FEBRUARY 17, 1921
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THE YARB080UGH
Raleigh's Leading and Largest Hotel
European Plan. Cflfe one of the best in
the South. Rooms without bath, $1.50
and up. Rooms with bath, $2.00 to $3.00.
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(In Carolina Hotel.)
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GOLF
By Verdant Greene
While no attempt will be made at ra
tioning golf on municipal links in th;s
country for another season, at least, it is
predicted the plans being adopted in that
direction by several British clubs, occu
pying property of their own, will ulti
mately be forced upon American public
courses. Monifieth in Forfarshire, wita
1500 members has thus far taken the
most drastic steps. Each member is be
ing supplied with a card bearing his
name and a serial number which carries
cne hundred spaces. Hereafter players
must produce the card, a la meal ticket
whenever he wants to play around and
have one of the spaces stamped by the
starter before he can be sent away. When
all the spaces have been stamped, the
member will have exhausted his season's
ration of golf under the regular condi
tions. Probably the spaces are to be
stamped rather than punched, since if
the latter method was followed a golfer
with hob-nailed shoes might accidently
step on the card and exhaust his entire
year 's credit by perforating all the num
bers at once. There is, however, one
means by which the Monifieth gluttons
for recreation can overcome restriction.
When they nave had one hundred rounds
each which the committee regards as
good value for their subscriptions they
can engage in further rounds by paying
one shilling sixpence each time, which is
slightly higher than the subscription rate.
If a player forgets to bring his card be
fore he has exhausted his subscription,
he can play on depositing a shilling and
sixpence, which is held as security against
the production of his card for stamping.
It is the aim to reduce the volume of
week-end play so as to give a better
chanee to the average subscriber who
suffers at the hands of the more ardent
golfers. The trouble, unfortunately, is
intensifying for just the same reason on
the other side that it is here, although
slightly in advance of this country. As
times goes on courses are of necessity
moved further and further from town
which makes the players increasingly de
pendent on trains and motor cars. The
members who make even a reasonably
early start find that all the caddies have
been commandeered by people either liv
ing near by or staying over night in the
neighborhood, or those reaching the
course by private conveyance just in ad
vance of those dependent upon train and
bus schedules. Some of the English
courses have already introduced rules
that local residents must start first Sat
urdays and Sundays and that the other
times should be apportioned equally be
tween players arriving by motors and
train, the plan being put in operation at
an hour when non-residents are due.
Something along the . same . plans have
been suggested in the' Metropolitan dis
trict, where transportation is of neces
sity more congested than anywhere else.
Late copies of Australian papers re
ceived state that J. H. Kirkwood, the
Antipodean open title holder, (a home
bred, by the way), hopes to visit this
country following his appearance in the
British open, next May. Recently an
American golfer who had seen the
Australian in action declared he would
be the sensation of this year 's United
States open championship, should he start
under reasonably favorable conditions.
To establish a new mark for that Aus
tralian contest and at the same time be
five strokes under a man who once won
the title and has proved runner up seven
times, constituted Kirkwood 's double
achievement last year. Australian stars
have cut a great figure in American ten
nis, but no Australian golfer has ever
put in an appearance.
Next to Kirkwood and D. G. Souter,
the seven time runner up, the greatest
foreign card who could be secured for
this country would be Arnaud Massey,
French pro, the only outsider who ever
captured the British open. The average
Frenchman, as predicted 15 years ago,
when golf got its real start in that coun
try is not of the temperament for best re
sults in the sport, all the Gallic titles
again being won last season by players
of other nationalities, as was the case
in 1914, the last year before the break
caused by Avar. Massey, however, is in a
class by himself, as he would have dem
onstrated more clearly, but for the world
conflict. Strictly speaking though, Mas
sey is really a Basque almost as much of
a Spaniard as a Frenchman, since he was
born in the mountains dividing the two
countries.
It is as much of an advantage to get
in on the ground floor of a sport as on
a financial deal. II. L. Fitzpatrick, Avho
died, in New York, last week, was the
first golf reporter in America. The past
ten years he had been almost out of
sight, emerging in August, 1919, Avhen
he wrote regarding the national amateur
championship at Oakmont, for a Pitts
burgh paper. It Avas then predicted that
it might be his SAvan song and so it
proved. He was then just passed sixty
years. Unfortunately Fitzpatrick did
not sense his opportunity as the nestor of
American golf Avriters. He outlived
Reginald MayheAV, another NeAV York
reporter by only about a month. While
MayheAV Avas enough of an Englishman
to have a weakness for golf Avriting, he
Avas better knoAvn in Kenneldom, being a
breeder of dogs, thanks to the able as
sistance of Mrs. MayheAV. Ralph
Cracknell of Boston, another English
Avriter on golf died about the time the
Avar opened. Cracknell Avas a neAvs re
porter when that sport Avas taking a
rest on this side, but eventually he got
into golf upon which he became posted
before leaving England. Jack Hiscox,
Philadelphia's first golf reporter final
ly went into automobiling, but dropped
out of sight almost ten years ago, al
though his death has never been noted.
Joe Ryan, a pioneer golf reporter in
Chicago gradually drifted into motoring
and finally became a moving picture
house proprietor. He has been dead so
long that to the rising generation of
players his name is not even a memory.
Ryan Avas the only one of the four de
ceased mentioned to acquire a com
petency, a slice of which he left to his
assistant, Walter Birmingham, Avho soon
dropped the golfing end of his labors.
With the death of the foregoing four
closes what may be termed the first vol
ume of golf Avriting in the United States;
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