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Canadian Golfer, October, 1930 ODia ReE s eee aeiiede as ran Pe ANA Features in This Number Complimentary Banquet to Mr. G. S. Lyon (Pages 442 and 488-489) The Totem Pole Championship (Pages 449-453) The Championship of the Southpaws (Pages 454-455) Canadian Ladies’ Open Championship (Pages 491-495) Canadian Ladies’ Close Championship (Pages 505-509) Canadian Senior Women’s Championship (Pages 500-503) October, 1930 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 16, No. 6 AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP At BURNHAM, THE WINNER The Finalists The Semi-Finalists played throughout with the oO The Best Ball in the World PRICE 75c EACH THE SECOND BEST BALL a : INTHE WORLD IS THE MuWNM ks. price §0@ EACH THE SILVERTOWN COMPANY OF CANADA SOLE CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS. Sales Representatives: ERNEST A. PURKIS LIMITED 53 ronge Street, TORONTO, Ont, October, 1930 CANADIAN GOLFER 441 MOTORISTS be CAREFUL, The season for wet, slippery pavements is here and demands that special care be exercised byall drivers of motor vehicles. DRIVE CAREFULLY ... andreadcarefully every word ofthis advertisement UE Highway Safety Committee has READ CAREFULLY been urging motorists during the year to exercise CARE, COURTESY and Driving without holding a COMMON SENSEin the operation chauffeur’s or operator’s license. ot their vehicles. The Committee appre- Reckless or negligent driving or ex eiates the whole-hearted support its efforts ceeding the allowable speed limits have received from every source. We have if any injury to persons or property had the best of co-operation from the Ad- oceurs, visory Committee, which is composed of Driving, or being in charge of a some of the leading citizens of the motor vehicle, while intoxicated, or Province, from the press, from motorists any other criminal offence involving and from pedestrians and, as a result, the use of a motor vehicle. driving conditions have improved. Let us continue to be traffie conscious and at all Evading responsibility following an accident. times CAREFUL and COURTEOUS when driving. Operating a motor vehicle in a race or on a bet or wager. Severe penalties are provided in Chauffeurs, operators and owners of motor vehicles are warned that the our motor vehicle laws for those provisions of this law must be applied in who are careless or inconsiderate of every case, the rights of other users of the ACCIDENT REPORTING highway. The law now requires every person directly or indireetly involved in a motor The Financial Responsibility Law which vehicle accident, if the accident results in became effective on September Ist pro- any personal injuries or property damage vides that the driver’s license and all apparently exceeding fifty dollars, to re motor vehicle permits of a person con- port such aceident to the nearest police victed of any one of the following offences officer. A penalty is provided for failure shall be suspended until proof of financial to so report. responsibility in the form of a certificate Remember your Personal Responsibility of an insurance company, a bond or whenever driving a motor vehicle or you securities is filed with the Registrar of may be required to prove your Financial Motor Vehicles, Responsibility. Highway Safety Committee The HON. GEO. 8. HENRY, Chairman Secure a copy of the Highway Traffie Act. Write:—Motor Vehicles Branch, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. 1388 442 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 16, No. S R E e o S E P W ‘THE BEST BELOVED GOLFER IN CANADA”’ Mr. George S. Lyon, who was banqueted by golfing admirers October 17th at the Lambton Golt and Country Club. Hight times Amateur Champion of Canada, ten times Senior Champion of Canada and three times Individual Senior Champion of hoth the United States and Canada (holding both these titles this year). Mr. Lyon is acknowledged today as the world’s greatest veteran golfer. SSSSSSSSSSLISLISL CANADIAN GOLFER thes a PI SSSSILIS Vol. 16. BRANTFORD, OCTOBER, 1930 No. 6 CANADIAN GOLFER Oificial Organ Royal Canadian Golf Association; Official Organ Ladies’ Canadian Golf Union; Official Organ Rules of Golf Committee. Published Monthly. Ralph H. Reville, Managing Editor. Merritt Stuart, Business Manager. W. Hastings Webling, Associate Editor. President, The Royal Canadian Golf Association, Mr. Alfred Collyer, S19 Tramways Building, Montreal; Secretary, Mr. B. L. Anderson, 510 General Assurance Building, 57 Bay St., Toronto. Hon. Secretary- Treasurer Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union, Mrs. M. K. Rowe, 42 Clarendon Avenue, Toronto. Subscription Pree, Four Dollars a Year Entered at Post Office as Second Cl Matter Editorial and» «Business Office, Brantford, Canada Toront Olft Oueen City Chambers 32 Church Street, Hairy E. Smallpeice, J.P., Representative. Printed by Davis-Lisson, Lim ted, Hamilton, Canada ‘Bob” Jones So the impossible, but expected, has happened and “Greatest Golfer “Bobbie”, or as they prefer to call him in his own home, of All Time.” “Bob” Jones, has been crowned the four-fold champion of volt ancl Lloyds has lost its 50 tO ] waver that he could not in ene season annex the British Open and Amateur and the U. S. Open and Amateur Championships, something that has never been done before and never will be again, as the Georgian super-golfer has stated, that it is not his mtention next year or in the future to compete in all these four world-events again and no one but a Jones could ever hope to duphieate the feat Ife has performed a golfing grand slam and can well afford to rest on his incompar able laurels. Until the past two years or so, Vardon was generally acclaimed “the vreatest golfer of all time” but Bobby now by a wide margin must be given this title and honour. We is in a class by himself, He is perched on an unassail able pinnacle—on the Mt. Everett of golfdom. Here is his unbeatable reeord i major events: Won the British Amateur once; won the U.S. Amateur five times; won the British Open three times: won the U.S. Open four times. Total 13. Who says 13 js an unlucky number? Certainly not Bob Jones, the un- disputed emperor of golf. The showing of the two Canadians, Ross Somerville, of the London Ilunt, and Fred Hoblitzel, of the Lambton Golf and Country Club, Toronto, in the championship was a most commendable and encouraging one. To qualify in such a glittering field of all the leading players of America was in itself a syeat performance, ranking them as two of the best amateurs on the Continent It was “tuff” luck as a result of the draw, to have to meet the first day at 443 444 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 16, No. 6 match play, one after another, the champion of champions. But for this fact they might easily have gone far in the championship. Hats off to “Sandy and Hobby”. They hoisted high the Canadian golfing flag on the testing course of the Merion Cricket Club last month: Encourage It is very gratifying to note that in the West as well as in the Youth to East young boys andgirls are playing a game which bodes well Play the for the future of golf in Canada. Fifteen-year-old Bobbie Reith, Game. of Winnipeg, won the Boys’ Championship of Manitoba after re- turning a 76 in the qualifying round and a 76 is fine golf for a matured and experienced player. In the Girls’ Championship of Manitoba a 14-year-old lass, Verna Henning, of Winnipeg, was runner-up to the winner, Francis Fletcher, some three years her senior. Then in the championship of the Kildonan Municipal Club, Winnipeg, 15-year-old Joedy Palmer won from a large field of adult golfers. The hope of Canadian golf is in the young play- ers. The United States years ago recognized that the youth of the country should be given every encouragement to perfect their game and as a result to-day the U.S. reigns supreme on the Jinks. In Canada the same tactics must be pursued if this country is ever to produce a player of International stand- ing. Byall means encourage in every way the boy andgirl golfers of Canada and the result may yet be a Canadian “Bobbie Jones” or a “Diana Fishwick.” Clubs Are The drought which prevailed the past season over a great Facing a portion of Ontario took not alone a heavy toll of the Serious Financial agricultural interests but of the golf clubs, now numbered Outlay. by the hundred in the Province. Greenkeepers are only nowin a position to check up the damage sustained which will unquestionably run imto tens of thousands of dollars. It was possible to save the greens which are now almost univers- ally equipped with water sprinkler systems, but the fairways have suffered very seriously indeed and it is going to be a hard matter to bring manyof them back to first-class condition and at the cost of much money. As a result of this season’s great drought, many of the larger and richer clubs have decided next springto instal sprinklers throughout the course. In fact, one or two have alreadystarted on this work. The cost is quite large but there is no question that in the long run dollars ad galore will be saved in upkeep by the watering of fairways. Roughly speaking an expenditure of $10,000 to $15,000 will be required to water an 18-hole course. Conditions vary but experts figure that to do a good job this amount of money will be necessary. The Merion Cricket Club course, where the United States Amateur Championship was held recently, has water laid-on throughout its two 18- hole courses and the fairways were in superb condition for the big champion- ship—perfect ribbons of green.
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