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VOL. XII, No. 10.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
THOSE NEW GOLF RULES
Excited Vigilance Committee Invades
the Sacred Sancto-Sanctotum.
Atmosphere Turn Deep Azure Hue
and Irresponsible Office Hoy
Seeks Another Job.
HE chances are if vou
see a group of men with
their heads together, in
the hotel lobby, its
"those new golf rules''
they are discussing, or
with the "rfiV omitted. A week or ten
days ago the first printed copies reached
here and since that time everything
pertaining to the subject has been de
voured with est.
The latest contribution to the "fund"
is a story in a New York Sunday's paper
and certain sections of it have set the pot
a-boiling with new zest. In many
quarters what this paper says is "scrip
tur"', but not necessarially so at
"America's St. Andrews", and the ink
wasn't dry on the paper before a delega
tion of local experts was in The Outlook
editorial rooms with the branding iron
red hot.
The "busy dajr" sign was swinging
high, the office boy armed with a six
shooter, and the secretary with her most
bewitching smile; but of no avail and
into the sacred sancto-sanctotum, un
announced, the committee plunged.
"Read this," roared the spokesman,
"leaving out the hot air introduction be
tween Mr. Barnes of New York and
Governor Altgeld of Chicago," and this
is what we read, with a sidelong glance
at the office boy which meant "ask the
bookkeeper for your envelope" :
THE NEWSPAPER STORY.
About once in seven years the rules
committee of the Royal and Ancient
Goif Club of St. Andrews makes a new
deal and reshuffles the playing code that
governs the golfers of the world. There
has just occurred such a redistribution
of cards, and the revision was adopted
verbatim by the United States Golf Asso
ciation at its recent annual meeting. All
American players since then have been
conning the revised rules as carefully as
a sailor studies the compass. At a nearby
country club the rules were discussed by
a group that included a Shinnecock Hills
and a Western golfer.
"Rules on all games begin with descrip
tions of the layout and mode of play.
Golf cannot escape the inevitable proce
dure and definitions from the preface to
the code," said the Shinnecock Hills
golfer. "There are twenty-one of them,
and the arrangement with subheads is an
improvement over the old book."
"Quite so," assented the Chicago Golf
Club amateur, "but to turn the grind
stone E find a keen edge in but few in
stances. The blade is surely dulled when
'railway' and 'fence' are not mentioned
as hazards. I would assert that being a
'road or path' would compel the playing
of a railway' as a hazard were it not that
JSt Andrews, yet I am glad it is no longer
excepted. For one thing, it will save our
turfed bunkers from being hacked up
and also stop the many arguments as to
where the permanent grass begins or
ends. Some players have been claiming
any tinge of green as permanent grass.
To them if the ball rested against a sin
gle blade of gras it was a license to sole
the club."
"Worineasts are specified as 'loose im
pediments' and as such may be removed
when within a club length of the ball on
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MR. WALTER J. TRAVIS.
the new code recommends a local rule
where the rails cross the fairway. Also
permanent grass in hazard is now part of
the hazard, as it is not excepted, which
is a mistake."
"We are partially in accord," rejoined
the Long Islander. "The only course I
know of where the rails are not a hazard
is at Morris County, where so many fast
trains whiz by that to drop back is a nec
essary precaution. Regarding permanent
grass, the Scots have never played it as a
hazard; for instance, take the road at
the fairway," said the Westerner. "Yet
out our way a wormcast in dry weather
is a 'fixed impediment.' "
"That's only a quibble," the Shinne
cock Hills golfer retorted. "Now let me
read you a comparison of the new and
old rules in general. It may he an aid
to your greens committees in the West."
During the reading the Wheaton visi
tor and the smoking room group paid
close attention, some taking notes to aid
in any after discussion.
(Continued on page 2.)
P. H. POWEL THE WINNER
Leads in Handicap Trap Tourney
by Single Target Margin.
Paul JR. Gardner, It. 1 Willi and JT.
Cuihlngr lodd are Well Up at
Front of Good JFisld.
HE opening weekly han
dicap in the Country
Club's trap shooting
tournaments, attracted
u good field; a pretty
race for the trophy re
sulting, which a single target decided,
P. II. Powel of Newport, whose allow
ance was six targets, winning with
ninety-seven.
Tied for second place at ninety-six
were Paul E. Gardner of Chicago (10),
and R. F.Wil.te of Penns Grove,N. J. (10),
j. Gushing Todd of Newburyporc (10;,
third in ninety-five.
Next in line was A. W. Church of
New York (11). who scored eighty-nine,
W. W. Peabojy of New York (12),
making eighty-five and I. C. B. Dana of
Great Harrington, eighty-two (12).
E. It. Pooley of Philadelphia (12)
made sixty-nine, and G. F. Berry of
Frankfort, Ky., (10) made fifty-seven.
THE SCORES.
The event was shot in strings of two
fifteens and twenty, and repeated :
Powel . 614 15 18 13 13 18 91 97
Willis 1013 11 16 14 H 18 86 96
Gardner 1013 14 17 10 14 18 86 96
Todd 1012 10 16 14 15 18 fe5 95
Church 1111 11 17 11 11 17 78 89
l'eabody 1210 10 12 12 12 17 73 85
Dana 12 15 lo 16 9 10 15 70 82
Pooley 12 9 9 9 6, 9 15 57 69
Berry 10 8 11 7 4 5 12 47 57
Pool Tourney at The Inn.
3Ir. I. S. liobeson of Rochester, was
the winner of a handicap pool tournament
at The Holly Inn which aroused general
interest, defeating Mr. Harry Leon Wil
son of New Y'ork, in the final round,
thirteen points.
In the semi-finals Mr. liobeson defeated
J. S. Linsley and Mr. Wilson, A. I.
Creamer. In the second round Mr. Lins
ley defeated Salmon; liobeson, Berwin;
Wilson, E. 11. Pooley ; and Creamer,
Keating.
In the first round Linsley defeated
Grandin; Salmon, Byrnes and Parmelee;
Berwin, Ladd; liobeson, Nicholson; E.
11. Pooley, 11. W. Pooley; Wilson, Mor
ton; Keating, Hamilton; and Creamer,
Rockwood.