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THE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP MERION CRICKET CLUB, HAVERFORD, PA., OCTOBER tO—15, 1904 By "Oldcastle.' HIS year's contest brought forth a did so; the cards handed in at the Country T larger entry list than last year and Club, Brookline, in 1902 were eighty-two in point of numbers does not com- and at Wheaton last year they were fifty- pare unfavorably with the national cham- eight. It was to be expected that there pionship of recent years. At Shinnecock in would be a smaller entry in the West than 1900 fifty-eight players returned cards; at elsewhere, for at present most of the Baltusrol the following year seventy-five women who play in championships be-

ers did not attend. The com- Bill on i petition then became virtually an Eastern Championship, merely a few Pittsburgh players, and one Miss Ada Smith, of Los Angeles, being the sole course, bot one representative of other sections of the country. It would be interesting to see whether there would be a more representative entry if the championship was held in neutral territory, that is to say in some attractive centre with a suitable course midway between East and West. A number of prominent players

were absent from some cause i mails M,w or other, the list including Ik Mams Mrs. C. T. Stout, Mrs. B. N. Thefollo^ti: Home, Mrs. E. Manice and Miss Marion Oliver, but it it MerioD awl Ik was on the whole a very ike plarm *':•••• strong representative list of eastern players. The championship gained immensely in interest by the presence of Miss Lottie Dod, who won the English championship this year at Troon, though unfor- tunately for the good of the game, it was her lot to be MISS HAELEY. put out quite early in the proceedings. the trees. long to the East, and it is not to be ex- A reference to the scores will show that pected that a journey which kept down some well-known players failed to get in the attendance of the men from the East the thirty-two who qualified, but this is -Miss Lottie I when the amateur championship was held always liable to happen in medal play ' +9-9J; Mis p. at Glen View should have a less deterrent when one bad hole is sufficient. The list effect upon the women. This factor be- included: Mrs. M. D. Patterson, the ing taken into effect accounts for the dis- runner-up in the Metropolitan Champion- appointing western entry at Merion. ship; Mrs. T. H. Polhemus, Mrs. N. Chicago was represented by Miss Mabel Pendleton Rogers, Mrs. W. M. Gorham Higgins, of Midlothian; and Miss J. and Miss Ada Smith. Anna Carpenter, of Westward Ho; but The scores of the leaders was not quite Miss Frances Everett, who recently won as good as when Miss Rhona Adair the Western Women's Championship, was played at Merion last year. On that oc- an absentee, and other fine western play- casion the_Ejig]i§h__ch^jngioniijiad low THE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP. 263

score 90, Mrs. Stout being second with Westward Ho., 50, 48—98; Miss M. 91. But on the whole there was good Curtis, Brookline, 49, 50—99; Miss Anita scoring. There were only fourteen strokes Phipps, Springfield, 49, 50—99; Miss G. between the first and last of the thirty- M. Bishop, Bridgeport, 51, 49 —100; Miss two. The competition was held two K. C. Harley, Fall River, 51, 49—TOO; years ago at Brookline, a somewhat easier Miss M. C. Dutton, Oakley, 48, 53—101; course, but one which may be compared Miss Ruth Milne, Albany, 49, 52—101; with Merion more fitly than the scene of Miss Maud Wetmore, Newport, 48, 52— last year's struggle. Then Miss Margaret 102; Miss E. W. Allen, Oakley, 47, 55— Curtis had low score 89, and there were 102 ; Mrs. C. F. Fox, Huntingdon Valley, exactly fourteen strokes on that occasion 53, 49 —102; Mrs. E. F. Sanford, Orange, between the first and the thirty-second 52, 50—102; Miss E. S. Porter, Oakley, score. Massachusetts came out well in 50, 52—102; Mrs. H. Toulmin, Philadel- the qualifying thirty-two, having thirteen phia, 50, 53—103; Miss E. N. Lock- players on the list, whilst the Metropoli- wood, Lexington, 52, 52—104; Mrs. F. tan Golf Association had only six. Some W. Batchelder, Weston, 51, 54—105; Miss curiosities of the round were a 3 at the Ruth Badgley, Orange, 56, 49—105; first hole by Miss Allen, where she holed Miss F. W. Ayres, Riverton, 55, 51—ro6; a mashie shot, and a 2 on the ninth by Miss A. P. McNeely, Merion, 48, 58— Mrs. Polhemus. 106; Miss Eunice Terry, Ardsley, 53, 53 The following table shows the distances —106; Miss F. McNeely, Merion, 56, 51 at Merion and the scores made by the — ro7; Mrs. T. W. Reath, Riverton, 54, three players who tied for low score: 53—107 ; Miss L. Biddle, Riverton, 55, 52 —107; Miss H. F. Bishop, Bridgeport, GOING OUT. Holes in yds. . 340 397 290 480 300 350 150 450 175 58, 49 — 107. Dod ....56566535 3—44 Did not qualify—Mrs. N. P. Rogers, Vanderhoef .67464647 4—48 Curtis ...56665548 3—48 Baltusrol, 53, 55—108; Mrs. T. H. Pol- COMING IN. hemus, Eastern Parkway, 47, 61—108; Holes in yds. . 420 375 3C0 260 350 385 370 185 275 Mrs. S. F. Lefferts, Engfewood, 55, 53— Dod ....75656564 5—49 Vanderhoef .55556654 4—45 108; Mrs. W. M. Gorham, Philadelphia, Curtis ...56555563 5-45 55, 53—108; Mrs. J. B. Kinney, Baltus- Miss Dod had a 6 on the fifth through rol, 55, 54—109; Mrs. W. West, Camden, playing into the bunker, and her 7 at the 53, 56—109; Mrs. Milton C. Work, tenth was caused by a sliced drive into Huntingdon Valley, 57, 52—109; Miss the trees. Page Schwarzwaelder, Dyker Meadow, The summary: Championship Division 57, 53—no; Miss M. Kirkby, Engle- —Miss Lottie Dod, Great Britain, 44, wood, 57, 53—no; Mrs. D. R. Aldridge, 49—93; Miss F. Louise Vanderhoef, Dyker Meadow, 55, 56—in; Miss Ger- Ardsley, 48, 45—93; Miss Harriot Curtis, trude Gilbert, Huntingdon Valley, 55, 56 Essex County, 48, 45—93; Miss M. B. in; Mrs. Elliott Rodgers, Allegheny, 56, Adams, Wollaston, 48, 46—94; Mrs. R. 57 —113; Mrs. M. D. Paterson, Engle- H. Barlow, Merion, 47, 48—95; Miss wood, 58, 55—113. Louisa A. Wells, Brookline, 44, 51 — 95; Mrs. S. Bettle, Merion, 60, 54—114; Miss Pauline Mackay, Oakley, 48, 47— Miss H. Carrington, New Haven, 57, 57 95; Miss F. C. Osgood, Brookline, 51, —114; Miss Louise B. Elkins, Oakmont, 46—97; Miss F. C. Griscom, Merion, 50, 56, 58 — 114; Miss A. N. Smith, Los 47—97; Miss Mabel Higgins, Midlothian, Angeles, 60, 55—115; Mrs. A. H. Harris, 50, 48—98; Miss J. Anna Carpenter, Apawamis, 63, 53—116; Miss E. Burner, , fed l°* - _

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Misquamicut, 58, 59 —117; Miss M. 61, 65—126; Miss M. C. Maule, Phila- Fownes, Oakmont, 60, 57—117; Mrs. J. delphia, 68, 58—126; Miss L. N. Groves, W. Knight, Woodbury, 60, 57—117; Riverton, 63, 64—127; Mrs. H. J. Dando, Mrs. H. A. Lewis, Philadelphia, 60, 57— Cape May, 63, 67—130; Mrs. A. H. Fin- 117; Miss E. W. Wirth, Allston, 60, 57— ley, Philadelphia, 69, 62 —131 117; Miss A. R. Clayton, Woodbury, 59, Withdrew — Mrs. G. Collingwood, 59—n8; Mrs. W. Shippen, Morris Duchess County; Miss H. E. Maule, County, 60, 58—118; Mrs. C. L. Tiffany, Merion; Mrs. A. J. Morgan, Apawamis; Apawamis, 60, 58—118; Miss M. G. Mrs. W. Fellowes Morgan, Baltusrol; Frismuth, Riverton, 59, 60 — 119; Miss E. Mrs. Herbert Munn, San Francisco; Miss A.Dougherty, Cape May, 55,64—119; Roberts, Wilmington; Miss E. Russell, Mrs, A. DeWitt, Cochrane, Ardsley, 63, Woodbury; Mrs. F. R. Shattuck, Hunt- 57—120. ingdon Valley. Miss M. M. Stevenson, Riverton, 62, On the Friday Miss Dod, Miss Vander- 59—I2i; Mrs. H. S. J. Smith, Portland, hoef and Miss Harriot Curtis played oft Me., 62, 59—121; Mrs. F. W. Morris, Jr., the tie, having of course to make a round Huntingdon Valley, 61, 60—121; Mrs. of the links. The scoring was not good, O. McCammon, Chevy Chase,64,57—121; the result being that Miss Curtis dropped Miss A. B. Frismuth, Riverton, 63, 59— out at the sixteenth green, and Miss Dod 122; Miss D. Man's, Philadelphia, 67, 58 and Miss Vanderhoef tied at 101. When —125; Mrs. M. S. Craig, Camden, 63,62 Miss Curtis gave up Miss Vanderhoef was —125; Miss J. Crow, Cape May, 63, 62 leading the English champion by 1 stroke. —125; Mrs. E. E. Mitchell, Wilmington, At the home green Miss Dod had a six- TIIE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP. 265

foot putt to win, but she merely1 rimmed Miss Mackay won in 4 easily, and would the cup. The scores: probably have had a 3 had it been Miss Vanderhoef, Ardsley :— needed. The Oakley player now had 75645547 5—47 the lead and never lost it. She was on 76666684 5—54—101 the eighth green in three and could have Miss Lottie Dod, Moreton, England:— had a five, but Miss Dod gave up the 56574667 5—51 hole. She had a good tee shot and then 5 7 6 5 7 5 7 3 5—50-101 Miss H. Curtis, Essex County: — sent three brassey shots out of bounds. 58984556 5-24 Miss Mackay won the ninth, 175 yards 6674888XX in 4 to 5. This is a difficult green to Instead of going round again they de- play. It slopes at an angle of forty-five cided to settle the dispute by playing the degrees and is very fast, the grass being extra hole. Here they halved, each tak- conspicuously absent. The Oakley player ing 6, but at the second the Ardsley player was 2 up at the turn, her medal score ran down a long putt from the edge of the green for a 4 and Miss Dod took 6. Conse- quently the first trophy, a handsome silver bowl, went to Miss Vanderhoef, Miss Dod being rewarded with a silver card dish. The first match play round led to Miss Dod's defeat. She was drawn against Miss Paul- . C Made, Phila- ine Mackay, of the Oakley \IissLN.GroTes, J Country Club, who has always Mis. H. J.Daiido, been rated as a good player, but it was not expected that o; Mrs. A. H. Fin- she would win against the 2-131 English champion. She start- G, CoIIingwood, ed in well by taking the first s H. E. Ma* two holes in 5's, getting on jrean, Apawamis; jj the green in 3 each time, and 0Igans Baltnsrol; 'Miss Dod took 6. The next m Francisco; Mis hole Miss Dod won with a s Miss I K" * bogey 4, and she squared the > Shattuck,Hont- match atthe next hole, winning by 6 to 8. Miss Mackay had a bad drive. The Eng- t Curtis played ofi lish player had the lead at . fo make a round the fifth, with 5 to 6, and the Bg was not good, sixth was halved. The sev- ss Cnrtis dropped | enth is a short hole, 150

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y • 'iHHM 260 THE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP. being 47 to Miss Dod's 50, The tenth use a Schenectady putter. Miss Mackay hole made her 3 up, for she won in 5 to 6 has a half swing and it is strange that and she should have had the next but for she is able to get such a distance, for bad putting, and it was halved. The during the week she rarely found herself next three holes Miss Dod took in 5, out-driven. Perhaps this is because she 4, 5, and the pair were all even with generally hits clean. Her short game is four to play. At the fifteenth Miss strong, and when she is on the green she Dod made her only bad drive, play- putts standing behind the ball as if she ing into the long grass and requiring 6 was playing croquet. The books would for the hole. Miss Mackay won in 5. doubtless condemn her style, but she Miss Dod had a chance to win the six- lasted to the semi-final and so could teenth but she topped her brassey shot enjoy a laugh at her critics. and the hole was halved. The match Miss Vanderhoef had an early victory was finished on the seventeenth green. over Miss Wetmore, as did Miss Miss Mackay was sure of a 3, and Miss Margaret Curtis over Miss Badgeley. Dod gave up the hole, as she had played The Country Club player went out in two approach putts without being within 43. The two Western representatives, holing distance, and was thus beaten by Miss Carpenter and Miss Higgins won 2 up and 1 to play. their matches. Miss Carpenter beat Mrs. The cards: Harry Toulmin, Merion, by 8 up and 7 to Miss Mackay 55586545 4-47 play, going out in 47, although she had an Miss Dod ...... 664655585-50 Miss Mackay. 56657563 —43—90 8 at the fourth. Miss Higgins was 2 down Miss Dod. 66545664 —42 — 92 at the turn against Miss Anita Phipps, It was perfectly evident throughout that Springfield, and after being stymied at the Miss Dod was not playing her game, and fifteenth, she won by 2 up and 1 to play. some spectators who had seen her win at Mrs. Sanfbrd won a fine match from Miss Troon said she was about half a stroke a Harriot Curtis after being five down at the hole worse. The reason is not far to turn. The game went to the extra hole, seek, apart from the fact that she was Miss Curtis losing through taking three playing amid strange surroundings. The putts. Miss Wells, who did a 98, beat clay at Merion had been baked hard and Miss M. B. Adams, who took 99, by 2 up. dry, so that it was quite impossible to Miss Harley in beating Mrs. Barlow by 1 play through the green in the same man- up, had a 97. A young Riverton player ner as would be done in England or Miss F. C. Ayres, who was making her \\\ Scotland. At Merion the ball had to be first appearance in a championship, began hit clean for an iron or brassey on Merion to attract attention in her match with Miss turf would merely slide along as if the M. C. Dutton, Brookline, whom she beat fair green was frozen. Miss Adair did by 3 up and 1 to play. Miss Georgiana not have such a difficulty to contend Bishop, Brooklawn, was drawn against with when she was at Merion, for then Miss H. C. Bishop, of the same club, and the course was at the other extreme, she had no difficulty in winning by 4 up being reduced to a swamp by the con- and 2 to play. tinuous rain. Miss Dod has a sound The match between Miss Vanderhoef style, not so finished or free, perhaps, as and Miss Carpenter excited interest in Miss Adair's, but thoroughly orthodox. the second round, as they met in the Usually she was strong on the greens, Championship of 1902. The Ardsley putting with a cleek, Mr. Travis's victory golfer won at Brookline and the question in England not having caused her to was would Miss Carpenter have her re- !**

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The cards: Miss Griscom R 56585537 4—48 upon her work tu t Miss Higgins 67566656 6—53 Miss Griscom 67SS6763 —45— 93 iv her* Miss Higgins 66545764 —43— 96 Miss Mackay continued her victorious career by beating Miss Wells by 3 up and 2 to play. Mrs. Sanford had another nineteen - hole match, this time with Mrs. Fox, and the Metropolitan player won. It was a surprise when Miss Ayres beat Miss Porter so easily. Miss Margaret Curtis went out in 46 in the match she won against Miss Lock- MISS MACKAY PLAYING TO EIGHTH GREEN". wood; and Miss Harley had a 44 when she beat MissOsgood. venge. It looked as though she might, Miss Bishop won from Mrs. Batchelder for she was 4 up at the turn. She had by 4 up and 3 to play, the Brooklawn gone out in 46, which was fine work con- player traveling very fast. sidering the weather. It was raining in It was generally expected that Miss torrents and a gale was blowing. The Vanderhoef would beat Mrs. Sanford balls did not roll a yard and the greens when they met in the third round of the were sopping wet. Everyone wore heavy tournament, for the Ardsley player had sweaters and some attired themselves shown very good form throughout. The completely in rubber. At the fourteenth way in which the Essex County golfer green they were all square. Miss Van- played the first hole seemed to support derhoef won the fifteenth and sixteenth, this view. She topped her second and lost the seventeenth and by winning the got bunkered on her third, and Miss eighteenth took the match by 2 up. Miss Vanderhoef won in 5 to 6. But Mrs. Carpenter topped her iron at the last hole Sanford's short game saved her and she and her long putt for a 5 rimmed the cup. was 1 up at the turn. Coming home The cards: Miss Vanderhoef went right off in her Miss Vanderhoef .66674646 5—50 putting while for the most part Mrs. Miss Carpenter . SSS56546 5—46 Sanford was more deadly than ever, and Miss Vanderhoef .56646654 5—47— 97 eventually she won by 2 up. The win- Miss Carpenter . 76757763 6—54 — 100 ner had a medal score of 97, Miss Van- The remarkable feature of Miss Gris- derhoef requiring 100. Miss Ayres met com's golf in her match with Miss Higgins her match in Miss Mackay though she was that she seemed to have the advan- put up a very good fight—the Boston tage in the long game. At the short representative only winning by 1 up. game the ex-champion was always in the Playing the home hole, Miss Ayres had front rank. She was four up at the turn a bad lie after her drive, and taking her and finally won by 2 up and 1 to play. mashie she only got about thirty yards THE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP. 269

and was short of the green on her third Miss Frances Griscom had a strong op- and she lost the hole by 5 to 6. The ponent in Miss Bishop and she proved Riverton player is to be congratulated unequal to the occasion, losing by 4 up upon her work in the tournament With and 3 to play. The result of the day's such a brilliant long game as she posses- play left the following four players in the ses, combined with her fine short game as semi-finals: Miss Bishop, Miss Mackay, evidenced by her winning the putting and Mrs. Sanford and Miss Harley.

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approaching contest, she should be a Miss Bishop and Miss Harley were notable figure in the golf of the future. paired, and as the latter had shown such ,_the Boston Miss Harley and Miss Margaret Curtis strong golf during the tournament, opinion were another pair who had a hard match, was divided as to the probable winner. which was only finished at the home It cannot be said that either player was green, when Miss Harley won by 1 up. at her best, though there wasa[nothing 270 THE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP.

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MRS. SANFOKD AND MlSS MACK AT ON NINTH GREEN. strikingly the matter with their work counterbalanced her good luck was when through the green. But their putting she was going to the eighth. Her ball was very bad, putts of a foot and even of was lying under a wire fence, the bottom eight inches being missed by both players. wire being so close to the ground that she When Miss Bishop was dormy five she had to put her arm over the fence and failed to hole a short putt at the four- play out that way, as shown in the illus- teenth, and at the fifteenth she only ob- tration, at a cost of three strokes. Some tained a half through missing a two-foot of the greens were difficult to play on putt. The cards: owing to the slope and the hard ground, Miss Bishop . 6 S 5 8 4 6 4 6 S-49 and on account of this Miss Mackay lost Miss Harley . 6 6 S 8 6 7 6 4-53 the ninth, which had seemed to be a win Miss Bishop . 5 6 6 6 7 s Miss Harley . 6 6s 5 7 S 7 for her. The match ended on the Mrs. Sanford fairly ran away from Miss thirteenth green, Mrs. Sanford winning Mackay, the latter being completely off by 7 up and 5 to play. The cards: her game. Through the green the Boston Mrs. Sanford 6 6 5—49 Miss Mackay . 8 8 6-55 golfer was continually topping her ball Mrs. Sanford and her direction was bad. More than Miss Mackay . 6 once she only escaped serious trouble The result of the day's play was that through her ball having the good luck to two of the Boston players were put out jump a bunker, and it seemed as if the and the fight for the championship was strain of the week's golf had told upon between Miss Bishop and Mrs. Sanford, her. One piece of hard luck which both of whom belonged to the Metro- .

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politan Golf Association. The general derfully good on her short approaches. expectation was that Miss Bishop was Where the comparison fails is in her put- likely to win, though it was supposed that ting, which is quite uncertain. Mrs. San- the fine work of Mrs. Sanford on the ford lost the first hole through half-topping greens would render the match a close and slicing her third to the first green, and one. Strange to say it was chiefly on the she should have lost the second but Miss greens that the Essex County player Bishop missed an easy putt The third failed All through the week her putting was halved, Miss Bishop over-approached had been deadly and this had undoubtedly and Mrs. Sanford was wide of the green enabled her to reach the finals. There on the right. The fourth—480 yards— is nothing remarkable about her long was halved in 6. Mrs. Sanford took three game. She plays a tee shot of average putts at the fifth and lost the hole, 5 to 6. length, which would be longer if she used Miss Bishop missed an easy putt at the the wrist more. Through the green she sixth and lost the hole. This made her does not use a play club, though generally 1 up. Mrs. Sanford topped her mid-iron with a cleek she got as far as Miss Bishop tee shot at the seventh badly, and played did with a brassey. Miss Bishop, as a her second into the bunker where Miss well-known critic said, reminds one of Mr- Bishop had arrived on her first. Again Travis in her swing and the comparison Miss Bishop missed a short putt and had might be carried further, for she keeps a to be content with a half. At the eighth good line through the green, and is won Mrs. Sanford drove out of bounds and

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lost the hole. At the ninth, 175 yards, made a remarkable recovery. Mrs. San- Miss Bishop required four shots to reach ford missed a short putt and so lost the the green. Her opponent got there in hole and match. The cards: three, but took three putts, so the hole was Miss Bishop .56564655 6—40 halved. Miss Bishop was 2 up at the Mrs. Sanford -66565556 6—58 turn. The Brooklawn golfer took the Miss Bishop .555656 Mrs. Sanford .665657 tenth and eleventh holes in 5's with per- Bye holes not played. fect golf, and halved the twelfth in a par 5. Mrs. San ford pulled out of bounds at RESULTS IN PREVIOUS YEARS. The winners and runners up in the previous the thirteenth, but Miss Bishop missed a years have been : — short putt, so the hole was halved in 6. WINNER. RUNNER UP. LINKS. The fourteenth was halved in a par 5, and 1896 this made Miss Bishop dormie four. Play- Miss Hoyt Mrs. Turnure Morris Co. ing the fifteenth she got in the ditch, but she 1897 Miss Hoyt Miss Sargent Essex Co. Wore THE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP. 273

RUNNER UP test this year was more severe. There Miss Hoyt Miss VVetmore Ardsley was little roll and owing to a strong, cross 1899 wind it was difficult to keep within bounds. Miss Underhill Mrs. Fox Bala Miss Ayres won the putting and ap- g Miss Griscom Miss M. Curtis, Shinnecock proaching contest, after tieing with Miss 1901 Dod and Miss Porter at 9. Other events Mrs. C. T. Stout Mrs. Laughlin Baltusrol 1902 resulted: Handicap open to non-quali- Mrs. C. T. Stout Miss Wells Brookline" fiers—Miss D. Maris, Huntingdon Val- 1903 Mrs. B. T. Home Miss Carpenter Wheaton ley, 105,16—89. Handicap against bogey The driving competition was won by —Miss M. Fownes, Pittsburg, 7, n down. Miss Harriot Curtis with a drive of 175 Foursomes—Miss Emily Lockwood and yards, which is not so far as usual, but the Miss M. B. Adams-,. 91.

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WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP, J904. Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa., October 10-15*

Miss Mary B. Adams, Wollaston. Miss Wells, Miss Louisa A. Wells, Brookline . 2 up Miss Mackay, Miss Pauline Mackay, Oakley I Miss Mackay, 3 up, 2 to play Miss 2 up, I to play .. Charlotte Dod, Great Britain. Miss Mackay, Miss Elizabeth G. Porter, Brookline \ Miss Porter, 3 up, 2 to play... Miss Eunice Terry, Ardsley ( 3 up, 2 to play. .. Miss Ayres, Miss M. C. Dutton, Brookline ) Miss Ayres, 4 up, 3 t0 PlaY Miss Florence W. Ayres, Riverton ) 3 up, l to play. .. Mrs. Sanford, Miss Maude K. Wetmore, Newport } Miss Vanderhoef, 7 up, 5 to play... Miss Louise Vanderhoef. Ardsley ( 7 up, 6 to play .. Miss Vanderhoef, Mrs. H. Toulmin, Merion \ Miss Carpenter, 2 up Miss J. Anna Carpenter, Midlothian ( 8 up, 7 to play .. Mrs. Fanford, Miss Harriot Curtis. Essex County Mrs. Sanford, 2 up Mrs. E. F. Sanford, Essex Country I up, 19 holes . .. Mrs. Sanford, Mrs. Caleb F. Fox, Huntingdon Valley Mrs. Fox, 1 up, 19 holes. Miss Ruth Milne, Albany 4 up, 3 to play... Miss Bishop, Miss L. Biddle, Riverton ... Miss Lockwocd, 5 up, 3 to play. Miss E. N. Lockwood, Lexington 5 up, 4 to play... Miss Curtis, Miss Margaret Curtis, Essex County Miss Curtis, 3 up, 2 to play.. Miss Ruth Badgley, Essex County 8 up, 6 to play... Miss Harley, Miss K. C. Harley, Fall River Miss Harley, I up Mrs. R H. Barlow, Huntingdon Valley. 1 up Miss Harley, Miss Fanny C. Osgood, Brookline Miss Osgood, 6 up, 4 to play.. Miss A. P. McNeely, Merion by default 1 I Miss Bishop, Miss H. F. Bishop, Brooklawn Miss G. Bishop, 4 up, 3 to pplay... Miss Georgianna Bishop, Brooklawn. 3 up, I to play... Miss Bishop, Miss E. W. Allen, Oakley Mrs. Batchelder, 4 up> 3 t0 Play-- Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Weston 2 up Miss Bishop, Miss Mabel Higgins, Midlothian ... . Miss Higgins, 4 up, 3 to play... Miss A. Phipps, Springfield 2 up, 1 to play. .. Miss Griscom, Miss F. C. Griscom, Merion. Miss Griscom, 2 up, I toiplay... j Miss F. McNeely, Merion by default THE ART OF GOLF fig, 10, K BUS and allow Ik t By Sir Walter Simpson, Bart. siring k F- coiesloctaL

ANNOTATED BY THE HON. MR. RECORDER WEIR. convince &? " jitl a jnfl'" right tadton s PART II. toigiffll !' pip to te tsled I CHAPTER II. point in a grip—namely, that it be so siring?" B "f • '• ate ooa: K OF STYLE IN DRIVING. arranged as to prevent the club either slipping or twisting in the palms during pkdkinisdi ;;• (Continued.) any part of the swing. If a player gets tor la if: OW ought I to grip my club ?" is his hands under the club-handle (see 9 inat if MB S> a question which causes lifelong Figs. 8 and 9) it is impossible to take toil pas sib H trouble to, and bars the progress more than a half swing without letting fkiasinfi&l of, many players. Addressing the ball go. If (see Fig. 10) he have the right means working their hands into some more under than the left, and tight (a cramped position. They arrange the left grip one is apt to adopt when a "screamer" hand tight, the right loose or tight, in the is contemplated), anything but a swing palm or in the fingers, under the club, round the waist must bring the club-head over it, or with the knuckles pointing back to the ball turned in (which is the secret of the screamer when it comes off, in some prescribed direction, according tas 1 and also the cause of its failing so often).2 to whose disciple they are. There is other, - scarcely a modification of holding with If any one by chance has read this two hands which some one has not last paragraph carefully, he will feel pretty adopted as his grip, each giving its owner certain that I am about to describe the liverei a sense of command over the club, so proper position and tightness of each long as it is at rest, behind the ball. hand. But he will be wrong. On the That a player should give attention to contrary, my view is that players may this important matter is right enough; take great liberties with their grip,—at least but the mistake usually made is to get the with that of their right hand,—without taste. hands into the most efficient position for affecting driving. The club may be sunk bg t dealing a heavy, instead of a swift blow in the palm, to save a sore finger, or held without reference to the most essential in the fingers if the palm be painfully

1 The grip is as important m its way as the upon the left hand. You may take great liber- swing itself, for many an otherwise good swing ties with the right, but the rule as to the left is is spoiled by a defective grip. It is a good grip well-nigh absolute. The rale is this : The large that will bring the face of the club squarely knuckles should face the direction of play ; the against the ball; it is a bad grip which brings more they get under the handle the worse the the face of the impact at an angle. It is also a play. The left wrist being already turned to bad grip which ties up the wrists or either of the left when the knuckles are undermost there them, but this defect is more quickly felt and is so much loss of power in the swing. rectified than the other. It is not wise to dog- 2 The screamer will have a touch of pull ; matize about golf, but we will venture to say perhaps more than a touch, the failure will be hat the secret of a good grip depends chiefly topped or foundered. THE ART* OF GOLF. 277

horny, without prejudice to play, so long in the left hand at the very least. The as it is so held as not to slip or turn one preliminary flourish under discussion will hair's-breath throughout the shot. Nay! be detected in the driving of the best and in the right it may be even allowed to freest players. Should an elongated eight turn.3 In fact, if a player grip as in be found on any ancient Egyptian monu- Fig. i.o, he must hold loose with the right, ment, it is certainly the symbol for golf, and allow the club to slip round if his and will prove that venerable nation to swing be perfect, otherwise his wrist be- have played the game. I say this flourish comes locked. Of this a trial swing will can be "detected" in a good style; but a convince any one. It is only possible practised player does not require to pass with a grip as in Figs. 6 and 7 for the over his ball more than once, or he may right hand to remain glued to the club even pretermit all, except the merest throughout a perfect swing. '•' How is the rudiment. He has a proper hold at once, grip to be tested for adherence during the without searching for it, and can at once swing?" is the real question, which the proceed unhesitatingly to strike. There is address ought to solve thus:—Having no pause, after the club has been placed placed himself opposite the ball, let the behind the ball, to allow a final and fatal player take hold of his club loosely, but alteration to be made. It is interesting so that, if held short, the end of the shaft confirmation of the soundness of what I would pass under the wrist bones (some- am advancing, that fine players, many of what as in Figs. 6 and 7). Let him swing whom are proverbial for the instantane- it backwards and forwards freely over the ousness of their address, are often more ball, describing an elongated eight, whose elaborate in a big match. Whereas a length is limited by the locking-point of mere rudiment of a flourish is all they the wrist joints. After two or three such ordinarily indulge in, this becomes one or continuous figures have been described, more complete eights, when a single mis- the hands, still holding loosely, will settle take might be fatal. It is as if they said, themselves into a proper relation to each " I am almost certain to grip rightly; but other, and to the shot. The club will it is as well to test it." then be placed behing the ball, the grasp Whether this plan of preliminary flour. tightened just as it is, and the blow de- ish is or is not the best, there is no doubt livered. Whether both should be tight- the grip should be found by some sort of ened, or only the left—whether it is into trial swing, not by placing the club behind the fingers, or the palm, these movements the ball, and settling down as comfortably are to adjust the club—are immaterial as possible. The true grip is that which points, which may be left to individual accommodates itself to a free swing, not taste. Nor ought the amount of tighten- to a commanding stance. Indeed players ing to be treated as important. Some may be divided into two classes, accord- only tighten a little, some as much as ing as they act upon or ignore this prin- they can; all that can be said is, that the ciple. The one arrives at the position of limit of permissible looseness is overstep- the hands typified in Figs. 6 and 7, and ped when, in the course of sweeping away perhaps Fig. 10; the other is prone to the ball, there is any slipping or turning the fault shown in Figs. 8 and 9. The one makes its flourishes, places its club 3 Badminton teaches that the club should be for an instant behind the ball, and without allowed to turn naturally in the right hand until it is resting upon the web between the fore- hesitation strikes. If they allow it to finger and thumb ; but such teaching is now dwell longer, it is not comfortable perhaps. •commonly regarded as heretical—Varclon, .Braid, Taylor and Mr. Travis all condemn it. Nor need it be. Ease whilst swinging, 278 THE ART OF GOLF.

not whilst at rest, is the essential thing. have the tact to accommodate their swing The other finds its grip whilst the club is to the conditions they have imposed upon at rest, and then proceeds to nourishes. it. But assuredly this common error of Take the case of a player of this class taking hold of the club in the most com- who makes the orthodox figure-eight fortable way for aiming at the ball, rather 05 gyration. He takes his grip, makes a than for the blow, has to answer for many If is ii* ?' motion over the ball, and, unless by monstrous styles, efficient and otherwise.4

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PROPER GRIP. HANDS "OVER" OR "ABOVE."

chance it is a true one, disturbs it by so doing. You may see him pause a moment * In his book on "Great Golfers," Mr. to rearrange it; the other accepts the Beldam cites Vardon, Taylor and Braid as put- . disturbance as a proper correction. What- ting importance upon the wrists being turned Snp » a~:r'-Z under the shaft at the top of the swing. This ever the prowess of the player, his class is to obtain the maximum of power and to en- in this respect can be detected by watch- sure bringing the face properly to the ball. If it is important that the wrists be found under the ing whether, after putting his club finally shaft at the top of the swing, it will be found behind the ball, he hesitates or strikes at impossible to secure this unless the left hand grips with knuckles facing line of play at least, once. Nearly all bad players belong to and left thumb well under. The left thumb ex- the class which does not arrive at its grip tended straight down the shaft secures this to a certain extent, but it should incline to the right by experiment but dogmatically; not that rather than the left side of the middle line of the all in it are bad, however. Their grip shaft. A special feature of the left-hand grip thus described is that it compels both hands to may by chance be good, or they may hang low, and certainly gives greater power to THE ART OF GOLF. 279

Swing.—" My swing" is a constant theme imitating in every way except one—the for conversation with the young golfer.5 only one which will give him a true style He is for ever making it quicker or slower, —not thinking about it when playing, a Ae most com- longer or shorter, some skilful player which the good player never does. His being in his mind's eye, whom he fancies one problem is to sweep the ball away he is imitating—or rather, whom he is with speed. This is done by his body

FIG. 7. PROPER GRIP. HANDS "OVER" OR "ABOVE.1

the left arm. In adopting this style of left hand arm. He is very severe upon dipping the club grip a caution may be offered. It is this: A from the wrists, say, at the top of the swing. strong tendency will be found in the draw-back Let the player look upon his left arm as the part to keep the face of the club looking towards the of the club. He can see at once that it will not ball, whereas in obedience to rightward turning lengthen his driving to have a break in it some- 7ma and K> * wrists it should be turned away. If the face is where. Such is Sir Walter's doctrine. This turned away it is the wrists that do it and if the dipping of the club below the horizontal is a si! wrists are working the chances are all in favor sure mark, it may be observed, of a defective : ' •".'• wj]| be foun1d of a good stroke. Once again, let us say that in swing. In the true swing the club tends to °L coming down the wrist must pull the club swing horizontally round the neck both in the through turning this time to the left. There is draw-back and the follow-through. Any tend- obviously only one instant when the face of the ency to dip towards the ground indicates a club can properly meet the ball. Hence the wrong conception and style. It indicates wrists mean and importance of timing. too loose and not under control. The discrimi- 5 Sir Walter's remarks about the swing are nating reader of Sir Walter's notes will note 0 highly instructive. He advocates taut wrists that "tautness" does not mean "stiffness." and taut left arm with an accommodating right '280 THE ART OF GOLF.

remaining a firm fulcrum for the lever better (if I may be allowed to use an composed of his arms and club. His approbatory adjective at all in reference swing back ends when the contact of his to such a matter), to employ upright left biceps with his chest prevents it going clubs, although they will not overcome further, his wrists remaining as taut as he the inevitable uncertainty of direction. can keep them. Not that he thinks of To get the club to the back of the neck, this, or of anything but sweeping the ball it must be drawn away at a tangent to away. Let the beginner devote himself the direction the ball is to be driven in.6 to the same problem. For a long time To prevent it going to the left, the player he will have a short swing; but it will has to resort to some counter modifica- lengthen quickly enough. There is not tion. He must, after impact, let his arms the slightest danger of its not doing so, away to the right. Should he be lucky unless he fall into the error of supposing enough to catch the ball at the exact that the more gently he hits the surer instant when his curve is practically he is. parallel to the direction it is meant to go Many begin -in quite another way. in, although "cut" the shot will be straight; They see the professional's club swishing if he reaches it a hair earlier, it will be round his back, and they determine, at " pulled"—a hair later, it will be " heeled." all cost, to get theirs as far round. By a These are the terms the player would use. variety of schemes they accomplish this, It would be more exact to describe the and become the proud possessors of a three drives as a cut to the right, a cut concatenation of contortions, in which no to the left, and a straight cut. Some who one but themselves recognizes the resem- drive in this way stand well in front of blance to a full swing. Some swing the ball, and thus reduce their curve more naturally to a certain point, then, letting nearly to a straight line; but I have seen their wrists bend, drop the thing down none get rid of the cut entirely, which their backs, drawit up again, and proceed they might do by turning their back to drive the ball. In the meantime their altogether to the line of fire. position has almost certainly changed in The left elbow-joint as a joint, has no some way, so that the club head does not part in a true swing. But it is a preva- return to the ball along the same imagin- lent habit to close it a little after the club ary line it went from it. Others avoid has circled back as far as it naturally the natural check of the biceps against should. This is not quite so silly a way the body by sticking out the left elbow of giving one's-self the sensation of swing- ml so. and passing the arm round the neck, ing far as is dropping the club over the fe. Hi! which, being thinner, allows the hands to shoulder by means of the wrist joints. get as far as the back of the head. To But it is foolish enough, particularly if play in this way it is usual, or at least the player begins his swing with straight is bib 6 Sir Walter means that the club is not to be appreciable time after the impact and we were drawn straight back as we used to be taught, solemnly shown the mark of the ball upon a any more than it has to be propelled straight clean club face in proof. As a malter of fact the forward in the direction of the hole—another moment of contact is instantaneous and the dogmatic error of the olden pedagogy. The shorter the better. Caution : J. H. Taylor's true swing describes abig hoop-like circle around advice to bring the club back " round the legs " the shoulders. It is doubtless good to make and to keep the right elbow well in, probably • Off r the hoop as big as possible, but: it is clear that suits your stocky player with sturdy powerful the club in leaving the ball must ascend in a wrists and forearms, but it means that a small rearward manner if it is ever to get to the back circle is described with more force, relatively, of us, and after the impact it is easier and better than momentum. 1 think that Braid and Var- and necessary that it turn to the left. The old don are better models for more attenuated theory was practically based upon the theory mortals, in that they do not bring the club back that ball and club remained in adhesion for an and around so sharply. THE ART OF GOLF. 281

instead of slightly bent arms, in order to see at once that it will not lengthen his have more elbow-bending to do after- driving to have a break in it somewhere. wards. Any one can see, when it is He might as well expect to lengthen his pointed out, that this joint work is merely swing by putting joints in the actual a break which has to be mended before wooden shaft, strengthened (say) with the sweep forward commences. Yet strong india-rubber bands, spliced over good players often take to it for a time if them, to imitate human joints. In other their driving is not satisfactory, feeling, words, every joint of the fine driver's in spite of common-sense, that they are left arm below the shoulder is as taut lengthening their reach. as the extensor muscles (I rather think It would be profitless to describe more these are the ones) keep it without undue of the endless twists and twiddles with attention to the point. I have said the wrists and elbows which golfers acquire, left arm, I should say nothing about seeking for a long swing in the wrong the right, were it not that I might be way, which is the same thing as seeking supposed to mean that it too was to be for it at all. Hundreds of balls are daily treated as part of the shaft, and that I " foozled " which would be struck but for was advocating that stiff dunch from the these little spasms after the club has shoulder with arms not naturally bent reached its proper goal. One sees them but rigidly straight, by which many late all over the links. They remind us some- beginners remove their ball from the tee. times of hairs which have grown too In true driving, the right arm has to ac- long and split at the ends; sometimes commodate itself in the swing back. It they suggest blind men groping their is loose and obedient. Its elbow joint way. has to flex, and it is not until it is brought It must strike any one who thinks of back to within a foot of the ball that it it, as curious that so many should wander joins with the other in the work of driv- so far from the main road in search of a ing—not till after impact that it becomes swing. One reason is, as already indi- master, the other slave. cated, that swings are among the things Fine players are not only apt to lead which, according to Longfellow, " are others astray by appearing, to the super- not what they seem." Hence the errors ficial observer, loose and flexible in every of imitators. The professional appears joint, but knotless contortionists, who to wind his club round his back. It is are really so, look stiff and ponderous. not so. It is the club which winds round Learners are thus doubly impressed with him, not because he wishes it to do so, the idea that a free and flabby swing are but because his muscles, though knit, one and the same thing. Nor is it easy have their natural elasticity. The player for them to be disabused of their error. is in the centre of a circle, at a point in No man can see himself strike, and thus the circumference of which is the ball. learn that the swing he has adopted, the The more nearly his club head describes flexibility he feels, is visible not as ease a perfect segment whilst driving, the but as awkwardness. Nor is there better. But it is not possible to make a much chance of finding out his errors by n" ) true circle swiftly with a springy wire, comparing his sensations with those of which the player is, or a springy club good players, who, as a rule, pay no shaft, if you will. He is even a bad attention to such matters. Curiously shaft, weak in some places—for example, enough, if pressed to say something, it at the wrists. Let a player look upon will often be (I have got this answer his left arm as a part of a club. He can from many professionals), " My longest 282 THE ART OF GOLF. balls are when I feel I've got my wrists coming back to it. In addressing, his into it." This misleads the tyro terribly, arms, instead of having the natural bend, although it is true. The professional gets were straight as bars. They took the his sensation from a full, taut, india-rub- club a long way off, flexion of the left bery swing. It is the result of his de- elbow took it further, flexion of the wrists termination to get back to the ball as another foot. By stretching, over-reach- soon as possible. The other takes it to ing, relaxing, his journey was the longest mean that he ought to get as far from it possible; but travelling far and swinging as he can by allowing the club to master long are different matters. With his iron his wrists. One day an adversary sought he described a true segment of a circle, my praise for the way in which he was every muscle as stiff and taut all the time driving with his iron. I said (which was as when the ball was struck. apparent), "You have a fuller swing with In short, then, a good swing seems to it than with the play club." "Youmean the onlooker swift and flexible; but if the opposite," he answered. I repeated the player feels supple, he exhibits an it lia my commentary, and he rejoined, " That awkward, stiff, strauggling movement. is curious. I've been off my iron play, The player ought to be, in his own hands, and am getting into it again by taking a a stiff bow which he bends and shoots half swing." But I was right, which he with. Of course, by practice, he learns admitted after experimenting in the mat- to bend this bow with ease, and to shoot ter. In driving from the tee this player with accuracy. But when he goes off aM4 had a long—a very long—swing, if by his driving the remedy is not to lengthen that is meant the distance the club head and loosen the string, but rather to meandered away from the ball before tighten and shorten it. (To be continued.) Mi ml i:

~~THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIP GLEN ECHO COUNTRY CLUB, ST. LOUIS, MO,, SEPTEMBER 19—24, 1904.~~

~~By Alexis J. Colman.~~

ECULIAR interest attached to the fame of the year, to the effect that pres- first Olympic championship. Golf sure of business would keep him from P had never figured in the plans of coming. The Glen Echo Club had the rejuvenators of the Grecian games counted upon Travis as a sure player, for since their revival, so this tournament was had he not been over the course last year regarded with some interest by those who and suggested changes in preparation for saw in it an innovation. It was the only this very event? amateur golf tournament of the American Had not the national championship season in which foreigners—if men from taken place so shortly before, the entry of across the Canadian border can thus be eastern golfers doubtless would have been called—have participated, hence the only far greater; as it was, William Poultney one with an international flavor. While Smith, of Philadelphia; Arthur and Ray- the event was far from representative of mond Havemeyer, of Seabright; W. W. the world's best talent and hence could Burton, of Lakewood; and Charles B. not with any justice be called a real Cory, of Boston ; with Allan Lard of the world's championship, the presence of Columbia Club, of Washington, D. C, National Champion Chandler Egan, and represented the East. In short, St. Louis Ex-Champion George S. Lyon, of Canada, was the only district adequately repre- with many others who hold or have held sented, although Chicago was in evidence divisional titles and club championships all the way with a half-score of its best gave the event rank as a good starter for young players. the future line of Olympic golf events. Mr. Lyon came with Mr. A. W. Austin, Certain it is that a greater array of massive president of the Lambton Golf and silver cups and gold medals never has Country Club of Toronto, and his son, A. been offered at any golf competition. E. Austin. These thiee were the only The efforts of the Olympic Golf Com- players from outside the United States. mittee to persuade the British players to The Glen Echo course has few rivals come over bore no fruit, although it had for picturesqueness in this country. been given out that Messrs. Low, Max- Situated upon high ground twelve miles well and others, were practically sure to out of St. Louis, the links has natural come. Hardly had the promoters of the beauty in abundance. Trees, decidedly tournament swallowed their disappoint- undulating ground, a brook which widens ment after finding that none of the to a pond hazard at the ninth hole, and a Englishmen had sailed, than, on the eve ravine all combine to make the course of the tournament they received a tele- interesting. Add to this the fact that gram from Walter J. Travis, British cham- artificial bunkers and cops are disposed pion and ex-American title-holder, and where they will do service, and that the hence chief figure of international golfing fair green in many cases affords side-hill 284 THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIP.

where every hole save one is a drive and an iron and where the fair green is, they say, like a fair stretch of the rocky road to Doublin, and every lie at an angle of 45 degrees. When one learns upon such a course the difficulties of a links like Glen Echo seems as nothing. Hence Newton's good showing was not surpris- 115 n ing. Eighty-three golfers entered the tournament and seventy-five started. The summary of the qualifiers is as follows: A.M. P.M. Total *Stuart G. Stickney, St. Louis C.C 81 82 163 *R. McKittrick, St. Louis C.C. . 81 82 163 F. C. Newton, Seattle .... 80 84 164 Walter E. Egan, Exmoor Sn 85 W. Arthur Stickney, St. Louis C.C ou 81 165 H. Chandler Egan, Exmoor 848 78 166 Qiefanr Mason E. Phelps, Midlothian . 86 80 166 A B Lambert, Glen Echo . . 86 82 168 Geo. S Lyon, Lambton, Toronto 84 85 169 D. E. Sawyer, Wheaton 90 79 169 B. P. McKinnie, Normandie, St L. 86 84 170 losing D Cadwallader, Springfield, 111. . 88 82 I7O AVarren K. Wood, Homewood 84 86 170 Robert E Hunter, Midlothian 87 84 171 H. H. Potter. St Louis C. C. 87 84 171 Simpson Foulis, Wheaton . 89 85 174 stoic: Jesse Carleton, Glen Echo . 92 82 174 Harold Weber, Toledo .... 88 86 174 Nathaniel F. Moore, Lake Geneva 90 177 O. W. Jones, Toledo .... 87 83 94 177 S T. Price, Jr., Normandie Park 92 Arthur Havemeyer, Deal Beach . 85 177 B. P. McKTNNIE, 88 9° 178 Clement E. Smoot, Exmoor 178 Lyra's K St. Louis. H W. Allen, St. Louis .... 91 87 Ned Cummins, Exmoor .... 93 85 178 that of Ke 88 91 179 Fred Semple, St Louis field . l8o lie prokM lies after tee and brassey shots, and you John D. Cady, Rock Island 89 91 A. C. Vickery, Glen Echo . . . 93 89 182 torn AJlia have the answer to the question why the Raymond Havemeyer, Deal Beach 92 90 182 W. P. Smith. Huntingdon Valley,Pa. 94 89 183 course was not made oftener under 80. A. Lard, Columbia, Wash., D. C. 93 90 183 tat of tk The greens, made new within the year, H. W. Fraser, Toledo .... 93 90 183 90 183 proved uncertain. They were the great- 93 est handicap for the players. * McKittrick won play-off. Only twice on qualifying day did a W. W. Burton, of Lakewood, just failed player .crack 80, Chandler Egan making to qualify, getting 184. H. W. Simpkins, 78, and Ned Sawyer, of Wheaton, 79. of Yarmouth, Mass., had 187; H. L. Only three others got an 80, and Stuart Case, of Oil City, Pa., had 192; and the Stickney and Ralph McKittrick, of the three Birmingham, Ala., players, R. H. St. Louis Country Club, who tied for the '1 hach, G. C. Oliver and Clarence Angier, medal, each made 81, 82 —163. Frank had respectively 195, 197 and 226. L. C. Newton, the sturdy assayer from j. Hazelton and Dr. W. Shaw, of the Seattle, who had attracted considerable Tekoa Golf Club, Westfield, Mass , made attention in the national tourney at Bal- respectively 202 and 209. A. C. Mackin- tusrol, was third with 164. Newton tosh, a Scot from Pueblo, Colo , made Won * learned his golf on the Seattle course, 207; and W. T. Withers, Lexington, Ky., OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIP. 285

209. The balance of the field was made Yale boy had stood 2 up at noon; Mc- up of St. Louis and other western centres, Kinnie beat Sawyer, 4 and 3, mainly by including Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, virtue of a streak in the morning in which Omaha and elsewhere. he won five straight holes, in 4, 3, 4, 5 and 4—and Egan, after being only 1 up at tles of a link Notable among the matches of the first noon, defeated Allen by 4 and 3, Allen S Dortl'»g. Hence day were the defeats of W. P. Smith by taking two when Egan stood dormy 6. ll>g was not surprk- Stuart Stickney, 7 and 6, Stickney making a 79 in the morning; of Walter E. Egan While Egan and McKinnie had a hard by Albert Lambert, 7 and 6, Lambert contest in the semi-finals, it was Lyon and Sttteedtheumna. also making a 79 in the afternoon, play- Newton who furnished the best spectacle, '•tan«l. The sum- ing out the bye holes. Chandler Egan for theirs was the most desperate set-to of 's as follows: beat Harold W. Fraser, of Toledo, 8 and the tournament. Neither gave the other 6; and George S. Lyon-won from J. D. a moment's freedom from worry and any

' Oi vl ID' Cady, of Rock Island, 5 and 4. Frank momentary sighs of fancied relief either • - • So S4 ijj Newton defeated Ned Cummins by 8 and indulged in were, stifled half-way by the L.^isC.C. S Si ifr realization that the enemy was upon him. + 7- 'H1; • . S ;S 166 ' Lyon made 80 and 79, to 81 and 81 for «1». . ft So § Chief among the surprises of the second a . . S6 & i day was the overwhelming defeat by Lyon Newton. They finished the morning Toronto S4 Sj l& round with Lyon 1 up, although Newton • • • 00 "p \k of Stuart Stickney, the St. Louis boy >die,St LS S) a losing by no less than 11 and 9. Lyon had stood 2 up at the fifth and Lyon had eld,III,, 88 S: been 3 up at the twelfth and fifteenth. sreod . ^ St made a 77, all putts holed, which stands Am . S; k as the best score of the tournament. This Lyon won the nineteenth—first in the C. C, . S; SJ afternoon—but Newton won the next D . , . S9 Sj 174. score: «... a: S; r George S. Lyon. two, squaring the match, and neither . . S 86 r 8 thereafter was more than 1 up. All kt Genera S; 90 ] Out - -3S44445S 4—3 square at the twenty-seventh, Newton • • • • SJ 54 In - - 5 4 5 5 4 3 5 4 4~39—77 •iePaik Sj 02 \fi won the twenty-eighth and, after halving Besdi. S 90 iji Lyon's consistent playing, as well as two, Lyon squared at the thirty-first with x . , 91 8) 4 that of Newton, made these two look a brilliant 3, to 6 for Newton. Lyon won SS 91 iji like probable semi-finalists. Newton won two of the next three, in 4-5, Newton eai . . ^3 f * i ill 0] ^) Jy- from Allan Lard by 6 and 5. Lambert taking the thirty-third in the same figures- 92 00 ft and McKittrick furnished the closest con- As the last two holes were halved, Lyon g] 5ach 91 89 '*'i 1 lS test of the day, Lambert eventually win- Filler,! * 93 9° ^ won, 1 up. i.lVC. Qj f l!i ning by 1 up. , 50 93 ^3 McKinnie never led Egan, but was un- Mason Phelps, Midlothian, and winner comfortably close. Egan was 3 up at the of the Yale championship, put Arthur fifth and 4 up at the eleventh, but Mc- Havemeyer out, 12 and 10, and the East Kinnie won four of the last nine holes, H. IV. Simpkins. was left without a representative. losing one, so Egan was only 1 up at had 1S7: H. L By the third round Chicago's chances noon McKinnie squared the match by , had 192; and the were narrowed to Eganj Newton was left taking the first hole in the afternoon, and U.. players. U to represent the Pacific Coast, McKinnie, halved the twentieth with a 20-foot putt, J champion of St. Louis, remained to fight but apparently he had reached his limit, for the prestige of the World's Fair city; whereas Egan had several threes up his . Shaw, and Lyon, of Canada, was left to give in- sleeve which he proceeded to spring ternational flavor to the championship. forthwith, making four of them ere the Lyon won from Lambert, 5 and 4, again twenty-seventh was reached and making making a 79; Newton beat Phelps in a this three-quarters turn 4 up. At that, nerve-racking match by 2 and t after the Egan missed easy putts on the twenty-

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third and twenty-fifth greens for the hole he plays his best. But credit must be in each case. Egan won by 4 and 3. given to the man who does the task when coarage. He Rain, which had considerately passed it is assigned, and Lyon never faltered.. EGt as k the tourney by for nearly a week, made He played a smashing game from the tee, ikons, ta up for the lapse on Saturday morning, and usually straight down the middle, and in approach the American and ex-Canadian cham- Egan, with his wild hooked or sliced Epn'stooa pions, with the hardy gallery which fol- drives into the rough, almost uniformly 1st lik tk lowed, were thoroughly drenched despite played the odd. This was enough to dis- sweaters, umbrellas and thick shoes. It concert a champion, but he recovered in was so fierce a downpour that on the clever style nearly always; else he could forala sixth green, where one of the pools of not have lost by so small a margin as 3 ft p casual water completely covered the cup and 2. and buried it over an inch, Tom Bende- Lyon started on this rainy morning like low, manager of the gallery, had to keep a whirlwind, 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, which gave him

sweeping while the players pitched up, a lead of 4 up at the fifth. Nineteen for III and the falling rain nearly baffled his five holes! With the exception of the efforts. third, Egan had taken a stroke more on Lyon's sound golf had won him numer- each hole. Small wonder that Egan ous followers and it was believed he topped his tee shot for the sixth for only would give Egan a stiff argument. Egan forty yards. Lyon sent a long one, but was plainly stale, as he had been during sliced to a bad lie in a rotten stump near the week, and his game lacked the vigor a fence. Egan recovered in beautiful and assurance which characterizes it when shape, sending an iron for nearly 200 THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIP. 287

yards onto the green While the volume the swollen pond and lost a stroke and the of casual water had momentarily been hole. Two up, three to go, Lyon reversed lessened, Egan won the hole by pitching the figures at the thirty-fourth hole and a half-yard mashie shot into the cup. won the championship. Egan finding Lyon had a sure four for the seventh, had the rough with his sliced tee shot and not Egan laid him a stymie; as it was the all kinds of trouble on his next three hole was halved in 5. Lyon at the eighth shots. The medal play: sliced to the rough, but Egan gave Lyon Morning. the hole by rimming a half-yard putt. Egan won the ninth in 2, holing a ten- Lyon, out—3 5 4 3 4 5 S 5 3—37 foot putt. Egan outplayed Lyon on the Egan, out—4 6445456 2—40 incoming journey and the morning halt Lyon, in—55654556 5—46-83 was finished with Lyon 1 up. Egan, in — 55453655 5— 43~83 Lyon early gave evidence that he was Afternoon. not to "crack" in the afternoon, for of Lyon, out—4 5446455 4—41 the first six holes he won three, putting Egan, out—4 6447545 3—42 him 4 up, as Egan was able only to s halve the others. Egan's wildness from Lyon, in—5 445354 Egan, in— 5 4 4 4 3 6 6 x the tee, with a stymie on the twenty-third green, were directly responsible for the x Bye holes not played. loss of these holes. Egan won the next, Lyon, 3 up, 2 to play. Lyon's tee shot found a poor lie and, The winner is a veteran athlete and for after halving the twenty-sixth, Egan again all his 46 years of age he has muscles of ffl noiE. won the fountain hole, 3—4, Lyon missing iron and puts all his power into his long a one-foot putt. Egan only 2 down shots. It was a severe disappointment to 8t credit list be with 9 to go, his supporters took the Canadian contingent that Lyon did does the task when courage. He should have lost the not arrive in time for the driving contest. w never faltered, next, as his second hit a tree off Lyon is of Scotch-Irish parentage and game from the tee, the course, but Lyon considerately dubbed was born near Ottawa. He learned to die middle, aid | an approach and the hole was halved. play golf in 1896 and two years later won hooked or sliced Egan's too strong second seemed to have the Canadian championship, which he lost him the next hole, but Lyon rimmed almost uniformly also won in 1900 and last year. This a four-foot putt and a half resulted. Egan was enough to dis- year he was put out in the finals. He is seemed surely to have won the thirteeth, it he recovered in one of the very best, cricketers in Canada for after pulling from the tee onto the jys; else he could and has played in numerous international third green, lifting and placing his ball cricket matches. He also played on the j a margin as 3 f for a good long second, he was well ahead Canadian golf teams which have com- of Lyon, but the Canadian, steady as bated unsuccessfully with the United rainy morning like ever, holed a seven-yard putt for a half States players in years gone by. h which gar* in 4. Egan further reduced Lyon's lead In addition to the Olympic champion- H, Nineteen for to a single hole when he drove 255 yards ship proper there were numerous other exception of the , straight down the middle for the thirty- events, chief of which was the Olympic 3 strote more on | first and won the hole in 4, to 5 for Lyon, team championship. For this event a nder that Egan | the Canadian's pitch going over the hole. $500 trophy, like that which Lyon won, the strth for only 1 Egan had to hole a 10-foot putt to halve was offered, and the team of the Western a long one, bit the next, but he did it. One down, four Golf Association, captained by Chandler to go, Egan certainly had a chance. Egan, won. The event was all at medal But he hooked his tee shot badly into play, 36 holes, lowest total of the ten men {01 288 THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIP. his P; D. E. Sawyer, Wheaton; K. Wood, Home- wood, and N. F. Moore, Lake Geneva. ,id to i The Western and Trans-Mississippi teams played a match Friday, Sept. 16, 36 holes on the Nassau system, and Trans- Mississippi won, 20 1-2 to 15 1-2. Chandler Egan won the driving contest, scoring six points on the checker- board arrangement which called for accuracy as well as distance, and B. P. McKinm'e won the putting competition by electric light, a pleasing divertisement, the idea of President George S. McGrew of the club. Night putting competitions over the interesting little course, which was lit up by strings of electric lights, proved popular all the week. Walter E. Egan won the First Flight trophy, defeating H. Potter of St. Louis 7 up, 6 to play, and Warren K. Wood of Homewood won the Second Flight trophy, defeating Fred T. Semple of Glen Echo, 8 and 7. Only two players landed in the Fourth Flight, President H. W. Austin of the Lambton Club and S J. Harbaugh of Glen Echo. Mr. Austin won by 5 and 4 in 36 holes. FRANK C. NEWTON, Seattle. President McGrew, who had been put out in a 19-hole match in the Third Flight composing the teams competing to win. by W. W. Burton because the Glen Echo The Trans-Mississippi Association was executive lost his ball, played against Mr. the only other organization planning to Austin for a trophy which they agreed to play, but at the eleventh hour a team call the "International Presidents'trophy," composed of players in U. S. G. A. clubs and Mr. McGrew won. was formed with Harold Weber of Toledo The one unpleasant feature of the as captain. The Western Golf Associa- tournament was the throwing out of the tion finished with a grand total of 1,749 scores made by Dr. W. F. Shaw and strokes, an average of over 87 per round L. J. Hazelton of the Tekoa Golf Club, per man. Trans-Mississippi made 1,770 Westfield, Mass., in the handicap. Dr. and the U.S.G.A. team, which was in no Shaw made 209 on qualifying day and sense representative, had 1,839. Chand- the handicap committee gave him an ler Egan made best scores, 81—84—165. allowance of 14. His card returned in The winning team was made up entirely of the handicap showed 83—14—69, but as young Chicago players, as follows: H. C. he later admitted having taken a 5 for and W. E. Egan, C. E. Smoot and E M. a hole which showed as a 4 on his card, Cummins, Exmoor; M. E. Phelps, R. E. the rules committee's representative, Hunter and K. P. Edwards, Midlothian; C. W. Higgins, barred him and Mr. THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIP. 289

Hazelton, his partner, whose card the U.S.G.A. and Vice-President A. L. showed 85—13—72. The two players Reid of the Western Golf Association, promised to appeal their case, but it is sustained Mr. Higgins and the handicap understood the other members of the cup has been awarded to E. Lee Jones of rules committee, President Windeler of Lake Geneva, who made 76 net.

~~GEORGE S. LYON, Olympic Champion. HINTS TO YOUNG PLAYERS~~

~~By Dr. J. G. McPherson, St. Andrews, Scotland.~~

HE boom of golf is on so swim- Having fixed these holes, lay out the mingly that no town, seaside or putting greens, about 17 yards square. T inland, can compete with others This is done in different ways. At first, for summer visitors without having a golf you may require to be satisfied with course to attract them. Then it is the cropping low and mowing and rolling; •oner. duty of all shop keepers, hotel keepers, but where the turf is spongy you will house letters, etc., to push most strenu- require to put a green at a time in ously to get a small conveniently reached thorough order, either by removing the course laid out as nicely as possible. turf, sprinkling over new earth, sowing As time moves on, the number of holes out lawn grass, sprinkling fine sand and can be extended. Meanwhile aim at a rolling; or by transplanting firm close nice, attractive, short course. turf in squares from some other place. Having satisfied themselves that there I have seen seaside turf transferred with must be a golf course, the well-balanced advantage to an inland course. Of enthusiasts should call in the services of course, the green must be enclosed with an expert, professional or amateur, to netting, and no one be allowed to play settle upon the course. If possible, select his ball, when it happens to stray on it. ground with undulations, for a flat course When this is begun, set about clearing is monotonous. The positions of the the course. Have a fair width for a putting greens should be next considered, windy day; for there is no greater and for any sake avoid "blind" holes. nuisance than looking for a lost ball, There is nothing more irritating to a after a slice or draw. Keep the horse good player than to play a long approach mower at work, hole after hole. Then to a flag which he does not see. Vague- build teeing grounds; for one can never ness puzzles him even more than a hap- drive steadily from a soft tee, and much hazard player. sand for tees ought to be discouraged. I am captain of a small inland course But an expert will tell you more in an which was laid out before I saw it; half hour than would a whole volume on the of the holes are blind. Every time I subject. go round I feel the irritation of playing The first thing is not to aim at swiping, my approaches to these. Besides inac- but straightness. Caution beats long curacy in calculation of distance, you are and erratic driving in the end. Little is sure to run the risk of losing your ball really gained by 20 yards on a drive, if in the long grass or broom at either some risk (especially during wind) is run; side or beyond (when you have a follow- for a good second would easily make up ing wind). for a shorter first; and the second shot e of Avoiding "blind" holes, then, make is the most important shot in the hole. * the distances between the holes varied, The next thing is to make sure of and, if possible, have one in six short holing in three shots, when within the and one in six pretty long. In that way approach of the cleek. Cautious driving the method of play is charmingly different. on the straight, with sound obedience to HINTS TO YOUNG PLAYERS. 291

this, would secure a first-class place for against the veteran Mr. Horace Hutchin- the golfer. Long driving is for the son; yet he was anxious to see her play. "gallery;" but it won't do on a new Of most pleasant manners and bright VYERS course, when unplayable broom is on complexion, she showed great skill in all both sides of the narrow course. If one parts of the game. Barring the drive, can study this plan, and play for weeks and the forcing of a bad lying ball, she without losing a ball, he will be on the could have bothered Mr. Maxwell at lese holes, lay oat fe fair road for success on any classic links. any other part of the game. Let the m i/ yards square, Ladies are indispensable in a young ladies watch good players, and imitate feentways, At fa club; so much is expected from them in them; but do not let them despair at to be satisfied nil, the securing of the necessary element— their own deficiency. For it requires money. The ladies improve by leaps years of close attention to all the details tl is spODgy you J and bounds. Then, o/i the principal of the game to be proficient. green at a time in meeting day of the week, afternoon tea And, for any sake, do not use many tther by removing k should be arranged by the ladies' com- clubs. It fairly disgusts one to see ladies tt new earth, son; mittee, to be conducted by the several or gentlemen with a great number of innkling line sand asi) members of the committee in turn. A weapons. It is not a bad thing for an implanting firmdo s small amount should be charged for tea expert to study the build of the player Offl some other place. from the participants in the club-house, of either sex and write to a club-maker le turf transferred ml and the surplus, after paying the neces- for suitable weapons for each. He should i inland course, 01 sary expenses, should be given to the fit them with clubs as a tailor makes for r»i be enclosed til general funds of the Club. each a suit of clothes. I take some ne be allowed to pits Of course, if the first subscription trouble with this in my young Club. anpens ro stavonit. efforts have not been able to secure a Having secured a driver, cleek, iron «un, set about clearing p humble club-house, a bazaar must be got and wooden (or aluminium) putter, go to up by the ladies for providing one and -c a fail width tor i work. If short holes have been made there is no ps bettering the course. There is a good near the club-house, practise putting there. deal of expense to begin with, if labor ijng for a lost U. Keep off the course greens, for you are o is high. iraw, Keep the ios apt to wear them down too much. The If the ladies work well—and won't expert will show you how to hold the bole after hole. Tte they?—the more skilled gentlemen golfers club and swing. But never try to over- ^sj for one cm KW ^ should play mixed foursomes with them. balance yourself by hitting too hard. It , ^ft tee, and •• a You have no idea how much the ladies is wonderful how far a ball goes when ft to be discouragei improve in their game in this way. And hit easily and fair. jj |i von moreillii te they soon enjoy it, when they can see the Remember to keep the irons and balls tthfe vol* on the ball rise after weeks of topping, and can quite clean; "taste" goes a long way hole out decently on the putting green. with golfers. If you begin to like your s not to aim «"^ Of course, they cannot get disheart- clubs you are on the high road to suc- ftntiot beats * ened at their own play when they see cess as a player. " Ideas is everything," the lady champions at work. I see Miss an old caddy once remarked to me. By Rhona Adair, our lady champion, has this he meant that if you fairly take it Hv during ^ beaten three of the best players on your into your head that you will succeed in side of the Atlantic (up to Oct. 10th). pitching well or holing out truly, you • ami tie se She is a fine player. I saw her playing will often do it. "Jist putt as if ye 1 il at Muirfield (near Edinburgh) in May 'cushed' (cushioned) for the 'nine' at is to i last. Mr. Robert Maxwell and I followed bagatelle, and ye'U hole 'er." It is won- her for several holes. He had just derful how such an idea possesses one, secured the amateur championship especially the beginner. Better that, at i SOB;

_ 292 RECENT ALTERATIONS OF RULES. any rate, than always foreboding a It is the glory of golf that most players are bad stroke. optimists as to their play. Most would Play for the game itself: foursomes, if be insulted with too high a handicap. possible. Avoid counting scores too A good deal depends upon the captain slavishly. One or two badly played and the convener of the ladies' committee holes vitiate the score. You might have for the success of the Club. Great care been playing seven holes better than should be exercised in the choice of your average, when two very bad ones these office bearers—then they should will make the total worse. be implicitly trusted. I am reluctant about club competitions (For thirty-five years I have not played for some months. Jealousy soon springs for a prize; for the game alone has charm up in the breasts of young aspirants; enough for me. I have outlined my then all is up with harmony in the Club. long experience for the guidance of those A "scratch" cup would not excite the who are forming new clubs and courses; same amount of envious passion; but a but, of course, one system will not neces- "handicap" medal bristles with trouble. sarily rule in all cases. The general Who is to fix the handicap, and what are hints, however, may be of some service. his data ? Wait for some time, and the I hope so.) play of each can be more fairly judged.

TdeiteHtas ste, but a B tttpatjut RECENT ALTERATIONS OF RULES £ ball to k :rt: rtriialaHid By Percy B. Barn. kkUkk (hi rig ;.:- HE heavy rains which flooded so but not nearer to the hole, under penalty T many courses in Great Britain of one stroke. (2) If a ball lie, or be last winter have not only improved lost, in casual water through the green, the putting greens but have caused the or if casual water through the green inter- Hropj Rules of Golf Committee to submit to the fere with the player's stance, the player si as no Royal and Ancient autumn meeting cer- may drop a ball without penalty within ffiara the tain alterations which will make for the two club lengths from the margin directly comfort of the golfer in the future. Rules behind the place where the ball lay, or 14 and 15 have been recast and now read from the margin nearest to the place as follows:— where the ball lay, but not nearer to the Rule 14 —(1) If a ball lie, or be lost, hole. If the ball when dropped roll into sll natmer o in water, or in casual water in a hazard, the water, or rest so that the water inter- a ball may be dropped in, or as far be- feres with the player's stance, it may be hind, the hazard as the player may please, redropped without penalty as near to the under penalty of one stroke; but if it be margin as the nature of the ground per- "osb e Played impossible from want of space in which mits, but not nearer to the hole. (3) In to play, or from any other cause, to drop dropping a ball behind the spot from the ball behind the hazard, the player which the ball was lifted, the player shall may drop a ball at the side of the hazard keep that spot, or, in the case of water, as near as possible to where the ball lay, the spot at which the ball entered, in a RECENT ALTERATIONS OF FULES. 293

^ o line between himself and the hole. Wher- The reading of Section 4 is a keen dis- "^1 handicap, ever it is impossible to drop a ball as pre- appointment to many. The Rules of nds upon Ae captain scribed in Sections (i) and (2), it shall be Golf Committee suggested that a ball in 4« ladies'comui^ dropped as near as possible to the place casual water on a putting green should be k^ Great care where it lay, but not nearer to the hole. placed at the side of the water, but not 'd in Hie choice i The penalty for a breach of this rule shall of course, nearer the hole, so that the -s—then they ii be the loss of the hole. (4) In casual player might have a "dry putt" to the i, water on a putting green a ball may be hole. But the meeting rejected this sen- ?ars 1 have not played placed by hand behind the water without sible recommendation. For a recom- game alone has dam , penalty. mendation to become law it is necessary 1 have outlined rjj Rule 15.—A ball shall be dropped in that it should have the support of a two- ihe guidance of hi the following manner:—The player him- thirds' majority of those present. Those * dubs and come; self shall drop it. He shall face the hole, in favor of the change were short of the system will not neces- stand erect, and drop the ball behind him required majority by some six or seven votes. cases The generd from his head. If the ball when dropped f he of some semct. touch the player he shall incur no penalty, Mr. H. H. Hilton, in the Sporting and if it roll into a hazard it may be re- Chronicle says: " It seems ridiculous that dropped without penalty. The penalty a player who had played an approach for a breach of this rule shall be the loss within a few yards of the hole, in place of of the hole. being able to putt his ball, should have to The alterations are not great in them- go further away from the hole and play a selves, but are nevertheless acceptable. pitch shot over a hazard, with a very The first portion of Rule 14 now permits possible chance of again going into the RULE a ball to be lifted from water or casual water. At this moment 1 do not wish to water in a hazard and dropped in or as enter into the question as to the wisdom far behind the hazard as the player may of this rule. What I want to know is: please, under penalty of one stroke. Also, What is the advantage of getting together if, from want of space in which to play, a comparatively representative body of je hole, under penalry or from any other cause, it be impossible men to frame rules, and, when they have I [fa ball lie, or be to drop behind the hazard, the ball may deliberated upon them, to have their de- :er through tie f\ I be dropped at the side of the hazard as cisions set aside at a meeting, many of hrouglnkgreeniila- near as possible to where it lay, but not whom present at that meetieg having er"s stance, the player nearer the hole, subject of course to the never seriously considered the question? •Ant penalty* penalty of one stroke. It is possible that To me it seems to border on the lu- ^m the margin directlj that little sentence "or from any other dicrous." where the U^ cause" may prove of service to the player A recommendation from the meeting of Dearest to to pl!«| at times and will be stretched to include delegates at Sandwich was adopted. In bm not nearer to fe all manner of things which will be deemed future "any competitor who is fifteen •bo droppe l* impediments to dropping behind. Section strokes behind the leading score at the ,t-fjt lie (2) is good. If in the past a ball came to end of the second round shall be com- rest so near to casual water that it could pulsorily retired; but should there not be not be played without standing in the thirty-two professionals within this limit, water the player suffered. Now he may then the first thirty-two professionals may drop either behind the water or within B tie h compete." As the other four clubs who two club lengths from the nearest side manage the open championship are in margin without penalty, but not nearer favor of this suggestion, the open cham- the hole. It certainly will save us from pionship at St, Andrews next year may **"* wet feet! benefit by the alteration. RECENT DECISIONS BY THE RULES OF GOLF COMMITTEE

BALL ON CUT GRASS. another competitor came in. By this In match play, the ball of one player time the water had partly sunk into the is found to be lying on the top of a heap ground, leaving about three inches of of cut grass. To remove the grass under water. He was on the green in two Rule 9 would be impossible without in- strokes, and within three feet of the hole &a curring the penalty there provided for the in his third stroke. He says he pitched if the reqoe?i <: '•'•• ball moving. It is admitted that the grass his fifth shot into the hole, but his marker fir the toanuit should not be there, having merely been says it did not go to the bottom of the hole cers of tit IE:t- piled up preparatory to its removal. owing to the water, in which it floated. JOB, Tie fat« B [a) Does Rule 10 apply, either in the However, he put down five for the hole, i theWest, as il te sense that the grass is a similar obstruction and finished the round. Is he disqualified ? ik past two von. « to a vessel, wheelbarrow, etc., or in the Answer.—It is the duty of the com- oigaiiisdoii. bv £ I sense that it is ground " covered up " for mittee of the St. Duthus Golf Club to HlBi in !% the upkeep of the links ? {b) Must the decide whether the links were in such a ami of] ball be played from where it lies ? condition that the game of golf was play- Answer.—Rule 10 applies. The ball able. From the evidence submitted it Indeed, tint t« may be lifted and dropped without penalty. appears that the competition should have BS: IB the birn been declared null and void. PLAYING BEFORE STROKE COM= V idkktiipHat PETITION. PICKING UP BALL IN STROKE KC and 2 ~:a: Before a stroke competition a player PLAY. He fact thai CS; Sital Afflasi! drives a ball from a tee at the hole and A player in a stroke competition picks jarisithM;:. •; slices out of bounds. The hole is within up his ball (either to ascertain whether it Jffles aid E?2s o reach of a drive, (i) Is he disqualified ? is his own ball, or inadvertently, when on BtforleWfe (2) Does Rule 3 for stroke competitions the lip of the hole), and then replaces it only apply to approach shots proper and on the same spot and holes out. Does «Rii three jta$j not to drives or brassie shots ? the player, under Rule 26 match play, i Answer.—(1) Yes. Rule 3 applies to all read in conjunction with Rule 16 stroke CaPtain I & shots. competitions, lose a stroke as having' HOLE SURROUNDED BY WATER. moved " his ball" when not intending to

Playing for the monthly medal a com- make a stroke ? or under Rule 8 match fhange is :rt— petitor on coming to the sixteenth green play, read in conjunction with Rule 16 itnafbeasB found the hole—which is in a depression stroke competitions, does he lose a stroke on the green—covered over with water as having "moved" or "touched" his to the depth of about six inches round ball without his " opponent's consent," or :•:_• the hole, caused by a heavy fall of rain. does he lose two strokes under Rule 10 He tried to putt the ball into the hole, stroke competitions as having "lifted his but could not do so, and picked up his ball from any place," or is he disqualified ball, claiming the right to finish the round as having taken his ball out of play ? If some other time. Can he do so, or is he the latter, under which rule? disqualified ? About a quarter of an hour Answer.—He loses two strokes under after the above-mentioned competitor, Rule 10 for stroke competitions. WESTERN DEPARTMENT

came in- By k 3rtlv f' sunk into tk Conducted by Alexis J. Colman. m fe inches of n l!lc ?een in \9 , Onwentsia will be the scene of the tion, the Exmoor Country Club, taking a three feet of the hole ' National Amateur Championship of 1905, long look into the future, has decided to He says he pitched if the request of the Lake Forest Club remove to a new tract, build a new e hole, but bis marker for the tournament avails with the offi- house and lay out links and grounds ihe bottomof thehok cers of the United States Golf Associa- which will be adequate for all time. The in • which k floated. tion. The fixture is due to be held in project, which was unanimously adopted MPH live for the hie, \ the West, as it has been held East for at the annual meeting, October 15, con- the past two years, and the Lake Forest templates the expenditure of $250,000. he duty of the cot organization, by its conduct of the tour- The Birch farm of 225 acres at Highland Date Golf Club t« nament in 1899, proved itself fully Park, one mile south of the present loca- lints were in soch i capable of handling the affair. tion of the club, is to be the new home r^me of golf was play-; of the organization in two years, when •vidence submitted ( Indeed, that tournament was a land- the lease upon the present tract expires. mpetitioD should IK, mark in the history of the U. S. G. A., Exmoor's clubhouse, the south wing of and void. If a distinct improvement upon its predeces- which was burned August 7, just pre- sors and a guide for succeeding events. vious to the Western Amateur Champion- ALL IN S The fact that Chicago has held the ship, will be restored with the $[1,690 National Amateur title five times in ten awarded by the insurance adjusters, Xt competition pirn years with Macdonald, Whigham (twice) and turned over to the landlords, who, o ascertain whefier it James and Egan certainly is an argu- the Exmoor people think, are a bit too exacting in the arrangements they have nadveneiitly.wkioi ment for the holding of the event at least made with the club. }, and then replacesit once in three years in this section. md hole out B« Rale 26 match pk Captain R. Harvey McElwee, of President B. F. Cummins, who also is ^ with Rule i6strok Onwentsia, has planned extensive changes president of the Western Golf Associa- a stroke as I* in the course, which will practically tion, was re-elected Exmoor's chief offi- (km not intend" t change its identity, while approaching cer at the annual meeting. what may be assumed to be the ideal golf links. Whether these changes willbe The Western season is over, so far as does he lose a stroke made before next year's championship— » non*Tfej tournaments are concerned, and a most or if Onwentsia gets it—or not, remains to successful season it has been. Satisfac- nnent'sconsent,"!!' be determined. torily, mainly in the brilliant work of Chandler Egan, for outside of him the lifted to Believing that country club life is to West's showing in the National events be more and more a fixture in the exist- hasbeen weak. The two women players, JOBtOiP) ence of the successful American profes- Miss Carpenter and Miss Higgins, sional and business man, and that the started in the national event at Merion wo strokes. pleasures of golf are deserving perpetua- in a way most satisfactory to their West- 296 WESTERN DEPARTMENT.

~~ern followers, but when their prospects previous years. Besides the qualifying seemed best they performed disappoint- round for the Chicago cup, the open-~~

ingly. Gilbert Nicholls, of St. Louis, ing day was given over to two other y Laurence Auchterlonie, of Glen View, events as well—the annual " Age Limit" Robert Simpson, of Riverside, and James handicap for men over fifty years of age, Foulis, of Chicago, landed in the prize and an open handicap. In all, 153 money in the national open event at men drove from the tee on that day. Glen View, and Chandler Egan led the J. D. Ross of the Westward-Ho club, 1 suit amateurs. won the Age-Limit affair, with 93, 18-75, repeating a similar success of last year. Glen View and Chicago were the last o,kkt clubs to hold their open tournaments. Arthur C. Perry, the young Windsor Originally the Chicago event was set Country Club player, led the field on for the second week in September, but qualifying day with an 82, Nathaniel Chicago's s was postponed indefinitely on account of Moore, of Lake Geneva, being second, played ma 4 the Olympic Championship. Glen View 87. Scores were not particularly good, proved Jacki had chosen the last week in the month, considering that the course was in per- HU by fl. fl. but the Chicago club forgot this and fect condition and the greens above irlo detail G went ahead, announcing its tourney for criticism. But most of the younger that time and having its cups engraved. players who, as shown in the Onwentsia Glen View, having had its dates for tournament, are Chicago's best, had gone several months, did not feel like weaken- to college and the field at Wheaton was ing and the Chicago club, yielding, made up of the old guard. Bearing out held its events a week later than the dates the above statement is the fact that Perry on its cups will lead posterity to believe. and Moore, both of the younger division, led the field. Knowlton L. Ames, the " Snake " Ames of Princeton football fame 'way Scores of the qualifiers were: A. C. back in 1899, won both tournaments, Perry, Windsor, 82 : N. F. Moore, Lake defeating his dubmate, "Jack" Sellers, Geneva, 87; Horace Canfield, Elmhurst, in the finals for the Glen View cup by 89; K L. Ames, Glen View, 89; W. I. 6 up and 5 to play, and another old Osborne, Chicago, 89 ; Ralph Hoagland, • • "pal," W. 1. Osborne, in the finals for Hinsdale, 89 ; W. P. Schatz, Wheaton, the Chicago cup by 3 up and 2 to 90; H. R. Shollenberger, Wheaton, 90 ; play. The veteran football man won Alexander H. Revell, Chicago, 90. three of the open tournaments of the Chicago season, having taken the main Perry, after winning from Hoagland, prize at Edgewater earlier in the year. 6 up and 5 to play, was put out by Ames' skill at golf is akin to that of John Osborne, 1 up. Ames won from Moore, M. Ward, who, as a star in baseball re- 2 up and 1 to play, and then defeated tired, only to acquire a reputation as a Shollenberger, 3 up and 1 to play. Ames golfer—at least in the metropolitan dis- and Osborne had a ding-dong match in trict. the finals at 36-holes, the older man often recovering in great style after getting The Chicago Golf Club's tournament, into the rough. Ames finished the morn- although held so late, was a greater suc- ing round 1 up and eventually won by cess than the club's event has been in 3 up and 2 to play. Sherman C. Spitzer, WESTERN DEPARTMENT. 297

qualifying of River Forest, won the first flight cup, Forty qualified, sixteen in the first flight the opa. defeating John Van Nortwick, of Chicago, and eight in each of three other flights, two Ofe 4 up and 2 to play, and Chester C. Allen, playing off at handicap match play. of Kenosha, won the second flight cup, r - hfty years of age, defeating E. A. Engler, of Glen View, QP' In all> i)5 3 up and 2 to play. Glen View golfers lived up to the repu- e tee on that day, tation of that club for trophy winning in iV«tward-Ho club, taking the Midlothian trophy in the John Stuart, captain of the Princeton ff«r, with 93i tj.R series of team matches which have been team four years ago, won the champion- iccess of last year. played during the season. In the last ship of the Washington Park Club, Sep- match, played at Midlothian, Glen View's tember 30, defeating W. V. D. Wright in team of seven won, making a total of the young Windsor the finals by 2 up, 1 to play. 47 down which, with its previous total t, led the fieldo n of 75 down for the previous matches, M 82, Nathaniel Chicago's first public tournament, gave a total of 122 down for the season's nm, being second, played over the lengthened and im- six matches. Onwentsia and Midlothian I particularly good, ' proved Jackson Park links, was tied for second honors, 137 down. George course was in per- won by W. H. Knickerbocker, Jr., (16) R. Thorne, president of Midlothian, who the greens above who defeated G. S. Bushnell, (20) in the gave the trophy, awarded a gold medal •i of the younger 36-hole finals, 11 up and 10 to play. to each of the winning team. wn in the Onwentsia wh best, had gone ield at Wheaton was ! "sard. Bearing out { is the kt that Perry | the younger dinsion.

~~iliferswere: A.C X. F. Moore, Late | : Canfidd, Elmhiri,~~

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~~1 n from Hoagland, „ was put out by ! and then']*1 -.d 1 to play- Atue j be older DIM* ROBERT SIMPSON, D. McINTOSH, A. BAXTER, Riverside. Westward-Ho. Lagrange. THREE CHICAGO "PROS." 298 EDITORIALS.~~

ment of caddies above the age of sixteen. GOLF A memorial was extensively signed at EVERY MONTH Merion asking the U.S. G A. to enforce By Special Appointment Official Bulletin of the the same rule in future national cham- United States Golf Association, Intercollegiate pionships. It is only fair to say that this Golf Association, Central New Toi'k Golf league, Metropolitan Golf Association, Western Golf As- suggestion met with very general support sociation, and Southern Golf Association. amongst the women players, and if the Entered at Post-office at New York as Second Class Matter. U. S. G. A allows itself to be governed by the opinion of the majority there is ONE YEAR, $2.00; SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS no doubt what its course ought to be. Postage free United States, Canada, and Mexico. To other foreign countries, 3fi cents per year. Ee- But for that body a decision is not quite mit bp Express Money Order, Post-office Order. i Registered Letter, or (Jlieofc payable to ARTHUR so simple a matter as at first sight it may POTTOW. appear to be. The U. S. G. A. has the Edited by van Tassel Sutphen amateur championship to think of, and if it should grant the prayer of the women Publisher: ARTHUR POTTOW, beyond a doubt the same demand will 313 East 24th St., New York soon come from some of the men. It is not quite clear why professional caddies The Editor will be glad to receive are objected to, unless perhaps because for consideration Photographs and Con- the player who employs one gains an tributions O7i the general subject of the advantage. But is this so ? Probably game. Stamps should be enclosed for the consensus of opinion of those who return postage if found unavailable. watched the play at Merion is that.the Contributors are requested to write majority of the golfers who employed their Names arid Addresses on the back professionals as caddies would have been V of all MSS. and Photographs. Pho- better off if they had played their own tographs should be carefully packed game, and been satisfied with the useless and accompanied by descriptions of but necessary boy. Some at least of the their subjects. Club Secretaries will confer a favor by notifying the Editor women seemed to be of this opinion, for of the dates and particulars of coming after employing a professional as caddie club events, especially open and invita- they signed the memorial with cheerful tion tournaments. alacrity. If the women golfers of this country like their English sisters had kept the management of golfing affairs PROFESSIONAL CADDIES in their own hands, the problem would not have arisen to vex the souls of the This hardy annual is always with us, ; h the -- and again columns are being written upon U.S. G. A. But man—mere man—" was the proposal to prohibit the employment made to mourn," and so Mr. Windeler of professionals as caddies. The matter and his associates must not complain if had slumbered for some time, but at the any more troubles are heaped upon their Women's Championship at Merion it heads. leaped once more into prominence. A number of the competitors had professionals to carry for them, and instantly THE GOLF OF J904 exception was taken. The western women The season that is just concluding is have already dealt with the question and without question the most interesting one have in force a rule governing their we have seen. In the December number competitions which prevents the employ- of GOLF it will be dealt with in detail. "Through ttie Green

New York had a signal triumph at The lowest best ball of the round was Garden City, October 29, when they met that of Travers and Reinhart, who had Philadelphia in the second half of the 77- annual inter-city match. It cannot be J» said that the New York golfers played In the singles Findlay S. Douglas, who any better than usual. Simply, they had has not been having the best of luck upon this occasion a really representative lately, was the only New York player to team, something that has not always hap- lose his match Perrin was r up at the pened upon previous meetings. Phila- turn and 2 up at the tenth, but the match delphia had the advantage in being ten was squared at the thirteenth, Perrin had points to the good in the match last 80 and Douglas 83. McFarland was spring, but this did not avail to stave off just as wild in the afternoon as he had defeat and they were beaten by 35 up. been in the morning and was 5 down to In the morning the four-ball matches Travis. The ex-amateur champion had were played, resulting as follows : an 82. Reinhart got back to his old Metropolitan. form in his game with Starr, making a 79, Watson Jr., & Brokaw a pace altogether too rapid for his op- Travis & Partridge ponent, who finished 6 down. The cards: Travers & Reinhart Douglas & Ried Reinhart - 43553555 5~4O Wilcox & Ward Starr - - 54563564 4-42 Total - Reinhart - 4 4 3 5 6 4 5 5 3 "39-79 Philadelphia. Starr - - 54406554 4-43—85 Perrin & Tillinghast - McFarland & Starr West, one of the semi-finalists in the Conke & West amateur championship, was squared with Griscom & Bosler Farnum & Calvert Reid at the thirteenth, his putting being Total very accurate. Watson, like West, had 300 THROUGH THE GREEN.

a 2 at the second, and went round in 81. The inter-provincial match resulted John M. Ward had an 8^, his worst hole in an overwhelming victory for Ontario, being a 7 at the seventeenth Brokaw the score being 78 to 3. Miss Thomson, was all even with Cooke at the eleventh Mrs. Mussen and Miss Montizambert and then won six out of the seven re- were the only Quebec representatives maining holes. Travers was at the top to secure victories. Mrs. Ross, of Que- of his game and Tillinghast only won bec, did not appear to play Miss Cox; on four greens. The cards: and the latter won by default. The Travers - - 53455445 4—39 score : Tillinghast - 65444556 5—44 Ontario. Quebec. r Travers - - 45355545 4-40—79 Miss Harvey Miss McAnnulty - O Tillinghast - 44454656 5—43—87 - 3 Miss Dick 0 Miss Thomson- I I Mrs. Dick - - 0 Miss Greene O n Miss Davidson 6 Mrs. Meredith - 0 ISHI Partridge had an 82 in beating Calvert, Miss Phepoe - 12 Miss Sewel 0 and Harold Wilcox, the Metropolitan Mrs. Bolte - 5 Mrs. Hare 0 Mrs. Burritt - 0 Mrs Mussen - - I Champion, went round in 83 against Miss Nesbit 13 Miss Dawes 0 Mrs Woodruff - 0 Miss J. Scott 0 i Bosler. Results of singles : Mrs. Phepoe 1 Miss Towne 0 Metropolitan. Mrs. Strikeman - 8 Miss C. Mussen - 0 W. J. Travis - Mrs. Pepler - 0 Miss Montizam't I F. S. Douglas - Miss WiJkes - • 4 Miss Turner 0 J. D. Travers - Miss Butler - 3 Mrs. Kidd - - 0 G. T. Brokaw - Mrs. E. Smith 2 Miss Kidd 0 : J. M. Ward - Miss Defries 9 Mrs. Read - 0 R C. Watson, Jr., Miss Jones 9 Mrs. Woods 0 — F. O. Reinhart - Miss Hoodless - 3 Miss Meredith 0 A. M. Reid - . - - - Total - - 78 Total - 3 D. Partridge - H. Wilcox 6 WE in At Total .... The final round for the golf champion- Philadelphia. ship of Staten Island was played at the H. B. McFarland o Fox Hills course, at thirty-six holes, H. W. Perrin 2 A W. Tillinghast o between John M. Ward, Fox Hills, and G. J. Cooke - o C. S. Farnum o Charles T. Stout, Richmond County R. E. Griscom o Country Club. Mr. Ward won by 12 up C. S. Starr - o W. T. West - - - - o and 11 to play. Their cards were : C. B Calvert o Mr. Ward 45654644 5—43 L. C. Bosler - o Mr. Stout .56564566 4—47 Total Mr Ward.. .44564543 5—40—83 Mr Stout.. 56473654 6-46—93 Mr. Ward... 5 5 4 5 3 5 3 5 4—39 Miss Florence Harvey, of Hamilton, Mr Stout.. 55565 7555-48 won the Ladies' Championship of Canada Mr. Ward.. 55464344 5—40—79—162 at Toronto, October 7. Last year she Mr. Stout.. 66575534 5—46 — 94—197 was also successful, and the year before she was runner-up, which is quite a re- The third annual invitation tournament markable record. Her opponent in this of the Wilmington Country Club is con- year's final was Miss McAnnulty, of sidered the most successful in its history. Montreal, and the champion won at the The first sixteen competed for the "Wil- sixteenth green by 3 up and 2 to play. mington Cup." The second sixteen for Neither player was at her best, the medal the "Vice-President's Cup," while the score of Miss Harvey, 96, and being third sixteen played for the " Consolation rather on the high side, as Miss Thom- Cup." Besides these handsome trophies, son, early in the event, went round in 87. a gold medal was given for the best

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score in the qualifying round; cups for City, won from R. J. Baldwin, Spring- the losing eight in all three sixteens and haven, 4 up and 3 to play. F. F. Briggs, prizes for the foursome on Saturday after- Wilmington C. C, won from W. F. Reach, noon. The tournament opened on Thurs- Delaware county, 4 up and 3 to play. day, Oct. 20. The qualifying round of Harry Pyle, Wilmington C. C, won from 36 holes resulted in a tie at 167 for A. W. E. A. Service, Bala C. G , 3 up and 1 Tillinghast, Philadelphia, and L. T. Boyd, to play. Garfield Scott, Bala G. C, won Milwaukee. In the play off Tillinghast from H. S. Meacham, Frankford, 4 up won, securing the gold medal. and 3 to play. L. T. Boyd, Milwaukee, won from Herman Wendall, St. Davids, 3 up and 2 to play. The first match play round began on Friday morning. A high wind handi- capped the players making low scores In the afternoon came some of the impossible. The first round for the surprises of the day, not the least among "Wilmington Cup" resulted as follows: these was the defeat of the winner of the A. W. Tillinghast, Philadelphia Cricket gold medal, Tillinghast, at the hands of Club, won from R. M. Blackburn, Berk- A. F. Smith. The second round of shire G. C, 8 up and 7 to play. A. F. match play for the Wilmington cup A. F. Smith. Berkshire G. C., won from f. Smith won from A. W. Tillinghast, 1 up. Ernest Smith, Wilmington C. C, 1 up. FI. A. Mackey won from FI. W. Rhodes, H. W. Rhodes, Springhaven, won from 3 up and to play. Flarry Pyle won from J. W. Mills, Jr., Bala G. C, 5 up and F. F. Briggs, 1 up. Garfield Scott won and 4 to play. H. A. Mackey, Atlantic from L. T. Boyd, 3 up and 1 to play.

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This sifting process continued through commence, and Saturday, March 18, there the semi-finals, leaving H. A. Mackey, will be a St. Patrick's Day tournament. Club, Atlantic City, and Garfield Scott, Bola, All intervening Saturdays until April have to compete for the first trophy. In the fixtures, and Tuesday and Wednesday, finals by careful, consistent golf H. A. April 4 and 5, the Grand Annual United i to ay Mackey won the match and the Wilming- North and South Championship for ton Cup by 2 up and i to go. The play Women will be held. April 5 and 8 are for the Vice President's, Consolation and reserved for the Fifth Grand Annual Special Class Cups revealed some strong, North and South Championship. The consistent golf, showing the superiority United North and South Open Cham- in the long run of steadiness over bril- pionship will be held Saturday, April 8, ( Dr. If- H liancy. The results were as follows: and the two following Saturdays other prize in 1 eC M. H. Godwin, Crescent Athletic, won tournaments have been arranged for. It October i the vice-president's cup, defeating E. E. is quite evident from this brief summary Safe. Mitchell, Wilmington Country, 2 up. that golfers will have no excuse for being 7! Bill, Q ' W. G. Pennypacker, Wilmington Country, idle during the winter season, and with C, bfer Pinehurst in better shape than ever from won the consolation cup, defeating E. M. i tsto-hole -;' Pennypacker of the same club, 3 up and a golfing point of view, it is a safe pre- 1 to play. The cup given for runner up diction to make that the coming season pitting. was won by Garfield Scott, Bala. In the will be the most successful the popular teenth n special A class J. W. Mills, Jr., Bala, Southern resort has ever known. fiiU ::- won from J. Ernest Smith, Wilmington [me. Country. P. C. Langdon, Crescent, won the special B class from J. C. Noblit, by Messrs. Theodore Audel & Co. have 1 up. H. W. Gause won the special C just brought out a new edition of Ho- class. From beginning to end the tour- man's Automobile Educator, a handsome nament proceeded without a hitch, due volume of six hundred and seventy-two to the careful preparations made by pages, profusely illustrated. Nothing A. H. G. Garrett, chairman of the Match connected with the subject appears to Committee. Of the 60 men who entered have been left untouched by the author, only three or four withdrew. On the and he is to be commended for having whole this is regarded as the club's most dealt with a somewhat intricate matter in successful tournament and will be fol- clear, concise and popular language which lowed by others year by year. any reader can easily comprehend. Ac- cidents will happen we know in the best regulated automobiles, and this book teaches one how to guard against them The season at Pinehurst, N. C, opens by explaining very clearly the principles Thursday, November 24, with a Thanks- of operation. To golfers such a book giving Day tournament, when there will will be of great interest, for automobiling be an 18-hole medal play handicap. and golf seem to have a close connection, Events are scheduled for each Saturday judging from the number of machines up to January 7, and then January 11-14 seen at our Golf and Country Clubs. the Grand Annual Mid-Winter tourna- Automobiles not only rush you to your ment will be held. From then on not a golf club, but you can, if you feel dis- week will pass without some competition. posed, watch the play from them, as is On March 11 the Handicap Tournament very plainly shown by an illustration on for the Pinehurst Club Championship will page 271 of this issue. THROUGH THE GREEN. 303

The Inter - Collegiate Championship A nine-hole course has just been laid was held this year at the Myopia Hunt out at Greensburg, Pa., for the newly Club, October 18-22. The contest will organized Greensburg Country Club. be treated of in a special article in the Robert Lawrie of the Pittsburgh Country December number of GOLF. Just now it Club, who laid out the holes, had the suffices to say that Harvard easily won assistance of George A. Ormiston, and it the team championship, and A. L. White, is said the course will be a very fine one. of Harvard, took the individual championship. J> The allied club membership of the Dr. W. M. Gray won the principal United States Golf Association has been prize in the Chevy Chase tournament, increased to 264 by the following October 20-22, by 1 up over Dr. Lee elections: Harban, Columbia. F. Oden Horst- Bristol, R. I., Golf Club, Irving L. mann, Chevy Chase, was put out by G. Wiltsie, secretary. C. Lafferty, Chevy Chase, in a twenty- two-hole match. In the final Dr. Gray Bucks County Country Club, Lang- was weak in driving and Dr. Harban in horne, Pa , C. L. Taylor, secretary. putting. They were even at the seven- Island Golf Club, Troy, N. Y., George teenth hole. W. S. Brooke, Gordon B. Harrison, secretary. Park, Cleveland, won the second sixteen Quincy, 111, Country Club, L. E. Em- prize. mons, Jr., secretary.

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Rutland, Vt., Country Club, Henry W. New Jersey at the Country Club of Lake- Clement, secretary. wood on November 12, a gold medal will i;e i' Somerville, Mass., Golf Club, George also reward the efforts of the winner. A. W. Foster, secretary. G. Spalding & Brothers present the Wellesley, Mass., Golf Club, Edwin M. medal, which will become the property of Brooks, secretary. the successful golfer. Woodbury, N. J., Country Club, Wm. R. Lyman, secretary. The Boston women won the Inter- allowed lo «^ : Cities team match at the Philadelphia necesarr it '•> The Agawam Hunt held its annual Cricket Club, October 8th. They de- is on sore open event October 9th, when there feated the Philadelphia women by 16 to ii mHtod conecdf- were over fifty entries in the handicap 8, the latter team having beaten New . matterfortbesecs medal competition. C. D. Mercer, the York on the previous day. The sum- State Champion, made the best gross mary : score, 83. H. W. Hancock, Choppe- PHILADELPHIA. quonsett, had the best net, his card read- ;•"•"' Mrs. Caleb F. Fox ------I ing 87, 10—77. Miss F. C Griscom ------0 J- Mrs. R. H. Barlow ------3 »»d. Ik to Miss A. McNeely ------0 Miss G. Gilbert ...... Wanergetattl Miss Georgiana Bishop was beaten in 0 Mrs. O. McCammon ------I f.C,i-:••-• the final of the tournament of the New Miss F. W. Ayres ------I Miss L. Biddle ------0 fte sitt tei Haven Country Club, October 26-28, by Mrs. T W. Reath ------0 Miss Pauline Mackay, Oakley Country, Miss F. McNeely ------0 ttfrte, ne ops a by 1 up in a 19-hole match. Mrs. N. Mrs. W. M. Gorham --.----• o Miss M. Dallett ------o Pendleton Rogers, Baltusrol, won the Mrs. H. Fitzgerald ------2 tetei::: ?s second series cup. Miss Elizabeth Mrs. Milton Work ------0 * Taylor i* !k Mrs. Samuel Bettle ------^ . o Chamberlain, New Haven, won the third second rouad Ha Total series cup, and the lobster cup went to 8 btBadbd' Mrs. Sandford, Essex County. BOSTON. Miss Fanny C. Osgood 0 j* Miss Margaret Curtis 2 Tie eirk; ;av The Pine Forest Golf Club, of Lake- Miss Louisa Wells - - 0 Mrs. M. B. Adams I i ronfld were: la.! wood, N. J., is in fine condition for play. Miss H. S. Curtis • - 0 1 Last winter was so exceptionally severe Miss E. S. Porter - 0 n '-— Miss E. Lockwood - - 0 good (ffgt [,V] that there was very little golf in the Miss Pauline Mackay I Metropolitan district, and Lakewood Miss K. C. Harley . - 2 lTajk{3a! Miss A. Phipps - - 3 Miss Margerie Phelps - (iialva, ife suffered accordingly. Given a good 2 season, golfers will without doubt patron- Mrs. F. W. Batchelder I Miss Mary Dutton - • 0 ise the New Jersey resort, and some fine Miss Ellen Allen - - | febeaiftf-' Miss Mary Philips - - golf will doubtless be seen. The club- 3 3, and H ; ^ house is under the management of a very Total - - - - 16 e capable steward, the course will be well T« bag taken care of, and the professionals in Says GOLF'S London correspondent : charge are the Patrick Brothers. A stage "The autumn has produced some highly runs frequently during the day from the interesting golf. At the Royal and Lakewood Hotel to the golf links. Ancient meeting Norman Hunter created

a new record by holding the medal course »!45Bi In addition to the $300 purse to be in the wonderful score of 74, and won the given for the first open championship of William IV. medal. He was playing with THROUGH THE GREEN. 305 ! Club of Lake- the Hon Osmund Scott and the latter faultless standard. Taylor lost two out to winner, »\ should have tied with A. G. Barry for the of the first three holes, but squared the •rs Present the club medal at 75. At the 15th, by some match at the sixth and turned with a lead e the i unfortunate carelessness, Hunter marked of one, the seventh having also gone his a 4 instead of 3 and as Scott was not to way. The tenth he lost, and halves fol- be found when Hunter wanted him to go lowed. Taylor won the fourteenth but over the scores the mistake had to be lost the next, and the sixteenth and seven- won the Inter. allowed to stand. It only shows how teenth holes were halved. Playing to the necessary it is for players to look after home hole Herd was bunkered with his «a They de- their own scores and see that they are second and Taylor put his four yards ranen by 16 to i marked correctly. The addition is a from the pin. Playing out grandly Herd ™g beaten New matter for the secretary. got dead, but Taylor holed his putt for w. The sin- the match. It was a stroke upon which there was a good deal of money. Had IIA, The final stages of the 'News of the Taylor missed it it might have meant ,£85 World' tournament were fought out over to him—the difference between the first the Mid-Surrey Club's course at Rich- prize and third. mond. The thirty-two professionals' who had emerged successfully from the different P. G. A. meetings included all the crack The final between Taylor and Toogood players with three exceptions, viz.: Jack found the latter quite off his game. White, the open champion; Tom Vardon Nothing went right and he only won 1 and Andrew Kirkaldy. The luck of the hole, the last, in the morning round, and draw brought Vardon, Braid, Herd and Taylor went to lunch with a lead of 6 Taylor into the lower half; and in the holes. In the afternoon Toogood stayed second round Herd, after a great match, splendidly and was round in 72, but Tay- beat Braid by 1 hole. lor was too far ahead for him to make much impression. Taylor finally won by 5 and 3. The prize money amounted to The eight players to reach the third ^240, the first prize being ^100. round were: Jas. Hepburn (Home Park), George Pulford (Northwick), A. H. Too- good (West Essex), E Ray (Gauton), J. H. Taylor (Mid-Surrey), G. H. Causey At the autumn meeting of the Lytham (Malvern), Alec Herd (Huddersfield), and St. Anne's Club, John Ball, Jr., won and Harry Vardon (South Herts). Hep- the scratch prizes on both days. His burn beat Pulford 3 and 2, Toogood beat scores were 76 and 78. At Hoylake also Ray 6 and 4, Taylor beat Causey 4 and he was successful on both days. On the 3, and Herd beat Vardon at the 19th first day of the meeting Ball won the first hole. The latter match was splendidly medal with 77, and the second was won fought out and the golf was just about by Finlay Dun with 80; H. H. Hilton, F. as perfect as it could be. P. Crowther, Jr., and F. F. Wilson were spondent: all 81. On the second day there was res rain and wind but Ball handed in a fine c 78 and although penalised 7 strokes tied je Roval an In the semifinal Toogood beat Hep- Hunter create burn by 4 and 2, and Taylor and Herd for the first handicap prize. The Stewart had a match quite as close as that be- Govane cup, the second scratch award, tween Herd and Vardon in the morning, was tied for by Ii. H. Hilton and F. P. but the play did not come up to the same Crowther, Jr."

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CRITICAL SHOTS AT THE LAST AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. TRAVIS PLAYING OUT OP TWELFTH BUNKEE, The New England golf writers beat nology, 8 to 6. The finest match of their brethren from New York at the the day was between R. H. Flynt, of Wollaston (Mass) Golf Club, October 17. Amherst and L. D. Patton, of Dart- Last year, at Garden City, New York was mouth. Flynt made the 18 holes in 79 successful. The score of the team match and Paton in 77. J. G. Anderson, Am- in detail is as follows : herst, for the second successive year won the Individual Championship. New England. New York. Fmfe Points. Points. Tiaras. F. E. Sands 1 W. W. Harris - - 0 R. Crack n ell - - 0 R. W. Boorum - - 1 Mrs. Griscom's team of American W. U. Swan - 0 fason Ropers - - 1 iifela J. C. O'Connell - - 1 J.J.Worrell - - - 0 women had no difficulty in winning their S. L. Shirley - - 1 H. L Fitzpatrick • 0 match against the Canadian team at the las in i] - 1 - 0 Geo. H. Sargent A. L Rankin Lambton Golf and Country Club, Total - - - d Total - - - 2 Toronto, October 20. Miss Dod played George H. Sargent, Boston, won the for Canada against Miss Bishop, the handicap, his card reading, 92, 16-76. American Champion. The scores : United States. Canada. Amherst won the New England Inter- Miss Bishop - - 2 Miss Dod Miss M. Curtis - 4 Miss Harvey - Collegiate Golf Association Champion- Miss H.Curtis - 3 Miss Thomson - la . ship on the Springfield Country Club MissGriscom - - 1 Miss Dick - - ^tato Miss Wells - • 11 Miss Green - course, October 26, defeating Dartmouth Ttstis Miss Lock wood - 3 Miss Phepoe - Oil . in the final round of the team match, 8 Miss Ayres - - 6 Miss Davidson to 4. In the previous round Dartmouth Mrs. Mettle - - 3 Mrs. Dick - - Miss Thomas - - o Mrs. Bolte • - defeated Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Total - - - 23 Total - - THROUGH THE GREEN. 307

The Englewood Golf Club won the playing matches that go to an extra hole, team championship of the Women's Met- as witness Seeley's match with him at ropolitan Golf Association, October 24, Apawamis in 1902 and last year's match at the Apawamis club from the team of with Alsop at Equinox. the Brooklawn Country Club of Bridge- port. The teams this fall played in two circuits, the New Jersey district and the The amateur golf championship of Sound district, with the condition that western Pennsylvania was decided Oc- the winning teams in each division should tober 15, at the Oakmont Country Club, play off for the championship of the Pittsburgh. The finalists were W. C. season. The score : Englewood—Mrs. Fownes, Jr, Oakmont, and his father, Myra D. Paterson, o; Mrs. S. F. Lefferts, H. C. Fownes, Oakmont, and the younger 1; Miss Marion Kirkby, 3; Mrs. Thomas player won a thirty-six hole match by 10 Thacher, 3. Total, 7. Brooklawn— up and 8 to play. On the first day of Miss Georgianna Bishop, o; Miss Helen the tournament he won the open cham- F. Bishop, o- Miss Florence Jones, o ; pionship, and had low score in the quali- Mrs. Bishop, o. Total, o. fying round. The other results were: Second eight—C. C. Preston, Pittsburg Field Club, beat J. E. Porter, Allegheny The finals in the tournament for the Country Club, 1 up 37 holes. Third Golf Championship of Germany were eight—E. E. Giles, Pittsburg Golf Club, played at the links near Berlin, Novem- beat G. E. McCague, Edgeworth Club, ber 4. The championship cup was won 3 and 2. Fourth eight—L. C. Liddell, Pittsburg Field Club, beat B. H. Evans, 5 FLAYBG OUT OF by Dr. G. O. Walker, an American, with Franklin H. Mason, the American Coun- Allegheny Country Club, 6 up and 5_ sel General at Berlin, as runner-up. Handicap—R. L. James, Brighton Coun- be finest match of try Club, won with 87, 2-85. o R. H. Flynt, of Pita, ol Dart- i The Nassau Country Club tournament, die iS holes in )j October 6-8, brought out a large field of The open tournament of the Woodland . G. Anderson, Am- golfers, amongst those who qualified in Golf Club, Auburndale, Mass., was held > the first division being Walter J. Travis, September 30 and October 2, and was Findlay S. Douglas and Jerome D. won by William C. Chick, of Harvard. Travers, the Inter-Scholastic Champion. The winner had the fine score of 75 in The sensation of the event was the play his match with A. G. Lockwood, Allston, am of Ai on the last day, when Travers beat Doug- which constituted a record for the course. 3n- in winning their lass in the morning and Travis in the The cards read : m at the afternoon. This is an unexpected feat - - 44543445 4—37 Country for a boy of seventeen. He played golf 45634535 3-38—75 of the highest quality throughout, as a Lockwood - 54454545 5-41 glance at his card will indicate, and he 45534435 3~36 - 77 The scores; won strictly on his merit. The card: H. W. Stucklen, Wellington Hill, won the Consolation cup. Canada. Travers : Out - 46545424 5-39 In 5 4 5 4 4 5 4 3 4—38—77 i Extra holes 4 5 2 That men and women have different Travis : methods in putting was plainly shown in Out - 4 4 4 5 5 5 3 4 4-38 Tn 5 3 5 3 5 5 4 4 4-38—76 the approaching and putting contest at Extra holes 4 5 3 Merion during the play for the Women's Travis seems to be quite unlucky in Championship. A man when he gets on 308 THROUGH THE GREEN. the green carefully examines the line of by J. W. Douglas, who defeated C. S. his putt and then proceeds to brush away Inman, 5 and 4. the slightest obstacle. Out of the large number of women who entered at Merion Andrew Carnegie, 2d, of the Essex absolutely not one took the trouble to do County Club, won the Massachusetts this. They walked up to the ball, took a golf championship, October 8, by defeat- good look at the hole and putted, and ing Thomas G. Stevenson, of the Myopia their putting compared very favorably Club, in a thirty-six hole match by 8 up with men's work on the green as seen at and 7 to play. The tournament was any of our tournaments. An infinite held at the Essex County Club, Man- capacity for taking pains does not always chester, Mass. mean a genius on the green, and sometimes what looks like haste is more effec- tive. Under the title "Interesting Feats and Extraordinary Occurrences in the Game," London Punch has the following: At The Hot Springs (Va.) Golf Club held Tipperusalem, U. S. A., the local pro- its annual tournament October 12-15 fessional, Titus O. Horhck, equipped with GOLFING with the largest entry ever known there. a croquet mallet and fifty hard-boiled Amongst those who qualified in the first eggs, once played a match against the For Mai m sixteen were: A. L. Norris, Dyker leading local amateur, who was allowed Meadow; George C. Lafferty, Chevy the use of a hair-brush and fifty fishballs. Chase; Sidney Carpenter, Philadelphia; Horlick, who won the match on the six- G. H. Ingalls, Cincinnati; J. H. Tailer, teenth green by three up and two to play> Garden City; A. W. Black, Lakewood, with seven eggs in hand, is now a prosper- and Oliver Perin, Baltimore. The semi- ous hatter at Panama. finalists were G. D. Barker, Dayton; Ingalls, Tailer and Perin, and Barker, At Peebles, in 1889, a player on going who had played a strong game through- to the green of the " Crater" hole, found out, had to meet Tailer in the finals. a tiger which had escaped from a travel- Jilakewf He proved unequal to the task, the ing menagerie crouching at the pin. On Garden City player winning by 3 up and realising, however, that he was a scratch LAKEWO 2 to play. Walter Watson, Seabright, player, the tiger followed him quietly to u won the cup in the second sixteen by the club-house, where a large dose of sloe defeating Jules H. De Sibour, Rockaway gin rendered the animal perfectly harm- Hunt, by 1 up in a nineteen hole match, less until the arrival of its keepers. 4 JECTLY jtfp which was not concluded until dark. In a match at Biarritz last winter on a •——_

very misty day, the Marquis of Guipuzcoa •—— made a drive from the third tee, and no There were three consolation classes. one could tell where the ball went. After Nov. The first cup presented by M. E. Ingalls, a prolonged search in all directions the was won by George Lafferty, Chevy ball was ultimately discovered on the Chase, who defeated F. W. Hanewinkle, back of a sheep which was grazing about Richmond, 7 and 6. The second division fifteen feet from the tee box. cup, presented by S. Barton French, was won by Henry Thornell, Seabright, who defeated Morris Johnston, Onwentsia, " A famous scratch player once under- 5 and 4. The third division cup, pre- took to play a fellow member of the sented by George H. Ingalls, was won Westward Flo! Club a match over those -•_.

All overthe civilized world 0 defeated C, S. FOWNES THE IMPROVED *i of the Es he BOSTON Massachusetts 'tober S, by def at- son, of the Myci * match by 8up GARTER e SS KNOWN AND WORN tournametit MS ¥• Every Pair Warranted The Name is stamped on every loop — tasting Feats and aces in the Game," CUSHION the following: At BUTTON A., the local pro- CLASP rlul, equipped litk i fifty hard-boiled GOLFING GLOVES Lies flat to the leg—never Slips, Tears nor Unfastens match against tit For Men and Women ", who re allowed ALWAYS EASY Send 50c. for Silk, GEO. FROST CO., Makers, and iifty fishbalk 25o. for Cotton, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. ! match on tie sk- Sample Pair. FOWNES REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES ip and two to play' A. is IOT a prosper- ESTABLISHED 1818. " The Hotel that made Lake-wood Famous " a player on going BROOKS BROTHERS jater' hole, found i BROADWAY. COR. 22ND STREET, iped from a trarel- jh Lakewood Hotel NEW YORK — ag at the pin. Oo LAKEWOOD, N. J. it he ras a scratch •ed him quietly!* FUR LINED 3 large dose o'* The Leading Hotel of Lakewood ,IA] perfectly harm- : PERFECTLY APPOINTED OVERCOATS te keepers. f te last wnter oaa \ ENVIRONMENT SUPERB in Opens Nov. 22nd, 1904 Rainproofed : third tee, and no Standing in the heart of a picturesque forest,The Lake- ebali«Dt. * wood Hotel may fairly be called the most complete and best-equipped winter resort hotel in the north. It is the Lovat all direotioDS the latest and highest development of the enterprise which sewered on ^ has made Lakewood famous. The cuisine and service equal those of the famous Tweeds ,$ gazing abort restaurants of New York and Paris. of fancy pattern. box. Hydrotherapeutic Baths, Tennis and Squash Courts, Golf Links, etc., etc. All garments for GOLFING, FISHING, L-aver once under- JAS. N. BERRY, ) M HUNTING, Etc., ready for shipment at a H. E. EDER, ( Managers moment's notice Jt jt ^t Jt

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CRITICAL SHOTS AT THE LAST AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. DOUGLAS APPROACHING FIRST GREEN IN PLAY-OFF OF TIE. links, his only equipment being an un- " It gives me very keen regret," says limited supply of uncooked sausages, Mr. Ernest Lehmann, in the Bystander, while his opponent was allowed the use " to have to record my profound con- of all his clubs. The scratch player won viction that the business meetings at St. the match, using up 159 sausages, and Andrews, as at present arranged, are completing the round in 264 strokes, the taken at a time and in a form which loser taking 286. make them the most inefficient instru- At Wimbledon, in the year 1900, there ments possible for the government of the were four caddies whose united ages game in its modern developments." amounted to 286 years. & The larks on the Brancaster (Norfolk) Golf Illustrated, referring to this para- links are occasionally so vociferous that graph, says: nervous players are obliged to stop their " This is a conviction which is pro- ears with cotton wool. foundly shared by many people, not ex- At Cannes the Grand Duke Michael cluding some of the most influential once drove a ballso hard into the ground members of the Rules Committee itself, that it was never seen again. and the wonder is that some of these At Wembley Park, Lord Halsbury, who have the necessary leisure and the playing in a foursome with Andrew Kirk- requisite enthusiasm for the game do aldy against Ben Sayers and the Duke of not set about mending or ending a state Devonshire, missed the globe seven times of things that has long been intolerable. running without allowing his partner to play his turn." " Mr. Lehmann sees difficulties in the POPE HARTFORD America s Famous Spa. TOURING CAR. Atlantic City 3 Hours FROM New York VIA PRICE: New Jersey With Tonneau , Without Tonneaw Central Scientifically Tested. Solid Vestibule Equipment, u e lii.. < i s. Great Reserve Power* TRAINS: Ft. Liberty St., 9.40 A. M.-3.40P. M. ^•^""™^ Sundays, 9.40 A. M. only. Best Hill Climber in its Class. South Ferry five minutes earlier. Illustrated book on application. C. M. BURT, General Pass. Agt., New York. POPE MANUFACTURING CO.. Eastern Vept. HARTFORD, CONN.

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teen regret," says i, in the Eptttk, GOLF from Pines to Palms my profound con- ies meetings at Si Along the SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY gat arranged, at | m 2 fora wbidi t inefficient instra- OLF devotees will find along the route of the Seaboard Air Line tToreroraent of fhf Railway, from Virginia to the southern end of Florida, all the famous G golf links of the Southern States. Several of these are among the finest in America, and all are at their best during the winter months. Among g lo this para- j them are the links at Portsmouth, Norfolk, Richmond, Virginia Beach and Old Point Comfort, Va.; Pinehurst, Raleigh and Southern Pines, N, C,; Camden and Columbia, S. C.; Augusta and Savannah, Ga.; Jacksonville, Ormond, Ocala, Palm Beach, St. Augustine, Tampa Bay and Miama, Fla. In addition to these the fine golf course at Nassau, N. P., is easily reached from Southern ports, reached by this railway. ^g s

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_ 312 THROUGH THE GREEN. way of reform. He agrees with me that questions submitted to it ? These are larger powers and a freer hand granted to first submitted to a sub-committee and the Rules Committee, or a select committe the decisions it arrives at are posted to irr of members, would meet the situation, to all the other members of the committee. but his difficulty is that whatever arrange- If they are unanimously accepted they ments they made would still be at the are regarded as equivalent to the ruling mercy of the Royal and Ancient Club in of the full committee, but if any mem- general meeting. It would certainly be ber differs from any decision of the sub- useless to give a new committee more committee that decision is held back till extended powers and retain the status quo it has been debated at the next full meet- of their subjection to the veto of the ing. club. I quite recognize that the club in appointing a committee of its members " Now, if the Royal and Ancient Club should desire to retain the power of ap- was to delegate to the Rules Committee, proving or rejecting its proposals, and I or a new committee, not only full powers do not suggest that it should deprive to make the rules but to conduct the itself altogether of the right of veto. entire administration of the game in all rOlU J- its modern developments, it would be per- " But why could an arrangement not be fectly possible for the club to retain its made similar to that which now exists authority over the committee in the same T!S within the Rules Committee itself in way as the Rules Committee does over regard to the decisions it gives on the its sub-committee. Whenever the Rules . ON APPliC

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CRITICAL SHOTS AT THE LAST AMATEUR OHAMPIOJfSHTP. ORMISTON DRIVING TO FIFTEENTH HOLE. NO MORE SLIPPING —NO MORE SKIDDING ate Hoil»tee and atlte Posted 10 °t the committee, J^DTO T1I(E •y accepted they lkct ^ the ruling (A Tire Protector) b "t if anv mem A small neat device that can be put on anywhere (or removed) vision of the sub- by anyone in a few minutes. Six go on each rear wheel and the full set (if 12 packs in a neat box in a foot of space. Outwears ia is held back till miles of rope or chain, and PROTECTS instead of injuring the tire. Every auto should have a set in the kit. Then when the road is slippery from mud, BLOW or ice the POST AUTO TIRE GRIPS are put on in a few minutes, the car moves the instant the power goes on and you come tome full speed without anjSUPPlXG or SKIDDING. Thoroughly tested and a proved success. To be had of your dealer, or sent, express free, on receipt of the price, $10 for the set of 12, packed in a sliding top carrying box, direct irom the factory. Address *»d Ancient Club Rules Committee, T. W. POST, = 596 Degraw Street, = BROOKLYN, N. Y. it only full powers 1 i'1 conduct tie i i)w game in all ts.it raid be per- "RESO-RTS dlib to retain its The is no better ADVER- u (~* (~\T XT' mittee in the same TISING MEDIUM than UU J-/ JT . " raiittef does over Merer the Rule RATES ON APPLICATION. GOLF, 213 East 24th Street, New York.

" 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 01 the World, 1904 Edited and Illustrated fay G. W. BELDAM, author of "Great .Golfers/' etc. with action Photographs taken expressly for this work ^ Price thirty-five cents, net (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. For SeJe by GOLF, 213 East 24th Street, New York

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Committee was unanimous, or as unanim- the work no complaint can be made if ous as might be agreed upon, on any some other body steps in and does it. point, its finding would be accepted as final, but if on any point it was not un- The Pittsburgh Despatch has this note: animous, then such point would have to " Following close upon the establish- be submitted to the general meeting of ment of the Harkaway Hunt at McDon- the club." ald the McDonald Golf Club comes as a creation of the present year. Six holes have been laid out on the farm of John IAMB " The members of the present Rules M. McDonald on the edge of the town, Committee are the pick of the personnel and by another season nine holes will be of the club in so far as knowledge of the in play. For the present the golf played game and ability to play it are concerned, is on temporary greens. H. D. Miller, at Tie as: and if the club appoints a committee for the Brighton Country Club, has taken nite a !tf" "• special purposes it surely does so because charge of the making of the course. The it As Mr, Hi it recognises that they will do the work officers of the club are : President, Ed- pioDship, us 1 more efficiently than they can themselves. ward McDonald; Secretary and Treasurer, of the garr.e. But you cannot expect men to undertake Dr. W. R. Dickson; Grounds Committee, tion of ie Fk responsible work, or to do it well, if they J. M. McDonald, Frank Crooks and Dr. glance, ased are constantly subjected to having their W. L. Scott." findings overturned and overruled by those who have not the same knowledge, On October 28, at the Philadelphia for Sale by C and even if they had, have not given the Country Club, Miss Almira P. McNeely, matters in question any proper consider- of Merion, won the individual champion- ation. I am convinced that if some such ship of the Women's Golf Asssciation of arrangement were made as I have in- Philadelphia. Her opponent in the final dicated that we should have a perfectly was Miss Lillian Biddle, of Riverton, and satisfactory golfing legislature. The gov- the latter was beaten by 3 up and 2 to ernment of the game would be put on a I3] Willie J play. Miss Florence N. Ayres, of River- * = sound basis and would at last command ton, who did so well in the Women's the respect and deserve the allegiance of Championship at Merion, won the Con- the golfing world." solation Cup, defeating Mrs. H. A. Lewis, Philadelphia Cricket Club, by 2 up and 1 { UNITE! to play. Miss Lottie Dod won the four- It is just as well, perhaps, to give these ball match with a best ball score of 89. eminent authorities on the other side of J- g can be et the water, notice of what will happen. When golfers gather at the nineteenth We have an American way of doing hole for the best of reason and the flow g Golf Mab things over here which is short and swift, of soul, the interchange of ideas that takes and it is absolutely certain that an irre- place there is sometimes of such a nature I Fall and' sistible demand will be made upon the that it seems a pity that it should be alto- United States Golf Association to take gether lost. Many a story told on such the revision of the rules into their own occasions is worthy of publication and peculiar care. These rules are capable GOLF, more with a view to preserve such of being simplified, improved and con- humor from oblivion than to reward the densed when the task is confided to busi- humorist, will give each month a prize ness-like men conversant with the game, the particulars of which are set forth in and if the Royal and Ancient neglects the advertising columns. GREAT GOLFERS Their Methods at a Glance By GEORGE W. BELDAM With Contributions by HAROLD H. HILTON, J. H. TAYLOR, JAMES BRAID, ALEX. HERD and HARRY VARDON Cloth. $3.50, net (Postage 22c.) Illustrated by 268 Action Photographs The author has been fortunate in securing Mr. Harold H. Hilton to write a few words on each of the amateurs, criticising their game as he sees it. As Mr. Hilton is the only amateur who has twice won the Open Cham- pionship, and has a most keen power of observation, besides vast experience of the game, his views are a great addition and help to the correct interpreta- tion of the Photographs. From these pictures he can see the stance at a glance, as each Golfer is standing on a square of four feet divided into six-inch squares ; and he need not be constantly wondering if he is on the right lines, and is standing as his model does, or following his methods. i For Sale by GOLF, 213 Ea.st 24th Street New York

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