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VOL. XXXIV JANUARY, 191 t No. 1

IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICAN GOLF

BY HARRY VARDON

HAVE been asked to give a few was good policy. Of course people will impressions of my visit to Amer- say it was the same for one as the ica after thirteen years, and I do other, but it was not the case, as per- so with the greatest pleasure. haps by a poor shot you happen to The first day we were rushed off get the easy side of the hole and by a the boat to Philadelphia to play a match good shot you are left with an impos- at Whitemarsh, and I will say we sible putt. The hole should be, for three were treated splendidly; in fact we yards all around, as easy for one as the were sorry to leave, as they have other, whichever side it is his fortune a very fine course. From there to be, because, you cannot playing up we went to Shawnee, where we had to a hole know which way your ball is a very interesting match, and then going to kick. What I have said about to Cleveland, a fairly long jour- the holes does not mean we should or ney for us, and the fact was that every- would have won if placed in different where we went we received the same places; in fact, we might have hospitality. As this article is to be been farther down the list. a certain length it is impossible to deal When I went out for my last round I with everything we saw or did, as it felt I could beat my morning round, but would take a book to do it, and besides, I began having awful trouble on the I cannot mention all the courses or kind greens and when I heard what Ray had people we met as I have to get on to finished I did not think he would be in something more interesting to the read- the first four, but they told me nobody ers. After Cleveland we played on one had beaten him as yet. That was the or two other courses from which we were only time I began to putt well, but the making our way to the "battlefield," if tie was to come. We did not see young I may call it such, and I am sure the Ouimet play the thirteenth hole but we championship of 1913 will long remain saw him coming to the fourteenth, and in the minds of the people who saw it. the chances lost and taken, and the from there on we followed and saw a final day. But before going further wonderful control of nerves; in fact, in I should like to congratulate the mem- all the shots which he made he only bers of the Brookline Country Club on played one bad one, and that was going the way they handled the crowd. It was to the fifteenth green, where he hit the splendid, indeed; Mr. Windeler was a ball very near the socket of the club on host in himself, and besides, there were his second, but having no hazard to catch other men who also did great work, such a shot he was safe. From there on but I do not remember their names; in he played the game of his life; in fact, fact the only fault I found was the plac- if he lives to be a hundred, to him that ing of the holes. I did not think it championship will be his most wonderful game. I must say in G. Sargent he had

Copyright, 1914, by CLIFFORD T,. TURNER. All rights reserved. IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICAN GOLF a helpmate. Ordinary spectators do not sure if ever lie makes up his mind to notice things like that, but I saw him come across the ocean lie will get a very putt two or three times first so as to hearty welcome. I sliall be very pleased give him the run of the greens. I call to have another tussle with this young that an ideal partner to have in a criti- gentleman, and if lie wins—well—we cal part of the game. What I noticed sliall again give him his due reward. particularly was at the seventeenth, In finishing my article I want to talk when I saw Sargent go up and say: to tlie golfing public; that is, the spec- "I will putt first," and that is where tators. They have lots to learn. A Mr. Ouimet made his long putt. He irolfer. whoever lie may be, comes to

Harry Yardon and Edward Ray, playing at Asheville, N. C. played like a golfer with no nerves at you or to us; he wants to give you his all, simply played his own game and at best, but in America you will not allow that he did splendidly. The only re- golfers to do that. This is not for gret I have, I never for one moment Brookline. but at most courses where I thought my ball at the seventeenth had played it did not matter how the golfer kicked back into the bunker, which it got there, as long as they did. You did, as I was told afterwards; the fact would very often see real good shots, was I thought I was yards over hug- in fact, marvelous shots, played, and ging the corner. I tried to recover not even get a cheer, although a rotten that one shot which I needed but in- shot which got near the hole was cheered stead of that I dropped two others. up and down for moments at a time. Then it was all over unless Mr. Oui- It is a pity that the people in charge met's ran away and left him do not manage things better. The best without any clubs to play with. He crowd we played to was at , is a verv fine golfer, indeed, and I am B. C. Xot a cheer was given until after

\ COL USE CO NS TRI C 770 A' the match, even though I had tied the that it would be difficult to mention record, each round being 68. They them all; but I will say this, that un- were quite as keen as any other crowd less your courses are better bunkered but were simply not allowed to do so, you will not make the players you really which only shows that they can be want. They have no chance to im- really managed if taken in charge; prove. I want to thank both amateurs nevertheless, I had a very pleasant trip and professionals for the kind way they and enjoyed myself very much, met treated us, especially and heaps of good players, in fact so many Mr. Alex Findlav.

COURSE CONSTRUCTION

BY HORACE HUTCHIXSOX

HE first act clear, the last act fied by the needs of score play rather short and "de I'esprit partout"— than of the match, for it has seemed to Tthat is the recipe for play-writing given be a cruel thing that the man who has by one who himself was a past-master done well to thus near the finish should playwright. It is not possible to write be given too fearsome a task when the a recipe quite as briefly and pointedly very goal is reached. At the same time as this for the making of a golf course, it is to be admitted that in many cases because, for one thing, that is a play the comparative absence of hazard at of eighteen acts; but something in an the last hole is due to local circum- analogous way may be attempted. The stance as much as any higher motive, first two holes fairly plain and tolerably seeing that it will be situated near the long, your last hole but one a tester, comparatively civilized country in the and no hole on the course without its neighborhood of the club-house and will zest—that, or something like that, is have left the wilderness and the bunker the ideal bill of the play and that which behind it. And as for that zest and the best traditions consecrate. The interest, which are the equivalent of particular virtues which such an ideal the sprightly wit which that much ex- disposition of a course expresses are acting master playwright demanded fairly obvious. You want your first should be everywhere, it is, beyond all two holes to give you tolerably plain question the bounden duty of the course sailing, and not to be too short, in order constructor to see to it that he gives to allow your people, who are hustling us of that sauce piquante as liberally to get off on a crowded green, a chance as the nature of his materials—that is of going clear away from the parties to say. of the ground which he has to behind. You want your last but one hole, the seventeenth, to afford a shrewd deal with—will permit. test, because it then gives a chance to Of all the qualities which our course the man who is 1 down and 2 to play constructors, by their experienced in- in a close fought match of making it genuity, infuse into those inland greens which owe more to their artifice and less all square if his own play is perfect and T if that of his enemy at all fails of per- to the hand of X ature than the links by fection. Tradition appears to sanction the seaside, the one which they most a last hole without any special feature. often fail to give us in its due propor- It is a principle, perhaps, which is justi- tion is just this very sauce of varied interest. Each works too much to a COURSE CONSTRUCTION

type which he has evolved by much nbly varied thing. It would be need- study and is apt to repeat himself in ful, before starting the rival makers of his mode of treating the ground, bunk- holes upon their work, to map out a ering and gradienting the greens. So general plan of these, with their ap- much is this the case that I believe if proximate lengths; otherwise the con- a golfer of experience landed from an clusion would be like a coat of many aeroplane on any inland course unknown colors, maybe, but like a very indif- to him, and it happened to be the handi- ferently fitting one—long and short in work of Mr. Colt, Mr. Fowler or Willie the wrong places. It is to be admitted Park, he would be able to tell at once that this suggestion of employing vari-

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who the author was. Each has his dis- ous constructors for the various sections tinct style. And that is a great pity, is one which easts a reflection on them because it tends to dull the piquancy all. They ought, artistically speaking, of that pleasant sauce of which we have to be capable of avoiding those vain written; it tends to monotony and to repetitions which begin, after a while, repetition of the same features, so that to be a little tedious; but perhaps it the suggestion has been made that, for would be too much to expect of them, variety's sake, it would be a prudent and there is no doubt that they must plan to commit the making of a course suffer no little tedium also in the re- not to one hand but to the hand of peated process of mapping out the holes. several of our course constructors, so Perhaps it may be thought that there that, each giving the features of his own is a certain monotony, which it were handiwork to the holes that came under better to avoid, suggested in that very his care, the total might be a pleasur- first maxim adapted (and much spoiled COURSE CONSTRUCTION

—losing much of its brief point in the interest and variety at every stroke. adaptation) from the witty French- This clear sailing at the commencement man. Is it, in fact, necessary or even of the navigation of the course we have good, that we should abide too strictly seen to be of importance on several by such traditions as that of a punish- accounts; the relative simplicity of the ing seventeenth hole, a plain finish, and last hole does not appear to signify so two fairly simple holes to start with? much. But no course ever seems to come The last arrangement has its sanc- up to the ideal of golfing needs that tion in the convenience of getting the does not give a good golfing test in the early players away with a clear start, last hole but one. It is something of an so it need not be discussed, but the open question how much should be sacri- plain last hole is certainly not a char- ficed, if the question of sacrifice comes acteristic of all good courses. Neither, in, to get that testing seventeenth, it may be argued, are the two plain and also whether it needs to be a test holes at the start to be found on all in the way of length as well as in the courses even of the highest quality. way of precision. I was looking lately Prestwick will occur at once to the at some finely undulating ground, with golfer's mind as a contradictory in- an eye to laying out a course on it, stance. At the same time it may make and the gradients and natural hazards keen appeal to him as an exceptional were so disposed that it seemed to instance which is of much value in prov- clamor for a short hole, an iron-shot ing the excellence of the general rule. hole, as the last but one. It is there, It cannot fail to do so if he has ever ready made, and provides a good last been one among the many sufferers hole also to follow and is naturally led doomed to interminable waiting just on up to as a seventeenth hole by the this very account—that a short one-shot general lie of the ground. But would hole comes in as the second on that very the course constructor be so greatly excellent course. Even at St. George's, daring as to outrage all the traditions where is a third that can be reached by laying out his ground thus, with this from the tee, there has been much short hole for the seventeenth ? He lamentation over the congestion that it could make it as catchy as he pleased—• has occasioned at the time of big meet- that is always a simple matter of bunk- ings. Last holes which require some ering—but the ground did not favor his playing to get them in the right num- making it long. It seemed to me an ber are to be found without much hunt- interesting question, and also a very ing. St. George's itself; Westward open question, whether it were worth Ho!, with the stream just before the while, whether it were for the whole green; the new last hole at Prince's, course's good, that he should lay out Sandwich; and Hoylake—all this hole as it seemed to be suggesting give instances at last holes compared itself to be made: whether even the with which that of St. Andrews, the strongest suggestion of the kind justi- great model, is a simple affair. fied a short seventeenth hole. On the It is St. Andrews, after all, that is whole. I am inclined to doubt it. But said by some of those equally irreverent no matter what answer we shall give and ignorant ones who are not con- to this particular question, it is sure scious of their debt, that is the father that the course constructor ought al- of courses and has set the traditions on ways to work with a mind open to con- the record. There we have the plain sent to compromise. All should be out-going and finish and the punishing gradually worked out together, and so seventeenth in fine evidence, and we you have the best hope of a harmonious have, bv beneficence of Nature, the keen whole.

s ANGLO-INDIAN GOLF

BY GEORGE CECIL

ITS POPULARITY however small the "station," the Euro- HEN many years ago, golf was pean contingent invariably plays "the Wfirst introduced into India by a Royal and Ancient game." band of energetic British exiles, it did THE BEST LINKS IN INDIA not immediately "catch on;" but today Calcutta is perhaps the Mecca of the there is no game more popular with the exiled golfer. The links, which form

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Anglo-Indian. There are in fact per- one huge verdant lawn, include a well- sons who, without being particularly appointed club-house, and keenly con- enthusiastic, admit that golf is pre- tested matches take place from time to eminently suited to India's climatic time even in the hottest of weather. conditions, while the man who is affected There is also ladies' links of the regu- with a weak digestion invariably spends lation size, whereon every morning soon two or three evenings a week on the after sunrise, and every evening, dozens links, knowing, from experience, that of players may be found. The pallid the exercise involved by trudging round "jute-wallah" of Clive Street (who, dur- the course helps to keep his enemy at ing the sultry day, has been earning bav. The Anglo-Indian lady also dis- depreciated rupees while his wife has ports herself in like manner. Indeed, busied herself with household duties) ANGLO-INDIAN GOLF 9

and the corpulent colonel in "civil em- these undesirable links there are admir- ploy " enjoy a friendly match; and the able golf courses at Rookhi and Bareil- Under-Secretary to Government—upon ly, which are situated within a few whose bowed shoulders of some five-and- miles of the foot of the Himalayas. twenty years the cares of the "Bengal HEAT Secretariat" weigh heavily—joins his The climate is scarcely an ideal one. colleague, the "Sub-Deputy-Assistant- Although from the end of October till Aeting-Officiating-sub-pro-tem Opium the middle of March it resembles an Wallah," in a game. The last named English spring, the heat is more or less moodily go round the verdant "Maidan," appalling during the rest of the year. strong in the belief that India must fall The "rains" also are exceedingly try- to the dust because they are absent ing to the most ardent player, since from the official desk. the mugginess between the showers A SUBURBAN LINKS makes a walk round the links any- Notable, too, are the Barrakpore thing but a pleasure. No matter how links, forming part of a beautiful park appropriately one dresses, it is impos- bordered by the River Hooghly, upon sible to cover the distance between two the shores of which the Viceroy's coun- holes without being bathed in perspira- try residence is situated. Here the tion. In the "cold weather," however, atliletic inhabitants meet in more or the exile can generally play the full less friendly contests. Golf at Barrak- course without turning a hair. pore is not always played under har- "BUKSHEESH" monious conditions. Owing to the so- The links are usually in charge of ciety of the place being drawn from an elderly native—who does not rest both the military and the civil element, until his relatives are employed as cad- there is occasionally a certain amount dies. The general factotum is sup- of friction between those who affect airs posed to keep the greens free from of superiority and the officers of the na- weeds and the holes in proper condi- tive army, who, faute de mieux perhaps, tion ; and he is allowed to augment have to take their profession seriously. his "tulub" by mending golf clubs Equally fine is the Bangalore course, in and repainting the players' balls. Southern India, and, thanks to the Eu- The scale of charges which he levies ropean climate, the ardent votary can varies according to the supposed gener- play during the heat of the day. Were osity of his patron, and his official in- the exile to walk around the Calcutta come works out at about twelve shill- links between the hours of eleven and ings a month. The are paid a three, he probably would be laid low few "annas" (coppers) for each game, by a sunstroke before completing a half while in some clubs they are also in dozen holes. receipt of a small retaining fee. Their ROCKS duties keep them busy from seven till In some parts of India the ground nine in the morning, and from four is singularly unsuitable to the require- till six in the afternoon. As in other ments of the golfer. At various places countries, a cry of "lost ball!" is often bordering on the Central Provinces, for raised unnecessarily. The enterprising instance, the ground is so broken up by caddie upon finding the ball, does not rocks and miniature mountain ranges always proclaim the fact to the "sahib" that golf has to be played under the until his memory has been stimulated greatest difficulties. In contrast to by a promise of "buksheesh." WHY VARDOX PUTTS BADLY BY P. A. VAILE

Author of "Modern Golf," "The Soul of Golf." etc.

T is generally conceded that Var- luin method. The first time I saw James I don's putting is the weakest portion Braid putting he was trying a Vaile of his play. In fact, it is hardly going putter for me. I may remark parenthet- too far to say that his work on the ically that this putter is barred by The green is not worthy of the rest of his Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. game. Vardon's weakness near the hole Andrews in the same unsportsman- has been ascrib- like manner as is ed to a great the Schenectady. m a n y different Braid came down causes, such as on the ball and illness, tempera- finished on the ment, and so on. green some two Of course at var- or three inches ious times these in front of where causes may have the ball had lain. contributed to In effect he play- this famous play- ed a push shot on er's inaccuracy the ball. This is with his putter; supposed by some but as a matter players to give of fact there are the ball a certain two outstanding amount of drag reasons why Var- that is thought don does not putt to be beneficial well and why lie in some mysteri- will not putt well ous way in put- so long as these ting, whereas ex- reasons continue actly the contrary to exist: is the fact. I was so surprised when The first is i I saw Braid putt that he taps his like this that in- putt. The sec- voluntarily I ond is that he said: "Do you al- uses a shallow- ways putt like faced putter. that?" "Aye," Xo man who said Braid, in taps his putts can HARRY VARDON his slow, meth- be so consistent- Stance and frontal address in short putt odical manner, ly good on the "and it is the best wav, too." green as a man who plays his stroke by means of the orthodox swing which By this time I had remembered those partakes as much as possible of the open championships of Braid's, so I nature of the swing of a pendulum. said nothing but put it into thought. James Braid is a striking illustra- Also. I may remark, that at this time tion of the futility of the tapping meth- I was quite unknown in the golfing od and also of the efficacy of the pendu- world. So I considered it was up to WHY VARDON PUTTS BADLY 11

me to hold my peace in the presence and this is the reason which is of this great player, for on records he of the very greatest importance had some slight advantage of me! But to golfers and particularly to those nevertheless I felt perfectly satisfied about to begin the game, and who may that was the reason why James Braid possibly be induced to use the same was such a bad putter, for at that kind of putter as Vardon uses. But time Braid was, for a man in his posi- this would be a very great mistake, for tion in the golfing world, reckoned quite no shallow-faced putter should ever be one of the worst putters. used for the simple reason that if the In one of his books he says that it face of the putter is not of sufficient is quite impossible for anyone to learn height the blow is directed too much how to putt. But in his later book, towards the lower portion of the ball, "Advanced Golf," he goes back on that which is not what is wanted in putting. opinion and says that he himself is a In other words, a shallow-faced putter shining example of the fact that a very not only tends to put drag on the putt bad putter may be converted into a very but it also leaves too great a margin good putter. And there is no doubt of error for the golfer, because the that this statement is correct. But the room for the play of the putter on the remarkable thing is that James Braid ball upwards and downwards is much does not tell us how he converted him- more than would be the case if the self from a bad putter into a good one. face of the putter were fairly broad. So I may do that in the shortest pos- Anyone putting with a shallow-faced sible way. A fat plsv- putter must, to a greater or less extent, James Braid was originally a bad unconsciously commit the error which putter because he played his putt in originally made James Braid such a the manner indicated by me—that is, bad putter and that now tends to pre- with drag. This kind of putt practically vent Vardon doing the work on the necessitates the playing of the stroke green which his wonderful ability as a by a tap. When Braid found out that golfer entitles one to expect from him. he could not putt well this way, he gave it up and adopted the pendulum meth- I consider that the theory of the con- od, and he is now really one of the best struction of the putter is not properly putters among professional golfers. understood by golf-club makers. If it were, they would never produce a shal- The man who taps his ball has to low-faced putter with the weight to- trust too much to what I may call wards the sole, as they so frequently muscular memory. That is to say, he do. It is obvious that when one gets has to remember how much force to onto the putting green the whole theory put in his muscles to obtain the neces- of the travel of the ball through the sary length. But the man who plays fair green is reversed, for there it is our his putt by the pendulum method has a much better chance of regulating his natural desire to get the ball into the distance by the length of his swing air. Therefore clubs are made with back. The tapper will sometimes do most of the weight towards the bottom. phenomenal work, but on the other But when we get onto the putting green hand, when he has his day off, he is we want the ball to hug the turf as indeed lamentably off. Mr. Abe Mit- much as possible in its run up to the chell is an example of this. Some days hole. Therefore we should carry our his putting is excellent, but when he is weight away from the sole upwards, off it is indeed painful to watch him on and if anything distribute it so that a the green. considerable portion of the weight of the putter is in a line with the center So much for our first reason. of the ball, if not, indeed, a little above Let us now consider the other rea- it. If the putter is constructed more son why Vardon does not putt well. on these lines, it tends to roll the ball 12 WHY VARDON PUTTS BADLY

up to the hole without any suspicion This, however, is a refinement of put- whatever of drag; in fact, with just as ting which does not very greatly inter- true a roll as if one were to take a coin est the ordinary golfer. But the two and roll it along the floor. And that, points which I have indicated as being for all practical purposes in golf, is the reasons for Harrv Vardon's com- the one and only way to putt. paratively poor work on the green are Drag in long putts is an absolute of the utmost importance to every golf- fallacy, because the ball does not in any er. So, therefore, let all golfers bear case hold its drag for any appreciable in mind these two outstanding facts distance; and probably the only case which are militating against the play in which drag is of any use is in play- of one of the greatest golfers in the ing a short putt, for here the ball may world and see that they do not follow carry its drag long enough to carry it in his footsteps. Let me repeat: into the hole if it strikes the rim, in- First—The putt must not be played stead of running around it, as it very by a tap. frequently does if it is played by a pure Second A shallow-faced putter roll up. In the latter case the ball will should never be used. very frequently run around the rim of the hole, or lip it, as it is sometimes It will be extremely interesting to called. But when played with back- see if Harry Vardon abandons the meth- spin it rarely, if ever, does this, as the od of putting which made James Braid backspin gets a grip on the turf at the such a poor performer on the green, and, following in his footsteps, become rim and carries the ball into the hole. .111 equally great, if not greater, putter.

\ CONDITIONS OF PLAY FOR THE LESLEY CUP MATCHES

BY LEIGHTON CALKINS

HE following letter of November that the officials would in due course 30, 1912, was forwarded about of time make some statement on the Ta year ago to the three presidents subject, at least to the extent of giv- of the Metropolitan, Massachusetts and ing candidly their reasons for retaining Pennsylvania Golf Associations as foursome play against the preference Trustees of the Lesley Cup, and con- for the four-ball match on the part of stitutes an entirely unofficial inquiry the players. A year has passed; the and report which I undertook at the 1913 matches have again been played request of certain Philadelphia and New under the old conditions; and I am not York players after the Lesley Cup aware that any official statement of match in the fall of 1912. A vote of anv kind on the subject has been made. the Pennsylvania players undertaken at I do not wish to be understood as inti- about the same time showed only one mating that any official statement is re- vote out of eighteen in favor of the quired ; but I think there cannot be the foursome. I am not informed as to how slightest impropriety in now making the question was put to the Pennsyl- public the views of the players who vania players; but my own inquiry have represented New York for so many brought out conclusively that the best years and who have been the means, players in this district by an over- until recently, of keeping the cup in whelming majority do not think that this district most of the time. foursomes furnish a better test of team It would clear the atmosphere if we play, or are better calculated to im- could have a candid statement from the prove the quality of a player's game, or officials, but in the lack of any ex- are better suited for a competition like planation we can only guess at their the Lesley match, or should be retained theory, which may be that they are as longer for any reason whatever. trustees charged with the duty of speci- In any event the players from Penn- fying the conditions of play and should sylvania and New York who have taken not be guided by the views of the play- part in these competitions apparently ers but only by what they as individ- prefer by a large majority to revert uals believe is best for the game in this to four-ball play. I do not know country. In other words, it would seem whether a complete poll has been made to be not a question of what the players of the Massachusetts players or what want but of what is good for them: the preponderance of sentiment in that merely a matter of medicine and district may be. children! An unassailable position— I received many requests to make assuming the children. these letters public a year ago, but de- No one will deny the technical right clined to do so until the three presi- of the trustees to determine the condi- dents who are arbiters of the condi- tions of play, and, if they wish, to do tions of play under the deed of gift so without explanation. But there is should have full opportunity to con- at least an equal measure of propriety sider the matter, especially as it was in any fair, independent inquiry into known that they were conducting or facts, and in making them known. The were about to conduct a similar inquiry enclosed reports are made public at of their own. I think, however, that it the request of many players and in the was generally expected by the players interest of general information. 11 LESLEY CUP MATCHES

November SO, 1912. the metropolitan district have voted in Mr. F. S. Wheeler, President, favor of four-ball matches for the Les- Metropolitan Golf Association, ley Cup competitions, and only four 417 West 11th Street, players voted in favor of continuing New York City. foursomes. Dear Sir: I have previously filed I have just learned that some of the with you (under date of October 28 and golf officials who strongly favor con- November 2. 1912) a report, showing tinuing foursomes are of the opinion the opinions of twenty-eight metropoli- that the vote in the metropolitan dis- tan golfers who have played on Lesley trict would have been different if I had teams and who were asked to express not asked the metropolitan players their preferences as between four-ball whether they would enjoy the Lesley matches and foursomes. Twentv-four competitions more if four-ball matches voted for four-ball matches; four voted are reinstated. They think the ques- foursomes. My report gave their re- tion should not have hinged on enjoy- plies in full. ment, but on which form of competi- I have since learned that some of the tion ought to be played, whether en- officials here and in Massachusetts who joyed or not, by a majority of the favor foursomes, are of the opinion that players. the issue was not squarely presented Accordingly, I am taking the liberty by my circular letter, and that the vote of asking you to reply on the enclosed would have been different if, instead postal-card to the following question: of asking the players which form of Notwithstanding your own prefer- match they would prefer, I had asked ence for the four-ball match over the them whether they do not regard the foursome, and notwithstanding the fact foursome as better suited for the Les- that most players who have played on ley competition on the ground that it metropolitan teams also prefer to play is a better test of play, or better cal- in four-ball matches, do you think that culated to improve a man's game, or foursomes ought to be continued in the good for American golf generally, etc. Lesley competitions because they are In short, it is urged that the vote did a better test of team play, or because not show that twenty-four Metropoli- they are better calculated to improve tan players believe that the four-ball the quality of a man's play, or because match should be reinstated. they are better fitted for a competition Although personally it seemed to me like the Lesley matches, or for any that the issue was in no sense befogged other reason whatever? In short, the by my first circular, and that any play- question now is not whether you like er who en j oys four-ball matches more to play four-ball matches more than but believes they should not be rein- foursomes, but whether you think it ad- stated could easily have said so. never- visable (in the interest of the game of theless, I decided to clear the matter golf in this country) to retain four- up, once for all. somes in the Lesley matches, notwith- standing the fact that you and probably Accordingly. I sent a second circular most of the players on metropoli- letter to the twenty-four players who tan teams personally enjoy four-ball voted for four-ball matches in reply to matches more. my first circular. This time I squarely asked them to say whether they think If you see fit. it might be interesting it advisable to retain foursomes aside to have your opinion on this additional from any question of personal enjoy- question: If foursomes are generally ment. The following is a copy of my unpopular, do you think they can be letter: made popular solely by the example of November 7, 1912. the Lesley competition? Dear Sir: In reply to my recent cir- Yours truly, cular letter twenty-four players from LEIGHTON CALKINS.

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In reply to the foregoing inquiry the fi. I always thought, and still do think, vote is as follows: that four-bail matches are better golf than two-ball foursomes. Two-ball foursomes For four-ball matches 24 are a terrible waste of good time. No one For foursomes 0 would play them unless compelled to do so. It will take the golf officials longer than In other words, the vote of the play- the game of golf is old, to make the two- ers who previously voted for four-ball ball foursomes any way near popular. matches is unanimous against continu- ARCHIBALD GRAHAM. ing foursomes for any reason whatever. [Mr. Graham afterwards stated or- The replies, in full, are as follows: ally that he thinks the four-ball match 1. Answering your letter of the 7th inst. is much better calculated to improve a would advise that as previously stated, I consider the four-ball match the best test man's game, because the weak point of team play and should be adopted in with most good players is putting, the the Lesley matches. weakness generally consisting in not be- Yours very truly, ing up to the hole. With two partners R. ABBOTT. on the green, one of them usually is called upon to go for the hole, and this 2. Four-ball matches first, last, and all gives him just the kind of practice he the time. j. G. BATTERSON. needs.] 3. Although I think that foursomes may 7. In reply to your letter of Nov. 7th, I be a better test of team play at golf, I do think foursome play the better test of the not think that they ought for that reason game but do not think it would have any to be continued in the Lesley competitions; effect one way or another on golf in this nor do I think they should be continued country. Answering your last question— because they are better calculated to im- No prove the quality of a man's play—besides, - Yours truly, I do not think they improve the quality of S. J. GRAHAM. a man's play; nor do I think they] are bet- ter fitted for a competition like the Lesley 8. In reply to first question, am still in matches; nor do I think that foursomes can favor of four-ball matches. be made popular solely by the example of Second question.—No. the Lesley competition. C. W. INSLEE. I do not think it advisable to retain foursomes in the Lesley matches. 9. In reply to your Nov. 7th, I think it very much against the best interests of GEO. T. BROKAW. the Lesley Cup competitions to retain the two-ball foursomes. I do not consider them 4. In my opinion the individuality of a better test of team play. I do golf, one of its strongest factors, is weak- not think they could be made popular. ened by the foursome. I do not think they I watch a number of four men matches are better fitted for the Lesley Cup compe- start from the first tee ever}' week, but tition for any reason at all. They may be never with only two balls. all right when mixed, but in my club I can never remember having seen one played Respectfully, by the men. In short, I am decidedly F. C. JENNINGS. against foursomes and favor the four-ball match. C. A. DUNKING. 10. I am in favor of the four-ball matches in the Lesley Cup competitions. In 5. I have to hand your favor of the 7th my opinion there is no chance of making inst., regarding foursome play in the Les- foursomes popular in this country. The ley Cup competitions. temperament of the players enters very In my opinion the foursome neither af- strongly into this form of competition and fords a better test of team play nor makes I feel that the game of golf is decidedly an for an improvement in a player's game. individual one. Yours truly, Therefore I think the retention of this style DWIGHT PARTRIDGE. of play in these competitions, much against the preference of a large majority of play- 11. In answer to your queries of the 7th ers—as I am led to believe it is—is at inst., would say that to my mind a four- once inadvisable and unfair. some is more of a test of team play than Yours very truly, a four-ball match in view of the fact that HOWARD J. GEE. should either partner make a misplay the V 16 LESLEY CUP MATCHES

other must redeem it by an extraordinary quality of one's play. Foursomes are gen- recovery or the side is penalized. How- erally unpopular and any attempt to popu- ever, this comparison only upplivs to a team larize them through the medium of the of two players. Whore more than two Lesley competition is bound to fail. players are on a team, it makes little dif- Faithfully yours, ference what form of match is played, as W! J. TRAVIS. all are not playing together, which is really an essential in a team match. The Lesley 18. Regardless of personal enmity for competition is in reality a contest to de- the foursome, I truly feel it in far less in- termine which of the three communities teresting than the four-ball matches. The have the best golfers as a body. Therefore four-ball matches should improve a man's the four-hall match, singles, or even medal game, as he has two opponents if he tries, play should lie used, as the individual game as he should, to carry the match all by is given more of a test. The foursome will himself. Furthermore, believing that there not improve the quality of a man's play, is no hell in the life hereafter and that man nor do I think it can lie made popular by is punished in this life for his evil ways, continuing its use in the Lesley competi- the foursome seems to countermine the ti"11- Yours truly, Divine purpose by making one man suffer for another man's faults. RALPH PETERS. Very truly yours, 12. I still prefer four-ball matches. ('. E. VAN VLECK, JR. PERCY R. PYNE, 2ND. 19. Since it seems to be generally con- ceded that four-ball matches are more in- 13. I am in favor of four-ball matches teresting to play than foursomes—and where ;i test of golf, such as this is sup- they surely are more interesting to watch— posed to be, occurs. I like to play two-ball I think they should lie played. Until my foursomes Sunday afternoons when I am arrival in Philadelphia, I never knew that tired and enjoy them, but I don't fancy the two-ball foursomes were played in the Les- best team always wins as it should do in a ley Cup contests (answering your last ques- four-ball. Yours, tion). C. G." WALDO, JR. JOHN REID, JR. 20. In reply to your letter concerning 14. I do not think that retaining four- the Lesley Cup matches, I want to say that some play in the Lesley Cup matches is for I am very much opposed to the foursome the best interest of the game of golf. Out- as I don't consider them as good test of side of these matches the foursome is prac- team play, and as the foursome is so un- tically obsolete, and when you consider the popular I don't think they will become class of the people playing golf, the fact popular for the simple reason that they are that they do not play foursomes is the played in the Lesley Cup matches. If they strongest argument in favor of eliminating were to become popular through the Les- them from the Lesley Cup matches. ley Cup matches they would certainly have Yours, become so long before this. Hoping that we may play four-ball J. F. SHAXLEYJ JR. matches in the Lesley Cup competitions 15. I am strongly in favor of playing from next year on as long as that classic four-ball matches in the Lesley competi- event is played, I am. tions. In my opinion they are a better test Sincerely yours, °f llla.v- Yours truly, GARDINER W. WHITE. W. R. THIRSTON. 21. If foursomes show the real test of a team's play, I think it would carry the 16. In reply to yours of the 7th inst, scheme to a more thorough and logical con- wish to that I am not in favor of four- clusion to have the entire team play the somes being played in Lesley Cup competi- strokes out, one player at a time. If not tions for American golfers, except mixed on one hole keep on to the next, and give foursomes, as seven-eighths of the golfers each player his chance in turn. who compete in Lesley Cup matches never To my mind the foursome is like holding play foursomes except in that competition. a pool championship between two teams Put me down for four-ball matches every who have been practicing the regulation time. Yours truly, game for a year and holding the individual GILMAN P. TIFFANY. matches in the morning and then deciding to play team play in the afternoon at "Cow- 17 I do not consider foursomes furnish boy Pool," a game at which none of them a better test of team play than four-ball may have had any amount of experience or matches, or that they tend to improve the practice. LESLEY CUP MATCHES 17

If foursomes had real merit it seems to ANALYSIS OF ABOVE OPINIONS me that they would not need the artificial stimulation of the Lesley Cup competition Analyzing the twenty-four replies, to keep them alive. we find as follows: Personally, the foursome, to make good, ought to be a match between the women and I. men of the metropolitan district against Only four players out of twenty-four the women and men of the other cities. admit that foursome play is good golf Cordially, or any test of team play. Even so, MARSHALL WIIITLATCH. they all vote against retaining four- [Mr. Whitlatch wrote in addition, somes. saying that foursomes should not be played for any reason.] 1. G. T. Brokaw merely admits that the foursome may be a better test of 22. I think four-ball matches better team play; but this qualified admission sport, also a fairer test of golf than the is weakened to the point of extinction foursome and will make closer and more by his positive statement that four- exciting matches. I do not think the four- some (except the mixed) could ever lie somes do not improve the quality of a made popular. Sincerely, man's play and are not fitted for a H AHOLD H. WlLCOX. competition like the Lesley matches. 2. S. J. Graham thinks foursomes 23. Even disregarding your first letter the better test of team play, but does on four-ball and two-ball foursomes, I wish • to say that I am in favor of four-balls in not think playing foursomes would have I'ntil m the Lesley Cup matches. any beneficial effect on the game in this MW that I will admit, however, and I guess every- country. He does not think foursomes Ik Its- body else will, that the two-ball is the • Its) qw>- can be made popular by the example best test of golf, but even in view of this of the Lesley competition. fact I favor the four-ball. Sincerely yours, 3. Ralph J. Peters thinks the four- EDWARD M. WILD. some a better test of team play but only in a match of four players and not 24. I not only like the four-ball four- somes better than the old fashioned four- where the team is composed of a num- somes, but think it is better golf. Certain- ber of underlying teams of two play- ly, if foursomes had to lie played with only ers each. In short, Mr. Peters really two balls and not four they would soon does not regard the foursome as a bet- lose their popularity, and I do not think that four golfers can have a better day's ter test of team play, with teams con- golf than by going to some good course stituted as they are in the Lesley and playing a four-ball foursome. Imagine matches. a two-ball foursome trying to be played •i. E. M. Wild thinks the foursome with any success and, pleasure by the aver- age golfer who now takes part in the four- is a better test of golf, but nevertheless ball game. One partner would drive a votes against retaining it in the Lesley beautiful ball right down the course, and matches. his partner very often would step up and II. slice or hook it into some horrible difficulty, and before the round was half over they The following five players do not would probably not be on speaking terms, specifically state which form of com- and perhaps go home immediately after petition they regard as the better test lunch was over. Simply because they have of team play, but put themselves down played two-ball foursomes abroad for a couple of hundred years, is no reason why as unequivocally opposed to foursomes. we should do it here. I think if there were Messrs. Shanley and Tiffany, however, a rule made at the different clubs, which state that they do not regard foursome of course would be absurd, that two-ball play as of value to the game of golf. foursomes must be played instead of four, there would be very few foursomes, and 1. J. C. Batterson most of the players would pair off in pairs 2. Percy R- Pyne. 2nd. and play singles. S. J. F. Shanley, Jr. Yours sincerely, 4. Oilman P. Tiffany CM AS. H. SEEI.Y. 5. C. G. Waldo. Jr." \

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III. The replies of M. H. Behr, C. B. The following fifteen players regard Macdonald, A. M. Reid and J. D. the four-ball match as a better test of Travers (the only metropolitan players team play, or at least as a better test voting for foursomes) are given below. of golf; and all but C. E. Van Vleck, 1. I am for playing the foursomes. Jr. and Gardiner W. White so state M. H. BEIIH. categorically. Mr. Van Vleck says so 2. Your circular letter received. From by inference, and Mr. White, taking it I understand that the Lesley Cup deed his two letters together, seems finally to of gift originally provided for four-ball matches, but authorized a change of condi- have decided in favor of the four-ball tions at any time by a unanimous vote of match as a test of team play. the presidents of the three associations, act- ing as trustees. I understand that these 1. Robert Abbott conditions were complied with, though I 2. C. A. Dunning understand that you and others of the com- mittee voted that Mr. Morgan should ac- 3. Howard J. Gee cede to it though having different views at 4. Archibald Graham the time. I have no sympathy with politics .r>. C. W. Inslee in the game of golf, but to come to the question of four-hall matches versus 6. Frank C. Jennings foursomes, my own judgment is that four- 7. Dwight Partridge hall matches are a degradation to the game, 8. John Reid, Jr. and the hest reason why the Lesley Cup competition should ever he played is because 9. W. R. Thurston it introduces to real sportsmen one of the 10. Walter J. Travis most charming sides of the game, namely, foursomes. You speak of these as a "worn- 11. C. E. Vsn Vleck, Jr. out form of competition." If you will go 12. Gardiner W. White abroad and play where the spirit of the IS. Marshall Whitlatch game is best known, you will find the four- some has survived and is adored by the 14. Harold H. Wilcox best people. 15. Charles H. Seely I absolutely place my vote against four- ball matches. FINAL SUMMARY FROM REPLIES TO Mr. Devereaux Emmett, who happens to BOTH CIRCULARS be with me at the moment, dictates the fol- lowing sentence: 1. Twenty-eight replies received. "Mr. Hilton says that the younger genera- 2. Four metropolitan players vote tion of players, while great hitters off the tee, seem for some reason to fall short in for foursomes, namely: all round play. He says in one of his Messrs. Max H. Behr, Charles B. charming articles: 'If these young men Macdonald. A. M. Reid and Jerome D. would play more foursomes they would find that old men like Johnnie Ball would not Travers. carry away the championships.' " 3. Twenty-four metropolitan players Yours truly, vote for four-ball matches and against CHARI.ES B. MACDOXALD. foursome play for any reason what- :i. As usual the matter of foursomes was ever. discussed at length at the dinner. The ques- tion seems to hinge on the decision whether 4. Of the twenty-four players vot- the matter should be judged from the stand- ing for four-ball matches only four con- point of actual enjoyment or a test of the cede any merit to the foursome as a best team. Personally I favor the latter, test of golf or of team play. Of these. and so would favor foursomes. Respectfully, Mr. Peters should really be counted in A. M. REID. favor of the four-ball match as a test of team play, and Mr. Brokaw's con- 1-. Mr. Jerome D. Travers telephoned, stating that he thought foursomes should be cession to the foursome is too qualified played, even though the players themselves to be of any value. This leaves only by a large majority should vote in favor of Mr. S. J. Graham and Mr. E. M. Wild, four-ball matches as more enjoyable, because out of twenty-four players voting for he thinks foursomes a better test of team play and he thinks it worth while to have the four-ball match, who concede any as scientific a test of team play as possible merit whatever in the foursome. in the Lesley matches. OUR FOREIGN LETTER

BY BERNARD DARWIN1

HE winter of our discontent is plete without doing that. There at any now fairly upon us; not that we rate they would have found no lack of Thave any reason to be discontented so hazards, lateral or frontal. They did far, as the weather has been on the not. if I remember rightly, play at whole quite admirable for golf. Garden City either, and there they Vardon and Ray have returned, after would have found another course of no their tremendous pilgrimage, to the great fascination may be, but certainly

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The Club-house and Ninth Green at Stoke Poges

bosom of their respective families and not lacking in punishment for erratic are, as I should imagine, thoroughly en- hooker or slicer. joying a well earned rest. Such com- I was much interested to hear that ments as they have made on American they were both struck with the almost golf have no doubt already been tele- invariably good putting of their adver- graphed to you. Their remarks on the saries, because in my more limited ex- respective merit of American courses perience I also came to the conclusion would, I think, have been more interest- that American golfers putted exceeding- ing and more convincing if they had ly well. They struck me as having played over the National Golf Links studied the first principles of the art because no education can be quite com- more thoroughly than we have. .Mr. Malik, the golfer from India, driving from the third tee at Stoke Poges in the match between Oxford and Stoke Poges OUR FOREIGN LETTER 21

It is noticeable that the player whom when one down and two to play, by Vardon and Ray deemed the best they means of two masterly iron shots: one had met in their wanderings, namely, a run-up shot which lie laid stone dead Mr. Evans, is not a particularly good and the other a difficult pitch played putter. He must have been in good to within eight feet of the hole. It will form against them on the Ravisloe be curious to see how he fares in his greens, but as a rule I suppose it would next two years of golf. be generally admitted that his putting The other picture that I send you constitutes far the weakest point, indeed is of the club-house at Stoke Poges, the only weak point in his armor. It where is one of the nearest approaches certainly struck me that of all the ama- to a country club which England can teurs now playing on either side of the at present boast. Certainly it lags a water Mr. Evans made fewest mistakes long way behind your country clubs in between the tee and the green, with the variety of games for though there is possible exception of Mr. some lawn and croquet and a when lie is really worked up by some big week in summer time, yet golf event and in the mood to put his very really usurps nearly all the members' best foot foremost. attention. At any rate the club-house Almost the only matches being played is, as you may see, big enough and just now are those of the two Univer- gorgeous enough even for America. It sity teams and they can hardly be ex- is a large, white and rather florid house pected to thrill you. There is however of terraces and cupolas. It is of some one decidedly entertaining player on the little antiquity having originally been Oxford team, namely Mr. H. S. Malik, built by one William Penn who was a an Indian undergraduate. As far as brother or cousin—I am not sure which I know, Mr. Malik is the only golfer —of the Penn of Pennsylvania. The who has habitantlv played around the demesne however is infinitely older than courses of this country in a turban. the house for there is some mention of Apart from that merely superficial in- it in the Doomesday Book; there is also terest his career will be well worth a very old manor-house in one corner of watching because he has become a good the Park, where lived the Lord Chief player in a very short space of time. Justice Cook, the famous lawyer, and his It is less than two years ago that he effigy which is on the top of a pillar played his first shot at golf, and Ox- still looks down with placid surprise ford, surrounded as it is by fields of on the surrounding golfers. Among cozy clay, is not a particularly encour- park courses, this one, which was the aging nursery for a young golfer. He work of Mr. H. S. Colt, is I think the has something of that wonderful eye best that we have in this country. There and wrist that has made so many of are plenty of beautiful trees but they his countrymen, some of one and some do not obtrude themselves on the play- of the other, very fine polo players; ers nor their leaves upon the putting produced a Jamsetjee at rackets and greens. One of the chief architectural greatest of all a Ranjitsinhji at cricket. features of the course consists in a He hits the ball with a naturally easy series of wide turf dips in front of the and graceful style and seems to possess greens; an ingenious device whereby also a natural gift for putting. As is something very like a plateau green can only to be expected with so new a be made out of originally flat country. player, it is said that his iron play is One great advantage of such greens is comparatively weak, and he is likely to that it demands from the player, when have something to learn with those most lie has his approaching club in hand, baffling iron clubs. I must confess, a thoroughly deciding shot. If he has however, that on the only occasion on sufficient skill and confidence in pitch- which I have seen him play he pulled ing he may disregard the dip and play a match most gallantly out of the fire. the ball right home on to the green. This 22 OCR FOREIGN LETTER is probably the way that Vardon would what lias really happened for the archi- play the shot, and a very good way too. tects have had to design twenty-seven On the other hand it is possible to take different greens (there are three cir- a straight-faced club and hit the ball cuits of nine holes apiece), and then firmly and low so that it shall run have the twenty-seven greens built up. through the dip and clamber up the This sounds a fearful task and so it other side; a method that rather appeals must have been; it also gives the idea to Braid, with the St. Andrews train- perhaps of an extremely artificial ing mastery of the run-up. The one course but that is to do it something thing not to do and it is just the less than justice. When things have feeble, half-hearted thing that most of settled down and the course is somewhat us actually do—is to pitch the ball in older, those who play on it will prob- the dip, for there, falling with no life, ably not realize in the least how much it utterly declines to get up the bank thought and labor went to the making and falls back with the hollow, leaving of those greens. They are exceedingly a shot most difficult to put dead and ingenious greens full of cunning slopes turning many a four into a five. and "borrows" and yet made with great I saw rather a remarkable new course discretion. The long approach putt will the other day; at least it struck me often be of an undeniably hill}' nature that I had never come across anything vet it should never be impossible to lay quite like it before either here or in the ball dead, and when the player America. It was at Woodcote Park comes to close quarters with the hole, near Epsom—there is a fine view there he will have a flat surface for his ef- of the scene of the historic Derby, forts. This seems to me the right prin- where a combined golf and country ciple and it has been well expressed by club is being made under the auspices a certain enthusiastic French golfer who of the Royal Auburn Club. There is declared that whatever else happened a fine big stretcli of undulating park "the final drama must be played out on land, rather too steeply undulating in the flat." The variety of the greens places, and a good many trees, most is remarkable and they must be the of which have been cut down, and that product of many weary, brain-racking was all that the architect had to help hours spent over plasticine. him. Beyond an out-of-bounds terri- The question of sloping and tortuous tory or two there was originally noth- greens has been occupying the minds ing in the way of natural hazards and of British golfers a good deal and most there were very few suitable spots for people have come to the conclusion that putting greens, the original lie of the the hilliness has been rather overdone land being something too precipitous. of late. I heard the other day rather Therefore the whole merit or demerit an ingenious defense or explanation of of the course depended on the bunkers and the greens as devised by Mr. Her- the policy of those who have been mak- bert Fowler and Mr. Simpson the archi- ing greens very mountainous and dif- tects. The bunkers are very good but ficult. Something, says this apologist, I have seen bunkers like them before, has clearly to be done in order to make but I never saw anything quite like the the approaching sufficiently difficult and greens. At present the course, still in interesting. The obvious way is of the making, appears a bare trail of course to make bunkers with a relent- country on which some gigantic and less hand all round the putting green, superhuman hand has dumped down but that is very hard on the players here and there colossal plasticine of but moderate ability, who constitute models of putting greens—an illusion an enormous proportion of the entire which is made of the more realistic and number of golfers. Probably we shall the bright green of the lately sown now see an era of greens that are testing grass. In sober truth this is very much and full of dramatic possibilities and yet eminently sane—at least we will hope so. OUR LETTER

BY JOHN G. ANDERSON

NEW year for "GOLF" and golf. city championship. There has been The flubs and dubs of 1913 have much clamor for such an event; per- passeA d away into oblivion; enter 191-1 haps the rabid ones will soon have their with all those startling drives and wishes gratified. gobbled putts to come which will con- The nominating committee of the found our dearest enemies and friends. Massachusetts Golf Association will "Winter Golf" we present the follow- call it when we hear ing list at the an- our friends boast nual meeting of the cheerily; we cer- Association which tainly get some comes near the mid- pleasure out of it dle of the month. ourselves for it isn't The only change at all elusive. The over last year's of- veriest duffer can't ficers is the with- see anything but a drawal of Mr. C. T. greatly reduced Crocker from the handicap or an easy vice-presidency and win over his warm- the substitution of est rival, while the Mr. Harry L. Ayer, scratch man surely who is a member of ."* • pines for the stretch the United States of greensward, a Golf Association fairish breeze and executive committee: a sturdy opponent. President, Herbert Such is golf nowa- Jaques, the Country days in Boston and Club ; Vice - Presi- vicinity; such it dent. Harry L. Ayer, probably is in all Brae Burn C. C.; places where the Treasurer, Ralph P. snow covers the turf. Alden, Springfield It is a good thing C. C.; Secretary, to rest, no doubt, Henry H. Wilder, but it seems that Vesper C. C. Exe- Nature alone can HERBERT JAQUES cutive Committee, enforce that rule. President Massachusetts Golf Association the above named and Indoor golf has a Charles T. Crocker, certain amount of pleasure and not Alpine C. C.; Richard R. Freeman, much of exercise, but there is a special Wollaston G. C; Percival Gilbert, Brae atmosphere that goes with it which Burn C. C.; M. Lewis Crosby, Chest- makes up to a certain extent for some nut Hill G. C, and Roger Kinnicutt, of the real delights. Regular appara- Tatnuck C. C. tus has been installed in one or two of The annual dinner which is always Boston's golf shops, and inproinptu held in connection with the meeting for tournaments are held almost every day. the election of officers is to take the No doubt Boston will follow in Chi- form of a jubilee celebration, in rec- cago's footsteps and start an indoor ognition of the praiseworthy golf dis- ^rr

Ol'li BOSTON LETTER played by Massachusetts men in 1918. in "The Golfer's Handbook," l9lS, JS'O State iii the Union can boast of as reads as follows: "An Amateur is one many meritorious performances. Mr. who, after attaining the age of sixteen Heinrich Schmidt's unexpected but thor- years, has (a) never carried clubs for oughly deserved successes in the British hire; (b) never received any considera- Amateur Championship helped much; tion, directly or indirectly, for playing the play of several of Massachusetts or for teaching the game; (c) never men in New England's open tourna- played for a money prize in any com- ment won more than passing comment; petition. No Amateur may, without the success of her golfing sons in both forfeiting his status, receive directly or tlie qualifying and rounds indirectly from the promoter of any in the Amateur Championship at Garden match or tournament any consideration City opened the eyes of some who hith- for playing in such match or tourna- erto had been of doubtful vision; the ment." superb, never-to-be-forgotten victory of Now, unless some new addition has placed the standard of been made to these aforementioned par- tht' old "Bay State's" golf on a lofty ticulars, then Mr. P'rancis Ouimet is pinnacle and then the triumph of the eligible in every sense, to compete in Lesley Cup team, so utterly conclusive, the British Amateur Championship this filled the cup to everflowing. spring. Mr. Ouimet always had in This year there will be invited as mind the fact that under American guests the presidents of the U. S. G. A., rules he would not after he was six- the Metropolitan G. A., the Pennsyl- teen be eligible to compete in a United vania G. A., the Rhode Island G. A., States competition, or even a state tour- the Connecticut G. A., and Mr. Francis nament, and at the age of fifteen he Ouimet. the open , Mr. John stopped caddying. This fact can be G. Anderson, runner-up in the Amateur fully attested by Mr. Dan McXamara, Championship. Heinrich Schmidt, who for years the caddv-master at the Coun- performed so well in the British Cham- try Club, and by numerous other golf- pionship and also the members of the ers and disinterested persons. His golf- Lesley Cup team. Usually, there are ing status has never once been ques- from seventy-five to a hundred present, tioned. In truth, the facts as given here have been known to all, and it will be generally the same men each rear; but a genuine surprise to many to hear that this time preparations are being made his eligibility has ever for an instance for a banner crowd reaching into the been a matter of doubt. I have not hundreds. The date set is Friday, heard that one who is a salesman or January 16th, and every true golfer assistant in a golf department is in- has set aside that night for an evening eligible, but if this is the case it is of rare good golfing fellowship. surely a queer rule. The specific fault A short time ago an article appeared mentioned, however, was that of Mr. in an English magazine which dealt Ouimet's caddying, and it is pleasing to with the eligibility of Francis Ouimet announce that there are not the slight- to compete in their Amateur Champion- est grounds for the assertions. ship, on the ground that lie had cad- died on the links of . That there are other men vitally in- Brook]inc. at an age greater than was terested in the success and development allowable in British golf, even though of the junior golfers of this State may eligible under American standards. It be gathered from a portion of the fol- was hoped, however, that some w,i_v lowing letter sent to the golf editor might be devised which would permit of a local paper: the Open Champion to compete. Dear Sir: Last year, for the first I should like to take issue with Mr. time in twelve years, there was no In- Hutchinson on the above point. The terscholastic Schoolboy Golf Champion- amateur definition (British), as found ship held. Does this mean that tlie OUR BOSTON LETTER

Massachusetts Golf Association has de- credit to the club or association which cided that the schoolboy is an unim- he represents? portant factor in the future of the game Interscholastic championships offer of golf? Must the game remain here- to the schoolboy his one chance of ex- after with those senile enough to com- perience in tlie game of golf. Match prehend fully the similes and metaphors play is where stamina counts. of the rules, or is it a deep laid plot This year, at the annual meeting of to perpetuate the present make-up of the Massachusetts Golf Association, let the State team ? us hope that a motion is offered and For the first six years that tlie Great- carried, that the Association will an- er Boston Interscholastic Golf Associa- point a committee to take charge of the tion held its individual championship, Interscholastic tournament, and also a regular committee of schoolboys in- offer prizes for the different events; that terested in the game took charge and they will have a team championsLip to gave up their spare time and money to be held in connection with the contest encourage interest among the school- for individual honors and place a date boys. Lately, individual interest only and links at the disposal of the boy has made possible these events, until contestants. this year no individual club and not A F'RIEND OF THE SCHOOLBOYS. even the Massachusetts Golf Association thought that the schoolboy champion- The Greater Boston Interscholastic ship was of enough importance to Golf Association was organized in 1900, bother with, and therefore no cham- with eight schools enrolled, namely, pionship was held. Brown and Nichols, Yolkmann, Boston If memory serves correctly, the of- Latin, Newton High, Arlington High, ficials of the M. G. A. have had the Middlesex, Stone School, and English need of an interseholastic championship High. Both team and individual cham- run under their auspices brought before pionships were held, the former being them a great many times, both by for- competed for by teams of four men cible speakers at the annual dinner and each playing match play, total holes through private interviews. Then why to count, the team winning the greatest does not the Association that is the number of matches being awarded the foster parent of golf in this State team championship. The entries were awaken from its slumber and do some- limited to schools holding membership thing to enliven the spirit of the youth in the Association. The individual and attract him to the links? championship, however, was open to all Francis Ouimet, the Open Champion amateurs who were members of schools of America, was the Boston Inter- in New England and those whom the scholastic champion in 1909. Jerome committee invited to play. Travers won tlie premier honors in 1901 Finding that the schoolboys did not in the New York Interscholastic title; have the opportunity to play the match "Chick" Evans was twice winner of the play team contests, without seriously Schoolboy's Championship in the Chi- neglecting their scholastic standings, it cago district. Such sterling players as was decided in 1905 to change the mode Heinricli Schmidt, Harry Legg, Fred of playing the team championship to a Herreshoff, Warren Wood, Paul Hunt- system similar to that which is played er, Percival Gilbert, Henry Wilder, in the qualifying round of the State Henry Stuck] en, Sam Sterne and championship for the Windeler Shield. many other noted golfers all learned The last team championship was played the game as schoolboys. for in 1907 and was won by Newton Who knows but what there is another High School. The individual contests Ouimet, Travers or Evans whose light have been well attended and the dif- is now hidden under a bushel, who is ficulty this last year was in finding a ready to step forth on the links and do links. • •• •

John G. Anderson driving at the fourteenth hole, Garden City, during the Amateur Championship OUR BOSTON LETTER 27

The writer of the letter given above however, for there is to be a cross bunk- has much right on his side. His argu- er which will catch any but a carefully ment about the "deep laid plot to per- planned and well executed shot. Guard- petuate the present make-up of the State ing the green at the right will be a ser- team" is of course ridiculous, for on ies of mounds fashioned somewhat after the team which played in the Lesley the Mid-Surrey type; at the back the Cup matches this year were but two green has been slightly raised and in who were members six years ago. It is the left hand corner a trap for the over also true, or at least I have not heard to indulgent shot has been carefully plan- the contrary, that the Interscholastic ned. The traps which were on the Association never of its own accord ap- right have been filled up with gravel plied to the Massachusetts Golf Asso- and eartli which has been taken from ciation for a place under its jurisdic- the old familiar hillock which is in front tion. Many have brought the matter of the fifteenth hole. This has made a up at the annual dinner, but nothing new hazard for a hole which has never was ever done although I can distinctly at any time been very easy. remember that last year a partial prom- The ninth, tenth and eleventh holes ise was made at the banquet that help were closed for play early last month would be forthcoming. I am of the and the fairgreens were top-dressed. opinion that the Association will not The ninth green is undergoing a stand back any longer but will lend a change, being made less abruptly un- helping hand to those who richly de- dulating. This year will see a harder serve it. I shall be much disappointed and better links for the members of The if definite steps are not taken a week Country Club, Brookline. or two hence, when the annual meet- Progress on the new links of the Wor- ing is held. There will at least be one cester Country Club lias been rapid and supporter of the project present. the members of the new club have been Mr. G. Herbert Windeler of The promised an opening celebration day Country Club, remarked but recently: for July 1st. Then it is confidently "Perfection in a golf course never expected that ten of the eighteen holes comes. You must change and keep will be ready. changing though you and the course The first annual meeting into which live to be a hundred." So, although was merged the Worcester Golf Club rich praise was accorded The Country last April, was held recently. Over a Club links when the Open Champion- hundred members were present and ship was held there last fall, changes heard with evident satisfaction the re- have been made since and will be fully port about the links and the club-house. brought to completion by the opening The latter is to be one of the finest golf of the course in the spring. structures in the State and work will A start has been made at the four- begin soon. teenth hole. Up to now it has been a The club has a board of governors good two-shot hole with nine out of ten consisting of twelve men, the terms of taking three to get on the green. A four of these expiring each year. Mar- bad feature was the trap on the left cus L. Foster, George F. Fuller, Al- hand corner of the green, which en- bert H. Inman and James Logan were croached to such an extent that many elected for three years to serve on the a good shot found the sand. This will Board of Governors. Fred J. Bowen be done away with. The green proper was elected treasurer for a year, and will be shifted over to the left, nearer Chester W. Delano, secretary. There the stone wall marking out-of-bounds. are now 402 members of the club, of The distance will be such that a cour- which Mr. Harry G. Stoddard is presi- ageous player will go for the green on dent. his second provided he has got off a The Essex County Club at Man- long drive. It will take a bold golfer. chester, Mass., not content seemingly 28 OUR BOSTON LETTER

with having what La considered one of but also for the second and third shots. the State's best golf courses is also This season, added as well as needed making extensive improvements. The length lias been gained by increasing sixtli hole, at present a short one-shot the distances of the third, fourteenth, affair, up hill entirely, is to be done and sixteenth holes. There has never away with. In its plaee will be a short been an open tournament under M. G. hole running straight along from the A. auspices, and the assurances that regular fifth. This will necessitate cut- the club will hold a two or three-day ting down numberless trees and more open event has added pleasure to Bos- blasting, but after what has been done ton's golfers. at Essex County that work will seem A new member of the Massachusetts tame in comparison. The tee for the Golf Association will soon be the Rock- seventh will no longer be on a high port Country Club. The club was or- eminence but will be somewhat to the ganized recently by a body of profes- left of the present tee, making the hole sional and business men of Boston who one of the slight dog-legged variety. A summer on the North Shore. Golf will brave drive will surmount the rising be the chief pastime although other elevation and present an easy iron shot sports in time will be encouraged. to the green; but a "safe" play to the Seventy-eight acres of land have been right will leave the player with a good secured and a nine-hole course laid out brassie shot to the green. which in good season will become an The tenth hole, formerly a drive and eighteen-hole links. A club-house to mashie shot, has been lengthened about cost $18,000 will soon be in the process fifty yards, making the second shot of construction. The following officers much more difficulty although the par were elected: for the hole will remain the same. Then President, Harry Dutton, Medford; a new hole has been devised by Donald Vice-President. Clarence Seamans, Xew Ross, the club's superintendent. The York; Treasurer, Francis E. Smith, tee stands to the right of the newT green Winchester; Secretary, George D. Hall, and the drive is made in the direction Jamaica Plain. Board of Directors: of what once was a swamp but is now George W. Harvey, Jamaica Plain; being rapidly reclaimed. The hole will Charles Liffler, Cambridge; James E. be of fairly good length. This will Cotter, Hyde Park. necessitate the putting back of the tee Another new course for Massachu- for the old eleventh, now the twelfth. setts, or. rather, the extension of the The resulting length can be made al- present into an eighteen-hole links, will most any distance because of the op- soon be in evidence. The Bear Hill portunities for the placing of inter- Associates, comprising members of the mediate teeing grounds, and still get- Bear Hill Golf Club of Wakefield, met ting a hole of excellent length. It is recently and authorized the newly quite likely that the hole will be in the elected directors to purchase forty-one neighborhood of 575 or 600 yards. acres of land, of which twelve acres is The committee in charge of affairs at already used for golfing purposes. The the Tedesco Country Club, Swampscott, officers chosen were as follows: Mass., are doing all in their power to President, Harry I. Thayer; Secre- bring the standard of the links up to tary, W. R. Emerson; Treasurer, Al- that of the best courses around Boston. bert W. Flint. Directors: Selden W. There are now eighteen holes in com- Tyler, Fred S. Hartshorne, William E. mission and the trapping and bunker- Eaton, Hervey J. Skinner. ing of these lias been done scientifically It will be sweet music to the ears of under expert supervision. The much those of Boston's golfers who play at despised and shamefully abused cross Franklin Park, the municipal course, to bunker is in evidence at Tedesco, and hear that at last, after years of wait- presents difficulty not only for the drive ing, something will be done for the OUR BOSTON LETTER 29

greens and course in general and for Association executive committee, in the benefit of the golfers themselves. limiting the number of those who shall The old Refectory, used as a library be eligible to compete in the Amateur for some years, will be turned into a Championship, has materially affected golf club-house in which will be in- Massachusetts, but only so far as num- stalled a reading-room, smoking-room, bers go. Unless a change is made in lockers and shower baths. No one, un- the reduction of their handicaps the fol- less he is aware of the present condi- lowing will no longer be eligible: G. tions, can realize what this means. No R. Angus, C, L. Becker, C. T. Crocker, more faithful players in the world are N. W. Dean, H. P. Farrington, D. M. found than those Cole, T. J. Crump, who frequent the C. M. Hart, C. A. Park day in and Hartwell, B. S. day out, and the Horn, J. H. Hylan, five thousand dol- J. E. Kedian, C. L. lars which has been Lannigan, K. E. voted for improve- Mosser, R. M. Pur- ments will boom ves, A. L. Ripley, municipal golf. H. A. Roark, I. W. A year or so ago Small, P. M. Smith, a club was formed T. G. Stevenson, H. which has worked R. Townsend, T. F. for reforms and Tully, W. S. Wait, good sportsmanship. E. E. Wilbur, G. The Scarsdale Golf F. Willett, J. D. Club now has on its Woodfin, and C. membership roll the Teublin. S names of many well- A glance at the known professional names will soon con- folk, actors, vince one that in players, retired ath- reality Massachu- letes, and many setts has not been others who for one hurt one bit. Those reason and another mentioned above do not care to join have not with but a larger club. This STEPHEN D. LOCKWOOB three exceptions tak- club, much after the en part in the Ama- manner of the New York Golf Club teur Championship, and it is quite safe at Van Cortlandt Park, holds week- to say that they will not grieve very ly tournaments. This year they will much over the fact that they have apply for membership in the Massachu- ceased to be eligible. setts Golf Association and also put in The Brae Burn Country Club held an application to become an associate its annual dinner to the prize winners member of the U. S. G. A. The officers early last month. Over forty golfers have the best interests of the game at were present, showing that the handi- heart and their influence in procuring capping committee did a very good bit even better surroundings is bound to be of work. Several matters of impor- felt. Two of the leading spirits are tance were passed upon, the most in- Clyde Engle, first baseman of the Red teresting to the golfing public being Sox, and Thomas McCarthy, the famous that for the first time since 1907, Brae old-timer, who on Saturday, Dec. 13th, Burn would hold a three-day open tour- did the third hole, 190 yards, in one nament. The membership at the club stroke. is so large that in the past it lias been The action of the United States Golf thought unwise to restrict the playing m

30 OUR BOSTON LETTER of the zealous golfers, but a broader the problem; he enforces but little real point of view has been taken this year, discipline because it doesn't seem to be and a date some time in June will be the custom and he is to be blamed and granted to the club by the State asso- no one else for the young chap's be- ciation. In the tournament held in havior. I believe myself that there September. 1907, there were 162 start- should be a uniformity of treatment by f ers. Added events on other days the members. It is wrong to tip a boy brought the total number of players up and tell him to wait for you on the N to an average of over 100 a day for a following Saturday. The members period of five days. It is likely that should all have an equal change and similar numbers will be in evidence. It get an evenness of service. A caddie was also voted at the dinner that next when told to run ahead, never refuses year a regular club dinner be held, in- or acts surlv (at least I have never stead of the "prize winners" banquet. seen or heard of one in Massachusetts), There is one problem, the caddie but he has got so in the habit of merely question, which confronts the members carrying the clubs and thinking that and committees of several of our local that is his sole duty that the matter golf clubs. The matter pops up ever of watching the ball carefully does not so often and the measures taken to solve enter into the agreement. The way out it vary from time to time. The caddie is not at all difficult. The members of fees have kept pace with the high cost the four-ball match or foursome, what- of living and the boys cannot complain ever it may be, should decide at the of ill-treatment. What the members very start on what duties they should grumble at is the service given in re- demand of the boys, in what turn they turn for fifty or sixty cents a round. should take out the flag, etc., and then In the majority of cases throughout the tell the caddies assembled together what country. I might almost say nine-tenths, had been agreed upon. The boys are all that the caddie does is to walk along- willing enough to follow a system if side or behind the player, carrying his there is one. In time the members clubs. He doesn't take any real pains could meet and lay down a number of to ascertain where the ball is; the num- rules which they should enforce. Such ber of balls that would be lost if the regulations are in use at many a club; player did not at the flight of the they are of recent origin for the most ball would be legion. These things part, but their success has been sure. ought not to be and the caddie's in- The above advice is given mainly for difference and inattention ought to be the benefit of those clubs with no sys- checked. But how? Perhaps each tem whatsoever. It is up to the mem- member has a different way of solving bers. OUR CHICAGO LETTER

Bv CHARLES EVANS, JR.

EVER since I began to play golf A few years ago the Detroit Country has the Middle West known such Club had only a fair course. Its mem- gloriouN s late autumn weather. Here, bers were very ambitious, however, and with Christmas actually upon us, we headed by Mr. Sweeney they set out to have passed almost every week-end of have the best course that skill and capi- the last six happily golfing. Usually, tal could encompass. A fine body of November sees the end of our golf ex- land was procured and Mr. H. S. Colt cept for an occasional day when Nature of England was employed to transform relaxes a little and dreams of October, the stretch of gently rolling ground into yet this fall, November was neither a championship course, how successfully gray nor melancholy and the early Vardon and Ray's testimony shows. December weeks have been sunny and Last spring business called me to calm. Several of my week-ends have Detroit and I played several times over been spent in St. Louis, where golf its several courses. It is hard to tell enthusiasm abounds, and a line new much about a golf course in an early course has been added to the ones we American spring, but as far as I could all know. The new course belongs to judge at that time the Detroit Country the St. Louis Golf and Country Club Club course deserves all the praise that and the architect is Mr. C. B. Mae- it has received. The distances are Donald. Money and intelligent labor beautiful; there is no monotony any- has been lavished successfully upon it, where and every shot in one's bag is and it will be ready for playing upon brought into play. It is a landscape in the spring. I went over the course, garden where each hole appears to hole by hole, with Mr. Gratz, Presi- wander away from the others out into dent of the club, Mr. G. H. Walker the country. The entire course is finely and Stewart Stickney, and I was much proportioned and in best Colt manner. pleased with it. Unless all signs fail the course will be of championship The other course that has come in quality when completed. for so much praise is the Mayfield course at Cleveland, and, strange to The question of golf course construc- say, I have only played once in that tion is of great interest at present both city, a good many years ago, and know West and South. Mr. H. S. Colt's the new club only by hearsay. visit to us last year gave us new ideals, At Detroit I played over another new and the fact that Vardon and Ray de- course out among the Bloomfield hills, clared that two of the Western courses about twenty miles north of the city. were the best that they had played upon A great deal of money has been spent in America lias been particularly inter- on this links and it is in excellent esting and encouraging to us. Truly, shape besides being beautifully situated. it has given us a proper pride in our It has some unusual features, such as courses. For years we have been ac- an apple orchard as a carry from the customed to hear our links compared to third tee, and the seventh is one of the the Eastern ones, and it is hardly nec- best holes I ever saw. The tee is set essary to say that in this comparison in the woods and the drive is out and our courses have suffered much. There- through a widening avenue of trees, fore, it is all the more gratifying to and there is a hill with a plateau which learn that these big English profes- covers the right hand half and another sionals declare the Detroit and Cleve- a little farther up which covers the left land courses the best in America. side. The good and daring driver plays OCR CHICAGO LETTER to carry onto this plateau, but the It is my sad duty to chronicle an- player who pulls too much runs off and other approaching marriage. Early in one who falls short ends up in the hol- January Mr. Addison Stillwell will mar- low. It can readily be seen that De- ry Miss May Peabody of Chicago. He troit is showing immense interest in has been a brilliant golfer and an en- golf and its players are well provided thusiastic tournament player. It grieves for. me to write of his golf in the past tense, One sees golf everywhere now in the but if he has played any during the West and among people who a few 191.'? season I have not heard of it. years ago would have considered it a The annual meeting of the W. G. A. game fit only for children, women, and will be held in Chicago in January, old men. This thought came home to when officers will be elected and a time me on the occasion of a little visit made of general good fellowship observed. over Thanksgiving to Jefferson City, After the first of the year many of Missouri. There, with the aid of At- our golfers journey southward, but torney-General Barker, I defeated Gov- those who remain with us will find much ernor Major and Reverend Paul Tal- pleasure and amusement in indoor golf, bot. I felt very proud of my com- for if truth must be told Chicago greatly pany on the links and rejoiced to think favors the indoor game. that those in high places had found our The indoor golf season usually be- pleasant game so interesting. Hereto- gins with us about the first of Decem- fore the strenuous life of the West has ber, but owing to the delightful tem- not inclined our public nun to indulge perature out of doors so far the start in such happy pastimes. has been somewhat delayed and only A short time ago Mr. Alexander H. informal play has had place. The most Bevel] of the gave elaborate preparations have been made a dinner to about ninety-five caddies. for the indoor season and the first fall This act was in consonance with the in- of snow will find every place jammed terest that is being taken in caddies by and tournaments will follow each other the members of almost all of our Chicago in steady order. Once upon a time one clubs. The large dining-room in the indoor school supplied Chicago with beautiful new building of the Chicago amusement, now seven or eight are re- Golf Club at Wheaton was used for the quired to keep us happy. The Chicago function and the boys were both orderly Athletic Club and the Illinois Athletic and happy as they feasted. The room Club have both had their nets up for was plentifully decorated with flags, some time and the professionals in and there was music and speeches. Each charge report much enthusiasm. I have boy was presented with a watch as a not seen the nets at the Illinois Athletic souvenir of the occasion, and also, as Club, but those at the Chicago Athletic Mr. Revell admonished them, "as a re- are unusually good. minder that they should always be George O'Xeil, the pioneer of indoor punctual and never buy anything on golf, has already opened his school and tick." Mr. C. I,. Allen made a short in addition he has put in a fine putting speech showing deep interest in the course where the annual competition for boys, and Mr. Revell's own speech was the Chicago Cup will be played, and the capitally illuminative. This dinner to Western Indoor Championship will be caddies was a decided innovation at the played over his nets. Just a block Chicago Golf Club, but so successful away on the same street there is the that. I think, a yearly happening on golf shop indoor school. Here one sees similar lines are planned. Interest in a long row of nets stretching from win- the caddie is growing in all parts of dow to alley on one floor and upstairs the West, and no doubt will result in a pitching and putting course. Several a marked improvement in the character of the prominent Chicago professionals of the bov and the service he renders. who do not go away for the winter are OUR CHICAGO LETTER 88 employed as instructors here. The golf course and the Ridge Golf Club has in- shop has sold memberships and allot- stalled a splendidly unique one. Then ted so many memberships to a net, thus the Jackson Park Club has its own little hoping to eliminate congestion. My course in its club-rooms at 63rd Street, business takes me into many large fac- where the other night they held a fine tories and other large places of busi- tournament and three sixteens competed ness and I have been both interested for prizes. Each little course had its and amused to see nets strung up in own original architect and therefore the basements of those places and even differs in the nature of obstacles to be in private residences. overcome. With all these preparations Marshall Field & Co. are contem- for indoor golf, stay-at-home Chicago plating tlie installment of a net in their can still keep throughout the cold golf department and many of the de- months something of the spirit of the partment stores have putting greens. game. These greens are very prettily ar- If an old-fashioned winter descends ranged. Tliev are bordered with trees upon us. turning tees and putting greens with flowering branches, and creeping into skating rinks and covering everv vines and decorative entrances almost fairway with ten-foot drifts of snow, make one fancy himself in the country. the old cronies of the links can still get All of these department stores provide together in the comfortable rooms of putting tournaments and the courses the indoor schools to try their shots on are at all times crowded. nets and putting greens and be not too envious of the man who is playing out- The Windsor Golf Club has its main doors beside the waters of the Pacific, dining-room transformed into a putting or over warm stretches of Florida sands. GOLF MECHANICS AND PSYCHOLOGY

'Tuning Up" on the Approach Shot and A Larger Target on the Green.

BY BENJAMIN JEFFERSON

AS even a small Light on a dark sub- In a recent magazine article an au- 1~\. ject is not without value I ven- thority points out that the reason most ture to make public a course tested out of us play such wretched games of golf by me with excellent results. is because we use our brains, making it I was struck by the fact that the a sort of mental exercise. We try to physician with his stethoscope and the go through with certain preconceived engineer with his detectorphone listen motions. He says that the interference for perfect rhythm. They use their of the intelligence affords the explana- sense ot hearing to enable them to state tion of the fact that so many of our whether human machines or machines of keenest business men can be vanquished steel are in good order. by the humblest caddie. The man who Golfers who need over one hundred doesn't think, but simply plays golf, strokes to make the round may make is the one who wins. Good golf is a use of this fact because poor scores matter for the lower nerve cells. High- are the result of a defect in a human er consciousness destroys our balance golfing machine. The rhythm is im- and makes us poor, nervous, muscle- perfect ; the co-ordination of the nius- bound imitations of the real thing. cles i faultv. Of course in a general This expert* is correct in his de- way all who play olf realize this, ductions, and I hold with him that the but the failure of tin average business thing to do is to let the muscles take man to master the gai ic proves that no care of our stroke. But, whereas this remedy has as yet been discovered. writer speaks only of substituting the So let me advance the idea of "tun- sense of touch, as far as possible, for ing up" and doing it. of course, in con- "mental hazards," the "57 things we nection with the sense of hearing. In should remember," etc.. I go a step other words, let those golfers who are further and reinforce the senses of not in constant practice and right on touch and sight with the sense of hear- edge, realize that swinging the club ing. In short, I advocate "tuning up" through the turf a few times will auto- with a full knowledge of the end one is matically give rise to a gentle "swish" seeking. .sound, which, if noted carefully, will This tuning up is a very different indicate to them when they have at- tiling from taking a few sporadic tained the freedom and lightness neces- swings at dandelions, etc., or driving sary for perfect rhythmic motion. Ex- tremendously at imaginary balls, for, perts, of course, need nothing of this as the club passes to and fro, the ear kind and are outside of the scope of this should be greeted by as regular and method. I presume all golfers "wag- pleasant a sound as that produced by gle" with the idea of freeing their mus- a Corliss Engine. cles but it is only recently that the Many players who drive well and se- great importance of this "waggle" has cure a good brassie fall down upon the been insisted upon by experts, and the approach shot because they seem dis- fact pointed out that one main object posed to play it with uncertain nerves. of this exercise is to get rid of the Tuning up for two or three seconds is domination of mind over muscle. almost a guarantee of a good approach •Marshall Whltlach.

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shot. In most cases, no great amount the nature of his stroke. If he thinks of strength is required to land the ball of "shooting" at the hole, his action upon the proper section of the green. will resemble that of a pool player. On It is entirely a case of needing only the other hand, if he has in mind roll- a clean and well-directed blow. Now, ing his ball up on a newspaper, this having reached the green, we find the thought will go far towards securing same advantage arising from a few for him the delicacy which character- rhythmical swings of the putter. The izes the expert billiardist. The differ- popular habit of doubling one'self over ence between these two courses may be as though in acute pain and putting the best described by saying that, when one putter first in front of the ball and shoots at the hole and, fortunately, then behind, I am convinced is all un- strikes the opposite rim of the hole in necessary. A glance will do to secure such a manner as to drop in, the by- the aim and then a clean blow will bring the ball up to the hole. Here, standers breathe a sigh of relief and however, I recommend not aiming for everybody realizes that a most difficult the hole itself in a putt of any con- tiling has been executed. On the other siderable distance. Substitute a larger hand, when a ball conies over the green target, as I shall explain. Those dread- as though it were unwinding and, fin- ful proceedings upon the green which ally, just before it loses its motion, cost amateurs three, or even four, finds its way to the cup, every looker- strokes are caused, in part at least, by on exclaims: "How easy!" In the case aiming at too small an object. It is of the first putt, which is often deliv- like firing at a thimble on a barn door. ered with untuned nerves and muscles, One is almost sure to miss the thimble a miss is likely to be genuine disaster. and, in his anxiety, might even miss the In the ease of a stroke played in the barn door. Let the golfer who has second , if the ball does not find reached the green by a fair approach the cup, it remains hanging upon the

• shot and is more than ten or fifteen rim. Formerly, I was pretty sure to feet from the hole make a mental pic- be in for a harrowing experience on the ture of a newspaper spread over the green; but, since adopting the free-put- hole. Then, if he will try gently to roll ter motion in conjunction with the larg- his ball up to and upon his imaginary er target. I find that I am quite as newspaper, he will find he can do it likely to make the hole in one. as for- almost without effort. What the player merly, and I have the great advantage has in mind has everything to do with that I am always playing safe. NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

BY O. B. KEELEB

No line of comment on Southern fj;olf certain California golfing resort is eall- these days would be at all complete ing itself "The Pinehurst of the Paci- without a mention of Pinehurst—and fie." And only a few weeks ago Mr. the mention is likely to be rather ex- Henry S. Hale, millionaire owner of tensive- The Balsams, the farthest north of the

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George Adair of Atlanta, probably White Mountain resorts, announced that the foremost promoter of golf in the his dearest ambition was to make Dix- South, said the other day: "Pinehurst ville Notch "The Summer Resort Pine- is the golfing Mecca of the United hurst." States in winter." And that just about Of course, all this sort of thing im- describes it. plies an excellence and quantity of One pretty fair example of the wide equipment. Pinehurst has three de- and happy reputation of Pinehurst lightful eighteen-hole courses in full is the fact that other, and extremely operation seasoned, tempered by remote, resort courses are beginning to time and play, and corrected to style themselves "The Pinehurst of" so- conform to the best golfing stand- and so. For instance, we note that a ards. And another full-sized course NOTES FROM THE SOUTH 37

is in the process of construction, Brown of Huntingdon in a nineteen-hole with half of it open for practice play, affair, and then beating Steesc and and all the links well crowded by as Wilkerson more easily in the semi-final representative a golfing patronage as and final matches. Samuel Beekman of any American or European course can Metacomet won the secretary's trophy, boast. So the thousands who play an- and It. H. Hunt of Worcester captured nually at Pinehurst have stopped term- the consolation. Parker W. Whitte- • ing their favorite resort, "The Ameri- niore of Brookline turned in the low can St. Andrews." They feel it quite card in the qualifying round, an 81 sufficient to call it "Pinehurst." And turning the trick. everybody else knows what they are Pinehurst also supplies two of the talking about. early season illustrations of freak shots. A glance at the program indicates Harry A. Haldron of Agawam heroic- the class of tournament play this sea- ally played his ball out of a sand-box son. on one of the tees, not knowing he was entitled to drop, and H. W. Ormsbee Already completed are the Tenth An- of Alpine, finding his ball inside a tin nual Autumn tournament, December 3, can after a shot into the rough, pluckily 4, 5 and 6, for the President's and played the can, making the hole, No. 10 Governor's cups; the Tenth Annual on Course No. 3, in 6. Holiday, the last four days in Decem- ber; and the Eleventh Annual Mid- Mr. Ormsbee's play recalls a recent winter, January 6, 7, 8 and 9. shot by Harry Schraudenbach on the Atlanta Athletic Club course at East Now in prospect we have the Tenth Lake. Finding his ball in a sand pit Annual St. Valentine's, February 3, -1, and a paper sack at the same time, he 5, 6 and 7; the Eighth Annual St. Val- tore into the combination with a heavy entine's (for women), February 11, 12, niblick and wrenched the ball fairly out 13 and 14; the Tenth Annual Spring, of the sack and on to the green, amid March 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7; the Twelfth considerable applause. Annual United North and South Cham- pionship (women), March 21, 23, 24, A minister, the Rev. T. A. Cheatham 25 and 26; the Fourth Annual United of Salisbury, defeated the redoubtable Amateur-Professional (four-ball, best- "Col. Bogey," 1 up, in a recent bogey ball), March 27 ; the Fourteenth Annual match, with an allowance of a dozen "United" Open Championship, March strokes. James Barber of Englewood, 28; the Fourteenth Annual "United" with 26, finished 1 down to the "Colo- Amateur Championship, March 30, 31, nel." and the scratch players simply April 1, 2, 3 and 4; and the Sixth An- failed to show. nual Mid-April, April 9, 10 and 11. We pause to catch our breath after the list—and all "big " events ! Memphis golf fans are to have the Perhaps the liveliest tournament of opportunity soon to see James B. Simp- the early season at Pinehurst was the son of Milwaukee in an exhibition Autumn, in which Henry V. Seggerman match with W. C. Sherwood, before of Englewood won the President's Simpson goes to Los Angeles to play trophy from Charton L. Becker of in a big purse event and returns with Woodland, the result hanging in the a barnstorming tour of the Southwest. balance from the first to the nineteenth H. F. Smith of Nashville, president green, when Becker's brilliant try for of the Southern Golf Association, comes a half from just off the green missed in for a fine tribute, well deserved, by by an inch. A. A. Stagg of Chicago , who has been playing a showed excellent form in the consolation bit in the South, and attributes much end of the tournament, defeating G. F. of the game's growing popularity and I

NOTES FROM THE SOUTH importance in that section to the untir- list iis awaiting the opening of every ing and intelligent efforts of Mr. Smith eventt. since be became president in 1904. h Mr. Evans pays it is time to mingle The new eighteen-liole course of the the stories of great deeds by great play- ers with an occasional tribute to the Sarsfield Golf Clul> at Camden, S. C. "men or large affairs" who give un- has been open for play for two months, sparingly of their time and means to and is proving a fine and sporty attrac- make these things possible for the bril- tion. Among the early birds to try it liant players, who otherwise might lack out may be mentioned Lincoln Smith.

Burn's Cottage, Atlanta, <;«... where the golfing tendencies (if the Scots' members are restricted to a one-hole "course"

the opportunity to devote themselves to G. A. Shoemaker of St. David's, George their favorite sport. R. Cook and A. B. Forst of the Tren- ton Country Club, B. D. Ticknor of Wyantenuek. H. Marvin of Brookline, Reports from the Hampton Terrace C. H. Yates and John Cantey of Sars- course at Augusta, (ia., are to the effect field. and Mr. and .Mrs. C. Wiley of that the links are in the finest condition New York. of their history. J. R. Fnglis has as his Mr. Forst recently made a record 4 assistants this season two most able on the difficult fourteenth hole, an an- helpers in .1. ('. I'airman of Xorwich gle affair with a k215-yard approach and I- Decker of Elmsford, N. Y. The from the crook in the dog's-leg, with regular winter tournaments begin Janu- some heart-breaking hazards trapping ary l.'ith and an unusuallv large entry I he brassie shot unless it is perfectly NOTES FROM THE SOUTH 89 even placed. Another remarkable feat was Following are the remaining events at the making in one shot of the thir- Hot Springs: teenth hole, 160 yards along the lake February 10—Ladies' Flag Tourna- shore, by -Mr. Yates. ment. Tournaments got under way the first February 20-21—Washington's Birth- of the year, and the added prestige of day Tournament. the course has brought a great increase March <>-7—Annual Spring Tourna- in the entry lists. ment. U March 11-- Four-ball Foursome The baseball contingent certainly is Handicap. breaking into golf. We are constantly March 17—St. Patrick's Day Tour- hearing reports of the prowess of nament. "Chief" Bender of the Athletics, who is March 21—Handicap; Match Play good for an 80 on almost any course against Bogey. at any time. The "Chief" plays winter golf in Atlanta, by the way. The Hampton Roads Golf and Coun- # try Club is working out a plan to build And now comes the news that tin- a new and thoroughly modern club- first tournament of the year at Hot house on the shores of Hampton Roads, Springs turned up a gold medal for low accessible by small boats from ships qualifying score by R. B. McRoy, sec- in the harbor, and fitted up with living retary of the Boston American League accommodations for non-resident mem- Club, the Red Sox. Mr. McHoy won bers. This will mean the abandonment the medal with a card of 90, and then of the present club-house, which is half followed by winning the first flight a mile from the links. The new home cup, with George R. Mann of Little will be delightfully located in every Rock as runner-up. E. B. T. Hollen- way. berg of Little Rock won the second I. flight trophy, with H. A. Jones mana- Since the formal opening of the golf- ger of the Majestic Hotel, Hot Springs, ing season at Southern Pines. X. C as runner-up. Ernest Latta and T. H. the visiting contingent has been more Jackson, both of Hot Springs, cap- numerous than in any previous season. tured first and second places in the The first big event of the season, the third flight, all winners and runners- Annual Thanksgiving Day Flag Tour- up receiving handsome cups. nament, was won by C. P. Heyward. The Hot Springs course, under the R. J. Holden taking the second prize. direction of W. V. Hoare, has been put A number of important changes have in beautiful condition, and a recent al- been made in the course, and especially teration has produced a hole that might in the conveniences for practice. The be termed unique. The sixth hole has diamond on which the Philadelphia Na- been cut down to a scant 100 yards, an tional League Club hitherto has done odd pitch drive across a pond, with the most of its spring practice has been green right on the shore—a very spor- turned over to the golfers, and three ty little hole. The course record, 70. excellent practice tees have been loca- is held by Mr. Hoare, whose summer ted on it, one being in charge of the engagement is in Racine, Wis. The professional and used exclusivelv for amateur record is 80. Mr. Hoare has coaching purposes. W. Norton of recently returned from a visit to his I.akewood has that position, arriving old home in England, at Westward Ho! December 15th. also the home of J. H. Taylor, the Brit- The increased number of visiting ish champion, and lie is well equipped players has necessitated the building of with interesting gossip of the famous a new locker house for the men and Royal North Devon Golf Club. additional lockers for women players. • 40 NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

The old locker house has been altered "gowf." The Burns Club of Atlanta into a smoking-room for the men, with has a membership including some of an office for the manager, Mr. Lenker. the truest Scots that ever lamented the who is convalescing from a long and heather and sang sentimental ditties severe illness. about Loch Lomond. The club also The new nine holes opened Thanks- has a remarkably handsome home, a giving are giving the players a lot of replica of the "wee hoose" in which sporty experience, although they are in "Rabbie" Burns was born. But the fine shape. The bogey is 79, and the seven Scots acres of estate about the best score so far turned in is 8.5, by T. "wee hoose" looked just about hopeless A. Kelley. for a golf course. Nevertheless, there In spite of the number of visitors, is a golf course at the Burns Cottage— there is not much of the congestion and it probably is the smallest in Amer- noted at the hotels in previous seasons. ica—certainly as small as any other. A new and large hotel, the Hollywood, It consists of one hole, sunk in an has been opened, and the old Southern admirable sand green, circular, and Pines Hotel has been enlarged and re- provided with the clock numerals. The modelled. Its manager, Mr. McAdams, members have got so deeply into the is a crack golfer, by the way, and in miniature game that they are now figur- hearty sympathy with the penchant of ing on cutting fairways through a dense most of his guests. pine forest that surrounds the cottage. • Even Bobbie Burns has to share with Of course, as everyone knows, there the Royal and Ancient Game the de- is no way to keep a true Scot from votion of his admirers. 99 FOWNES VIYELLA r\ FLANNEL Regitttrtd

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TOM ANDERSON This well known golf professional, GOLF and probably the best greenkeeper in PUBLISHED MONTHLY the country, lias laid aside his clubs and joined the great majority. He Established by JOSIAH NEWMAN in 1894 hailed from in bonny Scot- Entered at Post-Office at N. Y. as Becond class matter land, where at North Berwick he had Published by GOLF, Incorporated, charge of the greens for nearly twenty _'sc Fifth Avenue. New York years. Arriving in this country he was Subscription Price Three Dollars a Year engaged by the Montclair Golf Club, Single Copies Twenty-five Cents in whose employ be remained until his Portage free I'nited States. Canada and Mexico. To death on December 22nd, at the early other foreign countries, .16 cents per year. Remit li\ Express. Money Order, Post Office Order. Registered age of 59. Letter, or Check payable to Golf Magazine. Inc. He was liked by all those with whom CLIFFORD L. TURNER Publisher he came in contact and was a great JHR Fifth Avenue. New York favorite amongst the professionals. His New England Representative jovial nature was always on top. but HARRY S. GOILD. 1 Beacon Street. Boston. Mass. when the serious moments of the game Western Representative arrived he was cool, deliberate and MALCOLM C. ACKRBACH, 507 Westminster Building, never got excited. Of his two sons Chicago, III. (both well known golfers) only young Boston Correspondent Tom survives, who is the professional .IOMN (i. ANDERSON, Fessenden School, at the Oakmont Country Club at Pitts- West Newton. Mass. burgh. Western Correspondent Manv professionals will no doubt at- i i IRLES Ev i\s. JR., The Rookery, Chicago, III. tend tic funeral, while hundreds of golf Southern Representative players, members and visitors to the 0. B. KIIIM:. (ieorgian American, Atlanta, Ga. Montclair Golf Club, will miss the kind- ly smile and cheery remarks of Tom Golf iii tlie North is about at an end. Anderson. The great open out-of-doors which lias - been the training-master to hundreds Publisher of GOLF. of thousands for several happy months Dear Sir: I wish to congratulate you is closing, or has closed, its season. igain upon the increased excellence of GOLF. What are you going to do about it? The number of really important articles on the game of golf makes the .Many of us will go South and renew magazine very readable and worth pre- our acquaintance with Mr. Putter, Mrs. servation, something that cannot be said Xiblick, etc., while others will allow of those periodicals that consist largely tin ir hard muscles to soften, the clear of golf news that we have all read in eye to dull, and genera] vitality to lose the daily newspapers at the time of the its grip. Why not jump at some kind tournaments. of winter exercise? The Golf School is 1 am very sorry to hear of Mr. Behr's open. Only a few hours a week will withdrawal from the editorship and I keep you in trim, so that when spring hope you will be able to get an editor breaks upon us again the links will who will keep up the level of the maga- welcome in sound condition our army zine maintained during the past year. of enthusiasts! In the mean time keep I have felt perfectly secure in recom- "I1 "iln the times by watching the mail mending GOLF to my friends. lor GOLF, the magazine that keeps you With hearty wishes for the continued posted and thai brings you the news excellence and prosperity of GOLF and of the golf links, clubs, and players all thanks for what you have already done over the world. lor us all. I am, vours sincerely. R. ABBOTT. No More Ideal Conditions for GOLF in America than at HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS

ERE among the unsurpassed natural beauty and matchless climate of the Ozark Mountains—owned, controlled and endorsed by the H United States government— is the 18-hole course of the Hot Springs Country Club, conceded generally by experts to be one of the best in the country. The distance between holes varies from 475 to 100 yards, and the hazards are of a nature to develop the most scientific shots. A bungalow club house from which a magnificent view is obtained is an attractive adjunct to the links. They are open to all visitors on payment ol a moderate maintenance lee.

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IMPRESSIONS OF SOME DARWINISMS Mr. Darwin finds that the adjectives "good" and "great" fittingly define the To the Editor: difference between the Brookline and " 'How am I vulgar?' asks the cul- the Myopia courses. Happily the prit shudderingly," in James Russell Brookline is so good and beautiful a Lowell's essay "On a Certain Conde- course that it can afford to smile at the scension in Foreigners." ' 'Because harsh greatness of Myopia. If golf thou art not like one of us,' answers Lucifer. Son of the Morning, 'and there on the Royal and Ancient links at St. is nothing more to be said.'' This was Andrews is standard golf, then golf at the passage in Mr. Lowell's delightful Myopia is not golf at all. essay which seemed to smile compas- In the West, Mr. Darwin reserved sionately upon me from every line in his condescending praise for the Old Mr. Darwin's "Impressions of Some Elm links, which will not be open for American Courses" in the November is- play before next summer or autumn. sue of GOLF. These links happen to have been partly Confessedly, Mr. Darwin has seen laid out by his friend Harry Colt, the but eight American courses before pass- English golf architect, who is strong ing j udgment upon them with all that on dog-leg holes and bunkers jutting condesension that makes the British out into the fairgreen. Having played visitor resent our being able to speak one of them you know the general quali- English as intelligibly as himself and ties of all. know his Shakespeare better. Had Mr. Darwin found time to visit As a result of this foreign attitude, Detroit he would have found a 6,400 Mr. Darwin's impressions of American yard course laid out by his friend Colt courses are all tinged with a patroniz- that already affords a test of golf equal ing bias in favor of those that come to if not better than Myopia. If Old nearest to his insular notions of what a Elm turns out to be its superior it will golf course should be. In the East, be because in its lay-out Mr. Colt had lie praises the National Links chiefly the advice of Donald Ross, whose work because it possesses "a seaside wind," on the three courses at Pinehurst blazed and the Myopia because of its "curly the way for scientific bunkering in putting greens," and "fine strong America. wind." Now, to the well-informed American One of the humors of Mr. Darwin's golf pilgrim, these two courses are comments on western courses lies be- largely considered the one as a tradi- hind his cavalier remark that the On- tion, the other as a great expectation. wentsia links will "assuredly never get It has become traditional to speak of to heaven on its golfing qualities." Mr. Myopia as a remarkable golf course, Darwin spent a very uncomfortable two but few of its visitors, not endowed witli hours accumulating a "beastly 90, you the qualities and stamina of a mountain know," on the gently undulating links goat, are particularly anxious to re- at Onwentsia, whereas he had romped visit its tricky, tiresome and brutal around the "good course" of the Chi- beauties a second time. From its ab- cago Golf Club at Wheaton in 78. surd first hole to its tricky eighteenth, Verily, Mr. Darwin will never get to its fairgreens abounds in difficulties that heaven on his golfing at Onwentsia. lie in wait for the high class player as It so happens that the Onwentsia well /is the blasphemous duffer. course is the most deceptive course to The Columbia Grand"Grafonola Price • 500.

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green of any course in tl e W< st. Un- though they may never get to heaven— like the VVheaton links, which were laid for which they are in no hurry—on their out to favor Charles A. Macdonald'.s golfing qualities. slice, the Onwentsia punishes a slice with impartial severity from the start I' to the seventeenth hole. The Onwent- It should prove of great interest to sia was one of the few courses in the eastern and western golfers to know United States where Vardon and Ray that work has already commenced on tailed to come within four strokes of the new course at the Florida Hills the record in two rounds played on per- Golf (lull. Tallahassee. Florida, and if fect putting greens when the fairgreen properly carried out the course should was baked, so that both drove occasion- develop into the finest in the South. ally over 350 yards, where the ground The location for a fine natural golt favored the fall. course excels any in Florida. The out- 'I lie Onwentsia possesses the real standing feature is the remarkable con- test of a golf course which Mr. Darwin tour of the ground, which is interest- mia

HE land of all-'year-round courses, green grass and vigor-giving sunshine — T where the greens are always green, and where, when the chill blasts of winter are bowling across the Eastern links, the climate is at its balmiest, and most ideal for Golf, California Golf" is no longer an experiment. It is just as advanced as New York Golf or Chicago Golf, with several things added that make it a whole lot more tun. Here you have every variety of links to choose from. Links in the vicinity of San Francisco resemble those of the East, with rolling hillsides and dose-clipped greens. In the southern part of the state the greens are often composed of level, hard-rolled sand, anil these courses afford any amount of natural hazard--. There are probably more prosperous, flourishing golf clubs here than in any other state in tlie Union. And, in addition, the large resort hotels maintain well-nigh perfeci links, with pro- fessionals in attendance. What is the Best Route for you to take to California ? There is only one correct answer — "SANTA FE ALL THE WAY." It is the only line from Chicago to California under ami tourist sleepers, are operated t>.\ Hie San I i I one management. That moans you get the benefit of 365 days in the year. perfeci organization. It is double-tracked over half w ay and guarded l>y block signals all tin- way. Tin it The Grand Canyon of Arizona is reached onij via insures your safety. the Santa Ke. [f you travel on the California Limited Two of the finest trains in the world run between a through sleeper takes you direct to the Canyon Chicago and California over this road - the San fa /•*. rim. Petrified Forests and the picturesque homes ol ./.• Luxe weekly, to ami from I.us Angeles, during the Pueblo Indians also are seen en route. I In' w inter season: and the California Limited daily all the year 'round, to and from Los Angeles, San Fred Harvej meal and hotel service insures the Diego and San Francisco. The de Luxe i* an extra- best of everything good I" eat throughout the cross fare train. Hnth honor only first-class tickets. They continent journey. guarantee you the height of travel luxury. Three You can ship your auto over the Santa Fe, too. . i through California trains, which carry standard We give special attention to such shipments. Write now Tor "Coif in California " folder, eontflinine lull particulars and photographs of'all tin- California golf courses, how lo reach them, etc. VV. J. BLACK, Passenger Traffic Manager, A.T. & S. F. Ry. System, 1939 Railway Exchange Building, Chicago.

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ingly rolling, even more so than at greens will be played on and bet- Brookline, Mass. The course will be ter greens cannot be found anywhere in of the most varied description, having the South. many fine natural hazards and com- No. 1 (500 yards) runs parallel with prising holes of an interesting and the Gulf of Mexico, the green being sporting character, from 180 to 510 located on an incline and it takes a yards. An unusual feature is that drive, a brassie and an approach to there is not a hole on which a ball may reach the green. be driven out-of-bounds. No. '2 (160 yards). An easy iron shot will land you nicely on the green but a pull will drop the ball down a hill, as the hole is situated on a knoll In connection with the opening of the next to tl'.e beach. This is rather a try- Gasparilla Inn at Boca Grande, Flor- ing hole and requires good judgment. ida, on January 1. 1914, the first nine No. 3 (100 yards). The teeing holes of an elegant eighteen-hole golf ground is located on a hill and it takes course that is now being constructed a good long drive and brassie to put you at that point will also be in readiness, within sufficient distance of the green and it is expected that some of the most to afford an approach shot. prominent golfers in the United States will be present, as the officers of the No. 4 (230 yards). A good driver Boca Grande Golf Club are now ne- will take a chance on clearing the ditch gotiating with Messrs. Tom MacNa- about 100 feet short of the green but mara, McDermott and Brady with a will invariably get caught. view of having these able golfers pres- No. 5 (333 yards). An easy hole if ent to participate in a tournament that the drive is straight. It will pay to be is being arranged. sure of your direction on this hole as Golf is growing more popular in otherwise you are liable to find your- Florida each season and a majority of self in serious trouble. the links have become so congested that No. 6 (420 yards). The fairgreen many lovers of this sport have found is flat and a long drive will be usually it difficult to indulge in the game, ex- in the open. cept under crowded conditions, suf- No. 7 (175 yards). A very narrow ficiently to derive the amount of pleas- hole and requires a good half iron. ure that naturally follows the game. Thick palmetto trees border on each It is with a view to partially relieving side of the fairgreen and the railroad these conditions that Boca Grande has, catches you on an overdrive. at a great expen.se, constructed one of the most beautiful links in the South. No. 8 (200 yards) is played over the railroad, which affords a good hazard A modern and up-to-date club-house for a topped ball. is now being erected on the grounds, opposite the teeing ground for Hole No. 9 (470 yards). Two good drives No. 1 and within fifty yards of the Gulf will place you within an easy approach of Mexico, and right on the edge of the of the green. However, a sliced ball beautiful shell beach for which Boca puts you out of bounds and a pull will Grande is famous. land you in the woods. The links are located on the Govern- The course has been constructed un- ment Reservation and are bounded by der the supervision of Mr. Harry the Gulf of Mexico on the west and Cowie, formerly connected with the Charlotte Harbor on the east. The Brunswick. Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla., country is naturally rolling and the Golf Clubs, and his services have course lias been well laid out. been retained as professional and in- Golfers will In- phased to know that structor. ^wift'sPremiumTalendar for 1914 The four subjects reproduced in this beautiful four leaf art calendar are painted in a new strong style.

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THE METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIA- winning net scores were at par or over TION'S REPORT FOR I913 par. The "Calkins" or par system of handicapping adopted by the Metropol- To secure the necessary preliminary itan Golf Association some nine years information to enable the committee to ago. is now invariably used in this dis- prepare the 1913 Handicap List the trict in handicapping tournaments not usual blanks were sent to the clubs on held under the auspices of this Associa- January SO, 1913, with the request that tion, and we observe that the net scores they be returned by February 7th. As in these special tournaments during the usual, most of the clubs failed to make season were verv satisfactory. their reports promptly, and when the Handicap List was turned over to the printer about the middle of March, four of the sixty-eight clubs were still de- linquent. It will therefore be seen that Ax INTERESTING LETTER FROM ST. this year's committee met with the usual ANDREWS difficulty in obtaining reports, and we Messrs. Martins. Birmingham. Ltd., again make the request for the benefit Birmingham. England. of next year's committee that all the Dear Sirs: Flaying with Mr. Fred clubs in the Association send in their re- Mackenzie in a medal competition of ports promptly and thus lighten the the new club at St. Andrews, over the labors of the Handicap Committee. old course. I had the honor of seeing From the manner in which some of him establish a world's record so far the reports were prepared by local com- as St. Andrews is concerned. His mittees it is evident that two or three score was 69, made up as follows: clubs are still basing their handicaps for their Saturday and holiday competi- Out 3 i 3 3 .» i- .") l2 i—33 tions on bogey or on a "scratch ' man. In . 424 5 ;-) 4. J. I 1—36—69 but if those clubs would base such There was not a semblance of a fluke handicaps on par, it would surely sim- during the whole round, the holes se- plify their work when making their re- cured in 3 and 2 only requiring short port to the Association Handicap Com- putts on the green. mittee and would also tend to make The newspapers state the course is their figures more reliable. It would not at full medal length. It may be no doubt, too, be a convenience to their short by a matter of about '.200 yards, members when visiting other courses, not more, but it has to be borne in mind as .ill but a few clubs in this district that never in the history of St. An- now handicap on the par basis. drews has there been so much grass in The Handicap List was issued on the fairway, with a consequent absence April 1. 1913. It contained 536 names, of run. The wind was northeast, and arranged alphabetically and in groups, its strength may be gauged by the fact and in preparing it the committee had that at the fourth bole (417 yards), to consider about l,£00 names. long driver as Mr. Mackenzie is. it Although the committee requested, in required a full brassie to reach the green a note at the foot of the printed Handi- in ->. cap List, that clubs report voluntarily throughout the season whenever a play- To conclude, I need hardly say the er shows permanent improvement in ball used was a large Zodiac. Put form, this year not a single club so re- down new at the first tee it was ab- ported. solutely unmarked at the finish, and on During the season there were four- the last green was running as true as teen Handicap Tournaments held and a billiard ball. I remain. the results were extremcnlv satisfac- Yours very truly, tory as with but three exceptions the W. J. RUSACK. Traps and Green, the 1 5th hole. The Country Club. Brookline, Mass. Carter's Grass Seed used exclusively on this championship course. All the Championship and Prominent Golf and Country Clubs throughout the World are today using

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Vardon and Ray. during their tra- below , James Braid, vels, met many old friends, Archie Douglas Rolland and Maurice Dange. Simpson among the number. Simpson The last named—a product of the Biar- never won , but ritz school of golf—was once described there was a time when he was one of by Braid as the longest driver the game the outstanding personages of golf. He had ever known. is a veteran now. and some of his old power is gone. "I'm playing the game all the while," he declared to Vardon; he meant that it was an effort to him, Harry Vardon tells the following whereas it used to be as easy as shell- story: ing peas. At the Shawnee Club the qualifying Somebody recently started a discus- round of a ladies' competition was in sion as to who was the longest driver progress. ever seen on a golf course. Archie Simpson couldn't be claimed for the It so happened that the number of distinction, but he would not be far off. entrants was exactly the same number With the gutta-percha ball he once as would qualify, but although every- drove to the edge of the putting green body was bound to succeed there were of the sixth hole at St. Andrews, and special prizes and so the event had to that was a distance of about 350 be decided. yards. One lady hit a tee shot into a stream Simpson had a tremendously full just short of the green. As she was swing and great power, but in the cate- bound to qualify if she finished she gory of long drivers he would be placed resolved to play out the hole. Notice to All Golfers Did you get your Parlor Golf game for Christmas? If not, your holidays were not as merry as they could have been. Parlor Golf is that splendid game which Francis Ouimet says "affords fine practice for those who are in- clined to be unsteady in their putting." We still have a few of these fascinating games left. Send $2.00 to- day for yours. Postpaid within 500 miles of New York; 25c. extra elsewhere. Interesting Illustrated Literature on Request. PARLOR GOLF CO., 95 River Street, Hoboken, N. J.

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/// answering advertisements please mention GOLF 53 THROUGH THE GREEN 54 With her husband she put out in a certain cases golf was not particularly healthy. But, according to physicians, boat and rowed to where her ball was there are ailments which especially af- floating. Shot after shot she made in fect the golfer. the water without avail. The good player and the inferior With every shot her husband received plaver exercise entirely different mus- a sort of shower bath, but she stuck to cles when playing. A plus man lets her work. Ultimately she landed the his body turn on its own accord when ball a mile and a quarter down stream playing a tee shot, and there is a cer- —and then hit into a woods. She holed tain strain on the hips in so doing. out in 1(5() and the In the mashie shot Shawnee Club pre- Vardon will stand sented her with a with his left foot special cup for qual- pointing to the line 11 ifying. of direction and his T h right foot at right angles. If any or- The Austrian peo- dinary golfer at- ple are evidently tempted such meth- taking an increased ods he would fall interest in things over at the finish of athletic, as is evi- the stroke. Many denced by the fact invalids are invari- that W. D. ("Bill") ably sent upon the Kilgour. the well- links to recuperate, known professional but it must not be at the Manhattan forgotten that the Golf Club. Pelham great risk attaching Bay Park, has been to a game of golf is engaged to lay out that one may reach an eighteen - hole the ninth hole to golf course near find a heavy rain- Prague. in the storm approaching. heart of Bohemia, Bill" Kilgour driving from the first The invalid may be . It was tt-e at Pelham Golf Club a mile from the club- Mr. Henry Waldes house. He has no desire to get wet, who. after playing his first game of for it would be the unwisest thing for golf in America, became so enthusiastic him to do in his condition. He is in that he decided to have a golf course an awkward predicament, and he is in- constructed in Prague, a place where deed lucky if he finds that the club golf has never been played. Kilgour has erected a shelter at the turn, but has already sailed, and will spend some this is extremely rare. little time in the British Isles, from which he graduated as a golfer. He The air of the links immediately wants to look over the field, to note benefits him. In a day or two, granted the very latest developments there, and fine weather, he feels a different man. on his return purposes bringing back and he supposes he is practically from Scotland a big stock of golfing fit and well. On the morrow he material for next season at Pelham Haw plays two hard rounds. Golfers are such erratic people that they invari- ably overdo things. No man should attempt a second round when he has It will no do t surprise a number of been unwell, for it is courting disaster. :ople if it could be proved that in Golf is certainly most beneficial to For Pinehurst iSSiili^Sland other Southern Golf Courses

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In answering advertisements please mention 55 56 THROUGH THE GREEN everyone who takes it quietly. There made by the left wrist, and the left is an old story related by a golfer who, wrist alone. whenever he 'had been laid up, always That statement is made in their writ- started his convalescence under a strict ten exposition of the stroke, but anyone routine. On the first morning, when he who has ever seen the triumvirate play was well enough to go out, he brought must have noticed that they do nothing with him a putter and spent a few hours of the kind in practice, on the putting green. The second day he If it were true it would follow that reached the links at exactly the same the first visible motion in the drive hour; but passers-by noticed he had a would be the movement of the elub- mashie with him. back and away He spent the early from the ball im- hours of this day mediately after the pitching balls up to address. Now watch the hole. any good profes- On the third day sional closely and he came with an you must notice a iron and approach- mysterious move- ed the same hole, ment indicative of standing a hundred great power and yards or so farther ease before the club- back. The next day head has moved. he was armed with What is this move- a cleek. and he play- ment ? ed to the hole from Let us see. Ima- a very long way gine you had to back, and then, on drive a stiff peg in- the fifth day, he ar- to the ground with rived on the tee with a sledge hammer, a full set of clubs would you begin and a serious op- with your wrists or ponent, ready to even your arms ? fight a great match Not a bit of it! against the suppos- You would take ed old gentleman your stance and at who had been laid once get your shoul- up. Mr. Waldes, who has arranged for Kil- ders into the stroke gour to construct an eighteen-hole and let your shoul- Our invalid had golf course at Prague, Bohemia been a wise man, ders swing your for, by now, he was in excellent trim arms and the hammer over your head, and ready to play the best on his own and then bang on to the peg with mark. He had taken things quietly, every ounce of weight and strength that Four Golf will always be a healthy game you are capable of. That is how the when players understand its mission. professionals drive from the tee; they . get their shoulders into the stroke be- fore the club-head has moved: Immedi- atelv the shoulders have made the ini- To the Editor of The Daily Mail, El tial movement all the rest thev have land. written about the stroke takes place in Sir: "A Wandering Player" in The the order they have so laboriously ex- Daily Mail has the authority of almost plained in a'hundred manuals. Why every writer on the game, including all writers on the game should be so lavlor. Braid, and Vardon, for the unanimous and consistent in ignoring statement that the initial movement is the most important part of the golf The Latest Appeal to Common Sense THE BURKE ENDGRAIN WOOD HEAD Approved and adopted by the greatest golfers in this country and Great Britain. The grain is at right angles to the striding face. The neck is of second growth hickory, glued to the endgrain HEAD PROPER with water-proof cement. The simplest invention is always the best. RESULTS Write for Catalog. GUARANTEED. SECTIONAL VIEW Longer Drive. THE GOFTEN Better Feel. MFG. CO. Greater Durability. Newark, Ohio. More Confidence.

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In anwerinir advertitemekts please mention GOLF 57 58 THROUGH THE GREEN swing is a mystery, indeed, in this age There are occasions, of course, when of precision. Another interesting point a stymie is impossible of negotiation, to the one already under discussion: and then it is hard luck for somebody. James Braid, in his work on "Advanced On the other hand, one's ball will some- Golf," advocates that to cure "slicing" times lie in such a position to the hole the right hand should be placed more as to afford a splendid guide. So, after under the shaft of the club. Many all, taking one thing with another, there other professionals advocate exactly is not much to complain about in the the opposite, and state that if the right happenings on the putting green. hand be placed more over the shaft The rule referred to by your corre- "slicing" will be cured. Also an ama- spondent regarding balls lying within a teur of considerable position as a golf- club length of each other through the er, in his "First Steps in Golf/' re- green, in which case the ball lying cently published, advocates the latter nearer the hole may be lifted, does not theory, and even gives an excellent il- seem to me to bear very much upon the lustration to show the position of the case of the stymie, for the simple rea- hands. son that not once in a blue moon does How is one to reconcile two such ab- it occur that one ball is found to balk solutely opposed theories? Possibly the other through the green. both theories may be correct according The alteration made to the rules by to the type of player. As a mere sug- the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of gestion, for instance, it may be that St. Andrews in September 1908, made Braid's theory is correct for a player it compulsory to play stymies in com- with somewhat inelastic wrists and fore- petitions. That was the death-knell to arms, while the other theory may be the opposition, who fell back crushed, correct for a player whose tendency to and little has since been heard against slice comes rather from some shoulder the stvmie. or body movement. Can some players throw further light on this question? It was stated the other day, by a doctor, that owing to the golfer's na- tural tendency to turn his toes inwards A reader of one of the English daily papers, writes: when driving and swinging he was be- coming increasingly inclined to point I beg leave to doubt if your golfing them that way, even when off the links, correspondent in his remarks about and, moreover, that nowadays every- "The Stymie." is expressing the gen- body who desired to be taken for a good eral opinion of golfers throughout the country. He, apparently, would like golfer deliberately made himself pigeon- to see the ancient stymie banished for toed. Such remarks, in such a paper, all time. But surely, sir. there is a naturally provide food for thought. "for" as well as "against," even in re- There certainly are people whose ten- gard to this ancient thing! dencies appear to consist principally of Everybody must recognize that a very "doing" only those things that are "be- great amount of skill is required to ing done." Such folk are to be found negotiate a stymie. To pitch one ball in large numbers in many of Great over another and find the tin is one Britain's golf clubs. If, therefore, the of the most skilful shots in the game, idea gains currency that the turning in and to hole a curly putt is no shot for of one's toes is the hall-mark of the the novice. Moreover, to know just crack golfer, the awful conseqences what to do when faced with a stymie which may ensue may indeed be "bet- calls for judgment and resource. ter imagined than described." NORTH CAROLINA Center of Winter Out-of-Door Life in the Middle South Carolina JVO OPEN Through Pullman from New York. The finest golf courses in the South; 1,200 miles of connect- i ing automobile roads; 40,000 acres shooting pre- serve with good guides and dogs; fine livery of saddle horses; fox hunting, tennis, trap shooting, model dairy; frequent tournaments in all sports. No consumptives received at Pinehurst. Full information on request at the General Office, Pinehurst, N. C, or Leonard Tufts, Boston, Mass.

Henderson's Grass Seed Mixtures "GOOD TURF KINDLES A GOLFER'S HEART."—HarryVardon E HAVE given much attention to Grasses for Golf Courses. When Golf first became popular, one of our representatives visited several of the famous W Scotch Links and found that most of the grasses which formed these Links can be grown here. The mixtures we offer below are largely composed of such varie- ties as will thrive here with the addition of several equally fine American varieties, and are the result of experiments conducted on our grounds, as well as careful watching for several years of the practical results obtained on Golf Courses sown with our grass seeds. By the use of these Mixtures, and with proper care, the finest Fair Greens and Putting Greens in the world can be successfully rivalled, and if conditions are favorable, a good playing turf may be secured in eight weeks from time of sowing and lasting indefinitely. As an example of what may be accomplished with Henderson's Golf Course Grass Seed we will mention that of the Eagle Nest Golf and Country Club in the Adirondack Mountains. On May 15th the ground was bare, having just been plowed and harrowed. It was then sown with our Grass Mixtures, the same as offered below, and the Course was in first class playing condition by July 15th, exactly eight weeks from time of sowing. Several members of our establishment are golfers. We thoroughly under- stand the requirements, and will at all times be pleased to correspond with and advise Greens Committees. HENDERSON'S "PUTTINO QREEN" ORASS MIXTURES. Price, DELIVERED FREE IN THE U. S.. 35c. qt., SI.25 lor 4 qts., $2.00 pk.. $7.00 bush, of 25 lbs. Sow at the rate of S to 8 bushels per acre, according to the nature of the soil. HENDERSON'S "FAIR OREEN" OR ASS MIXTURE. Price. DELIVERED FREE IN THE U. S., per 100 lbs. at 25c. Ib. Sow 75 to 150 lbs. per acre. 35-37 CORTLANDT ST. PETER HENDERSON & CO. NEW YORK CITY

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MAKES GRASSY PUTTING GREENS To secure a fine growth of grass in four weeks on LEE CLUBS putting greens, mix equal parts of black loam and Scotland and America clasp hands over Sheep's Head "LEE" Golf Clubs. Gibson, Creighton, Anderson, Stewart and Nicoll contribute Sheep Manure the heads—America's best skilled crafts- Add to this one-fourth to one-third its weight of very tine sand, allow to stand men the shafts and finishing. "LEE" two weeks, and a few days before using add grass Clubs are "internationally made" clubs. seed. This will produce a turf that grows tinner and better when trampled upon. The best fertilizer for golf links, parks, country HARRY C. LEE & CO. clubs, large estates, etc Write for bonklet and prices. 91 Chambers Street : : NEW YORK NATURAL GUANO CO., 809 River St., Aurora, III.

[ MAGNOLIA; 5PRINQ5 HOTEL — ON ST. JOHN'STRIVEK. 28 MILES SOUTH OF JACKSONVILLE, In private 600-acre To improve your game, play with park "f Long Leaf Pine. Dry, salubrious air ; pure spring water; golf; tennis, pool, etc., Itl hotel; elevator; strain heat; elec- tric lights; quail, snipe, duck shorn in^. #4 INGLIS' daily, #-Jl—$'J.H weeU. Private baths extra. a 0. D.SEAVKY, Manager, Perfect Balanced Clubs I BOCA GRANDE GASPARILLSPARILLA INN I I. o It I DA J. R. INGLIS Second season, first-class, everything new and modern, opens a Falrvlew Country Club, Elntstord. N.Y. January 1st, 1914, under management of Mr. Frank H. Abbott • Through Pullman Buffet Sleeper leaves Jacksonville daily, 9 30 'April to November P.M., over Atlantic Coast Line, arriving Boca Grande. 12 noon, following day.

In answering adverftSTjiicnts please mention GOLF fil THROUGH THE GREEN

INTERESTING VISITS TO GOLF CLUBS The course .stands high with the best BY OCR PRESIDENT courses in the East. There are plenty of natural hazards and only one flat The first Saturday in November was hole, the balance being undulating and a perfect day, but I failed to take hilly. advantage of it. thinking that I The fourth hole is a little out of the could enjoy a long day Sunday on ordinary (368 yards) blind hole, re- the links; but alas, Sunday proved quiring a long drive and stiff mashie. a dismal failure for fulfilling my An apple orchard lies between and if anticipations, and I started in a you overapproach a beautiful supply of driving snowstorm. Two alternatives long grass takes care of you at once presented themselves—a dollar taxi or a nickle car. I admit I proved The most difficult hole is the tenth myself a worthy Scotchman in my (360 yards), requiring a very straight choice. Duly arriving at my des- drive; ditches and woods on right and tination, about three miles out, on left which will catch a slightly pulled the Troy road. I was surprised at ball and an overapproaeh will get into the dimensions of the club-house, which very bad grounds. is beautifully situated some distance The eighteenth hole (283 yards) is back from the road. Unfortunately, close to the club-house and gives a mag- the snow prevented my taking a com- nificent finish. The approach is easy plete trip over the links, but I contented after a good drive, although the green myself with the distant view and a care- is bunkered all around by pits and ful inspection of the club-house, etc. raised banks. The history of golf in Schenectady 4- dates back seventeen years (1896). The amateur championship date for when the Sehenectady Golf Club was the Sandwich meeting of 1914 has been organized, with the late S. Dana Greene fixed, and the 18th May agreed on as as president. Within a year later mem- the first day of the carnival—a week bers of Union College started The Col- lege Hill Golf Club, and it was the earlier than the St. Andrews champion- amalgamation of these two clubs in 1898 ship of 1913. A Mav meeting is im- that originated the now famous eight- possible for many Scottish golfers of een-hole Mohawk Golf Club, the presi- the plus and scratch order, and there dent of which today is L. R. Emmett. is the further handicap of a journey to Its prosperity can be imagined when Sandwich — a handicap which will its membership stands at nearly 1,200. weaken the Scottish contingent in num- It might be interesting to state that bers and influence. in May, 1907, the original club-house was destroyed by fire and a year later the present building was completed, A three-cornered fight for the West- which is of the Dutch colonial style. ern amateur golf championship tourna- The course is 18 holes, 6,272 yards; ment of 1914 is expected at the meeting par 73, bogey 81 ; present amateur rec- which, it was announced, would he held ord 70 and professional 72. in Chicago on January 17th. The scenic attractions of the links The Kent Country Club, of Grand are equal to any in the country. On Rapids; the Omaha Country Club and a clear day, from the fourth and fifth the Mayfield Country Club, of Cleve- boles, five ranges of mountains are in land, have made application for the sight, while the view from the sixth amateur tournament and the Olympic green covers the Mohawk and Hudson Cup competition which precedes it. valleys, the city of Schciuctady, the The Interlaken Country Club of club-house and entire links, which prop- Minneapolis is the only bidder for the erty comprises 165 acres. open championship. Don't Wear a Truss! Itrooks' Appliance Is anew scientific discovery with automatic air cushions that draws the broken parti together and binds them ftS you would a broken limb. It absolutely holds llrnily and comfortably and never slips, always light and cool and eon forma to every movement of the budv without chafing OF liurtim:. 1 make it to your measure and send it to you on a strict guarantee ol satisfaction or money refunded and I have put my price BO low thai any- body, rich or pour, can buy it. Ite- uienibei, I make it lo your order—send it to you—you wear it -and if it doesn't satisfy you, you send it back to me and 1 will relunil your money. The bitika or any responsible citizen in Marshall will tell you that it is (be way I fto business—always abso- lutely on the BQaare and I have sold to thousands of people Ibis way, for the past 30 years. Kei Member, I use m 1 salves, no harness, no lies, no fakes. I just give you a straight business deal at a reasonable price. C. E. BROOKS. 1743 State St.. Marshall. Michigan.

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TOWNSEND MOWERS TOWNSEND'S GOLF WONDER The only Mower on earth specially designed to cut the Putting Greens. The only Mower that will cut the grass right down to the soil. Cuts twice as fast as any other on earth. Runs easy, having ball-bearings throughout. The only Mower fitted with a Grass Ca'cher thit will hold all the grass after catching it. TOWNSEND'S HORSE MOWER Instantaneous change of height of cut. Triple rolls with triple pawls in each roll. Instant control of blades without leaving seat. S. P. TOWNSEND & CO. ORANGE, N. J.

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JANUARY MARCH 6-10 Pineburst, X. C, Mid-Winter Tourna- 2- 7 Pinehurst, X. C, Spring Tournament. ment. C- 7 Hot Springs, Ark., Annual Spring 9-10 Hot Springs, Ark., Annual New Year's Tournament. Tournament. 6-11 Palm Beach, Fla.. Florida State Cham- 20-24 Palm Beach. Fla., New Year Tourna- pionship. ment. 12-15 Ormond, Fla., Ormond Championship. 14 Hot Springs, Ark., Handicap Four- FEBRUARY Ball Foursome. 3- 7 Pinehurst. X. C. St. Valentine's 17 Hot Springs, Ark., St. Patrick's Tournament. Tournament. Flag Tournament. 9-13 Palm Beach, Fla., South Florida 21 Hot Springs, Ark., Handicap Match Championship. Play vs. Bogey. 10 Hot Springs, Ark., Ladies' Flag 21-26 Pinehurst, N. C, North and South Tournament. Women's Championship. 11-14 Pinehurst, N. C, St. Valentine's 27 Pinehurst, N. C, Amateur-Professional Tournament for Women. Four-Ball Match. 16-19 Ormond, Fla., Ormond Beach Cham- 2S Pinehurst, N. C, North and South pionship. Open Championship. 17-20 Palm Beach, Fla.. Women's Cham- 30 April 4 Pinehurst, N. C, North and South pionship. Amateur Championship. 20-21 Hot Springs, Ark., Washington's Birthday Tournament. APRIL 23 Bahama Islands, Annual Tournament. 26-27 Palm Beach. Fla.. Open Invitation 9-11 Pinehurst, N. C, Mid-April Tourna- Tournament. ment. *

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JUNE- DUNN'S GOLF SCHOOL LIKE 24 EAST 42nd STREET, NEW YORK WEATHER Telephone 5793 Murray Hill Run away from the YVin-- try blasts and come to Dunn'sGolf School most advanced Golf at Bournemouth, i School and quite England, has been V L • t described in the J! the pioneer or many Pine Forest Inn "Golf Monthly" by f useful improvements 150 Rooms 80 Private Bath* Mr. Hilton as "the for teaching the game." SUMMERVILLE, S. C. The Place of Contentment 12 LESSONS, $10.00; HALF HOUR LESSONS, $1.00 Open Dec. 1st GOLF CLUBS TO MEASURE A SPECIALTY Summer Time—All the Time 18 Hole Golf Course Adjustable Hole-Rim or Cup One of the best ever, and nothing; like it in the for Putting Greens. Sunny South A splendid course for medium Seamless PRESSED STEEL, Galvanized. players and beginners. Thin and stiff. Holds its shape. No mud on Competent Instructors, and all Golf ball. No water in Cup. Lip of Cup accu- supplies always on hand. rately adjusted up or down, relative to sur- face, without removing Cup. No sharp Mar- COTTAGES FOR RENT ker-Rods, or Bamboo Spikes. Booklet upon request. - Riding - - Driving - ARTHUR L. JOHNSON CO., Trap Shooting and Gunning 22 miles from Charleston, S. C. 180 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. Through Sleeping Car Service from New York. F. W. Wagener & Co. Proprietors Dixon s Golf Pencil Ralph J. Herkimer, Manager Illustration shows actual size. Send for Booklet Contains two inches of smooth Anglo-Saxon lead. Makes clean, clear score marks. Sharpened ready for use. At your club or stationer, or write for sample No. 63-J. Joseph Dixon Crucible Co.. CityN.J.

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II. K. KBITH'I umnnnonuc 8thAV.,4td,44thsts. Daily (| gtreett .,,rlrl,ii BroadwaBroadway HIPPUUKUM t Mat. 8. Best Seats |i. Evs, 8, COLONIAL ALL STAK VAUDEVILLE ECHOED FROM LOFOTEN TO LABRADOR Best Show in Town. Daily Matinees 25c, and 50c. 1,000 1'eople. Carnival of Sports. » Fire Engines. A. » ^1 » HJ » 4* « I • O » A. PROCTOR'S 5th AVE. ^V^eV A Parlor Theatre for Polite People. Home of Novel HAMMERSTEIN'S VICTORIA THEATRE ExelusiveTiess in Amusement Features. THE THEATRE OF VARIETY «<1 St. & Times So.. Daily Matinees. Likable Prices. HIGH CLASS VAIDEVILLE. Daily Mats.. Me-. & 50c.

Eva. H.in. Mat. THEATRE, F.VS.S.SO. WINTER GARDEN g.10. Mats. Tues. & Sat. a.so. LEW FIELDS Presents with THE MARRIAGE GAME Star Cast. Pleasure Seekers By ANNE CRAWFORD FLEXNER

HARRIS THEATRE 39TH STREET THEATRE NEW YORK'S Evenings sio. GREATEST SUCCESS, A D E L E Mats Wed. & Sat. AT BAY B'way. SOtli St. Evs. 8.85. Mats 'SURE Sl'CCESS"-Times. weil. & Sat. 8.25. A (Meat Actor in a Thrilling Play. B'way. 44th St. Eves. 8:15 MR. CYRIL MAUDE Mat. Wed., and Sat. 2.15 in the tremendously successful comedy drama DAVID BELASCO PRESENTS THEATRE OF THRILLS, ofB.way, Eva.B.8O. Mats.Wed.&8at.2.80, THE MAN INSIDE OSK-A^JT ' "The Bride," "The Black Mask,""J!u88la," PLAYS , "En Deshabille,""Hail Karl." A Drama of Crime by Roland B. Molineux

KNICKERBOCKER, Broadwayand »8th St. JOTU CT THEATRE. Evs. 8.15. Mats. Evs. :\t s.m. Mats. Wed. and Sat. 2.10. ^° *• *» >-»•••• Tluirs. .S: Sat. .'.l.i. WM. H. CRANE — DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS By GEORGE BROADHl'RST \>lt:i.i\ l!l\<.ll \>l A PATRICIA «<»I.I,I\«;K iV ABRAHAM S. SCHOMEK in THE NEW HENRIETTA

w MAXISE ELLIOTT'S THEATRE, NEW AMSTERDAM ffir Evs. 8.S0. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 8.S0. THE LITTLE CAFE Bi-st Seats $1.50. THE LURE bj C. M. S. McLellan & tvan Caryll. PI AYHOIKF +stl> St. E. of Bway.Evs. 83.0. GEO. 'S THEATRE, B'way& IS St. rLrt • IH-JUJL. Matinees Wed. & Sat.2.S0. M J Evs.8.15. Mats Wed.& Sat POTASH & PERLMUTTER THE THINGS THAT COUNT

f> AlrTU Broadway, iiilli St. Evs. 8.30. AATU CT MUSIC Daily Mats. 25c. to ll.Ott. UMIE I I Mats, Wed. >V Sat. 8.80. *t*¥ IH Oil HALL Evs. 25C. to 11.50. THE s T R A NGE ELSIE FERGUSON wo M A N LEW FIELDS, Proprietor

B>W8 ftlh FMPIRF -y. -> St. Eves, at 8:10. EVA TANGUAY OWN CO.

iLmrii\E. Mat8 Sat _ Tues and Wed THEATRE, 4f,tli St ,W. of B'w»y. ETHEL BARRYMORE Kvs. 8.16. Mats. Tlnirs. and Sat SJJ. in the New Comedy, THE GREAT ADVENTURE Tj,1 alllnf«c by C. Haddon Chambers. Pounded '»n the novel of that name by Anne by Aim.Id •(«• It. based Douglas Sedgwlck. un Uia novel, *" lliirli'il Alive.** ACTOR rHEATRE, 45th St. & B'way. Evs. 8.«fl HO I Ufl Mais. Wed. & Sat. / :iily Kxcepl Sat., 16c, Mi1., wn1. lh« same nitni* b; Karl Dei r Mutter, Kyeulnyaiul Bnt. Mitts.,21o. to S.ioo. Hinoking I'BrinltBo*

66 /» aniwering advertisements please mention GOLF WINTER GOLF on the Florida East Coast St. Augustine Golf Club. PONCE de LEON, Ormond Beach Golf Club. StRober. Augustint Murray, Mgr. e New 18-hole golf course on the rolling sand THE ALCAZAR, dunes along the ocean. Club house and bath- Wm. McAuliffe, Mgr. ing pavilion. Ormond Beach Tournament, February 16-19. Ormond Championship, March 12-15. Local Tournaments held weekly. Ormond Spring Tournament, March 16-18. HOTEL ORMOND, D. J. Trudeau, Mgr. Palm Beach Golf Club—18-holes. Schedule of Principal Events. Palm Beach New Year Tournament, January 20-24. Lake HOTEL ROYAL POINCIANA, Worth, February 2-6. South Florida Cham- H. E. Bemis, Mgr. pionship, February 9-13. Women's Cham- THE BREAKERS, pionship, February 17-20. Open Invitation, Leland Sterry, Mgr. February 26-27. Florida State Championship, March 6-11. Beautiful Booklet of Golf and Tennis Events Mailed on Request. The Palm Beach Country Club is constructing Miami a new 6000-yard course for use in 1915. HOTEL ROYAL PALM, J. P. Greaves, Mgr. Miami Golf Club. New Course, ten minutes from hotel. Electric busses. Delightful sail up Miami River. Nassau Most picturesque course in the South. Steam- Bahama Islands ers sail from Miami. THE COLONIAL J.W.Greene, Mgr. Annual Tournament, February 23.

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In answering advertisements please Dietitian GOLF <>7 golfers' fiotel Directory Length Course Rates Hotel Open Greens City Holes Yards Day Week

Asheville, N. C. ... Grove Park Inn 18 5,492 1 3 AH Year Turf Mar.-August Atlantic Beach, Fla.. Continental .. . 9 3,100 Also $8 per Mo. Augusta, Ga Bon Air 18 5,853 Dec.-May Sand Augusta, Ga HamptonTerrace 18 5,900 1 4 Jan. -May Sand Belleair, Fla Belleview 18 5,800 No charge Jan.-Apr. Turf Bethlehem, N. H. .. . Sinclair 18 5,783 May-Oct. Turf Mount Pleasant. Bretton Woods, N. H. July 1-Oct. 30 Turf Mt. Washington. 18 6,240 Boca Grande, Fla. . . Gasparilla Inn . . 9 2,900 Jan.-April Grass Buckwood Inn Shawnee-on- Delaware, Pa. 18 6,119 Grass Buck Hill Falls, Pa.. The Inn. 9 75c. J May-Oct. Grass Dec. Camden, S. C Kirkwood 18 5,910 Sand June-Oct. Turf Crawford Notch, N.H. Crawford House 9 White Sulphur All Year Greenbrier Co.,W.Va. Springs 2,675 Gulf port, Miss Great Southern Grass Guests at Hotel may play on Miss. Coast All Year "ountry Club. No charge 3,075 Turf Hot Springs, Ark.. .. Park Hotel Golf and Country All Year Club 18 All Year Sand Arlington! Moderate 18 6,000 All Year Turf Eastman V charge Majestic j Hot Springs, Va Old Homestead. 18 5.100 June to Oct. Jefferson, N.H The Waumbek 18 May-October Turf Lake Champlain,N.Y Champlain 18 6,071 Turf Manchester-in-the- June to Oct. Mountains, Vt Equinox House 18 5,927 June to Oct. Turf Maplewood, N. H.... Maplewood 18 5,500 January 1 Turf Miami, Fla Royal Palm.... 9 3,200 June-Oct. Mt. Washingt'n, N.H Fabyan House... 9 January 8 Turf Nassau, Bahamas. .. - The Colonial.. 9 2,500 Hotel Ormond- January Ormond, Fla.. 18 6,080 on-Halifax. . . Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Fla 18 5,100 The Breakers.. . January Grass Petersham, Mass The Nichewaug 9 2,650 50c. May-Nov. Sand Pinehurst, N. C*... , Carolina .... 18 6,013 1 Jan. 6-May Sand Pinehurst, N. C.*... Holly Inn 18 5,797 1 Dec.-May Sand Pinehurst. N. C.*... , Berkshire 18 1 Jan. 15-May Pinehurst, N. C.*.... Harvard Jan. 15-May Port Kent, N. Y. Champlain C. C. 18 6,140 Turf Port Kent, N. Y. Ausable Chasm Play on C. C. May-October Rye Beach, N. H... Farragut House.. 18 6,000 June 1 Turf Seabreeze, Fla The Clarendon .. 9 Jan. 6 St. Augustine, Fla... Ponce de Leon . 9 2,200 Hotel Alcazar. Summerville, S. C.. Pine Forest Inn. 18 4,687 Dec.-May Sand Southern Pines, N. C Highl'd Pines Inn 2,800 All Year Sand Twin Mount'n, N. H Twin Mt. House 9 June-Oct. Turf White Sulphui.W.Va White Sulphur Springs Hotel 18 6,000 Turf •Guests at Pinehurst hotels may play on all of the three courses. (iK Why Not Help Us-to-HelpYou? VER since golf became popular in this country we've specialized in Grass Mixtures particularly suited for Golf Courses—putting and fair- E greens. And we've been in business for 112 years. Isn't it natural to assume, then, that we've collected a "mint" of valuable I-Oct] • data about grass growing on Golf Courses? So we have, and it's at your ".•April disposal. "Help us" by writing about your problems and we will "help you" by solving them—and cheerfully, too. A word about Dec' uae-Oa. All Year Let us tell you how reliable they really are —let us prove it. Ask us to tell you where they are being used—about the men who are using them— and just what these men say about Thorburn's Seeds. Just say on your club letterhead, '' Tell me something about Thorburn 's Seeds. '' We will do the rest. J. M. THORBURN & CO., 53K Barclay Street, New York •

FRANK L. 8 West 28th Street, New York Oldest Golf House in the United States

MALTESE CROSS GOLF BALLS, $6.00 per dozen Guaranteed best value in the market; drives and putts true. Jiniin A perfect Golf Ball for all parts of the game.

RED CROSS, $6.00 per Dozen, Floats. GREEN CROSS, $6.00 per Dozen

All Model Irons —Stewart, Braid, Gibson, Nicol are $2.00 and $2.25 y.0* ' June! Something NEW and worth trying. If you want to drive a straight and long ball try one of our New Drivers and Brassies. Gives more confi- dence and good direction. A New to the Golfers of Ameria

The New Year Brings New Prices on Old Favorites ALL "DIMPLE" GOLF BALLS for 1914 $7.50 Per Dozen Instead of $9.00 Per Dozen

A. G. SPALDING & BROS. New Rochester Denver San Francisco . Eng. Newark Baltimore Columbus Los Angeles Birmingham. B< ston Washington Detroit Seattle Liverpool. Eng. PMlarlelphlL. Chicago Milwaukee Portland, Ore. Manchester, En Pittsburgh St. Louis Indianapolis New Orleans K.linhurghj^^h^ h Buff Kansas City Louisville Atlanta OlasRow, Srotlar Rvracuse • i..,i, Minneapolis Dallas Montreal. Cvaw i i - ,i Cleveland St. Paul Paris, France Toronto, Canada