Canadian Golfer, November, 1917
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November, 1917. CANADIAN GOLFER 349 1 OeTTTaa i a vee "NY F 4 bi me 4 & mn W ere vty ; B ( icicleit i A WORLD'S RECORD . This Brook Trout, weighing 14% pounds(note the two-foot rule) = wasereave™sf ’ on the Nipigon River You may not have the same luck, but you can besure of sensational sport if you visit this celebrated stream Book your reservation beforehand for our own Nipigon Lodge" to ensure satisfaction 4 For through tickets, information and a descriptive mapand leafletapply 5 t» nearest CL.N.R Agent or General Passenger Dept Montreal, Que Toronto, Ont., or Winnipeg, Man, 4 CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY E ; 8 GsEEO.O. CUMMING TORONTO GOLF CLUB ‘ Long Branch Ontario CARRY a complete stock of wooden Wael clubs of every description, guaranteed pn GA a hand made and Iron clubs, hand forg Mi y We 2 ed in St. Andrews, Scotland Copying iy ee favourite clubs a speciality Caddie Bags of every size and deseription Corres A pondence solicited and promptly replied to ‘ GOLF COURSES LAID OUT If you are contemplating a new course; if you are considering the advisability of bringing your course up to the modern idea of what a 4 golf course should be, | am confident that | can give you the very best i service obtainable. My work throughout the Dominion is the best ad : vertisement of my ability as a Golf Architect % Golf Architect and Address for Parcels sont by Express, i Maker of Golf Clubs. PORT CREDIT ONT. j ——-— ee ae — —_—_———— —— When writing advertisers, kindly mention CANADIAN GOLFDR CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. III, No STIMULANT -Ghe Dirge of a Dufifer Thro’ a vale of tribulation, | have wandered all the year, The laurels of suecess devoutly seeking, And the failures of the past have left me overcast With ‘‘records’’ that will hardly bear repeating. ‘Tis painful to reflect upon the awful wreck Of early hopes nowscattered and decaying, With naught to cheer my mind, but the erities’ words unkind, Reflecting on the rotten game I’m playing. The golden days of autumn have changed to gloomygrey, And wintry wind, thesilent course is sweeping, While mysoul, in sorrowgrieves at the falling of the leaves, And the shadows o’er the landscape sadly creeping. It means the season’s done, with not a victory won, With medal scores disgracefully ascending Till they’ve reached a mark, which I admit with sickeningsigl Has passed the point of cursing, or defending. It’s soul distressing very, yea positively—well, I cannot half describe the pain I’m feeling, To be beaten day by day by mediocreplay Would almost start a graven image squealing. Yet plugging to the end, | ’neath the burden bend, With hope that still eternally is springing, Till I play the final hole and this poor old duffer’s soul To a brighter, better course goes gladly winging. W. HASTINGS WEBLING STHUIIINILNWIILUUULUUTUUILULTAUUUUUVAUUU UU a c ZZLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLMLL a t e v A p “ Vol. 3 BRANTFORD, NOVEMBER, 1917 No ;; GANADIANY GN OLFExR ] Official Organ Royal Canadian Golf Association; Official Organ Ladies Canadian Golf Union; Official Organ Rules of Golf C ommittee Published Monthly Ralph H. Reville, Editor. W. H. Webling, Associate Editor Mr. George 8S. Lyon, Toronto; Mr. J. T. Clark, Toronto; Mr. G . Brophey, Ottawa; Mr. T. Black, Montreal; Mr. W. M. Reekie, Rochester, N.Y¥.; Mr. Brice #®, Evans , Boston; Contributing Editors Ladies’ Golf Section edited by Floren L. Harvey Subscription Price, Three Dollars a Year. Entered at Post Office as Second Cla Matter Editorial and Business Office, Brantford, Canada. Toronto Office: Queen City Chambers, 82 Chureh St. H. E. Smallpeice, Representative The End of a The month of November virtually sees the end of the golfing Successful season so far as the greater part of Canada is concerned Golf Season Favoured British Columbia has its golf always with it, but in the other provinces of the Dominion the curtain is now rung r down on green and fair-green and the strident call of Fore! will be hushed e for the next five months. Only the winter golf school remains and it will be S 2 very much in evidence in all the larger cities. Indications are too, that in e r P several of the smaller cities these very desirable schools will also be in opera tion. Theyfill a very important place in the golf world to-day and throughout the continent thousands of reeruits to the Universal Game are added every a Winter as a result of their operations. It has been amply demonstrated that golf can be taught and well taught at these schools. They are to be heartily S encouraged in every golf céntre Reports received from Secretaries of clubs throughout the Dominion by e the “‘Canadian Golfer’’ amply demonstrate that golf has been played more in 1917 than in any other season in the history of the game here. Not a solitary course has been closed, whereas, on the other hand, eight new clubs have com Into existenee and many other clubs have lengthened thei links, improved their elub buildings and generally ‘‘put their house’’ in order for the enjo SS ment of their increasing membership and the better playing of the gam And this record during the fourth year of the war is certainly a striking tribute to the virility of the Royal and Ancient—an overwhelming testimony to its 351 SS R 352 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. III, No health-giving attributes, to its ability to attract alike, both old and youngan incidentally keep them mentally and physically fit during these worrying an stressful days. Great is the game of golf, which numbers amongits adherent the leading statesmen, the leading professional, financial and business men 0 the country and the most influential women in all patriotic endeavour. A Plea from Recently the ‘‘New York Times,’’ which occupies a place ‘‘The Times’’ newspaper circles in the States, akin to that generally conced for ‘‘the Poor its namesake, ‘‘The Thunderer’’ of London fame, in journalisti Golfer.’’ circles of Great Britain, devoted a leading editorial to ‘‘T| 7 Poor Golfer.’’ Herewith some extracts :— aa 2 ‘Tn the host of golfers very few reach the coveted domain of super-golf. The averag < player, capable of bulging with pride, when his score drops below 100 strokes, furnish« most of the capital and enthusiasm that maintain private courses and public links. If M Super-Golfer and his fellow-experts were segregated upon greens of their own, confin¢ within bunkers built solely with their own funds, limited to traps dug with no aid fr the despised tyro, it is easy to imagine how much the ancient game would lose of x popular interest. To watch and admire marvelous individuals who make par scores = stimulus necessary to the average players’ golf education; he looks upon the master club j man as proof that it is possible for a human to attain that excellence which he hims« : touches only on rare occasions upon this or that fairway. But it is chiefly his own pox % efforts, coupled with a baseless hope which golf somehow encourages in deluded min that keep alive his interest in the game. Whyis it, then, that our American courses—orthe best of them, at any rate—are beil diverted to the requirements of the super-golfer? The week-end player, without enoug leisure time for constant practice, or lacking the natural aptitude for developing into mighty player, finds his club links turned into a playground fit only for professionals a for amateurs of conspicuous skill. Traps interrupt his every stroke. Bunkers rise to st the ball that speeds to the uttermost limits of his reach. Distances are measured so i to destroy even the fairly proficient player’s score; none but the par wizard can atta them. The whole layout of fairways and greens accords with the needs or fancies of tho scarce creatures whose cards abound in ‘‘eagles’’ or ‘‘birdies;’’ who, if they ever fou themselves clouting a ball as many times as ninety or a hundred to cover eighteen hol would seek treatment for their nerves and muscles at the nearest hospital. It may be that the average golfer is a spineless being, ashamed to raise a voice uphold his rights in the club. Or perhaps he is too busy counting his strokes to med <e in the club’s less important affairs. Anyway, he lets the experts run things. The | i player dominates the Green Committee, lays out the course to suit himself, remodels it fit his tastes as they grow more exacting, month by month, and finally intersperses throu the greenswards a series of dugouts, morasses, barriers, and jungles so intricate that poor nuisances in the eclub’s majority are driven to the nineteenth hole for their only pleasure. But the worms will turn. Some day the down-trodden will rise in their mig of numbers, organize golf courses of their own, bar out all who play below a hundred, a forthwith manage to get a little fun out of their chosen sport. For a member who thé after learns to play super-golf the penalty will be obvious. Hewill, in turn, be ousted his old comrades and forced to join a more exclusive club suited to his new attainments There is a good deal of commonsensein this article and its plea for poor golfer. But there is anotherside to the shield. It is the universal exp: ience that ‘‘the poor golfer’’ will always remain ‘‘a poor golfer’’ if h¢ content to meander round a ‘‘spin.eless’’ > meadow, san*s traps, sans hazar sans difficulties of any kind.