21 JKKeeftlp ItUcorb of “ gc ffiopal and hutment ” dBame. " Far and Sure.'1 [R egistered as a N ew spaper.] Price Twopence. No. 29. Vol. II.] FRIDAY, APRIL 3RD, 1891. ios. 6d. per Annum, Post Free. [Copyright.] India and the Colonies, 15s. Apr. 11.— Lanark : Gold Ball and other Prizes. King James VI. : The Mac-Leish Cup (3rd round). Dublin : Black Watch Gold Medal. Edinburgh C. A. Club : Spring Meeting at North Berwick. Wilpshire and D istrict: Gray Medal. Edinburgh Watsonians : Club Prizes. Forfar : Spring Meeting. Apr. 11-13.— Lytham and St. Anne’s: Spring Meeting; Two Scratch Medals, Six Handicap Prizes, and Terry Cup. Apr. 14.— Pau: Havemeyer Cup; Ladies’ Club. Royal Epping Forest : Kentish Cup. Whitley : Joicey Cup. Minehead : Spring Meeting. Royal Blackheath; Spring Medal and Singapore C u p ; Annual Dinner ; General Meeting, 4.30 p.m. Iiayling Island Ladies’ Club : Bath Challenge Star. Ap \ 15.— Royal Epping Forest : Kentish Gold Medal ; Noakes Cup. Apr. 16.— King James VI. : Spring General Meeting. Apr. 16-17-18.— Aberdeen Club : Spring Meeting. Apr. 16-18.— Royal Wimbledon : Spring Meeting. Apr. 17.— Durham: Osborn Cup. Harrison Club (Edin.) : Medal. 1891. A P R IL . Apr. 17-18.— Calcutta : St. Andrew’s Silver Tankard ; Duffers’ Cup. Apr. 3.— Durham : Blagdon Cup. Apr. 18.— W hitley: WyndhamCup. Harrison Club (Edin.) : Medal. Birkdale : Club Medal. Dinard : Mrs. Godfrey Chapman’s Prize. Disley: 6th Winter Handicap. Apr. 3-4.— Calcutta : Club Gold Medal; Captain’s Cup. Dublin : Monthly Medal Apr. 4*— Royal Liverpool : Monthly Medal and Optional Subscrip­ Gullane : Spring Meeting. tion Prizes. Bowdon : Championship Meeting. Prestwick St. Nicholas : Kilmarnock Trophy. West Lancashire : Monthly Medal. Birkdale : Club Cup and Hayward Prize. Formby : Captain’s Prize. Brighton and Hove : Berens Medal. West Herts : A Silver Cup. Haydock Park : Captain’s Cup. Redhill and Reigate : Club Medal. London Scottish: Monthly Medal. Monifieth : Gilroy Challenge Cup. Minchinhampton : Monthly Medal. King James VI.: Club Gold Medal; Imrie Silver Cup; Bournemouth : Monthly Medal. Pullar Inkstand ; The Mac-Leish Cup (4th round). Bowdon : Monthly Competition. Epsom : Monthly Medal. Aldeburgh : Monthly Medal. Elie Golf House Club : Spring Meeting. King James VI. : The Mac-Leish Cup (2nd round). Glasgow Stewart Cup. Redhill and Reigate : Allen Medal. Apr. 20.— Brighton and Hove : Captain’s Prize Tournament. Edinburgh “ Dispatch” : Braids’ Tournament (and suc­ Harrison Club (Edin.) : Cox Medal and Prizes. ceeding Saturdays). Apr. 22.— Monifieth : Gilroy Challenge Cup. Aberdeen Club : Scratch Medal and Burgmann Cup. King James VI. : The Måc-Leish Cup (5th round). Royal Jersey : Clutton and Plummer Cups ; Monthly Prize Apr. 22-24.— Royal Liverpool: Spring Meeting. and Sweepstake. Apr. 23.— Calcutta : Foursome Tournament. Apr. 6. — Calcutta: Foursome Tournament. Apr. 23-24.— Tyneside: Spring Meeting. Dinard : Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Marshall’s Prize. Apr. 24 and 25.— Whitley : Crawley Prize. Apr. 6-7-8. - Harrison Club (Edin.) : Cup and Prizes. Royal Epping Forest : Gordon Challenge Cup ; Captain’s Apr. 7.— Birkdale : Ladies’ Prize. Prize. Pau : Morris Post Cup ; Ridley Challenge Prize and Cup. Seaford : Monthly Medal. Cornwall County Golf Club : Monthly Medal (final). Birkdale : Mackenzie Cup. Royal Blackheath : Monthly Medal. Royal Wimbledon : Monthly Medal. Apr. 9.— Pau : Macdona Challenge Cup and Badge. Brighton and Hove : Mr. H. R. Knipe Prize. King James VI. : Kinnaird Cup. Luffness: Hope Challenge Cup; Wemyss Challenge Apr. II.— Whitley : Emmerson Prize. Medal. Littlestone : Monthly Medal. Nottingham: Monthly Medal. West Herts : Monthly Medal. Ashdown Forest and Tunbridge Wells : Monthly Medal. Guildford : Monthly Handicap. Royal Eastbourne : Spring Meeting. Tooting Bee : Monthly Medal. West Lancashire : Spring Meeting. 34 GOLF A pril 3, 1891. Apr. 25 —Tooting: Spring Meeting, Annual General Meeting, and THE THORNTON MATCH BALL. Club Dinner. Felixstowe : Monthly Challenge Cup. No golfer will probably be disposed to dispute the proposi­ King James VI. : The Mac-Leish Cup (6th round). tion that one of the main elements in Golf which conduces to Haydock Park : Legh Challenge Cup (final). enjoyment as well as success is to be the possessor of a really Royal High School, Edinburgh : Spring Competition over good ball. A ball devoid of elasticity, that gives out no re­ North Berwick ; Lord Advocate’s Cup; Millidge Medal, and ether prizes. sponsive “ click” to the blow of the club, that flies high and Landhills, and Club Medals. drops dead so soon as the propelling impetus of the tee-shot has Apr. 25-29 .— Monifieth : Gilroy Challenge Cup. been expended, is a sore trial to patience and temper, while Apr. 27. L -Cambridge University : Linskill Cup and Pirie Medal calling forth a needless and unremunerative expenditure of (terminal competition); Extraordinary General Meeting, energy. Among the many excellent present-day makers of Lion Hotel, 8.30. good Golf balls Messrs. Thornton and Co., 78, Princes Street, Apr. 28.- —Whitley : Joicey Cup. Edinburgh, have long been known, north of the Tweed at least, Birkdale : Final Ties Ladies’ Prize. as manufacturers of a thoroughly matured and finely finished Apr. 30.- —Nottingham : Monthly Medal. match ball. Not only are Messrs. Thornton one of the oldest Minchinhampton : Spring Meeting. makers of balls, but, owing to their widely extended connection Guildford : Spring Meeting. as india-rubber manufacturers, they have long been familiar with the processes connected with the working of the raw MAY. material and with the subsequent treatment necessary before May i. -Minchinhampton : Spring Meeting. the finished article is turned over to the public for its use. Durham : Blagdon Cup. Dealing as they do with large quantities of india-rubber they Guildford : Spring Meeting. have, we understand, always in stock a large quantity of the Alnwick : Spring Meeting. raw gutta percha which has to be kept in a certain range of Harrison Club, Edinburgh : Medal. temperature before being subjected to the processes of ball Innerleven : Spring Meeting. Lanark : Hutchinson Cross (scratch), Forest Cup, Gold manufacture ; and as their staff of workmen are not only experts Ball, Handicap. in the manufacture of the gutta, but in playing the game of Golf, Calcutta : Blackheath Gold Medal. it will readily be understood that the conditions precedent to May 2.- -Minchinhampton : Spring Meeting. the turning out of a sound and thoroughly good ball are here in Brighton and Hove : The Berens Gold Medal. ample force. London Scottish : Monthly Medal. Impressed with the necessity of meeting the great demand Prestwick St. Nicholas : Bailie Wilson’s Medal. which has recently sprung up, owing to the spread of the game Royal Liverpool : Monthly Medal and Optional Sub­ all over the world, Messrs. Thornton have, with praiseworthy scription Prizes. energy, set themselves the task of appeasing the cry for a well- Lanark : Hon. Mrs. Bingham’s Links, &c. ( Handicap). matured ball. During the past winter they have been busily Bournemouth : Monthly Medal. engaged in making balls, and at the present time we understand Bowdon : Monthly Competition. Guildford : Spring Meeting. that they have in stock no fewer than 10,000 dozen guaranteed Epsom : Rosebery Gold Medal. six months’ old balls to supply the spring and summer demand Haydock Park : Captain’s Cup (4 Competition) of golfers. Being probably alive also to the outcry which has Aldeburgh : Silver Medal. been raised against badly-painted balls— that is to say, a ball Monifieth : Gilroy Challenge Cup. which becomes black and unsightly before you have played Redhill and Reigate : Allen Medal. three holes with it, owing to the paint chipping off— Messrs. Rochdale : Club Silver Medal. Thornton have devised a special pigment coating for their ball, Royal Belfast: Spring Meeting. which is warranted not to crack. We have recently had the May 5.- —Cornwall County Golf Club : Monthly Medal. pleasure of testing these balls, and the advantages which the May 5-6.- —Royal and Ancient, St. Andrews : Spring Meeting. makers claim lor them are by no means overstated. They May 6. —Durham : Spring Meeting. leave the club at the tee with a spring which is quite exhilarat­ May 6-8.- —Bath Ladies : Prize Meeting. ing ; and the “ carry” one gets by their aid is surprising. May 7. —Whitley : Emmerson Prize (final). May 7-9.-—Royal and Ancient, St. Andrews : Amateur Championship Playing off the tee against a high wind, with a deep ravine at St. Andrews. to carry, it was found as a matter of repeated practical test that London Scottish : Spring Meeting. the Thornton ball had more penetrating power against the May 8.- —W hitley: Crawley Prize (final). retarding high wind, while two other balls, of different makers, May 8-9. — Brighton and Hove : Spring Meeting. were found to be heavier and to drop short with more sudden­ May 9.-—Minchinhampton : Monthly Medal. ness towards the end of the flight. On the putting-green, also, Royal Epping Forest : Quarterly Medal and Scratch they were true in their run, and did not leave the club, either Medal, &c. with a bewildering jerk or with a sluggish dulness which set at Birkdale: Club Medal. defiance the calculating judgment of the player who fancies Whitley: Wyndham Cup. himself, above all things, to be at least a putter. These balls Guildford : Monthly Handicap. withstand a marvellous amount of hacking throughout the Edinburgh University: Challenge Cup and Club Prizes (at Gullane). green. A recent recruit to the game, who plays with iron clubs Alnwick : H. Marsh Painting. only, tried one, after scarring with gaping wounds a six months’ Wilpshire and District : Monthly Medal. old made up ball. He returned it, bearing evident traces of Rochdale : Captain’s Monthly Prize. agricultural implements, but, unlike the other, quite round and Dublin : Lumsden Medal. shapely. We confess, however, that there is an inequality in May 9-11 .— Ashdown Forest and Tunbridge Wells : Spring Meeting. the painting. Som e of the paint does chip off, but only very May 12. — Royal Epping Forest : Kentish Cup; Kentish Gold Medal slightly; and we call Messrs.