Golf With- out Being Compelled to Speculate on the Varying Qualities of the Ball
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alttiebej ! market Kap a Si Andrews Sure of the Ball. If There are enough uncertainties in a game of golf with- out being compelled to speculate on the varying qualities of the ball. 11 A Haskell Ball is just about the surest thing in golf, and its popularity is largely due to the fact that its use does inspire confidence. The player soon learns its possibilities and particularly relies on the long true Haskell flight to help the score. 11 From the rubber core to the tough gutta percha cover the Haskell is perfectly made, and likewise differently made from any other ball. If You can depend on it. THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. AKRON, OHIO. New York : <">0-68 Reade St. and 1625 Broadway. Philadelphia : 909 Arch St. Detroit: 80 K. Congress St. Buffalo: 731 Main M. Chicago: 141 LakeSt Cleveland: 400 Superior 8t. BauFrancisco: 392 Mission St. Boston: 161 ColumbusAve. Denver: 1444 Curtis 8t. London, E. ('. : 7 tinow Hill. «*'•• J. H. TAYLOR "99,. c/ Camera Value is in the lens" OPEN CHAMPION OF GREAT BRITAIN 1894-1895-1900 The "Style B" Goerz CANN & TAYLOR will be glad to assist Golf Clubs in securing first class Pro- lens lets light through fessionals, as they are constantly receiving with the least possible inquiries from men who are seeking posi- resistance—this is neces- ticns, and are in close touch with the best sary for instantaneous pho- men both in this Country and in Great tography. Our new for- Britain. mula for the Goerz Style B has produced a lens which en- ables the amateur to make pictures under CANN & TAYLOR conditions which have heretofore been (Snlf (Club iKamtfartttrers considered unfavorable. When you buy a camera tell the man you want a Goerz Lens. ASBURY PARK, N. J. English Branches: Sample Photographs sent on request RICHMOND, SURREY WINCHESTER., HAMPSHIRE C. P. GOERZ, Room , 52 E. Union Square, New \ ork Cirv "Fifty per cent of the game"—in a nutshell THE ART OF PUTTING By WALTER J. TRAVIS Ex-Amateur Champion of America Ex-Amateur Champion of the World. 1904 and JACK WHITE Open Champion or the World, 1904 Edited and Illustrated by G. W. BELDAM, author of "Great Golfers/' etc., with action Photographs taken expressly for this work jt «.* jt Jt NEW EDITION READY JANUARY 1. Price thirty-five cents, r\et ( Postage 2c ) No one will deny that this consistently brilliant player, Mr. Walter Travis, owes his championship honors to-day to his extraordinary putting. Indeed, he states that it constitutes nearly fifty per cent, of the game. This little brochure explains his methods, and also Mr. Jack White's in their own words. Tor Sa.le by GOLF. 213 East 24th Street. New York 1 L5 in; THROUGH THE GREEN. on the second day. The thirty-two did not seem to be much in the sug- lowest scores will then continue at 18- gestion that there should be a ten- hole match play, except the final, shilling reward for holing out from which is at 36. It is about time now the tee in one stroke, but it was unani- to think of the system for next year. mously agreed to. Also it was settled J» that there should be a half-crown prize When the Haberdasher speaks on for holing out with the mashie ap- golf fashions mere golf critics must be proach, and sixpence every time for silent. We read: "Golf hose, long holing in a single putt. Conversely and short, are shown in grays, heather there would be a sixpenny fine for tak- mixtures and the so-called 'mastie' ing three putts, and a shilling penalty colors to match linen suits. Brilliant- for not planting the ball on the green ly colored golf squares in extracted when making an ordinary mashie ap- and printed India twills of bottle proach. green, chocolate, cardinal, royal, and also ombre effects of helio, indigo and There was to be two shillings given tan, are decidedly English. These to the successful player who should squares measure twenty-eight inches make the net medal round of the and are worn loosely knotted around course within two strokes of Bogey, the neck. Knickers are "out of it" for and twice this prize money for beating field use, and long flannel trousers are it. Two shillings were also the reward preferred. The mode allows, yes, com- for being up on Bogey in play by mands, a free and easy manner of holes, and there was a shilling penalty dress on the links, and the dandy for ever}- hole down. There was six- looks as strange there as would a Fiji pence a time for the man who made Islander on Fifth Avenue. Such things the longest drive from each tee. Fi- as patent leather boots while rough- nally, one player laid six to four ing it in the country are as great an that the other would not beat him by incongruity as hobnailed boots would three and two, and it was agreed that be in a ballroom." if either player were more than four j» down at the finish of the round he Golfers will feel interested in a curi- should pay for dinners the same even- out point which is said to be engaging ing. Then the match was played, and the attention of an English club not now the committee are considering" it. many miles from Charing Cross. Two A is of opinion that in the peculiar golfers went out to golf. We may call circumstances he would be justified in them A and I!. A said, "We will have distraining upon B's household goods a half-crown on the match." B said, and effects, and B insists that if he "Certainly, and a shilling on the bye, had his rights he would now be mak- whatever it is." Then A added, "And ing his journeys to the golf club in sixpence for three's," and B, "A shill- a new motor cay instead of by train ing for two's." To this A responded, and omnibus after the manner of the "Sixpenny fines for seven's," and B, multitude. There is a moral in this "Shillings for eight's." "Half-crowns little story. for double figures," said A, and \'< went off on tin- other tack with, "A shilling The caddies at the Huntingdon every lime for beating Bogey." There Valley (Pa.) Country Club have NORTH CAROLINA (FOUNDED BY JAMES W. TUFTS) THE IDEAL HESOR.T OF THE SOUTH Free from climatic extremes and offering all the invigorating qualities of the wonder- [\, ful climate found only in the dry, sandy, Long-leaf Pine regions of North Carolina. Fifth Grand Annual North and South Championship Golf Tournament, APRIL 5th-8th, 1005. I Mafftiificent frizes and Appropriate Medals. I :; play by hour Splendid Two Hotels Excellent > irtomade Fifty Cottages Golf Courses trrmtachtw. Fi- Rates at hotels from $3.00 per day, upward. it him by The Golf Courses are, by common accord, • . the best in the South, than four the annual North and South Championship Tournament being held at Pinehurst every year Golf, Shooting, and Tennis tournaments weekly. • • 35-000 Acre Shooting Preserve, Kennels, Guides, etc. Fine Saddle Horses. Fine Preparatory School under direction of A. G. Warren, Headmaster. rbemak- Pinehurst is the only resort in America from which consumptives are absolutely excluded. Through Pullman service. One night out from New York, Boston, and Cincinnati via Seaboard Air Line or Southern Railway. An exquirttt book with flW-HmUet Of walerrnlor sketches similar lo lite above, Uluttrallng the out-of-door faatvret of I'inehurst, win be sent n/xm application. Address Pinehurst General Office LEONARD TUFTS, Owner Boston, Mass. PINEHURST. NORTH CAROLINA 118 THROUGH THE GREEN. been causing trouble because the club early opening in the spring. The of- would not emploj them on Sundays. ficers elected were: President, Sam- Asserting their sacred right to labor uel Owen; vice-president, II. L». seven days oi the week they went a Courson; secretary, ( >. II. Chedister; round of the course on i\ recent Sun- treasurer, William A. Drabble; cap- day and did considerable mischief. tain, Elmer E. Wood; directors, W. This seems to have forced the hand C. Pearson. Robert Crabb, C. C. of the club, which has now decided Thompson. M. I). W'. Thurston. iii give caddies Sunday work. The Hollywood (X. J.) Golf Club The Plainfield ( X. J.) Country will hold an open tournament for Club this season will hold an open amateurs next summer. If it pro- tournament for women belonging to duces such good golf as the old tlu1 Metropolitan Golf Association. Hollywood Club had at its tourna- At the annual meeting these officers ment three years ago, it will be worth were elected: President, George P. watching. Mellick; vice-president. I-'.. R. Acker- man; secretary, Leighton Calkins; F. E. Zerrahn, who golfs at the treasurer, Stuart II. Patterson; trus- Country Club, Brookiine, when at tees, for three years, Elliot T. Har- home, was tied for the best gross and rows. T. K. Van Boskerck, Leighton had the best net score in the first Calkins; nominating committee, S. tournament of the year played at St. |olm McCutcheon, Townsend Paris. His score was 90—14—76. Rushmore and J. Whitney Baker. Golfers everywhere will hear with regret of the recent sad death of Mr. The club's competitive record of Frank Croker, and of the still more last season was 70. made by Robert recent death of Mr. L. L. Kellogg. Abbott. The following were winners Mr. Croker had not played so much of events: Club championship, \Y.