The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
DEL MONTE WILL
DRAW GOLFERS
An Ambitious Programme Is
Being Arranged for the Last
Week in August.

The weeks carnival of sports to take
place at the Hotel del Monte from August
q to 26 will include a golf tournament,
with contests for ladies' and men, i he
hotel management has offered prize, to
be called the Del Monte cup, for competi-
ton among the men, and the ladies will
contest for a trophy presented by George
Crocker. A committee of two representa-
tives of each of the golf clubs around
San Francisco VIII draw up the pro-
gramme and arrange the conditions of the
competitions. 1t is expected that several
members of clubs in Southern California
will come up to Del Monte to take part
in the tournament. c. E. Maud, president
of the Riverside Polo and Golf Club, is
desirous to arrange for a match between
teams representing the north and south
thirtysiX holes, match play. He wishes
also to make arrangements for a compe-
tttion for the State championship between
the eight players making the best score
in the tournament.
Last Saturday afternoon there was a
nine-hOle scratch and handicap tourna-
ment for ladies at the links of the San
Rafael Golf Club. Mrs. w. c. Bush won
the prize for best gross score with S4, and
Mrs. j. f. Burke won the award for best
handlcap score with gross of 81 and a
net of 81.
The Council cup was an exhibition at
the clubhouse last Saturday and will re-
main there until after the first compe-
tition for it, which will probably take
place on Admission day. The winner of
the competition will have his name en-
graved upon the cup, and will receive a
small replica of it to keep permanently
as the cup will not become the property
of any player until the same person has
won 1t thrice.
A month ago Frank S. Johnson, at a
meeting OF the council of the San Rafael
Golf Club, suggested the idea of furnish
ing facilities for bathing. A week ago
several well-equipped bathhouses were
turned over to the members. They are
situated on an arm of the bay running
within two hundred yards of the golf
course. a salt water swimming pond has
already been provided and fresh water
time ago 1t was said that a railroad sta
ton would be erected near the links on
the line OF the California Northwestern
Railway. Up to the present it has been
necessary TO drive to the links from San
Rafael, but President Foster has deter
mined to put the new station in at an
Will be a great convenience to golfers and
visitors to the links.
The United States Golf Association mas
recently amended section of its bylaws
which now reads as follows: mo person
shall be considered an amateur golfer who
has played for money prize in match
or IN an open competition, or who has
received money for giving lessons or eX-
hibitiOns of his skill in the game of golf:
or laid out or taken charge of golf links
for hire; or who has ever carried clubs
for hire after attaining the age of Is
years; or who has ever personally made
for sale golf clubs, balls any other
articles connected with the game of golf;
or who. after the adoption of this section
as amended, shall be classified as a pro-
fessional in nay athletic sport" The last
clause disqualifying professionals in any
sport is more strict than the British rule
for it has been clearly stated by the
greens committee of the st. Andrews Golf
Club that the fact of man being a pro-
fesSional in another branch of sport in
no way disqualifies him from being an
amateur at golf. On the same principle
professional cricketers in Great Britain
are eligible as members of an amateur
hockey club or of an amateur football
club. A professional player of football
has. also been permitted TO play county
cricket as an amateur On general prtrl-
ciples the latter seems to be the reason
able rule, for man is an amateur of
whatever sport or occupation he engages
IN for lGye of it and not for gain. In the
United States, where amateurs and pro-
fesstonals are not clearly marked from
each other by distinctions of class. more
rigid definitions are probably necessary
than in Great Britain. The United States
Golf Association evidently adopts the
maxim. professional in one sport pro-
fessional In all.