The morning news., 1897-08-29
COMING GOLF TOURNAMENTS.
THERE ARE TWENTY-FIVE Avn
WOMAN'S CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

""ih Ihd"ette hor '31-MOst hnpor.
tant Recent Move Is the Adoption
of the Rules of the Royal ann An
cient ST. Andrews Golf Club,
New Wooden Faced CIeeI1.
New York, Aug. 2S.-The great eoi,
event of the year is being played this w4ex
at Manchester-by-the-se Mass. The wo-
mans championship is being decided. and
the Edinburgh cup awarded.
September is the month of golfne In
England the golf all the year around b.t
in the United States, the season is from,
August to November, and the very bg5r
of it is reached the first week in Ser,+en.
Der. Then the ground is thoroughly drie5
out from the spring rains and the bsst
of the summer has mitigated sufficient,
to make it pleasant work chasing the
ball. 1t is then that the ladies' chara05on-
ship games take place and all the toprp-
aments
The United States Golf Association will
have numerous exhibitions and to7,rn,-
ments, match plays and medal plavs. T5o
association is composed of a number Of
clubs, and all the allied clubs have san+
in notices of gala days. Among the clubs
at which there will be special Tournaments
are the Chicago Golf Club, the Countr,
Club of Brooklyn, Mass; the NeWnort
Golf Club, st. Andrews Golf Clul, of
Yonkers, n. Y; Knollwood Country cgub
of Elmford, N. Y; Shiunecock Hills c;olf
Club, N. Y; Essex County Club, Nam
chester Mass; Philadelphia Country
C11h
G, Golf Club, Philadelphia Cricket Club
Richmond County Country Club Lenoy
Golf Club, Country Club of Buffalo. West
on, Mass, Golf Club, Concord Gulf Club
Milwaukee Country Club, Salem Golf
Club, Cincinnati Golf Club. Cleveland
Golf Club, Staten Island and Cricket and
Baseball Club, Otsego Golf Club, Spring
field, N. Y; Allegheny Country Club
Pttsburg, Pa; Country Club of Roche.
ter, Cambridge Golf Club, Baltimore cor
Club, Agawam Hunt, Providence. r.
l.; New Haven Golf Club, Albany GOLF
Club, Washington Park Club, Chicago;
Shady Side Golf Club, Pittsburg; St. Au-.
gustine, Fla, Golf Club Wyoming Val
ley of Wilkesbarre, Pa; Country Club Of
Scranton, Pa; Vesper Country
Club, Lowell Mass. Riverside.
H., Golf Club, st. Regis COZ
Riverside, H.. Golf Club, ST. Regis Goff.
club, Paul Smiths Franklin County y.
y; oxford Golf Club. South Manchester,
Conn; Saratoga Golf Club Merton Crick-
ct club, Haverford, Pa; Palmetto Golf
Club, Aiken, S. c.: and the Overland Park
Club Association, Denver, Col.
The secretaries of the golf clubs report
that there has never been so much CORE
spOndence received from small clubs that
wish TO join the United States Golf As
sociation. Any club is eligible for admi5-
sion to this association that is in an ac-
cessible part of the United States where
the links, accommodations, constitution
and bylaws of the club are such as 10
make it representative. Such clubs can
be admitted on a four-hfths vote Of the
committee of the association. Clubs are
admitted at the annual meeting in Feb
ruary and new rules laid down for the fol-
lowing year.
The etiquette Of the 81 golfng season is
as follows:
No player, caddy or onlooker shall move
or talk during a stroke.
No player shall play from the tee until
the party in front has played their Sec
ond stroke and are out of range, or play
to the putting green until the party in
front have holed out and moved away.
Turf cut or displayed by a stroke in play
ing shall be at once replaced.
A player shall not put at hole When
the flag is i'm il.
The reckoning of the strokes is kept by
the terms "the odd" two more, three
more" The reckoning of the holes Is
kept by the terms. so many holes up
or "all even" and so many Ito play
The player who leads from the tee snaH
be allowed to play before his opponent
tees his BAN.
Players who have holed out should not
try their puts over again when other
players are following them. A party play
ing shorter round must allow a two
BAH match playing the whole round TO
pass them.
Players looking for a lost ball must
allow any other match coming up TO pass
them.
All the women's games are played th'S
month, for women take an active part ~
golfng. They are amateur players unH
they take money for playing games N
public places, or enter themselves wiz"
known professionals
At the Manchester championship con-
test the contestants first play eighteen
holes medal play. The best eight seNs'
are then taken and the contestants mar
ing these scores then play eighteen no,
match play, until but two compeuN'
remain, who upon a separate day Na,
the final game, consisting Of eisA''
notes match play. H.
The winner of the competition Is
champion woman golfer of the year a..'
the trophy is held for that year R ,'o
club from which the winner has enie..-
The present officers of the United SUI
Golf Association are those wei A'g"
golfers, Lawrence Curtis, Charles D. M'
donald, Ransom H. Thomas, Robert b'71
Kerr and Samuel l. Parrish
Mr. Kerr, the secretary, reports m'
veilous outlook for this next month
hng, one that will raise the ass'ta'
into the ranks # not make il sHpoio. p
point OF record breaking, Of any w |'7
land or Scotland. ...
There Is nothing new IN impcI.t.
said me. except one small too. n''
skill of the players - greater ih'
tool is a long curved stick, haN.h fr
Of wood set In u instead OF IRON.
wood has greater spring and the
will be much greater. IL is au l'i ,,o
wooden-faccd driving cleek whic1 '
coming into general use.
For people who want TO play -..0
good-slzod link. IS 500 yards up +"
for nine-hoed course. 4 ''run 5s
throe-quartcrs Of a mile iu o s.ii'-
tance. but a walk OF ABOUT t"" H"