The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-04

contested for by the women players
some time this fall: The course at the
Town and Country club is a mile and
half around. and is we'll situated for
the purpose. Among the players who
come down from Minneapolis to play
are R. S. Rand, George G. Main and
Walter F. Booth. The local players are
Crawford Livingston, Col. r. F. Her
sey, w. P. Trowbridge, Eric B. Dahl
gren, w. S. Timberlake, Louis N. Hill,
Alex S. Porter, Jr., w. F. Peet, Robert
Stewart, ]. H. Merriam, Geo. c. Finch,
It, L. McClung, w. N. Armstrong, Mrs.
Dahlgren, Mrs. Peet, Miss Horn, Miss
Timberlake, Miss E. Timberlake, Miss
White, Miss NJ. White. Miss Finch,
Miss Hill, Miss Charlotte Hill. Miss
Gordon The game as it is played and
its origin are well set forth in the fol-
lowing article from an exchange:
The ancient and royal game of golf 1n It's
older forms golf, gouff or gowf) has for
centuries been the national game of Scotland,
and is at present the most fashionable game
in England and America.
No game stirs a keener enthusiasm in it's
votaries, and very few people who have ever
really given the game fair trial will be
found to deny its extreme fascination. 1t
Is manly and healthy recreation, bringing
into play it does, constant exertion of
Drains, arms anu legs. II call D6 play Gu IdSC
or slow at pleasure, thus adapting itself to the
overlooking exuberance of youth, the matured
and tempered strength of manhood, and to
the gentler decays Of age 1t Is uncertain
at what date golf was introduced in Scotland.
but in 1457 the Scottish parliament 'decreed
and ordained that golf be utterly cryit doun
and nocht usit," it having become a serious
menace to the then more important study
and practice of archery. Again, in 1881,
final and angry illumination is issued-t runs
thus: "Futeball and Collie forbidden. Item, 1t
IS statut and ordainit that in, ma place of the
realme there be usit, Futeball, Collie or luther
six unprofitabiIl sports, under the pain OF
This was an edict of James w., and it is
an evidence of the extreme fascination OF
~. himself figures prominently in the old
golfng records as a liberal patron oil the
game. -
thentic record, but it probably originated in
Holland: the word evidently seems derived
from German kobe, club Dutch kolt, wnich
1aet is nearly identical in sound with our
,orasent word golf although the Dutch game
IF koif is so unlike golf as to create doubt
as to their connection. From an enac'1 1edo
of lanes VI then James l. OIL Engianu!, 1oAo
ra And that considerable importation OF
Golf halls took place from Holland, ana as
thereby ma small quantity Oh gig anu SIM
"a transported yierly out Of his Hlenes KING,
\ don of Scotland -. this wise monarcn lssueu
ooi nrohibition as a protection to native in
Probahlv the Oldest golf club In England is
- ~ Rlackheath near London. In nearly
sA tbo british colonies the game has natural
a.. I'D itself. Golf clubs of old standing exist
q, Romhay, Calcutta, Australia. South Amer,
sca and Canada and all over the onlteo
co,f NAV be practiced on any good stretch
- n,eadow land where the grass is not too
Uarl hut the ground best suited for the
nurnose is a reach of undulating down eoun-
~ sucb as is common on the seaboard-
sandy in soil and much covered with short.
crisn turf occasionally broken up by sand
holes or Fabunkers" and provided in addition
with fair supply of gorse and brush; these
bunkers and whins constitute the main naz-
ards of the game. in the avoidance Of which,
skill in 1t is especially shown, and without
fair provision OF Them golhng links or
s'sreen'' can be held to approach the ideal
standard A hazard is general term for
ANYTHING in the nature OF an obstacle-fences,
brush trees, water, roads, rough grass, in
fact anything which tends to make the zap
proach' to the hole more difficult The course
should not be less than three miles nor more
than five and inc1des eighteen '.holes,'
which may be placed according to the ''lie
of the ground at any distance from 100 to
zee yards apart; course is usually or
less in a circle, to avoid collision between
outgoing and incoming players. Some links
have only nine holes, twice around making
n full course; the holes, which are placed
ssiywhere on the Putting green are four
and a half inches in diameter and not less
than four inches IN depth. The putting green