about half way and let it run the rest of the distance. This shot can be used for all distances up to the range of the half mashie, the only difference being that the club is taken farther back for the longer strokes. Moreover, it can be played with any iron club, remembering, of course, that all clubs, except a mashie or niblick, will give a run to the ball. With practise, you will be able to lay out a scale of distances for all your approaching clubs. Let us now turn to the wrist shot proper. In this stroke the wrists are not kept stiff, but^allo-W-ecLla. bend back as LESSONS IN GOLF far as they will go. The stanee is the same for the right foot, but you may have the ball nearly half way between the feet. When the club comes through, the hands do not go after the club, but the left one is held back a trifle, just

A PUSH APPROACH WITH MIDIRON AT SIXTY YARDS as in the driving stroke, and the left shoulder swings around. Not so much turf is taken as in the push shot. The ball will be lofted well into the air and, as before, it will have I . P -n.^-in-«f

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over or under spin according to the pitch of the club em- ployed. The usefulness of the wrist shot is, of course, to get the ball over whatever obstruction may be in the way, such as a cop bunker. If we want a short, high loft, with plenty of stop on the ball, we may take the niblick, but watch out for its tendency to hook the ball to the left. Moreover, in all shots with iron clubs it is advisable to hit with the toe rather than with the heel of the club head; otherwise we shall be continually hooking, foundering, or slicing our shots. Playing my normal game, I prefer the push stroke first described to the wrist shot, as I find it gives better control both for distance and direction. There are occasions, of course, when it is absolutely necessary to get the ball well into the air, as for example, when you are quite a way from the green and stymied by trees or high bushes. In this emergency I should play a full wrist shot with the mashie, so as to get distance, loft, and a dead fall. This, then, is my general scheme of action for the ap- proach shot, and I admit that the theory looks almost too simple. There are scientific manuals on the game which make a great deal of the approach stroke, subdividing it into numberless variations, such as the three-quarters stroke with cut, the dead loft with the club laid back, and so on. I will acknowledge that if a man plays with only one club, say a midiron, it will be necessary for him to learn to use it in various ways to get the desired results. It seems to me a simpler plan to employ but the two strokes—the push and the wrist, and depend upon the particular club used for the minor Agnations. The requirements of the theorists are all very pretty on paper, but they require genius and a lifetime of practise for their mastery. My idea is to know less, but to know that perfectly. To recapitulate: The stiff wrist goes with the hands pushed through in advance of the club head, and the result is a low flying ball. The heavily lofted clubs—the mashie and niblick—put on under spin, which stops the ball com- paratively dead ; the other iron clubs put on over spin, which causes the ball to run. The wrist stroke proper is made with the wrists well bent back; and the club head goes through in advance of the hands, producing a high flight to the ball. As before, the heavily lofted clubs give under spin and the others over spin. In the running-up stroke with the cleek or driving mashie the ball may lie kept low and its running power increased ••——•

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if the wrists are kept extra stiff, the right one turning sharply over as the ball is struck. For approaches at long distances a spoon is an excellent club. The spoon is a wooden club, resembling the driver, but with a larger head and a face laid back as much as a brassey. The stroke may be either a push or a wrist. Remember, finally, that in playing anything short of a full swing with the irons you must keep your right thumb on the shaft and use the overlapping grip, as already described. The right elbow swings back close to the body just as in the full driving strokes, and the right hand is always in com- mand. Approaching is difficult and always will be, and it can only be mastered by hard and conscientious practise. Go out alone with nothing but a mashie and a half dozen balls and really work at the problem, and your trouble will

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11 UR greatest golf year!" said an where the field contained such great O eminent authority recently golfers as Walter J. Travis and E. M. when asked his opinion of the golf of Byers. Here Jerome D. Travers won, 1906, and this verdict will find ready but somehow we do not seem to as- acceptance. It is undoubtedly a true sociate Travers with "the boy in golf," statements of facts. There have been though he has only just entered years—not so long ago, either—when Princeton. He has done so many this could not be said with truth in re- brilliant things during the past few lation to those that have gone before. years that he is regarded as a vet- In some part of the game there had eran on the links, if not in years. been noticed a diminution of interest, When it came to the great crucial which caused some followers of the test of the game—the Amateur Cham- game a measure of alarm. This year pionship—the veteran carried all be- no such feeling has been possible. In fore him. There was one young player amateur golf, women's golf, profes- only, Ellis Knowles, in the semi-finals, sional golf, it has been apparent that the others being such tried players as interest has greatly increased and that, E. M. Byers, George S. Lyon, and moreover, it now has what it sometimes Walter J. Travis. It was Byers's third lacked, the appearance of being lasting. time to be in the final at the National The success of the game has not been Championship, and his victory was sectional, it has been universal, and it very popular. The presence of Lyon, gives promise of a brighter future the Canadian golfer, gave an added in- than ever for the Royal and Ancient terest to the final, and his fine play game. throughout gave the impression that There have never been so many the championship was going to cross amateur tournaments held as in 1906, the border. How long will it be be- but it cannot be said that either in the fore the title goes visiting? Perhaps East or the West anything very start- some Englishmen, emboldened by the ling has been discovered amongst the approximate success of the Canadian, newcomers in the game. The young may pay us a visit in the near future men who continued in the front during and avenge Sandwich. Well, our the past year were those who had done golf is so good now, that we are not so at least during the preceding sea- so anxious about the result as we son, if not for a longer period. It is might have been a few years ago. quite true that the leading performers The Western Amateur Champion- at the various tournaments were ship was like the Metropolitan, an- young players, but they only seemed other event that went to a youno- to excel when pitted against each golfer—D. E. Sawyer. Hut he did other. Perhaps the exception would not have quite such a strong field to be in the Metropolitan Championship, fight against as Travers had had, for THE GOLF OF 1906 21

H. Chandler Egan, the leading West- pionship was preceded by the Tri- ern amateur, and E. M. Byers, the Na- City matches for the Griscom trophy, tional champion, were both absent. the teams being representative of Bos- Sawyer's success was very popular, ton, New York, and Philadelphia. and it was some compensation for the The result was a surprise. The ill-luck which befell him in the Ama- Quaker City players beat in succession teur Championship. He was, as every- Boston and New York, and so won body knows, runner-up to Chandler the trophy for the first time in its his- Egan at Wheaton in 1905, and it was tory. Next year the championship regarded as a foregone conclusion and the Tri-City matches will be played that he would qualify. But he hap- on a Boston course, the championship pened to play in the great storm which on that occasion being held before the burst over the course at Englewood Inter-City event. It is quite possible the first day, and this was fatal. that the association may organize a The Intercollegiate Championship team to cross the water and try con- —which somehow fails to attract the clusions with the British women, and attention it deserves—went to WT. E. it is to be hoped that the project may Clow, Jr., of Yale and Onwentsia, be carried out. who is somewhat of a newcomer, so The Women's Metropolitan Cham- far as important tournaments are con- pionship was held last year at the cerned. No doubt we shall see more Englewood Golf Club, and was note- of him in the future. worth)' for the reappearance of Mrs. Never have the women golfers of Charles T. Stout. It was evident that the country had such a busy season. Mrs. Stout's game had not gone off, In the East there were two great though she had hard work to beat in events, the Women's Eastern Golf As- the final Miss Georgianna Bishop, who sociation Championship and the Na- was the Women's Champion of 1904. tional Championship. Great interest The National Championship was attached to the former event, because at the Brae Burn Country Club, West it was the first championship meeting, Newton, Mass., and was one of the the association having only been or- most satisfactory women's champion- ganized during the winter of 1905. ships ever held in the East. In 1904 The Nassau Country Club had been at Merion and in 1905 at Morris selected for the event, and so large County, the Western women were al- and representative was the entry that most unrepresented. This was not so it almost attained to the importance at Brae Burn, for eighteen golfers be- of the national event. The fixture longing to the Western Women's As- lasted two days, being decided by sociation journeyed to Boston to con- thirty-six holes at medal play, and the tend in a team match against a team winner was Miss Fanny C. Osgood, from the newly organized Eastern of the Country Club, Brookline. Very Women's Association, and, naturally, fine play was the distinguishing fea- to take part in the championship after- ture of the occasion, a New York wards. They were beaten in the team player, Miss Louise Vandcrhoef, of event and they did not have much luck Ardsley, having on the first day the in the championship, four only getting good-medal score of 86. The cham- in the qualifying thirty-two. Two of ~

22 THE GOLF OF 1906 the notable absentees from the national professionals are concerned, a con- fixture were Mrs. Stout and Miss siderable advance is to be noted. The Margaret Curtis. Miss Harriot Cur- formation of the Eastern and Western tis, however, well upheld the family Professional Golfers' Associations has reputation and won the championship had much to do with this improve- after defeating", in the course of the ment. At any rate it has provided two match play, such line golfers as Miss more important events, and where Osgood and Miss M. B. Adams. there are so few the smallest increase In the early part of the season it becomes notable. seemed as if women's golf in the West The National Championship was was not going to be very successful, held at the Onwentsia Club, where but fortunately this was not so. The Y\"illie Anderson, the holder of the Western Women's Championship, at title, is professional. It was not, how- the Exmoor Country Club, with an ever, Anderson's year, but he has entry list of seventy, brought out the reaped in so many honors in the past largest and most representative field that he can well afford, for a while, to which has ever competed for the title. watch others doing the same. It has, Mrs. Charles L. Dering won for the in truth, been the year of Alex Smith. second successive time, her opponent In the "West as well as in the East, the in the final being Miss Frances Ever- Nassau player, in great events, has ett, who was champion in 1904. On had practically an unbroken series of their way to Brae Burn the Western successes. He won the Western open women stopped at Toronto and took at the Homewood Country Club, part in a team match against the Cana- where he had Jack Hobens, of Engle- dian golfers, and this resulted in a wood, as runner-up. He took the open draw. Probably if they had gone championship at Onwentsia with the direct to Brae Burn the3^ w<'ould have lowest score ever made in a national done better. Howrever, they will have championship, his brother Willie com- a good chance to turn the tables this ing next. In the East he won the pro- year, for the national fixture will un- fessional tournament at Van Cortlandt doubtedly go to a Chicago club, and Park, and he was successful in the first the Eastern women will have to return championship of the Eastern Profes- the visit paid them by the Western sional Golfers' Association, which was golfers. held at the Forest Hill Golf Club. One Probably 1906 has been the best event he failed to annex, and this was year for professional golf since the in- the Metropolitan Open Championship, troduction of the game into this which was held at the ITollywood Golf country. It is true that our leading" Club. Fine play gave the title to players are unable to arrange many George Low, the Baltusrol profes- matches with each other, as they do in sional. Great Britain, and this is to be re- A notable success of the season was gretted, for not only are the players that of William C. Sherwood, an poorer, but the game is, too, and those American professional, of Canton who like to follow good golf are de- OhiOj who learnt his game in this prived of a great source of enjoy- country. He won the Western (, )n ment. So far as tournaments open to en at the OaiTtmctkCountry \ LIST OF GOLF CHAMPIONS, 1906

Club, defeating in the final Fred Mc- Mrs. Kennion won the English La- Cleod, a well-known Scotch profes- dies' Championship, and her victory sional. was noteworthy for the fact that the There have been no surprises title for the first time went to a mar- abroad. The amateur championship ried woman. In this country a ma- of Great Britain was won by a Scotch tron has never been successful in the golfer, Tames Robb, who, like Mr. national event. Byers in this country, had been run- The famous trio, James Braid, ner-up twice in the same event. No Harry Vardon, and J. IT. Taylor, still young amateurs of startling promise remain at the head of the profession- have burst upon the scene, and the als. James Braid won the Open Cham- award of being the leading amateur of pionship for the second successive the year in Great Britain may be given year. The fixture was at Muirfield, to Air. John Graham, Jr., the Hoy- Scotland. He had a score of 300. lake golfer, who has never yet Avon J. IT. Taylor was second, with a score a championship. There were two of 304, and Harry Yardon third with American entries for the amateur 305. Mr. John Graham, Jr., who had championship, C. B. Macdonald, Gar- one great round of 71, led the ama- den City, and R. S. Macleay, of Port- teurs with the fine score of 306. land, Ore. Macleay was put out by The game everywhere, it is very that fine player, Mr. W. E. Fairlie, and gratifying to be able to say, has been "Sir. Macdonald was beaten by Mr. C. maintained on that same high plane C. Lingen, who was runner-up to Mr. whereon, in the world of sport, it al- Robb in the final. most seems to stand alone.

LIST OF GOLF CHAMPIONS, 1906

Compiled by Alexis J. Colman

NATIONAL WINNER AND RUNNER-UP. WINNER AND RUNNER-UP. Hudson River Amateur Eben M. Byers, George S. tvon Gilman P. Tiffany, Ralph C. Carroll Open Alex Smith, Will Smith League of the Lower Lakes Women. .Miss H. S. Curtis, Miss Mollie B. Adams G- T- Curtis. W. Carhartt Intermountaiu L. Ruble, Dr. Rowe SECTIONAL Metropolitan amateur. .J. D. Travers, E. M. Byers Metropolitan open George Low, Alex Smith WINNER AND RUNNER-UP. Metropolitan women's Western amateur .Mrs. C. Stout, Miss G. M. Bishop Daniel E. Sawyer, Warren Iv. Wood Middle Atlantic R. J. Baldwin, L. L. Harban Western open Alex Smith, John Hobens Pacific Coast Frank C. Newton, J. R. Clarke. Western professionals Southern Leigh Carroll, Nelson Whitney W. C. Sherwood, F. McLeod Trans-Mississippi Western women Olive T. JalTray, F. W. McCartney Mrs. C. L. Dering, Miss F. Everett United North and South Eastern professionals W, K. Wood, C. L. Becker Alex Smith, Alex Campbell United North and South women's Women's eastern . .Mrs. Myra D. Patterson, Miss Julia R. Mix Miss F. C. Osgood, Mrs. R. II. Barlow Northern California.F. C. Newton, Frank A. Kales Philadelphia women's Southern California .W. Frederickson, A. B. Swift Mrs. R. H. Barlow, Miss F. C. Griscom Southern California women's Southeastern Massachusetts Miss Katherine C. Harley, Mrs. Frank Griffith C. E. Smith, R. M. Hawkins Southern California professional Central M"assac]Tn»ett»r-r-.-^-r,.r-^^- ^L_^\. Wiley E. Martin, A. Taylor IiasJ, Jersey Golf League \. . South Florida. .. Walter T. Travis Charles I! Corv rt E. A. Curtis, F. A. right Pacific Northwest. .C. K M; Jr. 24 Li\ST OF (7OLF CHAMPIONS, 1.906

WINNER AND RUNNER-UP. MISCELLANEOUS Pacific Northwest women's WINNER AND RUNNER-UP. Hiss Ethel Garrett, Miss Violet Pooley American Golf Association of Advertising In- Staten Island P. W. Kendall, Bert Allen terests .... W. E. Conklyn, George L. Fordyce Western Pennsylvania.Eben M. Byers, F. W. Kay Boston Interscholastic. B. S. Evans, Jr., J. B. Hylan Western Pennsylvania open Eastern Trade F. C. Jennings E. M. Rycrs, Chas. Rowe Harvard University .Wm. Hickox, Jr., H. IT. Wilder Intercollegiate. . W. E. Clow, Jr., Dwight Partridge STATE Interscholastic Fred Ilerreshoff, G. Bunn National Freight Traffic— WINNER AND RUNNER-UP. Spring Horace E. Smith Connecticut R. D. Sanford. Dr. Carl Martin Midsummer C. F. Seeger, J. S. Marvin Florida women Fall E. N. Fairchild, J. Hodgson, Jr. Miss E. Trowbridge, Miss D. Taylor New England Press. ... IT. B. Hood, E. T. Manson Central Illinois Philadelphia Interscholastic George McMein, George W. Bunn, Jr. E. A. Service, M. P. Jones Indiana William Diddel. IT. E. Zimrner Washington, D. C. open.Alex Smith, Isaac Mackie Iowa Arthur Gordon, Bert McKee Western Interscholastic Maine W. C. Eaton, D. M. Cole Gordon Copeland, Albert Seckel Massachusetts. . .Arthur G. Lockwood, L. J. Gilmer FOREIGN Central Massachusetts J. A. Wiley WINNER AND RUNNER-LTP. Massachusetts open Alex Ross, Alex Campbell Australia amateur E. A. Gill Michigan J. T. Wylie, Philip Stanton Australia professional Carnegie Clarke Missouri Bart S. Adams, Christian Kenney Canada amateur. .. George S. Lyon, Douglas Laird Minnesota Clive T. Jaffray, Harold P. Bend Canada women Miss Thomson, Miss Phepoc Nebraska Sprague Abbott, Jerome Magee Maritime Provinces (Canada) New Hampshire.Arthur B. Cooper, Cleon T. Chase ....Miss Mabel Thomson, Miss Yera Robinson New Jersey.... Archibald Graham, Joseph Sherman France amateur A. J. Bethall East Jersey League.... E. A. Curtis, F. A. Wright France open Arnaud Massey, Tom Vardon Central New York. . Sherrill Sherman, E. A. Clapp Great Britain amateur. . .James Robb, C. C. Lingen Ohio Robert H. Crowell, K. W. Curtis Great Britain open James Braid, J. H. Taylor Ohio open lames Maiden, W. C. Sherwood Great Britain women Oregon T. S. Linpy Mrs. Kennion, Miss Bertha Thompson Oregon women's Mrs. Mabel Keyes Holland amateur E. Cremers Ireland amateur IT. A. P>oyd, IT. M. Cairns Rhode Island G. A. Pope, William Clarke Ireland open IT. IT. Barker, J. S. Worthington South Dakota Martin Thompson, W. L. Baker Ireland women. .. Miss May ITezlet, Miss F. Hezlet Texas H. L. Edwards, F. M. Lewis Italy Denys Scott Vermont Merrill K. Waters, J. G. Batterson Mexico open Will Smith, Willie Anderson Wisconsin G. W. Hewitt, Hamilton Yose Mexico amateur..A. G. Lockwood, II. P. Gallagher River Plata (Argentina) CITY J. C. Avery Wright, F. A. Sutton Scotland women. . . .Miss D. Campbell, Miss Glover "WINNER AND RUNNER-I.TP. Wales women Miss Duncan, Mrs. Storey Bloomingtou, 111 Earl Mahaffey, Eberly Espey Boston women. Miss P. Mackay, Miss IT. S. Curtis TEAM EVENTS Chicago Arthur \Y. Copp, R. C. Knickerbocker PLACE WINNER. Cincinnati Neale Macneale, Samuel Assur Olympic cup, Glen Echo, St. Louis Des Moines B. G. Guinand, Harry Nesting Western Golf Association Dubuque. ."William Lawthcr, Jr., Maurice Connolly Marshall Field cup. Onwentsia . . . . Onwentsia Club Indianapolis S. L. Sattley, Morris Townley Homcwood cup, Ilomewood Kansas City R. W. Hodge, C. A. Tones ITomewood Country Club Louisville Rodman Grubbs, C. E. Craik International women's, Lambton, Toronto. Tie Omaha Jerome Magee, Sprague Abbott bet. Women's West. Assn. and Canadian Assn. New York Canning Floyd, Wa'.ter Peebles Chicago women, Chicago North Side Clubs Oshkosh G. W. Hewitt, A. H. Gruenwald Eastern vs. Western Women, West Newton, Mass Eastern Philadelphia H. W. Pen-in, A. W. Tillinghast Suburban women, Chicago. Lagrange Country Club l-'eoria C. D. Thomas, C. F. White rl ri-City, men's New York Team Philadelphia open.... Donald Ball, Jack Campbell Tri-City, women's Philadelphia Team Portland, Ore IT. B. Turner, C. E. Erswell Cincinnati League Inverness Country Club Rockford Harry B. North, Webb Stevens Northern lutcrurban, Oshkosh, Wis -\lgoma Rock Island \rdo Mitchell, John D. Cady Western Pennsylvania Oakmont Country Club St Louis.. Ralph McKittriek, W. Arthur Stickney Intercollegiate Yale Springfield, 111 C. E. Ricketts Western Intercollegiate Michigan Topeka B. F. Scandrctl, Harrison Morgan Northwestern Intercollegiate Williams

jwuM. -«•• THE PLEASURES OF GOLF

Citations by An Amateur

HEN the full stroke is well exe- Nothing contributes more to the cuted and the arms carried well popularity of golf than its almost end- through to a natural and easy stop and less variety. No two courses are the not a forced one, just about shoulder same, even though they be similar in high, the player will find that he ex- character ; no two shots are alike, even periences a sense of completeness and though the same distance has to be satisfaction, even of exhilaration, accomplished. which will be denied him if his drive In golf, the most sufficient thing is is nipped. It is a very pleasant thing to see our good actions bring forth when, having followed well through fruit, and to note every stage of their and finished the stroke properly, the development. If we play a good ap- ball is watched speeding onwards on proach shot, we like to see our ball the proper line and with just the right pitch, and to watch how each kick or angle of flight to make it travel well. turn or run fulfils the wish we had —James Braid. for it. To play for the best advantage There are few things in the world and see our ideal completed is the that can compare with the joy that height of golfing pleasure.—John L. animates the golfer's heart when he Low. has just got off a clean bow-shaped I have sometimes heard good golf- raker straight down the course.— ers sigh regretfully after holing out Alex Smith. on the eighteenth green, that in the The unthinking may sneer at golf best of circumstances as to health and as an old man's game ; the old man duration of life the}' cannot hope for will not play it as well as the young, more than another twenty, thirty, or the lusty and strong, yet quite well forty years of golf, and they are then enough to profit in many ways. There very likely inclined to be a little bitter is much virtue in health, in enjoyment, about the good years of their youth in exercise. A round of the links, that they may have wasted at some good play, and a match well won at other less fascinating sport. When a the last hole, all this will induce a com- golfer's mind turns to reflections such placent feeling of satisfaction with as these, you may depend upon it that things in general and with ourselves it has been one of those clays when in particular; in short, that blissful everything has gone right and the de'il-may-care condition described for supreme joy of life has been experi- us in the lines frequently on the enced on the links. The little white lips of Tom Morris : ball has seemed possessed of a soul— "Kings may be blest, but Tain was a soul full of kindness and the desire glorious, to do good. The chilis have seemed O'er all the ills of life victorious." endowed with some subtle qualities that had rarely been discovered in y^ rVESTERN DEPAR TMEN T them before. Their lie, their balance, the approaches mostly dead, and the their whip, have reached the ideal, and putts have taken the true line to the such command has been felt over them tee. So great is one's enthusiasm that as over a dissecting instrument in the it is a great misfortune that the sun bands of a skilful surgeon. The sun is setting and there is no more light has been shining and the atmosphere for play. These are the times when has sparkled when, flicked cleanly the golfer's pulse beats strong, and he from the tee, the rubber-cored ball has feels the remorse of the man with the been sent surging through the air. misspent youth because he was grown- The drives have all been long and up and his limbs were setting before straight, the brassey shots well up, even he teed a ball.—Harry Vardon.

WESTEKN DEPARTMENT

Conducted by Alexis J. Colman

N the announcement that the Uni- ion that great good will result. Prac- I ted States Golf Association will tically everyone to whom we sent the hold its annual meeting in Chicago, request to sign did so, with the result Friday, January 18, 1907, Western that over fifteen sectional organiza- golfers see a signal advance in the tions, about eighty clubs and fifty genuinely national scope of the or- prominent individuals endorsed the ganization, and a signal victory for the movement. Now, Western golfers petition engineered by Edward P. generally are going to see that the Martin. Mr. Martin has taken little meeting—which will be held, with the active interest in golf for two years, annual banquet, at the Auditorium having dropped entirely out of the Plotel—will be attended by a most political end of the game since he re- representative number of men promi- linquished the presidency of the West- nent in their various bailiwicks. ern Golf Association and the vice- presidency of the U. S. G. A. That he still is a factor in the game is Three clubs in the Chicago dis- evident from the success of his move. trict held formally announced tour- "Not only Chicago, but Pittsburg, St. neys on Thanksgiving Day—Hins- Louis, Cleveland, and other big West- dale, Calumet, and Westward Ho— ern cities should be accorded the and at other links there were events honor of acting as host for the dele- impromptu and informal. The prizes gates," says Mr. Martin. "If the West at Hinsdale, as last year, were a tur- has the gathering once in three years, key, a goose, a duck, and a jackrabbit, as seems just, I am firmly of the opin- ancKH. T. LiitHfieTl won rife (urkev

' WESTERN DEPARTMENT

after casting lots with C. H. Thayer, account of the club, half a mile away. the two having respectively scores of The advent of the automobile helped 92, 14—78, and 100, 22—78. Four matters considerably, but now it is tied at 87 net for the duck and rabbit. thought the new electric line will com- pletely solve the problem. The proj- ect was brought up some years ago, At Calumet C. H. Young won the but failed to materialize. A company prize for low net, with 82, 7—75, and now has been formed, the first issue of Robert W. Morris had best gross, 44, stock, $50,000, has been taken by Glen 36—80 for the two rounds of the View members and the project is a go. nine-hole "ridge" course. , About Among the stockholders are Fred S. seventy-five competed, an excellent James, Wiley J. Littlejohn, Frank P. showing. Frazier, W. L. Brown, F. C. Letts, William H. Bartlett, and George P. Westward Ho golfers, also to the Merrick. Mr. Merrick is in charge number of seventy-five, participated of the legal and preliminary work. in the bogey handicap, and H. R. Cur- 'tis (9) led, finishing 1 down. W B. Langford (6) was 3 down, and R. J. Samuel M. Felton, president of the Kerr (12) was 4 down, taking third Chicago & Alton railroad, was given prize. another presidency, December 15, when he was chosen to lead the Chi- cago Golf Club, succeeding Robert T. The second exclusive golf railroad Lincoln, who had held the office two is to be the property of the Glen View years. Alan L. Reid was re-elected Club, but unlike the two-mile steam vice-president, Morton Otis was road known as the Midlothian & Blue chosen secretary to succeed George F. tiir. Island Railroad, and owned and con- Henneberry, and Harold A. Howard trolled by Midlothian Country Club was made treasurer. The directors: members, the Glen View line is to be Frank B. Noyes, H. H. Kohlsaat, W. electric, and will run six miles, be- P. Martin, William Prescott Hunt, Jr., tween Evanston and the club. Like and J. Kruttschnitt, with the chief offi- the Midlothian road, the new line is cers. The club is planning an ener- to be built to do away with busses. 1907. Glen View was founded by Evanston getic campaign for men of wealth who made the trip from their homes either in their private The Windsor Country Club, driven equipages or in the club bus, which from its location by the encroachments plies at stated intervals between Ev- and enterprise of real estate promot- anston and Glen View. Or, if they ers, has concluded to begin all over came to the club from their places of again, and has reincorporated under business in Chicago, as the great ma- the name of the Windsor Golf Club— jority have been accustomed to do, evidence of concentration upon the they rode out on the main line of the Royal and Ancient game—and is capi- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- talized at $10,000. The membership road, which built a station and chris- ££ :i limit is 200. A $5,000 club house is tened it- GoH- -solel-y-a.H4-eiitir£ly on to be erected at Windsor Park, 28 NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

Seventy-first street—the club is in the Albert R. Gates, who has been presi- Chicago city limits—and a ten-year dent of the Calumet Country Club the lease has been secured upon the new past year, is mentioned as a candidate property, consisting' of eight)' acres, for the presidency, and he would fill upon which an eighteen-hole course is the bill most acceptably. to be laid out. The new officers: President, T- T- Hall; vice-president, Dr. S. N. Harvey; secretary, L. P. In connection with the plan an- Carter; treasurer, R. B. Gillis; direct- nounced of holding the U. S. G. A. ors, E. P. Cockrell, F. S. Boyden, H. annual meeting in Chicago, some of C. Maley, PI. Miller, Murray White, the Western allied clubs, it is believed, A. W. Bulkley, J. J. Hall, R. B. Gillis, will seek associate membership. The and Dr. S. N. Harvey. Calumet Country Club already has ap- plied, and it is said Homewood in- tends taking similar action. Home- Alan P. Reid, of the Chicago Golf wood is in the field as a candidate for r Club, Frank A. Plelmer, of Midlo- the Amateur W estern championship, thian, and Thomas Taylor, Jr., of On- and its conduct of the Women's West- ventsia, have been appointed nominat- ern two years ago and the Western ing" committee of the Western Golf open last season insures a good tour- Association. The present secretary, nament.

NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

By Percy H. Whiting :-- The Atlanta Young Men's Christian Four or five years ago Crosby was Association now has the novel distinc- professional of the same course, when tion of owning the only Y. M. C. A. it was used by the Atlanta Golf Club,- - .. golf course in the country. When the and he served two years. After leav- old Atlanta Golf Club went out of ex- ing Atlanta he tied for fourth place istence to merge gradually into the in the open championship at Van Atlanta Athletic Club and use the A. Cortlanclt, which was a remarkable A. C.'s new golf course, the grass on performance for a boy then in his the old Piedmont Park course was al- teens, and an American lad at that. He lowed to grow up and it stood neg- will no doubt do well with his new lected all the tall. Then the idea of course. using the course, which is in a public park, for the Y. M. C. A., occurred to The new Atlanta Y. M. C. A. course some of the officials, and they secured is a first class one. The turf is fine permission from the city to play on the and the putting greens have the ad- grounds, went to work immediately vantage of many years of "working." putting them in shape, and secured The club has a section of the "< Jeoroia Chris Crosby as professional. Ijiiililinu'," -A r<>]j,(5_af_tUtt—^S11:u 11,' 1 |"x- X y

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position, for its club house, and shower baths and lockers have been installed there.

A recent addition to the winter golfing colony at Atlanta is James Maiden, brother-in-law of Alex Smith, who will spend the cold months in the Georgia capital to take advantage of the new Atlanta course and the excel- lent winter climate which goes with it.

Maiden was the professional at the Inverness Club in Toledo last summer, and previous to that time was at Youngstown. He finished fourth in the recent "open," won the Ohio open, and, in the opinion of Alex Smith, needs only experience to become the JAMES MAIDEN best golfer in America. fessionals who would be drawn to At- With three such professionals as lanta by an open event. With many Alex Smith, James Maiden, and Chris of the best "pros" in the country win- Crosby spending the winter in At- tering within a night's ride of At- lanta, two good golf courses in run- lanta, such an affair would undoubt- ning order, three hundred men and edly be a great success. women who play regularly, and a membership of 2,450 to draw from in the two organizations which own golf A match between Alex Smith and courses, it looks as though Atlanta Robert Simpson was snapped during would be reasonably busy in a golfing December, but missed fire. A chal- way this winter. lenge was sent from Memphis to At- lanta for a home-and-home match be- tween Smith and Simpson, for $250 a One of the winter activities of the side. The Atlanta golfers immediately local course will be a professional raised their share and wired an accept- tournament of some kind. Quite ance of the challenge, but were met probably it will take the form of a with a substitute proposal of a match match for a purse between Alex for $125 a side, $100 to the winner. Smith, James Maiden, Robert Simp- This amount did not prove of suffi- son, of Memphis, and Bernard Nich- cient interest to Smith, and he refused ols, of Nashville. Unless a regular to consider it. Then Simpson came open tournament is played, this match back with an offer to play for a $100 is a sure go. There is a chance, how- side bet, the money to be put up by the ever, that later in the year a good big- players, but Smith did not care to purse will be put up among the pro- bother with that either, and the two NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

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--- • men will not get together until they A handicap tournament was played meet later in a regular tournament during November which brought out over the Atlanta course. twenty of the best players in the club, * who competed for the Allan Fall cup. Outside of such sporadic outbreaks E. F. Mayberry, who played from as the professional tournament in At- scratch, won the trophy in handy style. lanta, there is not such a great deal Mr. Mayberry's qualifying round was doing in the tournament line among excellent—44, tf—81—and in the the year-round courses of the South. finals he defeated F. O. Tyler, 6 up This is especially true in the many and 5 to play. The final match was Southern cities and towns where the played Thanksgiving Day. beginning of the movement in cotton means the cessation of golf except on Several matches for cups will be Sundays and holidays. A good bit of played during the winter in Charles- the playing over these courses is done ton. The conditions of the various in the winter, but the tournament sea- events have not been announced as yet, son is in the spring. but the prizes will be handsome. Dur- stt * ing February and March learn matches Golfers on the beautiful Charleston will be played with the Camden ( S. C.) course are putting in a busier winter team. This aggregation of golfers is than many of their Southern brothers, a 1 ways erne /^LJiia-IaaaL-Ui..the South NOTES FROM THE SOUTH and the Charleston players will prac- The Asheville ( N. C.) Golf Club is tise steadily to get in condition for the unusually popular this winter. C. G. event. Reynolds has the course in charge and $ has put it in tip-top trim. Tourna- R. Taylor is the professional of the ments will be held at irregular inter- Charleston Country Club course this vals throughout the winter, many of winter, and he now has the links in ex- them open to all golfers, though a few cellent condition. The following officers exclusively for club members. were recently elected by the Country Club: T. S. Sinkler, president; E. W. John Croak, who has been the pro- Hughes, vice-president; F. M. Robert- fessional at the Nashville Golf and son, secretary, and E. F. Mayberry, Country Club since the departure of treasurer. Richard Me Andrew, the N. G. and C. C.'s first "pro," has gone to the A new golf course is being laid out Kent Country Club of Grand Rapids. in Georgetown, S. C. He does not take charge formally until March 1. Bernard Nichols has it succeeded Croak in charge of the Another of the Southern courses Nashville course, and will give lessons whose members live up to the old in- and superintend the laying out of the junction not to let business interfere new nine holes. with golf, is that in Savannah, one of the neatest, prettiest, and sportiest courses in the South. The length of Memphis, as usual, celebrated the present round is a trifle over 3,000 Thanksgiving Day with some golf. yards, and the hazards are hardly The big affair was a four-ball four- equalled in the country. Practically all of the bunkers are old Confederate breastworks, and some of them are as much as fifty or sixty feet high. They are covered with a turf some forty years old, and present a picturesque, and often, to the golfers, a terrifying appearance. They have deep moats in front of them and are sufficiently bothersome as hazards to worry the steadiest of golfers. $ No big tournaments will be held over the Savannah Golf Club course during the winter, as the formal events are always run off in the spring. How- ever, there will be Saturday matches all through the winter, and special events on all holidays. BERNARD NICHOLLS JOHN CROAK NOTES FROM THE SOUTH some with Robert Simpson and A. Ii. matches with Leslie Brownlee, the Mallory against Freddie McLeod and Fort Smith, Ark., "pro." Jack Edrington, in the morning, and * John L. Kerr and Simpson against McLeod and Edrington in the after- The great Camden (S. C.) golf noon. On a basis of added medal course was opened for the winter's scores Simpson and Mallory had 3 play December 7, and there has been strokes the better of it in the morning plenty of golf there since that time. and Simpson and kerr were 1 stroke The changes in the course have been a to the good in the afternoon. The very considerable improvement. All scores were: Morning rounds, Simp- the greens and tees have been enlarged son, 37, 38—75 ; Mallory, 30, 40—79 ; and put in such condition that there McLeod, 40, 38—yS; Edrington, 40, are few, if any, better in the South, 39—70. Afternoon rounds, Simpson, new bunkers have been added on the 36, 36—yi\ Kerr, 44, 41—85; Mc- second, fifth and seventh holes, the Leod, ^y, 40—yy ; Edrington, 41, 40 first hole has been lengthened twenty- —8T. Simpson made a bet at lunch five yards, the sixth, thirty yards, and time that he would beat y^ in the after- the seventh, fifty yards. The first of noon, and he did it, by 1 stroke. what promises to be a brilliant series As the bogey for nine holes is 3S, his of tournaments came December 29, 72 was excellent. when a ball handicap was played. Later in the season many more are $ planned, several of them for elaborate Tamie Simpson is in Little Rock, prizes. The golf committee for this Ark., for the winter, as professional. year is made up of B. D. Ticknor, C. During the season he will play some LI. Yates, and W. H. Manning.

With weather conditions ideal in Chattanooga the golfers there have put in a busy fall and early winter. The Thanksgiving Day tournament was the big event of the fall. Forty players started. The first sixteen qualified for the President's cup, the next sixteen for the Directors' cup. A box of balls went to the man with the best gross score, and another to the best net score. A. W. Games was low score man, with 82, while L LI. Waite was second, with 84. Match play rounds arc still in progress.

()n New Year's Day play starts in Chattanooga for the President's cup NOBLE A. HAEDEE, SAVANNAH and the Rivervievv cup.

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Alex Findlay recently broke the distinction in France by defeating the record of the Chattanooga course, Grand Duke Cyril, first cousin of the playing the round in 35 strokes. The Czar of Russia, in a match over the best previous record was 36. Paris golf course near Versailles. Last year in Paris Mr. Harper won Work is progressing rapidly on the the Paris New York Herald's medal new nine holes of the Chattanooga at golf. In his college days at Mercer course. A building committee has been and the LTniversity of Georgia Harper named to take charge of the erection was a great baseball player, and was of the new club house, a site has been one of the first Southern college pitch- selected, and money for its construc- ers who used a curved ball. tion placed on deposit. * The Thomasville (Ga.) golf course A home-and-home match between is being" put in condition preparatory the Memphis (Tenn.) golf team and to a busy winter season. Charles that of the Little Rock (Ark.) club Johnson, formerly of the Milwaukee has been proposed and will probably Country Club, has charge of the work. be played during the winter. The course opens early in January for the regular season. Already, how- A Georgia golfer, Donald Harper, ever, there has been considerable formerly of Rome, Ga., recently won playing.

FORT SMITH (ARK.) COUNTRY CLUB. ONE OF THE GREENS NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

The first event of the season was a opening golf courses is the Piney kickers' handicap, with cups as prizes. Woods Inn of Southern Pines, N. C. C. E. Clarke and Miss Annie Pringle The new course is 2,700 yards long were the winners. Other tournaments and was laid out by J. M. Peacock, of will follow during the season, which the Pinehurst club. The first tee is promises to be a busy one. The big- directly in front of the inn, and the event comes in the spring, when the course starts out westward and winds annual invitation tournament is held. up at the south end of the hotel. The ground is rolling, the hazards are suf- * ficiently trying to be entertaining, and The officers in charge of the Thomas- the green is kept in excellent condi- ville Golf Club for the present season tion. The course is kept up by the are: J. T. Culpepper, president; G. C. inn, and no charge is made for playing Swift, vice-president; W. A. Watt, Kiti save a nominal registry fee. treasurer ; George S. Cox, secretary.

Money is fast being raised for a new E. M. Fitzjohn, who had charge of club house which will be built by the the Mohawk club of Schenectady, N. Atlanta Athletic Club on its East Lake Y., during the summer, has been se- property. The club already owns a cured as professional for the Southern club house in town and a three-story Pines course, and has already taken $10,000 boat house at East Lake, but charge. the new country club house will be chiefly for the golfing members of the club. Already more than $20,000 has Willie Weir landed in Summerville, been raised by voluntary subscriptions. S. C, about the middle of December, after a successful season at the Mor- ris County Golf Club. This is Weir's The golf season of the St. Augustine tenth season in Summerville. He laid Country Club is just fairly under way out the course at that winter resort in and promises to be the best in the his- 1896 and has spent every winter there tory of the organization. Willie since. Weir will make many improve- Anderson is the professional in charge ments in the course within the month, this year, succeeding William Leslie, who served in the same capacity last and it will be in better condition than year. No tournaments of any conse- ever before. quence have been played as yet, but for the future are planned the Florida East Coast championship, the Presi- No regular tournaments will be held dent's cup, and the so-called Southern at Summerville until February. Be- championship. ginning during that month there will be a series which will continue until the end of March. Handsome cups Among the winter resorts which will be offered by the management of have added to their attractiveness by the Pine Forest Inn, and tlio condi- SOME LITTLE GOLFING SERMONS 35 tions will call for the usual qualifying- round, followed by match play. The amateur record of the course is 76, made by J. O. H. Denny, of Pittsburgh and the professional record is 75. M Js

Robert Hunter, the "Father of Mo- bile Golf," recently broke the record of his home course, covering the eighteen holes in 75 strokes. The bogey is 80, and is considered a stiff '•.s5 ''-'-'• i C-'-i one at that, so Mr. Hunter's showing ' •'•'• - A.'vsrjB was highly creditable. :% il |l 1 The Christmas tournament feature • 'I of the Mobile Golf Club was the play for the Benn cup. Other tournaments will be played during the winter. LOWRY ARNOLD, ATLANTA

SOME LITTLE GOLFING SERMONS in. age has incapacitated him from troub- ON THE FIXING OF A BOGEY lin§' the g°lnn§" Israel- Tt might even seem that they are doing some of his SCORE work at present if we may judge from HP HE redoubtable Colonel is a mem- the variations in the Colonel's play ber of every club, at least on this upon different links. As a frequent side of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and has opponent of the Colonel I wish to enter of recent years extended the sphere of my protest against this lack of uni- his operations into most parts of the formity. One never seems able to known world. From being insular he know where to have him. Upon some became colonial, and from being links of my acquaintance he is a kindly colonial has become cosmopolitan. He opponent, always ready for a game, is, or ought to be, equally at home upon and not too proud on rare occasions to every links, bad, good or indifferent, own himself beaten. The venue is whether inland, or whether he takes a changed and we meet our old friend, seaside holiday, presumably with Mrs. but sad to say, with all his amiability Bogey and the little Bogeys, who prob- taken out of him, intolerant, relentless, ably act as his caddies, and are in never condoning the smallest error, training to follow their worthy father's and ready to take the fullest advantage profession7^, and may relieve him when of his immunity to foul weather, bad SOME LITTLE GOLFING SERMONS greens, evil lies and other such fre- the blame upon other shoulders. He quent abominations. I have had on began by assuring me that he occupied many occasions to express to the Col- a very difficult and anomalous position. onel in the plainest possible vernacular "1 am," he said, "in no sense my own that this conduct on his part was most master, but the servant of committees • reprehensible. I have pointed out to all over the world, who fix for me the {mute him that he could hardly expect gen- standard of my play. These commit- tlemen golfers to continue to play with tees have the most confused notions him on such terms; that they were of who and what I am, and I charge radically unfair and destroyed all in- you, Mr. Clericus Major, with the im- terest in the game; and that, while an portant duty of explaining my posi- even match was good sport, to go out tion and powers, and especially of re- in the certainty of defeat, and to have lieving me of a certain unpopularity, • to calculate the result by the minus which has arisen from a case of mis- quantity of holes down was, to put it taken identity, and for which my squarely, not good enough. I showed masters are alone responsible." him that it was ungenerous in a per- Under such solemn authorization I son possessing as he did such un- beg in my own words to give the sub- rivalled opportunities for play, every stance of the Colonel's remarks, com- day and all day, and, especially at week mending them to the notice of handi- ends, having some thousands of cap committees, all and sundry. matches arranged in all parts of the And first for that which lies so world, to be too keen on the half- heavy on the Colonel's breast, his mis- crowns, and never to let humdrum taken identity with an altogether in- clerici majores,his old friends and com- human mathematical computation panions, have the ghost of a look in. called "the par score." The par score I further pointed out that he was de- is the score of a green calculated solely • - priving himself as well as others of by the calculation of distance. Given the enjoyment of keenly contested the length of the holes of any course, games, and that the lust of conquest whether within the four seas or oceans, was bad for his character, and would or in the moon, where there are no seas naturally engender pride and hardness or oceans, but where the man in the of heart. Here my clerical experience moon probably golfs in the privacy of came in handy, and the Colonel showed the other side which we never see, it is a disposition, observed sometimes perfectly easy to draw up a par score. under my ministrations, of seeking Each hole is so long, should be reached refuge in sleep. As this could not of in such and such strokes of such and course be tolerated, and there was no such distance, two putts on each green, beadle in attendance, I raised my nib- and you have the par score. You may lick and assumed a threatening atti- tude, adjuring the Colonel to speak, reckon that the par score and the pro- hut giving him the customary warning fessional record of the green (which that an)' remarks made by him might the professional in charge has done be used as evidence against him. once in from five hundred to a thou- sand rounds) are always approximate- Mis defence was both novel and pe- ly the same. The par score takes no culiar and seems calculated to shift account of anything but distance, and SOME LITTLE GOLFING SERMONS 37 consequently leaves out of consider- of the average inland green upon the ation all such immaterial questions as same principles as would be employed the condition of the course, whether upon the perfect turf of a Macrihanish smooth or rough, whether broad or is manifestly absurd. In the one case narrow, whether plain and easy or you may assume that every clean-hit encumbered with innumerable bunk- ball will be to all intents and purposes ers, whether its hazards are fairly ne- a feed ball for the second shot; in the gotiable, or are on the contrary un- other case you can only hope that this playable thickets of tenacious heather, will happen to one ball out of three. whether it is possible to drive a run- Seaside bunkers also nine times out of ning' ball, or one that has no legs be- ten exact the penalty of a single stroke, yond the carry, and perhaps sinks deep sometimes not that, but the inland in muddy graves of its own digging. bunker is frequently a gulf of despair. It constantly happens on inland The punishment of the crooked driver courses that that which is a possible on standard courses is usually a slight- score at one part of the year may be ly longer second; on inland courses it wholly impossible at another. None of is more probably either a lost ball, or these things are dreamt of in the phi- still worse, a ball securely ledged in losophy of the par score, and to con- an impregnable clump of heather. All fuse par with bogey is an error than these circumstances are to be consid- which it is hard to imagine a greater. ered in the estimate of a fair bogey score. I will give a typical instance. But it must be next observed that so There is a very charming little golf far from Colonel Bogey being the resi- course in the midlands ; its holes are dent professional in a happy hour of short, its bunkers easy. The credulous unusual success, or concerned to rival golfer would probably lix the bogey the great professionals of the day, he at 75. Beware, these smooth small is not even a first-class or even second- greens are hard as iron, and always on class amateur. We regard a first-class the slope. No ball can ever be trusted amateur as one who can hold his own to stay on their keen surface, and if with all but the very best profession- you attain an average of three putts als; a second-class player as one who on each green you will probably win is about on a par with the average club your match. To leave this out of ac- professional and whose handicap is count is to miss the most important more or less on the side of plus. Col- factor of all. There may be times of onel Bogey does not belong to either rain when such a course is easy, but of these classes ; he is just the ordinary in average weather that simple-seem- scratch player, playing his ordinary ing course is the most difficult I have course in the figure it ought to be done, ever played upon. This is no doubt scratch game, and doing any particular an extreme case, but there can be no not merely by calculation of distances, doubt whatever that, speaking gener- but also having regard to the local dif- ally, inland courses need a very lenient ficulties of the course in question. and gentle Bogey. Why then do they These are as much to be regarded as not receive the treatment to which the abstract distances, and it is as dif- the_\' are entitled? The Colonel's ex- ficult to play proper gulf upon an ill- cuse is valid ; it is the fault of the com- kept course as billiards upon a de- mittees. fective table. To fix the bogey score EDITORIAL

simply for pure love of golf. If he GOLF takes part in a tournament he is re- EVERY MONTH solved that he will play his very ut- By Special Appointment Omcinl Bnlletin of the United States Golf Association, Intercollegiate most in the qualifying round—there Golf Association. Central Kew York fcolf League, •J Metropolitan Golf Association. Western Golf As- shall be no getting into the third sociation, and Southern Golf Association. sixteen when he ought to be in the Entered at Post-office at New York as Second Class Matte first, and then there is the old difficulty ONE YEAR, $2.00: SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS of counting his score. It is so long Postage free United States, Canada and Mexico. To other foreign countries, 36 cents per year. since he left school that he has almost Remit by Express Money Order, Post-office Order, Registered Letter, or Check payable to forgotten simple addition, but he will ARTHUR POTTOW. go to school again and no one shall Edited by \ran Tassel Sutphen Western Representative be able to find fault with his arith- Alexis J. Colman, Room 50S, Record-Herald metic. Has he ever consciously be- Building, 134 IVashington Street, Chicago haved so as to affect adversely the play Publisher: ARTHUR POTTOW, of his opponent ? Well, he will be very 48 West 27th Street New York careful not to do so again. And then, in minor matters, there are divots to The Editor will be glad to receive be replaced, and they shall always be for consideration Photographs and replaced henceforth. A consideration Contributions on the general subject of for the comfort and convenience of the game. Stamps should be enclosed players in other matches shall form for return postage if found unavail- able. Contributors are requested to part of the new scheme of things. No write their Names and Addresses on matches shall be kept waiting whilst the back of all AISS. and Photographs. he tries his putts over again after Photographs should be carefully holing out, and if he is playing in a :• n • packed and accompanied by descrip- tions of their subjects. Club Secre- three- or four-ball match he will very taries will confer a favor by notifying cheerfully ask a single to pass. And the Editor of the dates and particulars then, in his game, what progress he

of coming club events, especially open intends to make! There will be no • . - and invitation tournaments. more topping and pulling and slicing, Si 3 • no missing of short putts. All around 1907 there shall be such great improvement 'T^HIS is the month of good resolu- that when next year's handicap list --:-_.-- tions. The golfer, reflecting on comes out the name of our great re- the past twelve months and commun- solver shall be found followed by sin- ing with himself, acknowledges with gle, not double, figures. All of this may humility his many failings and pic- not be fulfilled, but something will be tures to himself a brighter and less accomplished, something done that guilty future. No one but a golfer will tend to soften the amenities of knows how urgent is the need for re- golf. So our satisfied resolver, playing form. Of sins of omission and com- for pastime, not for victory, will wish mission he lias ample share. But this a happy and prosperous career to all year shall be better. He determines the opponents with whom he may that he will enter fully into the spirit cross clubs during the coming season, of the game. There shall be 110 more as GOLF most sincerely does to all its pot-hunting for him; lie will play readers. \

••",• 1 • 1 • .. , Through flic Green The annual meeting of the United trace of sectional feeling. Eastern States Golf Association will be held in golfers have had for more than ten Chicago, January 18. This is a de- years the privilege of seeing the U. S. cided innovation, as the association G. A. at work at the annual meeting. has never met out of New York It is only fair that an opportunity hitherto. There has for a long time should be afforded the west of wit- been'a feeling in the west that it would nessing the proceedings of that august be for the good of the game if the rep- body. The Western Golf Association resentatives of the western clubs were is to entertain the delegates at dinner, occasionally to come into closer con- setting an example to the east which tact with the passing of laws affecting GOLF has often urged. the organization and into more inti- mate relations with the officers. Ed- ward P. Martin, formerly a vice- It would be too much to suppose president of the association, took the that in this age of trouble and dis- matter in hand. He received abun- content any decision should be re- dance of support from clubs and sec- ceived with unanimous approval. GOLF tional associations. A memorial was has received a letter from a prominent presented to the United States Golf eastern amateur protesting against the Association and the committee prompt- change. It is not necessary to print ly made its decision. his letter in full. What he evidently considers his strong point is wherein * he says: "Chicago is not a suitable Their action is to be commended, meeting place for the U. S. G. A. To as is anything done either in the east fully three-fourths of the associate or west which tends to remove all members and to two-thirds of the allied THROUGH THE GREEN

York, December n, sixty clubs were represented, and important business was transacted. These officers were elected: W. Fellowes Morgan, presi- dent ; Arden M. Robbins, vice-presi-

dent ; Leighton Calkins, secretary, and • F. C. Jennings, treasurer. Simeon Ford and J. R. Maxwell, Jr., were elected to the board of governors.

The handicap committee, in view of the trouble and expense, recommended ij the giving up of the general handicap list of all players and the substitution of a ranking list of all at nine strokes •

or under. The committee stated : "Our ..-• conclusions are, of course, of little value unless we can recommend some course of action for the future. It seems to us that there is but one thing to do, namely, discontinue the gen- EDWARD P. MARTIN eral list and substitute a ranking list. This ranking list should not rate any members it is an eminently inconve- players at more than nine strokes on nient place and one which would never par. That would mean a list of about be selected if the decision was left to a eight hundred names. Or possibly the vote of the members of the association. limit might better be kept as low as Y\ hat becomes of the maxim, 'the nine, which would mean a list of only greatest good to the greatest num- about five hundred players. f ber'?" $ •Sfe, "From such a list clubs giving open GOLF declines to waste any time in or invitation tournaments would re- attempting to solve the gentleman's ceive little aid in rating players if they conundrums beyond pointing out that simply used it to get a line on the even a minority has its rights. It is players whose names appear on it, as impossible in matters of golf legislation in past years, for by far the greater to admit such a proposition. To do proportion of competitors in the so would prevent a national champion- handicap events are rated above nine ship ever going west so long as the on par. But it would be easy to de- associate and allied clubs of the east vise some plan by which the ranking show such a vast preponderance as list could be made very useful. For they do n< iw. example, when a chili gives a tourna- ment, let il be one of the conditions At the annual meeting of the Metro- that any unrated M. G. A. player who politan Goli Association held in New enjiees I In • l-w-ivd-i^a-p—&LuiL present a THROUGH THE GREEN certificate from his club handicapper stitute for it an Eastern open cham- giving his handicap based on the low pionship should not be entertained. man from his club on the M. G. A. By all means have an Eastern open ranking- list. We believe we could championship, and an Eastern ama- work out a form of certificate for teur, too, but first organize your East- clubs to use in that way." ern Golf Association, and take in Pennsylvania and all the Eastern states. The dues were raised to $15, but it was decided not to open the doors to clubs not members of the U. S. G. It was suggested that the M. Li. A. A. In future, none but resident play- should take charge of the New York ers may hereafter compete 111 the M. Interscholastic championship in order G. A. amateur championship. This to add to the stability and importance restriction excludes such players as E. of the fixture, but no decision was ar- M. Byers, who was runner-up in last rived at. year's championship, but it is to be commended. A metropolitan cham- The Metropolitan amateur cham- pionship ceases to be metropolitan pionship will be held at the Nassau when players from all parts of the Country Club the third wreek in May. country who may happen to be mem- bers of metropolitan clubs are per- mitted to compete. Under such con- There are now fifty-nine clubs in ditions there is nothing to distinguish the Metropolitan Golf Association. it from the national amateur cham- Twenty-one are in New Jersey, three pionship. in Connecticut, twelve on Long Isl- and, and twenty-three in this state ex- The championship plate has been clusive of Long Island. The resigna- won outright by the Nassau Country tion of the Freeport Golf Club, due to Club, Findlay S. Douglas having been being unable to hold its real estate on successful twice and ferome D. Trav- lease, has been accepted. Eight clubs ers once. The retiring president of joined during the year: the Cranford the association, Daniel Chauncey, pre- Golf Club, Dunwoodie Country Club, sented a new trophy to the associa- Mahopac Golf Club, Arsdale Golf tion, and a vote of thanks was accord- Club, Briarcliff Golf Club, New ed him for his generous donation. Brunswick Golf Club, Fairview Coun- try Club, and Nyack Country Club.

Messrs. J. B. C. Tappan, Devereux Emmet, J. G. Batterson, J. T. O'Dono- It seems a pity that the general hne, and Walter T. Stern spoke in handicap list of the Metropolitan Golf favor of a continuance of the open Association should be cut down to championship, and there was little op- those persons only whose handicap is position to its being held. Tt is diffi- nine or under. This reduces the list cult to understand how there could be from about 2,550 names to perhaps any, considering how few events are 900. If the handicap list was only of now openJxLjjjofessionais. T<> sub- local interest it would not so much 4-1 THROUGH THE GREEN matter. GOLF is in a position to know Club; secretary, W. Fellowes Morgan, that this is not so. During the winter Baltusrol Golf Club; treasurer, S. Y. in the South and during the summer Heebner, Philadelphia Cricket Club; in various sections of the country executive committee, Leighton Calk- where Metropolitan golfers are to be ins, Plainfield Country Club; Warren found this list has been accepted as Dickinson, Des Moines Golf and authoritative for all local events. Be- Country Club; Herbert Jaques, Coun- ing based on the par system it is very try Club, Brookline; Silas H. Strawn, accurate, and has a prestige which Midlothian Country Club. some other handicap lists do not pos- sess. The difficulty is merely one of * money, Metropolitan golfers being ap- It may be presumed this ticket will parently so impecunious that the need- be elected as no opposition ticket has ed $2 so seems to constitute a ruinous ever been nominated, and without strain upon their resources. doubt the selections will meet with general approval. Daniel Chauncey, who has just finished his term of of- A. G. Lockwood, the well-known fice as president of the M. G. A., has amateur, who was in England during taken a very active and lively interest the summer, has returned to Boston. in the game from its introduction into this country, and has already served Golfers who are going to California four times as a member of the execu- this year cannot do better than pay a tive committee. Fred S. James, father visit to Coronado, Southern Califor- of the ex-amateur champion, was a nia, where, besides a good golf committeeman in 1904. Alex G. Brit- course, they will find the Hotel del ton is re-elected, as are W. Fellowes Coronado. The new nine-hole golf Morgan and Samuel Y. Heebner. course of 3,000 yards is sporty in Everyone will admit that Leighton character and one of the best on the Calkins's services to the game well de- Coast. During the season a competi- serve the recognition now given them. tion or tournament will be held every The three other members of the com- week and handsome prizes are given. mittee are well known in their respect- ive districts. Mr. Dickinson plays The professional of the club is Alex good golf, his handicap being 5 in the Taylor. Golf is by no means the only Western Golf Association. sport at Coronado, and visitors may practically take their choice. $ At the Dyker Meadow Golf Club, The U. S. G. A. nominating com- Brooklyn, Thanksgiving Day, a form mittee, consisting of Arden M. Rob- of competition new to this country bins, St. Andrew's; R. W. Lesley, was tried with success, but it is recom- Philadelphia, and Phelps B. Hoyt, mended for unimportant events only. Chicago, has recommended this ticket: It is a three-ball match play handicap. President, Daniel Chauncey, Gar- Handicaps are based on the player's den City Golf Club; vice-presi- medal play club handicap, each player dents, Fred S. James, Glen View to receive, or concede, three-quarters Club, and Alex Britton, Chevy Chase of the difference betwgeji_hjs haiuli- VIYELLA BostoTHE IMPROVEn D FLANNEL Registered vGarter fans WORN ALL OVER Men's SHirts and Pajamas THE WORLD REFUSE ALL tan. Women's SHirt 'Waists, Shirt SUBSTITUTES OFFERED YOU Waist Suits _ The Name is stamped on every tttd loop — Children's Layettes

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43 44 THROUGH THE GREEN cap and those of the other two op- ponents in his threesome. A fraction of a half or over to count as a stroke.

* The scoring- is kept by points. At each hole six points are apportioned among the players in each match in the following' manner: For each win- ning" of a hole a player scores two points, for each halving a hole, one point, and for a loss, nothing. If a player wins the hole from both op- ponents he scores two points for each win, or four points. If the other two ' tern halve it between them each gets one point. If one of the two wins from iliws's S the other he gets two points, and the Giti 2 loser to both gets nothing. If the two best scores halve the hole, then each get three points, that is, two points each for beating the poorer player and one point each for halving with one another. If all three halve the hole they each get two points.

If A wins from C and halves with E he gets three points, two for the win and one for the halve. If B halves with both A and C he gets one for each halve, or two points. C, losing to A and halving with B, gets one point for the latter. These allotments cover all the conditions which will arise in play, and while at first reading they may seem complicated, in actual play they soon become easy to remember. The player who wins the highest total of points for the eighteen holes is the winner. As six points are given at each of the eighteen holes, the total WARREN DICKINSON points for the three players in each IJES M01NES GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB match must be 108. It is well t<> keep a score of the actual strokes for each The Country Club of Augusta, Ga., hole, as well as a tally of the points. uis done a. lot of work oil ijie course VON LENGERKE & DETMOLD 349 Fifth Avenue (near 34th Street) NEW YORK (ESTABLISHED 1882)

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(SI, 320 Fifth Avenue Cor. 32nd Street, New York arse 45 46 THROUGH THE GREEN since last season, and it is now in The annual meeting of the Massa- very good condition. At every putting chusetts Golf Association will be held green sprinkling facilities have been January 16, at the Exchange Club, installed, and this will help the game. Boston, at 5 130 p. m. The following Last year the club was very success- list of officers has been nominated: ful, and it is confident that the coming President, G. Herbert Windeler, season will be equally good. The Country Club; vice-president, Alfred Thanksgiving Day golf cup was won L. Ripley, Oakley Country Club; by W. M. Nixon. The usual Christ- treasurer, Edmund B. Conant, Vesper mas and New Year's competitions Country Club; secretary, Richard R. were held. ^ Freeman, Wollaston Golf Club; exec- utive committee, officers ex-officio At the Pinehurst (N. C.) Country and Nathaniel B. Borden, Jr., Fall Club there was quite a good entry for River Golf Club; Edward A. Wilkie, the annual Thanksgiving week tourna- ment. For the President's cup the Allston Golf Club; Charles E. Stick- final was between O. B. Prescott, of ney, Country Club of Springfield; the Brae Burn Club, West Newton, Charles I. Travelli, Brae Burn Coun- Mass., and T. R. Newbold, Chevy try Club; Charles T. Crocker, Jr., Al- Chase. Mr. Prescott won by 2 up. pine Golf Club. The consolation trophy went to F. G. Dodd, Zanesville, Ohio, who defeated The Montauk Golf Club has been T. W. Gaulbert, of Louisville, by 7 up incorporated at Albany. The directors and 5 to play. ^ named are F. S. Benson, G. M. Gill, George Low, the metropolitan open W. T. McCoy, R. S. Starrir, R. Rod- champion, and president of the East- man, A. B. Thacher, M. Runyon, W. ern Professional Golfers' Association, J. Kingsland, T. D. Webb, E. Corn- sailed for Carnoustie, Scotland, De- ing, and T. S. Miller. cember 20. ^

Golf Illustrated is authority for the The Montclair (N. J.) Golf Club statement that Harry Vardon will has elected the following officers: make a lengthy foreign tour next Governors, H. H. Spies, president; T. autumn. "Lie will go first to South W. Stephens, vice-president; Walter Africa, and then on to Australia, re- Brown, secretary and treasurer; W. turning by the LJnited States and T. Cross, captain; C. D. Backus, W. Canada. He is, of course, taking his B. Perley, Paul Wilcox, C. F. Droste, clubs with him, and will play exhibi- and J. A. Kelsey. Green committee, tion matches and games on the foreign Paul Wilcox, W. T. Cross, and J. A. greens in the various countries he visits. Our Colonial brothers and Kelsey. House committee, W. B. American cousins may be trusted to Perley, C. F. Droste, and W. Brown. give the great and popular profes- Membership committee, C. D. Backus, sional a warm welcome." Let us hope T. W. Stephens, and J. A. Kelsey. the trip will restore his health com- Tournament committee, W. T. Cross, pletely. Paul Wilcox, and W. Brow 11.

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The amateur champion, E. M. the greens at the public course in Van Byers, is going abroad in February. Cortlandt Park, and the Department He intends to take part in the British has handed them over two greens amateur championship, to be held at upon which to experiment. The weak- St. Andrew's, Scotland, May 27 and spot in this experiment is that the following days. This will be his sec- sodding and seeding will have to be ond appearance in that event. carried out by employees of the Park Department, and inasmuch as politics, not fitness, dictates these appoint- James Braid and Harry Vardon ments, no great improvement is to be were easy winners in the great four- expected. However, any change some they played against George must be for the better, which is one Duncan and C. H. Mayo, at Walton consolation. L Heath and Timperley. Some thou-

sands followed the matches. Here, •4 nobody will play a foursome. Mr. Travis's letter: "Garden City, Dec. 4, 1906. My dear sir: I would Our papers report that Mr. C. B. indeed be a churl to ignore your Macdonald thinks American golf Chesterfieldian appeal, even if I were courses are too wide. In England not very much interested in every- they are complaining that at an inland thing that makes for better golf. You course with a fair green seventy or can get good greens at Van Cortlandt eighty yards wide it is impossible to Park—you can get good greens any- control the crowd which follows a big where. Just as soon as the frost is match. out of the ground get right to work and rip out by the roots all the weeds * and coarse grass. Do this thoroughly, There has been some controversy even if you have to completely denude anent this foursome as to who should the green—then prepare some loam, put up the money. Mr. Horace finely screened and completely free, if Hutchinson says: "What it matters possible, from seeds of weeds and who puts up the money, so long as we coarse grass. Elalf fill a bucket with see a good match, it is not very easy loam, then put in a liberal supply of to see. ... It seems to me that crested dogtail and Kentucky blue the interests of the game are likely grass—two-thirds of the former and to be much better served by some one-third of the latter—put some loam amateur, even if it be a golf ball on top and thoroughly mix—then ap- manufacturing hrm, putting up money ply some to the green to the depth of for them, than by the men betting out about one-fourth inch, after having of their own pockets." previously sprinkled the surface of the g green with a dressing of Canada ashes Mr. Travis was asked by the New or pulverized sheep's manure. Level York Golf Club to give them some the loam off with the thin end of a practical advice and wrote the letter bamboo pole, then roll with a light here printed. It seems that the Park roller. See that sufficient moisture is Department of the City of New York given—artificial, if nature does not had complained about the condition of do her duty. Water at this stage is.

' GOLF IN CALIFORNIA At Famous Hotel Del Coronado

HE ONE PLACE where conditions are ideal. It is never too cold or too warm to T play golf at Coronado, Southern California. The new golf course of the Coronado Country Club is one of the best on the Coast. The course is 3,000 yards in length and thoroughly "sporty" in character. THE CORONADO COUNTRY CLUB was formed for the purpose of promoting sporting events during the winter and summer seasons. The beautiful Club House, for the use of members and their friends, affords an excellent opportunity to view ocean, bay, mountains, hotel and grounds as well as the players. Championship golf, tennis and polo tournaments with valuable trophies and cups for the winners. Handicap tournaments for silver cups for both men and women. An open tournament for the Coronado Country Club challenge vase, for both men and women. Daily tournaments for golf balls and weekly tournaments for silver prizes. Scratch Polo matches will also be played. Hotel del Coronado is the largest seaside resort in the world—open all the year round. American plan only.

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HE HOTEL BON AIR, in T connection with the Augusta It Is a first class rubber cored ball with cover Country Club, offers the public the repaired with best material, In a scientific manner, making it in every respect as good as MOST ATTRACTIVE GOLF the best new ball. PROPOSITION IN ALL BALLS IN EACH BOX GUARANTEED THE SOUTH TO BE UNIFORM. Price $4.50 per doz. an i8-hole Golf Course, well kept and exceed- High grade rubber cored balls (not too badly ingly picturesque and attractive, and a com- damaged) repaired and made as good as new modious and completely equipped Club for $3.00 per doz. House. Accessible from all sections. Sample Ball mailed on receipt of 40 cts. Trade Discounts to Dealers and Pro- fessionals when quantity warrants it C. G. TRUSSELL, Manager Also Manager FRONTENAC HOTEL, LUCK GOLF BALL CO. Thousand Islands, N. Y. 420 East 25th Street :: NEW YORK 49 THROUGH THE GREEN very important. If the seed is at all to the club handicaps, and that the backward resow by broadcasting. The more strange and sporting they are in first seeding should be done from character the better. This would be about April 10 to 15. a most interesting feature of the club dinner, but doubtless we shall be ac- "Every two or three weeks up to the cused of 'encouraging the amateurs to end of May—whether the greens need gamble.' " it or not—sprinkle on some more seed. Endeavor to do this just after a rain- The ideal American golf course, fall. Use seed with a liberal hand— about which we have heard so much, you cannot have too much of it. If seems now to be an accomplished fact; any weeds or coarse grass reappear— that is, the site has been secured by as they probably will—rip them right C. B. Macdonald, the promoter. Two out and put in their place a pinch of hundred acres of ground have been loam mixed with seed. Do this as secured for $40,000. The land pur- often as necessity requires, irrespec- chased is on what is known as Sebo- tive of the season. I would suggest nac Neck, and to the north of Shinne- your treating both greens exactly as cock Hills station. It is practically recommended, excepting on one I bounded on three sides by Bull's Head would use only crested dogtail. You Bay, Peconic Bay, and Cold Spring can then determine which pans out the Bay. The holdings of the founders of better of the two. My own impression the ideal course have not as yet been is that the crested dogtail alone will settled, as the owners of the property be the better. To insure the best re- have given the golfers the privilege sults there is nothing like superintend- of determining the exact boundaries ing the whole work yourself. Wish- of their purchase. ing you every success, I am, my dear sir, very faithfully yours, W. J. Tra- A holding company has been vis. To W. W. Harris, New York formed, of which Mr. Macdonald is Golf Club." ^fe president, James A. Stillman is treas- Golf Illustrated says: "There is an urer, and Robert C. Watson, Jr., is excellent institution which has long- secretary. Devereux Emmet and been in force at the club dinners of the Daniel Chauncey are directors. 'Honourable Company/ which we venture to think might well be in- The committee to lay out the course cluded in the after-dinner proceedings will be Walter J. Travis, C. B. Mac- of all clubs; that is, the making of donald, H. J. Whigham, and D. Em- private matches between members. met. Something satisfactory ought to The secretary sits with his match book result from a combination which in- before him, and as matches are pro- cludes three ex-amateur champions. posed and accepted they are duly en- The Long Island Railroad Company tered by him in his book, together is now doubling its track to South- with any bets which the players or any ampton, and will eventually have four • itliers may make on the result. It tracks. The)1 have guaranteed to land should be remarked thai these matches golfers on the course in two hours are nut made with any strict reference from Wall Street or Fifth Avenue.

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284 HALSEY STREET, NEWARK, N. J. 53 Buy Before the Advance A SPLENDID INVESTMENT FOR QUICK PROFITS ! Buy now the Stock of the PITTSBURG-MANHATTAN MINING CO., of Tonopah, Nevada. 100,000 Shares—par value $1.00, fully paid and non-assessable—offered at 10 cents per share

PROPERTY AND LOCATION The most notable facts of the Company are that it owns proven gold and silver bearing land; not only is the o -e there, but it is there in quantities, an apparently inexhaustible supply of pay ore. The Company owns the Gregory Group of five Claims, situated in the famous MANHATTAN DISTRICT, and also has several claims in the LONE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT; both these districts are the richest in the WORLD. The tunnels have been opened up on the Lone Mountain claims and indications point to striking large bodies of high grade ore carrying values in Gold and Silver.

MINING HAS BUILT MANY GREAT FORTUNES Nothing so surely offers large returns as a good Mining Stock. Probably you do not realize how many people there are who are enjojang a regular income as a result from investing in mining Stocks. There are thousands of them, and they are largely those who bought their stock when the opportunity was first offered to secure shares at a low price before the company had begun to pay dividends. Stocks of many mining companies have advanced from a few cents a share to prices ranging from $100 to $1,500 a share in value, and besides have paid back to the investors in dividends many hundred times what they first invested. Many of the companies are paying from 100 to 1,000 per cent, in dividends on the first price of the stock. To grasp this opportunity and purchase stock in the PITTSBURG- MANHATTAN MINING COMPANY at 10 cents a share means success to you; and that means houses, good living, travel, education and social privileges for your children. If you do not grasp this opportunity to secure a good share of wealth you are likely to be classed as a failure. The proposition is in the hands of men whose ability and integrity cannot be questioned, and these men pledge themselves to see that each and every investor in the enterprise receives an equal division of the profits. Experts have examined the property, and it is the universal opinion that it has a wonderful future. ORGANIZATION The Company is organized under the laws of the State of Nevada, Capital stock of $1,000,000, divided into shares of the par value of $1.00 each; 400,000 shares are in the treasury, which will be sold, as required for developments, from time to time.

10 CENTS PER SHARE, CASH OR INSTALLMENTS We want to impress upon you the fact that you don't have to be rich in order to become a shareholder in this splendid Company. The price of shares is only 10 cents and you can buy as few as one hundred (100), $10.00 worth. If you are not in a position to pay cash for all the shares you desire to own, we will accept a small payment down with the order, the remainder to be paid in five instalments. Suppose you want to invest $10.00 in this company; simply send us $2.50 with your order for 100 shares, and thereafter $1.50 per month for five months, and the stock will be paid for. It's very easy—anyone can afford to do this. Almost every one has enough money in a year to buy them an interest in this Company which would make them independent for life. Send in your order to-day. The following table will show you just how many shares your money will buy, the amount you send if you want to pay all cash, and the plan for monthly payments.

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MACKAY, MUNROE& C O., Bankers and Brokers, Goldfield, Nev. Gentlemen : I hereby subscribe for Shares (at ioc. per Share) of the Capital Stock of the PITTSBURG- MANHATTAN MINING COMPANY of Tonopah (par value $i.oo per share) for which find enclosed $ Please issue Stock in name of : Name (in full) Street and No City or Town State Yours truly, Signature

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