The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-14
GOLF LINKS OPENED
TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB MEM
BEERS ENJOY AN AFTERNOON
AT THE SPORT
MIXED FoURsoMEs PLAYED

Many of the Experts on the Grounds
Decoration Day the. Competition
for the Challenge Trophy Pre-
scented by Mrs. NJ. ID. MUM Will
Be Experimentation of the
Links ns Fitted Up.
Scarlet coats on the men and dainty red
Jackets on the ladies prevailed all yes
terday afternoon on the golf links of the
! Town and Country club. The cycle path
! from Summit avenue to the first tee was
! alive with bikers, and the roadways be-
tween st. Paul. Minneapolis and the club
house. gay with brilliant equipages. 1t
was the formal opening of the Town and
| Country club gold links; a general COM
petition between mixed foursomes at
medal play. Mr.. M D. Mum was chair
man of the tournament. Until o'clock the
contests waged between the quartettes.
a lady and gentleman on each side. Pic
| turesque was the scene as the active play
ers followed up their gains through the
nine holes from Brook to Westward. Ho.
up hill and down dale, for the total OF
2,61T yards. A red coat here, glinting
amid the tree trunks. a scarlet jacket
over there. contrasting sharply against
| the greensward like a carnation pink
amid background of mignonette. And SO
the tournament went merrily on.
Golf. said an onlooker at the games
! yesterday, sis, probably, an outgrowth Of
! hockey. the game Of our boyhood' days"
beg pardon corrected gentleman.
| hockey is more likely an outgrowth of
golf So far back as 1857 it had obtained
great popularity among the Scottish
| ciansmen. And it probably antedates that
| period by many years. IL not a century,"
'Oh, but we are new people, decidedly
| fresh and infantile.
There Is yet a club team to be selected
| by the Town and Country club. What
will be It's entire personnel cannot, of
course, be predicted. But 1t is a shrewd
| guess to say that, among the gentlemen,
Mr.. Ben Shurmeir will be prominent, so
| will Messrs. Cutcheon and Gordon Not
| at all unlikely, Messrs. Miller. Corse and
Halbert will be with. them. All of these
| gentlemen are crack players, but others
are coming to the front rapidly. In order
| to make up this club team on Saturday
| afternoon. May 20, there will be compett-
| ton at medal play. The records made in
this event will be used by the golf COM
mittee in selecting the club team. and
on Saturday. May q. two teams will be
selected from the players present at 2:45,
for a team match.
On Tuesday, May &c. Decoration day at
p. M. the competition for the challenge
trophy presented for mixed foursome play
by Mrs. M. D. Mum, will be opened by
a general competition between mixed
foursomes At medal play; the four best
medal scores to qualify for match play in
the semi-inals. Within a week after the
qualification round the semi-fnals and
/ 1ey h.
may be named by the golf committee.
Entries must be made with the assistant
secretary at the club house, at or before
3 p. m. on the day of the competition, by
obtaining from him an official score card
No score in any competition will be con-
sidered unless the person making it has
regularly entered for the competition, and
the score card, signed by their opponent,
turned In before D. M
Mr.. Fouls deserves great, credit forrthe
work he has performed on the Town and
Country club links. Mr.. FOULS says that,
geographically. the gound Is an excellent
one. There are nine holes between the
first tee. the Brook, 127 yards; III. and D.,
$50 yards; up and down. 500 yards, back !
again, Alb yards; ramparts.. 248 yards;
ravine, S12 yards; cross lots. 278 yards;
boundary, 1856 yards, and Westward, no.
ninety-one yards, 2.617 yards In all. To
make bozey score Of forty-two Is the
goal of each golfers ambition on. the
T. and links
The entries yesterday for the mixed
foursomes at medal play were as follows:
Ladies-Mesdames Scholle, Waun. Cor
rey,. Emily Robbins, Beardsley. Margaret
White, Mcknight. Bishop, Moulton. Ran
som and Timberlake.
Frank leighton. ]. N. kirby, w VIM.
Scholle, L. G. Miller, B. F. Shurmeir 6.
w. Gordon. W. F, Peet, g: G. Christian
M. Case, W. D. Mitchell, Fitzhugh Burns
and E. B. Halbert.
And there was caddie to every player
Caddies dotted the landscape DER, with
long leather quivers Of golf sticks swung
on their infantfle backs Caddies to the
right of them, caddies to the left of them.
but woe to the incautfous caddie who got
in front of them. There were careless
caddies and attentive caddies; merry and
saturnine caddies. and i'll luck to the cad
die who tnjudiciously laughed when his
master fozzled his put But the expert
enced eaddie knows better than to do this.
He waits until he reaches home and is
in the safe seclusion of the bosom Of his
family.
Among the visitors at the Town and
Country club links yesterday afternoon
were Mrs. Lamphrey. Miss Furness, Miss
Hill; Messrs. Gerald Howe w P. Trow-
bridge, George Elborn, M. D. Mum, H L.
Carpenter, Minneapolis; G. M. Case, Sher-
man Finch, G. w. Gardner, w. w Hef1ie-
finger, Kenneth Clark. A. w. Merriam,
Aaron MCCLELLAN, Geo. A. Mcpherson. w.
B. Packard and T. L. Schumacher
Golf has undoubtedly added new zest
to the pleasures Of the Town and Country
club. More than $50 new members have
been admitted this spring, and the sum-
mer season bids fair to rival the winter
months in daily attendance After 7:30
last evening there was music at the cluo
house; at o'clock dancing began and
continued until after II.
Following are the medal winners and
scores of the mixed foursomes play of
yesterday afternoon:
Medal Winners-Mrs. T. g. Wunn and
Mr.. B. F. Schurmeier. Score, 116
scores-Miss Bishop, F. w NJ. Cutch-
con, 118; Miss Moulton. J. L. Corse. 12O:
Miss Mcknight Geo. C. Christensen. 121:
Mrs. c. W: Gordon. G.. Gordon, 12S Miss
Margaret White. w. F. Peet 1872: Miss
Ruth Hill. A. s: Porter Jr., 1856; Miss
Ransom. W. D. Mitchell 40; Miss Emily
Robbins, J. N. Kirby. 145: Miss Timber
lake, E.: B. Holbert, 145: Miss Lamphrey,
Frank Leighton. 149; Miss Livingstone
Fitzhugh Burns. 153.
WHITE BEAR YACHTING.