Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24

play an Is hole match on July Fourth.
Each team to be made of six players.
There is little doubt but that the chal-
lenge will be accepted.
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Mr. c. Wander Watering, wife and
child, who arrived in the city last
Tuesday, has been engaged by the
Wheeling Coli Club as instructor. Al
ready he has big list OF ladies and
gentlemen booked for lessons at the
rate of $500 for ten lessons. Mrs.
Misunderstanding is evidently no tyro
with the club. In several OF her ex-
perimental drives from the first tee
she easily cleared the bunker some ~
yards away.
The Caddies of ST. Andrews are not
ed for their candor. A story is told of
one as remarking, who asked about
the qualities of a player, whom the
questioner was about to take for a
partner, He Gamma play worth d-n,
sir; he's nae better than yersel."
In a private letter to relative Mr..
Malcolm T. Brice, V. c., at Belfast, re-
lates very Interestingly the details OF
his defeat for the Irish amateur cham
pionship at Portmarnock Links, coun-
ty Dublin, recently AS many of his
friends have taken up the sport they
will no doubt be interested in reading
how the game is played in the United
Kingdom, and what a formidable trial
it is of patience, skill and endurance.
Although worsted, Mr.. Brice may feel
proud of his splendid effort to capture
a prize which the best golfers in Ire
land sought to win. He writes under
date of June Sth:
Il just got back from Portmanock
yesterday where l was competing in
the Irish Golf Championship being
played on that course last week. was
going pretty strong for two days and
got into the last eight out of an entry
of between forty and fifty, but was
pipped in the round before the semi
final by a Dublin. University chap call
ed Cairns. who in turn was beaten by
Henry, the ultimate winner | believe
had | kept up my form of the first two
days, l would have reached the final,
but worse luck, | went terribly slack
in the fourth round, and though l pull
ed myself together toward the end OF
the round, it was just a fraction too
late, as | was only dormy one down
and couldn't do better than half the
last hole which gave Cairns the match.
Harold Reade, the holder of the cham
pionship, was beaten in the third round
by o. B. Webb, whom you undoubtedly
remember as being the longest swiper
In Tralond Vnhh hitting
colossal tee shots and also putting
very we'll while Reade was not exactly
screwed up to championship form. A
rather extraordinary thing in connec-
ton with my form was the fact that
was hitting an Indifferent tee-shot and
getting away magnificent second shots.
| was putting exceedingly well, but as
the green's are not guarded there was
little or no iron play, consequently the
strongest part of my play, as we'll as
many other northern fellows, was not
brought out. Portmarnock is one of
the longest 1S-hole courses in Tie
kingdom. 1t is 6,000 yards, which
really is too long. and lots of chaps
who weren't in proper training crack
ed early In the tournament. | played
my best round on Thursday morning,
hoieing out in rs. l was playing good
consistent golf. doing nothing wonder
full but just keeping steady. I beat my
man rather easily in this round. In
the afternoon fell of and commenced
hooking MY tee-snots terribly, but to-
ward the end of the round. after being
two down at the turn, came on pretty
strong and pipped my man on the last
green. On Friday | had TO meet Cairns
who was fancied by the Southerners to
win and We had pretty big gallery.
] started of brilliantly by laying my
third shot, a full iron. stone dead.
won this hole and halyed the next, but
at the third / commenced my old fault
of hooking off the tee and as there was
a strong head wind the whole way out
/ was driving the ball all over the
course. | lost four holes off the reel
and was three down at the turn. At
this point Hugh (. Kelly. president of
the Golfers Union, Woodside. whom
you remember. and two or three other
Northern fellows came up to me, and
held a short consultation about my
driving, which resulted In my changing
drivers. Their concern in my success
was prompted probably in wanting a
North of Ireland representative in the
final. | started OF at the tenth by
nisrir1p q fun fnof mutt ror half and