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TO GOLFERS WHO PLAY LAWN TENNIS : Every golf player knows what the Haskell ball has done to help his favorite • sport. You all know how much our ball has improved the length of your game. We are now making a new ball for lawn tennis, which promises to improve the sister game as much as the Haskell bail improved golf. The English championship lawn tennis balls have been admitted on both sides to be better than those in the American market, and we have followed the English specifications very closely in making up the Goodrich championship lawn tennis ball. That the Goodrich ball has met with entire satisfaction among the players, has been amply proven by the hosts of voluntary testimonials to its fine qualities which we have received. In resiliency, in covering, in evenness of bound, and most of all in lasting qualities, the Goodrich championship ball is ahead of any other in the market. Although a new product, its merits have already been recognized by.the official approval of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, whose executive committee, after careful tests, has admitted it for use in tournaments played under the rules and auspices of the U. S. N. L. T. A. Already this season the Goodrich balls have been used in the following important championship tournaments in addition to hosts of meetings of minor importance : Vermont State Championship, at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. North Dakota State Championship, at Grand Forks, N. D. South Dakota State Championship, at Sioux Falls, S. D. Missouri State Championship, at St. Louis, Mo. the isbni Texas State Championship, at Beaumont, Texas. ;ne change Northwestern Iowa Championship, at Emmetsburg, Iowa. East New Jersey Lawn Tennis Association. Long Island South Side League. We have issued a very useful pamphlet, entitled the "Goodrich Hand- book of Lawn Tennis for 1904,'' a copy of which we would be glad to send to any one who wishes to know more about the Goodrich balls. This little book on the isian contains over a hundred pages of valuable information and records, including the and in the: official rules of the game, many portraits of the champion players, and a chapter has produce of instruction on the game, illustrated with snap-shots of ex-champion R. D.Wrenn in action. It is a Hv Clubs using the Goodrich balls are supplied without charge with score sheets and draw cards for use in their tournaments. Special price to clubs and for tournament use.

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HARRIMAN AT THE FIRST TEE, GARDEN CITY, 1900. THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP J 894- \ 904 By "Oldcastle." O sooner had the Royal and Ancient fact, so great was the desire to find out N game obtained a foothold in this who was king-pin, that no fewer than country than it became neces- two tournaments, each styled an amateur h sary to discover who was the leading championship, were held in 1894. The amateur of the year. In an era of first took place at Newport in September, competitive examinations it was scarcely when about thirty players went four nine- likely that the followers of any par- hole rounds of the links at medal play to ticular sport would hesitate to put the determine the championship. There was issue to the test of a tournament. In nothing startling about the play. The

.ARTHUR POTTOW. A11 rights reserved. ]34 THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP, 1894-1904. winner, W. G. Lawrence, of Newport, course to play over. It was, however, went round in 188 ana C. B. Macdonald, very short, measuring but 4,423 yards. of Chicago, was one stroke more. As This was something like a real champion- showing the weakness of American golf ship, for there were eighty starters. A at this time it may be mentioned that qualifying round of thirty-six holes was neither of these two players was a home introduced, with the first sixteen to keep bred golfer. Mr. Lawrence had learned on at match play. H. J. Whigham, of his game at Pau and Mr. Macdonald at Onwentsia, had low score, 163, in the the headquarters of the game, St. An- qualifying round, with A. M. Coats, New- drews. port, second with 168. Both Whigham In October the second championship and Coats had learned their game upon tournament was held at the St. Andrews Scotch links. Other well-known players Golf Club in response to a circular sent out who finished in the first sixteen were , by Messrs. John Reid, H. O. Tallmadge, L. P. Bayard, Jr., afterwards Inter- W. E. Hodgman and J. C. Ten Eyck. Collegiate champion, J. A. Tyng, H. P. Eighteen-hole rounds at match play was Toler, A. H. Fenn, C. B. Macdonald prescribed and again the winner turned and J. G. Thorp. The last named up in a foreign bred golfer, L. B. Stod- player put out Macdonald, who was not dard, of St. Andrews, who had learned in good condition, and then lost in the the game as a boy in England. Stoddard finals to Whigham by 8 up and 7 to play. and C. B. Macdonald met in the finals Whigham attracted some attention by on soggy links and the former finished 1 using a wooden putter, which was then up. It was evident that with two cham- almost unknown to American golfers. pionships being held, chaos would result, The fine eighteen-hole course of the so five clubs met in New York, Decem- Chicago Golf Club at Wheaton was the ber 24, 1894, and organized the United scene of the 1897 championship.. This States Golf Association. tournament was memorable for the ap- The first amateur championship held pearance in it of Herbert M. Harriman under the management of the U. S. and Findlay S. Douglas, both of whom G. A. took place at Newport in October, afterwards won the championship. Mac- 1895. Thirty-two players started, the donald had low score, 174, with Whig- game being at match play rounds of ham second with 177, Douglas had 182. __• eighteen holes, except the finals, which As Whigham said, " the results of the were thirty-six. L. B. Stoddard, C. B. preliminary rounds for the amateur golf Macdonald, Quincy A. Shaw, the Rev. championship were exceedingly disap- W. S. Rainsford and C. S. Hanks (" Nib- pointing as far as the figures go. The lick ") were among the competitors. Rich- scores returned show very little im- ard Peters, of Newport, signalized him- provement upon the form exhibited at self on this occasion by putting with a Shinnecock Hills last year." Sixteen billiard cue, but as he lost in the first qualified and the tournament proceeded round to Dr. Rainsford it cannot be said at eighteen-hole matches with thirty-six that the innovation was successful. C. for the final. Harriman was put out by E. Sands and Macdonald met in the W. R Betts, of Yale and Shinnecock, finals and the latter had an easy time, and the same player disposed of Mac- winning by 12 up and 11 to play. donald in the semi-finals. Douglas and The 1896 championship was played in Whigham met in the semi-finals and July at Shinnecock Hills, and for the first Whigham won somewhat easily by 6 up time the competitors had an 18-hole and five »«• however, "l!t M«3 yards. areal champi0I1. i% starters, A *)'* holes was t sixteen rn keer )• Wgham, of 'ore' >% in the • M.Coate.New- Both Whigham dl-raown players is! sixteen were I* Awards Inter- FIR.ST TE5 • A. Tvng, H, P. • B. Micdonald The last named uld. who reno t 1 then lost in the i ap and; to play. raw attention by \ which was then erican golfers, ile course of the Wkaton«the unpionship, This «abk for the ap- art SI. Hairimn & both of whom

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round by F. H. Bohlen, the well-known 01 Travis & Philadelphia cricketer, and Macdonald Douglas agaw ; was beaten in the semi-finals by W. B. made 2 •"«* ' Smith, the Yale senior. Travis also done al Modi reached the semi-finals when he was beaten by J f beaten by Douglas by 8 up and 6 to play. donaid H- ' Then Douglas beat Smith in the finals by

5 up and 3 to play. The general im- 1 in his n>>' pression of the critics who attended this tournament, was that thirty-six-hole matches afforded a better test of golf than the eighteen-hole matches previously in vogue. The J 899 championship traveled west to the Onwentsia Club and was played under the same conditions as at Morris County. Macdonald showed once more that he was still in the front rank by taking the medal with 168. John Reid, Jr., of Yale, an inter-collegiate champion, FOXHALL KEENE AT FIRST TEE, was second with 170, and Douglas, David MORRIS COUNTY, 1898. R. Forgan and Travis tied for third place had a practical walk-over in the finals with 173. Harriman had 174. Once beating Betts by 8 up and 6 to play. The 1898 championship, played at the Morris County Golf Club, was remarkable for the fact that Whigham failed to qualify, though the qualifying number had been changed to thirty-two. But Mr. Whig- «•• ham had been dodging shot and shells as a war correspondent in Cuba since the last championship instead of golf balls, and his falling off was excusable. J. H. Choate, Jr., had the low score in the qualifying round, 175, which was one more than Macdonald had at Chicago for the medal. Another name, to be much in evidence later, appeared in the thirty- two, Walter J. Travis, and he tied for fifth place with Marion Wright, of Phila- delphia, with 179. Douglas had 180. Foxhall Keene, who was then playing the game, had 181. The number of com- petitors was increasing, one hundred and <$••* six starting from the first tee. Of those who were in the championship at New- port in 1895 only two, C. B. Macdonald and W. H. .Sands qualified at Morris "WALTER B. SMITH, T- H County. Sands was put out in the first t Bunner-up at Morris County, 1898. a i siass, THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP, 1894-1904. 187

more Travis reached the semi-finals with The contest at Garden City in 1900 Douglas again as his opponent. He was memorable for the intense heat that made a much better fight than he had prevailed throughout the July week in done at Morris County and was only which it was played and for the cloud- beaten by 2 up and 1 to play. Mac- burst which came while the finals were donald disappointed his admirers in his being played. Travis was in great form match with Harriman, falling down rather at this tournament. He won the medal badly in his iron work and he was beaten with 166. He beat in succession such

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by 6 up and 5 to play. Harriman beat players as R. C. Watson, Jr., T. S. Beck- Douglas in the finals by 3 up and 2 to with, C. Hitchcock, Jr., and A. G. Lock- play, and thus for the first time the ama- wood. The English golfer was making teur championship was won by an Ameri- his first appearance in an American cham- can who had learned his game in this pionship and he did well to reach the semi- country. He had commenced to play in finals. He and John Reid, Jr., played a 1894 on a private course at Wellesley, great 40-hole match on the fourth day Mass. and Travis easily disposed of him in the 138 THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP, 1894-1904.

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semi-finals. Douglas put out Harriman Club, stood near the hole with a broom by 4 up and 3 to play in the semi-finals trying to sweep the water away, and hav- and then he and Travis met in the finals ing the same success as Mrs. Partington of an amateur championship for the first had with the Atlantic Ocean. The water time. It was a hot fight throughout, Travis grew deeper every minute but the game particularly distinguishing himself by had to be finished. Putting was out of his wonderful recoveries out of sand traps the question for the ball would not roll an and bunkers. The rain fell in torrents at inch. Playing the odd Douglas did not the sixteenth tee in the second round and loft with sufficient strength, going only the wind blew a gale. It was so exces- half way to the hole, while Travis, making sively dark that Harriman, who was now a perfect shot under the circumstances, forecaddying and is certainly no midget, laid his ball dead with a flop in six inches was lost in the gloom. Douglas won the of water and so won the Amateur Cham- seventeenth hole and Travis was dormie pionship of America by 2 up." i. The play at the home hole is best Two events marked the amateur described by quoting what GOLF said of championship at Atlantic City in 1901, it at the time: "The home green was one of them sad and regrettable, the now a lake, several inches of water com- death of President McKinley, which pletely covering it, and both balls landed necessitated the postponement of the with a splash. The play on the green at final rounds. The other event was the the last hole will not soon be forgotten by pre-eminence attained by the rubber- those few who saw it. Devereux Emmet, cored ball in the hands of Mr. Travis. the vice-president of the Garden City He won the medal with 157, which was a THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP, 1894-1904, 139 new record for a championship meeting, turned the course into a very fair repre- and he beat Walter Egan, the Harvard sentation of Venice. It was seriously de- player, in the finals by 5 up and 4 to play, bated whether the rest of the proceedings after beating Douglas in the semi-finals at should not be transferred to Wheaton,but the thirty-eighth green. A feature of this eventually the first nine holes only at meeting was the sensational match be- Glen View were used and the champion- tween Lockwood and the lamented Wil- ship was finished there. Byers, after de- liam Holabird, Jr., of Glen View. Hola- feating Dr. Fredericks, of Oil City, bird made three 2's out of four holes. reached the finals The other player in There were 124 starters at Atlantic the finals was Louis N. James, of Glen City and this caused such a congestion View. He had got into the sixty-four that at the next annual meeting of the U. who qualified by winning one of the two S. G. A. it was decided that the 1902 last places for which thirteen tied, and he championship at Glen View should be had beaten Fiank O. Reinhart, the Prince- played with an eighteen-hole medal ton player, in the semi-finals He and round, with sixty- four to qualify. These sixty-four • were to continue at eighteen-hole match playrounds until the semi- finals and finals, both of which were at thirty-six holes. The num- ber of starters in- creased, there be- ing no less than 137. Travis and G. A. Ormiston tied for the medal with 79. A sen- sation was created on the fourth day when E. M.Byers, of Yale, put out the amateur cham- pion on the home green. Byers played phenome- nal golf coming in, making the second nine holes in 35 The same eveningGlenView was treated to a cloudburst, which LOCKWOOD AND TRAVIS AT GABDEN CFTY, 1900. "

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HARRIMAN AND DOUGLAS AT GARDEN CITY, 1900.

Byers played a very interesting game, first round was sensational. Louis N. marred only by the sogginess of the James was put out by Archibald Graham, course, and the Glen View player won in North Jersey, by 4 up and 2 to play, and the presence of 4,000 spectators and amid Douglas, who had not played at Glen indescribable enthusiasm by 4 up and 2 View, was beaten by Bruce Smith, of to play. He was in his teens at the time Yale, by 5 up and 4 to play. Lockwood and was consequently, by many years, was another crack who disappeared in the youngest player who had ever won a this round. Byers once more reached championship in this country. the finals, his opponent being Travis. It Last year's championship at Nassau was no runaway match, but the Garden was marked by the adoption of the City amateur seemed always to have the English system of all-match play. The game in hand, and he won by 5 up and 4 THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP, 1894.-1904. 141

to play. In this tournament all the rounds were at eighteen holes except the finals, which were at thirty-six. The all-match play system met with general disapproval, and at the last meet- ing of the U. S. G. A. a change was made which will govern this year's contest at Baltusrol. This year, on the first day, there will be a medal round at eighteen holes, the sixty-four players making the lowest scores continuing on the second day at thirty-six holes medal play. The thirty-two players making the lowest, scores on the fifty-four holes medal play will then compete at eighteen holes match play until the finals, which will be at thirty-six holes. In the event of a tie or

WALTER E. EG AN, • Runner-up, 1901. ties for the last place in any medal play qualifying rounds the contestants so tied will continue to play until one or the other shall have gained a lead by strokes at any hole or holes to be played out. The undue prominence given to the medal play feature of the tournament- LOUIB N. JAMES, does not seem to give an air of finality to Amateur Champion, 1902 the present arrangement. SOME JOKES OF OLD GOLFING CRONIES

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

Y a lucky accident, when in Edin- afraid it's a case of juggernaut" (jug or B burgh to-day, I was shown a nought). beautiful volume, published for On Musselburgh Course, some mem- private circulation, about some of the bers would pay a visit to Mrs. Foreman's. sayings and doings of the Bruntsfield She kept a public house, and was a very Golf Club, which was formed in 1761. worthy woman. The freshness of her Its origin was due to political causes. eggs was the subject of universal en- Some of the older Burgess Club con- comium. On one occasion, a bright sidered it a hateful thing to be called on Loretto boy, in passing out after refresh- to drink to the health of the represen- ment, startled the old lady by a compli- tatives of the powers, who were the ment quite unintentional. He intended enemies of Prince Charles. The Club to say to her: "What beautiful eggs existed mainly for the purpose of provid- you've got, Mrs. Foreman;" but somehow ing its members in a round-about-way, he stammered the initial letter, and came with golf balls. The treasurer had a forth with: "What beautiful legs you've suitable cabinet, with a good lock, in got, Mrs. Foreman." which the whisky required for the use of members was to be kept. Mr. Robert Chambers, son of the Forty years ago the membership was founder of Chambers's Journal, was the limited to fifty-five. They were plucky first winner of the open tournament at players, who challenged all and sundry. St. Andrews in 1858. A veteran player, I remember being made a member of the Mr. Wallace, had by pure perseverance Wemyss (Fife) Golf Club to play the and waiting on over his shots, overcome champion of Bruntsfield on the Edin- all—including the brilliant player, Pat burgh Links. Our team were badly Alexander, and was left with Robert beaten, though I conquered my man. Chambers. Friends of the Bruntsfield The warriors were exceedingly keen and player told him how wearisome Wallace very sociable. Let the weather on a was; but he replied: "Give me a novel Saturday be ever so bad, there was sure and a campstool, and he can take a day to be a fair turnout of members, playing to it." Chambers won at the last hole at "the jugs" or chatting, etc. This by potting a very long putt; his oppo- game tested the eye and wrist of the nent missing a short one. Twenty to golfer. He had to see how far back on one would have been in Wallace's favor, the floor he could place his ball, from before Chambers played. But alas! for which, with his iron, he would loft his the chances of the game. ball into a pewter measure. Dr. Bryce Once Pat Alexander said to the uncle saw a member, on a very wet day, stand- of Robert Chambers, then Lord Provost: ing at the window surveying the hopeless " Have you found the woman you were condition of things, and remarked: "I'm advertising for?" The Provost was in- SOME JOKES OF OLD GOLFING CRONIES. 143

dignant. Pat showed him the advertise- allowance of champagne in a tobacco- ment. "Wanted a woman to wash cham- impregnated atmosphere may be imagined. bers." This showed how hilarity and There were headaches next morning; joking could be then carried out without but then "the headache of the morning offence. seemed a portion of the bliss." Members Robert Chambers's attempts at con- of Committee got the toddy free. One versation with old Wallace on Leven gentleman had been a member of Coun- Golf Course (Fife) can be quoted. cil for well nigh half a century, meetings Chambers began by remarking: "I think being held once a week, at which each that hill there is known as Largo Law." discussed half a bottle of whisky. A The warrior's reply was: "I'm no ac- witty brewer calculated that the Coun- quaint in thae pains." After a few holes cillor must have consumed several hogs- had been played, Chambers tried again: heads, and at a meeting after dinner, he "How beautiful the scenery around here showed that the benefits the Councillor is!" The reply was, "We didna come had received in the way of "free drinks" here tae look at scenery; we cam' here far more than exceeded his original entry- tae play gowff." money and yearly subscriptions put to- The "Ancient" was a character in the gether, so that he had all his fun for Club, who helped the treasurer in hunt- nothing. The toast was drunk with ing up subscriptions. For this he would tremendous enthusiasm. The Councillor, receive a glass of fine old brandy from nothing daunted, replied, "I do not the treasurer. One of the Ancient's know where the brewer got his figures, peculiarities was this, that he liked his but this 1 am quite sure of, that if I had spirits sweetened; and so, when he in- drunk as much of his blasted beer as he tended to call upon the treasurer, he put says I have done of whisky, I would not a piece of sugar in his pocket in anticipa- be here to tell the tale." Of course, the tion of good things to come. One day Councillor scored. he called without any subscription; but Another member told his stories as he had a fine bit of play to get his brandy. though he enjoyed them, and his hearty "Will it no' do the day?" he would say. laughter was irresistibly infectious. He "No, no, it'll no dae the day, ye've had one famous story. (Scene, Campble- collected naething," would be the reply. town; enter two fishermen, greeting): "But see," the Ancient would continue, "Man, this is a sair business about puir "I've brocht the sugar, an' I've had a Lachy McLeish." " What aboot Lachy?" lang trail." His pleading succeeded. "Man, hae ye no heard tell — he's Hard hitting was very common at the drooned." "Ay, ay, do you tell me so; dinners of the Club. One captain had that is a great peety. And hoo wass he occasion to sit on the Head of the Dead- drooned ?" " Weel, you see it was plow- Letter Office, who had somehow offended ing very hard; he was in ta pow of ta him; he went on to say that he would boat, and says he to me, 'Tonal,' says " not have minded it so much from an- he, ' will you lend me ta loan of your other, but coming—coming, gentlemen, knife?'" Here the narrator explored all from a miserable postage stamp, the his pockets, saying: " He was a good effete head of a mere dead-letter depart- man, puir Lachy, we will all miss him ment, I declare it is too much." Of fery much." But all on a sudden, after course, there were roars of laughter. a second exploration without success, he After dinner they mostly drank whisky ejaculated: " Pe tamned to him, he's toddy. The effect of this after an ample awa' wi' ma new knife." 1 was ID- THE HAPPY GOLFER

ROM some mysterious cause the No game, and certainly no form of work, passion of golf and the itch of is so effective in concentrating the mind F writing appear to enjoy what some and exacting painful attention to the im- philosopher—a German, we believe—once portance of small things. That smallest called a "pre-established harmony." things are only small to the eye is a truth They are twin diseases and borrow a revealed increasingly to those who grow mutual aggravation. Not that the litera- old in golf. A breath of air well calcu- ture of golf is usually bad. On the lated may turn the scale of fortune. The whole we fancy it may be compared trace of a wormcast or patch of alien more than favorably with the literature trefoil unheeded on the green may fill a of any other widespread game. The week with searchings of heart. Not only jargon of sport is something to make is golf of all games a parable of life ; it is literary angels weep, but most books on in itself a life deliberately lived, from golf are a pleasing exception. We have point to point, with all the moral circum- often wondered how it comes to pass stances that attend the career of rational that writers on natural history have nearly but frail humanity. always written well; that the love of At cricket the batsman may take his winged or burrowing creatures should stand, perceive the passage of a missile confer style. In spite of our wonder the and a sound of demolition in the rear, reason is not far to seek and it applies and retire with no precise knowledge of equally to writings on golf. Socrates what has occurred. The bald fact of dis- gave it when he said that every man is comfiture is all he holds. There are of eloquent of what he knows. Style may course batsmen who can always explain be only another name for knowledge of their defeat, but in their hearts they are the subject, knowledge and feeling so seldom certain and in any case their intimate that they penetrate the very friends are incredulous. At football nature of the person and exude from him nearly everything is intuitively done. The without effort or straining after means of successful player crosses the line in a expression. He must of course have the progress of oblivious ecstacy. A good words to begin with, but these provided, match is a sort of joyful nightmare and the subject of itself will inform them with when the wounds are counted their life and color. Golf, like the passion for origins are barely remembered. At nearly birds or flowers, is one 'of the subjects all games, in short, the science is not that have this rare power of permeating upon the surface of consciousness. It the whole temperament of a man and has to 'be incorporated, on the spur of enduing him with the golden mouth, so the instant, in the instinctive action of that he who has long imbibed the air of eye and limbs. In golf every stroke the links is become (within his. own provides matter for solid and (if necessary) borders) a very Chrysostom. To know long reflection ; or at any rate has done golf at all is to know it with the soul. so during the years that must elapse

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before proficiency is acquired. The certainty the method of their disasters. golfer is a being of large discourse and Passion subsides, and behind the fury of has plenty of time to look before and a moment lie cold self-knowledge and after. From seventy to a hundred times abasement. In every other game of our in the round he is offered the original acquaintance we meet often with old and choice between good and evil, and the bad players who rather fancy themselves foreknowledge of his game recorded in and actually receive a certain encourage- the handicap book does not affect the ment. Such a thing in golf is very un- I}' BO form of wt, exercise at each point of his own free likely. In finding his level the bad player has every assistance. Swelling satrating the mind will. As a rule he can blame no other assumption is soon pricked. In a game attention to the in- person for his mistakes, not even the where every stroke from start to finish BgS- That smallest caddie. Impossible lies are rare and if the lie be merely bad he knows perfectly can be as easily remembered by the i<» the eye is a truth well that a good shot is still possible. opponent as by the player himself, where 'o those who grow Moreover the bad lie itself was probably absolutely every feature of the links (from iii ol air we'll calco- of his own seeking. The spirit of the the deceptive contour of this or that ale ol fortune, The game is inexorable. An incompetent green to the consistency of some outly- or patch of alien player cannot, as in the game of life, ing sand or the depth and wiriness of ik green may fill a refer his failure to lack of opportunity. certain remote grasses) is common knowl- of heart. Not only There, patent to every eye, are the clubs of edge, where all shortcomings of the ideal parable of life ;it is his choice. The ball turns an immovable can be measured numerically by a piece xrately lived, from cheek to the smiter, the green lies open of arithmetic adapted to the meanest ,ii the moral circimi- beyond. No degree of prowess in the power of comprehension, the charlatan he career of rational opponent can excuse a ball miserably has little scope and never prospers. topped, or an ineffective onslaught upon A golfer is apt to be tedious not so moan may take his the turf. A bad player has no refuge much by chronicles of achievement as by passage ol a mis* from his own conscience. He may and a garrulous humility. His dirge is worse aoljlioi in ihe tear, probably does condemn the links, but than his paean. He will diagnose at Mcise knowledge of privately, like Satan, he recognizes that length for our benefit the physical im- He bald kt offe- himself is hell. The violence of his rage perfections that disable his drive, and if rs There are of is proportioned to its conscious impo- he is aware that some irremediable fault canalwarsexptm tence. For this reason and no other the of swing or style is inherent in his bodily their health they are golfing duffer is held up as a document framework he will indulge in unproduc- in acv fas theii of inefficiency, left to its own resources; tive lament. Most pitiable of all are the ll and has won his way to first place in the struggles of the inchoate player, who be- affections of humorous draughtsmen lieves he has the makings of something Some duffers, no doubt, will nurse for like a scratch man, but cannot justify the years an obvious illusion. We have see a faith that is in him. There is no hole he a golfer who habitually grasped his club has not done, at some time or other, in with the hands twelve inches apart, and three or four and by perfect play. That watched the brief, eccentric flight of his his swing and methods generally are ball with resentful wonder. But crass natural and easy he is assured beyond stupidity of this rank is uncommon doubt. Not once or twice he has among the golfing tribe. The mass of known the finer raptures of the game, the golfers are deeply imbued with the theory, pleasure of beautiful effects, got in the however short they fall in the practice. prescribed way. With delicious absence When they have fretted their hour upon of effort he has carried impossible hazards. the links, they can analyze with tolerable Often with his brassey he has induced 146 THE HAPPY GOLFER. that long, low and arrowy flight through sect of philosophers who hold that man the wind, straight on the pin, which after all is nothing but an automaton; perhaps is the most exquisite sensation distinguished only from the oyster by his of the golfing voluptuary. He knows complexity and power of suffering. In the gentle pitch from the mashie; that any case it is striking by what impercep- delicate curve in the air, the perceptible tible stages the golfer improves. Not so THE FIRST squirm on touching earth, the docile much by score is this improvement to be little trickle up to the hole. With his measured as by a change in the standard iron he has applied a light persuasion, of his expectations, the causes of his ela- and after the mere suspicion of a leap tion or chagrin. The better the golf, the Tsjsi the ball has performed an easy contained more acutely mistakes are recognized. at this run along the green, slowing down as the A young golfer, like the person in Ibsen, wife hole is approached with the instinct of a lifts up the banner of the ideal, and will than eigfaty- finely governed locomotive. Exciting despise utterly scores to which in his own raaHyingro :- long putts, too, he remembers, when the performance he has never yet actually completed risen. When the strokes are learned ball faint but pursuing has attained at us imita comes the much more difficult lesson of last the brink of its Nirvana, and after ii« wa> H consistency, and this secret the earth of one throb of hesitation he has from sheer (isrdeiife fatigue dropped. Such are his memories the links will only unfold to those who roundoff bend patiently and often to inspect her of the past and possibilities of the pres- k k COil lore. Consistency in golf comes not ent, but for all that he cannot accomplish k is tot a good round. Half of the holes he will with observation. No game better ex- play to perfection. The rest are marred emplifies the value of sheer experience. by a number of quite small lapses which At the same time it is a game of tropical entail harrowing penalities or disastrous sunsets and dawns. The giant is sud- attempts at retrieval. His efforts to re- denly shorn of his might and foozles every- duce his score below a certain figure are thing. The submerged plodder, striving always defeated, and on each occasion some painful inch to gain, is lifted up the by some new and unforeseen mistake. It bank by a sudden wave of efficiency. is astounding but true that if such a golfer Something is learned by the golfer even is apparently in the act of beating his in the darkest hour. own record and has no less than ten "Not till the hours of light return strokes in hand on the eighteenth tee, All we have built do we discern." the odds are enormous that he will waste Golf is the very abstract and epitome every one. Probably his drive will land of the human struggle, of the long-drawn in some devious bunker; not only a conflict between the will and the mem- bunker with which as a rule he is not on bers, of the sudden lights and rapid ex- speaking terms, but a bunker which never tinctions which give to life its poetry. before has he ever seen. We have known Perhaps this explains the peculiar fascina- a golfer who, in the attempt to creep be- tion which golf appears to cast over men low a hundred, took precisely ninety-one of a speculative or poetical turn. If any for the seventeen holes in three consecu- transplanted flowers of mellow thought or tive rounds, and each time none the less classic speech survive among us, they failed of his object. To pass through will all be found growing on the golf such experiences is almost to join the links.—London Saturday Review. GOLF IN VERMONT

THE FIRST PRESIDENTS' CUP TOURNAMENT, EKWANOK COUNTRY CLUB, AUGUST JO—13, 1904.

T says much for the popularity of Golf than the record score of Walter J. Travis at this well-known Club, that not- made in perfect weather. There were I withstanding a drizzling rain, no less only two others who were able to get than eighty-four players started off in the under eighty, A. M. Reed, of Lakewood, qualifying round and seventy-four of these and E. M. Dalley, of St. Andrews. Reed, completed the first round. The weather who is the Vermont State Champion, re- was undoubtedly a handicap, yet the scor- turned a 79 and his total was three strokes ing was good. Frederick Herreshoff, of higher than Herreshoff's. Two of our Garden City, in his total of 155, had one golfers who figured in the English ama- round of 74, which is four under the bogey teur championship at Sandwich, played for the course. One hundred and fifty- in this tournament, but both men were five is not bad going at any time for off their game. John Moller, Jr., Lake - Ekwanok, which measures nearly 6,000 wood, who got in the first division, had yards, and it is only three strokes higher 181, and W. W. Burton, Lakewood, had

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184, which is certainly not the true form George Abbott, Dyker Meadow, 104, 94 of either golfer. The summary: —198; Frank Clark, Ekwanok, 99, 101— 200; M. G. Carman, Garden City, 104, First Sixteen.—Frederick Herreshoff, 96—200; W. C. Houston, Philadelphia, Garden City, 81, 74—155; A. M. Reed, 103, 97—200; W. H. Peckham, Engle- Lakewood, 79, 80—159; E. M. Dalley, wood, 99, 103—202 ; C. R. Gillette, Pel- St. Andrew's, 92, 77—169; Allan Lard, ham, 101, 102 — 203. Columbia, 86, 87—173; H. G. Hartwell, Garden City, 85, 88—173; F. C. Robert- Fourth Sixteen —M. S. Willing, On- son, New Haven, 85, 89—174; W. J. wentsia, 96, 108—204: D. B. Hutton, Evans, Ekwanok, 92, 84—176; P. H. Marine and Field, 107, 97—204; K P. Tennings, Mount Anthony, 89, 88—177 ; Barry, Bellevue, 102, 103—205; H. B. K. Wellington, Mount Anthony, 86, Weatherby, Englewood, 102, 104 — 206; 93—179; Paul Waterman, Englewood, E. D. Miller, Crescent, 104, 102—206; 89, 90—179; James L. Taylor, Dyker Robert Hager, 99, 100—199; F. L. Meadows, 90, 90—180; T. T. Reid, Stratton, Baltusrol, 106, 103—209; J. W. Montclair, 85, 95—180; John MoUer, Jr., Johnson, Ardsley, 107, 102—209; H. E. Lakewood, 87, 94—181; George H. Cushman, Winchester, 104, 106—210; A. Thacher, Jr., Albany, 88, 93—181; E. P. McKane, Island G. C, 105, 113 — 218; W. Clark. Ekwanok, 93, 88—18 \; and G B. Woodfin, Rutland, 108, 112—220; G. B. Harrison, Island, 91, 90—181. F. A E. Cott, Englewood, no, 113 — Second Sixteen.—R. C. Carroll, Fair- 223; E. M.Taylor, 106, 118—224; John field, 92, 9 [—183; C. M. Clark, Phila- Markle, Ardsley, no, 115—225; J. M. delphia, 91, 92—J83; N. C. Houston, Marbury, Ekwanok, 108, 118—226; C. Philadelphia, 92, 91—183; F. W. Taylor, F. Ashe, Marine and Field, 108, 121 — Philadelphia, 94, 90—184; W W. Burton, 229. Lakewood, 95, 89—184; C. D. Cleghorn, In the first round there were some good Ekwanok, 95, 90—185; F. F. Briggs, 91, matches. W. J. Evans beat E. M. Dalley 94—185; L. C. Dalley, St. Andrew's, 90, 4 up and 3 to play, T. M. Gilmer beat F. 96—186; W. G. Barnewall, Agawam, 90, C. Robertson 1 up, T. T. Reid beat E. 96—186 ; H. J. Cole, Mount Anthony, W. Clark 1 up, J. L. Taylor beat Paul 96, 91—187; M. K. Waters, Lakewood, Waterman 2 up and 1 to play, John Mol- 95, 92—187 ; George E. Morse, Rutland, ler, Jr., beat G. B. Harrison 3 up and 1 94, 93—187; H. W. Brown, Philadelphia, to play, P. H. Jennings beat H. G. Hart- 90, 98—188; J. S. Jones, Crescent, 92, well 4 up and 2 to play, Frederick Herre- 98—190; C. R. Leake, Albany, 97, 93— shoff beat Allan Lard 5 up and 4 to play, 190. A. M. Reed beat B. B. Wellington 5 up and 4 to play. Third Sixteen.—C. N. Fowler, Jr., Ekwanok, 97, 94—191; A. B. King, One curious feature marked the play in Mount Anthony, 91, 102—193; H. U. the second round. Every match was Keep, Englewood, 97, 96—193; E. M. won on the home green, and as no one Pond, Rutland, 94, 99—193; A. H. was beaten by more than one up it is Evans, Englewood, 92, 102—T94; H. F. evident that there must have been some Woodfin, Rutland, 92, 102—j 94; J. B. good golf. The favorites did not win in De Coursey, Merion, 95, 100—195; R. every case. W. J. Evans beat T. M. E. Foote, Island G. C, 96, 100—196; R. Gilmer, James L. Taylor beat T. T. Reid, D. Brown, Philadelphia, 93, 101 —197; J. Percy Jennings beat John Moller, and A. R. Thacher, Albany, 94, 103—197; M. Reed beat the medal winner, Fred-

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ALBERT M. REED, WINNER. 1 i • J V' i ^ [ J8JSL j B 1 naitedtheplaj-i was [ T, TAYLOR1, RUNNER-UP. 150 GOLF IN VERMONT. erick Herreshoff. The last named player, Taylor was beaten by 6 up and 5 to play. who is only 17 and goes to Hill School, The summaries of the matches were: Pottstown, Pa., may be congratulated on First President's Cup.—Final—A. M. the fine showing he made against such a Reed, Lakewood, beat James L. Taylor, strong field. He is one more addition to Dyker Meadow, 6 up and 5 to play. that class to which Dwight Partridge, Governor's Cup.—Final—E. W. Clark, Harold Wilcox and Malcolm McBarney Ekwanok, beat H. G. Hartwell, Island belong, which seems to have kept the G. C, 5 up and 4 to play. elder division busy ever since the season Second Sixteen.—Final—R. C. Carroll, started. J. L. Taylor and A. M. Reed Fairfield, beat M. K. Waters, Princeton, won their matches in the semi-finals and a 3 up and 2 to play. good struggle between the pair took Third Sixteen.—Final—R. S. Brown, place in the finals. Reed led from the Philadelphia, beat A. H. Evans, Engle- start and finished threeup at the end of the wood, 7 up and 6 to play. morning round. Reed had an 81 whilst Fourth Sixteen.—Final—J. W. John- Taylor had 82. In the afternoon both men son, Ardsley, beat Robert Hager, Jr., improved, Reed cutting two strokes off Andover, 9 up and 8 to play. his morning medal score, and eventually Findlay S. Douglas was at Ekwanok

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FREDERICK HERRE8H0FF, MEDALLIST, AT FINISH OF SWING, AND JOHN MOLLER, .In.

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~ EIGHTH GREEN AT EKWANOK.

during the play. The ex-amateur cham- handicap. There were ninety-four entries pion arrived too late to take part in the for this event, the winner being H. tournament, but he played in the 18-hole Weatherby, of Englewood. ODE TO GOLF By E. M. G.

WITH APOLOGIES TO MR. CALVERLEY.

Thou who from toil and strain Lurest us forth, and vain Cares, in the addled brain Crowding, disbandest; Grand in the Summer's prime; Grand in the Winter's rime ; But in the sweet Springtime Possibly grandest:

I have a liking great For thee, though many state Things I here will relate, Not to thy credit: How, a short bout of it, And a man, badly bit, Has a golf-fever fit — Many have said it:

How such mad devotees All grow by sure degrees Towards all proprieties Dead as a putter, Forego their Sunday naps, Mutter, at small mishaps, Words best expressed by gaps, Dreadful to mutter:

Fie on such naughty tricks ! Yet know I five or six Golfers who freely mix Still with their neighbors; Jones, (Who, I'm glad to say, Sometimes brings Mrs. J.) Daily a round will play After his labors. Wrath that may rise too high At an atrocious ' lie,' Good men, Sir,—you and I— Cannot be hard on— Dash it, my pipe's gone out! Brown, pass the wine about. Here's to you, Vardon. *r™t" ""'*•'" "!

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WESTERN DEPARTMENT

Conducted by Alexis J. Colman.

Freddie Mackenzie has put the On- have been 72 or even 71 had he not wentsia record down to 73. Twice he been bunkered at the eighteenth hole, had made 74, and D. E. Sawyer made costing a 5. The card: that figure the amateur record in On- Out-s 3424354 5 — 35. wentsia's open tournament. Mackenzie I11--4 4 5 4 4 s 3 4 5—38—73 was playing with Thomas Taylor, Jr., on Aug. 16, and after getting a good Another record that deserves chron- start, not the least feature of which was icling is the 70 made by Nathaniel Moore the holing of his mashie second at the at Lake Geneva. This score is two fourth hole, the Scot was encouraged to strokes under Vardon's record at the try hard for a record. It might well pretty links.

PHELPS B. HOYT, W. M. HOYT,

J8 Glen View. 154 WESTERN DEPARTMENT.

moor; H. J. and to Mr. To- Douglas Twee die, Belmont, and E. C. slots, seemed ft and Orrin W. Pot- ter, Jr., of Midlothian. advantage- Ho* be Mr.Hoyt and another covery at ' r son, Landon, won a the hole aaci mate father-and-son handi- cap at Skokie with jiistoiitfcw the very creditable champioBship. n score of 91—6—85. Ibis is being re" The elder Hoyt is of the Ennoa over 65 years of age. Highland Pail nosed eta' Ralph Hoagland consumed 4e ei; :: won the Burlington Ufa ci--~ Suburban champion- beside a 1® M ship, which this year ill covered bj i was played at River- side. Seven of the belonging to lh I home players quali- nearly one hate fied among the first fct all their p sixteen, but the club's men's lodes ; i hopes were dashed when Captain Hal K. Allen lost to Hoagland of Hins- dale by 3 and 2. Arthur B. Bowen of Riverside made low qualifying score, and E. B. Bliss won the handicap, so the EDWARD 8. HUNTER, ROBERT E. HUNTER, Midlothian. home club was not without honors. Events for fathers and sons, patterned Herbert Templeton and Frank F. Reed, after that originated at Midlothian for representing Hinsdale, won the handicap the now famous Pater-Filius cup have foursome, making both best gross and net become popular, and at least two other scores. clubs have held competitions. Fathers encourage their sons in playing, and sometimes the teams show very good Ned Cummins, son of the President 01 work. Among the teams which com- the Exmoor Country Club, won the final peted at 36 holes for the Pater-Filius match for the President's medal, defeat- cup were R. D. Bokum, Sr., and Jr., ing DeKoven Towner, his clubmate, in Glen View; Edward S. and Robert E. a stubbornly contested 36-hole battle, Hunter, Midlothian; W. M. and Phelps 1 up. After being 4 up at the end of the B. Hoyt, B. F. and Ned Cummins, Ex- morning play with a medal score of 84

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to Mr. Towner's 88, the diminutive golfer dining room on the second floor being began to show the effects of the long destroyed. Fortunately the wind shifted, route and, dubbing mashie approach and the fire department was able to save shots, seemed likely to lose all of his the rest of the building. H. Chandler advantage. However, by a beatiful re- Egan and Walter Egan lost all their covery at the 36th green, the lad won clubs, and so were obliged to play with the hole and match. new and untried ones the next day. President Cummins sent $100.00 to the Just on the eve of the western amateur Highland Park Fire Department in ap- championship, which is in progress as preciation of its services. Arrangements this is being written, fire destroyed half for the entertainment of the expected of the Exmoor Country clubhouse at visitors were immediately planned, and Highland Park. Originating from all players found ample accommodation crossed electric wires in the kitchen it on their arrival for the tournament on consumed the entire south wing of the the following week. building, causing a damage of $20,000 beside a loss on furnishings of $3,000; his vear all covered by insurance. The ranges, The George R. Thorne championship kitchen utensils, groceries, and silverware cup, valued at $1,000, had a narrow belonging to the club were burned, and escape on the night of the fire, but nearly one hundred members of the club E. C. Welch, superintendent of the club, lost all their golf paraphernalia, the entered the burning structure and brought men's lockers on the first floor and the it safely out.

DOUGLAS TWEEDIE, HERBERT J. TWEEDIE, Belmoiit. 156 WESTERN DEPARTMENT.

The grounds of the Oak Park Golf with 166, good for a tie in sixth place. Club have been sold to a syndicate and Sixteen qualified for the Ravinoaks, with will be cut up into lot<\ The club will scores between 156 and r7o; sixteen be allowed to occupy the grounds all this qualified for the Solace cup, 171 to 177, season, and ground will not be broken and the third sixteen for the Tyro cup, for a year. Perhaps the club will not 178 to 184. rent. grounds this time, but buy a piece of land. The pace was too swift for many good golfers and Western Champion Walter Onwentsia's ninth annual open tourna- Egan and Ex-National Champion Louis ment for the Ravinoaks cup was no whit N. James had to be content with behind its predecessors, both in quality Solace cup honors, with 175s. The six- of golf and number of contestants. Rec- teen who qualified for the Ravinoaks cup ords went by the board and the Egan were: H. C. Egan, 79, 77—156; Mason family was much in evidence. A field of E. Phelps, Midlothian, 77, 82 —159; 101 players started on qualifying day and Kenneth P. Edwards, Midlothian, 79, 80 with all conditions favorable Chandler —159; Robert E. James, Glen View, 84, established a new mark, 156, for the 36- 79 —163 ; Clement E. Smoot, Exmoor, 83, hole qualifying round, with 79 and 77. 80 — 163; W. C. Fownes, Jr., Oakmont, David R. Forgan had held the record at 86, 80—166; D. E. Sawyer, Wheaton 158. W. C. Fownes, Jr., of Oakmont, Golf Club, 87, 79 — 166; Richard D. Pittsburg, led the out-of-town players Bokum, Jr., Glen View, 83, 84—167; Nathaniel F. Moore, Lake Geneva, 81, 87—168; Ned Cummins, Exmoor, 86, 82 — 168; John M. Sellers, Glen View, 87, 82—169; R. P. Cavanagh, Kenosha, 86, 83 —169; H. E. Havemeyer, Riverside, 83, 86 —169; Warren K. Wood, Home- wood, 82, £8 — 170; Bruce D. Smith, Onwentsia, 79, 91—170; Robert E. Hunter, Midlothian, 83, 87—170. Thus only three veterans—Fownes, Sellers and Havemeyer, shared qualifying honors with the younger players.

Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, founder of the club, was on hand after a two-years' absence abroad.

•Ned Sawyer, of the Wheaton Golf Club, was the main attraction on the first day of match play. In the morning he beat Bruce Smith, 5 up, 3 to play, and when he met Sellers in the afternoon he fairly ran away from him, winning 9 up, 8 to play, although Sellers himself had put E. P. CAVANAOH, KEN09HA, Champion of Wisconsin. Kenneth Edwards out in the morning by WESTERN DEPARTMENT. 157

making a 77. Sellers paced Sawyer in, Egan won the Solace cup, beating R. H. and with all putts sent to the bottom of McElwee in the finals by 4 and 3, and the can the Wheaton young man made a Chandler and Walter, who had qualified 74, a new amateur record, and equaling low, with 78, in the Lake County four- the figure then existing as the professional some cup on the first day, won the trophy mark. This card, including a 4 for the by defeating Edwards and Hunter, of first hole where Sellers' ball blocked the Midlothian, 6 up, 5 to play in the finals. way for a practically sure 3, is as follows: George F. Clingman, Jr., of Homewood, Out 4 344444 4 4-35 won the Tyro cup, defeating M. S. Orth, In • 4 5 5 4 5 5 3 4 4~39 of Skokie by 6 up, 5 to play. 74 J- If any doubt existed as to Chandler Other features of this day were Egan's right to be classed by himself, Chandler Egan's negotiation of the long- so far as western golfing skill is con- est hole, the twelfth, 500 yards, in 3, by cerned, his great work this season has holing a 47-yard approach, and the absolutely destroyed it. His general ex- victory of Warren Wood, western inter- cellence in tournaments of all kinds dar- scholastic champion, over Mason E. ing the past three years certainly entitles Phelps, Yale champion and Midlothian him to be ranked next to Travis among cup winner, by 1 up in 22 holes. Phelps the amateurs of the United States. sliced out of bounds from the twenty- J- second tee. Phelps B. Hoyt, of Glen View, always modestly denies that he has great skill Sawyer fell easily before Chandler and maintains that he had really no right Egan the next day, losing by 6 and 5, to the western championship which he Egan putting up his best brand. Wood won at Midlothian in 1901. But now he lost to R. E. Hunter by 5 and 3, so Egan holds a championship which is certainly and Hunter met in the finals. Egan justly his-that of the wholesale grocers simply devoured his opponent, winning of Chicago. The prune and dried apple by 10 up, g to play in the 36 holes and men hold a tourney annually, and this setting a new mark for the route with year at Glen View Hoyt won, defeating scores of 76, 77 — 153, which won himhis brother, Landon Hoyt, who had won the Onwentsia cup, the 36-hole medal the championship last year and had quali- competition for which took place simul- fied low in the one-day affair. Phelps taneously with the finals for the cups. Hoyt also won the handicap with a 78 Egan's consistent work may be noted from scratch. Forty-eight players took from the card: part, qualifying in six flights of eight at Out 3 4544454 5—38 nine holes. •n 5 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4-3^—76 Out 4 3544545 4-38 In 5 5 5 4 5 4 3 4 4—39—77 That the women golfers are keenly !53 alive to the health-giving qualities and This beats by a stroke the hard ball general benefits of golf was clearly shown score of Jamie Anderson, former pro- by the fact that sixty entered for the open fessional at Onwentsia. tournament at the Skokie Country Club, J- July 28-30. Twelve clubs were repre- David R. Forgan won the Lake Forest sented. Miss J. Anna Carpenter, who Jto cup at 36 holes, open for players over 30 naturally succeeds Mrs. B. S. Home years of age, with 83, 83—166. Walter (ne6 Anthony) as leader of the fair play- 158 WESTERN DEPARTMENT.

Mrs. F. E. Donohoe, of Edgewater, by 5 and 4, and Miss E. W. Towner, Exmoor, won the third flight trophy by 2 up from Mrs. E. C. Berriman, Edgewater.

Milwaukee golfers proved best on their own links in the an- nual open tourney of the Country Club Aug. 4-6. Nathaniel Moore of Lake Ge- neva won the prize for low score, getting 4^38-79, but he straightway became sick and was unable to continue. Several Chicago players were on hand, as well as Parke Wright of Buffalo and many Kenosha and Racine men, a total of 80 entering. C. P. Spooner of Milwau- kee, put R. P. Cava- nagh, ol Kenosha, NED CUMMINS, O. W. POTTER, JR. the State champion, B. F. CUMMINS, E. C. POTTER, out of the running Exmoor. Midlothian. in a 19-hole match, ers, made low score in the qualifying Louis Allis of Milwaukee beat Ned round, 47, 48—95. Miss Mary Gardner, Cummins, Exmoor, 5 and 4, and Parke of Hinsdale, had 50, 46 — 96, and Miss Wright beat H. J. Tweedie, Belmont, Miriam Anthony, younger sister of the 3 up 2 to play. Wright in turn downed champion, 48, 52—100. Miss Carpenter Spooner in a 19-hole match, while Allis being" and Mrs. W. A. Alexander (50, 52—102) accounted for Chester Allen of Kenosha. lasted to the finals among the eight quali- Allis won from Wright in the finals by fiers in the first flight, and Miss Carpenter 7 up 5 to play, in 36 holes. Allan Hib- won by 3 up, 2 to play, a margin which bard, Hamilton Vose and George H. about represents the relative play of the Russell, all of the home club, won two. Miss Elizabeth Congdon, of Glen second, third and fourth flight cups View, won the second flight cup, defeating respectively.

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Harold Bend, the expert golfer of the casion. Yale graduates, allying with those Town and Country Club of St. Paul, of western colleges, won a team match from Minn., won the fourth championship of the aggregation made up of Harvard and the Trans-Mississippi Association in the other eastern college " grads" by 42 tournament at the Minnekahda Club of points to 37 — 33 men playingon each side. Minneapolis Aug. 4-6. J. T. Stewart of Omaha was runner-up, losing by 4 and 3- Although he has much to do with the Warren Dickinson, of Des Moines, and distribution of the article that is alleged Walter Fairbanks — "Forty Hole" —of to have made Milwaukee famous, J. L. Denver, had a tight match in the consola- Stack failed to make Midlothian as tion event, Dickinson winning by 1 up. famous, when he took part in the open tourney at Milwaukee. The M. F. H., At the business meeting of the Asso- of Midlothian, just landed in the fourth ciation D. B. Ellis, of the Denver Coun- flight, and got put out in the first round try Club, was chosen president; C. T. by Dr. B. Wright, of the cream Jaffray, of Minnekahda, vice-president; city by 3 and 1. But Mr. Stack has a Hayward G. Leavitt, of the Omaha faculty of getting fun out of golf, whether Country Club, re-elected secretary, and he plays well or not. F. J. Hall, of the Omaha Field Club, treasurer.

Miss Kate Moulton won the women's championship, defeating Miss Florence Harrison, both players hailing from Minneapolis.

Indiana golfers are to play their State tourney at Richmond, Sept. 15-17. Among the cities to be re- presented are Fort Wayne, Anderson, Muncie, Colum- bus, Marion, Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Lafayette.

William F. Pillsbury won the championship of the University Club in the annual tourney on Glen View's Course July 30, this being his second successive victory. At Onwentsialast year he won after a qualify- ing round and match rounds. The tourney this year was 36 holes medal play, Pillsbury's score being J, L. STACK, 86-82-168 on the same oc- Midlothian. 160 PICTURESQUE MASSACHUSETTS CLUB HOUSES.

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THE ART OF GOLF

By Sir Walter Simpson, Bart.

ANNOTATED BY THE HON. MR. RECORDER WEIR.

PART II. gushes about it, or gives half-a-crown to the professional who has found it out. OF PLAYING THE GAME. Alas! there is no side road to golf. It can never be certain. With careful aim- ing for each shot, it may become pretty CHAPTER I. steady, but even with this there will be OF DRIVING IN GENERAL. better and worse drives. It would be T is a common complaint that, with so going too far to say dogmatically that many things to be thought of at nothing but aim must have a place in the I golf, accuracy is almost impossible. golfer's thought, although it is perhaps This is not the way to state the case. It best so; but certainly if stance, or swing, should rather stand: If points of style or address are dwelt upon it must be are thought about and trusted to, bad as subsidiary points. ' There is some- shots will be frequent. That there is some thing wrong about my style,' says the secret which, if discovered, would make golfer, ' which is causing me to drive so our driving infallible is a belief which dies short.' 'Not at all,' say I; ' aim more hard. Nostrum after nostrum is tried accurately.' Hand and eye and body day after day. Hope is quickly followed must concentrate themselves on, restrain by a despairing desire to break the whole themselves to, hitting cleanly, fairly, set or spitefully to present them to a firmly; not greedily, wildly, gaily. The friend, so that he too may suffer. Time golfer cannot afford to allow a favorite after time the golfer thinks he has dis- muscle to disport itself. The eye is offi- covered what he was doing wrong.* He cer, the muscles liners, each doing the duty required of them and no more. The tongue only may wag as it will without * Time after time the golfer thinks he has dis- doing harm or good. covered that he was doing wrong. The illusions and disillusions of golf make up its well nigh There is no alternative. It is of no inscrutable charm. Age cannot wither nor use to say to the ball, ' I will make thee custom stale its infinite variety. We are con- stantly discovering and re-discovering. Nos- magnificent gifts if thou wilt yield thy trum after nostrum, says Sir Walter truly, is secret. I am ready to wrench and tried day after day; but the worthy baronet clearly has no faith in nostrums; there is no thump for thee, to stand hearer or further side road to golf. And yet in this very para- from thee, to bend the knee. I will imi-i graph, as the reader perceives, Sir Walter presents us with a brand-new nostrum of his tate the swing of a Morris to conciliate own and a very good one too. ''Aim more thee.' The ball wants none of these accurately." he tells us. Nostrums after all are essential to golf. self-glorifying gifts. Abandon bodv and 162 THE ART OF GOLF. will to hitting, and the hidden secret of tive, deductive, inventive. If not, he is the mystic 27^ shall be revealed.* apt to give up the game as too simple. Still, the amateur golfer must be On the other hand, if he does not recog- allowed to theorise to some extent. It is nise 'hitting the ball' as his business, a necessary concession to him as a think- theory as his recreation, he becomes so ing animal. Within the indicated limits, bad a player that he nearly gives up. it will do little or no harm ; but because 'Keep your eye on the ball,' is the he does not think the professional is categorical imperative of the golfing better than the amateur, the uncultivated world; below which there is room for beats the educated player. The former much harmless digression. Say that I finds enough intellectual pabulum for his am playing very well, but that there duller brain in the prosy principles of is some irrational difference between my simply slogging. To grasp the idea of style with short spoon and driver. A doing so, sufficiently occupies his thoughts. professional would not know this of him- For an educated man to confine himself self, or, if told, would not care. It is to so narrow a range is irksome. The outside the range of his ideas. 'I'm professional's theorising does not go be- driving fine,' he would say. But your yond ' I hit lazy—I heeled—I topped—I amateur cannot rest till he has corrected sclaffed—I toed.' To perceive so much one of the styles into uniformity with the is an effort of observation. The amateur other, or found a rational cause for the must consciously exclude thought, if difference. If A. drives high, B. low, is he is to confine himself to such ele- it possible that A. with a university edu- mentary facts. It is noticeable that he cation, can rest satisfied with merely (in distinction from the professional) asks, observing this fact ? No. He will try to ' Why did I heel—top—sclaff—toe ? '— find out why, and, having done so, will and if golf is to be a pleasure, not a busi- either modify his style, or register to him- ness, he must be allowed to ask these self the conclusion that he prefers to things. The amateur, if keen, is induc- drive high. The amateur ought to think.

natural selection. A golfer may never take a *It will be seen that with all his humorous lesson, but every player with whom he plays discourse Sir Walter does not attempt to analyze or sees play is a preceptor to him Happy is or describe any theory of swing His cate- he who, early in his experience, is blessed with gorical imperatives are two in number: I. the opportunity of contemplating good models Keep your eye on the ball. 2 Hit it. Stance, One of the best attempts to analyze the swing swing and address are subsidiary. The main is to be found in Mr. G. W. Beldam's book on thing is to take careful aim and to hit "cleanly, "Great Golfers " Let the wrists, he says, take fairly firmly; not greedily, wily, gaily." The the club-head back first; let the arms follow, whole chapter will well repay careful and even then let the body turn from the hips; in the diligent perusal. So anxious are many golfers downward swing the body turns immediately, about stance and swing and correct wrist the wrists take the club through, pulling the actions that they quite omit to take serious aim, arms after them, then the body turns again and in other words to keep an eye on the ball, with faces the hole. The cautious golfer will remem- consequent disaster. To such Sir Walter's ber, of course, that the turning and swinging maxims should prove salutary to a degree. is all smooth and continuous not jerky or in But taking careful aim is not everything; it sections. is not even the chief thing in golf. The chief An excellent illustrative maxim in Mr. Bel- thing about golf is the swing, and no golfer is dam's book is the following: "Let the driver worthy the name who does not possess a definite swing round the body as if a large hoop were individual style and a conception of the swing placed round the neck, resting on the shoulders that is proper to him. There is an immense and touching the ball " The imaginary hoop difference between the strokes of the cricketer should rest rather above the shoulders, certainly I u« is, 1 and the golfer, and something more than merely not below them. As between a swing tending taking aim is required of the reformed batsman to the perpendicular and one tending to the distance; who is striving to master the royal and ancient horizontal the former has undoubtedly the game. Nobody by taking thought can evolve greater power. Vardon and Taylor are repre- a good swing. It is acquired by imitation and sentative, respectively, of these two styles. X THE ART OF GOLF. 163

The man who buys a baffy because he asked to advise. For instance, the player can't drive with a cleek has not a culti- is persistently driving to the right or to vated mind. If he carry both—if his set the left of the line he wishes to follow. is composed of a lot of preposterous in- Let him correct his stand, but let him do ventions of his own, all of which he uses so accepting the fact that he is standing in turn, he increases the difficulties of the wrong because his eye is at fault. Let game indeed, but is nevertheless noble him try to see straight. He ought to in not accepting defeat at the hands of come away from his ball, and take up any club. his posilion afresh with careful reference to his intended direction. But the usual Experiment, so long as the major thing is to accept the caddy's dictum premise is not lost sight of, is the recrea- (stand ' more behind ' or stand ' more in tion which may be allowed to the golfer front') blindly, and, without looking up, whilst attending to his business. It is a to scuffle about with the feet. When necessary concession to human nature; told, ' That will do,' the player either it is the spoonful of jelly with the misses, being stiff and twisted ; or—what Gregory's mixture; it is the working is more common—he scuffles back to man's half-holiday, and a great many where he was at first, like a sitting hen other analogous things. By all means moved from her eggs, and drives off the let us have our clubs long or short, heavy line. Having done this latter a dozen or light, upright or flat. The golfer may times, it seems that the position the be trusted in the long-run to give up caddy advises must be the solution of the anything which is too fanciful, although difficulty. He, who has been driving for a time he may spoil his play with a persistently to the right, has got into the fad. It is harmless to buy clubs from position shown in diagram No. i ; in professionals for gold, no better than what are for sale in the shops for four shillings. \ The player may experiment about his •O swing, his grip, his stance. It is only when he begins asking his caddy's ad- vice that he is getting on dangerous ground. A professional can play. It does not follow that he can teach others. He can comfortably assimilate foods and drinks (more particularly the latter) which would prostrate those he carries for on a bed of sickness Is he therefore an authority FIG. I. on dietetics ? But being constantly asked for advice, the professional has a few other words, his left foot has got nearer stock prescriptions which he gives reck- the ball than the right, which it has a lessly, doing more harm than good. So strong natural inclination to do, and the anxious is the golfer to learn without tendency is to drive in the direction of plodding that he uses these eagerly. The the arrow, and not of the dots. What truth is, your caddy is a good judge of ought really to be done is that the player distance and direction. He can advise stand up naturally and aim carefully. well what club to take, but as to how to The result of applying a correction such use it, he may show, but ought not to be as ' stand behind' will not make the ball 164 THE ART OF GOLF. thecentt go straight until the awkward position of Caddy.—' Drawing in your arms.' milted, li diagram No. 2 is reached. Player (heeling again).--'There! I for the m did not draw in my arms that time.' nons, a» Caddy.—' No, sir, ye cut it.' ) pfe on <** Player (4th shot). — 'There's that con- founded heel again.' thee are atoo Caddy.—'Ye didna cut it. Ye hit it clean enough that time; but ye were although ai U stanin' that way.' r{ff ; tier > P " Player (examining his club face after a instance, to vicious top).—' Right off the heel too. yBfflKS -• What on earth is the meaning of it ?' usraKi ID Caddy.—' Ye're fallin' in on the ball.' hopdesiy hwra It may seem that if the advice, instead Player (6th shot). — 'Another top.' of being, as it always is, ' Stand more Caddy.—' Ay, ye fell right back.' behind,' were ' Change the position of Player.—' Oh, hang it! with so many one of your feet,' the result would not be things to be thought of all at once, steady to produce the style of Fig. 2. But this play is almost impossible.' would alter the player's distance from the Having heard all that passed I here ball, and, instead of being the beginning remark with a smile —meaning sardonic of a cycle of fatal and deceptive good and oracular—'Not almost, but quite driving, would inaugurate a round of impossible.' tops, heels, or pulls, to the immediate Another error, nearly as bad as to take discredit of the caddy. If I wished to be advice blindly, is for a player, when cynical, I should say, therefore, ' Change standing wrongly, to try to pull or push one foot' is the better advice. But no ! the ball according to the correction for the proper thing to do is to try again. direction desired. Let him rather cor- Anything else is absurd. Were a caddy rect his stance. Faults covered by faults to say, ' You would drive better with my do not cancel each other. The second arms,' or were he to offer the loan of any fault only gives the ball an additional other limb, the nonsense would be evi- chance of escape from the way it should dent. Yet the absurdity of using his go. Far the wisest course is to apply a eyes does not seem apparent. The direct remedy. The player whose driv- player allows himself to be put in posi- ing is feeble should hit harder,* unless it tion like a lay figure. Even suppose he is because he is nipping, or not hitting understands the orders, and does pose as off the middle of the club, in which cases the caddy intends, a lay figure cannot he ought not to nip, or should aim for line of S4,' hit a ball. One man's mind cannot work another man's body. * Rather dangerous advice. Most players hit. The following is a specimen of what quite hard enough, but many do not get the power applied at the right moment. The feeble may be expected if a player hopes to driver will usually be found wasting his force drive by taking advice instead of aiming too soon or, too late, or dividing his energy so 1 that wrists work against each other or the arms at the ball with his own eyes. against the body. In such cases he will not ii Player (1st shot).—'Why did I heel mend matters by hitting harder. He must that ?' ascertain how his power is being wasted, and one of the best ways of doing this is to try a Caddy.—' Drawing in your arms.' short swing and take it more easily. Hard Player (2c! shot).—'Why did I pull hitting is a luxury for experts or anyone at the top of his form, but is almost invariably followed that ?' by a break-down. THE ART OF GOLF. 165

the centre of the head, It must be ad- tion of these has been to drive a very mitted, however, that it is much easier, long ball. They are victims to the truth for the moment, to apply indirect correc- that a ball so struck will sometimes go tions, and few indeed are the formed further north than one aimed to that part golfers on whose style the cicatrices of of the compass. But what does it profit early patchings are not visible. Some of when it as often goes east or west ? these are almost harmless; but others Such fill men's gardens with golf-balls, and lose many more in the waves of the ve were may cripple the player permanently, although at the time, like new brooms, sea. they sweep away the ball clean For Do I maintain, then, the reader may instance, there is a class of stereotyped ask, that every one ought to have the faults whose origin is traceable to a same style ? By no means ; on the con- miserable time when every ball was trary, for you or me to model ourselves hopelessly heeled. If the wretched man on a a champion is about as profitless as (oh, how despondent he was then!) to copy out Hamlet in the hope of be- had only attributed his misery to the true coming Shakespeare. If we have a neat cause - namely, that he was heeling—the style, so be it; and if we began before fault would have corrected itself. But our hair was grey or gone, it probably so he found a royal road to the middle of is. But for a fat man to model himself his club. You see the former victims of on a swank youth is frivolous. We can- heeling either standing nine feet from not ignore our deformities. Our shoul- their ball and taking a header at it, or so ders are heavy, our fore-arm puny; it is crouching on their haunches that you are useless to rebel. A very easy long swing astonished, when the stroke is made, to is impossible with such a configuration. find player and ball are not both left We may play well—beat the swank seated. If you see a golfer draw his youth very likely, — but only if we are club so slowly back that ten is easily content with a stiff style. Are we lank counted before it begins to return, as a and loose-limbed ?—So will our driv- tyro he has been one of those who fervently ing be, if left to develop naturally. wished that balls had no top. Again, there are men who face the east when ( To be continued.} they mean to go north.* The sole ambi-

* I cannot but think that Sir Walter, on cross- any tee-shot ? Sir Walter is thinking of those examination would have to admit that it is not who play for a pull; your pullers, wishing to only merely lawful but almost imperative to sail north commonly fetch a compass east by face the east if one would go north. To do so, south; in other words they face well towards is it not merely to stand at right angles to the the right, placing the ball nearer the right line of flight,—always considered orthodox in foot. 166 EDITORIALS.

would result in the United States leading GOLF the procession. But mere numbers do EVERY MONTH not tell the story of the popularity of golf so convincingly as the names of the Special Appointment OHicial Bulletin of the TJuited States Golf Association, Intercollegiate countries in which the game flourishes. Golf Association, Central New York Golf Lenpuc, It has its votaries now throughout the Metropolitan Golf Association, Western Golf As- sociation, and Southern Golf Association. Continent of Europe, and there are signs that France, in particular, is catching the Entered at Post-office at New York as Second Class Matter. fever badly. In last month's GOLF were ONE YEAR, $2.00; SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS illustrations showing how the Celestial Postage free United State?, Canada, and Mexico. plays at Shanghai, and this month's maga- To other foreign countries, 36 cents per j ear. Re- mit bv Express Money Order, Post-office Order, zine has golfing scenes in British India. Registered Letter, or Check payable to ARTHUR POTTOW. The enterprising Jap has also his golf Edited by van Tassel Sutphen club, and if he plays as well as he fights he will soon be sending out champions to Publisher: ARTHUR POTTOW, teach the long and the short game to 213 East 24th St., New York wondering Caucasians. The native New Zealander has already beaten his white instructors. Colonel Younghusband's The Editor will be glad to receive mission in Thibet to introduce, according for consideration Photographs and Con- to Lord Rosebery, Indian tea to that tributions on the general subject of the community, may result in familiarizing game. Stamps should be enclosed for Thibetans with tees of another descrip- return postage if found unavailable. tion, and we may yet see the Grand Contributors are requested to write Lama foozling on the links. Baseball is their Names and A ddresses on the back of all MSS. and Photographs. Pho- played in some countries, cricket in more, tographs should be carefully packed but golf is the truly cosmopolitan sport. and accompanied by descriptions of their subjects. Club Secretaries will PROFESSIONAL GOLF. confer a favor by notifying the Editor There seems to be vastly more enter- of the dates and particulars of coming prise in the West than the East in golf club events, especially open and invita- affairs, and in no way is it more strikingly tion .ournaments. manifested than in the encouragement given to professional golf. Every year the Western Golf Association holds an THE POPULARITY OF GOLF. open championship and with liberality A British investigator has been com- does not confine the players strictly to piling statistics which demonstrate with western limits. Here we have no such the compelling force of figures the wide- competition. Prior to such an event be- spreading interest in the game. He states ing instituted it will be necessary to form that there are at present 879 golf clubs in an Eastern Golf Association and this England, 769 in the United States and should be done quickly so that early next 682 in Scotland, so that the home of the summer an Eastern open championship game has now to yield its pride of place. may be held. Professional golf is educa- Undoubtedly the figures relating to this tional. Some people prefer playing to country have been under-estimated, and looking on, but let us at least give those if the English figures are correct, then a who like following the game a chance to full and accurate list of American clubs see the best.

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HE United States Golf Association medal, was a fine exhibition of golf, and covered itself with glory at the Travers once more showed his class. T Shinnecock Hills tournament, Harold Wilcox had to be contented with August 4-6, when one of its vice-presi- a place in the second eight The first dents, Adrian H. Larkin, defeated Find- eight were: Findlay S. Douglas, Nas- lay S. Douglas. The ex-amateur cham- sau, 38, 36-74; J. D. Travers, Nassau, pion was playing in a Shinnecock 38, 38-76; Max Behr, Morris County, 39, tournament for the first time in his life 39-78; Malcolm McBurney, Stockbridge, j and- in the qualifying round he en- 41, 3879; I. S. Broun, Bellport, 37, countered a good field, for the college 43-80; Percy R. Pyne, 2±, Morris. element always musters very strongly County, 39; 42-82; U. A. Murdock, Shin- at Southampton. Amongst those who necock, 40, 42-82; Adrian H. Larkin, started were: J. D. Travers, the Inter- Yountakah, 43, 39-82. Scholastic champion; Max Behr, of Yale, who played so well at Apawamis; Mal- Larkin's triumph came in the first colm McBurney, of Harvard, fresh from match play round and here the Youn- his triumph at Great Barrington; Percy takah player put up a game good enough R. Pyne, 2nd; Harold Wilcox, the Met- to beat anyone. His medal score was 7 6, and tliii ropolitan champion; and C. B. Mac- which speaks for itself, and Douglas was donald, the ex-amateur champion. The only two strokes more. At the turn course was in splendid condition and the Douglas was two up after Larkin had play was very fine. For the first eight, won the fifth hole in 2. Coming in no less than five men had to play off a Douglas took the first hole and as this tie at 82 for sixth, seventh and eighth made him three up, the match was looked places. Douglas' 74, which won him the upon as over. Larkin took the twelfth 168 THROUGH THE GREEN. hole, 5 to 6, halved the next two, won the Garry B. Adams, Baltusrol, tied for sec- fifteenth, halved the sixteenth and took ond prize, each of their cards reading the two last, thus winning on the home J67, 16—151. green. The suggestion was made some time ago by an eminent player, that the The Wyantenuck Golf Club, of Great U. S. G. A. should have first-class golfers Barrington, Mass., held a very successful amongst its officers. GOLF is inclined to tournament July 27-29. So far as the think that the gentleman who volunteered numbers and quality of the players were this advice is now satisfied that further concerned the fixture does not suffer by criticism upon this point is scarcely war- comparison with similar events of the ranted, season. Amongst those who started were: J- A. G. Lockwood, the Massachusetts Percy Pyne was put out by McBurney champion; Dwight Partridge, Bedford; and Max Behr was somewhat easily Marc Michael, Yountakah; Mortimer M. beaten by U. A Murdock, who generally Singer, Lenox; C. H. Blake, Jr., Engle- shows his best golf at Shinnecock Tra- wood; and S. Frothingham and D. T. vers had a walk-over with Brown, winning Dana, both of Lenox. In the qualifying by 9 up and 8 to play. The second eight round at thirty-six holes, McBurney broke also had its surprise in the defeat of the all records for the course, going round in Metropolitan champion by C F. Watson, 149. A. G. Lockwood, who finished Sr., Essex County. Macdonalcl had a second, was no less than twelve strokes hard fight with Truesdale, winning on behind with 161. the home green, and Tiffany Richardson lost in a 19-hole match to M. Barnes, In the first round Singer had to play Manhanset Manor. In the semi finals 22 holes to beat W. Stanley, Wyantenuck; Larkin was off his game and McBurney and the second round he had a 20 hole beat him easily. Travers and Murdock match with Blake. This is pretty good had a long-driving contest, the former for one day. Ernest Thompson, Pitts- loi score nJ2c i winning by 7 and 5, and having a fine field, put Michael out in the second 'swoekTr: card of 53 for fourteen holes. McBurney round by 2 up. McBurney, Partridge h Mfe a had slightly the better of the long game and Lockwood each won their matches, Thorppot ool P, and a decided superiority in the putting, and eventually McBurney and Lockwood ffld in tk a and he won by 3 up and 1 to play. C. reached the finals. At the end of the F. Watson took the second cup, J. Whit- first eighteen holes Lockwood was two ney Baker, of Princeton, the third cup; up, and from this point McBurney played and the fourth cup went to Courtland D. a wonderfully plucky uphill game, and Barnes, Shinnecock Hills. he beat the Boston player by 4 up and 3 J> to play. D. T. Dana, Lenox, won the There was a thirty-six-hole handicap on Bauchle Consolation Cup from William the third day and Douglas playing from Stanley, Lenox, by 1 up on the thirty- scratch had the best gross, 152. In the seventh green, In the scratch foursome afternoon he went round in 71, establish- the winners were John Reid, Jr., St. ing a record for the lengthened course. Andrews, and JViarc M. Michael. Walter J. Travis, and H W. Beveridge, the P^nglish golfer, had this score last The Kebo Valley Club, Bar Harbor, year. C. Tiffany Richardson, Lakewood, Maine, had its annual tournament, team, won the handicap, his card reading 156, August 9-11, amongst the players being 14—142. E S. Knapp, Westbrook and j. G. Thorp, Arden M. Robbins, Percy the 0ilf-

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R. Pyne, 2nd, and F. J. O. Alsop. The up to Poland Spring for the month of low score prize in the qualifying round August, and has been on the links a good was won by Thorp, Oakley Country, with deal. Recently he was playing the best 83. Robbins and Pyne each had 92. ball of two members of the Club there, Thorp put out Pyne by 4 up and 3 to play, and in this match he had the best and in the semi-finals he also beat amateur score of the season. His rounds F. Briggs by 4 up and 2 to play. Rob- were 37, 36, a total of 73. The bogey bins beat Franklin Ellis in the first round for the course is 39, and its length is on the home green, and he won his semi- 2,960 yards. Evidently Chick is getting final match against P. W. Whittemore in good form for the amateur champion- by 2 up. In the final round Thorp beat ship. Robbins by 7 up and 6 to play. Patrick Grant won the second cup, beating R. B. Last year the Country Club of Spring- Hay by 5 up and 4 to play, and Paul field, Mass., had a very successful tour- Dana lost in the Consolation to William nament. It was of particular interest to Frew by 8 up and 7 to play. all golfers of western Massachusetts, and there were no less than ninety entries. William C. Chick, of the Harvard It is good news that the club intends to College team, is playing good golf this hold another tournament this year, and season. After winning the championship September 14-17 have been fixed upon of the Oakley Country Club, when he as the dates. The club has the finest beat A. L. Ripley in the finals, he went course in the western part of the State s 170 THROUGH THE GREEN. with the possible exception of Stock- Irishman. This is surely an example of When Mr. bridge, and it will be in the pink of con- the glorious hospitality of the inhabitants dition. The opening day there will be a of the Emerald Isle — they go to great 36-hole medal play round with sixteen to trouble to provide entertainment for qualify for the Springfield cup and six- Englishmen and Scotchmen and then let teen for the Country Club cup. There them win their championship H. H. will be two match play rounds on the Hilton has won it four times (three in second day. On the third day there is a succession), and John Ball, Jr, and W. 36-hole medal play handicap and the B. Taylor have each three wins to their Crocker, Jr, ^ semi-finals for the match play events. credit, and A. Stuart, Jr., has won it once. A. G. I.ockwoad. The finals, 36-holes, will be played on The South of Ireland Championship will These four player? Saturday, and there will also be an 18— be held at Lahinch during the following: Irak Loiw« hole medal play handicap. The entry week. There are few more pleasant dompoiir of* fee, $2.00, covers all events, and entries places in the world than Lahinch, and to affect lie dm can be made with the Tournament Com- apart from the question of golf there is least, and be wa I mittee, P. O. Box 1596, Springfield, much to do and see in the immediate Crocker beat %M Mass , before 6 p. m. Tuesday, Septem- vicinity of the links. fas newpfesd s ber 13th. ttom k 'mi by Tnraite grKJ 1 the 36-hole medi 1 Says GOLF'S London Correspondent: Ever since he came back from Sand- tt rait toiffld:'. During the last few weeks we in P2ng- wich John Ball, Jr, has been playing store pme Lcda land have been favored with glorious extremely well. At Leasowe he has again •re. weather, although it has been far too hot won the match play tournament for the for much serious golf. Fortunately there captain's prize as he has done every are few events of any importance held in year with the exception of last year. the summer. It is perhaps also fortunate Playing at the summer meeting of that the rain of last winter did so much the Lytham and St. Anne's club he good to the greens, otherwise many of won the "Silver Iron" with 81 and them would have been almost ruined. As it is many courses have lost almost all their freshness and are extremely brown and the greens are like glass everywhere. The summer meeting of the Royal The last of the championships, the Irish Liverpool was held on August Bank Open Amateur Championship (one always Holiday. John Graham, Jr., won the likes to give it its full title), will be held Lubbock gold medal and memento with at Newcastle, County Down, on August 29 a fine score of 76. Neither Ball nor and following days. The Newcastle Hilton competed, but probably Graham's course is one of the best of the many fine score would have been quite good enough. links which have come into existence in Ireland. It is essentially a match play- ing course, where good golf alone will be The final for the Calcutta cup, one of rewarded and the indifferent strokes the chief trophies of the Royal and punished. Ancient Club, was played between A. R. Mac Allan (1) and W. T. Armour (3). The present holder is George Wilkie, The first round was very evenly contested of Leven, and it is worthy of note that and resulted in a tie. Going out again this event has never been won by an A. R. MacAllan won by 1 hole.

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When Mr. Travis showed himself in The third annual competition for the good form at the Great Island (Mass.) Vermont State championship was held tournament, August 17-20, the expected August 17-20 at the Rutland Country merely happened. Notwithstanding a Club, with a very large entry list. Paul high wind he did the qualifying round Waterman, Ekwanok, who was State in 143, his morning card being 71 and champion in 1902 won the gold medal his afternoon card 72. A. M. Reid, St. with 81. The first sixteen were: First Andrews, had 153, and then came C. E. sixteen—Paul Waterman, Ekwanok, 43, Crocker, Jr., Fitchburg, with 162 and 38-81; P. H. Jennings, Mount Anthony, A. G. Lockwood, of Allston, with 163. 43, 40-83; A. M. Reed, Ekwanok, 45, These four players lasted until the semi- 40-85; E. W. Clark, Ekwanok, 42, 46-88; finals. Lockwood played Travis in a W. T. Evans, Ekwanok, 44, 46-90; F. downpour of rain, which did not seem Herreshoff, Ekwanok, 47, 44-91; W. W. to affect the champion's game in the Burton, Ekwanok, 44, 47-91; J. A. Mer- least, and he won by 6 up and 4 to play. rill, Rutland, 46, 45-91; T. M. Gilmer, Crocker beat Reid by 1 up, and Travis Mount Anthony, 50, 41-91; G. E. Morse, was never pressed in the final by Crocker, Rutland, 49, 42-91; J. L. Taylor, Ek- whom he beat by 4 up and 3 to play. wanok, 45, 48-93; G. B. Harrison, Dorset Travis was given a plus 12 handicap in Field Club, 48, 45-93; G. W. Benedict, the 36-hole medal play competition, ar.d Waubanakee, 46, 47-93; C. S. Caverly, he went round in 151, and took gross Rutland, 45, 48-93; S. B. Buck, Wau- score prize. Lockwood was four strokes banakee, 44, 49-93; E. M. Pond, Rut- more. land, 47, 46-93.

E. 8. KNAPP, WHO TIED FOR 2ND PRIZE IN SHINNECOCK HANDICAP. 172 THROUGH THE GREEN.

Albert M. Reed, the champion, was Golf Championship, defeating D. E. Saw- put out in the first match play round by yer, of Wheaton, in the final at thirty-six E. M. Pond, Rutland, by 4 up and 2 to holes by 6 up and 5 to play. In the play, and the winner was beaten in the October number of GOLF this important afternoon by T. M. Gilmer by 3 up and competition will be treated in detail in 1 to play, Frederick Herreshoff put out an illustrated article by Mr. Alexis J. Edward Clark and Paul Waterman, and Colman. eventually reached the final, in which he met P. H. Jennings. Jennings was The Cape Cod Championship was held beaten by 2 up and 1 to play. During August 2 at Hyannis Port, Mass. The first the month Herreshoff had best medal day's play was in a heavy rain storm, but score m the President's Cup tournament few of the forty entries withdrew. Ben- at Ekwanok, so it is clear that he is a jamin C. Lancy, Seapuit, won the qualify- player of considerable merit. ing medal with the score of 82. He also won the championship cup from Mrs. Thomas S. Davids, of the Hunt- E. A. Sleek by 5 up and 4 to play. ington Valley Golf Club, won the thirty- C. B. Cory and A G. Lockwood won six-hole handicap for women at Cape the Scotch foursomes on Friday with a May August 19, beating her next nearest 73. Douglas Mercer, champion of competitor by twelve strokes. The gross Rhode Island, won the handicap on score prize was won by Mrs. R. L. Bar- Thursday. Some of the other well- stow, who was second in the handicap. known players in the tournament were The leading scores were: Mrs. Thomas C. M Hinkle, Foster Davis, Henry C. S. Davids, 238-50-188; Mrs. R. L. Bar- Mortimer, Jr., Marston Leonard, Alex- stow, 200-0-200; Mrs. F. R. Shattuck, ander Halliday and C. T. Crocker, Jr. 202-0-202 ; Mrs. W. T. West, 212-10-202; Mrs. E. Dougherty, 204-0-204; Mrs. C. Stevenson, 225-20-205; Mrs. Crow, 235- There was a very large entry at the 30-205; Mrs. E. Rodgers, 207-0-207; Deal (N. J.) club tournament, August Mrs. Brenen, 209-0-209; Mrs D. Mans, 18-20, no less than ninety-four players 211-0-211. returning cards in the qualifying round. The course was somewhat heavy owing The Maine State championship was to the abundance of rain during the past concluded on August 20 at the Portland few weeks, otherwise it was in excellent Golf Club, when Harold E. Fenn, of condition. There is never any doubt as Poland Springs, in a heavy rain won the to its being a long course and upon this final. Fenn and B. B. Sanderson, of occasion it was fully 6,500 yards. A Portland, were all square at the end of somewhat gratifying feature to those who the 36 holes. By good putting Fenn are interested in the progress of the won the extra hole, which decided the game in this country was the number of struggle. The trophy, which is a silver new names to be found in the list of those cup, was won in 1900 by Walter Emer- who qualified, and to their credit be it son, of Washington, D. C; 1901 by said many of them played as well as Francis H. Hoyi, Portland; 1902, H. B. those absent players who are so familiar Fenn, and 1903, Bates Dana, New York. to all of us. T. M. Sherman, of the Sadaquada Golf Club, of Utica, a son of Just a note to say that H. Chandler Congressman James Sherman, won the Egan, Exmoor, won the Western Amateur medal in the qualifying round with a THROUGH THE GREEN. 173

score of 86, which was not bad going Utica player had matters his own way. considering the wind. He has a fine, He was 6 up in the morning round and free style; is not brilliant at times with eventually won by 10 up and 9 to play. frequent lapses into dufferdom, but is a consistent player at all times so far as could be judged from what was seen of The finals for the other events resulted his game at Deal. Last year he was as follows: Second Cup—Sims Wylie, runner-up in the Central New York Golf Seabright, beat A. McClave, St. Andrew's, League Championship, but hitherto he 7 up and 6 to play. Third Cup—J. A. has been an unknown quantity in the Howard, Delaware, beat H. L. Phillips. Metropolitan District. He is a valuable Siwanoy, 14 up and 13 to play. Cup addition to that aggregation of young for First Beaten Eight—L. J. Whitlock, golfers who have made their mark this Jr., Deal, beat H. L Bond, Baltimore, 1 year. up, 37 holes Cup for the Second Beaten Eight—J. C. Phillips, Hollywood, beat J. F. Stanley, Jr., Deal, 6 up and 5 to The first sixteen, being those who quali- play. Cup for Third Beaten Eight — fied for the President's cup were : T. M. Dr. A. E. Ayres, Seabright, beat J. C. Sherman, Utica, 44, 42-86; Frederick Oliver, Deal, 3 up and 2 to play. The H. Thomas, Morris County, 87; F. B. handicap was won by R. W. Kendall, Stoutenburg, Newark, 89; H. L. Bond, Deal, with a card reading 90, 14-76. 3d, Baltimore, 90 ; A. D. Swords, Mor- ristown Field, 90; Amos T. Dwight, Dyker Meadow, 91 ; Dr. Carl Martin, A professional tournament was held at Fairfield, 91; Arthur Havemeyer, Sea- the Deal Golf Club, August 24-25, and bright, 93 ; Walter Stern, St. Andrew's, it afforded an admirable opportunity to 93; E. S. Frazer, Deal, 93 ; J B.Turner, see what the possibilities of golf are on Jr., Deal, 93; T. J. Whitlock Deal, 93; this course when experts are playing. A H. B. Billings, Jr., Essex County, 94; few days previously, whilst the amateur Howard Townsend, Oyster Bay, 94; tournament was on, a golfer impressed R. C. James, Springhaven, 94; George by the length of the course and its diffi- Baxter, Goshen, 94. culties wagered that no score under eighty would be returned during the In the match play Sherman did an professional competition. His belief in 82 with Walter Stern and won easily. his prescience must be sadly shattered Frazer beat Whitlock by 2 up and 1 to now. On the first day Stewart Gardner, play, James beat Townsend by 5 up and Isaac Mackie and Alex Smith, each had 4 to play; Thomas and Turner had a 78's and on the second day scores under 22-hole game, which was won by the 80 were too numerous to chronicle. Morris County player; Dwight beat George Low in the best ball foursomes Bond by 1 up; Billings beat Arthur established a competitive record for the Havemeyer by 2 up; Morton beat Stout- course when he went the morning round enburg in.'a 19-hole match and Swords in 76, notwithstanding that he was bunk- beat Baxter by 2 up and 1 to play. Sher- ered on the ninth through miscalculating of tie man and James met in the final with the the distance, and taking a 7 for the hole. fair green soggy and the putting greens Anderson and Willie Smith also traveled j son o' heavy and slow after the tropical storm of at the same pace : as Low, but they did won the early morning. From the start the not putt out at some of the holes. R. C. JAMES, RUNNER-UP. T. M. SHERMAN, WINNER, THE DEAL TOURNAMENT.

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Stewart Gardner and Alex Smith— The scores in the singles were: Out - - - 4 4 3 6 5 3 5 4 5—39 Stewart Gardner, Garden City: — In - - - - 34534543 4—35—74 Out - - - 54455453 5-40 8 Out - - - 46454363 4-39 Tn, - - - - 45535543 4—3 —7§ In- - - - 44435543 3—35—74-148 Out ---45465554 4-42 Willie Smith and Dave Hunter— In- - - - 45535543 4-38—80—158 s Out - - - 4 5 4 4 5 3 5 3 5—3 Willie Anderson, Apawamis : — In- - - - 544344444-36-74 Out - - - 45455464 6—43 Out - - - 45455453 4-39 In- - - - 44633553 5—38—81 In- - - - 54534544 4—38—77 — >5l Out - - - 55465353 5-4r George Low and Bernard Nicholls — In- - - - 54636543 3-39-80—161 Out - - - 3 6 4 5 4 3635 39 Isaac Mackie, Fox Hills :- In- - - - 44534443 4 ~35— 74 Out 4 5 4 4 4 5 4 5—4' Out - - - 454644035-41 In - - - - 4 4 5 3 5 5 4 3 4-37—78 In- - - - 44544633 4-37—78 — 152 Out - - - 554543646-42 Willie Anderson and Willie Norton— In - - - - 55635553 4—41—83—161 Out - - - 46455353 5-4° Alec Smith Nassau: — In- - - - 44533444 4-35—75 Out - - - Out - - - 45455453 5—4° 4 5 4 5 5 2 54 5—35399 In- - - - 44534644 4—38—78—153 In --- - 5 5 5 3 4 5 444 4—39—78 Out - - - 454665 6 3 5-44 John Pearson and M. McCarthy—79, 82—161. In - - - - 4 5 7 4 4 5 4 3 4 40 - 84—162 Isaac Mackieand Horace Rawlins— 80, 84—164. John Mackie and Jack Jolly—85, 80 - 165 The other scores were : The occasion has been seized for 0 0 H OQ Xi showing how easily the best professionals G Pierson, Forest Hill - - - 82 82 164 lead the best amateurs. That goes with- 84 80 164 Horace Rawlins, Spring Haven out saying, but some of the reasons given Bernard Nicholls, New York - 82 84 166 George Low, Baltusrol - 84 82 166 for this superiority cannot be so easily J. Mackie, Roseville - - - - 82 85 167 assented to. A well-informed critic puts David Hunter, Essex County - 86 82 168 the case in a strong light when he says J. Jolly, Newark ----- 85 83 168 that on long courses it is the long Willie Smith, North Jersey - - 89 82 171 game that wins. It is certainly so if the Willie Norton, Deal - - - - 90 87 177 M. McCarthy, Hollywood 95 90 185 man who plays the long game has good J. Hobens, Yountakah - - - 84 withdrew direction and can approach and putt, in A. G. Griffiths, Westbrook - - 86 withdrew other words, is a perfect golfer. But how often does this combination occur? We had recently in the English Cham- In the singles, as will be seen from the pionship at Sandwich an opportunity to above summary, both Griffiths and test the theory. Mr. Blackwell some- Hobens withdrew after playing the first times outdrove Mr. Travis by from sixty round, and yet in the four-ball match they to seventy-five yards, and yet Mr. Travis led everybody with the wonderfully good won the hole. Watching the play very score of 147. Both are good players and closely at Deal, it occurred to the writer, it was their falling down on the first that the superiority of the professional day, not their success on the second, that over the amateur lay in two shots, the occasioned comment. The selected score approach to the green and the approach of the best ball cards was : putt. Even when their putting was not Out 34344352 5—33 brilliant it was beyond a doubt superior In- 33423432 ,4-28—61 to amateur putting. Sometimes a short The summary follows: putt would be missed—the greens were a bit bumpy—but the leading men al- John Hobens and A. G Griffiths— Out - - - 4 5 4 5 4 3 5 3 5— 3« most invariably laid their approach putts In - - - 54534542 4—36—74 dead, and everybody knows what that Oat - - - 34454353 5~36 In- - - - 44535543 4—37—73—H7 means 176 THROUGH THE GREEN.

The Worthington Ball Company of Baker won the tenth, the eleventh was Elyria, Ohio, call attention to the fact halved, and the twelfth and thirteenth that Willie Anderson and many other also went to Baker, who won by 6 up prominent professionals played with their and 5 to play. R. Moore, Audubon ball, the Champion, in the Open Cham- Golf Club, won the Consolation Cup, ship at Glen View. This seems to show defeating G. Abbott, Shelter Island Coun- that the flying, approaching and putting try, by 5 up and four to play. qualities of the ball are satisfactory, for competitors in the Open Championship There was a triple tie in the i8-hole have too much at stake to allow them to handicap for best net. H. F. Whitney sacrifice their chances for sentimental having best gross. The summary: H. reasons. Unfortunately, we are not all F. Whitney, Nassau, 8o, o-8o; G. L. Andersons, and some of us have economi- Daniels, Baltusrol, 95, 15-80; Dr. Butler, cal minds and do not relish the prospect Shelter Island Country, 96,16-80; Foster of having to take a new ball every few Naething, Lakewood, 88, 7-81; C. G. holes. Therefore we consider durability Coakley, Shinnecock, 85, 3-82 ; S. C. as well as the flying, approaching and Baldwin, Nassau, 98, 16-82; T. T. Rush- putting qualities of the ball, and so far as more, Midland, 96, 13-83; Mortimer we have been able to judge from playing Barnes, Manhanset, 84, 0-84; E. M. with the ball, which is a true test, the Friedlander, Hollywood, 94, 8-86; H. Champion has lasting qualities which S. Stearns, Manhanset, 95, 8-87; O. Pick- ought to commend it to players on our hardt, Manhanset, 95, 8-87; J. F. Maed- golf courses. er, Shelter Island Country, 104, 16-88; D. M. Marvin, Shinnecock, 95, 6-89 ; H. The Manhanset Manor Country Club, S. Stearns, Jr., Manhanset, 109, 20-89; Shelter Island, N. Y., was favored with J. F. Brennan, St. Andrews, 106, 16-90; delightful weather for the opening day of A. Whitney, Nassau, 93, 2-91; Benjamin its tournament, which was held August Atha, Newark, no, 18-92; J. G. Dett- 24-27. The course was in good condi- mer, Cresent, no, 18-92; H. M. Hitch- tion when thirty-nine players drove off ings, Manhanset, 108, 10-98; A. E. from the first tee. In the first round Barron, Berkshire, 102, 3-99; C. S. Pink- there were some good matches. J. Whit- ney, Fox Hills, 104,5-99. During the ney Baker, the Princeton boy who be- tournament Val Flood, professional at longs to the Maidstone club, beat H. Manhanset Manor, played John Shippen, Thatcher by 7 up and 6 to play, and H. the Maidstone professional, beating him F. Whitney, of Nassau, was put out by by 1 up. Chadwick Sawyer, Midland, by 2 up and 1 to play. S. Kobbe, Shinnecock Hills, There was a very large field at the won his match and eventually he and Ekwanok Country Club, Manchester, Baker reached the finals. In the morn- Vermont, in the President's Cup tourna- ing round Baker finished 1 up, his medal ment, August 24-27. Frederick Her- score being 82 to Kobbe's 84. In the reshoff, Garden City, who took the afternoon Baker took the first three holes medal in the First Presidents' Cup tour- in succession. The fourth was halved, nament, again had low score, going round and Baker won the fifth, making him in 167. C. I. Travelli, Brae Burn, was 5 up. Kobbe took the seventh and second with 168. The four semi-finalists eighth in par 4's, the ninth was,halved were H. G. Hartwell, Island Golf; J. F. in 5, leaving Baker 3 up at the turn. Willett, Newton; F. Herreshoff and even atisfactjo X THROUGH THE GREEN.

A. HAVEMEYER AND G-EORGE BEOKAW. BROKAW PUTTING. THE DEAL TOURNAMENT.

Ormsby McCammon, Chevy Chase. Hart- ers, and notwithstanding new inventions well beat Willett by i up and Herreshoff put on the market, they continue to hold beat McCammon by 5 up and 3 to their own. His screw-socket drivers and play. In the final Herreshoff won by 8 brassseys have the claim made for them up and 7 to play. Hartwell and Her- that they are the longest driving clubs irins lit reshoff finished all square in the morning, on the market, and testimony of the and then the former fell off in his game. National Amateur Champion and also W. J. Evans, Ekwanok, won the Vice- the Metropolitan Champion appears to President's Cup, beating A. P. Palmer, be to this effect. The Amateur Cham- Columbia, by 5 up and 3 to play. N. pionship at Baltusrol will bring to New Mallouf, Cornell, beat J. G. Batterson, York golfers from all parts of the country Lakewood, by 4 up and 3 to play for the and visitors will not be wasting their Treasurer's Cup. The Fourth Sixteen time if they give Mr. Slazenger a call. Cup went to R. F. McQueen, Ekwanok, who beat C. F. Simons, Ekwanok, by 3 up and 2 to play. H. W. Brown, Phila- The following correspondence recently delphia, won the handicap, his card read- appeared in Golf Illustrated, the first ing 86-4, 82. E. M. Dalley, St. Andrews, letter being signed " Oxon," the second had best gross, 83. " Cantab." " In his reply in your last issue to Mr. Frank L. Slazenger's golf clubs have Devereux Emmet's manly protest against given satisfaction for many years to golf- the way Mr. Travis's victory in the Open 178 THROUOH THE GREEN.

Championship was received by a certain ' he could not do it again.' After the section, it is to be regretted that Mr. generous repast of cold-shoulder with ss the water. Low did not take the occasion to dis- which our guest was regaled for some across sociate himself from expressions which ten days over here he must have thought have undoubtedly given offense to our that the stranger sportsman, who I saw American friends. To write of Mr. wring his hand on the Deal station plat- steps, and make offf mm Travis's victory as a ' travesty of justice ' form and inform him that he was as glad and fitaS is neither true nor sportsmanlike. Mr. at his victory as if it had been his own, AacieDt Clnb arc rep Travis won the Championship fairly and a stark, staring British lunatic." of golf, and were l squarely under the advertised conditions, and it ill becomes those who accepted Apparently some American golfers are nith some fess if those conditions, played in the competition, popular in England, for this appears in d promised fcS a and were defeated, to belittle his victory. Golf Illustrated in an article entitled, thecommitteesof l The members of a certain small clique " Sliced Shots at St. Andrews." " Mr. |se seems lo h 8 seem to imagine that unless one of them- F. O. Horstmann is not so fine drawn as to look at b: L ;;."": selves wins the Championship that the Mr. Gollan," (a New Zealander dealt with mhtee km? aW whole proceedings are a farce, and it is a in the same article) " but he has the ap- 5 ink The CoBfli pity that these gentlemen, some of whom pearance of possessing great strength. are good players, do not appear to real- It is only four years ago since he took to iaicK maybe n ize the full significance of Mr. Travis's the game of golf, but he has made marvel- n-lhey are. io fc victory or appreciate the thoroughness of ous progress in it, and at the present smreoimce Tk I the scientific study and practice which time he is quite a first-class player, and a a'to is COEC>:: ; enabled him to win it. Unless our best week or two ago, when playing with Mr. players prepare themselves and train Everard, he completed the circuit of the themselves as the Americans do there old course in 74 strokes—hard to beat! will be more ' travesties of justice' in the It is curious that, notwithstanding the near future, in spite of Mr. Low's cheery success of his compatriot, Mr. Travis, optimism." with the Schenectady putter, Mr. Horst- Jt mann had the supremest contempt for " Let me add my protest to that of that form of club, and he showed this your correspondent 'Oxon' at the kind very clearly when he threw his specimen of welcome (?) accorded Mr. Travis at into the sea. He putts very well with a the Amateur Championship, and at the cleek. I think that the present is only unhandsome criticism his play received Mr. Horstmann's second visit to St. and is still receiving at the hands of some Andrews, but he has won the esteem of of the cognoscenti in this country. I all with whom he has come in contact, was there, so I know—and I was first and although he talks of returning to made aware of this contemptible feeling America shortly, it will be the hope of by the hostile glances with which I was every-one here that he will write " St. myself favored when I applauded a par- Andrews" across the months of August ticularly fine putt of his at the third hole and September in his engagement book in his match with Mr. Hutchinson. for many years to come." Much that I subsequently heard and noticed was in harmony with those On the subject of International Golf, glances and every fertile excuse for the Mr. J. L. Low writes in the Athletic ' travesty of justice '—always excepting News. " We are at once confronted by good play—was put forward with much the difficulty of finding a body in this gusto, including the sapient remark that country who will take the trouble to THROUGH THE GREEN. 179

consider the question of International resentative English and Scottish golfers, golf, and, if necessary, send an invitation but its powers only refer to the interpre- across the water. For if these matches tation of the rules. The Green Com- are to be part of the programme of the mittee is another of local construction, future, it is well for us to take the proper and have their work solely in connec- steps, and make our moves in a corteous tion with matters relating to the St. and flitting manner. The Royal and Andrews course. From none of these Ancient Club are regarded as the M.C.C. bodies is any initiative step likely to of golf, and were asked by the other come." leading clubs at a meeting held at Sand- wich some years ago to take the lead, " The International Board is the body and promised full support. But among at present most suited to deal with the the committees of the Royal and Ancient position, but here again the clubs which there seems to be none whose duty it is are represented on it wait for the Royal to look at big golfing matters, each com- and Ancient to make some move. I do mittee being allotted a special sphere of not say that the time has come for invit- work. The Committee of Management ing an American team to visit this coun- are really a local house committee, whose try, or for us to send a team to compete members may be composed of non-golf- in the States, but I feel that there should ers—they are, in fact, a committee of exist a state of preparedness and a sense convenience. The Rules of Golf Com- of the necessity of looking forward and mittee is composed of more or less rep- being ready. We have been caught

R. HAVEMEYER AND T. 8. NAPIER, AT EIGHTEENTH GREEN. NAPIER PUTTING. body THE DEAL TOURNAMENT. two'* 180 THROUGH THE GREEN. napping once, and as the Americans say, course is a short one, only 2,002 yards, 'it is up to us' to make the next move. but it is to be lengthened shortly The After the Championship there was some greens were not good, and the scoring talk of a team going to America, and was somewhat high. The pair were all playing for the American Championship ; square at the turn, then Gardner gained but there was no one to organize or even a lead of 3 up. Gardner had a medal seriously to discuss such a proposition. score of 73, Smith 75. At any rate, let us think the thing out, be prepared for the future, and avoid drifting into a policy of laissez faire." Walter R. Tuckerman, of Washington, representing the Stockbridge Golf Club, won the Berkshire County Golf Cham- #Q The question of Sunday golf has as- pionship at Lenox, August 27, de- sumed a new phase in England. Hith- feating a field of forty, and Mal- erto it was the poor human sheep who colm McBurney, of Harvard, the holder strayed away from the fold on to the golf of the cup. The scores : W. R. Tucker- course when he ought to have been in man, Stockbridge, 165; E.A.Thompson, church who has been responsible for Pittsfield, 175; Malcolm McBurney, Stock- severe criticisms directed against sabbath bridge, 178; M. M. Singer, Lenox, 178; breakers. At Cheltenham, in the west Dr. C. McBurney, Stockbridge, 188] T. of England, a convincing reason for Browne, Great Barrington, 184; B. D. barring Sunday golf is given. The sheep Ticknor, Great Barrington, 187 ; W. C. on the course ought to have one day in Plunkett, Adams, 187; T. R. Plunkett, the week upon which they can feed in Adams, 188; C. B Gale, Lee, 189; E. peace. What golfer can resist such an L. Murphy, Lee, 192; H. Dresdale, appeal ? North Adams, 195; W. Stanley, Great J- Barrington, 196; W. A. Slayback, Great A professional four-ball match took Barrington, 200; F. D. Powers, Adams, place at the Hollywood Golf Club, Long 204; George Stanley, Great Barrington, Coaatrv Club of Xe Branch, N. J., August 27. Willie Ander- 2-4; H. Peck, Pittsfield, 206; R. Dan- son, the open champion, and M Mc- ^ ileSeito Cl iels, Adams, 207 ; W. Daniels, Adams, fc ae place I Carthy, the home professional, played 211; C. H. Kerner, Jr., Pittsfield, 212; Bernard Nicholls and Willie Norton. L. Rhode, Pittsfield, 213. They finished all square at the thirty- ifSl grjlf rjjj; • sixth hole, halved the thirty-seventh, and then a 3 from Norton ended the matt h on the next green. Anderson had 150 Golf seems to be played under some- for thirty-six holes, Nicholls, 151, Norton, what different conditions in India to 154 and McCarthy, 157. One hundred what it is here at most clubs, though and forty-four was the best ball score of those who have attended championship Nicholls and Norton, the other pair taking meetings at Glen A'~iew are familiar with one stroke more. The course has a tents as a resting place for the com- length of 5,653 yards. petitor. Americans naturally will be interested in the illustration showing Lady Curzon, the wife of the viceroy, Stewart Gardner, Garden City, beat distributing the prizes The Maharajah,

Alex Smith, Nassau, by 2 up before a even with his turban, is not exactly an ver large gallery at the Glenola Golf C lub, imposing figure in comparison with the I fine Sea Cliff, Long Island, August 27. The American lady. THROUGH THE GREEN. 181

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dse Golf Cl«li; Coumy Golf Cb i forty, aid M I Harvard, the holder »res: WlTicb i6j; E.A.Thompson. ;rum McBurney.Stod- :. Singer, \m\ i;S; . Slockbridge. 188; 1 inington, 184; B. D. uriDgton, iS); 11. f. i8j; T. R. Plunkett, B Gale. Lee. 185; & 152; H. Dresdale. GOLF IN INDIA.-LADY CURZON DISTRIBUTING PRIZES. r; ff. Stanley, Great iV. A. Slayback, Giai On page 160 are views of the club- Owasco Country Club, N. Y. The F, D. Powers, Afc houses belonging to the Commonwealth Rhode Island championship will be held lev. Great Barring Country Club of Newton Centre, Mass., at the Wannamoisett Golf Club, Provi- and the Newton Centre Golf Club of dence, September 7-10. On the 10th f. Daniels, A the same place. Both are successful and nth of the same month the Inwood organizations, and they are two of the Country Club of Far Rockaway has an ir,, Fittsfeld, m oldest golf clubs in the country, each invitation tournament, the Country Club having over two hundred members. The of Springfield, Mass., following with an Commonwealth Club has an eighteen open tournament, September 13-17. hole course, and the Newton Centre September 14-17 the Chicago Golf Club < i under so* ( me Club a course of nine holes. has an open tournament. The Essex 1 rfiionsis *" County Country Club, of Orange, N. J., September will be a very busy month has sent out invitations for a tournament, ded dianf »* nen for golfers. In addition to the amateur September 15-17, and on the same dates championship which will be held at the Ekwanok Country Club, Manchester, •lefe** Baltusrol, a number of important tourna- Vt., has a tournament. The Olympic ments are announced. September 3-5, Amateur Golf championship, a very im- the Mohawk Golf Club, of Schenectady, portant fixture, will be played at the N. Y., have a tournament over their Glen Echo Country Club, St. Louis, very fine course. On September 7, 8 September 19-24. The Lenox Golf and 9 the Central New York Golf League Club has its annual tournament, Septem- will hold its annual championship at the ber 20-24. The Philadelphia Golf Asso- 182 THROUGH THE GREEN.

dl0tl ciation will hold the Association tourna- instead of the ordinary concession of iiODli* :: ment at the Philadelphia Country Club, strokes at fixed holes. There is a great of golfer. 1^ B and there will be an open tournament deal to be said for both systems, and up "holes up'' ' at the Glen View Club September 28- to a certain point holes are the fairest October 1. It is difficult to imagine a advantages, for they are sure things which isnol sport more flourishing than this. must give the weaker golfer at least a order to pre«n: start. The poorer player may be by nothing enriched if he receive two strokes, T. M. Sherman, winner of the Deal for at the holes where he has the handicap tournament, won the first cup at the Lake advantage these holes may go to him in Golfe psi Placid Golf Club tournament last Satur- any case without his handicap advantage, day, beating C. E. Machold, of Philadel- or they may be lost by some overwhelm- Great Bn'faai, cu phia, in the 36-hole final by 12 up and ing misfortune which enables the proud present Lcr-'i"' 11 to play. He is regarded as a doubt- adversary to win in spite of his handicap. prevents it He ful entry for Baltusrol, for the individual The hole in the hand is, therefore, almost Afa be ri;5 championship of the Central New York worth two strokes which may be wasted mends whr' »tr- Golf League will be held the same week in the bunker. But after a certain point ui be traits "i at Auburn, and, as Sherman was the is reached in the number of holes given kabie |g MS runner-up last year, it is said that he will or received, the difficulty of handicapping prefer to try again at home rather than becomes very great. With the " holes seek national honors this year. up " we can handicap any two classes of players, but find it almost impossible to The Cape May Golf Club, of Cape bring three classes into focus. A can May, N. J., concluded the season August give B four holes and make a level game; 27. The season, on the whole, was an and B can give C four holes and have a immense success, many new golfers fair game; but A is found to be unable to making splendid scores and the veterans give C the odds of eight, which he must bettering their play. The scores made of necessity do should they meet in a Saturday were: tournament." Fred. J. Graves and R. L. Barstow 75 3 72 J. Hildretli and S. Wright 77 3 74 Thomas Eastwood and G. Parr 77 3 74 C. Matthews and J. Wilson 80 4 76 There is also another somewhat obvious F. Sartori and D. Noblett 80 3 77 limitation to the " holes up" style of U. Catlett and J. Brown 81 4 77 C. Campbell and W. Stevenson 82 5 77 handicapping, for no one can give an E. Miller and W. Allen 86 8 78 opponent more than seventeen holes start L. Ayres and H. Rosengarten 83 4- 79 J. Black and ]. Horan 87 8 79 with any reasonable chance of gaining J. McCurdy and C. Mclnnes 84 4 So the victory. On the other hand, it is W. Evens and D. Davis 84 4 80 E Cook and E. Jackson 85 5 80 very annoying to play a hole perfectly J. Nickson and A. Nicholson 84 3 81 and lose it because your opponent has A. Lucas and S. Guddards 85 3 82 S. Thomas and JL. McCormick 88 5 83 also managed to hole his ball in the proper W. King and A. Toilette 107 12 95 amount and is in receipt of a stroke. There is, in such a case, the disagreeable Speaking of the contest for the Cal- feeling that one might as well have taken cutta cup, just won at St. Andrews, by ten to the hole, since the good play is Mr. A. R. MacAUan, Mr. John L. Low practically wasted; in the "holes up" says: " The handicaps in the Calcutta business the good player hardly ever Cup used to be arranged by the giving plays a hole well, and gains nothing by of holes as a start to the inferior players his skill. For this reason, in a competi- THROUGH THE GREEN. 183

tion limited to the first and second class The Pensacola (Fla.) Country Club of golfer, I am inclined to think that the was organized in the year 1902, and is Hls ««,atidi| now in a flourishing condition with a w " holes up" is the fairer game; when * the (aits, subsequent and inferior classes are intro- membership of over one hundred. It are sure tilings whidi duced, then strokes have to be used in has one advantage over our northern ter S*Mt leasts order to prevent the scratch man from and eastern courses, inasmuch as it is _ player may be j, winning every trick. open the whole year. The initiation fee lie receive two stroke, is $10, and the annual dues are $24. TO he has the haudicap ties may go to him b is handicap advautage, Golfers generally will regret to hear The Norfolk Downs Golf Club, of I by some overwhelm- that Jack White, the open champion of Norfolk, Conn., has been in existence ch enables the protj Great Britain, cannot visit this country at about eight years. It has a nine-hole "i spue of his handicap present. The state of his health absolutely course somewhat on the short side, but tid is, therefore, alruost prevents it. He has written a letter in affording interesting golf. The course winch may be wad which he wishes to thank his American is open from May 1 to November 1. Jl after s certain point friends who were so anxious to see him The initiation fee is $10, and the annual lumber oi holes p and he trusts, that by next spring he will dues are placed at the same figure. tsciiny oi' handicapping be able to cross the Atlantic. Golfers Mr. C. H. Peck is the secretary and :3i. With the 4ob everywhere will echo this wish. treasurer. cap ^ny two classes i l almost impossible In S into focus. A can and make a level game; four holes and be i > found to be unable B if eisiht. which hemnst bould ihev meet in

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Golf is making its way across the Miss May Hezlet in her interesting Pacific. Recently in the Sandwich book "Ladies' Golf" says: "the first Islands the golfers of Honolulu have authentic reference to women in connec- tion with the game that she has been opened a fine golf course. A splendid \ This was regarded club-house has been built in connection able to discover is a minute of the Royal with it. The Club is known as the Musselburgh club informing "the fish Manoa Golf Club. ladies" of the neighborhood that prizes consisting of " a handsome new creel and shawl " and " two of the best Barce- lona silk handkerchiefs" would be It may be accepted as an established awarded to female golfers at a meeting fact that Myopia will be the scene of the on Jan. i, i8n. It was not till 1867 next intercollegiate golf championship. that a ladies' club was established at more peopiE,»" U. A. Murdock, of Harvard and Shinne- St. Andrews. Even then and for long I [jo enjoy t;e ':' cock Hills, president of the association, afterward they contented themselves for daily charge ;• X has called a meeting for next month to the most part with putting competitions, BE A of ™* decide on the location. It is expected and it is practically within the last ten 1 proportion to lit 1 that the only opposition to Myopia will years that the game has come into come from Princeton. Except that ii B argued thai m general favor as a suitable one for the tanta rt. •;•:••'• Myopia is beyond the Metropolitan cir- fair sex. cuit, the Princetonians can have no other I kglotkopejsei grievance, and this solitary objection will sinterer •'' probably be cast aside ere the meeting not m is nj ; The Central New York Golf league takes place. From a golfer's point of will hold its annual tournament on the view, Myopia is entitled to be considered links of the Owasco Country Club of the best course in the country. It has variety without end, and to play a single Auburn, September 7 to 10. The clubs round properly a golfer must have all composing the league are: The Mohawk the shots in the calendar at his command. Golf Club of Schenectady; Albany Country Club, Albany; Elmira Country Club, Elmira; Jefferson County Golf Club, Watertown; Onondaga Golf and Harold Wilcox, of the Montclair Golf Country Club, Syracuse; Otsego Golf Club, who won the Metropolitan cham- Club; Owasco Country Club, Auburn; pionship at Garden City this year Sadaquada Golf Club, Utica. An inter- is going to Yale, and he will un- esting programme has been prepared for doubtedly prove a valuable acquisition the tournament. The prices offered are to the university's golf team. Wilcox is as follows: League championship cup, now nineteen years old, and is rather value $50; league runner-up cup, value over six feet high. He began playing $25 ; individual championship cup, value about four years ago, but did not enter $15; individual consolation cup, value a tournament until two years ago. Then $10 ; individual " duffer'' cup, value $5 ; he played in the New Jersey State Golf team consolation cup, value $25; team Championship and won the consolation "duffer's" cup, value $20; cup for best cup by defeating James A. Tyng. He gross score, value $.>o; cup for individual was put out in last year's amateur cham- handicap, value $15; cup for long driv- pionship at Nassau by A. W. Tillinghast ing, value $10; cup for approaching and by 2 up and i to play in the second putting, value $10; cup for mixed four- round. somes, value $25. THROUGH THE GREEN. 185

The Board of Park Commissioners has and it will be opened late this autumn. reduced the fee for playing golf at River- This club, which will have a 9-hole golf side Park, Indianapolis, to $i a month. course covering fifty acres, will be one of Heretofore the charge was $2 a month. the finest institutions on the coast. Plans This was regarded as too high, in view of are being made now for the club house, the fact that the annual charge is $5. As the cost of which will be approximately there are about seven months during the $12,000 and which will be one of the playing season and some enthusiasts best equipped buildings of its kind The make eight, the monthly fee is still suffi- new club will meet a long felt want, cient to make it an inducement to take out affording an objective point for driving a season ticket. The board intends to and autotnobiling for residents of Los bring the price of golf within the reach of Angeles, Pasadena and all the cities and more people, so that as many as possible towns of San Gabriel valley. There will can enjoy the game. At present the be a splendid boulevard, ten miles in daily charge is 25 cents, and there is length, direct from Los Angeles to the some talk of reducing this next year. In club house and which will be a branch of proportion to the monthly and yearly fee, the Huntington system. it is argued that this is too much. There have been requests for free golf, but ow- In the return half of the seventy-two ing to the expense in connection with the hole home-and-home match at the Essex maintenance of the links, the board has County links, August ir, Pierson, the not seen its way clear to making this Forest Hill professional, defeated David concession, but it does favor making the Hunter, professional at the Essex County charge as reasonable as possible. Club, 2 up and 1 to play. The first half of the match was decided at Forest Arrangements have been completed Hill, when Pierson finished 4 up for work to commence at once on the with a medal score of 165, his opponent new San Ga1 riel Valley Country Club having r 69. In the first part of the match

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Hunter played strongly, reducing Pier- An air of gloom, a very fog of melan- son's lead to i up at the end of the first choly, prevaded the Dyker Meadow Golf eighteenth holes Later he did not do Club house August 27, according to the so well and Pierson was able to finish a New York Sun. The members were winner by 2 up and 1 to play. He re- puzzled to account for their low spirits, ceived a purse of $100. The cards fol- for they felt as good as usual out on the low : links and the zone of depression seemed 'VIY1 Hunter - - 34454433 4—34 Pierson - - 45354434 4—36 only to be within doors. The right Hunter - - 44444543 5—37—71 twang clung to ihe cocktails, but it sud- Pierson - . 535545 3 2 4—36-72 Hunter - - 46464333 4—37 denly dawned on the members that FLA Pierson - - 46455435 4—40 Thomas mixed them in silence, save for Hunter - - 6465435554 3—So—151 Pierson - - 546 4 4 4 6 3 5—41—81-153 some profound sighs. Thomas, once P. T. Barnum's valet, has been the steward 4 Tennis,; A large gallery witnessed the final for years. He is the originator of those at the Fairfield County Golf Club, favorite concoctions with Brooklyn golf- Greenwich, August 27, for the Colonel ers, the Dyker cocktail and Meadow iVOMlmhsrinn: Deveraux Powell cups in the two ball punch, beside other efforts to help the foursome match. E. Lockwood and H. popularity of the game. Judicious ques- B. Andrews were defeated by C. H. and tioning brought out that Thomas had S. D. Powell, who won by 7 up and 6 to been robbed by pickpockets on his way play. home from the links on Friday of $60, his month's wages. One of the members The Glen Echo County Club, of St. suggested that they regard the loss as a Louis, has an innovation in the shape of divot. It is a rule at the links to "re- a nine-hole putting course. Thousands place all divots," and when Thomas of incandescent lights, so it is said, will overheard this joy again reigned supreme make play by night possible. in the club house.

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