Canadian Golfer, August, 1930
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nn a The charming new club house of the Hamilton Golf and Country Club at Ancaster, where the Canadian Open Championship w as held last month, View is taken looking up from the eighteenth green. August, 1930 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 16, No. 4 AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP At BURNHAM, THE WINNER The Finalists The Semi-Finalists played throughout with the © The Best Ball in the World PRICE 75c EACH THE SECOND BEST BALL se Be IN THE WORLD IS THE LYNX Reed. PRICE §Q@ EACH THE SILVERTOWN COMPANY OF CANADA SOLE CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS. Sales Representatives; ERNEST A. PURKIS LIMITED s3 Yonge Street, TORONTO, Ont. August, 1930 CANADIAN GOLFER 281 Brilliance and Perfection distinguish every Diamond purchased at Ryrie-Birks ... whether the amount expended be one hundred or one thousand dollars. Ryrie-Birks are proud of the unusual values at both prices M o RYRI EBIRKS DiamondMerchants YONGE AND TEMPERANCE TORONTO o o CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 16, No. 4 w a t | CANADAhasit. OUNTAINSorseaside; forest solitude } or gay resort; old-world romance; new ' adventure or a perfect rest? Your choice awaits you in Canada’s playgrounds. Jasper National Park . scenic gem of the | Canadian Rockies . .. offers the hospitality of Jasper Park Lodge, mountain climbing, golf, motoring, swimming, trail rides, exploration. Minaki—in Western Ontario on the Winni- peg River, in a wonderland of lake and woods country, offers canoeing, swimming, golf. Ontario’s lake-strewn Highlands abound in happy resorts for lovers of the great outdoors. Canada’s Atlantic Provinces give the health and joy of the rolling sea ... swimming, boating, golf, fishing, adventure. Quebec, with its traces of the old French régime and continental tradition and atmo- sphere . .. charms with the freedom of country havens or the ultra-smart Lower St. Lawrenceresorts. Jasper Golf Week - Sept. 13 to 20 Radio is an attractive feature on Canadian National de luxe trains. Canadian National was the first railway in the world to provide this facility. Fall information from an y Canadian National Agen t CANADIAN NATIONAL The Largest Railway System in America f CANADIAN GOLFER | , a oshasaeera Vol. 16. BRANTFORD, AUGUST, 19350 No. 4. CANADIAN GOLFER Official Organ Royal Canadian Golf Association; Official) Organ Ladies’ Canadian Golf Union; Official] Organ Rules of Golf Committee. Published Monthly. by’ Ralph H. Reville, Managing Editor. Merritt Stuart, Business Manager. W. Hastings Webling, Associate Editor. President, The Royal Canadian Golf Association, Mr. Alfred Collyer, 819 Tramways Building, Montreal; Secretary, Mr. B. L. Anderson, 510 General Assurance Building, $57 Bay St., Toronto. Hon, Secretary-Treasurer Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union, Mrs. M. K. Rowe, 42 Clarendon Avenue, Toronto. Subscription Price, Four Dollars a Year. Entered at Post Office as Second Class Matter. Editorial and Business Office, Brantford, Canada. Toronto Office, Queen City Chambers, 32 Church Street, Harry E. Smallpeice, J. P., Representative. Printed by Davis-Lisson, Limited, Hamilton, Canada. The End Already the curtain has pretty well rung down on the chief of the 1930 championships for men in Canada, Great Britain and the United Golf Season States. The only Canadian events of note still to be played off in Sight. are the Quebee Open Championship at the Country Club, Mon- treal, August 22nd, and the following day the Quebec Amateur Championship, also at the Country Club. In the United States two very im- portant championships are yet to be decided. The Professional Championship of America at Flushing, N.Y., September 8th, 13th, and the U.S. Amateur Championship at Philadelphia, September 22-27. Two or three leading Can- adian amateurs will take part in this championship. If Bobby Jones wins this event, and he is odds-on favourite to do so, he will have accomplished what has always been looked upon as the impossible, namely, the winning in one season of the world’s four great championships, the British Amateur and the Open and the American Open and Amateur. He already has the former three dangling at his belt. The ladies of Canada and the States come into their own the next few weeks. The Canadian Women’s Open Championship is scheduled for the week of September 15th at the French-Canadian elub, Laval-sur-le-Lac, Montreal, and the Canadian Close Championship at Mount Bruno Golf Club, Montreal, the week of September 22nd. The U.S. women the week of October 13th hie themselves to Los Angeles, to fight out their battle for feminine supremacy It is understood that as usual] there will be a galaxy of U.S. lady stars at the Canadian Open. They will have ample time to play at Laval and then go on to California for their own championship. 283 284 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 16, No. 4 Then at the Toronto Club the week of September 1st the Seniors of Great Britain, Canada and the United States foregather for their triangular matches and other events. The Governor-General, and other notables from all three countries will take part in this outstanding social and golfing event of 1930. The present holders of the championships noted above and still to be played are:—Quebee Open, Arthur Hulbert, of the Thornhill Golf Club, Tor- onto. Quebec Amateur, Gordon MeAthey, Montreal. American Professional Championship, Leo Diegel, Agua Caliente, Mexico. U.S. Amateur, Harrison R. Johnston, St. Paul, Minn. Canadian Ladies’ Open, Miss Helen Hicks, Hew- lett, Long Island. Ladies’ Close Championship, Miss Ada Mackenzie, Toronto. Women’s Championship of the United States, Miss Glenna Collett, Del Monte, California. Canadian Seniors’ Championship, J. E. Caldwell, Ottawa. A Week With Andthis is the story of a “Japanese Week”. Last June Mr. a Japanesey R. H. Greene, of Toronto, sent the Editor from Japan an in- Tinge. teresting brochure on “Golf in Japan” reference to which was made in the June issue. The first week in August, a letter from an English subscriber was received asking for the loan of this interesting little book which was gladly acceded to. Then almost on the next mail a request came from a Tokyo newsdealer for a copy of the “Canadian Golfer” which was wanted for an International display of leading magazines to be held in that city. A day or so following a prominent Japanese merchant in Vancouver, Mr. Kozi Orido, wrote in ordering a year’s subscription of the magazine to be sent to a friend in Nagoya, Japan. And then to “capit all”. At the end of this self-same week, the Editor during a visit to the beautiful Royal York Club, Toronto, saw three of the party of Japanese merchants touring Canada this month playing over the course. And avery good game of golf they played too. Showing that n Japan they knowandpractice the etiquette of the game which regrettably is more than can be said of all too many players in this country, this “threesome” was most punctillous in waving properly constituted matches to go through. It is interesting to note that there are nowforty golf clubs in Japan, whilst in Manchuria and Chima there are ten clubs. Manyof these clubs boast well laid-out and well kept-up 18-hole courses. There are also several Japanese professionals who play a regular championship game. Golf was first imtro- dueed into Japan in 1904 by an Englishman, Mr. Arthur H. Groom. The young Emperoris quite an enthusiastic golfer, and his lead is being followed by many of the prominent men of the “Flowery Kingdom”. A golf “world champion” may yet come out of Japan, as the Japanese never rest content until they master anything and everything they take in hand. Witness for example, tennis, in which game they have become great adepts. Every Player In three major championships this month has a breach of Should Master the rules resulted in rather dire consequences. Jn the Mani- the Rules of toba Amateur Championship on the 37th hole of the final Golf. match, the players being “all square” at the 36th, D. Ken- nedy, of the St. Charles Club, Winnipeg, asked his caddie to help support him whilst takinghis stance on the sloping side of a bunker. He did so and also dropped the bag in the bunker. This was a double breach of the rules and Kennedy’s opponent, D. Arnott, also of Winnipeg, was given the hole by the referee and as a result the Championship of Manitoba, and no one wants to lose or win a championship that way. In the Canadian Amateur Championship at London this month Stuart Carroll, of Montreal, going to the unlucky “13th hole” picked up some twigs and leaves lying on the fairway more than a e¢lub’s legth from his ball. 286 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 16, No. 4 (The Editor is always glad to answer questions about the Rules, and other golfing matters, but owing to so many of these requests coming in every month, he must ask in future that a stamped-addressed envelope be enclosed with all such communications, other- wise they will not be answered.) x Golf has been introduced to the Eskimos north of Churchill. Now, ex- elaims the Winnipeg Tribune, watch that immobile expression begin to change. And now a steamer has left New York with a 9-hole golf course on deck. Where is it all going to end anyway, this vogue of the Royal and Ancient? The manager of A. G. Spalding & Bros. of Canada, Ltd. :— ‘“We have always considered the ‘‘Canadian Golfer’’ as a very fine magazine, and, of course, the outstanding one of its kind in Canada.’’ George Ade, the famous humorist, advocates the establishment of golf courses on farms to reduce overproduction, and because golf brings the player in contact with the showerbath habit.