Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-06

ties connected with the pursuit Of the pas
time. There being no funds as yet avail
able and possibility that there never
would be, the committee delicately alb
stained from any mention to Pillicott Of
this particunlar item of the course, judg
ing it would be kinder to let him find it
out naturally and gradually in the progress
Of things.
1t was arranged that the tee off beyond
Peters hole should be from the roof of
Tubbs tool shed.
1t was necessary to gently loft over the
fowlhouse and between Tubb's pigeon
cot and poplar tree on to the gravel path
at the corner of Tubb's kitchen From
this point one could drive straight across
the road, under the doctors lamp on tho
farther side and between a conservatory
and house wall, to the foot of the doctors
rubbish heap, which constituted another
official bunker-rubbish bunker.
The drive across the road was u difficulty
because it was impossible for the player to
know whether any one was about to pass
along the road, and it was therefore neces
sary to arrange the height of the stroke to
nicely, so that the ball should pass over
the road at just such height as to avoid
the head Of pedestrian and yet low
enough to avert the smashing of the doc
tors lamp over the way. The ball could
not pass over the lamp because it would
then come in contact with u "mop" tree
and fall into difficult gully, and from
the gully it would need three strokes,
dribble a gentle loft over dust hole, and
another loft to bring it to rubbish bunker.
Then came difficulty. The only posi-
bic way to obtain drive from here was to
open the two windows of Crackleton's
washhouse and send the ball straight
through, which would enable it to cross
the road again and pass between Wilkin-
sons gate posts 1.-THE gate also being left
open) to Wilkinsons dust hole, which
blocked it. Hence by short dribble, the
ball could be placed in position to loft it
over holly hedge on to Wilkinson's green
the lower lawn-where the hole was.
DOGGY for this was four, and this complet-
ed the round of eight holes, DOGGY for the
whole round "a.
Then a boy turned up--none knew
whence Or how He was believed to have
come from dirty back street little way
off, but why the school board allowed him
to wholly suspend his attendance and de-
vote himself to us we could not make out.
We feared that boy from the first moment
we set eyes on him. He was Scotch boy
with unlimited confidence in himself, and
he seemed to be an absolute professor of
golf.
The first day we began to play he some
how-with whose authority we know not
constituted himself caddie, and simply
catf, fhn vnf Of Tad nor Of
| the scorn of his eye was only inferior to our
dread of that Of the eye of McGourock.
Under the tuition of McGourock and the
boy we made our first round. 1t was dis
astrOus.
First, Wilkinson, standing too closely
behind Dipps when the latter was attempt
| ing his first tee off, suffered compound
fracture Of the hat and considerable con-
fusion Of the scalp. Next, Dipps, having
| with great effort performed a drive of seven
| yards, made another mighty stroke at the
| ball on the strawberry bed where it had
landed. There was wild scattering of
earth and strawberry leaves, and Dipps
| gazed with great pride at a missile flying
| through one of the next door windows.
| But when he looked again at his brasser
| the head was not on it, while the ball lay
| innocently on the strawberry bed as before.
twas therefore concluded that it had been
| the head of the brassey and not the ball
which had gone through the neighboring
window, and this was subsequently ascer-
tanned to be fact.
Wilkinson, following on, promptly lost
! three balls. One was believed to have
landed in a roof gutter. But no man
knows to this day what became of the 9TH
| err two, nor what direction they took, and
some hold that they are still whirling
through space, to the danger of the public.
| Then Cattlebury denied Wilkinson shin,
| FOR Wilkinson seemed extremely unlucky
at golf, hurt his own leg, and finally drove
| his ball through the window of Pillicott's
billiard room. 1t was agreed that this
should not be considered as disaster, see
| ing that such casualty had been antici-
pated and provided for by the provisional
committee of survey.
Dipps made really brilliant stroke
| from the corner Of Tubb's kitchen across
| the road, but carriers cart happening
most unfortunately to pass at the moment
| the ball took tuft Of hair off the back Of
| the carriers head and, DETECTED from its
true course, smashed the doctors lamp on
| the farther side Of the road.
Pillicott required 10 strokes for the space
| between the tee off on Tubb' s tool shed and
| Cattlebury's uncle's green; Wilkinson, 49,,
and Dipps no fewer than 35, DOGGY being g..
| Then Banting unfortunately killed Mrs.
| Cattlebllry's pug and wounded the cocka-
| too.
On that first round the casualties were:
Windows broken, 8; Commissions, ETC., 8;
golf sticks damaged, IA; pugs killed, 1;
cockatoos damaged, / balls lost or strayed,
80. Total casualties, 90.
At each misfortune the boy laughed in a
demoniac way, and the scorn in McGou-
rocks eye was fearful to look upon.
That evening we met at Wilkinson's and
agreed that the game thus played did not
seem promising, but McGourock declared
his intention of going over the round regu-
larly until we should succeed in finding
more suitable links, and such was our
dread Of his eye that we dared not request
him to abstain, and he did go round all
day, every day, accompanied by the boy.
We were miserable He had thrown up
bunkers in our tennis ground, and we
could not play, and his irritation when
any of the Ladies' attempted cycling on the
road was too terrible to defy. He objected
to our even playing tennis, or croquet, OF
anything in our own gardens-indeed, it
was risky to 60 into them at ALL At last,
when the gardeners left because they OBJ
jected to be I" 1T on tho 'ead' with golf
balls, wo secretly urged one another to take
some decisive step with McGourock.
At this crucial time fate interposed We
found suitable common some way of,
and the club applied for permission to
practice the game on it.
Then came friction. First, the ladies
wanted to join the club. But McGourocll