San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-05
GREAT GOLF GAMES
PLAYED This WEEK ON TIE
LINKS AT NIAGARA.
List of3Events and Names of Prom
Inent American and Canadian
Players Who Will Com
pete For Prizes.

Internatl0naltG0lf tournament, 10
be held at Niagara, beginning to.
day:
Thursday, 1Septem Der oil a. m.
No. l.-Handicap, open to all
amateur players, being memb ers Of
a recognized golf club; Is holes;
medal play; handicap limited to
Is strokes; first, second and third
prizes. 2 .. m.-No. 2.-Team
play between Toronto and Niagara
Golf clubs, for custody OF the
Niagara cup. A p. m.-No. g.
Driving ,competition, by points,
for distance; total score in three
trials; two prizes.
Friday, Septem Der ell Am
No. Authorizations champion
ship; round Of Is holes; open to
all amateur members in good
standing of q golf club which, in
the United States, has member
ship in the United States Golf as
ISOLATION, or which, in Canada, is
recognized by the Canadian Golf
association; final round. Sc holes;
first prize, international trophy,
(value, 5000, to become the. prop
erty Of any player winning it three
times in succession, and q gold
medal. 2 p. m.-Second round,
international championship. A p.
m.-No. .5.-Ladies' championship;
open; nine holes; match play. (;
two prizes.
Saturday, September I'll a. m.
Final round of international
championship. No.7--Consolation
handicap. Open to all players who
have competed in tournament and
failed to win prize; Is holes.
Medal play. First and second
prize.
The links are Government COM
mons adjoining the tow and con-
sist of Is holes. The first nine
holes lie along the western bank
at the mouth of the Niagara River
and Lake Ontario, above Fort Mis-
sissauga, which furnishes excel
lent hazards In the shape Of old
| rifle pits, wet and dry moats, high
entertainments, etc. The grounds
are in sight of American territory,
and the players really do battle
under two flags at one time in the
play, the American flag on Fort
Niagara seeming to wave over the
contestants.
The tournament arrangements
have been made by an information
al committee which consists OF
Charles B. Mcdonald, Chicago; H
o. Talmadge, New York; Hobert
Cbattield-Taylor, Chicago; F. Stan.
clifie, Montreal A. Simpson, Otta.
wa Judge King Kingswell, Toron-
to; H. d. Warren, Toronto; George
Bleisteip, Buffalo; Charles Hunter
Captain r. G. Dickson, Niagsra.on-
the-L Lake, and Stewart Houston.
The dates of the tournament have
been arranged in conjunction with
the Chicago Golf club, which will
hold a tournament the week fol-
lowing. Nearly a score OF Chicago
ans have entered and a large num-
Der Of the best players in Canada
and the United States have prom.
ised to attend and participate in
the matches.
The game Of golf, though intro
duced in the United States only in
1892, has become remarkably popu.
lar and bids fair to become the
most popular athletic sport of the
day. The pioneer golf club in
Canada was formed in Montreal
in 1874, then in Quebec. Toronto,
in 1876, Niagara 1888. The Mon
treal club is noted for its hospital
ity to golfers and numbers among
its patrons Queen Victoria, the
Earl Of Dutferin, the Marquis Of
Lorne, the Marquis of Landsdowne,
Lord Stanley and the Earl Aber.
deem. In Canada, semi.annual
matches are played between the
Montreal and Quebec clubs, and
have been played almost continu-
ously since 1877, and at present
Quebec is three matches ahead. A
golf contest of interest is the In
ter-Provincial match played an
nually between the Ontario and
Quebec provincial golfers.
Buffalonians owe their first real
introduction to golf to the hospita-
bile members of the Nicagara-on-
the-Lake Golf club. This sleepy,
but picturesque and charming old
town on Niagara river and Lake
Ontario is popular summer re-
treat for many prominent Buffalo
MANA Uhn haua ann NOR COTTAGES
there. The Niagara Golf club was
organized in 1882 by Captain Robt.
Dickson, late Of Her Majesty's 7th
Dragon Guards. The prominent
club players this season are Capt.
Dickson, Capt. Charles Hunter, j.
GQrGnn Mankanzia I.andan Wilks