Canadian Golfer, December, 1928

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Here's to the fortunate golfer Who off to the South soon will fly To rest ‘neath the shade of the palm trees Andbask ’neath an orient sky. But more will we fill up a flagon To him who ’mid frost, wind and snow Muststick to his job all the winter. Hereally deserves it, you know! XMAS, 1928 WHAM

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Now is the Bythis time those clubs that will need new professionals, green Appointed keepers and secretaries during the 1929 season are well aware of Time. their requirements. Unfortunately, many of these clubs will wait until the last minute before they engage their new men, and by then most of the better qualified men will be signed up by rival clubs. Those hired late will be handicapped by lack of time in getting off to a good start at their new clubs. Plenty of planning should be allowed a man who enters a newjob full of ambition and energy. Sign your man duringthe next month or so and give him time to consider carefully just what he is going to do when he enters your club’s service. If he is the right kind of a fellow, this early action will pay you well.

A Delightful It is quite on the ecards that next September both the Can- Golfing Itinerary adian National Railways and the Canadian Pacitie Railway Planned for will be back of the proposition to run a special golfers’ ex- the West. cursion train through the West taking in the Canadian Amateur Championship at Jasper Park, Alberta, and then returning by way of Banff, where the C.P.R. is putting the finishing touches to its magnificent new course “on the roof of the world.” This tour would take some four weeks but it is thought that a number of prominent golfers in Montreal, Toronto, London, Hamilton, Winnipeg and other cities would be able to spare the time to participate in such a thoroughly enjoyable jaunt. In addition to Banff and Jasper, it is also planned to stop over at Calgary, Ed-

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monton and other Western golfing centres, and possibly even Vancouver and Victoria might be included in the itinerary. The whole question is now being taken up and thoroughlydiscussed bythe heads of the Passenger Departments of the two railways and others interested. The holding of the Canadian Ama- teur Championship at Jasper has already been endorsed by the Executives of the Royal Canadian Golf Association and the Western Canada Golf Associa- tion and will undoubtedly be confirmed at the annual meeting of the R.C.G.A. to be held next February. It is a splendid thing for golf m Canada to have this championship go West every few years instead of always being held in the East. It tends to nationalize the game.

Great Growth Herr Sans Samek, of Berlin, knownas the “Father of Golf” in of the Game Germany, is a visitor just now at Del Monte, California. Be- in Germany. fore the war, according to Samek, there was but one 9-hole course in Germany andit was here that he learned the game from Dr. Charles Hartley, a distinguished Canadian dentist then practising in Berlin. It is rather a strange coincidence that Dr. Hartley, when the war broke out was visiting his father and mother in Brantford, Ontario, his old home town, and was infact on the fateful August 4th, 1914, playing golf with the editor of the “Canadian Golfer” on the Brantford course. He subsequently returned to Germany, but is now practising in Los Angeles, Cal. Following the war, Germany began to take an interest in golf. It is generally conceded that it is largely due to Herr Samek’s untiring efforts that interest in the sport increased. There are now 40 courses in Germany and in another year there will be 80 links it is predicted. Herr Samek has arranged with the U. 8. Ryder Cup team of professionals, after their match next May, in England with the British pros, to visit Germany and play in Tournaments there as he thinks such a visit will provide a great filip to the game in that country. And it undoubtedly will.

ALTERING A CARD SERIOUS OFFENCE

N English correspondent writes: ‘*Another case of a man who is alleged to have broken the rules respecting scoring at golf came to light at the end of last week. This time the Surrey Golf Union is to consider the case of a member of a club who has been suspended pending in- quiry. It is alleged that the score on his card had been altered by two strokes. ‘“The secretary of one of the best known golf clubs in the Home Counties said to me: ‘Cases of deliberate misrepresentation are so rare that I have heard of only one in my life. Many players, however, break the regulations of the game unwittingly, and I should say that 50 per cent. of players transgress the rules at some time or another. Golf enthusiasts should learn the laws of the game with more care. ‘« At the present time not one in 50 knows them thoroughly. A short time ago I saw a man pick a stone from behind his ball, and when I told him that this was not permitted, he said: ‘But I must pick up the stone if I am to hit the ball properly’.’ ‘*The Secretary of the Surrey Golf Union said last night: ‘The matter has not yet even come up before the Chairman of my Committee, and I can say nothing about it. We much deprecate the publicity given to such an occurrence, which is extremely rare.’ “*Recently two members of a well-known golf club were asked to resign on the ground that they had altered their cards in competition games. In the case of another club women members have lost money and clothing from the dressing-rooms. The thief is believed to be a woman member. ’’

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(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, otherwise they will not be answered.) 7 * “Be merryall, be merryall, With holly dress the festive hall, Prepare the song, the feast, the ball To welcome merry Christmas.”

+ * a The passing is announced in Owen Sound, after a short illness of Mr. Alfred D. Creasor, Police Magistrate of the city of Owen Sound and the County of Grey. He was an outstanding figure in the community. His Worship was an ardent member of the Owen Sound Golf and Country Club = and of the Owen Sound Curling Club

” * * A New York correspondent writes ‘*Britain never has won a Walker Cup, but cheerfully plays for it year after year. It cannot be said that this spirit of playing the game, win or lose, is appreciated or under stood here. It is not. It is rather regarded as mild idiocy. So the British golfers demon strate a refreshing spirit of sportsmanship in these days when to win at any cost is the dominant note in American athletic strife.’’ m me * Mr. R. H. Fairweather, President of the old established and well known firm of Fairweathers Limited, Toronto, furriers, hatters, ete ‘T am just dropping you a line to congratulate you on the Canadian Golfer, also to say our own page advertisement in the November issue looks extremely well and is very Satisfactory in regard to position, setting and printing, With best wishes for continued

Success

At the annual meeting of the Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association in NewYork this month it was decided the coming season to stage a brother and sister Tournament and also a mother and son Tournament. Such events are unique in golf. The idea is a good one and might well be taken up in this country by the Provincial Branches of the Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union.

Mr. R. C. 8. Bruce, the well known Winnipeg golfer and an ex-president of the Manitoba Golf Association, recently figured in a street car smash in Winnipeg when twoears collided on Donald and Broadway Streets. Three of the passengers were more orless injured including Mr, Bruce. Friends, however, will be delighted to hear that his injuries were not serious and that he has completely recovered from the unpleasant experience and the result- ant shock. » * *

, Manyfriends throughout Ontario will heartily congratulate Mr. William Fulton, Toronto, District Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pacifie Railway, n

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on his promotion just announced to the position of Assistant General Passenger Agent. Mr. Fulton is one of the most popular railway men in the country. He has been with the C.P.R. for 37 years and has served “the big Corpora- tion” faithfully and well in Galt, London and Toronto. » # | A despatch from Bronxville, N.Y., Dee. 10th: 4) ““The two public golf courses maintained by the Westchester County Park Commission were closed for the 1928 season yesterday, Mcllansic Park course, opened in 1925, reported a season’s attendance of 32,659 players and receipts of $40,527. The Maplemoor course in White Plains, opened in 1927, had an attendance of 40,074 and receipts of $46,653, or total receipts for the two courses of over $87,000. When the season opens next Spring a third course, the Sprain Brook course in Yonkers, will also be opened to the public. No date has been set for the formal opening.’’

** * Don’t load up your golfing friend with a lot of “junk” this Xmas. He | would much prefer (if not already a subscriber), a year’s subscription to this | Great Familiy Golfing Magazine, a box of balls, a well balanced club or so, an up-to-date golf bag, a good book on golf, a sweater, golfing stockings or selee- tions from a dozen and one other articles dear to the heart of the average | | golfer. Give something “golfy” this Christmas and he or she will remember | you for many a long day to come. | ~*~ %* | | The Editor and Staff of the “Canadian Golfer” are once again privileged 4 to extend to the many subscribers of the Magazine in Canada, Great Britain, The United States and other Countries, sincere wishes for a Joyous Christmas and a Happy New Year, sans bunkers, sans hazards—plus health and happiness aplenty. And so, as Tiny Tim observed “God Bless Us Every One!’

MR. RALPH CONNABLE TAKES UP ANOTHER HOBBY

HEfollowing despatch from Depew, N.Y., will be read with interest by golfing friends in Toronto and throughout the Provinee. Mr, Connable is known as “The Father of Municipal Golf in Ontario”. It was entirely | owing to his efforts, financial and otherwise, that the successful publie courses in Toronto, “Humber Valley” and “Glen Stewart”, were launched some few | years ago. Nowit will be seen that he has a new hobby and itis a pretty safe wager that like publie golf he will “put it over” as he is a man of vision and unbounded energy, plus unlimited resources. It is a great pity that he has 4 left Toronto wherehis activities outside of golf were also so much in evidence for the past decade or so. Before resigning he was General Manager for Can- ada of the Woolworth Co. Ltd. ‘*Sponsored by Ralph Connable, former Toronto financier, a turkey farm has been started here and if the experiment proves a success this section may enter competition with Texas and Utah as the Thanksgiving source of supply for the continent, Mr, Con- nable lives now in Buffalo, ‘*Believing that every man who retires from active business should have some hobby to oceupy his mind and hands, Mr, Connable hit upon turkey raising by the process of elimination. After 20 years with the Woolworth Co., Mr. Connable retired three years ago. One day while motoring through the rural sections near Buffalo he was struck with the sad but true fact that about every third farm and farm house was abandoned, ‘‘That gave him an idea, He wanted to find out what was wrong with farming. He

= wondered, if he should apply the business methods that had won him success in the busi- ’ ness world to some phase of farming, could he make a success of it? He decided to try it and he went “about it in a business-like way of first getting all the facts and then putting a plan into execution,

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Early in 1928, as soon as word was received that the National Amateur Championship for 1929 had been awarded to Pebble Beach, the Del Monte Properties Companystarted to still further improve Pebble Beach in prepara- tion for this great event. Acting entirely in accordance with the wishes of the U.S.G.A. a committee was named to supervise these changes. It consisted of H. Chandler Egan, twice National Champion and well knownas a golf architect; Robert Hunter, another noted links architect; and Roger D. Lapham, memberof the U.S.G.A. Executive Committee. Lapham, it should be noted, probably had more to do with securing the National Championship for California than any other individual. To Chandler Egan goes the credit for planning and executing practically all of the changes made at Pebble Beach during the past year. Egan spent a number of months at Pebbie Beach constantly supervising the work as carried out by Head Greenkeeper Joe Mayo and his staff of workers. Manyof the holes were lengthened by setting the tees farther back; an intricate series of traps was worked out to stiffen the entire layout and practically every green was recontoured in marvelous fashion. All of this was done without changing the respective positions of a single hole, the committee agseeing that the general plan of this famous course could not be improved upon. That Egan made a notable success of his task is not only proven by the comments of such famous stars as Miss Glenna Collett, Mrs. Vera Ramsey Hutchings and such celebrated architects as Dr. Alister MacKenzie, but even more concretely by the results of the 1928 California amateur golf championship. Out of a field of 417 entrants, Jack Gaines led the qualifying field with eee two 75’s. The best official record of the entire tournament was Johnny Mce- Hugh’s 73 on the second qualifying day. Par is 72. That tells the story of Pebble Beach briefly, as it is to-day. That famous golfers who will journey westward to play in the 1929 National Amateur will find Pebble Beach one of the most severe tests of their ability that they have ever encountered and that they will also findit one of the most interesting and scenic links in the world is the prediction freely made byall of the experts who have seen the new Pebble Beach course. By a quirk of fate, Egan himself was penalized by the thoroughness with which he has trapped Pebble Beach. When he played Johnny McHughin the finals of the recent California Championship, they finished the morning round all square but in the afternoon Egan lost his line and his ball foundincen after trap, McHugh finally winning 6 and 5. As one writer put it, “Egan’s traps rose like a ‘Frankenstein’ to devour him.”

GOVERNOR SMITH PUTS IT ALL OVER BOBBY JONES OVERNOR “Al” Smith has been recuperating from his recent strenuous C presidential campaign by enjoying a holiday in Atlanta, Ga. Whilst there he played golf with Bobby Jones. Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, was appointed the official scorer and the Governor, radiant in lavender and grey accessories, won every hole but one in an uncompleted 18- hole match. In addition Governor Smith far outdistanced the’ U. S. National Amateur champion in medal score, and whilst most of those in the large gal- leries believed Jones displayed the best golf, there waslittle tendency to question the card officially turned in by the Senator from Mississippi. It showed Governor Smith went the first nine holes in the outstanding total of 37 strokes,

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Winter at Del Monte .-- Home of Eternal Springtime

“Onesobs of Sorrento and Taor- mina...or the French R viera and they are as nothing when one s the cliffs...the moun- tains...and the cypresses ofthe Monterey coastline.’* Here, in your ownsocial ¢n- vironment, you mayindulge yourevery fancyin outdoor sports. At yourdisposalare polo fields, tennis courts, swimming \ pools, dazzling white beaches, | bridle paths through thetall trees, unmatched motor roads, | and the world-famed17-Mile | Drive. Here, too, are four renowned | golf courses, inciuding the | newly remodeled Pebble Beach

Championship Course, where will be played the 1929 National | Amateur Championship. Golf S. F. B. Morse. Carl S. Stanley, is played 365 daysa yearat President Hotel Del Monte Manager Del Monte. ie pa [Del Monte Lodge, Pebble Beach} Del Monte, California *Quoted from Addison Mizner, nationally-knownarchitect of Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte Crocker Building, San Francisco Florida, whoresidesduring a portion of the yearat his Pebble Adjoining Monterey, ancient Spanish capital, on the historic Monterey Peninsula, Beach home. 125 miles south of San Francisco; 350 miles north of Los Angeles

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and that he played the four concluding holes in 14. Jones, on the other hand, who seemed to the gallery to be scoring with his usual deadly precision, was credited with the unheard oftotal for him of 58 strokes for the outward trip and took, according to Senator Harrison’s figures, 24 strokes for the four holes of the unfinished inward journey. As an official scorer the Senator’s services should be in great demand the coming season. He would be a welcomevisitor to many a Canadian course.

TIRED BUSINESS MEN HAVE NEW RECREATION

TIREDand corpulent business men will find a new means for recreation and diminution of the surplus avoirdupois, when the contemplated plans of Parks Commissioner Chambers, of Toronto, for the introduction of a new game to the city are consummated next year. “Oan you roque?” or “have your roqued yet to-day?” will then be as com mon terms in the Queen City as they now are in Southern California, where the gameof that sobriquet originated. Mr. Chambers, as master of ceremonies at a meeting of lawn bowlers in Rosedale United Church, Toronto, recently, when prizes for the year were awarded, described the adventures of Alderman Wadsworth and himself on a recent tour of the continent in search of data on the administration of parks and playgrounds in other Jarge centres. While inspecting the recreations afforded in Los Angeles they discovered “rogue” which he described as a combination of croquet and billards, and after a fewtrials at the pastime, were so impressed with its possibilities that they had on the return trip to Toronto, worked out plans for its inception there.

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He hoped to accomplish this next year and called on the Rosedale bowlers to take part in the building of the first roque court in their district. The court is laid out in the same shape as a billiard table, he explained, ee with high banked cushions all around. Thecontest consists of knocking wooden balls through wire hoops just slightly larger than the balls and the “fast” cushions play an important part in the ultimate victory. The clubs or mallets, r bear a rather short handle and necessitate participants bending over a great

deal to play. The gameis a great success, he said, with business men, many e

cf whomhave courts on the roofs of their office buildings and thus use their n |a surplus golf energy to advantage there during business hours. ij eR e : ‘ WHERE THE “LOST BALLS”: WENT: TO

CORRESPONDENTwrites: Some years ago my brother-in-law, who was in a regiment then stationed in j England, had a veryintelligent and favourite fox terrier. My brother-in-law was a keen golfer, but could not account for the fact that almost every day he found extra golf balls on his bed. i Things came to a head, when one afternoon he found five balls thus deposited on his i bed; he began to suspeet his dog. So he watched him, and this is what he discovered. Close to his hut was a part of the golf course. The players driving from the nearest tee drove the ball over a pieceof rising ground, the ball landing out of their sight. The dog, however, was keeping a strict watch on the further side of the rising hill, and as soon as a ball appeared it was instantly seized and transported to his master’s j bungalow, long before the owners of the ball had topped the hill. Both ball and dog | having disappeared they naturally spent much time searching for the lost ball, and finally gave up, wondering much at its disappearance. No sooner were they gone than the terrier reappeared to watch for the next ball.

PERKINS, BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPION TO | TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN NEW YORK

TILL another prominent British golfer has felt the lure of the U.S. golf links. Mr. T. Philip Perkins, the British Amateur Champion, and runner-up to Bobby Jones in the U.S. Amateur last September, who was seen b | the past season on the courses of Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal and Quebee, with the British Walker Cup team, has decided to take up his residence in New York. It is generally conceded that Perkins is the best amateur player developed in Great Britain since the days of Harold Hilton, the only Britisher to win the American Amateur Championship in addition to the British Amateur, four times and the British Open twice. His decision to make America his future homeis a distinct loss to golf in the Old Country. The former British Amateur Champion, Willie Hunter, as also two former prominent amateurs, Tom Armour and Bobby Cruickshanks, are all now residing in the United States and as professionals haye made great names and dollars galore for themselves. It would not be at all surprising if Perkins should follow in their footsteps. Perey J. Clifford, Jr., the Amateur Champion of Mexico, is another fine young golfer who, too, has decided to take up his abode in New York. Clif- ford, who was born in Mexico, is a graduate of Cambridge and a “loyal Eng- lishman”, so he says. He is 21 years old and gained the Mexicantitle in No- vember by defeating Claude M. Butlin, a 52-year-old player who held the championship previously. The match must have been a thrilling one for Clif- ford. was six down overthe first eighteen holes, and then won by two up, squaring the match at the thirty-fourth and taking the last two holes. He

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played the last nine in 35. U.S. Ambassador Morrowpresented Clifford with the championship trophy. An English correspondent writing of Mr. Perkins’ determination to return to the States and take up his residence there says: ‘America’s latest capture from British golf is Mr. T. P. Perkins. Into speculations as to whether Harry Cotton, the young London professional, might be tempted to stay over there comes Mr. Perkins’s announcement that he intends to settle in the United States. For the young professional who, like Cotton, shows unusual possibilities, America is still a land of promise. Mr. Perkins could no doubt have a pick of good posts over there if he cared to change his status, but he has decided to remain an amateur and to enter upon a business career in the States. Whether Mr. Perkins may later revise his

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ideas about status is his own affair, but from our point of view his decision means a distinct and definite loss to British golf. ‘His step was, however, more than half expected. Last winter he was involved in a motor accident, and since then he has not done any work, and there was an idea that he would take some business opportunity either here or in the States whither the Walker Cup match took him a few months ago. Indeed there was a fairly widespread assumption when he won the Amateur ©ene in May that he would cross over to professional- ism, and before the British team was selected Mr. Perkins who was, of course, first choice, was officially asked, it is understood, as to his intentions about status. His present decision to stick to amateurism is in line with his then reply. What his decision means to our representative golf is emphasized by its intimation with his most distinguished year in the game. To win the British Amateur title and get to the final of the corresponding United States event make a remarkable double performance. It is seventeen years since a British player was in the American final—Mr, Harold Hilton won then —and Mr. Perkins might have completed his dual success if his American opponent had been any but Mr. Bobby Jones. ‘“Mr. Perkins, who is only 24 years old, was a real British discovery of the past two seasons, and his record, with this year’s wonderful reinforcement, suggested a big future for him, ‘Two of the most distinguished performers from this country in more recent times are Tommy Armour and Bobby Cruickshank, who at one time or other have beaten all the United States eracks, Armour doing it last year in the National Open Championship. More recently we lost to America Willie Hunter, who had a slashing victory in the Ama- teur Championship at Hoylake in 1921 and has since joined the professional ranks, and Captain Ernest Carter, the well-known Portrush golfer, who like Mr. Perkins went into business over there. ‘«Mr. Perkins, who arrived at his home near Birmingham the other day, picks out the putting as the part of the game where the United States players are superior to ours, The consensus of opinion among our well-known golfers who have competed across the Atlantic is that the Americans are pronouncedly better on the greens. Mr. Bobby Jones took another angle on the question recently when he expressed the view that our amateurs suffer by comparison in their long game, which is not so consistent as the American, But it seems to be rather the strokes the Americans pick up in the short game that are the most telling.’’

ARCHIE COMPSTON GREATLY FANCIES GEORGE VOIGT

A RCHIE Compston, famous British golfer and runner-up in the Canadian Open Championship at Rosedale, Toronto, this year: “‘T am a great admirer of Bobby Jones and regard him as the best amateur that ever held a golf club in his hand. It is no news to the American publie or to our own folks here in England to hear that young Jones is a great golfer, but he is not the only high class amateur in the world. ““T give Bobby credit, and lots of it, but I want to go on record as placing George Voigt and George Von Elm very near to this chap Jones. These lads must be reckoned with, if not now then in the near future. ‘‘T am particularly fond of George Voigt who is as fine a shot maker as one will find any place. I was in America when the news was flashed about the country that Perkins, our own amateur champion, had defeated Voigt at Brae Burn in the semi-finals. I could not quite believe this as Voigt to my wayof thinking, and J think I knowa golfer when J see him, is a far better player than Perkins. ‘“No reflection on this man Perkins who was good enough to win the British amateur title and to finish as runner-up to Jones in the American amateur, I just faney that Voigt is a better golfer. He plays straight down the fairway, not always a long drive but far enough and has a sweet crisp iron shot. His approaching and putting is very excellent. Boomer and myself played in a foursome with him at Sehenectady and both of us were surprised to see such good form. He will win an American amateur championship sooner or later. ‘‘T am returning to America shortly. It is my plan to play in the Los Angeles Open and other big events in the far west. I did not see Calfiornia this last trip and look forward to going out there this winter. I also want to play in the big open at Miami Beach.’’

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THE ROYAL YORK GOLF COURSE, TORONTO | (By E. Harold Banks) B the beautiful Humber Valley, just northwest of the Lambton Golf Club and within easy reach of the heart of the city of Toronto, construction is far advanced on what is destined without a doubt to be one of the very finest golf courses of the Dominion. This course will be knownas the Royal York Golf Club. Primarily for the guests of the new Royal York Hotel, which is being built by the Canadian Pacifie Railway and which will be opened to the public on June 1, the course will be operated under the pay-as-you-play system. The newcourse is approximately six miles from the hotel and can be easily reached via the Lake Shore Boulevard and then past the Old Mill on Kingswayto Islington Avenue where the club house for the time being will be situated. A real old-time stage coach will run twice daily from the hotel to

! The third green on the Royal York Golf Course

the course. The coach originally belonged to Major-General Sir HenryPellatt, C.V.O., K.C.M.G., and will be used for the conveyance of guests of the Canadian Pacifie hostelry, who will call after the approved fashion of by-gone days at the Old Mill for the refreshment of man and beast. The new course, whichis ( being built over the most perfect rolling country imaginable, is sponsored by Mr. R. Home Smith and the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is being designed | by Stanley Thompson, internationally knowngolf ar¢hitect, while the contract- ors are the “Trans-Canada Construction Ltd.” In designing the lay-out Mr. Thompson was fortunate in being able to pick the best golf land in two thou- sand acres of undulating and wooded country, consequently there are being developed eighteen holes whichit will be difficult indeed to rival. The course | is admirably balanced as to length, and the various holes are of picturesque and individual character. ‘ In spite of the contour of the land there are no steep climbs; the holes 3 being laid out on easy grades. The tees and greens are most generous in size. In fact the whole course will make a real appeal to the expert and will not dis- { turb the average golfer as there are no unfair hazards. The construction work is well in advance of schedule. All the fairways have been thoroughly cleared and many plowed while considerable dise har- rowing has been carried out. On several holes little work was required to put the fairways on a soundbasis for a good even grass cover this summer. On others work was stiffer but all fairways should be in real trim bythe time the tourist season opens.

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The greens will be of the famous bent-grass variety, much in favour on this continent. These will be in perfect order by July as they have all been seeded already. Amongthe galaxy of fine holes the short ones particularly stand out for mention. They are both spectacular and well nigh perfect and call for absolute

A construction gang at work on the eleventh green at the Royal York course.

accuracyin placing as at each ofthese holes the bunkers are superblysituated. The short holes are Nos. 3, 6, 8, 13 and 16. The long ones, too, deserve un- stinted praise, especially Nos. 2,7, 9, 11, 14, 15 and 17. The player on this course will start off with a good test of his prowess, having to play long and accurately to find the green with his second while he

The second fairway taken from the tee at the Royal York Golf Course

finishes with a hole of 400 yards which will find out any weakness he may possess if he is inclined to pull. The par of the course is 71 and the length 6,405 yards. Details; out—Hole No. 1, 385 yards, par 4; hole No. 2, 450 yards, par 5; hole No. 3, 215 yards, par 3; hole No. 4, 435 yards, par 4; hole No. 5, 390 yards, par 4; hole No. 6, 145 yards, par 3; hole No. 7, 465 yards, par 5; hole No. 8, 245

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yards, par 3, and hole No. 9, 470 yards, par 5. Total, out, 3,200 yards, par 36. Details, home—Hole No. 10, 360 yards, par 4; hole No. 11, 415 yards, par 4; hole No. 12, 345 yards, par 4; hole No. 13, 190 yards, par 3; hole No. 14, 405 yards, par 4; hole No. 15, 375 yards, par 4; hole No. 16, 170 yards, par 3; hole No. 17, 545 yards, par 5, and hole No. 18, 400 yards, par 4. Total, home, 3,205 yards, par 35. Total, 6,405 yards, par 71. a i = NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST Assiniboine Golf Club, Winnipeg, to Greatly Improve its Course from Plans Prepared by Stanley Thompson & Co.

HEannual general meetingof the the Elks Hall, Dauphin, Man., was Assiniboine Golf Club was held the presentation of trophies won dur- in the Marlborough Hotel, Win- ing the 1928 season. nipeg. There was a good attendance The meeting was presided over by of members. Dr. Harrington, the president, who The financial report disclosed the stated that the past season had been Club to be in a soundposition, the the most satisfactory of any since the revenue last year showing an import- club’s inception in 1921, both as re- ant advance overthat of the previous gards membership and finances. year, and the largest in the history of Presentation of the trophies then the elub. the open championship cup, received it at the T. J. Lytle, H. A. Mackay, W. B. hands of James A. Campbell, follow- Thomson, Jas. Smith, J. Newton, T. G. ing which the elub handicap annual, Hall, R. J. Murray, 8S. Turnbull A. W. won by O. E. Heaslip, was presented B. Foster. to him by the vice-president, E. N. The election of officers resulted as MeGirr. follows :— President, T. J. Lytle; vice-president, H. A musical programme and dancing A. ,Mackay; secretary-treasurer, W. B. added to the enjoyment of the even- Thomson. Committees, Finance, R. J. Mur- ing’s programme. ray, convener, W. B. Thomson, J. Newton; Green, T. G:. Hall, convener, A. W. B. Foster, *% * * R. Forde; sports, S. Turnbull, convener, H. Arkle, J. Newton; house, S. Turnbull, H. A. Mr. Fred Kerr has been re-elected Mackay, Jas. Smith. president of the Golf Club, Neepawa, * @@ Man. The various committee reports A featuré of the “at home” of the were presented, which showed the: Dauphin Country Golf Club, held in club to be in a healthys¢ position? ajl-:

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In the unavoidable absence of the wood proved that the standard of play president, D. Clement, of Brandon, is very much on the upgrade, and ©. W. Jackson, St. Charles, oceupied though handicapped by weather con- the chair, and most of the Winnipeg ditions, the average scoring was re- clubs were well represented. markable in all classes. All the 1928 tournaments were most Ki, Harvey, vice-president of the successful. The M.G.A. handicap R.C.G.A., reviewed the preparations against par, which is staged for the for the Canadian Amateur Champion- purpose of financing a Manitoba ship for 1929, which it is expected will team at the inter-provincial matches, be played at Jasper, and he was showed an increased entry of 48. promised the enthusiastic support of Sixteen teams took part in the all the delegates in making this tourn- inter-club championship at the Win- ament a success. nipeg Golf Club, and Norwood again Many suggestions were brought captured the trophy. forward with the object of aiding and The Amateur Championship at Pine encouraging the country clubs, mem- Ridge drew a large entry, and the bers of the association. Any of their dividing of all players into flights so members will receive a hearty wel- that the complete entry could com- come from all Winnipeg clubs, and pete in match play met with general 1929 should see numerous visits by approval. small teams of Winnipeg golfers to The Junior Championship at South- the country courses.

Ga “THE AULD GREY TOWN” (Christian Science Monitor, Boston) 66 T. Andrews by the northernseas, is many things to many men. To the student in his scarlet gownit is the grey, beloved Alma Mater. To the golfer it is the ‘Royal and Ancient.’ To the historian—but it is all history, after all. The lineage of golf is almost as old as the University. So popular had the game become in 1547 that the people left their archery and the defences of their country for the golf course, and it had to be enjoined that ‘Fute ball and Golfe be utterly cryit downe, and nacht usit.’ Neverthe- less, it was played as merrily as ever, and by the reign of James VI everybody knewit, from kings to countrymen. In 1754 they made rules to governit, the beginnings of the by-laws of to-day, and St. Andrews is the patron saint of golf. It is a grey old town, and the North Sea is grey by the golf links, and the wind blows over them and makes the bluebells dance on their slender stalks. “Over the turf where the golfers play Queen Mary may have ridden in the days when she was free and merry. St. Andrews was not dour to her, but fair, for she came often. She was but twenty years old, a warm-hearted girl, who loved her freedom from the court and ceremony at Holyrood. In theold house, which is there yet, she could sing and dance with her Maries, could garden, like any rustic maid, or read Livy. She rode over the fields toward the sea, or where the burn murmured: Rin, burnie, clatter, To the sea win; Gien I was a burnie Sae wadI rin! “Those were haleyon days. St. Andrews has had its reformers, its great men, Knox and Melville and many another, who have made history there in their time; but surely the times Queen Mary spent there, in happiness and peace, are the sweetest in its history.”

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OLFis said to be a simple 5gD ame, and «yet its devotees find the 5gb reatest difficulty in persuading the golf ball to go in the right direction, particularly when the result of the match is of supreme importance. yi But I am not so much concerned in this article with the actual play, as with the courses on which the game takes place. Recently I have played a on good deal on what were to me new courses, and practically on every one [ found far too many bunkers had been introduced, either at the instrue- tion of the green committees of the clubs, or by the various golf architects responsible for laying out the courses. | At many holes I found it almost | impossible to find a wayfor the player to reach the green with a bold shot. | If one took the bold course and “went” for the green there was simply nowhere to pitch. No, lam wrong. There was one place—asort of safety j first area which most of us find when- | ever we go out—well short of the ereen. im “Play short and be safe” is, or should be, a new saying added to present-day golf. Forit is of no use “ooing for” the greens. There is generally a bunker to the right and an-

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the green just to trap the bold player L wholikes to be up and past the flag He will do that at his peril at many of the courses I have visited. Why this over-bunkering of golf courses should be allowed I cannot understand. ‘Too many bunkers are simply an irritation, particularly to long-handicap golfers—who after all | are in the great majority at all clubs. It is these long-suffering members a who have to struggle around as best 4 they ean; verylittle attention is paid | to their poor efforts to get the ball far | enough to make their next stroke » easy, nor are they permitted in the least degree to vary fromthestraight | Abe Mitchell, the greatest British player and narrow path to the green. When ‘who has never won an Open Champion- they get near enough to take their ship’’, who makes some sensible remarks mashie for the approach, the green is about bunkers. so honey-combed around with gaping { sand bunkers that the poor player becomes terror stricken and is entirely a afraid to play anything like a confident stroke. The one and only line on most courses is straight down the “middle.” Nothing is now left to the golfer but to keep to the centre of the straight and varrow fairway. Nothing is left to one’s initiative. There is only one way,

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and even supposing that way be taken with the tee-shot, when the second stroke comes to be played the player will find a bunker away ahead which most likely effectually prevents him from aiming directly at the flag. The chances are that at most of the newer courses a bunker will be found just at the spot which debars the courageous player from taking the bold line; just where you would like to pitch your ball a horrid bunkereats its way into the green, making only one shot possible for you—one of the safety first variety. Your only option is to play short to the mouth of the green and trust to a good pitch and one putt to get you the four demanded of the hole. In anarticle of this kind it is naturally impossible to give instances or to mention any particular course which comes under what I term over-bunkering, but plenty of readers will recall holes of the type I have mentioned. I main- tain that there is no need for so many bunkers as are being put down to-day. One or two well-placed hazards will make anygolf hole difficult enough. After all, the game is hard enoughin all conscience without having the added multiplicity of too many hazards to annoyus. Howlong the indifferent player is going to submit to these all too numerous hazards I cannot tell, but I hear so frequently of players who, in medal competitions, have many bad holes through being bunkered off their good shots, that I feel I must say something on their behalf. When it is remembered that practically all the best courses are the least bunkered, surely those courses which never house championships might be made a little easier for the average club member, who spends muchof his time to-day getting into bunkers and a godd deal more in trying to get out of them. I have long thought that rough grass, not sa thick as to cause a prolonged search for the ball, makes a far more difficult shot than one from a sand bunker. In such a hazard even the good player seldom tries any shot except to get out on to the green, but from a grassy lie the player is tempted to try to get so near to the pin that in doing so the shot is often fluffed with a loss not only of one stroke, but possibly of two. For example, playing at Stoke Poges recently from just over the tenth green I had to play a short but high lofted pitch from a lie of this variety on to a narrow part of the green, and so keen was I to get dead that I lifted my head; fluffed my shot and lost the hole. That would never have happened had I been in a bunker. Another reason for fewer bunkers is the fact that not every club has its own free supplies of sand. This has to be purchased, carted to the course, and then conveyed by the greenkeeper to the respective hazards. Sand and cartage are both expensive items in the upkeep of all clubs; and it seems to me that instead of many bunkers, a few well placed grassy hollows, kept clean and free from rough grass and not so steep that the machine cannot cut them, would make the game just as difficult. Again, many sand hazards are placed so near the green that, after two days’ play at the week-end, the green becomeslittered with small stones driven out by the players who have been bunkered. These stones have to be swept away before the greenkeeper dare attempt to cut the greens. This takes time, adds to the expense of the upkeep, andis therefore another objection. The old idea of playing to the back of the pin is a thing of the past. The man who wins to-day is the one who seeks the “safety-first” route, who takes no risks of being bunkered and, to use a Scotch expression, plays a “pawky” game, trundling his ball up near to the green but refusing to be tempted to go for a long approach. I do not, of course, refer to the championship links, which have their natural configuration and contours to make the playing of them such a pleasant difficulty, but of the average golf course as played by the average player. PPPBSESESBPESSBEESSPEFSEFPSSFEFFSSSSSFFPEFFF9$9999FSO5S9F5SS5O6S" BAee PPPoe SPOP< SSSS

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Weought, I think, to be left one route to the hole, not always the straight one, but one which will test our ability and yet leave us some opening for our initiative. “Bobby” Jones recently said of the seventeenth at St. Andrews that in his opinion it was the best in all the world. He admired it because there are at least three ways of playing the hole, and one can choose whichever route suits the capacity of the player. There are few holes to be found anywhere like it. This is a plea for golf architects to think of everyone who plays, and to remember that what amounts almost to an indiscriminate “peppering” of courses with bunkers not only detracts from the pleasure of the average player, but also destroys his courage and tends to convert him into a disciple of “pawkiness.”

A GOLFER’S GALLERY OF OLD MASTERS NQUESTIONABLY the most beautiful work ever issued in connection VU with the game of golf goes to the credit of “Country Life’, the well known London publication. “A Golfer’s Gallery of Old Masters’ for which the “Canadian Golfer” is the exclusive distributors for the Dominion, to which publication at Brantford all orders should be addressed, is unquestion- ably in a class by itself.

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Mr. Darwin, the Editor (the grandsonof the celebrated Charles Darwin), has drawn on manyrare old prints and drawings. However, the plates in eolour are the thing! A few well knownto golfers, but the majority are in the nature of discoveries, though they are from the brush of such famous masters as Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch, and van de Velde. Who was aware, for instance, that the National Gallery sheltered a painting in which we see a kilted Scot playing golf in Holland in the year 1668? It is difficult to imagine any golfing enthusiast not deciding at once that he or she is going to have this set of pictures for their home, either by purchase, or by delicate suggestion that it would be a welcome gift. The Publishers have issued one edition in which the plates are specially and artistically arranged completely readyfor framing. The followingis the list of the exquisite plates in colour: 1. A Girl with a Golf Club, by an unknownartist. 2. St. Nicholas’ Day, by Jan Steen. 3. Mr. William Innes, by Lemuel Abbott. 4. Mr. Francis Bennoch, from an oil painting at Blackheath. 5. Pleasure on the Ice. 6. A Frost Scene, by Adriaen van de Velde. 7. Winter Landscape, by Aert van der Neer. 8. Mr. John Taylor, by Sir J. Watson Gordon. 9. Mr. Henry Callender, by Lemuel Abbott. 10. A Golfing Lady, by Wybrand de Gest. 11. A Young Dutch Golfer, by A. Cuyp. 12. William St. Clair of Roslin, by Sir George Chalmers. 13. The Two Macdonalds. 14. The Golf Players, by Pieter de Hooch. 15. River Scene in Winter, by Aert van der Neer. 16. An Ice Scene, by Antoine van Straelen, 17. Winter Landscape, by Esaias van de Velde. 18. ‘‘Old Alick’’ of Black- heath, by Mr. Gallen, of Greenwich School. In the ordinary edition the plates are mounted on tinted boards (17’x 1214"), specially chosen to suit the tone of the picture, and grouped together so that those pictures whichare natural companions have also mounts to match. The price of this edition is $25.00. The Edition de Luxe is limited to 500 numbered copies, of which 200 are for sale abroad. Each copy will be autographed by Mr. Bernard Darwin.

TECUMSEH’S GRAVE ON NEW GOLF COURSE (Toronto Star)

A NEWlight has been thrown upon the discovery of two bodies —one a British officer wrapped in a flag, the other an Indian—buried beneath the soil of the new Mississauga golf course. This new light has been shed by T. A. Shaver, who is conversant with the lore of the Indians, and affairs pertaining to 1812. In an interview with The Star Mr. Shaver told the following story: “About six or seven years ago I met an old Indian doctor, Peter Salt, whose ancestor was Chief Joseph Brant of the Brantford reserve. His wife was the great- daughter of Peter Jones, the Indian preacher, who preached before Queen Victoria. He lived and preached in Port Credit. “Hearing this, I invited Peter Salt and his wife to tea. In the process of conversation he said: ‘Did you everread the account some years ago regarding the finding of the body of Tecumseh?’ The article stated that the body was found in the woods, at the back of Stoney Creek. My wife and I have often laughed over that article; for she can take you to the identical spot where Tecumseh and an English officer are buried. The officer was General Procter, who was in commandagainst the American troops in the war of 1812. In one battle, Procter was retreating before the Americans and was shot in the back. At that moment Chief Tecumseh emerged with his troops from the wood, and with his war-cries scared the American troops, who fled. Tecumseh, in joy, lifted up his head to laugh, and a shot took off the top of his skull. The In- dians were so enraged that they joined forces with the English under Broek and chased the Americans to Lundy’s Lane, Queenston Heights, where they de-

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with Mrs. Ledingham and Mr. W. J. Shannon when he pulled off the dual feat. Another member of the Saskatoon Golf Club. Playing with Mr. L. G. Calder, Mr. Louis Orge bagged a one-shot at the 9th hole, 144 yards. And here is a correction. In the November issue it was stated that Mr. C. W. Irwin, a well known member of Lambton, had made the 7th hole in Lambton in one. It was his son, Mr. C. W. Irwin, Jr., who immortalized the name in the realms ofgolf. As a result of these additions the grand total of ‘““Holes-in-One” in Canada the season just closed has been brought up to the imposing one of 249, as compared with 197 in 1927, or an increase of 52. By Provinces the stunt was recorded as follows: Alberta, 19; British Columbia, 60, Manitoba, 18; Nova Scotia, 9; New Brunswick, 6; Ontario, 97; Quebec, 26; Saskatchewan, 14. The only Province not reporting the feat is Prince Edward Island. It will be noticed that as usual Ontario is easily in the van, with British Columbia in second place. On the Pacific coast they are certainly artists at collecting oneers, as the golfing population there is probably not a quarter that of Ontario. The 20,000 to 1 shot was pulled off byall classes of golfers from players over seventy years of age to juniors of 14 summers or so and from Judges on the Supreme Bench to caddies. The ladies were very much in evidence the past season, sixteen of them having joined the golfing immortals. Altogether 1928 was a wonderful year for Canadian ““c one-shotters’’: To our new members the Editor extends hearty Christmas and New Year greetings. May they enjoy the “Canadian Golfer” for the next year, sent to themas a slight reward for their prowess—but please don’t get the habit and repeat the performance in 1929. Now, please don’t, dear members!

“CANADA’S CRUSADING YOUNG LINKSMAN” Splendid Showing at Pinehurst of Eric D. Thomson, of Rothesay, New Brunswick (Special Correspondence of ‘‘Canadian Golfer’’ by Harry Yorke, Pinehurst Correspondent) ANADA has a erusading young In Pinehurst’s Mid-South Open linksman who is moving swiftly best-ball tournament on Nov. 18th upwardin the ranks of the first- Thomson and another amateur, W. B. class amateurs, and who threatens to Pederson, of Mount Vernon, New emerge soon as a contending national York, won the trophy awarded the champion. amateur team turning in the best per- That young crusader is Erie D. formance. They jointly covered the Thomson, of Rothesay, New Bruns- very difficult No. 2 championship wick. He is a member of Riverside course in the fine score of 151, excell- S Club, St. John. ing the performance of several of the a Eric, a sturdy fellow still in his professional stars. In this tournament mid-twenties, has been knocking at were competing four former United the door in big-time competitions at States national champions, and two Pinehurst for a couple of years. In runner-up national title winners, be- 1926 he qualified in the first flight of side many of the coming youngstars the North and South amateur, repeat- of the country. ing the performance last year. On Following the Mid-South classic each occasion he ran foul of excep- came the thirteenth annual Carolina tionally powerful adversaries in his Tournament (amateur), which ran first matches and was eliminated. In from Noy. 20th to 23rd. In this popu- the coming spring it might be a dif- lar Pinehurst fixture a field of close ferent tale. to 60 interstate U.S. nd Canadian lead-

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ers went forth to battle. Five flights qualified for match play, eight in each division. The medalist in the Carolina tourney was Norfleet P. Ray, form- HOrE erly of Toledo, O., and a young man with a powerful game. The wind for the qualifier was very hard to gauge, EMPIRE

and the scores were exceptionally BROADWAY AT SIXTY-THIRD ST. high, Ray winning the medal with an 82, Thomson having an 84. NEW YORK CITY In the mateh play Thomson andan- other youthful Canadian, Jack Rudel, of Kanawaki Club, of Montreal, came together in the first round. The Rothesay player proved much too strong for the boy from Kanawaki, winning 6 up and 5 to play. In the second round Thomson had to face one of the ecagiest veterans in American golf, Donald Parson, of Youngstown. The name of Parson has been one feared by golfers for many a moon, and well Eric knew this. The Canadian played with great judgment and extreme care, and covered the outward nine in the fine tally of 38 strokes. On the 537 yard A new fourteen 8th a bad break on a fine second shot story fireproof cost him two strokes. He stood two structure con- up on the start home, and playing air- taining the latest in furnishings tight golf the rest of the way won by and equipment. 4 up and8 to play. The final was heartbreakingfor the Capacity 1034 Canadian. He was matched against a huskyin Ray, who stands 6 feet and The location is weighs close to 200 pounds. Ray has unique. In the a tremendous drive, and uses a mashie heart of the where most other players would need Automobile a spoon. Ray, as before mentioned, District, with the medalist, set a hot pace at the out- Subway, Ele- set, but Thomson elung to him, so vated, Street that at the turn the Toledo player was Cars, Busses— only 1 up. After the 14th was holed all at door. out Ray stood 3 up. Then Thomson

started after his man, and by a great RATES display of grit and grand golf had Room,Private Toilet - - $2.50 Single Room with Bath - 3.50 the match squared at the 17th green. Double Room with Bath 5.00 Coming strong still, Thomson ham- mered out a great tee shot while Ray topped his drive. Thomson sent up a Ample beautiful second shot while Ray Parking Space. landed in a trap on his. Ray’s third M. P. MURTHA, General Manager. stroke saw him in another trap near the green. His fourth, an explosion shot, laid him 60 feet away, while

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Thomson was less than fifty feet off On the 19th Ray’s superior pitch with his second. gave him the hole and the match. Thomson’s courageous performance At this point the tension told on in overcoming a 3 up lead in the clos- Thomson. He looked up onhis shot, ing stages over Ray, who registered and sent the ball less than five yards. his third successive tournament win On his fourth he overran the green, by annexing the Carolina, stamped and then stood no better than Ray. him as a lad of the best golf material. They finished by halvinga hole that In the 1929 United North and South practically lay in the hollow of Thom- Eric Thomson will be there with bells son’s hand. on.

BRITISH SENIOR GOLFERS THOROUGHLY ENJOYED TOUR T.-COL. Francis Popham, D.S8.0O., Hon. Secretary of the British Seniors’ Golf Society, who was such a popularvisitor with the British team who toured Canada andthe States last September during the course of an in- terestingletter to the Editor from Londonsays: ‘‘We had a perfectly wonderful time in Canada. I am going to write an account of our trip, having been asked to do so by one of our papers, ‘The Field’. We all did so enjoy our trip and everyone is hoping that he will live long enough to come out again in 1930. In the meantime weare all looking forward to entertaining a team from Canada next year, and if it is possible to arrange it, to have the match at St. Andrews. With kind- est regards to you personally and the ‘Canadian Golfer’ for the very nice remarks you made about our Society and its teams.’’

“MENTAL STANCES” IN GOLF (By Theo B. Hyslop, M.D., F.R.S.E.) OLF has been described as havinga sort of psychological reflex action e on those who play it, and according to the mental stance of the individual a game maybe either “Linked sweetness long drawn out,” or “Nothing but one d thing after another.” To play the game with a subconscious feeling of tension or irritation tends to heighten the mental handicap, and such a condition has little chance against the cheerful player who with “honey in his mouth” views his foe calmly and serenely from an objective standpoint. Tranquility with equanimity should be the ideal mental stance. The fac- — tors which tend to disturb this mental stance are indeed numerous. Waiting ) about on a tee or a green is apt to induce impatience followed by precipitancy = and impulsiveness, which may go far towards robbing the player of the higher mental attributes necessary for an effective stroke. The man of few words and stable power of control does not render himself liable to be affected by such considerations. The fundamental principles of the game should become stabilized during the process of time and experience, andit is essential that not only should the operative mechanism become primarily automatie and secondarily regulative by the mentality of the golfer, but that the mental operations themselves should also be stabilized and regulated subconsciously, thus leaving to the higher brain the functions of discrimination and judgment. It follows, therefore, that the higher functions should be the ultimate controlling determinants, and that the more stable the subconscious and automatie functions the

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more free andefficient do the higher determinants become. It no longerre- mains a matter of wonderment whysuccess is not attainable when we consider the various levels to which golfers reach; for to climb the ladder to success it is absolutelY essential that the lower rungs should be relegated to the subconscious and physiologically automatic. Two simple diagrams will help to demonstrate the relativities of the golf- - er, and each level of attainment is to be reached only by grasping the relative fh values of the various levels. (DiagramI.) s SNe : | The reasoning faculty should rise above the emotional and even the voli- tional. (DiagramII.)

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Hutchinsonis quite correct when he says: “The player who has cultivated a mechanical form of swing, who knows exactly the method that he or she means to adopt in playing each stroke, is much less apt to play badly in con- 7 sequence of tremulous nerves than one who hits light-heartedly as Nature taught himor her.” Deliberate methods of thinking out strokes mayserve the purpose of allowing nervous apprehension to subside, and if incidentally the delay has the effect of making his opponent ‘rattled,’ the method may be doubly efficient, inasmuch as it tends to induce over-haste and impatience in that opponent. In match playit is well, therefore, for every man to makehis mental armour of defence invulnerable, lest he be betrayed into impatience and consequent lowering of his Par value. The correct mental stance for all medical golfers should be one of phil- | osophic detachment from professional and other exigencies. The gynaecolo- | gist should replace his obstetric table with a score card as pregnant with po- | tentialities; the chirurgeon should confine himself incisively to the removal and replacements of divots; the physician should adopt prophylactic measures | against his own degeneration; whilst the alienist should strenuously endeavour | to avoid allowing his golfing experiences to be unduly reminiscent of those encountered in his special avocation. Only by such philosophic detachments can the mental eugenies of golf be adequately maintained, and so long as the ethical tenets of sportsmanship be upheld, I feel sure that we medical golfers —

j will meet with the hearty approval of the General Medical Council.

= Herd has been accredited with the possession of an imaginative temperament which, together with bad luck, has tended to impair his mental handicap. Manyothers have been handicappedin the same way, but in spite of this they have attainedto the heights of super-golf. All the more credit is due to them for their dogged persistence and determination to reach the topmost rung of | excellence. Just as it is never too late to mend or overcome the vicissitudes of golfing experiences, so Herd has endured and overcomeall. As Easter- brook has said: “Golf, like life, is purely a personal matter, and there is always | a possibility of rectifying past errors.” He also adds that in their wisdom and j goodness the gods have granted full realization of ideals to no one. “Golf is like life; it’s the trying that is worth while.” All the more credit, therefore, is due to Herd for the magnificence of his achievements during recent years. What is actually behind a player’s mind when competing in important events is not evident in his demeanour. Certain it is, however, that important

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events such as championships do promote social intercourse and good-fellow- ship. One thing about strong personalities is that never at any time is their ee enthusiasm marred by any expression of “fed-upness.” Such mentalities are eee possessed by Tolley, Hagen, and Compston, who manifest wonderful pluck and courage in the strenuous fight to overcome the exigencies of their play. The mental stance before each shot wouldbe, “I have made up my mind what I ought to do, and I am determined to do it.” If pawkiness, in contra- ee distinction to legitimate precaution, be the mental stance, special circumstances alone will determine the player’s potentialities of becoming a cham- ee pion. It seems to me that in the trainingof golfers two main factors will have to be considered—namely, the question as to the advisability of interfering

ee unduly with physical stances and mechanisms, and, secondly, the judicious I

O P tempering of experienced mentalities. My object in writing this book is not

E to put an undue strain on the mental side of golf, but to strengthen the indi-

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o e F be wrought in metal without alloy.

E It has been thought that intensive training would not only improve the O standard of golf, but would better equip golfers for the sterner affairs of in- G ternational competitions. The strain, both physical and mental, in the larger e contests must indeed be very great for those who have not yet acquired an

ee adequate knowledge of the economic use of the body and brain powers. As eee

) Lord Rosebery has said, “The British are people of enormous waste,” and it E

R does not seem to be too strong an assertion to make that both physical and A P mental energies are frittered away by almost every golfer. “Why worry?” should be the mental mascot of every golfer who has obtained confidence in

S the machineryhe drives.

a e CLUB SHAFTS THAT ARE A HANDICAP

(By J. H. Taylor, British Open Champion, 1894, 1895, 1900, 1909, 1913) T is often painfully apparent that the ordinary golfer handicaps himself un- necessarily by the clubs he attempt to play with. A big, burly man, endowed with great physical strength, can often be seen attempting to drive the ball with a light, whippy-shafted club that would be more suitable to a schoolgirl, under the mistaken impression that the whippiness will be an aid to his power. On the other hand, a short, stiffly-built man, with as much elasticity in his muscles as there is in the main propeller shaft of a liner, will invariably have a shaft to his club like a weaver’s beam, deluding himself into the belief that what is required to get the ball along is the application of brute force. “There are very few players capable of adjusting their clubs to suit their ownparticular swing and style of play. Those who possess this gift—for gift it is—maybe picked out by the fact that every club in their pack has a dis- tinetive quality. Each club is a masterpiece of feel and balance. There is not a professional in the country whose everyclub is not the envy of his amateur friends, who are willing to, and often do, pay fancyprices to become possessed of one. As I have often remarked everyclub has an individuality of its own— good, indifferent, or utterly bad. It takes a deal of experience to classify them. The ordinary player cannot hope to do so, because he lacks experience. There has grown up during the last 25 years or so a decided tendency for players

T of all grades to choose shafts so stiff that they border on complete immobility. When I was in the hey-day of my youth, and possessed of a hitting power that is but a memory,I helped to set the fashion forstiff shafts. It suited my short S punch from the wrists and forearms, and probably I was egotistically minded

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enough to think that it should suit everyone else. It is not increasing age alone which now compels me to state that I was wrong. I conscientiously believe that I was wrong, andif I have everinfluenced anyone towardthis false theory I humblyask his pardon. Harry Vardon was always the apostle of a shaft with a good amount of “give” in it, and if there ever was a golfer with aneffortless and moregrace- ful method of hitting the ball, I have yet to meet him. In these days whenlength is the chief aim of every player—the modern game demands it—I freely admit that additional length can only be obtained by a flexible shaft. There is nothing more pleasing than to feel the ball spring away into the distance from a well-timed blow, like an arrow shot from the bow. AndI nowconfess that this delicious sensation can only be experienced if the shaft has a certain amount of “give” in it. Spring must not be con- fused with weakness of stability. Shafts of to-day are very high-grade articles. The poor and weedy shaft is seldom seen in any clubmaker’s shop; and never in the set of a player of eminence. The old Scotch makers knew their business well when they producedthin, delicately-tapered shafts, with a spring in them like highly-tempered steel. One learns from experience, however late it comes. My experience has, at long last, taught me that if one wishes to obtain the maximumof pleasure from a golf stroke, the shaft should possess a certain volume of springinit, and not resemble a barge pole.

WITH THE PROFESSIONALS Interesting News of the Men Who Do So Muchforthe Royal and Ancient Game, from Coast to Coast H. (Lal) Taylor, professional at seventy-two-hole competition. Mehl- the Restigouche Golf Club, horn is well knownin Canada, having Restigouche, N.B., is spending on several occasions competed in the the winter at Campbellton, N.B. Canadian Open. Third money in the ** * Tournament went to Horton Smith, Charles R. Murray, pro at the ot Joplin, Mo., with 292. Fourth place Royal Montreal Golf Club, left last was shared by Al Espinosa, of West week to again take over the profes- Glencoe, Ill., and Francis Brown, for- sional duties at the exclusive Gulf mer amateur champion of Hawaii, at Stream Golf Club, Debray, Florida. 293. Tommy Armour, Washington, He was accompanied by his wife and was next with 297. family. *** The Professional Golf Champion- “Davie” Noble, professional at the ship of Bilbao (Spain) was won byJ. Norfolk Golf and Country Club, Sim- Gassiat with a score of 272 for the coe, Ontario, has left to spend a few four rounds, thus beating the reeord weeks in Florida. for this championship by twostrokes.

* * *% * ** Aneighteen-hole playoff to decide An English correspondent writes the winner of Hawaii’s first $5,000 under date of Novy. 17th: open golf championshipleft the purse ‘‘Harry Cotton, the young London golfer who is the most promising ‘‘discovery’’ and the honours in the possession of of British professional golf for a long time, Bill Mehlhorn, of New York, by a leaves to-day for his visit to the United narrow margin. He defeated Fred States. It will be interesting to watch how Morrison, of Alhambra, Cal., 73 to 75, he fares in the big tournaments which he intends to enter, including the Los Angeles in the eighteen-hole playoff. Mehl- Open event, which brings in the New Year horn and Morrison were tied with with the biggest prize in the game, but his scores of 291 at the end of the tour is perhaps a greater curiosity because

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HE Executive of the Royal Canadian Golf Association has tentatively decided upon Saturday, February 16th, 1929, as the date of the next annual meeting. The venue will be Toronto and the place of the meeting the King Edward Hotel. The annual reports will showthat the past season the Association had one of the best years in its history which dates ‘from 1895 or thirty-three years ago when golf was only played in a very fewcities and by only a few hundred devotees as compared with oversix hundred clubs now and_ probably 125,000 players. It is very gratifying to knowthat the annual meeting will be attended next February by four of the leading executives of the West, Messrs. C. HK. Harvey, Winnipeg; C. W. Jackson, Winnipeg; H. Milton Mar- tin, Edmonton, and N. C. Byers, Saskatoon. Their presence will lend a national golfing complexion to the meeting. In years gone by only On- tarlo and Quebee Provinces were represented at such gatherings. To- day the R.C.G.A. is truly representative of golf throughout the Domin- ion. Underthe newconstitution of the Association adopted this year at Montreal a Nominating Committee was authorized to select officers and committees, subject to the endorse- YM Mt he ment or additional names to be sub- Mr. Charles E. Harvey, an able Executive, mitted by the clubs throughout nominated for the Presidency of The Royal Canada in affiliation with the Asso- Canadian Golf Association for 1929. ciation. The following is the report of the Nominating Committee sent out under date of November 20th by Mr. B. L. Anderson, Toronto, Secretary of the R.C.G.A.: Webeg to submit the Report of the Nominating Committee for the Officers and Com mittees of the Royal Canadian Golf Association for 1929. According to the Constitution of the Royal Canadian Golf Association, Article VIII, See. 1—All candidates nominated must be members of Clubs, members of this Association. The nominations shall be reported by the Nominating Committee to the Secretary of the Association not later than the 15th of November in each year and notice of such nominations shall be mailed by the Secretary to Clubs, members of the Association not later than November 20th in each year and shall be accompanied by a nomination blank for the yurpose of other nominations by member clubs. See. 2.—Representatives from each Province may be nominated by any two Clubs, members ot the Association in such Province. All nominees must be members of Clubs, members of the Association. Such nominations must be in the hands of the Secretary of the Association not later than the 20th of December in each year. Officers—President, C. E. Harvey, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Vice-President, To be elected by the New Executive Committee; Secretary-Treasurer, to be appointed by the new Execu- tive Committee; Executive Committee, British Columbia, W. E. Hodges; Alberta, H. Milton Martin; Saskatchewan, N. C. Byers; Manitoba, C. W. Jackson; Ontario, W. H. Firstbrook, W. iH. Plant, L. M. Wood; Quebec, A. Collyer, T. O. Lyall, N. M. Scott; Maritime Provinces, Senator C. W. Robinson, Respectfully submitted, Major W. D. Wilson, Chairman, C. A. Bogert, E. A. MeNutt, W. W. Walker, L. M. Wood.

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It will be noted that Mr. C. BE. Harvey, of Winnipeg, has been nominated for the Presidency. This is the first time in the history of the R.C.G.A. that a Westerner has been so honoured. The nominationis distinetly a worthy and well deserved one. Mr. Harvey has for many years been an outstanding sup- porter of the Royal and Ancient game in Winnipeg and Manitoba. He is an ex-President of the Western Canada Golf Association and the Manitoba Golf Association and an ex-President of the Elmhurst Golf Club, Winnipeg, and is largely responsible for the wonderful success of that club. In business he is the President and Managing Director of the Northland Knitting Co. Ltd., and is an extremely able executive. MENTAL ASPECTS ed AND AMERICAN

(By ‘‘Psychologist Tee Topics’’) HERE is possibly no game which tration, a concentration which has requires as much as does the come to him through systematic men- game of golf so full a command tal training, but in this respect he has of the faculties of the mind. The been no different from what he has essence of Success consists in the ab- been in other matters he has brought sence of mistakes on supremely im- to a successful termination. The Am- portant occasions, but the thing erican can count himself fortunate be- which is not generally recognizedis cause there has been given to him,al- that this is achieved by means of a most from the cradle, the finest golf- mental balance it is not given to all ing temperament the world has ever to possess as a natural gift, and that, seen. His mentality responds more in some conditions of life, this, even fully than does that of any European at the cost of stern self-diseipline, has to the demands which this pastime to be acquired. makes upon the intellect, and he can, If there is one fact more than any for this reason, “rise to the occasion” other which brings this truth home more easily than has been possible to to us, it is the success of American players of other nations. golfers in this country. In the disappointment of defeat, Men and women, in their relation particularly when that defeat comes to a game, are influenced verylargely always from the same source, sense of by temperament and mentality. But proportionis usually at fault. Under that there are degrees of mentality such circumstances, a whole lot of and of temperament which canbe de- home truths, as well as important veloped is not, at present, properly facts, are forgotten and overlooked. realized. To obtain the right tem- The first is that, as a strikingforce, perament for anything, demands a the mentality of the golfing American strong effort of will, of concentration, has been undervalued. The American and the development of these virtues golfer of eminence has faculties which produces very often great weariness have been so drilled into obedience of mind and body. that his mental poise is rarely dis- There are times, especially when it turbed in moments of acute tension, is a question of the game of golf, and he has enjoyed so much success when such mental poise has to be of late years that he is able to face his created, although there are many challengers with a confidence unim- amateurs who lack, and are never paired. given, the incentive to acquire it. The Thus he remains calm and un- supremacy of the American golfer, ruffled on great occasions; his mind nevertheless, rests upon this and is closed to everything but the per- nothing else. He has succeeded be- fect production of the shot immedi- cause of his intense power of concen- ately before him, which has made him

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the “shot-saver” par excellence of the golf links of to-day. In his play there is fully revealed what is neither more nor less than the triumph of mind over matter, and the cultivation of this mental poise, at which the American golfer is to-day so successful, is one important avenue which will lead to Britain’s recovery REAL of the Open Championship. HOLIDAYS— There is every indication that this Where Spring form of mental discipline, so dominant Lasts All a feature of American golf, is, in its Winter Long importance, scarcely as realized as it In this cheerful land of long- should be. Temperamentally America leafed pines, facilities for every sport have been expertly devel- and Great Britain have very much in oped. You’ll find five famous Don- common. That bulldog tenacity and ald J. Ross golf courses; smooth- courage, the steadfast pursuing of an gaited horses that enjoy a canter as object to its bitter end, is the at- much as their riders; flawless tennis tribute of the British race, has been courts; polo, shooting and other sports followed by delightful evenings of universally recognized and accepted, social entertainment at the Carolina but has it not, for the moment, fallen Hotel (now open), with its friendly, a little in abeyance uponthe links? cheerful atmosphere, luxurious ser- Well, it can quite easily be restored, vice and a cuisine that makes your holidays a real event. The new and when it is the golf defeat of Holly Inn opens Dee. 20th. America will be in sight. The past For illustrated descriptive booklet or points to the possession by British reservations, address General Office, Pinehurst, N.C. players of the complete golf mind and what they once had they will discover again. Pinehurst The situation, nevertheless, must be NORTH CAROLINA faced squarely, without prevarication. AMERICA’S PREMIER WINTER RESORT The advent of the American golfer

has altered the position materially, and the demandfor intense, unswery- should be. As shot makers they need ing concentration is greater than fear comparison with no players the ever it was when Vardon, Braid and world over. Taylor were at their prime. Concen- Our strongest striking force in pro- tration on the task to be accomplished fessional competitive golf, to-day, is, was the characteristic feature in the probably, Compston, and only be- golf of these three professionals of cause he is the most travelled of all imperishable memory, and it was ex- our professional golfers. The hard- actly the same with Miss Wethered ening effect wrought by his travels when she was carrying everything be- upon the golf of Compston has been fore her. Is it too much to hope that manifest to all who have watched him notice will be taken of the capacity in the onward courseof his career. for intense concentration which the Compston has done much for players, above cited, have revealed British golf, and with the passage of so fully? British golfers playing so time will do more, but, in conclusion much among themselves under condi- we must allude to one phase of the tions and close to a standard with game which gravely affects the or- which they have been long familiar, dinary British golfer in his attempts have, perhaps, failed fully to realize to win back the Open Championship. its Intense importance, and it may be It is this :— the one direction where the golfers of The British Open Championship, an Britain are not as keyed up as they International affair which takes place

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Dec. 24—Seventh Annual Father and Son Feb. 12—Lincoln’s Birthday Tournament, Tournament, Pinehurst, N.C. Pebble Beach, Cal. Dec. 26-31—Twenty-sixth Annual Mid- February 18-23—The 17th Annual Tourn- Winter Tournament, Pinehurst, N.C. ament for the Amateur Championship of Jan. 1—New Years Tournament, Del Cuba at the Country Club of Havana, Monte, Cal. Jan. 5.—Bermuda Ladies’ Championship, Feb. 22-24 — Washington’s Birthday Riddell’s Bay Golf and Country Club. Tournament, Del Monte, Cal. Jan, 29-31—Bermuda Amateur Champion- Feb. 25-Mar. 1—Pebble Beach Champion- ship, Riddell’s Bay Golf Club, Bermuda. ship for Women, Pebble Beach, Cal.

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4 PRPPPSPPPPPSFPSPOPPPPPFFFFFFBePOOOOSSOOOOS POSSFOODOOSSSSOO GREAT BRITAIN AND OVERSEAS Interesting Happenings on the Courses of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the British Overseas Dominions RS. A. C. Deane, a former well from the same quarter. A numberof knownEnglish player, has won Durban sportsmen have decided to the Ladies’ Championship of send over here Bombata, the Indian the Argentina, defeating Mrs. Don- eaddie-master at the club there, and dvan in the final 2 and 1. Last year they express confidence that he will Mrs. Deane was runner-up.

Mr. H. E. Taylor, of the Royal Mid-Surrey, in a large field won the “Golf Illustrated” Veterans’ competition at Royal Wimbledon with the very fine score of 72.

30th the finalists in the Mexico Amateur Championship were British- ers. Perey C. Clifford, aged 21, defeated Claude B. Butlin, 51, by 2 up. Presiding at the annual general meeting of the National Golf Clubs Protection Association, Lord Lurgan stated that a resolution had been cir- cularized to over 1,000 elubs asking that it be signed by the local Member of Parliament to support the removal of the licensing restriction at golf clubs. The membership of the Asso- ciation is now 362 clubs.

South African golfers having had an official exhibition tour by four well-known British men players, are now anxious to see a team of representative women. Their invitation is nowunderconsideration. The R. and Miss Enid Wilson (left) and Miss D. Pear- A. team, who were out there last win- son, finalists in the English Ladies’ Close ter reported that they everywhere Championship which Miss Wilson won. found enthusiasm for the game and a remarkably high standard of play, be an eye-opener. Bombata, who is Both qualities are likely to be re- well known in South Africa, carries flected in South African challenges only five clubs, and has them lighter in our principal events here next than usual to allow him wrist action year. Mr. Bernard Wynne, the ama- to accelerate the club head to the ball. teur champion, is a possible visitor, Though under average height and of and Syd Bews, the well-known Dur- slight physique he hits the ball a sur- ban professional, a certain starter, prisingly long way. Brews, who is being given extended % wm * leave of absence by his elub, and is What South African, like American being assisted with a public subserip- golf, owes to Scottish pioneers, was tion, should be an interesting com- brought to mind by the death at Cape petitor at Muirfield. Town recently of Mr. Stuart Mac- There will be another and less con- pherson, who belonged to Edinburgh, ventional challenger, it is understood who won the Amateur Championship

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of South Africa in 1914, augmented Stobart, the Cantab captain. Bond the -prominence Edinburgh district and B. C. Crouch had the biggest win golf had in the sub-continent through, of the day, when in the foursomes among others, J. A. W. Prentice, who they beat J. S. F. Morrison and G. N. lost his life in the war, and Mrs. Gibb, Foster, 7 and 5. In the singles Bond who was formerly Miss Maud Titter- beat Lieut.-Col. Ritson by one hole. In ton. the top single Bernard Darwin beat *** G. Dlingworth, the Cambridge ex- Addington beat Oxford University captain, 5 and 4, thanks chiefly to at Addington by 11 games to 6, with accuracy near and on the greens. Af- one halved. The club side was a ter losing the first hole, Darwin won strong one, and the undergraduates the next three, and for the remainder did quite well against them. In the of the game he was ahead. leading single A. S. Bradshaw, the ** * Oxford leader, had a great match with The Prince of Wales in his African the Walker Cup player, T. A. Tor- golf has unearthed one of the queer- rance. The former holed out from a est local rules in the world. At Jinja bunker to win the second, and he be- in one of his games recently he exer- came 2 up at the fifth, but Torrance cised his right to lift out of a hippo’s won the next two holes to square. foot-mark without penalty. That is Bradshaw was again 1 up at the 14th, said to be the only local rule of its but his opponent took the 15th and kind extant, and it should shake up 18th holes, to win by 2 up. J. P. the smug home golfer who grouses Marston played splendidly to beat W. about wormeasts or autumn leaves. L. Hartley by 6 and 4. What do they know of golfdom who ** * only England know? Bingley, in the West Riding of China used to have, and possibly Yorkshire, is to have a municipal golf still has, some queer golf amenities, course. It will be constructed over and it was at Tientsin that a local the St. Ives estate, which the council rule that looks strange in cold print purchased some months ago. The was operative. There “a ball lying course will be of nine holes, and the im an open graye may be picked out views from the site, which is of high without penalty.” The explanationis elevation, are extensive and varied. that golf was played on the plain The question as to whether Sunday where many Chinese mound burials play will be allowed is a matter which took place, and the story is told that is causing much discussion, and the on one occasion two golfers in the Bingley Council, at their last meet- course of their round came across a ing, adjourned the question for a native re-interring a relative. month in order to get the views of *** the ratepayers. Mr. Charles W. A. Ollerhead, one *** of the most popular amateur golfers After losing the 14-hole foursomes was married at Blythswood United 4-2, Cambridge gained a meritorious Free Church, Glasgow, to Miss Tony victory over Woking by 10 to 8. This Dalrymple, daughter of the former was mainly due to the fact that the manager of Glasgow’s great tramway Light Blues won the six singles, and system. As the bridal pair left the included among the winners here was church an arch of golf elubs was W. E. Bond, who was brought into formed, holding aloft a large sign the team in the absence of K. N. “Bunkered.”

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VERY EVEN is the temperature in the Vancouver Isl and country. The mornings are erisp enough to put pep in your golf game. The evenings are cool eno ugh to make a light sweater feel pleasant and sometimes to have a little open fire for company. NO WONDERthe grass is always green, the turf springy on thegolf courses, the complexion of Victoria gir ls celebrated. You eross from Vancowver— a lovely stillwater sail among the islands. You stay at the Empress, that pearl amonghotels, FOR an entirely different afmosphere, one strolls o ver to Crystal Gardens. There the orchestra plays lilting music for two big dance floors. The swimming pool is magnificent. YOU GOLFon a championship course. You fish for salmon or trout. You play tennis, or swim. or canoe, or sail, or motor, or ride, as the fancy takes you. Karly reservations advisable. WyWy W y EMPRESS A Canadi an Pacific Hotel in an eight-acre flower garden VICTORIA, B.C . . . . IN THE ISLAND COUNTRY i

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OUEBEG BRANCH -C. lcGeu: Strong Board of Officers Elected for 1929. Interesting Report of the Hon. Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Christian A T the annual meeting of the Quebec Branch of the Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union held in Montreal last month the following officers were elected for the coming year: Hon. President, Mrs. H. Beverley Robinson; President, Mrs. Thomas Arnold; Vice-President, Mrs. A. E- Mussen; Vice-President, Mrs. F. T. Hand- sombody; Vice-President, Mrs. W. G. Fraser; Hon. Seeretary-Treasurer, Mrs. E. P. Christian; Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. F. A. Mann; Handicap Manager, Mrs. W. Garth Thomson; Chairman Pars Committee, Mrs. J. D. Hathaway. The following interesting report of the Executive Committee on the 1928 activities was read by the Hon. Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. BE. P. Christian: MadamePresident and Ladies: It is my privilege to present to you a report of another year of progress in our Branch —a, year of steady growth both in interest in the game, and the quality of the golf. We have added the names of three new Clubs to ourlist of affiliated members, the total now standing at 32; and it may be of interest to you to knowthat a Club which originally belonged to our Branch and was taken over by the Ontario Branch at its formation, has made application to be transferred back to the Quebee Branch because of its proximity to Montreal and its desire to participate in our activities. Three cheers for Quebec. The petition recommended at our last Annual Meeting for two additional Vice-Presi- dents for our Branch was voted on and passed at the Annual Meeting of the 0. L. G. U. at Beaconsfield last September. The season has been a very full one, and the events have met with the expected measure of success. The most important, from the Branch viewpoint, was, of course, our Provincial Championship, held June I7th-21st, over the lovely course at Laval-sur-le-Lac. Several familiar faces were missing on that occasion, but the Tournament was a most sue- cessful one. Miss Dora Virtue came into her own, and wonthe title on the 20th green of the final match with Mme. J. Dagenais, of Laval. We feel that a large part of the success of this Tournament was due to the excellent arrangements for the comfort and entertainment of the competitors made by the Lady President and the members of her Executive Committee, and we wish to record our deep appreciation of their efforts in this direction and also to thank the President and Directors of the Club for the handsome trophy which was so generously presented to the winner of the Championship. The Team Shield, which is played for annually during the qualifying round of the Championship, was won this year by the team from the Royal Montreal Golf Club. Of the six field days I shall say nothing here, as you will learn the details of them from the report of the Chairman of the Field Days Committee. We would like, however, to once more extend our thanks to those clubs who granted us the privileges of their courses. The City and District Championship was held this year over the delightful course of the Senneville Golf Club, and was keenly contested—Miss Dora Virtue defending and re- taining her title, with scores of 90 and 91 for the two 18-hole medal rounds, and keeping possession for another year of the Lord Atholstan Trophy. Miss Margaret Lockart, of the Royal Montreal Golf Club, was runner-up. A new feature, the Junior Girls’ Provincial Championship, was played simultaneously with the City and District event. This Tournament is open to junior girls, members of

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affiliated Clubs, aged under 18 years, with a handicap limit of 35; and consists of 36 hole medal play. The winner of the 1928 Championship, Miss Loraine How, of Whitlock, with a score of 216 for the 36 holes, is a newcomer to Provincial events, and will no doubt be heard from in the future. Miss Doris Taylor, of Summerlea, also a newcomer, was the runner-up. To mark the inauguration of this Championship, the members of the 1928 Pxecutive Committee of the Branch are presenting to the Branch a Trophy, to be played for an | nually in perpetuity. The National Championship at Beaconsfield does not properly belong to this report, but I feel that a word of recognition is due to the very fine showing made by our Quebee players on that occasion; and I would also like to add here the congratulations of the Branch to Miss Dora Virtue and Miss Helen Paget, our Quebee Branch representatives at the American National Championship, on the splendid effort they made there. It is with much regret that we have to record the unavoidable resignation in September of Miss Mollie McBride from the office of Provincial Handicap Manager. The interest Miss McBride has taken in, and the work done by her for, the Branch over a period of years is well known to youall, and her loss will be much felt by the Committee, Her work for the last three months of the season has been most efficiently performed by Miss Fileen Kinsella, to whom our thanks are due. On behalf of the members of the Executive Committee, and the Branch as a wholé, may I express to our retiring President, Miss Campbell, our keen appreciation of the splendid manner in which she has carried on the functions of her office. It has been a pleasure to those on the Committee to work with her; and one heard on all sides the gratification of the players in the various tournaments at the interest she displayed by her constant \ attendance. The Branchis justly proud of her. Just one more name, I am sure you will all agree with me that it is no exaggeration : | to say that the development and progress of the Quebee Branch in the past few years is } due in large, measure to the unfailing interest and devotion of Mrs. J. W. Ross. Only those who have worked with her on the different committees, especially the Pield Days Committee, can have any conception of the absolutely colossal amount of work and time she has given to the latter, and that in addition, for one year at least, to the very arduous duties of Provincial] Handicap Manager. Those of you Captains here who think one sheet a task can have a faint idea of what it means to supervise the thirty odd sheets of the affiliated Clubs. Words can but poorly express the gratitude we feel towards her; we can only offer the tribute of our sincere affection and appreciation of all that she has meant to the players and to the Committee. In closing may we again extend our thanks to all those, Clubs and individuals, who helped to make our year successful; and to ask from all members of the ©. L. G. U. even greater interest in the work of the Union in general and the Branch in particularly, Respectfully submitted, ‘ Christine E. Christian, Hon. Secretary-Treasurer Quebee Branch ©.L..G.U. Interesting reports were presented by Miss Eileen M. Kinsella, Handicap Manager; Mrs. Ross, Chairman Field Days Committee, and Katharine Took, Chairman Pars Committee. The latter noted that four new clubs had joined the Branch in 1928 which brings the total up to 31. The four newelubs are the

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Kent Club at Quebec, the Manoir Richelieu at Murray Bay, Cowansville, and St. Patricks. The meeting was largely attended and most enthusiastic and prospects for a record season in the Province of Quebee in 1929 are of the brightest.

THESFRONGWes: RYDER: CUP AEAM - ETURNING from Cleveland, where he was re-elected president of the R Professional Golfers’ Association, Alec Pirie, of the Old Elm Club of Chicago, named the players picked to represent the United States in the Ryder Cup matches in Great Britain next summer. Walter Hagen has again been chosen captain, and the other players are Leo Diegel, John Farrell, Gene Sarazen, Al. Espinosa, Joe Turnesa, Johnny Golden, Billy Burke, Willie Klein, Ed Dudley, Horton Smith and Al. Watrous. Ten of these are regulars and two are substitutes. The P. G. A. meeting at Cleveland showed a substantial growth in the organization. It was decided to stage the next P. G. A. championship at the La Cumbra Country Club of Santa Barbara in December, when most of the big fellows will be in that territory for the early winter tournaments.

RIIMING NEEDED MORE THAN WEIGHT Cyril Walker Proves that Strength is Unnecessary in Securing Distance (By Johnny Farrell, National Open Champion, The Country Club Magazine) YRIL Walkeris one of the small- ness in hand, gave scant heed to the est of the front-running profes- verbal shafts levelled at him. Hagen sionals. He is slender, almost is a big man, well set up physically, wispy in stature, and after a hearty but he is not an especially long hitter, f meal weighs no more than 115 pounds. although he puts more zip than most But Walker, by the rhythmic applica- of us into his swing. tion of wrist power, has the ability Walter would send a ball winging to drive a golf ball, on the average, as through the rain and rushing winds far as Archie Compston, the six-foot and Walker would step up and match Englishman, who tips the scales at it or excell it, saying as he did, “It’s about sixty or seventy pounds more well for you that I’m not a little big- than Cyril. ger,” or “You ought to train down to Some years ago I was playing in a mysize, Walter; maybe you could hit foursome at the Rockaway Hunting a golf ball.” Club in a rain that was driven in from Hagen, however, took the chiding over the bay waters of the Rockaways. with a grin that was exasperating in It was a little one-day professional reflecting a self-satisfied complacency. event and my three foemen were He wasn’t to be led into pressing for Walter Hagen, Walker and Jimmy distance. You see, Hagen was quietly West, the home club professional. manufacturing a 69 in a rainy tempest West is not quite so tall as Walker, while Walker was doing a 77. It was but perhaps lugs arounda little more one of the finest rounds ever played poundage. From the tees he is just by Hagen. as long as Cyril, proving only that I relate this little story merely to Walker is no exception as a long dis- illustrate the fact that bulk and tance hitting little fellow. strength and brawny arms and other I recall that Walker indulged in a physical attributes are not wholly kidding match with Hagen that day. necessary in the proper swinging of a Sir Walter, concentrating on the busi- golf club. Timing is the most essen- POSOSSOOSSSSSSS

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tial phase of the swing. About eighty per cent. of the golfers struggling with their games apply the pressure too soon. Apparently to hit leads them to start the downward swing snappily and the force of their effort is spent before the clubhead makes its impact. This premature application of the punch brings about an uncoeking of the wrists that saps their power. The swing becomes strictly an arm move- ment, getting no aid whatever from the body pivot: This breaking, or un- cocking of the wrists, is caused by a too-loose grip as much as anything else. A firm grip will keep the club cocked even after the down swing has been almost completed. Then comes AMEO that last second rush where the speed of the clubheadis so terrific that even movie camera attuned to a thousandth \VELLUM part of a second cannot catch anything more than a blur. As the hands are coming down towards the ball the | Canada’s Finest Writing Paper | club head should still be pointingsky- ward and not toward the ground, as Barbers; is so often the case. Timited

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how his uncontrolled thoughts constantly hamper his swing. Some of those who enter tournament play are ingly fine, particularly to her inti- sorely beset with anxieties, the evils mates who had cometo grief over her of an active mentality. inconstancy. It is great to see Glenna Seores are invariably higher in back in herstride. She is one of the tournament competition than in prac- most picturesque figures in golf and tice rounds, because minds are filled the old game did not seem the same with misgivings, forebodings and while her play was ill. other mischievous thoughts. As a re- But it is not of this I had specifi sult swings become tense or jerkyor reference to when I spoke of the men- poorly timed. There is a harvest of tal side wrecking the mechanical. It unhappiness. was to Miss Maureen Orcutt’s inability There are those, of course, who are to surpass the play of Mrs. Dorothy not disturbed by these bugaboos, who Campbell Hurd. To me it presents a enter upon each newfield of combat splendid object lesson. In their last confident and self-assured. These are three meetings Miss Orcutt has been the successful golfers. defeated by the veteran woman who Howthe mental side of golf can was winning tournaments before the wreck the mechanical was manifest, I NewJersey girl was born. believe, on the Cascades course, at Miss Oreutt obviously is the strong- Virginia Hot Springs, when Miss er player, but against Mrs. Hurd her Glenna Collett returned to rule as the game at once becomes a weak and princess of American links. Miss Col- dispirited thing. Two years ago Mrs. lett’s game was amazing and gratify- Hurd defeated Miss Oreutt in the fin-

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als of the Shenecossett tournament I do not knowthe mental distress and early this summershe duplicated that Miss Oreutt suffered before that

the feat. Only recently, during the meeting, but I am willing to wager eee national championship, when she ap- that all was not untroubled in her peared to be at the height of her abil- mind. If they were like some of the ity and seemingly destined to become brainstorms that I have gone through a finalist, Miss Oreutt met Mrs. Hurd in similar circumstances I can quickly again. lend my sympathies.

a a FIRST AMERICAN GOLF CLUBS

a (By Clifford C. Wendehack, ‘‘Golf Illustrated’’, New York)

n OLF to-day has become so much a matter of our daily thought and habit that few of us realize that the ancient Scottish game is but little more than one gerieration old on this continent. It is usually conceded that golf was born for America at the Royal Mon- treal Golf Club in 1873. Some three years later Toronto followed with its club. Just when and where the first club in the United States was established seems a matter of dispute. Recently Sarasota, Florida, has been urging its claim to primacy, but probably the famous “Apple Tree Gang,” composed of six ardent Scots, will continue to be regarded in the future, as they have been in the past, as initi- ators for this country of the game that nowclaims millions of devotees. The “Gane” found at Yonkers a thirty-six acre tract, the most distinguished feature of which was an old apple tree. Underthis tree a club was formed and the tree itself served as the original club house. Fromthis humble beginning developed the famous St. Andrews Golf Club at Mt. Hope inthe late eighties. By 1894 the membership had so increased as to require new quarters at Great Oaks. The phenominal development was but typical of the rapid growth of the myriad of clubs following in its lead. As early as 1888, the Richmond Country Club had been formed and a second golf club opened in the Metropolitan section. This club, too, grew with great rapidity and was followed in quick succession by a numberof others in the vicinity of New York City, until by the openingyears of the twentieth century, clubs were scattered all over the country and their number continued from that time on to growin almost geometric ratio. As was the case with the Scotch and English club houses, little thought was given in the early American club to the question of proper housing. If it be true that the original golf courses themselves were crude in fairway and green when compared to the modern carefully planned and perfectly maintained links, the contrast betweenthe old club house and the up-to-date buildings which the more prosperous clubs one after the other, are now erecting, is even morestriking. It probably lay in the necessity of the situation that at the outset of the game, makeshifts of every character should be adopted for club houses. As we look to the days of the founding with reproachful glances, as we think of opportunities missed, we often fail to realize the real difficulties of the pioneers. It is not beyond the remembrance of men not yet old that the early golf enthusiast was subjected to banter byhis friends and associates which to-day is reserved for the man who does not play golf. If we stop to think that the earliest courses were laid out by relatively small groups of men—not always of great wealth—and that these men in their enthusiasm were the laughing stock of their neighbours, who ridiculed them for wearing costumes appropriate

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to the game—until the bieyele craze made knickerbockers appropriate to another sport—we who have reaped the benefit of their labours may well hesi- tate before cavilling at them for the bungling of the club problem. We must remember, as we have suggested, that the clubs at the outset were small in membership, that the funds available were limited, that the more or less ramshackle farm house or even a half tumbled down barn might seem a welcome addition to a leased acreage taken possession of under an option of purchase. Such a building at least offered shelter and witha little carpentering might be provided with lockers and later with showers and similar accommodations. As the game grewin popularity and the membership of the club increased, not only were the needs for enlarged quarters earlyfelt but a moderate building fund was capable of being established from initia- tions and increased membership dues. These funds were rarely sufficient to make it seem possible to completely abandon the old house, and in nine cases out of ten the original structure was used as a nucleus about which various excrescent additions grouped themselves. In some rare instances where the original buildings had merit and some judgment was exercised in the additions, a not unpleasing ensemble resulted and as the experience of the players visiting now here, nowthere, brought to light conveniences—haphazard discoveries—there gradually developed in a numberof elubs, locker room and other accommodations which began to measure up to modern standards. In the great majority of remodeled farm houses, inconveniences which to-day in the smallest of the newly created clubs would not be tolerated for a moment, were endured patiently for years; locker rooms cramped and un- comfortable with insufficient shower accommodations and intolerable ventila- tion; lounges and dining rooms badly furnished, poorly lighted and frequently very badly equipped. It is, however, not our intention to dwell on these errors. We but point them out to show in brief the various reasons for the great demand at the present time for proper accommodations and in doing so cannot help feeling that perhaps we should be grateful rather than censorious because of these early failures. A glance at the earliest of the more pretentious club houses, makes only too clear that the history of golf club house construction repeats the experience of architectural development in all its special manifestations. None of the architectural monuments to which generations have pointed with pride as the perfect harmonization of form and function was the product of any one mind. Whether we turn to the temples of Greece, to the aqueducts or baths of Rome, to the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages or the palaces and churches of the Renaissance—nay—if we come down to our own day and contrast the latest development of the New York skyscraper with the earliest attempts at lofty building construction—in no case will we find the perfected structure for the special use until after years of fumbling and experimentation leading by trial and error to a gradual mastery of the problems. Had the first golf enthusiasts had at their command sufficient funds and strength of mind enough to have devoted themselves to the erection of permanent club houses, the country would have been dotted with architectural montrosities upon which so much money had been expended that the later membership would have hesitated to have scrapped them and they would have remained as permanent monuments of the stone age of golf.

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BIG MONEY FOR TEE BIG PROS. ND here are the big money tournaments which the leading players will A compete for this month and next. Sacramento Open, Dee. 14-16, $2,500. Catalina Open, Dee. 21-23, $2,500. San Gabriel Open, Dee. 26th, $1,000. Long Beach Open, Dee. 28-30, $5,000. La Jolla Open, Jan. 2-3, $2,500. San Diego Open, Jan. 4-6, $2,500. Los Angeles Open, Jan. 9-13, $10,000. Pasadena Open, Jan. 15-16, $4,000. El Paso Open, Jan. 19-20, $2,000. Texas Open, Jan. 24-27, $6,500. South Central Open, Jan. 21-Feb. 2, $6,000. Good picking for Hagen-Diegel-Armour-Sarazen et al. Several enthusiastic followers of the game in Canada are making arrangements especially to take in that $10,000 tournament at Los Angeles.

THE CANADIAN SENIORS’ GOLF ASSOCIATION Important Executive Meeting Held in Toronto. Dates of 1929 Tournament Sept. 11th to 13th at the Royal Ottawa. Invitation Received to Participate in International Matches Probably at St. Andrews, Scotland

N important meeting of the Governors of the Canadian Seniors’ Golf As- sociation was held at the office of the President, Dominion Bank Build- ing, Toronto, December 4th. Present, Messrs. C. A. Bogert, President, in the chair; A. E. Dyment, R. H. Greene, Geo. S. Lyon, 8. L. MeKay, Lt.-Col. J. B. Miller, Col. J. R. Moodie, R. H. Reville, Geo. L. Robinson, H. H. Williams, W. Hastings Webling. The President, in opening the meeting, announced that the dates of the 1929 Tournament—whichis to be held at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club—would be September 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th; the International match with the United States team, to be played on Friday, September 13th, and the Indi- vidual Championship on Saturday morning, September 14th. The President informed the meeting that a verbal invitation had been received from the British Senior Golfers’ Society for United States and Can- adian teams to visit England next year, and although the place of meeting has not been confirmed, it is practically assured that the International Tri- angular Matches will be played on the Royal and Ancient Links, St. Andrews. The dates suggested were July 17th and 18th. The President suggested that letters should be sent to about forty of the leading players of the Canadian Seniors’ Golf Association, asking them to signify their willingness, or otherwise, to be members of the team, should they be selected. A small committee, consisting of Mr. George 8. Lyon and Mr. George L. Robinson, was appointed by the President to act with him in making suchselections, and to assist in the necessary arrangements in connection with the trip, all of which was warmly approved bythose present. The fee of two dollars for the Annual Dinner was then discussed and after the President had pointed out that this charge was quite inadequate, re- sulting in a serious annual loss to the Association, it was decided by the Gov- ernors that a charge of four dollars be made next year. The matter of raising the membership limit was discussed, and it was fin: ally decided to allow the same to remain at four hundred members, in accordance with the present by-law. The President read the Secretary-Treasurer’s report to date, which showed a small credit balance of $263.74. After some further discussion on various matters, the meeting adjourned to The York Club, where the President, Mr. Bogert, entertained the Governors at luncheon. PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS999S999999S Bye3999999999999999999999999909999 eee 5 EEAOOOOY 5HHHHHHOO4 AOA 44 POOSSSSSSOSSSSSSSSSOOOSS FOSSOD Se: POSOSS SSOSOOSOOOOSSS O OSSSOOO

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ISS Enid Wilson, the 18-year-old girl who recently won the English Ladies’ Championship, is looked upon by the experts as Great Britain’s best hope to win the Open Championship next year, in which Miss Glenna Collett, Miss Marian Hollins and other U. 8S. experts will compete, be- sides several French womenstars. Writing of Miss Wilson in Golf Illustrated, NewYork, the well known authority, Mr. G. W. Greenwood, says: ‘fA successor to Miss Joyee Wethered, the greatest lady player the world has ever known, as pre-eminent in her own sphere as Bobby Jones is in his, has been found in the person of Miss Enid Wilson, a girl 18 years of age, who lives in the Midlands, and is the

—_ The semi-finalists in the British Ladies’ Championship, Miss Dorothy Pearson, Miss Enid Wilson, Miss Molly Gourlay, Miss Phyllis Lobbett.

daughter of a doctor. Miss Wilson has just won the English Championship at Walton Heath, perhaps the most difficult and the most searching test of inland golf in the whole 3ritish Isles, in which all the leading lady players competed with the exception of Miss Wethered and Miss Cecil Leitch. ‘“Not only has Miss Wilson the real flair for golf, without which success can never be more than ephemeral, but she hits the ball after the fashion of a man forcefully, even viciously, when the occasion demands. She is tall, and, like all first-class golfers, possesses long arms and a pair of strong wrists and hands. Miss Wilson drives as far as most scratch men, but her real strength as a golfer lies in her command ofthe iron clubs. It is a truism of ladies’ golf in general that they lack the power to punch the iron shot of 170 to 180 yards in length straight at the pin, but in the case of Miss Wilson this is her best shot, for she can hold the ball into the wind, or let it drift with the same facility as she ean make the ball bore at a fairly low trajectory through a headwind. In this respeet alone, Miss Wilson’s golf is quite remarkable.’’

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MEETING OF EXEGUWIVES OF: GC-ESG.U, MEETINGof the Executive of the Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union was A held in Toronto on December 3rd, when a number of important matters were discussed. The invitation from the Summit Golf and Coun- try Club, Toronto, to hold the Toronto City Championship there next year was accepted. It was announcedthat the Association had receivedofficial im- formation that the U.S. Women’s National Championship will be the week of September 30th at Oakland Hills Country Club, Birmingham, Mich. The dates of the Canadian Ladies’ Open and Close Championships will probably be fixed for two or three weeks ahead of the U.S. event, which, owing to its being held in the Detroit district next year, is bound to attract an unsually large number of Canadian entrants:

FEW CHAMPIONS RETAIN THEIR TITLES

(By Joe G. Davis, Chicago Golfer)

APS has been sounded on another wonderful season of golf, a season in which fewof the reigning monarchs wereable to hangon to their crowns. Bobby Jones, the king of the amateurs, was a notable exception, scoring his second successive and fourth win of the United States title. Casting the searchlight over the major golfing events of the world re- veals an overthrow in almost every instance. Johnny Farrell succeeded Tommy Armouras the Open champion, adding another page of glorious golfing history when he defeated Bobby Jones by one shot in the play-off of their tie at Olympia Fields. Miss Glenna Collett, who is the premier woman golfer of the American continent, came back after an interval of two years to regain the Women’s National championship, replacing Mrs. Miriam Burns Tyson. Hagen’s string of four successive wins in the Professional Golfers’ Asso- ciation championship was broken at Baltimore. Leo Diegel, the former De- troit caddie, taking the scepter from Sir Walter. In the men’s division of the Western Golf Association, Frank Dolp, of Portland, succeeded Bon Stein, of Seattle, and Albert Espinosa, of the Colum- bian Club, brought the Western Open championship to Chicago, breaking the two year reign of Walter Hagen. Mrs. HarryPressler, of Los Angeles, was one of the champions to repeat, scoring a clean-cut victory at the Indian Hill Club in the Women’s Western event. Canada’s Open championship, which has been a happy hunting ground for the United States professionals for the last ten years, was captured by Diegel, who also wonin 1924 and 1925. He succeeded Tommy Armour: For the second year in succession the Canadian Women’s Open championship came across the border, Miss Virginia Wilson, of the Onwentsia Club of Chicago, defeating Miss Peggy Wattles, of Buffalo, 5 and 4, in the 36-hole final at Montreal. She succeeded Miss Helen Payson, of Portland, Me. C. Ross Somerville, of London, regained the Canadian Amateur championship which he held in 1926. The winner last year was Don Carrick, who played several times in the Western Junior championship at Chicago.

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The majestic Hagen had been soundly trounced by Archie Compston in a special match which preceded the British classic and it did not seem possible he could “come back” sufficiently to bring the cup back again on its almost annual trip to the United States. But once more the indomitable Hagentri- umphed, leading the field with a total of 292 at Sandwich, his nearest com- petitor being Gene Sarazen with 294, one stroke ahead of the burly Archie Compston. Jim Barnes finished in a tie for sixth place, and Bill Mehlhorn wastied for ninth. Hagen succeeded Bobby Jones, who wonin 1926 and 1927. There were no United States amateurs of note in the British Amateur championship at Prestwick, which developed a newstar in T. Phillip Perkins, who defeated the famous Roger Wethered, 6 and 4. The new British champion was seen in Chicago later with the British Walker Cup team, so needs but little introduction. The Walker Cup matches, played at the Chicago Golf Club, provided another demonstration of the superiority of the United States golfers. The octet of defenders, led by Captain Bobby Jones, won all four of the foursome matches, and on the following day wonseven of the eight singles. It was the most decisive victory scored by the sons of Uncle Sam in the five series played for the Walker Cupsince 1922. The rout was big enough to be pathetic, but Perkins to some extent redeemed British prestige by being the runner-up to Bobby Jones in the U.S.G.A. Amateur championship at Brae Burn. There was another interesting invasion when the British Seniors came over to clash with the United States and Canadian Seniors at Rye, N.Y., in September. The United States Seniors won. Last month a team from the Canadian Women’s Senior Association went to Rye, N.Y., to meet the U.S. Seniors team. There were thirteen players on each side and the U.S. players won 35 to 4. Also it may be noted that a young Americanplayer, Stewart Sheftel, now livingin Paris, won the British Boys’ Open at Formby, while Hamilton Wright, a youngplayer from Garden City, was a semi-finalist. Taken by and large, it was a great year for Uncle Sam, whose players wonall of their own major events and, in addition, won noless than four important events on foreign soils:

IRON SHOTS IN THE MAKING (By Gene Sarazen) T has long been an axiom in golf tice at all. An iron should not be that a man who can putt is a match played with the same motion as a man for any other player; but more and cutting grass with a scythe. The pro- more the conviction is borne in upon per plan is to keep the hands and arms me that this statement is more true of well in to the body and strike from an iron shot than on the green, Bobby the inside out toward the ball, and Jones, after winning the British so follow on straight through as long Open, said that his victory abroad was as possible. Thus, at the finish of a possible only because of his having well played iron, the clubhead is up had the advantage of Tommy Arm- toward the player’s left ear, and not our’s iron shot in the south last win- travelling round about him and in to- ter. And so my advice to the aspir- ward the left leg at the finish. Do ing amateur is to practice iron shots. not try to push the clubhead out to- There are, of course, ways and ways ward the ball; allow it to swing of practicing, and practice the wrong through. Jf players would onlyal- Wayis naturally worse than no prae- low the clubhead to do a great deal .POPSPOSS4S6645S59998639355SSSSSS4SOSSOs Be (56Bt6568,S¢yf,tetyt654ifE5598ASOiaGF,AGFood 5455OO656- 4 6 PPPSP PSPPPPS SOFSOFOPPOFFOBePOOOSOOOOOOSOOO9999999999999838o¢

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less forcing toward the ball, they would be able to play muchbetter: Long-shafted irons should be avoided. The main reason forthis is that the player should stand near to the ball, with his knees bent and his body also, until his head is almost over the ball. This is quite different than a tee shot, for which many good players stand with the knees braced. Control of the ball in iron playis most essential, and this is not easy with long irons as with elubs a great deal Hotel Lenox, Buffalo, is 3 minutes from the New Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Canada shorter. It is, of course, impossible to lay down a hard and fast rule, but ANY Canadian people make their home most golfers own at least one iron in at Hotel Lenox while visiting Buffalo which they have great confidence. and Niagara Falls. They welcome this cheerful hotel with its complete service, Measured against the others, inch by attractive outside rooms and excellent food. inch, the “confident” club will nine times out of ten be the short iron. Hotel Lenox is just large enough for personal attention (250 rooms). Convenient to It seems entirely unnecessary to the shopping district, clubs and theatres. point out that it is easier to control $2.00 to $4.00 per day for single rooms; $3.00 the force of a short club than a longer to $6.00 per day for double rooms. A suite

with bath for your family, $7.00 up. s one, but so manygolfers fail to take u note of this. Because a elub is short On the Empire and Great Lakes Tours. Write it does not follow that the player can- for free road guides, maps and hotel booklet not drive the ball with it as far as with a longer elub. Indeed the reverse is often the ease.

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avoid errors. Notwithstanding every care even ourbest players will oceasion- ally slip. However it may have been in the early part of the 20th century the statement that “any fool can drive” is certainly not true in this generation. I fear our friend was an optimist. On further examination however we find anotherpossible solution of the mystie phrase. In the course of time the individual words may by some untoward chance have been transposed andif we reverse the order of the second andthird we get “any can fool drive.” This you observe is a very different proposition and one which we can thoroughly endorse, for nothing is easier than to fool your drive. Or it may have been

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Cruickshank had preceded him with a supposedly unbeatable 30-36—66. Far- rell’s great finish gave him the $5,000 prize, his total being 274 to 276 by the little Scotchman. In April, Walter Hagen invaded Engiand in quest of the British Open championship and before that event met Archie Compston in a special 72-hole match and was overwhelmed 18 down and 17 to play. Compston had a eard of 32-35—67 in the first morning and was even better in the afternoon with 36-30—66, and he had a lead of 14 holes. Compston’s incoming nine in ihe afternoon over the Moor Park course was2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3—30. Hagen shot even fours for the first six holes and lost five of them. Jumping to the National Open at Olympia Fields, we have that remarkable round of 32 by Hagen over the incoming nine on the Number4 course, in the second elimination round. Going out in a spotty 40, Hagen encountered a small cloudburst, yet in spite of this seriois handicap came home in marvelous fashion and finished with 147, only three shots behind Bobby Jones, the leader. Two months later Jones visited Flossmoor to play in the Warren Wood memorial trophyevent and electrified the gallery and his partners with a wonderful finish. Starting at the eighth hole, he scored seven successive threes, and then finished with 4, 3, 4, 4, his incoming total being 30 over a course of championship caliber. Earlier in the year, Bill Mehlhorn won the Texas Open at San Antonio by the aid of a 68 on his third round in which he scored 31-37—68, being the only player of a big field to break 70. His record mark of 31 on the first nine was five shots under par and a new record. No one can appreciate the chilling effects of these brilliant bursts of speed more than the opposing player, especially if it is in match play. Chicago golfers who were fortunate enough to witness the final for the Professional Golfers’ championship at Olympia Fields four years ago will recall that Walter Hagen got the first hole, 515 yards, with an eagle 3, and on the next hole made a forty-foot putt for a birdie 3. Walter played the first three holes 3 under par and with an approximated putt on the ninth hole was out in 32. On the incoming nine Walter shot every hole in par save for a birdie at one of them. Mehlhorn had shot 70 and was three down against Hagen’s 66! In the afternoon, over the Number3 course, Mehlhorn won the first hole for an eagle 3 and was only 2 down: It looked as if the turn in the match had come at the short third hole, 235 yards. Mehlhorn drove hole-high, 15 feet from the pin, while Hagen was trapped at the front of the green. Walter chopped out to the edge of the green, and then holed his 40-foot putt for a half in 3. A win for Mehlhornat this hole might have made a different finish, but from that point on Hagen reeled off his holes in par and won 6 to 5. Chick Evans experienced the chilling effect of one of these spurts when playing in the British Amateur championship some years ago. OC. B. Mac- Farlane, who did not rate as a star, went out in 33 against Chick and was 5 up. Chick rallied on the incoming nine and won back several holes, but the margin was too big and he fell a victim to the short round. In the National Amateur championship at Minikahda last year, Francis Ouimet and Harrison R. Johnston had the same experience in their matches against Bobby Jones, the Atlanta wizard going out in 33 against Ouimet and in 32 against Johnston in the first nine holes of their matches. Then, on the following day, Bobby went even faster against Chick Evans, reeling off the first nine holes in 31, with the following figures, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3,3. It put him 5 up. Hefinished with 36 for a total of 67 and was 7 up, eventually winning 8 and 7.

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While playing the fourteenth hole in the morning, Evans was greeted by Ouimet. “Isn’t this wonderful?” asked Evans. “T know just how youfeel,’ Ouimet replied. And there really wasn’t anythingelse to say. The moral of all these bits of golf history is that while a hard punch may not always win a fight, it has a depressing effect on the recipient:

S NEWS FROM NOVA SCOTIA Ken-Wo Country Club, Kentville, Has Record Year HE eighth annual report of Ken- which he has served us during the Wo Country Club, Kentville, past 6 years we all desire him to N.S., presented at the annual accept our best thanks,” said Mr. meeting of the Club last month at the Chesley. club house, marked the completion of The prize winners for 1928 are: the most successful year in eight years Men—The Sir Robert L. Borden Cham- of successful history. The season just pionship Cup—Winner, Mr. A. N. Parker; runner-up, Mr. G. H. Ruffee. closed has marked an increase in The H. A. Troyte-Bullock Championship membership, a strengthening of the Cup—Winner, Mr. A. N. Parker; runner-up, finances of the club and a marked im- Mr. G. H. Waterbury. provement in the club properties. The W. C. B. Harris Cup—Winner, Mr. A. N. Parker; runner-up, Mr. Jack Harris. President A. E. H. Chesley, of Kent- The Herbert Oyler Shield—Winner, Mr. ville, presided at the annual meeting Colin Munro; runner-up, Mr. Geo. E. and was re-elected president of the Graham. elub. W. C. B. Harris, of Wolfville, The J. E. Hales Cup for Eclectic Compe- tition—Winner, Mr. A. N. Parker; runner- was elected vice-president, replacing up, Mr. G. H. Ruffee. A. G. Guest, resigned. Other direct- Putting and Approaching Competition (1 ors elected from Wolfville were O. H. doz. golf balls)—Winner, Mr. Jack Harris. Foshay, George H. Waterbury; from President’s Prize for Driving Competition (steel shafted driver)—Winner, Mr. Colin Kentville, George E. Graham, Laurie Munro. Ells, George C. MeDougall. Other di- Women—The Graham Handicap Cup— rectors on the board, whose term of Winner, Mrs. A. G. Guest; runner-up, Miss office expires in 1929, are Harris H. Gwendolyn Hales. Bligh, of Kentville, H. A. Troyle-Bul- The Guest Championship—Winner, Mrs, G. H. Ruffee, Miss Edith Stairs. lock and J. E. Hales, of Wolfville. The report of the secretary-treasurer, James Brydon, showed a net revenue of over $400.00 from the Charles Dickens year’s operations. The total expenditures for the year were the greatest ate his last dinner away in any yearof the club’s history, and from home at Ye olde gross receipts were the largest of any Cock Tavern. He was year by a large margin. A feature of attached to the place as the report was the amount raised by much by its memorable the ladies of the club, being $523.32. past as its versatile menus, President Chesley in his address When in London (The Seat of the Empire) praised the work of the greenkeeper, Dineat W. A. Hanson, and the professional, G. 8S. Stickney. These competent offi- We Olde Cock Tavern cials have been re-engaged for the 22, FLEET STREET, LONDON, England Established in 1549, a good deal of the coming year. original furnishings are still preserved Mr. Chesley also congratulated the FORE—Mr. G. W. Wright, the Proprietor, especially will appreciate a visit from Canadian and U Ss. club upon having a secretary-treasur- Golfers. They will be made heartily welcome. The er with Mr. Brydon’s qualifications. best meals and wines and spirits in London are served at “Ye Olde Cock Tavern,”’ and at the most ‘Hor the efficient and tactful way in reasonable rates, 566 < + SSOSOOPOSSSPOSSSSSPSSSSSSSBye PPPSPPPSSPPPPPPPPPPPLIP PFOSSSSOSSOSOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSy’SSSSSSSOSOSSSSSSSSSOSSOSOSSS9SSS*

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The Miss Edith Stairs Driving Cup—Win- After the presentation of the prizes an ner, Mrs. G. H. Ruffee. informal social hour was spent in the elub The W. H. Eagar Approaching and Put- rooms, during which the ladies of the club ting Cup—Winner, Miss Edith Stairs. served refreshments. The Guest Family Foursome Cup—Win- The ladies of Ken-Wo also met at the club ners, Mr. and Mrs. Guest. house for the election of the lady officers of the club. The following were elected: The Mrs. J. Eliott Smith Cup, Best Ladies Ladies’ president, Miss Edith Stairs, Wolt- Ringer—Winner, Mrs. A. G. Guest. ville; ladies’ vice-president, Mrs. George E. The C.L.G.U. Spoons, Silver Division— Graham, Kentville; ladies’ secretary, Mrs. Winner, Mrs. G. H. Ruffee. D. R. Munro, Wolfville. Mrs. Graham, vice- The C.L.G.U. Spoons, Bronze Division— president, was the retiring president, having Winner, Mrs. A. G. Guest. served in the latter office during 1927-28.

GOLF BALL LEGISLATION AND THE R. & A. CAPTAINCY 5 (By the Golf Editor of the Edinburgh ‘‘Scotsman’’) r ‘HEREwill be no change in regard to the weight andsize of the golf ball in the meantime. That was the surprise announcement officially made at the R. & A. meeting last month. Expectation was that proposals for a larger and lighter ball on a formula agreed upon between the United States i and St. Andrews would be tabled, and it is understood that practically all the members of the Rules of Golf Committee are in favour of newlimitation of the ball in this direction. The present statute fixes the minimum diameter at 1.62 inches and the maximum weight at 1.62 ounces, and the newspecifica- tions said to be favoured by the Rules Committee are respectively 1.68 inches and 1.55 ounces. Mr. Angus Hambro, the chairman of the Rules Committee and the new captain of the R. and A., announced, however, that at the request of the American authorities they had decided meantime to postpone consideration of the question pending the completion of important experiments in the States. Meantime our Dominions overseas were being consulted on the question. He also intimated that the Rules Committee did not feel justified meantime in } sanctioning the use of steel clubs in this country. . Mr. Angus Hambro, who officially drove himself into the captaincy of the \ Royal and Ancient Club, has long been well knownas a player. He has rep- \] resented England on the links, has been a semi-finalist in the Amateur Cham- pionship, and was asked to join the first British Walker Cup team. Not all the holders of the high office in the game to which he succeeded last month can bring his competitive skill to it. Time was when the captain had to play himself into office competitively, and the annual first tee ceremony of the headquarters club is an interesting survival of those early days. The member who did the lowest round won the Silver Club and automatically became captain for the year. That was the heroic way, but it had obvious disadvantages. It barred many worthy in every way of the honour, save that they could not play well enough. In course of time the office was filled by election. The old captains nom- inate a member, who at the September meeting still technically wins the Silver Club, though he does it with but one stroke—the convenient tee stroke. When the change in the constitution was made it was agreed that no member should compete with the captain-elect for the trophy. Mr. Hambro’s drive was a link with a long time ago. The Silver Club was first played for in 1754, and was won by William Landale, Esq., a mer- chant of St. Andrews. The trophy is, of course, greatly treasured, and the members are required to kiss it at the annual diner on the night of the Autumn Medal day. It is not easy to visualize a medal round in those spacious

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days with the stranger implements of the time and the course in its original form and condition. Nothing seems odder to the present-day golfer’s mind than the earliest ball with which the game was played. That was the “feathery”—a ball made of pieces of leather sewn together and stuffed with feathers until it was extraordinarily hard. That was the type of ball in use from time immemorial down to the middle of the last century, when the gutta-percha ball camein. : Allan Robertson, of St. Andrews, was a famous maker of the feather ball, for which he charged £1 per dozen, and his feelings when the “gutty” rival made its appearance can well be imagined. He sawhis livelihood threatened, the doom of his trade. He stood out against the new medium, but in the end gave way when he saw that not only was the “gutty” bound to supplant the older ball, but that it was a better business proposition for himself. He could make three “gutties” in less time than it took to produce one “feathery.” But by 1902 the “gutty”, too, was passing out. The rubber-core, which is the subject of current controversy in its up-to-date form had bythen come to stay.

ANY GIRL CAN BE A GOLFER Expert Advice for Aspiring Amateurs (By Glenna Collett) ol) O you think,” asked the mother of a healthy fourteen yearold girl after one of the recent tournaments, “that my daughter could be developed into a first-class golfer?” TT That question has been put to me hundreds of times by parents and my

reply is invariable. “Certainly. Why not?” : N There is no trick to golf. Every aspiring player has her individual prob- | lem just as the swimmers, tennis players and dancers are confronted with | : obstacles along different lines of nerve control and body coordination. With- in limitations, golf is a game of skill with emphasis on concentration, control and confidence—andplenty of hard work. Such girls as Joyee Wethered, Mirian Burns Horn and Virginia Van Wie just didn’t step out on the links, pick out a elub, and suddenly discover themselves splendid golfers. Many, manyhours of solitary practise and intelligent application were applied to their game before they reached the top. The short history of woman’s golf is alreadyfilled with refreshing examples of girls who started with some physical handicap and developed into players of the first magnitude. Some of the greatest players only reached the heights by utilizing to the utmost their natural ability. There was Joyce Wethered, the greatest woman golfer in the world up to the time of her recent retirement. Determinedto excel in golf, Miss Wethered studied and developed her game along sound lines: She observed that women fall down on backspins, mashie shots, pitches to the green and seldom make crashing second shots to the green. And they are weakest of all, in the short pitch when there is no opportunity for a run. Knowing these things, Miss Joyce Wethered concentrated on driving and putting. She strengthened her ability on driving—preferably straight than long—strong iron shots, and the orthodox two putts to the green. How many young girls have put as muchintelligent concentration on their gameas this English girl has done? Not many. It is extremely seldom that Miss Wethered is ever found off the centre of the course, and to find herfall in a sand trap is a signal for all photographers to snap something unusual. What this great English player has accomplished in the realm of woman’s golf is not beyond the possible goal of any sport-loving American girl of four-

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teen or fifteen aided by competent instruction and determined to concentrate on her game for several years. Manyyoung girls are developing into excellent players. Theyare spring- ing up all over the country, and thoughin their ’teens, are already making threatening gestures toward coveted national titles. One of the sensations of the present season is Miss Virginia Van Wie, of Chicago. Only nineteen years old, Miss Van Wie has either wonor been runner-upin all the big winter tourn- j aments, forcing manyof the best womengolfers to the sidelines. Miss Virginia Van Wie found no royal roadto the heights. As a young girl, she was forced to remain away from school because of ill health. The ly doctors advised outdoor exercises and she was urged to take up golf. Watch- ing this healthygirl drive her ball straight and far down the fairway for two i hundred yards, it strains the imagination to tryto picture her as a frail young | girl. a | For the sake of health and happiness, every girl should have an outdoor hobbysuchas golf. In looking overthefield of sport activity for women, golf

} is singularly fitted to meet the needs of girls. The basis of the game is walk- ing and as you probably know, walkingis the best possible exercise for women. Golf happily combines the muscular activities of other sports and has no re- strictions on age, build or stamina. Tennis becomes too violent for some women and others have a dislike for swimming. There is no reason why any girl who desires to play should hold back because she is afraid of not playing a satisfactory game. Golf is no exception to the rule that to be perfect one must practise and do so with purpose and objective. Somegirls have moreof a knack for golf than others but rest assured there are no “born golfers.” Those who have made headway went through the process of seeking and finding and forged ahead after deep digging on many fairways. The object of continued practice is to acquire a swing that possesses rhythm and timing, a swing that by repetition becomes groovedin one path, a swing that requires no conscious thought to execute. In this way the aspiring golfer finds the swing best suited for herself. Golf is a highly individualistic game and it is hard for the beginner to get out and practise alone. To get the best results, this solitary practise is necessary although it doesn’t add to the pleasure of the exercise. Competent instructors advise the aspiring player not to practise one shot or one idea to the extinction of all others, but to keep in mind the thing more necessary in golf than in any other sport—rhythm and control and balance, these are important. It is safe to say that golf is the most intricate, freakish and nerve-straining of all games—and at times the most discouraging. Skill can be maintained only by continued practise play—the muscles forget as easily as the mind. Practice is so important for the aspiring player who has the game well in mind but not well in hand. So the art of self-control is vital. Permitting your feelings to get the better of you is bound to bring about disaster. When I played Miss Joyce Wethered for the British Woman’s championship at Troon, Scotland, in 1925, I was impressed moreforcibly by her remarkable temperament underfire than by her invincible playing. There is a story told about Miss Wethered that illustrates my point: While playing in a tournament outside London, she concentrated on making a three foot putt. Just as she was about to tap the ball a railroad train thunderedby, not more than a hundred yards away. Miss Wethered sank the putt and whenshestraightened up one of her companions, disturbed by the rattle and roar of the locomotive, expressed wonder that she had not been upset by the train and ears. “What train?” asked Miss Wethered. SOSSSSSSSSSSG99SOOPOSOSSOGOON BYE100090900000099990000009900500

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Even the roaring passing of an engine failed to register on her conscious- ness. In the match with Miss Wethered, I observed that she was blissfully un- aware of the huge gallery, that she instinctively knewthe right shot for the right situation and played without hesitation or doubt. She had self-control, confidence and concentration. “This confidence in oneself,” says a famous golfer, “which is necessary to win in sports, amounts to conceit. You must not onlybelieve in yourself, but you must convey that impression to your opponent.” The cultivation of this attitude is the objective of every aspiring golfer. Call it restraint, poise, anything, but try and get it. Golf is essentially a game whichis largely determined by the individual make-up of the player, such as temperament, build, weight, height and natural ability. Therefore, it is futile to lay down any cut and dried rules on whicha style should be patterned. The beginner should have six clubs. A driver, a brassie or a spoon, a mid- iron, a mashie, a mashie-niblick, and a putter. It is better for a beginner to dispense with the driver and substitute the brassie or spoon. Both are constructed with better facilities for giving the ball the necessaryrise that keeps it out of trouble. The wonderment and untold joy that is the reward of the aspiring player as the use of clubs unfolds cannot be described by me. Each golfer finds it out for herself. Select the clubs, enjoy the job, and then give yourselection a chance to make good. The aspiring golfer should mix concentrated practise with instruction under a tried professional to gain real proficiency. Having learned the rudi- ments, such as grip, stance, pivot and the general handling of the club, keep in mindthat the unhurried, even swing, though with no senseof laziness, is the keynote to proper timing and balance. A good foundation must be laid before any real development or advance- ment in the game is possible. All this is a contradiction to the fact that many golfers, although of championship calibre, play the game in a most unorthodox form. But the essentials are always there—a straight left arm on upward swing, firm wrist at the moment of impact and a steady eye on theball. There is an erroneous impression still lingering in the minds of the un- initiated that only big, strong girls can excel in golf. We have only to look over thelists of well-knownplayers to find all sizes and shapes among golfers of the first rank. There are better iron players among women golfers to-day than ever before. Women seem to be coming into their own in this part of the game where man has been able to play all around them. In advising the young golfer, I cannot overstress the value of irons. They must be used with ease, confidence and comfort. Each has a purpose and a distance and should be utilized accordingly. Any normal girl, taking up the sport when young and plastic, should become adept. Like everything else, it all depends on how much you put into it. Fine golfers, or the stars in anyline of sport, are those so familiar with the instruments of their game that they are always at ease under competition. This “feel” for clubs should be developedas early as possible. Skill and other necessary factors can be developed as the golfer goes along. You will find an awkwardgirl developing into something like grace and symmetry byearly attention and inculeated love of the game: Once the young girl is imbued with the spirit it is merely a matter of time and ability and circumstance before she comes to the top. I have always believed that the ease and grace and muscle co-ordination associated with the so-called “natural athlete” is nothing moreor less than a steady development since early childhood.—MeCalls Mag- azine. «SOOSSOSSSOBASSSSSSSSSE 6664C66666666666SSS999939S8SS55 Bh €cccccscscssssssssssssssesssse

POSSOSSPSOSOSSSOSSOSOSSSOSOSSBGSoccscscscsssss319999999999900 IN AND ROUND THE CLUB HOUSE Interesting Happenings on the Courses of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Overseas Dominions LAYING the finest golf in his in Canada as no expense is_ being colorful career, Dr. O. F. Will- spared in its construction: In addi- ing, the Portland (Oregon) den- tion to the golf course three large fish tist, won the Oregon Open Champion- ponds are being constructed. The ship last month with the fine ecard of work is being supervised by Mr. F. 295, one shot in front of Johnny Far- G. Hebert, of Toronto, who has had a rell, the U.S. Open Champion. Being large number of men on the job the an amateur the doc- past few months. *& * *

tor could not share in the $5,000 pot, Stewart Scheftel, which was divided THE STANCE | of the United States as follows: Farrell The stance in golf is || and Le Tourquet, $1,500, Abe Espinosa even of yreater importance France, who this $900, John Golden than the Bre aceees | year won the English $446, Tom Armour ae E ag eae eae | boys’ golf champion- $466, Billie Burke have learned from experi- ship at Formby by $466, and Walter ence that a player is less | defeating Archibald Hagen $275, with likely to find trouble with Dobbie, of Inverness, the shot.if he stands with several other players in the thirty-six hole his feet well apart. Just securing smaller howfar the feet should be final, by 6 and 5, is amounts. apart depends a great deal one of several of his +e oe on the size and build of the compatriots who be- Willie Hunter pre- golfer. There can be no lieve that on serious set standard forall players dicts that nothing to follow. The tall man occasions the number less than 296 will could hardly follow a rule of clubs proper to be capture the big $10,- set down for the short man, carried is limited 000 Open Tourna- but I would suggest that only by the patience ment next January every player suit himself in this respect, and will offer and physical strength at the Riviera Coun- a general rule to go by. of the caddie em- try Club, Los An- Spread the feet far enough ployed. It is said peles: "ce. so that you feel securely that he considers a Mr, John Morrison, planted. There would be, pack of twenty just of course, such a thing as a well known Eng- overdoing it, but there is sufficient for prac- lish authority, pre- little danger of spreading tical purposes. dicts that in 5 years them too far. The time to *** stop is when they feel un- time Germany will The Southern Cali- comfortable and you ean be a second America, feel yourself settling too fornia Open golf as regards golf, with close to the ground. championship played Walter Hagens and —Walter Hagen. last month over the - Bobby Joneses to Sunset Fields public astonish the world. course, Los Angeles, ** * was won for the Mr. W. W. Near, the well known second consecutive year by Willie Toronto capitalist, is building a Hunter, professional at the Montebello splendid private golf course on his publie course, former British Amateur estate near Acton. Nine greens have Champion. already been laid out and the fair- Hunter and Fred Morrison, profes- ways seeded with blue grass, red top sional at Midwick Country Club, tied and jesque which is a “running” for first place with 294 strokes each grass. The greens are all planted with for the 36 holes. In the play-off Hun-

bent sloten. The hazards will be ter won by a two-stroke margin. > put in next spring and also the tees. * * * When completed the course will The Ladies’ Section of the Thistle- be probably the finest private one down Golf and Country Club, Toron-

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to, held their annual meeting at the King Edward Hotel on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 8th. The events of the past season were reviewed, and reports of the various committees read. The retiring president, Mrs. J. A. Felker, presided, and Mrs. F. J. Me- Cullough officiated as tea hostess. The following members wereelected as the Executive Committee for the season of 1929: President, Mrs. R. S. Cummings; Secre- tary, Mrs. W. A. Orr; Captain, Mrs. W. R. McCallum; Vice-Captain, Mrs. S. White; Committee, Mrs. GC. W. Jarvis, Mrs. J. D. Craig, Mrs. Alex Blyth; Tea Hostess, Mrs. F. J. McCullough; Press Representatiive, Mrs. A. Victor Piddington.

nes— ccurred recently in ee hoof beats among the pi The death o R g tonic balsam laden air—brisk mornin Bowles, beloved in the Winnipeg of Mrs. rides—a glorious winter interlude York. , manufac- mid-south—overnight from New wife of Mr. Harvey Bowles toring Golf par excellence—Wonderful mo Pine- turers agent of that city representing with interesting objectives including Accommoda- veral prominent British golf and hurst, Aiken and Asheville. se tions as you like to find them. s. The interment took other firm For descriptive folder, rates place in Toronto. Golfing and other and reservations, ,address a will sin- friends throughout Canad Fred L. Miner, Manager cerely sympathize with the bereaved husband in which sentiment the SIEDEEEIELD INN Editor, an old friend of the family, SEDCEFIELD..GREENSBORO NC

desires to be associated. on Christmas Day which would Redvers Mackenzie, who is at pres- game ord for here. I played up till ent in New York refereeing profes- be a rec December, 1923, but our hopes | sional hockey matches, it is under- 23rd | s then were dashed on { stood will not return to the Marl- for Christma stmas Eve, when we had a borough Golf Club, Montreal, next the Chri eadful orm.” season. For the past five years he has dr st Dd # cd been the popular professional at this club. oe as Smith (watching a friend’s jubila- hole Jim Pringle, a very fine golfer who tion): “He must have done the has been professional with the Mini- in one.” kahda Club, Minneapolis, the past two “Tones: “No, he has got a newcig- years, is spending the winterat Win- arette lighter, and I think he’s just nipeg. aia ere got a light.”

A Winnipeg correspondent writes Golf Monthly, Edinburgh: under date of December 5th: “‘T phelieve that there is a great future for “We have been enjoying the most any professional who has the right temper- ires extraordinary weather these days. ament in South America. The Buenos A ire’s place, and the no snowso far. The Golf Club is a milliona There has been l professionals there who are under n on severa cold zero weather only came dow Juradoall do well. It is an expensive place us on Sundayandit is still with us. to live, but I know of one Scotch pro who We have been enabled to enjoy golf- went out and he has already built a house to himself. The announcement that the ing in almost ideal conditions. The , Scottish bank clerk, Sparkie Cruickshank eround never got hardtill this week. has become professional to the Olivos Golf We are looking forward to moreofit Club, Buenos Aires, rather confirms my yet. Personally I am hoping to get a opinion that the there is a big future for the

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Beach, Cypress Point and other Monterey Peninsula courses. She admitted that she had formed a deep attachment for the Del Monte sector.’’ Rial ey ee

THE GOLF ONE-DER! S CARLTON E Orlando Bray across the way L Is just a duffer so they say, O P Pasi Who works within our local bank Andboasts but ordinary rank. MONTREAL Andyet thro’ one eccentrie shot He’s just received a house and lot. A motor too of class supreme The Centre of Social Has since arrived upon the scene. Life at all Times. Within the house, I understand, Every convenienceand all of There proudly rests a baby grand, the luxuries demanded by A bedroom suite, an easy chair, the discriminating public. A kitchen stove and kitchen ware. On reading desk is plainly seen

For reservations and further *The golfer’s favourite magazine, information apply to While on a stand they fondly show A most expensive radio. Emile C. Desbaillets Manager The cellar bulges, so I’m told With almost all that it can hold, Telegraphic and Cable Address *“*Rizcarlton’” With cases that are piled sky high Containine gingerale that’s dry,

While boxes of new golf balls rest right man out in the great Republic, for With clubs andbagsall of the best, Cruickshank has been in the Argentine for Andas for cigarettes—O, Lor’!! eight years, so that he must have had a well-paid position in the bank. Salaries They’re simply heaped uponthe floor. are higher in the Argentine banks than the home banks. Cruickshank is a careful liv- We marvelled long at Fate’s decree ing fellow, and is a creditable recruit to That brought this chap such luxury, professional ranks,’’ And changed him from an “also ran” ** % To such a proud, important man. Hagen has cancelled his tour of What act had he performed to gain Australia, satisfactory arrangements Such trophies rare and endless fame? not having been come to. “Golf At Jast we learned howit was done: Monthly” says: He'd made, forsooth, a hole in one! ‘Hagen was wise not to take the risk, —W. Hastings Webling. for golf in Australia does not draw the populace like cricket, and there are golden * Title on application—Ed. Can- plums to be gathered in the show business adian Golfer. in Canada and the States, with Florida as * %% the wintering place. NewYork, December 12th: Professional golfers took to an indoor A special despatch to the Canadian course and twenty-eight of them played in Golfer from Del Monte, Cal., Dee. 12: a Metropolitan Professional Golfers’ Asso- ‘*Miss Glenna Collett, U.S. National ciation tourney over two miniature links Women’s Golf Champion, plans to return that measured, respectively, 443 feet and to California next year and may make this 413 feet. Over these two eighteen-hole lay- her permanent home. This was Miss Col- outs of the Anyweather Golf Course at 315 lett’s parting word whenshe left Del Monte Fourth Avenue, the competition was as this week for Pinehurst, N.C., via Santa close as those that have been held during Barbara, Pasadena and other Southern the summer months over links that measure California points. The national champion 6,000 yards or more. Phil Turnesa, of spent a delightful month golfing on Pebble Elmsford, finally emerged the winner, but POODSSttSSSoe PPPOSSOSSSOP‘ POOOSSSS. Be10909000a>99999. oo 0000a> 99. 0H 659999S9SS95699S$99$393939999993389=a" Be foSoS5SS$544>SaS54SS54Ss54SS5S5S4><545SSSoS54SS5SS

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only after a thirty-six hole play-off. Turnesa shot thirty-six holes in 75, only to find himself tied by Jim Dante, of Braidburn. The two then went over the tiny course, with its minute bunkers, ponds, and streams, WEST INDIES and were even once more with 39 each. But << playing the second course, Turnesa_ tri- 14-Day Cruises --- as low as $140 , umphed with a 37 to Dante’s 40. a By the ocean cruising liner

“ “Which hole are we playing, cad- S.S. ‘ARAGUAYA” die?” “Well, sir, you drove off at the Special Christmas Cruise sails Dec. 22, visiting Havana for Christmas; Nassau, fifth, sliced across the eighth on to Bahamas; and Bermuda for New Year's. Six later cruises visit Havana, Santiago de the fairway of the fifteenth, then you Cuba; Kingston, Jamaica; Port au Prince, pulled over here on to the seventh. [ Haiti; Nassau, Bahamas. think you’d better wait and see where this one goes.” BERMUDA Ce ae WEEKLY SERVICE BY LUXURIOUS A despatch from Santa Barbara, Cal., Nov. 30th: S59. AVON” ‘*Johnny Farrell defeated Walter Hagen 1 up, and Miss Virginia Van Wie defeated The 2-day voyage from New York by this Miss Glenna Collett by the same score in spacious 19,000-ton liner is a delightful part an eighteen-hole match, to-day at the of your visit to the semi-tropical, mid-ocean Lacumbre Golf and Country Club. islands. ‘*«Parrell and Miss Van Wie were part- Ask your tourist agent for illustrated booklets giving full information, or apply to ners and they won the joint match by two points, Farrell playing Hagen for a point a THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET CO. hole and Miss Van Wie having a similar 26 BROADWAY, NEW YORK match with Miss Collett, who beat her in the final of this year’s national champion-

ship. ‘‘The Lacumbre course has been selected a lot of leverage. When weget older for next year’s championship of the Profes- a long swing helps just as much and sional Golfers’? Association. To-day’s match was something in the nature of a trial of if it is perfectly timed one will get the course. Farrell had a card of 74. Hagen results greater than expected. picked up on one hole and had an approx- Johnny Farrell, U.S. Open Cham- imate 76. The women also drove from the pion. epg back tees. Miss Van Wie had a medal score of 87 and Miss Collett had an 88.’’ Despatch from Hollywood, Cal., Dec. 10th: A field that included the holders of the Golfers who stick their arms out in British Open and American Open golf front removing the elbows from the championships and other leading profes- body will have cause to complain of sionals competed in a one-day sweepstakes poor drives. One cannot hope to hit competition held at the Riyiera Country a ball right with the arms extended Club to-day by the Southern California P. G. A. But the best score was returned by at full length. If the golfer will re- a local amateur, Fay Coleman, whose card member this piece of advice he will was 74. Coleman, holder of the Southern soon learn what a compact swing California amateur championship, had 37 means. Over-swinging is a fault and for each nine. Play was over the 7,200 yard course which will be used for the Los a bad one, but hitting the ball with a Angeles $10,000 Open next month. The half swing is even worse. The surest long course was unusually difficult to-day sign of old age creeping upon a person because it was wet. Rain fell all afternoon, is when one begins to shorten his and caused many contestants, among them Walter Hagen, to pick up. Harold Beer, swing. of Los Angeles, led the pros with a score I am small, I weighed but 116 of 75. Harry Cooper, of Buffalo, with pounds when I won the Open Cham- 77—2—75, and Frank Nunnally, of Sunta pionship last year, and like every Springs, Cal., with 79—4—75, tied for the money in a blind bogie handicap. Johnny small man I need a long full swing to Farrell, U.S. National Open champion, had get distance. Every small man needs a 79. SSSSSSSSSSSS9SSSSSSSOSSSOSSOSSS BE aPOSSSOPOSOPSPFOSPCP4,4, SP4,4P,6A,S6,4P%S)D" aa POSSSSOSOSS SSSOSOPSSSOOSOOOOSSSe:SOSOPOSOSOPOPSOSSSOOSOSOSS rr

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