Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-30
WOMEN WILL PLAY GOLF.
Society Ladies Who Are Members of the
Morrisfown Golf Club.
(New York Herald

The ultra-fashionable set in and about
Morristown have been greatly interested
for months past In the formation OF a
golf club and the building of n suitable
clubhouse, which was opened yesterday
with an informal reception, rendered by
the ladies' of the Executive Committee to
their friends.
The clubhouse is an attractive building.
Of one story. 70 by 81 feet. with long,
curving roof and wide verandas In the
front and back. Ii has no shade about II,
and when the August sun pours down
upon 1t 1t must be exceedingly warm.
The interior is one long room. with
balconies at either end. At one end.
under the balcony, is the ladies' dressing
room. and under the other balcony the
buffers pantry and gentlemens dressing
rooms are situated.
An immense open fireplace is built In
the centre Of the rear wall and the beams
OF yellow pine across the top of the
room are left bare. giving quaint at
tractiveness to the room; the walls are
covered with burlaps, panelled with strips
of pine moulding.
The clubhouse Is just back OF the
centre of the grounds, which comprise
forty acres on Madison avenue. II Is said.
although the club grounds are not con-
sidered desirable for building purposes,
their peculiar formation makes them the
best In the country for the game of golf.
COSTUMES ARE NOT PRETTY.
Although English and Scotch women
have played golf for generations 1t is
comparatively little known in America
and rarely played by women.
II requires not only constitutional
strength and fieetness OF foot. but more
sacrifice OF personal vanity in matters
OF dress than American women as a rule
are willing TO make. One must wear
short skirts, loose blouse waists, and
big shoes without heels, or with only
spring heels, to play this game. Few
women look pretty dressed In such cos
tunes. In England the women who play
golf wear woollen stockings and tweed
suits.
The game is played on foot with a
guttapercha bali about one and half
inches I'm diameter, which is struck with
a club or a cue something like "shin-
ney" stick. cut from very hard wood,
such as oak or beech. faced with metal
From eight to thirteen different clubs
may be used In the game for different
strokes.
The course for ladies is usually from a
mile TO a mile and a half in length. and
for gentlemen two or three miles. To a
novice golf is an exceedingly fatiguing
game.
MISS HOPKINS THE LEADER.
Miss Hopkins. who is the leading spirit
of MOrristown society. and through whose
efforts the club was formed, told me that
other games. such as croquet and tennis.
would be played by the ladies of the CLUB;
that it was a society formed for the de-
velopment of athletic sports of all kinds
among women, and not devoted 10 golf
alone.
The club has a membership of 200 ladies'
and 10 gentlemen. The officers are:
President Miss Hanland; Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. H. Mex. Twombly; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. William Shippen; Core
spending Secretary. Miss Field; Treasurer,
Mrs Charles Bradley. Executive Com
mitttee-Mrs. G. @. Frelinghuysen, Mrs.
Marmaduke Tilden. Mrs. Louis II. The
baud, Miss f. l.. Hopkins, and Mrs.
Rudolph II. Kissel. Advisory Board-Mr.
John d. Garfield. NJ. G. G. Kip. Mr.. IL.
Mex. Twomby. Mr.. Paul Reeves, Mr.. Il.
H. Williams, and Mr. George H.. Ray
mond. Board Of Managers-Mrs. ID. Will
lis James, Mrs. H. Nick. Twombly, Mrs.
Robert +. Ballantine. Mrs. Marmaduke
Tilden, Mrs. Charles Bradley. Mrs. *. III.
Cornelius r. Mitchell. Mrs. James F.
Randolph, Mrs. Albert III. Vernan, Mrs.
W. Il. Lyon, Miss Rowland, Miss Win
slow. Miss MacCullogh Miss Meier. Mrs.
W. Allstrom Flagg. Miss +. l.. Hopkins,
Mrs. Thomas Bushn.ll, Mrs. Luther
ROumtye, Mrs. George Il. Raymond, Mrs.
Louis r. Thebaud. Mrs. Richard A. Nc
Curdy, Mrs. Herbert McCurdy. Miss Isa-
bel A. Ballantlne. Mrs. G. G. Frelnghuy-
sen, Mrs. George. F. Stone. Mrs. Julius
Catlin, Mrs. Wheeler II. Peckham, Mrs.
Benjamin Nicholl, Miss Susan de f. Day,
Mrs. J. o. II. Pitney. Mrs. Byron-Sher-
man, and Mrs Randolph II. Kissel.
Some of the members are Mrs. w.
Prall Thompson, Mrs. Stephen 5. Whit
ney, Mrs. c. b. Alexander, Mrs. Edwin
Stevens, Mrs. j. Farley Cox. Mrs. Wynant
Vanderpool, Mrs. Thomas Pinckney, Mrs.
Frank Il. Stockton, Mrs. a. b. Frost.
Mrs. W. C. Sheldon. Mrs George Il.
Post. Jr, Mrs Ramsey Turnbull. Mrs.
John Louis Forbes. Mrs. Cornelius Eel
lows. Mrs. David y. ogden. Mrs William
Field. Mrs. Thomas Robbins. Mrs. 5. G..
Ward. Jr., Miss Hitchcock, Mrs T.. f..
Bullet. and Ma Robert j. Turnbull