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VOL. XVI. APRIL, 1905 NO.

THE UNITED NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT AT PINEHURST By "Oldcastle." PHOTOGRAPHS I,Y T. C. TURNER. Year by year the importance of no qualifying round this year. In this contest increases. The time ar- the first match play round Mrs. Pat- ranged for it, April 4 to 8, inclusive, terson and Miss Dutton were drawn is very convenient for the army of together and a hot fight was ex- golfers who are wending their way pected, the general opinion being north at that time. The best of them that as before Mrs. Patterson would never fail to stop over at Pinehurst, win. and as there is always a very large The meeting resulted in one of the number of our finest players spend- best contests ever seen at Pinehurst, ing the winter at the favorite North the Massachusetts representative Carolina resort, the popularity of the finally gaining the victory at the North and South Championship is home green. assured. Mrs. Patterson was as straight as The Women's Championship was ever, but off the tee and through the played on the first two days, and for green Miss Dutton got a longer ball, this event the entry included the and this helped her considerably. names of several prominent golfers. The winner has a fine free style and Included in it were Mrs. M. D. Pat- should be heard of in this season's terson, of Englewood, who was important contests. runner-up to Airs. Manice in last The summary of the day's play : year's Wonu-n's Metropolitan Cham- First round—Miss J. R. Mix. New pionship and was also winner last York, beat Miss Ohelcheck, East Or- year of the Women's Championship ange. \. J., _> up; Mrs. S. J. Bell, at Pihehurst. Another strong player Minikahda Golf Club, Minnesota, entered was Miss Mary Dutton, of beat Mrs. William M. Weaver, the Oakley Country Club. There was Philadelphia, " and 6; Miss Mary Copyright, 190^, by AHTHI'K POTTOW. A11 rights rtstrved, 198 UNITED NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPI0NSHI1'.

MIS8. DUTTON AND MRS. PATTERSON ON FOURTH GREEN.

Dutton, Oakley Country Club, Mass- were four sixteens to qualify, the achusetts, beat Mrs. M. D. Patter- play resulting as follows: son, Englewood Golf Club, New FIRST SIXTEEN. Jersey, i up; Mrs. William West, Out. In Gr. Camden County Club, New Jersey, Alan Lard, Washington.. 40 36 76 beat Mrs. P. S. Denny, Allegheny E. X. Wright. Newton Centre, Mass 41 ^>7 /8 Country Club, Pennsylvania, 2 up. C. L. Becker. Boston 38 41 79 Semi-finals—Mrs. Bell beat Miss Fred. Herreshoff, N. Y.. . 42 40 82 Mix, 2 and 1 ; Miss Dutton beat Mrs. E. A. Freeman, Montclair, West, 7 and 5. N. J 43 4i 84 The final between Miss Dutton M. W. Waters, Lakewood, and Mrs. Bell was a very much more N. J 38 46 84 open affair than the match against M. C. Parshall, Warren, Pa. 41 43 84 Mrs. Patterson and Miss Dutton Norman Towne, Chicago.. 41 44 85 L. E. Wardwell, Camden, won by 4 up and 3 to play. Me 41 44 85 Some familiar names were absent E. S. Armstrong, Deal, from the list of nearly eighty who N. J 41 44 85 entered for the North and South Dr. L. L. Harban, Wash- Championship, but their absence was ington 42 44 86 made good by the presence of a lot L. E. Baldwin, Flushing, of men who have not visited Pine- S. C 42 44 86 hurst before. Taking the average R. H. McEhvee, Chicago. 42 44 86 through it is doubtful if there has L. D. Pierce, Boston 41 47 88 L. A. Hamilton, Engle- ever been a stronger field at Pine- wood 4(1 42 88 hurst. In the medal round there E. II. Silliman, Detroit... 43 45 88 UNITED NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP.

SECOND SIXTEEN. W. M. Weaver, Camden, N. J 99 W. C. Freeman, Montclair 89 F. Johnson, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.. 99 J. O. H. Denny, Oakmont, Pitts- Horace Waters, Lake Wood. . . .100 burgh 90 G. W. Watts, Durham, N. C 100 W. B. Rhett, Crescent Athletic J. S. Hill, New York 100 Club 90 H. P. Rhett, Crescent Athletic R. T. Sterling, Mt. Airy. Penn. . . 90 Club 101 A. F. Southerland, Fox Hills. ... 92 F. A. King, Agawam Hunt, R. I.. 101 G. O. Russell. Arlington, Mass.. 92 C A. Mpsher', Troy, N. Y 101 F. H. Denny. Allegheny, Pa 93 C. McMillan, Cape Fear, N. C. .tor H. W. Ormsbee. Crescent Ath- J. S. Wood, Appawa, Miss 102 letic Club 93 Cyrus Sargent, Oakley, Mass. . . .103 Clarence Angier, Atlanta, Ga. . . . 94 J. S. Gallagher, Wollaston, MassiO4 R. L. Titus, New York 95 H. S. Gordon, New York 104 C. E. Towne, Glenview, Chicago. 95 A. S. Porter, Jr., Country, Brook- Dr. W. E. Fisher, York, Maine. . 96 line 104 W, R. Fredenburg, West Ches- FOURTH SIXTEEN. ter. N. Y 96 Dr. C. W\ Hutchins, Boston. . . .105 AY. L. Fish, Roseville, Newark. . 96 J. F. McClain, Montclair 105 C. R. Corwin. Somerville, Mass.. 96 Butler Sheldon, Arlington. O. . . . 106 P. M. Prescott, Washington 97 T. W. Wreeks. Storm King, X. Y..108 THIRD SIXTEEN. W. D. Makepeace, New York. . .108 A. C. Aborn, Montclair 98 T. R. Williams, Punxsutawney, H. O. Christal, Newark 1:8 Pa '.108

MRS. PATTERSON VT FIFTEENTH TETC. 200 UNITED NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP.

MR8. MARY DUTTON, DR L. L. HARBAN. Wonieu's Cbairi])ion. NortU aixl Siiuth Champion.

FRED HERRE8HOFF, MRS. P. .1. BELL, Rininer-iip. lillllllCI Up. If, UNITED NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP. 201

G. R. Williams, Brooklyn 108 Rhett beat C. E. Towne, 3 up and 2 G. L. White, Waterbury, Conn..io8 to play; Sterling beat Fisher by 2 T. B. Cotter, Winchester, Mass. .109 up; Prescott beat Ormsbee by 1 up; E. F. Kuehn, New York 110 Fish beat Russell, 4 up and 2 to play ; J. V. Hall. Pittsburgh 114 J. O. H. Denny beat Titus, 6 up and J. W. Wildstorm, King, N. Y.. . . 115 5 to play. A. G. Warren, Rochester 117 Third sixteen, first round—Aborn Robert Clement, Rutland, Vt. ... 119 beat King, 2 up and 1 to play ; H. T. W. Guthrie. Arlington, O. ... 120 G. H. Oldring, Richmond Hill. Waters beat Sargent by 2 up ; Gor- Brooklyn 121 don beat Hill, 5 up and 3 to play; McMillan beat Weaver, 2 up and 1 The feature of the first match play to play ; Wood beat Johnson by 1 up round was the play of Alan Lard in in nineteen holes; H. P. Rhett beat the match with Wardwell. The Porter by 2 up; Watts beat Gal- Columbia golfer who had low score lagher, 7 up and 6 to play; Mosher in the medal round put up even a beat Christal, 3 up and 2 to play. stronger game now. He went round in J2, which constitutes a record of Fourth sixteen, first round—Hut- the course in tournament play, chins beat Cotter, 5 up and 4 to play ; Travis having hitherto held the Make peace beat Warren, 6 up and record with 76. In practice, how- 4 to play ; Guthrie beat Wallace by ever, the British champion has done default; Sheldon beat Hall, 8 up and better than this. Lard's play through- 6 to play ; Weeks beat Wyld, 5 up I out the day was so fine that the full and 3 to play ; Oldring beat White figures are here set out. by 1 up in nineteen holes; Clement MORNING. beat Williams by 3 up ; McClain beat Out 54353664 4—40 Kuehn by 1 up in twenty holes. I" 5 2 4 5 5 3 5 2 5—3r>-76 One of the strong players put out AFTERNOON. in the second round was E. A. Free- Out 4435-3453 5—36 man, who had beaten McElwee, the I" 52436363 4—36—72 Chicago golfer who has been doing Summary of the match play: finely in Florida this winter. First sixteen, first round—Lard The details of the second and semi- beat Wardwell, 8 up and 7 to play; final rounds are: E. A. Freeman beat McElwee, 3 up First Division — President's or and 2 to play ; Hamilton beat Par- championship cup. Second round: shall, 5 up and 3 to play; Harban Alan Lard beat Edwin A. Freeman, beat Becker, 3 up and 1 to play ; Her- 2 and 1 ; Dr. L. Lee Harban beat L. reshoff beat Baldwin by 1 up; N. A. Hamilton, 1 up, 19 holes; Fred Towne beat Stillman, 6 up and 5 to Herreshoff beat Norman Towne, 5 play; Waters beat Pierce, 2 up and and 3; F. S. Armstrong beat Merrill 1 to play; Armstrong beat Wright, 5 K. Walters, 4 and 3. Semi-finals— up and 3 to play. Harban beat Lard, 2 and 1 ; Herre- Second sixteen, first round—An- shoff beat Armstrong, 2 and 1. gler beat W. C. Freeman by 2 up; Consolation—First round; R. H. Southerland beat Fredenburg, 5 up McElwee, beat L. E. Wardwell, 3 and 3 to play; F. 11. Denny beat and 2: C. L. Becker, beat M. C. Par- Corwin, 4 Up and 2 to play; W, B. shall, 2 up; Lathrop E. Baldwin, 2(12 UNITED NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP.

ALAN I,ARD, MK8. M. D. PATTERSON. Medal Winner. beat E. P. Silliman, 5 and 4. Semi- Horace Waters, 4 and 3; H. S. Gor- finals—Becker beat McElwee 1 up; don beat Charles McMillan, 3 up; Baldwin beat Wright, 1 up. H. P. Rhett beat J. S. Wood, 2 up; Second division, secretary's cup— George W. Watts beat G. A. Second round: A. F. Southerland Mosher, 3 and 2. Semi-finals—Aborn beat Clarance Angier. 2 and 1 ; F. H. beat Gordon, 2 and I; H. P. Rhett Denny beat W. B. Rhett, 2 up; P. beat Watts, 4 and 3. M. Prescott beat R. Sterling, 2 and Consolation—First round : Cyrus 1 ; J. 0. H. Denny beat William L. Sargeant beat Fred King, 3 and 2; Fish, 6 and 5. Semi-finals—Souther- William Weaver beat John S. Hill. land beat F. H. Denny, 4 and 2; G. 5 and 4; Alex. S. Porter, Jr., beat O. H. Denny beat Prescott, 5 and 2. Ford Johnson, 3 and 2; H. O. Chris- Consolation—First round : Wil- tal, beat Joseph D. Gallagher, 3 and liam G. Freeman beat W. C. Freden- 2. Semi-finals—Weaver beat Sar- burg, N. Y., 4 and 2; C. R. Corwin gent, 6 and 5 ; Christal beat Porter. beat C. E. Towne, 1 up; Dr. W. E. 4 and 3. \ Fisher beat H. W. Ormsbee, 6 and Fourth division—Captain's cup ; 5; George O. Russel beat R. L. second round : Dr. C. W. Hutchins Titus, 4 and 2. Semi-finals—Free- beat W. D. Makepeace, 2 and 1 ; T. man beat Corwin, 5 and 3; F"isher G. Guthrie beat Butler Sheldon, i beat Russel, 5 and 4. up, 19 holes; T. W. Weeks-beat G. Third division—Treasurer's cup; H. Oldring, 3 and 1 ; Robert Clem- second round: A. C. Aborn beat ent beat T. F. McClain, 2 and 1. UNITED NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP. 203 Semi-finals—Hutchins beat Guthrie, country, perhaps, has gone through 2 and i; Weeks beat Clement, 6 and more hard-fought matches than he, 5- and his experience and judgment Consolation—Hrst round: T. B. stood him in good stead now against Cotter beat A. G. Warren, z; T. V. the younger player. By fine match Hall beat G. R. Wallace by default; play Dr. Harban caught his oppo- G. L. White beat James Wyld, 3 and nent, and after a ding-dong struggle 1 ; T. R. Williams beat E. F. Keuhn he won on the last green. Neither by default. Semi-finals—Hall beat player during the day had anything Cotter, 3 and 2; White beat Wil- remarkable in the way of a medal liams, 7 and 6. score. Herreshoff had 81 in the Fred Herreshoff was generally morning to Dr. Harban's 84, and in picked to win in the final with Dr. the afternoon, with a high wind L. L. Harban. He had behind him blowing, they were approximately the prestige of being runner-up to 83 for Harban and 84 for Herreshoff. Chandler Egan in last year's ama- Results of the play : teur championship and he had during the tournament at Pinehurst, First division—Dr. L. Lee Har- notably in his match with Arm- ban, Columbia, beat Fred Herre- strong, played brilliant golf. The shoff, New York, 1 up. final was at thirty-six holes, and Consolation—C. L. Becker, Wood- when Herreshoff finished the morn- land, beat Lathrop E. Baldwin, ing round 2 up on the Columbia Flushing, by 13 and 12. golfer it seemed as if the public for Second division, secretary's cup— once had picked the winner. But the T. O. Denny, Oakmont, beat A. F. doctor is a veteran. No one in the Southerland, Fox Hills, by 0 and 8.

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MlttS. BELL AND MISS MIX AT NINTH GREEN. 204 UNITED NORTH AND SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP. Consolation—William C. Free- prevented Llecker taking both prizes. man, Montclair, heat W. E. Fisher, The scores of the players finishing Vork, Me., by 5 and 4. in 82 and under follows: Third division, treasurer's cup— C. L. Becker, Boston. 78, 0—78; A. C. Aborn, Montclair, beat H P. William C. Freeman, Montclair, 85, Rhett, Crescent, by 4 and 3. 6—79; T. W. Weeks, Storm King, Consolation—\\ . M, Weaver, New York, 97, 18—79; William B. Camden, beat H. O. Christian, New Rhett, Brooklyn. 87, 8—79; L. D. York. 1 up. Pierce, North Adams, Mass., 83. 3. Fourth division, captain's cup—T. —80; Fred Herreshoff, New York, W. Weeks, Storm King, beat Dr. C. 81, o—81 ; E. A. Freeman, Mont- W. Hutchings, Boston, by 9 and 8. clair, 81, 0—81 ; R. T. Sterling, Phil- Consolation—G. L. White, Wat»r- adelphia, 88, 7—Si ; W. M. Weaver. bury, beat J. V. Hall, Pittsburgh by Camden, 0.5, 14—81 ; P. M. Prescott. 10 and 8. Washington, 89. 8—81 ; E. S. Arm- There were over seventy entries strong. Deal, 82, 0—82; M. C. Par- in the eighteen-hole medal play shall, Warren, Pa., 85, 3—82; Nor- handicap played in connection with man Towne, Chicago, 85, 3—82: G. the morning round. C. L. Becker D. Pushee, Weston, Mass., 92, 10— won the gold medal offered for the 82. best gross score, and William C. The open championship was re- Freeman, playing with a handicap of markable for the fine play of Donald six, T. W. Weeks, eighteen, and Ross. His morning card was /2 and AYilliam B. Rhett, eight, tied for the his afternoon round was made in 74. net score prize at 79. The conditions It is needless to say that this total

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'Prizes. put out of the first round of match play. A summary follows: First Eight—R. H. McElwee, Chi- cago, beat E. A. Freeman, Mont- clair, 3 and 2. Consolation — E. S. Armstrong, Heal, beat M. Waters, Lakewood, 5 and 3. Second Fight—R. T. Sterling, Mt. Airy, beat W. l». Rhett, Crescent, 5 and 4. Consolation—K. H. Silliman, De- troit, beat J. S. Wood, Apawamis, 3 and 1. Third Eight—F. H. Denny, Pitts- burg, beat H. W. ( )rmsbee. Cres- cent, 1 up. Consolation—W. L. Fish. New- ark, beat Cyrus Sargent, ( )akley, 3 and 2. Fourth Eight—R. L. Titus, New York, beat T. W. Guthrie, Arling- 4ip was re- ton, O., 6 and 5. Consolation—B. Sheldon, Arling- paid ton, <.")., beat F. A. Batchelder, New -".' and MRS. WEST AT THIRTEENTH TEE. York, 7 and 6.

• ;_. ! hit this • I of 146 won him the championship. Last year in this same event there was a tie between Jack Hobens and Alex Ross at 152, which was considered pretty good going, but the course is some strokes harder to-day, which adds to the excellence of the performance. Alex Ross was second with 152. Fred Herreshoff, the amateur, and A. H. Fenn, tied with 156 for second place, and in the nine- hole play-off Herreshoff won, with 37 to Fenn's 41. A special match play tournament for those who had been put out of the championship tournament ended April 8 with a semi-final and a final round. The players qualified in divisions of eight, and there were cups for the runners up and winners in t?ach of the four divisions who qualified and cups for the winners of the consolation division, those who were DONALD ROSS, Ninth and South Open Champion. THE ART OF GOLF

By Sir Walter Simpson, Bart.

ANNOTATED BY THE HON. MR. RED RDER WEIR.

PART II.

CHAPTER V. ble thud. One has seen (or even felt) boys flicking peas off the backs of OF TEMPORARY FAULTS. their hands. The peas would not fly MAX'S golf, like the rest of as far if driven from the shoulder. A him, is subject to many tempo- golf ball is indeed, too heavy to flick; A rary ailments. By simply liv- but it is equally too light to putt like ing as usual, his body will recover; by a 16 lb. cannon-ball. I have already golfing, his golf will. Fur colds, golf, warned the beginner against swaying and biliousness, the less doctor's stuff sideways ; no more need be said about we can do with, the better. Yet pre- that. The second time he is bitten scriptions used in moderation may with the desire to squeeze, there will hasten the restoration of health or be an epidemic of falling forward. game, if it is the right medicine. That He will not know what he is doing. is the danger. luit the consequences will be apparent Young golfers have often a sad time -hitting off the heel, club-breaking. of it from hitting hard in the wrong ground - thudding — particularly the way. The common phrase, "Putting first. Most likely his caddy will make your back into it, " misleads them. The things worse by bad advice ; attacking experienced player understands by this the symptoms, not the cause of the that from his foot to his hand he is to disease. His caddy will say, "Stand be one springy, supple sapling—that further away." This sounds like com- he is to be all of a piece—the stronger mon-sense, but it is not, any more than muscles accommodating themselves to taking a foot-rule to measure the do the same work as the weak, the height of a mountain would be. The greatest power of the weakest being player tries it, falls in more, and heels the limit of force required of the as much. Desperately, he stands so strong. The young player misappre- that the ball is two feet beyond his hends what is meant, and puts his back reach whilst addressing it. The re- into it as the blacksmith does wielding sult is the same. Evidently he is not his hammer, or the athlete putting a too near. Cynically he gets quite weight. In consequence, he commits close, and lo! there is an epidemic of many fatal mistakes—falling forward toeing and more club-breaking. Now towards the ball, back from it, or he thinks he has discovered a secret, swaying sideways over the right leg viz., that toeing is to be cured by in swinging back. These things are standing further away, heeling by done in order to catch the ball a terri- getting nearer. With this valuable THE ART OF GOLF. -'07 piece of knowledge he expects, in no from too timid a care not to pull, con- time, to find a stance which will com- sequent checking of the swing by pull- pel the middle of his club and the ball ing in the arms, or by throwing ones'- to meet. But he does not. and never self back. If the golfer has done one will, until, after long grief and pain, of these last two things, he will be he comes back humbly to the point conscious of it after the shot. Xot so from which he began to go wrong. if his heel is due to another cause—• The worst of thumping at a ball with placing the ball too nearly opposite the weight of the body is that now and the right foot, and catching it, con- then—just often enough to lure on its sequently, before the club head has got victim—there will be a long wild shot; into the straight. occasionally, even a long straight one It is true that skidding to right or —longer than any he has driven be- to left, hitting off the toe or off the fore, the ball happening to be caught heel, may come from actually being with a sweep which has been quick- too near or too far from the ball; but ened to reach it before the player has if it is discovered that either is the quite lust his balance. case, it is nevertheless, dangerous to A hall hit oft the toe is usually gt t further away or nearer. Rather, pulled, and one off the heel skids to the for the next shot, one should shake right. When an experienced player himself loose, and address the ball hits in either of these ways, it is to be without preiudice. To get nearer or hoped that he will recognize them as further away, is almost certain to de- accidents due to faulty aim, instead of moralize driving altogether. The asking. "What am I doing wrong?" former stiffens the player, till he feels It is as foolish to attribute these oc- like the poker swinging the tongs ; the casional shots to style, as it would be latter tempts him to crouch over his were they complete globers. But all work, so that he cannot do it for fear pulled balls are not off the toe, nor of toppling forward. heeled ones off the heel. You may Although getting nearer, or further have an epidemic of either nnstraigbt- away, are useless as devices for mak- ness without wandering from the mid- ing the ball go straight, they are mis- dle of the club. Pulling in this way takes that one is constantly falling is due to the grip of the hands having into. It is within most golfers' ex- got out of proportion. The right may perience that suddenly, and unaccount- have got too much above the club, or ably, they go off their game entirely. the left too much below it. Nature. They become feeble, uncertain, and, i. e. a free address and careful aim, above all. uncomfortable in their ad- will provide a remedy, if the matter is dress. When such a breakdown oc- left in her hands. If not, the disease curs, the cause of it is often standing grows worse, till the player finds his at a wrong distance. The player does elbow sticking up before him so much not feel that he is wrong. The error that he can scarcely see the ball if the has crept gradually and insidiously left hand is at fault, whilst there will into his style. He has been uncon- be symptoms of cramp in that wrist if sciously varying his distance, inch by it be the right. Sometimes heeling inch. Not that a foot nearer or fur- ( I still mean skidding to the right off ther than ordinary affects play. In the middle of the club) may arise fact, everybody varies at each shot in 2(18 THE ART OF GOLF. this respect; but there is a point at just as in the case of being too near, which one's game suddenly collapses. but with this difference, that he may If the breakdown be complete, it is not make a fair drive, either straight or easy to detect the cause of it, for the hooked—hooked, to his astonishment, feeling that one is going to foozle is so off the heel. It is quite true that, paralyzing that one is likely to go en- standing too far away, a player may tirely to ruin beyond hope of recovery hit off the toe; but this is usually an —for that day, at least. But there isolated accident (caused by taking a may lie nothing more than an evident careless stance), which will not be re- incapacity to make the ball go a re- peated unless he is foolish enough to spectable distance, however clearly apply a corrective next shot. hit. If this is the result of standing Sensible golfers, cither of exper- too near, the player will presently no- ience, or who have devoutly accepted tice that he is inclined to do one of my previous remarks upon caddies' several things in addition to driving advice, know the folly of forcing feebly. For instance, swinging back, themselves to do, or not to do, these there is ?. tendency to strike the shoul- things when told they are standing too der; but it is more particularly after much in front, not letting their arms impact that the consequences of a away, not getting their shoulders in. wrong stance will reveal themselves. etc. They (the sensible golfers of The player will be inclined at one shot both sorts) know from experience, or to threw himself back; at another, his from this book, that direct surgical swing may end with an uncomfortable treatment is of no use. and that, al- twiddle. Some shots he will jerk, though their caddies' comments are stopping the club altogether; or, being quite just, they are better to keep ham- quite determined not to do this, I have pering on, leaving the cure to nature, seen a golfer actually break his shaft than to attack the symptoms. If they by striking his left shoulder. These are very sensible, it is, however, no are the symptoms if the player laud- harm that they should know the causes ably persevere in hitting with the mid- of these things. We get too much dle of his club. Should he determine front (see Fig. i) when the sweep we to let out at the ball whatever hap- picture ourselves giving the ball is con- pens, he will founder it oft the heel. cave, like a scythe-cut, instead of If he has crept too far away, and is straight. It is very common to drift covering the extra distance by stretch- into this mental attitude towards the ing out his ::nns, there will be a tend- stroke. Our club describes a semicir- ency to twing over the head rather cle through the air. Why not another than round the neck. If he is stoop- over the ground? Why not, indeed, ing to reach it, he will be inclined to when there is a feeling of greater fall forward, to jerk into the ground, power, too? There is nothing to be and fail to follow (which may cause said against this so long as all goes I him to imagine that his fault is a 'oose well; but sooner or later there will be grip), or there will merely be a gen- a wild shot or two, a consequent loss of eral sense of decrepitude, proving it- confidence, exaggeration of the posi- self not imaginary, by short, puffy tion, and a general breakdown. What shots. If the player make up his mind the player should do under these cir- to let into it, he may hit off the heel, cumstances, is to set himself to what THE ART OF GOLF. 2(19 ought never to have been abandoned of it; search, and break down; search —the sweeping of his club straight in more, and break down worse. There the direction the ball is wanted to go. are few of us wise enough to learn, Let him not think of his feet; they will once and for all, the lessons here follow his intention. taught, viz.:—1st, that as soon as any When we are not letting our arms point of style is allowed, during the •away, it is useless to begin pushing shot, to occupy the mind more than them out after the ball. It is rather hitting the ball, a miss, more or less the time to nip it firmly, and, above complete, will result; 2d (and this is all. to remember that the best of our less obvious), that nobody can acquire force must not be expended in swing- complete uniformity. If we are driving the club back. ing well, do not let us trouble our- At once things will come right, un- selves unduly about how it is done. less one of the results already spoken Let us rather bear in mind that slight •of reveal that we are too near the ball. nuances of difference in grip, or stance, We do not get our shoulders in or swing, are of no importance. For when it is the idea to follow the ball instance, I am driving well, and can- upwards the instant it is struck. There not help observing that I have my is nothing more tempting than to do hands more than usually over the club. this. We feel that it is our place to Just because I have noted the fact, lift it; that otherwise it must grub there will be. next time I take my along the ground, which of course it stance, an inclination to alter this. It would, were it not for friction, or would be a mistake to balk myself. •gravitation, or some such thing which If we are not thinking of style at all, the golfer naturally forgets about, if being too intent upon the match, there lie ever knew. will be little variation; but if we are. It is extraordinary, but nevertheless let us give way to it, saying to our- true, that the most serious, complete, selves, "All right, do what you like and persistent break-downs are due to about that—I am busy with the main elementary aberrations. Very often a issue." I do not mean that we can long run of exceptionally steady play over-swing or get into a constrained will force on us, in spite of previous position with impunity; but there is •experience, the conviction that at last no danger of extremes so long as dif- we have discovered that will-o'-the- ferences of attitude, mental or bodily, wisp, the secret of driving, and that by towards the ball, are not expected to remembering it, we will be steady for drive it. It will be within the experi- •ever. We are temporary victims of ence of many, that when an adversary, the illusion which the bad player never after playing a few holes, explains shakes off at all, with this difference, that he feels he is going to drive well —that by certain extraneous expedi- to-day, because he has hit upon the ents he hopes to play, and never does, proper something or other, he ends bv whilst we, playing well, hope to stere- being an easy victim. But if he says. otype the means by which we are do- "I feel that it does not matter how I ing it. Yesterday we were driving go up to the ball," we may be sure far and sure ; to-day we are determined that nothing but good play will secure to play with hands and feet placed, us the victory after a hard-fought and club swung exactly in the same battle. manner. We do not quite get a hold It does seem as if, when a break- 210 THE ART OF GOLF. down takes place from attempting to confidence may have twisted him into- stereotype a successful style, nothing some uneasy attitude, or (this is al- were simpler than to recover. But most certain) he is hitting too hard this is not always, nor, indeed, usual- which he was able to do successfully ly, the case. Of the best players it when in form. It looks as if I were has often to be said for months that now admitting (what has already been So-and-so is not playing well. Nay, denied) that there are a thousand and a breakdown may last so long that a one things lo remember at every shot. first-class player becomes an acknowl- This is not so. The very reason of edged second and remains so for years the continuance of'the breakdown is or for ever. This is not a common that the player (although he tells him- case; but retrogression, more or less self he has) has not purged himself complete, of from a day to three of these things. When playing well months is. It seems as if periods of he swung swiftly and stood firmly, but bad play ought never to last long. within the limits of ease; now there The player does not anticipate it. are quickness and stiffness without Nothing seems easier than for him to ease, and. above all, impatience to re- recollect the manner or manners in cover. At last he will humble himself which he hit when steady. He tries utterly. He will give up mending his for them, one after the other, and fails. style. To his feeling, his swing will Although a shot is made in a mo- be short and stiff, his hitting weak and ment, there are many which remain careful. The recovery will be rapid, green in the memory, and of which but not immediate as all this time he the player can recall, long after the has been trying to make it. His lost particular sensation, how his shoulders confidence will cause many a miss; but seemed to get into that one, his feet after a round, or even less, there will to grip the ground for another, his be a recovery of fitness for freedom. hands to have held the club as if made He will by degrees tighten his grip*, for it for another. A man has always and let them have it. But let him take a dozen pet shots in stock, to the sen- care. Let him beware of noting his. sations of which he tries (and fails) symptoms, so that the way to do it to return when a breakdown comes. may not escape him again. If he does Then he says. "Never mind ; perhaps so, another relapse is certain. It is I am thinking too much of how to hit, only when each shot is treated as a and too little of hitting. This is sure separate act, in no way guaranteed by to be true; but he still fails. During previous good ones ; when each time his spell of good play all the elements he addresses the ball his chief care is of driving, such as sweeping the ball to hit it—not far, not in this way, not away, placing the club behind it, etc.. in that, but hit it; when how far it is became second nature. During his to be struck is scarcely thought of; period of style-hunting some vicious when, during the swing, there is no con- tricks have got grafted on to them. sciousness of how he is swinging— The name of these is legion. He may that there will be an almost continu- know, and be told by his caddy, that ous record of palpable hits—That no- he is swinging ton fast, wit IK nit know- body almost ever plays a dozen shots ing that it is so, because he is lifting equally clean, exactly as far as each his chili loo straight up. A lack of other, is because they cannot absolute- w

THE ART OF GOLF. 211 ly do this. The experienced player ination is fatal. To be beaten in an knows that his last shot was perfect important match, to be distinctly out- because his mind was applied to it. and classed by a player not considered our to it alone; and yet he cannot prevent superior, when playing our best game, himself from trying to make the next is very trying. On the other hand, an as good, not in the same way, but by uninteresting match, which we can win repeating the last. One can watch the as we choose, may start us on a fatal process in any adversary who has course of experimenting. Lastly, played a strong, steady game for ( say) after a long absence from the green half a round. He is thoroughly the risk is great. There is a false stretched, supple, confident, and con- axiom that a man cannot play well sequently out comes one of those ex- under these circumstances, which is tra long shots. If you and he both often made true because it is accepted. leave him alone, he takes no heed, and We return to work expecting to do ill. other extra ones follow at intervals. We play carelessly. We hit hard, But, if you are a cunning player, flat- trusting in Providence before our ter him about his shot, point out that muscles have got accustomed to their his next is as long, and, f he takes the duties; and, in about three days, when bait, the third may be long too; but our form ought to be returning, it is your experienced eye will detect that further awav than ever. No wonder \ he has staggered and over-exerted for two davs have been employed in himself to produce it. It is a question acquiring vices. When a man has had of your tact against his sense, whether a holiday, let him settle down to each you get him broken down altogether, shot as if a match or a medal depend- or whether he returns to hitting stead- ed on it, and his game, or a better one ily and without prejudice. than he ever played before, will be his In conclusion, I will summarize the in no time. Men often absent them- times we are in most danger of re- selves from the green because they lapses. One is, as just explained, have broken down. These usually when we are in a particularly good recommence humbly, and find their vein of play. Pride goes before a fall. game restored. All returning prodi- The slightest shade of retrogression gals should do likewise. The folly of from a perfection we have come to sowing careless shots on fallow consider normal may make us impa- ground, in the expectation of reaping tient, or lead to an examination of the good golf, is unspeakable. cause, and either impatience or exam-

(To be continued.) GOLF IN MEXICO

The American golfer who has given to \V. H. Townsend, who been so kindly treated by fortune as spent some time in Florida in 1900, to be favored with leisure in which ami there saw the game played. to follow the game is singularly well Upon his return he spoke of it to a cared for at all seasons of the year. few friends, and having dug a few Throughout the spring, summer and holes in the road and secured some autumn the northern courses are at clubs, they started playing. In Au- their best, and then when winter gust, 1900, a meeting was held and comes he has the choice of scores of the San Pedro Golf Club was organ- Southern links, or he can journey ized with Gabriel Morton as presi- West and find in California all sorts dent and W. H. Townsend as treas- and conditions of links. But no urer. It was some time before a club longer is his range of choice so re- house existed. Hut prosperity came stricted as this. Within the past few quickly, the limit of sixty was soon years the game has come to the front passed, and it has increased until it in Mexico, and there is every indica- now stands at 200, with a waiting tion that the capital of the neighbor- list. ing republic is fast becoming a very Mexico had another golf organiza- popular resort for northern golfers. tion. This was the Mixcoac Golf Golf in Mexico is about five years Club, which dates from 1901. It had old. The credit of its introduction is a good nine-hole course well laid out

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and a very pretty club house. Its lead to a large patio planted with members, however, came to the con- a great variety of shade and orna- clusion that it was advisable to amal- mental trees, and flowering shrubs. gamate with the San Pedro club, and Many of the trees are lofty and give they were admitted as a body in De- a most agreeable shade, and under cember, 1904. In October, 1904, the them many members of the club par- Mexico' Cricket Club was absorbed take of breakfasts, lunches and din- and its forty members were ad- ners. Around the patio the house is mitted to the San Pedro Club. With built, and a broad porch runs in these accessories of strength the front of the different rooms. club became a flourishing organiza- To the north and east of the house tion, being apparently established on is a beautifully stocked garden, with firm and enduring lines. a great variety of shade trees and or- A club house was secured last De- namental plants and shrubs. Near cember. It is a fine old family man- the east wall is a bowling alley, and sion of a typical Mexican style. It there is the stable and coach house. is built on rising ground at the west- The building is of the solid kind of ern extremity of the suburb of San masonry which is so popular and Pedro and faces the south. It covers useful in Mexico. From the roof of a large piece of ground and has a the building there is a splendid view row of handsome shade trees front- of the Valley of Mexico, the snow ing it. The entrance is through broad clad peaks of Popocatepetl and Ix- doors <>f fine workmanship, which tlacihuatl being in plain sight to the 214 GOLF IN MEXICO.

EIGHTEENTH GKEEN. BERNARD NICHOLLS PUTTING.

-east and Mount Ajusco to the south ; across the course, but a deep river the whole scene makes a panorama bank on the east and a deep ditch which cannot easily be surpassed. on the west; ninth, 200 yards, across The course has been altered more the railroad track and two deep than once, the most radical change ditches; tenth, 333 yards, a bunker being made about three years ago, near the hole; eleventh, 318 yards, a when it was turned into an eighteen- deep ditch thirty yards beyond the hole course. hole: twelfth, 323 yards, a bunker The course is really laid out on a and natural hazard, a line of maguey level piece of ground, but with an plants; thirteenth, 318 yards, natural ample stock of hazards; some of hazards and a bunker; fourteenth, the best of these existed before a 282 yards, natural hazard; fifteenth. hole was put in place, but bunkers 404 yards, natural hazard and have been added of an excellent type, bunker; sixteenth, 168 yards across making the course what is termed in a railroad track, hazards, a line of many spots very "sporty." trees, two deep ditches ; seventeenth, The longest hole is 508 yards, and 484 yards, two bunkers and two shal- the shortest is 168 yards; the holes, low ditches; eighteenth, 394 yards, distances, bunkers and hazards come natural hazard, a water ditch and in the following order: bunker. First, 357 yards, natural hazards; Bogey for the course was recently second, 222 yards, natural hazards, fixed at 85, 43 out and 42 in. Recent- and two ditches; third, 262 yards, ly the club held its tournament, bunker and natural hazards; fourth, which lasted eight days, and it was 269 yards, bunker; the fifth is over such a phenomenal success that it a railroad track with two deep will become an annual affair. flitches and a bunker, distance 325 Besides the local and visiting ama- yards; sixth, natural hazard and teurs were such well-known profes- bunker, 340 yards; seventh, 392 sionals as Willie Anderson, open yards over a railroad track with two champion of America; Willie Smith, deep ditches and a water ditch be- ex-open champion; Bernard Nich- yond, the hole less than fifty yards olls. Gilbert Nicholls, Alex. Smith off; eighth, 508 yards, no hazards, and George Lawson, of California. GOLF IN MEXICO. 215

The San Pedro golfers were thus af- < >ut 533344453 34 forded an excellent opportunity of In 545444444 38 seeing how golf should be played, Total 72 and the experience was enjoyable There were twenty-six entries for and instructive. the amateur championship, those One of the most important events who qualified being: Avas the professional championship. DeWitt Hammond 78 This was won by Willie Smith, with Fred Pettit 82 his brother Alex runner-up. The A. C. Scales 86 winner took $200 gold and the sec- Paul Hudson 90 ond man $100 gold. The consolation H. P. Gallagher 90 match for professionals was won by C. E. Cummings 92 Gilbert Nicholls with a score of 76. M. McLane 92 The prize was $50 gold. Anderson J. E. Pettigrew 94 was second with JJ, Bernard Nich- Howard Carnes 95 •olls had 81. C. B. Chase 95 The open championship of the Re- A. R. Dobson 96 G. H. Bartlett 96 public of Mexico was won by Willie W. E. Powell 97 Anderson, who made the thirty-six C. B. Cleveland 99 holes in 149. The full scores follow: Harry Cant 98 Willie Anderson ~2> 7^ T49 A. W. Donly 103 Willie Smith 78 72 150 Those who lasted to the semi- 'Gilbert Nicholls 78 74 152 finals were Fred Pettit, of Kenosha. Alex. Smith 78 80 158 the amateur champion of Wiscon- Bernard Nicholls 80 80 160 sin ; G. B. Chase, DeWitt Hammond 'George Lawson 88 89 177 and H. P. Gallagher. Pettit beat ^Messrs. Wall & Saunders offered Chase by 3 up and 2 to play, and a special prize of $100 to the player Hammond beat Gallagher by 3 up making the best score below 74. This and 2 to play. Pettit won the finals was secured by Willie Smith with by 2 up and 1 to play. The Wiscon- the very fine score of 72. His card: sin man had the advantage in the

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WILE IE (TII.IIEKT WILLIE ALEX AM>ER SON. NlCllOLLS. SMITH. SMITH. BEHNAltl> NICHOLLS. GI CORGE LAWSON.

AMERICAN PLAYERS IN MEXICO. long game, Hammond being espe- professionals and ladies. The full cially strong in putting. score: In the best ball match for ama- Airs. F. E. Gaines and teurs and professionals these three Willie Anderson 90 pairs tied with scores of J2> '• R- R-Airs. L. H. Parry and Dob son and Gilbert Xicholls, H. P. Alex Smith 95 Gallagher and Bernard Nicholls, L. Airs. L. M. Hutchinson and H. Parry and Willie Smith. Playing George Lawson 96 off the tie Dobson and Gilbert Xich- Airs. A. C. Scales and olls won. Willie Smith 97 That the bogey of the course was Airs. Paul Hudson and set somewhat high was apparent in Bernard Xicholls 98 the bogey contest for professionals. M rs. J. W. Burns and Willie Anderson finished i? up on ( rilbert Xicholls 105 bogey and took the $50 prize. Ber- Alex Smith had a fine ~2 in the nard Nicholls was 9 up on the open handicap, but he played plus u. colonel. The leading amateur, Paul like all the professionals, and was Hunter, was 1 down on with a score beaten by E. E. Bashford, with 86. of 86. 8-78. Willie Anderson and Mrs. F. E. Willie Smith won the driving con- Gaines won the four-ball match for test with a drive of 257 yards. Wil- GOLF IN MEXICO. •217

lie Anderson was second with 254 yards, and Alex Smith third with 247 yards. The amateur driving contest was won by Fred Pettit with 247 yards. Paul Hudson was second with 240 yards, and A. R. Dobson third with 226 yards. A. W. Donly won the putting contest, and the putting match for ladies was won by Mrs. L. M. Hutchinson. The most enjoyable part of the play on the San Pedro links is the absence of humidity. The thermom- eter may climb up high, but as you are at an altitude of about 8,000 feet above the sea level, with the great snow-capped mountains rising high- er still above you, the heat is neither embarrassing' nor uncomfortable. One of those who took part in the tournament said he played thirty- six holes and his collar was not W. II. TOWNSEND.

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FIRST TEE 218 FABLES IN GOLF. I wilted at the end. Undoubtedly San ident; H. N. Branch, secretary; M. Pedro has a great future before it, G. Williams, treasurer; W. A. De- and its winter season will attract Gress, chairman of the handicap golfers from all parts of America. committee; A. W. Donly, chairman The present board of governers of of the house committee; F. G. the club consists of: H. B. Wall, Saunders, chairman of the green president; G. I. Ham, first vice-pres- committee, and F. W. Strong, chair- ident; L. H. Parry, second vice-pres- man of the rules committee.

FABLES IN GOLF

By W. B. M. Ferguson.

Once there was an Earth Owner of Usefulness and the Public's ap- whose Top Knot had grown Stark preciation of their Service. But the Naked in his pursuit of L'nhappiness Common Citizens Appreciated J. D. and Scrip of the Realm. He was a Soakem's efforts so much, that they Captain of Industry, so he had decided to Enlarge the Custom and changed the motto on the Almighty give him a Whole Suit entirely cov- Dollar to "E Mustibus Gettem," ered with Stripes. Mr. Soakem, how- and, being a member of a Fashion- ever, was a Bashful man, so he Short \ able Synagogue, his own personal Circuited the Honor by temporarily motto was "Let Us Prey." This Taking the Count. Earth Owner's name was J. D. Soak- Having handed in his license as a em, and in his mis-dealings with the Pirate, the Earth Owner had noth- Common Citizen, he lived up to the ing to employ his Massive Intellect Hind Part of his title. He Soaked upon but himself. He Experimented them Good and Plenty. He was a so much with his Anatomy, and Public Benefactor. That is, he was gave his Internal Motor so many the Main Squeeze in a Small Bunch Overhaulings that his Architecture of Money entirely surrounded by commenced to Cave In. His Exten- Water, which the Backsliders refer sive Veranda sagged in the Middle to as a Trust. After Gouging the and he had a Dark Brown taste in Public out of Ten Million Sesterces, his Cocktail Chute. His doctor, who he would Donate a Fraction of the was a Modern Scientist, diagnosed Spoil to a Public Book Farm. the case as Militant Decomposition After closing a Skin Game that of the E Pluribus Unum, and ad- Benefited the Public greatly, this vised Mild Exercise in the Open Air. Universal Servant decided to tem- The Earth Owner simply De- porarily Beat It for Cover. It is cus- spised any exercise other than Clip- tomary for some Servants of the ping Coupons, but he was Satisfied c • Public to wear Stripes upon their that if he diil not Get Busy with arms designating their exact Sphere Himself that his name would soon FABLES IN GOLF. 219 te Enrolled in the Stiff's Column of After he had walked round Once, the Daily Press. So he looked round the Earth ( hvner's visible Means of for the Easiest exercise in the Open Support gave way and he collapsed. Air, and instantly decided upon Golf He hied himself to the Feedery and as being the least Strenuous. The Distillery to Recuperate. •doctor told him that Bending at the "Great Grief," he mourned, "I feel Hinges to Tee Up would be the like a Withered Bunch of Violets. Very Thing to reduce his Equator. I never felt so Wilted since I worked And the Earth Owner needed Re- for Three Dollars a week and no duction, for he hadn't Seen the Questions Asked. I guess it doesn't •Ground for Ten long Years. matter whether I Walk or not so Then Mr. Soakem bought himself long as I continue to play Golf in the a Private Golf course and he erected open air." a Swell club house, with Turkish So the Earth Owner ordered out Baths and a Whole lot of other Flub his Benzine Buggy, and while the Dub. He also had a First Class Teacher Biffed the Ball and did all Feedery and Distillery upon the the Walking, and the Chiffonier Premises. Finally he Bought a steered the Buzz Wagon, Mr. Soak- Teacher and started in to do the em lay back and smoked in the Ton- •Golfing Game up Brown. He neau and Played Golf. He kept the thought it was the Easiest kind of Teacher's score. exercise. Another Think was coming to him on the Gravel Train. And when he would return to his After several Spasms, he gave up Chateau, his cheeks glowing with trying to Tee the Ball. His Hinges the exercise in the Open Air, and "hadn't been used for so Long that Boast to his Doctor that he had been they were Horribly Rusty and Round the Links six times that Squeaked every time he tried to Afternoon, the Modern Scientist Stoop Over. would say: "I guess it dosn't matter whether "My Prescriptions are wonderful. I put a Hunk of Mud under the There is nothing like Playing Golf Ball," said Mr. Soakem. So he or- to build a Man up." And he would dered his Teacher to do it for him. Add another Thousand on to his Then the Earth Owner Whaled Bill. Away until he got Red in the Face, Mr. Soakem is still Playing Golf, Apoplectic, and Blasphemous. and the Excitement and Enjoyment "I guess it dosn't matter whether he gets out of Fooling his Doctor I hit the Blamed Ball," he finally has kept his name from Being in the Gasped. "I'll be exercising in the Stiffs' Column of the Daily Press. "Open Air if I walk." Moral.—When you are Stymied, So he ordered his Teacher to Bin- never give up the Hole, for there is gle the Ball while he Walked with always a Way Round. him round the Links. THE BRITISH LADIES' CHAMPION- SHIP

The British Ladies' Golf Champion- fields where the poppies blaze in ship is fixed for the last week in May masses, and with flint-faced farm and Cromer has been selected. If houses by the roadsides, set amid1 the powers that be had gone design- pines and oaks and sycamores and edly to work to pick out a corner of golden beeches. And all around are England which should present the villages such as Americans have im- most typical of its rural summer beau- agined in their mind's eye. and can ties, set in the most interesting sur- see nowhere else in England in such roundings, and yet the least known to perfection. Felbugs, Xorthropp's- Americans, they could not have made Wood, Runton, Mundesley, Brom- a better selection. Natives know holm, Edingthorpe, Witlow, Knaptorr "Poppyland," as it is familiarly called, and Trunch are but the fringe of a host well, and the neighborhood of Cromer all of archeological interest of the has, for two centuries, been a favorite highest order. summer residence. Poets have sung, Then, too, the whole neighborhood artists have painted, and prose writers is a veritable harvest of country seats lauded again and again the charms and and quaint old market towns, so old, glories of the beautiful district that so peaceful and so singularly English lies shoreward ami inland round the of the middle ages that it seems im- i shoulder of Norfolk. Its old patrons possible we are not back in the reign are enthusiastic of its picturesqueness, of Bluff Hal, Edward the Black the exhilaration of its clean, dry air, Prince, or Elizabeth. the coloration of its sea, in which the Even the approaches to it are enough sun both rises and sets, and the peace- to make one laggard in arriving at it, fulness and soothing influence of its whether one comes to it from the rolling downs: and the new comer is south, the east or the north. If from never disappointed. The links are on the north, via Liverpool, the interest the springs- turf of the cliff, ap- of the cathedrals of Lincoln and proached by walks of infinite variety Peterboro, and Boston, the home of through beautiful lanes made famous the Pilgrim Fathers and the Tenny- the world over by Gainsborough pic- son country, and Lynn and the King's tures; where the harebell, the honey- country home at Sandringhain, will suckle and the wild rose strive for tile surely claim more than a passing tri- mastery; over hills purple with the bute. If by the coast line from Lon- flowering heather fringed with "rain don, we are on the (rack of Dickens.

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all the way from the White House at stepping stones and stopping places Ipswich to Peggottys Hut at Yar- not to be denied. Taken all in all. it mouth, immortalized in David Cop- will be many years before the Ladies' perfield. If the inland line, then the Golf Tournament will be held in a ancient University of Cambridge, neighborhood so richly deserving a Ely's Cathedral pile and Norwich are visit from Americans.

, I WESTERN DEPARTMENT

Conducted by Alexis J. Colman.

Intercity matches among the clubs lerslie Cross Country Club this sea- of Northern Indiana are to be a fea- son. Hoare made the tour of Florida, ture of the Hoosier golfers' season. with Vardon and Willie Smith in The Country Club of the St. Joseph 1900. and has since been engaged in Valley, the South Bend organiza- selling golf clubs, save one season,, tion, has joined the Western Golf when he was the Calumet Country Association, and so takes on impor- Club's "pro." tance anew. The State tournament is to be held at Fort Wayne in the Dick Leslie, whose face is familiar fall, and the intercity team matches to thousands of golfers, not only in will serve to prepare the Indiana Chicago, but in the East, because of players for this event. Matches with his service as caddy for Mrs. Ber- the clubs in Dayton, Cincinnati and nard S. Home, will be the profes- Columbus, and possibly Cleveland sional at the Butte, Mont., Golf Club and other Ohio cities, also are in this year. He leaves Glen View after prospect. five years of faithful service as green-keeper and instructor. His brother William, who has been em- Three other clubs besides the St. ployed at the Milwaukee and La- Joseph Valley have joined the West- grange Country Clubs, goes to West ern Golf Association, bringing the Baden, Ind. total membership up to sixty-seven. The others are the Glengary Golf j* Club, of Morris, 111, the Golf and Exceptional weather enabled the Country Club, of Nashville, Tenn., Chicago golfers to get busy a full and the Irving Golf Club, of Nor- month earlier than usual, and the wood Park, Chicago. Nashville courses came to the front with ex- comes in under the new dispensation ceedingly good turf. Whatever of which makes eligible any United cold and raw weather and hard rains States club west of Buffalo. come now cannot do away with the satisfaction of many golfers that they played golf in March with keen- Willie Hoare, whose chief claim to est enjoyment. fame is the fact that he won the national driving championship at the It was more or less of a joke when national open championship at Balti- the Associated Press came to bat more in 1899—although he had done April 8 with its couple of paragraphs creditable work in championships as about Donald Ross setting a new 36- far back as tint at Wheaton in 1897 hole record at Pinehurst, in which it —will be (In- professional at the El- called him "Prof." Donald Ross, and

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referred to A. H. Fenn similarly. the players will have abundant The correction to "professional" fol- chances for full drives and a good lowed some little time later, thus: many full brassey shots when they Correction.—Editors: In Pine- get going in full swing. The new hurst, N. C, golf read "Professional holes to be added lie on the re- Donald Ross" and "Professional A. deemed "back-yard" of the Colum- H. Fenn," not professors. bian Exposition, south of the lagoon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. which almost surrounds La Rabida Doubtless the correction already convent, one of the very few build- - had been made in most offices when ings remaining from the Fair. the note came. J* The Cincinnati Golf Club will be That the commissioners of the host for the open championship of South Park system in Chicago are in the Western Golf Association, June earnest upon the proposition to give 29 and 30. As during the past three the public link players the very best years, it is hoped the best eastern facilities is amply borne out by the professionals will compete for the announcement that there is to be a cash prizes as well as the best of the course of 18 holes—total length 6,190 western Scots, and as the Cincinnati yards—in the south end of Jackson Golf Club has an excellent course— Park, and in addition the present old so 'tis said—the tournament gives "practice course" is to be lengthened promise of developing good sport. , to 2,800 yards. Some of the old The club has made several changes greens in vise on the nine-hole links in its links, the most important con- which have been in commission the sisting in lengthening the fourteenth past three years in the south end of hole from 347 to 525 yards. This the park will be utilized in the new change gives the course one long layout, but most of the putting ex- hole on each nine. The tournament panses will be new. There will be is to be at "J2 holes, 36 holes medal some respectable bunkers and haz- play each day. ards of appreciable difficulty. The distances of the newly planned course, according to* Tom Bende- By limiting teams which are to low's announcement, follow: compete for the Olympic team tro- Out—310, 360, 330, 300, 225, 460, phy Aug. 7 at the Chicago Golf 230, 480, 375 ; total, 3,070 yards. Club to four men, the Western Golf Association directors showed their In—460, 350, 330, 360, 460, 180, total I2 wisdom, for in this way the chances 350. 330- 3°°'- - 3- ° yards. are greatly enhanced of having a half-dozen or more of the sectional Thus the members of the new organizations of the country repre- Jackson Park Gulf Club, which is a sented. The competition, set for the member of both the lT. S. G. A. and day just preceding the national W. G. A., are promised a good championship's opening, will have course for their play, and although the best field possible, for it will it probably will be some time before serve to put the entrants on edge for the new course is in full operation the medal play of the following day. 224 1TESTERN DEPARTMENT. The contest is to be at medal play, measure to the Travers Island 36 holes, lowest gross medal total to branch of the Xew York Athletic count, according' to present plans. Club. The club is wealth}- and can well afford a country adjunct, and it is probable the members will derive 1 Glen View, Onwentsia and Ex- great benefit from it. It is proposed moor have been granted the dates to confine membership to men al- they sought for their open tourna- ready members of the C. A. A. The ments. Onwentsia is to have July fact that the big country clubs about 18-22; Exmoor, Aug. 14-19, and Glen Chicago have long waiting lists View, Aug. 23-26. The competition made it inadvisable that the club 1 of W. G. A. teams for the Marshall members join any of the big organi- Field trophy at Exmoor is changed zations in a body ; hence the adop- from July 15 to July 22. Glen View tion of the country club branch idea. also announces its annual open age- limit spring tournev for the Satur- .Members of the May wood Coun- days of May 27 and June 3. try Club at their annual meeting re- elected most of their officers. C. H. If plans now under way bear fruit, Blumenauer is president, Lester \\ . the members of the Chicago Athletic Andrews vice-president, P. H. Gray Association will have a golf course secretary, and W. Mack Stevens of their own before many moons. treasurer. The plan is to organize a stock company among the 2,500 members of Westward-Ho golfers had double the big club, shares to sell at $50 occasion for rejoicing on the night each. A tract of ample proportions of April 4, for not only was Judge is in sight—President Lawrence Edward F. Dunne, one of the club Heyworth of the club has an option members, elected mayor of Chicago, upon a site forty minutes' ride from but Allen S. Ray. another member, Chicago—and in addition to golf, was chosen president of the village other sports, such as tennis, can be board of Oak Park. The club intends indulged in. Also, there will be facil- to hold some sort of a blow-out in ities for boating and bathing. The honor of its two distinguished mem- new club will be called the Chicago bers, with speeches and general felic- Athletic Association Country Club, itations. The affair probably will and correspond probably in great have been held ere this sees print.

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THE METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCI- ATION CHAMPIONSHIP . By "Oldcastle."

Probably no sectional golf asso- responded and decided that there be ciation in the country has comprised formed "an association, and not a in its membership so many of our league . . and that the name leading players as the association thereof be the Metropolitan Golf As- mi), f which takes in the Metropolitan Dis- sociation." A committee was ap- trict. Some account therefore of its pointed and a constitution was H. career cannot fail to be of more than drawn up in consultation with the local interest, especially as next officers of the United States Golf As- . P. H. hr;n month its proceedings by reason of sociation. At a second meeting, April lid S'.i - the annual tournament will be prom- 14, 1897, the constitution was adopt- inently in the public eye. ed and these officers were elected: The association came into being H. B. Hollins, Westbrook, presi- some two years after the United dent ; J. C. Ten Eyck, St. Andrews, States Golf Association was organ- vice-president; John Du Fais, Bal- ized. tusrol, secretary, and Robert Bage Its creation was prompted un- Kerr, Lakewood, treasurer. Twen- doubtedly by the great increase in ty open tournaments were held dur- the number of golf clubs during the ing 1897 and eighteen during 1898 years 1895, 1896 and 1897. Many of without any clashing of dates, and these clubs began to hold tourna- the usefulness and necessity of the ments, and quite often two clubs ar- organization was amply demon- ranged their fixtures for the same strated. dates. In 1897 the St. Andrews Golf In 1899 two important steps were Club stepped boldly in, after con- taken. It was decided to hold an an- sultation with golfers outside their nual Metropolitan Golf Association organization, and decided to take tournament, and that an official the initiative in the formation of a handicap list of players, members of metropolitan league of golf clubs for the association, should be created. the purpose of organizing a team Garden City was chosen for the first circuit, regulating the dates of open contest. tournaments, and adopting matters It is rather interesting to look of general inter-club interest. Invi- back at the first handicap list. The tations to meet were sent to thirty- handicap committee consisted of three clubs in the circle bounded by Daniel Chauncey, chairman; E. C. Tuxedo, Morristown, Greenwich and Kent and A. M. Robbins. Findlay S. Shinnecock. Twenty-five delegates Douglas, who was then amateur 226 METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHJL\ champion, was placed at scratch. In teenth hole to C. H. Seely. Douglas Class 2 were Herbert M. Harriman, beat Seely in the final very easily, John Reid, Jr., and Walter J. Travis. and it is doubtful if he has ever Class 3 comprised, among others, played more consistently good golf Foxhall Keene, F. \Y. Menzies, H. than he did during this week. P. Toler and J. A. Tyng. In Class 4 Forty-nine players started at Tux- were Louis Livingston, Jr., and Jas- edo in 1902, although those with per Lynch and four other players. handicaps of twelve were allowed to The first championship meeting enter, instead of ten, as formerly. was held April 12-15. Findlay Doug- Thirty-two were still allowed to • las, Herbert Harriman and J. A. qualify. The medal round was at Tyng tied for low score with 173. eighteen holes, Travis having low Travis was fourth with 175. Among score with 76, C. B. Macdonald being those who failed to get in the first second with 80, and Douglas third sixteen and are still prominent in the with 81. Travis put Douglas out by game were W. L. Gunther, Charles 6 up and 5 to play in the semi-finals, H. Seely and C. L. Tappin. There going round in J2. In the final 36- were thirty cards handed in. In the hole match Travis beat Marcellus by semi-finals Brooks beat Douglas by 11 up and 10 to play. 3 up and 2 to play, and then Harri- man beat Brooks in the final by 2 up At Deal in 1903 there were sixty- and 1 to play in a 36-hole match. two entries. In a heavy wind low scoring was impossible in the quali- The 1900 championship was fying rounds. Travis had the medal played at the Nassau Country Club. with 168, after one player had been f, The starters increased to fifty-four disqualified for returning an incor- and the qualifying number to thirty- rect card. The great surprise of the two. Douglas had low score, with tournament was the defeat of Travis 162, which was a great advance on by John M. Ward. Travis was beat- the 173, the best score at Garden en by 1 up. Ward held Travis in the City. Two of the surprises of this long game and was his superior on meeting were the matches between the greens. The final was between R. C. Watson, Jr., and Maturin Bal- Douglas and John Holler, Jr., and lou and Douglas and Allan Kenna- Douglas won by 10 up and 9 to play. day. The Watson-Ballou game went to the twenty-third hole before Wat- Last year's championship was son won, and Kennaday beat Doug- played at Garden City, and was las by 2 up. Kennaday was put out robbed of some of its attractiveness by Travis, who afterwards beat Har- by the absence of Travis in Eng- riman in the final. land, where, however, he was very Apawamis was the scene of the usefully employed. I<>OI championship, with forty-six Douglas had low score with 165, starters. C. M. Hamilton had low George T. Brokaw being second score, 174, and was afterwards badly with 168. Fifty-nine cards were re- beaten by Douglas. Travis was not turned, which was a considerable in his best form at this meeting. He improvement, but not entirely satis- had hard work to win his matches, factory for a contest of this impor- and then went down at the nine- tance. Douglas was unexpectedly de- MR. J. L. LOW ON CLUBS, LONG AND SHORT. 227

feated by Arden M. Robbins by 3 up Wilcox, and the latter won by 6 up and 2 to play. Brokaw made a new and 4 to play. competitive record of 75 in his match This year's contest at Fox Hills -with J. D. Foote, and then after beat- will be especially interesting, as ing Robbins, was put out by Harold Travis and Douglas have each won Wilcox by 3 up and 2 to play. The the championship twice, and will final was between Percy Pyne and without doubt be among the entries.

MR, J- L, LOW ON CLUBS, LONG AND SHORT [Mr. Travis having adopted the long-shafted club, this article, written for the Athletic News by the well-known player and critic, makes interesting reading.—ED. GOLF.] It has often been a matter of much club within certain limits of weight. surprise to me to find how good a For if big men can play well with game men can play with clubs seem- little clubs and little men with big ingly unsuited to their business. If clubs, and vice versa, it would seem it were not too impertinent an under- probable that all men could play taking I could name several famous with medium clubs if only they used players who use clubs which, to the them from the first and continued to generality of golfers, seem most ab- practice with them. If we find that surd in construction, balance and the build of the man is not wholly weight. And, strange as it may seem, or even mainly the determining it is neverthelessvery observable that cause for the use of these divers these men are more proud of their weapons, we must seek for the rea- instruments and more prone to ex- son in some other individual pecu- hibit them than the favored golfers liarity. who use reasonable weapons. The The two main causes which in- well-armed golfer does not boast duce men to leave the common club himself of his armament; he knows for the uncommon are imitation of that his clubs are sound for the vari- style and imitation of club. The ous jobs which they may be called clubs which a man uses, if he uses upon to undertake and leaves them them successfully, will be the clubs quietly in his bag until the time for which fit his own stvle of swine: and r work arrives. When we consider the method of play. But few players exceeding variety of clubs used by have a natural style or method of expert players and note that the men play; the huge majority are merely themselves are comparatively alike copyists. Many of the best known, in structure, we are tempted to the most typical players use rather pecu- belief that any man could play with liar clubs: clubs suited to their pecu- almost any of the many varieties of liarity of style and to their anatom- 228 MR. J. L. LOW ON CLUBS, LONG AND SHORT.

ical construction. If the copyist can notice the ill-shapen stick with a lit- imitate the style and procure the tle tin head, showing signs of many shape and weight of club used by his alterations, with which he hampers- master he will, within certain limits, his performances. Then, again, I be doing fairly well. But, unfortu- have in my thoughts a player whose nately, we find that the golfer is now- style has been the splendid model of adays too all embracing in his ad- two generations of orthodox golfers., miration, and having fixed, at least but whose mind is so active to dis- for a time, his style on a Hoylake cover some new thing that he will hero will endeavor to go through his readily place in his bag any club- performances with the wands of a which he sees successfully used by a Westward-Ho professional. brilliant but peculiar performer. He It is certainly not a little surpris- will fly from long clubs to short ing to find a golfer after many years' clubs, and even sally forth with a successful play still undertermined fishing rod, only half-way round the- as to the length and weight of his course to borrow a clasp knife and drivers or the shape and character of cut three inches off the butt. I of- his putter. I have in mind two golf- ten think it fortunate that a club has ers who are for ever working at their a head which limits the carving pro- clubs: altering their grips, taking cess to one end. If we get to work lead out of or putting it into their at the business extremity we can club heads, making some difference decapitate but not alter the poo>- of spring in their shafts and in a creature; the use of the guillotine is- hundred ways trying by minute op- too severe to be termed an alterna- erations to perfect their tools; and tive operation. yet did one not know that they Of men with peculiar styles who prized their monstrosities one would adopt peculiar clubs no mention need be tempted to offer them a crown here be made; they labor out their with which to buy a decent club work in their own way, and, if suc- from a reputable club maker. I have cessful, lead others astray. There a friend who makes his own clubs is, however, a certain orthodox}' of exceedingly badly, and yet is so style in golf, and a very considerable pleased with his toys that he is for- class of persons enjoy more or less- ever pressing their merits on ray at- of this set and classic system, the re- tention. I have but to play a pass- sultant, as it were, of many genera- able iron stroke and he will be at tions of experiment. Now, to those my side with such observations as who feel they have nothing peculiar the following: "A very good shot- in their swing, stance or physical let me see your club." He of course proportion, I would suggest that does not want to see my club at all; they employ orthodox and standard he has a supreme contempt for all clubs. Any of the large club makers- clubs other than his own, but is just will tell you exactly the length and \ making an opening for the inevitable weight of what they call "ordinary" sequel. "Ah, yes, a nice club, bu1 far too heavy; you would play far clubs, be they drivers, brassies, better with one like mine. I made it cleeks or irons, and it will be found myself." He then presents to my that any deviation from these accepted specifications should only be-

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indulged in as a result of some spe- shorjer ones, and so make a better cial peculiarity of swing or style. length on their average drive. A few Few golfers are strong enough to players, still fewer, I think, are able abandon the clubs and methods of to swing these long clubs accurate- the past masters and stand alone ly. Mr. Fowler is one of the very "with some exaggerated weapon, few, and his style, though not by -challenging the past with its ac- any means ungainly, is peculiarly cumulated wisdom. It is better for sweeping. Mr. M'Fie and Mr. Hut- the golfer to try and mould his style chinson use the long clubs well, but •so as to make use of the orthodox their styles are not so well suited to -club rather than at the first to call these fishing rods as the style of Mr. for some strange weapon which will Fowler. Against the wind or in a suit a peculiarity which probablv cross wind the long club is burdened lias no merit. with disadvantages. The wind holds From these considerations we are the shaft to such an extent that tim- led to regard as hurtful, but fortu- ing is almost impossible. I have no- nately tentative, the various fashions ticed that Mr. W. E. Fairlie, who which year by year crop up with uses the long club excellently down never ending persistence—fashions wind, does not attempt to work it for short clubs and fashions for long under trying conditions. Very short ones. What is really sad is that the clubs, on the other hand, lack inher- poor golfer is so easily led into the ent power and require to be used ip belief that an extra inch or so oi with force to produce strong results. shaft more, or it may be less, will Heavy clubs can only be used by make him a good driver. If a man such men as Mr. Blackwell—if there cannot drive with a club of the ordi- be any other such as he—unless a nary length it is highly improbable great sacrifice of speed of hitting be that he will have much success with made. Light clubs are apt to quicken ci longer and consequently less easilv the swing to too great an extent, and managed weapon. I could, would it so produce inaccuracy. serve any good purpose, easily pro- Each deviation from the "ordi- duce a long argument to prove that nary" we find attended with some a long club was far more effective obvious disadvantage, and so, having than a short one; the long sweep, the tried all and made no prominent ad- - «xtra spring and leverage, these vance, we fall back on the common things are bound to make the ball club and endeavor to master it, travel farther. And it would be knowing that what is good enough equally easy to show the superior- for the best players of the day is ity of the short club, which can be probably good enough for us hum- wielded with greater accuracy and, bler foik. And here, in conclusion, most important factor in long hit- it may be added that the best pro- ting, can be brought so quickly on fessional players, if they depart at to the ball. A few, I am inclined to all from the ordinary, do so by short- think very few, players need a long ening, not lengthening, their clubs. club owing to their lack of hitting The longest club will drive the long- power; but it is probable that they est ball if—. would miss fewer shots with the 230 EDITORIALS. twice as much as the gutty, but does- QOLF it cost twice as much in fact? In the EVKRY MONTH hands of the average player one rub- By Special Appointment Official Bulletin of th« ber ball will outlast two guttys, and United States Golf Association, Intercollegiate Golf Association, Central New York Golf League, if this is so the price is equalized ar. Metropolitan Golf Association, Western Golf As- once, or, to be more exact, the advan- sociation, nnd Southern Golf Asiociation. tage is on the side of the newer vari- Entered at Post-office at New York as Second Class Matter. ety. But people say if you lose a ONE YEAR, $2.00; SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS gutty you only lose twenty-five cents,, Postage free United States, Canada, and Mexico. but if you lose a rubber, bang goes- To other foreign countries, 3fi cents per year. Re- mit by Express Money Order, Post-office Order, fifty. That is undeniably true, but a Repi»tered Letter, or Check payable to ARTHUR POTTOW. ball cannot be invented which will Edited by van Tassel Sutphen render immune from loss those golfers who delight in slicing or pulling" Publisher: ARTHUR POTTOW, into the rough. The increased pen- 213 East 24th St., New York alty should be a powerful induce- ment to improve in play. The old gutty, too, had a bad habit of chip- The Editor will be glad to receive ping one's clubs, especially the wood- for consideration Photograplis and Con- tributions on the general subject of the en ones, and, here again, something game. Stamps should be enclosed for can be placed to the credit side of the return postage if found unavailable. rubber. The passing of resolutions Contributors are requested to write requiring that only guttys should be their Names and Addresses on the back used in club competition will not be of all MSS. and Photographs. Pho- a popular step in any club. A golfer \ tographs should be carefully packed wants the best, and he means to have and accompanied by descriptions of it. The feather ball had to give way their subjects. Club Secretaries will confer a favor by notifying the Editor to the gutty and the gutty to the of the dates and particulars of coming rubber. The world moves. The U. club events, especially open and invita- S. G. A. is not likely to accede to a tion .ournaments. demand that the gutty be made the standard ball. If it did it would attempt the impossible, for it cannot ARE BALLS TOO COSTLY? make the world move backwards. A Masachusetts golf club has de- clared war on the rubber-cored ball. THE GOLF OUTLOOK If this bellicose challenge had come One glance at the list of fixtures from Old England the reason for it is sufficient to show that the game, might have been ascribed to the in- so far as competitive golf goes, is in ' nate conservatism of that island. But a very healthy condition. Clubs that we should be wrong to attribute have not had tournaments for years such a motive to New England. The are arranging for them this year, and j protesting dub does not belong to some that dropped out in KJ04 have the class which objects to innova- resumed operations in igos. In all- tions as such. Its objection is a finan- parts of the country the tale is the i cial one It is perfectly tnu- that the same. The great game is gaining alt rubber-cored ball costs in dollars tlie time. .

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The Country Club of Atlantic City Last year the Pittsburg player won opened the spring, or, if it is pre- the spring and autumn tournaments, ferred, closed the winter season with and having won the cup three times a very successful tournament April in succession it becomes his prop- T3-15. There were one hundred and erty. J. Lafferty, Chevy Chase, won thirty entries, which shows that the the President's Cup. beating M. C. game is very much alive, and quality Parshall, Warren, by 1 up. The as well as quantity were there. In Governor's Cup went to J. C. Phil- the qualifying round H. W. Perrin, lips, Atlantic City, and the North- Philadelphia Cricket, had low score, field Cup to E. A. Darby, Atlantic 171. This was evidently on the high City. G. N. Morgan, Oakmont. won side, but a heavy north-easter is most the Consolation Event. E. M. Hoop- effective in preventing record break- er. Wilmington, won the handicap ing. W. C. Fownes, Jr.. Oakmont, with 96, 20—76. C. S. Cox. Fairfield who always does well at Atlantic County, had next best net with 88, City, was second with 173, and F. 10—~i<. \\. C. Fownes, Jr., playing Oden Hortstnann, who entered from from scratch, had best gross, 81. the Merion Cricket Club, was third with 176. The best scores in the team competition were: Oakmont—W. C. These three players and J. H. Lip- Fownes, Jr., 173; J. C. H. Denny, pincott, Atlantic City, got into the 186; C. I1.. Fownes, 185; H. C. semi-finals and the finals were be- Fownes, 182. Total, 726. tween Fownes and Perrin, the for- Philadelphia Cricket—H. W. Per- mer winning by 4 up and 3 to play. rin, 171 ; A. W. Tillinghast, 178; H. 232 THROUGH THE GREEN. 1

A. Mackey, 192; R. S. Hooper, 219. second, a stroke behind, his after- Total, 760. noon round of 71 being the best of Wilmington—F. F. Briggs, 192; the day. The summary: R. J. Baldwin, 191 ; C. M. Sherman, Rounds ~ 1st. 2d. h 193; I. Ernst, 198. Total, 774. J. Mackerell, Palmetto.. 74 79 153 Atlantic City—J. H. Lippincott, W. Anderson, Apawamis 81 73 154 190; H. H. Cross, 199: F. S. Sher- John Jones, Myopia. ... 81 76 157 man, 187; E, A. Darby, 218. Total, B. Nichols,, Hollywood.. 82 78 160 794- David Ogilvie, Boston. . 82 78 160 The Palmetto Golf Club, Aiken, S. George Low, Baltusrol. 81 81 162 C, held its annual tournament W. Braid, Cleveland... . 82 83 165 March 28-30. Wright beat Wheeler in the first In the open amateur tournament round by 5 and 4; Stevenson won of the Country Club of Augusta, Ga., from Jewett by 5 and 3; Sands beat March 23-25, the finals for the prin- Manning by 5 and 4 and Grant won cipal events were between H. M. from Carpenter by 5 and 3. In the Reid and Dr. J. M. Selden, the for- semi-finals Stevenson won from mer winning by 5 up and 4 to play. Wright on the home green and Dr. Selden won the driving contest Sands beat Grant at the nineteenth with a drive of 2i6j/> yards, K. D. hole—two fine matches. Stevenson's Dalglish was second with 21354. Dr. driving was the feature of the final, Knight had a 207-yard drive, T. T. but Sands beat him on the thirty- Reid 203 yards and H. M. Reid 200 sixth green, through the Masachus- yards. The approaching and putting etts player missing a short putt. contest was won by G. H. Knight, Sands has now won the Southern with H. B. King second. This tour- Cross trophy three times. nament marked the close of the 1905 season, and there has never been a In the handicap Mrs. C. M. Hin- more successful one in the history of • 11 kle and S. J. Colford, Jr., tied with a the club. net 79. Mrs.Hinkle's cardread 107,28 —79; Mr. Colford had 93, 14—79. In The university golfers are getting the play-off Mrs. Hinkie had 101, 28 busy in team matches. Yale has the —~2, to Mr. Colford's 90, 14—76. A following programme: New Haven handicap open to men and women is Country Club, April 29; Hartford somewhat of a novelty and it is Golf Club, May 6, at Xew Haven, strange that so few clubs adopt the and May 13 at Hartford; Wee Burn system. Golf Club, May 20; Andrews Golf Club. May 2j-. It is probable that a James Mackrell. engaged with the match will be arranged with Prince- 1 home club, finished first in the pro- ton. fessional golf tournament decided on J* the Palmetto links March 25. The Princeton, which has elected competition was two rounds at me- Frank O, Reinhart, the ex-inter-col- dal play and Mackerel! won with a legiate, as captain, went to Lake- i score of [53. Willie Anderson was wood, April 15, and played at the THROUGH THE GREEN. 233

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Country Club. In the handicap Rein- The Metropolitan Interclub four- hart had best gross, with a card read- ball match for pairs, eighteen holes ing 80, 3—77. D. Lloyd won with medal play, and the Metropolitan 84, 8—/•/•. In the team match be- Handicap, at thirty-six holes, medal tween the university and the Coun- play, will also be held, the prizes be- try club the former won by 9 to 2. ing silver cups and gold medals. The J- two events are for past entries, but Columbia on the same day played entries for the championship must the Westchester Golf Club, and its be made through the secretaries of team won by 2\ to 10. C. H. Blake, the clubs, and they will close at the Jr., the Columbia captain, lost to A. office of the secretary of the M. G> D. Compton, the Westchester cap- A., Leighton Calkins, 25 Broad tain. One of the Westchester play- street, on Saturday, May 20, at noon. ers excited some comment by brush- ing the line of his putt with his foot The championship winner wilt instead of his hand. His opponent have his name inscribed on the submitted good-naturedly to the in- championship plate, and it shall be novation. held for the year by his club. He also receives a gold medal outright. The Metropolitan Golf Associa- Both Travis and Douglas have two tion has adopted the gold standard, wins scored on the championship in other words, the medals to be plate, which is a massive silver sal- given at this year's championship ver that cost $1,000, and should eith- will be of the yellow metal, and we er of the two win again the trophy can gladly dispense with the cum- will become permanent property of brous silver medals formerly given. his club. The tournament will be in charge of a special committee: Lionel H. All entries are subject to the ap- Graham, chairman; Harvey Mur- proval and authority of the Tourna- dock and W. R. Innis. It is to be at ment Committee, whose decision on the Fox Hills Golf Club, May 24 to all points shall be final. All the May 2j, inclusive. match play rounds will be a: eighteen holes except the final, which The M. G. A. championship con- will be at thirty-six holes. Remit- test will start with a thirty-six hole tances should be by checks payable testing round, at medal play, in to the M. G. A. and should accom- which the low scorer will receive a pany the entries. The fee is $2 for gold medal. The first thirty-two will each player entered. compete at match play for the championship and prizes; the third six- The Inter-scholastic Golf Cham- teen for a cup; the fourth sixteen for pionship will be held at Garden City, a cup, and the defeated sixteen of the May 15-20. It is to be hoped that first thirty-two for the President's there may be a more representative Cup. < >nlv players having a rating entry than there has been in the on the M. G. A. handicap list of 17 past. This fixture is not a Metropoli- are eligible to siart in this event. tan Golf Association event, by any 1 THROUGH THE GREEN. 235

means. Tt is intended for all boys try Club, Lowell, Mass., are here set attending any high or preparatory forth. school wherever situated. J. D. Tra- vers, the present champion, will not Mr. Smith said: "We have all dis- be eligible as a starter, but probably cussed the trusts more or less; we Dwight Partridge and Fred Herre- have all been fleeced by them more ' shoff will play. There is an entrance or less; and, more or less, we have * fee of $i in the individual and of $2 all submitted to being plundered by in the team contest, which must be them in a sort of helpless, shame- - sent with the entries by Saturday, faced way. We kick; but forget- May io, to Jefferson W. Coe, St. ting the noblest kicker in nature, the Paul's School, Garden City. The en- mule, we kick with our wrong end— tries have also to be certified to by our tongue, not our foot. The beef the head master of the school. trust robs our pantry, the coal trust our kitchen, the oil trust our parlors, Miss Mabel Higgins has won the the woolen trust plunders our backs, Women's Golf Championship of the whiskey trust our palates; while Southern California, scoring the de- the leather trust steps on our corns cisive victory of 9 up and 7 to play and the collar and cuff trust gives it over Mrs. W. T. Crohop, of Los An- to us in the neck. geles. Miss Higgins won the South- ern Championship two years ago. "From the cradle to the grave, the The tournament this year was held furniture and coffin trusts graft us : at the Pasadena Country Club. whether we travel in baby carriages, hacks, autos or railroad coaches, - At the annual meeting of the Nas- somebody is levying tolls on us : and,, sau Country Club, April 1, a very judging from Rockefeller's activity satisfactory report was presented. in church affairs, he is trying to cor- Notwithstanding the heavy outlay ner heaven, since the other place is for last year, which included the to hazardous for his main business. erection of a new building for Quick or dead, saint or sinner, we are squash, the income had exceeded the all robbed in the sacred name of r expenses by $2,962. About $20,000 business: and now springs up a com- was received in dues and fees. Rooms bination which proposes to rob our and lockers brought in about $3,000 recreation, to plunder our pleasures: more. $5,700 was spent on the golf the golf "ball trust, the most cold- course and $1,765 on the club house. blooded, deliberate and impudent ex- tortioner that has yet appeared in Whenever a man expresses him- the role of a business highwayman. self intelligently and frankly on any topic of interest it is always a pleas- "Last year we paid $6 a dozen for ure to read what he has to say. With- balls; this year the gentlemanly rub- out expressing any opinion on the ber robbers will charge $7.20, $7.50 merits of the case—there is an edit- and $i) per dozen, but they will orial in another place—some remarks shrewdly keep some balls at $6 this of Mr. Joseph Smith, delivered at the year, to quiet our fears; and next annual meeting of the Vesper Coun- year we will be blandly told the $6 236 THROUGH THE GREEN. < ball has been abandoned as unprofit- their brand both unpopular and em- able and only the robber-rubber ball barrassing; and as a further move will be left for us. Next year it will we can appeal to every club in Mass- 0 be a choice of high balls or croquet. achusetts, New England, America, to stand with us for fair play, honest The modest golf ball trust regards dealing and clean sport and to help 40 per cent, as a dead loss; 60 per us defeat and discredit the latest, cent, as a bare living; 80 per cent, as meanest and most contemptible of a meagre profit, and 95 per cent, as trusts—the Golf Ball Sneak Thief 1 about a fair thing. Beside the golf Association. ' ball trust the daughter of the horse J- leech is a modest young thing. \\ hat Air. Smith then presented the fol- does this condition mean for the lowing resolution which was unani- game of golf and for this club? With- mously passed: "Resolved—That the out golf this country club will de- members of the Vesper Country cline, and the quickest way to kill Club view with apprehension the golf is to make the game too expen- tendency to increase the price of golf sive for the player of moderate bails as being calculated to hamper means—that is, for every player in the enjoyment of the game by per- the Vesper Country Club. Xew play- sons classed as players and to dis- ers are necessary for the continuance courage accessions to their numbers. of the club, and the new players, as The golf committee of this club is a rule, must come from the young requested to consider the expediency men, whose means make the exhorbi- of handicapping by not less than half 1 tant prices I have cited prohibitive. a stroke per hole any ball retailing at Without new blood in golf, golf dies; more than 50 cents each, and is au- and the death of golf, the death of thorized to take such action as may this club. be deemed necesary to give effect to such regulation. To the golf com- "As a general proposition, as the mitee is also suggested the advisabil- exactions of a trust are everybody's ity of conditioning all strictly club business and everybody's business is events upon the use of gutta-percha nobody's business, we all submit or solid balls." meekly to plunder. This golf ball trust, however, is a personal affair Among the latest inventions is a for every one of us; it not only picks paper-covered golf ball. It is said the pocket of ever}' individual, but to weigh as much as the rubber- 1 it hits the Vesper Country Club, and cored variety besides having the every other club like it, a foul blow. requisite resistence and durability. It is-for us to hit back and hit hard, J* and now; we wouldn't be worth our The handicap list of the Massa- salt if we submitted without a fight. chusetts (iolf Association contains Individually we should refuse to buy the names of 1,650 players—100 or use the golf balls and golf goods more than last year. The scratch of any member of the trust; collec- men on the list are Malcolm McBur- tively, as a club, we can make the use ney, captain of the Harvard team, • in our links of anything bearing Walter E. Egan and \Y. C. Chick. \ FOWNES THE IMPROVED Garter KNOWN AND f WORN ALL OVER THE WORLD

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231; 238 THROUGH THE GREEN. both of Harvard, and A. G. Lock- ing and additions. By the end of wood. There has been some comment July the club will be in its new quar- on the fact that A. L. White the inter- ters. t collegiate champion, is given one stroke. Mr. Cracknel's explanation is that White was beaten in the Massachusetts championship by T. G. Stevenson, who in turn was beaten by Andrew Carnegie, 2nd. We shall be better able to get a line on White when he has played in a \ national championship, something he has not hitherto done.

Of the names sent in to the handi- cappers Wollaston Golf Club heads the list with 114 names, and then follow in order: The Country Club, 113; Vesper Country Club, 92 ;Oak- ley, 84; Medford, 68; Brae-Burn, 64; Allston, 57; Myopia, 55; Tedesco, 47: Springfield. 45; Brockton. 43; Merrimack \ alley, 42; Woodland, 41; Winchester. 41 ; Albemarle, 39; 0 Arlington, 38; Essex, 38; Kenil- worth. 7,7; Commonwealth, 36; Lex- ington, T,T,: New Bedford, 31 ; Belle- vue, 30; Worcester, 30; Salem, 28; Wellington Hill. 27; Alpine, 25; Of extraordinary golf shots this is Newton, 2^ ; Segregansett, 27,; Tat- not the least. It happened at Mag- nuck, 21 ; South Fields, 20; Danvers, nolia Springs, Fla., last month. Dr. 29; Concord, 19; Crow Point, 19; Hopkins' ball was at point "A" and Meadowbrook, 19: Merry Mount, Mr. William Beard's at point "B." 19; Framingham, 18; Norfolk, 18: Dr. Hopkins, who approached the Tekoa, 17; Somerville, 14; Chestnut hole, pulled his ball and it struck Hill, 12; Weston, 12; Andover, 10; Mr. Beard's at an angle and the lat- Hoosic-Whisick, 10: Hyannisport, 9; ter ball rolled into the hole, 75 feet Welleslev, 9; Stockbridge, 1. away. Dr. Hopkins' ball exactly re- placed Mr. Beard's. The measure- The San Francisco Golf and Coun- ments were verified and the angles try Club has completed all arrange- are aproximately correct. Dr. Hop- ments for moving from its present kins and Mr. Beard are members of headquarters to Ingleside, where it the Nassau Country Club. Mr. W. has purchased a site for a new club H. Nichols and Mr. W. H. Childs, house and leased ground for a golf who were on the green and saw the course. $15,000 will be spent on the shot, are also members of the same club house exclusive of the furnish- club, and they all reside in Brooklyn. HAVE YOU TASTED IT? INTHE -COM- I HEART OF PRESSED f THE BALL AIR. i

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George S. Lyon, the Olympic The American Golf Association Champion, has sailed for Great Brit- of Advertising Interests have ac- ain to take part in the amateur cham- cepted the invitation of the Euclid pionship at Prestwick. He is play- Country Club to hold a tournament ing now at the top of his game. there. The fixture is arranged for Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, The fifteenth edition of "Hints to July 18, 19 and 20. Through the Golfers" is now going through the courtesy of Mr. D. W. Cooke. of the press. Curiously enough the book is Executive Committee, a special train having as large a sale in England as will leave over the Erie Railroad in this country. Intricate and diffi- Sunday morning, July T6, SO that one cult shots of all descriptions are care- day will be available for practice. fully and painstakingly explained, and in so far as it is possible to teach The tournament will be governed golf on paper, "Niblick" has done it. by the same rules as prevailed at The text is very good, typographic- Pinehurst. If any change is ncccs- J. H. TAYLOR OPEN CHAMPION OF GREAT BRITAIN 1894-1895-1900

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That Mr. Travis can play with his long-shafted clubs is apparent. Re- cently he went round the Garden City course in not the best of weather in 75, having the very fine association will soon reach its limit of figure of 34 for the out journey. If membership, so that golfing adver- he adds a few more inches to the tisers should send in their names shaft, golfers will take to the woods. quickly to the secretary, Mr. W. H. Beers, 32 Union Square, New York The New Jersey State Golf Asso- City. ciation will hold its annual championship at the North Jersey Coun- Under the auspices of the Waver- try Club at Paterson, June 1-3, and ly Golf Club of Portland, Oregon, a the programme has been issued. p Lewis and Clark tournament will be There will be a qualifying round at held on the club links from June 19 eighteen holes, with sixty-four to to 24, inclusive. This is much more qualify for match play at eighteen than an ordinary tournament, being holes, except the final, which will be a men and women's championship at thirty-six holes. In the team match of the Pacific Coast, and it will be of four men from each club, the qual- open to all amateurs. A large num- ifying scores will count. Saturday ber of entries are certain from Cali- there will be an eighteen-hole handi- 4 fornia and the Northwest, and it is cap, with allowance limited to hoped that some Eastern players will eighteen strokes. attend. They can see the Exhibition and take in the tournament at the All residents of New Jersey who same time. Entries will close June are members of golf culbs belonging 14 at 6 p. m. An entrance fee of $5 to the associsation and all non-mem- must accompany each entry, and this bers who belong to no other than will make the entrant eligible for the New Jersey clubs members of the championship events and the con- association are eligible to olay. En- solation flights. Entries must be sent tries must be made to H. J. Hewat, to the secretary , T. A. Linthicum, p. secretarv of the association 227 (). Box 167. Hamilton avenue. Paterson, N. J., on or before Monda\ night. May 29 The Men's (liampionship will hstve a 36-h lie medal r

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243 244 FIXTURES. charge of the tournaments: Percy tary; William Kaumheimer, finan- Jackson, president; Leighton Calkins cial secretary; Simon L. Stein, treas- and F. M. Wilson, handicap commit- urer. tee; H. J. Hewak and C. B. Beek- with, tournament committee. There was some good golf at St. Augustine the end of last month. In the finals for the St. Augustine Cup- A new country club is planned for at the golf club, E. S. Armstrong, Milwaukee to be known as the Oak- Lock Haven, Pa., beat L. A. Hamil- land Country Club, and it is hoped ton, Englewood, by 4 up and 3 to- that the course may be ready by the play. R. T. Sterling, Mount Airy, midle of June. There will be nine won the Consolation Cup, beating R. holes, and as the ground secured is F. Flick, Wyoming Valley, by 4 up- meadow land and rolling, the amount and 3 to play. of work required to get it in shape will not be excessive. At a recent meeting the following officers were Bath (N. Y.) will probably have a elected: L. T. Tabor, president; golf club soon. A committee was- Adolph Friedman, vice-president; appointed to secure links and a fa- Alfred M. Mendel, recording secre- vorable report is expected.

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May 4-6.— Garden City Golf Club, May 29.- Plainfield.N. J., Country Club, Invitation tournament. Womens' Metropolitan Golf Association, May 10 13.—Savannah Golf Club. one day tournament. Southern Golf Association Championship. June 1-3.—North Jersey Country Club, May 20.—At Philadelphia, Metro- Paterson, N. ]. New Jersey State Golf politan Golf Association against Golf Championship. Association of Philadelphia. In June.—Twaalfskill Golf Club, King- Week of May 22— Prestwick, Scot- ston, N. Y. Hudson River Golf Associa- land. British Amateur Championship. tion, Individual Championship. May 25-27.— Garden City Golf Club, June 7-8. — St. Andrews, Scotland. Inter-Scholastic Championship. British Open Championship. May 24-27.—Fox Hills Golf Club, June 8 10 —Knollwood Country Club, Metropolitan Championship. Invitational tournament. Week of May 29.—Royal Cromer Golf June 810.—Huntingdon Valley Club, England. British Ladies' Cham- Country Club, Fifth anual invitation tour- pionship. nament f<>r the Lynnwood Hall Cup. {fixtures continued on page 24b). ATOUR COST,CONVINCE ton. America's Famous Spa. YOUR GREEN KEEPER that the Atlantic City GOLF KIND TOBACCO JPOWDERl will, if sprinkled lightly over the putting weena. H.ours keep the pests away, 'tin a fertilizer too. We will semi you 1.0lbs. fieofor tri^l if you will pay the Mine Cup 1 FROM express charge on itn arrival. WE ARE TOBACCO POWDER HOBBYISTS Tin- ii. A. 8TOOTHOFF CO., New York 11O Went St., New York City, N. Y. VIA THE BRITISH LADIES' New Jersey GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP ON THE LINKS OF CROMER Central IS THK HEART OF POPPYLAND. In tin- Last Week in May. Solid Vestibule Equipment THE G-RBAT EA~TTE-RJV HAILWAy Buffet Parlor Cars. Operates the Ovh/ Ronle to It. The coast line fvom LONDON via W.U.THAM. IPSWICH, LOWKSTOKT aud YARMOUTH. The inland line from LONDON via CAMBRIDGE, ELY and HOHWICH. THE CATHEDRAL ROUTE from LIVKISTOOL or GLASGOW via LINCOLN, PETBKBOKOUGH.CBOWLMID, BOSTON and LYNS. EXCELLENT HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS. Send 4 cents iu Rtumps for book of description to H. J. KETCHAM, GENERAL AGKNT OF THK GREAT EASTERN RAILROAD, 362 Broadway, >'ew Vork.

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June 13-15.—Cincinnati Golf Club, August 14-19 —Kxmoor Country Club. Ohio State Championship. Open tournament. June 14-17.—Westbrook (N. Y.) Golf August 23-26.—Glen View Club. Club, Invitation tournament. Open tournament. June 13-15.—Baltusrol Golf Club, Wo- September 14-16.— Fox Hills Golf Club mens' Metropolitan Golf Association Metropolitan Golf Association. Open Championship. Championship. June 17-21-24.—Merion Cricket Club, Sept. 21-22. — Myopia Hunt Club. Golf Association of Philadelphia. In- Open Championship of United States. dividual Championship. September 21-23.—Mount Airy Coun- June 22-24—Englewood (N.J.) Golf try Club, Fifth annual invitation tourna- Club, Invitation tournament. ment for the Philadelphia Cup of the Tune 25-30.—Woodland Golf Club, Golf Association of Philadelphia. Auburndale, Mass., Open tournament. September 25-30.— Country Club, July 1-3-4.—Mount Airy Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts Golf Associa- Philadelphia, Second invitation tourna- tion Championship. ment. July 6-8.—Apawamis Club. Open September 28-30 —Huntingdon Valley Country Club, Third annual open cham- tournament. pionship of Philadelphia. July 12-15.—New Haven Country Club, Connecticut State Championship. October 5-7.—Philadelphia Cricket Club. Invitation tournament. July 18-22.—Onwentsia Country Club. Annual tournament. October 10-15.—Morris County Golf Club. Women's Championship of the July 24-29.—Glen View Club. West- ern Amateur Championship. United States. I July 31-August 4.—Dollymount, Ire- October 17-20. Philadelphia Cricket land. Irish Open Amateur Champion- Club, Philadelphia. Womens' Golf Asso- ship. ciation Individual Championship. In August.— Homewood Country Club, October 17-21.— Garden City Golf Western Womens' Golf Association Cham- Club. Inter-Collegiate Championship. pionship. October 19-21.—Country Club, Brook- August 7.—Chicago Golf Club. Asso- line. Autumn meeting. ciation team contest for Olympic Cup. November 7.—St. David's Golf Club. August 7-12.—Chicago Golf Club Third annual invitation tournament for Amateur Championship of United States. the St. David's plate. FOR SALE Beautiful shore front estate, 40 to 45 minutes out on the N. Y., N. H. & Club. H. R. R. Nearly 100 acres, about half mile fronting on the open Sound. Several acres in lawns, shrubs, shade trees and flowers. Large house, 25 rooms and 10 bathrooms; stable and gate house. In the vicinity of two fine Golf Courses and Yacht Clubs. Also beautiful country estate, 200 acres; 40 acres in lawns, shrubs and Italian gardens. Large house and stable, built of brick and stucco; extensive

1 conservatories; within one hour of New York on the L. I. R. R. Price toy Conn. f> $550,000. arna- Country estate, 20 acres in lawns, shrubs and gardens, near the water, *phk 30 miles out from New York on the L. I. R R. Large house and stables built of brick and stucco. Near one of the best Golf Courses and Country Clubs on the North Shore. Price $175,000. Many other fine shore, front, and ridge lands to rent and for sale. For full particulars, apply to CHAS. H. SEELY, 23 WEST 39th ST., N. Y. CITY. FOR SALE Elegant piece of property comprising 8 I r.cket \.... acres cultivated land, with orchard, etc., i located at Forked River, near Barnegat Bay, N. J., about 17 miles south of Lakewood, and five minutes' walk to Golf Links. Large Twelve-Room House and twelve out- buildings, etc., surrounded by Pine Woods, Price, $3,500.

Full description HARRY VARDON Cloth. $3.50. net (Postage 22c.) Illustrated by 268 Action Photographs The author has been fortunate in securing Mr. Harold H. Hilton to write a few words on each of the amateurs, criticising their game as he sees it. As Mr. Hilton is the only amateur who has twice won the Open Cham- pionship, and has a most keen power of observation, besides vast experience of the game, his views are a great addition and help to the correct interpreta- tion of the Photographs. From these pictures he can see the stance at a glance, as each Golfer is standing on a square of four feet divided into six-inch squares; and he need not be constantly wondering if he is on the right lines, and is standing as his model does, or following his methods. For Sale by GOLF, 213 East 24th Street, New York.

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