SCENES AT THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. From Photographs by Mrs. Edward H. Boulon.

1. A GROUP OF PRO'S. 4. MESSRS. MOLTING, NUWMAN, BOC/TON, WHVTK ASU 2. AT THE FIRST TEE. HABWOOD, 3. FINDLAY DOUGLAS AS A NKWSPAPER CORRESPOND- 5. JOE LLOYD. ENT. 6. W.J.TRAVIS AND F. W. MENZIKS. BY APPOINTMENT AN OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING." ESTABLISHED 1894.

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As he passed Staten Island the mem- bers of the Harbor Kill Club, who are EVERY MONTH, playing today for the Dewey Prize, By Appointment, an Official Bulletin of the must surely have paused for a mo- United States Golf Association, Inter- Collegiate Golf Association, Central New- ment to witness from the hill top the York Golf League, Metropolitan Golf Association, and Western Golf Associa- great assemblage of welcoming craft tion. as they sailed up the bay. Entered ftt Post Oflloe at New York as .Second Glass flatter. Copyright, by JOSIAH NEWMAN, Publisher, 1899. $ * * ONE YEAR, $2.00; SINGLE COPIES, 20 CENTS. Postage free XT. S., Canada and Mexico. To other foreign Golfer Charles Lamb has mean- countries, 2fi emits nef year, llemlt DY Kxpress Money Order, l'ostollice ordfir. Roistered Letter, or Check while been kept busy in superintend- payable to JOSIAH SMV.MAK. ing the final touches to the Dewey O. F. ZITTEL. Arch in Madison Square Garden, and

ADDRESS GOLF, 5= BROADWAY, NEW YORK. amidst the roar of cannon and the CHICAGO OFFICE, 811 REAPER BLOCK, plaudits of the crowd, I am trying to jot down a few golfing notes for your • Here comes George Dewey! His perusal, Olympia is slowly steaming under the * * * windows of the office of GOLF, amid The yacht race, too, of course in- the salvos of applause from the terests every American golfer, for the throats of ten thousand steam whis- owners and managers of the Colum- tles and five million human beings. bia are all golfing enthusiasts, and to- 248 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. day's mail brings me a letter from Sir onto tlie United States team won by Thomas Lipton, of Shamrock fame, a score of 27 to 7, and an equally lib- regretting that he cannot find time eral margin is anticipated this year. for a little, foursome competition down on Long Island. Although I have written the word "Columbia" The Women's Championship, to be first in this paragraph, a sea gull from held over the links of the famous down the bay tells me that the Sham- Philadelphia Country Club at Bala, is rock is going' to win. Perhaps she scheduled for October 10th to 14th. may. It is the banner event of the year to * * * which my many fair readers have been looking forward all through the But after the yacht races and the season, and the entries promise to be welcome to Dewey, which seem likely thoroughly tip to the mark. to monopolize most of our attention * * * during the first week in October, comes the international golf match Miss Beatrix Ployt, who has for between the United States and Can- the last three years been able to carry ada on Saturday, the 7th. off first honors with ease, will again * * * enter the contest. s|: * ;|! A telegram from A. Z. Palmer, honorary-secretary of the Royal Can- George D. Fowle has been keeping adian Golf Association, whose cham- a watchful eye upon the course dur- pionship is now in progress 011 the ing the whole year, and from one end links of the Ottawa Golf Club, gives to the other it will be found to be in rae the following names of seven the pink of condition. Canadians who will in all probability ill * >|: represent their country: Messrs. It may be well to point out that last Lyon, A. W. Smith, Kerr, Patteson, year a score of 109 qualified for a Vere Brown, Gillespie and Taylor. place in the first sixteen, but I shall The remaining- three had not been be surprised if anything over 106, and chosen at the time of going to press. very possibly 104, is good enough to * -i: * obtain a position in the coveted first So far as at present arranged, the division this year. United States team will be made up from the following players :— Ii. M. Harriman, F. S. Douglas, In 1897 Miss Madeline Boardman W. J. Travis, J. A. Tyug, C. B. Mac- won the driving competition, always donald, D. R. Forgan, J. G. Thorp, a very popular "side show," with a John Reid, Jr., G. G. Hubbard.H. P. ball which covered, about 137 yards, Toler, W. M. McCawley, J. F. Cur- and in 1898 Mrs. Edward Manice tis, Quincy A. Shaw, Jr., F. W. drove 134 yards. On the present oc- Menzies and J. A. Stillman. casion these distances will be length- * :|: :|: ened at least 25 or 30 yards, showing how the full round swing has been It will be remembered that at Tor- cultivated in the meanwhile. THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 249

The secretary of the United States proval of the executive committee of Golf Association, R. .13. Kerr, 26 this association. Broad street, New York, has sent me "All disputes shall be settled by the the following official announcement executive committee of this associa- regarding' the event:— tion, whose decision shall be final. "The Women's Champion Golf "Contestants paying their entrance Competition for the championship of money shall be considered thereby to the United States, open to all women have submitted themselves to the golfers belonging to clubs which are rules of the association, both as to re- members of the United States Golf strictions enjoined and penalties itn- Association, will be commenced on iposed. On thes'e conditions alone the links of the Philadelphia Country they are entitled to enjoy all the privi- Club, Philadelphia, Pa., October 10th, leges and advantages of the associa- at 9,15 a. m., when the 'Robert Cox tion competitions. Trophy' and four medals will be com- PROGRAM. peted for under the rules of the Unit- "Tuesday, October ioth, 9.15 a. ed States Golf Association. m.—Medal play round, Women's "The winner of the competition Championship, eighteen holes, best shall be the Champion Woman Golf- sixteen scores to qualify. Three er for the year, and the trophy shall prizes are offered by the association be held for that year by the club from for the lowest three scores in this which the winner shall have entered. competition. "The winners shall receive: The "Wednesday, October nth, 9.15 a. first, a gold medal; the second, a sil- m.—First match play round, Wo- ver medal; the third and fourth, men's Championship, eighteen holes. bronze medals. 2 p. m.—Consolation handicap. Open ''The competition shall be played in to contestants entered for the Wo- the following manner:— men's Championship. Handicap lim- "The. contestants shall first play ited to eighteen strokes. Cup pre- eighteen holes medal play. The best sented by governors of Philadelphia sixteen scores shall then be taken, and Country Club. the contestants making these scores "Thursday, October i.2th, 9.15 a. shall then play eighteen holes match m.—Second match play round in Wo- play, until but two competitors re- men's Championship. 2 p. m.—Driv- main, who upon a separate day shall ing, approaching and putting con- play the final game, consisting- of tests. Cups presented by Messrs. Al- eighteen holes match play. fred C. Harrison and B. Frank Clyde. "Competitors shall enter for the "Friday, October 13th, 9.15 a. m.— championship through the secretaries Third round, (semi-finals) in Women's of their respective clubs, and an en- Championship. 2 p. m.—Mixed four- trance fee of $5 must accompany each some handicap, eighteen holes, medal entry, and must be received by the play. Open only to contestants en- secretary of the association not later tered for Women's Championship than 6 p. m. on Tuesday, October 3d. and their partners. Handicap limited "All entries are subject to the ap- to eighteen strokes. Cups presented 250 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK.

by Messrs. Clement A. Griscom and "Clubhouse and golf course.—The A. J. Cassatt. clubhouse and golf course will be "Saturday, October 14th, 1 L a. m.— open to all visiting players during the Final round in A'Vomen's Champion- week previous to the tournament, and ship. lockers will be assigned to all contest- "The privileges of the clubhouse ants. and grounds are extended to all com- "Accommodations.—L u n c h e o n petitors in the championship for the and dinner will be served during the week previous to the competition." meeting in the clubhouse. The hotel ;js :[: :J: Stratford, Broad and Walnut streets, will make special rates for contestants, To this the committee in charge of and it would be well for those desiring the tournament have added the fol- accommodations to engage them lowing useful information:— some time in advance, as there will be "In extending" a welcome to the an exposition in Philadelphia during contestants for the Golf Champion- October, which will crowd the hotels. ship, the officers of the Philadelphia "Information.—All advance inquir- Country Club desire to state that they ies should be addressed to Mr. W. M. will do all in their power to further JVleCawley, secretary, 22 South Fif- the success of the championship meet- teenth street, Philadelphia, Pa. Dur- ing of 1899, and to make the visit of ing the progress of the tournament the members of the United States information should be sought at the Golf Association to the club agreeable office of the tournament committee in in every respect. the clubhouse. "In order to assist contestants in "Tournament committee.—George reaching Bala and in obtaining ac- D. Fowle, chairman, G. Heicle Nor- commodations for the tournament ris, Edward H. Johnson, Bernard H. week, they beg leave to call attention Wood, Edward K. Bispham, W. M. to the following suggestions:— McCawley, secretary. "S i t u a t i o n.'—The Philadelphia "Golf committee. Edward PI. Country Club is situated on the Johnson, Edward K. Bispham, Schuylkill Valley branch of the Penn- George D. Fowle. sylvania railroad, at Bala, about one mile from the station, and about six miles from the center of the city. It The long talked of Open Cham- is easily reached in about thirty min- pionship was played over the course utes by train from Broad Street Sta- of the Baltimore Country Club on tion. Cltib omnibuses meet all trains. September 14th and 15th, and. was It can also be reached by the Fair- certainly the most successful affair of mount Park trolley to Country Club its kind ever held in this country. station, within five minutes' walk of :|: :|: * the clubhouse. There has certainly never before "Train Service.—Trains leave been an open championship in which Broad Street Station daily at 7.31, such a deep interest was taken, and it 9.05, 10.19, II-I5 a- m-. anc' i2'3O, has now become an event of the first 1.30, 2.10, 3.36 and 4.13 p. m. importance, which is of course largely THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK.

due to the wise decision to hold it at poor showing- made by many of the least a few months apart from the players over the somewhat hilly amateur event. course at Baltimore.

The Baltimore Country Club must We always expect to hear excuses be credited with a very large share of made for unfortunate performances, the new importance that has been and the favorite theme at Baltimore given to the competition for the splen- was the greens. Findlay Douglas did way in which they carried it off. told me he thought they were in very The arrangements made would have good shape, particularly so after the done credit to the Amateur Champion- long drought, and I am now able to ship three years ago, when the open publish a table showing just how dif- event was passed over as scarcely ficult they actually were. worthy of attention. * * * There were 221 eighteen-hole cards, Willie Smith is champion ! He won which were kept in such a way that with consummate ease with the excel- the number of putts at each hole could lent score of 315 strokes. How he be separated. In these there were did it is a complete mystery to the 3,976 putts and two cases in which the player holed out an approach with other four score contestants to whom a mashie or iron. The details in re- he could have presented one-seventh gard to the putting were :— of a stroke a hole and yet won out. 1 i or mon * * * pull. puflti. putts. Total. Sept. 14th, morning J:M 0U7 2*1 1,025 " " afternoon 110 578 313 1,007 Whatever may be thought of the " ir>th, morning, ll'J 042 205 3,026 course, no one will have the temerity " " afternoon, '18 505 235 918 to say that the best man did not win. -187 2,392 1,097 3,970 * * * This record is complete as to this large majority of the cards, and I sup- Amongst the first ten there were pose could fairly be considered to be four western men and six eastern, representative of the whole. It shows and in the second ten there were five that J2\ per cent (or nearly |) of all from each section of the country; We the holes were made in two putts and had been led to believe that the West under. Considering that the greens had quite a monopoly of the star were large and of a rolling character, players, but when it actually came such as many of the players had not down to scoring it was found that the lately been in the habit of putting only men who were in the first half- over, I should say that this was pretty dozen from beyond the Allegheny fair average. mountains were two recent acquisi- tions from the metropolitan district. I was particularly pleased to find * & * how appreciative the men were with I believe that constant practise over the increased liberality in the direc- the long and only slightly rolling tion of prize money, for it was possi- courses of the West may have been to ble for the first time to mingle in the some extent responsible for the rather crowd without hearing any sugges- 252 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK.

tion of stingyncss. The prizes were first tee, which is on an elevation, but well worth coming to win, and the ex- the balls appeared to get only a short tra money laid out in this direction roll after the carry, as they fell on to was well spent by the association. a flat piece of ground on which there had been heavy rain a few days pre- On Thursday afternoon there was, viously. A heavy dew, too, com- as an additional event, a long driving menced to spread itself over the turf competition for cash prizes, with no before the competition was more than half through, and this certainly had the effect of retarding the balls. The best of three balls was taken as the method for deciding the competition. * * * As everyone anticipated, the ama- teurs were distinctly outplayed throughout the whole contest, but form came out true enough in that Herbert Harriman secured the pre- mier position, and his final round of 79 was one of the best cards handed in, and establishes a new amateur record for the course. * * * Findlay S. Douglas was present as the guest of the club, and his daily resume of the matches appearing in the Baltimore Evening Navs, which is the property of one of the members, W. V. HOARE, OP DAYTON, OHIO. were particularly readable and to the point. entrance fee, at which everyone took * * * a whack. Here are the winners:— VV. V. Hoare, 269 yards, 1 ft. 6 in. On the Thursday previous to the H. Gullane, 264 yards, 2 ft. 9 in. tournament Willie Dunn met Fred John Shippen, 259 yards. Herd in an exhibition match for a W. Braid, 256 yards, 1 ft. substantial stake, and one of the larg- Findlay Douglas, 256 yards, 1 ft. est galleries of the week turned out to * * * witness the contest. Dunn appeared to out-general his opponent, and won All the amateurs and professionals a very spirited match of thirty-six who entered drove over 200 yards, holes by 2 up and 1 to play. It was in and Douglas made three drives of 256, the approach shot that Dunn sur- 255 and 249 yards, which was con- passed his opponent, for Herd's long siderably the best average. game was fully equal to that of the * * * eastern player. I believe that they The driving took place from the were both suffering from nervous- THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 253

ness, but it put Herd out in the worst trip there and back is past my com- kind of way to watch his opponent prehension. The land between is not walk up sixty to one hundred yards impossible golfing ground, but it to the hole and back again before playing his approach shot. Willie Dunn no doubt discovered this at an early stage in the game, for he worked it to perfection, and thereby upset the calculations of the western contingent who had backed Herd to a man. :|: :|: * I have little doubt that the Open Championship will be held near Chi- cago next year, over one of the long sweeping courses, and then we shall be able to judge how far the contest at Baltimore was the means of bring- ing out the best golf. * * * An interesting "side show" at the Open Championship was little Gus Horace Hutchinson Haney, a diminu- tive caddie, who was on occasions persuaded to drive a ball from the first tee for the edification of the as- LITTLE GUS. sembled golfing lights. This he did with wonderful grace, and the little would take an immense amount of seven-year-old lined out three con- cultivation to bring it into shape for secutive balls over the 150 yard line. playing. I was rather disappointed to find * * * when I came to take his photograph I have been asked to announce that that Gus had donned his shoes and Ii. M, Harriman has resigned from stockings, because he was infinitely the captaincy of the Garden City Golf more picturesque in his bare feet. Club. * # * * * * All this talk about joining the Gar- During the early part of this month den City and Meadow Brook courses I made a trip round the various golf is, I fear, only newspaper talk. It is courses in the Adirondack mountains a very ingenious idea, but to my mind and found most of them in a much seems impracticable. It will never more playable condition than I ex- amount to anything. The distance pected. As the season there is over between the eighteen holes at Garden for this year my experiences will keep City and the nine at Meadow Brook till next spring. is fully three miles, and how nine * * * holes can be spread out to cover the 1 was interested at Lake Cham-

' 254 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. plain to find a photograph on sale of On September 7th Will Smith won John D. Dunn, in his Highland rig, the title of Open Champion of the in which he recently played the bag- Western Golf Association by defeat- ing Lawrence Auchterlonie in their play off for the tie for that honor. His score of 74 is five strokes better than bogie. * * * The victory of David R. Forgan in the Western Amateur Championship, at Glen View on September gth, was a fitting end to the tourney and a well deserved triumph for the popular banker. Although Forgan learned the game when a boy at St. Andrews, he let it go after coming here, and for fifteen years, from 1878 to 1893, he did not handle a club. In that year he again took up the sport, and has been identified with it ever since. * * * Young Walter Egan, who was run- ner-up to Forgan in the champion- ship, is a nervy player, and under the able tutelage of Peter Walker has learned the game as few of the younger generation about Chicago have. In the match he had Forgan playing the odd quite as much as For- gan had him, and but for Forgan's deadly approach work and a couple of bad drives the result might have told a different story.

••>•• * * Phelps B. Hoyt, secretary of the Western Golf Association and captain of the Glen View golf team, took both gross and net prizes in the tourna- ment handicap, in which fifty-three JOHN D. DUNN. men competed. Hoyt made the eight- pipes before President McKinley, een holes in 80, the best golf he has much to the satisfaction of the chief put up this year, though last year he executive. John, as usual, made him- was at scratch with young Holabird. self very popular through the moun- * * * tain resorts. Mrs. W. B. Mcllvaine, of the On- THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 255

wentsia Club, is now entitled to be cluded its annual open tournament on called the champion woman golfer of September ad, and T, Markoe Rob- the West, and her honors were won in ertson with George IT. Clark, Jr., as strong a field as could well be both of Skinnecock, fought out the brought together. Mrs. Harry Toul- finals together for the Stockbridge min, of the Milwaukee Country Club, Cup. Robertson won the Cup last was the runner up for the Governor's year, so his clever defeat of Clark by Cup, but, although she made a splen- t up gave him the handsome trophy did match of it, the Onwentsia player for keeps. on her home green secured the covet- * * * ed trophy by 1 up. The finals for the Bishop Cup were * * * played for at Lenox on the same clay, Miss Marion Shearson, of the and Ernest Thompson, who is a mem- Richmond County Club, easily dis- ber of the local club, defeated Lindsay posed of Mass "Johnnie" Carpenter Fairfax by 3 up and 2 to play, after a in the contest for the second cup, and very interesting match. The gallery the Vicking Cup and Consolation included Vicomte de Santo Thyrso, Cup went to Miss Amy Jones and the Portuguese minister and his at- Mrs. J. W. Cutter respectively. I taches. The President's Cup, in the trust all these ladies have their faces Open Tournament, went to Samuel turned in the direction of Philadel- Frothingham, after a series of well phia ! played matches. He disposed of * * * George I. Cook by 3 up and 2 to play. The Newport Open Tournament * =1= * was in progress as I went to press last The International Tournament at month. The President's Cup, donated Niagara-on-the-Lake brought out a by. Buchannan Winthrop, was won af- lot of good golf. G. S. Lyon, the ter a narrow squeeze, by Quincy A. Canadian champion, was defeated by Shaw, Jr., from Harry Hollins, Jr., C. M. Ransom, of Buffalo, in the by i up at the thirty-seventh hole. It finals for the Niagara Cup, 3 up, 2 to was a very fine match to watch for play. The woman's handicap for a those who weathered the iinpropitious special prize was won by Miss Sizer elements, and there were many regrets The consolation handicap was won by expressed at Baltimore that Shaw L. E. Laflin. The woman's Niagara was unable to be present as a com- handicap was won by Miss Dixen. petitor. Charles Hitchcock, Jr., who The best showing made during the gave Herbert Harriman such a close week was the magnificent card of JJ, call at Westbrook, won the Consola- which broke the record for the course, tion Cup from E. M. Byers by 2 up handed in by A. W. Smith, of Toron- and 1 to play. Foxhall Keene has by to. I am very pleased to see that our no means given up golf; he won the old friend is keeping up to his best gold medal for the best score on the form. opening day in handsome style. * * * * * * The Open Tournament of the The Stockbridge Golf Club con- Mount Anthony Golf Club was. con- 256 THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. eluded at Bennington Center in a Since last fall new greens have be_en rather disappointing manner, as P. H. made for the sixth and ninth holes, Jennings was allowed to take the and the tees set back on these and the Mount Anthony Cup without a con- second, fifth and seventh holes. By test, Townsend Wellington default- making the changes A. G. Griffiths, ing. G. Worthington won the Wala- the greenkeeper, has been able to get amasac Inn Cup, defeating H. P. Me- 462yards of additional playing length, Cullough 2 up. The measurements are 420, 282, 276, * * =|: T45. 367> 39°. 3*5. 3O5 and 462 yards, A new organization in Vermont, a total of 2,962. The professional rec- known as the Ekwanok Country ord is 4, 4, 4, 3, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4,—36, held Club, was recently formed at Man- by Griffiths. "Bogie" is 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, chester, Edward Swift Isham, of Chi- 5, 4, 4, 5—39. cago, is president, and James L. Tay- lor, the well-known Brooklyn golfer, and G. H. Thatcher, of Albany, are Can 3'ou find use for a golf scoring the vice-presidents. The golf course book, handsomely bound in red is laid out over part of a large tract of leather with a lead pencil already land recently purchased by Vice- sharpened for setting down the score? president Taylor. Here are the dis- I find that Alexander D. Shaw, of 58 tances of the holes and the bogie fig- Broad street, New York, is sending ures :— out just such books, free for the ask- Holes. Yds. Bogie. Holes. Yds. lhifth'. ing, to every golfer who cares to send I 340 5 10 240 4 2 200 4 11 180 3 in his or her name and address. Last 3 255 4 12 ...' . 270 4 4 ... 1G1 13 380 month I told you where to obtain cel- 5 520 6 14 375 5 fi 317 5 15 315 luloid golf tees for the asking, and be- 7 241 4 16 35C fl 8 450 5 325 fore Xmas I shall certainly expect to 9 145 3 18 410 5 be able to point the way to a few gold 2,032 39 2,803 41 watches. Herbert Harriman thoroughly en- joyed his trip to the Westbrook tour- In these busy golfing days I often nament, for he was called upon on sev- wish to be in three or four places at eral occasions to put forth those nervy once. The week of the Women's finishes which no one appreciates Championship at Philadelphia there winning more keenly. His matches is a foursome competition on at Ards- with G. G. Hubbard and C. Hitch- ley, and open tournaments at the Nas- cock, Jr., both of whom lost by I up, sau Country Club and at Hot Springs, simply whetted his appetite for an- Va. Fred. Sterry always makes things other close finish in the final round. Louis Livingston, Jr., furnished the very pleasant for visitors at the Hot means by getting Harriman 2 down Springs Golf Club, which is now en- with 3 to go. The champion was en- tirely under its own management, tirely equal to the occasion and apart from the New Homestead Ho- promptly took the next three holes in tel, and the improved course deserves 4, 3 and 5, which is better than Col- all the support that' you can spare onel Bogey knows how. from other engagements. THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME.-XIX. 'By Dr. J. G. McPherson, St. Andrews, Scotland.

MY IDEAL STYLE. VERY golfer considers left shoulder, the comparatively short that he has the best style, club, and easy pose. I dare say many otherwise he would give it of my readers will be pleased to see up. Only to see Fergu- this. Now I am fifty-six years of age; son Blair's style, or E. J. Jackson's; so do not disparage my build, as the Dr. Traill's or John Whyte Melville's, result of quiet monk life in a lazy re- forty years ago, would have sickened a good golfer; yet they considered theirs perfect. They did not succeed so well as others; but that was only an accident(!) This is the first time that I have sent a full account of my own style to any magazine. I do so because I think your readers are open to con- viction. I have learned by experi- ence, and I must say that the simple, easy, untrammeled swing, without any attempt at great things, but with a fresh, keen and accurate nerve force, is the most lastingly successful. I have been wandering over the hun- dred plates of swings in Mr. Hutch- inson's capital (but expensive) book, and I have studied most of them. Yet Vardon's comes nearest to my own, when at my best. In plate I., on this page, you will PLATE I. see my ideal style of addressing .•treat, where mathematics and natural the ball. It is taken from life. My philosophy occupy my attention. Still daughter caught me by a snapshot a the hands arc there; and you can de- fortnight ago at the fine inland links tect the grip. of Blairgowrie, where 1 am an hon- Colonel Hamilton Gillespie has orary member. You see the power just written me from Sarasota, Flor- in the grip, the upright stand (consid- ida, that there is a pretty good player, ering my age now), the equal distance in New York in summer, and in of the ball between the feet, the high Florida in winter, who has a curious 258 THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME.

style. This gentleman aims beyond used to be able to see the head of the' his ball, and falls back in swing and club with my left eye, when my swing still drives a long ball. This is the was at its height. Yet you will see style exactly opposite to that of Dr. that the club is pretty upright, above Argyle Robertson, of Edinburgh, the neck, not touching the shoulders. who aims short of his ball and falls The left foot is characteristically forward when driving a good ball. In turned, with the toe downwards. So> the "sixties" Dr. Argyle Robertson had to be reckoned with, and he as- sures me that the other day he gained the medal of the Medical Practition- ers. In case I forget, let me say mean- while that I am deeply indebted to my enthusiastic friend, Colonel Hamil- ton Gillespie, for his hearty apprecia- tion of my "choice score" method of weeding out inferior players, even for a medal competition. He is captain of two golf clubs in Florida; and lie has resolved to practically try my "choice score" competition. On the first day the competitors play two rounds by strokes. They play their second round against their first, hole by hole. I they are "par" in the first round at one hole, they will risk all to beat that in the second. The con- sequence is that brilliancy is brought in as well as caution. The competi- PLATE II. tor chooses the best of his holes as much did I get into this style that the two rounds, for his choice score. even now in walking the leather at The four, with best scores, compete the. toe point of the left boot is worn, by holes on the second day for the long before anyother part of the boots. medal. Of course, when handicaps The drawing" will amuse the young come in, the arrangement is a little player and be of deep interest to the- more complicated, for a lower handi- aging. cap must be allowed in a choice score. • The follow-up after the drive is. But of that anon. represented in the third snapshot, Plate II., which is seen in the ad- which is shown on the opposite page. joining column, exhibits my swing This is a very important part of the- at the top of the swing. It is not so drive. Old Willie Park was so keen far round as it used to be thirty or with it that he would jump on two forty years ago. I am too stiff now, paces in his excitement. Some play- and I had rheumatic fever ten years ers bring the club round their left ago, which did not help my years. I shoulder. But I think the strongest

f i i THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME. 259 drivers finish as I do here. The arms are out and the club is slanted at an angle of forty-five degrees upwards from the horizontal. The left foot is brought down, and the right foot is turned up as was the left when at the top of the swing- before striking. The arms in the follow-up should be ex- tended. Contraction here is fatal to the full straight swipe. Especially re- member that. It may interest some to know that when these snapshots were being taken it was 90 degrees in the shade and 124 degrees in the sun, by careful observation. This is about the temperature of Florida when my friend wrote me in ennui. No wonder then that my backswing is somewhat short and pithless. It is the rush on for the yard before PLATE III. striking that contains the secret of long driving. Professor Tait, of the sir. He'll mak' a gowfer, I think; but University of Edinburgh, has an ap- he mini tak' it a wee bit calmerer. Ye paratus for testing the velocity of the see, sir, he jerks ower muckle. If he club at that stage, and measuring the wad jist play mair calmerer, he wadna probable distance of the drive. The be sae bad. Whan I had him in haund, velocity is certainly very remarkable I says to him, says I, 'Noo, sir, mind just at the point of striking. I shall ye, slow back, and keep yer ee on the have something to say about this ba'!' Weel sir, would ye believe 't, he soon, though it is, if anything, rather scientific for the ordinary golfer. Only improved wonderfu'—jist wonder'fu'." golf is becoming a fine art, and all This jerk referred to by the caddie is should know the outs and ins about it. fatal to a fine continuous drive. The player cramps his arms and won't let A joke as to style has just come into my hands. Professor Knight was be- the club follow on after the ball. But ing taught by a caddie. A friend of the true long drive is only obtained the professor's met the caddie, who by a follow on, as in the third dia- occasionally carried for himself, and gram given herewith. But, like the had a confidential "crack" about the serials in magazines, at the most in- coaching. "How does he get on?" teresting point, we must say, "to be asked the friend. "Oh, no sae bad, continued in our next." THE PROFESSOR AND HIS DEAR, WEE WIFE. Written for Golf by W. T>alrympte,

HERE are few Scottish often exclaim in the fire of his enthu- links on which the stalwart siasm. "If it had been intended that form of the great and good we should take this loathsome vege- Professor Tavish McTav- table with our decent honest Old ish, D. D., was unknown, and to Kirk, don't you think—aren't you ab- which he was not welcomed with the solutely convinced in your own mind, heartiest of loving greetings—only a such as that is—that my venerable and few brief years ago. And now? sagacious ancestor would assuredly Personally, I have had many special have seen to putting it in himself; reasons for this affectionate reverence. whether in jolly, burly barrel or It was not solely as a theologian that cheery cask, in the portly Jeroboam or I looked up to him with trembling" modest kilderkin, in the twinkling awe—though I take credit to myself as demijohn or some larger form of John one of the very few Scotchmen who more suitable for an ordinary Chris- have read his monumental work on tian? Pooh! Don't tell me!" Polytheistic Apologetics to its sub- Such a jolly old cockalorum was lime end and survived—but he bound to be a golfer; and many a joy- had many other quaintly attract- ous hour I spent with him upon the ive gifts. Among these, for which breezy links—generally as an adver- I held him in peculiar reverence sary, for reasons not requiring men- and love, was his rare skill and tion here. He always struck me as aptitude in the delicious blending' of an incomparable mixture of Old King- Scottish whiskey—Old Kirk, we Scots Cole, Tarn o'Shanter and the great have, ourselves, named it, as a term of Luther in his least saturnine mood. endearment—and he took just pride There was nothing of the puling an- in the fact that one of his remote an- chorite about Tavish ; or the. Rechab- cestors had been the actual inventor of ite, the troglodyte, the trilobite, or that excellent and beatific spirit the blue-headed devil of the East, who known to the wondering heathen as lives upon nothing but the South Glenlivet; and much weighty and in- wind. He was a chubby, rosy, port- valuable advice I have had from the ly, old chap, who liked nis meals and good old man on this momentous sub- looked as if he did so; and was fortu- ject. He was fond of quoting the wise nately endowed with a mouth in keep- old saw, warning against "drowning ing with his corporation, and teeth the miller" by addition of too much able to keep both working- soundly. water, hot, cold or aerated; and from He had a laugh as infectious as Sue's him, too, I first received the invalu- Female Bluebeard, and seldom swore able caution against putting lemon in seriously at golf, except when he went one's toddy. into infamous Scoonie Burn. He "Shade of John Knox!" he would could troll a merry stave with any THE PROFESSOR AND HIS DEAR, WEE WIFIE. 261 jovial Friar Tuck among 'em; and his take as rather representative of the favorite secular strains were, "Willie demonic. (And now I come to think brcw'd a peck o' maut," and the im- of it, I cannot remember that my dear mortal chant in praise of "Good Ale," friend's hallowed face was in this gal- by his distinguished professional lery ; and I am perfectly sure my own brother, John Still, bishop of Bath and was not. As an additional attraction, Wells, in the good, old, merry days of she wore a skirt of navy blue and a long ago; while, as regards sacred natty sailor hat. music, he confessed to a preference for I was proceeding with a current of No. XXVI. of the Scottish Para- such improving reflections when my phrases. saintly friend shattered them to the It was with anticipation of thor- winds. With an absence of ceremony oughly sound and wholesome pleas- that made the situation all the more ure that I awaited the advent of the embarrassing and a perfect calmness dear, old lad, with his familiar array of suggestive of the enunciation of a war-worn clubs and weather-stained mere casual fact, he remarked: "Bar- red coatie, on the last Friday in what tholomew! This is my wife." had till then been to me the merry To say that I was thunderstruck month of June. And yet the day was too feebly describes my emotion. Ad- all so charming; with just the least miration for the lady and her dainty taste of a gentle breeze from the west dress, down to her pretty, wee, brown to temper the summer; and Largo booties—three, I think; I don't mean Bay rippled and glinted rarely. in number of tootsies or lineal meas- The train strolled into the station ure; but speaking as a shoemaker— with that superb leisure and supreme struggled with surprise at the sublime distaste for chronometric dictation audacity of the old man in this, his lat- which years of experience have led us est and most formidable round; and Scots to associate with our premier struck me dumb as a podley, say, or railway compare, the North British. I or the big bell of Moscow. With re- had not seen my venerable friend for turning consciousness, however, I was over a twelvemonth and was rushing gradually made aware that it was with forward with outstretched paw to the lady I was expected to play, while shake that revered hand, when, to my the Professor supervised the cam- astonishment, I found him pre-en- paign. gaged in helping a fairy-like, sweet, A pleasant thought, you say? It young thing of 16—or 16 and a quar- turned out to be, even as thoughts go, ter, perhaps, because I have no knowl- fond, delusive, ill-founded and worse- edge of these matters—from her car- starred, full of guile and snares as the riage. wicked crocodile of the Nile, or that She was dressed with exquisite sanctimonious, old humbug, Paul taste (golfing) in a tailor-made, scar- ' Kruger, with his smug, oily smirk, let coat with gold buttons, stamped and superfluity of ready tears—a with portraits of all the heroes of our thought to me now of whiteel sepul- game from Philippus Antiquus, the chres, apples of Sodom, gin and gin- Saint Columba of Golfing story, down ger without the ginger, and humbug to Harry Vardon of today, whom we generally and generic. 262 THE PROFESSOR AND HIS DEAR, WEE WIFIE.

It had been for many years a prac- teaparty, or a Blue Devil in a lemon- tise highly valued both by my es- ade work :— teemed friend and myself to do a "Yes, Bartholomew—for seventy- Scotch and soda before starting—and two holes! Thrice round the men's one or two afterwards, of course—and • links and then a mere toddle over the in knowledge of this I had purposely ladies' green in the evening'; four restrained my thirst till his arrival, times eighteen makes seventy-two, when he could scared}' fail to be un- doesn't it, Bartholomew?" And the pleasantly hot, parched and dusty, af- misguided old man proceeded with a ter his long hours in a cramped and wistfully pathetic caricature of fun: stuffy North British Railway carriage. "Seventy-two holes in the short work- I had looked forward to this, I say, as ing day of an old Scotch Professor is one of the many and not the least not so bad, is it, Bartholomew?" pleasant incidents of our meeting; but Personally, I should have liked very I found—was shocked, disgusted, much to give emphatic expression to grieved and saddened to find—that my firm and perfectly sound convic- the Professor was understood to pre- tion that it was very bad, indeed, for fer a cup of tea with his wife. That was one of his age and ponderous attain- bad enough, but the confounded thing ments ; and that even in the case of a was that I had to cut in too, an after youth, with long- legs and little super- all my unselfish waiting, too ! abundant weight of head or body, (Contemporary golfers, who have such a rantipole caper would have any ambition to excel in our game, hinted at incipient lunacy. But my would do well to exercise extreme tongue was, of course, tied and my caution in this abuse of tea. No one melancholy reflections bottled up till I in the heroic days of Scottish golf could drown them in quietude after would have dreamed of taking tea the match was finished with someone when he could g'et anything else.) less Oriental in his deplorable pro- In justice to myself, I must say that, clivities. in a spirit of pure benevolence, I had "Tavish, dear;" the voice was sweet begun, tentatively: "You are looking and low, but singularly clear-—very a little tired, Professor. Don't you much so, indeed—"Don't you think think just a tiny, wee thimble f " you might now trot on ahead and but was cut short abruptly, though show us the line?" with perfect courtesy, by the sweet lit- It had been explained tome that this tle darling (I, of course, mean old duty of a fore-caddie had for a long McTavish's—not mine). time—I. presume, since his marriage •'Tired! Tired? O, dear, no! Why, —monopolized the entire attention he my husband and I went seventy-two now g"ave to the game. However, it holes yesterday, and I wasn't the least did, after all, seem a kind and thought- tired!" •ful act on the part of a fondly doting And my old friend took up the won- husband; and the profession of a fore- drous tale—of tomfoolery—in cor- caddie is unquestionably an old, hon- roboration; but I fancied with just the orable and useful, if seldom lucrative, touch of a wear}' sigh—something, one; nay, it is of extreme value on say, of Little Jack Horner at a doll's some greens. The last turned out to THE PROFESSOR AND HIS DEAR, WEE WIFIE. 263

be the case here; but the value some- perhaps, after our sainted Queen o' what one-sided. Scots; but I always think and speak of It was a pretty enough sight, quaint, her (to myself) as Polly, or Molly, or but to me pathetic, this, of the old lad any name more odious that may occur trotting off with shambling" feet and to me—drove an excellent ball; but flying tails. As all golfers are, no we—that is, my caddie and I—were doubt, aware, the very first drive on scarcely prepared for the really re- Leven Links is across infamous markable distance to which it was Scoonie Burn—a turbulent, malignant subsequently found to have rolled. My stream, that has been the grave of own drive was a good one (for me, many a good ball and high hope in its that is) and I had believed the •own long and evil day and is as much ball lay well and fairly on the associated by all Scotchmen with dark open plateau. This belief turned curses as that fateful and perfidious out to be ill-founded; for, on bark which wrought the woe to young investigation, it was found that the Lycidas. ball had, after landing, taken some With a yellow bulger—I always queer twist—some unaccountable suspected the color, but since this kick, turn or twist'—and now lay far fell and fatal day have held it in utter away down the seaward valley in a loathing too deep for execration— hideous and heart-breaking tract of my trim and trig foe drove bravely snaky bent and beastly baby bunk- across wicked Scoonie; but unfortu- ers. nately for her—this was my inspira- (Adequately to appreciate this re- tion of generous sympathy at the time markable anecdote your readers —her ball seemed to me to head would require to visit Leven; and I straight for the more northerly of the hope all will do so on their next visit two bunkers laid out years ago, local home, when we shall try to give them tradition rightly or wrongly asserts, the best welcome in our power. Some by Old Tom himself. Personally, I have already come; and come back.) believed it had rolled in—and to this . My enemy—for as such I had al- my caddie is still prepared to swear— ready come to recognize her, in spite but, when we reached the bunker, her of her fairy face and dainty, wee, tan ball was found to be lying beautifully booties—had another four and so and well on the further side. Briefly, stood two up. There is nothing at all she reached the putting-green in her singular in this, for I am generally next, lay dead with her third and holed two down here; but I now found that out in four. For my part, I had made she was in the malign habit of keep- an entire mess of the hole as usual'—• ing her score on an ivory tablet set in fact, this is my experience with the with silver and having a little white majority of holes on most links—and pencil attached with red riband. (It My Lady Redsleeves stood one up. was a very famous veteran, indeed, who once told me that no one should As to the next hole I shall give the ever count his score except at the facts with the sternest brevity and no spring and autumn meetings.) expression of opinion at all. Mrs. McTavish—I had by this time found Now this tablet was pretty enough, out that her Christian name was Mary, so far as such a nefarious implement 264 THE PROFESSOR AND HIS LEAR, WEE WIFIE.

can be; but it was fated to appear an hour. After that you cross upland again—for me wofully. and lowland—heich and howe, as The third hole was halved in three; John Knox poetically puts it—on to at least, I understood so at the time. a fair enough putting-green. It is The next she won with consum- preeminently what we Scots term a mate and graceful ease. I myself ad- "blind" hole. When I mention, fur- mired it; and I have little doubt she ther, that the Professor was forward, did likewise. So unfeigned was this though unseen by us, and, no doubt, feeling on my part that I remarked prepared, as ever, to do his duty, the with what I certainly intended as gen- reader will, probably, not be surprised ial urbanity and hearty apprecia- to hear that I lost this hole also. tion :— And so it went on till the seventh, "Fancy! That makes you no less which she won in an absolutely fault- than three up at the Mile Dyke, Mrs. less style. That was all right; but she McTavish!" electrified me with the gleeful ejacu- "Three I" she exclaimed, with what lation :— she evidently intended for indignant "Ha! That makes me eight up I" amazement; "Three? If you care to Can you honestly blame me, in your think and remember you will see I am heart of hearts, because an out-welling four up—Four, four, two, four—isn't sense of wrong and injury nerved me that right, Tavish?" to enquire, firmly but with all possi- "Assuredly, my dear," assented this ble meekness, how in a match started poor, old worm, who had, seemingly, without odds she could possibly be not yet got to turning point. "Four, eight up in seven holes? four, tAvo, four! Remarkable play, With chilly hauteur she referred me truly!" to her tablet—for which I was coming And then this Polly, Molly, or to entertain as much respect as I do whatever else your sense of justice for the epitaph on a tombstone—and may prompt you to call her, had the once again Delilah (in a Polly shape) infamous audacity to produce her tab- nefariously beguiled her doting, old let with a white pencil attached; and Samson to her evil aid. certainly a two did appear recorded "Eight up? O, certainly you are there for the third hole. eight up," were the very words of this Little did the lead pencil-man, when misguided, old man—not so long ago coloring his dainty handiwork in the my revered pastor and mentor in many sweet colors of truth, innocence and flowery paths in which we shared joy- beauty, dream of the black wrong it auuee, and now a false witness and was to wreak on me ! disloyal to a brother golfer! Number V. is of a beauty singular I had some thought of asking my and a difficult}' extreme—even for enemy to sit down upon a knoll in the storied Leven. You have, first, to neighborhood for five minutes, while drive over a very high, wall—at least, I sang- to her a little trifle of my own it is usually too high for me—and then following upon Goethe's pregnant:—• over a fateful valley, in the murky Woman is fierce when she takes hold, depths of which a turbid stream rolls And when she robs is merciless. at the rate of about a hundred miles But the truth is that I was afraid to do THE PROFESSOR AND HIS DEAR, WEE WIFIE. 265 so—and then, if you come to think of but we have not yet got one in Eng- it, there might also be in it some in- lish for master of the robes, so far as I fringement of the St. Andrews rules, know—to open her reticule, which' he to which no golfer could ever be a had been carrying all this time with party. affectionate care, and hand her an im- And as this delusively enchanting plement, known, I believe, as a pow- mixture of Lilith and Anagalla, the der-puff. I have no means of know- famous lady player in story, as a mat- ing what she wanted it for or what she ter of course, won the other two holes did with it; because I, as a matter of on the outward course also, the truly course, at once turned away and singular result was that I was actually sought round the corner of the club- ten dotvn over the nine holes!—thanks house at the east end of the links for to her mendacious tablet and old another caddie. Nicodemus — Polyphemus, rather; I had some little difficulty in getting- Blunderbore, Cormillan, Gog and Ma- one—my previous imp had, no doubt, gog, dread Oreo of the mountains or sent the fiery cross of warning round even fell Tenjo, the snouted demon of —but finally did so; and when we re- Japan. turned the powder-puff was no more "That it also gave her the match visible. was of comparatively trivial moment On our new match over the return —I had for long foreseen nothing- round Mrs. McTavish insisted on al- else—but my caddie here struck on lowing me a stroke a hole. It may, of the ground of the uncanniness of the course, have been prompted by kind- whole affair, which to him suggested ness, but seemed to me more sugges- the eerie and satanic. Although he is tive of cheek. I did not start with but a wee, wee boy, he has a singu- aught of high hope and when we larly large mouth, and I was not sur- rached the first hole, was not the least prised to learn afterwards, is far and surprised to find that my ball had in away the best arithmetician in Leven some mysterious way rolled over the public school. It is a strange fact—in cliff down to the shore of Largo Bay. Scotland, at all events—that all un- But if it did not surprise me, it had the usually little lads with abnormally effect of rousing my caddie's suspi- large mouths and ears have this ques- cion and disgust; and it was with the tionable gift; the size of the mouth, greatest difficulty I persuaded him to no doubt, enables them to swallow a refrain from hurling-words of scathing deal that is utterly repellent to the or- derision and burning indignation at dinary Christian boy. Anyway, he for the deceptively venerable head of the some time struggled between his loy- fore-caddie on the other side. alty to me and to the infernal scoun- That I lost this hole, I say, did not drel who first invented arithmetic; surprise me in the least; but the next and finally threw me over. was, indeed, a crusher. We both drove I fancied I saw a tremor of remorse, fairly well and the balls seemingly fell here, upon the part of Tenjo; but not cheek by jowl—so much so, indeed, the slightest hint of aught of the kind that I felt emboldened to quote (for on hers. Jn fact, she caused her sen- the benefit of my fair neighbor, who, eschal—this is not the proper word, if not a Sappho herself, had undoubt- •266 THE PROFESSOR AND HIS DEAR, WEE WIFIE.

edly been the cause of poetry in others '"I dinna like this ava," remarked —her husband, say; unless, of course, my small Largo retainer, who seemed one choose to consider him a mere a leal, little chap, like his two most he—Titania and the inspiration purely famous fellow citizens, the Auchen- glamor and humbug) those exquisite- downie Cock, familiar to every stu- ly pathetic lines of one of the sweet dent of the supernatural, and the great heroines of our boyhood's fancy, ill- Scots Admiral, Sir Andrew Wood. fated Felicia Hemans:— "There wis nae rabbit-hole here twen- " They grew in fancy side by side, ty minutes syne. Man, I passed owcr They filled one home with glee." e' verra spot!" But though he glow- "I beg your pardon," remarked this ered grimly and shook his wee fist at Sphynx, in wee, brown booties, but the Professor—now, of course, in the with a chilliness one doesn't usually offing for other duty—I don't think he associate with cither ancient or mod- felt disposed to blame the lady. He ern Egypt. had already fallen under the spell of "Mrs, Hemans, you know," I ven- her beauty and gracious charm. tured with a meek, deprecatory smirk. And so it went on till she won the (I know thundering well that wasn't second match by five and four. her married name; but can you, your- Then a singular event—of quite an .self, always remember it off-hand? unusual kind in Leven at all events, I Golf plays the deuce with memory; am glad to say—occurred. also hope, love, friendships of years Strolling over our bonny links, air- and every dashed thing except thirst.) ily, casually, cockily, with hands in ''No; I don't know her"—and the pockets of a pair of knickerbockers of fair voting creature's speaking eye im- an outrageous pattern, with which we pressed upon me the further fact that in Fife are fortunately unfamiliar, and she did not want to. "Besides, if you a football cap cocked on the back of a are, as I suspect from your golf, a peculiarly repellent head (even for a mere lover of poetry, pray don't men- football chap), came this Belial from tion the subject here. It puts me off somewhere south of the Tweed. I my putting." And then this more could not decipher the device upon his than Magian prophetess added with a cap. It was certainly not Excelsior; saturnine smile: "Besides, you will and I do not remember any physiog- 'find that the lines are not in the pres- nomy less requiring anything in the ent case quite applicable." way of outside explanation. Deprav- This we found to be too sadly true. ity was so omnipresent in every feat- Within a circumference little larger ure that when the creature professed a than that of the La Grace hoops of the preference for afternoon tea, one felt days of our youth both balls certainly it was solely as a tribute of criminal lay; but mine was hopelessly plunked reminiscence to Chang Wung or Pot —some of your readers are sure to Ho for bygone revelry and saturnalia know the derivation of this admirably in the unholy East. Such were the expressive word of the Philistines; I beginnings, the raw drafts, of my am sorry I do not, myself—-in what stern judgment upon a young man, was apparently the beginning of a whom I felt, without any pricking of rabbit-hole. the thumb, to be instinct with evil of a THE PROFESSOR AND HIS DEAR, WEE WIFIE. 267

kind unknown to you or me or any I played in; and the other twain other golfer, when I was interrupted strolled out. by a gleeful, little cackle:— I had not the heart to rob the old "Ha! It is my cousin William !" and lad of his customary half-crown—in the creature added with a sigh of ap- view of a possible loss he "might con- parent content— "At last!" sider more serious; but when we had And thereafter she proceeded with doffed our golfing garb and sat down a rapid garrulity that struck me dumb for a crack in the good, old way, the at the time, however alive I then and whole thing fell flat. He was distrait there was to its satanic offensive- and weary; and it was only now that I ness : "O, William, William! Will you noticed how he had aged. take my clubs, dear, and play this old Time, in fact, sped drearily; and we gentleman in? I really forget its found no seeming relish in what is ad- name—but we have already finished mittedly the best blend in broad Scot- two complete matches, and I am fif- land. teen up over fourteen holes!" And still no William and Mary! I noticed that even this brazen- In fact, I have never seen either of faced youth—suggestive of a gargoyle them again, and certainly hope never who had grinned for a couple of cen- to do so in this world; and as to the turies over one of our old-time brew- next, I can only trust that it is equally eries without any noticeable expres- certain that I may never meet them sion of disapproval of his surround- there. ings—gave a jump; and I certainly heard him mutter to himself: "Poor, I still have an occasional round with old chappie! She's evidently been my old friend on the grounds of the making it hot for the old teapot!" But, neighboring asylum, of which he is so far as I could gather from the the leading, though unwilling, orna- somewhat languid and disconnected ment ; but the golf is purely a case of stanzas of his brief lay, what he said putting. There is no room for a driver was:— or even a baffy spoon—much less a "Too warm, coz! Much too warm. fore-caddie; and I sometimes think it If you care—if your care to hand over had been better had he never learned your clubs to the Professor, the two that malign and mysterious art and old gentlemen can play in together stuck to the clubs and the cronies of and, if it will give you any pleasure, his youth and prime. I'll see you home by the shore. Wind This is, indeed, a melancholy tale; —Largo Bay—fresh—cool!" and I hope that if any of your readers The coolness appeared to me to ap- turn up here next season, as I hope pertain to something far other than they may, they will be unaccompanied the wind. Still the arrangement was by any such Polly, Molly or fore- dulv carried out and the Professor and caddie. THE SOUTHERN GOLF ASSOCIATION

MEETING of representa- acceptance of membership in this as- tives of Southern Golf sociation shall bind each club to abide Clubs was held at the Bat- by the conditions of the constitution, tery Park Hotel, on Sep- by-laws and rules of this association, tember 8th, to perfect a thorough or- and to accept and enforce all decisions ganization, which is styled "The of the executive committee within its Southern Golf Association." Fourteen jurisdiction. The control and man- different clubs were represented at the agement of this association and its af- meeting. fairs and property shall be entrusted Mr. C. B. Simmons, of Columbia, to an executive committee composed S. C, was called to the chair. J. J. of the officers of the association and McCloskey, of the Swannanoa Coun- five delegates. The officers of this as- try Club, Asheville, N. C, acted as sociation and the other members of secretary. the executive committee shall hold of- The constitution and by-laws were fice for one year, or until their suc- adopted, and a general plan is as fol- cessors are appointed. The yearly lows :— dues shall be $20, payable semi-au- To promote the interest of golf, par- nually after the adoption of this con- ticularly in the South. To provide for stitution. an amateur championship tournament An election of officers was held and each year, open to its members, and resulted, as follows: President, F. C. decide on what links the amateur and Woodward, Columbia, S. C.; vice- such other championship as may be president (left to selection of Thomas- decided upon by the execvttive com- ville, Ga., club); secretary, J. J. Mc- mittee shall be played. To afford a Closkey, of the Swannanoa Country convenient means of arranging the Club, Asheville, N. C.; treasurer, dates of the annual tournament of its George Feran, Jr., Mobile, Ala. The members so they shall not conflict. executive committee is composed of The membership of this association the above officers and Julius Leisel, shall be limited to duly organized Charlotte, N. C.; R. F. Faxon, Chat- clubs in the South. Any regularly or- tanooga, Term.; J. C. Rumbough, ganized club in the South may at any Plot Springs, N. C, and two others to time be admitted to this association by be selected later. a majority vote of the executive com- The meeting was an enthusiastic mittee upon subscribing to and ful- one and the Southern Golf Associa- filling the conditions of the associa- tion has started out under most excel- tion constitution and by-laws. The lent auspices. BY "THE TR1L0B1TE"-CHAPTER VI. L HE most prettily situated Alas! he was not a golfer, and so was links that I have yet seen gathered to his fathers before his (with the exception per- time. haps of Gullane) are the It is needless to say that you may North Berwick links. As these have now build your villa, but the railroad lately been the scene of the first half company will give you no pass. Many of the match, Vardon vs. Park, and special trains are now run every day have consequently been brought be- to suit the Edinburgh business man, fore the golf student by means of who, a few years ago, began to ap- photographs and leading articles, I preciate the charms so near Auld can not refrain from chronicling some Reekie, and the conservators of the of the, to me, interesting" features of links, instead of begging golfers to the green, many years ago. come down and try the green, are When the railway was built from now racking their brains to devise Drew (a junction on the main line to some scheme to accommodate all the Edinburgh) to North Berwick, for golfers who throng the clubhouses many years it was a losing and lan- and the first tee, all wanting to start guishing concern. North Berwick was at once, and play all day long. a paltry fishing village, almost un- The wave of popularity was no tidal known except by a few pioneers, who wave of submersion, rather a rippling, appreciated the bathing, the caller air, steady tide, advancing surely year by the splendid views, and incidentally year, and showing that the delights the little golf course. of the place are genuine, and not a To induce people to reside there, mere fashionable freak. the railroad company gave free life When I first knew the course, there passes to Edinburgh and back, to any were only seven holes—almost un- one who built a cottage, or a villa, on cared for. There were no tins in the the links. A few, very few took ad- holes, which were somewhat like birds' vantage of this offer, and I can dis- nests, and quite deep, from the habit tinctly remember a cousin of mine then in vogue of taking sand from the who used to travel back and forth hole to tee with. The rule then was to every day, all summer for many years tee, not more than six club lengths with the air of an owner of the whole from holes, which somewhat circum- road, and filling me with awe and scribed the putting-green! Some envy. A certain train was eventually holes were without flags, only a stray christened after him, and he was better stick leaning, in a languid fashion, known than the guard (conductor). half out of the hole, and, sometimes, 270 REMINISCENCES. when there was a flag;, the hole was friends of mine, while Mr. Balfour, so deep that the worsted, at top of the leader of the House of Commons, flag, was but a few inches above made it his playground. ground, giving one the idea that the It was baptised the Brighton of flag was desirous to get under cover, Scotland, and with natural advan- and avoid any collision with the stray tages, it certainly can give the and vagrant golfer. You were lucky southern resort a stroke a hole, and if you picked up a caddie, and you win easily. and your party might play all clay The North Berwick of today is a without any other golfers being visi- most striking example of what golf ble. We were not very particular can do for a place, and that with com- about our golf in those days, and were paratively little outlay. A few zeal- content to play on courses that the ous good golfers, among whom I modern golfer would despise. The should mention the Blyths Blossom, two players in the village then were the Chambers, the Stevensons, the Ly- Provost Brodie and Bailie White- alls, and, of course, the Dunns, should cross—two as good players as were to be forever hallowed in the memories be found in the Lothians. Brodie was of the burghers and landowners, for a very sporty man for a Scotch pro- verily, the efforts of the golfers have vost, and kept a string of weedy race- brought down showers of gold on the horses at Gullane, with which he, now little, somewhat smelly, fishing village, and then, won a race at Kelso, Mus- and its adjacent fields. selburgh, and Perth. Whitecross was Now, I ask Willie Dunn, ex-cham- the leading grocer, and, as the town pion of the United States, and John flourished, so did he—and they were D. Dunn, the prince of coaches, to bonny golfers. With Edward Blyth corroborate me in saying that, for and Robert Chambers, they could first-class golf, splendid air and scen- hold their own against any forces sent ery, and the best of good fellowship, to crush them from St. Andrews and North Berwick, in the early eighties, Musselburgh. Under Dunn's care, was unique. They can tell you of the links soon began to look up, and many triumphs at Point Garry, many were extended to the second dyke, a wonderful approach shot in the and the number of holes increased to Schipka Pass, many a successful as- nine. This made a very pretty dodgy sault on the Redan. They are two of little course, and soon its fame spread the foremost golfers in the States, and abroad. Again was the course length- what they do not know about golf is ened, and eighteen holes, requiring not worth knowing—and they are great accuracy in approaching and North Berwick golfers. straightness, became the round, and remained so for many years, and then Of the latest addition to the course' it was that North Berwick became fa- I cannot write, as I have not seen it. mous. Villas were now plentiful It was, no doubt, necessary, and laid enough. In the autumn the Lord out by experienced hands, but, some- Mayor of London invaded the town, how, I fancy that the charming indi- though following in the wake of viduality of the course is gone. The princes, grand dukes, and other course now, for nine months in the year, is more crowded than St. An- REMINISCENCES. 271

drews in August, and it seems like a about the old eighteen-hole green: dream to me when I look back to the (where Laidlay perfected his educa- old days of birds-nest holes, no play- tion)—the play up to Point Garry ers and the little course overlaid with where, unless your ball was stopped fishermen's brown nets, and Dunn's by an obliging nursemaid, or an irate small wooden workshop in a bunker old gentleman, with the gout and a. near the last hole. W. Park has now, telescope, it was quite likely to be in I see, a £3,000 sterling villa, wherein the German Ocean. Then the drive- 1 he complains of being cramped for from Point Garry to the second hole, room, and where he controls a regi- on a freezing clay in winter, with the ment of workmen, busy as bees. How quarry in front a mass of ice, St. pleasant Dunn used to be to us boys—• Anne's high wall on the left, and the- perfect young nuisances, always want- cold green waves rolling in on your ing a new leather, or a leather face, or right, tossing up white foam almost a made-up ball, and giving more on the putting-green; no blue devils trouble than the. lord of the manor! could exist there, it was a pleasure to Speaking of the lord of the manor be alive, and a triple pleasure to be a reminds me that a county club used to golfer. Away up the Forth was Auld play, once or twice a year, over the Reekie; opposite you the Kingdom of green, forty or fifty years ago. It was Fife with its hills, snow-capped and a very select society, of course, and glittering; while the throb of the pass- they seem to have had lots of fun, with ing London steamer made you thank- a splendid lunch in a tent, to which the ful that you could play golf, that you members used to contribute from their were beating your opponent, and that estates, venison, salmon, grouse, Bass an enormous lunch was preparing for rock mutton, pheasants, hothouse you at the hotel. fruits, etc. Sir Robert Hay and Sir Then, when the shades of evening David Baird, with the Earl of fell too soon for us, the stirrup cup (I Wemyss, and Sir Hew Hume Camp- do not venture to spell the gaelic for bell, could play the best of golf, and it), the gathering of congenial spirits, no doubt the club had a splendid time. in the train, the cloud-compelling to- There was no one to interfere with bacco, and the never ending golf talk them. They literally had the green to until we were decanted at the Waver- themselves. Their shades must flit ley station in Edinburgh, and fled to- about Point Garry (where often re- our respective homes to meet again, freshments were served) with much and yet again. mingled feelings—joy at seeing so These were the days when one had. much good golf, sorrow at their in- room to swing his clubs, and to play- ability to find a single quiet nook four rounds of the green. From all I wherein to toast the game, and smoke can learn one cannot do that now, but,.. a quiet cigar. Their fame is perpet- on the other hand, North Berwick, uated in the North Berwick Club, prospers mightily, and long may it be which is a bad club to beat, but the before the golfer forsakes her beauti- tent and the luncheons are no more. ful links and her health-giving There was an indescribable charm shore! HOW TO PRACTISE 'By Horace G. Hutchinson.*

(CONTINUED FROM SEPTEMBER NUMBER).

On such courses as Brancaster "jerk" stroke, will cleave kindly. Others or Westward Ho! Prestwick or resist its cleaving impact, and on these Sandwich, where the bunkers arc it needs to hit the ball cleaner—with often close to the putting-greens, less of the downward motion that re- an occasional quarter of an horn- sults in the jerk—'than on softer soils. is very well spent in practising It scarcely needs to say that on com- niblick shots from them—.not those ing to a strange course the strength shots of which the purpose is to of the putting greens should be a sub- get the ball as far out the bad He as ject of your special study, and also the skill and muscle can carry you, but degree in which a ball played up to the those in which the object is to hoist hole off an iron or mashie grips the the ball over the impending bunker turf on falling, for this, too, is a cliff and make it stop soon—presum- quality that varies greatly on different ably near the hole. The practise will greens. give you immense confidence when There is one stroke of all others you have to play this hazardous stroke that should be made the subject of with all the terrors of great issues, special practise, and that is the ap- possibly of the issue of the match it- proach stroke, whether with the iron self, depending on it. Your practise or mashie, according to your prefer- will enable you to tell yourself with ence, or with the putter. The point of confidence just how far behind the ball all others at which the professionals it is necessary to cleave with that are better than the amateurs, gener- downward stroke, directed not im- ally speaking, seems to be this ap- mediately upon the ball, but with the proach play and the long putting. The purpose of creating a sort of earth- reason does not seem very far to seek. quake under it that shall "boost" it up Most of the professional players have and over the bunker cliff. The sand had their training, in boyhood, as of different links varies a deal in the caddies; on most links you may see quality of its stiffness, so that in some the caddies constantly at practise with bunkers you have to hit an inch or their own or their master's mashie or even more, further from the ball than putter, playing at short holes of their in others where the sand is heavier. A own digging. Far less often do we study of these differences is of great service to you when you are entering see them practising the long shots, on a comparatively strange green. partly because they seldom have space at command for these, and partly be- And as there are differences of tex- cause a master does not wholly ap- ture in the sand, so too there are dif- prove of his best driver being wielded ferences in the texture of the soils, on by the caddie. But short mashie different links. Some the iron, in the strokes can hurt no mashie; and, * The Book of Golf and Golfers. HOW TO PRACTISE. 273

whatever the reason, the fact remains Some of these professionals, to whom that the majority of professional play- their skill means some portion of their ers have passed their schooling with bread and butter, have given a deal of the approaching club constantly in thought, as well as work, to the game ; hand. The result is their deadly exe- and we of the amateur class may find cution of this most deadly stroke. Not much that is worth observation in the only so, but on some links, as St. An- ways of those whose life business it drews in the old clays, the bigger cad- has become. They have given, likely dies play matches over the short holes enough, more thought to it than we (at St. Andrews these used to be laid can afford; and there is no reason to out just in front of the clubhouse, but suppose that they have thought less they seem to have fallen much out of pregnantly. use now), often, it is to be feared, bet- The evil of driving off ball after ball ting large stakes out of their day's until you are tired out, by way of prac- earnings on the result. tise, has been mentioned, but with in- All this incessant practise must have sufficient emphasis. Careless practise been the means of making many a fine is worse than none, and it is impossi- approacher. The amateur, even as ble to be keen and careful when both a boy, seldom devotes himself as as- muscle and eye are wearied. More siduously to this special study. He is than this, it may be said that careful- generally playing matches on the long ness without keenness is a human im- links, seldom really practising. And possibility. The carefulness to which probably it is by his fatal habit of "lay- you force yourself is not true spontan- ing the long putt dead" more than by eous carefulness; it is only a keen zest skill in any other part of the game that in your work that can make you truly the professional player wins his and usefully careful. And this keen matches. zest you cannot feel when your mus- cles are weary of their work and do It is seldom, indeed, that you will not execute it gladly. see a professional go forth to play a match of any importance whatever Therefore, so soon as you feel your without having stretched his muscles practise work wearisome, drop it. Try and exercised his eye by some practise a few approach shots, as a change, for strokes previous to starting. He practise in this can never come amiss; would deem that he had neglected a then take your weaver's beam again— valuable aid to ultimate success if he the driver, brassy, or whatever it may neglected this practise. Yet how often be. do we see an amateur at the pains to Again, in practise with these longer do the same? Very, very rarely. It clubs, always aim at a mark. The is the custom—rather too much the driving into empty space may help you custom—to look on the professional to a correct and free swing, but player as a man whose golf comes it will encourage you in an ob- to him as a free gift—a heritage that jectless way of driving, with too he is born with. But the truth is, little regard for the ultimate fate rather, that though natural aptitude of of the ball. In the match this will course counts for much, the golfer is not do, and there is no reason that the made rather than bom. He is no poet. freedom of the swing should be lost 274 HOW TO PRACTISE. because you have a care for the direc- elements that are commonly said to go tion also. Take a bush, a tuft of grass, to making up the perfect golfing the brow of a hill—anything you swing, you are very apt to lose sight of please—on the line, and try to drive the ball, to lose sense of the right tim- to, or over, that. Otherwise, if you ing of the stroke, and to miss the great content yourself with driving, merely and never to be recovered psychologi- driving, without thought of the direc- cal moment at which you can strike tion, you ma}' find yourself, when you the ball with confidence of success. conic to important business in the This matter of 'timing' the stroke is match, hitting your ball well and free- one that is not sufficiently considered ly may be, but constantly either to by the golfing instructors. They teach right or left of the proper line—a reve- the correct way of making the club lation which is very apt to be discon- describe the correct circle or ellipse, certing, and so to undo the good bene- but they generally do not dwell quite fit that should be your possession by enough on the necessity of making the virtue of your practise shots. moment that club and ball meet the In your preliminary canter—the culminating point of the whole busi- practise strokes previous to the ness—the point at which the great- commencement of a match—on a est effort is to be exerted by the windy day, you will do well to test striker, the point at which the club- your driving both down the wind and head is to travel with the greatest against. You will be required to face speed. Cricketers understand the both alternatives in course of the timing theory, and appreciate it better round, and it is as well to make sure than golfers. They know that no hit that in both cases you are master of ill-timed can drive the ball well, no the circumstances before becoming in- matter what muscular effort is ex- volved in them with great issues de- pended, and that a well-timed stroke pending. A false step or two is very of half the force will drive the ball likely to occur while you are getting more satisfactorily than an ill-timed into your stride, and it is far better to one delivered with twice the energy. execute these preliminary faux pas in No doubt the necessity of accurate practise than when the actual match timing is brought more forcibly home is in full progress. to the cricketer by the fact that he has When you are at practise is the time to deal with a moving ball, but it is to think of your form, of the how your scarcely less important for the golfer shots are to be played, of the correct if he is to drive the ball perfectly. Af- attitude, and of the correct swing. ter a certain point, strength becomes a When you come to the stern business factor in the length of drive, but it is of the match, you ought not to have to only after the point has been passed at bother yourself about these little de- which practise has taught the hitting tails—about the petty means—you of the ball in the right way and with ought to have an open mind to con- the right sense of time. centrate on the great ends—namely, Instructors have every reason for the ball and the hole. If you are then not dwelling too much on this essen- thinking too much about the grip, the tial point—the correct timing of the stance, and the rest of the fifty-two blow—for it is an indefinable sense HOW TO PRACTISE. 275 that is required, and a sense that out on the further side. This is the no instruction can impart, to bring sort of blow that the golf ball wants, it home to a learner's mind. This as if you wished to hit, not the side much, at least, it is both safe nearer to you, but tne side fur- and useful to say, by way of ther away, a tremendous stroke. instruction anent it, that the com- It is an invaluable illustration to mon error is to put in the force bear in mind—invaluable not mere- too soon. The club-head cannot keep ly for this purpose of good tim- up its fastest pace all through the ing and of sending the force of swing. There is one certain fastest the blow well through, but also point, and this fastest point should be valuable as an index to the direction at its moment of meeting the ball. The of the blow, and of the club-head at common error is to hurry that point, the moment of delivering it, which to be in such a hurry to get the clnb- should be in the plane of the ball's in- head going at speed that it loses some tended flight. of that speed before the ball is reached. The sense of time, and putting in For that reason the learner's atten- the force at the right moment, is valu- tion—and every one should be a learn- able not in driving strokes alone, but er in the practise hours—should be also in the shorter shots up to the greatly turned to what happens after hole. The manner in which the stroke the ball is hit. The effort should be is timed, so as to let the club-head to reach that one point of greatest come with greater or less speed on speed of travel not an inch before, but the ball, makes all the difference im- rather two inches after, the ball is aginable in the length that the ball struck. The natural tendency is to will travel; and often a spectator, with reach it too quickly, and the reason- but slight knowledge of the game, will able remedy therefore is to aim to exclaim in surprise at the distance that reach it a trifle late. And therefore, the ball flies off a clean-struck well- too, it is high praise of a golfer's timed half iron stroke, while one who swing to say of it that 'there is a deal had given the matter a thought would of it after the ball is struck.' The ten- see at once that the secret of its flight dency is to pull up too soon—at the lay not in remarkable muscular force instant of striking the ball:—not to let applied in some abnormal manner, but the swing, and indeed to make the simply in the fact that the utmost swing, finish itself out well. Does the force that the gentle stroke contained reader know those pummcling ma- was concentrated into the exact mo- chines which register the force of a ment at which the club-head met the fist blow? If he has any experience of them he will quickly remember that ball. The practise of the proficient the blow that sends the needle on the differs of course from the practise of dial flying round to mark a great force the tiro. The former is rather striv- of percussion is not the blow deliver- ing to keep what he has got, and to ed, howsoever violently, on the near improve it, if at all, by insensible de- side of the pummeling cushion, but grees ; the latter is learning a new les- the blow that goes right through into son. I believe no better advice can be its depth, as though it would come given to both tiro and proficient alike than that which Willie Fernie is em- 276 HOW TO PRACTISE. phatic on—to practise the swing in side of the compass, so that the iron front of a mirror. We then see our afar off has comparatively no effect. selves as others see us and detect This is the function of the caddie per- many unsuspected weaknesses. petually "behind your eye." For the actual tiro a most useful There are one or two points inwhich maxim has been invented by Philpot, the caddie himself may well be given the clubmaker and professional ad- a little practise. It is to be presumed viser to the Princes' Club at Mitchani. that the need of instructing himself in He instructs his pupils to "strike from the elementary grammar of silence and a point." Of course we all know that immobility on the stroke will be ob- the stroke is to be a swing rather than vious enough, though it may be a a hit, and so on, so that perhaps the grammar hard for him to learn. At very word "strike" is a little out of Westward Ho! there was at one time place; but the great thing in these in vogue a system of qualifying ex- golfing instructions is not so much, to amination for enlistment into the high be logical, or etymological, or exact, roll of caddie. The boys had to ans- as to convey to the learner's mind an wer a series of questions that rather idea of what he should try to do; and suggested the Shorter Catechism. language for conveying a new idea to "What should the ball be teed a man's mind is very difficult to find. with ?" was one of these. Philpot, in his maxim, seems to have The most apparent answer would expressed the notion intelligibly—the be "With sand;" but as this is not al- notion that there should be a point of ways so, seeing that some play off division between the up swing and the artificial tees, an answer of more uni- down, a definite point from which the versal applicability seemed to be re- down stroke should begin. Without quired, and the stereotyped answer this notion the up swing is apt to be was "With care." vague, aimless, without limit. It is a Cerainlythis is always praiseworthy; useful maxim for the tiro to bear in but there is a special point about the mind that he should "strike from a teeing of the ball to which the cad- point." die's attention ought to be directed, It is not a bad thing to practise and yet which is seldom inculcated. yourself especially in those circum- We must all have suffered much from stances that are most distracting to caddies whose practise it is to make you, so that familiarity shall divest a little heap of sand, and then do one them of their effect. If you are one of two things—either perch the ball so of those who are especially put off the insecurely upon it that, time after stroke by any one standing "behind time, it rolls off, or else, going to the the eye," as the saying is, it is no bad other extreme, ram it down on the plan to practise with a caddie perpet- sand-heap in such manner that the ually in that position, so that you may ball is partially bunkered. Now, if any be accustomed to it. The old mari- one will take the trouble to make the ners found that the compass misguid- experiment, he will find that it is very ed them when there was ironstone in difficult to take the ball and place it the country near; the modern mariner securely and yet delicately, as it puts two great balls of iron, one each should be placed, on the tee, unless BOW TO PRACTISE. 277

some portion of the hand be laid on ticular stroke cannot be wasted. This the firm basis of the ground during final point has been noticed before, the operation. The lower part of the but its importance makes it a good one hand—that is to say, the knuckle of to end up with, and it will bear the the little finger—should be rested on repetition. Knowing that Fernie had the ground, and with this steady basis made a special study of the golfing to work on the ball can be perched up swing, and had actually lectured on it, with the nicest adjustment, it seems with good results, in different parts of a little matter to make so much bother England and Scotland, I asked him to about, but the perpetual rolling of the jot down for me a few notes on the ball off the tee, or its alternative in- subject, and in response he has kindly terment in the sand-mound, is so very written as follows :—• annoying', and the remedy so very "An)' one looking at my photo will simple, that it is perhaps worth this see top and finish of swing. You will brief remark. observe, that at the top of the swing In practise, and in unimportant the toe of the club points straight to matches, the methods should be the ground. The club points the adopted that you will use in great same way at the finish of the swing. contests. Any variation of method is When this happens the club travels in apt to put you off. Thus, if it be its proper circle; otherwise the stroke 3'our opinion that you can gain a bet- will be pulled or sliced. ter notion of the line of your putts by "I would strongly recommend any studying the ground from hole to one wanting to learn the swing to ball, as well as from ball to hole (and practise in front of a mirror with a so great an authority as Willie Park walking-stick or a toy club till he at- says that the apparently correct line, tains the true position. Of course the as judged from the former point of action of the feet must be attended to. view, is always the truly correct one), Some players are inclined to turn then accustom yourself to this double more than they ought to on the left study in your practise matches. Do toe. If they would turn more on the not practise, in short, in any slipshod right toe, after the stroke, it would manner, or else you will find yourself steady the body a great deal bet- a little put about when you have, of ter. " necessity, to alter this manner in the No doubt more useful advice than matches that are keen to win. that of practising before a mirror can Professionals, as a rule, gain a long scarcely be given and can scarcely be advantage over amateurs from their repeated too often. Without that pre- greater faculty of laying their long caution it is possible to continue in- putts near the hole, and this, I am definitely long in faulty ways, without convinced, is acquired by their more a chance of perceiving the real cause constant practise. The inference is of the error, but only lamenting its that time spent in practise in this par- disastrous results. WATCHING THE FINISH BEHIND THE EIGHTEENTH GREEN AT BALTIMORE, THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP Played at the ^Baltimore Country Club, SEPTEMBER J3 and J4, 1899.

T was most gratifying to George Low, the recent acquisition me to see Willie Smith of the Dyker Meadow Golf Club, win the Open Champion- through getting into a peck of trouble ship at Baltimore. in the last half of the third round, Early last year I inserted an adver- came in with a similar total, and Val tisement in an English paper asking Fitzjohn, who has always been looked for a really first-class man to give les- upon as a possible outsider, sustained sons at Shinnecock during the sum- his reputation for good golfing and mer, and from several score of appli- tied the score of the above mentioned cants for the position old James Bev- couple with a total of 326, or eleven eridgc and myself selected Will Smith strokes more than the winner. It is as the best man available. His high a curious fact that these three men testimonials, which we carefully in- met at the first tee on Thursday morn- vestigated at the time, have certainly ing, and each backed his score against proven to be correct in every detail, the other two, with the result of and thus it is that the year 1899 wit- course that the bets were cancelled. nesses a new American Open Cham- Willie Anderson did a brilliant 158 pion, who, if figures do not lie, is head on the opening day, but when I heard and shoulders above any golfer who on Thursday night at dinner that he has previously held that title. The ex- had been in bed two hours already, mv champions, Dunn, Rawlins, Foulis, friends will give me credit for advising Lloyd and Herd, failed to strike any- them that Will Smith would be easily thing' like a winning' gait at any period able to hold him in check on the fol- of the contest, and Smith finished ''all lowing da)'. Directly J. hear of a man alone," as the racing scribes say. going to extremes, either in the di- Barring the actual winner, it was rection of abstemiousness or the re- anybody's race up to the very last verse, when preparing for the effort of hole, for three well-tried men finished his life, my suspicions are immediately all even in second place, and a dozen aroused as to the amount of confi- others, including Herbert M. Harri- dence he has in his own ability. At man, were close on their heels. golf confidence is half the battle, as I think it may be put that W. H. we have witnessed in the case of many Way, of the Detroit Country Club, a novice, and so Anderson fell away furnished the surprise amongst the hole by hole until the most talked-of best informed, as, up to the last min- candidate for supremacy landed in ute, no one had figured out that his fifth place. consistent rounds of 8o, 85, 8o, 81, Jack Park, by a brilliant third round must bring him out very near the top of 75, which smashed all records for of the list. the course, secured the sixth money, 280 THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. i and his playing-mate, Harry Gvtllane, truly that it is worthy of special men- came next with a total of 331 strokes. tion in these notes. Peter Walker, of the Onwentsia Club) Turning to the amateurs, I am at Lake Forest, and Lawrence Auch- afraid that it must be recorded that terlonie, of the neighboring- village of they were completely outclassed, but Evanston, completed the fortunate it is certainly worthy of note that H. prize winners, but as the last pair had M. Harriman was no less than seven to divide the eighth prize of $25 it strokes ahead of any previous open did not amount to a very munificent championship winner, notwithstand- sum. ing- the fact that the whole quintet did Little Alec. Campbell took just ten their utmost to repeat the victories of

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more strokes for the very last four the last five years. The amateur holes than he had firmly calculated champion evidently found the hilly ^ upon doing, or he might have been course a very different proposition to second, instead of only the leader of Meadowbrook, Garden City or On- the mighty host who "also ran." wentsia, and it was apparently only at Ernest Way was the only profes- the fourth attempt that he got on to its sional amongst this contingent who curves. Then a very useful 79 was re- went the round in less than 80 strokes, corded, which broke the amateur rec- and as I had the pleasure of keeping ord made by Douglas and Jenkins in his score on the occasion when he match play last June. made an almost perfect 77, I know F. W. Menzies put in a very wel- THE FIRST HOLE—LOOKING BACK.

THE "HIGH BALL," OR EIGHTEENTH HOLE. 282 THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.

Out 5 5 5 3 3 5 4 5 6—41 come appearance after a prolonged In li 4 4 4 fl 7 4 5 4—44—85 Out 4 6 4 4 4 4 3 5 4— 38 absence from our large tournaments, In 8 4 4 5 5 7 4 4 5—46—81—169 during which time he has been giving Total 327 considerable attention to the greens in Sixth. J. Park, Essex County Country Club, Orange, N. J.— Scotland, and it is a pleasure to record Out : 5 4 4 3 fi 7 3 fi 4-42 In 6 5 5 fi 5 7 8 5 4—40—88 that the late secretary of the St. An- Out 4 4 3 5 4 4 8 5 5—37 In 6 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 5—43—80—168 drews club has retained his golfing Out 5 ('. 4 4 4 4 4 5 8—39 In, 5 3 4 5 3 5 3 4 4—36—75 abilities, which he demonstrated by Out 4 6 4 4 3 4 5 5 4—39 111 7 3 5 5 5 7 4 5 5—4(1—85—160 defeating over a score of the profes- Total 828 sionals and taking' second place Seventh. •1 amongst the amateurs. Harry Gullane, St. Davids Golf Club, Philadelphia. Pa.— Before going any further I must set Out 4 4 5 4 3 5 5 6 6—42 111 6 4 4 4 8 0 4 4 4—39—SI down the scores. .Here then is a rec- Out 4 5 3 4 3 5 4 8 4—40 In 0 2 0 5 5 5 5 5 7—48—80—107 ord showing the complete cards of the (lilt 6 5 8 4 3 5 4 6 4—40 111 5 3 3 5 5 6 3 5 5—40—80 first twenty players, and a summary of Out 5 5 8 3 4 5 4 5 4-38 Tn 6 3 5 5 4 6 5 6 0—46—84—164 the remainder:— Total : 331 First. Tied for Eighth. Willie Smith, Midlothian Country Club, Chicago, Peter Walker, Onwentsia Club. Lake Forest, 111.— Out 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 7 5—41 Out 3 5 <1 4 2 5 4 7 -1—f!S In 7 4 5 4 4 6 3 6 4—48—84 III (i 4 4 4 8 li 3 4 6—Si)—77 Out 5 5 4 4 S 5 5 6 5—42 Out 5 6 4 5 8 5 S 5 4-3!) In 7 4 4 0 4 7 3 5 4—41—80—170 In 7 4 5 4 4 7 4 S 3—411—82—189 Out 4 5 2 5 4 5 4 5 4—87 Out 3 5 14 3 4 4 5 4—38 In 6 4 4 6 5 4 4 4 5—40—77 In 6 5 5 4 4 (j 4 4 5—48—79 Out 0 5 3 4 4 4 4 5 5—4(1 Out 4 5 3 4 4 5 4 fi 3—38 In li 4 4 6 5 8 3 5 5—46—SO—163 In 5 3 5 4 8 fi 4 4 5-39—77—150 Total 333 Total 815 Tied for Eighth. Tied for Second. L. Auehterlonie, Glenview Golf and Polo Club, W. H. Way, Detroit Country Club, Mich.— Evanslon, HI.— Out 0 4 3 3 3 4 0 f) 4—38 Out 4 5 4 4 4 6 4 5 4—40 In 6 4 4 1 4 0 4 5 5—42—SO In 6 5 0 5 4 6 4 6 5—46—86 Out 4 5 4 5 3 5 4 (5 4-40 Out 5 4 4 4 3 5 4 8 5-42 In 4 4 5 4 5 8 4 fl (i—In— 85—165 In 7 4 5 5 4 7 4 5 4—15—87—17!! Out 3 a 3 4 4 5 4 5 4—37 Out 4 6 1 5 4 4 4 5 4—40 In 8 4 6 8 4 0 4 4 5—43—80 In 5 3 4 5 4 6 4 7 4—12—82 Out 5 5 3 3 4 5 4 (1 5—40 Out 5 5 4 6 3 5 3 5 4—40 In 6 3 4 5 4 6 3 4 0—41—81—1C1 In 5 3 4 5 4 6 8 4 4—38—78—160 Total 326 Total 333 Tied for Second. Alee Campbell, Country Club of Brookline, Mass.— George Low, Dykor Meadow Golf Club, Brooklyn, Out 5 5 4 3 4 5 4 8 '1—42 N. Y.— In 7 3 5 6 8 0 3 4 5—41—83 Out 4 5 4 4 3 5 4 5 4—88 Out 4 3 4 4 3 4 4 5 4—35 In 0 4 fi 4 4 6 5 5 5—44—82 111 7 3 5 4 8 8 5 5 fi—45—80—1(13 Out 5 4 3 4 4 4 3 fi 3-80 Out 5 5 4 5 3 4 3 4 4—37 In (1 3 5 5 5 fl 5 4 4—13—70—101 111 6 4 4 4 4 6 5 4 5—42—79 Out 5 5 4 4 4 5 •! 8 4—41 Out -....7 4 4 5 4 7 4 5 4—44 In fl 4 5 5 5 7 5 4 7-48—89 In 0 4 4 5 4 10 0 6 5—50—94—173 Out 4 4 3 4 3 4 3 5 8—85 Total 336 In 5 3 5 4 4 8 3 5 5—11—70—105 Total 326 Alex. Smith, Washington Park Club, Chicago- Out 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 0 4—40 Tied for Second. In 7 4 4 0 3 5 4 4 5—42-82 Val Mtzjohn, OLsego Golf Club, N. Y. Out 4 5 3 4 4 4 3 4 6—37 In 7 3 5 0 4 5 3 5 0—44—81—1(13 Out 6 4 4 4 4 5 4 0 5—42 Out 3 5 5 4 4 5 4 5 4—89 In fi 4 5 4 4 5 8 0 6—13—85 In 7 4 4 5 5 8 4 5 7—4fl—88 Out 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 0 4—38 Out 0 5 4 4 4 4 4 5 5—41 In fl 4 5 4 4 0 2 6 5—42—30—105 In fi 3 5 5 4 7 4 5 0—15—86—17-1 Out 5 5 4 4 2 5 4 5 4—38 Total 337 111 6 3 6 4 S 0 3 5 6—41—79 Out 6 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 4—38 Alex. Tfindlay, Boston, Mass.— In 0 4 4 4 4 8 4 5 5-44—82—161 Out. 0 5 4 4 3 5 4 0 5—42 Total 326 In 7 3 0 6 5 7 3 4 5—40—88 Out 4 5 6 4 3 4 5 5 5—41 Fifth. In 8 3 5 5 8 0 4 5 5—49—90—178 Willie Anderson, New York- Out 3 7 3 4 4 0 3 5 4—39 Out 4 5 8 5 3 5 3 5 3—30 In 5 8 5 4 3 7 4 4 5—40—79 In .....7 3 5 5 4 5 3 4 5—41—77 Out 5 4 5 4 3 6 4 4 3—40 Out 6 4 3 4 4 5 3 0 5—40 In 7 3 4 4 5 6 3 4 5—41—81—160 In 7 4 5 4 4 5 3 5 4—41—81—158 Total 335 a y E H a a

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1st 2Cricket Club, Kydal, Pa 82 90 87 90 34!) Total 339 Horace liawlins, Waumbok Golf Hi: It. Jf. Ifarritnan, Sleadowbraok (;lul>, Itonp- Club, Jefferson, N.H 81 83 98 8(1 350 stwid, L. I.— Fred Herd, Washington Pa.rk Out. . ...5 5 4 4 3 5 4 7 4—41 Club, Chicago, 111.. 85 KB 1)8 88 350 111 7 8 5 6 7 fi :-! 4 S—4Beach Golf Club, Deal Beach, N. J 87 88 89 SIS 357 Out 5 6 3 5 8 fi 4 5 4—11 .Tames Campbell, Dayton Golf 111 8 8 fi 4 4 fi 7 5 5—40-87 Club, Dayton, Ohio" 88 91 87 1)1 357 Out 6 5 4 4 4 (i 5 fi 5—44 Harry Rawlins, Equinox Golf In 7 4 4 5 3 6 3 5" 4—41-85—173 Club, Manchester, Vt 81) 93 88 87 357 Out 7 fi 4 4 5 5 4 4 5—41 John Harrison, Dayton, Oil io.... 1)2 93 84 89 358 In 5 8 6 4 6 .) (;—14—8S Donald Ball. Washington Golf Out.. 6 8 4 4 5 5 4—3!) Club, Washington, D. C 87 85 1)2 95 359 In... .6 3 4 4 4 7 5 4—41—80—168 E. Fitzjohn, Otsego Golf Club, Total 811 (looperstown, N. Y 92 91 90 90 363 W. Marshall, Onwentsia Club, Bernard Nieholls, Philadelphia Country Club, Bala, Luke Forest, III 87 101 8!) 87 364 I'n.— W.Klrk.Knollwood Country Club, Out 5 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6—42 ISlmsford, N. Y 1)3 112 88 91 364 111 7 3 4 7 4 fi 3 5 5-44—81! W. V. Hoaie, DayLon, Ohio 87 1)1 89 94 3(14 Out !) 4 4 3 4 li 4 5 4-45 John Reid, Country Club of At- In 9 4 4 5 4 5 3 1 5—48—88—174 lantic City, N.,I" 90 93 95 87 365 Out ..5 5 4 4 4 4 3 5 5—3!) Fred Filzjolm, Otsego Golf Club, Ill ..fi 3 5 fi 4 8 II « 5—4(1—85 Cooperstown, N. Y 94 91 94 86 865 Out 'I 5 5 5 4 5 4 (i !i—41 Mr. H. II. dimming, Swananoa Ill .8 3 5 5 4 fi 4 4 4—43—8-1—Ili9 Country Club, Ashville, N. O. 1)1 92 91 93 867 Total. .343 John Formau, Ardsley Casino, N. Y 1)8 111 89 90 368 Henry Turple, Edgewater Club, Chicago, 111.- Mr. T C. Jenkins, Baltimore Out., .4 4 4 4 6 11 4—48 Country Club, M^d 88 98 96 87 ' 369 In... .8 3 5 5 3 0 4 7 4—43-91 William Braid, Baltimore Country Out. ..5 5 4 4 4 li 5 fi 4—13 Club, Md '. 95 92 88 98 878 In... 4 5 5 4 7 B 5 5—45—88—179 John D. Tucker, Syracuse Golf Out . ..4 5 4 4 4 4 5 6 4—10 Club, N. Y 97 93 93 1)1 374 In... .(! 3 4 fi 4 fi 4 5 5—43—83 Mr. W.L. Thompson, Huntingdon Out 7 5 3 4 3 5 8 fi 5—41 Valley Country Club, llydal, 111 6 3 5 3 4. 6 4 4 5-42—83—Ififi Pa 97 101 96 1)1 385 Total 345 Mr. C. S. Cox, Fflirtield County Golf Club, Greenwich, Conn.. 90 1)5 309 98 892 David Foulis, Chicago Golf Club, Whenton, 111.— Mr. C. P. Lineaweaver, Philadel- phia Cricket Club, Pa 1)4 102 103 97 396 Out.. .4 5 4 4 8 3 4 (i 5—40 Mr. W. 11. McOawley, Merion In .0 5 5 5 4 6 4 4 4—43-83 Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa.. 100 102 87 98 31)7 Out. .4534 8 5 7 5 4—40 W. E. Stoddard, Nassau Country In 6 4 4 4 7 5 4 (j 0—46—86—1119 Club, Glen Cove, L. I '.101106 96 95 398 Out 4 6 2 3 3 6 5 7 5—41 In . .0 4 0 G 5 S ft 6 4—50—91 Mr. O. McOainmon, Chovy Chase Out ,.4 74444 6 4—10 Club, Md 94 102 110 100 412 In ,7 3 5 4 8 7 5 0—43-85—17(5 Withdrew : Mr. W. J. Travis, Oakland Golf Club, Total. .345 Baysido, L. I.; Mr. Jas. A. Stiliman, Newport Golf Club, Newport, R.I.; David Ogilvie,Baltimore Country James Foulis, Chicago Golf Club, Wheaton, 111.- Club, Baltimore, Md.; J. Mitchell, Cleveland Golf •Out.. ,.6 5 3 4 6 (i 6 6 4—46 In.. .74354857 3—48-94 Club, Ohio; Oscar Bunn, Lake Placid Golf Club, Out ... fi 5 2 5 8 5 4 6 3-41 N. Y.; F. Ileilly, Glenville, Ohio; G. Cunningham, Ill 6 3 4 4 5 8 4 5 4—13—8-1—178 Stockbridge, Mass., and H. R. Sweeney, Albany, N. Y. Out.... .53454545 4—11 In 6 4 6 5 4 8 4 5 6—47—88 The United States Golf Associa- Out ft 5 8 4 3 6 3 5 3—37 111 0 4 4 5 5 6 3 5 5-43—80-108 tion offered $800 in purses to the first Total. .346 eight men in the tournament. The di- THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. 285

vision of the money and the men to soil at Roland Park, and the pro- whom it went were:— longed drought had worked havoc First, $200, of which $50 was ex- with the greens. It was found that pended for a medal and $150 given in liberal artificial watering only pro- cash: won by Willie Smith, profes- duced crab grass, and ten clays before sional, at the Midlothian Country the event came off the committee were Club, Chicago, 111. Second, third and almost at their wit's end. Most fortu- fourth money was divided among nately at that time some copious George Low, W. H. Way and Val showers came along and by carefully Fitzjohn, professionals, at the Dyker nursing the young grass from the Meadow, Detroit Country and Otse- scorching- rays of the sun, by an in- go Clubs, respectively, who tied for genious arrangement of shades spread second place. The amount of the out over the whole eighteen putting- purses was, second, $1.50 ; third, $125 ; greens, some vendure was coaxed into fourth, $100, a total of $375, so that existence. each man received $125 as his share. It was so evident that everything Fifth money, $80, was won by Willie had been done that would in any way Anderson, unattached, of New York; put the course in a presentable condi- sixth money, $70, by Jack Park, of the tion that the contestants were quite Essex Country Club; seventh money, ready to blame their abilities rather $50, by Harry Gullane, of the St. than the old-time excuse of poor op- David's Golf Club; eighth money, portunities. $25, divided by Peter Walker, of the In the "Editor's Note Book" I have Onwentsia Club, of Chicago, and given a few details collected for me Auchterlonie, of the Glenview Golf by Ho well T. Ing-, who posted up and Polo Club, Evanston. the scores with great promptness on There were very few absentees the official bulletin-board, with regard amongst the eighty-one entries, only to the ability of men to putt on the three professionals and one amateur greens. I believe it is the first occa- being unable to make a start from the sion on which any such figures have first tee when the clocks were chiming been published, so it is hard to say if 7.30 a. m. on Thursday morning, the the putting was really above or below 14th of September. the averag'e. It was a sharp, cold morning at that The whole management of the tour- hour, with a heavy dew upon the nament was in excellent hands, and it grass, but W. B. Thomas, R. B. Kerr, is really a serious task to name any George Fowle, John Reid and James two or three of the Baltimore officials A. Stillman, all representing the Unit- who were more assiduous in their dut- ed States Golf Association, were on ies than the remaining' members of hand and the start was made promptly the various committees. Edward H. on time. Edward H. Bouton, of the Bouton proved himself thoroughly local green committee, had evidently worthy of the implicit trust the club done his utmost to see that the course places in his extraordinary vitality and. was in the best possible condition. good management, and Clymer This was almost a superhuman task, Whyte seconded his efforts with the for there is considerable clay in the best of judgment in the important of- TO THE SEVENTH TEE, OVER THE BRIDGE.

'THE MEADOW," EIGHTH HOLE FROM THE TEE. THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. 287

THE LADIES' GALLERY, BEHIND THIS FIRST TEE. fice of chairman of the house commit- materially in keeping the arrange- tee. They are both men of whom the ments in apple-pie order. club may well be proud. The professionals were never cat- A. P. Knapp took charge of the ered to with more forethought and scorers, no light task by any means, they were profuse in their acknowl- and at no time was he without an effi- edgments. cient corps on hand. This department A large tent had been erected for was handled to perfection. Most play- their dining place, and it was hand- ers found their caddies particularly somely decorated with potted shrubs. bright and useful, and I heard several A comfortable lounging-room in men remark, "That boy is worth five which to change wearing apparel was strokes a round to me." Of course also provided for them, and this had "there were others," but I am speak- thoughtfully been supplied with a ing of the general staff, the caddies writing table and the leading daily pa- who are regularly employed by the pers. club. The course and the delightful club- Clarence Moore, of the Chevy house have been referred to in pre- Chase Club, as steward of the green, vious issues of GOLF, SO no more need did a lot of useful work and helped be said on that score. I,

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WILLIE DUNN FINISHING HIS MATCH WITH FRED. HERD, N7ARDON By P. Bearclsell Bum, of Manchester, England.

O the spectator who is as several strokes, and has also won the yet uninitiated into the concluding stages, which are general- mysteries of golf, it ap- ly played under match play condi- pears to be one of the sim- tions, and thus is not famed for any plest and easiest of games to play, particular portion of the game, as and it does appear so when played by others are. For instance, Mr. John the shining lights of the Royal and Mall, Jr., is noted for his strong love Ancient Game. How little trouble of and success in match play, and this seems to be taken over each stroke by year has given us a rare taste of his the crack player, who seems to just capabilities in this direction by win- swing his club and away flies the ball ning both the Open Amateur Cham- some 200 yards or more ! And yet, to pionship and the Irish Amateur • the experienced spectator, it is plain Championship. Again, Mr. Hilton is that nothing is forgotten. Harry Var- always to the front in the big medal don,. the Open Champion of 1896, competitions, and the fact that he has 1898 and 1899, has recalled the days been twice Open Champion is suffi- of young Tommy Morris and Allan cient testimony of his powers in this Robertson by the tremendous run of direction. successive wins over his brother pro- Harry Vardon may be said to have fessionals. A remarkable year for a style which is all his own, and is to- records is 1899, but Vardon does not tally unlike any other prominent seem ready to stop, although if he player's. Playing with somewhat never touched a golf club again to the short clubs, of fairly light weight, he day of his death, he would still have grips in a peculiar manner. This grip good reason to be proud of his per- is known as the interlocking' one, in formances. Not only is he able to which the left thumb is placed dozvn- overcome his brother pro's in the the shaft, contrary to the usual cus- medal game, but is also a "cut above tom of "thumbs round," and is buried them" in match play. Time after underneath the ball of the right hand.. time this season has he led at the end The little finger of the right hand, of each qualifying medal round by overlaps and is placed on top of the

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291 292 VARDON. J ball some 240 yards. The length of On the green his form varies con- drive of any golfer is hard to judge, siderably, sometimes brilliant, some- but, I should think, from personal ob- times poor, as in the match with Park servation, that on the average, 220 or in July, at North Berwick, when he 230 yards is the distance he usually would have had a much larger ad- gets from the tee. vantage to take with him for the sec- His work through the green is sim- ond part at Ganton, but for his poor ply beautiful to watch, the brassy work on the green. In this respect seems to tear the ball away from the only, is his play not on the standard turf, if the lie is somewhat heavy, and of his other excellence. drives it straight for the green. The His continued success is still going feature of Vardon's work through the on, and at the time of writing he has green is, apart from its straightness, just won at a tournament at Portmar- its great length, and he gets almost as nock, where the Irish Championship far with his brassy through the green was played this year. When it is said as off the tee. that the entry list contained the names In approaching he keeps the ball of Willie Park, Sandy Herd, J. H. fairly close to the feet, about opposite Taylor, Jas. Braid and others of al- the heel of the left foot, with the right most equal strength, it is truly a grati- advanced towards the ball. Often, fying success to lead at the end of instead of using his mashie for short each of the qualifying medal rounds work, he plays an almost straight- and then win the match play portion faced club, with a head of about the of the tournament. A great reason of same size as a mashie, and with this his success and popularity is in the runs his approach up to the hole, fact that he is of such a modest dis- where an amateur would use his loft- position, and is such a good fellow to ed approaching iron. He uses this boot. Long" may he continue at the running-tip approach from all dis- top of the tree, and may he equal the tances, varying from forty to a hun- record of young Tommy by winning dred and fifty yards, but for the the Championship next year, which greater distance he uses a driving will, if successful, put the third suc- mashie. cessive win to his credit.

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(The following- are believed by GOLF to be reput- Mount Pleasant, N. H., Mount Pleasant able houses, worthy o{ the patronage of its readers, where a specialty is made of _the Royal and Ancient House. Season, June to October. Game.] Nassau, Bahamas, The Royal Victoria. Ampersand, N. Y., Hotel Ampersand. Season, January to April. Season, July to October, New Castle, N. H., The Wentworth. Season, July to October. Atlantic City, N. J., The Brighton. Niagara-on-the-I/ake, Queen's Royal Open all the year. Season, June to September Haddon Hall. Old Point Comfort, Va., The Hygeia. Asheville, N. C, Battery Park Hotel. Open all the year. Open all the year. The Chamberlain. Augusta, Ga., Hotel Bon Air. Open all the year. Season, December to May. Ormond, Fla., The Ormond. Childwold Park, N. Y., The Childwold. Season, January to April. Season, June to October. Palm Beach, Pla., Royal Poinciana. Garden City, I/. I., Garden City Hotel. Season, January to April. Palm Beach Inn. Open all the year. Season, December to May. Hopkinton, N. H. Perkins Inn. Prospect House. Season, June to October, Season, June to September. Hot Springs, N. C, The Mountain Park. St. Augustine, Fla., The Alcazar. Open all the year. Season, November to May. Hot Springs, "Va., The Homestead. Open all the year. Ponce de Leon. Jackson, N. H., The Wentworth Hall. Season, January to May. Season, June to October. St. Andrews, N. B., The Algonquin. Season, June to September. Jefferson, N. H., The Jefferson. Saratoga Springs, N. Y., United States. Season, July to September. Season, June to October. The Waumbek. Grand Union. Season, June to October. Season, June to October. Kissimmee, Fla., Hotel Kissimmee. Schroon I/ake, N. Y., Leland House. Season, June to October. Season, December to April. Sheldrake, N. Y., Cayuga Lake House. lyakewood, N. J., Laurel House. Season, Jury to October, Season, October to June, Shelter Island, N. Y., Manhanset House. Laurel in the Pines. Season, June to September. Season, November to May. South Poland, Me., Poland Springs House. The Lakewood. Season, June to October. Season, October to May. Summerville, S. C, Pine Forest Inn. I^ake Placid, N. Y., vStevens House. Season, December to May. Season, June to October, Tampa, Pla., Tampa Bay Hotel. Ruisseaumont. Season, January to April. Season, June to October. Thomasville, Ga., Piney Woods. Manchester, "Vt., Equinox House. Season, December to May. Season, June to October. Thousand Islands, N. Y., The New Fron- Magnolia Springs, Fla., Magnolia Springs tenac. Season, June to October. Hotel Season, December to May. White Mountains, N. H., The Profile Maplewood, The Maplewood, House. Season, July to October. Season, July to October. Crawford House. Season, Ju]y to October. Miami, Ma., The Royal Palm. Fabyan House. Season, January to April. Season, July to October. Millbrook, N. Y., The Halcyon. Twin Mountain House. Season, June to October. Season July to October. Monterey, Cal., Hotel Del Monte. Open all the year.