% CÆfleeftip Record of “ ge i&opaf and 2lunctent” (tføme* " F a r and Sure.” [R e g is t e r e d a s a N e w s p a p e r .] No. 193. Vol. VIII.] Price Twopence. L Copyright.] F R ID A Y, M AY 25TH, 1894. I0, u per Annum, Post May 26.— Warminster: Monthly Medal. Dumfries and Galloway : Monthly Handicap. Royal Wimbledon : Monthly Medal. Crookham : Monthly Medal. Huddersfield : Monthly Competition. Willesden v. Northwood. Clacton-on-Sea : Ashford Cup. Knutsford : Monthly Competition. Ventnor : Saltarn Badge. West Cornwall : Monthly Medal (Final). County Down : Captain’s Prize (Final). May 29.— Waveney Valley : Monthly Medal. Burnham : Gold and Silver Medal. May 29, 30, 31, & June I. —Ladies’ Golf Championship (at Littlestone). May 30.— Falkirk Tryst: Mr. Nimmo’s Prize. West Lancashire : Monthly Competition. Birkdale : Captain’s Prize (Final). Morecambe and Heysham : Clark Prize; Monthly Prize. May 31.— Royal Cromer : Monthly Medal. Bentley Green : Monthly Medal. 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London Scottish : Monthly Medal. Luffness : Wemyss Challenge Medal. Taplow : Monthly Medal. Bowdon : Heywood Prize. GREAT CITY DEPOT for Forgan’s, Carruthers’, Forrester’s, Ilkley : Monthly Medal. Park’s, Ayres’ Slazengers’, The “ Clan,” &c., GOLF CLUBS. Royal Epping Forest: Gordon Cup ; Captain’s Prize ; and Agents for the Patent Aluminium Golf Drivers. A large stock of Monthly Medal. well-seasoned Silvertown and “ A I ” Balls always kept. Sports and Disley : Summer Silver Medal. Neasden : Monthly Medal. Games Catalogue Free by Post.— BENETFJNK & CO., 89, 90, 107, Mar pie : Monthly Medal. and 108, C h ea psid e, L ondon, E.C, 190 GOLF. May 25, 1894. The Chairman— That is exactly what we are trying to avoid. Your argument is entirely in favour of luck, nothing else; our whole IMPORTANT NOTICE. endeavour is to go against the luck. It should be play, which should determine the winners. Mrs. Cameron, of Wimbledon, said she desired to hear some reason Owing to the great increase in the popularity of against the regulation. The only argument Mr. Fair had used against it was, that it was an innovation, which surely was no the game, and the large demands on the space at valid reason. our disposal, we have decided to issue GOLF bi­ Mrs. Dill, of the Southdown and Brighton Club, seconded the motion of Mr. Fair. weekly instead of weekly. The first issue of the Professor Turner of Oxford, in opposing the motion said: Suppos­ new series will begin on Tuesday next, and the ing that in the luck of the draw the gold and the silver medallists had each come into a different half of the draw, I think we should be second issue on Friday. Under the new arrange­ mostly agreed that it was a very good thing, and there could be no ment the Annual Subscription to the paper will objection taken. All that the Championship Committee have done is to make sure that what we should all have regarded with favour shall be One Guinea. All editorial communications to be happen, and it does not seem to me, that the innovation is a very addressed to the Editor of GOLF, 80, Chancery Lane, serious one. It is of course an innovation, but I am certainly not one who considers that thereby it stands condemned. W.C. Advertisements to Greenberg & Co., at the The Chairman said that, although he was the person responsible for same address. having proposed this somewhat obnoxious regulation, he had no doubt the meeting would accord to him the belief that it was done in the interests of the game. If they objected to it because it was an innova­ tion, then the Union should not be in existence, as it was a great THE LADIES’ GOLF UNION. innovation. A Golfing Union was an innovation that had been pressed upon the golfing world for the last ten years. Every year innovations in the shape of new rules were being brought forward, and accepted The annual general meeting of the Ladies’ Golf Union was held in because they were considered by the majority to be better. The desire London on Wednesday the 16th inst., Mr. Laidlaw Purves in the of the committee was that the best players should win, and that was chair. the reason for this innovation. What would occur if the gold and The Chairman reviewed very shortly the proceedings of the Union silver medallists of last year came against each other in one or other during the past year, and congratulated the members on having been half of the draw. It would allow, possibly, of a fourth or third rate player becoming the silver medallist of the year. How ? Not by her invited to hold the coming Championship meeting on the Littlestone play; not from being better than the others, but by luck. It is this Golf course, which he characterised as second to none for the purposes luck that it is proposed to try to eliminate. If the committee could, of the Ladies’ Championship. they would have the Championship played by the system pursued in an American tournament; but for that there is not time. It is not sug­ After the adoption of the accounts, the two by-laws recommended gested that, as in tennis the winner of the previous year should stand- by the council relating to inter-club matches, were passed by the aloof, and not be asked to play through the heats and stand the racket meeting. These by-laws are as follows:— (i.) “ In inter-club of the fight. They still have to meet all the other players before they matches the minimum number of the team shall be eight for clubs over can again come to the front, and all thatt he committee propose is that fifty members, and six for clubs of fifty and under.” (2.) “ In inter­ they should not be compelled to meet each other in the first part of the club matches each match won counts two, in addition to the number meeting. Take the last Hoylake Championship. Did not every golfer of holes up.” say, “ What a magnificent draw !” Why was it a good draw? Be­ The office-bearers, nominated by the council for the ensuing yeai$ cause Mr. John Ball was in one section, Mr. Laidlay in another, Mr. were then elected. Hilton in another, and so on. What would have been said if all the Mr. Talbot Fair, on behalf of the Lytham and St. Anne’s Club, best players had been drawn in the upper half? It would have been with the permission of the chairman, brought the following resolution said, “ What an unfortunate draw ! What a chance for second, third, before the meeting, viz., “ That this meeting asks the Championship and fourth rate men to come forward in fhe under half?” That is Committee to consider the advisability of eliminating the w*rds from exactly what they wished to meet. The Championship Committee have, ‘ but ’ to ‘ draw ’ inclusive, in No. 4 Clause of the Championship according to the powers given them, drawn up the rules and published Regulations.” By removing these the words “ but the ballot shall them. They have gone forth to the world, and have been advertised be so arranged that the gold and silver medallists of the previous year in G o lf. Every member who intends to compete has joined under shall not be in the same half of the draw,” would not appear in Rule 4 these rules, and nowjMr. Fair says, “ We request you to withdraw that of the Regulations issued by the Championship Committee. part.” Having published it, if there be objection to it, discuss i t ; In support of the resolution, Mr. Fair contended that there must and, if it be held by the meeting that it should be eliminated, elimi­ be a great amount of luck in a draw, and pointed out that it was nate it for nextiyear ; but to ask that it should be withdrawn after it an innovation whereby the gold and silver medallists of the previous has been published to the world, is not a fair thing to do to the com­ year were to be protected, and that this was not done in the men’s mittee.