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 mile and
a 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 c. 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
T. L. McClung, w. N. Armstrong, Mrs.
Dahlgren, Mrs. Peet, Miss Horn, Miss
Timberlake, Miss E. Undertake, 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 I'm its
older forms goff, gOuff or gown 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 its
votaries, and very few people who have ever
really given the game a fair trial will be
found to deny its extreme fascination. 1t
is manly and healthy recreation, bringing
into play as it does, constant exertion of
brains, arms and legs. 1t can be played fast
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 1857 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 1891 a
final and angry illumination is issued-it runs
thus: ''Futeball and Collie forbidden. Item. 1t
&c
realme there be usit, Futeball, Collie or luther
six unprofitabill sports, under the pain OF
This was an edict Of James W.. and it is
an evidence of the extreme fascination Oh
the game that very shorty aIter, James
" himself figures prominently IN tne olu
coifng records as a liberal patron OF the
game. - -
4hentic record but it probably originated in
Holland: the word evidently seems derived
9ron German kobe, a club, Dutch kolf, which
last is nearly identical in sound with our
-1~osent word golf although the Dutch game
IF iSolf is so unlike golf as to create doubt
ae tn their connection. From an enactnleIH
of James VI. Ghen James l. Oh tsleIant?, 1oio;
.ra And that a considerable importation OF
Golf balls took place from Holland, ana as
Thereby ma small quantity OF gold ana SILVER SILVER
a. +ransnorted yierly out of his Hienes KING
f - of Scotland;' this wise monarch issued
ooI nrobibition as a protection to native in
d4stp bah,v the Oldest golf club in England is
- ~ Blackheath near London. In nearly
tnat ~ u Rritisb colonies the game has natural
I'd itself, Golf clubs of old standing exist
a. Romhay. Calcutta Australia, South Amer,
ina and Canada, and all over the onlted
Co1f NAV be practiced on any good stretch
s n,aadow land where the grass Is not too
anI- hut the ground best suited for the
rurnose is a reach Of undulating down coun-
nv such as is common on the seaooaro-
sandy in soil and much covered with snort;
crisn turf. occasionally broken up by sand
holes or 'fbunkers," and provided in addition
with fair supply Of gorse and brush; these
bunkers and whins constitute the main haZ-
ards of the game in the avoidance of VIII en-,
skill in it is especially shown and without
fair provision of them, no golhng links or
s'green'' can be held to approach the ideal
standard A hazard is a general term for
ANYTHING in the nature Of an obstacle-fences,
Trlsh trees water roads, rough grass, in
fact ANYTHING which tends to make the ZAP
nroach" to the hole more difficult The course
should not be less than three miles nor more
than five and incldes eighteen ''holes,'
which may be placed according to the lie
of the ground at any distance from 100 to
zoe yards apart; a course is usually more 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 placed
sliywhere on the Putting green are four
and half inches in diameter and not less
than four inches in depth. The putting green