Golf with Which Is Incorporated "Golfing," Established 1894

GOLF WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING," ESTABLISHED 1894

VOL. XXIV JUNE, 1909 NO- 6 A ROUND OF GOLF With Seymour Dunn Professional to the Lake Placid Golf Club PART IV Having played our approach to the A ball that is played properly is sloping green with allowance for the not so easily thrown off its line, as a wind, and plenty of height to the great many would think. No doubt ball to give the wind a fair chance many putts are turned oft the line to get hold of it, and the right dis- by a worm-cast, or other agent; yet tance of carry, we ought to find our the majority of putts missed are en- ball on the green, and we will hope tirely due to a faulty method of a little below the hole; so we will putting. If your putt does not go again take pleasure in leaving the down, then you should at once en- sand hazard where it is and proceed deavor to find out what was at fault. to putting, and on our way discuss To look upon a player's ability to putting in general. putt well one day and badly another It has been said putting cannot lie as being a mystery, it is only a taught. I am sorry for those who mystery to those who give no thought think so. Another says, "no theories to the fundamental principles of for me; putting is an inspiration— putting. In his own game he prob- sometimes you can putt, sometimes ably only takes a "dab" at the hole, you cannot." They should say some- as it is commonly termed, which is times you violate the fundamental nothing but a careless and frequently principles of putting, and sometimes fruitless method of putting. In fact, you do not. it cannot even be called a method. It is only natural if the fundamental There is no method about it, it is principles of putting are executed cor- simply a waste of energy—lost oppor- rectly, and the ball is not interrupted tunity. in its course, it must naturally go Of course, in regard to a player's into the hole. ability to putt well one day and badly Whenever you miss a putt do not another, 1 except such things as always attribute it to a fault of the physical conditions, it being my sole green. object to deal with the actual work.

Then there are players who go about their putting in a style, to say the least, extraordinary. Some in fact are positively ludicrous; yet in their own peculiar manner they con- sciously or unconsciously execute the fundamental principles of putting with such exactness that it is quite astonishing to many, and even to some a complete mystery, to under- stand how they attain such good results. This simply proves what I say: that the style or manner in which the fundamental principles of putting are executed does not matter a row of pins, so long as the principles of 1 Hitting are not violated. In what I have to say on putting 1 will go a little further than merely giving the fundamental principles involved, as putting is a subject of the greatest importance, and I will illus-

No. 1. trate several methods. It is well known that the eye is af- We will recall to mind the basis fected by the condition of the play- or fundamental principle upon which er's health, and a slight attack of all golfing swings should be based viz.: biliousness is sufficient to upset the ac- the pendulum-like action with station- curacy of a player's optics and put ary axis. In the case of putting, how- good putting out of the question. ever, the player's head is not always Putting requires a great deal of the axis, but generally the right wrist, practice. Method you must also have, though the left wrist, or between the and that method must lie a correct two, or either elbow or either one. There are man)' methods, but shoulder, can be made the axis. It they must be performed in such man- matters not which. Each individual ner so as imt to violate any of the has a preference. Each player must fundamental principles of putting. find out for himself where he can It is not uncommon to hear the ex- control the pendulum action best, ami pression: "A good eye is every- adopt the most suitable ; but the point thing in putting." Certainly a good is that something must be recognised eye you must have, but it most cer- as the axis, and that axis should on tainly is not everything; a player with no account he allowed to more a a good eye cannot swing the putter hair's breadth until after the ball is any old way and hole putts with his struck and even then there is no rea- good eye. son for it to move. A ROUND OF GOLF WITH SEYMOUR DUNN 3-7

It is well to have two methods of No. 2. Nit the ball absolutely true putting, one for the long putts—in in the center of balance of the putter's which case the player's head is gener- face. ally the axis—and for short putts it No. }. To swing the putter head is undoubtedly KM to adopt a method in line with the putt. whereby the wrists arc the axis. No. 4. To give the putter head Now if the wri.M (or wrists) are sufficient speed to impart the neces- to be adopted as the axis for the sary run to the hall to comfortably short putts, to keep the axis absolute- reach the hole. ly steady throughout the stroke, This last item you will master only neither the player's head, arms, nor by constant practice, so I need not body should be allowed to move. < >f refer to it again. We will deal with course, in the case of long running- tlie other subjects separately and first up putts, where it is necessary to put take Xo. 1. more power into the stroke by swing- No. i- To have the face of the ing the arms, it would (generally putter facing absolutely true at right speaking) he best if the player's head angles to the line of the putt. be made the axis, and if it is kept Here is a subject of the greatest as steady as it should he it will control importance; and in the first case you the movements of the arms, body, etc. will not he able to see the true line For short putts we do not require of the putt if your eyes are in the such extra power, and we arc better without it when it is not needed, as the less we have to control the better we are likely to control it. For the present we will deal with short putts, and my reader would do well to look up the April, 1908, issue of this magazine, and study the illustrations and excellent article on putting by David Hunter; also look- up Jack White's illustrations in "The Art of I'utting." Better examples of putting could not he cited; hut before we deal with method. I wish to analyze the fundamental principles which govern putting, that we may have a sound knowledge to work upon. Briefly, tin- main requisites in hol- ing a putt (if the putt is to be a perfectly straight one ) are : No. I. To have the face of the club facing absolutely true at right angles to the line of the putt. 328 A ROUND OF GOLF WITH SEYMOUR DUNN

least inclined to a pose horizontal to It is also an important point to have each other. the eyes not only parallel with the line If you turn your head full round, of the putt, hut directly above the facing the hole with your eyes in a line. (See illustration No. 3.) See pose horizontal to each other, you will also Jack White in "The Art of get two lines, one so interfering with Putting," pages 18-25. the other that no distinct line will he In rifle shooting, to get the rifle visible. (See illustration Xo. i.) sights in line with the object to be The eyes should lie in line with the hit, you must get your eye in line with line of the putt. ( See illustration Xo. the rirle sights. It is impossible to 2.) See also the pose of Jack White's get both eyes in line with the sights, head on pages I8-JI-_>5 and 2~. in so in that case one eye alone is used. "The Art of Putting." However, as we are able to get both This is the only possible method of eyes in line with the line of the putt, getting the true line of the putt, and owing to the fact that in putting we consequently the only satisfactory have only the lateral directions of the pose in which to have the eyes to he line of the putt to consider, we will ahle to see distinctly whether the keep both eyes open, but they should club head is at right angles to the be in line with the line of the putt, line of the putt or not. and this point I wish to emphasize Of course, some good putters do very strongly, as very few golfers not adhere to this point, but it is realize the importance of getting the only to their disadvantage to neglect eyes in line with the line of the putt, it. and of having them directly above that line. Xow, to have the eyes above the line of the putt means that you should assume a position whereby the eyes will be directly above that line. If a player stands too close to the ball, the eyes will be too far out over the line of the putt. ( See illustration Xo. 4.) If a player stands too far away from the ball, the eyes will not be near enough to be over the line of the putt, consequently it is impossible to see the true line. (See illustration Xo. 5.) If you want to see if a line is perfectly straight, say for instance the side line of a tennis court, you must get in line with the line, must you not? So, too, in putting: if you want to get the exact line of your putt. No. •:,. A ROUND OF GOLF WITH SEYMOUR DUNN 329

be sure you get your eyes exactly in line with the line of the putt. Let me be clearly understood that all I have just said applies to the player when standing in position prepared to strike the ball. I may add that many players take the most ex- acting care in viewing the line of their putt when they stand behind the ball preparatory to taking up their position. Then, when they do take up their position to play the putt their eyes are neither in line with, nor directly above, the line of the putt, and it is impossible for them to see the line of their putt as distinctly as when they stood behind the ball to get the line; consequently their standing lie- hind the ball to get the line of the putt was of little value to them. It is not only possible, but every golfer should endeavor to see the line of the putt as distinctly when standing in position to play as when stand- No. 4. ing behind the ball and viewing the tive to the object to be struck, and line of the putt with one eye, as in secondly, that the axis be kept in that shooting; but it is quite impossible to position as steady as a rock. see the line distinctly unless the eyes 'Hie axis, as before stated, should are posed, as I have endeavored to ex- be one of the wrists, or between the plain. (See illustrations Nos. 2 and two. In most cases our best putters 3-) putt with the right hand, and use the No. >. Hit the bull absolutely true right wrist as the axis. ( See illus- - iu the center of balance of the putter tration No. 6.) This of course does face. not mean that every one must do This, as in all golfing strokes, means likewise; if you find you can putt accuracy of impact, and without go- better by using the left wrist as the ing into the details of the pendulum axis, or that point between the two, action again we will simply recall adopt the most suited to you; they them to mind and the excellent ex- are all correct. ample of accuracy taught us by our A good many players putt with the mechanical friend, which shows us right elbow as the axis of the swing. that accuracy of impact delivered by Let me repeat again that whichever a swinging implement can only be se- point is adopted as the axis, it should cured by placing the axis upon which be first properly placed relative to the for at which) the implement is con- ball and kept there throughout the trolled first in a proper position rela- 33° A ROUND OF GOLF WITH SEYMOUR DUNN there will he no inclination of the head to give or turn in the hand (that is, if the putter is properly balanced). Tap the face all along chiefly about the center until you find a certain point where by tapping you rind the truest feeling of balance, whether that point of perfect balance is in the center of the putter face or not, that is the part with which to hit the ball. It would be a good thing to test every club in your bag in this manner, and rind the exact center of balance. Note it. and try to hit the ball cm that place for a perfectly straight shot. No. j. To swing the putter head in proper Hue with the putt. A great many players will experience a tendency to pull the ball to the left of the hole.

I say that the ball should be hit true in the center of balance of the putter face, because putters are made in such a variety of forms, and some with evidently no regard to balancing the weight of the head and shaft, so that the impact balancing point is in the center of the club's face. My meaning can be at once understood if my reader will take a putter in the left hand and a golf ball in the other, and tap the face of the putter, first at the toe end of the face, and then the heel end of the face, and then in the center of the face. A distinct difference will be felt ; an unpleasant feeling when tapping the face at the toe end. and the toe will incline to give; also an unpleasant feeling when tapping at the heel end, and the heel wi'l incline to give: a decidedly pleasant feeling of true balance is felt when

tapping the center of the face, and Nil. (1. PROBLEMS 33'

The tendency to pull can be cor- natural bund is towards the left of rected by having the left elbow point- the true line of the putt, which natur- ing to the hole; or to be more correct, ally causes the putter head to swing pointing parallel with the line of the in a course running off to the left putt. (See David Hunter's elbow in or inside of the line of the putt. This the illustrations referred to; see also causes the putter face to strike the illustrations Nos. 2 and 6.) ball a glancing blow which induces It will be noticed that in "The Art a slight spin to the ball, and though of Putting," it is stated that it is slight, nevertheless causes the ball to desirable to have the left elbow on a curve off the line, curving to the left line parallel with the line to the hole, of the hole. to insure the club head travelling" in I shall have more to say on spin a straight line to the hole. I strongly imparted to the ball in putting to in- agree with this view, and consider duce the ball to travel in a curved it a point of great importance to course for the purpose of getting have the left elbow in this position, round a stymie, but later on. because it places the left wrist joint The work of the right hand in in such a pose that its more natural ]Hitting is such an important factor bend is straight towards the hole, or that it would not be fair of me to more correctly speaking, parallel with cut the matter short so as to crowd the line of the putt. it into this month's article. I will When the left elbow is allowed to therefore leave it till the next issue hang at the player's side, the left wrist and do it full justice. joint is in such a pose that its more (To be continued.)

HANDICAP PROBLEMS By Harold H. Hilton Ex-British Amateur and Open Champion

You seem to have a universal meth- chance whatever. An unhappy state od of handicapping in your country— oi affairs for them, which is chiefly a species of systematic method— due to the fact that their home club which must save a deal of trouble happens to be some small local or- during the course of a season's golf. ganization who possess a links which ' )n this side of the water we have is probably very much on the short what might be termed an individual side, and moreover do not possess unsystematic method which does any players of more than average manage to cause a great deal of merit. In consequence, one hnds trouble and bother in open competi- players masquerading on the scratch tions during the year, as it must be mark, the standard which we in real- candidly acknowledged that in many ity work from over here, who would of these events a very big percentage1 be completely out of it with a handi- of the field start with little or no cap of say two or three in any big 332 HANDICAP PROBLEMS clubs. This class of scratch player with a start of 2 or 3, as I am con- is to be found on many of the links vinced that Mr. John Ball would have in and around the Metropolis. Ac- no difficulty, on the whole, in con- cording to the standard from which ceding him a third on any difficult his own club officials work, he has course. But for some reason or other probably justified the mark on which he was on the scratch mark and is he has been officially placed in the likely to remain there, as personally respect, that he is able on the average he had no ambition to be removed to hold his own on handicap with from it, and that means much. Judg- his fellow members. But two blacks ing from his own standard of handi- do not make one white, and the fact cap there can be but little doubt that that literally all the members of the he was quite justified in considering club are ridiculously under-handi- that James Braid played a game capped can be but a poor consolation equivalent to plus 12. This would be to him when he travels away from just about what he would be, but I home and finds himself hopelessly out- cannot think of Jimmy being quite classed by members of other clubs able to concede some of our leading playing with the same handicap. Tins amateurs the odds of a third, which was particularly impressed upon me it would amount to. And take for during the present spring, and one instance two of any well known ama- player in particular that I met proved teurs, who are continually playing at an object-lesson in the fallacy of the Walton Heath, viz., Messrs, C.E.Dick present handicaps in the Metropolitan and Herbert Fowler. On their handi- area. He mentioned that he had re- caps he would, from the plus 12 cently been playing with James Braid, mark, be asked to concede them the and that the latter had conceded him respective odds of seven and eight a half, and they had had a really good strokes per round, and for my money match which ended all even. On being I should certainly select either of the asked what his handicap was, he re- amateurs against him at these odds. plied, "I am scratch in two clubs," Personally I should say that James which called for the remark, that a Braid would be fairly handicapped half seemed a great deal for even on his own course, if they placed him James Braid to concede to a scratch on the plus 8 mark. But our worthy player. "Oh, no!" he said, "they al- friend, the scratch man, is but an ways handicap him at plus 12 or 13 example of a host of such players, when making a match with him at who are to be found on the inland Walton Heath; he is quite plus 12 links in the Kingdom. In the spring there." Well, I played with that and autumn months when the ground scratch player afterwards, and whilst is sufficiently hard to enable the hall I can believe that at his best he to run a long way, and the course i! could play down to scratch. I should generally in its finest condition, they imagine on the other hand that he are able to play down to the scratch seldom did. lie certainly did not standard of their dub. But in the win- play a scratch game on the day I ter months, when the courses saw him play, and I should think that heavy and sticky, they cannot play a he would have been fairly treated game within sight of the scratch mar HANDICAP PROBLEMS

It would naturally be thought that hardly not recommend the dub of- the lesser known clubs would, at ficials, however, to follow the princi- least, in some way, attempt to copy ple of those in command oi a cer- the standard of the bigger organiza- tain club in the west of England, tions, such as the Royal and Ancient who, recognizing that their members Club or the Royal Liverpool Club, were handicapped from a standard and perhaps they originally start on which precluded them from having that basis, but by degrees it will al- an_\" chance in open competitions, ways be found in these smaller clubs, struck upon the happy plan oi raising the handicapping of the members the handicap of even- member of the gradually assumes an entirely false club five strokes, when what is termed position. There are many reasons the holiday season came on, just to why it is so, but the chief one is the give them a good fighting chance in fact that so many handicap commit- their peregrinations abroad. But, tees allow the personal equation to truly, handicapping is a very complex enter into their deliberations. For question and in addition one at which instance, it may so happen that one or it is a very easy matter to cavil and even two players may by the means a glorious subject for the pen of the of some brilliant individual perform- critic. Possibly of all the big clubs ance earn the temporary distinction of in the United Kingdom, the Royal being placed on the scratch mark. Liverpool Club have the most system- Naturally they have to play their atized method of handicapping, as matches with club members from that the officials go into the matter most mark, and on the average they get the thoroughly and pay as much atten- worst of the argument; and by a tion to the allotment of starts to the false but simple process of reasoning, long handicap men as they do to the they come to the conclusion that the men behind scratch. Their high water players who habitually beat them are mark is plus 5, on which mark is too well in, and those players are in placed the two amateurs who have consequence gradually dragged down won the open championship, John Ball until they arrive at a handicap which and Harold Milton, and Tack Graham is just and fair in comparison with has earned a similar distinction by a the so-called scratch player; and fin- succession of wonderful returns over ally it is to be found that the whole the Hoylake course. At St. Andrews of the members of this club are handi- the back markers are four strokes, capped on a false basis. And whilst whilst at North Berwick, Robert they may be quite happy in their own Maxwell, J. E. Laidlay and J. R. little dove-cot when playing amongst Gairdner, are all penalized four themselves, they, on the other hand strokes behind scratch. But notwith- receive a very rude awakening when standing this slight discrepancy, these any of them wander far afield to seaside links, as they quickly find that three clubs undoubtedly mark very the handicap they receive is a hope- much from the same standard, and it lessly inadequate one in comparison would be better for many inland clubs with that received by members of the if they marked from this standard, majority of other clubs. One would which would mean in the majority of cases raising the players two or three 334 LEAVES FROM MY XOTE BOOK strokes. I'.ut there is always one great with any pretensions to class, and had difficulty in arriving at some system- it not been for the lesson we received atized standard of handicapping, and at the hands of Travis in 10.04, who that lies in the fact that whereas our was as equally off form as Travers tip-toppers might he able to concede during the first few weeks over here, say half a stroke to many players on we should no doubt all have hastily long difficult courses like I Ioylake, jumped to the conclusion that his St. Andrews and North Berwick, on chance was a hopeless one in the the other hand they would not he championship. Hut out of form or able to concede these same players not his game will be treated with the more than a third on many of our greatest respect by British players at inland courses. Muirfield, and they are quite prepared for much more serious opposi- The amateur championship is now tion from him than his practice rounds close at hand, and British golfers are would suggest was probable. The still keenly interested in your young event itself is wonderfully open; per- American champion, ]erome Travcrs. sonally I think that Robert Maxwell lli~> progress in getting into form for has as good if not a better chance the big event at Muirfield has not as than any in the field, and the one I yet been exactly a triumphal proces- should couple with him is Johnny sion, as he has invariably been beaten Hall, who is just about as good as when up against any. of our amateurs ever he was.

LEAVES FROM MY NOTE BOOK By "Tantallon"

"A ehiel's among ye takiri notes alas! the puller still pulled and the An' faith he'll prent it." sheer still sliced, and as they thought they might as well perpetrate these Some years ago an ingenious indi- vices with the clubs to which they were vidual with kindly intentions toward accustomed, the new club was discard- golfers, and pitying their weaknesses, ed. So much for the club which was designed a club which automatically to cure pulling and slicing. Recently cured slicing and pulling. At least, I was at a golf club near New York, this is what it was claimed it would and was sitting in the club profes- do. The proof of the pudding, how- sional's shop when one of the mem ever, is in the eating, and the club in bers entered. He had a box of halls question was somewhat of a disap- in his hand. "Can you change these pointment. Man)- credulous persons balls and let me have another dozen purchased this cure-all club and, filled in place of them," he said. "Certainly,' with hope, betook themselves with replied the professional. *" 1 *nt why their treasure to the golf course. But do you want to change them?" LEAVES I:ROM MY NOTE BOOK 315 cause I find I slice with them." He far as I can see there is nothing in was perfectly serious and walked ofl the new rule that bears on the <|iics- with his new box of balls with a look tion. on his face that henceforth his days of slicing were over. I suppose most metropolitan golf- • ers at least recollect an incident which happened a few years ago at Lake- Here is a story I came across in my wood during one of the Spring tourna- note book. It has doubtless been in ments. The gallery was following print before like all golf stories but the big match in the final for the chief it seems quite worth repeating: cup, and behind this came two players "You see, sir," said a caddie to who were not engaged in the tourna- his employer, who was defeated, ment. The gallery, waiting for the "gowf is jist a game o' meeracles. finalists to return, was standing near Xoo, who wad hae thocht ye wad the green watching the putting of the hae missed yer putt o' sax inches at two players who were not in the Westward Ho! and that Providence tournament. < )ne man putted and his would hae gi'en him sic a fine drop on ball was going straight for the cup the richt side o' the bunker, an' syne when suddenly it stopped a few inches carried his ba' straicht to the Hole- away from the hole. This caused side! It was a meeracle, sir, a perfec' considerable surprise as the ball was meeracle, only—" (regretfully) "we running rather fast up to the time micht hae won thae match if ye wad when it stopped. The other man then hae played a leetle mair carefu'. " putted and to everybody's amazement, • when it got to within a few inches of the hole it bounded back. There was Some years ago this incident hap- a shout of laughter from the gallery pened in a match. A's ball lay three for it was seen what had happened. inches above a hole on a steeply slop- Some joker had completely encircled ing green. B putted for the half from the hole with pins and it was a case of below the hole. As lie putted A's lofting with a mashie. The two play- ball began to roll. B's ball won the ers did not join in the mirth. It was race and was in the hole first, where- said that their match was for big on he, by virtue of the rule which money and they were greatly offended. said you might knock the opponent's ball away, giving him the next putt as holed, if the ball was lying on the Some years ago a friend of mine edge of the hole, intercepted A's ball who had resided in the near East and did not allow it to go in. A made for a long time was lunching with" no complaint, concluding that B was me at my club and both of us being acting within the rule, but a bystand- golfers, our talk naturally drifted into er pointed out that the rule applied to "shop." lie said that in the seaport a ball at rest on the lip of the hole, where he had been living there was a and that in the present case the ball golf club. "A lot of Americans and was in motion. I do not know if tlv's English there, you know, so the club point has ever been decided and so was bound to come, and a very good 336 LEAVES FROM MY NOTE BOOK course we had." "The natives didn't In last month's GOLF there was an play, 1 suppose," I said. "No, the article having reference to what the national game of the Christians and writer calls "dropping." This, it may Mohammedans was murdering each be explained, is a practice indulged in other." It was in Syria, or Arabia, by s; ime players at tournaments of or Armenia, I'm not sure which, qualifying in lower divisions than hut we may as well call it their class justifies them in doing. It Armenia. Well, it seems that this is, it need hardly be said, a very un- cluh, like some we know, possessed a sportsmanlike proceeding, and men near-amateur, one of the worst of his who indulge in it should be frowned kind, who tried to make a living out upon severely. Generally speaking, it of the game. Good golf covers a is difficult to bring the charge of multitude of sins so the cluh did not dropping home to the offender, for if throw him out, finding his services he who ought to have been in the useful m team matches and tourna- first division, qualifies in the third, ments. says in explanation that he was off 4. his game, who is there to prove the contrary? I knew of one clear case. Nothing would satisfy this inter- A man who was playing in a esting person hut the ownership of a tournament had a look at the prizes, golf weekly. When the subject was and having done so, very foolishly first mooted it was regarded as confided in a friend who gave him incredible. It did not seem possible away. "I want that third cup," he that any one with such a shady rec- said. It's better than the others." He ord would dare to embark in such an was a first division man, and he quali- enterprise. But the near-amateur fied in the third amongst a lot of men meant business and as he told his to whom he could give a half, and he friends, he intended to "purify the won the cup. But the story leaked game. We must put it on a high level." out, and he has not been seen in any and they had hard work to refrain tournaments recently. from laughing at him. It was decidedly a case of Satan rebuking sin. In due time the paper—a small thing— In the early days of golf in this which was to improve the tone of the country, players were apt to be con- game duly appeared and the follow- fused somewhat as to the meaning of ing day a sniall crowd was seen round the terms used in the game and this the notice board at the clubhouse, is not to be wondered at, considering reading these lines which had been that it was something like the attempt posted up: to master a new language. Willie St. Rule, golf's good old patron Saint, Norton, the well known professional, Shook both his sides with laughter had a good excuse for being surprised When told the game would lie up- when a young woman at Lakewood raised said: "Do I swing my caddie the same By The Armenian Gr-Golfer. as my cleek?" And another golfer of The paper was still-born and the gentler sex told an inquirer she perished with the first issue. was only practicing "puttering." At LEAVES FROM MY NOTE BOOK 337 another Jersey club a well known Wall ways reached for that club. I've street man was beaten by one up in driven two hundred yards with it out one of the rounds in the open tourna- of a bad cuppy lie and I've laid the ment. It was a hot match, and while ball dead to the hole with a fifty-yard still in an excited state the player approach." "What was the name of gave this explanation of his defeat: that club?" inquired one of the audi- "I le laid me three what-d'ye-call-'ems, ence. "Ananias," observed a mem- nil the last round; twice I took my ber as he passed the group, and the what-is-it and jumped the hall into the subject dropped. hole, hut the third time I flunked and j. lost the match." For a long time after, whenever his club-mates hail to al- We never saw him play the game lude to a stymie or a mashie pitch In quite the Vardon style; they always used "what-d'ye-call-'em" And vet he would beguile and "my what-is-it." Those hours when we together came To have—at least—one smile, h With wondrous tales of what had been A golfer who was noted for his Done with his putter on the green; tall stories was one day expatiating ( )f deadly shots with cleek and bras- on the merits of a particular club he sey, carried in his hag and enlarging on ( )f how he'd beaten Arnaud Massy, the wondrous deeds he had done with My word! his golf was "classy." it. From the record of its perform- The mashie in his hands was magical, ances it seems to have been of a com- The foeman's fate, alas! was tragical. posite nature, partaking of the char- We never saw these things acteristics of the brasscy, cleek, Of which the singer sings, masliie and iron. "Yes, sir," he said, But well we know, they must be so "when I was in a tight corner I al- J>ecause—he told us so. NOTES FROM THE SOUTH By Percy H. "Whiting

Any club which can furnish four right of way. This is a distinct dis- Southern champions, two runners-up advantage from a golfer's point of and three score-medal winners in the view, but it is offset in a measure by seven years that the Southern Golf the accessibility of the course. The Association has been in existence can space allotted is just sufficient to get justly lay claim on the right to be in eighteen holes with nothing to classed among the leading chilis of the spare and for this reason there is too organization. much paralleling of the fair greens. And for doing just that thing, The ground is very flat and the rather than for the excellence oi the ditches for drainage purposes consti- course or the luxuriousness of its tute a large proportion of the hazards. clubhouse is the Audubon club of There are, also, too many trees, al- New Orleans famous throughout the though the Park Commissioners have Southland. lately removed some. Still, there is The links are laid out on a portion plenty of room for further improve- of a park over which the public has ment in this respect.

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SECOND GREEN, AUDUBON GOLF CLUB

FOURTEENTH TEE, AUDUBON Dul.KCLUB 34O NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

tioned thai there are about twenty members whose handicaps are 6 or less, enough has been said to prove the strength of the club. It is also satisfactory to note that there are several young members improving rapidly, who are likely to distinguish themselves in the near future. II. Turpie, the professional, and the (Ireen Committee are continually working to improve the course in spite of the limitations previously mentioned, and, considering that play can be, and is, indulged in all the year round, the greens and course generally are kept in wonderfully good order. Probably, however, the chief reason for the present satisfactory condition of the club is the good-fellowship LEIGH CARROLL, which has always existed amongst the Southern Champion, 1906. members. Notwithstanding these obvious dis- advantages the Audubon club is in a very flourishing condition, and there are continually more applications for membership than can he taken care of. The clubhouse, as may be seen from the photograph, is a pretty, although not a very imposing building, and is scarcely large enough to ac- commodate all the members at present. The standard of play at the club is, generally speaking, high. Nelson Whitney has won the Southern championship for the last two years, and both A. Schwartz and Leigh Carroll are ex-champions, while L. Eustis has < in three occasions shown at the championship meetings his ability to excel at medal play. W. I'. Stewart, W. E. Stauffer and R. Rush, Jr., are all NELSON WHITNEY, players, and when it is men- Southern Champion, 1907. 190S NOTES FROM THE SOUTH 3-11

Orleans. Me won this honor by de- feating \V. J'. Stewart in the final n mild. • I'lay continues steadily over the beautiful country club course at \ icksburg, Miss, in a class tournament held recently S. J!. Wilson was the winner in Class A., Capt. W. S. Jones in Class 1!. and K. I'. Jones in Class C. The officers of the Vicks- burg club, recently elected, are W. II. Fitzhugh, president; W. M. Raworth, vice-president; F. II. Andrews, secretary.

The spring championship tournament of the Hermitage Club of Rich- mond, Ya., was recently held. Four ALBERT SCHWARTZ, eights qualified. John W. Atkinson Southern Champion, 1S02. won in Class A. II. W. Hazard in The first championship of the state Class I!, Jas. L. Anderson in Class of Georgia was played last month C and R. Fleming in Class D. H. II. over the course of the Log Cabin Club Barker, professional of Garden City, of Macon and J. A. Selden proved has broken the course record of the the winner, with J. I!. Jemison runner- Hermitage Club. His score was 37- up. The attendance was not large 37-74. The previous record was 38- but excellent golf was played. The 37-75, held by Dr. William Fleming. low score for the qualifying round 4> was made by W. (\. Solomon, Jr. J. The Mobile Country Club sent a ]'. Williams was the winner in the large team to Pensacola ( Fla. ) April second Might, with (). A. Coleman 26th for a match with the club in the runner-up, the handicap was won by Florida city, but owing to a distress- W. D. McNeil. ing automobile accident in which the mother of one of the members of the R. G. Hush, Jr., holds the proud Pensacola team was killed and X. R. distinction of being the KJOQ champion Clarke of the Mobile team seriously of the Aubudon Golf Club of Xew injured the affair was called off. WESTEKN DEPARTMENT

Conducted by Joseph G. Davis

True to its promise, the handicap ( )ne of the best known of the committee of the Western Golf As- younger players on the four mark is sociation had its full list of ratings 1 tarry G. Legg of Minneapolis, who out by May 15th. Leading players won the New York interscholastic from 12t) clubs have been placed, title when attending Lawrenceville making the record the most complete school. Young Legg won the Minne- yet issued. The low men from sota championship in 1908, beating scratch to three strokes were pub- Lyon II. Johnston of Minneapolis in lished in GOLF last month, nearly all the final, while the same year he was of them being well known in the runner-up to C. H. Seaver of Kansas western golfing world, while quite a City in the final for the Trans-Missis- few are just as familiar to eastern sippi tournament. The year before players. he was runner-up to Sprague Abbott in the T-M. tourney.

In scanning the list of players put v on the four and five marks a number of Will Diddel, of Indianapolis, who well known players are found ; some, held the Indiana State title in 1905- veterans who are receding, others, 6-7, has been put on the four mark. youngsters who some day may mount He made his first essay at the west- the few remaining rungs in the ern title last year at Rock Island, handicap ladder. Among the former but after qualifying well up was de- is "Forty Hole" Fairbanks, who feated in the first round by Elliott Callender of Peoria, 111., who also last February won the championship has been given a rating of four. of Southern Florida. Last year the Denver veteran won the Florida state • championship and was runner-up in W. E. Clow. Jr., who won the east- the Colorado state championship to ern Intercollegiate title when at Yale F. W. McCartney of Denver. In in 1906, is on the five mark. Chris 1905 Fairbanks was runner-up to Kenney, the Missouri state champion, Warren Dickenson in the Trans-Mis- and Bart Adams, the runner-up, both sissippi championship, and earlier in have been placed at four. W. H, the year he won the Southern Cali- Yule, the Wisconsin champion in 1905, fornia championship. has been placed at five. He is now Me is on the five mark in company located at Akron, Ohio. with Clive T. Jaffray, the Minne- apolis veteran who won the Trans- Mississippi championship in 1900 and Albert Seckel, of the Riverside Club also the Minnesota state title. of Chicago, who is now at Princeton, WESTERN DEP. IRTMENT 343

and 10. Lee Jones. Lake Geneva C. C, Wis- and who was runner-up to Travis in consin; N. F. Wllshire, J. A. Jevne. A. Braly. W. W. Butler. \V. I!. Walton, S. C. the Garden City spring tournament Lines and W. It. Millar, Los Angeles C. C.; Rodman Grubbs. C. L. Nelson. Isaac Hilliard last month, is at four in company with and Henry Heyburn, Louisville G. C.; J. P. Edrington, Memphis C. C; Donald Edwards, Ralph Hoagland, a former Princeton- Midlothian C. C, Chicago; H. G. Legg, ian, and well known as a football Minikahda club, Minneapolis; J. S. Lowry, Normandie G. C, St. Louis; D. M. Cum- referee. K. L. {"Snake") Ames, mings, It. II. McElwee and A. B. Swift, onwentsia club, Chicago; E. C. Callender, the famous Princeton fullback, is at Jr., Peoria C. C.: A. Seckel and Ralph Hoag- land. Riverside G. C. Chicago; Leon Mit- four, while M. P. X'oyes, who did chell, Rock Island Arsenal G. C.; Robert Switzer Soangetaha C. C, Galesburg, 111.; yeoman service for Yale on the grid- 11. P. Bend, Town and Country Club, St. Paul; W. K. Jewett. Town and Gown G. C, iron many years ago, is at five. Colorado Springs; J. V. Houston, W. B. Langford and R. O. Ainslie, Westward Ho G. C.. Chicago: R. B. Martin, Wheaton G. C, Chicago. Five Strokes—J. F. Byers, A. K. Oliver, R. The Rev. Paul R. Talbot of Hutch- P. Nevin. Jr., J. E. Porter. O. D. Thompson, Allegheny C. C, Pittsburg; Frank L. Grif- inson, Kansas, who is probably the fith. Arlington C. C, Columbus; Leigh Car- roll and W. P. Stewart, Audubon G. C. strongest clerical golfer in the country New Orleans; L. E. Running. Belmont G. and who has played remarkably well C, Chicago; Chas. Baker, P. J. Roy ana Nelson Buck, Beverly C. C, Chicago; G. C. in several of the western amateur Oliver. J. T. Hardie and C. A. Brown, Birmingham C. C, Alabama: Parke Wright, championships, is at four. W. A. Gardner. C. M. Ransom, A. E. Hedstrom, Ganson Depew, R. S. V. Spauld- ing Buffalo C. C.: F. A. Kales, Clare- mont C. C.: Oakland. California; W. Fair- banks and F. W. McCartney. Denver C. C.: David R. Forgan, the Chicago J. Elbert, M. Manning and R. II. Finkbine, hanker who won the first western Des Moines G. and C. C.: J. D. Standish. Jr.. Detroit C. C; E. W. Alexander, G. Miller Amateur championship in 1899, is at and C. R. Deneen, Detroit G. C.; E. H. Brown. R. H. Crowell, Euclid club. Cleve- five, getting one stroke more than his land; I. W. Lincoln. W. Delafield, Jr.. and J. Ballard, Glen Echo C. C, St. Louis; K. club mate, R. 11. McElwee, who cut L. Ames and J. M. Sellers, Glen View club, Chicago: J. A. Herring. Hannibal C. C a wide swathe in Florida golf for Missouri: H. W. Lockett, Homeward C. C, Chicago; C. W. Clingman, Jackson Park, several seasons. Bruce Smith, of On- Chicago; R. P. Cavanaugh and F. R. Pettit, Kenosha C. C, Wisconsin; W. A. Hood and wentsia, the former Yale baseball W. Richarson, Memphis C. C.; C. L. Hunter, Midlothian C. C Chicago: L. H. Johnson, player who last year married Miss C. T. Jaffray, Minikahda club, Minneapolis; H. H. Lurton Jr.. Goodloe Lindsley and T. Pauline Mackay, national champion I. Webb. Jr.. Xasville G. and C. C.: H. C. Fownes. C. B. Fownes. W. C. Fownes. Sr., in 1905, is rated at five. Oakmont C. C. Pittsburg: F. H. Gaines and W. J. Foye, Omaha C. C; W. E. Clow, Jr., Bruce Smith. D. R. Forgan and W. F. Pillsbury. Onwentsia club, Chicago; W H. Following is the complete list of Yule and H. Hollinger, Portage C. C, Akron, O.: R. P. Gates. Ravenswood G. C, players handicapped at four and five: Chicago; E. M. Kelley and F. D. Keeler. Rockford C. C, Illinois; W. B. Mixter. Rock Four Strokes—Chris Kenney and Bart S. Island Arsenal G. C.; M. P. Noyes and N. Adams. Algonquin G. C, St. Louis; M. H. L. Hoyt. Skokie C. C. Chicago; C. F. Easton and T. P. Mumford. Annandale G. C. Wiley. South Shore C. C, Chicago; H. B. Pasadena. I'al.: P. Lindenherg, Arlington Davis, Town and Gown G. C. Colorado C. C, Columbus, O.: Lawrence Eustis, Audu- Springs: R. M. Cutting. C. L. l'eniston. L. bon G. (".. New Orleans; C. H. Stanley and C. Spitzer, T. S. Swirles, Westward Ho G. T. S. Beckwith, Cleveland C. C.; Wylie C, Chicago. Carhartt, Detroit C. C.: J. K. Bole, Euclid club, Cleveland; R. W. Hodge. Evanston G. C, Kansas City: H. E. Havemeyer, E. B. Cobb and A. C. Scully. Exmoor C. C, Michigan golfers will unpete for Chicago: J. L. Carleton, Glen Echo C. C, St. Louis; W. H. Diddel and E. Zimmer, the state championship this year, Highland G. C, Indianapolis; E. D. Clapp, A. C. Field and H. A. Gardner, Jr., Hins- July ~th to 9th, at the Saginaw Coun- dale G. ('., Chicago; G. H. Lindsay and Chas. Mi-Arthur, Homeward C. C, Chicago; try Club. J. Li. Schlotman of Detroit Rev. Paul K. Talbot, llutchinson C. C, Kansas: O. W. Jones, J. T. MeGuire, C. H. is the present title-holder, having de- Rider, II. W. Praser, and H. S. Mead, Inverness club, Toledo; W. M. Lee, R. W. feated Wylie Carhartt of the same Lazear, L. L. Hebberd, A. Vr. Lee, Jr., and M. A. Carroll. Jackson Park G. G, Chicago; town in the final at Detroit last sum- Phil Btanton and Nathan Bundy, Kent C. C, Grand Rapids: X. !•'. M e. I-:. R. Williams mer. WESTERN DEl\ IRTMENT

The Decatur Country Club will be 78. Their handicap of five gave them the scene of the championship of the low net also, hut this prize was di- Illinois Valley Golf Association on vided between C. C. Griswold and June 20th to _>4tli. II. W. Lukins of (i. Nelson and }. F. Larson and \V. 1 Streator is the present title-holder. I '.. Roe, who tied at y^ net.

The Evanston Golf Club of Chicago Lee M. Maxwell, who for two opened its remodeled course on May seasons was quarterback on the Uni- 15th, when A. W. Sherman led the versity of Chicago football team, won field in the qualifying round of a the eighteen hole handicap at Hins- class tournament with a total of 8i», dale, played May 15th, with a score of playing from the eight mark. Last 94-2-1)2. In the first round of the year the construction of a new dram- Class A tournament Maxwell defeat- age canal which runs through the ed G. D. Jones, 5 and 4, while Art course handicapped the members con- Field, the former Michigan baseball siderably, hnt by altering several of player, defeated E. W vide, 3 and 2. the holes these difficulties have been The other winners in the first round avoided this year. were I'. F. Deiss, who defeated G. I- Dodge, i up, and 1". Wilson, who won from J, R. Ferguson, 1 up. Hins- ( >ver a soggy course at the Calumet dale's new clubhouse is nearing com- Country Club of Chicago on May 8th, pletion and will he ready for occu- C. B. Cory, the former Huston golfer, pancy this month. defeated C. C. Ingraham in the final match of the Ridge tournament, the earliest event of the Chicago season. Eighteen members of various pro- Professor Cory, who is now with the fessions defeated a team chosen from Field Museum of Chicago, won many the rest of the members of the Jack- prizes in the Florida courses a few son Park Golf Club, 20 to 15. years ago, capturing the Florida East Coast championship in 1904. lie still With Charles Willard, the veteran plays fine golf, although his weight Midlothian and Homewood golfer, at generally handicaps him in tourna- the head of the Sports and Pastimes ments of three or four days' dura- committee, golf is booming at the tion, lie would make a good opponent South Shore Country Club of for President Taft in the matter of Chicago. Since the passing of the avoirdupois. Washington Park links many mem- •X- bers of the old race track course have Playing through a gale of wind at joined the country club course. Some Chicago on the afternoon of May changes have been made in the nine- 15th, Charles Evans, Jr., the Western hole course which is located close to Interscholastic champion, and foe the shores of Lake Michigan and i> Moulding set a new four-hall lour- within thirty minutes ride oi the some record for the Fdgewater city. In the handicap stroke competi- course, making the double round in tion, played May 15th, W. 0. Trainer WESTERN Dill Al • .:./:..'/ 345 won with a score of 94-18-76, fohn Four more clubs have joined the Cudahy, the veteran packer who is a Western Golf Association, bringing keen goiter, taking second place with the total to [33. The newcomers are 83-6-77- the Audubon Country Club of New Orleans, the Fort Mitchell Club of Lcc Maxwell won the ripening Covington, Ky., the Waverly Golf event of the Advertising Golfers As- Club of Portland, Oregon, and the sociation of Chicago, played last North Shore Country Club of Wil- month at the Hinsdale course. Max- mette. 111. The last named lakes the well won the li>\v score medal from a place of the Ouilmette Club of held dt forty-nine, and in the dual Chicago which has disbanded. of the first flight defeated 11. S. (lark, 2 up. Miss Marion Warren of the Edge- .-h water Golf Club of Chicago, who has -> a handicap of one in the Western The Tom Morris Memorial trophy Golf Association and who is one of presented by Peter Dawson of Glas- the leading players in the Chicago gow, Scotland, is now on exhibition in district, will spend the summer in the window of Spaulding & Com- England in company with her brother, pany, the Chicago jewelers, and is Parsons Warren, last year's center- attracting much attention. It is to fielder 011 the Williams College base- be played for by clubs of the Western ball team. Mr. Warren, Sr., will Golf Association on June ibth, and make the trip with his children, the Secretary Trigg Waller expects near- trio hoping to get some play on some ly all of the clubs to compete. of the famous British courses. Weather conditions may, of course, cut quite a figure in the results, hut the most favored clubs are the ( )ak- Several of the western profes- mont of Pittsburgh the Midlothian sionals have expressed their willing- Country Club of Chicago, the Inver- ness to tackle George Duncan, the ness Club of Toledo, the Wheaton Aberdeen professional, who is to Golf Club of Chicago, the Onwentsia make a tour of this country this sum- Club, and the Los Angeles Country mer. Tom Bendelow, of A. C Club. All of these organizations can Spalding & Bros., is booking the present a well-balanced team of play- dates for his fellow townsman ers of twenty-five years of age and and should have no trouble in filling, over. as the resident professionals feel they are quite capable of holding their own. National Champion Fred Mc- The Western Golf Association com- Leod, of the Midlothian Club of mittee has made a ruling that any Chicago, and Western Champion Wil- player whose twenty-fifth birthday lie Anderson, are among the home ex- will fall between the sixteenth and perts who are anxious for a match. the end of June, will be eligible to compete for the trophy. A special 11- score sheet has been prepared for the Main- experiments have been made contest. by officials of the Women's Western

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Golf .Association In arouse greater in- at Kalamazoo, Mich., and Lima, ()liio. terest among women players in their lie will leave for the coast shortly to territory, but outside of the Chicago look over the new tract of land ac- district their efforts have not met with quired by the Los Angeles Country great success. Holding the W. \\ . < i. club, which has been compelled to va- A. championship at St. Louis last year cate its present location. undoubtedly gave an impetus to the Mound City. With a view to reaching other western golfing centers the C. M. Bechtel won the opening \Y. \Y. C,. A. officials are now plan- handicap at the Rock Island Arsenal ning to change the plan of play for Golf Club with a score of 89-14-75. the lliggin's trophy. Heretofore it has been played tor on one course and the new plan proposed resembles that The Ravisloe Country Club of Chi- to be used in the Tom Morris Memo- cago has changed its method of handi- rial cup competition, in which the capping from bogey of 79 to par of teams play on the same day on their 7-2- own courses. This would give the women in a number of cities a chance Warren K. Wood, of Homewood, to play without having to travel. An- has been showing the best early form other change made this year by the of the leading Chicago golfers none W. W. G. A. is that of allowing the of whom so far has appeared in com- champion of the preceding year to ap- petition. In one of his first essays pear in the first round of the western at Homeward he opened with an 82 championship without the necessity and in the afternoon followed with of qualifying in the medal play round. 79- The holder of the title will be placed at Number i in the draw, which is 3$ made according to numerical order, Samuel O. Dugger, who in the days the odd numbers going to the top of the hard gutta ball won the Subur- half and the even numbers to the bot- ban championship of Chicago, re- tom. turned to the game last month after an absence of several years and sur- h prised the handicap committee of the Kansas golfers will compete for Calumet Country Club by making the their state championship at the To- double round of the Ridge course in peka Country Club July 2^d to 26th. 76. 5 4* Tom Bendelow, of Spalding & Bros., Ten schools are competing in the who has laid out more courses than team championship series of the any man in this country, has been on Western Interscholastic golf associa- the jump since January, having plan- tion which will run for several weeks. ned no less than fourteen courses in The teams are composed of three that time. His work includes an 18- players each and amongst the players hole course at Dallas, Texas, another are a number of the best youngsters at Racine, W'is., and nine hole links in the west. A DAY WITH TAYLOR By Outremont

An old traveler has said that there pressed, but absolutely untiring and are two things which never fail to unconquerable. Loose-set, stocky realize the expectations (however (like Massy), strongly knit, and of a highly pitched) of the pilgrim: One bulldog tenacity—a difficult antagonist is the first view of the Velasquez and one not to lie flustered; the very pictures in the Prado; the other is opposite of Harry Vardon, that grace- England (especially the south of ful high strung greyhound of golf. England) in May and June. Later I saw the two men in an im- I appreciated this to the full as I portant qualifying competition, Var- stepped one lovely June morning on don chatting gaily along the course, to the links at "Mid-Surrey" and into Taylor stern and set, and not to be the presence of that prince of the engaged in any talk that would divert craft, J. H. Taylor, who was fresh him for an instant from his purpose. from his notable triumph over Mass}' ( )ne hardly pulled through, the other at the lovely "La Uoulie,'' Versailles. never was in doubt as to the result. Even Taylor may be excused for My great golf day (the morrow's wearing a confident and pleased ex- morn ) came in warm and clear, and pression the day after wresting, with as I stood on the first tee with Tay- his marvellous mashie, the French lor I felt that this would be a great championship from that equally day in my calendar of golf. Imagine marvellous player who for the first my surprise and almost confusion time had carried the open champion's when by luck}' but fault}' strokes I laurels out of the Islands. won the first hole tinder bogie! Then I arrived at my charming Mecca I settled down to watch the master. armed with a magic and ingratiating I noted first his solid stance ; then letter from a learned judge in far the entire absence of body-work, his Canada, and I could not help smiling clean cut swishing drive delivered as as I noted the modest pride with though he was rooted in the ground, which the mighty Taylor read my and with a flat side swing which credentials, seeming to find it strange brings his shaft below the shoulder that he was so intimately known and instead of above like the ordinary valued in the country of "Our Lady player. of the Snows." Its chief value to me Mis cleek and brassie work differ was that it secured an instant engage- little from that of any of the true ment for a round with him next day, exponents of the game, although, of as well as a lengthy talk with him on course, decided!} flat, but his fame the spot. rests on the almost unique use of his The man himself is the type that I mashie. To see him cut and drop have always pictured to myself as that his ball on a short hole is a treat of the soldier of the victorious legions that thrills the enthusiast, but the of old Rome—alert, resourceful, re- real significance of the famous shot 348 A DAY WITH TAYLOR is seen in his short approach. He The course is practically flat, but as told me that the French championship Taylor says, "it is so scientifically was won by the imminent deadly bunkered that no duffer shut escapes pitch as against the runnillg-up shot. unpunished." The membership goes Far In.1 it from me to attempt to up to 1.300, but on the warm Summer describe the Taylor mashie stroke day J spent there only a handful of with its delicacy shaded cut, which people were playing. The clubhouse compels the hall to run off the end is plain but roomy, and exceedingly of the blade, drop close to the hole, convenient in all respects, the lunch- quiver, and stop like a sentient thing. ing arrangements being specially good Jt is a creation; a piece of wizardry and reasonable. which must be seen but "not under- In tlie shops a small army of men handed of the common people." are working, making and repairing Taylor has the reputation of being clubs under the eye of the master, "an unlucky putter," which means who apparently has carte blanche to go that if he had as great command over and come in pursuit of, or defence of, his ball on the green as off, he would laurels. Mis vine-embowered cottage be invincible. Me gives one the im- at the entrance to the links is truly pression of enormous staying power English, and I should judge more as though Braids and Vardons and picturesque than convenient. It over- Halls might come and go, but he go looks innumerable cricket creases and on forever. The only man 1 saw I tennis courts, for this is one of the would compare with him in this re- famous spots where "the flannelled spect is Massy—a natural born fools" disport. The "Englishman's golfer. Home" had not been written when I The Mid-Surrey course (Taylor's was there, so that I cannot say how home green) skirts at the third hole far it has affected the ardor for the the lovely Kew Gardens, and one lesser sports by which the somewhat could follow, from the graceful pa- sluggish blood of England is kept in goda there, almost the entire course. circulation. Then, in its lower stretches, it lies along the winding Thames and be- In the meantime I felt that I had side "Zion House," one of the North- had an ideal view of England under umberland manors, occupied for a summer skies before the invasion, and week a year for a garden party by that of the game we love—I had some famous family from the North. "stood in tlie presence of the Master." EASTERN PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS' ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP

Scarsdale Golf and Country Club, Hartsdale, N.Y., May J8-J9, 1909

By "Oldcastle"

The first championship tournament Scarsdale is a course that is natur- of this association was held at the ally late, and this year the weather Forest Hill ( X. J.) Field Club; the has been very much against its being second was at the Country Club, conditioned. It was not until ten days Brookline, .Mass., and last year the before the tournament that the ele- Fox Hills Golf Club, Staten Island, ments were even appreciably pro- X. Y., was the scene of action. The pitious, and under these circumstances respective winners were Alex Smith, the state of the putting greens and Alex Campbell and Isaac Mackie. fair green was little short of marvel- Each of these tournaments had been lous. Few probably realized the held in October, but this year, for tremendous labor that was involved in some reason or other, the spring was bringing about these very satisfactory selected. The innovation was any- conditions. The utmost credit is due thing but a success in attracting pro- to the club professional, Alex Fin- fessionals from a distance, Gilbert lay, for his fine and intelligent work Nichols being the only competi- which made the success of the cham- tor who did not belong to the pionship possible. metropolitan district. An objection The general nature of the course raised to the ()ctober date is that is hilly, and though it is short it is the season is apt to be wet and cold. full of trouble. It has been suggest- ( hi the other hand. May is a very ed that the course is not sufficiently busy month for most professionals. trapped and of some of the holes this They are hard at work getting their is true. But before adding difficulties courses into shape and in giving les- to those which nature has so gener- sons. How would it do if the asso- ously provided, it would perhaps be ciation another year were to try better to remove some of the sources August? There is probably less dif- of trouble, notably the stone walls. Tt ficulty in this month than any other is true they are picturesque, but they for all professionals except those at have no charm for golfers who lay summer resorts, to absent themselves the ball beneath the shadow of these from the courses to which they are piled-up stones, and besides, even attached. A competition in which from the point of view of the lover l> Xew York, Boston and Philadelphia of the picturesque, the course is na- were adequately represented would turally so beautiful that something greatly add to the interest of the pro- may well be spared. ceedings and would give them their Most of the holes need careful proper importance. playing and some of the short holes /:. ISTERN PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

P. S. Mclaughlin Alex Finlay, Jr. W. Hering Alex Cunningham

W. Kerby Horace Rawlins J.ilm Young •' Ljehman EASTERN PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 351

AJex Smith and James Norton, Out 4 4. 4 4 4 3 4 t 3—34 1,, 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 3-37—71 George Low and Robert Thomson: out 5 1 3 3 4 3 5 5 2—".4 I,, 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 3-37-71 The other scores were: I). Hunter and T. Anderson, Sr., 34-38-72; (i. Sparling and J. Inglis, 34-38-72; 11. Strung and \V. Norton, 36-36-72; T. Anderson, Jr., and N. Demane, 34-39-73; I. Mackie and A. Finlay, Jr., 35-38-73; J. Hobens and A. Finlay, Sr., 36-38-74; II. H. Barker and J. Young, 38-36-74; A. Cunningham and ( ). Terry, 38-37-75 ; II. Rawlins and <\. Pearson, 38-39- yj; (i. Strath and G. Nichols, 36- 41-77- The amateur and professional four- ball match in the afternoon was distinguished by the fine play of George T. Brokaw who has never played better golf. The figures at the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth holes going out and the tenth, eleventh and eighteenth coming in, were due to him. At the home green TOW ANDERSON, JR, Brokaw and Barker needed a 3 for a 70 to win, as there were two 71's are particularly good under the new in. Barker took 4 and Brokaw hav- arrangement. The distances and ing driven the green was not up on bogey figures are: his long putt. However, he was equal Out: i, 496. 6; 2, 220. 4: 3, 155, to the occasion and holed out in 3. 3; 4. 315. 5: 5. 307. 4: 6, 173, 3; 7, Barker played very fine golf, too, and &7- 5; 8, 2,22, 4; 9, 177, 4—2^32 was, amongst other things, responsi- yards. ble for a fine 4 at the first 496 yards, In : 10, 167, 3 ; 11, 374, 5; 12, 280, reaching the green on his second. Jack 4: 13. 268, 4; 14, 367, 5; 15, 410, 5; Hobens, who was playing with Os- 16, 419, 5; 17, 463, 5; 18, 184, 4- wald Kirkby, also did some long driv- 2,932 yards. Total, 5,464 yards. The ing. He reached the first green with bogey is 78 and the par 71. a drive and an iron and had a putt The proceedings opened with a for a 3 but took- 5, In the morning four-ball competition for profes- Hobens had made what was probably sionals, and two pairs returned cards the finest drive of the day at the which were the par of (lie course. fourth hole—315 yards—which runs As regards the results between the from tee to hole up mountain. He professionals, the scores by strokes was withlin thirty yards of the hole of the two leaders were: on his drive. II. 1',. I Icyhurn, the /•.. ISTERN PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Orrin Terry W. \Y. Pell H. B Heyburn Gilbert Nichols

G. B. Martin George Pearson Isaac Mackle D. L. Man«on EASTERN PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 353

Pennsylvania Freshman, who was His game displayed the brilliant, dash- runner-up in the last Atlantic City ing and easy style which has always tournament, did very well, helping distinguished it. ()ccasionallv lie Gilbert Nichols to make a 72. Find- hurt his score by missing a short putt, lay S. Douglas and Herbert Strong hut then again he got down a num- partnered Brokaw and Barker, but ber of long ones, and the famous chip the pace set by the latter pair was too shot up to the hole was played with fast for them. the same deadly accuracy as ever. The scores by strokes of the lead- The gallery likes to follow Smith al- ers were: ways, for they are sure to see dash- Mr. G. T. Brokaw and H. H. Barker: ing play. A characteristic stroke was Out 4 4 3 4 :: 4 4 4 :i—33 In 3 4 4 4 4 4 6 5 3—37—70 his second at the seventeenth in the Summary: afternoon, a fine brassey shot over the Amateur and Professional Competi- trees from a hanging lie. Ilobens, tion—G. T. Brokaw and H. II. Bark- who was his partner, played in bad er, Garden City, 33, 37-70; (). Kirk- luck. At the short second—220 yards by and John Hobens, Englewood, 35, —his drive landed him in an almost 36-71 ; H. B. Heyburn and Gilbert unplayable position, and after trying Nichols, Wilmington, 35, 37-72; II. to get out, he lifted under the rule. V. Gaines and A. Smith, Wykagyl, and the hole cost him nine—enough 34, 38-72; W. H. Vanderpoel, Jr., and to take the heart out of a man at the G. Low, Baltusrol, 34, 39-73 ; C. W. beginning of a medal round. Ill-luck- l )'Conner and D. Hunter, Essex dogged him all day, varied by bril- County, 35, 40-75; P. \Y. Kendall and liant recoveries. He showed what W. Norton, Deal, 36, 39-75; W. Pell golf he was capable of at the six- and ( ). Terry, Canoe Brook, 36, 40- teenth—41 (j yards—in the afternoon. 7<>; G. Li. Martin and G. Pearson, His pulled drive laid him alongside a Vountakah, 36, 41-76; \Y. Hering wall, all he could do being to play and A. Cunningham, Glen Ridge, 38, out on the course, and then he laid 39"77: J- Rogers and T. Anderson, a fine brassey on the green over the Sr., Montclair, 36, 41-77; W. Hardy high cop bunker guarding it. For and R. M. Thomson, Knollwood, 38, the first time he did not return a 39~77'> S. B. Leonard and I. Norton, card. Trenton, 37, 40-77; P. S. McLaughlin Gilbert Nichols found trouble in and A. Finlay, Jr., Haworth, 38, 41 the morning and the round cost him -79; W. Kerby and IT. Rawlins, Ek- 79. He had a 5 at the second—220 wanok, 38, 41-79; F. S. Douglas and yards—a 6 at the fourth—315 yards If. Strong, Apawamis, 39, 40-79; F. —and a 7 at the eleventh—374 yards. K. Flaugli and T. Anderson, Jr., In the afternoon he had a fine 7^. Montclair, 39, 41-80; I). L. Manson Isaac Mackie had two 77's tieing and I. Mackie, Fox Hills, 38, 42-80; with Barker for third place. Some W. Grafius and A. Finlay, Sr., Scars- of the players drove in the pond. dale, 39, 42-81. so that professionals like lesser In the championship proper, medal mortals are susceptible to the play at thirty-six holes, Alex Smith mental hazard of water. Barker was won easily by no less than five strokes. not favored by luck, but he played 354 EASTERN PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP throughout the fine golf which has landed him in the money in every competition but one since coming to tliis country, lie had a notable 3 at the fifth—307 yards—practically driving the green. Nichols also drove this green, but the hole is down- hill. Tom Anderson, |i\, worthily maintained the traditions oi the family. There were veteran prizes of $30 and $20 for players over forty years of age. Willie Nor- ton and Robert Dow look these. The score by strokes of the leaders : -runediate c Alex Smith. Wykagy] ($125). < mi r, 4 3 6 4 2 6 :'. 3—36 ;:m oi the In 3 4 4 5 4 5 5 4 :1—:I7—7:1 < mt 6 3 3 5 3 2 .". 4 1—35 In 3 5 3 .", r, 4 .". 4 5—39—74—147 Gilbert Nichols, Wilmington ($80). < mt 4 5 4 6 3 :: 4 4 1—37 In 3 7 4 4 6 5 5 5 ;'.— 4U—T'.i out 5 3 3 4 3 3 5 5 3—34 ispt tat In 3 6 4 4 4 4 6 5 3—39—73—152 Isaac Mackie, Fox Hills ($50). (>nt g ?, :: 6 4 6 ."' 4 3—3:1 In 3 4 4 4 5 F, 5 4 4—3*—77 ( Hit 5 4 3 r, 4 3 4 5 4—37 In 3 7 4 3 5 (i 4 4 -4,—40—.7—1T.4 H. H. Barker, Garden City ($50). GILBERT NICHOLS ( Hit .". 3 3 6 4 3 4 1 4— 3li In 3 5 5 4 4 :, 5 ."> 4—411—7i; (mt 5 3 3 4 3 3 .", 6 4—36 .1. Norton, Trenton 85 76 161 In 4 4 4 5 5 "i 6 6 3—42—78—154 H. Strong. Apawamis 79 S2 161 G. Low, Baltusroi 7s s4 162 The other scores were: G. Sparling, Brooklawn SI 82 163 1st 2d R. Dow. Bedford 7S 89 167 R'd R'd T'l W. Demane, unattached 88 80 168 Turn Anderson, Jr., Montclair <$':"). IS sn 155 A. Finlay Jr.. Haworth 88 si 169 Dave Hunter. Essex County ($JII)..7S 78 156 T. Anderson, Sr.. Montclair s4 85 169 R. Thomson, Knollwood ($ir>) 76 si 157 O. Terry. Canoe Brook 86 S4 170 A. Cunningham, (!len Ridge ($10).. 78 si 159 John Young, unattached 89 89 178 II. Rawlins, Ekwanok ($10) 80 7!) 159 Withdrew—John Hobens, Englewood, S2; G. Pearson, Yountakah ($10) 80 80 160 George Strath, ("resent A. C. 93; A. Finlay. W. Norton, Lakewood 79 SJ 161 Sr., Scarsdale, 100; John Inglis, Fairview. GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

By H. C. S. Everard THE QUARTER GAME (Continued) There is one fatal fault to which instances, deliberately suggestive of beginners, and for that matter, some the thing that is not. Thus probably good players also, are at times inordi- no two golfers would agree as to the nately prone; they hit the ball on the precise signification to be attached to socket of the iron in approaches of a "wrist shot," many applying the medium distance, with the result that term to the vast distances covered by the gutta flies off at a tangent to the players like A. Kirkaldy, by means right, and all along the ground. The of that stroke wherein the wrist takes immediate cause of this is an outward no leading part, namely, the stiff arm turn of the left arm, which makes it shot, or, as it has been suggested they impossible for the club to finish in the should be called, "knee shots," seeing right place ; also the eye has not been that the drawback of the club is as- kept fixed with sufficiently stern de- sisted by the turning inwards, the termination on the ball. To borrow "knuckling" over of the left knee. an illustration from cricket, the club There is, however, a stroke which with finishes on the off side, but it would greater propriety may be classed as a seem impossible to play this stroke if wrist shot, not on the Incus a non we bear in mind (i ) that the club must lucendo principle—for that joint does finish to the left of the hole (your in very truth come into action: the imaginary bowler), i. e., on the on stroke in question is at short range side, or at any rate, and this is the from the hole, thirty to forty yards very utmost that can be conceded, say. or less, and is in the nature of an straight in a line with it ; one point approach putt played with the iron. more to the right and you court al- Its effective use stamps the golfer as most certain disaster. (ii) Rivet the an expert; some otherwise fine players eye on the ball and (iii ) keep the never acquire it, but are stiff and un- right arm close to the side, which it professional-looking at that particular should lightly touch, not in cramped distance. Its use is to loft the ball fashion, but with freedom of move- over bad country at the start, when ment, and in the downward stroke, there is good running ground, in fact work the club through with the right the putting green at the finish; no hand; muscles of left arm and wrist "cut" is upon this stroke, and the taut throughout, pushing the club dub head must follow on in the line back, in the first half of the stroke, of the hole. No force must be used, as it were through some resisting nor the stroke attempted at any dis- medium. tance, or the inveterate tendency will be to "slice." The accepted nomenclature of golf is full of pitfalls and traps for the The shortest approach of all, though unwary, being in many, or even most it is a misnomer to call it bv that 356 GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE name, is of course the stimy; these, gives rise to feelings of a somewhat like the poor, we shall have always mixed nature, ^till its merits as a with us, despite the efforts of the weapon in the golfer's complete abolitionists, who hitherto have been armory may not pass, in the words of routed with much slaughter. This is Calverley, "unreckt, unsung.1' One no place for polemics, nor an occa- reaches the very nadir of imbecility sion to raise the reel tlag of revolt when, the well-drilled caddie having against the established order of things ; whispered in our ear the words of on the contrary, all must admit the comfort, "lie's in the bunker," we se- delicate beauty of the stroke necessary lect that precise occasion to bunker for the successful negotiation of the our own ball also—slightly to parody obstruction, and the feeling of ex- and spoil the words of Glorious John, treme satisfaction on its accomplish- "the force of folly could no further ment. It is advisable, therefore, to go." But to the most accomplished devote some practice to it; although player it must often happen that he apparently difficult, it is not so in goes into a bunker of his own initia- reality, it we take the average of tive, and when there, obviously the stimies that are laid. The nearer the first thing to do is to get out. If the lie obstructive is to the hole, and the be not quite impossible, and the haz- longer the loft necessary to clear it. ard near the hole, this may be done the more difficult does the stroke be- with some measure of scientific ac- come. Thus, with one ball on the curacy, we may in fact "approach" lip, and the other two club lengths out of a bunker. This was a stroke from it, failure is an almost fore- wherein heroes of the type of Allan gone conclusion; on the other hand, if Robertson by all accounts used to ex- the balls arc but seven inches to a foot cel: the flippant young slasher of to- apart, the furthest say two feet from day might irreverently suggest as a the hole, success ought to follow in the reason their abundant practice, but in ancient manuals are to lie found direc- majority of cases. The straighter the tions, in obedience to which you face of the iron or mashie, the more brought your iron down heel first, difficult is the stroke, and vice versa; among other niceties, but the super- some acquire dexterity in it by using session of the old sand-iron, a cum- the niblick, from which the ball ri^es brous weighty lump of metal, by the quickly, but with this weapon direc- niblick renders all such instructions tion is extremely difficult of attain- nugatory in so far as latter-day golf ment, for the more pitch there is on is concerned. Nevertheless, it prob- the face, the greater the tendency of ably is really the case that a ball could the ball to go to the left ; with an be "placed" with the old iron better iron, on the other hand, the tendency than with the niblick, the reason per- is the other way. Little, if any, play haps being that with the plane face, of the wrists should be allowed, and one could play straight at the hole; on drawing the club back, its head one does play straight at the hole should be allowed to go slightly out- also with the niblick, forgetting the wards, not pinched in close to the point before mentioned, namely, the right leg. Mention of the niblick GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 357

inveterate tendency of that club to the ball: the softer the sand the easier "draw," owing to the peculiar forma- it is to get out; in fact these are the tion of the head. But, if that be re- occasions when it will occur to the membered, and due allowance made, artist that he ought to la]) himself there seems no valid reason why we close to the hole, if the bunker be too should not have a chance of emu- one guarding the green, it is a com- lating these heroes, one of whom, a mon experience to see players, accus- Kirk, if memory fail not, having tomed perhaps to inland courses, ut- holed outright from the depths, and terly unable triumphantly to emerge being jeered at as an awful fluker, nut of an orthodox bunker when they backed himself to do it again next visit seaside links: the proverb, "aince time, and won! a bailie aye a bailie "might be rendered There is but little romance about a "aince in bunkeraye in bunker," in such niblick, though, had such a thing been cases. The reason is not far to seek: in the hands say of Rolland, doubt- these enthusiasts will persist in hitting less it would have done as much tor at the ball; and the result is a capital its owner as did Durandal at the battle game, but it is rackets and no golf. Xo of Roncesvalles; Achilles, Siegfried, bunker nineteen times out of twenty Skarphedinn, what possibilities if the ought to cost more than one stroke, club had been known to the redactors often not that, if near the hole; never of the great national epics! But we try to hit the ball therefore, delve are more prosy now, and the niblick's straight down behind it some two mission for the most part is one of inches or thereabouts and cleave the mere dull brutality. Thus, as it will sand, the ball will spring straight up be called upon to put up with many even though your niblick head re- a nasty jar, the shaft must be thick, main fast in the sand, never in fact unyielding, and substantial; the head having passed the ball at all. This is should have a good deal of loft upon the one exception at golf, the only it, for the object in view is not dis- case in which the ball must not be hit; tance, but to induce the ball to rise therein (in all ordinary cases) lies the abruptly, perhaps from a bunker with secret of bunker play, not a very pro- a hard bottom. This, if the face be found one. Of railways, whins, long steep, is one of the worst of all dif- grass, hoc genus omne, it skills not to ficulties ; no half measures are of much tell: a sturdy pair of shoulders and avail here; if the bottom be hard the light of nature, the "common from wet, compacted sand, the safer thud" of Sir Walter Simpson, will course is to hit as bard as you can do all that is necessary, or let us hope into the sand about two inches behind so. 358 EDITORIAL

draw with the fifteen competitors who GOLF have been compelled to play the EVERY MONTH medal round. Apart from other con- siderations, the action seems some- Entered at Post-office at New York as Second Class Matter. what illogical, and the obvious query ONE YEAR. $2.00. SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS arises. Why stop there? If the Postage t>te I'nited States, Canada and Mexico. To other foreign countries, 36 cents per year. Remit by Express champion does not play in the medal Money Order, Post-office Order, Registered Letter, or Check payable to ARTHUR POTTOW. round why not carry out the scheme Edited by Van Tassel Sutphen to its logical conclusion and allow the champion to stand out altogether? It II 'estern Representative seems as if, in taking this action, that Joseph G. Davis, Chicago Tribune, Dearborn ami Madison Streets, Chicago the Association has failed to grasp the true meaning of the qualifying Publisher: ARTHUR POTTOW round. This is not a method of 48 West 27th Street New York elimination merely. It has another use. The intention is to make a The Editor if/7/ be glad to receive for considera- candidate for championship honors tion Photographs and Contributions on the genera! subject 0/ the game. Stamps should be enclosedJor re'urn show that he has a certain measure postage if found unavailable. Contributors are rg- of proficiency at both kinds of play, ouested to "write their Names and addresses on the medal and match, and above all, that back of all HISS, and Photographs. Photographs should be carefull\ packed and accompanied by descrip- before he can he admitted to match tions of their subjects. Club Secretaries ivill confer a play, he must have proved himself at favor by notifying the Editor of the dates and par. ticulars of coming club events, especially open and the stroke game. It is detracting invitation tournaments. frmn the value of the qualifying tal round by reducing it simply to a h] It has occasionally been suggested method of elimination. It is very that the amateur champion should doubtful if this scheme will give sat- stand out of the competition and he isfaction to the other competitors, only expected to meet the winner of and it is certain that the player to the amateur championship tourna- finish sixteenth in the qualifying ment. This is the rule in lawn-tennis, round will not appreciate being left hut it has never met with favor when out. A championship won under applied to golf. The Women's West- such conditions will not have quite the ern Golf Association have not gone same value as a title gained in free so far as this, hut they have gone a and open competition where all are good part of the way. They have on the same footing, and when it is decided to let the champion of the realized that this feeling exists, sonic year stand out of the qualifying round doubts may arise as to the wisdom 01 and to appear as Number i in the the change. Through flie Green

Eighty-nine handed in cards at the P. W. Kendall, Bottome, Mowers, tournament of the Fox Hills Golf and Kammer, the last named by 1. Club, Staten Island, Xew York, May Armstrong, the medal winner, was 13th, 15th. put nut in the semi-finals by Kam- First Sixteen—II. E. Armstrong, mer. P. \Y. Kendall took the Beaten Fox Hills, ^j, }^-j^; Devereux Lord, eight cup. W. E. Conklyn, Dun- Forest Park, 42, 39-81 ; Frank Sears, woodie, won the Second sixteen cup. Fox Hills, 41, 41-82; B. S. Bottome, Beaten eight cup, Second sixteen W. Fox Hills, 42. 40-82; A. E. [ones, W. Harris, Dunwoodie ; Third sixteen Nassau, 43, 40-83; A. F. Kammer. H. (). Parsons, Cresent Athletic; Fox Hills, 42, 41-83: \V. \*. Conover, Beaten eight. Third sixteen, H. I!. Mc- Deal, 43, 40-83; J. B. Eddleman, Fox Clellan, Fox Hills; Fourth sixteen, Hills, 44, 39-83; J. W. McMenamy, R. Agar, Richmond County; Beaten Fox Hills, 45, 39-84; C. West Tainter, eight, Fourth sixteen, A. Le Massena, Richmond County, 4^, 39-84; S. 1). Fox Hills; Fifth sixteen, ]. S- Mar- Bowers, Brooklawn, 44, 41-85; [. I). vin, Freight Traffic; Sixth sixteen, J. Foot, Apawamis, 43, 42-85; P. W. M. Fleming, Fox Hills. There were Kendall, Deal, 43, 42-85; E. L. Scho- 153 entries for the handicap. C. Joost, field, Jr., Wee Burn, 42, 43-85 ; W. G. Jr., Fox Hills, won with 88, 18-70. Hoople, Fox Hills, 43, 43-80'; W. W. B. T. Allen and A. F. Kammer. Fox Van Loan, Fox Hills, 44, 42-86. Hills, tied for best gross at y$. Find- lay S. Douglas had 80. Lord, who plays on the public h course in Forest Park, Brooklyn, In these days of short memories won the final, beating in succession and easy assumption of other people's 36o THROUGH THE GREEN

DEVEREUX LORD B. S. BOTTOMB Winner and runner-up at Fox Hills Tournament ideas it is only fair to point out that courses," he says, "consist of a strip the present method of playing the of turf about sixty yards wide laid amateur championship was first ad- out like a race course, with long grass, vocated and suggested by the editor or trees, or bushes, on either side. of this magazine—pahuam qui meruit Hazards are placed at stated intervals. ferat. The only difference between one hole and another is the difference of length. Any shot off the tee suffices Mr. 11. J. Whigham, the amateur as long as it carries 120 yards and champion of 1896 and i8

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W. K. CONKLYN B. T. ALLEN Winner ami runner-up second sixteen at Fox Hills Tournament

the dee] 1 ditch to the left at the home Herreshoff and R. C. Watson had 1- green and took twelve; and C. B. these cards for the handicap: yj, - Macdonald landed in the trap at the y?, and 80. 4-7''. Herreshoff took back of the home green and after the gross and W. R. Thurston, Apa- considerable golf picked up. warnis, tied with Watson with Si. 5- -. y(\ for the net prize. In the final Travis heat Seekel, the Chicago player, by 10 and 9. 1 [erre- The final in the Chevy Chase tour- shoff beat Ward by 8 and 7 for the nament at Washington, D. C, was beaten eight cup. Herreshoff had a won by Travis, who defeated Allan 77 in the morning. C. A. Dunning, Lard by 14 and 13. T. M. Sherman, Nassau, won the second cup, and (i. Vahnundasis, won the medal with So, \V. White, Rushing, the third cup. 73-153. M. Thompson of Chevy Chase THROUGH THE GREEN won the gross score handicap prize, nine-hole course with natural hazards with 76. R. Lewis, of Chevy Chase, on breezy, rolling hills, and this is won the net score with 77-8-69. A. only a few minutes' walk from the S. Mattingly, of Columbia, won the hotels. first prize for the second eight with Robert Wier, of Wilmington, winner One of the most popular resorts in of the runner-up prize. Mr. Matting- Canada is Xiagara-on-the-Lake, On- ly won by 2 and r. G. B. Adams, tario. It has two golf courses, one of Baltusrol, II. M. Iloyt, San Francisco, nine holes and the other of eighteen. G. F. Downey, Chevy Chase, and W. The soil is sandy and dries quickly C. Thatcher, Columbia, were the win- after rain; the turf is of the best; ners of the cups offered for the first. while the putting greens are kept in second, third and fourth sixteens, fine condition. Every season tourna- while R. E. S. Carlisle. Park Club, A. ments are held which attract a large Parker, Chevy Chase. II. I!. David- entry list of leading players, both son, Chevy Chase, and T. E. Ditson, American and Canadian. For those Chevy Chase, were the respective who do not want to play golf all the winners for the runner-up prizes in time there are tennis, boating and each sixteen. other amusements. h There were sixty starters in the A Pittsburg golfer sends us the thirteenth annual handicap of the following: New York Stock Exchange at the I read with much interest the Knollwood Country Club, May 15th. article in your May number "A Plea J. C. Miller won first net prize with for Manhood and Sportsmanship.'1 87, 20-Oy. Rest gross, J. G. Dettmer, This is one of the very worst features 75- in connection with public or open competitions, and I would like to give We regret to hear of the death of a little page from my own experience. Mr. Thomas Owen Potter, for four- At a Pennsylvania summer resort teen years secretary of the Royal last fall I was entered as a competi- Liverpool Golf Club, at Hoylake. Mr. tor in an open tournament. I was 1'otter was well known to Americans, only making my first attempts at many of whom bad the pleasure of really playing golf and would never perusing his famous golf scrap-books, have entered, only an extra player which he had kept with great care for was needed to fill up. Imagine my twenty-seven years. Mr. Potter was surprise when I found that in the a subscriber to GOLF from the first, qualifying rounds I made almost as and its pages added many interest- good a score as one of the crack ing items to his scrap-books. players, and both of us were in the h second (light. This player finally I he attention of American golfers won the cup in the Second flight with visiting Europe is called to the ad- a score actually only two strokes vantages of Vittcl in the Vosges as over the winner of the first (light. a health and golf resort. There is a It was generally conceded by all 364 III ROUGH THE GREEN

ONE OF THE PUTTING GREENS AT XIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE. ONTARIO, CANADA.

the other players that the young man rated in the first rank. In last year's was crp hungry and yet was not man Piritisbjqjiampionship he was put out enough to play against his equals. in the tnird round by George S. Lyon, Such actions are unworthy of any the Canadian player. golfer and should be very properly and promptly punished. Without doubt the result is a dis- appointment to American golfers. The July issue of GOLF will con- Newspaper critics may discover oc- tain a special article descriptive of cult reasons for the defeat of Mr. the play for the British Amateur Travers, but the plain fact is that championship at Muirfield, in which the best golfers in every country arc Jerome I). Travers took part. It at all times liable to be beaten. In- will be written by Harold H. Hilton stead of criticising our amateur cham- and will be illustrated. pion, it would be well to recognize in this visit to Great Britain the ster- ling pluck of a young golfer which at Jerome D. Travers was beaten in least deserved success. the first round of the British Ama- teur championship at Muirfield, Scot- land, by W. A. Henderson by 2 and In the tournament at the Nassau 1. Travers's principal weakness Country Club, Glen Cove. N. Y.. May seemed to be in his tee shots. Hender- 20th—22(1, the First Sixteen were: son, who is a member of the Royal Fred I [erreshoff, Westbrook, 70, 80 and Ancient, has hitherto not been 150; lohii M. Ward, Westbrook, 76, Carter's Worm Eradicating FOR WEARERS OF For Golf Courses KNEE DRAWERS THERE'S A FERTILIZER Tennis Grounds, Lawns, etc. Instantaneous effects obtained. The worms struggle to the surface of the turf and die, leaving it true and clean A GREAT STIMULANT AND FERTILIZER FOR THE GRASS And Guaranteed Non - Poisonous to Animal or Bird Life BOSTON GARTER Now in use by nearly all the best- DELIGHTFULLY COMFORTABLE known Clubs in the United States TO THE BARE LEG and Great Britain, and considerable saving in cost of upkeep effected. NON-ELA8TIC, TUBULAR The "Practical Greenkeeper," an il- KNIT LEG BAND ELASTIC, ADJUSTABLE lustrated booklet of sixty-eight PENDANT pages, will be mailed free upon re- quest. For prices and all particulars apply to CUSHION RUBBER BUTTON PATTERSON, WYLDE & CO. GEORGE FROST CO..Makers Sole Agents for the United States and Canada BOSTON 102 Chamber of Commerce Building Cotton Pendant, Nickel Plate, 25c. BOSTON, MASS. Bilk Pendant, Gold Plate. - 60c. Sample Pair Mailed or from ARTHUR L. JOHNSON CO., Selling Agents on Receipt of Trice 180 Devonshire Street GOOD ALL THE YEAR ROUND BOSTON, MASS.

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83-159; T. D. Hopper, Nassau, 79, 83, 94-177: H. S. Hubbell, Nassau, 82-161; R. T. Haines, Yale. 70, 83- 86, 91-177- Herreshoff won the 162; B. H. Ridder, Fox Hills, 84, play-off. 81-165; F. C. Jennings, Nassau, 84, 81-165; n- C. Legg, Vale, 83, 83-166; Ward was put out in the second \Y. L. Hicks, Nassau, 79, 91-170; E. nmnd by Legg. who is champion of F. Hunt, Dyker Meadow, 86, 85-171 ; Minnesota and a Yale student, by J ( >swald Kirkby, Englewood, 85, 86- and 1. Legg laid Ward three stymies. 171 ; E. M. Barnes, Englewood, 86, Herreshoff beat Legg in the final by 85-171 ; A. J. Watson, Dunwoodie, 85, 5 and 4. First Beaten Eight cup, F 87-172; E. A. White. Yale, 86, 88- C. Jennings. Second Sixteen cup, W. 174; G. S. Ludlow, Nassau, 89, 86- W. Tell, Canoe Brook. Third cup. 175; E. L. Scofield, Jr., Wee Burn, P. R. Jennings, Garden City. Four * 3 YACHTING COMFORTS From the wide deep's placid bnsnm comes a breith of salt sea air. Under canopies on tha decks yachling parties of merrymakers seek refresh- 4 ment in the Julep, the Hi^li Ball or any mild form of stimulant Tf* 4 T» HUNTER T* BALTIMORE

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LEE & UNDERHILL 98 CHAMBERS ST. NEW YORK TRADE MARK TRADE MARK 368 THROUGH THE GREEN cup, T. P. Tangerman, Nassau. J. W. turning the best score against "par", Beckel, Fox Hills, won the handicap on its own course, is declared winner lit few* with 94, 16-78. Ward look best of the trophy. Those terms have gross with 84. been framed by the Western Golf As- sociation to meet the conditions which exist in tins country, the distances May J2d, George T. Brokaw broke being so great as to prevent the hold- the record of the Ardsley course with ing of the competition at a central 74. His card was as follows: :t;i3 (Mil 4 f, \ I I 4 4 4—39 point, as is usual. In r, 3 4 4 4 r. ;? 4-::r>—Tt S

The handsome Goli Trophy, of The trophy is now on exhibition in which an illustration appears, the gift the windows of Spaulding & Com- of Mr. IVter Dawsou of Glasgow to pany, jewelers State St. and Jackson the Western Golf Association of Roulevard, Chicago, remaining there America, has been on exhibition at the until it is sent to the club that wins Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Xew York. the initial contest for the trophy, in which, perhaps, a thousand golfers The trophy is effectively carried out \ in silver and copper and is designed will be in competition on T"ne 16th. as a tribute to the memory of Old The inscription on the trophy is Tom Morris—"a Golfer and a Man." as follows: Presented to the West- The principal feature is a model of ern Golf Association of America by Old Tom in the act of driving, be- Peter Dawson, Glasgow, in tribute to hind which is a chased panel repre- the memory of Old Tom Morris—a senting a view of St. Andrews; above Golfer and a Man. are the American national emblems, surmounted by a figure of Victory ; Mennen's Borated Talcum Powder lays and beneath, the Scottish Anns in Claim to being the most perfect powder on the market both in materials and method of fine enamel, the shield being embel- manufacture. It is the oldest of Talcum lished by traceries of Scotch thistles. Powders put up for general use and has establish! d itself on its merits in every quarter of the civilized world. The woman who buys Mennen's for toilet use or any other purpose may rest assured Of interest to golfers are the terms that she is setting the pures. and must perfect powder that chemical knowledge >:'" on which the trophy is competed for. originate or skill manufacture. Each club in the Association (at pres- There is a difference in Mennen's and those who have once used it are quick to ent 130 in number) selects a team appreciate that this difference is a difference Of superiority which i.-; easily perceived in of eight players, who play on their comparison with any other powder. own course on the 16th day of Tune Some people may say: The same ingredients are open to everybody, why can t (Tom Morris' birthday), and play others get the same results and produce a perfect powder? against "par"—"par" being reckoned Ask the woman who is famous for n« according to distance only and irre- cake why Mrs. Brown working from th« same recipe can't produce the same article. spective of the topography of the She has the same Ingredients, the Baffle directions for making and yet she can't niake ground, and all local rules are sus- good cake. It is this knack, this touch M pended. All players must play from skill and genius which makes the different* between all original productions and Irnln scratch, and the competition must be tions. It is this same genius which ma» Mennen's original Talcum Powder Buperll finished in one day. The teams re- In evi ry ot her. UJLESforaGAMEonHONOR kh IN A GARDEN OF LIES 'The Revised Rules of Golf' VIYELLA FLANNEL Registered As approved by the Royal and Ancient Coll Club of St. Andrewi FOR Phis comprehensive little booklet is yours for the isking. Among its contents are found definitions, Men's Shirts for Golf, Polo, ules for match play and stroke competition, Tennis, etc., aJso Be^th Robes ecommendations for local rules, the form and make )f golf clubs, and the etiquette of golf. Every and PaLJa.ma.s ollower of the game, no matter how well-informed, /vill find it of inestimable value. Women's Shirt Waists a^nd Shirt Write today. There's no WaJst Suits string to it. You'll be glad to get it. Address 'HILIP MORRIS & CO., Ltd. Children's Layettes 103 West Broadway New York

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The open championship of the is almost entirely a carry over the United Stales will be played at the punch-bowl declivity. Englewood (N. J.) Golf Club, June h 24th—25th. The present title-holder May 16th, New Haven Country is Fred McLeod, of Midlothian. Club beat Greenwich Country Club at Greenwich by 8 to 7. The summary: On the Massachusetts State Golf New Haven—R. E. Hunter, 0; R. Association handicap list, 2,781) play- V. llayne, o; H. G. Lake, 0; B. P. ers were rated. J. G. Anderson and Merriman, o; W. D. Langford, 2; H. IT. Wilder are scratch; W. Q G. W. Nichols, o; II. W. Wilson, 2; Chick. T. M. Clallin, T. R. Fuller, E. L. White, o; H. C. Macy, 2; J. J. A. M. Reid and P. W. Whittemore Bangs, Jr., 2. Total, 8. receive one stroke, and P, Gilbert and (rreenwich—S. J. Grain, 1 ; Dr. C. H. R. Johnstone two strokes. A. M. I-:. Martin, o; R. C. Carroll, 1 ; E. 11. Reid is the St. Andrews player who Warford, o; J. M. Mason, 0: C. is rated from his summer club at Truesdale, 2; J. C. Soutter, o; J. R. 1 lyannisport. lie gets three on the Heard, 3; S. W. Cooney, o; F. S. M. G. A. handicap. Armstrong, o. Total, 7. l- This is the ticket for the Women's May 15th, Max II. Behr, runner- Eastern Golf Association which will up in last year's amateur championship, won the Baltusrol club cham- be voted on at the annual meeting pionship with 76, 79-155- J- H. Tyug at Baltusrol, June 8th. was second with jS. 82-160. 1'resident, Airs. Edward F. San- ford; vice-president, Miss Maud K. Wetmore; secretary, Miss Louisa A. In the semi-annual handicap of the Wells; treasurer, Mrs. Charles L. University Club golfers at the Nas- Tiffany. sau Country Club, May 12th, C R. Executive Committee — Miss Dean, Harvard, had best net. His Georgianna M. Bishop, Miss Harriot card: 190, 36-154. George T. S. Curtis, Mrs. Caleb F. Fox, Miss Brokaw. Princeton, had best gross, Frances C. Griscom, Mrs. Franz E. 161, 0-161. Zerrahn, Mrs. William S. Hills, Mrs. R. 11. Barlow and the officers. F. A. Cunningham, professional at the Hardelot Golf Club, near Bou- May 5th, David Ogilvie made the logne, France, won the open cham- second hole at the Morris County pionship of the Pyrenees with the Golf Club, iuo yards, in one. It record score of 65. VITTEL Che Queen's Royal Niagara -on - the -Lake GOLF CLUB ONTARIO, CANADA

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June 3—5.—Montclair Golf Chih. June 17—19—Huntingdon Valley New Jersey State Championship. Country Club. Invitation tourna- June 4—5—Allston (Mass.) Golf ment. Club. Open tournament. June 17—19—Twaalf skill Golf June 5—Fall River (Mass.) Golf Club, Kingston, X. Y. Hudson River Club. Open tournament. championship. June 7—12.—Seattle Gol f and June 17-21 — Massachusetts Country Club. Pacific North-West championship. Championship. June 1/—21.—Oakley Country June 8—9.—Baltusrol Golf Club, Club. Massachusetts Amateur Cham- Short Hills, N. J. Women's Eastern pionship. Golf Association Championship. June ii)—Lexington (Mass.) Golf June 8—11.—Deal, England. Brit- Club. Open tournament. ish Open Championship. June 19—New Bedford (Mass.) June 9—12—Huntingdon Valley Country Club. Open tournament. Country Club, Noble, Pa. Philadel- June 20-23.—Decatur Country phia individual championship. Club. Central Illinois Championship. June 10—11.—Baltusrol Golf Club. Griscom Cup Matches. June 23—Edgewater (111.) Golf June 10—12.—Allegheny Country Club. ()pen tournament. Club, Sewickly, Pa. Invitation June 23—26—Portage Country Tournament. Club. Akron, Ohio. Ohio champion- Tune 10—12.—Wykagyl Country ship. Club, New Rochelle, X. Y. Invita- June 23—26—Oakmont Country tion tournament. Club, Pittsburg, Pa. Western Pensyl- June IT—12.—Seattle Golf and vania Golf Association championship. Country Club. Open Professional June 24—25.—Englewood (N. J.) t< rurnament. Golf Club. United States Open lime 11 — 12 — Chestnut Hill Championship. (Mass.) Golf Club, Open tourna- June 24—26.—La Boulie, France. ment. French Amateur Championship. June 14—17.—Midlothian Country June 26—29—Oakley Golf Club, Chili. Blue Island, 111. Women's Watertown, Mass. Open tournament. tournament. June 14—l —Seattle Golf and June 30—July 1.—Woodland Golf Country Club. Alaska-Yukon Open Club. Auburndale, Massachusetts tournament. ()pen Championship, June 14—19.—St. Louis Country July 1—3.—Apawamis Club. In- Club. St. Louis Championship. vitation tournament. June 16.—All Western Golf As- July 2—3.—North Berwick, Scot-

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'""THIS well known, absolutely fireproof hotel, after being entirely reno- vated, redecorated and fitted up complete with new plumbing, has now re- opened. Rates from $1.00 and up MENKEN'K S BORATED TALCUM With Bath, $2.00 and up TOILE.T POWDER ;md insist that your barber use it also. It i» Special rates by the season or year for perma- easeAntiseptics often , contractedand will preven. t any of the skin dis- nent guests. casesofteA positivn econtracte relief fodr Chapped Hands, Chafing, •id all afflictions of the skin. Removes all odor A special feature will be the cuisine, both in perspiration. Get Mennen's — the original. Put up in non-refillable boxes— the dining room and in the new cafe for ladies the "Box that Lox." Sold every- and gentlemen. A la Carte and Table d'Hote. where or mailed for 25 Cents. Sample free. Hotel under the management of Try Mtnnen's Violet (Borated) Talcum To,let Pewter. Sample free. GUERNSEY E. WEBB

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July 4—Ekwanok Country Club, August 6—7—Allston Golf Club. Manchester-in-the-Mts., Vermont. In- Open tournament. dependence Cup. August 9—11.—Jackson Park Golf July 6—9—Springfield (Mass.) Club. Championship of Chicago. Country Club. Open tournament. August 10—14—Ottumwa (Iowa) July 7—i).—Saginaw Country Club. Country Club. Iowa championship. Michigan Champii inship. August 11—14—Ekwanok Country Club. First President's Cup tourna- July 7—10.—Greenwich Country ment. Club, Greenwich, Conn. Connecticut August 11—14.—Blue Mound State Championship. Country Club, Milwaukee, Wis. Wis- July 8—io.—Westward IIo Golf consin Championship. Club, Oak Park, 111. August 12.—Midlothian Country July io—Wollaston Golf Club. Club. Pater-Filius Cup. Open tournament. August 14—Wollaston Golf Club. July 13—16.—Bret ton Woods (N. Open tournament. H.) Golf Club. Advertising Men's August 18 — 21. — Omaha Field tournament. Club. Nebraska Championship. July 13—17—Des Moines Golf and August 19 — 21 — Kent Country Country Club. Trans-Mississippi Club. Grand Rapids, Mich. Open Championship. tournament. July 14—17—Glen View Club. August 19—21—Essex County Open tournament. Club. Open tournament. August 26—28.—Westward Ho July 14—17.—Binghamton Country Golf Club. Western Junior Champion- Club. Central New York Champion- ship. ship. August 27—28—Brockton (Mass.) July 15—17—Essex County Club, Country Club. Open tournament. Manchester, Mass. Open tournament. August 27 — 28 — Winchester, July IS—17.—Ekwannk Country (Mass.) Golf Club. Open tourna- Club. Taconic Cup tournament. ment. July 21 — 24. — Topeka Country August 30 to September 4—Al- Club. Kansas Championship. toona ( Pa.) Cricket Club. Golf and July 24.—Homewood Country tennis tournament. Club, Flossmoor, 111. Final Match August 31 to September 3—Stock- for Marshall Field Trophy. bridge (Mass.) Golf Club. Open July 26—31.—Homewood Country tournament. Club, Western Golf Association Am- August 31.—September 4.—Home- ateur Championship. wood Country Club. Women's \\ esfe August 3—7.—Skokie Country ern Golf Association Championship. Club, Glencoe, 111. Invitation tourna- September 2—4—Ekwanok Coun- ment. try Club. Ekwanok and Orvis cups August 5—7.—Shinnecock Hills tournament. Golf Club, Southampton, N. Y. In- September 4—Worcester (Mass.] vitation tournament. Golf Club. Open tournament. GET A GRIP ON THE GAME BY USING THE INGLIS PERFORATED GOLF CLVB GRIP

MADE FROM SELECTED RUSSET AND BOX CALF This GRIP absolutely prevents tKe club from TURNING or SLIPPING in tKe hands, assuring accuracy rain or shine Price, 50 cts. Each, Postpaid Made only by JOHN M. INGLIS, Golf Club Manufacturer COUNTRY CLUB. MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA

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AUTOMOBILE ^-TOURING PARTIES-^V AWORTH WEST When Passing Through Cincinnati Will Be Assured ' SHORE of a Koyal Welcome and Royal Accommodations at The HOMES R. R. A different kind for N. Y. business men. 45 GIBSON HOUSE minutes from uptown. Houses (a few more now OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE ready) built on big plots from model plans for CINCINNATI AUTOMOBILE CLUB people who know. Right neighbors, healthful and Because of This, We Make Very Special Low Rates beautiful outdoors. GOLF, Tennis, &c. Prices, To All Automobilists, en tour. $5,300 to $9,500. Rent money buys. Ask to know. Regular Rates, European Plan, $1.50 and Up THE FRANKLIN SOCIETY THE A. G. CORRE HOTEL CO. No. 1 Beekman Street, New York City CORMEUUl A. BURKHAKDT, President and Manas 'Phone 8380 CortUndl -: W 375 376 FI XTUKUS

September 4—Bellevue Golf Club, September 23—25—Morris County Melrose, Mass. ( (pen tournament. Golf Club, Convent, N. J. Invitation September 4.—Chicago Golf Club, tournament. Wheaton, 111. ( (lympic Champion- September 25—29—White Marsh ship. Valley Country Club, Pennsylvania September 5—7—\\ bite Marsh State championship. Valley Country Club, Philadelphia. September 28—October 2.—Evans- Imitation tournament. ton Golf Club, Kansas City. Mis- September 6 — II. — Chicago Golf souri Championship. Club. Amateur Championship of ( >ctober 1— 2—White Marsh \'al- United States Golf Association. ley Country Club, Philadelphia. Les- September 9.—Philadelphia Cricket ley cup matches. Club. Philadelphia ( (pen Champion- ( )ctober 2.—Myopia Hunt Club. ship. ( )pen tournament. September 10—11—Chestnut Hill October 4 — 9. — Merion Cricket Golf Club. Open tournament. Club, Haverford, Pa. United States September 14—Denver Country Golf Association Women's Cham- Club. Colorado championship. pionship. September 14 — 18. — Apawamis October 6—7—Wollaston Golf Club. Inter-Collegiate Championship. Club. Open tournament. September 16—17.—Skokie Coun- October 7—8.—Apawamis Club try Club, Glencoe, 111. Western Open Senior's tournament. Championship. October 7—9—Philadelphia Crick- September 16— 18— Philadelphia et Club. Invitation tournament. Cricket Club. St. Martin's ninth an- < >ctober 8—9—Chestnut Hill Golf nual invitation tournament for the Club. Open tournament. Philadelphia Cup of the Golf Asso- October 14—16—Country Club, ciation of F'hiladelphia. Brookline. Open tournament. September i<> — 18 — Woodland October 14—16.—Montclair (N. J.) Golf Club. Open tournament. Golf Club. Invitation tournament. September 18—Vesper Country October 16—19—Oakley Country Club. Lowell. Mass. Open tourna- Club. Open tournament. ment. October 18—19.—St. David's Golf September 22 — 25 — Allegheny Club, Philadelphia. Seventh annual Country Club. Western Pennsylvania contest for the Mary Thayer Farnum Golf Association Championship. Memorial Cup. otei JSaparti

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NEW YORK

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"The Center of Summer Golf" Mr. H. J. Whigham in his article, "The Ideal Golf Links," in Scribner's for May, has this to say: "There are a few Golfers in the country who have steadily set themselves to keep up the real standard, like Mr. Herbert Leeds, who I believe is responsible not only for Myopia but for the nine-hole course at Bar Harbor and the winter course at Aiken. There is an excellent inland course at Manchester, Vermont, and there is Garden City, which lately has been much improved. When one has mentioned these, one has included practically all the links in the country which approach in interest and quality the best courses abroad,"— EQUINOX HOUSE MANCHESTER-IN-THE-MOUNTAINS VERMONT ', MILE FROM EKWANOK COUNTRY CLUB GEORGE ORVIS A. E. MARTIN, Manager Also Chief Clerk, Bon Air, Augusta, Ga. ASK ANY WELL KNOWN GOLFER ABOUT EKWANOK

377 MAPLEWOOD BETHLEHEM, N. H. SOCIAL, SCENIC, GOLF and AUTOMOBILE CENTER OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS NO HAY FEVER Unexcelled 18-Hole Golf Links, 5,300 Yards Under professional management Maplewood's links are noted for their fine large greens and the beautiful fair green from which a magnificent view of the entire White Mountains may be had. Each season Tournaments with other mountain houses are of weekly occurrence. $45,000 CASINO, finest building of its kind in the state. Symphony orchestra. MAPLEWOOD HOTEL accommodations for 450 Guests. Rates $5.00 per day and up. Special Weekly. MAPLEWOOD COTTAGE HOTEL accommodations for 150 Guests. Rates $2.50 per day and up. Special Weekly. 12 Furnished private cottages to rent. Il'ustrated booklet. Correspondence Invited.

FRED. L. HALL, Proprietor Boston Office, 8 Beacon Street LEON H. CILLEY, Manager N. Y. City Office, 1180 Broadway

To Golfers, Golf Clubs and Resort Proprietors

FOR SALE: Eighty-seven acres of land in Westchester County, on the Harlem Division of the New York Central Railroad. There is a large house, suitable for a clubhouse and outbuildings. The house will be put in thorough repair and fitted with lockers, so that any organization may step right in and find it ready for use. A brook, runs through the property. The house and an 18-HOLE GOLF COURSE in fine playing condition will be sold for $23,000. For all further particulars address D. G., Care of GOLF 48 West 27th Street, New York

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380 LITTLE GOLF LESSON HOW TO BUY CLUBS THREE (3) GOOD WAYS FIRST. GO TO YOUR PROFESSIONAL If you need an IRON CLUB insist on his selling you one with this TRADE MARK on the head. When lie sells you this you are getting the very best HAND- FORGED RIGHT HERE

SECOND. GO TO YOUR DEALER Be sure that the clubs he sells you are stamped like THIS .We think that there are no better clubs made. Players who(A SPE CIA L lyuse them say that there are none as good. If he does not ^^ACWOOO^^^ HAVEthem he can GET them THIRD. WRITE TO OUR MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT. We have placed this depart ment in the hands of a FIRST CLASS SCOTCH CLUB-IMAKER of long experience in just such work. If you KNOW exactly what you want HE will SEE that you get it. If you don't know exactly what you want he will gladly assist you. NO TROUBLE lo answer inquiries. WHEN YOU ORDER enclose your check, P O. Order, or Express Order, to cover amount. Or ask us to ship C. O. D. EASY TO FIGL'RE, #2.50 for each Wood Club. $2 00 for each Iron Club.

ROBERT WHITE, President WM. YEOMAN, Secy, and Trcas. The P. G> Manufacturing Company Composed of Professional Golfers and Club Makers Manufacturers of (3olf Clubs ant> Supplies

HBRH & YEOMAN, Chicago ROBT, WHITE. Ravisloe Country Club DAYin FOUI.IS, Chicago Coif Club W. H. WAY, Euclid Country Ciub JAMES FOULIS, Calumet Country Club HOMEWOOD, ILL. A. J. CHRISTIE, Omaha Field Club

ALEX SMITH GEORGE LOW United States Open Champion, 1906 GOLF CLUB MAKER Western Open Champion, 1906 Eastern Professional Champion and Florida Open Champion Has always on hand a large stock of Clubs of every Has a large and well-selected stock of description. Drivers and HAND-MADE CLUBS always in brasseys made from the best seasoned wood obtainable. stock, made from the very best material, Stewart's Hand Forged Iron Heads carefully finished and well seasoned PRICES ON APPLICATION Mail Orders Receive Prompt At- tention NO MACHINE MADE CLUBS Every Iron Head warranted hand forged Why struggle with a cleek any WRITE FOR PRICES longer? Get a " Baffy Spoon" Mail orders promptly attended to ALEX SMITH GEORGE LOW WVKAOVL COUNTRY CLUB BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK Springfield, N. J.

381 GOLFERS' HOTEL DIRECTORY

Length Course Rates City Hotel Open Greens Holes Yards Day Week

Asheville. N. C The Manor 9 2,450 All year Clay Augusta, Ga Bon Air 18 5,853 1 4 Dec-May Sand Belleair, Fla Belleview . . . 18 5,800 No chg. Jan.-Apr. Turf Camden, S. C Kirk wood 9 2,800 Sand Coronado, Cal del Coronado . 9 3,000 All year Sand Lake Placid, N. Y... Stevens House. 9 June-Nov. Turf Manchester-in-the Mountains, Vt. . . . Equinox House 18 5,927 June-Oct. Turf Niagara-on-the-Lake, 9 2,447 Queen's Royal June-Oct. Ontario, Canada. . 18 5,000; Turf Pinehurst, N. C*.... Carolina 18 6,013 Nov.-May Sand Pinehurst, N. C* .... Holly Inn..... 18 5,797 Nov.-May Sand Pinehurst, N. C*. .,. Berkshire 9 2,906 Dec.-May Sand Summerville, S. C.. . Pine For't Inn. - 18 Dec.-May Sand Vittel, Vosges, France 9 May-Sept. Turf

*Guests at Pinehurst hotels can play on all of the three courses.

Hotel Cumberland NEW YORK S. W. COR. BROADWAY AT 54th STREET Near 50th Street Subway Station and 53d Street Elevated

"Broadway" Cars from Grand Central Depot pass the door Only N. Y. Hotel with Window Screens throughout ;NEW, MODERN, AND ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF Most Attractive Hotel in New York. All Outside Rooms Transient Rates, $2.50 with bath and up Special Rates for Permanent Guests 10 Minutes' Walk to 20 Theatres

SEND FOR BOOKLET

HARRY P. STIMSON R. J. BINGHAM Formerly with Hotel Imperial Formerly with Hotel Woodward

382 $20,000 LARCHMONT FARM INCORPORATED West Camp, N- Y, 200 Shares (on the Hudson) Par $*00 Foil Paid Non- Assessable The Larchmont Farm, Inc., is a corporation organized under the New York state laws, its object being to raise fruit for high- class trade. This company owns 100 acres of cultivated land at West Camp-on-the-Hudson, having a frontage of about 3,000 feet on the Hudson River. Facilities for shipping are unexcelled. There is steamboat landing very near the property and goods shipped by boat from the farm at night reach New York City the next morning. The West Shore R. R. station is a few yards from the farm, and shipments may be made by express to New York in 3'_ hours. For fruit growing the land is unexcelled. It is well drained, sloping gently to the east and south to a stream supplied by never- failing springs of pure cold water. In the fruit business there is a constant demand which must be met, and with the facilities to be had at Larchmont Farm it will be only a question of how great will be the production and how large the profits. Every dollar invested in this company is amply secured by desirable real estate increasing each year in value. Low capitalization secured by real estate, fertile land, good management, with an ever-increasing market, make this a most desirable investment. Officers of the company receive no salary until stock earns 24%. Having sold a portion of this stock the remainder is now offered for sale at par $100 a share. For prospectus and full information fill out and mail this coupon.

Larchmont Farm, Inc. Box I'. Wot Cam]), N. V. Send me full particulars regarding your investment.

Ncuiir .

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383 LESSONS IN EVERY GOLFER SHOULD READ GOLF

OPEN CHAMPION AND WESTERN OPEN CHAMPION; 1906

[HE latest and best book \. the Royal and Ancient game. Every part of the game is discussed in these " Lessons," and the instruction is furnished in simple, clear and direct language. The directions given are free from complication, concise, and absolutely to the point. Every golfer who wants to improve his game should give the book his most careful study. S\ In addition to what has appeared in GOLF the book contains a large number of new illustrations and much added text of a very valuable nature

ALEX SMITH

" Whatever he may have to say upon the game is "The new book covers the subject in u compre- certain to find readers who will benefit by his hensive manner."—Chicago Record-Herald. Instructions."—jv. Y. Evening Pott. ••The book is highly interesting and instructive." " Beginners and even experts can derive any —N. i'. Tribune. amount of help from the book. The text is remarkable for its clearness and simplicity. It is an author- 1 His instructions to golf players are plain and I'1 itative and complete guide that all golfers and the i>oint. The pictures are particularly fineM intending golfers will want."—N, Y. Sun. amples of half-tone printing."—Hiiladtli>hia Prett,

Cloth, 90 Illustrations; 48 West 27th Strw postpaid, $2.00 New York City