CANADIAN) | GOLFER APRIL 1916

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I’ve just had a letter from Jim, But I, darn the luck! must remain He’s having one glorious time Just plugging awayfor dear life In a place where the skies never dim In a climate of snow, wind andrain, And the climate is simply sublime. In the city of hustle and strife. AndJim plays at golf ev’ry day Myliver is torpid, oh, say, With never a trouble or care, I’m sick of the whole bally game, Or passes the time with a vision I long for the calm of the fig tree and divine, palm Whose Pais a great millionaire. And the chant of the ocean’s refrain.

Jove! howI envythe lad Yet Jim bids me pack up mythings Nowbasking ’neath languorous skies And hike for this realm of delight, With joys that can only be had \Vhere fun with the morning begins If your “wad’s” a respectable size. \nd ends with the small hours of But Jim has the goods and he’s game night. To touch all the spots that are high, He knows, hangit all! that I can’t, His letters just teem with pleasures So it’s simply a criminal sin supreme To stir up a man, as only Jim can, And magnums of “fizz,” “extra dry.” And finish by rubbingit in!

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many teeing grounds, and Nine yor Canadian Golfer eighteen more stakes to denote where putting greens shall be developed, no Official Organ Royal Canadian Golf Association longersuffices in golf architecture, The Official Organ Ladies’ Canadian Golf Union days of haphazard construction are Published Monthly done, because clubs have learned from Ralph H. Reville wii ie,tiw = Editor J bitter experience that not to do the W. iH. Webling - -- + ~ Associate Editor Mr. George S. Lyon, Toronto; Mr. J. T. Clark, thing correctly in the first place means Toronto; Mr. T. G. Gray, Ottawa; Mr. T. Black Montreal; Contributing Editors the expenditure afterwards of much

unnecessary time and money, with re Ladies’ Golf Section edited by Florence L.Harvey sultant McoOnVenIences, Subscription Price Three Dollars a Year Intelligent improvement and bunke1 Entered at Post Office as Second Class Matter ing of a course is money well spent Editorial and Business Oftice Brentford, Canada Haphazard and unscientific work is

money wasted and energy misplaced The Making of Courses Public Golf

The whirligig of time has again The scholarly article on ‘Public brought round the season of laying out Golf,” which Mr, S. P. Jermain, the of new golf courses and the improve father of municipal golf in Toledo, so ment of the old. Quite a number of kindly contributes to this issue of the clubs are contemplating improvements “Canadian Golfer,’ is well worthy of and enlargements the coming months, careful perusal by golfers and munici- and greens committees cannot be urged pal authorities throughout the Domin too earnestly to thoroughly study gen ion, Mr, Jermain makes out a splendid eral conditions and the whole lay of brief for the golfer who cannot afford the links, and to obtain the best expert the luxury of the private club, but advice possible before committing their whose “rightful inheritance the game is clubs to expenditures, whether large or from its time-honored origin.” Mr. small. Jermain very succinctly states that Driving nine or eighteen stakes into “Golf itself affords the best form of the ground to indicate the spots for as normal exercise, and is more and more 683 684 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1p Nor 12 proving its need to all classes of men ing. If billiards and bowls are good for who labor in close confinement in soldiers, it is because they are good for other people, and it would be the part of cities.” wisdom for any church organization to In the United States public golf adopt this method of keeping its young peo- courses the last few years have been ple in close association with the institution. established at all the principal centres, Analogous recreations might be provided and after the war the same will hold for young women, and others in which the sexes might participate simultaneously. To true in Canada. The “Canadian Golfer” replace such recreative games appropriate knows of one important Eastern city to the winter season others might be pro- to-day where municipal links are vir- vided for outdoor use in summer. A\ll this tually assured as soon as financial con- would tend to make the church what it ought to be: a great force for social im- ditions warrant. In the years to come provement as well as for religious develop- golfers in the Dominion and would-be ment. If something of this sort were to golfers will have no reason to complain become general as the result of this war, of the treatment they will receive at then it will not have been unmixedly in- the hands of park boards and commis- jurious in its effects. sioners, The “public golf course” is a Curling, billiards and bowls in win- certainty of the future. ter, golf, tennis and lawn bowling in summer, could well be fostered and en- The Gospel of Recreation couraged by church organizations, As Golfers have been preaching the Gos- Professor Hollis, of Harvard, used to pel of Recreation for years, but here have it, “Get the people daily into the comes a new convert, no less a one than open, and fill them with air, enthusiasm the good “Globe,” Toronto. Yes, really, and understanding, and you will have the following article appeared recently a happy and God-fearing people.” in its editorial columns and is well worthy of reproduction: To the “Canadian Golfer” on its The administrative authorities of a large Twelfth Issue Methodist church in a large Canadian city have decided to throw open its basement as Well, Captain, we’ve managed to stay a place of recreation for soldiers during the round their time of training. Pool tables and The first “twelve holes” we’ve played bowling alleys will be installed for the use And, to judge by our score, we'll play of “anybody in khaki uniform.” This is a good time for any person who may feel on some more shocked at this use of part of a sacrosanct With a heart that is unafraid. edifice to reconsider his prejudices and re- The course that we covered was bun- vise his opinions. Certainly, if all church kered and trapped, basements were available for such simple and manly games, there would be less in- The hazards were many and wide. ducement for soldiers to seek their pastimes Thanks be, we succeed, for under your in worse places and more demoralizing com- lead pany. Christian people may as well accept The “Golfer” has qualified. the fact that the craving for recreation is just as legitimate as devotion to work, and may be more ennobling. In the love of Jo doubt that we foozled a shot or so— “play” men and women are only grown-up The course to us was new— children, and the facilities for such recre- ations should be afforded them under up- But we tried, just the same, in playing lifting, not debasing, auspices. Billiards and the game, bowling are perfectly innocent and effec- To follow our ideals through. tively recreative amusements; any dispar- And now we tee up for another good agement clinging to them has resulted from round, the fact that they have been unnecessarily associated in the public mind with saloons. At the finish we’ll hope to see It would be a real social reform to have The “Golfer” a star, score below par, them associated with churches. Anda cracking good victory. This opens up a wider question than that of providing recreation for soldiers in train- —‘The Second in Command.” The “ Canadian Golfer”is on sale at all the leading bookstores throughout Canada Ghip Shots Says J. G, Anderson, the well-known of his ability as a golfer or a tennis U.S. player and writer: “It has been player is a professional, and all the estimated that we are to have five hun- rules in the world cannot alter it. To dred new golf courses this year. The ignorethis fact is to trifle with thevital game is growing andburstingoverall issue.” preconceived notions. ‘Ten years from <> to-day we will be spending two hun- Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, Gen- dred and fifty millions a year on this eral Manager of the Bank of Montreal, one sport.” Or, in other words, more and a well-known golfer, was paid a than twice the present annual total pleasing compliment in the House at Government revenue of the whole Ottawa lately both by the Government Dominion of Canada! and by the Opposition. “TI desire,” said > Sir Thomas White, “here to paytribute Mr. John Martin, Captain of the to Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, who Rosedale Golf Club, writes: ‘Is there has acted for myself, as Minister of any good reason why we should not Finance, and for the Government, upon have a Rules of Golf Committee in many occasions.” ‘No better man,” Canada.’ No reason whatever. It said Mr. Lemieux. To which Sir would be an excellent idea if the Royal Thomas White added: “I heartily Canadian Golf Association appointed agree with my honorable friend in an expert committee to hand down de- that.” cisions based, of course, on the findings of the Rules of Golf Committee of St. The “Canadian Golfer’ has been Andrews. It would simplify matters a asked by a “short-sighted” subscriber whole lot, and it is to be hoped the (that is, optically) whether there is any R.C.G,A. directors will take the matter prescription for keeping rain—the bete up. The suggestion is worthy of every noir of the golfer—off eye-glass lenses consideration. or spectacles. Herewith a preparation > kindly furnished by Dr. C. A. Jarvis, Treating of amateurism, “Outing”’ Brantford, Secretary Optometrical As- of New York tritely remarks: “Now sociation of Ontario: in most games free time is an import- Glycerine LT EMT Lites Catia c eels Comet ant element. You cannot expect to Watery... TEA een Pee ee 1 oz. excel in golf or tennis, for example, Sal Garrone: re Cracu It unless you are able to devote a lot of Put in 4 oz. bottle, shake well. Moisten piece of gauze; wipe over lenses, making all time to the game. If you are to shine strokes downward. This can also be used in tournaments you must have money for windshields, to pay your travelling expenses and > hotel bills. There is nothing cheap William Garrett Brown, recognized about starring on the links or the as the greatest authority extant upon courts. The old axiom, ‘Time is money,’ matters of history and the trend of is true in more ways than one. For Democracy in the United States since leisure time must be bought, with your the Civil War, has solemnlystated that own or someone else’s money. If all American institutions and thought your working time is required to buy have received only three important ad- the necessaries of life, and you have no ditions and conceptions in the last de- margin of effort with which to buy cade—Trusts, Imperialism and Golf. time to play, then you cannot play. The only newoneis golf. The Trusts This fact is regrettable, but it cannot are merely a modern expression of the be altered. Neither can you look to ancient creed of Jerusalem, and Imper- the gameitself for help. That way lies ialism the outcropping of the religion professionalism, whatever the rules of the Roman Empire. But Golf is a may or may not say. So far as the new note from the pipes of the great spirit is concerned, the man who gets a God Pan, and the ultimate call to the job in a sporting goods house because children of men from the openfields. 685

The Overlapping Grip

HOwasthe first golfer to dis- only member of the elect who contrives cover the overlapping grip? If, to do without it. The others declare seeking relief from haunting thoughts steadfastly that it is the first essential of the life-and-death struggle in Eur- of successful golf. When Vardon was ope which finds many of us con- in his heyday and his shots were the demned by age or some other disa- nearest approach to wizardry that the bility to play the part of anxious links could hope tosee, his grip was by watchers, we decided to conduct an in- far the most extensively discussed fea- vestigation of a subject connected with ture of his methods. Consequently, our favorite recreation, we could not thousands of enthusiasts of all ages set set ourselves a more interesting ques- themselves diligently to arrange their tion than that with which this note thumbs andfingers on the club just as opens. Glancing through a collection of his were disposed. Vardon has never second-hand volumes I came upon claimed to be the discoverer of the “The Game of Golf. By W. Park, Jr.” overlapping grip; all that he knowsis Certainly it is nothing out of the ordin- that he workedit out for himself in the ary for great professionals to give their period when he wasat Buryand Ripon, views on the pastime, bound in mor- and whenhe never saw or heard of the occo, cloth, and all the other indica- fashions of other players. We know tions of literary importance, but prob- that, before Vardon cameto the front, ably few people are aware that the Mr. Laidlay had been an overlapper; fashion was in existence even in that but one cannot remember anybody comparatively remote age when Willie having credited Taylor with the honor Park, Jr., was a power in the golfing of being an originator in the matter of world. This particular volumeis dated this now famous grip. Inquiry elicits 1896 (some years after its author had the fact that Taylor has adopted it as secured his second Open Champion- long as he can rememberhaving played ship), and in it Park remarks that the golf in a serious spirit. There is no re- only two players he knows who adopt cord as to how the giants of old held the overlapping grip are Mr. J. E. their clubs, but the fact that the prin- Laidlay and J. H. Taylor. He would ciple of making the two hands touch become wiser very soon after the without allowing any of the fingers to appearance of his work, for inthe very overlap or interlock was general until season of its publication Harry Vardon the generation of Mr. Laidlay, Vardon, leapt from obscurity into fame by be- and Taylor was born suggests that coming Open Champion, and nowhere overlapping is a latter-day discovery. is there a student of the game who Evidence points to the three players needs to be told that Vardon has fav- mentioned as having lighted on it for ored the overlapping grip throughout themselves at different times, and very his career in the higher walks of the likely Mr. Laidlay, with the advantage golfing life. of a ten years’ start in life, was the Indeed, Vardon—and Vardon alone actual innovator. As between Taylor —has been instrumental in elevating and Vardon, we cannot tell who was this manner of holding the clubto its first; all that we know is that it was present position of sanctity as the dis- the latter who made overlapping seize tinguishing mark of a young player of the imagination of the golfing public. promise or an elderly convert of stern The sign suggests that future genera- ambition. It is the one characteristic tions will recognize only this grip, so which the leading professionals possess that its origin is interesting.—The in common; Alexander Herd is the Yorkshire Post.

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Lord Northcliffe, the “Stormy Petrel’’ of British Politics By THE EDITOR

HEREhave been many meteor worth’s first great newspaper success. careers recorded in the history of Then followed the “Evening News” the British Empire during the past half and the launching of several other century or so, but it has remained for popular dailies, weeklies and maga- journalism to furnish one of the most zines, which gave him a constituency notable and sensational. ‘The Fourth of millions of readers. It is stated that

Estate” has proved the stepping-stone as a young man Lord Rosebery had l

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O perhaps, has it ess in I[éngland. produced such a He succeeded in dominating figure all three. Mr. as Lord North- Harmsworth, it is cliffe, the maker reported, in his and unmaker of youth set out to Governments and accomplish one Government poli- great thing —to

E cies—theveritable become the pro Warwick of mod- prietor Ot ‘tnte ern times. London ‘Times.’ Alfred Charles And to-day “The William Harms- Thunderer” is his. worth is an I[rish- [It was in 1904 man, Chapelizod, that this resource County Dublin, ful newspaper

A having the honor man was made a of being the birth Baronet, and in place of the future 1905 he was raised Peer. And the to the Peerage as date 1865, so the Baron Northcliffe “stormypetrel” of He has not by

Sritish politics any means con- and journalism is fined his virile still in his prime. abilities to jour He early cameto nalism and_ poli

London and early tics. In 1894 he demonstrated the equipped the Lord Northcliffe, Proprietor of the ‘‘Daily Mail’’ keen newspaper and the London ‘'Times”’ Jackson Harms instinct. Starting worth Explora at the very bottom rung of the ladder, tion Ixpedition Then, too, he has he at a comparatively youthful age taken a very keen interest in aviation proved his right to a place in the jour and motoring, and contributed a nalistic sun, until to-day he easily £10,000 prize to encourage the “mas eclipses all his contemporaries, and tery of the air’ which is playing such wields a powerthat is only bounded by an important part in this world war. his vaulting ambition, which, let’s The Frenchman Beaumont captured hope, will not “o’erleap itself and fall this princely prize. on t’other side.” Great Britain’s oldest colony, too, The London “Mail” was Mr. Harms owes a great deal to his energy and 687 688 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12

business acumen. Lord Northclifte provement in its methods of destroy- purchased vast timber limits in New- ing or capturing these crafts. foundland andthere erected the largest Germanycannot be starved out, and paper mills in the British Empire. It all her bleating about the suffering of was in the spring of 1910 that the her women and children is designed “Daily Mail” was first printed on the to influence the sympathy of neutral paper produced from these mills. nations, especially the United States. It is since the outbreak of the war, Nevertheless, the war will be won by however, that Lord Northcliffe has the British navy, whether the German loomed so very large in the public eye. fleet gives battle or not, for it will As a result of his outspoken criticism never give up its grip upon German and his relentless “pounding” at the commerce. The navy can carry on powers-that-be, and the administration warfare against Germanyfor five, ten, of the various departments under them, or even twentyyears if necessary. he awoke to find himself last year one It is not the making of the rifle or of the most hated men in England. He the machine gun, or even the big how- was dubbed a traitor—a man who itzer that takes the time; it is the pre- sought solely his own aggrandizement paration of the human material, and and sordid gain. The State was called after that its acclimatization. As re-

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Coalition Government, and one was nn plish this, even with the wonderful re- a

formed; he called for a Minister of e sources of the United States. The Munitions, and Lloyd George was ap- pointed; he called for a headof a re- United States was making the same S mistake as Britain had made by not T cruiting department, and Lord Derby being sufficiently prepared for war. E

was selected; he called for a Minister — of Aviation, and other radical changes There ought to be a happy medium and appointments. And his wisdom between militarism and such unpre- has in every instance been demons- paredness as nowexists in the United trated and acknowledged. And to-day States and as existed in the British he is calling for general conscription, Isles two years ago. and he is a bold man whowill saythat The United States had lost a great there are not substantial arguments in opportunity when she did not inter- favor of that, too. vene to protect Belgium, but, never- From the best-hated man in Great theless, her passive friendship for the Britain, this newspaper proprietor with Allies was more valuable than her ac- many interests has come to be looked tive support. When the war is over, upon by an ever-increasing number as the United States need not expect to the Prophet who is destinedto lead the receive much immigration from the Empire out of an erstwhile wilderness British Isles. That would certainly go of slackness, muddling, incompetency to Canada, to Australia, and to South and doubt into the Promised Land of Africa. Victory with Honor and Honor with Like so many other leaders of British Victory. thought and British activity, Lord Recently Lord Northcliffe gave a Northcliffe is a great believer in the notable interview to the New York value of outdoor exercise, andis a very “Sun.” Briefly summarized, some of keen golfer. The excellent photograph his remarks were: herewith shows that he plays the game Three months ago the British navy as vigorously and determinedly as had destroyed fifty German submar- everything else he puts his hand to. ines and thirty more that the navy was Here’s hoping that his “drives” in the almost certain of. Not a week passes future will be as effective and as “far but the British navy finds some im- and sure” as they have beeninthe past. April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 689

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“*A hazard is a bunker, so’s water, ditch or sand, A bush, or path, or roadway—to ground your club is banned,’ With some exceptions notable, he starts out to recite ’em, And quotes from Scotch authorities, et al., ad infinitum, Till, hot beneath the collar, I glare at him and scoff: ‘Is this a legal argument, or just a game of golf?’

“Tis golf,’ says he, and I protest, ‘My ball was in the grass, And surely some one told me—I forget his name, alas!— That by a certain ruling, if so a ball is found, One’s club (see Rule 500) may lightly touch the ground.’ ‘Quite so,’ he fired back promptly, ‘but that’s all changed, per se; A new decision’s handed down; see Rule 10, Section B.’

“‘*Ye gods!’ I murmured,faintly. ‘You've got me in your maw, I'll give you besttill I digest the rules of golfing law, To drive, approach, and maybeputt, is valuable, of course, But to win out, without a doubt, one needs forensic force. So here’s where I get under—no one can long survive A match with any chap who thinks he knows Rule 25,’’ —W. H. WEBLING.

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Golf, and the World Laughs With You

By CAMPBELL DUNCAN

ORdaysit has been coming on you. In fancy you tee your ball and ad- That Golfish feeling. dress it with an easygrace, head down It is the awakening of the golf habit. and wrists flexed. You can seeit all as All winter it has been lying dormant, clearly as though you were watching but now it has awakenedlike the crav- yourself in a moving picture. Up comes ing for drink in a memberof the Indian your club at just the proper angle, and list, and whenthe golf habit begins to then descends in a beautiful arc, and lay hold upon you it puts cocaine far smack !—it catches the little white glo- back in the running. bule fairly, and awayit goes sailing, a For some days—ever since the snow tiny white speck in the sunshine. Ina went—you have realized that some- trance you watch it rise gently, clear thing was the matter, andthestress of that awkward clumpof bushes, hit the work at the office has kept you from right side of the little hillock—the recognizing it as the golf germ in your other side of which would have rolled blood, but there comes at last the it out of bounds—and go leaping on bright, spring morning when thesiren down, hop up on the green and come to call of the bunker drowns the whisper- rest three feet from the flag. ings of conscience, and youdecide that You awake from your dream mur- one day, alone and unmolested, on the muring, “That-a-boy! Some shot, huh!” links is worth untold nights at the Then realizing where youare, youfin- office catching up. ish masticating the piece of toast you You lie abed till long after your regu- suspended operations on when you lar hour, and after a hasty toilet de- made that corking drive, swallow the scendto the breakfast room andconfide dregs from the coffee pot, hunt out the to friend wife, who is just seeing the pipe you always smoke onthe links, younger kiddies off to school, that fill and light it, and betake yourself work can go hang for one day. This upstairs to prepare for your truant’s announcement only brings forth a sniff holiday. and an expression of the hope that you After a perfectly wonderful shower- are not going to hang about the house, bath, in which yousing lustily of “the because it 1s wash-day, and Clarice is flowers that bloom in the spring, tra- on the job and needs watching for fear la,’ as the needle points of icy water she will boil the flannels, and anyway send the blood tingling to your finger she is too busy to be bothered with a tips, you array yourself in an oldpair manaroundthe house, and you needn’t of tweed trousers, shake the moth balls expect any lunch. from your favorite sweater, don it and You reply gently that you intend proceed to the attic to hunt out those spending at least six blissful hours at jolly old shoes, without which a day on the golf club, and that you will have the links would seem incomplete. lunch there. You then attack your Right here is where youfindthefirst breakfast, which proves to be some- fly in the ointment of an otherwise per- what of a “catch-as-catch-can” meal. fect day, However, the fact that the coffee is Youseize upon and bear them down- lukewarm and groundsey, the toast stairs, carolling light-heartedly. You cold, and the eggs overdone, has no slip on the right one and wriggle your dampening effect upon your good hu- toes about in it with a comfortable, mor,for in fancy you are just about to friendly feeling, and then proceed to drive off for the seventh hole, the one do the same with the left, when sud- with the nasty approach where you denly you pause between “—bloom in foozled so many times last summer. the spring” and “tra-la,’ with an un- 690 April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 691

easy feeling that all is not as it should self that fills you with horror and rage. be, and an investigation is in order. There, in the hand of Olga,—who was This results in the discovery that a wont to handle a plow on her paw’s mouse with domestic instincts has sub- farm in Poland—is your cherished let your shoe, furnished it according to driver, rising and falling in a cloud of its ownideas, brought a familyinto the dust as that lusty maiden attacks the world, and generally carried on a win- dining-room rug which hangs suspend- ter of light housekeeping therein, and ed from. the clothes line, abandonedit in shocking condition at Heedless of your bruised knees and a very recent date without paying the stinging palms, you dash into the gar- rent. den and pluck your beloved club from Involuntarily a word that you would the vandal hand, whose owner breaks not like the children to hear you use into language which would doubtless slips out, and, like the historic “my son prove as bad as it sounds, if you could John,” with one shoeoff and the other understand it. But you do not stop to shoe on, you hobble down stairs, carry- listen, nor hanker for a translation; the ing the nowoffensive thing well away one thought in your mind being to from you, and drop it in the ash can. track the rest of your clubs to their res- Oh well, you have other shoes that pective hiding places and rescue them you can wear, but it is a nuisancethat ere it is too late. out of all the run-down-at-heel pairs riend wife is in the kitchen, and for that friend wife was saving to send to the first time in your married life you the Mission Union, that mouse should raise your voice to her in anger, You have picked out the one pair you demand yolubly to be informed who valued most. Rotten luck, of course, gave that female, Polish giant permis- but if you want to catch that next train sion to use the best driver you ever out to the club, you will haveto hurry. owned for beating carpets? Youslip into the boots you used to Friend wife retires to the trenches wear when the walking was bad last of her 3333 dignity, and bids you think winter, and duck into the cupboard of who you are, of what she is and of under the stairs for your well filled bag where you are, and indicates the pres- of clubs. You know exactly whereit ence of Clarice,—of ebon hue—who is it, back of your old ulster, and instine- busy over the wash boiler. tively your handfinds it and draws it You don’t give a continental whoop forth. It somehowsems to have grown who,—but another shock is in store much lighter than when you hung it for you, and as your gaze turns stove- up in the fall, and the reason is appar- ward you are once more bereft of ent at first glance, for instead of your speech, for what is that object with carefully selected bunch of clubs, one which Clarice is stirring the clothes in lonely mashie wags its head at you their steaming suds? over the rim of the bag. Your niblick, by all that’s holy! Amazement strikes you dumb for a Forgotten is all your early training, moment, then a horrible thought takes your Sunday school admonitions, the hold of your mind and lashes it into respect you owe your better half and action. You make for the rear of the the courtesy and politeness on which house, and trip over a neatly rolled you prided yourself. You are once rug that has been taken up and laid more a primitive man, desiring that across the dining room door while you which is yours, and meaning, at all were upstairs. The rug in that room costs, to have it. There is therefore a has also been taken up, so your fall somewhat undignified wrangle before is like unto that of the Roman Empire, you regain it, in which Clarice takes —swift and hard. As you regain your an active part and speaks her outraged feet a faint sound of “Phutt! Phutt!” mind with point and fluency, tells of carpet beating in the garden, You long to assault some one with and as your headrises above thelevel intent to kill, and indeed a red mist, of the window sill, a sight presents it- such as that described by Jack Lon- {|| 692 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12 don, when his hero’s passions rise, After a prolonged search, you find comes before your eyes, when youdis- your brassyin a secluded corner of the cover behind the stove the putter with cellar, whither it has been taken by which you won-out at the last hole some person or persons unknown, but from your bitterest rival, last fall. shrewdly guessed at, for the purpose It has evidently been used to rake of breaking up the large lumps of soft out the stove in lieu of the poker, coal used in the living room grate. which you now remember was lost Your midiron and lofter are in the best sometime about last Christmas. You state of preservation of any of the gather together the clubs you have missing, for they are merely hanging succeeded in rescuing,—crooning to crossed uponthe wall of son’s room by them tenderly, and drop them into the wayof decoration, and support a snap- caddy bag along with your mashie. shot enlargement of a certain plump They don’t go in very far owing to high-school belle. some obstruction in the bottom of the Ruthlessly you snatch them from bag, which proves on investigation to their artistic position, allowing the pic- be a number of empty cigaret pack- ture of your erring son’s heart’s-desire ets of a cheap and noxious brand, to fall to the ground unheeded. With which you yourself have never been the clubs in your grasp, you dash down guilty of smoking. stairs, grab your cap and bag and run Ha! Ha! Nowyou knowwhere that for the train, alas, too late. Even as boy’s pocket moneyhas been going. So you turn the last corner to the station this is where he has been hiding the it pulls out; and hate and gloom des- evidence of his iniquity, is it? Very cend upon your soul. well, we will see. There is a certain Returning to the house, you cast amount of primitive joy to be derived your bag of clubs from you, change from the knowledge that someone has into your city clothes, and take the something coming to them, and_ that next car for town. they are going to get it andget it good, That day will go downinthe history You appreciate that joy to the full. of the office as the very worst the staff Nowfor the rest of the clubs. ever put in.

LOM Er sire peay IN MAIKEO

FOURSOmES witnH You — Youre

So Bice, SO STRONG SO OIF FERENT

—American Golfer Gettinge Out of Difficulties

By ALEX. SMITH, Open Champion United States 1906-1910

N a formerlesson I referred briefly the ball and slightly turn down the to play through the green, where nose of youl club The swing should the ball is on a hanginglie or either not be more than a three-quarters one. above or belowtheplayer. I said then, When the ball is on a hanging or and repeat it now, that the chief essen- downward le (in the direct line of tials are accuracy and an easy swing, play) the stroke should be well off the but I may add a word or two upon the right foot. In other words, stand more proper stance and swing for these in front of the ball than usual, the left variations from the normal. knee very firm and the right one com-

Smith’s Grip for Driving

Whentheball is lying on an uphill paratively loose, ‘The grip, too, should slope, and consequently above you, the be light, or you may poke the club into tendency is to hook it badly. It will the ground. For all these shots I pre help youto playstraight if you stand a fer a spoon, this last being a wooden little farther from the ball than usual, club a trifle shorter than the driver and swinging veryeasily. laid back like a brassey It has no Whenthe ball lies on a downhill brass sole plate and is consequently a slope, or beneath you, the tendency is better balanced club than the ordinary bothto slice and to fall forward as the brassey. Referring again to the push club comes through. Stand well behind stroke, which is largely used when the 693 694 CANADIAN GOLFER Vole No. IZ

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696 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No, 12 ball is in a shallow cup or moderately close to the ball as possible and let the bad lie, the tendencyis to stiffen the grip be loose and flexible. Sometimes shoulders and tighten up the grip. This you will find the ball cocked up in a is quite wrong. The grip should bede- bunker, teed, as one may say. In such cidedly slackened, so as to take the jar case it is advisable to stand well be- off the wrists and permit the putting on hind the ball so as to clearly catch it on of back spin. It is excellent practice to the up swing as the club comes learn this stroke by playing a ball out of through. It is very easyto foozle even a shallow bunker in which the sand is so simple a shot as this appears to be loose and yielding. You will have no by taking sand. Note that this is ex-

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injury to your wrists, and the stroke ary bunkerplay in which theball lies in i can be brought off in proper fashion. a heel point oris half buried, Whentheball lies in a deep rut there In playing out of longgrass, take the is nothing to do but to take your nib- heaviest club in your bag, preferably a lick and pound at it. It is generally ad- mashie-niblick, and bang away. ‘The visable to follow the rut. Indeed, the stroke is more on thestraight up and great principle of all play out of bad down order, for all that you expect to lies is to get out. Make up your mind do is to get back on the fair green, and that you have lost one stroke and are with the usual long sweep back the onlytrying to place yourself in position club has to fight its way through that for the next one. You have lost one much moreobstruction. stroke; don’t lose two. The wind is a difficulty that must al- In getting out of bunkers the older ways be reckoned with on a seaside authorities advised hitting into the course, and even the inland ones have sand behind the ball, the distance be- their share of stormy weather. There ing proportional to the looseness of the are scientific golfers who make much sand. It is hardly worth while bother- of their ability to use a wind, pulling ing over such niceties ; take the sand as or slicing, as the case maybe, and the April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 697

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theory is a*plausible one. In practice? rise. You want to get it well into the Well, for the beginner, it is enough if air, so that the wind may exertits full he canhit cleanly andstraight. A high force upon it for the longest possible wind always exaggerates the effect of time. a spin, and I have already given my A ball in water is played as though opinion that the deliberate cultivation it were in a sand bunker. Don’t be of a slice is a dangerous thing. afraid of the splash. Whenthe wind is coming from the Generally speaking, a golfer looks right, you maysafely play well into upon bad lies as being more difficult it, turning the wrists over at the mo- than they really are. The irresistible ment of impact so as to get a little pull. inclination is to stiffen oneself and hit As the latter begins to take effect, the a little harder than usual, We all know wind will then keep it along in the gen- the fallacy of this proceeding, but, nev- eral direction of the hole. ertheless, we continue to pursue it. In a left-hand wind you would theo- There is only one cure, and that is to retically play again well into its eye regard the ball in difficulty as having with a slice. But I say, don’t slice in- lost for you one complete stroke. If tentionally under any circumstances. you can reconcile yourself to this, you Aim a little farther to the left and try will not attempt much more than to for a perfectly straight ball. put your ball in position for the next With the wind dead against you, you naturally want a low ball. To get it stroke; you will play easily and well you should play well off the right foot, -within yourself, and the results will be and the hands may be allowed to come correspondingly favorable. After a through a trifle in advance of the club while youwill find that youare getting head. With a following wind, stand more distance as well, and the badlies well behind the ball, so that you may will have lost most of their terrors and pick it up-as the club nead begins to anxieties.

An Interesting Match In England Mr. F. S. Schell, writing the “Cana- said to be the longest driver in the dian Golfer” from the Royal Flying country’—(that fact is generally con- Corps, Wantage Hall, Reading, where ceded—The Ed.)—‘and people look he and a number of other Canadians for him to be open champion in the have been training, tells of an interest- near future. | am enclosing three cards. ing match played there in March be- One shows his record for the course tween seven of the R. F. C. and the and the other two are the scores in the Sonning Club. The following was the two matches he had with the five times score, the match counting a point and open champion, J. H. Taylor, and, as the bye a half: you will see, he won both 3 and 2, with R. F. C. Sonning Golf Club scores of 69 to 72 and 70 to 74.” A. G. Henshaw.... 0 W. Rothwell ...... 1% Mimec Me LOUD. ass ata 0 (eds CT rea AARAL 1 Mitchel’s record for Sonning is 63— pee CUI nc orotate Vy GoW. Brook6::.7. « 1 33 out and 30 in. The course is 6195 BS: Schell... id 1% BY RAINS 7 cist ne 0 HE: Bagot...... 2. 0 EWreel APELOB ys... 1% yards, or three miles 915 yards. His Bl; NOCWLNG o.5 9 tee 0 Major: Price:.,..:...;. 1% score is well worth reproducing—it cer- ST PENA, ere aieet ctate 0 A. Le Groady:....:. 1% OER A a 2's les «alate ee 2 MOtAl Minarencnnee 8 tainly was uncanny golf: Mr. Troup gave his opponent 3 No. 1, 400 vards.. 3 No, 10, 380 yards.. 4 No. 2, 440 yards.. 3 No. 11, 160 yards.. 2 strokes, and Mr. Schell gave Mr. No. 3, 390 yards.. 4 No. 12, 470 yards.. 4 Barnes 4 strokes. In the four-ball No. 4, 160 yards.. 3 No. 13, 200 yards.. 2 matches Mr. Schell and his partner, No. 5, 500 -yards.. 4 No. 14, 490 yards,. 4 Mr. Bagot, won from Messrs. Brooks No. 6, 470 yards.. 4 No. 15, 330 yards.. 4 No. 7, 380. yards.. 5 No. 16, 160 yards.. 3 and Barnes 2 up. Sonningis the course No. 8, 410 yards.. 4 ‘No. 17, 370 yards.. 4 of which Abe Mitchel was the pro. up No. 9, 115 yards.._3 No. 18, 370 yards.. 3 until a few months ago, when he joined Mota) tas, cer ons 33 Stalwart. ty ota. 30 the army. Mr. Schell says: “He is Gross Total—63. April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER

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The Art of Placing By T. G. GRAY, Rivermead Golf Club, Ottawa HILE there are manygolfers try to play the slice round obstacles ? who have found out the secret You will at times chance to see a of playing good rounds and maintain- ball played round a tree or end of a ing a good average in medal play house and have the satisfaction of see- throughout a golfing season, they are ing it roll up on to the putting green, few and far between who cansaythat and then comes the remark, “Fine shot, they have learned the art of placing a that—I played forit,” while the player ball at all near the spot it is intended was in mortal terror of breaking to be played. branches or windows, and the good Hundreds of players are able to result was only obtained through a reach the green in two orthree strokes, very bad slice. but only a favored few can say that There are many putting greens on they have such confidence in their ap- the Royal Ottawa and Rivermead proach that they feel they will only courses which have a certain amount have one putt on the green. Before of slope, and to really play the ap- mentioning the play of the shorter proach well under such circumstances, strokes it might be found interesting one must have some ideaof placing the to dwell on the shots from thetee. ball near to the certain spot on the In manyof the better courses in the green which he has chosen in his mind, Old Country bunkers are so placed that \s I knowthe Rivermead course much it will be found necessary to play your better than the Royal Ottawa, I might tee stroke towards a certain part of the mention the putting green at the sixth course and at an angle which will land or Gully Hole. The stroke is played the ball perhaps fifty yards off the from the tee with a mashie, and as straight line for the putting green. It there is little ground between the edge might also be found that the tee shot of the gully and the green, we must should not be further than 175 yards, play either a firm stroke with a lot of and that the second stroke is the one cut, or a loose stroke which will be where the player can let out with afull spent before the ball comes to terra shot. To many such play may seem firma, The necessity of placing well foolish, and they might argue that the at this hole will be understood when it straight line right through the play is remembered that the green slopes must always be the best. In very many away rather more quickly at theleft instances this is not the case, and one far corner than one would imagine, and only requires to play the straight shot consequently the idea would be to play to find out his error when not knowing a ball with a little cut, so that when it the course. touches the green it will be inclined to The nature of the ground time and run in from the sloping side, and en- again makes it necessaryto playa little deavor to keep away from the chances more to the right or left of the dead of running down off the green to per- straight line, and as many courses are haps 30 yards below, as the green is beautified with trees, these obstacles situated on a plateau, must always be considered before the Most players are perfectly satisfied stroke is played. A great manyplayer to get across the gully, and do not never think of playing round a tree seem to care about the run-down and either with a sliced or a pulled ball. climb-up on the far side of the green, If you tell them to do so they at once but it must surely make the play much say they can’t do it and make a dash more interesting to practice placing the for the green with the hope that their tee shot, and it is very encouraging stroke will have a slice on it so that when the idea becomes an accomplish- the ball will get round the obstructing ed stroke. tree, although only a straight shot was I do not knowif many golfers think in their mind at the moment. Trusting for a moment about placing a_ ball to luck is the usual play, but why not when actually playing on the putting 2 70 2

704 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12 green. In my ownopinion, I would straight for 70 yards and then take a say it was very necessary. Take, for distinct twist inwards towards the cen- instance, a large putting green, and tre of the green. If it keeps straight, your opponent has played his approach move the right toe alittle further up putt to within three feet of the hole, yet, andit is likely the required result but on your looking carefully at the will be accomplished. ground he has yet to play over to hole When one has to contend with a his next shot you notice irregularities, strong side wind and the player has and perhaps a suspicion of a moundin found out a little about the art of the centre of the line of his putt. The placing, he will surely have a great idea, I think, for you wouldbe to play advantage against his opponent, whose to get downin a sure two strokes, and ball will likely be blown all over the the first intention would not be to lie course unless he has found the trick close up, but to choose your ground of keeping the ball low. from where you would makecertain of It is a great treat to follow a couple holing your second stroke. You might of good professionals and to watch choose the same side of the hole as them banging a full brassie over a hill your opponent, or perhaps the oppo- or roundall sorts of obstacles, andper- site, but you want an easy finishing haps just carrying over some sort of stroke in all cases. Such play is what trap andfinding the green. Confidence I would call placing the ball, and I is a great factor in the game, but confi- believe many matches are won, per- dence is only gained by practice, and haps indirectly, through a player pay- whenpractising always paying atten- ing a good deal of attention to this tion to the strokes and the various re- part of the game. sults. One can very soon spot a player Many players will wonder howthey who has attained a certain amount of are ever going to learn how to place a efficiency in the placing of his shots, ball within 30 yards of their object. andit stands to reason that sooner or The easiest stroke, I think, is the slice later his superior play will tell on his for such purposes; one can stop the less efficient opponent. ball running more easily than when There is often the remark madethat playing the pull, and the slice is cer- an opponenttried to lay a stymie when tainly the most natural. Every begin- the player finds himself in such trou- ner has the slice action in his body, ble, but I think there are very few golf- and why? Simply because he will not ers who are able to place the ball with “go through.” He is timid about hit- such deadly accuracy as to lay their ting hard, or he thinks he will over- opponents a stymie from even three swing, but I suppose there are one feet: hundred under-swings to ten over- The art of placing is really worth swings in the action of the body. studying, as it means that to accom- Knowing that slicing comes more nat- plish a desired stroke the player must urally to almost every player, let a man make up his mind where he intends to cultivate a bigger or more pronounced play or really place his ball so that his slice and see what are the results. next stroke will be played from a safe In practising I would advocate play- place and it will not be required to be ing to a green, say, 170 yards distance, played over or round obstacles of any with a tree in the centre line between great dimensions. your. ball and the green, but the tree, In accompanying a singer or any say, about 50 yards from your stance. stringed instrument, the pianist, it is To play the slice I would change the said, is reading at least one bar ahead feet slightly, moving the right toe more in front of the left one, and let of what he is playing. This looking the left arm havea little more work to ahead should also be applied in golf. do than the right. Aim at the left-hand Learn to play your stroke as if you corner of the putting green and hit a knew the distance and the nature of good strong stroke, andI think the re- the ground you would have to contend sult will be that the ball will go out with in the following stroke. i

at One lan’s XVTis ion Has Done (Toledo ‘‘News-Bee"’)

WO generations or so ago, Toledo had “mark, learn and inwardly digest” the i one public playground, a_ neglected above clipping. { square knownas City Park. The need Mr. Jermain, to whose foresight for parks was not felt. The congested dis trict then was very small. Almost every Toledo owes so much, and whoseciti- home hadits front and back yards wherethe zens honored him recently by renaming children could play. There were no electric a public park after him, is the authorof cars or autos to make the streets a menace. the capital article on “Public Golf” But there was in the city a man with a which appears in this issue. He comes vision. He looked generations ahead and saw a great and crowdedcity. He was not of an old Scotch and French Huguenots a rich man as money goes. Hewas not an family, which came to America at the office-holder. He was not a politician. H¢« time of the French Revolution, His planned a park system for the coming city Scotch ancestry, the Piersons, gave to People who knewhimsaid he was a good Yale its first President. Mr. Jermain business man, but had crazy ideas. Council turned him down. People laughed at him. owns the old Pierson house near Sag Then on -the river side of lower Summit Harbor, LongIsland, built in 1694 and Street he set out a few flowers. Henailed presented to him by his cousin, Mrs, together a few planks into benches. Tired Russell Sage, the great American phil- people came there to rest. He took his anthropist. At Sag Harboris the John fight again to Council. Then to the Legis- lature. Then twice to a vote of the people. Jermain Memorial Library, built at a Then he secured Riverside Park—for the cost of $100,000 and supported by Mrs. people. Sage in memory of her grandfather, a He sought no place. Heserved as Park resident of that place early in the nine- Commissioner, giving of his scant leisure teenth century. out of season without pay. In season and “Tt stands,” says a recent issue of he talked parks. Out of his foresight and his work came Riverside, Walbridge, Ot- the New York “Herald,” “opposite her tawa, Central Grove, Bay View, Navarre, Harbor Home, surrounded by a beauti- Collins, the great boulevard system to con- ful grove. In the library is a museum nect them, the scores of little park triangles. and antique room, where Colonial arti- The two dozen baseball diamonds, the pub- cles and implements of whaling days lic golf courses, the public tennis courts, the zoo, all followed his efforts. are shown. [Entering the library one Those properties are priceless now. The sees the model of a full-rigged whaling city could not think of buying such a park bark such as sailed from Sag Harbor a system now. Theprice of one park would century ago when the port was famous of aban- bankrupt us. Put who would think the world over for its whale fishery one of them? doning them? Or any industry. Portraits of Colonel Jermain Because this one man, whose name is 5. P. Jermain, had the foresight, the vision, and of Russell Sage are conspicuously thousands of city children romped on the hung. There is one room used exclu- green sod last Sunday. Thousands of men sively for the display of old furniture.” and women enjoyed the fresh air and the Mr. Jermain is a trustee and Secre- of the parks. They beauty and the rest tary of this beautiful library. were all better citizens and better workers for it. If we had not had the parks, where Canadians will be interested to know would they have been last Sunday? that Mr. Jermain will possibly spend Does it pay, this thinking ahead? Are we the month of August in one of our well- thinking of this franchise proposition in the known summer and golfing resorts. It 25 light of the needs and _ possibilities of is to be hoped whilst here he will find years, or in thelight of the needs and condi tions of this year. Should wethink of it time to visit someof the principal cities and settle it in consideration of those other and their public parks and private golf most of us 24 years, longer perhaps than courses. have to live? Hewill have to wait for a year or so Park commissioners and municipal to inspect public links in the Kast. But authorities in Canada can to advantage they are coming, neverfear. 705

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A Story of the Great War By ELEANDERE. HELME,in “ GolfIllustrated,’’ London

N the days of Championships and (the doctor had experienced her capa- county matches before August, 1914, cities for three rounds in the day), was every golfer within a hundred miles of vaccinated, twice inoculated, photo- London knewPatricia. The more hope- graphed for a passport and fitted for less the match seemed, the moreper- the uniform (including every variety sistently Patricia smiled and persever- of cap and veil), whilst two friends of ed, and the blacker the outlook, the high degree duly testified to her “loy- harder she tried. Whereupon things, alty and suitability” to the satisfaction as they have a way of doing, would of the War Office authorities. The fam- right themselves, and the opponent ily ceased to laugh. would henceforward resolve to beware Then the tug of war began, for Pa- of smiling golfers except as partners. tricia has a persevering soul off the Everyone remembers when she was course as well as on it, and has never five downat the turn in the Champion- taken “no” for an answer, nor even a ship of her county, and her driver went suggestion of “wait and see.” She had at the 10th, how she—— But that is always been an advocateof setting out a matter of golfing history and has not to win holes, rather than waiting for very muchto do with Patricia to-day. your opponent to lose them to you; 1f Since the outbreak of war she has a bunker could not be carried it must passed her First Aid Examination, be circumvented, and if an opponent duly followed by Home Nursing, In- did not crack from being overdriven, valid Cooking, and Hygiene, notwith- then tactics of uneventful steadiness standing the laughter of her family, must come to the rescue. On Monday who stood severely aloof. Various Patricia was quite certain that her duty long suffering District Messenger Boys lay with Salonika; on Tuesday Salon- weresacrificed on the altar of Patricia’s ika had retired in favour of two hos- patriotism, so that she might be quite pitals at a Chateau “somewhere in sure of the intricacies of the most pic- France.” That evening the family turesque bandage and competent to heard a great deal of the military veil apply a splint to any and every bone which she learnt she would beentitled which a poor mortal can reasonably ex to wear, the value of her French edu- pect to fracture. If at first the messen- cation and Parisian accent, the wis- ger boy knew more than Patricia, it dom of inoculation and photography was hardly surprising, since last spring in good time. When action fails Patri- all London was full of equally patriotic cia, she can always fall back on tall: young womenpossessed of equally un ing; at no time gloomy, she was now sympathetic families. wreathed in smiles. The next day the 3y wayof atonement the sisters and chateaux had vanished from the con- brothers of non-military age volun versation as castles in the air have done teered in a bodyto taste the invalid before now; Patricia ceased to talk of cooking dishes. But then Patricia had her French qualifications, but she con- been a famous bonfire cook in school tinued to smile, for Malta was filling room days, and her cunning had not the picture, with an alternative of deserted her. The family enjoyed it- working with a friend at a convalescent self. home in Devon. If only she could have These preliminaries over, Patricia in heard of contingents going to East or due course became nominated to a West Africa, to the Persian Gulf, or V.A.D. detachment, signed on for ser- the Suez Canal, she would doubtless vice at home or abroad with as much have volunteered with equal zest for pride andpluck as anyrecipient of the these or for any other spot on this dis- King’s shilling; got a health certificate tracted globe. 707 708 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12

The family were in full cry on the billet. There was much smiling and a Malta scent when a telephone message great deal of persevering needed to get from anotherfriend (Patricia’s friends an answer out of all within twenty- must be reckoned bythe battalion) fill- four hours, but Patricia stuck to her ed her with an idea that scrubbing in a guns, and the hospitals, homes, and all leading London hospital would, after kinds of institutions agreed to her re- all, be the best and most patriotic quest. By this time it was mid-day course. Saturday, and the family braceditself By noon the next day, still smiling, for a strenuous week-end. she had applied to half a dozen Lon- 3ut there was no need. One reply- don hospitals and four convalescent paid wire, prodigal of halfpence, four homes, and in addition visited Devon- brief words in reply from the matron shire House, the French Croix Rouge, of the north of England hospital, who and her own V.A.D. commandant. knew Patricia better than to say her none of whom showed any wish to nay ; andshe hadthe felicity of writing make room for her themselves, andall toher V.A.D. commandant, to Devon- politely recommended her to apply to shire House, to the Croix Rouge, to the other. About this period the fam- six London hospitals and four con- ily somewhat lost track of her plans valescent homes, the homes in Devon and did not venture tocriticise any. and two chateaux in France, to say But time was passing, and Patricia that she was definitely under orders was not content merely to go on talk- for a military hospital in the north of ing and smiling or even persevering; England. she wanted to be nursing, On Friday Next Mondaywill see her establish- she heard of yet another friend who ed there, and the passports, and the had lately been appointed head of a photographs, and the Parisian accent military hospital in the north of Eng- will be wasting their sweetness, and land. So once more Patricia approach- she will have’ ceased to talk, and will ed the London hospitals and convales- be doing her bit in real earnest. But cent homes, the French chateaux, her own V.A.D. commandant, Devonshire Patricia, under her military veil, will House, the Croix Rouge, and the home still be smiling and persevering, and in Devon, to know whether they had somebody will be finding life all the any objection to her attempting to go easier and cheerier for having her to the north of England instead of there, even if she is only scrubbing a waiting for one of them to find her a floor.

of J. H. Taylor

sine=Dont's’ of=)? Ho Taylor, are to the line for the “putt,” or as to what famous. Here are a few new ones of club you should take; you are the which he has been guilty: “Don’t” for- player, and not he; it tends to self-re- get to cover up your tracks when com- liance, andit is much moresatisfactory ing out of a bunker; rememberto leave to play the game more “off your own it in the condition that you would like bat.” “Don’t” expect condolence from to find it yourself; besides, it is good your opponent for any piece of bad sportsmanship to do so. “Don’t” bus- luck that you may run up against; he tle the slow players that may happen is trying to beat you, and his sympathy to be in front of you; although not so may smack of hypocrisy. “Don’t” speedy, they have every right to enjoy apologize when you lay a “stymie”; the game at their own leisure, especi- your apology sounds hollow to your ally if they are keeping their place. opponent, andis ill-timed and really “Don’t” continually ask the caddy as not meant; besides, it is all in the game. Public Golf

Why Every City Should Establish and Foster It

By SYLVANUS PIERSON JERMAIN, President of the Central Golf Association of the United States

OW any city can acquire a public sisting of the widely extending sand golf course is best understood dune formations along the ocean and and dealt with by those in touch with estuary ide, which had, during the local conditions and the methods for ages, been literally cast up by the sea, obtaining action from the governmental and thus they were the common prop authorities. Where erty of all. Here there is a_ will on the shepherd there is always a the artisan the good and suitable clerk and the Lord way Briefly, in of the Manor met our American vet together to play nacular, we would the game of golf say, “Go to it, and in the common get it.” fellowship of man It is why every Phe annal Ol golt city should have a are indeed rich in public golf cours uch lore \nd so that I will endea\ to this day, at St or to makeclear, \ndrews and els« and trust that this wher the golf may awaken the cours¢ have re spirit of action mained public in the spirit of deter titutions of di mined enthusiasm tinctly remarkabl that Does Things value Phi aluc In the move has been a com ment by which we bination of thei were able to es recreative import tablish a_ publi ance going hand golf course at Ot in hand with thei tawa Park, in To preservation OT ledo, Ohio, in 1899 that spirit wher« and a second one in a common and at Bay View Park ancient privilege 1 in 1915, it was ne notably fostered cessary to make The tremendou clear to the publi tride in popular mind that the es it vhich the tablishing of play Pali ha taken grounds of that during the past character was one thirty year ind i i of the best expres it Lect it sions of an en recreativ« factor lightened concep Mr. S. P. Jermain, Father” of Public Golf in the live of tion of democracy in Toledo busin¢ and pro It is time-honored by the fact that golf fe onal men. has led to the establish was first played in Scotland more than ing of country clubs all over the world four hundred years ago upon the Com ind in ever-increasing number » that munity Lands, those free lands, the they are numbered now by thousand only public parks 1 those day con instead of by hundred a vas the case 709 710 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12

a comparatively few years ago. Greatly those open spaces wherein an excellent improvedcourses andof clubs andballs golf course of eighteen, or at least nine, wherewith to play a much superior holes can be laid out without in any game than was possible with the rude wayinterfering with the other recrea- implements and balls of the earlier tions of these great public pleasure days, is also responsible for this “boom” grounds—the lungs of the modern in- in golf, but it is also and naturally re- dustrial centres. The game itself af- sponsible for the growth of the game fords the best form of normal exercise, in many quarters to have been looked and is more and more proving its need upon as astrictly special privilege. to all classes of men who labor in close Large tracts of land needed to be confinement in cities. It has opened a bought, and club-houses built, hence newfield of health, hope and happiness companies or clubs were formedto fin- to very many, andif it so happens that ance the enterprise, both as it pertains the park lands of any city have beenso to golf and social functions, until to- long established and planted that the day this institution as a whole repre- needed open spaces are not available, sents an investment of vastly more then the public need of the opportunity capital than any other sport. As these for golf amply justifies the purchase of clubs were of necessity for the exclu- sufficient and suitable new landfor the sive use of their members, the only express purpose. When once estab- opportunity which the general public lished a very small charge per game could have to play the game was in the will provide for the upkeep. It is in- public parks. Hence the demand for deed a splendid municipal investment this opportunity naturally arose, and from whatever standpoint it 1s viewed. justly so, and one by one our American It makes for a healthier, happier, more cities have been wisely giving heed to forceful and more contented citizen- it. It is one of those demands whichis ship. It promotes greatly the spirit of basic and reaches deep into fundamen- civic pride and independence. It fos- tal things as concerns equality of oppor- ters and builds constantly a morevirile tunity, and is a part of the park idea, and dependable individualism, which for it has been truly said that “the will always be the highest conception opening of the Crownlands and certain of human development. The golfer as vast estates of England and the Con- he tramps the links is king of his own tinent as public parks was.one of the kingdom and, above all, he learns that first and most positive evidences of the great lesson that “He who ruleth him- rise of the people to power.” self is greater than he who taketh a These great public estates—one of city.” the best expressions of the word “com- In the glories of Nature all about monwealth’—in every foot of which him, inspiring him to better work in the poorest man in the community has his chosen labor of life, and realizing as much a sense of ownershipandright the handiwork of his Maker every- of full enjoyment as the richest man where expressed, he feels a sense of therein, allay muchof social discontent that emancipation from anysort of the which would otherwise naturally exist personal tyranny of man, the rule by and increase until it became a danger fear of any human mind. He learns to alike to the happiness and the peace of “slow down,” to relax, to become nor- any city or any nation. It therefore mal and get a new grip and control of seriously behooves every one in influ- his physical and mental forces, and to ence or in power to realize a thing so take as his motto: “Don’t fear—don’t fundamental and at the heart of social press’—in verytruth, to be at his best conditions. in body and soul. He learns to be more Where any city has had the wisdom hopeful, kind, considerate and courage- to acquire considerable tracts of land ous and voluntarily loyal to the best for public parks, conveniently located appeals of his city and his country’s upon its borders andeasily reached by need; likewise a better husband, a bet- street cars, there nearly always exists ter father and a better man. April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 711

In the luxurious comfort of our favy- we have bought and paid for, makes it orite country clubs we are apt to be all the more mandatory upon us that lulled to a sense of smug personal con- wesee to it that its privileges are soon tent and a narrowsatisfaction with our made possible for all citizens, who life, nor care to look beyond. But deeply need its benefits, their rightful neither can we as menorcitizens, nor inheritance from its time-honored can the city wherein we live and where origin, we have one atomofinfluence, afford Assuredly the hand of every citizen, to neglect our public duty in this re- and especially those in power and lead- spect. The veryfact that the gameof ership, should be lifted in favor of pub- golf, which in our good worldly fortune lic agbolf,

Golf and Pune

By R. STANLEY WEIR, K.C., Montreal, in ‘‘Golf Ilustrated,”’ New York

OLFERS worthy of the name: devotees will seriously complain at be- players, that is, who will not ac- ing stirred a little by the touch of a cept flattery at the expense of truth, gentle satire, if so be he can see himself never object to seeing themselves as as others see him, for a good golfer is others see them. On the contrary, one in the gamefor all there is in it; for his of their complaints is that they cannot soul as for his body. so see themselves. They are like the That keen observer of men and man- recruit when ordered byhis disgusted ners who resides at 10, Bouverie Street, drill-sergeant (an Irishman, of course) London, E.C., Mr. Punch, ‘paid his to “step out here and have a look at compliments, some two or three years yourself.” If they could achieve the ago, to a certain class of writers who impossible and see themselves other- were very prone in their beautiful, wise than with the so misleading fresh zeal to setting down the obvious ; mind’s eye, they would, doubtless, be and gave a specimen of their style for horribly shocked. “What! I play in the benefit and admonition of all whom that ridiculous style. Impossible!” it should concern. I shall quote from But the veracious answer would he, this parody in a moment, when it will “Tis true, ‘tis pity; and pity ’tis ’tis be seen that Mr, Punch also indulges in true.” It is a very good thing, then, to a little ironical chaff at those good fel- have oneself photographed in golfic ac- lows who are so fond of telling about tion frequently and carefully to ponder the most wonderful shot ever played! the result. As the late Mr, Robert We are all familiar with stories of Burns observed in his pleasing ver- those wonderful shots which have nacular: made undying reputations for the per- “Tt wad from monyan errorfree us petrators of them, Some of us have Andfoolish notion!” seen them: most of us have not, Won- “Foolish notion” is by no means an derful shots, indeed, we haveall seen— inapt expression! both fearful and wonderful; but the But there are other foibles and fail- least said about them the better. Mr. ings of certain golfers which may be Punch, clearly, would have us on our legitimately considered for the self- guard against mere legendarylore ; and revelation that no good, honest golfer he would also have us on our guard objects to. These are to be discovered against running too readily into print in those devotees of the democratic with everylittle theory. Onthis latter and modern, as well as royal and an- question he does not, perhaps, make cient, game who are described by Mr. sufficient allowance for the enthusiasm Horace Hutchinson as forever scrib- of neophytes who think they have bling about it. Nobody among those lighted upon newdiscoveries and are 712 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12

as keen as apostles to make the good noticed with what consummate ease he news known; perhaps, knowing all introduces his subject, abandonsit, and about new-born zeal, he wished theor- returns to it. ists to verify their theories before print- ing them; but, perhaps (for the last The Art of Long Driving. time), he forgot that professionals al- “There is no doubt that the player Ways acquiesce in any new wrinkle who can drive a long ball from the tee submitted by their pupils—if solvent. gets further thanhis less fortunate con- Shouldn’t the left arm give most of the frere who is a short driver. Much has power? Yes. Shouldn’t the right hand been, and will be, written on the art of come in with a little flick at the im- long driving. Howis this desideratum pact? Yes. Shouldn’t we swing with of all followers of the royal and ancient

From Punch ANOTHER LENTEN SACRIFICE Golf Caddy (to Curate): “High tee, Sir?” Curate: “No; put it on the ground. I give up sand during Lent.” both hands in unison? Yes. The best game to be attained? That is what I explanation of Mr. Punch’s little am about to tell you. thrust, however, may be that the old “Some men when going out for a gentleman was simply having his fun. long one from the tee play their ball Why should not even Punch amuse with a little pull on it: others merely himself and his friends now andagain! drive a straight ball downthe middle of Here, then, are a few of his practical the course. Anyway, as I have said, hints, written “sarkastical,’ as poor the player who hits a long ball gets Artemus Ward would have said, and further than the one who hits a short mixed with alittle light raillery (ob- ball, and, consequently, he needs a serve our alliteration) on the marvel- shorter shot to reach the green with lous strokes recorded in the biographi- his second. cal studies about great golfers. “Speaking of reaching the green re- Mr. Punchentitles his article “The minds me of two of the most remark- Art of L ong Driving,” and it will be able shots I ever witnessed. I was April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 713

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playing for the championshipof Texas. with a worried look on his face. Then, U.S. A., in 19—. Mypartner was Mr. returning, he took his, niblick and hit ‘Slick’ Samson, the celebrated profes- with tremendous force. The ball dis- sional amateur. At the fourteenth he appeared down the rabbit hole. Tima- pulled his drive into the rough. When gine, if you can, our undisguised we came up to the ball it was neatly amazement whenit bolted out of Br’er cuppedin alark’s nest which contained Rabbit's back-door, about five yards four eggs. Now I am betraying no from the green, and came to rest within secret when I say that on the three two feet from the pin! (If I recorded previous greens Samson had been put the exact distance—six inches—many off by the incessant singing of a sky- golfers might be tempted to doubt my lark, and had missed holing, three veracity.) Needless to say, I lost the twenty-five foot putts in succession: a hole and the match. most unusual thing for him. I. there- “But Iam digressing. I merely men- fore expected to see him take his re- tion these two shots because I am try- venge bylifting nest, eggs andball all ing to get a good length with myar- on to the green together with his nib- ticle, which reminds me that the art of lick. But I was disappointed. Instead, long driving is the subject under dis- he took his mashie and playedthe ball cussion. Well, I hope that after a care- with such nicety that it landed dead ful perusal of these fewpractical hints within twofeet of the pin and the eggs you will find that you are considerably remained in the nest unbroken: not getting a longer ball from the tees than even cracked. you got formerly. If you succeed in “Strange to say, the other remark- doing this you will experience a feeling able shot was made bythe same player of true satisfaction.” on the same course. The game was all So reads one of Mr. Punch’s master- square at the seventeenth. We both pieces. But we must confess that it had good drives at the eighteenth, but contains statements which militate Samson had the misfortune to find a against its vraisemblance, so to speak. rabbit hole, his ball lying about eight Are there skylarks and rabbit-scrapes and a half inches inside the entrance. inj hexase Un Si-Asr. Dionot, Mreabuneh Here was a quandary. It was the only is lamentably off in his local color and rabbit hole on the course, and had been guilty of deliberate invention. But Mr. constructed subsequent to-the drafting -Punch would probably contend that of the local rules, so that no provision whenwriting his reminiscences he was was made for this contingency. If he more concerned with principles than picked up it meant losing the match. with facts; or, perhaps (useful word He walked forward toward the green, “pnerhaps’’), he was onlyhavinghis fun. The Real Spring

id quoting in full from the editorial’ ‘assume considerable proportions. We are in the March issue of ‘the “Cana- more than pleased to see that such an au- dian Golfer’ on “Municipal Golf thority on the game as the “Canadian Golfer” is now “boosting” the idea of muni- Courses,” the Montreal Standardsays: cipal links, and we will be glad indeed to As all faithful readers of this weekly welcome other helpers to the fold. To us effusion know, just as soon as the first yit is ridiculous that a city such as Montreal, blades of grass are seen around Dominion ‘with facilities galore for the establishment Square, and the: first peek-a-boo waists ap- of nine-hole courses. for the public at a pear in the store windows om St. Catherine moderate fee, has not, yet succeeded in es: Street, it has been our custom to ask whyit tablishing . them. Especially when such is that Montreal has no municipal golf courses can be established at,a very moder- course, no municipal tennis courts, and no ate outlay and will pay for themselves municipal bowling greens, etc. It would within a yery few months. A municipal appear to us at this time that some would- golf course will add nothing to the civic be controller or alderman missed a great debt, it will add much to the pleasure of thousands of Montrealers, and it will do chance not only to secure many votes, but also to be the leader in a movement which much to promote the love of a health-giving some day in the near future is going to and fascinating game. Ladies’ Golf Department Edited by Florence L.. Harvey The ‘Canadian Golfer’’is the Official Organ of the Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union Address all communications to Miss Harvey, 40 Robinson St., Hamilton, Ontario PRIL is the betwixt-and-between notation is necessary. ‘This is best time for the golf scribe. Most shown by a definite example: clubs have had their annual meetings, Suppose a club had in 1914 par of 78. and play has not yet commenced. | Two holes are lengthened during 1915, had hoped to have a full list of 1915 and the par, after due consideration by medalists, but pressure of war work the Pars Committee, raised officially to has interfered with the checking over 80. Player’s sheet shows she made a of all the score sheets and entries in 89 in 1914, a 92 and a 93 in 1915. These the official books. It is quite a piece of are her three best scores to date. .In work checking over the sheets, even making out this column at end of 1915 though our district managers have put 89, and over it write in red ink, done wonderful work in thelast year, “Par 78” and “+2.” So when you want the fruits of their painstaking efforts to add up to get her average to check to thoroughly learn the L.G.U. system the handicap you have: being shownin the well-kept sheets as $94-2==91, making score equivalent to compared withthoseat the end of 1914. VAsiae ay 92 one made on a Par 8&0 We are all human, however, and not 93. 93 course. infallible, so possibly this slack month Les will be well utilized if some of the 3)4/0 more frequent mistakes of club com- mittees, and even the district manag Qo? ers, are pointed out. 80 Par Score Sheets. Hdep.—=12 At the right side of the large sheet we use the last column, divided in But as par is deducted from average three, for entering the three best gross of three best scores where balance scores to date of ‘each player. One brings player into the silver medal common mistake is to enter there only class, we will also take two other pos the three best scores made for large sible examples supposed to occur at the sheet that season, whereas scores ap same club as the above. B makes a 96 pearing on the Extra Day Sheet must in 1914 and 100 and 105 in 1915, also be taken into consideration in 06-+-2—98=—to score made on Par 80 100 course looking for these three best scores to date. Also accepted scores made pre 105 vious to that season must be looked at. The three best of these will be found 303 immediately after player’s nameat left L. G. U. Rule No. 19 applies here side of large sheet. The reason one B’s handicap is 21x. C makes 99 in ‘must be so:particular is that in making 1914 and 105 and 103 in 1915. She was out the new large sheet for 1916, for in: Bronze Class in 1914—-1.e., had 99 example, one turns to right-hand col 78—21, and her: tandidap is’ still ‘the umnof large sheet for 1915, takes down same, as is shown by ‘the red 1914-++2 the names in order of handicap at end ibove the “99"hbeing equivalent to of 1915—hbeginning with lowest han 99-+2==101—80==21 handicap on a Par dicap, of course—and then takes down SO course the three scores shown there for each \nother mistake sometimes made is player—i.e., lagr.three best scores to ot keeping scores made while in date, whether madesin 1915 or previous Bronze division entitely separate from to that. provided n@ material difference those, made.after player has moved into in the course: has been, made to alter Silver Medal Class example The the-par.. -In this: latter case a, little large sheet-showing play for C..L. Gr. U 715 716 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12 annual medals has the following for a for the Bronze, and if her 88% had player we will call Miss X, whose han- been .good enough she would have re- dicap at beginning of 1915 was 30 and ceived it though she ended the year in scores 110, 113, 119. Her 1915 scores the Silver Class. Up II. In 1914 a player in an Ontario club, read: 136—30=106; 114—30—=84; who about the middle of the season I1l. went into the Silver Class, ended the 116—30=86; a “105” on Extra Day year with the best average for the Sheet reduces her handicap to 25. Then Bronze as well as for the Silver. By IAS the L. G. U. rule, “A win of a Silver comes 123—25=—98; Extra Day Sheet Medal cancels a win of a Bronze,” she produces a “98,” reducing her to 21x, was awarded the Silver only, the V. Bronze going to the player in Bronze and we have 106—21x==85. Another Class having next best average for the “O08” from Extra Day Sheet puts her Bronze. Please read these items care- into Silver Class,*°as her three best fully to avoid future mistakes. scores are: A very commononeis the failure to 105 apply Rule 19. There is nothing com- 98 plicated about this rule. Read it care- 98 fully, and work out some examples by taking imaginary scores. 3)301 Of course we are all very much oc- cupied with war work, and our be- 100 1-3 loved game has receded farther and 80 farther in the background of our thoughts ; and I personally, as the Hon. Sec. ‘of the C. L.G. U., must plead 20 1-320 handicap—Silver Class. VI. VII. guilty to putting off mysecretary’s du- Next score 104--20—84; 107—20—87. ties for more vital things. The heavy amount of work that has fallen on my Then a “94” from Extra Day Sheet re- shoulders for Serbian Relief is largely duces handicap to 17, and we have responsible for the delay in issuing the VIII. IX, X. report, checking score sheets, etc. I 111—17—94 ; 94—17==77; 110—17—93. must simply beg the kindly forbear- Therefore we find scores Nos. 1, 2, ance of the C. L. G. U. clubs, and add 3, 4, 5 all made while in Bronze Class, on my ownbehalf that, a number of and therefore eligible only for Bronze officers of the C. L. G. U. having re- Medal. Scores 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 all made signed, either because of going to Eng- when in Silver Class and eligible only land or “because of excess of patriotic for Silver Medal. Miss X’s four best work,’ a good deal more work has net scores for Bronze Medal therefore come my way. Incidentally, I, too, are 84+86+98-+-85, giving average for have my “bit” to do for my country, so. Bronze Medal of 88%. the C. L. G. U. work has to wait fre- For the Silver Class her best net quertly. However, the main thing is scores are: 84-++87+77+93—averageof to holdvthe Ge L.. Go Us together as 85% for the Silver Medal. best we cantill this awful war is over This is an actual case, and the mis- and we can devote some time to our take made by the club committee was games again. Then, when annual meet- in taking the four lowest net scores, ings become possible, with the regular irrespective of whether made whenin election of officers and business meth- Bronze Class or in Silver. ods, we shall realize it was worth while To clear up another point sometimes holding on, even though everything misunderstood. Miss X, you observe, was not so systematic during war time has 88% average for Bronze Medal. as we should all like to see it when Had her 85% been beaten for the Silver peace comes again and there are not Medal she would have been eligible so many more important calls on us. April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 717 s aa

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Serbian Relief. word to the Allies cost them suchter- In reference to the kind editorial on rible suffering ? my article on the “Call of Serbia” in Since writing the above I amin re- the March number of the ‘Canadian ceipt of a most encouraging letter from Golfer,’ the amount of $16,000 was Mr. L. Goldman, of Toronto, General mentionedas raised by golfers for Ser- Manager of the North American Life, bia. This no doubt referred to the enclosing a cheque for $25, as the arti- £3350 raised for a Serbian Hospital cle on Serbia had made him wish to Fund as a memorial to Miss Madge help. He also said some very kind Neill-Fraser, But golfers have been things about the work the British and working for Serbia in other ways also Canadian womenare doing at the pres- —many serving on the vafious com- ent time. Words of appreciation such mittees. Though I am not in a posi- as these make us womenwish we could tion to give other amounts collected for do twice as much as we are doing now. this unfortunate nation, | know from Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union—Secre- Miss Helen Losanitch that the Ameri- tary’s Report. can Serbian Relief of New York cabled $40,000 to Dr. Ryan in Rome during No. golf report could be rendered February. Canadian figures are not without some reference to the world’s available, but our own, Serbian Relief catastrophe that has made the game Committee in Hamilton raised $12,600 we love a matter of time snatched from in two months, and weare aiming at busy days as.a means of preserving our $25,000 at’ least, and more if. we can strength to work harder, or as a way eet, it. to raise money with which to meet the A Serbian Relief Fund was started in many urgent calls that have come to Sarnia -after Mrs. Pankhurst’s visit us in the last twenty months. there in )March, and one has been All championship events having been founded in Berlin, Ontario, largely cancelled during the war, there is, of throughthe efforts of the women golf- course, no opportunity of holding gen- ers there. Montreal, Quebec and Tor- erali meetings. Officers of the @, onto are all ‘doing fine work, but G. U. are more widely scattered than though we have begun well we must ever before, and it is a source of pride not cease ourefforts. The need is ter- to us all that no body of people have rible, the sufferings appalling, and risen more nobly than the golfers to every cent we Can spare is required. the hard test of these terrible days. There are about a million refugees, and Every club has its Roll of Honor, on it costs at least ten dollars, we are as- which one frequently finds names of sured, to carry each person from Al- those who have played the game of life bania to a place of safety. That means gloriously to the end. Among these ten million dollars fer transportation stands that of one of the finest golfers and food on the journey only. What and truest sportswomen Scotland ever about food and clothing after they are produced—Miss Madge Neill-Fraser, safer Also never forget that these who gave her life for the stricken Ser- refugees are probablyall that is left of bian people. The whole world’s ad- the nation, for.murder, brutality, star- miration goes’ out to the wonderiul vation and disease have worked deadly work of the British women during the havoc among the unfortunates left be- war, and golfers are found everywhere hind in that devastated country. driving ambulances, delivery wagons, The Brantford Ladies’ Golf Club is running canteens, doing clerical work, going to contribute the proceeds of the making munitions, nursing, and even tea to open the club for the season. cooking and washing dishes in hospi- The ladies of the Grand River Club of tals. The need for these things has not Berlin are going to hold a bridge party yet reached us in Canada, but will e’er once a week to aid the Serbians. Who long, and we must be ready whenit else will aid us to pay our debt to these comes, that we Canadian womengolf- brave people whose loyalty to their ers may prove worthy of the splendid April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 719 o ic}

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Mrs, Our last report, April, 1915, showed Murray and Mrs. Sweney (Miss Violet $993.87 forwarded to the British Wo- Pooley) retain their offices by request, men Golfers’ War Fund (Tin Tack though both will live in England till Toys), Our total contribution now the end of the war. Mrs, Stuart has amounts to $1,300.80, which includes given up the District Managership of $238 raised among Boston women golf- Nova Scotia, as she may have to leave ers by Miss. I, C, Osgood, and $5 from for Ingland at any time. Her place Mrs, Ronald Barlow, of Philadelphia, has been taken by Miss Dora Faulknor, Any one who can help to get orders for of Halifax. Miss Bartlett, of Char- these beautiful toys and at the same lottetown, resigned as Manager for time help these plucky British girls, New Brunswick and Prince [édward is requested to communicate with the Island, as she is leaving for the old Honasec, ©, l.Geu), Country after her marriage. Part of Our contribution from Canada to the the Western Ontario District has been Madge Neill-fraser Serbian Hospital taken over by Miss Dawson, of Water- Memorial) Fund amounts to $970,34, loo, from Mrs, Hope Gibson (Miss The total sum raised by golfers is now Frances Scott), There have been £3,350, A hospital at Mladnovatz was changes also in the Head Office, Mrs, called after her and equipped and sup- Mitchel], on her departure from tam- ported from this fund, Since the inva- ilton, handed over the Treasurership sion of Serbia it has, of course, been to Miss Margaret Scott. Miss Violet evacuated, but another hospital will be Mills was added to thestaff as Assist- named after her, ant Secretary. The C, L, G. U. Executive voted $25 To facilitate matters handled by the to each of the above funds, further Head Office it was decided that Miss donations will be weleomed, Helen Bankier, Bay St. and Aberdeen Five new clubs joined the C, L, G, U, Ave, should handle all printed matter, during 1915: WKanawaki (Montreal), score sheets, etc. Miss Violet Mills, Belleville, Brantford, Picton and Three 191 James St. South, will attend to all Rivers, Rivermead (Ottawa) joined C, L, G. U. annual medals and those January, 1916, for the Queen’s Work for Women At a meeting of the [xecutive it was Fund, Miss F. L. Harvey’s duties decided that no medals or score sheets comprise the other regular Secretary’s shall be sent out till fees and all arrears work, Miss M, Scott, as Hon, Treas- are paid, urer, will receive all entrance and an Annual fees fall due on January the nual fees, Wer address is 25 Robinson first. 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Managers and club committees have From Jan. 1, 1916, to March 31, 19106. done splendid work, and the great im- Receipts— provement in the handling of the score Balance brought forward..... $285 96 sheets shows careful study of the L. Rees pald tOsdaten et ce iets 100 00 G. U. system. Club committees are Horeveat BOOKS itis nntawerroanc 3 61 urged to encourage membersto try to understand the L. G. U. rules, as a $389 57 more general knowledge will be of as- Expenses sistance to all. Until the war is over Grant to Madge Neill-Fraser we must simply hold the C. L. G. U. Wieniori alee kt tiniceme seca ntact: $ 25 00 together, without trying to carry out Grant) to. 8; WeeGe Hunde.) 25700 the various plans for the improvement Exchanges onmchequesi. i...) 10 of women’s golf in this country. When BalaticGom ire laren secree ste seers 339 47 peace comes again, and we have time for play once more, the full benefit of $389 57 the L.. G. U. system will be shown by the rapid improvement of the standard Beaconsfield Ladies’ Golf Club. throughout the length and breadth of The annual meeting of the club was the Dominion. held Tuesday, January 7th, Mrs. J. All of which is respectfully sub- Dinham Molson, President, presiding. mitted. A large attendance of members showed the interest taken in the club. The FEORENGE LeHARVEY, House and Match Committees present- ed most satisfactory. reports. During Hon. Secretary Canadian Ladies’ Golf the year 28 matches were played, with Union. an average of ten members competing, From April 1st, 1915, to March 31st, which was considered most satisfac- 1916, 42 circulars, 202 letters, 18 regis- tory under present conditions. The tered letters and 39 parcels were sent only matches with outside clubs were out from the Head Office. home-and-home ones with Kanawaki, both of which were won bythe L. B. Treasurer’s Report. B. Golf Club. Competitions for Queen Mary’s medals were held, and the com- Prom April e195 sto Decw si. 19 15: Receipts— petitions for the L. G. U. medals were held monthly and closely contested. In Balance sinubankery on att tart $255 79 September a musical tea was held in IDB reat, avril aad see aeen ee 140 00 aid of the Red Cross Fund, and the Bamkow interests. 0) seer ies 750 sum of nearly $200.00 raised. A branch POTN CAT BOOKS. » 5 Sse es 25 of the Red Cross was formed and worked in the club-house from May $405 50 until October, Mrs. A. H. B. Mac- Expenses— kenzie being the president. At the ROSPAGCe acs OA ai vlcy. attain poz» annual meeting the membership of the Pachange on cheques... ..-- 10 club was increased to 300. ‘The fol- Printing and office supplies... 24 75 lowingare the officers for 1916: Maley Selccneeveee sgt lcs te 69 10 President, Mrs. J. Dinham Molson; District Manager’s expenses. . 4 00 Vice-President, Mrs. E. C. Pratt; Hon. Insurance on L. G. U. Hdep. Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. de enalienoeuGipaeis. rs .)ee, 5 00 Rune Finniss; Captain, Mrs. H. L. Fee to-L. G. U. for 1916 and Peiler. House Committee—Mrs, Kerry, Kormeviear Books: 247, ssn. 7 34 Mrs. H. Allen, Mrs. J. R. Gordon, Miss Alani eeie. Aiea: faast-16 1) phe alk 285 96 \rmstrong. Match Committee—Mrs. Peiler, Mrs. F. Heath, Mrs. Hathaway, $405 50 Miss M. McBride. Royal \ ontreal Golf Club Has Most Successtul Year

AS befitting the oldest golf club on urday, \pril 15th, also the links. the continent of America, the an Mr. Baker, who was re-elected Presi nual meeting of the Royal Montreal dent, is one of the best-known men in Golf Club was marked by the presen- Canada. He is Secretary of the C.P.R. tation of most encouraging reports. and Assistant to the President Notwithstanding a verv large number The new Secretary of the club ts of members at the 2 Mr. Waterhouse, front, the club had well known as the a most successiul former oecretary financial season in ‘Treasurer of the 1915, the: revenue Sherbrooke Gas, showing a_ sub Water and. [lec stantial excess tric Light Co over expenditures Che 7. Roy Vel During the year Montreal” was 01 considerable sums ganized in 1873. of money were ex While the names pended on a new oO} three gentle water system, im men are most provements to the closely identified club road and oth with the organiz er desirable chan ing of the Royal ges making for Montreal, namely, the comfort of the Mr. J. G. Sidey, members and en- Mr. D. D. Sidey joyment of the and M1 \lex game. The elec- Dennistoun, it 1S tion of officers and M1 Dennistoun directors resulted who is recognized as follows: a the father ot Patron, Field the game in Can Marshal H. R. Hl ada and the prime the Duke of Con- mover in the ef maueh t, K. G fort to organize President, Mr. \\ the club. Ile was Reebaker, C.V.O.; elected the first Vice - President President and re Mrrc. ck, Neill: tained the honor Captain, Mr. Jas in unbroken sue cession from 1873 Hill. Directors Mr. W. R. Baker, C.V.O., re-elected President . Den Week. Baker, C. Royal Montreal to 1890. Mr Vero. rayette nistoun afte: Brown- C. E. Neill, F. C. Fairbanks, wards returned to his native land and Jas. Hill, A. B. JEvans. Chairman. spent his last days in the beautiful cit House Committee, \W. R. Baker, | of Edinburgh, Scotland V. ©.; Chairman Green Committee, For forty-three years now the Royal W. H. C. Mussen; Chairman Match Montreal Golf Club has worthily up and Handicap Committee, Jas. Hill; held the best traditions of the game in Secretary, E. F. Waterhouse Canada, and has contributed to th The club-house was opened on Sat sport some of its best players N w ~

Gountry Glub of Montreal

HE Annual Meeting of the Coun- managed and most successful golf or- try Club of Montreal was largely ganizations in the Montreal district— attended. and Montreal has several clubs un- The club is making extensive im- equalled in the Dominion, provements to the links this season. The following very capable Board of Last autumn a new water system was Directors will look after the welfare of installed, giving water for every the Country Club the coming year: green. A special assessment was auth- Hon. President, Geo. B. Fraser; Pre- orized at the annual meeting to cover sident, F. Wilson Fairman; Vice-Presi- this extra cost. dent, John Pullen; Hon. Treasurer, R. Though quite a large number of S. Logan; Directors, M. F. Medbury, members have gone to the front, the D. Beatty, A. D. Huff, Geo. A. Wendt, club is looking forward to a most suc- H. R. Swenerton, R. M. Ballantyne, J. cessful season. Already quite a large E. Buchanan, A. E. Harvey, K.C., E. number of applications for member- H. Hodgson; Secretary, H. Lehmann. ship have been handedin. House Committee—John Pullen The club-house andlinks will be open (chairman), H. R. Swenerton, R. M. for members on MayIst. The club can Ballantyne, A. D. Huff, Ed. Bogue. accommodate twenty guests, and the Green Committee —D.Beatty (chair- Secretary reports that already nearly all the rooms have been bookedfor the man), R. S. Logan, W, R. Percival, J. coming season. E. Buchanan, A. E. Harvey. The financial report for 1915 was a Match and Handicap Committee— highly satisfactory one, and altogether Fred B. McRobie (captain), Geo. A. the Country Club is one of the best Wendt, James L. Carson.

Peterborough Golf and Gountry Glub

The annual meeting of the Peterbor- Captain and Mr. T. F. Matthews and ough Golf and Country Club was held Mr. F. M. De la Fosse. April 10th. The following are the The clubis in a very flourishing con- various officers for this season: Presi- dition, having a membership of nearly dent, Basil D. Hall; Directors, B. D. 275. The situation of the course is Hall, E. G. Patterson, P. Campbell, A. just outside the city limits, easily H. Stratton, Hazen Ritchie and T. D. reached in twenty minutes by street car Mulholland; Secretary-Treasurer, D. or taxi service. It is on the bank of the D. Brown; Captain, R. M. Hamilton. Trent Canal, on which the club have

Green Committee—T. D. Muthol- boating privileges. There will be a land (Chairman), A. Mowat and W. C. large and convenient boat-house built Ackerman. this season. Everything points to a Tennis and Boating Committee —E. most successful season in spite of the G. Patterson (Chairman), Mr. Langley war. The club has now contributed and Mrs. Widdifield. House Committee —A. H. Stratton thirty-two men to the overseas forces, (Chairman), Mrs. Roy and Mrs. Good- as well as giving a grant to the Red will. Cross Fund, the Patriotic Fund and Men’s Handicap Committee—The the Overseas Tobacco Fund. 724 Brantford Golf and Gountry Glub

HE 36th annual meeting of the ule of matches with most of our old Brantford Golf and Country Club friends, arranged an ambitious list of (one of the oldest clubs in Canada) homeevents and field days, all of which took place last month, and was oneof were carried out with pleasure and the most largely attended and enthusi- profit to ourselves and, in the case of astic in the long history of the club. home competitions, to the advantage The President, Mr. C. A. Waterous, of Red Cross and other charitable occupied the chair, and presented a funds,” very interesting report of the year’s On motion it was decided to alter operations. Hepaid a suitable tribute the by-laws of the club so as to call for to the work of the Ladies’ Committee, the retirement of three directors every and referred to the fact year, that some twenty mem- Messrs Jas. G Dar bers of the club had ling (Atlanta, Ga.), J. gone overseas. During Y. Morton and G, Hi. the year tennis courts Wilkes (Brantford), had been installed, and were elected life mem these had proved a bers of the club in hon popular feature. or of their having play The report of Mr. H. ed golf in Brantford T. Watt, the Treasurer, nearly 50 years ago, Was most comprehen- Officers for 1916 are sive and complete, Llon. President, H. W. whilst Mr. D. S. Large, Fitton; Hon. Vice-Pre Chairman of the sident, Colonel A 3 Grounds Committee, Wilkes; President, C. dealt at length with the A. Waterous (re-elect work done during the ed); Vice-President, past season and the Logan Waterous (re _ contemplated improve elected) ; Captain, W ments to the course, H. Webling (re-elect Last year’s profession ed) ; Hon. Secretary, | al, A. G. Hearn, who Champion (re-elected) had given such satis- Directors—A. S. Tow faction, has again been ers (Chairman Finance re-engaged for 1916. Committee), W i Mr. A. S. Towers, Webling (Chairman Chairman of the House Mr, C. A. Waterous, President Match Committee), I. Committee, also reported satisfactory Champion, F. G. Ellis, C. Harris, D. § arrangements and improvements. Large (Chairman Grounds Commit The Captain, Mr. W. H. Webling, in tee), R. Scarfe, W. B. Preston (Chair the course of an interesting report, man House Committee), and G, D. stated: “We entered the season of 1915 Heyd, with the idea of proceeding along the Mr. C. A. Waterous, who again occu lines of ‘golf as usual,’ inspired with pies the presidential chair, is Assistant the optimistic hope that the lamentable General Manager of the Waterous En struggle in Europe would be success- gine Works, an ex-President of the fully ended long before the close of the Soard of Trade, and has always taken season. With this in view the Match a very keen interest in golf, motoring Committee completed the usual sched- and other outdoor recreations 725

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Oxford Golf and Gountry Glub

At a meetingof the shareholders and at a meeting held sometimeago, elect ordinary members of the Oxford Golf ed the following officers: Hon. Presi and Country Club, held on Monday, dent, Mrs. H. A. Little; President, Mrs April 3rd, the following officers were \, W. Moore; First Vice-President, elected: President, H. A. Little; Vice- Mrs. A, M. Stevens; Second Vice-Pres President, A, W. Moore; Directors, F. ident, Mrs. W. K. White; Treasurer, Crossley, M. Douglas and K. Harvey; Mrs. Dredge; Secretary, Mrs. W. M Secretary, H. J. Hodgson; Captain, R. Dunlop; Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, M. Miller, Mrs. Meyers; Hon, Captain, Miss FE. ¢ The ladies’ organization of the club, Nesbitt; Captain, Mrs, Parke. St. Catharines Golf Club At the annual meeting of the St. Miss Schram was appointed, Secre Catharines Golf Club the following tary for the club. Dr. F. Killmer was Board of Directors wereelected: Presi re-elected Captain. dent, W. D. Woodruff; Vice-Presi Green Committee—The Captain, dent, F. N. Hara. Directors—J. D President, Vice-President and Jj. ( Chaplin, J. C. Notman, Dr, Killmer, Dr. Notman, Geo, F Peterson, Dr. W W. Buchanan, Dr. J, M: Jory, Geo.,'F. Buchanan Peterson, A. L. Taylor, J, L, Weller, Prospects for a most successful sea \lf, Woodruff, Dr. J. Sheahan son are particularly bright,

The Oshawa Golf Glub and Grounds

Special Correspondence “Canadian Golfer”

PYUAYVEED on the most northerly show their interest in our town al and highest ground of this town business centre, of ours, comprising one hundred acres, Come and yisit us, all golfers and and surrounded by Nature’s gifts, the would-be golfers, and find—what? links of the Oshawa Golf Club possess First \ warm welcome and present an attractiveness which, Second—A course with admirable we believe, 1s not excelled in oul turf that has wintered well Province, Third—Greens that have that vel- The electric line brings you to the vety touch, are true, keen, and produce club gates. On entering a spacious possibilities of perfect putting, and well-equipped club-house’ wel Fourth—A carefully-bunkered course comes you—a club-house fitted with where under ordinary handicap the be all modern conve ginner and expert miences, baths, have an equal showers, lockers, chance, artistic dining- Come anyway room furnished in Our club will old-time style of be delighted to good taste, and have home - and from its spacious home games with verandahs you all clubs that can look out upon a be satisfactorily Vista of incompar arranged Our able beauty. Turn course at present ing to the north, comprises only you see in the far twelve holes, but distance the dark before the year is blue of the ridges, ended we shall the dividing line complete the full between the wat eighteen hole ers of Ontario and course Secugog, On the Several of our Gast lie the members are dyiy grounds of the Ing and approach South Ontario Ag- ing at the Front, ricultural Society, Mr. F, W. Cowan, President of the We want to wel the envy of every Oshawa Golf Club come them in our town between Toronto and Montreal. heme links on their return Westerly we are bounded by a beautt We held our annual meeting on April fully wooded ravine, the property of 6th, 1916, and were encouraged by a the club, where another six holes are goodly attendance to be laid out, and the most ambitious Mr. Ff. W, Cowan (whose photo is golfer will meet a hazard worthy of his herewith reproduced) was re-elected utmost skill, And to the south, shining President, and, as isted by stich a body in the sunlight—“when there 1s sun of Directors as Messrs, W McAddie, light” —is the quaintly-placed town of Dr Floige |. Py Owen R > Mc Oshawa, nestling in the hollows, with Laughlin and Thos, Henderson as See its church spires rearing to the skies in retary-Treasurer, the financial success religious and charitable effort, and its of the club 1s assured, Mr, Robt, Hen chimneys climbing and toiling ever to derson, a brilliant young golfer, well 727

728 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12 known in provincial circles, was re- transactions without a reference to our elected Captain. The same old expert lady members, who, large in member- Green Committee was appointed, and ship themselves, are ever zealous in the rank andfile of players are loyally promoting the interests of the club in enthusiastic. general, and whoas individual golfers, We cannot close this brief descrip- we firmly believe, can hold their own, tion of our club and grounds andits with some of the best in the Province.

St. Charles Gountry Glub

The following are the officers of the ticularly good one, showing a substan- St. Charles Country Club, Winnipeg, tial surplus for the year. Noless than for 1916: President, W. B. Lanigan; sixty membersof the club are on active Vice-President, W. H. McWilliams; service, and the retiring President, Mr. Hon. Secretary, W. A. Weir; Hon. S. E. Richards, referred with deepre- Treasurer, G. H. Williams; Governors, gret to the fact that two of their mem- W. B. Lanigan, W. H. McWilliams, bers, Captain E. dH. McMeans and Geo Walliams, WarA.Weir,..b.. bs Lieut. A. E. Muir, had been killed in Sharpe, T. L. Peters, P. A. Macdonald, action. John Persse,.I. F. Brooks, W. H. Cross, Mr. Lanigan, the new President, is a Douglas Laird and C. Y. Stainer. prominent C.P.R. official. He is as The financial statement was a par- well known in the East as in the West.

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RS: J: oH. DUNLOP Secretary. money sent will just keep him supplied of the Ladies’ Royal Montreal for thirteen weeks. Golf Club, has just received from Mrs. “We have sent the formal receipt to Rivers-Bulkeley, at the prisoners’ of Mr. Macpherson, but beg you to con- war department of the Canadian Red vey our thanks to the Ladies’ Branch Cross Society in London, a letter of of the Royal Montreal Golf Club, as thanks for the money raised on the well as to Charles Murray. occasion of the club competition for “Yours truly, Mr. Charles Murray’s prizes. The let- “EVELYN RIVERS-BULKELEY.” ter says: In connection with the above inter- “Dear Mrs. Dunlop,—Yourletter has esting letter, it might be explained that been handed over to me by Lady “Charlie” Murray, the well-known Drummond,as this department is deal- Royal Montreal pro., last season gave ing with the Canadian prisoners of two clubs to be playedfor by the ladies war. at Dixie, who charged an entrance fee “It was, indeed, a very kind idea to of 50 cents. The proceeds were sent as devote the money raised through Chas. above described. Murray’s prizes at the golf competition A splendid patriotic idea that every of the Ladies’ Club to the welfare of golf pro. in Canada could, with advan- the prisoners. We will send five-shil- tage, follow. Mr. Murray himself in- ling parcels of food once a week to tends this season to inaugurate several Private W. Hatton, from the Ladies’ of these competitions. Let the good Royal Montreal Golf Club. The work spread to every club.

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Interesting Happenings in Canada, Great Britain and United States HIS issue completes the “Cana- cil for seven years, four years as Chair- dian Golfer’s” first year, and the man of Finance, and he is nowoccupy- Editor wishes to heartily thank con- ing most deservedly the Chief Magis- tributors and golfers, from the Atlantic trate’s chair. Mayor I[dwards has to the Pacific, for the generous support, twice been the runner-up for the cham- help and encouragement at all times pionship of his club. He says of golt: extended to the magazine during the “Tam very fond of the game and enjoy past twelve months. Prospects for the immensely the good-fellowship of the coming year are particularly bright. men one meets on the links every The Mayanniversary number will be where.” And it may be added, there1s an especially attractive one. Here's no finer type of the golfer to be met hoping that the mistakes of the past anywhere than His Worship himself. are avoided; that the good features—if any The well-to-do golf —may be enhanced er in the larger cen and amplified, and tres should not forget that the “Canadian his less fortunate “bri Golfer” in 1916-17 will ther.” Help him to get earn the continued municipal recognition patronage and good for his golf, his bowl wishes of its magnifi- ing, his tennis or his cent clientele of sub- cricket. He is just as scribers, from Halifax much entitled to his to Victoria—not. for- outdoor exercise as getting many warm you, the memberof a supporters in Great Country Club, with so Britain and the Unit- many advantages. ed States. ... @ © ¢ And now comes an This is quite a Mu- other “public golf nicipal Golf number, voice” out of the far so it is very appropri- West. Victoria, B.C., ate to have on this that gem of the Paci page the photo of fic, has followed the MayorA. M. Edwards example of Edmonton, of Galt, Ontario, Vice- Mayor A. M. Edwards, Vice-President Calgary and Saska President of the Wat- Waterloo Golf and Country Club toon, and will install a erloo Golf and Country Club. Mayor municipal golf course this season, The Edwards formerly conducted a most City Council there decided last month successful drug business in the “Birm to give its ratepayers that inestimable ingham of Canada.” Three years ago outdoor boon, And the effete Fast, he left the pharmaceutical to take up with its vaunted park systems and up manufacturing interests as President of to-date park boards, still lags woefully the Galt Stove & Furnace Company behind. A little of the public golfing He is an ex-President of the Board of energy of the West could well be in- Trade, Director of the Galt City Club, jected into some of our Eastern public President of the Galt “Reporter,” Ltd., bodies and corporations and generally identified withall thelive o o°¢ issues of a verylive city. He has been With hardly an exception there are a member of the Galt Municipal Coun no changes in the professional list of 729 730 ¢ CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 1, No. 12

golfers in Canada this season. ‘The Rosedale players have been turning “Canadian Golfer’ will publish a full out in large numbers already this sea- list in the May issue of the “pros.” and son. The course is in unusually good their clubs. shape. © Oo © o> © Reports of the Calgary Golf and Mr. R. W. Johnson, captain of the Country Club and other Western clubs Elgin Golf and Country Club, writes will appear in the Mayissue. the “Canadian Golfer” that, notwith- oo 9 s standing so many membersare at the The annual meeting of the Guelph front, a successful seasonis anticipated

e Golf and Country Club will be held on in the Railway City. n the 19th of April. The Royal City has © Oo > e a splendidly-equipped course and club m At the amateur-professional tour- house. nament at Belleair, Fla., Walter J. Tra- oo 9 vis, Garden City, and Gil Nicholls, The Lakeview Golf Club openedits Great Neck, and Samuel K. Sterne, links on April 14th. The course will a Tatnuck, and Macdonald Smith, Belle- be further trapped and bunkeredthis air, tied for first place with the capital a season. No fewer than seventy new e scores of 70. H. J. Topping, Green- members were addedthis spring to the wich, and Alex. Smith, Wykagyl, were membership list of this very popular in third place with 71. Toronto club. © © © 9 © The season in Ontario this year has Mr. R. Stanley Weir, K.C., of Mont- been particularly early. The beautiful real, formerly Recorder of Montreal, Toronto links were opened up on April the well-known golf writer, in a letter 8th. At Lambton the nine-hole course to the editor states that he strongly has been played on for some two or objects to the legislation of the U. S. three weeks now, andthe eighteen-hole G. A. on the amateur question. He course was opened on Saturday, April thinks that Francis Ouimet has been 15th. especially hardly dealt with. Mr. Weir oo % is an authority on the game, and any- The Banff Springs Golf Club is hold- thing he contributes to an argument or ing a tournament, starting May 24th. discussion of the Royal and Ancient is The course is one of the most charming worthy of every consideration andre- in Canada. A beautiful stream flows spect. © o > through it and the mountains soar above it. The tournament will be open Mr. W. L. Wickett, President of the to all members of, Alberta golf clubs. Elgin Golf and Country Club, St. Mr. L. C. Crosbyis) the Hon. Secretary. Thomas; Dr. F. O. Laurence, and Mr. oO O John Farley, K.C., the oldest player, by The celebrated firm of A. G. Spalding the by, in St. Thomas, and one of the & Bros., with warehouses and stores oldest in Ontario, have been enjoying in Montreal and Toronto, are making a golf at Nassau, Bahamas. Lieut.Col. specialty in Canada this season of the W. F. Cockshutt, M.P., Brantford, is new “British Honor Ball.” It is a taking a well-deserved holiday from superbly “balanced” ball, with a true parliamentary and military duties on and exceptionally long flight, and ideal the links at Hot Springs, Virginia, a qualities on the putting green. The resort, by the by, a prime favorite with “British Honor” is all that its name the Premier, Sir Robert L. Borden. Mr. implies and is destined to be im- L. Goldman, of Lambton, is playing the mensely popular on Canadian courses game at Atlantic City. Mr. Iden this season. It is bound to have a re- Champion, a director of the Brantford -ord sale. The house of Spalding and Club, is at Pinehurst, where a large its products have been “built on honor” number of Canadians are enjoying golf and the new ball lives up to the firm’s under ideal conditions. Mr. W. best traditions. Despard, Rosedale, is at Atlantic City. April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 731

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Mr. “Art” Ross, of hockey tame, The annual meeting of the Scarbor- Montreal, is now also an enthusiastic ough Golf and Country Club will be golfer. He should make good on the held April 18th. links. © > © © © © Mr. H. Lehmann, Secretary of the The Whitlock Golf Club, Hudson Country Club of Montreal, writes: Heights, Quebec, held a most success- “Your magazine is certainly very pop- ful annual meeting recently. The ular. I am sure all the members join “Canadian Golfer’ tor May will have me in wishing the ‘Canadian Golfer’ an article about this very progressive every success.” Thanks. club. © Oo & © © © Mr. L. D. Rossire, who is conceded “Chick” Evans has been playing sen- to be, perhaps, the finest player in sational golf at the French Lick Western Ontario, has been transferred Springs, Ind., setting a new tourna- by the Bank of Commerce from St. ment record of 70 in the finals in the Thomas to Chatham. He will be a val- morning, and 72 in the afternoon. He uable addition to the golfing strength defeated “Ned” Sawyer 9 up and8. of the latter city, where golf is in its © 9 © infancy, and where a player of Mr. Mr. Geo. S. Lyon, partnered with Rossire’s ability will be simply invalu- Mr. S. B. Gundy, of Rosedale, has ar- able. He will be sorely missed in St. ranged a series of golf matches with Thomas, where he was handicapped Thos. and Robt. Henderson, of Osh- four strokes over his nearest opponent. awa, to be played over the Lambton, © o > Rosedale and Oshawa golf courses Charlie Murray, of the Royal Mon- about the first and second weeks in treal is laying out this season a course June. This interesting series of matches at St. Rose, a well known summerre- came about as a result of the Toronto sort, 15 miles from Montreal. It looks players’ visit to Oshawa on a curling like being a busy club when the course jaunt, all four being devotees of the is in shape, which should not take very “roarin’ game” as well as the royal and long, as the land is all cleared and ancient. ploughed ready for seeding. By the © o © by, it will soon be Lieutenant Murray, The world-famous firm, ‘the St. the Royal Montreal expert, during the Mungo Manufacturing Company, oi winter months having taken an officer’s Glasgow, are featuring in Canada for course. It is not his intention, how- 1916 their new mesh marking “Plus ever, to volunteer for overseas—just to Colonel.” Says the “World of Golf” prepare himself for any eventuality. of this new product of the celebrated © oo “Colonel” firm: “The favored few oi The “Canadian Golfer’s” Associate us who have had an opportunityof try Editor, Mr. W. H. Webling, is making ing this newball are indeed fortunate a capital approach to international for we have been testing what wil fame as a writer of golf stories and surely be one of the sensations of th verse. His score since Christmas in- year. No matter from which stand cludes two short stories, splendidly il- point one looks at this newball, whe lustrated, published by the ‘Golfers’ ther judged from its capacity for long Magazine,” Chicago; one accepted by flight, its continued and unabated re Mr. Walter J. Travis, editor of the siliency, or its ready response to th« “American Golfer”; two short sketches finer strokes of the game, we cansafel: by the “New England Golf News,” the say that it stands pre-eminently in latest\addition to golf literature; verses class byitself.” The “Colonel” ball and stories by “Maclean’s Magazine,” have always been immensely popula Toronto; ‘Toronto Saturday Night,” in Canada, and the new mesh marking with regular contributions to the “Can- “Plus Colonel” is destined to add + adian Golfer’s” columns. their well-deserved prestige. April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 733

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It is probable that a three days’ tour- Cincinnati now has four municipal nament in aid of the Red Cross funds courses, these being Burnet Woods, 9 will be held early in June, on the pretty holes; Short Woods, 9 holes; Avon private links of Sir William Mackenzie Field, 18 holes; Mount Airy Forest, 18 at Kirkfield, Ontario. Mr. George Lyon holes. The last named will be 6,500 and a numberof other prominent golf- yards long when completed. ers are taking a keen interest in the © ¢ © event and will participate. © Oo Beaumaris, Muskoka, this season will Mr. Charles L. Millar, the well- have a full 18-hole course. Several known golf manufacturers’ agent, of thousands of dollars have been expend- 759 Shuter Street, Montreal, has been ed in acquiring this very desirable re- appointed the sole agent for Canada sult. Mr. R. Wardrop, President of for Steel’s Mollusca Golf Boot Studs— one of the important Pittsburg banks, the studs that have stood the test and and an enthusiastic follower of the acknowledged to be the only rubber Royal and Ancient, is chairman of the grips that grip in wet weather, Mr. Green Committee, and he and others Millar should do a big business with interested will pay a visit to the course these golf shoe studs. The “Canadian next month to inspect the work that Golfer” can unhesitatingly, recommend has been done, and yet to be done this these studs for shoe comfort and golf spring. Beaumaris is to be congratu- lated on its enterprise. efficiency. . oo © © 2 © Philip V. G. Carter, the. Nassau Mr. Walter L. Richard, one of the Country Club youth who bids fair to low handicap Metropolitan golfers be a sensation in golf, won the St. from| Fox Hills, is to marry Miss Or- Valentine’s tournament at the Pine-» ville Wooster, daughter of Mr. and hurst Country Club, defeating Parker Mrs. Philip Wooster, of California, on W. Whittemore, Brookline, in the final April 24th, in New York city. Mr. by 3 up 2. The 8th had fallen to the Richard will be well remembered by Brookline veteran with a fine 2, but the Canadian golfers who have visited Carter capped the climax by winning the White Mountainresorts in the past, the next hole in one. After this Carter he having participated in practically drew away from his opponent, winning all of the important golfing events for the next three holes in par, after which the past seven years. Leading players the result was never in doubt. Carter from various parts of the country will also won the Spring tournament at aid in launching Mr. Richard on the Pinehurst from Buckingham Merriman, sea of matrimony, former Connecticut champion. © © © he tie © > © And now comes the “Professional The Western Golf Club, one of the Golfers’ Association of America.” Forty new clubs near Toronto, the Secretary, “pros.” recently sat down to dinner in Mr. J..M. Phillip, reports, had a most New York and formed the P. G. A. A. successful season in 1915, and the Membership will be divided into six establishing of this course has in every classes: (a) professionalgolfers, at- way justified the most sanguine hopes tached to clubs in the United States of its promoters. This year the course and Canada; (b). those, not attached to is being enlarged to. 18 holes. Percy any club; (c) those in the employ of © Barrett has been re-engaged as profes- sporting goods houses or coneerns sional. He gave splendid satisfaction making implements for the game; (d) last season. The entrance fee for 1916 assistants and club makers; (e) green- is $10. -Annual.dues $25, to whichis keepers; (f) honorary members. It added one $5 share, part of which goes will be noticed that Canadian pros. to pay the entrance fee. A write upof are eligible for this splendid associa- this progressive club, with photos, will tion. appear in the Mayissue. April, 1916 CANADIAN GOLFER 735

Thereare five golf links in Muskoka, Lieut. Marcel T. Morgan, Secretary- and now comes word that another Treasurer of the Royal Canadian Golf course will be laid out this season in Association, is shortly leaving for over- the “Highlands of Ontario. George seas. -During- his absence Mr. B. L. Cumming will be the architect. Anderson) .12 Adelaide: Street E., will © o be acting-Secretary. © 0 9 - Rumors to the contrary, it can be positively stated that Harry Vardon, The Waterloo Golf and Country Club course has wintered particularly J. H. Taylor and James Braid will not come on a golfing pilgrimage to this well. The groundsmen are now work- continent this year. ing on it preparatory tO an early open- ing. : ; © © A member of the Merion Golf Club Canadians at Pinehurst once told of a cross-eyed Bryn Mawr In the second flight final, Richard girl whom he took in to dinner at a Mott, Huntingdon Valley, defeated C, social function. “Why,” he said, “she S. McDonald, Toronto, by 5 and 3, The was so cross-eyed that she ate off my third flight went to J. T. Weller, St. plate.” Catharines, Ont., who beat R. H. Hunt, © > & Worcester, Mass., 1 up, 20 holes. It.is Dr. Killmer, the popular Captain of seldomthat the field in a tournament is the St. Catharines Club, says: “TI look large enough for fourteen flights, but forward each month to the coming of this happens sometimes at Pinehurst, the ‘Canadian Golfer.’ You certainly and Hiram Marks, Detroit, carried off put up the real thing. More firmness the prize for this. division, as he van- to your stance and more vim to your quished H. H. Fudger, Toronto, in the swing.” final by 5 up 4. © o © The Plaint of the Golfer The sensation of the championship of the Women’s Southern California [ am eager for spring and the fairways, Golf Association at the Midwick Coun- For May and the shot for the green, try Club, was the record score of 79 To follow the golfers and their ways made by Mrs. Luther Kennett, Coron- I long for a drive that is clean. ado, in winning the final, and the title I long to be slicing and topping for the fourth time. Good as Mrs. And trying and trying again; Kennett’s score was, she only defeated And then when they’re alibi-swapping Mrs. F. F. Carpenter, Midwick, by 3 I want to start lying again. up 2. The men’s paris 79. Iam hungry mywrists to be turning 1 © > In ways that the experts deplore, _ At the annual meeting of the Picton To look up again I am yearning, Golf and Country Club, held April 6th, I want to be foolish once more. the following officers were elected: [ want to sit down with mybrothers Hon. President, Judge Morrison; Pres- And join in the sighing again, ident, H. B. Bristol; Vice-President, To keep up my end with the others Dr. F. T. Knight: Secretary-Treasurer, Andglibly start lying again. 5. B. Gearing; Directors, D. J. Barker, W.J. Carter, Barrett McMullen, W. V. Of winter and truth I am weary, Pettit; Captain, C. B. Beamish. I am longing for springtime again; . Green Committee—Dr. Knight, S. B. The evenings are tediously dreary (earing: Dr. Publow. With nothing for me to explain.

| Handicap and Match Committee— . I’m eager for spring and the fairway J *. B. Beamish, Dr. Knight, Barrett To see the ball flying again, McMullen, To follow the golfers and their ways House Committee—H. H. Horsey, And get back to lying again. W-V. Pettit, A. J. Cundick. —Toronto “Telegram.” 736 CANADIAN GOLFER April, 1916

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Table of Contents for April, 1916

PAGE PGSMpoluNVyc terra tea fepete tiek ah 0 oo bth ee ate: W. H. WEBLING 682 Editorial—“The Making of Cee“Public Golf,”persof Recreation” . : 3 vies 683-684 Poem, “To the Canadian Golfer” ia RAR ne MERRIE eT eR Eres 684 Chip Shots ...... — REIT oA AAAI Coe NOE coo 685 The Overlapping Grip.eccaae vette: BY JS ie apeeR ATs Ei oete Teetores 686 Golfing Celebrities—Lord Northcliffe. ‘saulowDELOR (687-688 Poeriyeer Reltnereete rte ee oct ibe rie ete o slece Sviece ges W. H. WEBLING 689 Golf and the World Laughs With You. rN. 690-692 Getttingc@utrot Difhiculties ah assis. 2s Ae tit vntes-ALEX. SMITH 693-702 BUNETATOlamACNE iii n oe eer alee cv aie fo skcialevs a oie/e eet T. G. GRAY 703-704 What One Man’s Vision Has Done. RR GR SE apah hea aN aE 705 Be Oliati gee DERMVIEACE. Bet etree eset ea tide sete 6 wis esc algae enters Mates 706 Storyieelhesbrogress ofsbatrician., «csc clans artes wet emireebaatrea. 707-708 PublicuGolfiauec tec). cette eee PIERSON JERMAIN 709-711 Golfcand ‘Punch i220 gs. ccc .R. STANLEY WEIR, K.C. 711-714 Ladies’ Golf Department..../.-.... weet :>...... -.--- MISS HARVEY 715-722 Royal Montreal Golf Club.... af 723 Country Club of Montreal, Pe ugh. Golf ‘Club. penis te 724 Branttordia to lic Glibaer cre mtre yeaa cee Ant lals oh areeehan snepesa ase 725 Oxford Golf Club, St. Catharines Golf Club. vom Jere oes 726 Oshawa Golf Club. ac STEIN dey ares ee anger) 727 St. Charles Country ‘Club...Si PRRs dee guisi tos Pe eer LRAT EEE clone 728 RONNEtUerCIMID-OUSCVELC cc. bsicks sc csiewinee re cltc ivi es wale Sollee area aCe gaaae

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