The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-22
5. G. STICKNEY. FINISH OF DRIVE

Tai- Grounds: greens which lie BY the pond
have the ADVANTAGE of much moisture
white clover forms a very large part Of
the velvet with which these greens are
clothed. 1t is true that the greens IN ques-
ton are a bit slow. but they are deadly
true. Then there are no bare spots on them
and your ball does not roll hither and
thither after ii should be lying s,ill in the
recesses of the hole.
Most of the professionals. being Of moist
English and Scotch extraction. love the
blue grass just like Kentucky horses. About
St. Louis. at least. they cannot make sue
cess of il.
The Country Club course, which IS splen-
fi9iy kept. Is very shy Of grass on the
greens. Mackrell. about the cleverest Of
the professional fraternity. hangs close to
the bluegrass. He also loves tn cut his
greens aright-that is. close 10 the stones,
Ike Mr.. Bailey's phantom whispers. As a,
result the fearful midsummer sun paTilyzsS
his turf Some one says: DO not cut the
greens so close" That is ali very well.
Simpson tried that UP at the Field Club.
His greens became wispy, scraggy and I'M
deniably treacherous. So that will not do.
Aackreil. who advances in ideas much
faster than his canny. but stubborn. fellow
professionals. who are set in their hard
Scotch ways. now say that he believes in
clover and " i'll try IL. Simpson has only It's
slowness against 1t. II is nice to lay an-
proaches dead on, and Il seems always
easier to put well when you can use a Ger
tain amount of force than when you just
hat your ball hard enough to give II an
initial impetus. When you can but touch
ball TO set il going for the cup you never
can feel so confident as when you can put
Touching IL seems but giving # a start
and trusting 10 the luck. which never
comes In golf. TO guide IL In.
At Webster the worldly wise Algonquins
have mixture Of clover, bluegrass and
timothy that makes not had putting. The
greens sre certain and your ball does not
eiope and cut you. IL does when the
greens were bald, wien the hair restorer
OF dew cannot stand off the capillary de
structiveness OF the torrid sun.
Nothing can be so bad bare green.
Dock weeds make better putting than
lions. Clover seems TO he the thing In
America. where conditions of climate. soil
and condition vary greatly from those in
Europe
Notwithstanding the fact that an average
youth of an age from Il to ~ can make
en- honest days wage which many an adult
would not despise, there is Caddie famine
about st. Louis Not only is it hard to get
good caddies. ii is matter of extreme diff
ftculty to get caddies Of any kind. At the
Country Club the youthful club bearers
have been on strike. in imtati of their
unionistic elders, no doubt. Mackreli has
with a toothache. trying to invent caddies
TO take the place of the strikers. Just as
automobiles were invented replace
horses but without success
There has always been caddie famine
at the Fair Grounds. though that course is
in town. i'm the center OF n ueiGabOrhood
where American youth of all n4tionalities
and coors fiourishes with the vagrant
abandon Of weeds in potato patch and
where a much better wage ia paid than
elsewhere Naturally enough. the Field
Club Is scant OF boys. for ii is far off into
country and not very close TO village or
town. Forest Park also boasts 4 scarcity
of caddies. the Afridi article seemingly be
ing exhausted. Webster has lot of anna
teur caddies who don't have 10 and don't,
either.
Certainly the cadd.e class hereabouts 10
a lazy enc. At one links where the boys
are allowed 10 do about as they please. 1
have seen certain of them refuse to go GU;
In the heat Of the day, urging that 1t
TOO hot. These same boys would do n
round or two In the cool Of the evening
just TO get pin money Tor the night. IL
does strike one as strange that ii should he
too hot for the ragged caiGie when il is
not too hot for the venerable. stout and
sweltering millionaire, who would paw him
for his labor the rate OF % cents an
hour. Some thousands of men. some of
them with families. have recently resigned
employment in this city and struck for
what they called a fair wase-they were not