The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-25
Social and
PERSONAL

The Bachelors are no more. They
are all eithHr married or weary of be-
ing Bachelors, so they will drop the
name, but go on and make a success
of ball just as of old. The New
Year" ball will be given at the Froth-
ingham on New Years eve, and taking
the place of the Bachelors ball of other
years will in every respect equal that
brilliant function. The committee in
charge Is composed of James Blair, jr.,
PRESIDENT T.. S. Fuller, SECRETARY; p.
Il. Belin, treasurer: Joseph Nj. Boies,
l.. Il. Fuller. The list this year Will be
cut down and the committee in charge
will make every effort to have the ball
a representative, as we'll as an eXclu-
sively society event, and no trouble or
expense will be spared to make it q
SUCCESS. The decoration and music
will be special features, and the latter
will consist of Bauers band of twenty
five pieces, and an orchestra from New
York. The balls of previous years
have had widespread reputation, and
have been a great credit to Scranton,
and the committee feels that the city
will support such a ball in the future
yesterday was not Wnat COulu De
termed ideal golf weather. but the en-
thusiastic players were not dampened
as to their spirits in the preliminary
match or qualification which opened
yesterday afternoon at half after two
o'clock. There were twenty-five en-
tries and the contests were very ex-
citing Miss Eleanor Anderson narrowly
missed qualifying, lacking but one for
he Inra, ta1 1nA
man who played with her in the match.
The cards turned in were: Huntington
"a. ]. II. Brooks 80, Young, of Albany,
100; c. N. Loveland, Wilkes Barre, 1O1 ;
IL. S. Kirkpatrick, 1O1; Claude Walker,
102; Bedford Reynolds, 10i; II. p. Simp-
son, Ill; F. C. Whitmore, III; r. II.
Watkins, III; Paul Belin, 115; Paul
Welles, 122; r. w. Manvil!e, 122
The tournament for the cup will be
played this afternoon. 1t will be a
most interesting match and will be wit
messed by the society people of the city
and a number of out OF town guests.
Miss Dale gave a delightful dancing
party last night at the country club
in honor of her guests, Miss Gibson,
of Philapelphia, and Miss Katharine
Gibson, of New York. The pretty club
house was tastefully decorated by
Clark. Bauer furnished the music. A
number of out of town guests were
present.
Interest in whist promises to develop
with the usual furore in the course of
few weeks. The Scranton Whist
club are contemplating enlarging the
organization to receive the Chess club
of this city, and with the awakening
of interest among the members of the
Otis Whist club, as the autumn ad-
Vances, the prospect of having the
pleasant rooms in the Mears building
occupied a large portion of the time,
seems favorable. Mr.. Otis will prob
ably be in Scranton in the course of a
few days to give a brief series of les
sons prior to his departure to attend
a match in the south. A number of
ladies have signified their intention of
studying during his stay.
The following schedule of golf match
es at the Wyoming Valley Country club
has been arranged:
Sept 25, acknowledgements club cham
pionship; holes, medal play, 2 p. m,
Club day.
Sept. 49, Wednesday-Men's club cham
pionship; preliminary round, IS holes,
medal play, best 16 scores to qualify.
Sept. 80 and Oct. l, Thursday and Fri
day First round of drawings, hole play
must be completed.
Oct. 2, Saturday-Second round must
be completed.
Oct. 4, Monday-Semi-hnals
oct. s. Tuesday-Finals mems cham
pionship. Annual meeting of members
for election of officers, etc, p. m.
Oct. 9, Saturday-Wyoming Valley VS.
Scranton, at Scranton.
Oct. 20, Saturday-Wyoming Valley vs.
Scranton.
oct. 80, Saturday-MiXed foursome club
championship; hole play entries to be
made to Mr.. Johnson before / D. m, on
this day. Club day.
The prizes for the winners of the
women's, mems and mixed foursome
Championships, will be given by Miss
phelps.