The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-20

TO GOLF
Season Soon to Open on Nor
ris County Links
Rules on Golf Etiquette Morris
County Club Grounds in Fine
Condition A Women's Club the
Latest Addition.

OOunCy OtuD OrOunuS IN Fine
Condition "A Women's Club the
Latest Addition.
Willie Weir, the instructor at the
Morris County Golf Club, returned
Monday from South Carolina, where
he has during the past winter been in
charge of the links at Pine Forest
Inn. Wednesday he inspected the
Morris County Golf Club links and
found them in excellent condition.
The following customs belong to
the established Etiquette of Golf, and
should be observed by all golfers
1. No player, caddie or onlooker
should move or talk during stroke.
2. No player should play from the
tee until the party in front have play
ed their second strokes and are out Of
range, nor play to the putting green
till the party IN front have holed out
and moved away.
3. The player who leads from the
tee should be allowed to play be-
fore his opponent tees his ball
a. Players who have holed out
should not try their puts over again
when other players are following
them.
5. Players looking for lost ball
must allow any other match coming
up to pass them.
8. A party playing three or more
| balls most allow two-ball match to
pass them.
7. A single player has no standing
and must always give way to a proper
ly constituted match.
8. A party playing shorter round
must allow two-ball match playing
the whole round to pass them.
8. A player should not put at the
hole when the flag is i'll it.
10. The reckoning of the strokes is
kept by the terms " the odd. " 1.-TWO
more . three more, = ETC., and lone
off three, " one off two. the like. =
The reckoning of the holes is kept by
the terms--so many "holes up -or
'all even n"-and-so many & to play =
IL. Turf cut or displaced by stroke
in playing should be at once replaced.
The management of the Park Golf
Club of Plainfeld expect to open their
course next Saturday, and the work
of putting the green's in condition is
well under way. G. I. Rogers, chair
man Of the Greens Committee, has
completed arrangements with Andrew
G. Blair, of Dunnistown, Glasgow,
to fill the position of greens keeper.
Blair was engaged by golf club at
| Cleveland last year and comes highly
recommended.
The unexpected happened Friday
afternoon at the New Haven Golf
Club in the exhibition golf match
played by Harry vardon, the cham
pion, and 7. Marko Robertson, of
New York City, and Thomas Cheney,
of South Manchester, Conn, both
Yale men The Yale players won the
match, up and to play. 1t so hap
pened that Robertson and Cheney
played together, and made good drives
alternately enough to make their best
score better than Vardon's.
Improvements are still going on at
the grounds of the Morris County
Golf Club and before the opening day
arrives, the newly seeded green's will
| be in excellent condition.
The first game of golf was played on
Mr. Wolfe's links, Normandy Heights,
ON Saturday. The links are in fine
condition. A large fountain is being
erected ON the lawn in front of the
Kahn and Wertheim residences The
dimensions of the basin, which is
oblong in shape, are 90xS0 feet
The Hillside Golf Club of Plain
field has decided to formally open its
links for the season tomorrow, when
a general handicap for members with
a prize for the best gross score will
take place. The club will take an
active part in metropolitan com
petitions and the following dates are
out: May IL, scratch tournament,
eighteen holes, medal play; May 10,
June 10, Sept. s and Oct. 81, four
competitions for the YanHerwerden
Cup May 26, preliminary round for
Chapman Cup, best eight players to
continue at match play on May 30
and June 2 June 16, mems handicap
for Reinhart Cup; June 23, mixed
foursomes, eighteen holes medal play
for Gilbert Cup; July 4, Indepen-
dence Day bogie handicap; Sept B,
Labor Day Golf Committee Cup, ham
dicap eighteen holes; Sept. TO- second
competition for Reinhart Cup; Sept.
20, handicap for Glasses A and B for
special cups; Nov. 3, 6, 10, fall COM
petition for Chapman Cup Nov. 30,
second competition for Gilbert Cup,
mixed foursome handicap at eigh-
teen holes medal play
The formation of a Women's Golf
Association in New York City, similar
to that existing in Philadelphia, is
one of the latest incidents Of the
week 1t is proposed to arrange a
series of interclub matches, and pos
sibly an annual tournament for the
championship of the metropolitan dis
trict. Details are to be discussed at
a special meeting to take place on
April 27 The present officers of the
new leaoue are. President Mrs w