The San Francisco call., 1899-09-16
IS
ACTIVE ON
MANY LINKS
Spirited Play Among the Men
and Women at Oakland
and San Rafael.

Admission day was a busy one among
the Oakland golfers. The mixed four
somes at eighteen holes, match play,
with handicap, which were begun on La
bor day, were concluded, Mrs. p h
Bowles and r. M. Fitzgerald winning
from Miss Alice Mof1tt and ]. c. Nc
Kee, The eighteen-hole, match play,
handicap tournament for the Macdonald
cup, which began on September ?, there
being thirteen entries, resulted in VIC
tory for C. p. Hubbard, who defeated h
r. FoIger in the final round. There was
a reception and music at the clubhouse
in the afternoon, and in the evening a
complimentary dinner was gwen 10 4. H.
Folger.
Fifteen players qualified to enter the
senni-annual competition for the Captains
cup. among whom are ]. A. Folger H. NJ
FITZGERALD, Z. r. Folger, w. T. Johnson,
H. H Smith, II. J. Knowles, j. I. NC
Kee, C. P. Hubbard and J. ii. Ames. II
is expected that play in the tournament
will begin to-day though the 1nd1spoSl-
ton of Orestes Pierce, captain OIL the Odh-
land Golf Club may cause 1t 10 be oe-
layed. The events set down on the sched,
ule for to-day are contests IN putting anu
approaching for ladies and gentlemen -,
Play went on from early morning Illi
evening the links OF the san RaIaeII
Golf Club on the 9Th inst. The seml-nnaL
and final rounds Of the competitions sLoI
the Ladies cup and the CouncH cup "eIo
played, and the ladies' and men 5 manu-
caps, the former at nine hoIeS ana thS
latter at eighteen. The Seml-hnaI round
for the Ladies' cup resulted as foLQws:
Miss Mary McCalla beat Mrs. Il. IL Green
3 rp to play and Mrs. r. Gilman Brown
beat Mrs. j. j. Crooks 4 up ) to play. In
the final round Mrs. r. G. Brown defeat
ed Miss Mary McCalla one up after a
close contest, and became entitled to have
her name and score inscribed on the
trophy. o.,
Cd in he VII nf r Gilman
Brown over Baron J. II. von schroeder
up TO play, and Of E. j; McCutchen over
c. P: Eens up to play, Int In the I, maj a
Brown up 2 to play and won the replica
of the Council cup and the honor of nav
ing his name inscribed on the trophy It
self.
In the ladies' handicap the following are
the net scores: Mrs. Denis Donohoe Jr-
a. Miss Miller z Miss Goodwin y H. 81 Miss is
j. Gerstle rs, Mrs. j. Burke So, Miss Flea
nor Morrow 81. Mrs. Kautz 81, Miss T. C.
Morgan Sc, Mrs. J. ] Crooks Sc, Miss sc G.
Gushing IS. Mrs. NJ. L. Gerstle Ill Mrs.
Denis Donohoe won the silver vase, which
was the prize in this event.
The mems handicap at eighteen holes
for trophy was won by S. II. Boardman,
with a net score of 106- The scores Of
other contestants were as follows: Baron
J. II. Won Schroeder 109, ]. c.. Kittle 109,
B. H. Dibblee 10, E L. Griffith 112. Lieu
tenant T. G.. Roberts ia, A. J. Kittle 115,
T..
Lieutenant w. G. Miller 116, E. w. Run
yon III. Baron Alex Won Schroeder III,
Clement Arnold 11s c. ? Eells 12o, A. A.
w. G. Curtis 123, w. NJ. O'Connor 125, J.
". Tomkins 125, Maurice Dore 128, George
HeazIeton n 12S F. r. Green 12g; l. A.
ner 131.
Heavy rain on September at Redondo
Beach caused the postponement Of the
but an approaching and putting contest
was won by Mrs. w. S. Porter of Los
Angeles, Mrs. j. W. Bowers of Pasadena
teen entries for the mems championship,
of whom the four making the best gross
scores at the first eighteen holes qualified
The four were w. w. Lovett 81, Walter
Cosby 50, R. d. Osborn 50 and Ross Smith
maed m r. D aga0s 0sPoTR ~ SdsbF d Rgf7ds of as xn
geles, and though he was at one time
down he crept up and at the eighteenth
nineteenth and beat his competitor. Ross
Smith and W. W. Lovett were also AL
even' at the end of two rounds. and the
former took the nineteenth hole. Ross
Park Golf Club, being unable to stay to
play out the final round, r. d. Osborn
did not get into the championship round
played eighteen more holes, with a haudi-
cap, the winner being w. A. Tufts, whose
gross. score for thirty-six. holes was III.
ston was second with 1874, 20, 1854. For the
mems contest In approaching and putting
there were eighteen entries. the honors
being divided by E; c. Sterling of Red
lands and c. w. Winston of Pasadena.
William Robertson. instructor of the
Santa Monica Golf Club, playing on It's
links recently, made the following re
markable round g. 3. 4. 4 4. 4, 3. 2, 4. to-
tai 81, the bogey score for the nine holes
being 3S.
The Los Angeles Country Club opened
its new links at Pieo street and Western
avenue in that city last Saturday, and on
Sunday about forty players went over
the course. which is said to be the best
west of Chicago and to be the only
eighteen-hole course in California The
course covers more than eighty acres Of
rolling land, across which runs an ar
royo which creates fine natural hazards.