New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-11
HOME AND SOCIETY.
.rc,rIARITIEs OF GOLF AND THE
PLAYER.


rss-BRINGISG CLOTHES FROM EUROPE
THE WIFE OF SIR WILLIAM VERNON
HARcouRT-PARIsIAN CLOTHES.
r.,t talk is rampant during these autumn days
,rcheon tables and dinner tables and over the
=, wood fires in the short evenings Cfor every
' zoos 10 bed early now, all the battles are
S,~h- over again. with an exhaustive descriptive
' IA an interest in the minutest details that to
nu,n is incomprehensible. To him II is merely
..un,d game without any socia ability and not
~,c, pon. involving a great deal of work. and no
A.s,,ts 10 speak of-for of the many who play very
-s.lv become proficient. Still. 1t is un-
isx.d fact that the craze has amounted TO
'..r,;c both here and in Europe. An enthusiastic
,tsr who recently visited all the famous links OF
ss,,snd not unlike pilgrim who pays his de-
.. each celebrated shrine. said OF St. Andrews
,;ob as every one knows, has links OF grea-
..,cuitv). the whole town has gone golf mad
So every man. woman and child carries golf
-,,,s while IN the middle Of the town itself one
- ,,s PARKS has been turned into a golf course
-. babies who can barely walk are taught the
,,,aI game their credo being evidently that 10
~ M a child in the way he should go ne must
Ave-, Of all be educated for golf
49,. ~ the peculiarities of golf. which makes IT'S
Ia, nopularity all the more wonderful. Is us lack
. sociab;lity The good player never conVerses
1nterCnaneeS n
Nv. while woe betide the chatty stranger VINO
'.,,s friend thinking that his company may ne
P JIM. Ar 8 this summer transient visitor
I'D not seen an intimate friend for several
- esnied him on the golf course IN Inc ols-
.s and FASTENED across the fields to greet MN,
- HE embarrassment. the other merely hoooeo
no,,1v while the with whom ne was play Iii
.-sd al him with unconceaieo ulSappi o'a'o'',
-. tho golfer finished his game and hastened
~ ind
W ,ba+ his seeming GOODNESS arose from the
- -, he ,ras ulaying with one of the experts
,ras q martinez in regard 10 silence on ,ne
-" bs found the visitor gone ana onended
past reparation' .-shas oftsr h.en
.nuanted upon. Il went into 'ha1 ouiIAei "
Gun "-. .,r,,sman" said an Irishman. and came
Yin. hathen'" Another curious develop
..r+ If the game is the seemingly universal as
.,or tina, no one can be trusted in regard 10
-. 80 and that unlike the courts. ~hcn holo
r.rv man innocent unless proven suii'E' soii
.,bics assume every man tand espec"rS ~
U,oras, unless a witness proves MN OF ne'
..h.r.ise The enthusiasm Of its votaries lot 'he
game Is extraordinar! ...
.r. ,ba Wedding is at t. remarked an eApeC'dh'
X..saaro,rn IT shall have time for eighteen hoies
oa-.r,onv and he had barely time 70
Laa his red coat for the conventional lrocA
80, burrvins TO the church. Unlike tennis goii
q game that may be played all winter anu IL.
the immediate vicinity OF Ne~-fork hunoe' %
rsu links have been opened and have Jo'hed 'he
National Golf Association. the members 'hereps
hecoro,nr eligible for any competition 81 any o"o'
The smart.st Of these the Country 'luo al
vss,chester the Ardsey the knoiiwooa' anu 'ia'
=, Hempstead. St Andrews. which Is IN sei''
col. c,nh in This country and takes It's name from
the narenr club in Scotland. is more sporting IMAM
social in it's character. Even snoWed-o'er course
6oes not stop the true golfer: red balls arc suo-
s,,,uted for white. and the slippery patches can
for special play which renders ii as interesting
~ mt as scientific as the game pursued under
usual conditions.
The good that is done by golf is incalculaoe. To
the tired man Of business who plays the game Win
the enthusiasm of a boy. il brings new life Tor
brain and body. The girl forgets her vaniiies ana
love Of admiration in heathtul exercise; the woman
Of the world is stronger. broader ana better
woman in consequence; and young men ma that
nerves disordered by drink smoking and late
hours are not to be relied on in the game they de-
sire TO excel in. Truly. bicycling and COLL may
said 70 be the great reformers OF the end OF the