The San Francisco call., 1899-06-10
GOLF FLOURISHES
IN MARIN COUNTY
San Rafael Club Fully Equipped to
Get all the Pleasure Possible
Gut of the Game.

The San Rafael Golf Club will begin
play to-day upon the first nine holes cf
the permanent eighteen-hole course, but
the formal opening will be put off until
later in the summer. All the putting
greens are grassed and will be kept in
excellent condition by frequent watering.
Ihey are from forty to a hundred feet in
diameter. Instructor J. w. Tetley is reg
uIarly engaged in coaching various mem
befs and the season bids fair to be a most
successful one. The club has already
about 200 members and has bought
twenty live acres, upon which its club
house stands. For the links a tract of
200 acres has been leased for three years.
ne principal feature of the clubhouse
Is porch sixty feet long and tWenty-four
1eet deep, running along its entire front.
The clubhouse contains a handsome liv-
ing-roOm, dressing rooms for men and
women, bathrooms. lockers and quarters
for the housekeeper. The full eighteen
hole course will not be ready for use until
winter.
The home-and-home matches between
teams of ladies of the San Francisco and
Oakland golf clubs have been a good deal
talked OF, but 50 far nothing has come of
the talk. The Oaklanders blame the San
francisco ladies for the delay and the
San Francisco representatives, say that
they were all ready but that the Oakland
erS did not come to the scratch. So many
families have now left the city for the
summer that it is probable the proposed
matches will not take place for some time.
me OdhldIu tluD Will issue q summer
programme. and during the month of Au-
gust arrangements may be made for a
tournament on the Del Monte links be-
tween the San Rafael, Oakland San Fran
cisco and Burlngame clubs.
In order to increase the interest of its
members, the Oakland club keeps a roll
showing the relative standing of the
players. compiled from the known results
of their games. Each member bears a
number. and the holder of a lower num-
Der may at any time challenge the player
IA al J,
beats him, takes his place on the roll.
The same player, however, is not liable
to be challenged more than once in four
weeks unless he chooses. The two play
eighteen holes match play. and the win
ner either holds his place or gains step.
II the challenged player does not respond
by playing the challenger within two
weeks he forfeits his night and loses one
number, the challenger taking it. a
record of all the games for place is to be
kept on score cards signed by the players
and handed to the captain. The roll was
at first prepared somewhat tentatively.
but it will be revised as often as may be
deemed necessary and such changes made
in the conditions as experience may prove
to be most useful in encouraging the
members to acquire a high degree of skill.
The first twenty players in the Oakland
Golf Club according to their present
standing. are as follows: l. f. r. Folger;
2 c. P Hubbard; 3, G. D. Greenwood; 4,
r. NJ. Fitzgerald; ). D. F. Belden; g. ]. c.
McKe ee: T. w G. Cooke; 8, J. A. Folger;
9, ". p johnson, 10, P. f. Bowles; Ii, P
G. Cow; u. f. S Stratton; 13, J. NJ Taft
IA, S. McNear: 10, w: M. Magee; 16, H. F.
Knowles; II, 7. r. Hutchinson; IS, G. S
Wheaton; 10. Arthur Goodan; 20. G. w
McNear This list omits the name of one
player who Is certainly entitled to a high
place-that is R. a. Cooke, who repre-
Sented Oakland against San Francisco in
the Burlingame match and who recently
won the Tibbetts cup:
Next Friday and Saturday the Santa
Catalina Island Golf Club will hold an
open handicap tournament at Avalon On
Friday, at , p. m, the open handicap
competition. eighteen holes, medal play,
for women begins. The second nine holes
will be played on Saturday, beginning at
II a. M At o'clock on Saturday morn
ing the open handicap competition. thirty
six holes medal play, for men. begins. At
5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon an open
driving contest for women will take place
and at $50 o'clock an open driving contest
for men. There will also be mems handi-
cap fOursomeS, eighteen holes, medal play.
with prizes to each member of the win
ming team. In the medal play competi-
tions there will be three prizes-a first
best handicap scores. There will be a
prize in each of the driving contests. The
winners of first prizes in the open com
petitions will have their names and scores
engraved on the cups. which will remain
in the possession of the Santa Catalina
club Golfers should procure the proper
handicaps from the secretary of their
club and enter them, with their names,
personally or by letter, with the entry
clerk at 222 South Spring street, Los An
geles, at or before 12 o'clock noon on
Friday Entrance fees are to be paid to
the club secretary on the links on the day
of the tournament. If golfer cannot
procure tie amount of his handicap from
his club Secretary he may state his best
three scores on his home links to the entry
clerk Special rates for the steamer trip
and for accommodation at the Hotel Met
| ropole will be made to members of the
golf club and competitors. Besides the
I regular boats. the steamer Hermosa will
make special trips between San Pedro and
| Avalon. On Saturday night there will be
an Informal hop in the ballroom of the
| Metropole. All amateur golfers have been
| invited to enter the tournament.