The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-09
GOLF
Park Commissioner Hire n Professional
Other News.

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Other News.
Thomas Bendelow. the golf professional.
has been engaged by the Park Commissioner
and win report on Monday at Van Cortlandt
Park. He will be rated on the payroll as a
foreman at 500 n month. the Commissioners
not seeing their way clear to engage him In
any other way. On Monday Bendelow will
complete the plans for the extension Of the
nine-hole course to eighteen holes. by taking
in the territory at Van Cortlandt Park TO the
south OF the present course. so that the first
tee willsbe very accessible TO the Van .Cort-
landt railroad station. BeRdelow will have
full charge OF the work during Its progress.
and. when tho links are ready he will. remain
In responsibility for the good condition Of the
greens and the orderly.manner in which golf
Is played on the course. II IL understood.
also, that Bendelow is to haye the profits from
the sale OF golf clubs and balls at Van Cort-
shOH. and thst his )ss5viS SS are to be uttiilifsSs'd
i9 Brookisn. Staten Island and other sections
This is the nrst engagement Of n golf pro-
fessiona by the authorities OF a CITY or town
uel Tucker OF st. Andrews was engaged late in
= y as an expert to lay out the first Van
at, times been employed for similar work in
other cities, but no attempt has ever been
n amaze american 20 psE l pu GTEsc course 1D maf Bosto hng the pI0 se a.
ond, city to, lay out a public links on its park
lands, has from the first placed the sQ%HESsss,
has had the right to collect q fee from, each
lessons. Public coll has consequently had q
iandt, for under -CampbelTs Guidance team
matches and handicaps have fonrished; The
vested withJhe powerto regulate the order OF
the playing and e, expel those golfers from
parry etiquette Of the game; Under Bende-
lows direction Il is expected that 200 to $50
daily without erowdlng or oonfusion. while
under the mobilize methods Of last season The
course was as dangerous as q battlefield when
golfers we're the chief sufferers from the con-
gested state OF the links. for. aside from the
best plays were spoiled by the erowding and
interteren 90 Of the Enorant division OF syisi-
eighteen holes, Il 10 proposed TO lay out a prac-
tiee ground to which the beginners will be re-
stricted until they learn the rudiments Of the
The new professional was employed as a
FRESHMAN IN this city when the golf wave first
started, and In 1880 he rompt engaged him.
Country Club at Orange. After q year, there
city. where he has since been employed, Dur
ing this period he has laid out about thirty
early lie Bendsio Vie earned to play on the pub.
lie links of Edinburgh. and he knows how such
links should be run to best accommodate a
large throng of players. The engagement OF
a professional by the Park Commissioners
may be regarded as the most important step
in the municioalism OF golf yet taken in this
country, where the advocates OF the game be-
lieve il has a great future as q public recrea-
tion quito aside from its club aspect.
Secretary Kerr OF the Q, S. G. A. said yester-
day that the Executive Committee had sent ex-
perts to examine certain links available for
the three championships and that the full an
in ten DAYS. The courses tc be selected are
kept a close secret by all concerned, but. as
Tn Sun stated two months ago, the chances
are that st. Andrews will accent either the
amateur or open event and that the women's
Championship will go TO the philadelphia
Country Club. A strong effort is being made
to send the open event to the new Country
aside from the Baltimore and Washington
delegates. do so chiefly to scatter the meetings
and thus avoid any naturalization OF the COLT
ing enthusiasm, for otherwise they deem 1t
I'm wise TO select a practically untried and
freshly laid out course for such an important
national tournament still. II the experts
sent TO inspect the Baltimore course report
faVorably the open tournament maj 90 TO the
Monumental City.
Miss Breatrix HoYt. the three-time winner
OF the L. s. G. A. womsn's tournament. SAYS
that there is no truth whatever in the state
msnt going the rounds of the press that she
intends to make a tour OF the links abroad this
spring and play in the next championship. to
be held In May on an Irish course. OF the Ladies'
Golf Union of Great Britain.