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LIONEL H. GRAHAM, BENEDICT CROWELL, S. Y. HEEBNER, Baltusrol. Cleveland. Philadelphia. 8. A. FOSTER, G. HERBERT WINDELER. CHARLES T. ATKINSON,. Des Moines. Midlothian.

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WITH "WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING," ESTABLISHED 1894

VOL. XV. AUGUST, 1904 NO. 2

FIRST , GLEN VIEW.

THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP GLEN VIEW CLUB, GOLF, , JULY 8 and 9, 1904 By Alexis J. Colman.

GAIN the followers of golf who love When a man comes to the scratch when skilful play must pay homage to it is most necessary, and when he does his A . This young best work while all his rivals are looking VEX. man—he is not yet twenty-four years of on and striving to outdo him, then the fact age—has now won three national open that he outfinishes them all is ample evi- championships and two western within dence of his class. four years, and this work certainly stamps The championship was doubtless the him as the best golfer in the United States. most noteworthy in the annals of the

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United States Golf Association, always would give his unjust critics food for fresh excepting that one at Wheaton in 1900 attacks. Sixty-five players finished the when and J. H. Taylor first day, four withdrawing at noon. The came over and competed. Noteworthy new rule of the Association, barring from chiefly for the quality of golf put up, for competition on the second day all whose Anderson made his seventy-two holes in scores were more than fifteen strokes the far foal 303 strokes, the record by four for a behind tenth man threw out eighteen ling bad national open championship, although who had been unable to get below 175 for Anderson's 299 for the Euclid, Cleveland, their first day's work. Of the remaining in the championship forty-seven, all but one finished the 72- ship ow of 1902 must be remembered. Baltusrol hole route. •and Mi was 6,003 yards and Anderson and Davy It was cold and drizzly when play be- Brown tied at 307 last year; Glen View is gan on Friday morning and the first quar- Easily the fet- ter of play was thus marred, but the 6,266 yards, and the men who have played tle evidence of both courses will hardly concede Baltus- remaining three rounds were attended by veteran jamb ft rol the greater number of difficulties. the best possible conditions, and the fact , rit i that Anderson and "Nipper" Campbell The limiting score which won a prize at championship of I each made a 72, a 73 Baltusrol was 323; at Glen View the tenth Sbnecodxiv and and Fred Mackenzie man had 318. sates In point of numbers the entry was less 74s is indication that the going was fast than for the two previous years. Seventy- enough for those who could travel at a two entered, as against ninety-four in 1903 swift gait. and ninety-sevn in 1902. The journey of Particular interest attached to Stewart course had much to do with this, as many Gardner, the tall professional of the i of the eastern professionals who recog- Garden City Golf Club, who led on the nbed that they had no chance stayed away, first day with 151, two ahead of Anderson. while they undoubtedly would have enter- Gardner was fourth in 1901, tied for ed had the event been held nearer their second in 1902 and followed the tied pair, own bailiwicks. But the best eastern Anderson and Davy Brown, last year. "pros" came, excepting Will Smith and This time it seemed that he had a good Davy Brown. chance to enter the championship door at The amateur representation was con- which he had been knocking. But after a fined entirely to Chicago, so the event 75 the first morning, equaled only by lacked somewhat of the prestige that Anderson, and a 76 in the afternoon, he would have accrued to it had Walter J. fell away badly on Saturday and abomin- Travis, fresh from his victory abroad, able putting added stroke after stroke to come west. As it was, Chandler Eganled his card so that he took 80 and 85. the amateur division, but in twentieth On this first day Fred Mackenzie, the place, whereas in 1902 Travis had tied for Scottish amateur who has left St. Andrews second and last year Findlay Douglas was to become professional instructor at the eighth and Frank Reinhart finished just , showed himself the golf- without the prize list in thirteenth place, er his friends had declared him by making a stroke ahead of Travis. a 76. This, with a 79 in the afternoon, Of the seventy-two entries, sixty-nine gave him 155 and he was in third place, started, one of the withdrawals being Ex tied with when the second Amateur Champion Louis N. James who, day's sport began A 74 on Saturday just home from college and playing far gave him greater standing than ever, fora from his best, thought a poor showing man whoJjjadtt-»wtke--tfu«e-qua£Utf^n a THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. 71 national open tourney must have class. which, considering his 83 of the morning, The two strokes he had over Gardner and was a decided reversal of form. This Anderson at noon, however, were dissi- put him in a tie for sixth. Another vete- pated by an 80 in the afternoon, when he ran who came up was Horace Rawlins, required an 8 for the eighth, "Trouble," who as a boy had won the first champion- hole. His second shot after a good ship at Newport in 1895. Rawlins had 79 found the far bank of the reservoir and and 76 for his first day, but his second after dropping back his next went into the chapter was a sadder one, for he required bushes fringing the green. However, to 86 and 8r, which put him out of the run- finish third in the first American open ning by four places. championship one enters is certainly Gilbert Nicholls well upheld the St. creditable, and Mackenzie will be heard Louis end. An 80 and a 76 on the first from again. day put him fifth, a stroke ahead of Easily the feature of the first day was Brother Bernard, the renowned twice- the evidence of rejuvenation of the conqueror of Vardon. On the second veteran James Foulis of the Chicago day Gil was lining 'em out straight and Golf Club, who won the second open true for 250 yards every time from the tee championship of the U. S. G. A., that at and such golf, coupled with a deadly Shinnecock in 1896. Foulis, late in com- short game, was not to be denied. Crit- pleting his afternoon round, showed a 74 ics who watched the blond young English- !

I. 8. MACKIE. . ALEX. ROSS. GEORGE THOMSON.

GROUP OF EASTERN PROFESSIONALS. 72 THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.

man at work saw nothing better than his 71, all putts holed, on his home course, Jacks play during the entire tournament. On Sat- was naturally looked to to do valiantly in oa and urday he made 79 and 73—152—and this the championship. But 80 and 81 dimmed s with his Friday's work gave him a grand his chances the first day, and had he not total of 308, second, but five strokes be- come back with 75 and 78 on the second and tro other 0^ hind Anderson. his chances would have gone. You can- intbemoney. 3C.. "Nipper" Campbell, as usual, did some- not deny the careful "Lome" a share of the money, however, and at the finish he thing brilliant. This boy, whom an 87 hl< tried to consign to oblivion on the first was found tied with the able Bernard day, all but landed in the money. Thirty- Nicholls for fourth and fifth places, each first on Friday night he crept up with an winning $90. 80 on Saturday morning and then with a For the first time three golfers repre- mighty spurt, a 7.2, finally landed in thir- senting Canadian clubs competed in a teenth place, just three places removed championship on a Chicago links. B. F. from the money. This 72 : Barrett, who had the advantage of Harry Out--- 44444535 3--- 36 Vardon's competition at Ganton, came as In 5 3 3 5 3 4 5 4 4"-- 36"' 72 the representative of the Lambton, On- Auchterlonie, who had made 70 and tario, links; George Cumming of Toronto, who last year finished in twenty- second place, came to essay again, but was able to get no better than twenty-eighth, and j pip K; : Charles R. Murray, the young professional of the Westmount Golf Club of Montreal, did better than last year, being just a stroke out of the money with 319— with 76 and 78 on the second ' day—whereas he was in thirty- second place last year with 336. la jj Barrett made scores of 78, 79, Ben ft 79 and 80, consistent going, and Cliseassdi this gave him 316, which tied FrifeJ him for sixth place with Robert Simpson of Riverside and Stew- art Gardner. Alexander Smith, Jack Camp- bell, John Hobens and Alex Ross, all of whom finished within the prize list in 1903, had to join the also rans. Hobens was a stroke outside, Alex Ross six, Alexander Smith eight and Jack Campbell fourteen. Harry Tur- pie of Auburn Park, often a money winner, tied with Chandler Egan at 329. . THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. 73 We C0llRe| Chicago professionals, four of them, do valiantly in landed — Mackenzie, Auchterlonie, Simp- immed son and Foulis—and with the two Nicholls he not boys this gave six money prizes to the ''•'Mlie second West. The East won the championship * You can- and two other of its representatives were '*" a share of in the money, and Canada was represent- 3t 'he finish lie ed in the money, by Barrett, for the first e able Bernard time in the history of the U. S. G. A. * places, cadi open championship. Next to Chandler Egan in the amateur * golfers repre- division were the two Midlothian boys, competed in a Robert E. Hunter and Kenneth Edwards, igolinks. II who finished in twenty-second and amas;e of Harry twenty-fifth places with 331 and 332. Gauton, came as Western Champion Walter Egan was ie Lambton. On- about at his worst, and in the parlance of miing ot Toronto, the turf finished absolutely. mshed in twenty- The scores; came to essay Willie Anderson, Apawamis, first prize, • able to get no 4200, gold medal and custody of cham- renty-eighth. and pionship cup: urny. the young ' the Westaourit Friday, Out. 54434635 4—38 In- 4 3 3 S 4 5 5 4 4—37—75 i ontreal.did better Out. 63543735 4-40 ring )«st a stroke In- 5 4 4 5 3 5 4 4 4—38—78 —153 iftney with 519- Sat'day.Out. 54355634 4—39 •$ on the second In. 42445564 5—39—78 he w.is in thirty- Out. 43444535 5—37 ast year with 336. In. 53453444 3—35-72-i5°-3°3 G. CUMMING, TORONTO. e scores of 78,791 Gilbert Nicholls, St. Louis Country iSSteot going, and Club, second prize, $150 : The best amateur card : .,6, which tied Friday, Out. 64344646 4—41 H. Chandler Egan, Exmoor: In. 53444744 4-39-80 ice with M>flt Friday, Out. 54444847 4—44 Out. 43554634 3—37 Tn. 54454553 5—40—84 raside and Stew- In. 52454564 4—39—76-156 Out. 54434534 4-36 Sat'day.Out. 43445627 6 — 41 'n. 5 4 5 5 3 6 5 5 5-43-79-163 In- 43563544 4—38-79 Sat'day.Out. 65554535 5—43 midi. Jack Camp- Out 4 3 4 4 4 5 4 5 3—36 In. 44454654 4—40—83 obais and * In. 4 3 3 5 4 5 5 4 4-37- 73-I52-3°8 Out. 5 5 5 4 4 9 3 5 3—43 ^finis* Fred Mackenzie, Onwentsia, third In. 43564655 4—40-83-166-329 First 3d 4th Grand prize, $125 -. day. rd. vd. Total. Friday, Out. 54444537 4—4° Laurence Auchterlonie, ssiX | Alex In. 4 4 3 5 3 5 4 4 4—36—76 Glen View ($90), tie tfi eight and Jack Out. 44445 644 5-40 for fourth ($100) and In-ms 3454644 4—39—79—155 fifth ($80) - - l6l 75 78 314 Sat'day.Out. i 3 5 3 4 6 3 5 5-38 Bernard Nichols, Elyria, In-,' 5 3 4 5 3 4 5 3 4—36—74 Q -'t. 44534748 4—43 Ohio ($90), tie for 4 4—37-80-154-309 fourth and fifth, *57 79 78 314 74 TB " OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.

Donald Ross, Oakley Country Club, Boston, tenth, $25, 162 78 78 318 C. R. Murray, Montreal, 165 76 78 319 J. Hobens, Yountakah, X59 80 80 3*9 Robert «<• fo A. Campbell, Brookline, 168 80 72 320 H.Rawlins,SpringHav'n 155 86 81 322 G. Thomson, Lenox, 165 81 78 324 G. Braid, St. Paul, - 158 85 81 324 A. Ross,Woodland Park, 165 80 79 324 A. Smith, Nassau, J59 82 85 326 D. Robertson, Buffalo, 160 80 88 328 J. Campbell, Huntington Valley, 168 79 82 329 *H. C. Egan, Exmoor, 163 83 83 329 H. Turpie, Auburn Park, 163 86 80 529 *R. E. Hunter, Midlo- thian, 168 79 84 331 A. Taylor, Exmoor. 168 83 80 33l G. Low, Baltusrol, 170 82 79 33* *K.Edwards,Midlothian 167 80 85 33O W. H. Way, Euclid, 171 79 82 332 G. Cummings, Toronto, 166 82 85 333 J. Watson, Skokie, 166 82 86 334 P. Robertson, Buffalo, 169 85 80 334 T.McDeever,Bryn Mawr,163 88 83 334 F. McLeod, Rockford, 174 81 79 334 I. S. Mackie, Fox Hills, 170 80 85 335 W. Marshall, Onwentsia, 164 86 85 335 D. Foulis, Chicago, 167 83 87 337 W. V. Hoare, Ridge, l73 83 33 339 W. Lorimer, Racine, 170 87 WILLIE ANDERSON, 83 34O Open Champion. G. Turpie, Calumet, 172 84 85 341 D. Mclntosh, West- Robert Simpson, River- ward Ho, - 170 85 88 343 side, 111., ($53.33), tie F. Bartsch, Homewood, 173 90 82 345 for sixth ($70;, seventh R. G. McAndrew, Wol- $50) and eighth ($40) 164 76 76 314 laston, 168 88 89 345 , Garden A. Baxter, La Grange, 168 86 62 346 City, ($53 33), tie for *M. E. Phelps, Midlo- sixth, seventh and thian, 174 86 88 348 eighth, - 151 80 85 316 A. C. Tollifson, Lake P. R. Barrett, Lambton, Geneva, 171 94 83 348 Ontario (53.33), tie for *G. F. Clingman, Jr., sixth, seventh and Homewood, i73 84 92 349 eighth, - 157 79 80 316 *W. E. Egan, Exmoor, 174 1 "10 89 363 James Foulis, Chicago W. D Robinson, Atlan- Golf Club, ninth, $30, 157 78 82 317 tic City, - 1144—.Withdrew. THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. 75

INELIGIBLE AFTER FIRST DAY. — Andrew Foulis, Glen Echo, 90, 94—-184; Tom O'Neil, Christy, Omaha Field, 86,89 — 175; Joe Mit- Edgewater, 93, 92—185; * Frank Bartsah, Mans- chell, Cleveland, 88, 87—175; 'Charles Zueb- field, Ohio, 93, 95—188; James Herd, Washing- lin, Midlothian, 89, 87—176; *Samuel H. ton Park, 94, 95—189; *Bruce D. Smith, On- Lockett. Auburn Park, 86, 90—176; Thomas wentsia, 90, 99—991. 00 319 L. McNamara, Commonwealth, 87, 90—177; Withdrew after First Round—John Adams, Robert White, Ravisloe, 86, 91—177 : *A1- Hinsdale, 89 ; W. Duffy, Normandie, St. Louis, 0 den B. Swift, Onwentsia, 90, 88 — 178; H. M. 89; James H. Norton, Hartford, Conn., 99; 3" Govan, Marine and Field, 88, 99—178; Wa- and *R. D. Bokum, Jr , Glen View, 102. verly G. Horton, unattached, 85, 94—179; C. Did Not Start—*Louis N. James and "John D. Johnson Dover Bay, Cleveland, 90, 89—179; M. Sellers, Glen View, and W. C. Sherwood, *Nathaniel Moore, Lake Geneva, 95, 86—181 ; Inverness, Toledo. Harry Collis, Indianapolis, 95, 88—181 ; Otto Hackbarth, unattached, 89, 93—182 ; Robert * Amateur.

GEORGE LOW. .

U'itlliitf"' THE ART OF GOLF

By Sir Walter Simpson, Bart. HOD.

ANNOTATED BY THE HON. MR. RECORDER WEIR.

CHAPTER II. stones into a rabbit scrape. 'Marry' he THE ORIGIN OF GOLF. quoth, 'I could not do that if I tried'— a thought (so instinctive is ambition) Golf, besides being a royal game, is which nerved him to the attempt. But also a very ancient one. Although it eariy man cannot long persevere alone in any cannot be determined when it was first arduous undertaking, so our shepherd played, there seems little doubt that it hailed another, who was hard by, to wit- had its origin in the present geological ness his endeavour. 'Forsooth, that is period, golf links being, we are informed, easy,' said the friend, and trying failed. of Pleistocene formation. They now searched in the gorse for as Confining ourselves to , no round stones as possible, and, to their golfer can fail to be struck with the surprise, each found an old , resemblance to a niblick of the so-called which, as the reader knows, are to be spectacle ornament of our sculptured found there in considerable quantity even stones. to this day. Having deepened the rabbit Many antiquarians are of opinion that scrape so that the balls might not jump the game did not become popular till out of it, they set themselves to practising about the middle of the 15th century. putting. The stronger but less skilful This seems extremely probable, as in shepherd, finding himself worsted at this earlier and more lawless times a journey amusement, protested that it was a fairer so far from home as the far-hole at test of skill to play for the hole from a St. Andrews would have been exceedingly considerable distance. This being ar- dangerous for an unarmed man. ranged, the game was found to be much It is not likely that future research will more varied and interesting. They had unearth the discoverer of golf. Most at first called it ' putty,' because the probably a game so simple and natural immediate object was to putt or put the in its essentials suggested itself gradually ball into the hole or scrape, but at the and spontaneously to the bucolic mind. longer distance what we call driving was A shepherd tending his sheep would often the chief interest, so the name was chance upon a round pebble, and, having changed to 'go off,' or 'golf.' The sheep his crook in his hand, he would strike it having meantime strayed, our shepherds away; for it is as inevitable that a man had to go after them. This proving an with a stick in his hand should aim a exceedingly irksome interruption, they blow at any loose object lying in his path hit upon the ingenious device of making as that he should breathe. a circular course of holes, which enabled On pastures green this led to nothing; them to play and herd at the same time. but once on a time (probably) a shepherd, The holes being now many and far apart, feeding his sheep on a links—perhaps it became necessary to mark their where- those of St. Andrews — rolled one of these abouts, which was easily clonej_)v__nieans \ THE ART OF GOLF. 77

of a tag of wool from a sheep, attached sizes amuse men—hard ones, soft ones, I to a stick, a primitive kind of flag still large ones, small ones. These are treated used on many greens almost in its in a variety of ways. They are struck, original form. used to strike with, pushed against each Since these early days the essentials of other, knocked into holes, rolled as close the game have altered but little. Even as possible to things, battered against the styme must have been of early inven- walls, knocked over nets, cuffed with the tion. It would naturally occur as a hand, jerked with the finger and thumb, quibble to a golfer who was having the struck with an instrument, kicked with worst of the match, and the adversary, the feet, etc. In some games the ball is buffeted whilst in motion, in others whilst in the confidence of three or four up, ! would not strenuously oppose it. at rest. In some, one player's aim is to i. 1 That golf was taken up with keen in- make it go whilst others try to stop it, or terest by the Scottish people from an both may want to keep it moving, each early day is evidenced by laws directed hoping that the other will fail to do so. against those who preferred it to archery In games where it is the adversary's ob- and church-going. This state of feeling ject to stop the ball, he keeps his face has changed but little. Some historians towards it and catches it with his hands; are, however, of opinion that during the when he loses by doing so his back is seventeenth century golf lost some of its turned, and he runs (except in war, in popularity. We know that the great which the adversary does not wish to be Montrose was at one time devoted to it, struck, but should nevertheless have his. and that he gave it up for what would face to the ball). In some games there now be considered the inferior sport of is but one ball, about which there is a Covenanter-hunting. It is also an his- continual struggle; in others, each has it torical fact that Charles I. actually alternately. There is a common element stopped in the middle of a game on Leith in them all—rivalry.* Links, because, forsooth, he learned that Now golf is a game in which each a rebellion had broken out in Ireland. player has a small hard ball of his own, Some, however, are of opinion that he which he strikes with a stick whilst it is acted on this occasion with his usual quiescent, with the intention of putting it cunning—that at the time the news into a hole. Abstractly he wishes to do arrived he was being beaten, and that he this with as few blows as possible, con- hurried away to save his half-crown cretely in fewer than his opponent. A rather than his crown. Whatever the round of the green is called a match. truth may be, it is certain that any one who in the present day abandoned a *It seems to me that golf maybe distinguished game because the stakes were not suf- from all other ball games in several important respects -which Sir Walter has failed to charac- ficiently high would be considered un- terize, although I am sure he would agree with worthy of the name of a golfer. me. First, it is played not with one club, as are cricket, base ball, tennis, etc., but with a The rest of the history of the game, number of clubs of varying size, shape and weight; second, the golf ball is the smallest ball is it not written in Mr. Clark's book? played in any field game ; third, the is, compared with other swings, a long swing. CHAPTER III. These three characteristics suffice, I think, to ex- plain why golf is a difficult game. When we THE NATURE OF THE GAME. add that the striking surface of our clubs is re- latively small, that the ball often lies awkwardly Golf belongs to that large class of hu- upon the green, very different from the smooth lies of the croquet-lawn or billiard-table, or the man games in which a ball plays the free course of a ball in the air, we cease to principal part. Balls of all sorts and wonder at foozling. r means THE ART OF GOLF.

A match is the best of nine, twelve, or geographical names are suggested by eighteen games. Each game is called a peculiarities of the ground around or in hole, because it ends at the bottom there- front of the hole. If there are none, a of. The tee is not, as in many other wall or a bathing-machine in the neigh- In* I - (*• games, the object aimed at, but the point bourhood may suggest a name. Holes jet caB] started from. It consists of a small pile called after people have usually been of sand placed on the ground, and solidi- planned, laid out, and added to the fied by the palm of the hand. On this course by their godfathers, who for the the ball is placed. Each blow or miss is first ten years earn anything but gratitude, called a stroke, that is to say—a stroke is as these new holes are for a long time jut ibe green-to constituted purely by intention. A very rough and bad; a public-house stroke is not the same thing as a rub, or a refreshment-stall in the neighbour- On every 8 which is usually a blow received by a hood of a hole is always recognised as third party, but it is nearly identical with its most important feature, and it is a shot is 1«* ta a shot. The latter, however, does not in- christened accordingly. The last hole is . enough, straipc'" clude a miss in the same impartial way called the last, the one at the the extrem- as the former. ity of the links the far-hole, unless a The distance between the and the public-house be there to make such a holes is from a hundred to five hundred consideration unimportant; for it is ad- yards. After leaving the tee, you are not mitted on all hands that the state of a allowed to do anything to the ball except man's stomach has much to do with his strike it or swear at it until you have game. either given up the hole or got to the The grounds on which golf is played bottom of it.* In each hole there is a are called links,! being the barren sandy flag, so that its whereabouts may be seen soil from which the sea has retired in from a distance. This is temporarily re- recent geological times. In their natural moved when the player gets near it. state links are covered with long, rank The flags are little bits of cloth or a benty grass and gorse. These get worn bunch of wool at the end of a stick or away by sheep and golfers, and short wire; but on greens where they are not springy sandy turf is disclosed. The part habitually stolen, the whole flag is of , of the links thus worn is the course. with the name and number of the hole Links are too barren for cultivation; but printed on the top. These names are for sheep, rabbits, geese, and professionals the most part either geographical, per- pick up a precarious livelihood on them. sonal, gastronomical or arithmetical. The A good course ought to be from 50 to

*I must demur to Sir Walter's easy admission gusted his rival by actually holing out! that it is permissible to swear at the ball, for, "Look here, Pat," said St. Andrew, "you if so, it would be equally allowable to a cajole it know this is not fair There ought to be no by occult means. I submit it is equally unfair miracles between friends." to ban or bless a ball, although it is said that \Links. 'Aflat or undulating stretch of sandy the girl of the Channel Islands prettily soil more or less covered with grass or heather; spit or make the sign of the cross against their the windings of a river or its banks."—Such is opponents' putts, without objection. The fol- the definition of an excellent dictionary we have lowing true tale, however, will show the danger consulted. Some purists, not to say pedants, of admitting the intervention of spirits, whether insist that the word "links" applies solely to of light or darkness: Once upon a time St. stretches of sandy soil by the sea, and also that Andrew and St. Patrick were playing a single. it is a noun of singular number gramatically. At a critical point in the game after masterly Usage, however, clearly justifies the use of the drives and second strokes by each, St. Andrew, word as land laid out for golf, whether inland or who played the odd, succeeded in laying his by the sea, and also as a noun, neuter, plural. ball stone dead by a most skilful approach To hear anyone say: "The links is a fine one," from thirty yards off. But St. Patrick- is quite enough to make a man to top his drive from about the same distance, greatly dis, or miss the easiest putt in the world.. THE ART OF GOLF. 79

100 yards wide, the ground undulating either that which he has just used or the •or even hilly. The finer the turf is the one that he is about to employ. better; but it is never perfect, because I propose here to give a descriptive golfers are always slicing bits of it out list of all the clubs which may or may with their clubs, quicker than the green- noi be in a set. keeper can replace them, which is not Nearly every one carries a play club, saying much. When you find your ball an instrument consisting of many parts. lying on one of these scraps, you bemoan; It has no legs, but a instead. It but it is only when breaks in the turf are has, however, a toe. Its toe is at the found within twenty yards of the hole end of its face, close to its nose, which is that the green-keeper is inexcusable. not on its face. Although it has no body, On every course there ought to be it has a sole. It has a neck, a head, and plenty of hazards—that is, places where clubs also have horns. They always a shot is lost unless the driving be far have a whipping, but this has nothing to enough, straight, or high. Off the course do directly with striking the ball. There there are rabbit-holes, gorse bushes, rail- is little expression in the face of a club. ways, ploughed fields, gardens, and green- It is usually wooden; sometimes, how- houses for crooked drivers; on it, bunkers ever, it has a leather face. Clubs, with- or sand-holes for topped and short balls. out being clothed, occasionally have lead The best kind of bunkers are natural. buttons, but never any button-holes. Those which are often visited usually Clubs' heads are some black, some yellow, have names, being called some man's but colour is not due to any racial differ- nose or grave, or merely his bunker. To ence. From this description it will be have a bunker named after you is a mon- easy to understand, without a diagram, umentum aere perennius. People like be- what a club is like. ing godfathers to bunkers, although it is Spoons in most respects resemble clubs. not usually complimentary to their driv- Their faces are somewhat more open. ing. Where there is a lack of natural There are long, short, and mid spoons, bunkers, artificial ones are dug. Walls, so called according to the length of the roads, ditches, and cops serve as hazards spoon. on the course, but these are not recog- Brassies differ from, spoons and play nised as so desirable as bunkers. clubs in that they have brass bottoms which are screwed on. CHAPTER IV.* Irons and cleeks have no sole. Their toes and noses are one and the same OF SETS OF CLUBS AND OTHER GOLFING thing. They have iron faces. They are APPURTENANCES. never whipped. They have sockets in- A set of clubs may be defined as that stead of necks. Their mode of locomo- assortment which the player's caddy car- tion is called ' approaching.' This is a ries in a cover on wet days. On fine short swinging gait. Sometimes, like days the player carries one club himself, play clubs, they drive, but no kind of biiflCE **I shall not attempt to keep pace with Sir can discover Sir Walter had no dreams of the Walter in his excellent fooling in this chapter. marvels to be wrought by aluminium clubs and The reader shall enjoy the worthy baronet's rubber-cored;balls. He is also silent about the pleasantries without other comment. The re- goose-neck , the socket driver, the bulger ference to a " portable platform " is rather a fine and other modern devices. The royal and an- anticipation of Mr. Beldam's linoleum mat cient game in common with sister arts and divided into six-inch scpiares for revealing math- sciences has to pay the of having sur- ematically one's precise stance, but so far as one vived. 80 THE ART OF GOLF. club ever walks. There are different Old-fashioned irons look like the mis- kinds of irons. A driving iron is used sing link between a meat cleaver and a when it is too far to go without doing so. kitchen spoon. They all originally be- Lofting irons are more light-headed; longed to somebody's grandfather, and are they look like their work, but do not only now to be found in glass cases or in always do it. Cleeks are cleeks; they the sets of very bad players, who, accord- are not marked out from their creation ing to whether they had a golfing grand- for special uses. You may carry a driv- father or not, expiscate or purchase them. ing and an approaching cleek, and a The player, when getting this instrument cleek for putting; but if some one steals from his caddy, does not ask for an iron your set, or if you die, your putting cleek in the usual way. He says ' Give me my may be used for driving, etc. etc. heavy iron,' in a tone which causes the Then there are A good one inexperienced adversary to despair. In ought to have the name ' Philip ' stamped reality, using an old-fashionod iron is the on it by somebody who must not tell you last expedient of those who cannot loft a that he did it himself, or it must have be- ball with anything else. Even this ex- longed to some one else before you got pedient often fails, but defeat is at least it — either an old golfer who is dead (no avenged by the destruction of the green. matter whether he was a good holer-out In addition to ordinary and extraord- or not) or else to a professional. No golfer inary, there are special clubs (most of my with any self-respect uses a putter which own invention), few of which have as yet he has bought new out of a shop for four come into general use. shillings. The automatic self-adjusting tee is a The niblick is too vulgar-looking for simple little contrivance whose name ex- descriplion in a polite treatise like this. plains it. It prevents toeing, heeling, He is a good fellow, however, ever ready and topping, correcting errors in the to get you out of a hole. swing of the club, acting somewhat in the These are the ordinary clubs, but there same way as the compensating balance of are many more. There are clubs with a watch. It is a convenience to attach vulcanite heads, with german silver faces, the automatic tee to your button-hole by with horn faces, clubs with bamboo a string which can be used to lift it to shafts, clubs with cork grips. Old gentle- your hand after each shot, just as the men use baffy spoons. organ-man jerks up his monkey when The ' President' is a niblick with a hole about to move on. in it, which might be a very good niblick The portable platform for the feet, if it were not a president. It is called a when the stance is bad, cannot be recom- president because the hole makes it clear- mended. A spade to level the ground is headed. more easily carried, and equally effica- There are putting irons which are cious. not irons but putters. People who The ' Dynamite' is a very powerful putt badly use these, and are happy, weapon. It is a club in the face of although they only put it out of which is inserted a small cartridge which their power ever to putt well. There are explodes when the ball strikes it. With putters made like croquet mallets, and this club a good driver has been known there are perfectly upright ones. The to get past the long hole at St. Andrews latter are of no use to corpulent persons, in one shot. Loading for each drive is, as they cannot see the ball. Even the however, so inconvenient that the dyna- emaciated hole-out better without them. mite has not come into general use. Be- \

THE ART OF GOLF. 81 sides, the trouble, the expense, and smair'magnet which enables the player to danger connected with it are so consider- hole-out with great precision, the iron in able as to make it unpopular. It would the hole (the ' tin,' it is called) attracting be rash to start on a round without a the magnet. For driving north the mag- surgeon to carry the clubs, and surgeons net ball is very good, but in driving east of course charge more than ordinary cad- or west some allowance must be made for dies. If dynamite came into general use the skid of attraction. During a thunder- the would require to be storm the carry of these balls is really slightly altered. As they stand at present, astonishing. holes would occasionally be lost because ' But,' cries the beginner despondingly, the player could not come up to time. ' must I buy all these things ?' He cer- Ten minutes is scarcely enough to allow tainly may if he choose. Like some for trepanning, which would often be patent medicines, if they do no good, necessary, as the cartridge frequently they will do no harm. The usual course, fails to go off till the club has reached the however, for the tyro is reluctantly to be level of the head. With a dynamite it is persuaded to buy a cleek and a driver, safer to jerk than to take a full swing. and to get the loan of a ball. This is The author does not recommend the sure to decide him to go in for the game, dynamite. It reduces golf too nearly to and he buys a full set—namely a driver, the level of grouse driving or covert a long spoon, a mid spoon, a short spoon, shooting. a cleek, an iron niblick, a putter, if he goes The putter scale is a light iron tripod, to a club-maker. If he buys a friend's into which you adjust an ordinary putter, spare clubs, they will be a more necessi- placing the tripod so that the head of the tious-looking lot, the shafts either twisted putter rests behind the ball. On the or too thick to twist. This does not tripod there is a scale showing the dis- much matter, as the whole set will be tance the putter is to be drawn back and broken several times over before the tyro let fall for each length of putt. Of course begins to develop notions of his own. the player has to guess the said length With an old coat, nailed boots, and some for himself. balls, he is ready to start. Gloves for We now come to the subject of golf blistered hands, pitch to make the gloves balls, of which, as of clubs, there are grip, sticking-plaster for frayed fingers, a many kinds—not, however, like the clubs, knife for sharp nails, elastic wristlets for to be used for different shots. There are started sinews, may be purchased either twenty - sixes to twenty-nines, guttas, at once or as the necessity for them arises. eclipses, black, white, and red balls, and As soon as the tyro is admitted to a club, the magnet ball. The numbers twenty- it is his duty to buy a golfing umbrella six to twenty-nine are purely sentimental. for the use of the members. White balls are used when there is neither Bad players always carry a very large snow nor daisies, red ones when there is set, but the converse of this proposition either, black ones by the poor and the is not true, many good ones doing the stingy. Black eclipses are less objection- same. Still, there are certain inferences able than black guttas, for at least they to be drawn from sets of clubs. One are round. With a black eclipse one is need never be afraid to give a shade of allowed to pretend that the love of money odds to a player who carries three spoons. is not the root of all evel. The magnetic It is safer not to bet with a man who has ball is one of my own many inventions. none, Why bad players carry all these It is simply an ordinary ball containing a spoons I have never been able to make 82 THE ART OF GOLF. out. Perhaps it is to encourage 'them- chance. The good player with notions, selves with—to use and discard as each on the other hand, runs riot in irons and in rotation proves itself ineffectual. It is cleeks, mashies, niblicks, and putters, certain that one or the other becomes for each of which is supposed to have special- the time being favourite. It is the best ties in the way of loft, length of carry, club he ever had; he can drive further etc. etc. That constantly changing does with it than with a play club (a doubtful not ruin his play is because of the extra advantage, one would think. Would a care needed to hit accurately. The man man praise a putter which sent a two- of one iron is apt now and then to miss yard putt three past the hole ?). The from too implicit trust in the familiar face HE open <&» largness of a bad player's set is usually which has never deceived him from many due to excess of wooden clubs. Ap- a round. I proaching, being all a fluke, he leaves to fottowing tue Ams^i ' j, Trans pm^ 3 Dnringrecestf «* tjiioined to SCW sport, bii M a^ '

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HE open championship of Great was among the 92 who could not stay Britain was held at Sandwich on the pace and retired at the end of two T June 8, 9 and 10, during the week rounds. following the Amateur event in which W. Robert Thomson, of , J. Travis gained such a signal success- who has taken up Braid's duties at Rom- During recent years we have become ac" ford, equalled the record of 75 made by customed to record entries in all forms of in 1899. Such a fine score sport, but an entry of 144 players—18 might well have given us an inkling of amateurs and 126 professionals—surprised what was to come. Harry Vardon, and every one. But the open championship also J. Graham, Jr., might have equalled is the professional's holiday and every this had they not required fives at the last credit is due to the younger players for hole, both finishing in 76. Then Tom their pluck in making the journey, know- Vardon, J. Braid, and J. H. Taylor—you ing full well as they did that only the very cannot keep these men out of the top best play would even allow them to play places—came close behind with 77. in the second stages. Three days were in , who prefers a windy consequence necessary, one round on the day to a calm one, was round in a sound Wednesday, one round on Thursday, and 78. The only other players to break those players who were within 20 strokes eighty were P. J. Gaudin (another Jersey of the leader at the end of two rounds player, now professional to the Man- played two more rounds on the Friday. chester Club), and G. Coburn, of Port- The first day was fine, but grey and marnock. Jack White, who was to startle very windy. At the very first hole the us by his great deeds later on, finished in force of the gale was felt and not a few 80, a score equalled by , drives were carried into the rough on the and H. Cawsey. Following right—and the rough at Sandwich was were small crops of 81's, 82's and 83's, all long grass which would have delighted sorts of scores and even one of 99. Mr. any farmer's heart. Would Mr. Travis Travis and Mr. Ball and Mr. Mure-Fer- win the open as well as the amateur was gusson were 83, while Mr. Fry and Mr. the question asked by many? Pro- Blackwell both ran up to 88. fessional golf has been brought to such a The good old-fashioned game of state of perfection that many doubted the "Family Coach" was the order of the ability of the visitor or any other amateur day all through the meeting. The wind to rout Vardon, Taylor, Braid and Co. had moderated on Thursday, but the Mr. Travis, unconcerned and unaffected greens had become more slippery. Harry as he appeared during his successful Vardon ousted Thomson from his position career of the previous week, had never- as leader, returning a fine 73 and making theless felt the strain. His long putts a record for the time being. Thomson went anywhere but in the hole, and he only dropped to second place, a good 84 THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP OF GREAT BRITAIN.

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BRAID PUTTING AT TENTH HOLE. BRITISH OPEN \ THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP OF GREAT BRITAIN. 85 round of 76, making his total 151 against by three strokes with his putter, and a 6 Vardon's 149. J. Sherlock, who spends was registered. At the 8th he required his time breaking the lecord of the Ox- 5 where 3 should have been sufficient. ford University course, created a sensa- Keeping to fours and fives for the re- tion by turning his attention to Sandwich mainder of the round he finished in 79. and holing out in 71. A remarkable Jack White, who started before Vardon, round this, for there were no less than was playing very fine golf. Out in 34 he eight 3's in it! Willie Park required 84 continued on his happy way, playing for his first round, but coming on his put- wonderfully accurate approaches with an ting handed in a magnificent 72. Mr. iron borrowed from Tom Vardon's shop, Graham in the meantime was putting to- and he holed out in 72. But Braid was gether another 76 and (who doing even better. His outward journey like Park required 84 for his first round) only cost him 31 strokes, made up as fol- equalled it. Tom Vardon, Mr. Black- lows : 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3 = 31. well, Fred. Collins, of Llandudno, E. Home in 38, he was thus the first player Gray and all returned 77. to hole a championship course in 69. The position was therefore as follows: Therefore we who were lookers-on began Harry Vardon, 76 and 73 = 149; R. to get excited. Thomson, 75 and 76 = 151; Mr. Graham, Taylor, Kirkaldy and Toogood were all 76 and 76 == 152; J. Sherlock, 83 and round in 74. Mr. Graham ran up to 78, 71 = 154; Tom Vardon, 77 and 77 =154; and Mr. Ball was 79, but Mr. Maxwell Jack White, 80 and 75 = 155; J. H. returned an excellent 76. The position Taylor, 77 and 78 = 155; , was now quite different once won. Braid 77 and 80 = 157; and Mr. Maxwell, 80 was now the leader with 226, White was and 80; Ben Sayers, 80 and 80; and 227, Harry Vardon 228, Taylor 229, Tom Sandy Herd, 84 and 76, were still well Vardon 229, Mr. Graham 230, Kirkaldy in the running. The amateurs did not 231 and Sherlock 232. At lunch we fare very well in this round, although Mr. wondered who would win, but were quite Blackwell did 77, and Mr. Ball 78. unprepared for the fine and sporting finish Eighteen amateurs started but only six, which resulted. Messrs. Graham, Maxwell, Ball, Mure- Jack White had been reducing his Fergusson, Worthington and Blackwell scores each round, first 80, then 75 and qualified. Mr. Travis required 88. Mr. then 72. In this fourth and last he Hilton was never on his game, and along played "better than he knew how " as the with 92 other players retired from the Irishman observed. Starting with a brace contest. of 4's, he got a fine 3 at the Sahara and When Harry Vardon leads the crowd a 4 at the fourth, but the fifth he snatched actually follows in his wake. But the in a magnificent 2—a beautiful drive and Totteridge player found the slippery an excellent putt—and with the Maiden greens too difficult for him. This is the in 3, he had the first six holes in 20 or time when a player is apt to lose ground two over threes! Five, three, four made and Vardon came to grief at the Maiden him 32 out. Coming home he had eight as hundreds of fine golfers had done be- 4's and one 5—fine, accurate golf this— fore him. Yet, curiously enough, it was and he had equalled Braid's record. He not that fair lady's charms which beguiled seemed a safe winner with 296 for the him from the path of golfing rectitude. four rounds. But Braid and then Taylor He overdrove the green and two indiffer- gave him a fright. Braid was out in 34. ent shots in the rough were followed up The long fifteenth he holed in 3, and he 86 THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP OF GREAT BRITAIN. itf

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J. GRAHAM, JR., IN A BUNKER. BRITISH OPEN CHAIVtrfONSHIP. THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP OF GREAT BRITAIN. 87 had to do the last three holes in eleven to The new champion thoroughly deserved tie. A couple of 4's did not give him the his success in winning in a year when the best of chances. Two shots found him play all through was of such a high well on the home green, but to the sur- standard. Years ago—he is about 31 prize of all he was short with his long- years of age—Jack White carried for J. putt, and he finished in 71 with a grand E. Laidley and acted for him when he total of 297. It transpired he was under won his first amateur championship in the impression that he had to hole his long 1889 He was for some years at Seaford, putt to win and two to tie. Taylor made a bold bid for vic- tory. He started in sensational fashion, 3, 3, 2, but requiring 5's for the fourth and seventh holes he was out in 32. The homeward journey he negotiated magnifi- cently and these holes only cost him 36 strokes—the lowest score during the championship and equalled only by Sherlock, who finished with three 3's. At the last hole Taylor almost holed his long putt and he tied with Braid for second place with 297. His round cost him only 68 strokes, a record for Sandwich and any championship green. Tom Vardon finished in 72, his best round of the meeting, and Harry was 74. Sherlock, with 77, just beat Kirk- aldy for the last prize by one stroke. Mr. Graham came out the best of the amateurs with a total of 310, although he ran up to 80 in his last round. Mr. Maxwell, with 77, made his total 313. JACK WHTTE, The final results, therefore, were Open Champion. as follows: Jack White, (Championship, gold medal but a couple of years ago he went to and ^50) 80x75x72x69=296; J, H. Tay- Sunningdale and that position he still lor, (^20) 77x78x74x68=297; James holds He has figured in two big matches Braid, (^20) 77x80x69x71=297; Tom for stakes, one against J. H. Taylor and Vardon, (^10) 77x77x75x72=301; Harry the other against Tom Vardon, but he lost Vardon, {£j.ion.) 76x73x79x74=302; both. A fine driver, a pretty player with J Sherlock, (£7.10s.) 83x71x78x77=309; all his iron clubs, and above all a most J. Graham, Jr., 76x76x78x80=310; An- accurate putter. He has long been known drew Kirkaldy, 78x79x74x79=310; Alex. as one likely to win the championship and Herd, 84x76x76x75=311; R Maxwell, now that he has done the deed every one $rff$$fy,, 8 o x 8 o x is pleased, and Vardon, Braid and Taylor 76x77=313. were among the first to congratulate him. THE FOURSOME By Dr. J. G. McPherson, St. Andrews, Scotland.

WAS very much gratified to read in vidual, when the best players do not en- the March issue of this excellent jour- courage the inferior, when the lithe young I nal, our accomplished editor's hearty swiper does not reverence the pawky advocacy of the real foursome in golf. approaching of his stiffened senior, then For, a few years ago, I hazarded three the game is doomed. Let the reaction articles on the subject in order to do my be decided and continuous. There is, little endeavor to turn back the attention really, to the true golfer, more satisfaction, of the modern enthusiast from mere scor- more cheering heartsomeness in the social ing, (with its individual glory,) record development of foursome play in its in- breaking, (with its weak conceit,) and tegrity than in the securing of a medal or pot-hunting, (with its unsportsmanlike the breaking of a record. For in it man's brag) to the most enjoyable form of the nature expands into genial fellowship, pastime as played in the days of old. true brotherhood is engendered, and And, I am so glad that there appears to health-instilling energy is given to the be a reaction in the lines advocated by worried, care-driven, over-wrought or the editor and myself. You cannot say over-indulgent man. you are a first-class finished golfer until The ideal foursome has on each side a you have fought in many a foursome, and powerful driver and a deadly short game had your measure taken in this, the most player. There can then be no air of jeal- important branch of all golfers' education. ousy; each studies his partner's play. The prime minister of Great Britain (the But this is rarely to be secured. Next to Right Hon A. J. Balfour) considers no it is where a first-class and a second-class enjoyment equal to a well-matched four- player are on each side.' There is perfect some, often played. Until the lamented enjoyment in such a match, and the more death of Mr. Penn, M. P., (one of the frequently they play, the keener they be- four) Mr. Balfour made it a point to come, and the pleasure ever increases. engage in the well-known foursome at And this especially when no one is every possible opportunity. These tussles crotchety or tight-laced, with no taste for banished from his mind the worries of ever making an excuse for a real fault, State more successfully than any other but thick-enough-skinned to stand gentle means. banter, and even genial teasing. In the In the " rlftees" and " sixties" few cared ordinary alternative striking, there is for singles, and there was no scoring ex- plenty of scope for hearty, absorbing and cept on the Wednesday of the two medal- invigorating play. weeks. Even during these galaxy weeks It is a very healthy sign of a reaction the foursome was paramount, when war- for to see how heartily Mr.John riors in many a closely contested match L. Low advocates that form of golf. He would " at it tooth and nail" again as if follows the authoritative opinion of his all their reputation depended on the issue. intimate friend, the late Lieutenant Tait The golf foursome is excellence a Johnnie and Freddie stand out as the social game. And when golf ceases to strongest advocates of the foursome in make that element prominent, when its modern times. Freddie considered that medals and records are specially indi- all other was but a makeshift for the real

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thing. He could have secured a cabinet these four enthusiasts could strike their Ml of trophies by his individual play ; but colors. So keen were they that they took he always preferred a quiet foursome with to the short holes in order to decide the personal friends. contest, and with lanterns set at the holes In this form of the game a man's in- to guide the putt! dividuality is absorbed in the common With well-matched players, there is tieyom cause—the success of the partnership. really very little to go and come upon in The common aim is as absorbing as in the end after many rounds have been whist, but it is healthier when the players played. About 1870, when Tommy are not muzzled. The player must not Morris was at his best, he partnered take a liberty or risk anything without his the distinguished amateur, Mr. Gilbert partner's consent. He has to calculate Mitchell lnnes (the toughest opponent where to drive his ball, not as if he had to ever I had). Against them were Davie play the second—the important shot of Strath (Tommy's chum and close rival) the hole —but thinking of what his partner and (three times an open is best able to do, and what will best suit champion.) They played in all some 600 his style of play. There must be mutual holes, at the end of which the two pro- counsel and encouragement; herein lies fessionals were two matches ahead, but the social element of the game. eight holes behind, this anomaly being It is a matter of common observation accounted for by the fact than in one that a good steady second-class player match of thirty-six holes, Mr. lnnes and and a first-class player will hole the round his partner won by eleven holes. in nearly as few strokes as the better In 1675, on the , the Duke I be no ait of id- player can do playing his own ball. The of York (afterwards King James II.) took inferior player, when he has thorough a shoemaker (a capital golfer) for his confidence in his partner, and attends to partner, and beat the two bragging Eng- the directions given by one more ex- lish noblemen. In 1849, Allan and Tom of perienced, will always play above his St. Andrews played a brilliant foursome, game. He is astonished at it; yet it is a against the brothers Dunn of Mussel- fact, and nothing will improve his general burgh, and old golfers talk over it to this play as much as a series of such four- day. After playing 100 holes the St. somes. He begins to think and feel that Andrew's men were behind, but by a he is a real golfer, after all, so admirably glorious effort they succeeded in winning does this mutually beneficial and social the match. element come into foursome play. Give up four ball matches; that is a Only think of the enthusiasm shown in caricature of the foursome. Encourage a foursome like this, when Mr. Tom Peter mixed foursomes. I see no greater en- and played against Mr. thusiasm displayed by beginners than a O'Brien Peter and Tom Morris. They fairly arranged match with a lady and played a greater number of rounds over gentleman on each side, stick to the St. Andrews links than had ever been' lightsome, even laughter-inspiring form done in the same time before or since. of the game. You play, if not for sport, They played for two days consecutively, for enjoyment. Hie back to golf at its five rounds each day (eighteen holes the best. Real golf is only played by holes, round) and the match ended all square. and the best humor, the greatest pleasure, When they finished, Allan said he had the most enthusiastic, companionship can never had " sic' a belly fou o' gowf in only be found in well-balanced, stiffly- a' his days." It was only after dusk that contested foursomes. r die rwl ••"J

MANHANSET MANOR COUNTRY CLUB

NE of the best eighteen-hole golf and are situated upon hillsides overlook- courses on Long Island is that ing Gardiner's Bay. O of the Manhanset Manor Coun- In many respects the course resembles try Club. It was formerly known as the some of the best of the Scotch links. The Shelter Island Golf Club, under which soil is sandy and the grass on the fair name its links obtained popularity with green is of a dwarf, creeping nature, which golfers. This is not likely to be lessened affords fine tees. The putting greens are under the new title, more especially con- large and well-kept. They are smooth, sidering that the course is in better con- with a thick crop of creeping bent and dition than it has ever been. a sprinkling of soft grass. Golfers, like other men, are not indiffer- The course has a total length of 5,695 ent to their surroundings ; and the pleas- yards, and in detail the following descrip- ure of the game to most people is tion is given : enhanced when the journey from hole to No. 1. 225 yards. There is a sand hole is traversed amid beautiful scenery. trap 130 yards from the tee. The bogey The eighteen holes occupy two hundred is four. and fifty acres of undulating highlands No. 2. 345 yards. This hole has an

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abundance of natural hazards, which are only sixty yards wide. The bogey is by no means too difficult for the golfer to four. negotiate, but undoubtedly add to the in- No. 7. 365 yards. This runs across terest of the play. The green is located to the sea and is a splendid golf hole. on a platform at the top of an elevated First comes a ravine, then a plateau on piece of ground, the approach to it being which the ball will find a good lie. The up a perfect grade. The bogey is five. plateau is followed by another ravine. No. 3. 235 yards. This hole runs Then comes a fine natural at the straight along the shore of Cockel's rear of which is a valley with a beautiful Harbor. A couple of ponds to the right green lying in its centre. The bogey is catch a sliced ball, and there is a sand five. trap 128 yards from the tee. The bogey No. 8. 423 yards. The fair green is is four. rolling, and calls for good golf. Slicing No. 4. 215 yards. Behind the green and pulling are fatal. The bogey is six. is a chasm that never fails to catch an No. 9. 420 yards. There are good over-approach. The bogey is four. hazards to catch first and second shots. No. 5. 185 yards. Off the tee is a The bogey is six. drive across a ravine eighty-five yards No. 10. 535 yards. It takes three wide. The bogey is four. good shots to reach the green, which is a No. 6. 217 yards. There is another punch-bowl. Like No. 9, this hole has ravine in front of this tee, but it is sand traps for first and second shots. 92 SELF-RES TRAINT.

No. II. 410 yards. There is a blind up a valley, over a hill fifty feet high, sand trap 127 yards from the tee. The which has a gradual up-grade on to a hole is of a rolling nature. The bogey is plateau, where there is a perfect green. five. The bogey is four. No. 12. 195 yards. Runs along the No. 16. 340 yards. There is a sand edge of a grove of trees, down hill into a trap for first shot, and a cop bunker for valley. The green lies at the base of second shot. The bogey is five. Edgar's Pulpit, which is well known to No. 17. 520 yards. There are bunkers visitors to Shelter Island. The bogey is for first, second and third shots. The I 00 * four. bogey is six. No. 13. 300 yards. A sand bank, No. T8. 290 yards. Calls for straight 100 yards from the tee, forms a natural play to avoid some trees. The bogey is hazard. The green lies in a valley, and four. immediately in front of it there is a huge The club will hold an open tournament rock. This acts as an approach hazard, August 24-27, and no doubt this will so that it requires a pitched-up shot to attract some of the best players. The play straight on to the flag. The bogey officers of the club are: President, Ben- is five. jamin Atha, Newark, N. J.; Vice-Presi- No. 14. 214 yards. Like No. 13, this dent, J. Lester Keep, M. D., Brooklyn, is a blind hole with a sand trap to catch N. Y.; Treasurer, William P. Hadwen, a sliced drive. If you get a carry of 180 Montclair, N. J.; Secretary, Henry P. yards straight, the down-hill run will give Havens, New York. The professional is you the green. The bogey is four. Valentine Flood. No. 15. 235 yards. There is a drive

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SELF-RESTRAINT By W. Shaw.

A charming young lady called Lamn Once vowed she'd play golf and be camn. So she smiled and she laffed When she topped and she sclaffed, Till one day she forgot and said—" Fudge ! "

\ green. STUDIES IN GOLFING THEORY V.—THE CENTRE OF THE SWING By an Amateur.

N our studies hitherto we have en- of the body is rather like the movement deavored to discover and elucidate of the door itself as it is opened for say I the unitary principle which underlies 900 and closed again upon unmoved the various descriptive phrases that by hinges with absolute smoothness and even- common consent indicate the proper char- ness. Let the golfer get his shoulders to acteristics of the true swing, showing that move with this steadiness and half the these may be explained as different points troubles of the swing are conquered ; but of view of the swing, but that, in reality, so long as he visualises the swing as some- the timing of the stroke, the follow- thing that is akin to a lunge or a heave, through and the snap of the wrists are all he describes a flat or devitalized arc essential to each other, no one of them whose centre would be found, not near existing in its full perfection without the the top of his spine or in his head where other. But as was remarked by Mr. Wal- it ought to be, but yards and yards out- ter Bagehot in treating of the British Con- side of him. It is important, therefore, stitution, " On all great subjects much for the player to cultivate and preserve remains to be said," so we need not be the feeling of having the centre of the surprised if the not less recondite topic swing located somewhere in the plane of of The True Golfing Swing may be profit- his own backbone, from which undeviat- ably regarded from still another point of ing centre he is describing as mighty a view. circle as may be; all the while, of course, We plunge at once into our subject by as explained in previous papers, properly citing some wise words of Mr. H. J. diverging and converging his club in obe- Whigham, who, describing the swing, dience to properly managed wrists, and remarks: " There must be no forward reserving the emphasis for the nadir, so to movement of the whole person as there speak, of his swing. is in base-ball or cricket." And in The Willie Park, in his little book on the Art of Golf, Sir Walter Simpson reminds game, attaches great importance to fol- us that " swaying the whole body for- low-on, and instances the style of his ward after the ball is as likely to cripple father, a great golfer in his day, who " fol- driving as swaying away from it when lowed on" to such an extent as to take taking the club back." The vice which one or two steps forward after his ball these authoritative dicta condemn is large- had been struck. Now we have no hesi- ly due to an erroneous conception of the tation in pronouncing such a style as bad follow-through and the supposed virtues and dangerous, and are much inclined to of a "follow-on," and also to forgetful- think that in Park Sr's case it was merely ness of the fact that the movement of the a nervous flourish or addition to the body is, properly, a turn and re-turn upon swing, and as little part of it as the pre- the axis of the spine and by no means a liminary waggle. We have not seen any lunge forward as if one were bursting pictures of the elder Park in action, but open a fastened door. In fact the turn those of his son exhibit an admirable re- 94 THE CENTRE OF THE SWING.

straint and control at the finish, showing centre of the swing. The same feature is that the pivotal turn has been well execu- a characteristic of Mr. Findlay S. Doug- ted as such, and exhibiting no trace what- las. Mr. Travis and Mr. Byers display a ever of lunge or heave or push or forward perfect follow-through but no follow-on, rush. In the true swing as we conceive and the same feature is also characteristic it the head of the club describes, and if it of the British cracks; notably so in the could leave the traces of its course in the case of the present amateur champion, ambient air would show a considerable Mr. Maxwell. Taylor, Vardon and Braid circle or eclipse whose plane would be at too, all exhibit the vertical line between an angle of about 45" to the surface of left toe and head at the finish—vertical in a site the ground and the centre of this swing appearance from the side, that is, for they have is, roughly, in the player's cranium or are careful to maintain the body in the neck, the radius of the circle or ellipse same plane as at the address, and there- consisting of the club, the arms and the fore somewhat bending in. Each of these shoulders. This very long radius not be- great players avoids swinging himself for- tfthernbbffcaw ing rigid throughout, but possessing three ward with loss of balance. Mr. Hilton | Tie recent ffigti sections, viz. shoulders, arms and club, is remarks in a recent article, " Straightness American oonfB difficult in the manipulation, and every is secured by the avoidance of any change fcwe« r: '••• s ds;y:ffi

• consideration of accuracy and the co-inci- in the position of the centre of the circle dence of all contributory forces demands the circumference of which is described ] have seadri that the centre should move as little as by the club head." More than straight- Office records possible. Let us also remark that atten- ness is secured—power is concentrated. iko been to :.' ' tion to this important principle does not Nothing indeed is more detrimental to the British Mffiraa3 necessitate a stiff holding of the head and good and effective form than a centre that At this perio: I ES eyes towards the ball after it is struck. If is allowed to shift itself. A door with care is taken to keep the head in the same wobbling hinges, and a golfer whose swing ih is the Lai place it matters little, but is rather an ad- has a wobbling centre are on a par and y." vantage, if it is allowed to turn sympa- equally in piteous case. Let us therefore In i860 a as thetically with the body towards the di- stand firm, execute the quarter turn with- i, &:; ;® rection of flight. If we examine the fin- out swaying or lunging, avoid looking up i iii- rag aeet ish of recognized good styles we shall too soon, fortifying ourselves the while tri\-ered over fkl observe that the centre of the swing is not with the lines of the poet who describes elastic thread MS allowed to shift forward, it is rather kept his hero as dearly apj^ars as back. Note, for instance, in the slashing fciiba cnal • style of our Princetonians a very remark- " Staunch, self-centred, firm, " Launching his bolt like Jove, viewing its flight able holding back of the body, which is "In calm assurance that it cannot fail." 1 Reri:; nothing but a resolute steadying of the teEsi I 10 Berne. X?-,

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GOLF BALLS (A Selection up to 1900)

By John Duncan Dunn.

T gives me a great deal of pleasure to Strangely enough employees in a shoe write about golf ball patents, as I factory in Glasgow made rubber cored I have made a study of them for over balls out of scrap elastic used in the sides a year and I feel sure that golfers are in- of boots and gutta percha which was used terested in this subject, since the advent on the soles sixteen years ago. These of the rubber cored ball. balls can be produced. The recent litigation between two of Weeks, the cricket ball maker of Maid- the American companies engaged in the stone, made baseballs on the same princi- manufacture of rubber cored balls led me ple as the present rubber cored ball. This to go thoroughly into this question. was after the secdnd visit of an American I have searched the British Patent baseball team to this country. Office records back to i860 and have From i860 there is no record of a golf also been through the books on golf in ball patent till 1890 when H. J. Rofe took the British Museum Library back to 1600. out a patent No. 9,5^4 for golf balls of At this period I was surprised to unearth papier mache, then Park patented his in a Latin dictionary the word "Paganica," diamond marking for golf balls No. 16,- which is the Latin for "a goff or stow 862—1890. ball." The first attempt to make a golf ball In i860 a man named Nicholson, of white throughout was in 1891 when I. Rochdale, took out a patent for a " goff Archibald took out a patent No. 6,917 for ball," having a centre of wound thread golf balls with which a coloring matter covered over with gutta percha. Now, has been incorporated to make them uni- elastic thread was known then, so it form in color throughout. clearly appears as if he had anticipated Patent No. 16,816—1891 is for a ball the rubber cored ball. With regard to with a covering of rubber paint consisting the thread being wound under tension of of a solution of India rubber with which course everything wound necessarily is pigments are mixed. The rubber paint is under tension. I went up to Rochdale afterwards vulcanized on the balls. This to interview Nicholson but found he had is something like the covering of a pneu- been dead many years. matic ball and I should think it could be Hosts of Englishmen remember the applied with advantage to the rubber toy balls which were made of wound cored balls. With a covering of this de- elastic thirty years ago. The rubber scription and white gutta percha they cored ball is simply that ball with a should last much longer. covering of gutta percha. One of the Patent No. 17,184—1891 is for a rather concerns which made these toy balls is peculiar composition for a golf ball, viz.: still in existence. The name of the firm powdered horn or bone mixed with gutta is Castle, of Leicester. They still wind percha, India rubber and elastic gums, elastic balls. glues or cements. 96 BRITISH GO IF PATENTS.

Patent No. 19,763—1891, the pneu- it describes an intermediate layer of sheet matic celluloid ball, is interesting as it rubber. covers both a ball with a core and the Patent No. 11,761—1896, W. Park. THE ball with air only. The pneumatic cellu- " Golf balls are formed with flattened loid was too hard and smashed the faces parts of hexagonal shapes." of clubs. Patent No. 24,667—1896, P. Fernie & Patent No. 4,774—1892, A. Davidson, others. Pebble marking. is the first patent for a rifled ball. All kinds of patent composition golf June 29th l° Is Patent No. 2,454—1893 is for a cricket balls have been tried but none lasted any ball but it is worth mentioning as it de- time except Currie's "Eclipse" which was the Royal Mootred scribes a core of India rubber or other a composition of rubber, cork and steel Que. The R<« elastic material and is therefore some- filings. This ball drove about as far as pardonable id« what on the order of the cheap rubber the gutta off wooden clubs; lasted very Hot of betnj B cored balls, which have cores of elastic much longer and went very much further America, iis re; wound under tension and then chemically off iron clubs than the gutta. The princi- jar 1S75 F treated to make the elastic homogeneous- pal objection to it was the lack of click. mduiged in the !8fs Patent No. 13,933—!893 is another It was about the same price as a gutta patent for making a ball white without ball and was really an excellent ball for Royal, bat tk i:: having to paint the surface. beginners. It came out about 1888 and aid pictiKSjffi f- Patent No. 15,572—1893 is for a com- only lasted a year or two. compeiled tkit I position golf ball which did not material- Patent No. 4,370—1898, C. Henry. Penates, and Disse, ize. The rifled ball again. Patent No. 3,653—1895, "a compound Patent No. 17,554—1898, The Haskell of 60 per cent, cellulose or pulp 15 Ball. " Balls for golf or other games are per cent, albumen, 15 per cent, of a solu- formed of two parts, an inner elastic part tion of copal mastic or other gums, and 10 'A' and an outer inelastic part 'B.' The per cent, of a solution of gutta percha or inner part consists of a rubber thread India rubber." wound into special form under tension Patent No. 8,816—1895, De Pont, golf approaching the elastic limit. A small balls with solid cores of rubber. central hand core may be used upon Patent No. 18,233—1895, the bullet which to wind this thread. The outer ball. Lead bullets were embedded near part is a gutta percha shell, afterwards the outside to make the ball heavier there moulded as usual. Any known substitute than the centre and also to allow of a may be used for the gutta percha." smaller ball of the regulation weight to be Patent No. 9,786—1899. "Balls are used to lessen the resistance during its formed with a rigid core surrounded by a flight. casing of resilient material which is en- Patent No. 2,235—'896, G. Lewis. closed by a waterproof, etc., cover." " Balls for golf are formed with centres of Patent No. 4,165—1900, The Haskell rubber or other light and elastic material." Winding Machine (copy specification in Patent No. 5,319—1896, W. L. Bul- full). Since the Haskell Ball has come lows, golf balls with hollow metallic into favor there have been scores of golf centres. ball patents, enough to fill a volume. I Patent No. 9,490—1896, J. Lane, is for will leave them for a special article. cricket balls, but is worthy of mention as W. Park ned THE CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP By Onlooker. ting, HE Royal Canadian Golf Associa- the metropolis, and so named during the 'nl composition got tion held its ninth annual meeting war " that kept the Union whole," was but none lasted any T June 29th to July 2d, on the links of chosen as the new habitat. Behold the "Eclipse" whichwas the Royal Montreal Golf Club at Dixie, Royal golfers, then, with a course of over fe, cork and steel Que. The Royal Montreal, it may be 6,000 yards, intersected by the Grand irove about as far as pardonable to mention, has the distinc- Trunk Railway, guarded on the south by M dubs: lasted ven- tion of being the pioneer golf club in the waters of Lake St Louis, traversed al very much further America, its records going back to the in one corner by a brook which the legutta. The princi- year 1875. For many years the pioneers Scotchmen in the club call a burn, else- w$ tte lack of click indulged in the royal and ancient game where by a road, and with the usual com- Me pnce as a gutta upon the pleasant eastern slopes of Mont plement of cop-bunkers and artificial an excellent ball (or Royal, but the acquisition of that historic sand-hazards. The labor of converting e oat about i SSS and and picturesque site as a public park somewhat unpromising territory into ex- compelled them to remove their Lares et cellent golfing land was chiefly supplied if tfO. by Indians and half-breeds from Lachine "o—1&9S. C. Henry. Penates, and Dixie, twelve miles out from n. 1-1898, The HasH ii or other games are N an inner elastic part elastic part'B.' Be i of a rubber thread J form under tension iastic fait. A ad mv be used f» S thread. The outer rdia shell, afterwai Anyknownsubstitute ... njiia percha." 5-1899. "' core sarrounded b material which is Mete, aver"

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THE CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP. 98 THE CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP. and the ancient Iroquois reserve—Caugh- teur and Open Championship. For the nawagha, both quite near by. The su- first event a qualifying medal round of perintendent of the links is one of these 18 holes was played. The sixteen play- toilers, Meloche by name. Meloche is ers returning the best scores were then big and burly, but has the reputation of drawn against each other for , securing the fulfilment of necessary man- the second sixteen likewise playing off ual labor, more by precept than example, in a Consolation Competition. The and one of the jokes of the club is a semi-finals for picture of him standing very much at were played between George S. Lyons ease smoking his favorite tabac Canadien, and T. McC. Hutchison, and Percy hands in his pockets, etc., the whole be- Taylor with Douglas Laird. Lyons of ing described as " Meloche at work." Toronto, who has twice won the Aberdeen From the same quarters are drawn the Cup and Association Gold Medal that nimble and obliging caddies that serve so reward the victorious amateur, just suc- intelligently and capably at Dixie, and to ceeded by one hole in putting out Hut see these French and Indian boys swing chison of the Victoria Club, St. Lam- the driver or cleek is an object lesson in bert; Taylor, runner-up in 1901, had an the true golfing swing. easier task (3 to 1) with Douglas Laird, The principal events at the recent who learned his very effective game at meet of Canadian golfers were the Ama- Princeton. One of the prettiest matches

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GEORGE S. LYONS, PERCY TAYLOR, Runner-up. Amateur Champion of Canada.

was that between Laird and Gerald Lees performance of Oke of Ottawa, 76 and 80, of Outremont, the latter, whose style which headed the list winning the prize was much admired, losing by one hole. of $60, was proof of sound golf. Barret of The final between Lyons and Taylor Toronto, who has since been in the money of the Royal Montreal was won by the in the American Open Event, was second latter (3 and 1) in a stubbornly contested with 81 and 77. Geo. S. Lyons, runner- match of 36 holes. The result was up in the amateur event was third, with popular, seeing that the Royal Montreal 82 and 80, while Hendrie of Victoria, becomes the custodian of the champion- Murray of Westmount and Cumming of ship insignia for the first time, but there Toronto were equal with 163 for fourth was no lack of admiration for Lyons' place. Percy Taylor, the amateur cham- magnificent style and clever work. The pion, was seventh with 166. Consolation event was won by R. S. The meeting was pronounced upon all Shath of Toronto, H. E. Walker of West- hands to have been the most successful mount being the runner-up in the history of the association. The The Canadian professionals are a next for 1905 takes place in Toronto. sturdy capable lot of players, and the One neat shot«

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•fky Conducted fay Alexis J. Colman. and Smith made rE: ofihegrten the-: •?< HE Fifth Open Championship of of the greens on knolls all combine to '{ tag ps. l^l! the Western Golf Association was make play most interesting. mierestmg. am 1 T held at the Kent Country Club, si, The lengdi •' Grand Rapids, Mich., June 30-July 1 For the same reason bunkers are not through the ti "'•' and 2. Evidence that Willie Anderson the desiderata they are on a level was in excellent trim was afforded by his links, and there are fewer of them than than most o! IMS showing in the open championship of the on most courses which claim to be of West, in which he did best work in the championship class. But bunkers are in- field of thirty-two starters—twenty-eight stalled on a links to atone for lack of professionals and four amateurs, twenty- natural difficulties, and the architects of seven of whom completed the 72-hole the Kent course did rightly in not at- journey. But, unlike his later battle in tempting to improve too much on Na- the National event, Anderson was at all ture. times in the lead at Grand Rapids.

However, the wisdom of putting in The Grand Rapids course proved a wire fences as hazards and the location most agreeable surprise to the visiting of a windmill in the fairgreen may well players and officials. Rumors of its ex- be questioned. The wire fence affairs— cellence had, indeed, been circulated by fine-meshed so that a ball cannot get the Kent members, and especially by the through, and to clear which a niblick is club's delegates who asked for the tourna- necessary if the ball lie close up — are ment at the annual meeting of the Asso- a species of up-to-date hazard unique ciation. But the eating of the pudding with the Grand Rapids people and their left ample proof of its goodness. presence on a links does not conform to .-* the traditions of old St. Andrews. The The club is so named from the county stamp of approval may sometime be put in which it is located, and the county in on them; just now they seem as incon- turn must have got its title because of the gruous as electric lights in a catacomb or similarity which its hills and valleys bear carrying the news from Ghent to Aix by to the original Kent in . The telephone. founders of the club chose the highest knoll on the old farm for their club-house, The hilliness of the course proved a and from its verandas on three sides a problem to tax the best golf of the "pros," view of picturesque country for five miles and Fred Mackenzie, the Onwentsia man, entertains the eye. The course is a suc- was " clean fashed " by it, his ball almost cession of swales and hills, the ascents regularly finding the long grass after his and descents now abrupt, now gradual, tee shots, with the result that he lost con- and the side hill lies, necessitating careful fidence in his long game and required an brassey and iron work, and the location average of 84^ for his four rounds. WESTERN DEPARTMENT. 101

One neat shot is that for the " Spion turf a little soggy and the afternoon's Kop " hole, the seventh. The tee is in a play compelled the negotiation of a stiff valley and the green lies seventy feet breeze, Smith declaring that the course was above, the distance from the tee to flag the hardest he ever played over in a wind. being 130 yards. A nicely judged mashie Robert Simpson, of Riverside, with 80 may lay the ball dead,—Auchterlonie and 79, Laurence Auchterlonie with 79 and Smith made it in 2—but to the sides and 81, and Bob McAndrew, of Wollas of the green the slopes are covered with ton, with two 80s, followed the leaders long grass. In a word, the course was on opening day. interesting, and all the professionals said J- so. The length is 6,004 yards, the lies tors are not through the fair green are good and in A 75 on the morning of the second general the putting greens, though smaller day by Smith, to 77 for Anderson gave than most of those about Chicago, were the latter a lead of only one stroke. As true. the rest of the field was at least nine strokes to the bad—Auchterlonie, Stewart Gardner and Harry Turpie tieing at 241, Anderson led Alexander Smith and to 231 for Anderson and 232 for Smith— Harry Turpie by three strokes at the it was clearly to be a match between the close of the first days' play, 154 to 157, two Eastern rivals. Simpson had 242, Anderson's 76 and Smith and Turpie's McAndrew and Bertie Way 243, and 77s being best medal work of that day. Gilbert Nicholls, of St. Louis, 244. The A light shower in the morning left the record was lowered in the afternoon,

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Auchterlonie first making a 74 and hold- Robert G. McAndrew, Wollaston, fifth ing this record for less than five minutes, prize. for Willie Anderson, encouraged by the First day, 80 80 160 fine weather and an appreciative crowd of Second day, 161—321 club-members, made a 73, a very good performance, considering that it con- 0 rt t re 1> T3 0 tained a 6, made at the fourth hole m ir1 where too stiff blades of grass twice de- W. H. Way, Euclid l6l 161 322 flected putts. Robert Simpson, Riverside 159 166 325 Gilbert Nicholls, St. Louis 166 ito 326 Harry Turpie, Auburn Park 157 170 327 The entry for the event was up to the Horace Rawlins, Media, Pa. I64 166 33° high-class set for it in 1902, when the Alexander Taylor, Exmoor 166 16S 331 eastern " pros" decided to play at the Bernard Nicholls, Elyria, Ohio l6l 171 332 Willie Hoare, Ridge, Chicago 171 165 Euclid Club, Cleveland, where Anderson 336 James Foulis, I69 168 337 won with his famous 299, and the only Fred Mackenzie, Onwentsia 170 168 338 two notable absentees were Will Smith Jamie Watson. Skokie 168 171 339 and Davy Brown. The amateurs were Willie Marshall, Unwentsia 170 172 342 lamentably weak, only four entering and Fred McLeod, Rockford I69 173 342 Alexander Baxter, Lagrange 170 two of these, President Holt of the club 173 343 W. C. Sherwood, Toledo 175 169 344 and fudge G. P. Wanty withdrawing be- George Turpie, Calumet 172 174 346 fore finishing the first day's play. T. B. *J. B.McKinnie, Normandie, St.L.17174 172 346 McKinnie, who had won the champion- FredBartsch, Homewood 174 172 34° ship of St. Louis, won the silver medal William Duffy, Normandie, St. L. 171744 175 349 Arner C. Tollifson, Lake Geneva 178 for best amateur showing, with 346 and 174 352 Robert White, Ravisloe l8l 175 356 G. F. Clingman, Jr., the only other ama- *Geo. F. Clingman, Jr., Homewoodl8I89 181 370 teur to finish, received a bronze medal. John Adams, Hinsdale 19 Withdr. The summary: "Amateur. Willie Anderson, Apawamis, first prize, $150 FIRST DAY Out. 45464335 5 — 39 In. 43445654 4—39 — 78 For the third day of the tournament Out. 45454444 4—38 the Association had provided a team 8 In 44445544 4-3 - match, the champion and runner-up to SECOND DAY choose sides. Anderson and Smith ac- Out. 5 3 3 5 5 5 3 5 5-39 In. 53446444 4—38—77 cordingly chose four good men and true, 8 Out. 4 4 3 6 4 4 4 5 4—3 and the sides engaged in a 36 hole In. 43435444 4 "35— 73~ I5°—3°4 Alexander Smith, Nassau, second prize, match, for the purse of $100 put up by the club, $50 by the W. G. A., and the A.M. P.M. Total. $50 comprising the $5 entry fees of the Fifst day, 80 77 157 ten players. Anderson's men won six Second day, 75 76 151—308 points to one, a point counting for each Laurence Auchterlonie, Glen View, 18-hole match. Anderson had a margin third prize, $75. of five holes over Smith in the morning, First day, 79 81 160 but Smith in the afternoon reversed the Second day, 81 74 155—315 Stewart Gardner, Garden City, fourth figures, defeating Anderson by 5 up, 4 to play and making a score of 72, allowing prize, $50 for a 5 at the fourth hole where Smith First day, 81 81 162 Second day, 79 78 157—319 lost a ball. The line-up and score : TOP ROW, {READING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT.) Alexander Smith, John Adams, Bob White, G. F. Clingman, Jr., B. P. McKinnie, Robert Simpson, Tom Bendelow, A. C. Tollifson, Alan L. Reid, \; William Duffy, A. Simons, H J. Tweedie, Willie Anderson, W. V. Hoare, William Marshall. \ I MIDDLE ROW, (RIGHT TO LEFT.) Alexander Baxter, Laurence Auchierlonie, Gilbert Nicholls, Jamie Watson, Fred McLeod, James Foulis, W. H, Way, Robert McAndrew, W. C. Sherwood, \» I Fred Bartsch, Fred Mackenzie. ( _ ^i LOWKST Row, {RIGHT TO LEFT.) George Turpie, Charley Johnsonnson, David MclshMclntosh, , Horace Rawlins, Harryy Turpiep,, Stewart Gardner, Bernard Nicholls, Alexander Taylor. I Bender, Secretary of the Kent Country Club, is standing with hand on pillar. A GROUP OF AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS.

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ANDERSON'S TEAM. of play for the trophy, the winning team A. M. P. M. finished "up" on the colonel, getting a W. Anderson I o S. Gardner o I margin of 6 over that redoubtable an- W. H. Way o I tagonist. Bogey, however, was at 86. Gilbert Nicholls i i Bernard Nicholls I o Mason Phelps finished 9 up, Kenneth Edwards 5 up, Charles Zueblin 4 down, 3 i SMITH'S TEAM. O. W. Potter 2 down, and S. H. Lockett A. M. P. M. 2 down. Chandler Egan of Exmoor, was o I L. Auchterlonie o o the individual star, finishing 13 up on H. Turpie ... o o bogey on the 36 holes. His afternoon R.Simpson o o Fred McLeod o o round, 76, took a stroke off the course record : o I Out . 43345564 5—39 In 5 4 3 5 5 5 4 3 3—37 Gardner and Auchterlonie were all 76 square in the morning, but in the after- Egan's team-mates, however, could not noon the Garden City man won, 3 and 2. hold the pace. The competing teams Way, all square with Turpie after a hard finished in this order: Midlothian, 6 up; battle in the morning, won by 4 up. Glen View, 13 down; Exmoor, 28 down; McLeod lost to Bernard Nicholls by no Wheaton Golf Club, 30 down; Onwent-ia, less than 5 in the morning, but he played 32 down; Riverside, 43 down; Auburn well enough to halve in the afternoon. A Park, 48 down; Homewood, 61 down; driving competition ended the three-days' Skokie, 64 down ; Hinsdale, 66 down, and meeting, and on the checkerboard ar- Chicago Golf Club, 78 down. Mil- rangement calling for accuracy as well as waukee, 35 down in the morning, with- distance, Horace Rawlins won first prize, drew. $50 ; Willie Anderson, second, $25 ; Bern- ard Nicholls, third, $[5, and Alexander Smith, fourth, $10. Mason Phelps won the chief trophy of the tournament, the Midlothian cup, de- feating Ralph Hoagland,the old Princeton At the Detroit Country Club on the football player, in the finals by 7 up, 6 to Monday following, Smith and Gardner play Hoagland and western champion downed Anderson and Bernard Nicholls Walter Egan were the only two from out- by 2 up in a 36-hole match for a purse side clubs to qualify in the first eight, and of $ too. when they met in the first round Hoag- J- land downed the champion. Richard D. Midlothian's team of five won the Bokum, Jr., of Glen View won the Burr Marshall Field cup in the annual 36-hole Oak cup, defeating Nathaniel F. Moore contest against bogey and the club will of Lake Geneva in the finals, 2 up. add the handsome trophy to its already large cabinetful of cups for a year at least. The contest was the concluding One of the most interesting competi- chapter of the most successful open tions of the tournament was the second tournament in the history of the club, and annual Pater-Filius event, 36 holes handi- Midlothian's team victory was deserved, cap foursome, in which golfing teams of especially as the makeup of the other fathers and sons from any part of the teams included stars of considerable mag- country were eligible. Twenty-three nitude. For the first time in the history pairs played, and the result was a tie. WESTERN DEPARTMENT. 105

WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT, HIGMAN PARK.

President George R. Thorne and his son pionship medal. At Exmoor a unique George A. making 792—20—172 and " freezeout" tournament was played, con Charles L. Hunter and his little son Pauj testants starting in groups of four to play ihe chief trophy ol making 186—14—172. Another tie re. against bogey and one surviving. The ' jdlothian cup. de- suited in the first attempt to play off, but several survivors thereupon sought to i the old Princeton the H-unters finally won. The final day qualify at nine holes, and the match finab by 7 up, 6 to of the tournament also saw the finish of a rounds also were at nine holes. Chandler svsierri champion remarkably tied-up match. On July 4 Egan failed to survive in the preliminary jf two fom ont- Kenneth Edwards, from scratch, and bogey event, and Walter Egan lost in the m finals to Trigg AValler in ten holes. :ht n'^i eight, and Charles G. Comstock, Jr., with an allow- ance of 10 on 36 holes, tied at 171. An §$ round Hoag- 18-hole match to decide again resulted in WiB. Richard D. The Exmoor Country Club is planning a tie, and again the boys late one after- ;f, wo tie BUTT to hold its open tournament in conjunc- noon agreed to let nine holes decide. ttoniel F. Moore tion with the western amateur champion- Again a tie. Finally Comstock won by ship, August 16 to 20, the Exmoor events three strokes, after each had played 81 being supplementary to the championship, holes for the trophy. so the week promises to be a big one. The championship will begin Tuesday, The Fourth of July was a. busy day. August 16, with a qualifying round of Bruce Smith, fresh from college, where he thirty-six holes, thirty-two to qualify. One had done nothing but play baseball, won of the extra events will take place on the John H. Haniline Memorial trophy, Saturday, an 18-hole medal play contest and with it the Onwentsia Club cham- in which only " gutties" will be used 106 WESTERN DEPARTMENT.

The scores ought to afford interesting pionship at Kenosha. R. P. Cavanagh comparisons with those made with the of Kenosha won the title in the badger rubber-cored spheres. state, defeating Chester Allen, also of Kenosha, by 2 up in the finals Cavanagh A test of Dr. McPherson's " choice smashed the Kenosha record in winning, score" idea was afforded in the open making a 76 tournament given by the Evanston Golf Club for women, July 13 and 14. The Both the "Committee of Seven" and first day the contestants made two rounds the executive committee of the U. S. of the nine-hole course, and the sixteen G. A. held sessions before and during the whose individual totals for nine holes open championship at Glen View, The were best qualified for a similar contest former body, appointed by President en the following day. Miss J. Anna Windeler after the last annual meeting to Carpenter led on both days and took look into the advisability of changing the main prize. relative status of the associate and allied, clubs, is said to have reached a harmoni- Two state golf champions have been ous and unanimous decision, but the re- dethroned. Warren Dickinson of Des sults probably will not be made public for Moines was put out in the finals of the Iowa some time, as there is some correspond- State tournament at Dubuque by Henry ence yet to be done. There is strong Ferguson, and Edward Buchan of Racine probability that the by-laws may be ma- failed to qualify in the Wisconsin cham- terially amended.

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The executive com- mittee discussed plans for the amateur cham- pionship at Baltusrol, 1 m winning. and also talked over the amateur status of some prominent golfers. One tangible result was the vote to award Walter J. Travis a special medal in view of his triumph in the British amateur championship.

Three figures familiar to Chicago golfers are herewith shown — Al- bert G. Pulver, General Manager of the Midlo- thian- and Blue Island Railroad; Edward G. Westlake,sporting editor of the Evening Post, and Joseph G. Davis, golf, cricket and bowling man for the Tribune. Mr- ALBERT G. PULVER. E. G-. WESTLAKE. JOSEPH a. DAVIS. Pulver is not only gen- eral manager, but gen- eral freight agent, general passenger agent, taken during the Midlothian open tourna- traffic manager, general superintendent, ment. etc., etc., of the two-mile road which con- J* nects the Midlothian Country Club with One of the many flourishing golf clubs the main line of the Rock Island, and he in the interior of Illinois is that at Mon- incidentally is manager of the Midlothian mouth, where townspeople and students Club. Mr. Westlake is knowu to golfers join in enjoying the royal and ancient game. as " Genial Foozler," to turfmen as " Joe Hooker," and to baseball followers as Nearly every up-to-date resort in " Real Fan," and it is no uncommon Michigan now has its golf links, and the occurrence to see stories by all these managers at Higman Park have not been authorities on his sporting page, and all slow to realize the advantages of a course very readable stuff. Mr. Davis has long for their patrons. Women especially play been the foremost cricketer in Chicago, a in considerable numbers, and there usually sport which he handles for all the papers is some kind of an event going on for as well as for the Tribune. The trio was their benefit. 108 EDITORIALS,

our standing in the world of golf. How GOLF much more then does the fact that the EVERY MONTH winner at Sandwich, living in this coun- try, will play show what vast strides By Special Appointment Official Bulletin of the United States Golf Association, Intercollegiate we have made since the first amateur Golf Association, Central Now York Golf League, championship was held at St. Andrew's Metropolitan Golf Association, Western Golf As- sociation, and Southern Golf Association. in 1894. With the exception of C. B. Macdonald there is no golfer who was Entered at Post-office at New York as Second Class Matter. a competitor then who would have the ONE YEAR, $2.00; SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS faintest chance at Baltusrol. Most of Postage free United States, Canada, and Mexico. them are still playing the game, but high- To other foreign countries, 3fi cents per year. Re- mit by Express Money Order, Post-office Order, class tournaments know them no more. Registered Letter, or Check payable to ARTHUR POTTOW. Our courses have improved, our players Edited by van Tassel Sutphen have improved and the balls they play with are better. Three years ago a prac- tical revolution was worked in the world Publisher: ARTHUR POTTOW, of golf when the championship was won 213 East 24th St., New Vork at Atlantic City with a rubber-cored ball. American ingenuity, by this invention, un- M The Editor zvill be glad to receive doubtedly lessened to some extent the for consideration Photographs and Con- premium upon strength alone, and the tributions on the general subject of the idea that the game has undergone ruin game. Stamps should be enclosed for by the innovation is now only held by return postage if found unavailable. pre-historic Scotch golfers and those few Contributors are requested to write modern players who are unable to adapt their Names and Addresses on the back themselves to altered circumstances. The of all MSS. and Photographs. Pho- names of the balls tell the tale. There tographs should be carefully packed will be no Silvertown's, Ocobo's or Hen- and accompanied by descriptions of ley's, but we shall see Haskells, Wizaids their subjects. Club Secretaries will and Champions in plenty. But the gutty confer a favor by notifying the Editor is not forgotten. It rests with the mum- of the dates and particulars of corning club events, especially open and invita- mies in the Natural History Museum. tion >ournaments.

A NOTABLE VISITOR. THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. It will be a matter of interest to all Since the amateur championship was golfers to know that GOLF is arranging a instituted in this country we have never series of matches for Jack White, the Brit- had one like that to be decided at ish open champion. This great golfer Baltusrol next month. For this year we won the title at Sandwich last June in are favored in the contest with the pres- such brilliant style, making the lowest ence of the amateur champion of Great score ever received in such a competition, Britain. If a golfer of the United King- that there can be no doubt as to his place dom holding this title had come across in the world of Golf. Our professionals, the water to take part in the fixture the however, are not to be despised, and they kve action would unquestionably have borne may be depended upon to test White's eloquent testimony to the importance of skill to the jatmost. \ I

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R. TRAVIS stepped into the ring round with 153, his nearest competitor, once more at the Apawamis Tiffany, having 169, so that it looks as if M tournament and again it was a at medal play, the Garden City player case of Eclipse first and the rest nowhere. is able to give his opponents about The tournament was held July 14-16 and half-a-stroke a hole. This 153 made a it proved to be the best attended tourna- new record for the course. Douglas, and ment of the metropolitan season, seventy Willie Anderson, the champion, who is starting off from the first tee. Class was professional at Apawamis, have each done well represented, too, for in addition to a 73 for the eighteen holes, but previous the amateur champion were such players to Travis' performance the record for as Findlay S. Douglas, Gilman P. Tiffany, thirty-six holes had been 156 made by Max Behr, Murray Olyphant, John M oi- Alex. Smith, Stewart Gardner and David ler, Jr., P. H. Frelinghuysen, F. H. Brown. It seemed as if Travis put more Thomas, Clinton H. Black and H P. body swing into his work than he did Smith. The course was in first rate con- before he went abroad and that he dition, the greens especially showing a lengthened the carry of his tee shots. On marked contrast to those over which the subsequent days this change was not some of the most important events of the apparent, and he drove quite in his old season have been held. style. Through the green he was as <*> straight as ever, and once more he showed The qualifying round showed once himself to be an unrivalled judge of dis- more Travis' incontestable superiority. tance. It is becoming somewhat monotonous to have to make this statement, but truth The first cup division were: W. J. compels it. He finished in the qualifying Travis, Garden City, 77, 76—153; Gil- 110 THROUGH THE GREEN. man P. Tiffany, Powelton (Hudson River F. H. Thomas, Morris County, won the champion), 85, 84—169; S. J. Graham, Consolation Cup after a 2 2-hole fight Fairfield, 86, 84—170; Max Behr, Morris with R. C Carroll, Fairfield. In the County, 89, 82—171; FindlayS. Douglas, there was a tie for best net be- Nassau, 90, 81—171; Murray Olyphant, tween Tiffany 167, 12—155, and O. Englewood (New Jersey champion), 89, Woodward, Marine and Field, 175, 20 — 83—172; John Moller, Jr., Garden City, 87, 85—172; J. D. Foot, Apawamis, 91, 81—172; P. H. Frelinghuysen, Morris More than eighty competitors handed County, 86, 87—173; R. C. Carroll, Fair- in scores in the qualifying round of the field, 88, 87—175; L. C. Bosler, Hunting- Connecticut State League Championship ton Valley, 85, 91—176; F. H. Hoyt, held at the Hartford Golf Club, July 13- AUston, Mass., 90, 87—177 ; F. H. 16. Among the prominent absentees Thomas, Morris County, 88, 89—177; was Charles H. Seeley, three times State Frank M. Wilson, Englewood, 87, 91 — champion. Most of the critics picked F. 178; W. K. Gillett, Pelham, 90,88—178; J. O. Alsop, the Yale player, who beat Carl Martin, Fairfield, 89, 90—179; Travis at Ekwanok last year, as the prob- Clinton H. Black, Jr., Englewood, 91, able winner. He won his first match 88—179; H- P- Smith, Huntingdon Val- against R. D Cutler, Hartford, with ley, 89, 90—179. considerable ease, and then to every- body's surprise, was beaten by 2 up and In his morning match in the first round 1 to play by J. E. Hewes, Hartford. Travis had J. D. Foot, of Apawamis, for This player reached the final when he an opponent, but the latter had no met S. H. Patterson, of the Brooklawn chance. Travis was 4 up at the turn and Golf Club. The Brooklawn player won won by 7 up and 6 to play. He had an a 36-hole match by 3 up and 1 to play. even easier victory over F. H Hoyt, of The foursome was won by R. W. Cutler Allston, beating him by 8 up and 6 to and R. D. Cutler, Hartford, who defeated play. In the semi-final he beat a young Willis Austin and J. E. Jensen, Norwich. player, S. J. Graham, of Fairfield. The Fredennick, Meriden, won the Consola- latter put up a good game, marred by tion prize, and the Bunker prize went to erratic driving, and was only beaten by 2 C. H. Zimmerman, New Haven Country. up and 1 to play though Travis did a 77. Douglas reached the final by successive During the month there has been a triumphs over Frelinghuysen, Tiffany and good deal of play at Ekwanok Country Behr. His hardest match was with the Club, Manchester, Vt. On July 16, A. last named golfer, who was only beaten by E. Lard and F. C. Robertson, won the 2 up. Behr drove just as well as Doug- best ball sweepstakes against bogey. las, and in the approach shots only did Their handicap was 3, and they were 4 the Nassau player have the advantage. up. July 21-23 an open handicap tour- The final was a repetition of previous en- nament was held, bringing out a large counters between Travis and Douglas. entry list Mr. Barnes, Manhanset Superior work on the green, principally Manor, with a handicap of 4 won the in that most decisive of all shots, the Taconic Cup, beating in the final F. C. approach putt, won the game for Travis Robertson, New Haven Country Club, by 2 up. The second set cup went to by 7 up and 6 to play in a 36-hole match. C. H. Blake, Englewood, by 3 up and For the Battenskill Cup, Allan Lard, one to play over Simeon Ford, Apawamis. Columbia, was first. He beat S. B. THROUGH THE GREEIv. Ill

Leake, Albany, by 3 up and 2 to play. Mr. George D. Boulton, of Chicago, E. W. Taylor, Philadelphia, won the writes to GOLF : Ondawa Cup by 10 up and 9 to play " To contestant pairs in golf tourna- over S. D. Brown, Philadelphia. July ments it must appear that the present 23 the Ekwanok team beat the Mount method of starting is so antiquated that •115,20- Anthony team from Bennington, Vt., by some other method of starting the whole 30 to 11. The course is in fine con- body of players should be evolved. Tak- dition and tournaments will be held ing the tournamentwhich isbeing held on August 24-27 and September 15-17. the Glen view Links to-day, July 11, for Players of national reputation will take example: The starting of twenty-five part in all these events. pairs occupied one hour and fifty-five J- minutes in the morning, and naturally a The championship of the Oakley Coun- similar time would elapse between the try Club was won, July 14, by William C. arrival of the first and last man in finish- Chick, who defeated A. L. Ripley by 6 up ing. These pairs were started at five- and 4 to play in a 36-hole match. The minute intervals, and the unfortunates quality of golf was first-class, the who were kept until the last were winner playing both rounds well under obliged to wait in the crowd the best bogey. Chick's driving was long and part of two hours before their turn came straight, always on the flag and his ap- to play. proaching deadly. Ripley was not quite up to his game in the morning, especially " The suggestion I would offer as a on his approaching. Chick won the substitute for present methods is as fol- first three holes straight and played the lows : To place two pairs at each tee— first 18 holes in 78 to Ripley's approxi- all members to be at their places at a mate 85. At the 18th hole Chick's brassey given hour—the two pairs at the tee to shot was in the bunker and he took 7 for draw by lot for first play, the signal to the hole, otherwise he would have had a start being given by the blare of a 76. The first 18 holes ended by Chick be- trumpet or the firing of a cannon, one- ing 7 up. The second 18 was started at a half of the players starting simultaneously, very slow pace, Ripley taking the first 2 and the balance as soon as the first ones holes. From then on it was nip and tuck, have made their second stroke, the whole Ripley's putting being a feature of the field thus getting into action at the same game, holing everything under 20 feet, time. Each pair would, of course, finish but Chick's lead in the first 18 holes was the round at the green preceding the tee too, much to overcome, although Ripley they started from. This method seems made'a hard set for it. Ripley is a player so simple and so feasible that it would who never knows when he is beaten appear as if there could hardly be any and tries to the last green. The last objection to it. 18 holes was made by each player at J- about a 76 gait, providing the by holes "A day's tournament, which now lasts had been played out in bogey. When seven or eight hours, could be got through the match ended both players were well within from two to three hours less time. under bogey, the first 9 holes being made The plan with thirty-six pairs would no in 37 each. Chick won the champion- doubt work admirably. When there are ship of the club last year, and this we more than thirty-six pairs, three pairs believe is the first time it has been won might be placed on some of the tees by the same man two years*inksuccession. before the long hole, and when these 112 THROUGH THE GREEN.

were exhausted the remaining players ing we have no such committee of our would await their turn at the first tee; own. the pairs coming in at the eighteenth green following after the last man had got From the book we gather that section away from the first. By this method all 11 of the by-laws was amended on July the contestants would get into play at the 8th, 1904, by the addition after the second same time, would be subjected to exactly paragraph of the following: "In the the same conditions as to temperature, event of a tie or ties for the last place in wind, character of greens, etc. At present any medal play qualifying round for the the man who starts off at nine o'clock amateur championship, the contestants so may have an advantage over the one who tied shall continue to play until one or starts two hours later when the sun is the other shall have gained a lead by high or the wind is increased in force, or strokes at any hole or holes to be played the sky becomes clouded, or heavy rains out." set in. To make the test as fair as possi- ble to all parties all players should start under as nearly the same conditions on As the amateur championship is to be all these points as is practicable. I offer played the first week in September some these suggestions to the officers of the account of the changes made at Baltusrol, various Golf Associations of the country, where the competition takes place, seems believing them to be in the interest of desirable. The bunkers on the first, sec- golf and most fair to the players of the ond and fifth holes now look like walls, game." although increased only a foot to eighteen >-•• L inches in height. A new cop bunker now The United States Golf Association's guards the seventh green, requiring a loft- Year Book for 1904 is just out. Mr. Ballou, ing shot to the green, where formerly it the late secretary, laid out a certain plan could be run up after a good second shot. for the work and this has been extended The triple line of bunkers guarding the fif- by the present secretary, Mr. Fellowes teenth green, formerly a trying hazard for Morgan. The result is a larger book than the third shot, penalized a good second has ever been issued before. It contains shot so badly under the present condi- lists of the present and former officers, tions that they have been removed en- the rules of the game, the constitution tirely, and the ground leveled off, making and by-laws and a list of the clubs be- it possible to reach the green, 464 yards, longing to the Association. There are in two good shots. A new high cop now 31 associate and 256 allied clubs. bunker, however, has been built nearer Since January thirty-five new allied clubs the tee, which requires a good carry to have been elected. The book is very clear. The bunkers on the sixteenth and useful and there is no reason why its seventeenth holes have been increased scope should not be still further extended. considerably in height, and a sand trap Why not add a full report of the proceed- added, to punish a pulled drive from the ings at the annual meeting and also a seventeenth tee. In fact, it was an old statement showing what has been done trick deliberately to change the direction at the various committee meetings during in playing this hole by pulling the ball, the year? It would not be out of place, as the bunker was crossed at a shorter too, to print the decisions of the Rules of angle and a good lie was to be had where Golf Committee of the Royal and An the green could easily be reached on the cient during the past twelve months, see- second shot. Now they will have a sand • "•_-.'.!"-"." 1

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anipiondup is to be in September sow <• made it Baltusrol, i takes place, seems as on the first, sec- we look lite ids. Top Row, (LEFT TO RIGHT.) C. R. Smith. W. Fernie. J. Braid. W Park. R. Thomson. A. Simpson. BOTTOM ROW. J. White. A. Kirkaldy. A Herd. B. Sayers. J. Kinnell. G Cobuin. iv a foot to eigkefi THE SCOTCH TEAM. ew cop bunker m ta, requiring a loft- i, where formerly it iwod second shot as guarding thefif- a tmngliazarffo: zed a good second the present condi- l^een removed en- . • • ,-,..«• • ' leveled oil: maldug e green, 4^4 F^ A new high cop bea Wt nearer j 3 good cam' to n the sixteenth ' ve been ^d a.sand trap led drive from the ^itwasa**

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Top ROW. (LKFT TO RIGHT.) R. Jones. E, Raj'. T. Williamson. F. Collins. A. 11. Toogood. G. Vulford. BOTTOM ROW. T. C. Renouf. T. Vardon. H, Vardon. ]. H. Taylor. E. Gray. J. Sherlock. THE ENGLISH TEAM. INTERNATIONAL MATCH. 114 THROUGH THE GREEN. pit to contend with if they go off the line ing half way across the putting green and f m America - of play. running back on the fair green a distance of sixty yards or more. He played a i There is some doubt regarding the ad- mashie shot which would have been en- visability of using the new tenth green, tirely satisfactory in dry weather, as it lay Golf seems to t which is on an island, on newly acquired within twelve feet of the hole, but alas! Antipodes. *J property, in a field to the right of the it fell in the water. Rule 14, section 3, ,,Mrali^ff present green, as it is feared the turf will says that, "a ball in casual water on not be sufficiently firm for the approach a putting green may be placed by Maories, and the rr< shots over the brook. The green itself hand behind the water without penalty." go of that colMJ is in fine condition. Play on the new Consequently there was nothing for him Tareha. His "• tenth hole begins this week, and by the to do but to take his ball back seventy player. Ii«»'' end of August the committee will be able yards and place it behind the water. He game there is 5O« to decide whether it will be advisable to thus had the pleasure of playing another frfs/ totious tS use the hole in the amateur championship approach shot instead of having a putt pire—golf liriki--" or stick to the old one. If used, the tenth for the hole. Since then he has con- sulted several eminent authorities as to hole will be 280 yards, instead of the old Dntreu Emw! 184-yard hole. The eleventh tee will also, whether he could not place his ball on the putting green close to the water but in that case, be moved a considerable tDQClSII!; Ol Ml ! H no nearer to the hole. They have all in- distance, giving additional length to the lie space to re;r:>^ formed him that he cannot, as the placing eleventh hole. The present tenth hole p^Mr,Eiffletsffi behind the water is obligatory. He is makes the course 6,103 yards, and the par I :I1D a arndt ;•: remains at 73, regardless of the increased quite convinced now that they are right height of the bunkers. The amateur in this interpretation, and he is also sure that the gentlemen who framed this rule «f Sir. Travis'j>mt2 record is 73, held by F. C. Reinhart, any, to be caDed i and the professional record 72, held by are in no danger of supplanting King Solomon as the embodiment of wisdom. asntoing that be is i George Low. lehndMiGri;- d in ' power 'c: For intending visitors to Baltusrol, and Golf Illustrated in its number for July ik k:r;. also for competitors from a distance, it 15 publishes an excellent portrait of Mr. G. pis them ahetd i may be stated that the course is rather Herbert Windeler and it says : "The Uni- Is KIDS it & 2 it over a mile from the Short Hills station ted States Golfing Association is fortun- of the Lackawanna Railroad. Trains ate in its new president, Mr. Herbert G. from New York are very frequent, so that Windeler, whose portrait appears on the the trip from New York and back may be front page. Mr. Windeler is an all-round made night and morning without any sportsman and as he has, if I mistake not, pose that ;—-._ inconvenience. The club invariably runs received part, at any rate, of his educa- •faiandSfc a championship meeting well, and will tion in England, he has the great ad- l see that plenty of stages are in attendance vantage of a complete knowledge of

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golf in America and cement the cordial treading on rather thin ice when one tries relations which already subsist between to make them really exhaustive as to the golfers in the old and the new world." respective merits of men who are one's friends and acquaintances, however prom- Golf seems to be flourishing in the inent they may be as golfers. I therefore Antipodes. There are now ioo golf clubs will try not to follow any further on the in Australia and New Zealand. The best line of personal comparisons than I can course in New Zealand is owned by the help, and will simply leave it to the Brit- Maories, and the present amateur cham- ish golfers who saw the matches to decide pion of that colony is a native, Kurupo in their own minds whether or not Mr. Tareha. His wife is the best woman Maxwell and Mr. Graham possess 'more player. In view of the ubiquity of the power and variety'—i. only effective on very slow greens. He " Mr. Low conveniently selects byway even takes it for granted that Mr. Travis of comparison two players who did not would thoroughly endorse this rather mod- meet Mr. Travis. I watched Mr. Gra- est estimate of his powers. I don't sup- ham play his match against Mr Maxwell, pose that anything would induce that and I am convinced that if he had played modest and Sphinx-like person to express in the same form against Mr. Travis he a candid opinion on this matter, but if he would have had no chance of winning. has any intention of coming over next Mr. Travis has proved himself in America year with the forlorn hope of defending at least the equal at match play and the dual fa* the proud title that he has blundered into stroke game of Alex. Smith, Stewart by what Mr. Low calls a ' travesty of Gardner, Willie Anderson and George justice,' he no doubt would encourage Low, although they were all longer play- all his opponents to 'jolly themselves' ers than he is, both with wooden and iron into the belief that they had a six to four clubs. Does Mr. Low think that Mr. advantage over him. Graham or Mr. Maxwell are in a class ahead of the leading American Profes- " Comjjarisons are odorous, and it is sionals ? And there is no doubt that Mr. 116 THROUGH THE GREEA.

Travis is proportionately better over on Travis would not be in the same class as this side, because the greater difficulties Mr. Maxwell or Mr. Graham at St. of the approaches and in putting offer Andrews. I do not know the St. Andrews more chance for his great versatility, re- green well, but if inaccurate driving and sourcefulness, and wonderful accuracy. approaching are less penalized there than they are at Sandwich and Prestwick, I would not consider St. Andrews a fair "A more instructive comparison as a test of the game. means of arriving at Mr. Travis's true status would be with Mr. Hilton at his best. I may be mistaken, but I don't " Mr. Low regrets the serious spirit in think Air. Hilton ever had much more which Americans approach these cham- length than Mr. Travis has, and yet he pionship matches, and wishes that they won both championships twice and in- could be played less seriously and more numerable medals and competitions in the way of recreation. I am afraid he against the best players, and with the will be disappointed. I cannot speak for gutty ball, and on all the great courses, Canadians, Australians, or other possible GOLFING including St. Andrews. Mr. Travis's competitors, but if Americans come over methods are very similar to Mr. Hilton's, here to compete seriously they will certain- For Men ar.; although their styles are so dissimilar. ly not regard it in the light of a. recreation. Mr. Travis plays with less effort than Mr. Amatch for the Championship of the world Hilton, and is just as good at his best as is a battle, and the player who does not Mr. Hilton at his best. Mr. Hilton won fully grasp this fact and rise fully to the at St. Andrews, and Mr. Low himself situation will probably be beaten. It is pushed him to the last green, neither of the fighting instinct that wins, and all them being players of great power of the skill in the world is of no avail unless long hitting, and yet Mr. Low thinks Mr. it can be produced in the great matchbe- VIYE

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fore thousands of people, and when tired this reference : " The popular American msw nerves and muscles are clamouring for a golfer, E. M. Byers, is still with us. He rest. However, there is no occasion to and a few kindred spirits enjoyed some worry. Mr. Low says that ' the future pleasant golf at St. Andrews one day re- has no terrors for us ; we can still far cently. In the forenoon Mr. Mansfield more than hold our own.' " Hunter and Mr. Parkyns beat Mr. Horst- mann and Mr. Ferrier Kerr by 2 and i, and Mr. Norman Hunter and Mr. J. L. A golfer once sailed o'er the sea Low beat Mr. R. Maxwell (former ama- As nervous as ever could be, teur Champion) and Mr. Byers by 6 and For he knew he was going 5. In the afternoon Mr. Norman Hunter Where critics were growing and Mr. J. L. Low beat Mr. Mansfield As thick as the leaves on a tree. Hunter and Andrew Kirkaldy by 2 and ir The high muck-a-mucks and the Low and Mr. Byers, receiving a third, won a Of Golfdom, said, " Now, don't you know round from Mr. Maxwell by 3 and 2." K-THE-MTi This fellow's an ass, He's not in our class, And hasn't the ghost of a show." Ralph Cracknell won the championship of the Press Golf Club of New England The long and the short of his game for the second consecutive time, July 22. Was voted remarkably tame ; His opponent in the final was James E. He could not even putt, O'Connell. At the conclusion of the But—there's always a but— morning's play, Cracknell was 1 up. At He beat the whole lot just the same. the twentieth hole he was 3 up. At the twenty-eighth he was 7 up, and eventually Mr. E. M. Byers is now touring the he won by 5 up and 4 to play. Daniel Scottish links. Golfing, just to hand, has T. O'Connell won the consolation, defeat-

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119 120 THROUGH THE GREEN. ing T. P. Harrison by 4 up and 3 to play. putts, and so on until each green has The tournament was held at the Wollas- been visited. Tom Brown, during the ton Golf Club, Montclair. pause which followed his wrestle with J- Harry Winburn and the tumble in the Princeton will have a golf tournament river, wondered whether the arrangement the second or third week in October, and of nails on Harry's boots was better than it can be said that college players gener- his own. So a few observers noted at ally will be invited. It would thus seem Sandwich that Mr. Travis had no nails in to be a sort of preliminary canter for the the heels of his shoes. They will discard Inter Collegiate Championship, which will nails in their heels in future. Away they probably be held this year at Myopia. go, cheroot in mouth, no nails in their heels, grasping a mallet-headed putter, taking care to overlap the left hand over GOLF publishes this month some inter- the right—and the putts still wander esting pictures showing the Mongolian promiscuously round the hole. Could we indulging in the Royal and Ancient only obtain some of Mr. Travis's judgment Game. The photographs show quite instead of copying his little mannerisms clearly that Bret Harte's words, " which we might do better. the eame he did not understand," cannot with any truth be applied to the Celestial when engaged at golf. The occasion was " Immediately after the open champion- uiEffi a 's tournament at the Shanghai ship a professional meeting was held at SOLD Golf Club, and GOLF'S correspondent Walton Heath, were James Braid is now s - who forwards the photographs says em- stationed J. H. Taylor and J. Hepburn phatically that so great is the aptitude of tied for first place with 161 for 36 holes. the Chinese boy at the game that he could E. Ray and Harry Vardon were 164, R. without doubt hold his own easily with Thompson, T. Yeoman and J. Kinnell American boys of the same age. How 165, and Rowland Jones, Sandy Herd, fortunate for American golfers that we Tom Williamson and A. Toogood were have an Exclusion Act. Ah Sin might 166, but Jones, having the best score for come over and win our championships. a single round, qualified for the last place. In the match play which followed Ray Says GOLF'S London Correspondent: beat Hepburn 6 and 4, Jones beat Kin- " Since the great events at Sandwich nell 2 and 1, Thomson beat Vardon by there have been few meetings of any im- one hole, and Taylor beat Yeoman 5 and portance. The summer days have been 3. The matches in the semi-final were passed in reading the many bits of in- keenly fought, Jones beating Ray by 3 formation concerning Mr. Travis and his and 1, and Taylor beat Thomson by 2 WILLIAM methods, which have been collected by and 1. In the final Jones had much the energetic press-men. His nationality va- best of matters in the morning and fin- ries according to the paper you take up, ished 4 up. After lunch Taylor, after The! his age is never twice the same, and losing three more holes, and being 7 down, statistics of his smoking abilities are most with only twelve to play, came on his interesting reading. We learn that at game and carried the match to the 35th home he takes his bicycle with him to hole, Jones winning by 2 and 1. the links when he wants to practice put- ting—so many 'putts on this green, then "The Walton Heath course is a new one away he rides to the next; some more and has been laid out by W. H. Fowler, \ during tk CRYSTAL ; in the Domino SUGAR Triumph hi Sugar Making! Sold only in 5 Ib. sealed boxer Convenient in form, perfect in quality, brilliant in appearance, no sugar made can equal it in excellence. Every piece

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121 122 THROUGH THE GREEN. the Royal and Ancient player. No ex- we want to see him at his best. Many pense has been spared in its preparation of the American clubs have already and the course, as now laid out, is con- arranged for him to play matches, those sidered to be an excellent test of golf. taking a keen interest in the game natur- It is said to be the longest course in the ally enough availing themselves of the kingdom, yet Braid, only a few days ago, chance. It would be worth going a long went round in 70. One wonders where way to see White meet such golfers as these low scores will stop." Willie Anderson, Laurence Auchterlonie, Stewart Gardner, Bernard Nicholls and The B. F. Goodrich Co., who make his brother Gilbert, Fred Mackenzie, Alex the Haskell ball, henceforth will have Smith or George Low, to mention only a two balls on the market, both of the rub- few of the names that naturally occur to ber-cored variety. They will, of course, one. Doubtless all these fine players will still issue the regular Haskell, their new run up against him, and the results will ball being called Haskell No. 10. For go a long way towards fixing the relative the new-comer is claimed greater dura- standing of resident and foreign profes- bility, perhaps at the cost of a little flight, sionals. but many players do not mind this. The marking of each kind of ball is the same. Messrs. A. G. Spalding&iBros. announce that in future they will supply golfers with the same ball as last year. The One distinguishing feature of the pres- marking, cover, centre and durability are ent golf season is that many clubs which to be exactly as they were in 1903, which have hitherto only existed for their mem- is a proof that those who played with it bers are giving open tournaments. The during that season were satisfied with the Manhanset Manor Country Club, form- results obtained. After all, old friends erly known as the Shelter Island Golf are sometimes the best. y / Club, is in this category. It has a good 18—hole course to offer to players and, no doubt, its open tournament August Mrs. C. T. Stout's (Miss Genevieve 24-27 will have a very satisfactory entry, Hecker) book, " Golf for Women " is a GROCERS both as to quality and quantity, Very very valuable treatise upon the game. handsome prizes will be given. During Readers of GOLF scarcely need to be the tournament, George Low, the very told this, for much of the contents origin- ally appeared in this magazine. Some popular professional of the Baltusrol Golf 2S3M&I Club will play a match with Valentine of the chapters deal with the Stance, the Flood, the resident professional. Swing, the Long Game, the Short Game, Approaching and Putting, Hazards and Golf Courses for Women. All this is In a short editorial in this month's treated in a practical way by the finest 111' GOLB' an announcement is made that woman golfer this country has ever pro- Jack White, the Open Champion of produced. There is also a very valuable Great Britain, will visit this country this and interesting chapter by Miss Rhoda season. Apparently the only thing that Adair, the Irish player, who visited this can interfere with the trip is that White's country last year. The book is thoroughly health has not been of the best since he well illustrated, the pictures making very won the great event at Sandwich. This, clear the meaning of the text. In view it is to be hoped, will soon be completely of the approaching Womens' champion- restored, for when he comes over here ship at Merion, it would be a wise step

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