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GANADf IAN" G\OZyLFE7R Official Organ Royal Canadian Golf Association; Official Organ Ladies Canadian Golf Union; Official Organ Rules of Golf Committee Published Monthly Ralph H. Reville, Editor. W. H. Webling, Associate Editor

Mr, George 8. Lyon, Toronto; Mr. J, T. Clark, Toronto; Mr. G. Brophey, Ottawa; Mr. T. Black, Montreal; Mr. W. M. Reekie, Rochester, N.Y.; Mr. Brice 8, Evans, Boston; Contributing Editors Ladies’ Golf Section edited by Florence L, Harvey Subseription Price, Three Dollars a Year Mntered at Post Office as Second Class Matter Hditorial and Business Office, Brantford, Canada foronto Office: Queen City Chambers, 82 Church St . BE. Smallpeice. Representative

| 1 Many Golfers The great majority of golfers undoubtedly are supporters of in the new the new Union Government which swept so irresistably into Parliament power on December 17th. To a man almost, they sank their political proclivities and voted for ‘‘win-the-war’’ candidates A very pleasing feature of the elections is the large numberof golfers who will be found on the Government benches the forthcoming session. The Cabinet itself has many golfers in its personnel (including the Premier, Sir Robert Borden) and there are besides a score or more of members who confess ; 1 golf as their favourite diversion. } In Great Britain members of both houses annually have their golf com petitions and the ‘‘Canadian Golfer’’ would like to see the Parliamentarians in this country follow in the footsteps of the Mother of Parliaments, in this respect. The Hon. M. Burrell, a capital golfer, would be especially a good man to start ‘‘the ball’’ rolling in the Commons and the Hon. George Lynch Staunton in the Senate.

The War and Asin Great Britain, so in Canada and the United States, the Amateur Sport-first shock of the war, was followed by almost complete cessa ing Events tion of all amateur sporting events. In the Mother Country and to some extent in Canada, last year wiser counsels pre vailed however, and good, clean, legitimate games were largely participated in again. In Great Britain this was noticeably the case in football, although for some time nowit has no longer been looked upon as high treason for the

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military over age and the juniors to be seen on the golf links, on the eric} and football fields or tennis courts there. In the United States there has latterly been a big swing of the pendul to saner ideas in connection with the relation of sports to the war, larg owing perhaps, to the very sensible view taken of the matter by Presid Wilson and all those in authority over there, who have come out very stron in support of the continuance of games tending to the upbuilding physic: and mentally of both old and young of both sexes. Last season, very sanely, the Seniors’ Golf Association of the United Sta decided to have its annual four day tournament as usual at Apawamis the result that there was a record entry of nearly four hundred members it is safe to say that the prominent golfers who participated in this nota event as a result were freshened and inspired to even greater effort in patrio and other work as a result of the respite of a few days on the links. And now comes the United States Tennis Association with the decisio1 1918 to revive all championship events, which of course will be played the principal object in view of raising money for patriotic purposes. This decision of the tennis players is in entire accord with the ideas of War authorities who are strongly in favour of the continuance of amati athletic events in the United States. In Canada there is no reason whatever why the Golf, Tennis, Cricket Mootball Associations, should not to some extent at least, revive tourname (the Bowlers and Curlers, be it noted, have never discontinued their co petitive events) to be participated in by returned soldiers, soldiers in train and men not available for military service—the gallant juniors of course now all at the Front You can do your ‘‘bit’’ and ‘‘earry on’’ so much the better if during coming season you keep physically fit by participating in your favourite door sport whenever opportunity presents itself, with an occasional out town friendly match or tournament tilt of skill to excite to greater endea No, ‘‘no possible reason whatever,’’ why such events should not be indul In when tempered with moderation

How to Meet In view of the fact that Canadian Golfdom will see the 11 Advancing Agetuting this year of a Seniors’ Golf Association, anything | Merrily’’ ing upon such an institution at the present time must b ceived with particular interest. The ‘‘Greeting’’ delivered by Mr. Darwin P. Kingsley to the United St Senior Association last autumn at the annual dinner at Apawamis, whic! been issued in the form of an attractive little brochure, is quite one o most scholarly golfing productions of recent days. Mr. Kingsley takes as his text the words of the Duke in Measure Measure:’’ ‘‘Thou hast nor youth, nor age, but, as it were, an after di sleep, dreaming on both.’’ That he knows his Shakespeare well is proven by many approp! quotations, running through the ‘‘Greeting’’ from ‘‘Henry VI,’’ ‘‘As Like It,’’ and other works of the bard dealing with youth and old age

‘‘In creating this Seniors’ organization,’’ Mr. Kingsley most aptly says in | cluding remarks: ‘‘We have probably builded a monument and in so doing we are observing the reflections of Benedick in ‘‘Much Ado’’—‘‘If a man do not erect age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monuments than the bell and the widow weeps.’’ ‘‘We admit that youth has certain seeming advantages, but young men afte belong to what we may properly call the dependent class. Some of them may insol offer us three bisques and make us wish we had taken four, but all such performer the ecstasy we feel in scoring an eighty, because in doing that we have triumphed time. Sut that is only a suggestion of our real triumph ‘What brings us together? We come from manyStates, from many vocations As the world wags we have va January, 1918. CANADIAN GOLFER 165 } faiths and as many points of view as five hundred men who have played the game hard N well can have We have been vounyg, us youth oes, We have paid that debt by raising up sons and ' daughters to take our places We have played our part in the fierce contests of middk ) life,—and | think, played it honourably Now we come together as men like us have never before assembled Why? Beeause we Wave discovered as alas! thousands of other have not, how to meet advancing age merrils By this game of golf and this fellowsh !) we vanquish time even as the boy scores a 79 Neither of us know just how we do it } but we do it We have learned what King Henry meant when in wooing Katherin he Lidl But ! in faith Kate, the elder | wax, the better I shall appear, my comfort is that old age, that | ill-layer up of beauty, can do no more poil upon my face | We are in truth no group of fools drawing «dials from out pol or watele from out pockets, nor «lo we look at these instruments for recording time with lack-lustre eye ( is Jacques’s fool did, nor co we say with him: ‘‘It ten o’cloch rhus we ma a . how the world wags; ’Tis but one hour nee it was nine And after an hour ; more ‘twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe And then from hour to i hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tal "| By this glorious game and this gracious fellowship ’t true we ripe and ripe; but we i are ‘*too much in the sun’’ to rot—tle sun that browns our bodies clears our brains, We are ‘| too, in that other sunlight that floods our souls and teaches 1 to laugh at time, the fear 4 less sunlight of philosophy which makes our western sl more glorious than an | of i youth,’’ ; Altogether Mr. Kingsley holds a delightful brief for the Senior who ha } come to the Falstaffian years of confession—and discretion As I thinl 1 his age, some fifty, or by’re lady inclining to three score f

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There were eight new golf courses opened in Canada in 1917 and the indi | cations already are that 1918 will see that record surpassed | , ] The Bishop of London has incurred the wrath of the racing fraternity b ! suggesting that while there is no harm in golf for the busine man to keep hin { lit, racing 1s in quite a different category H (| A Golfing Year To You Vay ou drive farther and better: may. the j only pull you notice be for you; may the onl lice you get. be the biggest 4 lice of good fortune; may your approach he dead to the pin alwa ma ] you land on the long green every time; ma our course be smooth and happ | ay the only sand be the kind of whieh you have plent and may the whol } round of the year, from January to December, be the best you have ever know) | { Mr. Hume Cronyn, newly elected M.P. for London | should hate to | ds think my new duties may prevent me from my former mode ndulgene (| in the Royal and Ancient game | think we should all take note of Presider a. Wilson’s advice, and make a more determined effort than ever to find } lor a certain amount of healthy outdoor recreation \ l am over tl pre f posed ‘‘Senior’’ mark you can understand with what interest ook Tor md i lo an extension of that interesting competition into Canada j % We } It is impossible to appreciate now the tremendous revival that is coming when this war ends, writes Grantland Ric This revival will come from two {| / / Important factors (J The fact that several hundred thousand young men | through camp life and the different games attached have found out what the \ ) outdoor game means. (2 The fact—and the more important one—that i when the tension from the war has relaxed there will be a feverish rush to Competition that doesn’t mean death and destruction, blood and horror, pain i and saecrife Someone has said, for example, that after one had served in the 1 & 'renches, a game such as golf would seem dull and tame On the contrary ve figure that it would carry an increased thrill, the thrill of FA pleasure and a f

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competition that isn’t to be suddenly checked by.a big shell or a gas wave o1 machine gun sweep. * * * Mr. W. C. Teagle, President Standard Oil Co., New York:—‘‘I alwa read your publication while in Canada and shall continue to do so here.’’ *** Secretaries of clubs would confer a great favour by sending into t!} “Canadian Golfer’’ the reports of their annual meetings. Election ofoffic: and otheritems of the past year’s doings will be read by golfers generally wit very great interest not only in the home town but throughout the Dominion * %* Don’t leave your clubs in a eold damplockerall through the winter. [i bad for the grips and shafts alike. Clubs should be kept in a temperatur around the 50 mark—in a place neither too hot nor too cold. Your‘‘irons and your ‘‘woods’’ were good to you all through the season of play. ‘‘P! the game’’ with them the next few months. And don’t forget a touch of on shafts and wooden heads. * The U. 8. coal controller has asked Mr. Howard W. Perrin, President the United States Golf Association, to request the golf clubs in his jurisdicti: to close their club houses during the winter months. There are 400 clubs the U.S. G. A. andit is estimated that 100,000 tons of coal can besaved if t action is taken. In Canada it may be noted that the majority of the golf ai country clubs have been closed this winter. Very feware being kept open

** % Wellington maintained that Waterloo was won on the playing fields Eton, and athleticism has more than vindicateditself in the present war. |! messages from Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Secretary of War Bake the United States, advocating the continuance and the ‘‘speeding up’ college athletics, attest the recognized value of athletes as fighting men. realm of sport has furnished a splendid share of the honourroll of the Al

% * % Many Canadian golfers who had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Nor Hunter, when he was here some few years ago playing prominent Cana courses with Mr. Hilton, will be interested to knowthat his relatives are living in hope that he is a prisoner in Germany, although he has not | heard from since wounded in a trench early in the war. It appears that Sunningdale captain was injured in the head bya cricket ball years ago this seriously affected his memory and made him liable to complete bla His wifehas still absolute confidence that ‘‘the mighty driver’’ and genera round golfer and athlete is still in the land of the living. ** ae Mr. Charles Evans, jr., the U. S. Open and Amateur champion, can al be depended upon to issue a graceful Xmas and New Yeargreeting. season it takes the form of a very pretty card with the embossed flags entw of the three golf playingallied countries—Great Britain, France and the U! States, with the following appropriate verse :— Three flags that tell heroic tales, Of England, France, my countrytoo, Their presence here illuminates The message that I send to you. Canadian golfers who received this greeting card (the ‘‘Canadian Gol was among the fortunate) from the champion, naturally prize it very hig Mr. Evans, ever since the war’s inception, has been a warm friend 0! Allied cause. January, 1918. CANADIAN GOLFER 167

Good-bye old 19th hole with your manycenturies of tradition and of fra grant memory—whennot overplayed. You had to go into the war’s diseard with many other loveable, but luxurious institutions!

” x « Golfing and other friends of Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor of Montreal will be glad to hear that his son, Lieut Travers Williams-Taylor of the 1sth Hussars, for whose safety grave fears were entertained, has been definitely reported alive, although unfortunately a prisoner in Turkey. Sir Frederick received a cable to this effect December 28rd from the British Secretary of War.

The formation of a Seniors’ Golf Association in Canada, will be one of the most potent factors in the future of the game here. It will bring together men prominent in all walks of life——men who have done and are doing “‘big

things.’” The indications are that early in the year the Association will be s successfully launched. The idea is meeting with a most enthusiastic reception

in all the leading golfing centres. ee we The ‘‘Anzaes’’ are at all events not in doubt as to the position of golf im the Antipodes after the war. The ‘‘ Australian Golfer’? says it is nonsense to suppose that the game will take years to recover; on the contrary, it’s just the recreation to suit returned soldiers; it will boom more than ever, and inter national golf will reach great dimensions. Our Australian contemporary fur ther predicts that one of the first international post-war events will be tournament of the Allies.

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Whenthe war is over g olf will be greatly changed in this country, In some ways t change may not be so great in Britain, for British golfers come more slowly into best game, and most of the great English players are past military age. This assertion is perhaps more nearly true of professional golfers. Vardon, B Taylor, Ray and other great players, although good for many years of sterling golf not fitted for military service, and most of the younger. golfers who might be expecte supersede them in the course of time have been drawn into the maelstrom of war. British amateurs have suffered heavily. It is true that John Ball, Hilton, Blac!) and others are past military age and will doubtless play fine games for a long time Jack Graham, probably the finest amateur golfer in the world, was killed in the days of the war. Manyof the most promising of the younger golfers are now at the front, man made the supreme sacrifice and many are badly wounded. British casualty lists are he breaking to those of us who have played abroad. We cannot expect to escape changes ourselves. We will lay aside with om tournaments the thoughts of low scores, long-driven balls, fancy clubs and more t courses, but after all, soldiers who have played golf will continue to do so.’’

Rules is Rules, at Pinehurst

INEHURST, N. C., January 1—They are telling a good one, at the P P hurst Country Club. It seems that during the finals of a tournamen the Moore County Country Club, held at Pinehurst early in the Autu one of the finalists played his ball from a trap straight into the upturned « of an Innocent Bystander’s nether habiliments. The referee took instant steps to prevent the Innocent Bystander fron lodging either the ball or himself, and a general discussion ensued among experts. The decision, of course, was that the ball was to be played from it lay, or the player to concede an unplayable position and lose the hole player couldn’t see the loss of the hole and the gentleman in the flannels f1 declined to have his ankle used as a tee for the next shot. He had played the waiting golfer before, he said, and wasn’t taking any chances on this Casion. In the meantime somebody had brought along a barrel or a blanket something, into which the Bystander retired for the time being, the trou being handed over to the referee and suspended for the shot, at the. orig height from the ground. The finalist played a neat mashie niblick out of upturned cuff, reached the green, and won the hole amid the plaudits of assembled multitude, bar one. Your correspondent is reliably informed that the sequence of events as | narrated comes well within that distance of the literal truth or, as it m be more appositely expressed, the bare facts.

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History of Golf at a Glance

Stepping Stones in the Record of the Universal Game from 1457 to 1917

1457 Parliament ordains that golf hx utterly eryit doune, and noeht Hsit. 2 149] Another law to the same effect. 15038 King plays golf extensively. 1552 Harliest reference to golf being played at St. Andrews 1608 Present Royal Blackheath Golf Club founded (Oldest golf elub in the world. 1735 Present Edinburgh Burgess Golfing society founded. 1744 Present Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded 1754 Present Royal and Ancient Golf Club, St Andrews, founded First Royal and Ancient Competition 1834 Royal and Ancient Club given that title 1837 Royal and Ancient King William IV medal first competed for 1848 Gutty ball came in (‘‘Featheries’’ previously 1849 Famous foursome, Allan Robertson and Tom Morris vs Brothers Dunn. Former couple won 1853 Willie Park, Sr., played Tom Morris twice: for £100 stake each time. Park won both. 1854 Royal and Ancient Club’s house completed 1859 Allan Robertson died 1860 Open Championship established (Willie Park, Sr., winner 1863 King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) elected Captain of th Royal and Ancient Club 1864 Present Royal North Devon Golf Club founded 1865 London Scottish Golf Club founded 1867 Tom Morris, Sr., won Open Championship for the fourth tiny 1869 Present Royal Liverpool Golf Club founded 1870 Tom Morris, Jr., won Open Championship for third time in li¢ cession and became owner of the belt 1871 No championship 1872 Tom Morris, Jr., won Open Championship for fourth tim 1873 Open Championship first played for at St. Andr On November 4th, 1873, Montreal Golf Club was established—th

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1888 Mr. John Ball won Amateur Championship for the first time. St. Andrews Golf Club formed in Yonkers, N.Y.—thefirst golt club in the United States. 1889 Open Championship last played for at Musselburgh. 1890 Mr. John Ball won both Open and Amateur Championships. Algonquin Golf Club, St. Andrews, formed—the first club in Ney Brunswick. 1892 Championship of India established. Open Championship first played for at Muirfield, Mr. H. H. Hilton winner. Mr. Edward Blackwell drove 366 yards from 17th tee at St. An drews (with old gutta ball.) Amateur Championship first played for at Sandwich. 1893 British Ladies’ Championship established. Victoria Golf Club established— tfirst golf club in British Columbia 1394 J. H. Taylor won his first Open Championship Open Championshipfirst played for at Sandwich. Right Hon, A. J. Balfour elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Club. Organization of the United States Golf Assiciation Winnipeg Golf Club (now Norwood Golf Club) established—-first club in Manitoba. 1895 American Open and Amateur Championships established. Amateur Championship was first played in Canada at Ottawa, wo1 by Mr. T. H. Harley of Kingston. 1896 Harry Vardon wonhis first Open Championship. Mr. F. G. Tait won his first Amateur Championship. Royal Canadian Golf Association incorporated; First President the late Sir George Drummond of Montreal. Halifax Golf Club is organized—the first in Nova Scotia. 1897 Open Championship first played for at Hoylake (Mr. H. H. Hilto1 winner.) 1898 Mr. Geo. S. Lyon then playing for Rosedale, won Canadian Ami: teur Championship for first time at Toronto. First International Match United States vs. Canada, played Toronto. Won by United States, 20 holes. 1899 H. Vardon defeated Willie Park in a seventy-two hole match Western Golf Association founded, Chicago, III. 1900 Lieut. F. G. Tait killed in South Africa. J. H. Taylor won his third Open Championship Last International Match, United States vs. Canada played Quebec. United States won by 5 holes. 1901 Mr. H. H. Hilton won Amateur Championship for the second tin James Braid wonhis first Open Championship First Lady Championship of Canada is played in Montreal. W: by Miss Lily Young of Montreal. 1902 Rubber cored ball introduced into Great Britain. Amateur International Match first played. 1903 Harry Vardon won his fourth Open Championship. Mr. W. J. Travis (America) won Amateur Championship. 1904 Open Championship of Canadais first played at Montreal Wi ner, J. H. Oke. Mr. Geo. S. Lyon wins Olympic Cha mpionship at St. Louis, defea

January, 1918. CANADIAN GOLFER ° , ) ing in the finals, Chandler Egan, United States Amateur Cham pion. 1906 James Braid won his third Open Championship International foursome over four courses—St Andrews, Troon, St. Annes, and Deal—for £400, J. H Taylor and H. Vardon vs. James Braid and A. Herd. Taylor and Vardon won by 13 and 12. ! 1907 Mr. John Ball won his sixth Amateur Championship. } A. Massy (France) won the Open Championship. Saskatchewan and Alberta Provinces organize golf clubs Appeal for patent in rubber-cored ball rejected by House of Lords 1908 Tom Morris, Sr., died James Braid won his fourth Open Championship in the record i score of 291. Y New code of rules adopted. } Miss Mabel Thompson, St. John, wins Canadian Lady Champion y ship for 5th time. 1909 J. H. Taylor won his fourth Open Championship { W. H. Horne made record drive in competition (388 yards) at , North Berwick. 19J0 Jubilee of Open Championship, James Braid winning for the fifth time. New Rule passed, excluding center-shafted clubs. } Miss Dorothy Campbell (Mrs. Hurd) wins Canadian and U, 8S | Championship. ' 1911 Mr. H. H. Hilton won the British and American Amateur Cham i pionships. } Harry Vardon won his fifth Open Championship 1912 Mr. Jerome D. Travers ‘‘came back.’’ Won the American Ama teur Championship a third time. Mr. John Ball wins his eighth Amateur Championship | First Municipal golf course established in Canada at Edmonton } 1913. Mr. Francis Ouimet, a Boston amateur, twenty years of age, de 1 feated the professional golfing world of America, including Vai 4 don, Ray, Tellier and Reid, from Great Britain and France, in thi } Open Championship of the United States, at Brookline. ] Miss Ravenscroft of England won the Women’s Championship of H America. Mr, ‘‘Jerry’’ Travers won Amateur Championship of America for ) & the fourth time. i 7 1914 Mr. Francis Ouimet captured the American Amateur Championship oi Harry Vardon forthe sixth time, won the British Open Champion a. ship. Miss Cecil Leitch won the British Ladies’ Championship Mr. George S. Lyon wins the Canadian Amateur Championship for the 8th time. _ Waris declared and over 3,000 Canadian golfers have since then } donned Khaki and over 200 have paid the supreme sacrifice 1915 Mr. ‘‘Jerry’’ Travers won the American Open Championship | ““Canadian Golfer,’’ official organ of the Royal Canadian Golf 1 Association, Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union and Rules of Golf Hi OI F Committee is established , 1916 Mr. Charles Evans, Jr., won both Amateur and Open Champion High oF ships of America. i } 1917 United States enters war and all championships discontinued i

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SS istiony- whichcot has a very live and up-to-date Provincial Golf Ass ciation, which conducts every year-a most successful tournament. | ofticers for the current year are :— Hon. President, Hon. Chief Justice/Haultain, Regina; President. A Angus, Regina; Vice-President, H. C. Pope, Moose Jaw, Sask.; Hon.-Sec Treas., G. Innes Mackenzie, Regina. Executive Committee:—E. E Mil Waseana Country Club, Regina; D: McMillan, Regina Golf Club, Regina Sullivan, Moose Jaw Golf Club, Moose Jaw; KE. S. Martin, Saskatoon Count Club( Saskatoon; N. C. Byers, Saskatoon Golf Club, Saskatoon; Dr. J Cramer, Qu’Appelle Golf Club, Qu’Appelle. For the comingseason the offi have been elected as follows:—Hon. President, Hon. Chief Justice Haulta Regina; President, H. C. Pope, Moose Jaw; Vice-President, J. D. Turnh Regina; Hon. See. and Treasurer, J. L. Tarton, Regina. Executive Committ: N. C. Byers, Saskatoon Golf Club, Saskatoon; W. H. Gray, Wasecana Cow Club, Regina; A. F. Angus, Regina Golf Club, Regina; A. Sullivan, Moose | Golf Club, Moose Jaw; J. Hettle, Saskatoon Country Club, Saskatoon; R R. W. Iandie, Qu’Appelle Golf Club, Qu’Appelle.

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Saskatoon Golf Glub Premier Royal and Ancient Organization of Saskatchewan Has a Sporting Eighteen Hole Course. Splendid Record of Nearly 100 Members Enlisted for Overseas co ILE golf that had been played in Battleford and Prince Albert in the very f early days, on courses that must have been most primitive, (in fact there were no real courses and the enthusiasts had to be content knocking a ball around the prairies) can scarcely be said to have failed to bear seed in thi Provinee of Saskatchewan, for to-day all the cities of any size have then

courses, Regina and Saskatoon having two each Of organized golf elubs in 4 Saskatchewan none are older than the Saskatoon Golf Club. It was in 1907 Y that a few men got together at the office of Mr. James Stratton in Saskatoon { and began talking of golf. Well you know what that means! We must have : a course! so they said, and altho the number was small, they hoped to get enough enthusiasts interested in the game to finance the purchase of some hole | § cups and flag poles, all that was necessary as a bait, before announcing the | debut of the Saskatoon Golf Club. The cups were ordered from Winnipeg and other equipment to the amount of $15.75 was got, and pres- H : to, we had a golf course. ) > A o Mr. Jamie ; it , y Stratton, an St, ; ! } Edinburgh man was the { moving spirit and his back- , ers were y Sandy Me- Owan, Doc- 4 tor Croll, and Doctor } Young, the = = i Mayor of Saskatoon, _ SASKATOON GOLF CLUB ; i The first green of the sporting 18 hole course, yi Herhert Wes- i : ton, Hugh Aird, W. P. Kilpatrick and Dr. McKay. Mr. Mooney, now of Port f Arthur was appointed Seecretary-Treasurer. Look them over! Do you think 1 | / they would speal any language but Gaelic and Golf? wf Mr. H. S. Colt was not called in to advise on the layout. The organizers 1 fe had enough golfing sense of their own to start off with. There was lots of | i land where a course could be laid out, thousands of acres, rent free, but thes i gentlemen did not like the idea of going far into the country to play, so the) hii i squatted on what is now Central Park, and now practically the centre of the i) oe city. Fromthe first round the game has gone ahead, and the elub has flow at) ished since its inception. HHH } In 1911 it was found necessary to look for pastures new and of a mor ni F permanent sort, so the city council was approached and the efforts of th Hi 4 committee was rewarded by being allowed to use 80 acres of ground lying Ta WH , next to the Exhibition Grounds. bea , *“*Bill’”’ Kinnear, the pro, was brought to lay out the course and to show a how good a job was made ofit, no alterations have been made or thought ot! 1 | \ | i and ‘Bill’ is still on the job having been with the club for seven seasons eu | ¥ He doesn’t go to California or Florida in the winter; he makes a point of meet | | , = | a 4 ft i] Vi

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ing a few friends occasionally in a poker game; he says it amounts to t same thing. The arrangement with the city is: ‘‘That any person may play ove course on payment of a fee, or the purchase of a season ticket, not to exc a certain sum with use of locker. Fees to be fixed by council.’’ Fees collected by the club to help maintain the course and although the courss not a public course so far as being maintained by the municipality, Saskato will always claim that it had the first publie course in Canada. Under arrangements made, did it or did it not? The years 1911—12—13 were boom years in the West and strange as may seem, these were the slackest years for golf, because everyone was by on some other game with more moneyin it. Then came 1914, the banner y in Saskatoon for golf, for the course was that year extended to 14 holes later in the season to the full 18. Additional ground had to be rented to commodate the play, beeause all the members were active, and the transie1 many. And then the war! In 1914 the club had a male membership of 87 of that m ber 53 vol teered bet the 1915 son open The 1915 si son. clo with a mé bership of and bet the 1916 sor ont we had over the seasons lowing start ol SASKATOON GOLF CLUB war, 87 Watching the winning putt on 37th hole of first Saskatchewan Champicn- and 6 la ship. H. A. Bruce, Saskatoon Golf Club, winner; A. A. Weir, who had g runner-up. to the Fi leaving the club in a position not altogether enviable. Notwithstanding inroads made on the membership the 1916 season showed a total of 116 which we lost 5 before the 1917 season opened, making a total of 98 mem! gone to warin the cause of right and justice. The Saskatoon Club has no reason to be ashamed of the part their mem have taken in the war, and the honours have come aplenty. 6 Military Cros Messrs. MecLorg, Caswell, White, Little, McKenzie, Pearson; D.C.M Cameron, 3 Military Medals: Messrs. Lum Clark, Duthie and Kayss. Can golf club anywhere, showa record ofa similar nature? Showing how the young men of the club have responded to the cal duty, there are only 4 members whoare classed A2, and who are subjec the first draft, and these are in responsible positions, being managers oft respective businesses. At the end of 1917 season the membership is 127 male members, so see Saskatoon has still the love of golf in herheart. The course has not the appointments of the up-to-date courses of larger cities, where much moneyis spent, but excepting the greens, which not of the best, the course measures up fairly well to the best om the pra! This spring it is anticipated that water will be laid out to the greens \ conditions will be greatly improved.

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The situation of the course is the most sylvan of all the prairie courses and no prettier or restful spot could have been chosen for golf. Had been a burn or water of any description, it would have been ideal The elub house is set back in the bluff facing the last green and it is but a step to the Ist tee. The first 9 holes are all round the club house, in fact the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th greens are only a stone’s throw away, which makes it convenient for those who always like to play an extra hole or two The course is laid out, around, between and alongside groves or bluft's of poplar and willows, wherever a fairgreen or green could be located. The course is 5,800 yards—2,405 out and 3,395 in. The first 9 holes are short, but what they lack in length, is made up in trickiness, as 5 of them are dog-legs They call for a tee shot of good length. The Ist hole, ‘‘dog’s leg,’’ 275 yards, is devoid of difficulty if one keeps straight, and as at 175 yards the green is opened up, the approach must be perfectly placed. No. 2—well named the ‘‘ Jungle,’’ is straight down, 255 yards, between two groves of poplars, with a bluff close to the back of the green; a prairie trail running on the bias catches a pull or a full drive; a short carry for a slice but the green well guarded from the left No. 3; “‘The Mashie,’’ 110 yards. It would take a book to hold all that has been said of this hole, because it spoils more scores than any 2 holes on the course. The sportiest short hole in the Province, and the pet of the courss A well played mashie to a green not too large and surrounded by trees, an opening of about 10 feet showing the pin between a large bunker on left and trees. No. 4, “‘Westward Ho,’’ 310 yards. Another dog-leg and the best 2 shot hole on the course. A 225 yard drive opens up the green at nearly 90 degrees and an approach to the left side of the green sloping to the right, carries a hall to the pin, past the trap guarding the lowerhalf of green No. 5, ‘‘The Hub,’’ 150 yards, between two bluffs, with an opening 20 feet at 80 yards from thetee to a plateau green, bunkered all round No. 6, ‘‘Exhibition,’’ 395 yards in length, calls for a tee shot that must be placed exactly, as a roundel of trees takes up half the fairway, 235 yards from the tee on the right; a dog-leg to the right makes the player play to the left to open up the green, which a good iron reaches No. 7, ‘‘Tom Morris,’’ 350 yards. Here there is lots of room at the fai end of a good drive, then a second that calls for a very exacting shot over a bunker to the green, just over; a dog-leg, but by hugging the trees on the left a player may play past the end of the bunker. No. 8, ‘‘Beaver Creek,’’ 210 yards An easy hole for a straight shot trees flanking both sides of green, rough in front and behind No. 9, ‘‘The Railway,’ 350 yards; a dog-leg, flanked on the right by high poplars; on the left by willows. A tee shot of 220 yards leaves a nice mashie shot opened up on left to a fade-away green, with the G. T. P. railroad at the back of green, out of bounds No. 10, ‘‘Westbound,”’ 425 yards, with the G. T. P. on the left and woods and fireguard on the right from tee to hole. From an elevated tee, across a ravine to rising ground with summit at 225 yeards, the green is seen backed by a poplar grove lying sleepily in the hollow beyond No. 11, ‘‘The Willows,’’ 500 yards, across the G. T. P, straiglit away over rolling ground lies the green, in a most beautiful situation, encircled by willows except for an opening the width of a narrow fairway. This green is like an oasis in the desert. and it is, because it is at this hole that the lemonade IS SS on tap. Af ter two Jong holes it wo Orie SS uld he nice here if possible, to have of shorter length,

No 12, ‘‘Hades.’’ well named, 450 yards R ou gh for 140 yards and across h SS u tT , “¢ ry? t . . he ravine to a sow back running good driver gets one to th Kl on the bias A ) i)

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rise of hill, from where the green can. be seen, nestling on the slope of the back. A pulled brassie gets there and helps to keep the ball to the green No. 13, ‘‘St. Andrews,’’ 525 yards, From thetee a good shot is requi to carry the ridge of a sow back at right angles to fairway.

nowhere in the West can a visiting golfer find a heartier welcome or meet a more sterling lot of followers of the Royal and Ancient.

Prospects for the season of 1918 are of the brightest and altogether SS Saskatoon has very much a place in the Golfing Sun. *‘CHIP SHOT

illie Park and Golf Gourses

HE*‘ Toronto Globe’’ recently had a despatch from New York as follows ‘*After several weeks of continuous construction work in various sections of ! the middle West and Canada, Willie Park, the links architect, is back in this city for a brief stay. This veteran golf professional, who came to this country from Scotland a couple of years ago, has been busy recently in the vicinity of Detroit, both | n the way of laying out newlinks and reconstruction work He Jaid out links for ¢lubs at Detroit Toledo and Flint, Mich. , At Toronto, Park was occupied for some time on two private courses, and a third for club at Mount Bruno. Something like $100,000 is being expended there, and the club house will contain forty bedrooms. The impression gained as a result of his visit to Toronto is that despite the rigors of war the old game is going on as actively as ever in Canada What the future has in store for golf’s development in the United States, especially throughout the East, is in his opinion problematical There is a tendency to refrain from any elaborate outlays of money at this time, and for that reason several prospective eighteen hole course propositions are being held in abeyance and likely will remain until after the war.’’ A very interesting item, with this important correction howevei The courses are not in J'cronto; they are in Montreal, which city is taking up with the game in an ever increasingly enthusiasti¢ manner as befitting t) ie oldersef

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Some Strange Shots

When Champions Appreciate the Difficulties of Golf By Harry Vardon, in ‘Golf Illustrated”

HERE are two sides to golf. It is aygame which exercises the body ai diverts the mind; it is also a foree which moves people, like no oth: peacelul pursuit on earth, to constant ambition and endeavour. In this latter respect, its greatest triumph is that nobody has ever rea mastered it. I think it can be said that every other pastime has had its co plete champions. There have been runners and cyclists who, while they 1 mained in the prime of athletic manhood, have been invincible. They ha represented the standard of infallible excellence. So, too, with footha cricket, and | daresay, baseball—there have been, at all ball games, pert players who simply could not be conquered until an opponent, inspired } flash of genuis, made the ball do something altogether amazing. That tingency is bound to arise in a game in which one man matches his wits aga those of another. In golf, the player is offered the opportunity of doing exactly what pleases. Except when heis laid a stymie, he suffers no interference from | rival whil@ he is executing his shot. Far more readily, then, than anyot! game ought golf to produce the obviously faultless player. Always Room for Improvement P And yet it does not so. Even the admitte ef best golfers sink occasi ally to abysmal depths ineptitude. It may for only one shot here there, but it is suffici to remind them that t are as much at the mé

of the gods as long ha cap men. Nearly broke his Record. I can sayinall since) that never have I felt wholly satisfied with my form. Even in 1898 and 1 when I happened to be playing particularly well, I always knewthat it w be possible to improve, and tried my hardest to achieve the vision of gr ability. It is the secret of golf’s fascination—this constant striving afte: ideal, It is as strong in the champion as in the duffer. At the end otf round, there are always memories which bring reproaches. One realizes certain shots could and should have been accomplished to better purpose I have had that conviction at the end.of nearly every round | ean ren ber. It is exactly the spirit ofan elderly gentleman who cameinto a house near London a short time ago, complaining that if the caddie had made him take his mashie instead of his mid-iron at the last hole, he w have beaten his record for the course. ‘*As it was, I equalled it,’’ he explained, “‘but I lost a stroke through fool of a boy.”’ *“And what did you do for the eighteen holes?’’ he was asked. ‘126,’ he replied in a slightly mollified voice. ‘‘I think I’m improv: It is a wonderful pastime that imbues every one of its devotees—g bad, or indifferent—with the supreme belief that one day he will be bi At various times, articles have been written on the subiect of remarkable s at golf. Invariably they have dealt with exceptionally good shots. | that there is a deeper human interest in exceptionally bad shots. We al 478 January, 1918. CANADIAN GOLFER 479

capable of performing them, and while the duffer realizes that fact more re poignantly than the champion, the latter is by no means so splendidly endowed / as to be absolutely immune from foozling. Missed the Ball as Well as the Putt Undoubtedly the most humilitating experience that can befall the golfer is to miss the globe utterly and completely. Hven the long handicap playe) blushes with shame when, after all due preparation, he swings at the ball and ; does not touch it. Confession being good for the soul, let me say that I have had the mortification of missing the globe—and in a championship, too! The occasion was the United States Open Championship at Wheaton, IIL. in 1909, when I was on myfirst visit to America. On one of the greens (forget which) in the third round, I had to play a putt of less than six inches. Perhaps

[ was careless; at any rate, my club-head caught in the turf before it reached a the ball, which continued to sit there blithely looking up at me. The marker y was so astonished that he did not want to register the stroke, but, of cours ' [ had attempted to strike the ball, and so the shot had to go down against me | It was a very impressive lesson to me as to the dangerof carelessness. At the time, J. H. Taylor and I were engaged in a keen struggle for the championship . § At the end of the second round, I was only one stroke ahead of my English | rival, and although I won in the end by a margin of f two strokes, this blunder cs j might have been fatal. H Very often one sees a } competition in a_ stroke ' event playing a putt of ; four or five inches in a heedless way. The rules say that he must hole out { everything and the form- ality of knocking the ball } into the tin from a dist- ) ance of a fewinches is a 1 proceeding about which he 4 cannot arouse any con- cern. Yet it is one of the | few certainties of the Vardon drives between his legs. game that a proportion of these carelessly played putts will be missed. If you { want to win at golf, it is not worth while leaving anything to chance a | It is not often, however, that the tragedy of missing the globe on the putt | g ; ing green presents itself. The raw novice may beat nothing but the air with i some of his drives and second shots, but he can generally be relied upon at | | least to touch the ball on the putting green. Apart from my own lapse, the 1 only contretemps of such a character that I can remember occurred on the i occasion of the opening of the Woodhall Spa course,, England, some ten years ; i 4gzo : Lord Willoughby d’Eresby (the Earl of Ancaster as he is to-day) was j partnered by James Braid in a foursome. Lord Willoughby made an excellent i: drive from the first tee, and Braid put the scond shot on to the green, about ut) ok fen yards from the hole. Lord Willoughby—a very sound medium-handicap } | / golfer who, with an allowance of 12, could hold his own in any company {| f addressed himself carefully to the putt, and swinging with all due ceremony | \ suffered the distress of seeing the club head pass right over the top of the | | y ball without touching it. Howthat happened I do not know. Probably it was iin # the result of a moment of optical aberration. | wi oF The biggest score that ever I took for a hole—and also I think, for a round iia oF -was at Bury, in Laneashire. There it was that I practised much of myearly repr iH} y a | oa | HH | a) ee

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golf, for Bury was the second club in England to engage me as professiona and I went to it at the age of twenty-three. It was not in those days, howeve) that I made the biggest bungle conceivable of a hole, but in later years, afte: had won several championships. Mybrother Tomand I had been playing in the British Open Championshi) at Hoylake, and on the day following the finish of the event, we were due t appear at Bury, a good manymiles distant. It was to be myfirst displa there since the period when I acted as professional to the club, and I unde: stand that all my old friends were on the course betimes to renew an acquaint ance which certainly had been a great joy to me. Unfortunately, after a long journey, Tom and I| did not reach ourhot at Bury until 3 a.m. Wetold the attendant to call us at 8 a.m. He forgot a about it. I was the first to wake— at noon! By that time, we should jus! about have completed the first round. Wewereinto ourclothes and out of th hotel in a few minutes, and reaching the course, we gave breathless explan: tions and started on a match. I was so flurried that, at the fourth hole short one which had been one of myspecial pleasures in the old days—I kne that I should make a mess of the mashie shot from the tee and promptly did si Norfor thelife of me could I retrieve the situation. The more [I hit th ball, the greater became myagitation. I got on to a road short of the gre and kept on rebounding

off a mound and returning to the road. I took 13 1 reach the green, and 15| hole out. Mytotal fi the round was 92. T members whohad follow the career of their e: while professional m have wondered how earth he had ever mani ed to win championshi Cross Country Golf sil Some of the most no é % contests in which I « a 2I took part were those Braid’s putt across the Green. Le Touquet, on the n¢ coast of France—a holiday links which now throbs with Red Cross activity. It is the cente1 a big hospital organization which receives soldiers wounded on the West front. In the area of peace, it had a large and faithful following of gol! bent on enjoying themselves and always ready with some new scheme providing excitement. Weused to back ourselves to play across country in a certain numbe strokes from the lawn of the hotel at Le Touquet to some spot nearly a 1 off—one day to the beach, and another dav to the sixth hole of the cou which represented the limit of the golf club’s property. The interest oftl cross country tests lay in ‘‘placing’’ each shot so as to render the next platable. If you simply slugged as hard as possible, you could be sur finding, sooner or later, an utterly hopeless lie é A Bogey of 20 One of the hazards on the way from the hotel lawn to the sixth green a wood consisting of very high trees and extending to a depth of 40 yards was this that brought about the downfall of most people who triedto | “‘Bogey.’’ I once did the hole in 14, but ‘‘Bogey’’ was put downat 20 verv keen amateur in Mr. Peter Samson, who plaved a good deal in Ame at about the time that he introduced a patent facing for wooden clubs, ge! January, 1918, CANADIAN GOLFER 481

ally experienced heartbreaking difficulty in so much as getting out of the hotel grounds. Ha constantly -backed himself to do the ‘‘hole’’ in 20. On the first oceasion that he tried, his tee shot hit a wall in front of the lawn and the ball rebounded into a most complicated collection of adjuncts to the hotel. In point of fact, he expended his 20 strokes in banging the ball about the stables chieken-run, and other out-houses, and was then farther from his goal than at the start. The next time that he tried, he hit his drive on to the tennis courts and stayed there till he had played 20. At the fourth attempt, he achieved his purpose. His score was 19. I fear that these diversions do not help to maintain the dignity of a serious game, but they are at least good fun during holidays. Even Braid Laughed In the way of foozling—which is rather different from missing the globe | cannot remember having done anything more ridiculous than at the tenth hole at Turnberry, Scotland, on the day immediately following my sixth victory in the British Open Championship in 1914. If it had been nothing worse than a medioere shot, | might have excused it in some way. [For what I did, how ever, there was no explanation. In playing my tee shot, | somehow managed to knock the ball not forward but between my legs. It careered gaily for twenty-five yards behind my back and then went (OO into the sea. Presumabl) 6 ; | must have made the con “Ny, tact with the back of the heel of the elub Braid = Ne sat down on the rocks and AW: g../ Los .

av rolled with laughter; Tay ‘ } Coa») st i ) or lor dropped to the ground » 1 wo and was equally convul €2 xf esis aiNd sed It was the most y £ ul ih imusing thing in the world Fa = » for everybody except me It had even more ofthe elements of surprise and risibility about it than ¢ shot which was executed in a tournament on the Braid Hills course, Edin burgh, In this case. a Taylor’s Equine ‘‘Stunt.’’ player was standing straddle-legged, swinging his driver at the ball, when another ball came dashing between his legs and knocked his own off the tee As he had begun the down swing, he had to count a stroke ‘What the deuce do you mean by driving into me?’’ he demanded of thi offending player. ‘‘Do you eall that golf?’ ‘“‘No,’’ replied the individual addressed, ‘‘but it’s d—d good croquet! A Disastrous Putt The putting green is such a prim, placid, secure-looking part of the course that one would not expect to meet with any adventures on if Kiverything

that takes place on it is regarded by the scoffer as so much humdrum nonsense I And yet I have known some real little golfing tragedies—incidents altogethe: more dramatie than the mere missing of putts—oceur within a few yards of the hole,

Maney, for instance, being bunkered from a putt. Such was the fate of ee Braid in one of his rounds in the British Open Championship which he won at Prestwick in 1908. The hole had been cut about four yards from a bunker and the green was very keen. Braid putted a little too strongly from a dis

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tance of twelve yards, andhis ball, running past the tim, made its waysedat: into the hazard. The expression on his countenance as he watched the bh

disappear over the bank was a supreme study in amazed indignation. A daylong, he talked of nothing but that incident. ‘‘T’ve done a thing for which I ought to be warned off golf courses fo ever,’’ he declared as he proceeded totell the story. Playing an Invisible Ball In manyrespects, the most trying shot that I was ever called upon to pl: was one out of a bunker at Prestwick in the British Open Championship jus over three years ago. Taylor and I were coupled andstruggled neck-and-ne for the title. It was the third round and every stroke was eritical. At tl eleventh hole, | was bunkered to the left of the green. The ball was in t} corner of the hazard and buried and although the sand was seraped aw several times so as to enable meto see the top of the object, it was such fi dry, loose sand that it kept on rolling back on to the ball before I could ta up my stance. I was throbbing with excitment, and at last I said to tl! marker :—‘‘Don’t try any more; I'll see if I can remember whereit is.’’ As I took up myposition to aim at a ball which was not visible, the ref! tion thrust itself upon me that, if I bungled the shot, the almost inevita penalty would bethe loss of the championship. The fact that the green uphill added to the difficulties of the stroke. If it had been downhill, I cou have dug right under the place where I knewthe ball lay, and been cont with merely howking it out. But in the circumstances, I had to make sur getting it fairly well awayso that it should not roll back into the hazard, : I wondered whether, in trying to take it fairly cleanly from its hiding p! I should misjudgeits position by a fraction of an inch and pushit further | the sand. By great good fortune, I remembered its location exactly. Ou came most nobly, but there was a deal of anxiety about that moment wh was standing over the bunker, swinging and guessing and hoping. Never| I had a more critical shot to place. Equine Equity In an age when—in Britain, at any rate—there is a considerable degr: I slackness as regards the observanceof the rules, the stickler far strict inter tation of the law is a person to admire. I have heard people say that th that person is too keen on seeing every rule enforced, as though it were sportsmanship to be law abiding. Certain it is that the Royal and An Club does not take that view, for in its last revision of the rules prior ti war, it decreed that players shall not agree to the exclusion of the operatio any rule under penalty of disqualification, and that a player who waives penalty incurred by his opponent must lose the hole. The most rigid resp: of authority that ever I knew was the late Earl of Wemyss, who died years ago at the age of ninety-five, and who played golf almost up to the He would not allowanyliberty to be taken. Onee, at Kilspindie, Scot he was following on horseback a foursome in which Lady Wemyss and posed another lady and Taylor. A shot by Taylor’s partner put theirs! ball directly beneath the horse on which Lord Wemyss was seated. animal was at rest, and Taylor asked the earl to move awayalittle so he could get at the ball. ‘*Certainly not,’’ replied Lord Wemyss, ‘‘That would be contraryt rules. Myhorse is something growing, and as such it may not be mov So Taylor had to take up a position under the animal’s bodyto add the ball, and although he got the shot away, I noticed that he was watc the horse’s hoofs a good deal more closely than the ball as he set about stroke.

The Regina Golf Glub

Well Known Western Course Has the Most Successful Season in 1917 in Its History R. D. MeMillan, the energetic Honourary Secretary-Treasurer of the M. Regina Golf Club (there are two most successful clubs in Regina, the other being the Waseana) writes the ‘‘Canadian Golfer,’’? under the date of December 12th: *‘Speaking generally, | may say that the Regina Golf Club has had its most successful season this year, both financially and as a golf course, Prion to the tournament the course was re-arranged and several new greens opened and the general concensus of opinion was that the course was improved With the exception of four, all the greens have been relaid, and three of the four are expected to be finished during 1918. Outsiders, from the Kast and West have expressed surprise at the condition of the Regina greens; they say there are none such in the West and for their size, I believe this to be true. Our greenman has the secret for mak- ing greens and he has water at every green, so that they are al Ways in condition. For a prairie course it is marvellous. The hummocks have all been flattened out more or less on the fairways and the approaches to the various greens carefully attended to. An- derson, who learned his game in Scotland, is the capable pro of the club. The proper bunkering of the course has practically only started, but in a couple of years time it is fully expected that the course will be fit for any cham- pionship meeting either in this country or the old country. You don’t always get a brassie lie when you wish it, but two or three years play will remedy that o

eee the heavy roller whieh DAT Ayer Angus, the many times President ; of the Regina Golf Club. One great and pleasing fea- P

ture of the Regina Golf Club is th E at every member is proud of his course and

protects it. We are not advertising competitions much during war times. We SS have played the surrounding clubs, su ch as Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and the ee C¢ountry Club and have not sufferec 1 defeat, the past season, though Saskatoon ~ tieé d, Like most other clubs in the West we are fortunate in having a number of players from the land of the heather and they have not left their golf at

e home. For the present our membership is limited to 150 playing members, in

addi ss tion to the officers of the R. N. W. M. P.. who ar all ex-officio members of the club, and in Commissioner Perry, C.M.G., the club has a great friend Wi n

e had several competitions during the past summer for S the Red Cross and e keep alive our interest for the same worthy purpose by putting on entertain N

ments during the winter.’’ SS To our energetic e President. Mr. A. F. Angus. who has occupied — the premiel S POSition almost since the eluh’s inception, and to our Vice-President, Com

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missioner Perry, very much ef the success of our golf club is due. Mr. Ane takes a keen, personal interest in everything that tends to improve the cour Both he and Commissioner Perry are very keen players and ave nearly alwa opposed to each other, whether in a Single, a foursome or a fonr-ball mat So long as they and a numberof other stalwarts continue to take the sa active interest in the workings of the Regina Club. it is hound to be a succ and by that suecess, add to the prestige of the Royal and Ancient in the \W I may say the amateurrecord of the course is 75, held by Mr. Cuthh The Regina Club was started in a sort of a way in 1899 and had its seco birth in 1913. The present sporting 18 hole course was put into commissii in 1916. It has a total length of 6,050 yards. The chairman of the Gr Committee is Mr. C. Willoughby.

The Royal Montreal

Premier Golf Club Holds Successful Annual Meeting

HE Annual Meeting of the Royal Montreal Golf Club was held in Oak Room of the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, on Wednesday evening, | cember 12th and was well attended The President, Mr. W. R. Ba C.V.O.,occupied the chair and the financial report presented by the Seeret: Treasurer, Mr. E. F. Waterhouse, was of the usual most satisfactory charact Owingto the change in the financial year of the club, the statement for the eleven months ended October 81st only The Directors considered it desirable to furnish, for the informatio the members, a comparative statement of the operations of the club fo two periods of twelve months ending November30th, 1916 and November3! 1917. The figures which were included in this statement as representing transactions of the month of November, 1917; were partly actual and pa estimated, but it is believed that they will vary only in a trifling degree \ the accounts for the month are finally made up. The annual subseriptions amounted to the large sum of $15,230, of w! $2,240 was represented by fees from five day members and $630 from visit green fees. In addition the Ladies’ Branch of the club contributed $2,7 The total receipts were $19,289.28. It might be noted that the Royal Mont has a very large waiting list for membership. In viewof the fact, however, that more than 100 club members are no the Front, no ballot for ordinary membership was held during the seasoi The total house receipts amounted to $7,024, with expenditures of $6 Mr. W. R. Baker and Mr. Jas. Hill both retired from the directorat accordance with the Rules of the club and Messrs. W. H. C. Mussen and A Hodgson were elected to replace them. The Directors however in elect President and Captain are not limited to members of their board. This was referred to at the meeting by the Vice-President, Mr. C. E. Neill, and it after hearing very strong expressions of opinion by several members, ba: up by the enthusiastic support of the entire meeting, that they re-elected Baker as President and Mr. Hill as Captain. Both have given such invaluable service to the Premier Golf Clu Canada that the members are to be congratulated upon the fact, that in 1 the important Presidential office and that of the Captainey will agai occupied by Mr. Baker and Mr. Hill. Altogether, the financial and general position of the Royal Montreal most enviable one. Forfifty years nearly now.it has conserved the very interests of the Royal and Ancient on this continent, and is more virile to than ever. Its membership comprises the ‘‘Who’s Who’’ of Montreal Incidentally, it might be mentioned that it was recently decided to | the fee of life members from $1,000 to $2,000. ‘A Father of the Game”

The Passing of Mr. John Taylor, Member of the Royal Montreal Since 1876

Y the death of Mr. John Taylor is largely wrapped up in the history of in Montreal, December 19th last, this grand old golfer and his associates there passed away one ofthe lead As is so well known to readers of the f ing business men of Canada and one ot Canadian Golfer, the Royal Mor , the oldest and possibly the most pro treal Golf Club was founded in 18738 minent golfer in the Dominion and Mr. Taylor was the last link be Mr. Taylor was tween the organi |

born at Ayr, in zers of the oldest b Seotland, March golf elub on the | 18th, 1833, and , continent and pr 4 therefore at the sent day golfers i time of his de- He was contempor : mise, he had well aneous with such i nigh attained the well known early t patriarchal age golfers as W. M ; ‘ of 85 He came Ramsay Alexal { to Canada very der Denistoun j early in life and John G bili H had lived in Mon David Bb. Sidey | treal throughout H. MeDougatll | his long residence Hon. M \lymer ; in this country i. W. Thoma J ; At one time he J. Redpath, J. D } vas a member of Crawford, J Ix } the firm of More Oswald, and mat { and, Watson & others of the Ro Company, which yal Montreal Club |

organized the : a vho ere the hy H Rolling Mills, now ; f thers of the Game 4 part of the Steel i ¢ in this count | Company of Can- [fF j i and who did so ida. He was al f f much to ineuleate | so the founder of AS the love of golf in } the firm of Tay- fo the hearts ol lor and Arnold, . . Canadians.. | } F Limited, general Mr. Taylor’s con i railway supplies, , Ress . nection with the i and his demise —_ 4 Roval Montreal | y took place at the | dates from the " residence of his e CIT Veal 1876 Or 12 |

son-in-law, and The late Mr. John Taylor, who did so much y CALS BEY when H partner, Mr. Thos. for golf in Canada his name appears | Arnold, (a well on the membership i known member of the Royal Montreal list as paying the annual fees of $2.50! ; Golf Club) 4,299 Montrose Avenue Ile was also the Treasurer of the elub | } Westmount. in that year and in 1877 acted as the 1] } But it is perhaps with the game of Secretary \ tf golf, and in the realm of the Royal and Then in 1881, he was elected Captain | i Ancient that the name of the late Mr of Canada’s premier club and from that Li) i John Taylor will be indissolubly asso vear till 1893 fulfilled in a most admit lun @ “lated and will always be remembered, ablé manner the important duties at Hy } hecause the history of golf in Canada tached to the office—a term w hich eon tii ! | 1 4 |; 185 ie| :g }

486 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. III, No stitutes a record in the long historyof tract from minutes communicated the elub. his family recently by the Directors Mr. Taylor also had the honour of the Club: being the first gold medalist of the ‘*The Directors wish to place on record Royal Montreal. He kept up his play- expression of the high esteem in which late Mr. Taylor was held, not only in ing—and he played a capital game— sequence of his long and intimate connect until 1908 or when he was 75 years of with the Club, but having regard to age. Takenill on the links ‘in that personal qualities and the affection whic! yearhestill remainedloyal to the game inspired in all who had the good fortun be associated: intimately with him in he loved so well by watching it keenly capacity.’’ if from the club gallery. He was some In the passing of Mr. Taylor, g LI years ago elected to be one of the few Canada has lost its oldest and on honourary members of the elub. His its most notable and warmest suppo intense interest in the game and loyal- ers; his memorywill long remain a{ ty to his club is indicated by the fact grant one and an inspiration to thi that almost every meeting, and almost who follow in his footsteps to upho every match recorded for many years the very best and loftiest traditions contains his name. the game—a game which he loved The following tribute to the memory well and of which he was such an ho of Mr. Taylor was included in an ex- ourable exponent.

The French Litany of the Trenches OU have two alternatives: Either Either you get slightly hurt or you y you are mobilized or you are not, BADLY hurt. If slightly, you h if not, you have nothing to worry nothing to worry about. about, If badly, you have two alternati\ If you are at the front, you have two Either you recover or you don’t alternatives: Either you are in reserve you recover, you have nothing to wo or you are on the firing line. If you about. If you don’t, and have follo are in reserve you have nothing to my advice clear through, you have d worry about. with worryforever. If you are on thefiringline, you have two alternatives: Either you serap or The nameof the authorof this p! sophy does not appear—perhaps s vou don’t. If you don’t, you have Trench soldier who had acquired nothing to worry about. If you do, you have two alternatives: ‘“‘happy habit’’ first put it into Either you get hurt. or you don’t. If ing. Nevertheless, it is said that t! vou don’t you have nothing to worry sands of fighting Frenchmen k about. it by heart and have madeit 1 If you do, you have two alternatives: philosophy for armylife.—Critiqui

Golf the Goming Game HE popular leaps golf has made eye, as well as steadiness and pati in the last two or three years in which is a great factor in the mak public opinion are shown in one of the high-moneyed ball player. \ way by the engrossing attention it is players and great pitchers consta getting from the great baseball players seeking golf at every opportunity and managers. It is actually cutting game is being taken moreserious! into the national pastime. Where a the ardent admirers of the great few years ago managers sneered at the tional U.S. sport. As has often ! thought of golf, and, in some cases, said, golf takes a firm hold be: actually forbade the players to frequent everyone can at least play ‘‘at the links, many of them nowencourage whereas baseball must be viewe: their players to take up the game, feel- most eases, from the stands, and ing that it gives them a sureness of game for the few, not the many

New Year’s Golf at Atlantic Gity

Four Japanese Brave Zero Weather

R. W. Hastings Webling, Asso- John Katon and his friend, Mr. H. H. M. ciate Editor of the ‘*‘Canadian Williams of Toronto are frequent visi Golfer,’’ and Mr. A. S. Towers, tors. As for the course it is very level Chairman of the Green Committee of but particularly well bunkered and the Brantford Golf and Country Club, trapped and one would probably have spent Xmas and NewYears at Atlantic to keep mighty straight to make any City. Mr. Webling writes, under date kind of a score, of January lst :— So the Jap foursome is the first game ‘Dear Editor: of golf | saw in 1918. Memo, | wonder As this is the first letter of the Ist what the Japanese is for ‘‘Damn it [ will begin by wishing you a very Also, do they ery Flore! Would they happy and prosperous New Year. Ji-Jitsui (or whatever it 1s) a suecess I took the ear out to the Country ful opponent on the last green? Club of Atlantic City, at Northfield These are just little queries for the Links this a.m., not to play, just ob- silly season, so [ll conelude.”’ serve. The sun was bright, but a pene A clipping from the Atlantie paper trating wind straight from the Aretic of December 81st, which accompanied regions, successfully eliminated any the letter, says little idea of golf | may have had However, I wended my way to the club ‘*While the temperature in’ most other sections of the United States made ‘hugging house where I was welcomed by the the-radiator’’ the popular game, golfers among manager and his pleasant young wife, the. visitors here yesterday were enjoying both from England. Clarence Hackney their favorite pastime on the links at North is the well known and popular pro field and Sea View, notwithstanding that it was near zero weather The air was sharp here, whilst George Norrie is his able and bracing, but those who covered the 18 second-in-command. hole courses declared they never enjoyed a In the big open fire, crackled cheer- game more’: and planned enthusiastically for fully a pile of logs, and on the table the matches later in the week latest number of the ‘‘Canadian Golf Harry D. Gibson, President of the Liberty National Bank, and Edward R,. Tinker, Vice er,’’ helped to make me feel at home. President of the Chase National Bank, New The only people on the links, were York, were first among the visitors to show four Japanese from the Legation, Wash the way over the Northfield links Upon their return to the Hotel Travmore yesterday ington, playing a foursome with all afternoon Mr. Tinker received a_ telegram the enthusiasm of the most ardent fol from two of his office assistants wishing him lowers of the game—this with the ther a happy New Year, and postser pted with ‘the thermometer on your desk now registers mometer round zero. How about our onus friend Kipling and his little speil about ‘T would rather have a bit of golf in the ee

the East and the West—what? open down here than to try to «do business S The Northfield Club is one of the at a desk in a temperature like that said most flourishing in America, | should Mr. Tinker. ‘I think | shall stick in Atlantic think with its 500 resident members City for a while yet.’ Another golf party included Mr. and Mrs and its big transient clientele. Many E. F. Mullin, of Detroit, Mich., who went the

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Metropolitan Golf Associat

Turns Over Fund of $58,000 to the Red Cross Special Correspondence “se Canadian Golfer’

forestall any payment of com- Golf Association, raised only $75 [ inissions on the warfundcollected the disposition of the ambulance by the Metropolitan Golf Associa- was about the only high light t10n last Memorial Day, J. B. Coles otherwise dry and uninteresting Tappon, retiring President of the organ- ing. The question of holding ization, at the Annuel Meeting last tournaments in the district next month in New York, advised the dele- got little notice from the delegat: gates to turn over the money to the ofticials. Mr. Tappan, in his sp: Red Cross. His advice was followed did say that if the fixtures wer inmediately, and the Treasurer was or- tored they would be played at the « dered to hand to the Red Cross $58,520 selected last year, which would giv with the stipulation that the money be amateur to Brooklawn, the op: used for the purchase of ambulances, North Shore, and the junior to Ap each machine to be marked with the mis. Richmond Countyhas bid fo1 name of the Metropolitan Golf Associa- junior event, and unless Apavw tion. makes application this tournament This money wasraised by the golfers probably go to the Staten Island co of the local district in a general tourna- There were eighteen clubs repres iment involving sixty-seven clubs out of ed with about fifty delegates in at the eighty-four members of the M. G. A. anee. The Secretary’s report shi Reports showed that twenty-two of the that one club dropped its membe clubs raised enough money to equip at and that two more, the Marine least one machine, which costs $1,600. Field and the Wheatley Hills, wer Sleepy Hollow had the bannercollec- mitted to membership in the ass tion with $5,639.50, with Nassau a close tion during the year, which leav: second with $4,800. Century was third clubs on the roster now. The Tr with $3,459. Others among the leaders er’s report showed a balance of $1 were Apawamis, $1,600; Ardsley, on hand, as against $1,587 last y $2,052 ; Baltusrol, $1,814; Cherry Valley There was no contest against the $1,394.65; Glen Ridge, $1,600; Fairview cers selected by the Nominating $1,643; Garden City, $2,000; Holly- mittee, and they were elected by u wood, $1,600; Inweed, $1,600; Knoll- mous vote. KE. Mortimer Barnes wood, $1,600; Montclair, $2,130.50; was elected Vice-President, asked North Shore, $1,600 ; Richmond County, his namebe left off the list, as | $1,785.50 ; Siwanoy, $1,598.05; Tuxedo, recently been commissioned a Li $1,600; Woodmere, $1,600 and Upper ont in the army, but the delegat« Montelair, $1,652. cided he could hold office, and re} The amount according to Mr. Tappan to erase his name from the list is enough to equip 40 ambulances and nelius J. Sullivan was elected Pres send them to the French front. He add- to succeed J. B. Coles Tappan ed that it was a great tribute to New leaves the chair after two yea! York golfers to raise such an amount, leadership. A. H. Pogson becam: since the clubs of the country , in the Seeretary, and George Barnes wa tournament held by the United States elected Treasurer.

Newsfrom Great Britain

Interesting Items of the Royal and Ancient from Overseas Roehampton Club has given its free- The sum of £200 was raised by a pro dom to Canadian officers. fessional exhibition match at St Anne’s Links. Bombardier Booth, writing from the Front, says: ‘‘ Weare thinking of form- With 85 members serving at the Front ing the First Expeditionary Force Golf the Sideup Club has given £450 to war Club.’’ charities and is in a very sound finan Me eK cial condition Capt. R. W. Crummock, the well known golfer, was married at Oxford The Royal Belfast Golf Club at its the other day to Miss Florence Nora Annual Meeting recorded its sympathy Finn. Capt. Ireland, the University with the Dowager Marchioness of Duf golfer, is to marry Miss Bates, of Bude. ferin (wife of a former popular Gover nor General of Canada) in the loss of The Howley Hill Golf Club, during her son, Lord Basil Blaekwood the past three years ran behind £4382, x OK x but a number of members have sub- The Beckenham Club in Kent, al- seribed £552, so the club financiallyis though many members are on warser in better shape than before the war, and vice, has had a successful year and is the course is to be extended again to free from debt. The club has been 18 holes. complimented by the authoraties in growing 100 tons of hay during the past ‘‘More moneyis spent on golf balls season on the course than is collected in the churches for ; foreign missions,’’ declares the Rev. ©. * OK OF Sharp, of Byfleet, Surrey. Weare sur- The sudden deaths of two well known prised at the remark attributed to Rev. golfers have recently been reported C. Sharp. If it had come from his bro- Mr. A. F. Oakshott, J. P., of Mere Dene ther of the cloth, the Rev. B. Flat, it Biston, a prominent Liverpool merchant would have been more easily under- died while playing on Formbylinks and stood.’’—Sportsman. Mr. ©. Hoare of Kerminsham Lodge x KX near Chelford, a keen golfer, fell dead while pheasant shooting on Capt “Golfing,’’ the well known London Leigh’s estate at Joddrell Park. paper, comes out this Xmas with a splendid edition—quite up to old-time > form. As an indication of the recovery The late Leander Starr Jameson, of the game from the shock of the war known affectionately to most men as it calls attention to the fact that where- ‘‘TDoctor Jim,’’ say ‘‘Golfing,’’ and one as the issue of ‘‘Golfing’’ in the Xmas of the master makers of history, count week of 1914 consisted of 16 pages with ed golf the greatest solace of the silent three pages of advertisements, in Jan years that have intervened since he wary, 1915 the issue had shrunk to 8 made his dramatic dash into the Trans pages with one page of advertisements vaal. He played the game up to the (showing the paralysis of trade.) At end of his days, and one of the writers Xmas, 1915, the issue consisted of 16 in the press tells of meeting him on pages with four pages of advertise- Brampton course, Northampton, a week ments ; in 1916 it inereased to 20 and 8. before his illness, enjoying a quiet he present issue for 1917 has grown to round, looking the shy little man that 44 pages, with 27 pages of advertise- he always seemed to those who knew ments. It is a significant rally, and a not the inner majesty of his mind. Goa happy omen that the gameis gradually give him to sleep serenely in the lap o! coming into its own again. the mighty Matoppos 489

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Mrs. Jillard, the Surrey golfer, is The casualty lists still unfortunat busy on canteen work at the Canadian continue to contain the names of Camp near Godalming. known athletes, many golfers am the number. Capt. G. B. Crole, M.¢ Mr. James Hastings, the new Lord the Royal Flying Corps, who is rep Mayor of Oxford, is Captain of the ed missing, represented Oxford Uni City Golf Club and a keen golfer. sity at golf in 1913 and 1914, as wel gaining his rugby ‘‘blue.’’ In early part of the war Capt. Crole g: Now comes word that Martins of ed a commission in the Dragoon Guai Birmingham have patented a newgolf but transferred to the R.F.C., and ball with weights in the core that will the coveted Military Cross. News is add considerably to the flight. hand that Capt. Iver Elias of the R.] Kc is in hospital recovering from wou The Duke of Devonshire, Governor received in a fight in mid-air. A ca General of Canada, has been re-elected tal golfer, Capt. Elias is the holde: President of the Matlock Golf Club, the Rhymney Valley championship where it is stated, Sunday golf will 1 is also well known in South Wales so future be allowed. eer football circles. Much regret be felt at the news that Mr. H. W. \W Capt. A. G. Barry, M.C., Manchester deler has been killed in action. Regt., who represented both Oxford was a son of Mr. Herbert Windeler and Cambridge Universities at golf and well known American golfer, who won the Amateur Championship in 1905 many friends in this country. Mr is nowaninstructor at Hythe. W. Windeler was a Lieutenant in Grenadier Guards. The Royal Belfast Ladies’ Club, the Lieut. R. S. Pullen, Captain of premier ladies’ club of Ireland, at its Sandwell Golf Club, West Brom annual meeting, reported a consider- has been killed. He was twice able accession of new members, passed tioned in despatches. a satisfactory balance sheet, and re- elected its office bearers. F. H. Frostick, the well known has been gassed and nowis in a Lon Mr. Henry Leech, the well known hospital. golf writer, has discovered that there Lieut. MacAndrewof the Yeoma has been an appreciable increase of! killed a few days ago was agolfe1 democratic golf during the war; new brother of Miss Flora MacAndrew classes of people are being brought into Seottish International. golfer. the game, and in someplaces moregolf Private Lace, professional of than everis being played. Bonen tay ales Langland Bay Club, has been kill: the Front, It was a noticeable fact at the Sun- Capt. T. F. Foster, Durham | ningdale foursome, that Braid, Vardon, Taylor and White all used mashie-nib- Infantry killed in action was a pro licks in their approach work—taking ent Gosforth golfer. turf and pitching the ball high up Others who have fallen are:—L when only 20 yards or so from the Col. Hammond (Ashdown Fo: green. Capt. T. A. Tapp (Walton Heath ‘ uv Lieut James, one Of the Steward That Capt. C. K. Hutchison, of the Royal St. George’s, a fine player Coldstream Guards, the gallant officer figured in the amateur and open ¢! so beloved of golfers, has been liberated pionships. This youngster saw se! after three years’ imprisonment in Ger- in Antwerp, Gallipoli, the Dardan: many is great news indeed. Heis now Salonica and France. and wrot in Switzerland, and we hope he will days before his death: ‘France 1s soon be back in Blighty where a glad one and only place for a man—th welcome waits him. a more exciting game than golf Golf in 1917

U.S. Golfers Have a Most Successful Year

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This was the Western amateur event. and E followed a ruling by the Western body that with surprising ease, but she ope ned anew an golfers who were in the business of selling ancient argument by soundly defeating Jerome handicap S golf goods should not lose their amateur D. Travers in a thirty-six hole standing. match, in which Travers essayed o give her nine strokes in each eighteen ‘In Red Cross exhibition matches played n the vicinity of Boston and New York, ‘In the West Mrs. F. C Lette of Cinein E ove) Onimet was the leader of all golfers. He nati again demonstrated her superiority measured ability with such excellent players the othe women plavyel by again winning 18 Jerom D, Trave forme Natio ama Western Championship. She had to defeat

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Ball In a Hors e’’ s HqToo, f» Mwy ark,

MONTREAL correspondent writes the upkeep of the course? Is said hon part of the greenkeeper? s

the ‘‘Canadian Golfer:’’ e I would like to know if the decisi« ‘*1 note in the December issue of your H lished is your Committee’s interpretat very excellent magazine a decision handed above rule. down by the Rules of Golf Committee of the I am very much interested in this B.C. G. A regarding a ball lying in a horse’s as there is no question but that in the S hoof mark. of the year a great deal of damage Recently I had the pleasure of discussing to our courses due to this cause.’’ the matter with one of the oldest professional] exponents of the game—and nowoneof our In reply to our correspondent leading golf architects-—-his opinion is that ruling given in the Decemberissu the player should have the right to lift a the ‘‘Canadian Golfer.’’ in referen ball in such circumstances and said that he lifting a ball lying in a horse’s | himself would do it after drawing his oppon ent’s attention to the fact. I have questioned mark was the unanimous decision of some of our leading Montreal professionals five members of the Rules of Golf(

who are of the same opinion. mittee. e I would like to draw yourattention to Rule 11, which says: ‘‘a ball maybe lifted Unless there is a local rule to i

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A Gartload of Bad Ones

It was the luck of a choleric Scoteh the round. That is, if you contem| golfer to have for his companion in a the results.’’ stroke competition one day a minister. The other player, who in quiet m The latter was a good sport and paid no ents, acknowledged his, irascib heed to a few damns which were ejacu- agreed that this was a good idea lated byhis fellow player when matters would tryit. were not going well in the rough of The two men did not meet agall

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Royal Montreal Golf Club and Prominent Clubs and Golfers Favor Its Formation

HE idea of forming a Seniors’ which they thought would still furthe: Golf Association in Canada, has cement the bonds between the two al met with the hearty official en- lied countries—if that is at all neces dorsement of the President and Direc- sary because the warm feeling of the tors of the Royal Montreal Golf Club, States towards Canada to-day is really Mr, Frank A. Rolph, President of the most remarkable as the visitors to this Royal Canadian Golf Association and golfing conference can testify other prominent golf clubs and golfers The age limit for the Seniors’ in the throughout Canada. States is 55, but the U. S. representa Mr. Baker, C.V.O., President of the tives at the luncheon agreed that im Royal Montreal, has many warm friends view of the much more restricted golf among the Seniors’ Association in the ing field in Canada, the age limit here United States, and has played in the might very advisedly be placed at 50 notable Seniors’ tournaments, held an In the event of an International mateh nually at Apawamis, Rye, N.Y. and being arranged however, the players realizes what an association of that competing will be restricted to 50 years

character would mean for golf in the or over, Dominion. The entire experience and facilities Recently Mr. Baker was invited to generally of the United States Seniors New York to meet a number of the has been most generously placed at prominent members of the Senior Asso the disposal of golfers here and with ciation there and very kindly invited such invaluable data the formation of the Editor of the ‘‘Canadian Golfer’’ a Seniors’ Association in Canada should to accompany him. be made very plain sailing indeed At what promises to be quite an his All-the United States representatives torical luncheon at the Union League present promised to attend the first Club in that city on Tuesday, January Dominion Tournament if one 1s ar Sth the Canadians had the very great presence will add very pleasure of meeting Mr. Horace lL. ranged and their much indeed to the prestige of such an Hotchkiss,the loveable ‘‘Father’’ of the United States Seniors’ Association event. and Honorary President, Mr. Frank L Mr. Baker, President of the Royal Presbrey, for three years the Chairman Montreal, has left on a trip South and of the Seniors’ Association Tournament on his return steps will be at once in Committee and Mr. S. ©. Welsh, the augurated to meet with the Presidents latter, the hospitable host at the of the leading clubs of the Dominion ee whole pro n luncheon. and discuss thoroughly the ost

m a The United States Seniors were kind ject. Of its value as one of the ness itself in explaining in detail the potent factors in golf in Canada in the e there cannot be the least ques workings of their Association which futur l

tion and if it is launched, golfers here has a membership of 500 of the most n bt of grati prominent men in the United States, will be under a very deep de with a long waiting list. They were tude to Mr. Baker; the Directors of most cordial too in suggesting in view the Royal Montreal and other prominent he pro

of the formation of a Canadian Seniors’ golfers who are ‘‘fathering’’ t S Association, an International match JeCt,

An Only Hope Golfer (desperately looking at his C ball in bunker)--Caddy, what club shall I use?

Caddy—Whynot use ’em all, sir? SS

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Two Well Known Golf Club Houses Destroyed Special correspondence, Mr. Brice S. Evans

T is now Sergeant Francis Ouimet, shooting were reduced to a m Ls he has been appointed Sergeant state. of the Intelligence Corps at Camp Among the golf trophies which Devens. His partner, Jesse Guilford, easy prey to the flames were the P who is the present Massachusetts State dent’s and Secretary’ cups, both champion and was semi-finalist in the manent trophies. Another va last National championship, has passed article that is no more is the ew a his physical and mental tests for the trophy of which Belmont won aviation corps and will in all probabil- last season. This must be won ity be called in a few weeks to some re-_ times to become the permanent pr‘ serve officers’ aviation school. Guil- ty of the successful club. Clubs in ford is considered the longest driving mont, Waterdown and Wincheste) amateurin this country to-day. the annual competitors for this tro The club house of the Belmont Spring Another fire oceurred New \ ‘ Country Club was destroyed by fire on morning when the Dudham Co ri New Years eve, and action will shortly and Polo Club was burned to be taken in relation to erecting a new ground. A temporary golf hous gathering place. Fortunately, Bel- be ereeted which will later on be s mont is gifted with one of the largest ceded by a modern building. and most complete locker buildings in There is a dearth of winter spo 7 the country, which will doubtless be the golf clubs in and around Bost: turned into a temporary club. The fire the shortage of coal has been m« took off much that never can be re- the request of the U. 8. G. A. to placed. For instance, more than the club houses until warmer we 4 $6,000 worth of Daghestan and other sets in. This request has been ‘ imported rugs and oil paintings, a re- most all cases complied with, + Ps markably fine display, went up in where members are livingin the | smoke. Then there was a storeroom hroughout the winter. 4 full of crockery, each piece bearing the Besides Ouimet and Guilford A club seal and coat of arms, all of which in the service, manyofthe lealing was melted down into a mass three feet ers are enrolled in some classifi thick and 15 feet square, and which or other. Paul Tewksbury is wo now resembles a floor of cracked tile. on the newLiberty plant at Squat A beautiful fountain and pool graced’ R. R. Gorton, B. W. Estabrook, R | the centre of the dining room between Pierce, C. M. Armory and G. A the main dining hall and the ballroom. are serving the government. I In the pool were about 50 goldfish and Hornblower is head of the Red ; countless snails, turtles and pretty affairs. All of the above have be / shells. All this is no more. The gun rolled on Lesley Cup teams of f | club was a heavy loser in the way of years. H. P. Farrington is wit ! apparatus and trophies. Two trap Naval reserves. Chris Dunphy, guns worth $200 apiece, 10 trophies Columbo, Nate Hall are enrolled won by the club marksmen and a large many members who arepast dra! number of trophies which had been have enlisted in the Medical 0 purchased in advance for this winter’s special branch of the service

Vocabulary of Vigor ‘Old Brassey keeps up his golf talk all the year around.’’ ‘Why, he plays only from April to November.”’ ‘| know; but he runs a balky furnace from Novemberto April.’’ a

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Well Known Toronto Golf Club Contributes Nearly $4,000 for Patriotic Purposes

HE annual general meetingof the a member of the Board of Governors, his loss Lambton Golf and Country Club, is felt deeply by the whole membership The club has now on active service 53 one of the leading golf clubs of members During the year two of these, the Dominion, was held on December Major T. C. Irving, Jr., and Captain R, A 29th, the Vice-President, Mr. C. H. Brown—after having won repeated promo Willson in the chair, with a large num- tions and honours for bravery in action, have made the supreme sacrifice in their country : ber of members 1n attendance. service The club honours their memory and The annual report was of a most mourns their loss satisfactory character, showing that Throughout the season, in most of the after writing off events that were held, a small fee was charg the sum of $2,800 ed in aid of the elub’s for renewals and Patriotic Fund, by the depreciation, there meaus of which a con was a eredit bal- iderabl um wa re ance of $161.38 as tlized. On October 6th, he Patriotic Day held a result of the past yy the club brought in year’s operations. 1 further sum of about In view of the , 000.00 making a present unset t led otal raised during the eason of about 1800 conditions, and hav- Of thi vmount OVU 1 ing regard to the being used to provide large number of renech comforts for the members now on Lambton membe ut active service at the front #125 has been contributed to the front, this was various patriotic cause considered by the and $3,000 is being ex members a very pended in providing satisfactory show ithletie equipment for the Canadian convales ing and one that re- cent oldier n kng flected much eredi land In this connes on the club manage tion the club is fortun ment. ite in having secured Herewith some the co-operation of the Overseas Military De very interesting ex partment Y M.. 0. A., tracts from the re- vho have kindly con ented to ascertain the port :— The Production cam amount and type of pilgn inaugurated by Mr. C. H. Willson, President of the equipment most requir the elub in the early Lambton Golf and Country Club eq in the several Can part of the season was adian Hospitals--also to carried through with very satisfactory re supervise its distribution on the club’s behalf sults—all the vegetables required for the The experiment of closing the club house club being raised on the grounds and a con- during the winter season having proven satis siderable quantity in addition—more than factory and effected a considerable saving 1n sufficient to defray the cost of seed and the operating expenses, it was decided to further labor. Despite a lessened staff of men it extend the practice this season In conse was also found possible—thanks to the vo quence the dining room service was discon erous help of the members in assistingy to tinued in the early part of November, and, look after the bunkers and fairgreens——to following the Reception and Dance on New maintain the course in good playing condition. Year’s Day, the house will be entirely closed On September 16th the club sustained a during the months of January, February and EY ERY, loss in the death of its esteemed March In spite of the shortage of help, the various Pe mee Brokeeen iat en mee BOND services of the club have been well main tained—due verylargely to the able and effi- staunch Pana’ of tea ee 3 | ie Weye a of the elub’s secretary, e club anc or mMADY years cient management 495

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Mr. Mason, and Mrs. Mason, and of which the Lambton has always been most Board desires to express its hearty apprecia- ‘tunate in having occupants of the P) tion, idential chair of marked ability The satisfactory House Committee Mr. C. H. Willson is a worthy succes report was presented by Mr. A. T. Reid to the notable men who have prec: and that of the Green Committee by him. He is President of the repres: Mr. W. A. Kemp. ative firm of McDonald & Wills In reference to the latter, the Chair- electrical supphes, Toronto and Wi: man was able to report that the river peg, having been connected with bank improvements on the fifth and business since its inception some eighth holes have now been fully com- years ago. pleted andare quite satisfactory. The He has always taken a keen int: work was of a comprehensive character in amateur sports, at one time bh: requiring much thought and the expen- an enthusiastie canoeist and commo diture of many thousands of dollars. of the Toronto Canoe Club. Lik The splendid contribution by Lamb- many other men prominent in fina ton of nearly $4,000 for Patriotie pur- manufacture and commerce, som: poses is beyond all praise. It consti- years ago he took up with the gam tutes a record for the Dominion from golf and joined the Lambton Golf ( the standpoint of golf or any other ama- For the past six years he has bee: teur game. the Board of Governors and his ¢ The election of officers resulted as tion to the Presidency is a well d: follows:—President, Mr.. C. H. Will- ved reward of faithful and cons son ;Governors:—Messrs. C. L. Wisner tious work on behalf of the club an G. M.-Clarke, W. A. Kemp, R. J. Dill- members. worth, H. H. Williams, T. A. Brown, Mr. Willson has taken an active and J. A. Fraser. Captain, Mr. George in Patriotic and Red Cross work. S. Lyon. Vice-Captain, Mr. George L. is a prominent member of the Tor Robinson. Board of Trade and was a memb At a subsequent meeting of the Go- the Council. His business actis venors, Mr. W. A. Kemp was elected are many but he has always found Vice-President. Committees were ap- to keep mentally and physically fi pointed as follows:—Executive Com- a “‘round in the open.’’ Lambtoi mittee— W. A. Kemp, Chairman, C. L, a very strong Board of Governors Wisner, R. J. Dillworth. Green Com- year and the club in its keeping | mittee—C. L. Wisner, Chairman, H. H. sured of a continuance of the prog Williams and the House Committee— and suecess which from its ince; R. J. Dillworth, Chairman, J. A. Fraser, has marked the operations of this George M. Clarke, T. A. Brown. representative elub.

Don’t Show Ghagrin---Grin! “The mud may reach your armpits— (but so it does the Hun!)— Your boots may leak like sewers, while from out them streamlets run— Grin! “The ‘pariah-dogs’ may glitter as they saunter in the sun, Don’t heed them. Grin! And you will find a new life has begun. You’ve stood the test of Service, and the Man in you has won! So grin!”’ January, 1918. CANADIAN GOLFER 497 1918 WinterGolf

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HE elections on December 17th, misses a chance in Ottawa or the T¢ which witnessed such a sweeping phone City to keep mentally and p| victory for Union Government, sically fit by a round onthe links. saw the return of many members of Mr. W. A. Boys ‘‘buried”’ his opp: Parliament who are golfers. ent in South Simeoe under an ay As al] the world knows, Sir Robert anche of votes. He is one of the |y Laird Borden, the Prime Minister, to known athletes in the Dominion whose unremitting, shall we say unre- his younger days he was a tennis cha lenting endeavours’? Union Government pion and still plays, but golf has a was madepossible, is an ardent follow- recently found in him a strong devot: er of the game of games. He and Mr. Cockshutt, by the way, w So also is Sir Thomas White, who regularly to be seen together on { ‘‘finanees’’ in hundreds of millions. Royal Ottawa course last sumi The Honourable Martin Burrell, Se- whilst Parliament, long drawn out, cretary of State, is a most enthusiastic holding the most momentous sittings golfer and a very good golfertoo. its history. “Tis whispered that Other members in the new Cabinet doughty member from Simcoe | whoplay are: the Hon. Dr. Reid, Minis- slightly ‘‘the range’’ of his brothe: ter of Railways; the Hon. Mr. Meighen, Brant. Minister of the Interior; the Hon. Mr. Major Hume Cronyn of ‘‘Lon McLean, Minister without portfolio; Town,’’ in one of the hardest fou; Sir James Loughead, Minister without contests of the whole elections, sco portfolio, and Leaderof the Senate; the a notable victory. The Majorfor m: Hon. ©. ©. Ballantyne, Minister of Cus- years now has been one of the toms; Major General Mewburn, Minis- standing golfers of the well kno ter of Militia, is a memberof the Hamil- London Hunt and Country Club, in | ton Golf Club. was one of its founders. Golf in Mr. H. C. Fripp, K.C., who scored middle West owes a great deal to | such a wonderful victory over Sir Wil- ’ Mr. W. F. Nickle of Kingston frid Laurier in the City of Ottawa, is member of the new Golf and Cow President of the Royal Ottawa Golf Clib, started Jast season in the Li Club and takes a very keen interest in stone City. If in the years to con: its affairs—and there is no more de- plays golf as well as he does the po hightful club in Canada than the Royal cal game (that phrasein its best se! Ottawa. he will be a scratch player without Mr, George Allan, in South Winnipeg peradventure of a doubt. had oneof the biggest majorities of the Lt.-Col. Sam Sharpe lof Uxbii whole campaign—over the 10,000 mark. whoearried the Union flag to a glor He is a very prominent golfer and a victory in North Ontario is a men leading member of the St. Charles of the golf clan too. The Colonel! Country Club. He will worthily re- is overseas, has a D. S. O. to his 1 present Western golf in the House. and has been playing the great ¢: Mr. J. D. Chaplin of St. Catharines, of all and playing it mighty well. who wonout in Lincoln with several In Calgary East, Major D. EK. ki thousand to the goodis one of the old- man had a comfortable little majo est members of the St. Catharines Golf of three or four thousand. The M: Club and has done much for the game plays golf and notwithstanding the in the Garden City. that he came back from ‘‘Overth: Mr. W. F. Cockshutt also dabbled in with a very bad arm, has since ! a majority running into the thousands. playing the beautiful 18 hole cours: He is a valued member of the Brant- the Calgary Golf and Country| ford Golf and Country Club and never and has found the game greatly bh: 498 January, 1918, CANADIAN GOLFER - 499

ficial to the wounded member. That stalled a Municipal golf links returns clinking majority of his ought to com- Mr, W. A. Buchanan, who is the Hon- plete the cure. orary President of the club in that pro Mr. T. M. Tweedie of Calgary West gressive Albertan city. who is also a plus 4,000 majority man, This does not pretend to be a com is too a member of the Calgary Golf plete list of all the golfers in the new and Country Club. Parliament, but it covers perhaps the Mr. F. S. Seott of Waterloo South, principal wielders of ‘‘ wood and iron”? who made his opponent think that the who for the next five years will help original Waterloo was a regular pink preside over the momentous destinies tea proposition in comparison, is a mem- of this important part of Great Britain ber of the Waterloo Golf and Country Beyond the Seas. Club with Galt as its locus in quo, In the Upper House, Senators Lynch Anyone hailing from North Perth Staunton, MeLellan, White and Bar should be a golfer and Mr. H. B. Mor- nard are perhaps the out-standing golf phy, K.C., the memberelect is. The Stratford Golf and Country Club very ing figures. proudly elaims him as a member. A good nueleus here at any vate to Mr. R. F. Green, Kootenay W., is a form quite a formidable Parliamentars British Columbia player. golfing club—following in the footsteps Lethbridge, where they recently in of the Mother of Parhaments.,

Sergeant Ouimet Engaged

UR Boston correspondent writes: Miss Sullivan was graduated from “Announcement has been made of Mount St. Joseph’s and Notre Darm« the engagement of Mr, Francis Academies. She also took a special Ouimet, now a Sergeant in the National course at the New England Conserva- Army at Camp Devens, and Miss Stella tory of Music and is regarded as a Sullivan of Lake St., Brighton, sister musician of ability. Ouimet is a clerk of Ouimet’s golf and business partner, at regimental headquarters at Ayer to John H. Sullivan, jr. No date has been Sergt. Major William Flaherty, but definitely settled for the wedding. hopes soon to be transferred to the Miss Sullivan is a daughter of John Aviation Corps.”’ 1, Sullivan, a wealthy Boston contrae- The ‘Canadian Golfer’? extends tor. The couple have known each other hearty congratulations to the ex-Open for a number of years, Mr. Ouimet and Amateur champion and his fair being a frequent visitor to the Sullivan young bride to be, in which sentiment homestead with Miss Sullivan’s bro golfers in the Dominion will generally ther ever singe school days. join,

‘Doing His Bit” OW many golfers know Mr. counted for by any sporting ability Travis only through his many shown by his boy, but because young triumphs on the links, are aware Travis has elected to play a man’s part that the Garden City wizard has a sou in the present Crisis. that 18 following his father’s footsteps? Last summer Bartlett Travis made ruth to tell, Barlett Travis is several un effort to join the United States Fly stages removed from his father’s pin- ing Corps. Im facet, he made several nacleof skill, but those who have play- efforts, but was turned down, Not to ed with him on the courses around the be beaten, he finally crossed the border Carden City say that his gamehas pos- and joined the Royal Flying Corps of sibilities. Incidentally, it has to be re- Canada. He is now back in the United corded that at the present time there States putting the finishing touches to ‘sO prouder daddy in the world than his training preparatory to going to alter J. Travis, and this is not ac- France.—‘N. Y. Tribune.’’

t Golfer By “ Wooden Putter,” Saskatoon HO’S Who? in your December the Morris’, Anderson and Ferg issue, re-creates in the minds are not contemporaneous with ou of many golfers the question, sent day idols, so we must do away who is really the best golfer the world the thought of ever being able to has ever seen. authoritatively: ‘‘So and so was Of the present day golfers there are best ever.’’ none to deny the Triumvirate their For instance, what right have \ position of pre-eminencein the world of make the assertion that Vardon \ golf to-day, and the figures given in better player than, let us say, yo the article, ‘‘Who’s Who?’’ certainly Tom Morris? show that Braid has got just a shade They lived in a different era, Vai over the others, but who will say that being a baby when Morris died

Braid is a better golfer than Vardon they played over the same cou or vici versa. Vardon is conceded by Consider first that the elubs and } 66% of golfers to be the better man, of the earlier period were vastly and although the general golfing pub- similar—not the neat model of lic may think so, it may be because or lively ball with which wepla: Vardon has been before the public pro- day. It would be a safe bet, fo minently more than the other of the stance to say, 50% of our players to Triumvirate, he having travelled more could not, 6 times out of 10, hit a 2 extensively than Taylor or Braid. from one side of the fairway to I have no hesitation in saying that other if we had an ‘‘analysable’’ opinion of Howare wegoing to get a com those most capable to judge (the pro- son therefore, between Vardon fessional expert player,) leaving per- Young Tom? Take pencil and p: sonality out of the question, we would and we'll try and conneet up the find as many for the one, as for the with the present. other. Vardon, over a period of 19 j Well, I was nearly awayonthe track from first to last championship of personality, but that is outside of gained first honours 6 times the question. , average roundin his winning years To say that either one of the Trium- 76.83; age at last win, 44. Young virate is the best player that ever lived won 4 championships in 4 years, s\ (and it is said daily, mostly by those with the gutty, having an ave uot capable of judging, and without round of 78.25; died, aged 24. mM, ever having seen the players perform, mind, the preceding paragraph but taking figures and news clippings up in a few words, the record oi as authority) is making an assertion who at his best and living to-day, \ not borne out by facets or figures. have transferred the question Who of those who saw the Morris’, ‘“Who’s Who?’’ in the world of Parks’, Bob Ferguson, Jamie Anderson, into the question: ‘‘I wonder who Bob Martin and others of the period be champion when Tom Morris qui in their prime, will say, that they were Vardon, through his 6 champio1 inferior to the present Triumvirate? wins, is generally conceded to be Having seen Old Tom Morris, Pot greatest golfer, so that is why ! Martin and Jamie Anderson only when him and Young Tom in compariso they had for years been out of the this time. Nowlet us again tak: game, I am not in a personul position pencil and figure. to judge the abilities of the players of In the championships, Vardon’s : the two periods, but this [ might say: age round is 78.62, that of Mon the action of the Triumvirate on the 78.25. Over Prestwick, where M: whole. is less sweet than that of the won most of his championships older men, even allowing for sentiment where Vardon has won 3 out of 6, and age. The pity is that the Parks, don has best championship ave 500

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502 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. III, No. 9 score of 75 with a rubber core, Morris, Old Tom, 4; Young Tom, 4; Willi 74.5 with a gutty. Park, sr., 4; Anderson, 3; Ferguson, It may here be noted that Morris’ Strath, Kidd, Park, Martin, 1 each. [: best average has only been beaten in a period equally long—1892—1914, \ the championships 4 times, only once also have 9 champions, Vardon, | at Prestwick, when James Braid made Braid, 5; Taylor, 5; Hilton, 2; Aucht his record score in the championship— lomie, Herd, Massey, White and Ra which is said to be the finest 4 rounds 1 each. of golf that were played consecutively. You say there are more competito! Braid’s average was 72.75, with rubber now-a-day. That I admit, but s a core, 38 years after Morris made his re- we had thirty competitors in the ea cord. days, and an average of 200 at rece : Vardon’s best average with a gutty championships. Allowfor the infusi is 76.75. Just think for a moment. of new blood yearly; take the first Morris left off playing at an age when from year to year and we shall fi Vardonv had just got started to win, that 75% of the 30 wereintheelect and imagine the future of Morris had the preceding year. You say, ‘Ba he lived, as long say, as Vardon! you cannot prove anything that wa Of course we must not lose sight of [ admit we cannot match abilities the fact that the courses are longer players in different periods and un now, but practically all the change has different conditions, so figures are been made to discount the distance nearest solution. And here are s: gained from the tee by the rubber core more figures. Vardon has played ball—and despite the paradox, the 22 championship, won 6, percenta courses are the same, (in a playing not quite 27; Morris played im 4 cha sense.) We must also bear in mind pionship; won 4, percentage 100. that the conditions on courses to-day, The question, perhaps will never are greatly improved to what they were settled definitely, but figure if in the days of Morris, et al, especially Look at the records. Morris never in regard to the upkeep of greens. an arranged match or champions Let us see what we get in looking after reaching his 20th year. Yo back to the period of 1860—1882. [un Tom Morris, to my idea was that period there were 9 champions— Greatest Golfer that ever-lived.”’

The Gue k oo Guckooed R. Harry Leach, the well known in the spring he was playing a | M. British golf writer, English eor- inatch in whieh nothing was } respondent to the ‘* American given away on either side and e) Golfer,’’ tells this one:— thing was depending on the putt A very well known operatic singer, arly in the game a cuckoo, which Mr. Fred Billington, has just died. He parently had its headquarters in + was immensely popular, especially in not-distant trees, began to advertis the provinces, where for a generation self in the customary way, and he has played and sung the leading continually declaring its name \ parts in the Gilbert and Sullivan Mr. Billington was engaged on operas, such as ‘‘The Mikado,’’ ‘‘The most anxious putts. At length Gondoliers,’’ ‘‘The Yeomen of the one of the greens, when he was par! Guard,’’ and so forth. He was a big larly harassed by this disturbance: and heavy man, and among the mea- he was trying to concentrate fo: sures that he adopted continually for stroke, he raised himself for a his health and his enjoyment was golf. He played on many courses, and had ment, looked wearily over the dis friends on all of them, Having a great trees, and said, ‘‘That bird has a | fund of humour, it was inevitable that ned poor repertoire,’’ and then ap} much of it should be evident from himself to the putt again and mis time to time on the links. One time while the cuekoo went cuckooing ©

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Wintry Weather, Too, Has Prevailed at This Well Known Southern Resort Special Correspondence ‘‘Canadian Golfer’ HE Sunny South, the past few season, beating J. D. Armstrong, days. has beenbelittling its name. 1 in a good game. Hurricanes and snow and frost For the qualifying roundof th: have been rampant and a goodold fas- teenth Annual Mid-Winter Toi hioned Northern Xmas has been en- ment, December 28th to January joyed here in Pinehurst and elsewhere. there were 105 entrants and fo

PLAYING GOLF AT PINEHURST : Mr. Frank Gates, winner of the first tournament of the season at Pinehurst

The official opening howeverof the the ‘‘predicters’’ predicted right Pinehurst golfing season—the Annual man Maxwell was generally Carolina tournament—was blessed with upon as the probable low scor a most superb day and a splendid list and he justified the wise-acres of entries. Clarence Hobart, the fam- nexing the medal with a 42 and ous tennis player took the medal im the His last nine was registered in qualifying round after playing off the pionship form. tie with Howard Phillips.. Maxwell continued his w A numberof cracks qualified for the streak all through the tourname first division of the tournament, but eventually won out in the finals here the medal winner was put out the he defeated R. C. Shannon, -of | first round by Franklin H. Gates, who port by one hole in the eighte: eventually won the first event of the final. As in the semi-final he 504 January, 1918. CANADIAN GOLFER 505 the defensive fromthe fifth hole to the Amongst the entries were:—J. D fourteenth. A cold wind made scoring Montgomery, Toronto and Ivan Bosse, difficult. He was out in 45 to his op- Quebee. ponent’s 44, and turned 1 down. Max- well came home in 41 to 43, and only Short Putts finished the match on the eighteenth Nothing daunted during the severe green, where Shannon missed a six foot weather which prevailed recently and putt for a half. The summary :— made a round of the links impossible, First Sixteen — Final — Norman H. the enthusiasts patronized the putting Maxwell, Aronimink, beat R. ©. Shan- greens and C. B. Fownes was the bright non, 2d, Brockport, 1 up. star in negotiating the cup. He had Beaten Hight—Final—V. A. Segger- one record 23 to his eredit.

PLAYING GOLF AT PINEHURST The beautiful 12th hole on No, 1 course. man, Englewood, beat J. D. Armstrong, The Tin Whistlers as usual have Shennecossett, 2 and 1. scheduled a big program of events dur Second Sixteen—Final—L. D. Pierce, ing the season. Every week some com Brae Burn, beat J. W. Baker, Plain- petition has been arranged for, includ field, 4 and 3. ing Meda) play, Match play, Team play Beaten Right—Final—C. F. Lancas- and Swatfest, Flag day, Twoball, Best ter, Woodland, beat G. W. Statzell, ball, Four ball, Against Bogey and Pai Aronimink, 4 and 3. and Lost Ball. A merry crowd arethe s Other Winners—Third Sixteen—F. C. Tin Whistlers and a merry season is Page, Moore County; J. E. Smith, New ahead of them. York City ; Fourth Sixteen—H. J. Frost The first hole in one this season Glen Ridge; E. A. Bailey, El Mora; at Pinehurst has been registered hy Fifth Sixteen—G. A. Magoon, Oakmont; Mr. Deforest Von Canon, the well J. D. GCA. Rumsey,y, I Brooklyn. Speci-iaall—— known banker. He accomplished the J.R. Towle, Calumet. feat at the difficult No. 6.

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Among the guests staying at the and has not missed a season since 1") Corolina from Canada are: Mrs. E. sixteen years ago. Russell Hale and Miss Hale, Ottawa; Mr. Clark took up golf whenhe Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cunningham, of a mere youngster of 70, and he p! Kingston; Mrs. Chas. P. Mullick, St. a better round nowthan he did a do John, New Brunswick; Dr. John Mae- years ago. He did the first nine ho donnell, Toronto; Miss Walsh, Toronto. on the difficult No. 3 course in 46 Perhaps never before in the history ward the end of last season. So of the resort have the hotels been so time ago he completed in 101 consi crowded. This month a large number tive weekdays exactly 100 rounds of Canadian will be here—a big con- eighteen holes each. Most of the tingent as usual coming from Toronto weather that happened during thos ‘Montreal and other golfing centres. particular four months occurred The photograph herewith of the 12th Sundays, when Mr. Clark does not p! hole on the No. 1 course gives an idea and on only two of the 101 weekd: of what it is to play golf under South- was the weather bad enough to | ern skies whilst the Northern Jinks are him downto a nine hole round. mantled with snow. Noe 28335 Walter J. Travis once remarked { yards, but it is a tieklish hole and a he knewof no other golfer of anyw! par 4 is well earned. near Mr. Clark’s years who could p Dwight N. Clark of Woodbridge, eighteen holes, day in and dayout Conn.. dean of the golfing corps of the United States, has arrived here on any considerable number of days, schedule time and is playing daily. Mr. it would be interesting to hear from Clark celebrated his eighty-eighth golf statisticians as to whether birthday at Pinehurst in March last. grand old player’s record, either The veteran golfer’s anniversary din- the course or for continuous play, ner has become quite an event here, as ever been excelled or equalled by he has been an annual visitor since 1898 other golfer of his age.

tGhampio n a Gonvert HE lure of golf has captured in until I took it up seriously,’’ he s turn the followers of every other ‘“It’s the finest game I ever tacl phase of athletie hfe, and I am sorry I didn’t take it Golf has hit the baseball players sooner,’ continued the ex-cham bard. Cap. Anson, Connie Mack, Ty “Tt gives the man the proper exer Cobb and Chief Bender are a few who and J have come to believe that 1 play the game whenever they get a the best outdoor tonic for the t chance, and President Tener and John business man, ‘Tennis is a stren Heydler are golf fans. sport as compared to golf. ““T’m erazy about golf, so muc! But you would hardly expect a prize- fighter to care much for this gentle that I’d play it every day, if I « sport. Yet here is a man who, as the get the time. That’s the funny lightweight champion, was regarded of golf; a man maybe playing it f for years as one of the finest fighters lifetime, when all of a sudden a ! who ever drew on a glove, who says it comer comes along and beats him. | is the best game ever. Frank Erne has been playing golf a little less than six a champion everholds his title in months. Here is what he has to say longer than a few weeks is moret about it:—‘‘T thought golf was a joke I ean understand.”’

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Golf and War in the U.S “Runner-Up” Contributes Some Interesting Items in Connection Therewith ROM every nook and corner Sylvester is at Camp Upton, whil Fitricties the demand that the U. 8. Bellwood, Garden City, is now on Golf Association speedily make a ocean to join the English army. complete list of players engaged in the Willing as the average country war, even if only in indireet or advisory member is to help in the campaigy capacity. The request is becoming as War saving, it will be impossibl: insistant as that of the college class se- close all such buildings according cretaries for every scrap of information this week’s surprising request o! obtainable regarding the war services Fuel Administrator. The price o! of graduates and undergraduates. Golf- and the difficulty of getting it at ers will not rest content with the record figure has already resulted in severa merely of members fromclubs affiliated the smaller organizations putting with the national body. They also their shutters ahead of time, whi want a line on every player in outside few others that of late years | clubs and every man or woman who nominally kept open have already confines themselves to semi-public or up shop until Spring. The snow municipal courses. In short they want severe weather, for ten days past every serap of information about royal put about all links out of commis and ancient devotees whohelpedto roll in unprecedented style for Decem back the Hun tide. Following this However, there are many indicat week’s report that Germans are sur- that the harder part of the season rendering their hair for war needs, add- be over by mid-winter. It would b ed interest comes in the next step— most as reasonable for Dr. Garfie getting their scalp. ask every gymnasiumandathletic More news has been received so far to suspend four months for abou this month regarding prominent play- the bigger, older clubs such as [a ers in the service than in all the other rol, Ardeley, Merion, Huntin time since the war began. In theaerial Valley, Buffalo Country, and Broo are to be noted Dudley Mudge, former have long been year roundhotels, Yale star of St. Paul; Archie McIlwaine swimming pools, barber and _ tail of Hartford, also ex-Yale, and W. Ver- shops and all such facilities. To non Booth of Apawamis, also a colle- them would be to throw regime: gian. In the marine service can be employees out of work, which if « noted Hamilton Kerr and Henry. J. pants were sent elsewhere they \ Topping, both of Connecticut, the for- need just as much coal. mer having been on the same craft with Theoretically, too, it would be a Maxwell Marston until heart weakness thing to have all the commuters’ | compelled the Jerseyman’s retirement. eut off, but imagine the city cong: Major Tom Sherman of Utica was one that would follow. Physical ni of the first to hear the eal], having been ties were rapidly bringing about interested in military affairs many of the ends requested in the admin years. Sam W. Reynolds, Trans-Mis- tive letter, which showed total 1: sissippi champion is in the balloon ance of the subject in hand. W school at Fort Omaha. Oscar Carlson, clubs are near together, they s! Siwanoy, only recently entered the temporarily unite as the church Medical Corps. Brooklyn is represent- being asked to and then divide ed by Devereaux Lord in the army and expenses pro rata. About all the) Hugh J. Donnelly in the navy. Gar- club houses have a series of conn diner White is another Long Islander dining rooms that ean be cut 0 who responded so recently that he has the unit plan, whenever econom) not got beyond Governor’s Island, Com- tates. Scores of the clubs for paratively few of the pros are yet be- living rooms depend for heat 0 yond preliminary action, although Jos. wood eut nearby, which provi 508

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cheerful hearth. Kliminating winter the edge of the Salisbury course has golf isn’t the only visionary scheme just had to be abandoned, because of that has inspired the Fuel Board re- its exposed location, but in all proba cently. Golfers are willing to cut to bility, its successor, next Spring, will the bone, but they object to upsetting be within easy range of the three cour in an afternoon, plans for physical fit- ses in Garden City, not to mention the ness that it took two decades to build Hempstead Club. The semi-public up. course at Bayside, only a few miles dis John Bredemus, golfer and all round tant, is on the through avenue of mili sportsman of New York, who was good tary traffie across Long Island and enough to be graduated into the pro many have expressed the hope that i class about two years ago, first went may be turned over entirely to soldiers. into one of the Bridgeport ammunition Golfers, who for years have struggled factories, but soon found work more to across Hempstead Plains in matches his liking as Athletic Director of Camp amid storm, warned government off) Wheeler, Macon, Ga., which unfortun cials when Camp Mills was established ately is a dozen miles from an adequate last summer, that no tougher location course, the unrestricted use of which could be chosen. There is absolutely has been kindly tendered to the sol nothing to break the wind in that level diers. Accordingly, as at other camps, neighbourhood, for not even the under a few make-shift holes have been laid brush found at Montauk Point can out while a lot of surplus or rejected gain a foothold. clubs and balls have been contributed Camp Lewis, Washington State, 1s by elubs in Hartford, Schenectady, near as many links as Camp Mills, Philadelphia, (Philmont and Merion) among others. As every camp con- there being four within a few miles has been to crowd tains former caddies and home bred The inevitable result professionals, nothing except a little each course with players in khaki, to suitable land nearby is necessary to whom the sport was a closed book up bring the Royal and Ancient to every to a few months ago. Just imagine

military threshhold, the size of the guvC fing ranks when Camp Mills, Long Island, located on ‘Johnny comes marching home,”’

Golf and Gurling Leading Toronto Lawyer Pays a Tribute to Both Games

No nure striking testimony to the men of sedentary habit which were ever benefits of exercise in a competitive devised.) To-day at seventy-eight, I skipped a rink and played a good game If I say so game and jin particular to the advan- who should not? tages of one of Canada’s great winter ‘J ghall, however, speak about curling, pastimes could be offered than the fol- for I find that my brother golfers know lowing from one of the most respected little about it. Most of my fellow golfers in the fall of the year take refuge in their hot members of the Toronto Bar: offices, sitting near hot radiators and letting ‘“‘T am a barrister and solicitor at law, their livers get dormant. About March they Began an extensive practice on the first day want to go South to recover from billious of October 1864, and amstil] at it,—in the headaches. They then realize the truth of same building where I started. Have same the pun that ‘‘whether life is worth living ‘orporation for clients, and they still seem depends on the liver.’ Now, curling would fo want my services. After the first twelve have kept them in good health and saved them or fourteen years of hard work [ was down money, for nothing runs away with money so and out. quickly as bad health This was before 1 played curling or golf, ‘When mén talk to me about it being a My doetor ‘ordered me to Florida for the cold game J tell them that on the contraryit Winter, Instead of going, J reduced my work is a hot game, Let a man play two and a and Tenewed my boyhood acquaintance with hours putting up from 24 to 32 stones weigh skating, and learned at forty-five the game ing from 40 to 50 pounds each, with the in of curling, and afterwards the game of golf tervening sweeping, and he will find himeelf (two of the finest health giving games for hot enough—he won’t want any ‘liver pills.’ 7’

War Draws Golf Seniors Gloser (New York Herald, January 16) NE eftect of the war will be to H. Reville, editor of the ‘“‘Cana O draw closer together the sports- Golfer,’’ came on to NewYorkcity { men of the United States and a conference with Darwin P. Kings Canada. Already the entente cordiale Horace L. Hotehkiss and Frank P) is beginning to manifast itself in the brey, of the Seniors’ Golf Associat realm of golf and among the first of the United States. things that linksmen ean Jook for with Because of the relatively small 1 the dawn of peace is an international ber of clubs in Canadait is propo natch between the senior players on to make the minimumagein the Cai both sides of the border. dian Association, fifty years, instead It appears that the popularity of the fifty-five years, as it is in this count seniors’ golf tournaments held in the United States, and particularly that It is expected that the Canadianorg held each year at Apawamis, has been ization will be perfected in time to hold noted by the veterans of the Royal and the first seniors’ tournament di Ancient game in the Dominion. This the coming summer. Although it led to the desire to form a similaraf- decided that it would be a desi) fair in Canada, and with this in view, thing to hold an international mat: W. R. Baker, C.V.O., President of the each year between the two associati: Royal Golf Club, Montreal, and Ralph the details were left to a later dat ‘‘Win the Game at the 1Sth”’ “If Necessary,” Says Ex-President Taft, Speaking of Sport and the War DESPATCH from New York, on field are of incalculable value to A samary 3rd, says:—‘‘To the long nation in time of stress, and shoul! list of names of influential men ceive the greatest possible encom who strongly advocate continuance of ment,’’ said the former President sport in war time must now be added Addressing himself to the dey that of Wiliam Howard Taft, former of Seotland’s ancient game, Mr President of the United States, who in said :—‘A man who plays golf ai a New Yeargreeting last night paid a joys it must have a love for fre high tribute to the men and institutions and a spirit of independence. that are fostering a love of clean sport persona] traits prompt one to pla among the youth of the nation.’’ game to the end. That is wha ‘Muscle-building, discipline and all must do in this war. Wemustfig the other qualities that are developed through to victory and win the in the gymnasium and on the athletic at the eighteenth hole if it be neces

New Montreal Glub MONTREAL correspondent writes Railways. The first nine holes « in reference to the new courseat got into shape veryeasily as the g By itere of which James A. is practically all clear now. But Black, the well known pro of Beacons- will have to be an awful hew! field, is the architect: ‘‘It is to be an timber for the next nine. eighteen hole course of about champion- The club intend putting up a ship length, taking in about 150 acres of class club house close to the wat: ground. It is about 10 minutes from having a beautiful sandy beach St. Annes de Bellevue station, and of arrange for boating, ete., making course on the Island of Montreal, which regular country club. The locat therefore makes it a city course, being ideal and the prospects are for « only half an hour’s run from Montreal, sueecessful club. Black is very e! with an excellent train service both by iastic about the new course ali Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific siders it has great possibilities 510 In and Round the Glub House

Interesting Happenings in Canada, Great Britain and United States |

Mr. C. B. Robinson of Paris, a well favorites, Mr. MeClure beating Myr known golfer, has been re-elected by Reekie, and Mr. Forrest accounting for acclamation, Mayor of the town. Mr. Maxwell. In the final Mr. Forrest © © beat his club-mate, Mr. MeClure, by 4 Mr. H. H. Williams, who was recently and 3. appointed a director of the Dominion © @ © Bank, is a most enthusiastic golfer. He Mr. W. M. Stuart, assistant manag is one of Toronto’s leading financial ing Editor ‘‘Star,’’ Montreal: ‘‘May men. [ congratulate you on the appearance © & © of yourlast number? It contains more The military Cross has been awarded interesting ‘‘dope”’ than | have seen to Major Harold C. Gould, who went in a long time.’’ overseas with the 116th Battalion. He o® Oo © is a brother of EK. ©. Gould, formerly It was the MeCreery Cup in the Lad star of the Midland Hockey Team (now ies’ Singles, that Mrs. Bayard Staples a golfer of great promise) and Presi- won in 1916 and Mrs. I. W. Green in dent of the Canadian Association of 1917 at the Cranbrook Golf Club, Cran Bill Posters. Major Gould is himself a brook, B. C., not the Johnson, Cup in golfer, having taken up the game when the Ladies’ Championship as published in the West. in the Decemberissue. © © ® © Mr. J. R. Harrison, manager of the And here is a belated ‘‘one-shotter,’ Bank of Commerce, Parrsboro, N.S., through an oversight not sent in before formerly well known in Ontario writes: Dr. BE. A. Wessels of Toronto, playing “Well the clubs are up in the attie over the Weston course on October 17th along with the fishing rods and other with Mr. John Medland, wholesale gro gear, and the car is stowed away in cer, Front Street, Toronto and Mr, C. the garage. There is about 3 feet of P. Sargeant, Cunard Line, King Hd snow in the woods, so the ‘‘Canadian ward Hotel, Toronto, made the 7th hole Golfer”? is very welcome these days, in one. The editor has much pleasure though as I havesaid before it is more in rewarding the doetor’s prowess with or less of an aggravation toseeall the a year’s subscription to the ‘‘ Canadian pictures of golf links and players and Golfer.’’ This makes a total of thir clubs and not be able to get into the teen ‘‘ Holes in One’’ in Canada during game. The nearest links from here are the season of 1917 Amherest—40 miles away.’’ © @@ ® © © The Editor acknowledges with many Mr. W. M. Reekie, the former Lamb- thanks Xmas and New Year cards from ton and Rochester player, who is now golfers from all parts of Great Britain, in New York with the well known bond the States and the Dominion—no ecard house of Bronbright & Co., at the an- more appreciated perhaps, than on aval fall tournament of the Country from Tan Maeheth, Droughty Castle, Club of Lakewood, N.J., with a 39, 37 Droughty Ferry, Scotland. He will be —16, was second in the qualifying remembered by many golfers in Ontario round to Mr. Norman H. Maxwell, the and especially by members of the old brilliant young golfer who is going Lake Shore League in Buffalo and Ro Sreat guns at Pinehurst and who not- chester, as a sterling young Seottish ched a 74, The semi-final narrowed player with a charming personality. He down to Mr. Reekie, who was paired resigned from the Bank of Commerce against Mr, A. J. McClure and Mr. Max- some six years ago and returned to well, who had as his opponent Mr. H. Aberdeen, where his family were pro M. Forrest of the home club. Both minent. And nowheis Major Macheth matehes resulted in the downfall of the of the Royal Garrison Artillery. p 511 512 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. III, N

Mr. Robert A. Gardner, former Ama- is confident it has solved the prob! teur U. §S. Champion, is now First It will be a great boom to Sout! Lieutenant of field artillery in the courses if the sand green canbe eli United States Army. nated. oo Oo © © © Mr. C. A. Bogart, General Manager Mr. W. R. Baker’ C.V.0., Presid of the Dominion Bank, has beenelected f the Toroneds Hoard: ofr ns Royal Montreal Golf Club ; Prdeidehts o Mrs. Baker are spending the winte: Trade. Mr. Bogart is a 5memberof the the S1outh. Toronto Golf Club and is a very good OO 36 player indeed . ; ¢ ¢ © Donald Edwards, medalist in Says a despatch from Saskatoon of Western Amateur Championship a well known Western golfer :—‘‘ Word Midlothian, last July, is now in kha has been received that Lieut. J. Patrick at Camp Grant and has gained eight McKenzie, of Saskatoon, has been pounds in weight. awarded the Military Cross for con- © ¢ spicuous bravery in forwarding des- The Hon. W. J. Hanna and Mrs patches at the front. Lieut. McKenzie Hanna gave a dinner at the York Clu! enlisted in Saskatoon with the Cana- on December 12th, as a farewell to \ dian Engineers, and while in England Teagle, who has been made President was transferred to the Imperial army.”’ of the Standard Oi) Co., and Mrs © > © Teagle, who have left for New \ Whilst in New York recently the As- for the winter. sociate Editor of the ‘‘Canadian Golf- © o> © er’’ had the very great pleasure of meeting Capt. J. A. Robertson Durham, The marriage took place in Galt Captain of the Oxford golf team in December 27th at the home of 1908. He is in New York in connec- bride’s uncle, Mr. J. N. Mackend tion with the British Recruiting Mis- (Hon. Seeretary of the Waterloo sion there. Capt. Durham was gassed and Country Club) of Miss Marg at the Somme. He is a veryfine golfer Jean Brayley, to Capt. Gordon A indeed—a plus four manat Gillan. He Larty of Toronto, recently M played for Oxford against Cambridge officer of the 8th Royal West Ki 1906—1909 and for Scotland in 1911. oe © Capt. Durham is doing splendid re- The marriage took place on Ja cruiting work in New York. 12th, in Cleveland, of Mr. H. B v ’ of that city to Miss Mirian Ev: David L. Black, professional of the Cleveland. Mr. Rose was until Rivermead Golf Club, Ottawa, who for recently, a resident of Canada some seasons now, during the winter, member of the Brantford Go has had charge of the professional work Country Club. Golfing friends | at the Victoria Country Club, Riverside, tario will extend heartiest co: California, writes: ‘‘ Will you kindly lations. forward the ‘‘Canadian Golfer’’ to me @@@ here, as | miss very much the Canadian golfing news whilst down here. The Kerrobert, Saskatchewan (rat weatherhere has been just like summer euphonious name that, probably for the past six weeks, and the golfer after Robert Kerr,) is the latest can enjoy the Royal and Ancient game date for golfing honours. Last at any of the courses in ideal summer the people of the town which n weather.’’ The new Victoria course, about 1,000, decided to get 1 by the way expects this month to have game. Much enthusiasm was ( no less than 15 grass greens in commis- ed and the coming year a nin sion. California golf clubs have spent course will be ready for play. tens of thousands of dollars trying to vogue of the golf game in thi get grass greens and the Victoria Club is really most remarkable. January, 1918. CANADIAN GOLFER 513

From present indications there will TIN be quite a number of changes in the Coe z NOT appointments of professionals the com- ing season. he eo © 9% The Professional Golfers’ Association has sent $1,000 to Halifax for relief work. This is part of the amount re- alized by the pros last summer from a number of patriotic tournaments. © © © Sir W. J. Gage, who was in the New Year’s Knighthood honours, is a mem- ber of the Lambton Golf Club. He has given very large sums for the combat- HOTEL LENOX ing of tuberculosis and no one on the North Street at Delaware Avenue King’s list was more worthy of recog- BUFFALO, N. Y. A modern, fireproof and distinctive hote) nition. of 250 all outside rooms. Ideally jsocated 2 © Hxcels in equipment, cuisine and service Operated on the European Plan with the Mr. Charles L. Millar, the well known following rates: golfing goods agent, owing to increas- Room with privilege of bath $1.50 per day Room with private bath $2.00 - up ing business, has taken largeroffices in Two rooms with private bath $4.00 to aD the Mappin Building, Victoria Street, May we Send With our Compliments a Montreal, just off St. Catherines Street. “Guide of Buffalo and Ningnra I'alls?" Take Blmwood Ave. Car to North Street, or He intends the coming season to carry Write for Special Taxicab Arrangement there a full supplyof bags, clubs, balls, “Far from a Big City’s Noise, hats, jackets, ete., for his rapidly in- Close to a Big City’s Business” C. A. MINER, Managing Director creasing golf clientele throughout the Dominion. © > Mr. F. P. Betts, K. C., London in re- The ‘‘Canadian Golfer’’ has to thank newing subseription for 1918: ‘‘Glad Mr. Arthur R. M. Boulton, President to see your magazine continuingto hold of the old Quebee Club for a most ar- its own well in the literary-sporting tistie calendar, protraying the beauti- world.’’ ful Montmoreney Rivers and Falls, © o @ taken from the 11th tee of the Quebec Golf Club. The new Quebec 18 hole Mr. Brice 8S. Evans of Boston, run course, it may be noted is perhaps the ner-up for the Canadian Amateur nost historic and picturesque on the Championship, when last played in continent—as befitting the second old- 1914, has been spending New Year’s est club on the continent. in Ottawa, where he has relatives and o® 9 © is well known. o > @ Mr. H,. H. Woods, Editor of the “Calgary Herald,’’ and President of Lawn tennis will come into its own the Canadian Press Association was the next season. This was forecasted at the “man behind the Publicity Guns,’’ in annual meeting of the United States the big Victory Loan campaign last National Lawn Tennis Association, on month. Mr, Woods came to Toronto December 6th. The committee voted and made that city his headquarters unanimously to restore all champion for several weeks. Heis a well known ships and all other pre-war conditions memberof the Calgary Golf and Coun- governing the sport. Its action meets try Club. He has comein forall sorts with the approval of President Wilson of well deserved praise for the manner and Secretary of War Baker, and its mn which the Loan was advertised recommendations will undoubtedly be through the newspapers and magazines. ratified at the annual convention of the Yn the boardings and a hundred and association, which will he held in one other ways. February.

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Stymies are being played at Pine- (G.B.E.) and Knights Command hurst this season as usual, and as usual (K.B.E.) Both these classes are | a number of them are being recorded titled to prefix to their names ‘‘Si: in the various events. An excellent © Oo & test anyway, of temper and skill. The fine club house of the Lakewoo © > © Country Club, N.J. was completely des Grantland Rice, that most graceful troyed by fire on December 29th. Fo: of all golf writers, who enlisted in the tunately some part of the valuable fu 115th U. 8. Field Artillery in December niture was saved. Theloss totals about as a private, has already advancedto a $100,000. second heutenaney — which is pretty ©. o % nearly a record for the military course The marriage took place in Hamilto: one would imagine. on January 9th of Mr. Richard Ro oo O Harris, a well known Pittsburg manu James Milligan, formerly professional facturer and golfer, to Miss Christina at the Wyoming Valley Country Club [sabella Bowlby. Manyfriends alik: at Wilkes Barre, Penn, who went over Canada and the United States will « a year ago to Scotland and enlisted tend hearty congratulations. with the Royal Scots, has been killed © © © in action. He is the last of four bro- James Gray, the professional of Si thers to give their lives for King and Andrews Golf Club, Calgary, writes Country. He came to the States some **T had a nice game on NewYear's ten years ago from North Berwick. Day at St. Andrews Golf Links, so A ®2 © © berta is well named ‘“‘Sunny Albert The Halifax Cup, donated in 1873 Also very interesting round on Ja for competition, and which has since ary 6th with Mr. George Ross, on become the chief trophy in the cricket- Calgary’s most prominent lawyers ing world on this continent, is mainly don’t think there was a pound ofsi responsible for a fund of $4,100 raised on all the course.’’ We poor snow among the cricketers of Philadelphia ice bound mortals in Ontario and () for the relief of sufferers by the Halifax hee et al, are certainly most en) disaster. The money was on December of Calgarians. 17th, telegraphed to the Canadian Bank © © & of Commerce at Halifax, with the ex, H. W. Eve, professional of the | planation that it came from players who don Hunt and Country Club fo had contested in Halifax Cup matches. past five years, has been offered © © © accepted the position of profession: Appointments were on January 9th the Victoria Golf Club, Victoria, |! gazetted in connection with the new one of the most important golf posi! orderof the British Empire, and among in Canada. He reports for duty the Canadians honoured, is Mr. Frank ruary Ist. Eve learned his gan Baillie of the Aeroplane Factory, Tor- England and is an excellent p! onto, for many years now numbered and instructor. The Victoria clu! amongst Toronto’s well knowngolfers. not only a large membership, but Sir Frank, who in 1916 turned overto beautiful sea-side course at Oak |} the Government $758,000 profits from one of the very few in the Domin the manufacture of munitions, is the is played over during the year b) first Torontonian to receive the Knight- dreds of visitors from all pa! hood of the Order, and the second Can- Canada and the States, in additio adian, as Sir Charles Gordon of Mon- the large number of tourists treal was thefirst to receive the decora- Australia and Great Britain. The + tion. The Order of the British Empire fees at Oak Bay are the large- was only instituted in June last. It Canada, aggregating several thio consists of five classes and is awarded dollars a year. The President 0 to both men and women for services Victoria elub is His Honour, ! rendered to the Empire. The first two Barnard, Lt.-Governor of Britis! classes for men are Knight Grand Cross Iumbia,

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Mr. A. N. Jorsted; Vice-President of since which time he has rendered cou the Montreal Ski Club, whoseinterest- siderable public service. His work has ing article on the sport appeared in the been especially valuable on the Board December issue, has received a cable- of Directors of the Western University, gram to report to the Norwegian Lega- of which he is Chairman, and also as tion in London and is leaving this Chairman of the Board of Health and month for the Metropolis. He will he the Institute of Publie Health. London much missed in Montreal sporting could not possibly have chosen a more circles. _ able Chief Executive. o® © © ® © © The photo on page 504 of the winner of the first tournament of the season Major Melville Hart of the Fourth at Pinehurst, is by the International Canadian Mounted Rifles, son of Mr. Film Service of New York. Mr. Gates, S. R. Hart, formerly President of the the winner who is standing at the 18th Lambton elub, is at home in Toronto teeing box, it might be mentioned, is on leave. Major Hart has been award the son of Mr. Frederick T. Gates of ed a bar to the Military Medal for his the Rockefeller Board and is the owner enterprise and gallant conduct in or of a large ranch near Pinehurst. Mr. ganizing and leading the men who took Clarence Hobart, the famous Tennis part in the successful assault on Belle champion, is the player driving off. vue Spur. The Fourth Mounted Rifles on that, day lost manyfine fellows, but © © © they won a great success, Mr. C. R. Somerville, who was elected Mayor of Londonby a majority of 822, ¢ > is a very enthusiastic golfer indeed Mr. W. J. Orr, Manager of the Bank one of the leading members of the Lon- of Commerce at Provost, Alberta, who don Hunt and Country Club. He is a learned his game in Scotland, was a suecessful business man in whomevery- visitor to Ontario in January, where hody has the greatest confidence, Prom- he was formerly a very well known inent business men of both parties got figure on the golf courses. His one together a couple of weeks before the regret is that he is stationed in a place election and decided to urge him to be a far from the call of Fore! although sandidate. He did not seek the nomin- he tells of an Englishman, an enthusias ation in the slightest degree, but he tic golfer, who on his farm some miles generously responded to his strong away, has installed three or four primi sense of citizenship and consented tive holes and daily keeps in form by Coming to Londonforty years ago. Mr. taking a swat at the wee bit gutta. Last Somerville became a member of the autumn he invited Mr, Orr over for a office staff of the McCormick Company. little practice and the local paper of Subsequently he started a box factory Provost announced the fact in advance and other industries of importance and as a ‘‘fortheoming great International several years ago was able to retire, golf match, Seotland vs. England!”’

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advs. under this heading, 3c. per word per insertion ; 20 words 50c. Cash must accompany an) mens 2 Mae Bae WANTED—ByBrantford Golf and C WANTED—By club in Nova Scotia (well Club for season of 1918, a first elass ; known summer resort) a young professional sional and superintendent of golf —one who will also give part of his time to Also a man and wife, the latter to WN looking after the course. Apply P. O. Box Stewardess. On= ly applicants of exp: i : ans ; as : , need apply. C. G. Ellis, Hon. Sec Hl se) cae of>\Canadinp., Golfer, Branttord,: Bran thord, Golf and Country Club, care } a Ontario. Ellis Co., Brantford, Ontario. ean Stata 7 ; HH Principal Contents for January, 1918 iN Editorial—Many Golfers in New Parliament; The War and Amateur Sporting Events 46 Chip SROtg rie. jkbicc icc cee los aie asdaole ueiatale Pale REST R TT eRA MET gal Kare dye. 6 16 History ol; Goltatire Glance ritce hiirdsnaa goa ata tele ticleey pits oie ne 8 Waste lots OE AON ane te Those. ® 16 POGUEMON AGS O1T CRMLES ies at ca sieceaie tie ot eee reece 8 bs ier eb rer cie Jota in/aip aversilosi Piers # cae sterete: s BY CHIP SHOT 1) POMC BEPAAITOVINE Son Sie Aho iso Mca ca LESS eel hen late goa cat en Pea ee TIN Catal rnp HARRY VARDON 15 The Regina Golf Club ...... :..°.. > : Annual «Meeting. Royal.) Dlontrem) ccc) he ins aon eieteccsation tele lore einveyeepeielai = “A Father of the Game’—the late Mr. John Taylor. Canadian Seniors’ Golf Association Notes from New England ...... RE Chae Aion en aoeRICE 8. 0 VANS Lambton’s Annual Meeting ...... A BION acta ren TaN crar ek ote aerate priaterhiolote s eke leistp.e Golfing Parliamentarians ...... PA Laitawenes cca beat eh ee ali oles ete shat htel MaleeNN SOMTO start THE EDITOR } Phe Greatest’ GOMer soi. tb es sheets igo so iae Dart ee til ie te eee tit “WOODEN PUTTER”5 Goll at? Pinehuret, 25 xi: d pee eek oe z as Dee Trea ciaiviee io a's + 5 Golf and War in the United States “RUNNER-UP” 5 Bonnd, Club® Mouse: 2.55022 ae. 51 The Golfer's Galankar JANUARY 21—Pinehurst. Tin Whistle Anniversa! 28 to Feb. 1—Palm Beach. Lake Worth Tournament. Tournament, MARCH 28 to Feb. 1—Ormond Beach Tournament, 4 to 9—Pinehurst, Spring Tournamen! 28 to Feb. 2—Pinehurst, St. Valentine’s 11 to 15—Palm Beach. Championship Tournament. Palm Beach, FEBRUARY 23 to 28— Pinehurst. United North 4 5 to 8—Pinehurst. St. Valentine’s Tourn- South Championship for Wow ament for Women. 29 to 30—Pinehurst United North 4 11 to 15—Palm Beach. South Florida South Open Championship Championship, APRIL 18 to 22—Ormond Beach. Middle Florida 1 to 6—Pinehurst. United North a! Tournament. South Amateur Championship 18 to 22—Palm Beach. Women’s Champion- 16 to 20—Pinehurst. Mid-Apri) Tour ship. ment.