The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23
AFTERNOON ON THE LINKS
GOLF CONTEST YESTERDAY ON THE
COUNTRY CLUB GROUNDS.
Game Between Local Players and a
Louisville Team-ResuIt OF
the Contest.


The Benighted One aiighted from a street
car yesterday afternoon at Armstrong;
Park and plunged into the Businesses that
intervene before the Country Clubs grounds
are reached. and followed a path running
between adjoining farms, lined on either
side with signs reading Keep Out" guard
ed by moody COWS. He crawled through a
barbed wire fence, on which. he remem-
bered, he had torn his trowsers when. with
a posse of policemen, he had searched for a
loose murderer in that part of the county. A
climb to the top of hill brought him in
sight of the clubhouse. and shortly after
ward he was asking Where are they play
ing?" He put the question this way be-
cause he was undecided whether it be
proper to ask Where is the links? or
Where are the links?" spot of closely
cropped grass was pointed out to him,
where Mr. George Catterson stood by the
side of a red flag.
Here" said Mr. Catterson, lis where
they finish. You will see their caddies COM
ing over the hill in minute" He then
kindly proceeded to explain to the Benighted
One some of the features Of the game.
THAT" he said, pointing to the embank
ment of the driveway, lis a hazard. Any
obstruction on the course is hazard. Some
times they are artificial, and then they are
bunkers. All bunkers' are hazards, but all
hazards are not bunkera You see? There
are the caddies'
The Benighted One looked up quickly, ex-
pecting to see something Scotch, but, in
stead, small colored boy carrying a bag
of clubs came over the brow of the hill.
Following him was big colored man. He
was also caddy.
"Four!' exclaimed Mr.. Catterson.
"Eh?"
"Oh, 1 forgot you're not a player Four
means look OUT
At this time man in knickerbockers and
sweater, poised some distance away with
club in his hand, made a vicious swpe at
the ground and a little white ball rose
gracefully in the air and dropped on the
green close to the red flag which marked a
hole. His comrade drove his ball for the
same mark, and, both running up, batted
this term is terribly untechncaD delicately
at their balls until both were successful in
hohng them. They were then ready to
begin the 1900 yards course over again. BY
this time the Benighted One was hiied with
complacency and decided golf was simply an
outgrOwth of shiny" and that the only
'hnesse in the game was in the names of
the different clubs and drives Those he
could master by reading the golf magazine.
AT this time one of the ''cadaIess'' players
volunteered to Initiate him into the myS-
bag full of clubs. This the Benighted One
agreed to do and he started Oft with the
pair of players and the other caddy to tramp
through the wet grass and the biting rain
and wind to cover the mile and a half
course. The players started from a place
after the other each set his ball on a cone of
sand, and, swinging his club FULL drove the
ball as far as he could toward the flag that
marked the next hole. After making that
through
for the others.
The contest was between a team from
Louisville and the Country Club team,
playing in pairs. One pair was of women
Miss Quorrier, of Louisville, and Mrs. How
land. OF this city. The pairs followed each
other around the course, each making the
circuit twice. The skill in the playing was
evident to the players, and they exclaimed
in language unintelligible to the great
mass of the ungOlfed.
When nearly all of the pairs had finished
one player drove his ball under an old hoe
blade lying in a shallow ditch around one
of the houses in the club grounds. There
upon fifteen or twenty players and spec
tators gathered about to discuss the ques-
ton of how to get the ball from under the
hoe blade, without committing an infraction
of the rules.
Have you no ground rules?" asked one
of the Louisville players.
NO" replied indianapolis man. 'tbut
we have never considered this house haz-
ard"
Then there was more discussion, which
was ended by one expert saying that IAN
agricultural implement may be removed
from the course when it interferes'' and the
rusty hoe blade was cast to one side and
the player dexterousy scooped the ball out
of the ditch with an iron-baded club shaped
for the purpose. The matter was thus
settled.
Notwithstanding the cold wind and rain
the players came in warm from the exer-
else and enthusiastic The last to finish
were the women, who ran breathlessly after
the balls. the color of their faces in har-
mony with their wondrously red jackets.
Az DAnfrr hfrd nttA lAtr d,
many particulars, again plunged into the
wood in peril of being lost in the dark be-
fore he reached the car line, small caddy,
who was Irish enough to look slightly
Scotch. called out to him across a barren
cornfield:
Say you, if you're goin' to the car this
is tn path TIL caddies take
With earnest thought as to the posi-
bilties of golf the other caddy' followed
the one who knew the path.
The following score was made yesterday
Mems Contest