Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

| at this season of the year, in which the green's
keeper finds good dependent Several clubs through
out the country have tried them with considerable
success. They are simple affairs that a boy can push
along, and yet with their revolving brushes they
manage to sweep the ground fairly clean. At
tam club they employ another device that
horse draws and which takes up slight excrescences
sueh as loose sand or mold twigs. dirt. and so
acting on the fan principle, and blowing up the
stuff into its recepacles The worst OF the brush
ing is that it is apt to up the grass.
unless the brush be very carefully SO as to Just
touch the ground. scheme tried with some sue
| cess at Dyker meadow is to sprinkle the greens
with a fluid that brings the worms to the surface
after which they swept UP in pailfuls 1t is
| rather an expensive plan, informed but
the money back in labor saved once these
little pests are got rid OF.
point of considerable interest to all golf PLAYERS
mas recently been brought up by Taylor the well
, Known Engnsh player who has something in the
way OF experience to make his views of practical
value This Is In regard to the length time neces-
sary to keep golf ball before it should be used.
There is no Doubt he says, that IL a ball is
kept too long 1t becomes hard and brittle and is
liable to crack while the paint chips off Then
again. the question of difference in gutta percha is
to be kept in mind. don't think It really matters
much whether the balls kept six nine or twelve
months, but personally ! prefer the shorter period
as find at the end of that the balls are sum
ciently hard" Tayor's point as to the ouaIty az
the rubber used in manufacture is a strong nns ,or
nowadays competition is so keen that makers employ
an inferior grade of rubber and the difference is NOT
apparent until the balls are placed in actual use
one cannot but be struck with the fact however
that fewer balls crack and split nowadays than in
days gone by and it is to be attributed to the better
asSaJ
INTO spheres Good guta is, after ALL the Alpha and
Omega of the whole question. the PLAYER who Is
Wlling TO pay enough to secure II will have lit.Ie
dinieulty In obtaining satisfactory results Hilton
thinks that six months implanted and six months
painted brings the best results. and players who
nave tried 1t seem to agree with him.
Golf IL booming in Chicago says the Tr,bppc
Every day last week the links at Jackson park were
crowded with players of the ancient game and III,
park policemen who have been detailed ON the links
gay the number OF players during the month of No
vember has exceeded any month since the course
was opened The large increase due to the growth
OF the game at the University of Chicago The
freshmen students have learned the game and many
OF the older students have taken 1t up as a pastime
on pleasant afternoons. Almost every day after 3
INKS armed with bags Of clubs, and generally there
goes along some freshman who caddies and at the
same time learns the game. Last week the cham
plonship OF the university was by Herschberger
contests in which he defeated the older golfers on
the links he has played a frst-class game He will
be one of the leaders in the formation of a golf
club at the varsity. which for the last few months
been done regarding the club the varsity opened
too late for the formation of team, and rather
than start club with lot Of inexperienced members
the fall months have been devoted to letting the
game spread and then to start in the spring with a
large number OF men who play. Student. are
not the only ones to patronze the links. From all
sections OF the South side both young men and
women. and more mature players the
links during the afternoons last week The park
policemen say that the list of beginners Is larger
than they have for long time The filing in
OF the ponds and the leveiing Of the hly sections
from the second to the fourth hole will be the
OF adding new hole to tho course and changing
the present play OF the links. This will be done
until next spring, and in the meantime those who
playing the will have plenty OF trouble in
getting through the plowed ground.