The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-17
TIE MAN OF FASHION.
Golfto Be a Popular Sport Among Swell
Athletes.

able game this summer, and unless you
are up on links, " "tees, ''holes," ''put-
tings," ETC., you will be altogether out of
the world. | am told confidentially that
the swell Southampton Club on Long
Island has had over 100 requests for ad-
mission during the past month, and many
OF the applicants are the very cream of the
fashionable athletes of New York city.
Philadelphia and Boston athletes are FORM
ing golf clubs, and tennis and football will
lose at least a small percentage of popu-
larity.
Tuxedo Park is to have four of these
fashionable links" or golf grounds, one
In charge of Mr.. Shieffelin, the banker, an
other to be operated under the guidance
Mr.. Mead, the publisher, and the other
two to be purely private links for the use
OF some of the best of the Tuxedo set.
Perhaps the very prettiest golf ground or
link this summer will be that of Duncan
Wood, at Islip, L. /. 1t is rolling bit
meadow land, and for all the world like
Scotch heath, on which it is said golf can
be played with greatest success.
Golf Is really Scotch game and has
been in vogue Tor 1 don't know how many
centuries.
at is a molly terror" said that expert
Parish, "for it is all a great effort to get
into and beyond little holes in the ground.
When you have put the ball into eighteen
OF them you are through with your part
of the game. and if the next man can put
the ball into the holes with fewer strokes
he WINS
The ball is of gutta percha and very
hard. This can be driven over 200 yards
by good players from the "tee," the raised
bit of ground at the starting points. The
holes are from 200 to 500 yards apart and
form either circle, or if land will not
permit can cross and recross each other
1t is played in pairs or by individuals,
and where nothing is at stake the game Is
won by the man who gets around first.
In championship games the number of
strokes used decides. The implements
used are numerous, but, to begin with, the
driver" is used. With this the ball is
started off the tee" There is 'tee" ut
the side of every ball, and from this the
driving is always done. The holes are six
inches deep and four in diameter. So it is
really no easy work to put" the ball with
a few strokes. The ball is never touched
with the hand. When it goes into
sand or bushwood it is ''lofted''
with "lofting iron" The "cleek, is used
for short drives. OF the instruments pic
tured here only q few are used to any
great extent. These are the ''driver.,'
"cleek, ''putter," "masher' and sand
iron" Down at the Southampton Club
grounds the best critic and judge of the
game is the ''caddy." He is the boy who
carries the instruments about for the
players. and his Judgment is so acute that
he can tell on the instant what the play to
be made is and which one of the numerous
tools it can be made with.
A. b. Ten Eyck, of the Manhattans, is
one of the best golf players in America.
His "link" is at Cedarhurst, and he is ar
ranging for some great playing there this
summer. Mr.. Ten Eyck is as enthusiastic
over the fine points of the game as
Scotch caddy, and gave me some inside in
formation on how golf should be played.
at is really an athletes game, for man
must be in condition to do some heavy
hitting, and his aim must be accurate.
There are times when the good runner can
win game. That, of course. is where the
effort is solely to get around first.
1.-THE good player will devote consider
able time to finding a neat place to tee
on. He will then place his ball and stand
back from it, with the legs about two feet
apart. The position of the ball may be de-
sCTlbcu tuuS. IL u llIlc were uTdWn
out from the left foot, the ball should be at
least four inches behind that line, at
clubs length from the left knee.
In driving, the movements of the body
should be free and easy, the shoulders
kept square, and the left foot used as a
with the left hand and loosely
with the right, the thumbs being
well around the shaft. Swing the
club easily back in such way as to
catch it on the turn without jerking, and
bring the arms forward together so that
both hands will be straight with the shaft
at right angles to the ball in the act of
striking.
Then there are the wrist IRON shots
and the putting shots, both of which are
exceedingly difficult All these can only
be learned by watching the game carefully
and by constant practice"
Another pretty link is that of the
Stevens family at Hoboken. Mr.. Upham,
of Yonkers, has another magnificent
stretch of golf ground. j.. Mex.
Twomblev has pretty private link
at his country home in Madison, n. j.
But the club at Southampton is the swell
organization to whose efforts the popu-
larity of the game this season is due.
Among the best players are J. G. O'Con-
nor, s. w. Parish, Charles l.. Atterbury,
Thomas III. Barber, A. L. Morton and
Horace Russell.
Another game to which the man of
fashion is turning this year with some
hope that it viii furnish forth its quota
of summer amusement is hurting. 1t is n
good deal like lacrosse. but much more ex-
citing and somewhat more dangerous. 1t
will surprise people to know that there
are now twenty-one clubs in the vicinity
of New York, and that these propose to
hold a tournament during the summer
for the sake of popularizing the game.
NJ. Hazel. one of the finest hurlers in the
United States and captain of one of the
best of the clubs in this vicinity, told me
that the game was now in great favor and
that the athletic clubs of New York pro-
posed putting in some strong teams this
year.
There should be not less than fourteen
and not more than twenty-one PLAYERS on
a side in regular Matches" said Mr..
Hazel. "and the ground should be 1913
yards long by 40 yards broad.
THE goal posts stand at each end in
center OF goal line. They should be
twenty one feet apart, with n crossbar
ten and one-half feet from the ground.
Besides the goal posts there are two up
right posts standing in each goal, and
twenty-one feet from the goal posts. 4
| goal is won when the ball is driven be-
tween the goal posts and under the cross
! bar. A point is counted when the ball is
driven over the crossbar, or over the goal
| line within twenty-one feet of either goal
| post.
1.-THE captains of the teams toss for
| choice of side before commencing play,
| and the hurlers stand in two lines in the
center of the field opposite to each other,
and catch hands or hurleys across, and
then senarate The referee throws the ball