:?TCF. TEN CENTS. ICIAL BULLETIN, I. S. G. A. "YI£AR, $1.00. NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1898.
One of the requirements of keeping Cfti,,^ 3osted on Golf is that you should read ViH)£ (or. Golf Clubs branded with the above trademark will be recog- nized everywhere as goods of the choicest workman
ship. „•* „* j- c*> ..* ..* JL u* Every club is manufactured under the supervision of JOHN D. DUNN whose One=Piece Drivers AND BRASSEYS ARE celebrated the world over. IRON 1? A large assort- ment of «•* ••* CADDIE BAGS Professionals and the Trade supplied Jvith every requisite. 'Prices upon application. If Write for Illustrated Catalogue. The Bridgeport Gun Implement Co. BRIDGEPORT, CONN. i 313 Broadway, New York. AGENCIES: 300 West 59th Street, New York. ' 162 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Mass, For the Winter Frost Unknown Go From To BERMUDA New York 48 Hours by Elegant Steamships Weekly The Bermuda Golf Club have excellent links, and visitors to the Islands may become members. For theWinter WECT [MMF^ including Cruises goto TT L,O I ILMJIL,O Porto Rico
S.S. Pretoria 3,300 Tons, S.S. Madiana, 3,080 Tons, and other Steamers. Thirty Days' Trip, Twenty Days in the Tropics For Pamphlet, giving full information, apply to
A. E. OUTERBRIDGE & CO., 39 Broadway, N.Y., Orto THOS. COOK & SON Agents for Quebec S.S. Co., Ltd. A. Ahern, Sec, Quebec, Canada. 261 Broadway, N. Y.
wrighl&Dilson's SELECTED GOLF GOODS Wright & Vitson's Selected Wood Clubs are very highly finished and lead all others. Our dogwood and persimmon clubs are guar- anteed not to break, are perfectly balanced and made to suit the most fastidious. Selected grades, $1.50 each. -3 Wright & 321 A. G. Spalding & Bros. Celebrated GOLF SUPPLIES lor 1595 Every ^Requisite for Golfing and Golfers, Our Clubs ate Guaranteed OUR GOLF CLUBS are made by Scotch Club Makers and are all hand finished. M A TP R T A T SHAFTS—Finest split hickory. mA A£:'IV1AA- HEADS—Seasoned dogwood,persimmon,hickory. Every variety of club known to the Golfing world either in stock or made to order. e w T/-"I A TTT\J/^ ^ *^ duplicate any wood or iron club" DUPLICATING, sent us without extra charge, one or a ======thousand. SPECIALTIES. One-piece Driver. Cran Patent Cleek.j WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF LAYING OUT GOLF COURSES. GOLF BALLS. We recommend the SILVMRTOWN , because here and abroad all balls are gauged only- according to how they grade with reference to a Sil- vertown. The Silvertown Ball is the only ball made whose quality is always uniform and can be depended upon. We also carry Eureka, Woodley Flier, Henley, Musselhurgh, Ax Black, Varsity, Varsity White throughout, Anderson, Anderson & Anderson White throughout, the Wright & Ditson and Spalding Practice. CADDY BAGS. A full line of Caddy Bags from a serviceable cheap one to the highest grade of presentation bag ::: ::: ::: Our Complete Illustrated Cntaloguc Moiled Free R.2t>;iiiMri<» This department is in H* 6, & mrflu "'»• charge of an expert,and 126-130 Nassau Street, f^Tew Yorh. all work of this nature will have prompt 147-149 Wabash Avenue, Chicago and careful attention. 322 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Golf Club Willie Tucker AND ST. ANDREW'S GOfcF CI5OR, MOUNT HOPE, N. Y. JOHN RMID,Jr. (Intercollegiate Chamj>ion~) writes:— Sole rianufacturer of, "1 have used Tucker ' Defiance ' Golf Clubs and Balls for two and a half years and find them unsurpassed THE in workmanship and durability, and can highly rec- ommend them to all golfers." ( Signed j JOHN REID, Jr. TV. B. SMITH ( Runner-up in Amateur Championship Defiance and Intercollegiate Championship ) writes.— "The 'Defiance' Clubs have always proved very satisfactory and I strongly recommend them as the best clubs in the market."^~y Clubs ( Signed ) WALTER B. SMITH.1"!! J. G. THORP ( Jiunner-up in Amateur Championship, and JXQ6 ) writes :— "Please make me two drivers and one brassey just galls like the last clubs yoti sent me, which are the best I ever had." (Signed ) J. G. THORP. REST CIsURS AND RAfcfcS IN THE Wholesale and Retail Price List Address Hail and Express matter to free on application. WILLIE TUCKER, Dobbs Perry, N. Y. 00000000000000000000000000000000*00000000000000000000000000000 •••••••••••••••••••••••^•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••f JSLAZENGER & \ Most Perfect Golf Ball. • Agentsi for Sole Agents for Slazenger, Silvertown, Tom Morris, Trueflite, Hutchinson, Hutchinson, Boodie, Morris, R. Simpson, Woodley Flier, Henley, J. & D. Clark, Etireka, 0. K., R. B. Wilson, A. I. Black, Brand, Slazenger .(London). Musselburgh, Varsity. Golf Balls. Golf Clubs. ball we guarantee eighteen months old. New York Agents for Tucker's Golf Goods. Guaranteed Drivers, #1.50. Brassies, #1.75. Golf Balls Re-made, 75c. per dosen. *•••••••••••••*••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••<; 323 THE w/io •wants to Wall Street make money or to Journal keep money &J.J.J- Values control Prices in the long It hoists danger signals where run. prices are above values and The Journal shows the changes where conditions are becom- in conditions, foreshadowing ing unfavorable. changes in values. The Journal obeys no clique. It points out properties which are improving and where secur- It means to be accurate, intelligent ities will appreciate. and sincere. 'PUBLISHED "DAILY J* SAMPLE COPIES ON APPLICATION Dow, Jopes & Co. 42 &o LUB Committees and individuals hav- ing in view the purchase of prizes for Golfing are invited to inspect the many suitable pieces of Solid Silverware offered by this house. The opportunity to submit special designs is solicited. A Department for Stationery has been added to the other branches of the business, and special attention will be devoted to the engraving and printing of in- vitations, decorating note paper, and the general execution of all orders for Club and Social Functions. THEODORE B. STARR 206 FIFTH AVENUE MADISON SQUARE NEW YORK 32-1 o I X o w X CO , GOLF BY APPOINTMENT AN OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION. UOL. III. DECEMBER, 1898. NO. 6. THE MIDLOTHIAN COUNTRY CLUB Chicago, Illinois, HE Midlothian Country ly filled during the first season of the Club, whose new club- club. At the outset Mr. Thorne house was informally stated his determination that the. Mid- opened to members on Oc- lothian Club should be second to tober 18th, is the most re- none in America in its appointments, cent candidate for favor among the and those who are fortunate enough golf-loving public of Chicago and to have visited the grounds, even vicinity. While Chicago would seem during the first six months of its ex- to be pretty liberally supplied with istence, will bear witness to the literal golfing facilities, no less than a dozen fulfilment of Mr. Thome's desires. thriving clubs being tributary to that The first duty was the selection of a city, yet of all this number not one, suitable piece of ground. This Mr. with the single exception of Washing- Thorne had already discovered some ton Park, is tributary to the great months before, and laid away for fu- south division of the city. To meet ture use. A daily and stock farm, the needs and the opportunity af- which had been under cultivation for forded by this condition of affairs the three generations, was found lying Midlothian Country Club was organ- about eighteen miles southwest of the ized. The parent and patron saint of city, near the main line of the Chicago, the club, whose mind conceived and Rock Island & Pacific railway, and whose enthusiasm and munificence after much negotiation, the owner made possible the present achieve- was induced to part with it. The ment of a model golf club, is George tract comprises 208 acres, of which R. Thorne, the first and, it is hoped, 162 acres lie in one large, square field, the permanent president of the club. with an annex of forty-six acres. The The club was organized in January, land lies upon a ridge 125 feet above 1898, the charter bearing date of Jan- the Lake Michigan level, and has a uary 22d. The membership is limited most varied and interesting topog- to 300, and so prompt have the South raphy. The soil is a rich, black, prai- Side people been to appreciate the ef- rie loam, producing a fine and strong forts of the organizers that the mem- quality of turf. In the northeast cor- bership is in a fair way to be complete- ner of the large field is a beautiful 328 THE MIDLOTHIAN COUNTRY CLUB. WATER HAZARD ON THE FIRST HULK. grove of oak and hickory of about ten opened for play on May 20th. The acres in extent, adding beauty and ground for the second nine holes was variety to the grounds. ()n the golf largely ploughed land and had to be course proper there is not a single sown. Aided by an unusually favor- tree and an entire absence of roads, able season, the skilful and untiring railways, telegraph lines or other ar- efforts of the club's superintendent, tificial impediments to good golf. A James E. Cocks, have brought the natural watercourse runs across the course, even in this its first season, to large field, affording interesting haz- a high state of perfection. The sec- ards. The clubhouse is located on the ond nine holes will be ready for play highest knoll on the property, near al the beginning of next season. On the north line of the large field facing the forty-six acres of the annex has south, having the entire long course been laid out a practise course of nine in front of it and the annex with the holes measuring 2,672 yards. This practise course in the rear. adjunct, as far as known, is unique The position of the house is most among American golf clubs. This sightly and commanding and from its course affords opportunity for play on porches can be witnessed the play on the part of beginners and for ladies fifteen of the eighteen greens of the and junior members on Saturdays and long course. One-half the large field holidays when the regular course is was meadow land, and upon this the crowded. first nine holes were laid out and The clubhouse is admittedly one of THE MIDLOTHIAN COUNTRY CLUB. 329 the finest, if not the finest, golfing home in this country. It was de- signed by Messrs. Frost & Granger, of Chicago, and is in the strict South- ern Colonial style. In general dimen- sions it measures 275 feet by 50 feet. On the first floor are the main recep- tion hall, a dining-room capable of seating 200 persons, three private din- ing-rooms, smoking-room and buffet, ladies' room, office and culinary de- partment. On the second floor are twenty-one large bedrooms, ladies' lockers, linen-room, baths and toilet- rooms and servants' quarters. The third floor contains two large dormi- tories for single gentlemen, bathroom and servants' rooms. The gentle- men's locker-room is in a wing sep- arated from the main building by the driveway. It contains 180 lockers, lavatory, bath and shower rooms. In M the basement are bowling alleys and X caddies' room. In the second story is 3 the billiard-room, connected with the at main building by a corridor over the V driveway. Porches twenty feet wide are along the south front of the build- t ing. Overlooking the whole course 3 and on the west end of the building is c a large outdoor dining-room enclosed with screens. The house in its de- sign and appointments conveys the idea of spaciousness, comfort and hos- pitality. The house is distant from Midlothian station one and one-half miles. Here the Chicago, Rock Isl- and & Pacific railway has erected a handsome station, and frequent trains convey the passenger to or from tin- city in forty minutes. The club main- tains a free 'bus service between the station and grounds. In length and variety of hazards the course compares favorably with the great courses of the world. In the I'HE HANDSOME PIAZZA, WITH FIRST TEE IN DISTANCE. THE MIDLOTHIAN COUNTRY CLUB. 331 THE IMNINO IIA1.I,. way of hazards there are no unpleas- 2d 190 r ant surprises, pit falls or tricks, but 3d 357 ample opportunity for the unskilful 4th 353 or careless player to repent his mis- 5th 425 deeds. In general contour and to- 6th 377 pography the course more nearly re- 7th 533 sembles the famous Wheaton course 8th 200 9th 367 than any other, and it is the ambition 10th 433 of every Midlothianite to equal if not 1 ith 400 excel that fine course in golfing per- 12th 105 fection. The course was laid out un- 13th 550 - der the supervision of Herbert 14th 475 Tweedie, which is sufficient guaran- 15th 463 tee that it is as it should be. 16th 310 As at present arranged the out- 17th 158 ' ward journey covers a distance of 18th 281 3,152 yards, and the last nine holes 3,175, making a grand total of 6,327 Total 6,327 yards. As mapped out the holes The club will have spent this year run as follows:— fully $90,000 in the purchase and tst 350 equipment of its grounds, house, etc., 832 THE MIDLOTHIAN COUNTRY CLUB. EAST WING, CONTAINING THE 1.OCK.KK ROOMS. and another season should put it in president; II. N. Higinbotham, vice- the front rank of first-class golf links. president ; Edwin A. Potter, treasurer; Plans are already under way for the John G. Shedd, secretary; Edward C. construction of several private cot- Potter, captain of the green; Marvin tages adjoining the grounds by mem- A. Farr, chairman grounds and bers of the club, so that Midlothian buildings; Wm. O. Goodman, chair- is destined to be a true golfing set- man house committee; Charles L. tlement and center. Raymond, chairman membership The officers of the club for the cur- committee; A. C. Bartlett, chairman rent year are: George R. Thorne, auditing committee. ;\- 333 THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME—DC 'By Dr. J. G. McPherson, St. Andrews, Scotland. HAZARDS IN GOLF—(Continued). [TRUST I may be allowed second round. If he succeeds, he scores to state that my article on first class. By this plan the poorer "By Strokes and By Holes," players are weeded out easily, and the which appeared in the champions by the selected score of September issue of GOLF, the two rounds (by each hole se- has been very freely criticised in this lected) play next day by holes for the country. I wrote for the September championship. Here we have bril- number of the Golfer's Magazine, of liancy and carefulness combined, with London, a long article on "Real Golf," the elements of recuperation and nerve in which I gave my ideas of the prop- embodied. I do not know how this er test play for the Open Champion- is to succeed. It seems to me to be ship, These were in the same lines on the right lines, though Mr. Hilton as pointed out in GOLF. Mr. Hilton, objects to it. the recognized "scorer" of the golfers, I may say, however, that leading ar- while admitting that the present sys- ticles in our newspapers have been on tem of determining the Open Cham- the whole favorably impressed with pionship by strokes alone had its the necessity for a change, while not faults, did not approve of my eclective agreeing to my plan in all its details. method. In a word, I restate it for I first mooted the subject three years the sake of those who did not ago, in the Scotsman, National Observ- read my detailed plan: Golfers— er, and Golf, of this country, and had professional and amateur—play two no replies. I have again resuscitated rounds on the selected links. They the subject, and the Birmingham Post are allowed to select the best scores and Liverpool Gazette have favorably for the successive holes to determine criticised my plan. But the editor of one eclectic round. Of course, this is Golf has gone in most heartily for my far better than any one round played scheme. He says: "We have long out; but that does not matter. It shared Dr. McPherson's views on this keeps a very good player from being matter, and we are glad to find sup- floored by a wretchedly played hole port from so authoritative a quarter. in one round. If he messes the same There is no doubt whatever that his hole in two successive rounds, he has plan would get rid of a great deal that no title to be in the run for the cham- is unsatisfactory in the present ar- pionship. He will play every hole of rangements for the Open Champion- the first round separately, for brilliant ship. It would put an end to the mo- effect by clash play. If he fails in that notony of four rounds of score play. hole, he will play with caution in the The introduction of the eclectic ele- 334 THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME. ment would reduce to a minimum the who lays out the green. Next to the possibility of a good player's defeat bunker, whins form the important by a single bad hole. It would invest hazard. With good, stuffy whins you the competition with two of the chief have to reckon in earnest. It is, characteristics of match play, viz., the however, heartrending to look on at possibility of recovery and opportu- the desolation occasioned by the mer- nity for brilliancy. Match play, as ciless hacking down of the whins at Dr. McPherson says, is the only real St. Andrews. During our boyhood golf, and those who are jealous of pre- the whins were a source of beauty in serving the integrity of the ancient their bloom, and a help to us in decor- Scottish game would be glad to see ating the walls of the Madras College the most important event in the golf- on the Queen's Birthday. Many used ing calendar invested with at least a them for drying clothes. Now, alas t portion of its most characteristic and they are well-nigh.gone—in fact, en- essential feature." I am much in- tirely gone for hazards. "Woodman,, debted to Mr. Garden Smith for his spare that tree," has a pathetic refer- hearty espousal of my necessarily im- ence to our favorite hazard, the whin. mature plan. Though time, I trust, Not that we liked our ball to be in it;. will make it reasonably attractive to but it was a capital place for our op- all schools' of golfers, when the really ponent's at all except four out of the best golfer is to be brought out in the eighteen at St. Andrews. Certainly a contest. thick whin is a study ! Of course, the In my last paper, I gave my views cautious player should have looked to on bunkers as hazards. I have since the direction of the wind before he been playing over a very romantic struck his ball to have the slightest course at Barnton, near Edinburgh. chance of landing there. It was a Tentative bunkers have been made seen evil—how true to life! What there to see how the plan should be skill was needed—especially with a best carried out. For sticking a bun- side wind—to avoid the Scylla of the ker here and a bunker there is not the whins without being caught by the thing. There is a more important Charybdis of the bunker! It was use in these hazards. I saw a few of once no joke to extricate the ball from the provisory sandholes must be a "dour" whin; but the "force" play- changed, and I pointed this out to the ers at St. Andrews have set aside the members of the club who were with cautious "skill" players by having these me. Of course, I gave my reasons for whins gradually removed. In fact, the change. You must never punish the course is eight strokes a round a very long drive in the straight easier now; as Davie Ayton said, "It course by an artificial bunker; and tak's ye a full shot to drive aff the you must not make bunkers to suit coors." duffers. There is a vast deal more Of course, in the middle of the in making bunkers than occurs to the course, whins are a nuisance, not a superficial golfer. hazard. But otherwise at the sides As to hazards, many inland greens protect them. Streams are natural have trees, walls, whins, brooks, and must be studied; we cannot im- hedges and such like to assist the one prove on them. Yet they are very THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME. .;- 335 convenient traps for topped balls; if cise a wise discretion in having the they are not too dirty to claim the ball most objectionable removed. Major altogether and skin the player of a Chalmers was the man to work the shilling. Boys there are, unfortunate- oracle at Blairgownie, by waging war ly, who make in some courses a liv- against the really useless and irritat- ing by dirtying the water to assist in ing to the good golfer. AVith the the player's loss, and thereby securing wind in a certain direction and a tree the balls afterwards for their private to reckon with, the driver is too- sale. Roads and railways are also cramped; that is not golf. Unplay- hazards that can be reasonably able snares like rabbit-holes should studied. They are there, and one has not be called hazards, because no one to plan the best to dodge them. Walls can remember where these are. His. come under the same category. But mind does not contain a rabbit "Brad- trees and hedges are not fair hazards. shaw." At Barnton we saw too many of the An undulating green, not too wide, one set, especially in the center of thoroughly equipped with bunkers the greens. At Burutislancl we have through it and whins at the sides, with seen too many of the latter. No an occasional stream or road across it,, doubt both add. to the beauty of the is the field for the fairest conflict, and landscape, and no golfer should be in- tests most effectively the skill and different to that; but one should exer- temper of the true golfer. I SflW PHYLLIS. r saw Phyllis on the links— Not a glance she sent my way— Saucy, sonsy, little minx. I saw Phyllis on the links— Wonder what my caddie thinks When he notes my wretched play. I saw Phyllis on the links; Not a glance she sent my way. THEODOSIA PICKERING GARRISON. 336 AN ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY. /. M'Bain. T is a matter that can never never a relic. There is a tolerably cease to be a source of re- unbroken chain of historical reference gret that there have come to the game of golf in Scotland since to us so few examples of the year 1457. but until quite recently the implements used in we had no knowledge of the outfit their amusements by our more remote with which our predecessors on the ancestors. Weapons of offense and links were furnished of an earlier date defense, as well as instruments of tor- than the beginning of the present cen- ture and punishment, we have in our tury. There are a good many clubs, museums and elsewhere in complete the cherished possession of various and continuous succession from a individual golfers and associations of very early age; but of the equipment golfers, which transport us back about with which our forefathers of four or a hundred years. The clubs of the five centuries ago pursued, for in- present day are in general a marked stance, the game of golf, we have departure in style and finish from r A N A N TIQ UA RIA N DISCO I ER Y. ::• 337 those that have come clown to us from their hiding-place there was no direct •r that period. Their general get-up has evidence to show. No record was \ been superseded by the result of mod- found to show who placed them there, ern ideas. Though they are now out to whom they belonged, or who was of date, however, they are not anti- the maker. There were, however, a quated, and they may be said still to quantity of old documents found at belong to the modern history of golf.. the same time, among them an issue We are now, however, in possession- of a Yorkshire paper, dated 1741, and of valuable antiquities in the shape of it seems beyond question that they a set of ancient golf clubs which trans- had lain there for at least 150 years. port us back to a period in the history Jiow much older they are than that of the game which is far anterior to there is no data from which to form the beginning of the present century. an exact opinion, but the appearance y Apparently we owe it to chance that of the clubs warrants us in assuming these relics have escaped the destruc- that they are not short of 200 years tion that must have overtaken thou- old. It is not improbable, too, that sands of their contemporaries, and to they are not far removed in style and an incidental circumstance that they finish from the clubs that were used were eventually brought to light. The on the links when the Stuart Kings '' clubs are now the property of Mr. of Scotland were issuing their legis- Adam Wood, Troon, a well-known lative enactments against playing the golfer and highly-respected member game of golf. of Troon Golf Club ; and it is a matter A general idea of the fashion of for congratulation that they could not these old golf clubs may be gathered have got into better hands. The set, from the accompanying reproduction fl moreover, was unearthed in a very of a photograph (Plate I.). In essen- unexpected quarter. They were dis- tial particulars, it will be noted, they covered in the town of Hull, in an are constructed on the same general old mansion, at one time the family plan as that which still regulates the residence of a succession of burgesses product of the latter-day clubmaker; named Maisters, and now owned by but they are ruder in the matter of • Mr. J. C. Sykes, merchant, there. Mr. handicraft, and in the matter of design . Sykes, without any idea of what the they must be set down as not so well strange-looking implements were used adapted as the modern implements for, sent them to an Ayrshire gentle- for playing golf. A golfer handling , man, Mr. W. T. Hammond, of Skel- the clubs and comparing them with don Mills. Mr. Hammond in turn those now seen on the links would be presented them to Mr. Wood. The inclined to ask, "AVere there giants in conditions under which they were dis- those days?" so greatly exaggerated • covered would, if there were no other does the size of the former seem to testimony, point to their being of great be when set side by side with the lat- . age. They were found in a hidden ter. This is especially the case with recess in the mansion, the existence regard to the iron clubs, oE which of which was revealed in the course of there are two, a cleek or iron, and an some alterations on the premises. iron or niblick. The accompanying illustration (Plate II.) shows the rela- How long the clubs had remained in 338 A X A A' T/Q ('A KIA N DISCO 11LR V. tive proportions of the ancient iron, greenkeeper must have had, at least, and the iron of the present day. The as good grounds for lament. The deek greater thickness of the shaft and the is not so noticeably different from larger mass of iron in the head is what we now use, but the angle be- very clearly indicated. As a matter tween the socket and the sole is much of fact, the weight of the old club is more rounded, and the face is concave. almost twice as great as that of the The third illustration (Plate 111.) club shown alongside. Any golfer brings out with great force the chief who knows the difference that an difference between the modern and ounce makes in the weight of a club ancient wooden clubs. The relative will appreciate the difficulty of wield- proportions in the plate are as exact ing a club that is twice as heavy, and. as if they had been drawn to scale, owing to the thickness of the shaft, and they emphasize the evolution that as rigid as a pike-staff. One of the lias taken place in the head of the chief peculiarities of the ancient club golf club with marked distinctness. is the concavity of the face in the di- The head of the old club contains at rection from the sole to the top of the least twice as much wood as the mod- face. At its lowest part the hollow is ern one, and there seems to be at about one-eighth inch deep. Notable least as great a quantity of lead at the also is the sharp spur at the nose, back. It is needless to say that the which can have had no other purpose ratio in the weight of the two clubs is than that of turf cutting. We often in keeping. There is a difference in hear of the lamentations of green- the size and weight of the six wooden keepers as regards the mischief cre- clubs, but, on an average, they are ated on the links by the lavish use of about half as heavy again as the aver- the modern iron clubs; but judging age club now in use, and in general from the sort of instruments used on appearance the latter looks very dim- the links in the ancient davs, the then inutive when set up with its predeces- AN ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY. sor. in the ease of only two of the later than the Stuart Kings, and if clubs is there now a grip—the iron that is so, they are at least more than and one of the wooden clubs. All ->oo years old. The workmanship is the others bear evidence of once hav- rude, if we judge them by modern ing had a grip, but it has been torn standards; and even if we judge them off, leaving the nails and fragments by the finish of clubs that are of the coarse woolen material that known to be about a hundred years formed it attached to the shafts. Ap- old, they are antiquated. parently there was nothing beyond tin* The next illustration (Plate IV.) strip of cloth wound round the top of brings out a very interesting feature of the shaft to formthegrip, and no signs the clubs, a feature which may even- of the outer covering of sheepskin or tually throw some light on their early india-rubber that is now universally historv. It will be noticed that on the used. The old clubs also differ in the top of the club there are six repetitions length of the shafts. They are, on of a design, the details of which are an average, about six inches longer clearly indicated in the shield nearest than those now used: but in every the nose of the club, the background case the greater length of the shaft is of which was filled in with water-col- counterbalanced by a Hatter lie. Al- or. This six-fold representation oc- together, the appearance of the set curs on the heads of each of the wood- gives them an unmistakable air of be- en clubs, and it is four-fold on the longing to an age that has long since shafts of the iron clubs. What these passed away, and no one who exam- markings are we can only conjecture. ined them could fail to agree with Mr. We may suppose that the two letters lialfour. the Leader of the House of (the I standing for j) are the initials Commons, in his expressed opinion of the maker of the clubs, the crown that they belong to a date that is not indicating that he had been granted a 340 AN ANTIQCARIAX DISCOVERY. royal permission, and the thistle that notion of artistic design. In that case the clubs had some connection with his ideas in this respect were in keep- Scotland. That, however, is mere ing with his ideas in the design and speculation, and there is just the pos- manufacture of the clubs themselves. sibility that the cartouche may denote Whether we shall ultimately learn some- the owner of the clubs. But if we thing more of the original history of may be guided by analogy, we may as- these golf clubs we cannot say; but sume that the former conjecture is the if we do, it will come from an inter- correct one, more especially as most of pretation of these initials and symbols. the clubs have a cross cut on the top In the meantime, we have reason to of the shaft, a mark of ownership congratulate ourselves that through which is of pretty frequent occurrence this invaluable antiquarian discovery at the present day. What was the we have been enabled to look so far idea of repeating the device six times back into the past history of the game it would also be interesting to know. of golf.—l-rom the Edinburgh Ciolfcrs' Perhaps it was only the club-maker's Magazine. THE MiW LINKS AT LAKIiWOOD. 341 •£jk ?™ ^ ..... tf •'.• • •-• •, t * .-. inn BLJ" ' THE NEW LINKS AT LAKEWOGD J !<". prominence which done, and well done, proves the indus- Lakewood has attained as try with which operations were pushed the convenient location of and the excellent judgment exercised mid-winter golf makes all by the club's executive committee, movements of golfing im- which, with fasper Lynch and Robert provement there of very general inter- M. Kerr, have had charge of the work. est, and the removal of the Golf Club The new links lie to the west of the of Lakewood to a new eighteen-hole village, and about ten minutes' drive course, together with a corresponding from the railway station. Passing gain in the extent and comfort of the through the village and following tin club quarters, is a topic in which the Lake Drive, past the Laurel-in-the- readers of GOLF will very generally I'ines, the entire distance is made desire full information. over a smooth gravel road construct- The decision of the club to remove ed by the Land Company, and the from the course which it had made fa- way leads through a dense forest of mous, and to establish larger and pines, oaks and chestnuts, ending ab- more commodious links which should ruptly at the entrance to the course, be in a suitable condition for play at with the clubhouse near at hand and the beginning of another season, the entire range and extent of (he seemed like a large contract when links open to view. ( )n all sides is the further fact was considered that forest land, and here and there on the the change had to be made within four links large isolated trees lend beauty months' time, Lakewood's season to the scene while in no particular in- closing June ist anil opening Octo- terfering with the play. ber ist. That the work has been The clubhouse is a two-story build- 342 THE NEW LINKS AT LAKEWOOD. ing, with wings of one story each on als or skilled amateurs could suggest either side, containing locker-rooms to make the links perfect, and no ex- and lavatories. The lockers are of the pense has been spared to carry into most approved construction, and the effect the plans that have been so lavatories are supplied with every con- carefully made. venience, including shower baths. The total length .of the course is The south side of the building is the 5,695 yards, the first half measuring front and has a broad piazza reaching 2.875 yards and the second half 2,820. across it, a part of which is under a Perhaps its chief characteristic is the port cochere. punishment which is meted out all The entrance leads into a large hall, along the line to the sliced or drawn the ceiling of which is supported by ball, a matter of later explanation, large oaken beams. The furniture is and it has evidently been a study by of oak, and the huge fireplace has a the guiding minds how to attain orig- large settle. inality as well as actual difficulty in The walls are covered with a rich hazards. Notably, the ''mounds" red cartridge paper, and the hangings near the sixteenth tee, and the trio of match the prevailing tint of the room. "half-moons" near the third, are at On either side of the fireplace, doors once ingenious and effective. lead into the cafe, a great room with a The distance of individual holes is large fireplace, having windows reach- as follows: First, 250 yards; second, ing almost from floor to ceiling, ex- 310; third, 355 ; fourth, 330; fifth, 325 ; tending in a broad curve across the sixth, 400; seventh, 400; eighth, 170; entire north end of the room, and ninth, 335; tenth, 405; eleventh, 475; commanding a great stretch of the twelfth, 410; thirteenth, 270; four- course. teenth, 425 ; fifteenth, 195 ; sixteenth, 185; seventeenth, 240; eighteenth, The cafe is also furnished in oak, 2I and the walls are hung with pictures 5- of prominent golfers and interesting The putting greens have in almost golf scenes. every case a slight undulation, and The second floor is devoted to the three or four have been built with a culinary and service department of decidedly rolling surface. The fine the club. condition of the course in general is a At the northeast end of the club- constant surprise to visitors who are house a large building affords caddie- aware that work was begun only last rooms and a workshop for the club- May. The greatest care was taken in makers, and also has ample space for preparing the putting greens, and a the stabling or shelter of horses and gang of men have watered them every carriages and the storing and caring night during the summer when neces- for bicycles. Water for the use of sary. The result is that even now the clubhouse and for the links is sup- they rival in quality the putting greens plied by an artesian well, which gives on the old course and have the advan- a constant supply of perfectly pure tage of being about four times as water. large. It would seem that the committee The links will be in charge of Willie had neglected nothing that profession- Norton as greenkeeper, assisted by 1 CONSISTENCY IN GOLF. 343 two expert clubmakers. Charles Its tournaments on the old nine-hole Platt, formerly steward of the Shinne- course are famous for their excellent cock Hills Golf Club, will have charge management and for the number and of the clubhouse and restaurant under the skill of the contestants who have the direction of the house committee, taken part in them. The success of of which Mr. John Miley is chairman. the new course of eighteen holes, with The Golf Club of Lakewood is one the advantage of a large and delight- of the oldest golf clubs in the country. ful clubhouse, is assured. CONSISTENCY IN GOLF He is handsome, an Apollo; He is elegant in dress; And success is sure to follow Any suit he cares to press. Ask to whom his inmost shrine Dedicated is, He would answer, I opine: "To the ladies." Now, consistency's a jewel. This Apollo took to play; And I saw his torture cruel When he tried to drive one day. For this lion so admired Was a lamb; And I heard him, hot and tired. Say; "Aux dames!" FRANCIS BOWLER KP.ENE. 344 REMINISCENCES ®y "The THlobite," j|HEN we now find the snow- tell how golf was played when he flake coming lazily down learned the game, before the bulger on the green, and our was dreamt of, when the mashie was hands are getting numb on yet unborn, and when everyone who our putter (giving us a sem- thought he could play golf used a blance of an excuse for missing that wooden putter, which 'was generally last putt), it is not the most unpleas- an heirloom andliad been handed down ant hour of a golfer's life to draw his from golfing sire to golfing sons from chair into that wide and genial semi- the dark days when "gutties" were un- circle of kindred spirits around the known, and when the American and big fire in the club parlor, and, having English golfer were yet Unknown filled his pipe, to join in the never- quantities. ending, always-engrossing, golf talk I was finishing my education in that, morning, noon and night, flows golf at St. Andrews, Scotland, thirty on like Tennyson's brook. years ago, incidentally attending lec- Here are old battles fought over tures at the university when I could again, endless excuses proffered (and spare time from my golf studies. always rejected), for the breakdown of At that time, Tommy Morris your play at a crucial point in some was in splendid form, had won big match, and here are your true the champion belt, was conquer- golfing virtues heralded before the ing a new golfing kingdom every best judges of the game, who, quietly month, and w,as willing to play make mental notes of all they hear, anybody at his own figures, and and you find yourself in a few days generally "snodded him at the burn." mysteriously raised on a higher pedes- On the course, you could tell him half tal of fame by your handicap being re- a mile off, from his tremendous swing, duced, or you fain must take a more and the peculiar trick he had of letting modest niche in the temple, and his Scotch cap fall off at every big emerge at next competition with an stroke and catching it in his hand. To increased allowance, and a wider gulf an ordinary mortal, this cap business fixed between you and the paradise would be enough to make a complete of the scratch player. foozle, but it was part of Tommy's Listen to the arguments on bulgers, game. Many a time have I gone mashies, putting cleeks, and all the round with him in winter, when he modern inventions—I cannot call them had no big match on, and tried to improvements—in the clubs our boys profit from his example. It did not stagger under. These arguments are matter to him a jot if his ball was all interesting and improving; but, hanging, indeed I have often seen him while you are smoking your pipe, let tee down a slope. The ball went off an old golfer get in a word or two and so sweetly, so straight, towering REMINISCENCES. 345 slightly at the end of its course and the High Hole at St. Andrews, and dropping safe. This keeping safe is a at Point Garry, North Berwick, on most material point which our slash- the sky line, gracefully and with con- ing drivers of today do not always summate ease, driving off—the very heed. It was this keeping safe that beau ideal of a golfer. He used enabled old Tom Morris to win his light, supple cleeks, and always car- big matches, and his son to outshine ried an umbrella, which he never him by adding brilliancy to steadiness. used. Tommy never saw a bulger, died in The amateur champion, if I may ignorance of a mashie, putted some- use the expression, when I was study- times with an iron, sometimes with a ing at St. Andrews, was a divinity cleek, sometimes with his orthodox student named MacPherson, now a wooden putter. doctor of divinity in the Highlands, Now, naturally, I am a landator but then a terror to all golfers, ama- tcmporio acti, getting older as I am teur or professional, who dared op- every day, the gods of my youth stead- pose him,. He alone could keep ily increase in attributes of majesty in Tommy Morris in check, and he my ideas. Far be it from me to in- could give odds to any member of fluence any of the present school to the Royal and Ancient. He had a retrace their steps and go back to the most powerful style and he "drove wooden images of idolatry of my furiously." Is there not to this day a young days, in the shape of thin- bunker in the long hole called "Mac- headed, long-necked, drivers, wooden Pherson" from the fact of this mighty niblicks, spoons and cleeks; but I man driving into it from the tee? cannot picture to myself Tommy Mor- Blackwell the mighty, or Tait, may ris, or old Willie Park, hitting the have driven further, but still Mac- beautiful, clean shots they used to do Pherson's name is handed down in the with the implements of today, nor golfing religion of St. Andrews . as a adding a yard to the length of their synonym for all that a golfer should shots if they did succeed in so hitting. be. And, to my delight, I found Tommy used to drive generally with him, the other day, very outspoken a small-headed wooden niblick—un- about the new school of weapons. known today. In his hands, a won- He prophesies a return to the clubs derful weapon. I have one like unto of our forefathers I Don't laugh. it, but the magic is not in the club, Remember he is a pastmaster of golf. and the magician has gone to better Just ask Findlay Douglas, the cham- golfing greens. I do not know any- pion, about MacPherson.and although one who has copied Tommy's style he can never have seen him when he successfully. 1 have known many held sway at St. Andrews, Douglas who tried. will tell you how his name is still a household word in the inner sanctu- The best style among the ancient ary of golf and that he is still men- heroes was undoubtedly Sir Robert tioned with awe. Hay. He was captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 1870, just Sir Robert Hay always approached before I became a member, and I can with a "baffy" or.short spoon. Did picture to myself, now, seeing him at any of you ever use one? Did any 346 REMINISCENCES. of you ever see one? In my bag thought a brilliant shot, and, worse you will find one that I inherited from, still, did I, in my youthful exuberance, my grandfather. It has a short, stiff essay to carry a bunker and ignomin- shaft, a heavy, spooned head, and al- iously plump hard into its face, or did together quite unlike any club now in I miss that short putt on which the use. But what sweet shots you can match hung, no audible remark es- hit with it! caped the colonel's lips. The grass Very few of the ancients wore red seemed to wither and the atmosphere coats. Mr. Whyte Melville and Mr. became oppressive, but the cloud G. Glennie were notable exceptions. never burst until the match was over. The great majority elected to play in Trivial conversation was forbidden; what must have been the oldest and the birds must not even sing when the most cherished garment from their colonel was addressing his ball, and wardrobes. Consequently, a medal any frivolity was sternly suppressed. day at St. Andrews, or Musselburgh, Golf was the colonel's business dur- did not reveal much sartorial triumph. ing the day, as whist ruled his even- Golf stockings and breeches were still ings. Nothing must interfere with in the future. The American style, I either. There are several Colonel must say, is a great improvement Bogies at St. Andrews. You won't on the old. Men dress carefully to find them there in summer, but, if you play cricket or football, to row, to are about Tom Morris's shop about hunt, etc.; then why appear on the 10 130 on a winter's morning, you will golf green shabby and slouchy? I see a solemn procession emerge from would as soon come with my irons the club, mostly of the Bogie family, and cleeks dirty. capital golfers, capital whisters, but oh, such solemn, serious partners! By the way, akvays keep your boy That is what we will all come to. Golf busy polishing your irons. The gal- will never relax its sway on us. I hap- lery (and I know you always play with pened to be entertaining the bishop of one) loves to see bright irons. our diocese and his archdeacon some I remember meeting the original time ago, when they were making Colonel Bogie at St. Andrews. He their annual visitation to this country. did not call himself Bogie, but his A telegram arrived calling me -up manners and customs were identical country at once to play a big golf with our steady old adversary. He match. I showed it to the bishop. was, as you know, a sort of machine, He laughed and said: "My dear fel- never missing a short putt, never top- low, pack up at once, and go. You ping a drive, and a terrible martinet will be no good here, if you do not. for discipline. The boy that sneezed, And I know well, from experience, or moved, when he was addressing that a golfer will forsake his home, his his ball was a lost boy, at least if the wife, his religion, if need be, for golf. English language, hurled in lumps at So away you go." Having golf in his head, had any damnatory power. my bones, I went and neither of us re- I used to tremble when partnered gretted it. A golfer once, a golfer with the colonel. No praise was vouchsafed for my making' what / ever. REVIEWS. 347 is the swing that we learn from the books,- But, oh, if we only could see how it looks! i REVIEWS. golf caricatures that Frost depicts so THE GOLFERS' ALPHABET. Illustra- well from practical experience. It tions by A. B. Frost. Rhymes by teems, too, with wit from the fertile •\y. G. Van T. Sutphen. Harper brain of W. G. Van T. Sutphen, & Brothers, New York and Lon- don. than whom we have no better golf Our two friends have played to- story writer in America. Get this gether with much success. I rather book, if only to study the typical fancy that the former is one up on Frost caddie. They only grow this the latter at the finish, but it is a very way down at Morristown. close match. The artist unkindly KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL AND laid the poet several stymies during THE RIGHT KNEE STIFF. By Harry the round of the course, which were Roy Sweny, Albany, N. Y. only negotiated by putting a screw The title is the text to a little dis- on the ball. But between them course which several well-known "The Golfers' Alphabet" is made a players tell me has helped their game charming volume, full of the clever many strokes. 348 f/AMI'TOX ROADS GOLF CLl'B. • HAMPTON KUANS GOI-F CLL'H. THE HAMPTON ROADS GOLF CLUB One of the most popular golf clubs not surprising that the officers of the in the southern states is situated with- club should have named the nine in a short trolley ride of Old Point boles as we find them. Comfort, Va., and is suitably named First there is "Vanity Fair," (234 the Hampton Roads Golf and Coun- yards), followed by "Great Expecta- try Club. The links run along the tions" (310, yards), which so often turn out to be simply a "Fool's'Er- beautiful shore of Hampton Roads, rand" (445 yards). "Easy Street" with Fortress Monroe in full view, and 1220 yards) is typical of the men and are verypicturesquelv laidout. A snug; women of leisure, who love to bask clubhouse has been built on the prop- in the sun at Old Point while we erty and any golfers who visit the re- shiver in the North. Then follow sort, which is well supplied with mod- "Rip Raps" (232 yards) and the ern hotels, can easily obtain permis- "Prairie" (363 yards), which latter is sion to use the course. simply descriptive of the hole. The An open tournament was held here "Chilcoot Pass" (238 yards) is a diffi- in the early part of November, and cult road to travel, but the golfer similar events will take place during is then asked to remember "Hob- the winter and spring. son's Choice" (256 yards) in front of With United States warships riding "Santiago" (304 yards). Thus we at anchor in the Roads and plenty of pleasantly negotiate 2,610 yards and military life in the surroundings, it is return to the clubhouse to celebrate. HAMPTOX ROADS GOLF CLUB. 349 A V1KW OVER THE LINKS A SNUG CORN'liR IN THE CM'HHOUSK. I BROUGHT my pupil in shoulder. In coming down with the my last paper so far as the club the left foot gradually resumes swing back preparatory to its position flat on the ground, while striking the ball. I will the right foot is equally gradually now say something re- raised on to its toe. I here repeat what specting the downward stroke, with I have said before, that the take back its result of sending the ball flying. is to be done with measured slowness, Being in front of the sheet, the ball and at the point when the club is as may be teed. A proper address to far back as it is to go before it is the ball given, and the backward forced to return, the player may well stroke made according to previous di- count one. After counting for sever- rections, it seems easy enough to fin- al strokes, he will be able to score ish up the rest of the business and set actually counting, as he will 'then the ball on its course; but if you try have got into the habit of making a you will not find this to be the case. slight, almost imperceptible, pause at There is as much method to be ob- the return of the club. But still he served in getting down to the ball as must for a time watch how the return there was in getting- backward from it- is made, and if necessary, return to after the address. You will remem- the counting process. I always teach ber I spoke about a give-and-take my pupils to be as careful in practis- process in getting away backward ing the return of the club as they are from the ball to ensure the due main- in getting the swing back. It is far tenance of the circle in the swing; better not to be in too great a hurry this same balance has to be observed to strike the ball; but time may be in the return of the club to the ball. absolutely saved in acquiring the In getting back the player rises on proper stroke if the pupil make some his left foot, depressing his left slow practise with the downward LESSONS IN GOLF. <;<• 351 stroke without any ball before him. the word upright applies to signify And perhaps here I may draw atten- the body being at the return to the tion to what'is to happen to the club ball in exactly the same rectangular after the ball has been struck, so that position in which it was when the when the downward swing is prac- club left the ball to swing backwards. tised the stroke may at the same time All this is a great deal to carry in be completed. If you are a cricketer one's mind during the short time it you will remember how careful you takes to make the stroke; therefore I have to be of your left shoulder in am not unduly anxious for careful- standing- at the wicket, bat in hand, ness when I press upon you the ne- to receive a ball; the left shoulder cessity of going through the work a must be well up to the front towards great many times. Each time I hope the bowler, and even in play no good you will find yourself getting more hit comes off unless the left shoulder into it, and probably, after thirty or is well to the front. It is exactly so fort)' efforts, being able to realize why with golf; the left shoulder should be I make so great a point of this. The perpetually pointing towards the di- next best thing you can do is to grad- rection the ball is to travel. Thus ually quicken up in the downward when the left shoulder, after being stroke, not trying to get fast all at depressed and carried well over the once, but faster and faster gradually, left toe in front of the ball, has to remembering you cannot get too fast come back on the return of the club on to the ball. The faster the club is to the ball to a more erect position, traveling at the time it reaches the by reason of the depression of the left ball, so much farther the ball will foot from the toe to the heel—when travel; but this must be carefully the right foot begins to rise and the borne in mind, that pace may be right shoulder follows the downward wasted. How often one sees a lot of stroke of the club—it does not follow pace 'Oil the club at or soon after the that the left shoulder is to be allowed return from the stroke back, but not to twist backward as it is naturally in- nearly so much when the club meets clined to do, and let the player pre- the ball. Probably nothing helps to- sent a chest, full front towards the wards this so much as forgetfulness direction the ball is to take. If this to keep the hands and the arms well be done, the strength of the stroke away from the body, and the arms is materially weakened, and the direc- quickly straightening from the bend tion of the ball rendered uncertain. of the elbows when the club is taken It is essential that the left shoulder be backward. So very many forget this, kept well to the front throughout the and continue the bent elbow through- stroke. Just as you did with the out the stroke. It does not matter stroke back, practising the return how fast your club is traveling at any stroke, and observe how you manage other time; the point is, How fast is it. Do it quite slowly for a great it going when it strikes the ball? many times, for now you have a lot Now, to ensure quick traveling- to think about: there is the holding through the ball, I must draw your of the club, the position of the feet, attention to what is to become of the the uprightness of the body, so far as club after the ball has been struck 352 LESSONS IN GOLF. and is gone away. It would never and the club travels back slowly, you •do, on a racecourse, for a row of hur- can stop it when you please; but at dles to be set across the course a few the pace the club is returned, getting yards past the winning-post. A faster and faster as it comes down, it horse in a race, fast pressed, has to must have a fair chance of expending pass the winning-post at the top of its power. You must hold on to the its speed; it requires, therefore, suf- club, but nevertheless you must let ficient room to ease off and pull up. it go its course, and as the club has, No jockey pulls the poor beast on to to use a golfing expression, gone its haunches to see how quickly he through the ball, it must travel along •can stop; and yet how often one sees the same road. What is required is men on the links—I cannot call them to have the arms as straight as golf players— doing their level best straight can be when the club and the to see how quickly they can bring the ball meet; therefore, to insure this, it club to rest after it has touched the ball! is well to let the club, after the ball has Sometimes I am inclined to think that been struck, follow the course the such persons have really a nervous ball has taken, or in other words, car- dread of hitting the ball, and directly ry on the circle. The club must nat- they feel the ball and club come into urally come at last over towards the contact, the}' think all is over, with left shoulder in expending its the result that the ball travels only a strength, but do not be too ready to short course. In fact, I believe, with let the club come round; remember, some, the thought of having to bring the moment the club comes round the the stroke to an end as soon as the elbows must be bent, and the longer ball is struck leads man}' really to you keep off that bending of the el- begin to check the club before it bows so much the more certain will it •ever reaches the ball, with a re- be that the elbows are not bent be- sult not necessary to waste time in fore the stroke has been made. The describing, but which generally al- stroke is not merely a hit; it is much lows of the club being pulled up more; you are to drive through the about a foot or two in front of the ball. Carry the stroke well through, ball; while the truth is thatforthat foot says the professional coach. Of •or two the club should be traveling course the ball is hit, but the word almost as fast, if not quite as fast, as hit does not at all describe the stroke. it was doing when it passed through In the short distance you have in the ball. Never, therefore, be afraid which to get up the pace, it is impos- to give your club plenty of space in sible to secure a full power unless you which to pull up, nor be so foolish as carry the stroke on and through the to set imaginary hurdles across its ball. I want especially to impress path. If I may call this part of the this upon my pupil, and on paper it is stroke the ending off, it is far more somewhat difficult to convey exactly important in bringing about a long, what I mean. Perhaps what I mean well-struck ball than may seem at may be the better understood if I first sight to appear. You can take say, rather than bring vour club the cluli as far back as you like, more round over the left shoulder, in a neat •or less as seems to suit your stroke. form, with both feet upon the ground, LESSONS IN GOLF. 353 I should like to see you so put about left shoulder forward to the end, and by the impetus of the stroke, with the stroke following the line of the your club-head pressing forward af- shoulder—is not peculiar to golf. It ter the ball, that you are literally so comes in every game where a straight thrown off your balance that in spite stroke is required. Thus we have of every effort to avoid losing your gone through the stroke from begin- club altogether your right leg has to ning to end, and it remains only for yield and follow the club in its course. you to practise it with the greatest I do not tli ink that this need neces- care. As my paper is drawing to its sarily follow what I want you to do, close, perhaps before proceeding to as to be the natural consequence of the next point I have to discuss I had your stroke, and therefore yo'ur usual better finish up with one or two re- habit;.but it would be well if at your marks which have occurred in pre- first essay to carry the stroke well vious papers, but which may have through, this should be the conse- been overlooked nevertheless. I am quence, to be overcome and done endeavoring to set the stroke before away with after a bit of judicious bal- you as a thing" that was to be done on ance ; but anything is better in this definite principles, any one of which direction than the feeble stroke of principles if omitted or neglected to a corresponding forward stroke to the be observed rightly must necessarily slow backward one—just a quiet gen- lead to a bad stroke. I have not tlemanly push through the ball and a said anything about the. knees in this finish off that does not at all put you paper, though I spent some time about. The downward stroke should upon that part of the subject in an put you about, it should be an exertion, earlier paper. Nothing helps more and there is no harm done if in the to get a good, easy balance than the end it somewhat puts you off your proper use of the knees. "Sit down balance to maintain to the end the to the stroke," is a common expres- stroke forward right through the ball sion, which means bend the knees and upward. I am not making too well forward. I daresay you have much of this, and I wish I had every observed a professor of the game, in one who reads this on my lawn to addressing the ball, almost knocking" show them what I mean; but I doubt his knees together; he does this to very much whether, before I had got insure the lightness of his position, them to carry it out, I should not and to be sure that his feet have got a have to give as much tongue to the good hold, and his hips, ankles, and subject as here .1 have done in pen knees are on the play. From all these and ink. I fancy the point I am try- joints a proportion of power is to be ing to make as really important—the obtained.—Prepared for London Golf. Editor's Note BnnK At a committee •.neeting of the I Fnited States Golf Association, held EVERY MONTH. at the office of the secretary on No- By Appointment, an Official Bulletin of the vember 28th, the Chevy Chase Golf United States Golf Association, Inter- Collegiate Golf Association, Central New (lull was admitted to associate mem- York Golf League, and Metropolitan Golf Association. bership. * * * Entered lit I'ost Office lit New York as Second elttBS Mutter. Copyright, by .IOSIAII NEWMAN, Publisher, 181IN. I am pleased to be able to announce ONE TEAR, $1.00: SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS. Postage frer U. 8., Canada flnd Mexico, To otber foreign that we are shortly to have one of countiiei, 2r> rents PIT yenr. Keinlt by KxpresR Money Order, IVstorHce onler. Registered Letter, or ('Heck the finest, if not the very finest, golf payable to.io.si.vn NKW.M.VN. links in America within the limits of ADVERTISING RATES. the city of New York. The negotia- Whole Inside Page, fffiO.OO per Issue. Half - UO.OO " tions, which have been quietly pro- Quarter " " lft.00 Eighth " 7.!>0 gressing for several weeks, arc now One Inch •1.00 DISCOUNTS. (lefinitely completed, so I am at last at On contracts for six consecutive or six every other month insertions, 10 per cent olT: twelve consecutive liberty to mention the matter in print. insertions, 'JO per cent off; twelve consecutive full- page insertions, &"> per cent oft. For many years the Fox Hills on • DDHISS GOLF, ISO Staten Island have been known to be the most ideal spot in the country UOL. III. DECEMBER, 1898. for a perfect golf course. It was the The attention of my readers is par- ambition of our late friend, Theodore ticularly called to a form which ap- Havemeyer, to purchase a tract of pears in this issue towards the end of land there and erect the finest golf the magazine, which I desire filled in club in the world. The property was, for the " Official Golf Annual of tIn- however, divided up amongst so many United States and C anada. " small interests that every effort to THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 355 > conclude negotiations has hitherto May) it should prove a fixture' well failed. worthy of the support of all golfers. • * * * :|: ;!< . :|; During the last two years, however, T , r, -rT , , .,, , , , , And what shall I say of Lakewood? George Vanderbnt has purchased out- . ,'•••+_.,•• • t . . • ,• .1 • Ihnrsdav, ram and snow, .Friday, an right, at various times, the major por- . • . , ~ , ' ,. \ T , ,. , ., 111 ice-cold wind; Saturday, a blizzard. I I tion of the ground, and has now , , . T \ \r , , . , ,, . , • took a snapshot of John Moorhead, leased 112 acres of the most clesir- i r , ., ,. , ,, . ,, Jr., in the regulation.. outfit, .three able section for golf purposes, to the • h , e, . T 1 1 r* • 1' i. r'i 1 heavy sweaters and two thick under- Staten Island Cricket Club. . • . shirts, 111 addition to boots, cap, and "knicks" to match. And yet, amidst I Work is now being commenced on t01Tents of rain, the amateur cham- a full eighteen-hole course, which, piOn, Findlay S. Douglas, went round while within sight of my office win- the C(:mrsc in a peerless.83, establish- dows and within forty-five minutes of inR a liew competitive record! He the City Hall, commands some of the certainiy deserved the cup offered for most magnificent views jn the state, the hest score in the qualifytiig: round. . if not in the country. The turf is so good on the rolling hills that the goats alone have been able to keep the grass And, notwithstanding the atrocious in fair condition for play, and of nat- state of the elements, nearly fifty play- ural bunkers and hazards there are no ers handed in complete cards, while encl. many others, utterly exhausted, re- * * * turned for a wee drop of Scotch at the Of the various plans for a fine new end of nine holes> ancl decided that \ golf clubhouse on the grounds, and the Mazing logs in the large open many other interesting details in con- Sratc had more attractions for them nection with the new Venture, I must than tlle siIver trophies, remain silent for the present, suffice * * * to say that the Staten Island Cricket Here are the sixteen scores which Club lias a new era of prosperity be- qltalified for the Lakewood Golf Club fore it which will far surpass its most Qtlp • palmv days. For this the club must „. „ „ . ,„,.,, ' ' J Fmfllay B. I)iniKl»s, l'aivnelrt— thank its most capable secretary, j. Out n B r> 4 4 B 5 R a—ii ,, „ „ , , , " . , in (i u 0 s B 3 3 4 4—4a—Kit Maxwell Carerre, who has earned waiter J.Travis, Oakland-. through in a few weeks what others out 4 B B B B B S 4 B-43 have failed to accomplish in years. F. J. J. r>e Kaismea,' Lnkewood— Out B n 5 0 s 0 5 •] B—17 * * . * ]n , R B 7 Ei 0 -4 3 4 ft—14—»1 rrt T\ 1 • /-• , /—1 1 , • , Jiuni'S Converse, Ocean County— 1 he Baltimore Country Club, which Oati B n (1 r, B (i s s s_,jr, In fi 1 B B 4 W. B. Rhett, Crescent A. A.— Philadelphia, 2 up ; W. H. Davis, Buf- Out 6 0 0 ii B fl 7 8 '1—48 In 6 5 0 5 5 5 3 4 fl—44—92 falo, beat Jasper Lynch, Lakewood, 5 Louis A. Biddle, Philadelphia— up, 4 to play; Findlay S. Douglas, Out 4 5 0 5 7 fl 5 <1 fl—40 In 6 8 7 4 S 8 5 8 5—40—92 Fairfield County, beat James Con- Juspcr Lynch, Lakewood— verse, Ocean County, 5 up, 4 to play; Out 4 5 5 0 6 5 6 2 4—43 In 6 7 0 fl 0 4 5 5 f) —IS)—92 F. J. J. de Raismes, Lakewood, beat John Moorhcad,jjr., Allegheny Country Club- Out 4 5 5 0 fl 0 7 3 5—10 Howard A. Colby, Essex County, 7 In 5 6 0 5 5 4 4 6 6—48—92 up, 6 to play. W. H. Davis, Rochester— Out 4 0 6 5 5 0 0 4 5—47 Second round.—D. P. Kingsley In ,.5 6 7 4 fl 4 5 4 4—40—93 beat John Moorehead, Jr., 4 up, 3 G. Owen Winston, Cutler School- Out 5 0 I) fl 0 5 5 5 6—19 to play; W. J. Travis beat J. W. Bid- In 0 7 5 5 0 4 4 4 5—40—95 dle, 1 up (19 holes); F. A. Walthew Dr. Pnul.T. Kimkill, Lakewood— Out 5 15 5 0 6 4 7 4 5—47 beat W. H. Davis, 4 up, 3 to play; In 7 fi fl 5 fl 4 4 0 fl—49—96 Findlay S. Douglas beat F. J. J. de F. A. Walthew, Lakewood— Out 6 0 5 5 7 7 7 3 5—51 Raismes, 5 up, 3 to play. In 7 7 5 fl ,6444 4-48—97 Semi-finals.—Findlay Douglas beat A. M. Eci'd, Lakewood— Out 5 fi 8 fl 0 0 Ii 3 5-50 F. A. Walthew, 3 up, 2 to play; W. In 6 5 0 0 5 4 5 4 6—47—00 J. Travis beat D. P. Kingsley, 6 up, In addition to the above, Robert 4 to play. Bage Kerr, president of the Golf Club * * =i= of Lakewood, returned a card of 95, Consolation Cup (first round).—I. but 'a business engagement obliged T. Starr, Philadelphia, beat C. L. Tap- him to withdraw from the contest. He pin, Westbrook, 1 up (19 holes); D. beat a host of good men, including W. Bishop, Otsego, beat F. M. Free- James A. Tyng, who, for the first time, man, Fairfield County, 6 up, 3 to to my knowledge, had to join the con- play; James A. Tyng, Morris County, solation contingent. Laurence Cur- tis, George D. Fowle, C. B. Macdon- beat Victor Thorhe, Ardsley, y up, 6 ald and now R. B. Kerr, have each to play; James Park, Richmond distinguished themselves this season County, beat J. Allen, Ardsley, 1 up; by showing us how to play golf in ad- A. D. Compton, Otsego, beat Dun- dition to legislating thereon. can Edwards, Dyker Meadow, 6 up, 5 to play; G. B. Adams, Crescent Ath- This is how the players fought it letic, beat A. H.Porter, Jr., Seabright, out to the semi-finals on Friday and by default; H. W. Slocum, Staten Isl- Saturday:— and, beat W. D. Stockley, Lakewood, Lakewood Cup (first round).—John 3 up, 1 to play; Malcolm Graham, Jr., Moorehead, Jr., Allegheny, beat Dr. Harbor Hill, beat E. F. Eyrault, Cres- Paul T. Kimball, Lakewood, 6 up, 5 cent Athletic Club, by default. to play; D. P.'Kingsley, St. Andrews, Second round.—L T. Starr beat D. beat W. B. Rhett, Crescent Athletic, W. Bishop, 3 up, 2 to play; James A. 6 up, 5 to play; W. J. Travis, Oak- Tyng beat James Park, 4 up, 3 to land, beat A. M. Reed, Lakewood, 6 play; A. D. Compton beat G. B. up, 4 to play; J. W. Biddle, Philadel- Adams, S up, 4 to play; Malcolm Gra- phia, beat G. O. Winston, Westches- ham, Jr., beat H. W. Slocum, 6 up, 5 ter Golf, 1 tip (19 holes); F. A. Wal- to play. ; thew, Lakewood, beat L. A. Biddle, Semi-finals.—James A. Tyng beat THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 357 1. T. Starr, 6 up, 5 to play; Malcolm The Philadelphia Golf Association Graham, Jr., beat A. D. Compton, 1 has concluded its team championship up. for the year and, singularly enough, The finals for both cups will be the Huntingdon Valley Country Club, played at a later date as the storm and which only joined the league this sea- darkness prevented a finish. son, has come out ahead. -This club has several particularly clever players, such as W. P. and A. IT. Smith, M. The cold welcome that the weather R. Wright, and J. C. Patterson, and man gave us was more than made up they finally carried off the trophy by a for by the hearty welcome accorded by handsome margin. The standing of the local golfers. They are a warm- the clubs follows :— hearted, jovial crew of first-rate FIKST TEAMS. AVon. Lost. P.O. sportsmen, and their new clubhouse Huntingdon Valley C. C 7 1 .875 Philadelphia Cricket Club 5 3 ,B2S was just as snug and well modeled as Meiion Cricket Club 5 3 .025 Country Club 3 S .87f) could be. Here's to the new club- Bchnont Golf Association 0 6 .000 house and links! SECOND TEAMS. Won. Lost. P.C. Morion Uriuket Chili 7 ] .875 Philadelphia Cricket Club 5 2 .714 Country Club 4 8 .571 Huntingdon Valley C. C. 3 B .1175 The three big hotels, the Lake- Bolmont Golf Association 0 8 .000 wood, the Laurel House, and the =1= * * Laurel-in-the-Pines, were crowded The Women's Golf Association, of with players and the face of Horace Philadelphia, should have also com- Porter, the genial host of the latter pleted their inter-club matches, but establishment, beamed with smiles of the first teams of Merion and Hunt- welcome as the coaches unloaded at ingdon Valley have tied and in the his door on Wednesday evening. second-team contest there is a differ- ence to settle, which has been referred to the committee, between the Phila- The Nassau Country Club, of Glen delphia Cricket Club and the Coun- Cove, L. I., bids fair to possess next try Club. year a golf course second to none in. the country. Long Island has prob- At present the standing is as fol- lows :— ably the nearest approach to Scotch FIRST TEAMS. turf we have, and, as sand is usually Won. Lost. P.C. Merion Crlckut Club (1 2 .750 found within eighteen inches of the Huntingdon Vnllcy (,' C 0 • 2 .750 Philadelphia Cricket Cl lib ?,V, Si4 .500 surface, every opportunity is available Country Club ty, ;!k .500 for making perfect bunkers. The old Belmont Golf Association (I " 8 .000 SECOND TEAMS. course, known as the Queen's Coun- Won. Lost. P.C' ty, will be retained for a few months, Philadelphia Cricket Clul Ii 1 .857 Morion Cricket Club (i 2 .750 but before next summer the new links Country Club 5 2 ,1M Huntingdon Valley C. C 2 fl .250 and new clubhouse will be in full oc- Belmont Goli Association 0 8 .000 cupation. They adjoin the Glen Cove railroad station and are most F. H. Wiggin, of the Apawamis accessible from New York over the Golf Club won the handicap at Gar- Long Island railroad system. den City arranged by members of the BE8 THE EDITOR:S.NOTE BOOK. Cotton Exchange. He played from What do you say to a golf syndi- scratch. The tourney was run off in cate ! There are several in the air. drenching rain. In fact, they have actually material- * * * ized. One hails from San Francisco, but the most sweeping is located in One of the charms of living on this Florida, with an offshoot in Nassau. continent is that we can play golf all It is called the Florida East Coast the year round. A few courses in the Golf Club and embraces golf links at North close up as the snow begins to St. Augustine, Ormonde, Miami, fly, but fifty open in the South. In Palm Beach and Nassau, Bahamas. California, too, they are as busy as "Member of one, member of all," is bees laying out courses and holding the way the prospectus reads. Below tournaments, and I open the letters is a sample membership card, with each morning bearing tidings from the special regulations that are printed the Pacific coast of new golf ventures on the back of it, set forth underneath. with a deal of pleasure. I want to see the clubs at Los Angeles, San Fran- :|.- * * cisco, Pasadena, and a score of other This enterprising venture is pre- places on this coast coming into theU. sided over by C. B. Knott, of St. Au- S. G. A., as there is no secret society gustine, Fla., and it is receiving a in the world containing half the genu- large share of support. The club has ine fellowship that is developed in the been fortunate in securing the ser- breast of your true golfer. As one of vices of some first-class assistants in my contributors writes this month, the management of the courses. Alec "A golfer once, a golfer ever." Fiulay is the "golfer-in-chief," and i$ to Certify ™.r IS ENTITLED TO THE PRIVILEGES OF THE ST. AUGUSTINE COUNTRY OLUB GOLF- LINKS AND A LOCKER IK THE OLUB HOUSE FOR THE SEASON, RECEIPT OF TEN DOLLARS BEING HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED. Secy. (OVER) At any time during the life of this ticket the holder may register with the Green-keeper of either or each of the links of the Florida East Coast Golf Club, and receive a ticket of like limit entitling him to like privileges. Thus enabling each member of the Florida East Coast Golf Club to play on either or each of the following links of that Club without extra charge. ST. AUGUSTINE COUNTRY CLUB CTOLF LINKS. ORMOND GOLF LINKS. PALM BEACH GOLF LINKS. MIAMI GOLF LINKS. NASSAU GOLF LINKS. THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 359 our old friend, Arthur H. Fenn, is in GOLF makes an honest endeavor to charge at Palm Beach. All the other reach every golfer and to give the best links are in the care of first-class men. possible value for money received. C. B. Knott tells me that the club One of the most annoying moments will be very liberal in the presentation in a golfer's existence is the horror of of cups for competition. There is to missing a short putt to win a hole, be a Season Championship trophy, for or even a match. At such times some men and women, on each links, a vile worm that has cast up a modicum monthly trophy for men and women, of earth in front of the ball ruins our a weekly trophy for men and women, chances of placing a handsome trophy at least one special handicap trophy on the family sideboard. Again and for men and women, a Florida East again I have been asked how to get Coast Golf Club trophy for men and rid of worms on the putting green. It women, and last of all a Winter Cham- is as simple as A. B. C. There is a pionship Cup for both sexes. What chemist in New York who has a prep- more could you want? aration that does the trick without in- * * * jury to the grass, inside of fifteen min- Golfers are already flocking down to utes. It positively looks like leger- Asheville, Magnolia Springs, Kissim- demain, to see how the worms come mee, Old Point Comfort, Thomasville, up out of the ground and die after a Augusta, and Tampa Bay, at all of sprinkling of the solution. The ad- which places they can rely upon being dress of the magician is, Reade Mfg. well treated. Co., 412 W. Thirteenth street, New •-!: * s|t York. Your greens committee will J. Hamilton Gillespie looks after thank you to drop him a line for full the golf interests at Kissimmee and particulars. Tampa, where the Plant System have * * * two of their crack hotels. Francis Bowler Keene, "the Laure- * * =1= ate of the Links," has just been elected It is a noteworthy fact that the pres- to the Wisconsin legislature in the ent edition of GOLF contains more First Assembly District of the city of space devoted to resort hotel adver- Milwaukee. He is a republican, and tising than any other magazine pub- the district is normally democratic. lished in America. Indeed, this is a The reports indicate that Mr. Keene most conservative estimate, as it is knows something about the right kind doubtful if any other monthly has re- of practical politics, in addition to be- ceived more than half the amount of ing a constant contributor to the lit- hotel patronage. The reason for this erature of golf and an enthusiastic is twofold. First, the hotel men have player of the best of games. He has grasped the fact that the golfers are found, no doubt, like Balfour, that the their best patrons and they are cater- mixture of politics aiid golf is a fine ing to them with unstinted labor and one. Like his classmate, Theodore expense. Second, the proprietors and Roosevelt, he is what is commonly managers of resorts fully realize that called a hustler. Whether or not he 360 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. intends to urge the passage of a law Club championships have been the making golf compulsory throughout order of the day during the month of the state, we are not informed. The November, and many a grand match Milwaukee Sentinel describes him as has been the outcome. I should a polyglot politician, addressing his like to be able to record the names of diversified constituency in English, these club champions, but as there are German, Italian, Arabic, and the over T.OOO of them, I fear to begin the brogue of the Emerald Isle. list. !j< * :|: * * * The Bridgeport Gun Implement The Philadelphia Women's Golf Co. have imported at much trouble Association Championship for 1898* and expense an assortment of genuine played at Bala, I must, however, re- Scotch Tartan caddy bags of the finest cord here. It was an intensely excit- quality. This includes the Gordon, ing match at the finals and was only Hunting-Stuart, Malcolm and Black won with a single putt by Miss Elsie Watch, and is, so far as I know, the Cassatt from Mrs. Caleb Fox. Miss only assortment of genuine Tartan on Cassatt has a very easy, graceful swing, sale in this country. and I am not surprised to see her as- :|: * ;|: sume the lead in Philadelphia. The Westchester Golf Club's tour- !|I * * nament brought out a good field of There were numerous new records local players, but none of them had received at this office during the early much of a chance with Walter J. part of November in competition for Travis, who seems to find it an easy the Prize Record Clubs. I could task to capture cups when Findlay have distributed twenty with a much Douglas is not around. This time it better grace than the three which con- was the Bronx Cup and a gold medal stitute my monthly supply. These for the best score turned in. George were won as follows :— Fox Tiffany was the runner-up and George Mackenzie, Lawrenceville Henry Miller, also of the home club, School, N. J. won the open handicap for the West- Mrs. N. Pendletnn Rogers, Plain- ch ester Cup. field, N. J. * :|! * Miss Amy Bennett Paseoe, Wok- ing, Surrey, England. Amongst the immense number of clubs and courses which are to be im- * >l< :|: proved for next year one of the most Other good records were made by notable is the addition to the property Frederick H. King, of the New York of the Country Club of Brookline. Military Academy, Comwall-on-Hud- This, by the purchase of land to the son; Harry K. Terry, Jr., Richmond, value of $35,000, is to be made an Va.; and Augustus J. P. Gallagher, eighteen-hole course of about 5,000 St. David's, Pa. yards. The club is to be congratu- :|t :|! :|: lated on its enterprise, which will no An annual subscription to GOLF doubt be highly appreciated by Bos- makes a New Year's present that is ton sportsmen. enjoyed all through the year. •^)®®®®®®®® The Greatest Success of Modern Piano- Building. Only 5 feet and 8 inches long, yet containing all the finest points of the Concert Grand "The Only Piano which Improves under Usage." CHOICE OF THE BEST CLASSES EVERYWHERE. HARDMAN, PECK & CO., Manufrs. illustrated cataiog-ue mailed 19th St. and Fifth Ave., New York City Eree on application. Mention tuia Mamim. Subscribe to "Golf." Subscription Blank. Date, JSP J. NEWMAN, Editor and Manager of GOLF, 150 Nassau St., New York: Herewith find One Dollar, for which please send me GOLF for one year, beginning ivitb number>. Name, _ . Address, . Remit by P. O. or Express Money Order, Registered Letter or Check. Detach this, fill out, place in.envelope, and send in. / A' " • 8(11 362 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. W. H. Way lias sent me, from De- of the Saturday contests to outsiders, troit, one of his new "jiggers," and I who can now run down and spend a am happy to say that the first time 1 Saturday to Monday among the had it out my record went smash three pines and make their entries when strokes on eighteen holes. they arrive on the grounds. It is a * * * very popular innovation. Last week I was trying a number of •1= * * balls made by Willie Tucker, of Many of my readers will be inter- Dobbs Ferry. They have the advan- ested to hear that the final match in tage of being better seasoned than the contest for the championship of most balls, and his "Defiance" and a the Toronto Golf Club resulted in the ball made in an "Agrippa" mold are defeat of A. W. Smith by Stewart good enough for any play. Gordon, the secretary of the club. At * * * the end of the first nine Smith was 3 When in the neighborhood of Fif- up, with the excellent score of 41, 3 teenth street, New York, drop in and below Bogey. At the fourteenth hole see a new Anderson putter at Slaz- he was 2 up, but Gordon, playing a enger's. You can put all the "Eng- steady up-hill game, won the remain- lish" on a ball with it that you some- ing four holes in Bogey, and finished times need for negotiating stymies. the winner by 2 holes. Mr. Gordon =1= * * played splendid golf the last nine A new Golf Guide is being brought holes, doing them in the Bogey score out by A. G. Spalding & Brothers in of 35- their wonderful io-cent series of books on sport. It is a vast improve- ment on anything of the kind at- at? tempted heretofore, and C. S. Cox, its WANTED editor, is to be congratulated thereon. I cheerfully advise you to get. a copy Advertisements under tills licad will be Inserted free of clinrge. to carry you along for the present, as the Official Golf Guide for 1899, N amateur golfer of 25 years' exper- A ience on first-class links desires posi- published from this office, will not be tion of manager or secretary of good golf out until next month. It will then be club. He is Well qualified in duties of* an eye-opener for the golfing world club secretary, can teach and play the game, and has experience in laying out and the cost will add $5 to the annual and caring for courses. Apply to " G-.," expense of participating in the Royal care of this paper. and Ancient Game, but—well, you PROMINENT and well-known club- will feel a hundred dollars better off. A maker and greenkeeper, who will be highly recommended by leading golfers, is * * * open for an engagement. First-class man The Ocean County Hunt and Coun- in every respect, polite, obliging and tem- try Club, of which W. A. Hamilton, perate. Address "Willie," care GOLF. Lakewood, N. J., is secretary, is out DETER CLARK, younger brother of J. with a very attractive program for the JT and D. Clark, Musselburgh, Scotland, is open for engagement as instructor and' winter season. The chief point of in- greenkeeper. Address Springhaven Golf terest will doubtless be in the opening Club, Media, Pa. SAMUEL BUDD Madison Square, West, N. Y. Specialties Golf Hose, $1.50 to $5.50. Golf Gloves, $2.50. Golf Shirts made expressly for the purpose in Scotch Madras, Flannels, Silk, etc. Golf Half-Hose in Wool, Fancy and Plain Colors. Sporting Neckwear. Golfing Neckerchiefs. SWEATERS AND CARDIGAN JACKETS ESTABLISHED 1818. I BROOKS BROTHERS, Broadway, cor. 22d St., N. Y. City. CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS READY MADE AND MADE TO MEASURE. We have besides the usual full stock of Suitings, a complete line (if " Knickerbockers," reinforced and plain, for Riding and Golf. Golf Capes, plain and with Vest front. Red Golf Coats, lined and unlined, with Club Collar, Flannels, knit Waistcoats, with and with- out sleeves. Riding Vests, etc. In our Furnishing Department will be found novelties in fancy half-hose, Scotch long hose and rich brocades for Scarfs to order. Genuine Shetland sweaters, etc. Red Sweaters with collars appropriate in color for the different clubs throughout the country. Archie Simpson Golf Clubs. Thoroughly matured Helsby "A" Golf Balls. Special designs and insignia for Golf Coats will be furnished. 364 * * * GRflPHOLOGY IT I <- JSy djtr <& < The proper study of mankind is man."—Pope, DIRECTIONS.-—A private letter, written in a natural mood and manner, is best suited for the purpose. All subscribers to the magazine are entitled to avail themselves of this opportunity, and those whose names are not already on our books may participate on joining our circle in the usual manner. A subscription form will be found in each copy of GOLF. All communications mustbe addressed to Dr. Maurice Moscovitz, care GOLF, 150 Nassau street, New York. No letters received after the 15th of the current month can be considered in the following issue. Initial letters, or a non de plume, may, of course, be used when desired, but the full name and address of the sender (which will not be published) must in each case accompany all communications. No subscriber is entitled to more than one reading. DETROIT. From a graphological pleasant to hear, but much de- point of view an upright or back- pends on how a thing is told. As hand writing is suspicious. Your the French say, " C'est le ton qui fait la musique." Your temper correspondent is very clever and cannot be called sweet, being ob- shows a tendencytowards uncandor stinate and quickly roused; how- if not untruth. She would not tell ever, I should not style it violent. all she knows, and successfully sup- It is easy to hurt your feelings, as presses her emotions and liveliness. you are extremetysensitive. Many The temperament is sanguine and favorable traits are conspicuous in jovial, the sense for humor keen, your handwriting, such as kind- the power of expression forceful.' ness, warm-heartedness and gen- erosity. When you offend by Much individuality and independ- clinging to your own opinion— ence of thought is shown. The will whether right or wrong—you do power is considerable, not so, how- so unintentionally and repent your ever, the moral courage. A bold- rashness later. The energy is quite ness about this writing would indi- considerable. In all you do you cate contempt for the conventional, are apt to put too much force and a disregard for the opinion of zeal and, as a consequence, are in danger of tiring soon of your work. others, or what might be termed ec- The mentality is of a higher order, centricity. The temper is impetu- the thoughts being exact but fanci- ous and easily roused to anger. Pas- ful at times. Experience has sive kindness is shown, that is, the taught you to be reticent and writer is kind but lacks in sympathy. cautious, though naturally disposed to drift. Try as you may, you VIOLET. The hard truth is not cannot succeed in controlling your GRAPHOLOGY. H65 volcanic emotions, which render "DODO," By all means, if the young you dissatisfied and pessimistic. man's ambition runs in this direc- 1 FAITH." No doubt you allude to tion encourage him in his work. the angular formation of the let- Artistic qualities of no mean order ters taught by various institutions are manifest in this handwriting, for young' ladies. Some cannot which is not yet fully developed. permanently acquire an angular hand, no matter how willing- or JEANNE (Montreal). A vivacious anxious they may be to do so. and restless nature, clever and tal- This writing is a typical illustra- ented, but sorely undecided. The tion of a strong and determined faculty of being agreeable is evi- will, that enables its possessor to dent, and this, together with the succeed in all undertakings. You conversational powers shown, make are not quickly roused to enthus- her an animated and brilliant com- iasm and not easily discouraged, panion. The imagination is vivid but true and constant in your feel- and in danger of degenerating into ings. Reticence is apparent; you exaggeration. In likes and dislikes would not tell all you know. Your the writer is led by sympathy and composition is not destitute of antipathy rather than by fair judg- selfishness and an inclination .to- ment, and the heart dominates the ward jealousy is evident, A prac- head. Great impressionability and tical nature, ambitious and hope- the capacity of deep and warm, if ful, fond of life and all its pleasures. not of constant, feeling are appar- Carelessness and a sad lack of or- ent. The will is weak, the energy der is observable. In your motions considerable, stimulated, as it gen- you are quick without being hasty, erally is, by ambition and pride. being sure of yourself and not An excess of shrewdness infers a afraid of the sound of your own tendency to deviate from the truth. voice. Your inclinations are more Order is conspicuous through its real than ideal. absence only. i. t + + + t t t + + + + + + ! + * + t + * + + + t I Make a New Record AND i Win a Golf Club. * As each month comes around the proprietors of GOLF will present a golf club to the first three amateurs (ladies or gentlemen) who are fortunate enough to establish new records for 18 holes on any golf course during the month. When more than three records are broken in the month, clubs will be awarded to the three golfers whose coupons prove to have been de- posited in the mails first. This will give an equal chance to players in every part of the country. No player may win a club more than once. The only conditions are that the players must be annual subscribers to the magazine and shall accurately fill in the annexed coupon for the current month and mail it to The Editor of GOLF, 150 Nassau Street, New York. Should the player be not already a subscriber to GOLF, the sum of one dollar for an annual subscription must be mailed with the coupon. The clubs sent to the winners are the celebrated one-piece drivers, manufactured by the Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., under the personal supervision of John D. Dunn, and are silver mounted, engraved, and finished off expressly for presentation purposes. "GOLF" RECORD COUPON, DECEMBER, J898, Name and Address of Player Height Member of. Golf Club Record made at ; Date Player's Score Previous Record •.• Signature of Secretary Vouching for Record Address 368 Golf Leather Made of Queen Olives, rare herbs, spices and a delicious Richard Young Co* sauce. An absolutely new andunioue condiment and 35 SPRUCE STREET, ... NEW YORK food combined.Tempting! and appetizing. Get ajar 2 and 4 HIGH STREET. BOSTON at your grocers. SEVILLE PACKING COMPANY NEW YORK. LIONHIDE EXCIUSIVISTS WATERPROOF OLIVES AND OLIVE PRODUCTS. GOLF LEATHER All the leading- professionals consider this and our regular leathers the finest and test in the world. I ffi Write for prices. Samples free. H. ?, Bradley« Co. No more "Worm Casts" or > "Ant Hills" on Putting Greens Portraits cade's Electric miniatures Worm and Ant _ Destrover 367 Tiftb flvenue Exterminates worms new YorK and ants without damage to the grass! SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS Used and recom- TO GOLFERS mended by the lead- ing' clubs. Send for circulm Re 6olf Information Bureau. Offices i 50 Nassau Street, ]Sfew "York. Descriptive booklets of the leading golf hotels are kept on hand, with Railroad and Steamboat time tables. [The following are believed by GOLF to be reput- able houses, worthv of the patronage of: its readers, Magnolia Springs, Fla., Magnolia Springs where a specialty is made of the Royal and Ancient Hotel. Season, December to May. Game.] Massawepie, N. Y., The Childwold. Ampersand, N. Y., Hotel Ampersand. Season, June to September. Season, July to October. Miami, Fla., The Royal Palm. Atlantic City, N. J., The Brighton. Open all the year. Season, January to April. | The Dennis. Mount Pleasant, N. H., Mount Pleasant Open all the year. House. Season, June to October. I-Iaddon Hall. Nassau, Bahamas, The Royal Victoria, Open all the year. Season, January to April, j The Sheiburne. Old Point Comfort, Va., The Chamberlra. Open all the year. Open all the year. Asheville, N. C, Battery Park Hotel. The Hygeia. :Season, December to April. Open all the year. Augusta, Ga., Hotel Bon Air. Ormond, Fla., The Ormond. Season, December to May, Season, January to April. Beede'S, Essex County, N.Y., St. Hubert's Palm Beach, Fla., Royal Poiuciana. Inn. Season, July to September. Season, January to April. Garden City, I/. I., Garden City Hotel. Palm Beach Inn. Open all the year. Season, December to May. Hot Springs, Va., The Homestead. St. Augustine, Fla., The Alcazar. Open all the year. Season, November to May. Jackson, N. H., The Wentworth Hall. Ponce de Leon. Season,. June to October. Season, January to May. Jefferson, N. H., The Jefferson. St. Andrews, N. B., The Algonquin. Season, July to September. Season, June to September. The Waumbek. Season, June to October. Schroon I/ake, N. Y., Leland House. Season, July to September. Kissimtnee, Fla., Hotel Kissimmee. Season, December to April. South Poland, Me., Poland Springs House,' Season, June to October. I,akewood, N. J., Laurel House. Season, October to June. Shelter Island, N. Y., Manhanset House. Laurel in the Pines. Season, June to September. Season, November to May. Tampa, Fla., Tampa Bay Hotel. The Lalcewood. Season, January to April. Season, October to May. Thomasville, Ga., Piney Woods. Xake Placid, N. Y., Stevens House. Season, December to May. Season, June to October. Any hotels that can offer their guests first-class- Manchester, Vt., Equinox House. golf, who'arenot represented in the above list, should*i! Season, July to September. communicate with the Publisher of GOLF. 'Tis but a. tiny floiuer, bat full o' siueet."—Scott. To appreciate Scott's opinion Gentleman's Smoke of heather one must obtain Lundborg's Per- r fume, Heather of the Links* COATES' LYMOUTH P GIN. UNSWEETENED WHOLEAOMS CHAMPAGQE. SONS, KILMARNOCK. A Horse's Neck ^SCOTCH WHISKIES. will prove fifty per cent, more palatable if mixed with VARTRAY GINGER ALE —a superior beverage for particular pur- chasers. Try a case. Acker, Merrall k Condit will tell you all about it and the Vartray Sarsnparilla and Seltzer. f'They are the sole agents for New York and Ticinity. RYE J)UVIVXER & CaXiT 369 You Lovers of Oriental Art may indulge your fancy to the fullest measure at this store of ours—a store that's wholly, unreservedly given up to " things Oriental," to objects of art and utility. Call! It't'dji/ig and Holiday reminders "from 1'antine's" have a value all their own. COLLECTIONS OF THE FINEST CLOISSONNE ENAMELS AND SATSUMA WARES. FINE OLD PORCELAINS ANI» POTTERIES, AND BENARES BRASSWARE. RARE JEWELRY FROM INDIA, TURKEY, JAPAN AND CHINA. CARVED IVORIES AND INDIA SILVERWARE. RARE EMBROIDERIES. GEM COLLECTIONS OF ANTIQUE RUGS AND TAPESTRIES. CARVED TEAKWOO1) AND BOMBAY BLACKWOOD FURNITURE. ORIENTAL LAMPS AND LANTERNS. ANTIQUE ARMOR AND WEAPONS. A. A. VANTINE & CO. ORIENTALISTS AND JEWELERS Nos. 877 & 879 Broadway, New York water (or Golf Clubs and Greens IrBlN I' of the essentials for every 1LBJ1 well-regulated Club is an abundant supply of water, and as Golf Clubs do not employ engineers, simplicity and safety are important requisites. Any Caddie can run a Rider or Erics- son Pump, and a liberal supply of water can be had at a cost ab- surdly low. Thousands of our customers are members of the important Golf Clubs of this country and we have supplied a number of Clubs with Our pumps. Catalogue "A7" will be sent on application. Rider-Ericsson Pump Co. 29 and 3I N 7th st 22 Cortlandt St., New York Rfi . . . <.. rh;,- „„ - - Philadelphia 239 Franklin St., Boston • Lake M" Lnica9° 692 Craig St., Montreal, P. Q. \ GOLF RESOR TS. Hygeia Hotel OLD POINT COMFORT, VA. This well-known and popular resort offers the lovers of Golf every facility for their comfort and pleasure. Superior Links, comfortable Club House, and easily I reached by Trolley The Hygeia Hotel offers qolfers F. H. PIKE, the best of accommodations. Lessee. - HOTEL ~ ? CHAMBERUN n>any ytm .Htlautw City has •"njqyrc! an enviable celebrity for the curative and re- Old Point Comfort orative qualities of its genial atn?ospberc~~ air is singularly free fron? fiaroidity-there Overlooking Hampton Roads, the ^ being less moiiture here than at any other point on the Atlantic Coast -"The Temperature Renedeziious of U. S. Navy. I lt^Tf^dd d The most luxuriously appointed hotel in the South. Conducted on the American Plan. Fitted with every convenience.—Hot and cold salt and fresh water bathing. ::: ::: ::: Sanitary arrangements And plumbing supervised by U. S. Engineers. Large Sun Parlor on every floor and Winter Palm Garden. The handsomest resort hotel ballroom in America. ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: MUSIC EVERY EVENING BY MILITARY BAND The Climate of Old Point Comfort is unequalled anywhere in the world, its close proximity to the Cull* stream making ilu1 winter weather alwarB delightful. The HAHPTON ROADS aOLF CLUB ;-MOTEL BRIGHTON- LINKS are within n short distance of the hotel. OPEN THROUGHOUT THE YEflK- All guests of < htmilnrliii have privilege of using them, and they are easily reached by electric cars. F WttEMSLE.Y&-SON Summer rates, $3.00 per day and upwards Winter rates, $4.00 per day and upwards ALAN F.CAMPBELL,Manager •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••< THOHASVILLE, QA. I Piney Woods Hotel DOWN IN THE PINE FORESTS Quail Shooting Harvey & Bicycle Paths Country Club Wood Riding and 3 Park Place Driving and Golf Links New York City >•••••••••••••••«••••*••••••••••••••*••••••••••••••••••••••• GOLF RESORTS. £••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••• [aurel \ Laurel = Pines j House • Lakewood, Lakewood NEW JERSEY. New Jersey • Accommodations for 3 50 guests HORACE PORTER, Hanager. DAVID B. PLUMER, Manager Lakewood is 59 miles south of New All York, and is well known as a resort for health and pleasure. Golf Links, Open Outdoor Sports Cross Country Riding, Bicycling, and from miles of beautiful drives and walks Oct. 1st in vogue to during the offer great inducements for out-door • June 1st Fall and Winter life. ' • Seasons ••»•••••••*•••••••••••••••••• j FLORIDA | The Country Club of Atlantic 4GN0LIA City has established GOLF SPRINGS LINKS upon its grounds. EL Shelburnc Atlantic Cit\?, N. J. A well-kept golf coarse of one and a quarter miles (9 holes) within hotel grounds; OPEN ALL THE YEAR. swimming pool at home green. Excellent quail, snipe, turkey and wood- TWENTY MINUTES AWAY. cock shooting; tennis, boating, fishing. Absolutely pure and healthful drinking water, from the celebrated Magnolia Springs. J. D. Southwick, Manager O. D. SEAVEY, Manager. Summer Resort, Hotel Champlain. 372 GOLF RESORTS. You Can Enjoy Golf in Atlantic VJuests of... City, N. J. THE the entire winter through. The delightfully located 18 hole Likewood course of the Country Club of Atlantic City is most conveniently situated, acces- sible by drive or trolley. The soil is Hotel especially adapted for winter playing Enjoy the hospitalities of the and popular features and tourneys LAKF.UOOU GOLF CLUB, which con- will be frequent. Golfers make trols the Finest Links in America. The Lakewood is unquestion- ably the Best Equipped Winter HADDON HALL Resort in the North. Thoroughly modern in every respect. their headquarters while in Atlantic City. A most modern hotel,luxurious- ly appointed and liberally managed. T. F. SIL.LECK, Lessee L.»Kewoo P§ Oattery Park Hotel 3 3 3\ I—# ASHEVILLE, N.C C C c c c c I c c P c 3 c 3 G . 5 Ii 3 0 3 .0 •D This magnificent hotel is situated in the most equable climate in America. < C Golf playing can be had during the entire winter. Excellent links have a been established, and Asheville will be the Mecca of Golf players this c P winter. For circulars of the Battery Park Hotel apply at the office of GOLF, or direct to E. P. McKlSSICK, Proprietor, ASHEVILLE, N.C. 873 GOLF RESORTS. President: Secretary: C. 3S. KXOTT CHAS. 33. COREV St. Augustine, Fla. 160 Boyleston St., Boston, Hags. MAKE A TOUR under the auspices of the Florida east Coast Golf Club Located in FLORIDA and NASSAU. Members have the Privileges of Five Links. A Season Championship Under the American and British Flags - St. Augustine ST. AUGUSTINE COUNTRY Nine Holes Stop at the HOTEL ALCAZAR, J. P. CLUB GOLF LINKS Under the supervision of GREAVES, Manager, or PONCE DE LEON, ROBERT MURRAY, Manager. Open November to flay D. H. n. FINDLAY Ormond ORMOND GOLF LINKS Nine Holes Under the supervision oE Stop at the HOTEL OSMOND, ANDER- Open December to April SON & PBICE, Managers. GEORGE nERRITT Palm Beach PALM BEACH GOLF LINKS Nine Holes Stop at the PALM BEACH INN, or Under the supervision of HOYAL POINCIANA, FRED STEKBY, Open December to April Manager. ARTHUR H. FENN Miami MIAMI GOLF LINKS Nine Holes Stop at the ROYAL PALM, H. W. Under the supervision of MERRILL, Manager. Open December to April LANCELOT SERVOS Nassau (Bahamas) NASSAU GOLF LINKS Nine Holes Stop at the ROYAL VXCTOEIA, H. E. Under the supervision of BEMIS, Manager. Open December to April JOHN HARLAND Tournaments will take place on each course weekly from their opening, and handsome trophies will be put up as prizes. Alexander H. Findlay, of Boston, has been engaged as Golfer-in-Chief of the Florida East Coast Golf Club, and the name of this celebrated player will be a sufficient guarantee that the whole system will be managed in a manner thoroughly worthy of the Royal and Ancient Game. For illustrated booklet, giving maps of the courses, entrance fees, and full details, address The Travelers' Information Company: NEW YORK, 3 Park Place. CINCINNATI, In Grand Hotel. BOSTON, 175 Devonshire Street. CHICAGO, 221 Michigan Avenue. PHILADELPHIA, 1711 Chestnut Street. PITTSBURG, 239 4th Avenue. \ BUFFALO, 377 Main Street. ST. LOUIS, In New Planters Hotel. CLEVELAND, 146 Euclid Avenue. ST. PAUL, Minn., 131 E. Sixth St. Where Tickets may be had, Steamship, Sleeping Car, Hotel Reservations made, and Transfer of Baggage ordered _ 374 GOLF RESORTS. IIII1IIIIIIIMIIUI ll l ill I ill IftllillI ill i ill itl ti of the GolfiFiorida best known The Famous Gulf Coast Hotels resort hotels Owned and Operated by the of the South. Only 22 hours from New York via either Atlantic Coast Plant System Line or Southern ... All open Jan. x8, i8gg ... Railway. ::: ::: ::: TAMPA BAY HOTEL, Tampa, Fla. Opens December 5th, 1898. Through Pullman A. E Dick. Manager. accommodations. HOTEL BELLEVIEW, Belleair, Fla. W. A. Barron, Manager. The nearest point THE SEMINOLE, Winter Park, Fla. to New York where O L. Frisbee, Manager. the climate admits AUGUSTA, of playing golf any HOTELFORT MYERS,Fortnyers.FIa. day during winter, P. H. Abbott, Manager. GEORGIA and the best links HOTEL.. .KISSIMMEE Open all the, Kissimmee year ... , Fla. in connection with any resort hotel in OCALA HOUSE, Ocala, Pla. the South. ::; ::: Phil F. Brown, Manager. For particulars ^> THE INN, Port Tampa, Fla. address S. M. Hannah, Superintendent. Course length- Golfliitiksat Tampa and Kissimmee C.G.Trussell ened and greatly improved since Send for illustrated Literature Manager last year.::: ::: ::: B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Hanager SAVANNAH. GA. miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiMiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiii G ULAI hr FINE LINKS AT IN THE Asheville, V C. * Augusta, Ga. | SOUTH Aiken, S. C. * AND THE CHIEF Florida Resorts REACHED MOST DIRECTLY BY THE Through Dining Cars, Vestibule Trains SOUTHERN RAILWAY Fast Service I. M. CULP, Traffic nanager & GENERAL OFFICES: W. A. TURK, Oen'I Passenger Agent ^ Washington, D. C. A. S. THEVEATT, Eastern Passenger Agent, 271 BROADWAY, N. V. £75 The Hammond Typewriter Company Home Offices and Factory: 403 & 405 E. 62d ST., NEW YORK Branches: NEW YORK 1B7 Broadway PHILADELPHIA 33 and 85 S 10th St. ; typewriter BOSTON :!00 Washington St KANSAS CITY 318 Hall BuildinR tojrarchase 81. Louis 310 N. 8th St. CLEVELAND 43 Arcade FITTSBURG 237 4th Avenue MINNEAPOLIS 3 N. 3d. St. LONDON, BIRMINGHAM, BELFAST, LIVERPOOL, CARDIFF. Write for particulars. Send a Tic. stamp to the HOME OFFICE mid a correct map of the world will \m mailed to you. Win. Ruehl & Son 74 Fifth Ave., New York llet. nth and 14th Street! We handle everything in the line ot music and musical merchandise. Our specialties are:— I'liliVOS (cash or installments) MUSICAL BOXES MANDOLINS and GUITARS COLUMBIA ZITHERS, Etc. We always carry a complete stock of Classical, Teaching and up-to-date Popular Music. The Columbia Zither iSTELLA has a SWEETNESS, HARMONY, and VOLUME of tone found tn no other music box. It is the only music box having smooth metallic tune sheets. is the No pins or projections to break off and not liable greatest to fjet out of order. Invention The list of tunes is unlimited. tor people who are fond of music but ....IDEAL MUSIC BOXES.... cannot spend the necessary lime to master playing; 6 to 600 tunes, with or without slot at- the more dim'cult instruments. A few hours' tachment. practice will enable you to rnaf er ahove in- Write for catalogue and name of local agent strument. Regular price $4.00; our price, including book, music JACOT & SON, 39 G Union Sq., New York. rack and key, - Haas Bros., FAMOUS SINCE 1840 25, 27, 29 West 31st Street, New York. Sole Patentees for _£• PERFECT FITTING Ladies' Tailors, < THE BEST MADE Dressmakers, Milliners, FOR SALE ALL OVER THE and UNITED STATES BY LEADING DEALERS Shirt Makers. FOWNES men fflolfers will appreciate the stylish GOLFING WAISTS GOLFING GLOVES made by FOR Ladies' and Gentlemen. JOHN FORSYTHE 365 Broadway FOWNES New York 377 *.-, f FLORIOft AND THE SOUTH it HEW YORK to U ii JBCKWILLE fw= ^ AND RETURN FIRST-CABIN w 1 Including Meals and Stateroom Accommodations Intermediate Cabin, $35.30 CHLESTOH FIRST CABIN AND RETURN Including Me^ls and Stateroom Accommodations A INTERMEDIATE CABIN, $24.00 , VM, P. CIVDE & CO., Gen'l Ag'ts, 5 i;owllnB (iSreen, New York THEO. G. EGEK, T. M., 5 Howling; (Jreen, New York WM. BIRNBAUM MANUFACTURER OF 1 Meerschaum, Amber and Brier GOODS & 80 Nassau Street, New Yorki Repairing, Boiling and Mounting of Pipes in the* best manner, and warranted. All kinds of Rei pairs executed in the nealest manner, at the low- est prices and at the shortest notice. Data for OFFICIAL GOLF GUIDE (Editorial Offices, 150 Nassau St., New York.) Of the. .-..Club. Situated at On Railroad Distance from depot Postoffice address Organized Incorporated Entrance fee Annual dues. No. of members.... President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Captain Governing Committee Greenkeeper holes, laid out by in 189. Distances Club Champions. List of members enclosed ? State of turf Photograph of clubhouse or players enclosed ?.. . .Maps of course enclosed ?. Remarks: Date Signed Secretary. Address i)7tt Tliere & no Kodak but the Eastman Kodak. Holidays «• Kodak Days as patterns herewith and 2 boxes of assorted Tinted paper or all White, of the _,__ latest styles, Illuminated 1 in Gold ancl Col- ors, for $3.00; 4 boxes $4.00 En- velopes tomateh. The long evenings of Christmas- Initial Boxes tide are made doubly delightful by One quire and taking flash-light pictures of one's One packet En- vel opes —-all friends. White stock — Illuminated — Picture taking by daylight or styles as shown, 50 cents; mail- fla.gf light is easy with a Kodak. ing, B cfcs. extra. CRUSTS, MOiVOOHAMS, ETC., FOB I>i:COHATIV •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••« I THE FASCINATING : QlESLER & CO. GAME OF Tournament Parlor Golf THE BEST AND MOST INTERESTING GOLF GAME Champagnes An ideal and inexpensive holiday gift. EXTRA SUPERIOR DRY | Price complete, one Dollar and it ———^—^—————"———— | VINTAGE BRUT 1889 and 1892 • Do not fait to Hxiriie for one of these ^ games or for a pamphlet describing it. | i NIMROD RYE WHISKEY t CHAFFEE & SELCHOW • MYLES R. MAPFENDEN t 45J West f 25th Street, New York | SOLE AdENT • FOR SALE BY ALL THE LEADING DEALERS • Tel. 935 Broad 79 Broad St., New York •••••••••••••••••••••••••••«•• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 380 PROFESSIONALS' CARDS. 'Tf James & David Foulis (late of St. Andrews, Scotland) James, "Open Champion of America, 1896" Golf Club and Ball Makers 3 Chicago Golf Club Drivers ^ Brassies Wheaton, 111. made by me are unequalled A large and well-selected stock of for workmanship and dura- Clubs and Balls always on hand. bility. A complete stock of Golf Goods always on hand. Foulis Octagon Back Cleeks Mail orders given prompt Foulis Concave Niblicks attention. A SPECIALTY. R. C. B. ANDERSON, Courses laid out. Charges moderate. Golf Club Maker and Instructor, Agents wanted. Send for price lists. SARATOGA, N. Y. H. J. WHIGHAM'S book on GOLF for sale. mmm imusm, ; Don't Top JOHN REID Use the Atlantic City COLLINS' CLUBS Country Club Well Seasoned Smith's Landing, N. J. Well Balanced Well Finished A stock of well-seasoned As used by the leading players in heads and shafts always the East. They are marked thus : on hand from which I should be pleased to burid clubs to suit the skilled player. Prices on application to c h d c o nty Careful attention given to WILLIAM COLLINS, co u nr; c, u br mail orders. Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. 881 ^,««l«M«t »tM tH | F. E. RIGDEN I GolfClub^Ball Maker R.B. WILSON ISLAND GOLF CLUB, Garden City, L. I. 11.13 always in stock a large selection of Drivers and ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND lSiaasicsur tlnest lnati'iliil ami workmanship. Orders by mail receive prompt nt ention. 1 JAMES M. LAING Golf Club and Ball From St. Andrews, Scotland Manufacturer # CRESCENT ATHLETIC C^TJB, Bay Ridge Brooklyn, N. Y. Maker o£ the celebrated WOOVEN NIBLICKS A SPECIALTY. WILSON'S ACCURATE PUTTER ______WILSON'S MASHIE CLEEK WILSON'S JIGGER Golf Club and Ball Maker WILSON'S NIBLICK, and Kansas City Country Club, Mo. Has always on hand a large stock of Clubs and Balls, WILSON'S Famous Drivers & Brassies made of the finest material and workmanship. Snow White Ball Paint. Every request of the game kept in Used by Miss Beatrix Hoyt, W. 11, Betts stock, etc. Trade supplied. Old balls remade equal and WalterB. Smith to new. Dealers in Golfing Goods in the United States should communicate with A. G. GRIFFITHS SLAZENGER & SONS, Sole Agents 6 East Fifteenth Street, New York Golf Club and Ball Maker: Lnnrton Amsnts- ' Be"""'. r|nk * Co., Chcnpsidc, E.C London Agents. (John w,9(|cI]i 3, Cranlmrno St., W.C WESTBROOK GOLF CLUB, E. ISLIP, L. I. Clubs ot every description made from the very best material and carefully finished. Morris Balls 27 a specialty. AH orders receive promptatLention. ROBERT WHITE JAMES BEVERIDGE, [Golf Oisfe and Ball Maherj Golf Club and Ball Maker, jj Grandin Road, Walnut Hills Jj Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, L, I., > Cincinnati Golf Club. Cincinnati, Ohio. *j has opened his new winter store on Hill Street j, Wholesale and Retail. Professionals Supplied. for the sale of Golf Clubs and Balls. All clubs are made by experienced workmen, and > Agents wanted everywhere. from best seasoned material, as supplied to all None but thoroughly seasoned wood used. the Leading Players of America, both profes- sional and amateur. Hundreds of unsolicited Mail orders a specialty.. testimonials. White's Special Putting Clcck.^r* Special One-Piece Drivers and Brassies on Hand. CHICAGO AGENTS James Beveridge attendsthe Golf Links during CRAWFORD & CO. the Winter Months every Saturday or at anv time to suit parties if notified. Telegraphic address: State and Washington Streets, Chicago, 111. "James Bfcveridge, Southampton, L. 1." * W. H. WAY t I Robert McAndrew Golf eiub and Ball * (Late of St. Andrews, Scotland) * Manufacturer I can now supply any of his late * THE COUNTRY CLUB, of DETROIT, * customers direct with first-class * jj Grosse Point, Mich. Ifc Agents wanted. L AH requisites for the game supplied. Old IRON HEADS p jj- balls remade. Sole American agent for the R. Q. McANDREW, jj patent Sakcorb non-slipping flint steel stud. Professional Nantasket Beach, *• t* Turned shafts supplied to the trade. Golfer, Mass. * 3S2 Artistic Home Decorations We can show you effects never before thought of, and at moderate prices, too. Why have your house decorated and painted by inferior workmen, when you can have it done by skilled workmen— by artists—for the same price? & jt> If you intend decorating, if only one room, call and see what we are doing, and for whom. j£ & J- & & 2,000 tnix'stry paintings Tapestry Paintings. to choose from. 38 ar- tists employedd, including gold medalists from the Paris Salon. SSendd 25 centts ffo r compendiudi m of 140 studies. New styles designed by gold medal U/jlll artists. From 10 cents ]>erroll up. If you will send 50 cents, we will express you prepaid our pie books free. A quantity of last year's paper, $1.00 and $2.00 per roll, new 10c. and 25c. Color schemes, designs and estimates submitted free. Artists sent to all parts of the world to do every sort of decorating and painting. We are educating the coun- try in color-harmony. Relief; stained glass; wall paper; carpets; furniture; draperies, etc. Aril/Iff On receiptof $1.00, Mr Douthltt will ans- HVIIVVi , questions on interior decora- tions, color harmony, an dwt harmonr any y of form, harmony of wall coverings, carpets, curtains, tiles, furniture, gas fixtures, etc. Manilill Of API ItffftraHAlK The art book of the century. mailUOl Wl «l I ITEIVI ailUIIS. 200 royal quarto pages. 80 superb full-page illustrations {11 colored) of modern home interiors and tapestry studies. Price $2.00. / / you want to be up in decoration send $3.00 for this book. Worth $30.00. CphAAl Six 3-hour tapestry painting lessons, in studio, (5.00. JIIIVVI. complete written instruction by mall, 81.00. Tapestry paintings rented ; full-size drawings, paints, brushes, etc., supplied. Nowhere, Paris not excepted, are such advantages offered pupils. New catalogue of 125 studies, 25 cts. Send $1.00 for complete instructions in tapestry paint- ing and compendium of 140 studies. We manufacture tapestry materials. Superior to foreign goods and half the price. Book of samples. 10 cents. Send $r.so for 2 yards No. 6—50-inch goods—Just for a trial order. Worth $3.00. All kinds of Draperies to match all sorts of Wall Papers, from JO cents per yard up. THIS IS OUR GREAT SPECIALTY. Over 100 new styles for all cover- i Goblin Printed Burlaps. ings at 25 cents per yard, 36 in. wide, thus costing the same as wall paper at 8l.0U[ier roll. 240 kinds w of Japanese lida leather paper at 82.IK) per roll. ilnhlin Apt IkPanpPII Oreclan, Russian, Venetian, lirnzilian, UVVIIII HII Via|FCiy. R Rococo, Dresden, Festoon, Col- lege Stripe, Marie Antoinette, Indianonmn, Calcuttai , Bombay, Del ft, Soudan In order that we may introduce this line of new art goods we will send one yard each of 50 dif- ferent kinds of our most choice pitterns for $7.50. 286 FIFTH A VH. JOHN F. DOUTHITT, (Near 30th St.) American Tapestry Decorative Co. YORK. Willie Dunn 9 Seymour Building, East 42d St., New York Between Fifth. Avenue and Hotel Manhattan. WILLIE DUNN'S Patent Convex-Sole Brassie 3 helps a player out of a cuppy lie with more advantage than any other club. Specialties WILLIE DUNN'S Well Special Worthy of SOCKET DRIVERS combine the merits of the " One- Any Golfer's Piece " with those of the Spliced Club. Both head and shaft made Attention. Golf from the finest selected wood. «^ Instruction WILLIE DUNN'S Original Seascn I8Q8-QQ By special request of numerous One-Piece Drivers I/adies and Gentlemen Willie are made by experienced men who Dunn's Original Golf School can play golf. Used by the cham- re-opened in November. pion Yale team of JS97 and {898. Courses laid out in any part of the country. Lessons given by appointment. Special attention gfiven to mail orders from a distance. Note the address: ©ne block from Grand Central 381 ™ Keep your eye f i Ales and Stout on the Ball | t ! "RED HAND" BRAND I ROBERTSON'S DUNDEE P AND i BUSHMILLS IRISH RIINART BRIT is the | WHISKEY best ball in the ARTHUR market. TRY A PINT OF IT. 45 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK Tin- best Whisky, like the beat Golf, or the bent society, ain't he found everywhere, hut when found, wise men drink the first, play the second, and cultivate the third. HAIG * HAIG * # • • • Scots Whisky is the best Whisky in the world; its distillers are Golfers, its proprietors Gentlemen. The oldest whisky distillers on earth. House founded t679. Every Golfer should try it. 10SEVELT & SCHUYLER, New York, SOLE AGENTS tor the united stat». PATTK9ON J'KKSS, NKW BRHND * Bass1 Ale AND TRADE MAHK.. (juiness' 5tout BOTTLED AND SHIPPED BY I L«uis Rocderer M. fj. l-()5TI:K&SONS,Lt'd. LONDON | Champagnes 77/c I'.noritc in Kngland. S stand in the foremost rank \ throughout the world "^S^^Sc Orders solicited from the trade by the Agents ^ t La Montape & Sons ALEX. 1). SHAW & CO. 45 Beaver St., N. Y. ~J\S 58 Broad Street, New York. $ The Crawford, McGregor & Canby Co. o I f (< Persimmon used new and success* exclusively ful process of for Ulooden seasoning (ioif Clubs. $ i VVANTKD.