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PESTS OF THE PUTTING-GREENS

I.—MOLES, AND HOW TO CATCH THEM: A PRACTICAL LESSON

By Charles Quincy Turr

HE plagues of the links concentrate he admirable if e-rcised better T their damning evidence on the putting-greens. Many may exist No quarter of the world escapes the in the open and be hut a little burden depredation of the mole. He is indeed

! ! to the flesh of the Green Committee, hut 1JI • 11 | 11" ' ' . I IS. / '•' '^l! C 111" lit' '! t 11'' 4"• • 1 i II[• 11 I when they invade the putting-green their mole, is equally at home in Europe, in presence is rank and intolerable. Then northern Africa, in Asia, and in Japan; their handwriting is on the wall, and, like and he ranges from the meadows by the that at Belshazzar's feast, all men can brooks up to 6000 feet above sea-level. see it, and it portends destruction of skill America is four or five times more blessed and the fall of the mighty. Of all these or move eut'^d nin^iiuch n^ she hns four plagues the mole holds high place, and on or five varieties of moles all to herself. many a links, of which the powers that be The common mole of the East (Scalops are deservedly proud, this veritable " pes- aquatieus) is the most widely dispersed. tilence that walketh in darkness " appears The Silver or Prairie mole (Scalops ar- at fhe most inauspicious moment, doom- >!? H hi i us) r;"t]i£'es 1 exas and Mexico. ing to death every blade of grass above The Oregon mole (Scapanus townsendi) Ms fell tracks, and deflecting every is principally restricted to the Western straight putt by the subtle hollows he States; and the star-nosed or kuotted- sinks. tailmole (Condylura cvisiata) affects the The merest tyro on the links knows Northern States and Canada from the hU swift and sudden handiwork, and Atlantic to the Pacific. Each variety the trenches he digs below the sur- differs in some respects from the others, face, and the redoubts and bastions and but all are alike in their methods of life, escarpments which in a night he, throws and in their destvuetiveness to kwns, and up. Yet let me add to his vices his one pastures generally. virtue!,—a tireless industry which would It. is all very wise, 1 doubt not, ns PESTS OF THE PUTTING! nR

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old Palladius pie da in his "Hua- Yet, to confirm his right to be considered m boudrie "': ouo of nature's own poets, I would call Annoy thmi not ii harde lands yf they struck in the word "scrape." It is the grave." most correct expression for the mole's • But the mole has not the sense to confine work, and nobody e se that I know of has his graving benefitence to the " hardc ever used it to express the method by • lands "; indeed, he i lfinitely prefers to which the moles make their tunnels. If l engrave his title a man were fitted in the land when wnn me mon?. a rain has made it scrapers he could soft, and brought walk under the 'V. his food, the earth from Few worms, near to York to Yonkers

• ^'* the surface. The through a tunnel softer the soil the of his own mak- better and harder ing in a night. he works therein. j " "^5f Pretty lively rapid For so little a transit that!

'• '•-. beast he accom- - ^ ,,, 1P Of course moles plishes a mighty- can be gotten rid lot. Blind, not =**• i of,—man has been often more than A1 1 i j given dominion four inches long, over all the beasts and no farther : of the field, and round than the he is a very beast ball of a man's •. M*/H -2 indeed,—but sel-

thumb, two inches "•..-• ^] dom can he be in diameter being vanquished with- \ - .•««;•, r 3 a good sleek one, out the patience yet one of them and knowledge will in one work- ¥i • M which a trained \ wf - 1 ing day raise a mole - trapper \

\ furrow of earth YT^ brings to bear on from out of hia the work. Such \ 1 trench, and cart it men are very on to the surface, scarce; wo hnvc TITE MOLE-CATC 1ER /1SD HIS KIT. ... , , for the length of hitherto had too a hundred yards; wide a margin of and in doing so kil for that season and nature to make them a necessity. The the nest every blade of grass above. Public Parks Department of New York If the moles had, as Tennyson curious- has found it absolutely necessary to se- ly implies he thought they had, four hands cure the services of one who nnd whose instead of two, they would be wreckers in- forefathers have followed the craft for deed. generations. I have the figures of one _—-— "When in the dai kness over me of them before n e, and they are very The four-handed mole shall

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round moles, 2SS-1." " On Wil- capacity to get rid of the pest, and that ham Kockcfeller's estate at Tawytff ;et observation and patience. Mark 1642," " In Central Park, New York, well the existing conditions when .you set , and so on: with other out on the mission—make s ed, •whereof may be more of the land, with all existin e: add to it fr e's hour to hmii- aU PEtiTS OF THE PUTTlNU-iJJtEUNS 371 the direction which each burrow is tak- in turn, is fastened at one end to a strong ing, and the spot they go back to. Some spring, and at the. other end, through an- will go approximately straight for a hun- other gimlet hole, to a trigger inside the dred yards or more, others will branch off tube. The trigger is a triangular piece and zigzag into endless varieties of pat- of wood, the thin end of which is pushed terns, but each and all will go back to up into the same hole as the cord comes the particular mole's headquarters who is down ; the thick end of the trigger par- at, work therein; to the nest where he tially fills the diameter of the tube. lays up. The run of the mole is then opened for Then begins the second stage of the ac- a sufficient length, to let the trap in, so quisition of knowledge, which consists of that tile hollow of the trap corresponds noting the usual hours when each mole with the mole's run. The spring is then set, and all is ready for the mole. When leaves his home and conies out to feed. j You can see him shift the newest casts ln gets hungry lie sefs off down his run, .is he passes, if you watch carefully; there and, entering the trap, finds an obstruc- will be little tremors in the soft up-cast tion, which he proceeds to push out of the earth. The most usual hours of feeding- way. That releases the trigger, the trig- are about seven in the morning, just be- ger releases the spring, the spriug tightens fore noon, and about four in the after- the wire loops, and lie is caught round noon ; but there is no telling. If Mr. Mole the body. The picture shows a mole has run against luck in the shape of sev- which, having gone in at what we will eral good healthy, fleshy worms (and ap- call the north end, has run his head propriated them) he may lay up on the against the trigger and been caught round lazy for two or three days. the neck by the wire loop at that end of the tube. The wire noose at the other end When the home lias been determined, of the trap has shot up through the hole the next thing is to set the trap in the and dangles without a victim; if he had burrow. The trap is a wooden cylinder come m from the souih <:in

REMARKS ON RULES AND THEIR 1 OBSERVANCE By "The Colonel"

HILE I pen these fi i lines the after a hard summer's work. I was told W Royal and Ancient Golf Club that, usually, the putting-greens were bet nnot see how that could be. Any I'll rules prepared by their c ;olfer, be he champion or other- I have seen the proposed ami 3 complains about the putting- and so far as they go they i this side of the Atlantic., must .nd da • curious individual. The grass of course, different, but it is as true as istonied to the Gospel. play on inland and artificial links fail I was, however, surprised at the lax way in some respects to help them to remove in which some of the amateurs, and those some bones of contention. I do not see too in the front ranks, observed the rules, that among- recognized hazards are in- They should have been called to account eluded trees, or long grass on the side of repeatedly. I do not infer for a moment courses, both of which we meet oftener that they willingly infringed any com-

!a-side Scotch crept .id any legislnti. .uld tention to the errors. seem to the Colonel Bo< ilay I refer chiefly to the rule about drop- •nly at St. Andre uid Prestwick, by ping a hall. The rule Jove!' utterly unnecessary and out of every golfer kr, place. I notice, too, that the expression erect facing the hole he is playing for, " fog," which few but Scotchmen under- and drop a ball from his head. The rea- stand, is perpetuated. sons for this are manifest, and mainly On the other hand we should be grate- are meant to prevent you from placing ful that the premier club should unbend your ball on some advantageous spot. I so far as to elucidate some of theiT former found, repeatedly, that the lissome young rules, which have led to so much gnash- golfers bent nearly double backwards, and mg of teeth. then looking over their shoulder dropped I have recently had a splendid oppor- the ball frc jOUt their elbow. As a t's feat it was magnificent, of the best Westci ict golf. I myself believe that after driving out of bounds should nd the Euclid Club links at Cleveland, be allowed to place his ball. The

•uld be 1 mpertinence on hook or pull, and then there \ uld lie my part either to criticise or do any- more dodging the rule. I must say that, thii but praise. The putting-greens among the professionals playing in the - dreai of beauty, and the fai ten Westei iship, I did were wonderfully Sm REMARKS ON RULES AND THEIR OBSERVANCE 373 fringement of tins rule, so amateurs should uot be so lax. Then, in clearing Courses. I know that if I had taken pre- (heir putts from more or less fancied im- liminary whacks at the long grass, I pediments, some of the amateurs regu- would have done considerably better, es- larly hit the line of their putts with their pecially in the short approach to the hole. hands, thus possibly removing some diffi- If the association would at the same culties from their path, but here again time consider the advisability of allowing the referee was silent. I remember, in a man to place his ball in the case of a the old days, when putting-greens were dropped ball, I think it will be well. The by no means the billiard-tables they have havoc wrought on some teeing-grounds by since become, that it was not against the this dropping rule is very observable on rules, although considered had form, to Southern teeing-grounds, which have not Wslk up to your putt, and to thump any the strong turf of the North and "West. ctfeiiilin^1 knob of ground with your It is far from my intention to cast any wooden putter. I do not defend that slur on the play of the amateurs of the old practice, and the new rule was West, by remarking on the above infringe- specially made to stop such unsports- ments, and I do trust that if any of them manlike proceedings, I fancy that I should read these remarks they will un- could materially help my putt if I were derstand that the remarks are made solely allowed to take my too too solid weight to prevent difficulty at any future time. on the turf between my ball and the hole. How would any of these young men, Any one possessing: a heavy hand can playing, say, in an international match, also work wonders. This practice was too and playing in the way he had been ac- common. customed to do, how would he like to be Why I suggested that long grass on the called down by a rigid referee, and possi- side of a course should be included in the bly lose the match in consequence ? In term "hazard," was mainly owing to one baseball, lawn-tennis, cricket, polo, any of the competitors at Wheaton, who was outdoor sport, the rules are strictly ad- a stranger to the course. "When he got hered to, and so it must be in golf. I into the grass he was in the habit of wish the lads I saw playing in the West taking two or three preliminary swipes every success and honor, and I should through the adjacent herbage to try the grieve to hear that any of them had lost a resisting force to his club. I do not hole by some little carelessness that had think that this was correct, for if a man crept into their game. is in sand, he cannot strike the sand in That out-of-bounds rule seems to me to any way before he addresses his ball be carried too far on some courses. The without penalty. Grass seems to me to old rule, " play your ball where you find he a similar punishment for an erring it," is a good one, and only when the stroke, and one should not be allowed to ball goes into standing corn, or fenced ameliorate his condition in any way. or walled property, where it is a tres- Probably the editor knows some ruling of pass to follow it, should the rule be ap- the American Association on the point, plied. and if he does. I should be very much At the Euclid Club links at Cleveland, obliged by his publishing the same. If this rule seemed to me to be carried too there is none, then I think that when the far, especially at the third and fifth holes. new rules are considered, it will be a very where there was no necessity for it. good time to pass upon this point, which Otherwise that course is a most beauti- oT-i SSMABK8 ON RULES AND THEIR OBSERVANCE ful one, most skilfully laid out, splendid- they might do so, to cut a new hole alter ly kept, with a palatial club-house, and the first couple had started, until the last everything wherewith to gladden the good couple had completed the entire seventy- golfer's heart. No more suitable place two holes. If that was allowable the for a big and important fixture can in my whole tenor of the game was changed. A humble opinion be found. good player having approached a hole The professional talent who took part once, has learnt a good deal about the in the Western championship seemed to green, and the way to get down into the a man satisfied with the course, and they hole. He is entitled to profit by that ex- certainly played as if they liked it. All perience. A local player would have a round it was a treat for an old golfer. great advantage over the stranger, as he One other point that I cannot get set- would naturally know every foot of the tled about the rules to my satisfaction, is greens. The alteration might be made to the rule as to cutting new holes for a seriously affect some individual's play to competition. The rule in itself is clear, the advantage of others. Of course, in a viz., new holes must be, or must, be sup- tournament where a competition is ended posed to be, cut before the competition, in one day, and another competition is and therefore no competitor hrfore starl- begun the next, it is quite fair to change ing shall play any stroke on the putting- the holes each day, if it is desired, but to green. change them in the middle of a medal competition without the consent of all In a competition of seventy-two-holes parties I hold to be wrong-. I want very stroke play, or medal play, over a course much to get the editor's opinion on this of eighteen holes, none' of the competitors point, as I was in the minority. Dr. Mac- before starting attempted to infringe the Phevson, come to the aid of your disciple! above rule. After playing once round, Of course, if a hole is destroyed by any and while waiting for their turn to start outside agency, or a putting-green is on the second eighteen, some of the play- flooded, new holes must be cut, but they ers beguiled the time in putting at the must be carefully pointed out to all the eighteenth hole. One of the officials in competitors. A hole should, in ordinary charge of the competition called them down for dding so. alleging that, for all they knew, the officials may have cut a than two days. new hole for second round, and that, thus It seem? to be the custom in the West under the rule they were disqualified. He to rtNiii^'e TIK1 ln.iles r;Kjh day in a tourna- iifh" nned that it was allowable, and the ment, but if I were playing in e two- general custom, to change the holes each day medal competition I should feel day of a tournament. Being an obstinate dour Scotchman, I had to take issue on aggrieved if, on the morning of the the point. I claimed that after starting, second day, I was confronted with eigh- and having played once round the course, teen new problems, when I had fondly a player could putt where he pleased, as supposed I hod the previous day mas- it gave him no advantage over the others tered, all the law allowed. I do not write who had gone round. I also maintained for myself. I found once round the long that the eighteen holes was but an instal- modern course about enough. The ment of the seventy-two holes, and that course was Jong, the wind was cold, the 1£ the committee bad no right, unless it was OulmK'l " was infirm an'"I end, as Sir expressly stated in the conditions that Walter sail]!

KIHTOK'M NVSTIC.—finilt I i,">" "i' • " f'filtiiit Ir" THE LAY OF THE DUFFER'S BALL (BEGGING PARDON OF LORD TENNYSON) By E. Maud Griffiths STAET from tee and beaten course, I make a sudden sally, I And wander out among- the gorse, To dribble down a valley. By sandy hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By lanky grass, all dry and brown, Ailtl i]Hiri_j v<-j\j!(.ion.? sedges. And long upon the green to roll, To join the golfers' highways; For men may drive and men may hole, But I must haunt the byways. I settle down in shingly shoala In stony holes and. nich.es ; I ramble into rabbit-holes; I stumble into ditches. With many a cut my cheeks are traced. With many a dent and hollow; By many a divot unreplaced My -wand'rings you may follow. Tis foozle, foozle, all the while. Ear from the golfers' highways; For men may jeer and men may smile, But I must haunt the byways. I wind about, ;i]"icl m j-iti'l ou1. With :iow a bitter railing; And now and then a lusty oath, And now and then a wailing. And all the while a grinning boy To watch me where I wander. "With ill-timed counsels that annoy Upon my course to squander. And, pulled and sliced, at last I roll Onep more upon the highways, Where men do drive and men do hole The while I haunt the byways. THE INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP

MORRIS COUNTY GOLF CLUB, OCTOBER 21-24, J902

HE seventh meeting of the Inter- ruled a strong favorite. As the match collegiate Golf Association was turned out, the prophets were right, for T held on the Morris County links, Pennsylvania did not win a match. It beginning Tuesday, the Slat, and finish- was thought that Kaylor, who had been ing on Saturday, the 25th. doing great work around on the summer The course was m only tolerable con- courses, would have a look in, but Oonk- dition, the lies on the fair green being lin beat him 3 up. McFarlanrl, the largely a matter of luck, while the putt- university champion, was another dis- ing-greens had many a bare spot, where appointment, and Iioinhart was 5 up on the summer grass had died out; on the him. The record: whole, the course was not in nearly so good shape as in June, when the Met- ropolitan championship was held there. However, the admitted merits of the II. KeniiHy laying out of the course may serve J. G. Linclso: to excuse many omissions in the up- P. A. Castne keep. The morning match, on Tuesday, was The real interest of the day's play between Harvard and Columbia, Yale lay in (he battle between Yale and Har- ? drawing a bye. As shown by the append- vard. On paper, Harvard was supposed ed score. Harvard won hands down, al- to be the stronger, but when it came to a though Glennie, the Columbia player, test the Crimson won by a scant point and who uses the cross-handled grip, beat a half (system). Had it not been for II. C. Egan, the Western champion, by the two Egans, Harvard would surely 1 up. It was a great triumph fairly won, have been beaten, for Hitchcock. Camp- for Egan had the match all square at lnL'll, anrl Jotinzngs WOJJ their matches for the fourteenth hole, and Glennie simply Yale, and Potter tied with the Harvard put up the better game on the home- captain. Brown. But the Egan cousins stretch. The record: scored ten holes between them, and that was enough to give the victory to Har- vard. Perhaps the most brilliant golf of 11. Tl.-iiiii-, r. . 4 i the day was that put up by Hollins in LIa. .A. Mnrilod H. 0. Eeim... .. (1 0 W. L. Glennie 1 one of his occasi onal spurts. For ex- W F. STossou 0 ... 5 •&% ample, on the eleventh hole (433 yards) A. M. Boiwn. .. H) a Clurciice BUike.... 0 he pulled his drive behind the point of Tolfll ...... 29 IB Tfiliil 1 woods. A good iron put him on the green, a superhuman brassey carried the In the afternoon Princeton and Penn- cop-bunker, leaving him hole high, and sylvania were paired, and Princeton THE INTERGOLLEOIATB CHAMPIONSHIP

II. B. ITOLLINS, JR. INTERCOLLEGIATE GOLFERS. THE INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP a long putt did the rest foi ould have won anyway, for the Prince- under bogey. The record: on golfers quite evidently lost then eryp at the pinch. The record:

w. E. aK.-u w. c. cuici Total.,.. A. M. Bruw

This left in Harvard and Princeton for the finals, and it was thought to be This makes Harvard's fourth team :i very even thing. It was commented victory in the seven years. upon as rather surprising that neither It is to be noted that stymies were not the national Amateur champion, James played throughout the competition. It (who is a Princeton Freshman), nor Oly- is difficult to understand why the as- phant, who won the championship of the sociation should thus choose to set aside university a week or two ago, was on a plain rule of match play. So long as the team. It was explained that James the stymie remains an integral part of coukl not play on account of faculty re- golf it should be played, just as it must strictions, he being a special student, be in all matches in the national event. and not a regular first-year man. This The desire to make low medal scores bars him for a year from all university is hardly an adequate excuse. Moreover, n teams. It was not so clear why Olyphant player who consistently avoids the stymie was not a member of the Princeton, six. 3rdii lent match play h Surely, as champion of the university he certain to be at •rious disadvs should have had a place by right on die when a competito team. Otherwise, why a championship fit ing. A stymie is a terrible thing when all, or what is it supposed to stand for ? eeing it. The result of the morning's play left For the individualal championship Princeton in the lead by nine holes to thirty players started in the qualifying three, and the Nassau golfers had visions round, and of these twenty-seven re- of capturing everything in sight. But turned cards. Percy E. Pyne, 3d, who all the Harvard men struck a fast gait won the intercollegiate championship in in the second round, and the New Jersey 1899, distinguished himself by a brilliant collegians could not hold their advan- performance, which secured him the tage. In the end the only Princetonians gold medal. He went round in 77—fig- to score were Keinhart and Conklin. ures which have never been equalled on Pyne, the Princeton captain, was 5 down (he course in a medal competition. He to H. C. Egan, and Poole lost by seven went out in. 35, five strokes under bogey, holes to W. E. Egan. There was some and came home in 42, bogey figures. The criticism of Harvard's action in chan- advantage of the short game was well ging the order of play after the names had demonstrated by Pyne. Owing to an been posted on the blackboard. The ori- injured foot he was not able to put much ginal order brought Poole against Chick, weight upon it, and consequently his and the change put him against W. Egan, long game suffered, so far as distance was who has ^encrullv I'futrn him in match concerned, and so he had to rely mainly play. But it is probable that Harvard on the short game. On the green his

ISO THE INTEUVOLLI-IUIATK CIlAIi]PIONtitllP work was excellent, as on the eighteen bia, who had beaten Chandler Egan in holes he only required twenty - seven the team, match, was put out by H. B. Hol- putts. The result of the qualifying lins, Jr.. of Harvard, with comparative i'i iund wa^ Ir' iv<\ VL' 111 T"I\'i• \ yt)in L1 ni ^ .ii'11, ease. In the second round, Baker was four from Princeton, tm-ee from Colum- put out by Hollins, the Princeton player bia, and two fuel] from Yale and Penn- apparently being off his game. Walter sylvania. The scores of tie qualifying Egan and L. H. Conklin met in the second round, the advantage generally throughout the game being with the Harvard player. Egan was 3 up and 4 Ollt 3 B 1 K S 4 i 4 3-30 to play, and then the Princeton man llenrv llollin*, Ji. Ilurvunl S! came up with a rush. It was too late, however, and he was beaten by 1 up. The semi-finals found three Harvard players left in against a Pennsylvania golfer. Chandler Egan had to play his cousin Walter, and as he is admittedly stronger, the general expectation was that he would reach the final, and this he did by 2 up and 1 to play. The Hollins - McFarland game attracted a good deal of interest, and it, The first round at the match play fur- was well contested throughout. Both nished more than one surprise, the chief men play an exceedingly fine long game, one being- the defeat of the intercolle- Hollins being perhaps stronger during giate champion, Charles Hitchcock, Jr., the early part of the match. Until the of Yale, by J. W. Baker, of Princeton. sixteenth green was reached it seemed as Baker obtained an early advantage, if the game would be his. Here Mc- which Hitchcock was never able to over- Farland got a 8, thanks to a fine approach come. The Princeton player made the and a long putt, and the pair were all first hole in 3, and then driving the even at the home green. Both men at second green, he ran down a long putt the extra hole gave an exhibition of golf for a 2, which made him 2 up. which was not worthy of their reputation. F. 0. Eeinhart, of Princeton, was MeFarkud narrowly escaped driving out drawn against a very strong player, H. of bounds, and took 3 to reach the Chandler Egan, of Harvard, the "Western green. Hollins putted his drive, and champion. Relatively there is not much to choose between these golfers, who are played his short approach shot, not only probably the two finest exponents of the ovor the green, hut across the road and game amongst the .younger set. TTp to the railroad track, and then flubbed his the fifteenth green Ucinhiirt had the ad- third, and so took 4 to get on the vantage, and then Egan evened up things, green. Taking two putts, he lost the n ml finally won on the home green. hole and the match by 6 to 5. Pync continued his fine play, and HO won T It was McFarland's second appearance easily from 1 . A. Mimlork by 4 up and as runner-up, for he occupied the same 2 tC play in spite of the lnttor'i very position last spring in the intercollegiate excellent long game. Gionuie of Colum- championship at Garden City. This fact

882 PRESUMPTION alone shows him to be a strong player, trouble, thanks to his mastery of his His long game was always good, and lie clubs he extricates himself with sur- IILIS improved very materially with his prising facility, Both be and McFar- irons during the past rammer. It is cer- land are careful players, never hurrying tain that very few players in the country over any stroke. On the greens they "A SI get on the average a longer ball off the carried this quality to an excess, and it tee. In the game with Pyne—to take could not be said that results justified the this merely as an example—at the ninth excessive precautions each man observed, A hole he drove fully 260 to 270 yards, and To be careful in getting the line to the playing the eleventh hole, 438 yards, hole is well enough, but to dwell on the against the wind, he was hole high in 2. putt for such an extraordinary period Sncl] work as this, coupled with pro- as did Egan and McFarland tends not fieieney in iron play, is ample reason to accuracy, but to failure. Pursuing for the high position he has attained this system, each man took four putts on in intercollegiate contests. If he would the seventeenth green; so, surely, the cure a tendency to slice, his work would above criticism is justifiable, be all the more effective. Upon the whole, the golf of the week Chandler Egtai, in addition to being was of high class, and no doubt the in the very front rank as a player, has championship went to the best man, as pleasing and graceful a style as any which is always a satisfactory ending, golfer in the country. Long as MeFar- It would seem that the inter collegia te- knd's game is, Eg&u generally outdrove championship furnishes an occasion to liim, and he was more accurate in his tost the strength of the university players approach shots than the Pennsylvania against the non-collegiate element. "Why player. The same tendency to sacrifice should not a match be played on the last direction to distance in his tee shots, day between ten or a dozen under- which militated against him in his tee graduates and a team captained by Mr. shots at Glen View in the amateur Travis? The comparison would he in- championship, was again noticeable in teresting. and, at any rate, it would fur- a lesser degree at Morris County, but it nish a gallery which under present con- must be said for him that if he gets into ditions is practically non-existent.

PRESUMPTION By H. B. G.

•HEB[l E mi u precocious young Hesiom T HiI s concpit was piioueh to Quite vex Wlien thoy Raid. "T>n you (rolf?" He replied, with a cough, "I haven't tried yet, bat T spec's I cau." - PLAYING GOLF AT SEA

"A SI stepped on deck from the sa- a wheelhouse 20x30 feet in size, venti- _£\, loon one morning on my return lators, two hatches, four donkey-engines, trip from itiH'IKi'I, ?-iiicj J^rank a capstan, spars, coils of rope, and a gal- M. Morris, of " The Book Shop," who leyway leading to the deck below. airived in Cliieago last week, "I heard " A good player could make a round of a voice cry: 'You've sliced a drive and eighteen holes in half or three-quarters you're in the grass.' For n moment I of an hour. The third hole required a wondered whether I was at sea or on the display of skill and a slight knowledge of Exmoor links at home. I saw a gray billiards. It lay snug behind a group of ocean, which might have made a good big ventilator funnels. The only way to golf-links if it only had been solid, heav- reach it in a single stroke was to drive ing- against, the sky, and Land's End, last your disk against the side of the after- glimpse of England, disappearing on our hatch and make it carom toward the weather quarter. So I was quite sure hole. In driving from the fourth to the our vessel was a night out from London fifth hole you had to reckon with the and on the open sea. But there were wheelhouse, which lay between them. In people on deck undoubtedly playing golf •working back from the taffrail to the —playing if with the absorbed, eager air cabin you entered on a little campaign that marks the devotee of the game on full of difficult problems. The way was •Ivy land. beset with such bunkers as a steam- " Ocean golf is one of the novelties of nuniber of ventilators, and a capstan. first introduced on the boats of the Atlan- If there was a sea on and the boat tic Transport line, and has been taken up rolled, the difficulties of play became enthusiastically on the larger steamers of complicated. Then in driving you had all lines. Mr. Morris returned on the to allow for the list of the deck. It" your Nhiitfitonieci, 14,000 tons burden, 600 feetstroke was not sure there wad the annoy- from stem to stem, and with an after- ing- possibility that your disk would turn deek 200 feet long and forty feet, in benm. on edge and roll a hundred feet or so Golf-links had been laid out on this deck down the deck and fetch up in the scup- in the lee of the cabin. pers. When the disk went into the gut- " The golf-course about the deck," said ters the players said it was in the grass. Mr. Jlorris, "consisted of nine circular " There was nothing but golf aboard ebauV murks a foot in diameter in lieu of from the beginning of the voyage to the holes. The golf balls were shuffle-board end. Billiards, chess, whist, and poker disks, five inches across and an inch were waved aside for golf. Every pas- thick. The dubs were shuffle-board senger became as brown as a. berry from sticks, with ends hollowed out to fit the playing golf on deck in the wind and sun. disks. With these o.lubs the disks were At times they almost fought for posses- sent sliding about the decks by vigorous sion of the links. We had match plays, shoves instead of free strokes. The foursomes, and one tournament."-—Chi- •hazard* of the course were furnished by cago Chronicle. OTHERS SEE US" By Mr, Recorder ii, D.CL.

s by Wilfric

Oh wad some power the giflie gie us Familiarity with the elubs begets, alas! To see ouraela as others see us! contempt of careful swinging. This, to- —Robert Burns. gether with an increase in power and T is not likely that the Scottish bard usually a somewhat relaxed left arm, in- I bad golfing folk particularly in mind duces a very full draw-back with the very- when he penned this immortal coup- fine name of a St, Andrews swing, accom- let, but it is certain that no maxim can panied by occasional success in distance, he cited that more admirably expresses but also by far too common foundering, both the need and the proper aspirations topping, and general foozling. It fre- of every ardent golfer. For many a dili- quently takes a player a long time to dis- gent player thinks he knows what he is cover, and when he does make the dis- doing upon the links, and bow he is doing covery it is with it, when, as a matter of fact, his mental surprise, that his - conception differs vastly from his actual club has been ha- Style. He is perhaps undeceived for the bitually dipping L iii'Miit'iiT ^.vlii'ii Mi]]!*' ''• 'i\''li-1]—° ^ pro or very much below friendly preceptor imitates his swing or the horizontal at stance with a view to illustrating his the top of his oiipiinl evi'ors ol. ioi'uj; liul even then he swing. Shortening cannot avoid a lurking suspicion that his this, he at once be- actual style is being most grotesquely iwHfiwrA^ exaggerated by his well-meaning in- and gets back to structors. But if better form. This be could only see sense of swing, by- himself as others the-way, is a very see him, especially rare golfing ac- No „ •'•-'•*-;--. .... those whose ca- cmirement. Very - • pacity for detect- few players, comparatively, can tell ac- ing good and bad curately by mere sense of swing how far form is sound, how back toe club is being taken. Xet the experiment be made, and in the majority much more rapid would his progress be in of trials it will be found that most play- the difficult art of golf! To continue the ers' sense of a half or a three-quarter citation from the poet: swing results respectively in much great- It - remarked, seems to be quite in favor of a very moderate draw-back, with unlimit- For instance, it is not uncommon after ... the first two or three seasons of indus- ed follow-through. trious go)f to trace a grievous break-down Another error often discernible by oth- in one's full strokes to over-swinfruii;. ers, but of which the individual golfer is "AS OTHERS SEE US"

too often unconscious, is in the incorrect " Otherwise," we have heard him s soling of the club. Many a player has " why not, if the smooth and e^ been surprised to learn that he has been backward and forward movement is j habitually resting his driver, cleek, or important, put your club i position at even his putter, on the heel, with the toe the top of your swing- at ce, without more or less cocked up. Correcting this waggle or draw-back at all?' A pity it is fault by slightly raising the hands or by that the captain does not yet see himself standing a trifle closer to the ball, a as others do, that so he might profit by cleaner and truer impact is secured, with his undoubtedly excellent theory. more accurate results, and the soled heel Our friend Major O'Mashie of the h reserved for scientific slicing or a quick same club is handicapped at only 4 loft. below scratch, being deadly at approach Agai , let m take the case of Captain and putt. He hua never been able, bow- MeOlet : of Bunkerville, who secretly ever, to get beyond the 150 mark in his prides3 himself upon his swing mi the drive. Sincere friends and the " pro " tee, and in unguarded mom .s has have time and again admonished him even been known to bint to f ds his that as he draws back his driver almost opinion that, on the whole, it if not quite as quickly as he is, unless he is very much delivers it his swings lack con- mistaken, just about perfect. centrated power. Indeed, the But the worthy captain is major could drive quite as quite unaware of that very good hall with his backward decided break, pause, or hitch swing; and yet he remains ob- at the very top of his awing, stinately convinced that his so obvious to others, and rob- draw-back is deliberation it- bing him of who shall say how eelf. Equally with the cap- many yards. And yet the h tain, the major fails to see captain as a sound theorist himself as others do. has often been heard to pro- Now various remedies have claim the essential value of a been suggested for the cor- smooth, uninterrupted swing. rection of these and other

*-*li —44 "AS OTHERS SEE US" defects in honest ment become consequently easier. There golfers. Miss can be no doubt that if a player Geuevieve Hecker, gets himself photographed at various we observe, cour- important stages of his actual play,— ageously recom.- stance, top or finish of swing, in front, mends a full-length back, or side view, —the results are mirror, in one of highly instructive to him, particularly her excellent pa- when comparisons are made with models pers on " Golf for of acknowledged merit. If Women." The hint It may not be an unfitting conclusion has not been disre- to these observations if the writer submits gardixl, we venture to his fellow-golfers some sketches which to say, by quite a came into his hands quite recently, at A number of her male first greatly puzzling him by their very renders; but for our great meagreness of part, we hesitato to detail and somewhat endorse, a method singular delineations. • if practice which, Golfing sketches they AS OTHERS SEE US"

No. 12. have done. We trust the Great Britain at the top reader uuite follows Ua u of his drive., and a re- here. markably effective stance it No. 1, then, unless we are much mis- is; while Nos. 7 and S show the essential taken, represents the characteristic top of lines in the figure of another of the trium- the swing of a former amateur champion of the United States, and twice runner- ]y budded into authorship by publishing up for the same event; while Nos. 2 and various valuable Hints and Impressions. 3; to our view, also indicate a (twice) for- The remaining pictures are all of ama- mer champion in the amateur ranks at teurs in golfic achievement. We have the beginning and at the end respectively little doubt but that the admirable con- of an effective iron stroke in a bunker of tortions to which the letters A. G. L. are sand. Nos. 4 and 5 are not intended to added indicate the finished swing of a represent departed shades, but the ath- player who learned his game in England, letic figure of the Amateur champion of but was once known in America as one- Great Britain as of the Big Four. No. 10 shows A. G. L.'s he might be seen attitude after a successful iron stroke. if, ' to adopt the Nor are we without specimens, in this Rev. Sydney ghostly looking gal- Smith's mot, lie lery, of what may were upon occa- be termed the collegiate style, in the other portraits ; torrid season, to take off his flesh and play in his the gentle golfer bones. Until a bet- is invited to specu- ter guess be haz- late for himself. arded we take No. But a very' im- to nt portant observa- of th at tion must not be (F~' triumvirs of la omitted in conclu- [j season's golf aioH. The lines 3SS THE UNDER-SF1N ON A GOLF-BALL of the poet Burns which we have cited excellent is their golfing skill, would fire only applicable to humbler players of scarcely give the proverbial button, fig, the game—those with a modicum of tal- or farthing to see themselves a-golfing as cut, which, however, they are desirous "others" do. They have happily out- of increasing. For it is most probable grown the need and the proper aspiration that the originals of these sketches, so of the ordinary golfer.

THE UNDER-SPIN ON A GOLF-BALL IISlfcltf ATHER a curious phenomenon in havior the moment it touches the ground, connection with the dynamics of is quite marvellous, quite unexpected, I R a golf-ball's flight is to be seen by quite different in degree from anything any one who stands on the top of the that the spectator is likely to have seen cliff at that hole at Biarritz where the before, giving him quite new lights on men play up^or fail to play np—from the behavior of the ordinary flying golf- the lower ground of the (..haiiuin1 ball. d'Amour to the higher levels of most of Often it happens that the ball on touch- the green. ing the ground will run right backwards As a rule, the hole may be comfort- for a yard or two—like a billiard-ball ably reached by a good player with a full with under-spin in it after touching au- .shot with the lofting-mashie or lofting- utber. Now in the ordinary way we do ii'on, but many are the clubs and many see balls heavily cut so that they will fall. are the manners with which men attack tt la Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, like a "poach- this monstrous kopje. The height is said ed egg" on the green. But never, im- to be about sixty feet. Like most heights that you have to get up, it looks a deal a ball showing anything like the amount more. There is no half-way house; you of cut that is shown to be- on the balls must be either up, or, failing that, the by their behavior when they pitch at this ball strikes the cliff-side and comes so much higher level than that whence tumbling down to the bottom again. It they were struck. is a pleasant amusement, and instructive From this there is surely to be drawn in the nature of man, to sit on the cliff- the inference that, not only in this ease, head of a warm day surveying the gen- but in all cases alike, a ball is rotating erally fine view, and more particularly the fine efforts of humanity to send high m the air than when it ts fallen a bit of gutta-percha sixty feet in the again to the level from which it started. Very likely this is only a truism—a But it is not the emotiozi raised by faet that " every scliool-boy" ought to this effort that is dynamically interesting. know. But it is a fact that came as so That in tt bc^ 11 is its siiun as a well- much of r> novelty to many wbo had the hit ball, well-pitched on the green, comes rather unique opportunity of observing 1o ground. The ball will have been of it that IR £']v<-'Ti by the curious eontoTina- necessity high-teed, and, of necessity no tion of a part of the Biarritz course, that less, hit with a lofted club. But, grant- "every golfer" at least evidently does ed all this, the amount of back-spin that not know it.—HORACE G. HUTCHINSON the ball will be seen to have, by its be- in Golf Illustrated. GOLF FOR WOMEN

XII.—HAZARDS AND GENERAL REMARKS

By Geoevf. ve Heckec

X the instructions which I have given and, above ail, a confidence which is worth I in the foregoing chapters I have writ- a great deal. The most important con- ten upon the supposition that the ball sideration wheu one finds the ball in a is lying upon the fair green aiul not in hazard is to get it out. any hazard. The definition of the latter Of course if you can play it on the is, to quote from the rules of the United green, or if it is a hazard, a long distance States Golf Association. "Any hunker, from the cup, get a shot of consider able -water (except casual water), sand path, length, on the line to the hole so much road, railway, whin, bush rushes, rabbit the better, but if this is impossible to do scrape, fence or ditch. Sand blown in the be satisfied to get well out. It is much grass, or sprinkled in the course for the better to get well out, playing the ball m preservation, bare patches, snow and ice a directly opposite direction to the bole, are not hazards. Permanent grass within than to play it straight for the hole and a hazard shall not be considered part of run a risk of not getting out. This ap- the hazard." plies only, of course, as a general thing. It will thus be seen that playing from There are cases -when it is do or die, and a hazard carries so many conditions, that then every chance must be risked. ability to play out of one with the loss of As an instance, suppose you are in a. but a stroke at most, or perhaps without bunker before a hole and playing 2 more any lass at all, is a most valuable acquisi- than your opponent, who is on the green, tion to one's game. As if the adverse and practically sure to go down in 2 natural conditions existing- in a hazard were not enough to handicap the player, Your only chance is to get on the green the rules of the game provide that noth- from the bunker, and trust that you can ing in a hazard, such as a loose piece of get down in another, so that your oppo- dead wood, a stone, or anything which in- nent will miss her putt and give you a terferes with the performance of the half. stroke, and which when existing on the If playing medal play, it would prol.a- fair green can be moved, can be touched. over, tor by that time you would have In other words, no matter how bad the played so many more that the hole would lie the ball must be played as it is surely be lost. That is, supposing you found. are playing match play. And the point which adds difficulty to If playing medal play it would proba- the playing out of a hazard is that the bly he better to piny back, and surely set rules prohibit the soling of one's club, the on in the next, than to run the risk of great advantages of which one does not not getting out realize until one is deprived of the bene- An alternative to either playing back fit of so doing. It gives a steadiness to or directly from the hole is to play over the stroke, an assurance to one's swing, at an angle. GOLF FOH WOMEN If, however, there are reasons,—such as and the more vertical the swing th& hazards on either side, or whatsoever it better. may be,—that cause you to decide not to It is because of this that many men try and play off at an angfe, and you are who have been baseball players, and then it KIR going to play back, be sure that you go taken up golf, play this sort of shot better back far enough. proportionately than they do any other, It makes no difference whether you for the swing is just like the one they have to play a mashie-shot of ten or of learned when playing baseball. Iwonty-five yards; and if you hit at the As it is the object to hit the sand be- 1 ball with a determination to go the latteT hind the ball and not the ball itself, the 8 distance, you are pretty sure, even if you eye should be fixed on a point an inch or I foozle, to go the former, while a foozle two behind the ball. from a shot meant for the lesser distance It is a good idea to hold the club for a ri will probably fail to get out ot' the second directly over this spot, being very hazard. careful not to let it touch the ground, < It is also well to remember this point if and then swing it back as straight up as tie green is a long way off, for if one possible. In learning to play bunker plays back far enough to use a driver or shots, the natural tendency will be found brassey instead of a niashie, the extra to hit too near the ball, if not the ball distance the wooden cluh will give will itself, for the one great point which the •learner has been trying to observe is to more than make up for the extra distance M EtiW t D hack one must play in order to be sure of hit the ball, and therefore she will in- clearing the bunker with it. stinctively keep on trying to do so. _ •• •. - Playing from a bunker requires a very Therefore it is better to try and strike different sort of stroke than does play- the ground a couple of inches back of ing a ball lying in the fair green. where one really wishes the club to come For a bunker shot it is not desirable to in contact with it, in order to allow for hit the ball cleanly, as it is when in the the instinctive and at first uncontrollable fair green. On the contrary, the point is tendency to hit the ball. to hit behind it and cut through the sand. All the above points apply to bunker In playing a hunker shot it is usually shots when there is a cop two or three - difficult to get a firm stance, for the soft or more feet, high "within a yard or so of sand gives under your feet as the weight the ball. When it is lying in o trap of the body swings over to the right, no bunker, as are called those which are matter how firmly one may think one is merely shallow sand pits without caps standing. It is well, therefore, after ob- around them, a rounder swing, more like - taining the stance wanted, to work one's that used for a fair-green shot, may lie feet into the sand, and get as near the used. One may also return to the original • foundation of the bunker as possible. It principle of hitting the ball instead of - is also advisable to place the feet a little back of it, except that it is well to schitf -- further apart than usual if one can feel a little. When the ball is in long grass, natural and at ease when so doing, but the same principles should be employed if not, then use the regular stance. as when it is in a bunker.—that is, the Id straightest possible swing should be used, Grip the club firmly with botli hands, and the ground struck a few inches back for the stroke to be made is ono of brute of the ball instead of the ball itself. Thi> force. All finesse and delicacy of touch reason for this is that if the rounder and are forgotten. One must " club " the ball, GOLF FOR WOMEN 301 longer swing is used, the grass is apt to neat relation to one's game. This is true catch it and break its force, and even if of masculine golfers as well as feminine, the force is not broken, to deflect it from in a measure, but its importance is much its course. Another point to remember greater with the latter than with the for use in an emergency, both when playing from a hazard, and at any other The reason for this is merely a ques- time, is that by turning the face of the tion of temperament. Men by all the dub the ball can be made to fly at an laws of nature and science are much angle, even when played with a straight more independent and self-reliant than swing, and this knowledge is often handy women, and consequently they are much when there are trees or fences or other less apt to be influenced by the actions of obstructions, which make it impossible to their caddies. play a full stroke in the direction in The duties of the caddie, to quote from which it is wished to send the ball. the formal language of the United States Another point which most beginners Golf Association rulings, are simply to seem to find impossible to comprehend is carry one's clubs; but besides this he may that the loft which its maker gave to a give advice. maslrie or niblick is quite sufficient to There has been considerable discussion loft the ball when it is struck with the aroused at the National Women's Golf ordinary stroke. Why this is such a dif- championship of the past two or three ficult matter to understand I cannot years over the question of caddies, but it imagine, but it is a fact that nine out of seems to have worked out its own salva- every ten players make the mistake. tion. The argument first started over That it is one, a moment's reflection will the fact that a number of the contestants SnOW, [ IT IT I L j. u-*- i" I \\\j •• 1";'ii i 'A i l'l1 l] < il llli^ 11' in the tournament had excellent amateur as it is for just this purpose, why should golfers to carry their clubs and act as it be changed from the straight face of a advisers. This was all very well for those cleek? who had plenty of friends at their call, Under no circumstances, therefore, try who could play good golf, but not every and make a swing which will aid the ball contestant was in so fortunate a position, to rise—all that you need to do is to pky and some of those who were not tried to the stroke correctly and see that you hit equalize matters by hiring professionals. the ball. Of course if you are within a couple quite as fair as it was to have a first-class of feet of the high bunker, and it is amateur act in that capacity, for while surely a case of " lost hole," unless yon the professional might be a little better clear it, it is advisable to turn the club player, he would be no better coach and in your hand so as to lay back its face have no better judgment than the ama- a little, and to stand a little further be- teur. As a matter of fact, he, in all hind the ball than usual, but under or- probability, would not have the ability dinary circumstances the club's face will to inspire anything like the steadiness do all that is required provided you hit and confidence which the amateur, from the ball squarely. his superior intelligence, would, and so would not be so useful at a most essentinl part of the duties of a caddie. Very few The question of a caddie is a serious of the players seemed to realize this, how- proposition, and it bears a very promi- ever, and some rather severe criticism has GOLF FOE WOVEN been led at those who have had pro- use a mashie or a driver, and, above all, fessionals to carry their clubs in tourna- he never knows how many strokes your ments. The chief accusation seems to be opponent or even you yourself have : that it was taking an unfair advantage-. played. usta i This it might be were, only one player to He insists upon lagging about ten

in America as to a man's using a pro- tunate enough to have driven it straight - fessional if he so desired, and it has down the fair green, where it is in plain been done very frequently. Why, there- sight, this negligence of his will not prove fore, it should be considered unfair or costly, but if a slice or pull or a bad unsportsmanlike for a woman to have her bound has sent it off the course into long clubs carried by the best caddie she can grass, or any other place where it will be fib tain X cannot understand. ^N ot only difficult to see readily, the caddie will be in tournaments, but in general play, does the most absolutely helpless and ignorant the caddie play an important part. If person as to its whereabouts of any one he is a good one he is of much service, on the entire links. I have never had the but I would much rather, and I think pleasure of playing golf across the ocean, that nearly all players will agree with but from what I hear, the caddies over me, play a round with no caddie at all in there are the exact opposite of the boys preference to having a poor one. There who make life for the American golfer really are no good caddies in this coun- a round of misery. There the caddies try except professionals. The average begin to carry clubs when they are as caddie on an American course is a "boy young a^ our American tji.K]i;!e>, but, un- running from ten to sixteen years of age, like them, they do not give it up at the • . who looks upon the carrying of clubs as end nf a year or two. On the contrary, an irksome means of making money, and many of them have spent their entire a thing which must be shirked as much lives carrying golf clubs, and they know as the good nature or ignorance of the every inch of the distance and every spear player for whom he is carrying "will per- of grass on the courses. They know even mit. He knows nothing of the game. better than you, perhaps, what club yon ITe is unable to tell you whether the- dis- should use for oneb and evory shot, and tance of any shot is such that you should they are as keenly interested in your (10LF PUT! WOMEN play and as jubilant over a good score as ball, but during the last three years you ever could be yourself. A lost ball Yankee genius has invented one which ifi with one of these old Scotch caddies is as much superior to the " gutty " as the an almost unheard-of occurrence, while I "gutty" was to the old feather hall. It do not suppose there was ever oue known is made by taking a rubber core, and to annoy Ins employer by lagging behind winding it with a thread of pure rubber during the round. How to obtain a class until it is very nearly the size required. of caddies of this calibre is one of the (The regulation ball is of 27 V3 pattern, great problems of American golf, and but there are some used 27 size and a few until it is solved the game will lack the 28.) After the thread of rubber, tightly- very highest acme of enjoyment. stretched across, has been wound around Conditions might be very much im- the rubber core (the process being done proved if the professional of each club by machinery, of course, to secure abso- would hold a sort of school for fifteen or lute mechanical accuracy), the ball is twenty minutes each morning as soon as incased with a thin shell of gutta. This the caddies reach the club-house. He shell is not more than about one-sixteenth could explain to them just what their of an inch thick, as its orily object is to duties were, what they should do, and furnish a surface upon which the nieks, how they should do it, and if every club necessary in order to obtain the greatest would adopt this idea, there is no doubt flight to the ball, can be made. Another hut that the caddie service would soon consideration is that it may save the reach a much higher plane than it has at rubber thread from being cut by a stroke pn int. of the club, and by the stones on the BALLS. course. The difference between this ball The evolution of the golf-ball has been and the regulation "gutty" is, of course, rapid and radical in its development. For in its resiliency. a great many years golf-balls were made Experts who have used both balls differ by taking a round leather cover and as to whether they can get a longer one stuffing it full of feathers, pounding them from a driver by using a " gutty" or the down so that several quarts of feathers new rubber-filled ball, but all agree that were compressed into a globe about an one can obtain from ten to twenty-five inch and a quarter in diameter. yards farther with the new kind from an After using this kind of ball for years iron-shot. For the mediocre player there and years, some one discovered that gutta- is no doubt that the new ball is a distinct- percha would make a much more lively advantage. She can drive it much and much more durable ball than the one farther, whether she is using a wooden or of compressed feathers; and although its an iron club; it will roll nearly as far introduction was bitterly opposed by the after a topped shot as though it had been best players of the time, its qualities were struck truly; and. best of all. it has a so superior that it quickly won its way, happy faculty of bounding along the and for a long period of time was the ground and jumping over bunkers, which standard ball. There were a great many rejoices exceedingly the heart of a player, makes, and they were made with different who is accustomed to spend nig a large varieties of "nicks," and all were about portion of her time in sorrow and sadness, equal in desirability and excellence. No striving to play the aggravating ball from one thought that there could ever be an the hazard. It is not, however, so plea- improvement made upon the gutta-percha surable a ball to use as the " gutty," if

-«*. 894 GOLF FOR WOMEN one is playing a fairly good game, for a they will exchange old balls for new cleanly hit full shot from the latter glyea ones. If, however, one delights in try- n click, us the ball and club come in con- ing to do things for one's self, a can of tact, which is the sweetest of music to a paint prepared especially for renewing golfer; on the other hand, the rubber- the whiteness of golf-balls may be pur- filled ball flies off the club with a soft chased at any golf-goods store, and the .squashy sound, as though one had hit a player can repaint them herself. The lump of putty. Still, it requires much ball should first be soaked in a solution less Effort to drive it than does the of potash or lye until the old paint has "gutty," and as endurance plays a con- been entirely removed. Let them dry for siderable part in self mutches, this is a a day or so, and then they can be painted, strong point in its favor. either with a brush or by taking some No matter how much cut is pnt on a paint in the palm of one's hands, and high approach shot, it is impossible to rolling the ball around in them. About make the rubber-filled ball drop dead, four coats of paint will be required, and and on some greens it is almost impos- I think that one experience of trying to sible to play it without running away become a golf-ball maker will be all that past the hole. However, its advantages anyone will require to satisfy herself that this is a department of the game better left to those who make a business advantages to my mind, and particularly of it. so for women. All golf-balls should he kept for some time before being used, the "gutty" ball from eight or nine months The etiquette of golf suggests many to a year, mid the rubber-filled ball a little points of courtesy which any player little less, and all balls, no matter what of experience would, from instinctive kind, are improved by being remade. good breeding, recognize, but there are This can be done by any golf-club maker, some little points which, through care- or moulds can be bought for a few dollars lessness, are not always observed, and it hi which a player can remake the ball* would add much to the enjoyment of herself. Sometimes the paint will chip those playing on the same links, and off when a ball has been kept a long time, detract nothing from their own pleasure, but this may be remedied by dipping the. if their attention should be called to ball in fairly hot water for a little while, them. Of course any woman playing in in order to moisten up the paint. Care a match whose opponent lost her ball, should be taken not to allow the. ball to would from innate courtesy try to help become soft by staying in the hot water her find it, and likewise no one would too long, however, and in summer, dur- think of leaving the tee. having had the ing the extremely hot weather, it is a honor, before her opponent had played, good idea to keep one's golf-balls in as i ior won lc! anvont * t li inlv, ni* m titter how cool a place as may be convenient. After careless she might be, of moving or speak- a ball has been used for a little while, the ing while her rqipor.i'iit WJI^ pi'i?p,iring or most satisfactory thing to do and the making her shot. most economical as well, is to send it to a professional or to one of the big ball- All these and many more matter-of- making manufactories, and have it re- course courtesies are extended from one made. Any hall manufactory will do it opponent to another, but there are some for one dollar to 1 wo dollars a do/.en, or courtesies rlue to the players directly behind one, and also directly preceding one. GOLF FOLl W0M/1N 395 which ave frequently not accorded, and courtesy, but on the other hand you it is to these that I wish to call atten- should remember the feelings of those in ticra. front of you. The rules of the game pro- Tf you ave playing in a match, in vide that a player must not play a shot which your opponent is a very slow play- until tlie players preceding1 have played or, or if you nre one yourself, or. if for their second, but unfortunately this rule any reason whatsoever, you find that you is very frequently forgotten, or at least are falling behind the player just preee- overlooked. Then, again, what might be ding you, and are in consequence delay- (ho second shot for one player would he n ing all those behind you. it is only the very much shorter distance from the tee courteous thing to allow the player be- than the waiting player usually drives, hind to pass. So annoying and disas- and so, even if she has obeyed the letter trous to good play is it to all those be- of the rule, she may have violated its hind, that I really think a rule should spirit. be framed providing that any player play- CORRECTING FAULTS. ing so slowly as to compel the player be- T A o matter how good a player may be. hind to wait, should be compelled to give there will inevitably come a time when way. and let the fastest players go on. she will get off with some club or another, As conditions are now, few players like and for a certain time will be absolutely to request permission to pass a player unable to make a shot with it. The very ahead of them, no matter how slowly the best way to regain one's skill when this former is proceeding, and many players unfortunate state of affairs happens, is to are offended at such a request, thinkiug. take a complete rest and not touch any most -unnecessarily and unjustly, that club for several days, or if one feels that such a request is almost in the light of if it is necessary to play, endeavor not an insult, or at least a reflection 011 their to use this particular club. If a little playing ability. Such is by no means the rest does not put one back in form, take case. It is simply a recognition of the a dozen old balls, go out to a quiet corner fact that some people naturally play fast- on the links, and practise that one pav- er than others, and if by the luck of the ticular shot for half an hour. By re- start a slow player begins her round early, peating the same stroke over and over she should be considerate enough to allow again one will generally be able to dis- anyone who plays faster to pass her. cover what is wrong, and this is not only the best way to practise to obtain skill, If the conditions are reversed, and you but it is by all means the best way of cor- and your partner are the faster players, reeling faults. you would naturally appreciate such THE INNIS ARDEN GOLF CLUB

HE Innie Anleu Club is unique perhaps the choice among the best; at among• ggol. f dubs in that it does least so think the people who live there,— T not own or control the ground over and who should be better able to give which, it plays; the beautiful nine-hole judgment on such a point? The land is round being included in the private es- delightfully rolling:, well wooded, and tate of Mr. J. Kennedy Todd. Mr. Todd wearing the thrifty appearance which we not only gives the club the playing rights, are accustomed to associate with the but aids materially in the upkeep. Other- idea of New England. The Todd estate wise, indeed, the club could hardly afford is cut off from the main shore by Green- to main-tain the high standard of a met- wich Cove, and access by land is only af- ropolitan club, the total membership be- forded at one place, and by means of a ing in the neighborhood of a hundred, substantially built causeway. Yet solid and the annual dues being fixed at the as it looks, it has more than once been moderate sum of $25. But, fortunately, seriously damaged by the winter storms Mr. Todd is a Scotchman, and he has a from the southeast. The Sound is capa- full appreciation of the merits of the ble of kicking up a very respectable sea Ttoyal and Ancient game. at times, in spite of its ordinary mill- It looks like the real thing as one drives pond look. past the beautiful club-house along the The course, bounded by the Sound on causeway to Fitzjolui's shop and sees the the left and Greenwich Cove on the right, piles of shingle and the coarse beach- is in the general form of a crescent. In grass, and there is the Sound, a biscuitV fact, the seventh hole is colled " The Cres- throw away from the first tee. There is cent," and is laid out in that shape. the smell of salt, too, in the air, and the The land is rolling, and the little hills gentle sound of wavelets striking on a have the look of the true sand-dunes. The pebbly shore; this is truly the sea-shore greens are large and laid out on the natu- and the chosen home of golf as it should ral slope of the ground. The fair green be played. The members of the Irmis will doubtless improve with time; at thia Golf Club have many things for which to season of the year it ia somewhat inclined be thankful. to be cuppy. But the turf is of naturally It is a beautiful country, this western good quality, and with cultivation it shore of Long Island Sound, and the par- should be excellent. ticular bit included within the corporate There is certainly no golf-course in limits of the town of Sound Beach is the metropolitan district which can com-

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THE INNIP AUDEH GOT.F CLUB. 400 THE LNN1S ARDEN GOLF CLUB pare with Innis Arden for picturesque- ing columns that lined the way. Mr. ness of surroundings. The Sound on one Todd secured it, and had it set up on his side, its blue waters dotted with white property to replace an old-time mark sails, Stamford Harbor and the Cove, ou once nsed as a beacon by vessels. The the other, with the general background of distance is but 280 yards, but the way is wooded hills and the green lawns of still up hill, and it requires a cany of pretty suburban villas, all go to make up 170 yards to get over the hogback. Yet a picture that is not to be easily for- Val. Fitzjohn, with a wind behind him, gotten. has been on the green itself from the tee. But, after nil, it is the golf which is Bogey is 4. the thing, and we must hasten ou to the The fourth hole (" The Sound ") is 300 first tec. The professional regularly in yards long and down hill at that. There charge is Fred. Fitzjohn, but one or more is a cop-bunker for the second shot, 260 of his well-known brothers are often with yarns fi\Vcivh and il lias been carried trom him during the off season, and then there the tee by one of the Fitzjohiis. The or- is some rare golfing1 to be witnessed. As dinars jihiver. h^w^ver. wt\[ be content to is natural, the record of the course is held tt'c11 rjvor ]i\ _. find liole out m th*5 by Fred. Fitzjohn, with a capital 34+ bogey 4. 3S=72. The amateur figures are 39+ The fifth hole (" The Meadow ") is not 41=80. the maker being Mr. A. W. Kossi- particularly remarkable, except for its ter, the well-known Oakland player. And good length of 390 yards. There is rough that is good going, for the length of the ground on both sides to trap wildly nine-hole round is 3034 yards. driven balls, but the fair green is quite The first hole ("The Well") is 365 wide enough for the man who plays with- yards in length, and the way lies slightly in himself. A cop-bunker guards the up hill, with rough ground and the green. Bogey is 5. Round on the left. There is a sand ditch The sixth hole ("The Lakeside") is of to trap a topped second, but there are no moderate length, 290 yards. The shore of other hazards of consequence, and we msy the lagoon, that runs up to Mr. Todd's all hope to halve with the " Colonel" in house, lies to the left, but only a very the bogey 5. bad pull is in danger. It is a rather long The second hole (" The Point ") has a cany, however, to get over the hill, es- length of 354 yards, and again the drive pecially against the wind. Once over, is up hill. A sand trap, on the left, the ground slopes rapidly down to the catches a long pulled ball, and it calls for green, and a bogey 4 should be scored. a carry of 150 yards to clear the crest and The seventh hole (" The Crescent ") is so be in good position for the next shot. the crus of the course. On the left is The green is guarded by a cop-bunker, the shore of Greenwich Cove to catch a and it takes a fairly long second to carry pulled ball, and a sandy road crosses the it. As the bogey is again placed at 5, we line of play at a hundred yards away. may play easily, and loft over on our The route is slightly up hill, and to gel third for a half. far enough around the curve to see the At the third hole (" The Beacon ") we hole calls for a very long drive. The turn our backs on the Sound, and drive really first-class man can do the trick by straight for "The Beacon" itself. This playing his second shot boldly across the latter is a relic of the Dewey triumphal corner of the cove and road, but, of arch in Madison Square, one of the flank- course, lie risks everything on the carry. .. XI,—No. 6.-48 402 MY FIRST MATCH Yet the green has been made hi 2 by The total length of the course id 3034 good men, and a 4 for the hole is not yards, and the bogey foots up 41. The unheard of. The bogey is (i, and that is club is reached either directly from the usual figure in ordinary play. Sound Beach station on the New Haven The eighth hole ("The Hillside") is road, or by trolley from Stamford. By the short one, being 160 yard* in length, the latter route the carriage-drive is It is a blind hole, the drive being over a eliminated. In any case the club is but crest, but is not otherwise noteworthy. little over the hour from the Grand Cen- The ninth hole ("The Lodge") is tra] Station. of the same length as the first hole, 363 The present officers of the club are: yards, and presents no especial problem President, William B. Strong; vice-presi- to the player. The tee is an elevated one, dent, James W. White; secretary, James and there is no excuse for not getting K. Hoyt; treasurer, Eugene E. Wash- off a good one. Sand traps punish a wild burn; and eaptaiu, Frederick Schavoir, second. Bogey is 5. M.D.

MY FIRST MATCH By J. E. Hall OLE number one: The green I reached in two—holed out in four, H Whilst my opponent took just one stroke more: One hole I'd won.

Next, number two: Oh, lucky day, I did the hole in three; Judge my surprise when this he tied with me— Beat bogey too.

On to the third: Two hundred yards I drove that little sphere; That lovely sound metliinks I still do hear. "It was a bird."

Twas then his drive: He smote it fair: like lightning through the air That ball did jouruey to its distant lair. Four to my five.

Game tied at three: The uext was full of hazards, as I knew. And ^urc enough, aju.l [or this reason too, It came to me.

One to the good: I phiyed with caution and the greatest care; Again I won, though only by a hair. It warmed my Mood. MY FIRST MATCH Sixth hole to ploy: A little careless and I topped my ball; My friend and foe, he chuckled at my fall. I had to pay.

Seventh hole is on: No play at golf could well more perfect be— A long straight drive from off the lowest tee.

"Three all" at eight: My nerves were playing tag just then with 1 And once again I lost, and tried to tee The blame on fate.

And here my friend did press, and fan the air; Jly chance had come. I took it, played with cai The hole was mine.

Game half-way through: We started on our journey to the green, Wliere on our score-c^irds wa^ o,uttc ptamlv The story true.

On we did go: I used my brassey in the open field, And that this club I there did truly wield My foe doth know.

We still did play: Three holes in quick succession came to r My friend a little nervous seemed to be. I felt quite gay.

Again we played: And somehow—why T know not—my long dri Had now quite left me; vainly did I strive. I felt dismayed.

dust one hole more: My luck did not return, and I did lose; I played my best, hard fate, alast did cho< My foe should score.

So ends the play: And though the game was almost won, then lost. The friendship made at such a trifling cost Is mine to-day. EDITORIALS courses, and the question of altering the GOLF holes to conform to the new conditions is, EVERY MONTH of course, a serious one." y Special Appointment Official Bulletin of the Now there is at least one factor in the United States Golf Association, Intercollegiate Golf Association, Central New York Golf League, problem that is consistently overlooked Metropolitan Golf Association, Western Oolf As. in a discussion of this kind, aud that is sociation, and Southern Golf Association. the wind, which generally blows from some direction on a sea-side course. A hole that may be full two shots on a »stnge free United Siak-, Cmniilii, ami Mesico. To calm day may be completely changed in ot in1; [uri.Jigu rumjtni'^i '••'> i• i• 111 ^ |-.IJ|- yeiir. Remit Ijy Express Money On\a:, Poq-oflk-e Order, Registered character by a half-reef breeze. Playing down the wind, one may easily be hole high in a drive and half-iron; playing into it, may call for three of the Address: HARPER & BROTHERS, New York golfer's best to land him on the green. And this is true whether it be rubber or The Editor will be glad to receive for " gutty " that one is using. consideration Photographs and Contri- Again, what is the standard? What butions on the general subject of the is the two-shot hole whose possible dis- game. Payment, at regular rates, will appearance is a question of so much con- be made upon publication, and stamps cern S Mr. Edward Blackwell thinks no- should be enclosed for return postage if thing' of driving two hundred yards as a found unavailable. Contributors are regular thing as an average. It is plain requested to write their Names and that we cannot lay out our links to fit Addresses on the bach of all MSS. and this heroic measure, or the weaker Photographs. Photographs should be brethren would be hopelessly out of carefully packed aud accompanied by court. So we compromise on the average descriptions of their subjects. Club distance reached by the average player, Secretaries will confer a favor by noti- and lay out the hunkers accordingly. fying the Editor of the dates and par- What, then, ia Mr.. Blackwell to do, when ticulars of coming club events, espe- he attempts to negotiate such a course? cially open and invitation tournaments. Evidently, he must use his head and play the holes according to the conditions as they exist. The rest of us must learn to THE FACTOR OF THE "WIND do likewise. HE English experts are still dis- The rubber ball has not ruined any cussing the question of the rubber- really good hole, and it cannot do so. T ised ball, and how its use is to There is. however, one just charge affect the play on the standard courses against it—it has virtually abolished the of Great Britain. Mr. John Low, a dis- use of wooden clubs through the fair tinguished authority, beads the opposi- green. The brassey is becoming obsolete. tion. He insists that the new ball haa It may be noted, in this connection, spoiled the old links by turning all the that Mr. A. J. Bnlfour, the British Pre- two-shot boles into "levellers," that any mier, has found time to write a letter to duffer can reach with S bad drive and a a London golfing paper against the proposition to standardize any of the im- longer the same game on the classic plements used in the game.

•• Through Ihe Green AURENCE AUCHTETILONIE. was the open championship of 1S99, play- L whose portrait appears in our gal- ed at Baltimore, when he came in ninth, lery of golfers, won the title of Open with a score of 333. In next year's open •champion at Garden City in October, by championship, when Vardon and Taylor the most consistently brilliant play ever played, at Wheaton, he was fourth, with seen in this country. The victory was no 327. At Myopia, in last year's open surprise to those who are familiar with his championship, he was fifth, with 335, and game, and was simply an attainment of these results, added to the winning of this the highest honors by those whose merits year's championship, make as good a entitle him to claim them. Before Auch- showing as that of any player who has terlonie. came to this country, rather more competed in the great national event. than three years ago, he had made his Last year he won the Western open mark as an amateur in Scotland, playing championship, and he has taken part in for the St. Andrews Club, a very strong organization. In the amateur cham- many other important contests with pionship of 1895, at St. Andrews, he got credit to himself. Not the least of his into the semi-finals, when he was beaten achievements was the up-bringing- as a after a tie by Mr. Balfour-Melville. In golfer of Mr. Louis N. James, the Ama- 1897, at Muirfield, he lasted till the third teur champion, and he and his pupil hav^ last round of the amateur championship, enabled Glen View to make a great mark and was then beaten by the winner of in the game. that year's championship, Dr. Allan.

The annual open tournament of the Country Club of Atlantic City was held, The first important event in which he November 6-8, with a large and repre- .took part after his arrival in America sentative entry list. A most welcome 406 THROUGH THE GREEN feature was the reappearance of Findlay short game was mainly accountable for S. Douglas, who, through illness, has been this great run of luck. The President's Otrt of the game for some months. The cup went to C. E. Fowues, Highland, who ex-amatwir champion showed that he liad beat Walter D. Stockley, Lakewood, by

n 1 J^it 1 (?l ^'i J1 1 I'll )]15l< ',' ll Y 1?'<>[[1J^ ['I.>IUH t 111 3 up and 2 to piny. The Third cup was the thirty-six-liole qualifying round in won by E. F. Phifcr, Washington, E. 31+79=160, figures which, strangely Marvel, Atlantic City, losing by ?- up and enough, were duplicated by W. J. Travis. 2 to play. E. A. Darby, Atlantic City, came next with 1G6. Sixty-five players entered for the invitation tournament of the Country Club Douglas continued his good play, win- of Westchester, October 23-25, and G. II. ning- against R. E. Baldwin, Philadel- Bowley, Jersey City, returned low score, phia, by 5 up and -i to play, and against SO, Walter J. Travis, Garden City, hav- Dr. L. L. Harban, Columbia, by 9 up ing an 82. Bowley did not manage to i and 7 to play. Travis also won his survive the first round, being put out by games against A. II. Eemington, Phila- Maturin Eallou, Apawamis, by 2 up and delphia Cricket, and J. G. Lindsay, Jr., 1 to play, and the winner was beaten by University of Pennsylvania. Travis in the second round by 5 up and 4 to play. The final was between Travis and Gilman P. Tiffany, Powelton, the G. T. Brokaw, Lakewood, who has done former winning by 4 up and 2 to play. so well against. Travis this season, made The Consolation cup went to E. B. Al- a fine fight with the ex-amateur cham- vord, Fox Hills. piou in the semi-finals. The pair were all square at the ninth hole, Travis finally winning by 2 up and 1 to play. Douglas London Golfing publishes the accom- had quite an easy time with H. Ifc- panying illustration and editorial note: Sweeny, Oil City, and this left the two " One of the objections raised by the ex-champions to meet in the finals. better players against the rubber-cored ball is the fact that, in the hands of many an indifferent player, it rolls or The match was to a gTeat extent a repe- bounces over bunkers which the afore- tition of previous encounters this year said indifferent players do not deserve between the same players — Douglas to successfully negotiate. An ingenious correspondent, with a laudable desire to throughout had the better of Travis off H •_ ." the tee and on his second shots, but this make the punishment fit the crime, calm- was more than counterbalanced by the ly suggests a way out of the difficulty. He proposes that artificial bunkers should fine approaching of the Garden City 1 amateur. On the green the difference have an overlap (as per illustration), so I .. was more marked still, Douglas's putting that the ball, if it ran up, would come •• being disappointing. The Nassau player in contact with the overlap and run back, - ll made matters even at the eleventh green, when a second shot would be necessary. and there, by a great rally, Travis won We simply convey to our readers the idea four straight holes and. the match, the lat- as set forth by our correspondent, re- ter by 4 up and 3 to play. Douglas's weak garding which we offer no opinion." *«»,, THEOUai! THE GREEN

One of the most interesting events of woman champion, but the Boston repre- the month was the intercity women's sentative was too strong for the Quaker team matches played at the Baltusrol City golfer, who was 4 down. Mrs. W. Golf Club, October 29-30. Hitherto this P. Stewart, of Philadelphia, formerly contest has been confined to New Tori well known to golfers as Miss Elsie Cas- and Philadelphia, but this year Boston satt, made her reappearance on the golf- took part. On account of the excellent course, and was beaten by Miss M. showing made by the Boston representa- W. Phelps by 8 up. tives in the women's championship of 1901, held over the same course, when no less than eight Boston women were in Miss Harriot Curtis, who distinguish- the first sixteen, it was expected that the ed herself greatly in the Boston-Phila- fight would be between Boston and New delphia match, by her fine play against York, and this proved to be the ease. Miss Ruth Underbill, helped her side Boston beat Philadelphia very easily, by greatly, being no less than 10 up. 44 to 11, and then gained a victory over Strangely enough, the ex-women's cham- New York, by 31 to 18. pion was off in her putting. Putting also determined the match between Miss Mar- garet Curtis and Mrs. Manice, the former Mrs. Caleb F. Fox, captain of the winning by 2 up. Miss Hecker was 3 Philadelphia team, and Miss Louisa up on Miss Wells, and Miss Adams was Wells, runner-up in the last women's unexpectedly beaten by Miss Georgina championship, had a close fight. The Bishop by S up. The best medal score latter was 3 up at the turn, but the of the two days' play was the 97 of Miss Philadelphia captain came home so Oliver in her match with Mis? M. W. strongly that, she was only beaten by "I Phelps. In the women's championship up. It was a great surprise when Miss of 1901, iH's were mado, but the course Margaret Curtis was beaten by Mrs. U. has been somewhat lengthened since, ami H. Barlow by 1 up. Miss Curtis was off for the most part a high wind prevailed. in her putting. Miss M. B. Adams, cap- Miss Howe and Miss Bishop tied with tain of the Boston team, was paired Miss Adams and Miss Lockwood in the INt Mi. S C. Gri , the ex- four-ball foursomes at 91, the foi THROUGH THE GliEEN air winning the play off. Miss Hecker when, the match was concluded Saturday. nd Mrs. Manico could do no better than A. A. Stagg, director of athletics at Chi- cago, is himself a good player, having picked up the game on the public links at Jackson Park, and this fall, when The Men's Intercity match between Fred. Pettit, champion of Wisconsin, and IDl) Philadelphia and New York was robbed Ashley Dison, the young Homewood of most of its interest owing to the player, entered the Freshman class, he de- former city, through some differences, termined to have a team. The five Chi- not being represented by its best players. cago players were of course handicapped W. P. Smith, the individual champion, by lack of familiarity with the course at and H. B. ftfcFailand, the runner-up in Aim Arbor, but held their wolverine op- (he inter collegiate championship, were ponents even the second day. In the both absent. New York had a very strong spring the Michigan team is to play the ,1 team, Fintllay S. Douglas being the only second half of the match on some links really notable absentee. W. J. Travis at Chicago, pTobably Homewood, and contributed to the New York victory by Stagg hopes to bring in his men winners. being 4 up on his opponent, A. J. P. Clement E. Smoot, one of the Michigan : Gallagher, and F. 0. Reinhart was 7 up team, who, by-the-way, defeated Fred. on E. A. Darby. C. H. Seeley and C. Pettit 1 up in the thirty-sis-hole match, Hitchcock. Jr., fairly walked over their is a tilimiiIi;1111 I iirk 111'v. iiin! i.i11 finnlii- opponents, being 10 and 11 holes up re- tor of Chandler Egan, his club mate at spectively. J. I. Lineaweaver, who was Exrnoor. 3 up on Percy R. Pyne, 2nd, and R. E. Griseom, the Philadelphia captain, who was 1 up on R. C. Watson, Jr., were the only Philadelphians who won their " Jimmy Mackrell played a clever trick matches. The best medal rounds, 82, upon the visiting Midlothian team of were made by Travis and Seeley. On iniirTccn, "who went to play the team of the day's play in the singles and four- the Country Club of Detroit, October IS. somes New York won by 135 to 4. In The professional made the new holes for May, at the Huntingdon Valley Country the team match on the highest part of Club, the Quaker City team won the first each putting-green, which bothered the • half by 27 to 16, so that the New York visitors, while it was less disconcerting to team wins the match by 81 to 31, its third the home players. Consequently, while successive victory. the Chicago men generally held their Detroit brethren about, even on the long game they lost repeatedly on the greens. Detroit won, 49 to 27. The Midlothian men journeyed to Detroit in a special car. Says GOLF'S Chicago correspondent: A similar trip was taken last year, and " The first intercollegiate golf-team the jaunt is regarded as a part of the match between big Western universities regular programme at Midlothian each waa that played at Ann. Arbor, Michigan, October 24 and 25, in which teams of five represented the universities of Michi- - gan and Chicago. The home team won, leading by 9 to 5 on the first eighteen " To make e-kole holes, and having u total of 16 to 12 thirty strokes i worthy THROUGH THE GRttEN such ail event is rare, even if the course Bessie Anthony in the Weste be short. Arthur 0. Perry, the Kenwood boy, who has a penchant for making and repairing- clubs, remaking balls, and thus making golf a lucrative as well as a plea- " As successor to Robert MeCormick, sant pastime, accomplished the feat re- United States Minister to Russia, Wil- cently at Jackson Park. The public liam G. Beale was elected president of course is about 1800 yards and flat, but the Chicago Golf Club at the annual the putting is by no means a certain meeting. Mr. MeCormick's incumbency proposition, LI^ Uii1 UHS'^P iiu]"iil>i?r of un- has been largely honorary, as his absence instructed players who frequent the links at Vienna, as Austrian Minister, has oois^i'lor the VUIL1^ DHII'L' l]0iK>n"ju ID tarc-K'l! prevented his active participation in af- than observance. Perry's start was a 3 fairs of the club. Mr. Beale is a promi- for the first hole, a drive onto the green nent Chicago lawyer, a partner of Robert and a putt down, and he continued to . .Lincoln. ;ii]iI Jiii^. hifiu. III?CII n nK'ini.ti.'t keep up the pace. He had previously of the club. The other officers-elect are: made the course in 32. His card: 2, 4, Alan L. Reid, vice-president; Lorin C. 4, 5, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3=30. Collins, treasurer; Edward P. Martin, secretary; Alan L. Reid, captain; W. G. Beale, E. P. Martin, A. L. Reid, direc- "Fred. S. James, president-elect of the tors. The treasurer's report showed the Glen View Club, was a well-known and club to be in remarkably good financial prosperous insurance-man in Chicago be- shape, and all the officers' reports gave fore his son I-ouis N. won the national evidence that the past season has been golf championship. Consequently it has the most successful in the club's history. heen a trifle amusing;, possibly a bit an- Carte blanche has been given the new noying, to the gentleman, to be constantly Green Committee to make such altera- mentioned as " Fred. S. James, father of tions and improvements in the already the national golf champion." He is wellnigh perfect course as may he deem- naturally proud of his son's feat, but his own standing, he argues, should not be dependent upon that. At. the annual election of Glen View, held recently, Mr. "For a season nominally closed, and James was advanced from the directorate actually, so far as scheduled events are to the presidency, succeeding Wiley J. concerned, the amount of play still going Littlejohn, who had filled the office most on in Chicago is gratifying. The re- acceptably for two years. The other markable run of warm weather in late officers chosen were: Richard D. Bokum, October and early November attracted vice-president; Charles W. Folds, treas- great numbers to the links, and often the urer; Charles B. Oongdon, secretary: Dr. waiting crowds at the first tee reminded E. T. Diekerman, Edmund V. Church. one oi micr summer golt. William Holabird, directors. The meeting was made the occasion for a general club jollification, and speeches and songs "Here is a hard-luck stray: E. P. appropriate to the victories of James and Ooekrell nnrl J. C. Van De Mark are con- Lawrence Auchterlonie in the two men's ceded the hest players at the Windsor national championships, and of Miss Country Club. The two won their way 410 THROUGH THE GREEN to the finals for the chief club trophy, and Chandler won the championship, brought |,. I • played the thirty-six-hole match with the fathers additional pleasure. They „„„,•„,! • honors varying very little, and halving were not alone in this, for all Chicago at the last hole. At the thirty-seventh golfers were glad to see the standard of Van De Mark had to hole a five-yard puil Western golf upheld on Eastern links, for a half, and at the thirty-eighth Oock- and in a field admitted to be high class. !v !i • rell was confronted with the same proposition, which he successfully negotiated. III Going to the thirty-ninth, a 500-yard "Louis N. James, the Amateur cham- ,,i . hole, Cockrell was nicely on the green in pion, has been most severely criticised •. '•• three, while Van De Mark sliced his for his non-participation in events sub- fii !•• • brassey off the course and lost his bill! sequent to his victory. The boy had been • sick in the spring. That is the reason for his coming home from school. He play- " ' Wizard ' is a name to conjure by in ed golf to recuperate, and so improved his ,• the Hamlin family. The famous ' H's game that he made low qualifying score • • • W— Oil' brought wealth to the family in the open tourney of the Chica'go Golf coffers, and the past summer Fred. K. Club in May, and, working through to the Hamlin had added to the family kudos finals by high-class golf, won the Chi- by successfully staging the ' Wizard of cago cup. He continued to practise, and Oz.' Jlr. Hamlin is, withal, a clever v,LI^(J]i tfii' iiiiiLili'iir 'jliLifiipi*']]-.ri][j caint\ golfer, and recently won for his perma- had been doing Glen View under 85 regu- nent trophy collection the unique Clif- larly in practice, and got a 79 just be- ford Johnston cup at the Chicago Golf fore qualifying day. That he qualified Club. The trophy is a silver urn of East- was no fluke. The fluke was in his not Indian design and workmanship, and had getting safely in under 94. He showed to be won three times by a player who what He could do when he made the first had not handled a club before 1SB6. hole in 4 on the play-off of the tie on that rainy Wednesday morning in competition with twelve others. James had work to do before entering Princeton, and ho " The fathers of Walter and Chandler set resolutely about to do it. James, by Egan have always taken the most lively his work in the national tourney, showed interest in their boys' work on the links, what he could do, and because he has and it has ever been an absolute treat to not practised nor played in tourneys sub- see the two anxiously inquiring after sequent is not cause for cavil. Had he their respective sons' welfare in the tour- entered the open championship at Gar- • naments. When the two boys met in the den City, after having had no practice, finals of the Western, the brother uncles and aiter being barred by the faculty were almost as nrui'h a part of the match from playing on the Princeton team, he as the cousins. The rivalry was, of probably would have added nothing to his course, most friendly, and outwardly the standing. He was wise. James is a ••••• fathers were each anxious for the other's clever young golfer. son to win, though inwardly, doubtless, each papa would have been most happy if his son could take the laurels. The boys' as to foster soci alii 1 i ly they boro the brunt for Harvard, and i among men in the same '» THROUGH THE GREEN business have been formed from time im- vident, that all wisdom doe memorial, and it is only natural that the m the West. means of adding to this sociability should be found in golf as in annual picnics, banquets, or balls, or other recreation. The recently formed Golf Association The Western Trade Golf Association is of Maryland and the District of Colum- probably one of the most successful or- bia held its first annual championship ganizations of this kind. Recently the meeting at the Baltimore Country Club, second annual tournament of this com- October 23-25. There were fifty entries pany of men, made up of representatives and forty-five players started. The course of the plumbing and heating manufac- was fast, but some of the greens were not tories, was held on the Hinsdale links, 3 t L p'l K >(] (.'I UK 1 ] 1 ] 01], Mi lr>W ^C !?'] ]i£! Wil^ llOi gnd twenty-seven played. Handsome to be expected. In the first sixteen were cups were the trophies. Sam Bugger, six Washington players, the remainder ex-captain of the home club and winner being from the Baltimore Country Club. of the similar tourney last year, out- Dr. L. L. Harban, Columbia, had low lasted his brothers in the first flight, and score with 81. The final at thirty-six won chief trophy after a ten-hole con- holes lay between Mr. John D. Reynolds test in the finals against F. W. Hodges of and Mr. B. W. Corkran, both of the Bal- Detroit." timore Country Club, the former winning by 7 up and G to play The Conso- lation prize was won by Mr. Oliver Perm, It is a surprise to find that there is Baltimore, who beat Mr. Ormsby McCain- . some term in connection with the game mon, Chevy Chase, by 5 up and 3 to play. that the members of the Glen Echo Country Club of international fame are unable to understand. The St. Louis The annual thirty-six-hole medal-play Star is responsible for the following: handicap under the auspices of the Uni- A new term m jiol i, saul i o be orL^I- versity Club was held, October 29, at nal with the Glen Echo Country Club, the Apawainis Club, when there were has created a stir among the lady devotees thirty-two starters—Malcolm Graham, of the Scotch game, and bids fair to Princeton, '90, had best gross and net mar the pleasure of the play for the sil- scores, his card reading, 167—14=153. ver cup offered for ladies by J. H. Mur- phy, of the Glen Echo Club. " The new term is ' plus,' and lovers of The decisive match in the Class A series the game are wondering why it was dis- of team contests in the Women's Metro- covered. politan Golf Association was played Oc- " When the handicaps for the qualify- tober 27 at the Baltusrol Golf Club being rounds for the Jturphy cup were tween the Baltusrol aud Morris County posted at Glen Echo. Wednesday, the teams. The home club won by 7 to 0, and ladies noticed that Misses Elma and thus secured for the second year the Queen Rumsey were on the board as W. M. G. A. championship. Score: 'plus 10,' while Mrs. Albert Bond Lam- bert and Mrs. White were at scratch. Bult isml-Mrs". E. Mnn J; Mrs. H. B.Asl Mrt:. N. P. Rn- ,1 ; Mis- M:irlnnO: T. 1,1 " What is ' plus 10 ?' the ladies all asked Hor•is Comity— Mi- I Mnr . Bryo M we, 0; Mil•sE l?i . Hpr , (I; Mi•s. Will S liii each other, but none could answer it." pen, 0. Total, 0. 412 THROUGH THE GltEEN Says GOLF'S California correspondent: lingame, and another cup is offered for " An inch and a half of rain thai fell contest on November 26, presented by November 10 transformed a parched and Daniel T. Murphy. freshed garden. With this transforma- tion, golf begins again in earnest "The San Francisco Golf Club have throughout Southern California. The got an energetic tournament committee first tournament of the 'winter' season this year in Warren Gregory, H. C. is scheduled for Thanksgiving day at the Golcher, and H. M. Hoyt, who have pre- Los Augeles Country Club, and is cer- pared the following schedule of events tain to bring out a large field. Unfor- for the next two months: tunately there are few youngsters coming November 15.—Driving, approaching, and on, a condition that those who have putting contests. November 2G.—Qualifying round for the the good of the game at heart should Council's Cup. ( Matrh ' play rounds to be seek to remedy. In other parts of the played before January 1.) December 13.—Handicap against bogey. country the young idea seems to be as- January 1.—Liverpool Gold Medal compe- serting itself with quite sufficient strength tition. (Medal play championship of the dub.) for the satisfaction of the veterans, but in California the boy golfers are few and far between. 01 ub^ HIlouid

Says GOLF'S English correspondent: " On the s ie day there was a handi- "New records are being made every cap tournam t over eighteen holes at day; and following closely upon the medal the Burlinga i Club for a cup presented record of 77, set up by L. M. Balfour- by W. 13. Bourn. Eighteen players com- Melville at the autumn meeting at St. peted, the three best net scores being Andrews, comes a wonderful score of 71, turned in by 0. E. Green, 75; -T. W. accomplished by W. H. Fowler, a well- Byrns, 78; and Perry Eyre, 79. Interest known Royal and Ancient player. Not in golf has revived considerably at Bur- having been made in a competition, it is

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i THROUGH THE GREEN 415 not of course recognized Ivy I lie R. and A..,brought out. One is rubber-cored, and but it stands nevertheless as the lowest the makers elaim that it is ' British to the score ever made by an amateur at St. core.' It is called the ' British King/ and Andrews. The previous best score waB the price is eighteen shillings per dozen., made so long ago, if I remember rightly, Another new arrival is the ' Ortogo,' mads as 1892, when the late Lieutenant Tait by a London firm, and retailed at twen- went round m 72. Willie Auchterlonie ty-four shillings per dozen. I do not has been round in 71, so that Fowler's know of what it is composed, whether performance equals the best professional it has an ' inside' or is a mixture like score. The new reeord-breaker, by-the- the Springvale. There will apparently way, putts with one of the new clubs, soon be as many makes of cored balls on which are best described as comprised of the market as there are guttas, and the a flat piece of wood with the shaft let into reduction in price is very satisfactory. the middle of it. They are weird-looking weapons. A rubber-cored hall was used, and it may be mentioned that W. II. " The last professional event of i\nj im- Fowler plays from scratch. portance was that held at Totteridge, in which were Herd. Braid, Vardon, and Tay- lor. .in till• ]i.i'i LI]'iLi ;i ^i i''..ij ("i"nfip^'titind, and obtain more pleasure, why should they not use them? The question of skill is word comes from Berlin that an Ameri- evaded altogether. Since lengthening can golfer, W. D. Miller, has distinguish- many courses is impossible, the only thing ed himself by his fine play over the to be done is to place more bunkers near course of the Berlin Golf Club. The the greens, in order to still place a pre- championship of Germany and Austria mium on skill. was contended for recently, when there was a large entry list. In the final Mr. Miller won by 2 up.

"The British manufacturers have been going into the subject carefully, as men- What is the size of a golf-ball, and tioned some time ago, and during the last how is it obtained? On the "end" of few days some new balls have been most bulls this size is marked 27. 271',. 416 THROUGH THE GREEN 1, , or 28, as the case may be. What does it the spring of 1900 an attempt to form an mean! We are told that these figures association was discountenanced by some • represent the diameter of the ball in six- of the leading clubs near Boston, and the teenths of an inch, but examination shows matter was allowed to drop. The princi- that they are not always truthful. If a pal objection to an association at that standard ball measures 27Va sixteenths, time -was that it would lead to a great ,„!... what should it weigh? The proper weight many tournaments, in which the mug- ad • should be about IV2 ounces, but between hunting spirit would prevail, and that ,;•!•••:• balls marked 27*4 there was a difference the idea then advanced of a league to ,.:!••• foster team matches would lead to the of 9 per cent. The balls were weighed :• on a scale which registered the sixtieth of complications which had followed the or- an ounce, and each ball was called 271/;. ganization of leagues in other sports; also that all the advantages which were claimed for an association could be had without an organization. So far as the pro- • • gress of golf is concerned, Massachusetts has done very well without an association, but conditions are hardly the same as they were two- years or more ago, so, to

meet a general wish, Mr. G. Herbert Win- 1 deler, secretary of the golf committee of The Country Club, and a vice-president •: A of the United States Golf Association, Writes Mr. John L. Low: sent a letter to nearly all the clubs in the "It is sometimes argued that the rub- State, asking them if they favored a ber ball is an improvement on the gutta meeting to consider the matter. in. just the same way that the gutta ball was an improvement on the feather. But the primary gain which the gutta ball ef- fected was one of durability and cheap- " The response to Mr. Windeler's let- ness; it did not make the scientific cal- ter has been so general and so largely in culations of the builders of the game of favor of forming an association, that no avail, for, as far as we know, no such when the meeting is held doubtless some scientific conditions existed. I have never action to that end will be taken, and com- seen any evidence in the writers of old mittees appointed to begin work this win- time which suggests that courses were ter, so that by the opening of next season laid out with a view to testing shots of it will be possible for the clubs interested -• • known length or character; the greens to reap the benefit of their plans. An seem to have been placed in well-guarded association is needed in the State to positions, so as to bring out the cunning bring before the country and to the at- of the player rather tlian the athletic side tention of the National Association the of his game." large number of golfers and clubs in Massachusetts. The State never hns been given the national amateur event, Says GOLF'S Boston correspondent: " The golf clubs of Massachusetts are too much to declare that the young likely to form a State golf association players in the State would be found just at a meeting to be held this month. In as numerous and just as high class as THROUGH THE GREEN 417 those who have come to the practised at the Oakley Country Club districts in which the ame and at The Country Club for the inter- ments have been held. collegiate tournament, and the result showed that they did it to good purpose. The fine showing of the two Egans and " Massachusetts goHi havt the winning of the intercollegiate cham- crowded the entry list of the pionship by II. Chandler Egan were very championship, but with a tournament popular at Harvard and at the many near Boston they would have the oppor- clubs around Boston, for while the Egans tunity which has been enjoyed and belong to Chicago golf, they have so iden- taken advantage of by the golfers of New tified themselves with the game here, York, Sew Jersey, and Illinois. Another that everything they do is followed with matter Eo which the association will v.iv the greatest interest. The Egans, of its attention will be handicapping, not course, saved the day for Harvard in the twice a year only, but throughout the matches with Yale and Princeton, but none of the Cambridge men was much ments are held by the clubs around Boa- down, and in the Princeton m tch A. II. Brown scored two points fo Harvard, at the monthly summary published and in every way showed him elf a most GOLF will show that thi statement capable captain. true. A handicap list issued twice year is of little value to a tournament committee, so it is proposed to have a " The autumn meetings of the Wollas- handicap committee appointed by the as- ton Golf Club, the Oakley Country Club, sociation which will keep track of the and The Country Club, attracted the season's play, aud be ready to give infor- largest number of golfers in their his- mation to any club about to bold an invi- tory, and the play was of a high standard. tation or open handicap tournament. J. G. Thorp made a 76 on the medal day Other functions of the committees of the at Wollaston, and the best gross at Oak- association will be to form some idea of ley, 83; at The Country Club A. G. Lock- the relation of the bogey of the various wood made the fine medal score of 79, and courses in the State, and with the help won The Country Club cup, for which of the committees of the home clubs, get sixteen qualified for match play from the figures more uniform all round; to scratch. Loekwood defeated, in order, arrange for and manage the State tour- H. L. Eiker, Harvard, 4 and 3; A. S. nament, which during the last two years has been done under private auspices, Graves, Concord, 3 and 1; II. McBurney, and to generally keep up the best spirit of Stockbridge, 3 and 1; F. C. Hood, Coun- the game and preserve its traditions. try Club, 7 and G. He played good golf the whole of the three days, and showed all his old form, from which he has wavered considerably this year. " The second half of October find No- vember, up to Thanksgiving day, always finds the Boston golf clubs well attended, " On Saturday, October 25, there were and this year they have been particularly no less than four open and invitation well patronized, owing to the splendid tournaments in the vicinity of Boston— weather for golf. The Harvard golfers at the Hoosic Whisick Club of Ponka- L. XL-No. a._48 418 THROUGH THE GREEN pong; the Merrimac Valley Country Club Country Club and at the Oakley Coun- of Lawrence; the Norfolk Golf Club of try Club, and there have been some keen Islington ; and the Banvers Country Club. contests. Miss Hilda W. Williams, who All of them had entry lists of fifty or is still very much in her teens, has taken more. During- two weeks more than 500 the wind out of the sails of some of the golfers must have taken part in local best of Boston's -women players by win- open and invitation events. The pnLj- ning the championship of The Country ularity of the game will be reflected dur- Club. She won the club championship ing the winter, when three of the leading last year, and played in the women's na- clubs—The Country Club, the Oakley tional championship competition in Oc- Country Club, and the Essex County Club tober, but was nervous in the qualifying of Manchester—will make extensive im- round, and failed to get into the match provements in their house accommoda- play by three strokes. The field over tions. Next year, also, the North Shore which Miss Williams triumphed included will have a new country club, which will such players as Miss L. A. Wells, Miss take the place of the Tedesco Club of E. S. Porter, the Misses Phelps, and Miss Swanrpscott. The Tedesco Club this year F. C. Osgood. it will have to give up its present links next year, land was secured, and a club- " The Country Club won its annual house far more pretentious than the pres- team match with the Royal Montreal ent: one will be built. In a few hours one Golf Club this year, 49—13. The match, of the members of the Tedesco Club which was played at Clyde Park, was raised more than $20,000 for the new marred by a terrible accident to Mr. Her- course and house, and a much larger bert Jaques, who for years has been one amount will be forthcoming. of the most energetic committeemen of the club. lie has been indispensable on every occasion when executive ability has " The success of the Women's Golf As- been required to manage an entertain- sociation of Boston in winning the Cle- ment indoors or outdoors. One of the ment A. Griscom trophy at the Baltusrol Montreal players tried a practice stroke Golf Club was hardly anticipated in Bos- just after leaving the caddie-housp, and ton, for though many thought that the pulled the ball directly into MT. Jaques, Boston players might beat those of Phila- who was walking after his ball, having delphia, they did not expect a victory played his second stroke to the first hole. over the Metropolitan Association. Miss The ball struck Mr. Jaques squarely in L. A. Wells, by holding Miss Hec.ker the eye. The blow was so severe that the down to a lead of two holes, and the fine eye had to be taken out, and it was only play of Miss Harriot Curtis and Miss by the greatest care and skill that the M. Curtis, stand out in the match with sight of the other eye was saved. While New York, but all did so well that it it is impossible not to extend sympathy to would be invidious to make comparisons. the one who inflicts such an injury, as Boston did not have quite her full well as to the injured, such accidents are strength. Miss Pauline Mackay being one inexcusable. It is a wonder that more of the notable absentees. Since the in- have not occurred in the past, for a visit tercity matches the Boston women have to almost, any links will yield cases of met in club championship matches at The the most flagrant breaches of the etiquette

420 TlIBOUail THE GREEN of the game, and almost criminal care- was very successful, there being a jrood lessness. Such an accident as that at The entry list. For the Lynuewood Hall cup, Country Club should come- into every C. S. Starr, Huntingdon Valley, and A. player's mind when he. is considering W.Tillinghast.Eelfield, reached the finals, whether to play when people are within when the former won by 3 up and 2 to range. Some shots never can lie recalled. play. By this victory Starr is entitled to hold the Lynnewood Hall cup for one year. Garfield Seott, Princeton, won the "Newton has so many golf clubs that second cup, beating E. W. Taylor, Phila- it is frequently called the golfing city. delphia Country, by 3 up and 1 to play. Every year a tournament is played for the championship to which all the clubs in Newton are eligible. This year the A new event, which created much in- qualifying round was played on the course terest, was the St. Davids Plate, a prize of the Newton Golf Club; the match- offered by the St. Davids Club fcr a play rounds were played on any Newton thirty-six-hole medal-play competition. The field was hardly as large as had been erl, and the final was played, thirty-six expected, twenty-two starting, and fif- holes, on the course of the Newton Golf teen returning cards, but probably the Club. The championship was won by E. fact that it was a scratch competition "J\f. Noyes, who beat F. S. Wilcox, the kept away many. H. B. McFarland, runner-up by 4 and 3. Mr. Noyes won Huntingdon Valley and University of the championship in 1899. Pennsylvania, continued the good work which has kept him to the fore on so

I ] ]!1H V +11"H "^"1 —- I • "II—- I'IJI"JIJ1~I i_l\ i.11 [*1 111' ['' J1 11 I'lli'i I " The team match, forty a side, played low score, 165, with A. J. P. Gallagher, at Clyde Park, Brookline, on November St. Davids, second, with 1(59. In the 15, between The Country Club and the club championship of the St. Davids Oakley Country Club was one of the Club, played at the end of October, Gal- most notable events of the season. This lagher had an unpleasant experience, be- was the third annual match. The first ing disqualified for putting on the greens was won by Oakley, 39 to 37, and the prior to the qualifying round. second, which was played at Oakley, thirty-five a side, was won by the home club 115 to 25. This year the teams dined "A number of Philadelphia golfers together after the match, and the dinner took part in the open tournament of the will be an annual event. Laurence Cui1- Wilmington (Delaware) Country Club, tis presided, and it was a most enjoya- November 13-15. The greens were in bad ble affair. Many important golf topics condition, making putting as much a were discussed, and such meetings cannot matter of luck as of skill, and under but have a good influence on the game. these circumstances E. C. Watson, Jr.'s, The Country Club won by a score of £7 171, the low score, was a creditable per- to 45, thirty-six players competing." formance. Clayton Dixon, Springhaven, came second with 172. The Westbrook player was put out in the second round by E. E. Mitchell. Wilmington, who in The open tournament of the Hunting- turn lost in the semi-final fit the nine- don Valley Country Club, October 22-24, FOWNES

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November 1st the Ekwanok Country Says the Irish Times; Club, of Manchestcr-in-the-Mountains, " We frequently hear our Irish courses Vermont, closed the most successful sea- criticised because they cramp the long son it has ever had. Such players as game by cross bunkers. We have never Walter J. Travis, Findlay S. Douglas, F. heard a good critic bring against them 0. Reinhart, C. B. Cory, and Howard the accusation that they are too closely Colby, to mention only a few of the guarded by side bunkers. The longer a names, took part in the tournaments. new course is played-—and all our courses From a club standpoint, too, things went are new—the easier it becomes. There well, amongst the new stockholders being C. E. Cory, A. Sidney Carpenter, Jasper year to year, to make the test more severe. Lynch, Howard A. Colby, C. L. Tappin, We cannot think of one of our cham- A. W. Black, C. I. Trayelli, H. B. Mc- pionship courses which could not be im- Queen, J. B. De Coursey, Davison Lloyd, proved, at slight labor and cost, by the H. K. Gilbert, F. S. Wheeler, Sayre addition of small side hazards. The McCleod, W. J. McCouvil]e, A. J. Me- straight driver would not be affected by Clure. and H. L. Phillips. Certain these in the least. The erratic player changes in the hazards and distances would at once receive the punishment he have been made, all of them tending to now escapes; consequently, a more closely guarded course would more quickly dif- ferentiate between the 'swiper' and the 'finished player.' On November 18 a special meeting of the National Association was called to consider several changes in the constitu- " Additional hazards are wanted, too, tion proposed by the Executive Com- to guard the greens as well as the course. mittee. The president, Mr. K. H. Rob- The excellence of the classic green at St. ertson, was in the chair, and sixteen of Andrews lies mainly in its small bunkers the twenty-six associate clubs were rep- in the close neighborhood of the putting- resented by delegates. greens, which necessitate skilful approaching. At many of the holes a mistake of five yards in the line of play, or The most imports ni changes und'~r the imparting of a slice to the ball when discussion were the articles reducing the a slight pull is required, means the loss dues of the allied clubs.from $25 to $10, of the hole. The test, undoubtedly, is and curtailing, to some extent, the ad- * severe, and, to the unskilful player, dis- mission of clubs to associate, and so agreeable, but it is fairer in that it more voting, membership. The $]0 annual quickly classifies men according as they dues for allied clubs was passed, but a get their game. The multiplication of little discussion was provoked as to the small guarding hazards through the green advisability of reducing the associate and guarding the putting-green is all club dues from $100 to $50. Mr. E. P.. mm

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