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JULY, 1902 NO. I

THE FLUSHING COUNTRY CLUB

FLUSHING, LONG ISLAND

By F. H. L. N. SURROUNDED as New York city planning to join some suburban golf club is by scores of good golf-links of where he. may profitably spend bis Satur- almost equal excellence, the ques- day afternoons, Sundays, and even, if he turn of accessibility is the paramount is one of those for tuna tea whose office one to those who toil daily in the heart hours are over early enough, the reniain- of the metropolis in the pursuit of the der of his week-day afternoons, elusive dollar. To this latter class particularly the or Whethatn cours the particulae are dwelr advantaget upon thes oalmosf this' question of minutes difference in time- invariable inquiry is, "How long does i ttableo railwas anyd stationthe closs ei s proximita matteyr of links take to get there?" Upon the answei moment. Sunset c 3 all too soon, and often depends the decision of the inquire- a half-hour often means just the requisite who, just at this ion of the year, time to finish a long round before the THE FLUSHING COUNTRY CLUB

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THE FJKST GREEK, THE FLUSHING COUNTED CLUB.

• THE FLUBBING COUNTRY CLUB gathering twilight drives the reluctant summer, and the whole course has been player from the darkening green. carefully drained. In tins respect the members of the The first hole by its length, 425 yards, Flushing Country Club have especial prevents the far too frequent congestion cause to congratulate themselves. Twen- of a big field of players, unfortunately ty-five minutes after he sets foot in the Long Island ferry-house at the foot of From the first tee, situated about an easy Thirty-fourth Street, Sew York, the en- iron-shot from the club-house porch, the thusiastic golfer may he addressing his ground rises gently to a bunker distant ball on the first tee of the Country Club some 120 yards. A brassey second should golf-course in the quaint and picturesque easily carry the road, 140 yards further, village of Flushing. Daily fifty-two and a cleek or iron clear the second trains rnn each way from Long Island bunker, 140 yards more, which guards the City to Flushing, and the club grounds green. Total, 425 yards. Bogey, 5. arc within easy distance of the railroad From the second tee the player is eon- station. fronted by a " nerve hazard " in the shape The country is gently Tolling, with the of a deep lane between two stone walls moderately sandy soil of all sea-side some fifty yards away, but safely over courses. A fine, springy, natural growth this, the only obstacle is a sand bunker of turf, and a noticeable absence of that 230 yards further. A brassey following pest of fair greens, clover. The near the drive should negotiate this, leaving nrosimity of the Sound serves to make a short mashie pitch up hill to the green the course cool in summer and mild in of some seventy yards. Total, 350 yards. winter, keeping it almost free of snow Bogey, an easy 5. during the cold weather, and, owing to its The third and fourth holes are shorter, soil, well drained and dry at all seasons. and require straight play more than any- Besides its natural advantages, intelli- thing else. They lie side by side, separa- ^f'fi1 i"ifni• JIMI 1 11ni'' ii°ivi innli.'il imioli 1'.) ted by cop and sand-pit bunkers which the excellence of the course, for it is one lie in wait for the sliced or pulled bull. of the oldest on Long Island. The putt- The greens too are well guarded, a lug greens in particular are the pride and narrow neck of woods to the left of the "• joy of the members, and are treated with third, a stone wall and hill awaiting an the proper deference and attention they overplay on the fourth. Their distances deserve. Hitherto the only drawback has are respectively 290 and 285 yards. The been the length of the course, 2228 yards, bogey for each is 4, of course. but last fall the club acquired the neces- The fifth hole is all down hill and roll- sary adjacent ground it long wanted, and ing. Its dangers, long grass on the right, the course was extended to the proper a stone wall and " out of bounds " on the standard length of 3OT5 yards. The left. The green calling fov an accurate course was remodelled upon the excellent though short mashie-shot, as it is well advice of Champion Walter J. Travis, one guarded on three sides. Distance, 275 of the oldest members, and John Duncan yards. Bogey, 4. Dunn; and so scientifically laid out that Crossing the lane ag.iin. a short walk of it calls for true golf from the first tee to fifty or sixty yards brings one to the sixth the home green. tee. This hole calls for good brassey play. All of the putting-greens are piped, The turf on the fair green is firm and insuring plenty nf water in Hie driest springy. The distance, 430 yards, with THE FLUSHING COUNTRY CLUB 11

two bunkers to punish a poor drive or aids to disconcert the player and protect second shot, distant respectively 100 and the bogey record of <>. ISO yards more. The bogey, 5, is not easy The nine holes cover exactly 3075 yards, to beat. and it takes 41 to tip the "Colonel." The seventh hole is a soothing one to The record for the course is 35, held the anxious " medal scorer." Though 340 by Walter J. Travis, but this was made yards in length, there is but one hunker, on the old course of 2228 yards. So far and that easily carried by a good second the bogey z-ecord for the new distance of shot. A big smooth unprotected green 41 still stands unbeaten. permits a " roll up " approach. Bogey There is a smaller extra course for calls for an easy 5. practice by beginners and for children. The eighth is the usual "short hole." It has shorter holes and excellent putting- short, but blind, and not too easy. It re- greens, which are piped and carefully quires a carefully played iron-shot from rolled and cut. the tee. The green, though large, is well Another portion of the grounds is laid guarded by a high cop-bimker directly out for tennis, wifli tim.1 rvg'iiLinon courts. in \roil 1. ill if-*'i'[i\!\y ]r- ii]'•'' 11 jiy—.'• i'1 • iJ••- The club-house was enlarged and en- Distance, 150 yards. Bogey, 3. tirely remodelled last winter, and con- From the ninth tee the last hole tains an assembly and music room, dining stretches out like the crack o' doom to and grill rooms, ladies' locker-room and the home green in front of the club-house men's locker-room, ample piazzas, shower- some 530 yards away. The drive must baths, and all modern conveniences. cirry a hunker distant some 115 yards. The officers of the club are William H. Two full brassey-shots should lay the ball Bankier, president; E. E. Sprague, vice- within short mashie distance of the president; William B. Harison, secre- green, before which a troublesome little tary; Robert J. Lowden, treasurer; Craig cop and sand-pit bunker stands guard. Colgate, J. Holdsworth Gordon, Louis As the spectators can almost step from M. Franklin, Jr., Gordon Gordon, Frank the wide piazza onto the ninth green, the Rossiter, Ernest Mitchell, and William additional discomfort of a critical gallery Briscoe, board of governors. THE SECRET By Horace C

HAVE discovered," once said an while; but in the mean time it may have I eminent man, " the secret of golf. been of great use. The danger is lest we It is to keep one's eye on the place run it to an extreme and to an abuse. where- the ball was for a full minute The meaning of this, more simply and after it has gone." The discovery of concretely stated, is that we do discover such a secret could not have been without now and again certain tricks—of turning its inconvenience to some of those who out an elbow here, or turning in a toe were fortunate enough to play golf with there—that are of such immediate use to this eminent person. A minute is an us that we at once deem we have dis- appreciable space of time. It happens covered THE SECRET of all golf-playing. to most of us occasionally to take a hun- When we remember to perform these- dred strokes to the round; therefore if tricks carefully, we hit the ball beauti- the normal length of duration of the fully, and when we forget them, we miss eigbteen-hole round were to be increased it, not beautifully. It is no wonder that by the measure of one minute for every the man in whoii"i Tin? diri.'ovt.T^ comt1^ as stroke, the total result would be rather a novelty believes that he has discovered Irving- on a cold day, especially if it THE SECRET of golf. He believes that he happened to both players to make a dis- has the philosopher's stone—that this discovery of the same secret at the Siiinc covery shall be to him a Krypu lc aei—thai he will never go back from the sudden advance that he has made. Happily this is an event that very rarely occurs. One man discovers THE The experienced golfer knows a great .SECRET of golf for himself, and an- deal better. It is not the first time by nounces it with freest generosity to all very many that such a discovery has his friends; another announces, with <'iHUP t1"* linn. Li L^ HOt LIKVLIV- Ilio ^J^IIio equal liberality, that he too has discovered trick of toe or elbow—perhaps it is just THE SECRET—a remarkable coincidence the opposite turn this time to that which of discovery, you are inclined to think, served him last—but often before he has until you are further astonished by the discovered some secret which has served revelation that THE SECRET of the one him for a while, which he has perhaps man is entirely different from—very thought would be of immortal valae, likely something diametrically opposed when, lo and behold! after a few days' to—THE SECHET of the other. use, it has jibbed, turned obstinate, re- And yet we shall be making a very fused to help him any more; he has per- great mistake if we run away with the formed the same mystic gestures, with idea, as a result of this discovery, that the same elbow and the earae toe, but the there is nothing in these secrets. Truth same result has not followed. He has made the further discovery that the secret is not infallible, that he can miss the we may call that "truth" which serves ball equally well whether his elbow he their purposes usefully for a while at crooked in this manner or in that. least. It will fail them again after a THE BECIIUT

In a certain stage of his experience, or he actually did as he said—went on look- inexperience, he bad been wont to say, ing at the ground for a full minute after in a passion, at this discovery, that all the ball had gone. Had he ever really things were vanity, that there were no adopted these extreme measures he would secrets, no "royal road" to golf, and so infallibly soon have left off playing golf forth. And he would have been right, —for want of a partner and, as a mat- in a. measure. This measure to his criti- ter of fact, I know that he is playing cism he would learn to apply only later; golf still, is a popular member of many then he would come to the wise con- clubs, and has not the slightest difficulty clusion that the secret though not of in finding partners. Therefore we may immortal value, was, nevertheless, of perhaps divide his " full minute" by value for the time, that it was not to be sixty, not such a very large deduction, utterly despised just because it did not and call it " a second." That is quite contain the whole of golf in a nut-shell, long enough, and, so stated, the maxim is that it was a good little secret so long as full of profound and unexaggerated it could be kept, but that one day or other truth. It is a secret in the best sense— it would fly out of the bag, and be of use that is to say, it is a thing of permanent no more. But meanwhile, snys the man value, something permanently useful to of experience, let us make the most of it. the man who has made it his own, and That is the part of wisdom—not to quar- something which few ave able really to rel with a good thing because it is not make their own. If all could fully better, but to take such good out of it as can be found. That is the part of the realize it, it would not be of singular wise man, and that is the part of the wise golfer with regard to these golfing This, that the eye must be kept on the secrets. ball—however we phrase it-—is a secret of first-class value. There are a great Surely it is not necessary to detail many secrets of not nearly equal value them all. Each of us has made his own with this that are quite valuable enough to say " thank you" for, nevertheless. sometimes quite opposite to each other; Of this quality of value are those secrets of trick of elbow and toe that are ouly discoveries at different times materially aceidentally and temporarily useful. A contradict each other. No matter; we very little analytical thought will show are surely conscious of having made us the reason of their value, and also of them; let us realize their value, and then their loss of value. A man, we will we may learn to use them and not to imagine;—it is no great tax of the fancy abuse- them. This poor man who con- —has been off his game for a long while. ceived that he had to gaze on the ground Pie tries this thing and that—all the nos- for a full minute after the ball had gone trums of all the quacks—and at length, iisid made a useful discovery—the dis- after many days, he happens to hit the covery that you ought to keep your eye ball. Of course the fortune of the quack on the ball. Of course hi? had been told whose special nostrum he happened to be this, had read this, times without num- using at the moment is made, for the time ber, but that is quite a different thing being. He puts down his success entirely from realizing it. Now he had come to to the use of the nostrum—let us say, for realize it, and this was how he phrased it example, to squaring the left elbow. It to himself. It is not to be believed that was purely by accident, probably, that he 1-t THE SKVltET happened to hit the ball on this first and yet he had failed. The nostrum occasion of the application of the nos- therefore was not infallible. This was a trum, but this is by no means to say that cruel blow. The nostrum, having proved the nostrum will have, for him, no more :ts fallibility, was no longer of any use than this accidental value on the second at all. The poor golfer reviled in pitiless, occasion of his trying it. It will be as scorn the quack that he had lately good a nostrum in itself as it was before blessed. "I thought," he said, "that I ' —no better and no worse—but for this had found out THE SUCRKT of golf, and individual golfer it will have the enor- it is no good at all, after all." mous additional value that it has seemed Now surely this is base ingratitude. to be successful before. He has proved His little secret—not of the rank of its value, he tells himself; therefore for these, such as keeping the eye on the ball, him, and as a medicament for bis mal- that have an immortal value—had served adies, its value is enormously, infinitely him very well for a while; he had done increased. In the use of the nostrum he a great deal better than if he had never goes on happily, successfully, and he discovered it, and yet lie was annoyed tells all his friends that he has found out with it because it had not upheld him THE SECRET of golf, and is well hated by forever with its little air-bladders of them accordingly. confidence. The wise golfer, whom ex- The reason that the nostrum has suited perience in the use and abuse of many his constitution so well is apparent—it secrets had instructed, is content to keep lias won Ins confidence. That i^ really that little secret which has served his THE SECRET of golf—confidence. All turn for a while with blessings rather these others that are so-called secrets are than cursings, and go to work forthwith only so many aids To 1 iiis, UK. great one. to look out for another secret that will This nostrum has won the confidence of serve him. the patient whom we are now vivisecting And whenever Vie di^oi. ',>"TS one of these by the accidental fact that he happened minor secrets, the golfer of ripe experi- to hit the ball correctly, after a long ence knows what to expect of it. He series of misses, when he was applying does not tell himself any longer, as in it. After that, with some confidence in his green youth, that he has found out its use, he applied it again, and hit the THE SECRET, the philosopher's stone, and ball again. His confidence increased in so prepare the way for inevitable an3 geometrical proportion, until he was able bitter disappointment, nor does he there- to tell himself—and unable to keep it fore discard his discovery at once as alto- to himself—that he had found out iiw. gether valueless. He Rflys to himself: SECRET of golf. He believed it to be in- " I have here a hint which will help fallible; he thought he was never going to me for a time. I will make use of it miss the ball again. while it will consent to be of use, but I know that it will not be of use for- But then it so happened that he did ever." miss the ball again. Although he still applied the nostrum, yet. from the care- lie will use it. in fact, and when it lessness engendered of over-confidence ceases to be useful he will not abuse or from, some trivial error, he made a bad stroke. The incident came to him like a dealing -with the SECRET,—Reprinted from revelation. He had used the nostrum. HAEPER'S BOTTHD TABLE.

• SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT

By "The Colonel"

^T"fHE above heading; strikes me as a whins both at Musselburgh and at St. I suitable oiie to accompany the pho- Andrews were very formidable indeed,, tographs in this issue of Old Tom and a bail wandering within their bounds Morris and his celebrated, and deeply was lost almost invariably. The entire regretted, son Tommy. absence of these guardians of the course I do not intend to give a history of struck me very much when, two years. their lives and exploits, as Mr. Everard figo. I revisited the link's of St. Rule arid in " Badminton " cannot he improved on of the " Honest Toun." Tom had the when he writes on that subject, but I reputation of being a bad putter, but I propose to gossip a little oil both the men, n-ust say I saw little of it. Park was a narrating little personal observations wonderful putter, and perhaps, comparing that occurred when all the world was the two, Tom would not he in it; but to young, and an English or an American say that Tom was not a good putter golfer was an unknown quantity. would be wrong. Some years later than It was about thirty-seven years ago the time I am referring to, Tom took on when I first saw the Morrises on the links a streak of wretched play all round, just at St. Andrews. I was then a school-boy, when Tommy was at his very best, and and fonder of cricket and football than I when, no doubt, the old man was most was of golf, but the fever must have been anxious to show that he and Tommy in my bones then, as I never missed a could "snod them a'," but the fates were chance of watching, with something ap- adverse, and he certainly did not shine proaching adoration (you know how in any match when father and son were school-boys erect idols in their hearts), partners. Old Tom swinging along in some four- When Prince Leopold was captain of some, stroking his beard as he considered the Royal and Ancient, Tom was brought his shot, and always with a cheery word out to play with Royalty in a foursome to the boy as he passed—a word to be against Mr. Whyte-Melville, and in which cherished and repeated in after-days. I think Lord Inglis figured. Tom was These were the days of the contests not in good fettle, He passed me at the- between Old Tom and Willie Park. long hole going out, with, of course, a Feeling ran pretty high sometimes be- great train of courtiers, out to applaud tween the south of the Forth and the the Prince. Tom missed a nice-lying- north, and much money changed hands ball, horribly topping it as I passed. on the results of the matches. I remem- " Hullo, Tom," said my partner. " that ber seeing Old Tom negotiate a dead was not like you." With a twinkle in stymie successfully when the match was his eye he replied, " There are owre mony all square four holes from home. Tt graund folk out wi' me the day, Maister looked so easy, but it was a great example ," and then swung along tiie Elysian of nerve. The driving in those days was Fields, the very picture of a golfer. much Btraigbter than it is now. The Every medal day, since I remember,. SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FOUGOT

Tom has acted as starter, and lias, with presses it, it needs a full drive to swipe his genial smile, calmed the trepidation off the course. of ninny a neophyte. He always seems delighted to sec young golfers come to Now for Tommy Morris. I saw him the front, and he knows very closely how first before- he had won his first cham- each one of them plays. Then at the eigh- pionship, and I can remember the scene teenth hole, no one but Tom ever did I •xl the :-1j"it.Mi W[I

OUIUS, SIJMOk ,\\l) Jl Xlnll. SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT

shut. Then the " Sralcan." with the lazy For one thing, they practised it continu- snowfiake fluttering clown on the darken- ally. They did not teach to any extent, ing green, appears in my dreams even and having plenty of time on their hands,

J HOW TV it" Vi J. ' '111] 11 A" JML! V] ! iL! ^i i' I It"' W'O] ]i [l I'- they were eternally engaging in putting- fill putt to win the match. matches. The result was a fine ex- I do not think that there are- many hibition when a big match was on. amateurs in America who have played Park and Tommy Morris were at the top with Tommy, and who can still keep up of the tree in this respect, and I think with the average amateur, except myself. that Morris had the better of Park gen- I expect that Mr. Forgan, of Chicago, can erally. Morris had a peculiar style of say the same as I, but I do not know of keeping Ms right foot close to the bull. any other. He said that he could get a better line Tommy never knew what a brassey was. that way. Probably it was an inspira- He used instead a long spoon. I think tion. I would humbly recommend to all he liad a more complete mastery over his amateurs constant practice at clock golf. weapons than any other player I have The improvement hi their putting will seen. The worse a ball lay the better he soon be quite marked. would hit it. He seemed to revel in bad Tommy and Mr. Gilbert Mitchell limes made the best combination of profes- rougher then than now). Mr. Everard sional and amateur that there is any record of. Their styles were utterly dis- I always ri"itiintjiii"L i hiit i"h(.j old school similar, Mr. Innes taking a short half of profe^siorujl colters ^vrTP superior to ^vvn"]£. wliiIn Tomniy -^"'I'luc*! U> pvess for the present school in the art of putting. all he was worth every shot. Their do- THE FOUL'S SONG ings are recorded in Badminton, and T Molesworth, with snow and ice on the nni proud to say that I witnessed most green, he passed away, leaving a record of the games. unattainable by modern golfers. What The picture of father and son together he might have done had he lived is mere- has a great interest to us old golfers, ly conje but it is a fact that, in all The two looked exactly like the picture his big ts, he seemed to be in a on that fateful day, at North Berwick, clas by himself. Father and son, wher- wben the news came that Tommy's young' eve olfers gather together, will ever be wife slid child were dead. Tommy never rem bered with loving and admiring cared for anything after that day, and a praise, few months later, after beating Mr. There were giants iu those days.

THE FOOL'S SONG (BEGGING PARDON OF MR. SHAKSPERE) By E. Maud Griffiths •TO-THEN that I was and a little tiny boy,— W With hey, ho, the toil and the pain,— With club and ball I did but toy, For the fool he foozles every day. But when I came to man's estate,— With hey, ho, the toil and the pain,— Of strokes and scores I 'gan to prate, For the fool he foozles every day. But when I came, alas! to drive,— With hey, ho, the toil and the pain,— By swaggering I could never thrive. For the fool he foozles every day. And when at last I came to hole,— With hey, ho, the toil and the pain,— ]VJy temper "was beyond con.trol, For the fool he foozles every day. He that hath and a little tiny skill,— With hey, ho, the toil and the pain,— Must be content with his fortune ill, For the fool he foozles every day. A great while ago I played the fool,— With hey, ho, the toil and the pain,— But that's all done,—I've been to school, And I'll make a match, Sir, any day. THE TRUE ETIQUETTE OF PASSING

HY is it that the technical right haste and many foozles; but although the of a two-ball match to pass a hole may have been execrably played, ha* W three-ball or four-ball match is so he not the proud satisfaction of having insisted upon on this side, while in gained something, and does not that com- Great Britain, where the courses are much pensate for some mighty poor golf? In- more crowded, it is practically a dead sistent as he is on his right to pass, letter, by mutual consent? Personally, I under any and all circumstances, by think that a good threesome or four-ball virtue of the rule on which he sets so foursome opens out the best possibilities much store, how singularly unmindful he of the game, in every way. During my is of a neighboring rule which forbids his trip abroad recently T played both kinds playing into you—to maliciously remind of matches on every links visited, em- you of his superior rights. And how he bracing' all. or nearly all. of the princi- chortles over it while waiting at the next pal courses, and yet in no instance were tee. we passed or was there the slightest de- Now I do not think that this is the sire manifested by the party back of us to proper spirit in which to play the game, go through. Here. I grieve to say, a in the circumstances. And that the similar match can only be played on suf- trainers of the rules shared this opinion feranee, and under the most discoura- and acted upon it is evidenced by the ging circumstances, and notwithstanding addition of a rule which gives the player the maintenance of your proper place on the right to pass the match ahead when the green, and your clearly demonstrated there is more than out? clear hole between ability to "keep up with the procession," the latter and the party ahead. Both you are continually being passed by rules should be read and construed con- players whose knowledge of the rules is junctively. Otherwise, when every hole mainly centred in that rule of etiquette is occupied, what is achieved by passing? "What is the actual net gain in the round, which gives a two-ball match precedence in time ? over all others—irrespective of other con- It makes no earthly difference to play- Of course, if a three-ball or four-ball ers of this calibre that you are not keep- match play so slowly as not to maintain ing back the field, in any way, or that, in their place on the green, it is quite differ- fact, as sometimes happens, you are ent, and they will doubtless be the first being- kept back yourselves: the mere to recognize the fact, and cheerfully allow sight of a threesome—or a foursome—is the party behind to go through. to them as a red rag is to a bull, and It is a very common thing on the other they are profoundly miserable until they side to witness a threesome—as common sail through. And it is a curious fact as it is uncommon here. And it is very that the poorer the player the crazier he rarc indeed for them to be passed. is to pass you. Tt is, in a way, amusing How are these three-ball matches con- to wntch his passage, marked by excessive stituted ? Generally by two amateurs playing their best—or better?—ball against THE TRUE ETIQUETTE OF PASSING

fl professional, or two am;iteurs whose a best-ball match. The player who is handicaps average,say,six strokes playing hopelessly out of it lifts his ball five times ilSilillst llie scrateh m n a usuany out of sis. These continued gains, first SING " - ™ with one player and then with another, make* a good match, and is a good thing help materially toward enabling the for the games of all concerned. It keeps the professional or the scratch man up to green. Even supposing it does take a bis work, and, best of all, it has a great little longer, all the better, I say. We tendency to improve the play of the nearly all play here too feverishly, and handicap men. seem more intent upon getting around in With this form of the game practically i minimum number o1' minutes rather tabooed with us, the average player has than strokes—and lose a good deal of the little opportunity for improvement by ex- finest part of the game in the under- ample, as he usually takes on a man in taking. Not that I desire to be un- his own class, and soon gets into a cer- derstood as favoring inordinately slow tain rat, and rarely rises above it, while play. that of the scratch man, unless sup- ported by other players of about equal Another circumstance that forces itself strength, is not likely to improve by upon one's notice is the different behavior playing with a weaker man. between our cousins and ourselves in the As threesomes undoubtedly work for ease of a lost ball. They interpret more general improvement, so do four - ball liberally than we do the rule that a ball foursomes, properly constituted, in even a shall not be considered as lost until five greater degree, and, to my mind, realize minutes have elapsed in its search, and the highest form of the game. give you a reasonable opportunity of Instead of being frowned upon, both finding it, which, when you come to chink Ibreesomes and foursomes should be en- of it, is only right and proper. couraged. In the first place more players How is it with us? The very instant can be accommodated upon the course; Feeondly, the standard of play is raised; ball you are greeted with a warning- cry thirdly, players meet who would not of "Fore!" from the party behind, who otherwise do so. As against these advan- exultingly quicken their pace in a fever- tages the single, and perhaps selfish, ob- ish desire to pass before you should dis- jection may be raised that the playing cover the ball—only to wait at the next of such matches occupies more time than tee. Sometimes it happens that the ball singles. Not to any appreciable extent, is quickly found, and then ensues a mad if at all. In a single, how often do you scramble for the green. fee a man pick up his ball and give up Would it not be more dignified and his hole? Very rarely. Even though he conduce toward more harmonious feelings may be four more on the green, he fights to play the game on a more liberal scale of the thing out to the bitter end—and notes consideration, keeping- in active view the the score—as at every hole—on his card spirit as we]] as the letter of the rules of —one of the evils of importing medal etiquette governing the game? It's a gen- 1-lay into match play. It is different in tleman's game anyway. GOLF FOR WOMEN

Vn.-THE LONG GAME.-(Continued)

PON every golf-course there should that its face is usually laid back a trifle- he, and almost invariably is, a pro- so as to impart a loft to the ball, and on U portion of holes so long that it its sole is fastened a thin piece of brass. will require two, or even three, shots with In playing a brassey, practically the the full power of the driver to reach the same swing should be used in the drive green. proper, except that it should not be al- Tlie point of arranging the distance of lowed to swing back quite so far. the holes on a golf-course so that it is In driving a ball from a tee, one should necessary to play shots perfectly in order endeavor to hit it as cleanly as possible, to reach the green in two or three or four, but when the lie is such that a brassey as the case may he, is a most important is being used, one should not endeavor one for the development of good golf, but to do this. one which is most unfortunately only On the contrary, the club should be too ottei] iivei'l'^'kotfl. I.' 1 !•* ^o mafn- brought down more perpendicularly, and lestly unfair to have a hole of such a the ground struck at the same time with distance that a player can make a poor the ball. drive and still reach the green in two In playing a brassey, do not imagine by making a good brassey, and be just that because the ground should be struek as well off as a player who has made a as well as the ball, an extra amount of good drive and a good approach shot with force must be imparted to the stroke. a rnashie, that it is very discouraging to Eather to the contrary, for the whole the good player, and to play over a course secret of successfully negotiating a bad so arranged takes away much of the plea- lie is the cleanness with which the ball is sure of the game. picked up. and, as I have reiterated in Supposing, however, that the course former chapters, the "follow-through." has been, correctly laid out "and the dis- Tn addressing the ball for a brassey- tance arranged so that full shots with the shot, it should be a trifle nearer the right driver are required, the point arises, as foot than when a tee shot ia being played, soon as a bad lie ia found, of what club and that foot should also be somewhat to use which will not only lift the ball further advanced than in the other in- out of the bad He, but has the power stance. It may sound absurd to say that to achieve the desired distance. The one inch is about the distance, but a club designed for the express purpose is golfer will readily appreciate the differ- the brassey. Of course where the lie is ence which such an even apparently in- gond enough the driver should be used, significant distance will mnke. but when there is any doubt whatsoever If the player lias been wise enough to of the ability to get the ball away with accustom herself to the use of a low tec the driver the brassey should be taken. she should have no difficulty in hitting This dub is really like a driver, except her brassey-shots cleanly, but if she has GOLF FOR WOMEN

"been accustomed to driving oft' from :i ground behind the ball slopes upward. The mound of sand anywhere from one to ball may be perched upon a tuft of grass three inches in height, she will probably which sets it up ay high as though it were find that the brassey-sbots are being on the tee, but nevertheless it is an ex- topped most distressfully. This is one of tremely difficult and unpleasant situation. the punishments of using; a high tee, and The only way to negotiate it successfully should offer an argument in favor of a is to allow the club to go through after low one, sufficiently strong to make the the ball in accordance with the dip of the golfer discard that violation of the tra- ground; and another thiug to be very ditions of golf at once and for evermore, particular about here, and in the per- and the argument is equally applicable to formance of every other stroke as well, is all the shots played through the field. to see that the face of the club is not The best way to remedy the fault, after turned in, or, in other words, that the discarding the high tee, is to fasten the end of the face is not nearer the left foot eye on a spot directly behind instead of than the heel. -upon the ball when preparing for a stroke, The next most powerful club, meaning as was advised in the first place. This the distance which it will drive the ball, has the effect of bringing the objective is the cleek. ' focus of the eye to a spot a trifle lower This is an almost straight-faced iron than in the other method, and the result club, and with it one should be able to is that the cluh is instinctively swung a get within about twenty or thirty yards little 1ower, hing: ng it do the proper of the distance one can get with a Wei. brassey. It is played practically like a SOBletimes a player will strike the brassey, and should be used in. its place d so haref a blow, in endeavorin g to when one is afraid of overplaying with avoid topping, th at the wrist ?•ill r« the latter, or when the lie is particularly a Revi md the memory of it will bad and it is necessary to get distance. cause the player to err 01i the other side Next to the cleek in power is the mid- with the resoIt that a long series of iron, and then the mashie. "tops " will r dt. Thi*re is only one way to overcome this, and that is to play the shots easily and carefully until the Technically of course, every shot, except feeling of flinching disappears. the drive from the tee, which is expected If one is sclaffing brassey-shots con- to land the ball upon the green, is an ap- tinually in an effort to avoid topping, it proach, but the term is usually regarded may be overcome by looking at a spot to mean only shots played with a mid- just ahead of the ball on the same prin- iron or mashie, or, in other words, those ciple that constant topping may be over- from a distance of about 110 yards down come by looking behind it. to where the putter is employed. There Beyond these points the advice laid are many ways of playing approach shots, down for the performance of a drive, the and there is no more important part of timing of the stroke, the necessity of ac- the game than this, not even excepting curacy, etc., etc., applies equally to the putting, which is, I must confess, usually brassey, regarded as the must difficult and most One of the hardest "lies" from which important part of the game. While putt- "to negotiate a good shot is from what is ing is undoubtedly of the greatest im- called a "hanging lie," that is, when the portance, the player who can lay her ball WLF FOB WOMEN within a very few feet of the hole from every course there will be some holt's a long' approach shot practically saves a. where each will be found neee^ary. stroke, for she should occasionally go When golf was younger in America than it is to-day, and our courses were while it is a grand putter indeed who can consequently more imperfect and rougher, always go down in two putts when her the highly lofted approach which would ball lies thirty or forty fort away. drop with comparatively little roll was In playing approach shots, the im- the favorite among players generally, portance of accuracy is intensified, for from the fact that if one dropped the ball the distance to he covered is so small that upon the green it ran truly, while an ap- the short player is jtist as well off as the proach played so that it would bound a:id long one. and the advantage which the roll along the ground (which in those latter enjoys from her superiority in days was usually quite rough) exposed that department from the tee and through it to the chances of being turned widely (he field is lost. from its true course by contact with In playing a full shot, while it is ex- the lumps in the ground. tremely pleasant to see the hall go sail- A point against the highly lofted ap- ing away clean and sweet and dead on proach was that it was quite as liable to the line of the flag, it makes really no be swerved from its proper co\n-*e by the difference whether it does just that or wind as the low shot was by the rough whether it goes ten or fifteen yards to the ground. riglit or left. When it comes to ap- This objection still holds good, while in pr the i dif- the last year or two courses have im- ferent matter, and this te.n or fifteen proved so greatly that the ball in the yards to one side or the other resolves itself into the question of a stroke more or pended upon to roll straight, and for less. this reason the low approach shot is more lu playing approaches, the point men- generally used, when the conditions are tioned in a former chapter regarding such that a choice can be made. the use of a club which will carry the re- Another point in favor of this style of quired distance without either pressing or approach shot is that it is decidedly easier trying' to spare the shot is particularly to correctly gauge the proper amount of apropos. force necessary to cover a given distance There are two ways of playing ap- when hitting with a straigliter-faced club proach shots. than when using a well-lofted one. One is to play them up in the air with Still another point in its favor is that a little cut on the hall so that they will if one fails to hit the ball exactly as one drop with comparatively little roll, and should, the results are not so disastrous, the other is to play them low and depend for a half-topped or a selaffed shot from off a comparatively straight-faced club Both have advantages, and while it is gets much nearer the mark than when Letter to settle upon one way and use it this unhappy result is achieved with a whenever practicable, one should en- greatly lofted one. deavor to master both methods, for upon THE METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP

TUXEDO GOLF CLUB, TUXEDO PARK, NEW YORK, MAY 28-31, (902

By "Oldcastle" THE policy of the iretropolit.ni Golf realize- that their chances of success are Association in allowing those with very remote. handicaps of twelve to enter, in- It cannot honestly he said that the stead of ten as last year, did not result qualifying round as a whole showed golf in an increase of entries as it was expect- of a very high order. Ninety-four was ed it would do. Forty-nine players only the high score which enabled a player to started in the tournament, and with such qualify, and this is a high card on ti a comparatively small number of players course where the amateur record is 72. it seems as if thirty-two was. an undue The figures do not show up favorably by proportion of competitors to be allowed comparison with the work at Montckir to qualify. On the whole, the field was a in a competition of far less importance, representative one. The college element. The course at Montelair is without doubt which never takes part in this fixture, was three or four strokes harder than that at again absent, but most of the prominent Tuxedo, yet there was only one 95 in the golfers of the Metropolitan District had first thirty-two. entered, with the exception of 0. H. Walter J. Travis was in his best form Hamilton. Allan Kennaday, and John at Tuxedo. He had low score in the Reid, Jr. Reid, although not in the qualifying round, taking the medal with championship, did play in the handicap 76. As the links had been extended, this and the four-ball match, the latter of constituted a record for the course. His which he won in conjunction with Y. card read:

Oden Horstman. out R 4 a s 4 « 4 4 i-?.- Miiny people expected a very much In 6 5 * * 4 5 3 * *—3fl—TB larger entry, and some comment was C. B. Maedonald was next with SO, and heard to the effect that it was apparent then came Fiiullay S. Douglas with SI. there was not so much interest taken in Amongst other well-known players who tournaments as there had been. There qualified were J. A. Rtillman. Ti. 0. Wat- is no foundation for such a contention, son, Jr., Devereux Emmet. Louis T.iv-

A few days later, in the New Jersey State illpston, Wilt L. Thompson, and C. B. Leajrue contest at Montelair, there were Tory. Two prominent players. W. C. no fewer than one hundred and fifty en- Carnegie, St. Andrews, and A. de Witt tries, and the supporter of the game who CVbrane, Ardsley. failed to qualify, i* not satisfied with this must be hard The new championship system to be to pW. The fact is that golfers reeog- used at Glen View this month was tried

nlze that iW- Metropolitan Golf Assucia- ai Tuxedo, and opinion differed as to tion championship is not, quite the same whether it was successful. It certainly thing aa TIIOSI; of the other Eastern fix- did not result in producing an exciting tares, and many remain away when they finish, but then on the other hand neither UETRIil'OLLrAN UULF ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP

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did the old system used at the Metropoli- surprise when C. E. Macdonald was put tan championship of 1901. Last year out by 2 up by Wirt L. Thompson, of F. S. Douglas heat Charles H. Seeley by Baltusrol. The latter played a good 11 up and 10 to play, and this year E. game, as he had need to do, for Mac- A. Mareellus, of Yountakah, lost to W. donald was going well. It ia quite evi- J. Travis by the same number of holes. dent that Thompson is a strong player, It is possible that the new system has its for two years ago he beat Walter J. advantages, but somehow they were not Travis at Westchester. He plays with a very apparent. It does seem as though full swing, and uses his irons well, but this system is founded on an error, that it cannot be said that his style is an at- of adopting a man's medal play as the tractive one. It is too deliberate and basis upon which to pair him in the studied, but it took him as far as the match-play rounds. A glance at the semi-finals, when Marcellus beat him, so Tuxedo scores in the qualifying round it was decidedly useful, if no other epi- will serve to show what is meant. With- thet can be applied to it. Louis Living- out mentioning names, there are players ston, owing to the new system, had the mis- in that list who were six or seven strokes fortune to be paired against Douglas, and higher than some others, and yet several of those with lower scores would be beaten as the ex-Amateur champion happened to at match play if they were in receipt of be on his game the result was that the a third even. Westbrook player was beaten by 4 up and The first round at match play led to a 3 to play. There were some bard rights in this round. Emmet had to piny twenty- •s METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION CSAMPI0N3E1P run? holes to beat V. S. Wheeler, Apa- put1 al the ninth. They were all even ivnmis; and \V. B. Diusinore. Jr., Tuxedo, at the fifteenth, and eventually Travis won on the twenty-second green from won by 2 up. Watson had IS for this Ardeu II. Rubhins, St. Andrews, J. U. round. Wirt Thompson had 0 hot fight 1 Ward , Fox Hills, who is an improving with Emmet, and beat him in a twenty- player, beat J. A. Stilhnau. Tuxedo; hole game. John Moller, Jr.. ApawanuB, who was In the semi-finals Marcellns hail to runner-Hp to Travis at the Garden City meet Thompson, and the former won & tournament, was beaten by Marcellus; VJ-hole game. Thompson was even more and C. B. Cory, Avdsley, lost somewhat deliberate than usual, and there was a badly to F. O. Horatman, Lakewood. certain constraint about his play which The average golf displayed during the was not noticed when he played Mac- second round was of much higher order, donald. He was in almost every case Douglas, Marcellus, and Travis all hay- better off the tec than his opponent, but ing T6's. John Smith, of the Powelton the latter made up by showing- superior Club, had the fine card of 36 for the first form at the short game, nine holes, and this would have been a The other two semi-finalists were :',T, hut for one unnecessary putt. The Travis and Douglas, and the meeting be- best match of the day was that between tween these two old antagonists produced Travis and K. C. Watson, the latter of play on the part of the Amateur champion whom played during the week quite in which will not soon be forgotten. He his old style. Travis was 1 up at the went round in 72, and an average of 4's turn, through Watson missing an easy even of the course is only slightly in ex- METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP 29 cess of 5400 yards, is something which has on, and would have run down any hall never been done by an amateur in this with which he might have been playing:, country. Douglas played the round in Once more he showed wherein the great T!l. which shows that he did not make strength of his game lies. Apart from many mistakes, and yet he was beaten his putting there was nothing1 brilliant by ii up and 5 to play. Il was on the in it. But he carefully avoids mistakes, greens where Travis gained his advan- and that is what tells. He only played tage, although he was holding' his own one hole badly, the fourteenth, where through the green, Douglas labored he played his second short, and got into •under the disadvantage of not being able the Jordan, having a 7 for the hole to

to gain anything from his long game, Douglas's 5. The match, however, had on such a short course as that at Tuxedo, been already won, and Travis was only But what was had for Douglas was good playing- for a record. Those who are fa- in others, notably Marcellus, who would miliar with the champion and his game, scarcely have reached the finals on a will be inclined to doubt whether the ball conrae of full length and championship would have landed in the Jordan, if it Quality, had been absolutely necessary for Travis Travis Was playing on this occasion to win the hole. The card for this match with a new ball of the rubber variety, but reads: there is no telling whether it was to this T™via 4 * s 4 4 H s i a-34 lie owed his great work at the hole. It iv^i'".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.!'.'.'.'.'.'.'^ a B tn * a ! B-38-T-> is probable ft,, he h.d , putting *re.k "^"'•-^^Z* t'£.li," """" METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP

Tl .e fijiiil K'tWK •n Trai'is and Mar- Travia. •llus was a very t ne afi the Ama- Tru- champio n hav g the ime in his Mfirce:; hands fr am th(> start. T ravif seem- Jlurceil I to take th ings v- y easily, yet he tin- li« I 8 on tl.e m ing's Play , Jr., and F. 0. Horstman, ith Vfi a:5 \-.is meit tl sco: Ms rcellus had 1 e, 374-35=72 in the four- as wur-ip off the te than =ver an dtime ball atch. There was a tie for the after time he topped his drives. In the handicap between John W. Griggs, North end he lost by It up ami 10 to play. Jersey, 176—36=140, and John Moller, The card reads: Jr.. 180—20=140.

THE WOMEN'S METROPOLITAN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

ESSEX COUNTY COUNTRY CLUB, ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, JUNE 10-14, 1902

THERE were only thirty-three starters woman golfer would return a card for the in this important fixture, which is not round in the 70's, yet this is precisely

\t lii ]'in_' n tn ]L lu'V filial Hi1] 111^' Ji< iv niuii y what happened during the match-play

1 I ij'i, j ]i 1 [1 c-f 11 <' [ I_J |i-, J *( • 111; [^'' "11") 1110 IIS^ "J '! J - rounds. tion. But the fewness of the players In the qualifying round the field waa did not prevent golf from being ex- led by Miss Elizabeth W. GofFe, Essex hibited of a higher class than has ever County, who had the very fine card of been seen in America. 86, the lowest score ever hitherto returned The Essex County course is not a long in a Women's Metropolitan tournament. otre—shorter even than that of Tuxedo Miss Genevieve Hecker, Apawamis, had —for it is only 5000 yards in length, but second score, 91. there are certain difficulties which make The score by strokes of the two leaders some of the holes far from easy. The bogey according to the card is 83, but ss B. W. Gofle, Esses this is too high a figure. The amateur record is 74, which is held by Howard A. Colby, the club champion, whilst Jack Park, the club professional, has the pro- The others to qualify for the fessional record of 69 made in'a recent shipwere: match. The women's record was 86. At previous tournaments of this asso- a. A. De Arclsle ciation at Morris County and Nassau, no !. M. D. Pattersor!, Ku^loiv.i'id. i. E. M. Carnricb. BSMX Counly one has qualified with less than 00, and to .. Willi.im Sbippcn, Mums County,.. get into the 80's was a feat entirely un- .sRntli Biltlgtiey. TT;ir>i.i!' ITill .. E A. Miinlix, BaMnsml expected. It was thought to be possible .s Marie Cliarles. Esrf\ County -that this latter performance might be i. E. V. Saiifoi'd. Es^es County : II. H. Clark, AliiiiViiniis seen at Essex County, for Mrs. Edward asH. I Minmlo? A. Manice, of Baltusrol, was reported to . N. P. 1 M.iaa Rnlli L lpvliill, X.,- IK( VI' T2'' !]]'• t'< it! ] ]i [ M ](' (^OUl'^"'.' 1 ] ] ^tfc i\ I i'W MisaC. C. Willis, daya previous to the beginning of the At match play, seemingly, Miss Goft'c tournament. But no one dreamt that a was unable to duplicate her brilliant work METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION 0SAMPWNSS1F 31

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MRS. MAN10E VS. 1IIWS HI5ENANDEZ. FINISH OF M.V SCENES AT THE WOMEN'S METROPOLITAN. METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION OEAMPIONSEIP

.if the lalifymg round, nnd she fell mi sho a hi fallacious such a easy victim to Mrs. Maniee, who beat , with a moderate swing her by 6 up and 5 to play. Miss Goffe ithi the power of the player appeared to be nervous, and displayed no- to use with case and grace, sufficient dis- thing like her true form, whilst her oppo- tauce can he attained without accuracy nent played as usual with great care, and being sacrificed. was as steady as a rock. In the second round the hardest fight The second round produced the game was that between Mrs. Manice and Mrs. ' between Miss Ilecker and Miss Underbill, Pendleton Rogers. Mrs. Rogers was 1 in which all previous records were left down on the twelfth green, and but for far behind. Miss Underbill, who has bad putting she should have evened things been runner-up twice at this fixture, was up on the fifteenth green. However, beaten by 7 up and 6 to play, and that she made Mrs. Manice play her best to is no cause for wonder, taking into ac- win. couut the game Miss Hecker was play- Miss Hecker in her match with Mrs. ing. No woman in the country would Manice was so far below her usual form have stood a chance against such work. that she was beaten by 4 up and 3 to The card reads: play. She was weak at all parts of her .. game. Off the tee Mrs. Manice usually outdrove her, and through the green Miss Miss Underbill, in 7 5 5 f, 3 B 4 4 5—45-92 Hecker generally had to play the odd. On two of the greens when her ball lay Mrs. Manice was unquestionably playing dead she did not hole out, but supposing a very fine long game, but with Miss she had taken two putts for each hole, Hec-ker in her proper form she would her score even then would have been 79, have undoubtedly been outplayed. The which is sufficiently remarkable. Both in loser displayed a most unaccountable this round and in her match with Mrs. timidity, especially at the greens. Mod- Sanford. Miss Ilecker played better than erate as her work through the green was, ever. Her long game was perfectly as- compared to her usual form, she still tonishing'. At more than one green she practically held her own, but she was got over 200 yards from the tee, and at vastly inferior to her opponent on the out- hole, the sixth, in her match with Mrs. Sanford. her drive was fully 220 yards, her to lay a putt dead, and she gave her the distance from the hole being paced by ball no chance, for she was never up. some prominent amateurs who were Taking all these weaknesses into consid- watching the play. The freedom of Miss eration, Mrs. Maniee's game showed a Hecker's style was in marked contrast to decided advance. She has been working that of most of the other players, but she hard the past four years to make good seems, like a great many women, to be her position in the golfing world, and the developing a tendency to over-swing her- result of all her patience and persever- self repeatedly, almost falling off her feet ance is the winning of the Women's Met- on the tee at the finish of the drive. It ropolitan Golf Championship, which is was noticed at Essex County that the second in importance only to the Cham- tendency to over-swing' was general, prob- pionship of the United States. Her vic- ably owing to the idea that only by an ex- tory over Miss Hernandez was very easy, treme swing can distance be attained. as was expected, the Essex County player Some of our best players, notably Mr. losing by 7 up and 6 to play. THE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP OF .*««( GREAT BRITAIN

A-f-riIE Tenth Women's Championship balls lying on the side of a slope ]_ was held over the links of the either down or up hill. The one a per- Cinque Port Golf Club, situated on fect lie, the other most difficult to ne- :'lli:*it. the shores of the Strait of Dover, during gotiate. the last week of May. At one o'clock on May 27, the first This championship differed from pre- ball of the tournament was driven off by vious events in the size of the entry—110 Miss Pascoe. No very interesting matches —and the wonderfully high standard of took place in the first heat, in which some play. The entries represented the finest fifty players were knocked out. There golf in the British Isles, and among the were, however, several ties, matches hav- first-class exponents of the game were ing to be carried to the nineteenth, Miss Rhona Adair, Irish and Open cham- twentieth, and even twenty-first green for pion of 1900, Miss M. Hezlet, also a dual settlement. champion (1889), Miss Pascoe, cham- The finest match in the second heat pion 189(3, Mrs. Lyndhurst Towne, cham- was that between Miss Hezlet and Miss pion 1898, and Miss M. Graham, B. Thompson; the latter had the best of champion 1901. Other players of note were Miss Sibyl Whigham, Miss E. C. against the wind Miss Hezlet proved the Nevile, Miss L. Dod, Miss B. Thompson, stronger player, and the match ended on and the Misses Park and Mrs. Mungo the seventeenth green, the Irish player Park, sisters and sister-in-law of the well- winning by 2 up. As the heats continued, known ex-champion and " Pro " Willie the interest narrowed and grew more Park. The days prior to the tournament intense, for the tournament was un- were devoted to international matches doubtedly evolving the survival of the between England, Ireland, and Scotland. fittest. On Wednesday (the second day) In these England proved all-conquering. the wind, blowing across the course, was The actual championship was prefaced on rather demoralizing, both for tee shots Monday, the 2(Sth, by a medal-score com- and in the judging of approach strokes. petition for prizes presented by the The 29th, however, proved a perfect day Ladies' Golf Union. In this Miss M. for golf, a dull sky. with little or no Hezlet returned the lowest card, 88, while wind. The match of that morning was Miss E. C. Nevile took the second prize the struggle between the two Irish players, with 90. Miss Hezlet's score was excel- Miss Adair and Miss Hezlet. Both 1 lent ; the course, nearly 0000 yards long, is equally strong , it was expected the contest- by no means easy, and for the " home " would he keen and prolonged, and there holes a stiff breeze met the players, render- were many who predicted that the sur- ing many of the carries extremely difficult vivor would subsequently become the and tricky. The lies through the green, champion. Both members of the Royal though of fine sea-shore grass, are of a Portrush Club, they play many matches Immmocky nature, the majority of the together with about equal result. But VOL. XI.-No. i._s THE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP OF GREAT BRITAIN on this occasion Miss Iiezlet asserted her until the semi-final, when she was easily superiority at an early stage of the game, defeated by Miss Hezlet. and playing brilliantly, never allowed A large crowd followed the final in Miss Atlair to take the lead. The match the afternoon of the 30th. At no pre- ended in Miss Hezlefs favor by 3 up and vious championship had two players of 2 to play. such equal merit met in the final, and it Miss Jr. Graham (the holder) met a was anticipated the struggle would be a stiff opponent in Miss M. Park, the fif- keen one. The match was also of inter- teen-year-old sister of the " Pro "; play- national interest, Ireland being repre- ing a fine game, in a pretty quiet style, sented by Miss Hezlet, and England by the champion found herself equally Miss E. C. Nevile. As in the meu's matched, and only succeeded in snatching amateur championship, the finalists at a win nn the last green. Miss M. Park Deal played with the now popular Has- will probably achieve championship hon- kell ball. The effect was most percepti- ors at no very distant date. ble to those who knew the game of botli The spectators, who, indifferent to the competitors. Miss Hezlet's strokes had rain which fell during the afternoon, fol- lengthened some thirty yards, while Miss lowed the match between Miss Whigham Whigham, hitherto considerably the and Miss Dod were amply rewarded by the brilliancy of (lie game. Miss Whig- with Miss Neviie outplayed off the tee ham, playing as she had never done in and through the green time after time. anv prLjviiius rlinniViion-Jup. ut'Tuni]ilisln is The final proved the finest match ever the "out" holes in 38, only two more seen in the last heat of a championship; than the record of the course established every hole was contested. At the turn by Tom Vardou. Miss Dod, who was Miss Hezlet was 1 up and 2 up at the really playing a fine game, found herself eleventh. Miss Nevile's supporters at at the turn in the unpleasant position of this point showed signs of uneasiness, but 4 clown. This lead Miss Whigham in- by really brilliant play she won the next creased, winning on the thirteenth green. three holes. The fifteenth, however, going Usually weak in her short game, Miss to the Irish player, the match was again Whigham, on this occasion, was approach- " all square." In this give-and-take man- ing with deadly accuracy, her average ner it continued, Miss Nevile being dormie being one putt on the majority of the 1 at the seventeenth. Then, probably greens. But the uncertainties of golf from the nervous strain, Miss Nevile were clearly illustrated next clay in the foozled her third shot into an adjacent semi-finals, when Miss Whigham fell be- bunker, and the match was again squared fore Miss E. C. Nevile, entirely through on the eighteenth green. Breathless and the weakness of her short game. Miss excited, the spectators hurried to the E. C. Nevile had previously disposed of nineteenth green, where a half in a per- the holder, Miss M. Graham, but the fect i folldVed. Going to the twentieth, game had been keenly contested, only both played a little wildly, and Miss ending on the last green. Mrs. Mungo Nevile failing to hole a six-foot putt for Park, who, through the luck of the draw, a half. Miss Hezlet won the match and had met no very strong player, survived the Blue Ribbon of British golf. THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP OF GREAT BRITAIN By Beardsell Burn

HE days of early June found the the title by an extremely narrow margin. course of the Royal Liverpool again Harry Vardon equalled Mr. Hilton's T the centre of attention, for the record for the course, made in competi- open championship of Great Britain was tion about a year ago, in his first round, held there in the first week of the month. and following this up with a 77, finished We are somewhat accustomed to records on the first day at the head of the in these days, but the fact that there were list with a total of 149. Herd and Ray, 113 competitors was nevertheless sur- the Churston professional, were both 153, prising. There were 94 professionals and Braid 154, Andrew Kirkaldy and Mr. 18 amateurs taking part, hut only one was Hilton 155, and Mr. Maxwell and Tom a player engaged outside the British Vardon 156. Then came the second day's Isles, that one being Amaud Massey, the play with its ups and downs. young French professional from Biarritz. Vardon's lead of 4 strokes, useful Sandy Herd's victory at Hoylake was though it appeared to be, quickly disap- wonderfully popular, not only with all peared, for the Ganton player could do who follow closely the doings of the golf- nothing right, and required 80 for the ing world, but with his brother profes- third round. TTerd, in the mean time, sionals as well. He has been unfortu- playing with Mr. Ball as his partner, was nate in his championship pursuits; the honor has been almost within his grasp making very good way, and finished in so often that every one is delighted that 73, which, considering the high wind, was he can now write himself down Open an even better performance than Var- Champion. In 1892, after leading the don's 72 on the previous day. Braid also field, he finished joint runner-up with required 80, Ray dropped back with SI. Mr. John Ball, Jr., and the late Hugh Mr. Hilton took 81, and Mr. Maxwell 79. Kirkaldy to Mr. H. H. Hilton at Muir- so that the players might have been en- field. At Prestwiek, in 1893, Herd had gaged in the old game of " family coach " again an excellent chance, but his fourth from the way they changed places. Herd round was not equal to his other three, was now leading with 22<"i, Vardon being- and he finished third. In 1895, which is 239, Braid 234. Mr. Maxwell 235, and Mr. always known as Herd's year, he played Hilton 23fi. brilliantly in tournaments, but missed The last round brought great excite- the championship again, and although ment with it. Herd played very weakly among the prize winners more than, once, from the eighth hole to the last green, he has never been favorite for the event. the last eleven holes costing him 58 Truly he has had a hard time, and the strokes, and he finished in SI. We saw championship comes at last as a reward Herd hole out his last putt on the home for dogged determination to achieve suc- green, and then made a rush for the sixteenth to see Harry Vardon hole out and play the last two holes. He had gained Yet Herd only just r ed to three strokes on Herd, and only wanted THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP OF GREAT BRITAIN two 4s to tie. At the " Royal" he played £10, i nd £50 in cash; Harry Vardon and a beautiful second with a driving-mashie Jsme i Braid (tied second and third) £20 to within ten feet of the hole. His putt each; Tom Vardon (fifth) £10; J. H. was short and a 4 was recorded. To Taylt c and J. Kinnell (tied seventh and the home green h. had a fine drive, but ighth), £7.10s. each. his second was a bad one, and he was The positions occupied by the amate lucky to kick on t(o the green. The ap- ere, extremely satisfactory, showing t the gap betw Strong, and went the leadi four feet past the fessionals nd the hole, the next was best amateurs is missed, and he not so wide after was a stroke be- all. Mr. Robert hind Herd on the Maxwell was the

The Hudders- championship who field player was had four rounds naturally con- in the seventies, gratulated warm- and his scores of ly, but his friends 79, 77, 79, and 74, were the result of c-ounting their some magnificent chickens before golf. Mr. Hilton they were hatch- ed, for Braid ed his old form, struck a phenom- but there was still enal game coming the difficulty ex- home in his last perienced in nego- round, the last tiating the short putts. The Royal costing him 34. Liverpool player His round was 74, tied with Taylor making his aggre- and Kimiell for gate the same as sixth place. Mr. Vardon's. Mr. S. H. Pry came Maxwell was not next to Mr. Hil- ton very far behind, O|'-" C ;i."ii[ipi;.n '*' *• '-• occupying and he also came fourteenth place, home in 34, finish like Braid i 74, and Mr. Ball was fifteenth. Mr. Graham but one strob behind him on the four was disappointing. rounds. These scores were not approach- The weather was all that could bo de- ed by any other players; Tom Vardon be- aired on the first day, there being no wind, ing next with 313, Mr. Hilton, J. H. and a dull gray sky which golfer's love. Taylor, and ,T. Kinnell being 314. A strong wind and occasional showers The prize money amounted to £125, and marred the second day, but at no time was awarded as follows: Alee Herd were the conditions as bad as those which (first), championship gold medal, value prevailed at the amateur championship. RECENT "RULES OF GOLF" DECISIONS

/-T-*HE following answers have been whether blown by wind or otherwise? | given by the Rules of Golf Com- Answer—Yes. mittee (St. Andrews, Scotland) to Mid-Surrey Golf Club.—A competitor queries submitted to them at their recent in a stroke competition, in which a fel- meeting: low-competitor acted as marker, after his West, Lancashire Golf Club.—If, after score had been verified and his card sign- having his attention called, A re-tees his ed by the marker, received it and placed ball within the limits, having first teed it in the appointed receptacle, without it outside the limits of the teeing-ground, countersigning it himself. Shortly after- is he disqualified for receiving advice wards, but some time before the conclu- from B, under rule 12 ? Answer—.No. sion of tin!' ctjiupeTii"ion. Hit' c'.nHi'jetitor Koyal Eastbourne Golf Club.—A play- called the secretary's attention to the er, erroneously concluding thai: his ball was out of bounds, without attempting to petitor was disqualified, although his look for it, dropped another ball on the score was the best returned in the com- tee and holed out with the second ball. petition. Moreover, it was held that he The first ball was then found, and the was not entitled to take the customary player drove off the next tee. He then sweepstake got up amongst the competi- was informed that he had done wrong, tors, although he was duly entered. Was and returned, teed the first ball, lost two this a right decision? Answer—He is strokes, and holed out in 6, which score disqualified for both medal and sweep- lie returned. Does rule 11 apply, and if stakes. not, does any rule apply to this case, and Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club.—A was the player wrongly disqualified? three-ball match with caddies is followed Answer—Disqualified for striking off at by a mixed foursome, one of whom (a the next tee before discovering his mis- male) is a professional and only one take. caddie among the four. At a certain Macclesfield Golf Club.—(1) Playing hole the latter requests permission to in snow, may a player clear away any of pass and it is refused. Is this right? the snow round his ball? If so, how Answer-—No, it is wrong, but the eti- much? Answer—A player is entitled to quette of golf cannot be enforced. remove the snow within a club length of Nazing Golf Club.—In a medal com- the ball, providing he does not move the petition a competitor drives from the ball. (2) If the ball is embedded, can wrong tee—i. e., outside the limits of the , ho clear away enough to see the ball 3 If teeing-ground,—but immediately detect- so, must it be from behind or from the ing his error, plays another ball from the top of the ball, and how much? Answer correct tec, and returns his card, reporting —Same answer. (3) Is it a stroke if, while the circumstances. Is there any penalty, a player is putting on the putting-green, and, if so, whnt is it? Answer—If the or after having grounded his club in the player played from an entirely wrong act of addressing his ball, the ball moves, teeing-ground lie is entitled to re-tee on RECENT "RULES OF GOLF" DECISIONS the proper tee ing-ground without penalty, of bounds. Does B'B action in playing but if it is meant that he played from and getting into the same difficulty square outside the limit of the proper teeing- matters? Answer—A having lost the hole grouud he is disqualified. under local rule by playing out of bounds, Withiugton Golf Club.—A and B are nothing that he can do can prevent his partners in a foursome. When A was opponent from winning the hole. about to putt (on the green) B brushed Troon Merchants' Golf Club.—In a the green across the line of the putt with stroke competition and at the eighteenth his hand, touching the ground in a man- hole, when both holed out, one of the ner which would have been quite lawful competitors said he had taken T, The • had A done it himself. Does this cause A marker, who was his opponent, knew at and B to lose the hole if claimed by their the time he had taken 6, hut rectified the opponents ? Answer—No. matter before the cards were handed next E. and R. Clark Golf Club, Edin- morning to the secretary. The actual burgh.—In a hole-and-hole competition score was 6, and admitted both by scorer A playing two more was supposed to have and marker. Query—Can a card be al- got out of bounds, the local penalty in tered before handing to the secretary, or such case being the loss of tlie hole. B, should this be done before leaving the his opponent, without making certain of putting-green? Answer—It can be al- this, played one off two, and also got out tered before- being handed in.

• QUESTIONS UNDER THE RULES

To the Editor of Golf: To the Editor of Golf: SIR,—If a ball be driven out of bounds SIR,—A is playing B a game of golf from the teeing-ground. oan the player (medal score), and A's ball lands in a tee his ball in driving the second time, hazard. It is unplayable, and conse- or must the ball be dropped? C. L. quently he lifts his ball and tees with the Answer.—The ball must be dropped on penalty of two strokes. He then soles the teeing-ground. his club, and B claims that this soling of the club entails an additional penalty To the Editor of Golf: of two strokes. A insists that he has SIR—Will you kindly answer the fol- that right, without any additional pen- lowing questions res'nrding the status of alty, in or out of said hazard, owing to a player ? (a) Does the fact that a mem- the fact that he tees and has taken two ber of a golf club receives a salary as strokes penalty. Who is right? secretary affect his standing as an ama- G. H. W. teur? (I) Does the fact that a member Answer,—This seems to be a most un- of a golf club receives pay for repressing necessary sort of discussion on A's part, used golf-halls affect his standing as an for why should he want to tee in a amateur golfer? T. C. hazard ? If he does so, he must of course obey the rule and is penalized, if lie £nsmr—(a) He loses amateur stand- - ing. See section 9, subsection 8, of the touches sand. amended by-laws of the U. 8. G. A. (/;) He cannot do so and retain amateur To the Editor of Golf: standing. See subsection fi of the same. Sm,—Will you give me your opinion 1!EVENT "RULES OF GULF" DE0ISI0W8

on this subject ? "\Ve have what is called that ruling would in my mind be the best skinned greens here, and in the absence in equity. H. K. R. of a blade of grass to put by one of our Answer.—Eule 24 is explicit. S loses players made a slight dent with his putt- the liole. er between ball and hole. Now, some of """•"•fcll, the members say that is against the rule, To the Editor of Golf: and I would like to have your opinion on SIR,—If a ball be driven out of bounds the subject. J. J. G. and lost, should it be counted as a lost •"•-i.iiii,,ii... Answer.—The player loses the hole for ball, and the person driving- give up the so doing in match play, aud at medal hole in match play? Or should a new ""-Wit,; it play be is penalized two strokes, See ball be dropped for loss of stroke and Eule 20. distance % I have heard it argued that the hole should be counted as lost, the To (he Editor of Golf: same as in the case of a ball lost in Sis,—I should like to get from you, or bounds. Others claim that a ball should from some one to whom you will refer not be counted lost when out of bounds; me, if you will be so good, a ruling on a that when it goes out of bounds, that point in golf. The case in point arose settles it, and that it should make no dif- in a match between the Springfield Coun- ference what becomes of the ball. try Club and the Amherst Golf Club, and E. W. It on the ruling rests the result of the Answer.—A ball driven out of bounds match. An Amherst man, " A," and a cannot, under any circumstances, be re- Springfield man, " S," are like as they lie garded as a lost ball. See Rule 31. on a green. Both players have caddies, but S's caddie holds the flag back of To the Editor of Golf: the hole to mark the putt for A. A putts SIR,—Under medal rules, what s the too strongly, the ball overruns the hole, penalty, if any, given the following cir- hits the flag, and stops close to the hole, cumstances ? A and B are playing. The whereas it would have gone on some referee makes a decision. A calls out to three or four feet. The'hole is played an onlooker, "How about that, Mr. out and is halved in actual strokes, but S 1" The onlooker addressed then "believes that A won the hole, because he comes forward and takes part in a dis- hit his (S's) caddie. A flag ia not men- cussion as to the rules. He does not tioned specifically in the rules, but there give advice as to how A shall play his seems to he no doubt that it would come ball. The referee decides that a penalty in the same category as clubs, or the caddie himself, if held in the caddie's attaches only when advice as to the play bands. But might not the caddie while itself is asked of an onlooker. E con- serving A be regarded as A's caddie, or tends that under the latter half of the as a fore-caddie? He not only did not do rule in question A is disqualified. A an injury, but did him a positive ser- C. D. M. vice in stopping the tall closer to the hole Answer.—Eule 33 covers the case. It tban it would otherwise have stopped, is not meant to prevent a reasonable dis- though in principle that does not enter cussion of any legal or technical point. into the case. If the caddie acting for jNfo penalty has been incurred by A. A is regarded as a fore-caddie, the inter- ference was a "rub of the green," and To the Editor of Golf: SIR,—B'a ball is lying < i the putting- ALLAN KENNADAY green. The green is made of a mixture sliced his ball into the high grass and of clay and sand. It is not turf. In found it in a cart rut about four inches brushing away the loose sand over the deep, in one-si xteenth-inch casual water. THE line of the putt, B touches his ball and The ruts, by-the-way, have been there for turns it about half round, but does not the past two years. My opponent claim- move it from its position. A claims the ed the right to lift and drop back without penalty of one stroke according to Rule penalty, under the casual-water rule. I 18. E claims that, as he did not move claimed that he was taking an unfair ad- his ball out of its original position, he is vantage of the rule, and should play the not liable to penalty. A claims that B ball where it lay, or drop in the rut improved the lie of the ball, and that it where there was no water. I am con- makes no difference about moving the fident that the sole object of the com- ball out of its position. F. SI. B. mittee in drafting this rule was to give Answer.—A ball either moves (in the the player's ball as good a lie as it would have had had no water been there, and golf sense), or it does not move. Sec- not to allow a player to play from the tion J of the definitions permits of os- •water, or drop back, depending on which cillation only. A ball turning upon its was to give him the best lie. In the early vertical axis has taken a new position, part of the same match my opponent since it presents another striking surface played from casual water, owing to the than the original one. B is therefore fact that he would have been forced penalized. to drop in high grass. A. F. K. To the Editor of Golf: Answer.—The casual-water rule is not SIR,—Our course is laid out in a lavge intended to give a player any advantage, field with a fair green about one hundred but to prevent his being unfairly penal- and twenty feet wide and high grass on ized. Tour opponent could have option both sides, which is cut but once a year. merely of dropping back under penalty In a match (match play) my opponent of one stroke. Eule 15, Section 2.

ALLAN KENNADAY R. ALLAN KENNADAY, whose and after being down to that player, portrait appears in this month's managed to put him out by 2 up, which M " Gallery of Golfers," commenced was a great achievement. In the amateur to play the game about six years ago, championship of 1900 he qualified with when he joined the Montclair Golf Club. 186, and was then beaten in the first Harry Ttawlins was the professional at round by E. M. Byers, by 1 up. In 1901, the club at the time, and from him Ken- at Englewood, he won the New Jersey naday imbibed the rudiments of the State Golf Association championship. game. It was not long before he made At Atlantic City he qualified in the his mark in club tournaments, but in amateur championship of 1901 with 1T0, outside fixtures he did not attain much and was beaten in the first round by prominence until the Metropolitan Asso- "Walter Egan, the runner-up. His recent ciation golf championship of 1900 was wiiiijii]{x

By Frederick White HERE was great excitement among "Great bulgers! but that's bad," said tbe clubs in the caddie-bag, and it the driver. " He didn't send it fifty feet!" T was all the driver could do to keep " What was it?" said the putter, as the them in order. hrassey came banging back. " These i'el- "Come," said he; "this will never do lows crowd so, I can't see anything!" if we want to help Jack win his match. " What was it ? Why, a miserable stone Steady down now, and remember to just under the grass, that's what it was. swing straight and hit clean." 'Most knocked my head off!1' "All right," said the lofter, and the "Did it hurt your face?" said the other clubs smiled, for the lofter was the little mashie; but the brassey only glared most uncertain of the lot, although he at him, and the next thing he knew out he had a great opinion of himself, because went in Jack's firm grip, and then— he could send a ball very high in the swish! click! and he knew he had done air. well that time at any rate. The little mashie was nervous. He He was very glad when Jack carried had heard some one ask Jack "what him along instead of putting him back in he called that thing," and while the bag, for he wanted to see where the Jack's reply "that it was a dandy little ball had gone, and his honest face shone club, even if it was not faced quite with delight when he saw it lying within enough," comforted him greatly, stilL he six feet of the disk. could not help wishing that his face was "Very pretty," said the driver, and the beyond criticism. little mashie's face caught the sun and "If I only get the chance," said the glowed again. little mashie, "I'll show them that I un- "Here's where I come in," said the derstand golf as well as any club in the putter, and the other clubs saw his bronze lot." head swaying over the velvety green, and " Well, here goes," said the driver, and then the ball ran slowly along the ground off he went to the teeing-ground with and toppled into the hole. Jack, while the rest of the dubs started "Halved in four! Great golf, my out with the caddie to watch for the ball, sons!" The driver smiled approvingly. "A beauty!" cried the brassey, as the But they were off again, and this time ball sailed over their heads and went the drive carried a little off the line, and jumping along the ground. the hall landed in a marshy spot, from " Yes," said the eleek, " hut here's the which the lofter was only able to send other fellow's ball within five yards of it to the fair green. us, and a better lie at that." "Just my luck!" sputtered the lofter, "Never mind," said the brassey. " It's as he came back with his head all plas- my turn now," and while the other clubs tered with mud. "I always get the worst were congratulating the driver, out he lies, and then he blames me instead of the went with a jump that made them all club that sent it there." The lofter was a little touchy, because 42 THE LITTLE MASHIE some of the other clubs regarded him Some one was talking to Jack. as a freak, and once he had heard an " You've simply got to win the next," imported iron say " that in the old coun- he said. " You are the last pair in, and try a hrfter would nol- be allowed in the that hole decides the match for our club

same bag with a respectable lot of clubs." tCi.ui.1. J. 11(_' sfi 'yi' sTijml^ jill <'VL'11, and if "Never mind," said the driver; "the you win it gives us the cup!" game is young yet, and even if we lose " Duffer!" said the driver, angrily, this hole, we'll pull through all right." " coining around rattling Jack and the And lose it they did, much to the dia- rest of us with his 'got to win'!" .gust of the whole set. The driver was very grumpy, for he So the match wont on, and the clubs knew his mistake at the last tee had did very good work, and could not com- helped bring about this very state of plain particularly, although the niblick (he had only been out once) went fast However, there was no time for any- .asleep, thereby incurring the wrath of the thing else, for the driver was off again, •driver for his lack of sportsmanlike spirit. aud the little mashie was so overpower- The little mashie had had four chances ed by the seriousness of the occasion and only made one mistake, when he let that be could only poke his head out be- the ball hit a bunker, thereby causing tween the lofter and cleek and watch him to grieve greatly and think about for the ball, half hoping, half fearing, his face again. that he would have one more chance. They had just halved the sixteenth Now the caddie-boy was taking them hole, and the match stood all even and down to where the five-foot bunker raised two to play. The little mashie was wor- its ugly bulk one hundred and eighty ried. yards from the tee. It was so much nicer to be a hole to On the other side of this bunker, about the good at this stage of the game, but one hundred yards further on, the lit- he tried to make believe he did not care, tle mashie could see a crowd of people and called out " Good luck!" to the driver, clustered about the home green. who was bending himself gracefully The little mashie knew what it all as Jack swung at imaginary balls while meant as well as any of them, and just waiting for his opponent to drive. then he heard Jack's opponent cry " He'll need all his luck to beat that "Fore!" and a ball fell quite near him, shot." said the brassey, as the other but far enough from the bunker to make man's ball flew over them. " Looks to it an easy matter to clear it on the next me as if he had the ' wiggles.' I thought shot. He looked up where Jack and the :so—foozled, and just when we can't afford driver were silhouetted against the sky, it. Well, me and the cleek will have and again he heard the cry " Tore!" nnd -to help him out." the ball came sailing over his head, and The brassey was very apt to forget striking the ground, rolled within a few "his grammar when, he became excited. yards of the bunker. Then hack they all rattled and. jangled " Very pretty," said the other man, as to where Jack was gazing ruefully at the Jack came up, "but a little too close F ball, which really looked disappointed too. for comfort." It was the cleek's turn, and he did nobly, " Well, can't be helped," said Jack, and "but it, was another halved hole, and only he looked ao serious that the little mashie one to play. almost cried. OUT-OF-BOUNDS 43 The other man took a rakish-looking "Little mashie, little mashie, I'm the cleek for his next shot, and the ball fell ball, and I'll help you all I can. Strike on the green some fifteen or twenty feet me well underneath without hitting the from the hole. ground, and be very sure to send me "'• •tin til!" " Just then the niblick woke up, and af- straight I" ter taking an observation went fast asleep He had just time to say " Thank you !" again, for according to his idea the game when he felt himself swing slowly back- was all over. ward, and then down he came with a rush, Two or three of Jack's friends began and as the grass-blades swept his face he to shower him with advice. gave a little jerk, and caught the ball just "Try a cleek," said one. " Lofter," as he had hoped to do. said another. "If you don't get on the As his head came up on a line with the green this time it's all up with us," said top of the bunker he saw something a third. white spinning through the air, and the The little marine saw Jack look first little mashie knew that he had done well at the bunker and then at the distant green with a very troubled expression) "What a shot!—that ends it," said and then he heard liim say: some olio, and end it it did, tor the ball " The cleek won't raise it enough, azid lay within six inches of the cup. it's too far for the lofter. It's a desperate The other man tried hard to halve, but chance, but I believe I'll put all our hopes (ailed, and Jack, using the little mashie in the little mashie." j]isli.'-rif] c<\ tJiL1 ]Hit!rt\ hflc'd I>IK amid the The little mashie had never felt quite like this before. He did so want to do of the great team match by the closest well, hut all the uukind things he had ever heard about his face came back to " I congratulate you," said the other him now, and he knew it would be very hard to lift that ball over the bunker and and Jack, still holding the little mashie, send it on for a hundred yards or more. and trying hard not to appear too much Jack picked him out of the bag, and elated, said, "Thank you; I really don't as his head went down in the grass he quite understand yet how it happened!" heard a voice say in a whisper: And the little mashie was very happy.

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I' J OR I remember stopping once last Fall To watch a Putter thumping his scarred Ball; 'Twaa almost black and deeply cut and braised. "Damn it," quoth he, "Save this. I've lost thorn all." —Golfaiyat of 8. W. Wordyce, Jr. EDITORIALS

At ten of the holes, a moderate over- GOLF approach in tho straight line is out of EVERY MONTH bounds. There are fifteen chances of By Special Appointment Official Bulletin of !h< going out of bounds from the tee, and United States Oolf Association, Intercollegiatt at least eight opportunities for the same Golf Association,Central New York Golf League Metropolitan tioli Association, Western Golf As- misfortune to follow the second shot sociation, and Southern Golf Association. (not an approach). Surely this sort of thing tends to cramp free play, and mil- ONE YEAR, $2 00: SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS itates against the cardinal principle of Postage fru United States, Cantifla, and Mexico. To golf, playing the ball where it lies. At this particular club the out-of- bounds rule is properly applied to per- Edited by van Tassel Sutphen haps half a dozen out of the thirty-three- Address: HARPER fc BROTHERS, New York cases already enumerated. In the other instances the ball is either lying on club The Editor will be glad to receive for property or on a public road, and the consideration Photographs and Contri- latter has always been held to be legiti- butions on the general subject of the mate golfing territory. The club is not game. Payment, at regular rates, will even consistent in its own rulings. One be made upon publication, and stamps end of a public road is taboo, while fifty should be enclosed for return postage if yards away, on another hole, the ball found unavailable. Contributors are must be played as it lies. requested to write their Names and Finally, the plea is often made that the Addresses on the. back of all MSS. and liberal interpretation of the rule saves Photographs. Photographs should be time on a congested course. A fallacy, carefully packed and accompanied, by of course, for no one is going to lose the descriptions of their subjects. Club present fifty-cent ball without a struggle. Secretaries will confer a favor by noti- fying the Editor of the dates and par- ticulars of coming dub events, espe- THE RULES AGAIN cially open and invitation tournaments. THE editor of Golf Illustrated calls attention to the answer given by the Rules of Golf Committee of St. Andrews to the OUT-OF-BOUNDS Mid-Surrey Club. (See page 37.) - N its inception, the rule of loss of In 1899, a similar inquiry was pro- I distance for a ball driven out of pounded by the Warlingham Golf Club, bounds is an eminently proper one, and the Committee ruled that the omis- since a player is not entitled under any sion of the countersign could be recti- circumstances to trespass upon private fied, if application were made before the property. There is, however, a tendency close of the competition. On this point among local rule-makers to extend the the present ruling directly contradicts out-of-bound definition, so that it applies the former decision. not only to non-club property, but to It is surely unfortunate that the de- parts of the actual course itself, long cisions of the Committee should be given grass, strips of woodland, and the like. after so haphazard a fashion. Fortu- Consequently, at one of the well-known nately, American golfers have a final metropolitan clubs, we find the following and competent court of appeal, the astounding reductio ad ahsurdum: Executive Committee of the TJ.S.G.A. Through flic Green

E. S. C. FISK, secretary of the club who was desirous of entering the M Toledo (Ohio) Golf Club, has sent Chicago open tournament, and being a letter to the editor of GOLF asked by the reporter what effect our which explains itself, and GOLF is glad, admission to the U.S.G.A. would have by publishing it, to correct the misap- in his case, I made the statement that he prehension that had arisen. The Toledo could play- over any course of the U.S. Golf Club has had the courage of its G-.A. holding an open tournament (of •convictions in the past, and to-day it is course paying the necessary entrance a worthy and loyal member of the na- fee). I will further state that many of tional association. It would be a good our members belong to private golf clubs, thing for the game if there were a thou- and I do not know of a single instance sand more clubs like it throughout the where they have been inflicted with the country. The letter follows: presence of a member of the Toledo Golf Club on the private course.

"Noting your article in the June nuin- ter of GOLF, with the statement attribu- " Of course a great many of these state- ted to me, yiz., that a member of the ments get through the papers. This is Toledo Golf Club could play over any due to the ignorance of reporters, hut T •course in the U.S.G.A, and enter any can assure tile Brookline Country Club tournament, I take this occasion to in- and all other Eastern clubs that the To- form you that the correction was made ledo Golf Club will not force itself on «» soon as I saw it, for it was wofully them in any way, and should any of their misconstrued by a too ambitious reporter, members come to Toledo, we would be I think your paper has done me a great pleased to extend what little courtesy our injustice. There is a member of our club is capable of." THROUGH THE GREEN The Rockaway Hunting Club of last week, and this, in my opinion, ia not Odarhurst, Long Islam!, will put a conducive to the best interests of the strong team into the field this season, the game. list including A. L. Nurris, Daniel Chaun- eey, James B. Taller, Lawrence C. Per- kins, Aniory G. Hodges, and Chauncey " In putting I think there is little dif- H. Murphy. ference between the ' Haskell' and tlie ' gutty ' balls, provided the player is nut too much imbued with the American The following excerpts from an article ball's reputation for uncertainty. That by Mr. H. H. Hilton in n British con- it has an awkward habit of jumping out 1 temporary make interesting reading: of the bole is true, but so has the ' gutty, " " I must candidly acknowledge that I and one is perhaps too apt to blame the am one of those who- look upon the in- ball; but to sum up, it may go a little creasing popularity of the 'Haskell' ball further than the 'gutty' when hit true; with misgivings as regards the future of it certainly goes a long way further when the game. That it holds an advantage not hit true. It is undoubtedly a more over the 'gutty' ball in many respects uncertain ball in short approaching, and cannot be denied, but they are advantages in consequence it tends to add to the un- which, in my opinion, only tend to add certainty of the game, and detracts from the science, which you will admit is not to the uncertainty of the game, as I in the game's best interests. By the fore- think that even the greatest advocates going I do not wish to uphold the of the American ball will admit that ' gutty' ball as a more serviceable arti- owing to its greater resiliency there is a cle than the 'Haskell'; far from it, as I larger degree of chance as to the run on consider that it is possible to gain much the ball after the drop than there is with ( more wonderful scores with the Ameri- the ordinary gutty.' Last week at Hoy- can; and recent results certainly tend to> lake I saw many approaches, apparently that conclusion. In consequence almost correctly pitched, drop on an unusually all players are forced to use it, as one hard piece of ground and shoot twenty cannot afford to give the distance away; yards past the hole, whilst other ap- but whether its introduction is of advan- proaclieg badly struck, and which under tage to the game is another question, and ordinary conditions should have been £f- notwithstanding the risk of having my teen to twenty yards short, have run up opinion put down by American golfers to within a few feet of the pin. This un- insular prejudice, I unhesitatingly say I certainty must tend to level up the good consider it is not." and the fair or indifferent approaches but it is not so much with the iron clubs as with the wooden instruments that the levelling-up process is so apparent. A Says the Irish Golfer: missed shot with a 'Haskell' ball goes " Out of 118 players who started in the, nearly as far as a truly-hit ball, particu- spring meeting at St. Andrews only larly if it is struck on the horn of the about a score used the gutty ball, hi- club or with a slight pull. Again, it is eluding Mr. Kobert Maxwell, who refuses extremely useful in jumping and running to have anything to do with the Ameri- through bunkers, particularly when the can. It is said as much as ten shillings sand is at all hard, as it was at Hoylake was offered for a Haskell ball in St. An- THROUGH THE GREEN

drews on the mornin of the competi- The course is of nine holes as follows: tion, but not a single ne could be pro- 1, The Lane, 280 (4); 2, The Point, 400 cured at any price." (5); 3, Devil's Kettle, 550 (6); 4, Hedge, 150 (8); 5, Pond, 300 (4); 6, Double Hol- low, 164 (3); 7, Ridge, 275 (4); 8, Cherry Tree, 275 (4); 9, Sunnyaide, This is the fourth season in the ex- 400 (5). istence of the Burlington (Iowa) Golf Club. What with a fifty-acre tract for a nine-hole course, a large and commodious Says GOLF'S Boston correspondent: club-house, and a membership of 225, one "May and June are the big months for might guess it to be a prosperous club, tournaments in Massachusetts. On the and such it is indeed. whole the play has been encouraging, and the scores made by both men and women have been lower than ever before. In the open tournament at the Myopia Hunt The location is indeed charming, about Club at Hamilton no player came two miles from the business district, within six strokes of the 11 made last easily accessible, and on the highest hind autumn by A. G. Lockivoorl, and equalled in the vicinity of Burlington, the club- this spring in a practice round by John house occupying the pinnacle. From its Jones, the professional of the club. The broad piazzas the entire course is easily scores, however, showed an all-round im- seen, and to the north and east they over- provement except on the qualifying day, look the great Father of Waters, the when the wind blew one of those gales Mississippi Kiver. which are so severe on play at Hamilton. THBOUOH THE GBEEN

" J. G. Thorp, of the Oakley Country with a total of 414; Oakley first team, Club, in one of his matches made the second, 423. Eleven competitors made round in 83, which was the be?t during scores of 84 or under, and the best were the meeting. Thorp carried off the by the following players: J. M. Richards, Myopia cup, and with the exception of Harvard, 83; P. A. Proal, Harvard, 84; his match "with A. G. Lockwood was nob R. D. Lapham, Harvard. 79; C. T. Rich- pressed. In this match, the best of the ardson, Harvard, 34; H. C. Egan, Har- meeting, Thorp was out in 40, and was vard. 84. For Oakley, J. F. Curtis, who no less than 5 up, and later he was

Syrian coming down like a wolf on the Newton, and the Concord Golf Club. fold,' however; for Mrs. Manice, after The well-known Massachusetts women equalling Miss Mackay's fine score of 97, players have played a little better than won the play-off in 98. Mrs. Mauice never they did last year, but their scores show has played in The Country Club's meet- that only practice during the summer ing before, and hardly belongs to the with good players will enable them to Boston group of golfers. During her take the place they should at the national visit to Boston Mrs. Manice, with Miss meeting. Miss Mary B. Adams, of the L. A. Wells, visited several of the courses Wollaston Golf Club, who won the cham- round Boston, and played good golf. At pionship of the Women's Golf Associa- Myopia she went round in 305, a credit- tion of Boston, is perhaps the strongest able score under the conditions. player. Her approaching and putting are nearly first class, but she is badly in need of a stronger long game. Miss Mar- " The spring season, so far as tJie Wo- gery Phelps, of The Country Club, and men's Golf Association of Boston is con- Miss E. A. Abbott, of the Winthrop Golf cerned, closed with the annual meeting Club, are players who have come along at the Wollaston Golf Club at Montclair. this year, and will have to be reckoned Great interest has been taken, probably with in the national event." more than usual, as the national women's championship will be held at The Coun- try Club in the autumn. Open and in- Percy Pyne 2nd has been elected cap- vitation tournaments have been held at tain of the Princeton University golf the Myopia Hunt Club, The Country team for next year, and it is to be hoped Club, the Brae-Bum Golf Club of West that nothing will arise to prevent him

THE THIRTEENTH GREEN, WOIXASTON (MASSACHUSETTS) COL1 THROUGH THE GREEN from representing his university at the the tuition of Ben Sayres, the North Ber- intercollegiate championship. His stand- wick professional, she will develop the ing out of the last tournament was a form that won her the championship very severe loss to his side. June 6 the two years ago. Her brother, Rodman E. graduates and undergraduates met in a Griscom, has also sailed. team match (12 a side), when the alumni were beaten by 31 to 10. Only two graduates won their matches. The Philadelphia Golf Association has issued its first handicap list. The present holder of the individual championship, W. June 9 a four-ball match was played P. Smith, of Huntingdon Valley, lias been on the Garden City course between Wal- placed in a class by himself, being handi- ter J. Travis, the Amateur champion, capped at five, which is equivalent to and Stewart Gardner, against George Low scratch so far as the local players are mid Ales Smith. The former pair won by concerned. Evidently Smith has been 4 up in an eighteen-hole match. The best- thus rated by comparison with Walter J". ball score of Travis and Gardner was Travis, the Amateur champion. Among 60, that of Low and Smith 73. Stewart those in class 6 are such well-known Gardner had the beat individual score, players as P. H. Bolilen, R. E. Griscom, W. M. McCawley, and Marion Wright. 74. Smith had 75, Low 76, and Travis Over two hundred men are rated from 5 75. The latter had a 5 on the home green to 17. Wirt L. Thompson, who beat C. through pulling into the rough. As the B. Macdonald, at Tuxedo, is in class 9. open championship will be held at Gar- den City this year, the work of these prominent golfers, all of whom will play in the big event, is deserving of notice. June 7 a match was played between eleven Philadelphians and the same number of golfers from Washington at the Philadelphia women golfers have wound Huntingdon Valley Country Club. In up their spring series of interclub the morning the home team won by 22 to matches. Huntingdon Valley Country 12, the last three men on the Philadelphia Club has secured a good lead. The series team, C. P. Lineaweaver, R. P. HcNeely, will be. resumed in the fall. The present and W. C. Houston, having no less than standing of the clubs is as follows: 18 holes to their credit. The four-ball matches in the afternoon resulted in favor of Washington by 11 to 5. Th was due to L. and W. Harban, who we e no less than 10 up on their opponents A. J. P. Gallagher and G, A. Crump.

Miss Frances Griscom has sailed for June 8 was the opening day of the England, and it is said she will devote Eastern Parkway Golf Club, the latest considerable time on Scotch courses, en- addition to the golf-courses of Brooklyn. deavoring to improve her game. Her The club lias a membership already of golf of late has not been up to her former 240, which is within ten of the limit. high standard, and it is hoped that under There was an exhibition four-ball match " THROUGH THE GREEN

JADAY MAKING ! j LAST PUTT FOR THE NEW JERSEY STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. on the opening day. George Low and ropolitan c Alex Smith playing against Stewart Gardner and Alex Patrick, the last- named being the club professional. Smith JIIK! LOW won by 2 up.

tch-play round

The New jeraey State Association by G Bowley, Jersey City, championship was held at the Montelair to confirm this timate of his Golf Club, June 5-7. Last year when the contest was "held at Euglewood, there were seventy starters. At Montclair, 114 drove off, and no less than 84 returned cards, In the match play Kennaday had com- which increase shows a very gratifying paratively an easy time. He beat in suc- interest in the game. The class, too, cession such players as Harold Wilcox waa quite up to the average, the most (Montclair), Jasper Lynch (Lakewood), notable absentees being Louis P. Bayard, H. A. Colby (Essex County), and then he Percy E. Pyne, Archibald Graham, and had the final to play with Marc Michael. W. L. Glenny, last year's runner-up. Prom the first the. result was never in doubt. .it i''11111 '1 wii1^ M 111it1' w 11n i r*tt J .is game, but even if he had not been he could not have held MIS own against such Last year Kennaday tied for the medal form as the winner displayed. Kemia- with Archibald Graham at 82. This year, dav was 9 up in the morning, having at Montclair, he won it outright with the one bad hole only, the ninth. From there very excellent score of 79, good work for to the end of the round his game was a 0000-yard course like Montclair. Paul brilliant in the extreme, as he went home Wilcox, Montelair, tied for second place, in par figures. The total for the eigh- with 84, with Marc M. Michael, Youn- teen holes—15—constitutes a record for takah. It was surprising to find that "F. the course, and is os fine a display of golf A, Mareellus, Yountakali, the runner-up as has been seen this season. Michael to Walter J. Travis at the recent Met- was beaten by 11 up and 10 to play. THROUGH THE GREEN Roy do Eaismes, the young Baltusrol " Several of southern California's best player, who qualified with 85, showed ex- players were absent from the semiannual ceptionally good form in the match play. contest for the Los Angeles Country He was all even with Michael at the eigh- Club's championship on Decoration day, teenth green, and then in playing the and the honor fell to a comparatively un- extra hole, probably through the undue known player, F. H. Edwards, whose first strain to which he was not accustomed, big victory it was. The ground was very he sliced three halls out of bounds and hard, and the Haskell balls, which were lost the hole. F. M. Wilson, Englewood, generalLy used, performed some extraor- won the Second cup, beating A. II. dinary feats. Edwards also won the Delano, Montclair, by 6 up and 5 to play. President's cup, a match-play competi- Harold Wilcox, Montclair, beat James A. tiO3) which ban been ni progress for sev- Tyng, Baltusrol, by 1 up on the thirty- eral weeks. The President's cup. in the seventh green for the first-eight cup. ladies' competition was won by Mrs. F. A. Mareellus won the second-eight cup Frank Griffith, another new player of remarkable steadiness and great promise." by 4 up and 3 to play, from E. W. Cand- ler, Baltusrol. The handicap was won by J. W. Halsey, Newark Athletic, his card reading 90—17=V9. The team Golf-players in Toronto, Canada, deeply match was won by Montclair with 345. regret a sad accident that befell three well-known members of the High Park Golf Club on a recent Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Peterson, accompanied Says GOLF'S California correspondent: by Mrs. E. G. Wilkie, were driving home " The summer season has been ushered after playing at the Morningside Links, in very quietly, and it is a matter of re- when the carriage was struck by a trolley, gret that the golf-links at the principal and Mr. Peterson and Mrs. Wilkie were summer resorts of the Pacific coast are • ];i M^C'L'I K.[^] \ 11ii nrpd. 3'p^ult nt^n on June not of a character to attract the true fth in the death of the latter. Mrs. golfer. Del Monte alone promises a re- Wilkie was an enthusiastic golfer, and form in this respect, for an excellent was this season Hon.-Secretary of the course of eighteen holes, fit for champion- High Park Club and Captain of the ship matches, is being laid out at that Highlands Golf Club. She was a general most picturesque point. But elsewhere favorite, and is universally regretted. along the coast the links at the resorts Mr. Peterson is slowly recovering. are of the pottering, bumble-puppy order —short, flat, and stale; too easy, through the green, to afford the golfer any inter- Still another golf-ball has made its ap- est, and too difficult on the green to be pearance on the market. The latest ar- anything but a vexation of spirit and rival, the " Stoughton," is manufactured temptation of tongue. Such conditions by the Stoughton Rubber Company of show not only a lack of enterprise on the Boston, is composed entirely of guttn, and part of resort managers and hotel-keepers, differs from other balls in that all foreign but poor business judgment. The notable matter ha^ been removed by a series of cxcppnoi'iH to 111 is vide arc (. •op'iiaflo and special refining processes. Not only is Catalina, where, with unpromising ma- the ball more resilient on account of the terial, capital results have been attained. purity of the stock, thereby giving greater THROUGH THE GREEN

GENES AT THE NEW JERSEY STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. THROUGH THE GREEN driving qualities, but it can be better con- any formidable showing in the national trolled in approaching and on the green. amateur event at Chicago. There are The removal of all water and resin en- some juniors coming along who may in ables tbe ball to be seasoned in a very a few years have some chance against short space of time, and affords better the tried veterans who seem to carry it adhesive qualities for the paint. While off each year, but from the small entry a final point in its favor is the fact that list from this city in 1902 it is impossible it is pure white throughout. to select any player who can go to the semi-finals even. They do not have the opportunities to play in dub events and J. IT. Taylor s book on ^''ilf. ^vhirh was friendly matches with men like Travis on the eve of publication in England, has and Douglas, and in case they were to unfortunately been destroyed by fire. qualify, if drawn against players of big The publication of the book will thus be reputation, the chances are that a 'blue delayed for a month or two. funk' would immediately follow.

Says GOLF'S Philadelphia correspondent: " Philadelphia's victory over New York " All the golfing events around Phila- was partly caused by a vigorous action delphia show a marked increase in inter- taken by about twenty of the leading est this season over that of any previous players who held a meeting at the request year. In the play for the Patterson cup of the Executive Committee of the Phila- on Decoration day the entry list excelled delphia Golf Association, and recom- in quantity and quality all the previous mended the names of the men who should holdings of this particular event, and this play on the team. In this way the

has also been the case in all club tourna- O] 11 i I ] f >]: llj I I ]' '^1' win"1 ' ' I li'l 11 I O Kf] UW WJI.S ments. The winner of the Patterson obtained, and some ' dead wood ' that w;:s cup this year was H. W. Perrin. While being played on account of past repu- there are many who decry his style, and tation was omitted from the list. The claim he does not play ' sound' golf, the New York team was minus Travis and fact must not be overlooked that he made Douglas, and was weaker than any team better figures than any of the previous that has so far represented the Metro- winners. Perrin has an awkward, lumber- politan Association, but the Philadelphia ing swing, without great length, but am- team was also stronger- ply atones for whatever may be lacking in his long game by a deadliness in approaching and putting that enables him to fre- quently get down in two strokes from "The rubber-filled ball has been so anywhere under one hundred yards from scarce in Philadelphia lately, that as high the hole. His scores on this occasion as ten dollars per dozen was paid for were thoroughly consistent, and although them. The hard ball has been dropped only a few strokes less than several com- almost entirely by all grades of players, petitors, weTe good enough to win. and a large dealer has offered several hundred dozens at two dollars per box."

"There is no feeling in Philadelphia Says GOLF'S Chicago correspondent: at any local representative will make "After long deliberation and consulta TBBOUBB TI1K OKKKN

-AIB GOLF f'LI'Tl THROUGH THE GREEN '; Glen View is putting the final touches upon its preparations to entertain the golfers at the national championship. Club-house, links, and all parts of the equipment are in fine shape, and whatever need there was of enlarging cafe, dining-room, locker accommodations, etc., has been carefully attended to. There is no question that the standard of any past ti;itii"ni;il <_'!uunp]oriM"i]p tuui'imtuont will not be maintained when the golfers of the country assemble this month at the picturesque spot near Chicago.

" Rain has been the chief factor that the Chicago golfers have had to contend with this spring. The season opened earlier than usual, and went along merri- ly for several weeks, but in late May and early June the deluges were so frequent tioii and revision the handicap committee and so violent that much damage was of the Western Golf Association reported caused to courses, and much of the early the complete list, June 10. Sis men are work lifii'l 1 o be UOL'C over again. The placed on scratch out of the total of 652, older and better established links, better representing thirty-seven of the forty-two drained, stood the wetness well, but some clubs in the organization. The scratch of the newer clubs were not so fortunate. men are William Holabird, Jr., and West- The links at the Evanstou Golf Club was em champion Phelps B. Hoyt of Glen under water for several weeks, and the View; Walter B. Smith and Walter E. opening was postponed again and again. At Midlothian and Homewood the dam- Egan of Onwenteia ; and C. B. Maedonald age was considerable. The embankment and H. J. Whigham of Chicago. On the of the 'Midlothian Railway,' famous as one-stroke tunrk iire 0;IYK1 K, I' orixiui Mini the only golf railroad, was seriously un- Brucg D. Smith of Onwentsia, and E. M. dermined, and traffic had to be suspended Byers of Cleveland. The committee la- for three weeks. The lower portions of bored earnestly, and though individuals the Homewood links suffered from a - may find fault with the allowances given, cloudburst that swelled up the streams in the ratings will give s basis upon which all that country, and little foot-bridges to handicap all the best Western players. over the gullies of the picturesque links The committee which had the handicap- were carried away. Play had to be con- ping in charge was composed of W. T. G. fined to nine holes for some time. Bristol, chairman, Midlothian; H. J. Tweedie, Behnont: Phelps B. Hoyt, Glen View; Alan L. Reid, Chicago; Lloyd T. Eoyd, Milwaukee; and P. S. Young, Kan- " It so happened that one of the storms sas City. ame on the afternoon of Saturday, June THROUGH THE GllEEN 57

1, scheduled for the second annual battle " Will Smith, ox-Op™ Champion, was between Club-house and Cottage at Mid- thrown from mi unruly automobile near lothian—the famous ' Silk Hat' match. Midlothian recently, and sustained a Nothing daunted, the thirty contestants, numbering many of Chicago's prominent playing satisfactory golf for a month. wealthy men, donned their old-fashioned However, the injury didn't affect his tog's, bell-crown tiles, old blue claw-ham- ping-pong wrist, wherefore the skilful mer coats with brass buttons, stocks, and •Scot is mightily thankful. Smith is an waistcoats, and fared forth. The be- adept at ping-pong. draggled players played nine holes, and at the end Cottages had 14 to the Club- house's 13 holes. It was sweet revenge, " The championship of the Interpre- for last year the Club-house contingent paratory Golf League, which last year had won 38 to 11. went to Walter E. Egan and his team of University School lads, was won this year hy the Harvard School, which defeated " Decoration day, generally recognized University 23 to 3 in the semi-finals at as the opening of the Chicago season of Midlothian, and accounted for the Chi- regularly scheduled events, was fine as cago Latin School boys 17 to (3 the fol- could be wished, with blue skies and gen- lowing day at Onwentsia. The finals There was something doing on every were played in a driving rain. course except the Evanston Golf Club, which had been inundated, and the vol- " Some criticism was caused by the ume of play was decidedly greater than action of the captains of the Onweiitsia ever before at that time. The public and Glen View teams in not selecting links at Jackson Park was greatly over- their men from the well-known and recog- taxed, about 900 players playing around nized talent of their clubs for the first between Bun-up and sun-down. In the team match, May 31. The membership afternoon players had to wait two hours of both teams was technically irreproacha- and a half for their turns at the first tee. ble, in that all the men belonged to their respective clubs, but two of the men, one playing for Glen View and one for Ou- wentsia, were better known as Exmoor "Schwartz, of New Orleans, is golf golfers, and among the Onwentsia uien champion of the South. In the first an- not chosen to fill out the team .there was nual tournament of the Southern Golf some dissatisfaction. Onwentsia lost, Association on the links of the Nash- 10 to 16. and this was adduced as an ar- ville Golf and Country Club, June 4-7, gument that the team was lacking in the Schwartz defeated Whiting, of Nashville, proper esprit du corps, owing to the selec- 4 up, 2 to play. TIL the semi-finals Whi- tion of outside talent and slighting home ting had just won from Lupton, of Nash- players. It is ecmce&ect that, other things ville, on the thirty-sixth green. Sayre, being equal, captains should for the ser.- of Montgomery, won the Consolation timent of the thing, and to preserve the prize, defeating W. P. Ward, of Birming- proper spirit, stick to home talent, even ham. S and ?,, Players from all the big though they may be within their rights in clubs in the South participated. selecting men who are members and who VOL. XI. - THROUGH THE GREEN

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September 29-Oc,ol,er t-CWry IS^J.T'SSf'oM-^llgSS Club (rf Brooklirie (Itnssndmsetts). Wo- ril—15=70. m -, i . June 'J—0.—_\ miiii!! nieeuni; ot Winneri V men's championship. ,.,;„ i.,;,rii,,iml „, |'.oslon ,:„„. l|llil|j,Yil,c October 1—4.—Midlothian. Country >•'<•"• Miss Margery Phelps (Country Club),

r,, , T,, Tl , T11. • f, 112. Championship MissM.B Adams (Woi-

Club, Blue Island, Illinois. Opm tour- h,,Uml} 40 b(,Vt Mis, Grace B. Key,, nament. (Concord), runner-up, by 1 up. ConsoJa- October ID-il.-Garclen City (Long ^"^S^ut'tt'^S i°£& Island) Golf Club. Open champion ship. Mixed foursomes of Wollaston Golf Club.

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of Maryland and District of Columbia. andMi ^ M p f|a,.k' Vi s!l. ,„., M(sa L A Wells (Country fhihl and Miss G. B. Keyes, 00—2^SS. and Mrs. G. H. Francis (Country CTTHTH7TADV r.T? lUIAWTm V Chili) and Miss F. Oagood (Country Club), SUMMARY OF MONTHLY 92-4—Stl. Play-off won by the former pair. EVENTS •Tilll(1 ' "7 —l-'ii^i Mi.inijiir.iisliip Imir- "' " nament Southern C;..lf A^ouar.1011 (h.n.n- May 15. — Invitation team tonrnnrnfiil, pjoiishiji \\on by fScliwartz of Audubon Wollaston Golf Club MonLclair. iltiHsacliu- Coif < 'hib. New (hl(.;ii^ aefKUino; Wliif.ing setts. Won by HavvHrd first team, with Nashville Golf and Country Club, by 4 and total medal score of six players, 414. Low- 2. Consolation prize to Sayre of Mont- est scores, R. D. Lapham, Harvard, T9; F. gomery, who defeated ft". P. Ward, of Bir- A. Falvey, Newton Center Golf Club, 7!). isinghain by 5 and 3. .May Hi—IT. —imiration tournament for June 5—7.—New Jersey State Golf ABSO- Massachusetts. Low score metlal round, Club, T,o\i" i,tort qiiitlifyin^ round. Allan thirty-six holes, Miss Mary B. Adams (Wol- Kennarlay (Montclair 1, 79. Cliampionship laston). lilM: setcntil. ilis- Klizalirlh Fur- won hy AlUiu Kr-nriaday by II up and 10 to ili.v 2-2 -id.' UJM-U .rnvtin- of The Couu- takiili. F. M. Wilt-on, Ku-lfwnod. won the try Club, Clyde Park. Bn.tokline, "iiassaohu- -croud oup. Han.iU] W'ilcux. Montclaiv, the setts Low 'score medal rniinil srross, C. L. third cup. F. A. Miu-eelhi* took the fourth Bremer fWollaston 1. 81: net, (V. \V. Pratt cup. Tlie handicap was won by J. W. (Xewton Outer), Hf) —12=77. Bugey cum- HaJaev, Newark Athletic. !)6—17—79- petition. E. Kinnicutt (Tatnuok Golf Club. Montclair won the team match. Worcester. Massachusetts), handicap 8. 6 June 6.—Open tournament for women, up Country Club cup match play, won by Myopia Hunt Club, Hamilton, Massar-hu- A. G. Lockwoorl (Allst.oii), who beat J. G. setts. Low score, medal round, gross. Miss Thorp runner-up, by 2 up. Women's handi- G. B. Keyes (Concord), 104; net, Jliss cap tournament. Low medal score, gross, G. B. Keyes. 104. Jli^s 1". lL\<'kii\ (Oakley) and Mrs. E. A. June 12.—Invitation mixed fouvsomea Manice (Lenox), il7; pl'av-olT won l>v Mrs, handicap tournameni. Oakloy Country Club, Mffaiee Watertown, Massachusetts. Low score, May 25. —Sixth annual handicap, Stock medal round, gross, Miss M. B. Adams Exchange Golf Chib, at Knollwood Coun- (Wollaston1! anri C. L. Bremev (Wolbistun). try Chib. Winner, B. A. Loring. Jr., S8— 92: net. Miss L. Whiting and W. M. Whit- 15—7H. Ilest gross, C. B. "Maedonahl. i"g, !>5—18=77. 70—0—79 June 10—14.—Women's Metropolitan Rlav 28-31.—Metropolitan Golf Assoeia- Golf Championship at Kssex County Coun- limi ;.|,.inii»i..iisilni luxrdo Golf Club. Low try Club. Low score, qualifying round, score, medal round. Waller J. Travis (Gar- Miss E. W, ttoffe, Essex County! 8«. Clinin- m\ J Travis by 11 up «nd 10 Lo phi\'. Runner- Baltusrol. by 7 'up and G to play. Runner- up, F. A.' Marcelhis, Yountak'ali. Four- up, Miss Helene HevnandPK, Essex County, ball mntth won bv John Reid Jr., ^t. Au.- Second cup, won by Mi^s Hester Xylo, drewa and F. O. Horstman, Lakcwood. Essex County. Handicap won by Mrs. M. May 30—June 2.—Open tournament, My- D. Patterson, Englewood. Get a BRAZIER STATION WAGON

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•01 Practical Golf

WALTER. J. TRAVIS

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HARPER- 8 BROTHERS. PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK J. H. TAYLOR Open Champion Golfer of Great Britain S894, 1895, J900 Extract from "Golf Illustrated.**

99 recorded matches, Braid, Taylor, ami Vardon appeared in 77. mnd these three, I have separated their respective matches and plated them all together, so that the reader may at a glance see the results, which work out thus ; MATCHES WON LOST HALVED Braid played Taylor . . Q 3 5 * Braid played Vardon . . 6 2 3 I Tzylor played Vardon .1 I — — '• Two things to notice:—(i) The surprising fact that Taylor and Vardon have met only once through the whole year, when Taylor »ns successful; and {2) that o[ the triumvirate Taylor has decidedly the best of it, as he beats Vardon in his only match with him, and against Braid he registers 5 wins to Braid's 3. " Now, making an abstract of all the matches in which the triumvirate respectively engaged, we get this result:

Braid played i 52 4 = 40.38 #v Taylor " 6 3 = 53.H ' Vardon " 4 = 5o ' •• Again Taylor s ;he best advantage, and hoth S well ahead of Braid. Whilst, especially if also tali nts, there is littl ;, I think the conclusion of th whole matter points to Tayl the most consistently sue cessful player of the year." Extract from "Golfing." 1 G. H. Cann was recently the subject of discussion by

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