The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-14
CANADIAN GOLFERS WAKE UP.
TORONTO PLAYERS HAVE LONG
EST COURSE ~ AMERICA.
Links ~ hamilton Country club. Laid Out
by Willie Dunn. Is Tw ent!-se,en Yards
Longer Than ~. Andrews-One Hole
Of $50 Nartis-Picturesque Greens.

81 saO Yards Greens.
Willie Dunn. To- former golf champion. re-
turned from Toronto, Canada. Yesterday,
where he laid out for the limbton Country
Club the longest links ~ America. the total
length being G.9JO yards. one hole having
. length of $50 Yards. The length OF the
course IA It's nor'uHl playing condition VIII b"
twenty-seven yards longer than 1t. Andrews
Scotland. the longest Of ia" rv" champion
ahip links of Great Britain. but II l. not as long
as the liuntcrCombe ljnhs. the new course
of Willie PARK, Jr., near London. Dunn MISC
laid out a relief course. to be- used chiefly ny
The women members. of 1900 yards. The
Iamhton Country club VIII I've the NTH at
Toronto to have Inks. Its president Is
A. l.. Austin and George Lyon. TIA" ex-alnn-
tcur Champion OF Canada. ~ captain. The
course IS LAID out over old and fertile PASTURE
Land bordered nv the Humber River and
Hack Creek. and as nll the preliminary work
vas finished before the snowfall. II Will be ~
condition for play by n"Nt senson.
The first hole Is OF 375 yards. starting on
the clubhouse hill. and the feature is n group
OF mound buukers. each eight feet high.
before the green The second. 200 yards.
has bitches on each side Of the green. and
back OF il the Scarlet road serves ~ a trap,
There Is plenty of variety about the third
hole 4oo yards. Arrow Of apple trees is to the
left OF the fair green and III" Scarlet road TO
the right. with a great sand bunker to be ear
ried l25 yards from the tee. The play TO the
green thereafter is down h'll, the hole being on
. plateau. There il TaNiu" To the back OF
the green, a quarry To the lett ana MI TO the
right, from which ball would roll TO the
green The fourth tee - on a la, ght, tn" hoi".
$50 yards away. being on point OF lHrd "N-
tending from the opposite rdc VI Bach { EEK,
which j. 80 crooked that II also makes hazard
yards. is over "A hinock. Black Cox HAVING
10 be carried on the second .."' About %
yard sixth hole. l. u natural bunker on IL"
slope Of Hiii he ono shot mg n-.,, nS
it nyTq 9VG on ' the n" BANK Of f Hum6cr 1
With grow OF trees 20 the left The seventh
hole is sso yards, The tee il on an elevation
and a i5o-yard drive Will cross the Humber
River. when II VIII b." clear sailing - the
green. which is IN a hol"" \ short driver
his second Tie eighth tee is GA the bank
OF the Humber, on IA pirture.qu" spot rear
land to the greer, which 4 in u glen lilo
hole is oil S25 yards The drive Tor the ninth
lace OF p fiji. tn SOC ord shot Will be- short of
Black Geek. bryond which u the green.
The out ward journey Is OF 3,upl NNlN-
4 short hole begins the home ward journey.
II is of is5 yards, the play being over Black
Creek, which flows here in horseshoe curve
and almost makes an island OF tnr green
The first shot Tor the iu0-yard eleventh hole
T. from cliN. the drive being over low ,cdarS
and Black Greek again there u ALSO e water
hazard before the green and tree, back Of II
The twelfth hole /, OF 325 yards. the green
Creek behind il elm. from which an over
played bah Would likely rebound TO- Ia" green.
A. at the eleventh. the Zee for the iQo-yard
It Of turf extending to the Humber River.
Lriny guarded oy Black Creek The hole
j. oi $50 yards IN" fifteenth hol" l. OF 800
wards, I'll" e" being on an Island reached by
accurate play i demanded. for the elm i
10 the lef. aud the Humber River to the right.
Now come, The 7Jo-yard hole. Unlike tho
old 7o0-yard hole at Van Cortlnptt Park
that from it. uonotony WAS regarded by all
as stale, Nat and unprohtshie,' and was
soon cut w to max" two h9lHs TINS long 'peCi-
men ia fun Of variety. The Tee l. in a sl.n
second shot should bring the player before
the second bunker. which i on the face, Of
"A hill The third should carry IN" bunker
10 the oddly placed green, .which ha.. been
an old quarry The hoscy Tor tho hole is
. IN" seventeen h S25 YARD, haT the green
eighteenth, ?2i yards, j. much IKE the hom"
hole at ShnneCock Hills, tn" PLAY being
Uphill and the g gr,en near The, The eIu6horI so
bosey will be about -. The recapitulation
of the distances follow.
In......is5 400 325 400 $50 800 100 3-5 RS 30
The contractors have turned the new house
of tho Country hub OF Lakewood over to Ia"
members and the decorating aud iurnIs ~ <
Viil begin az once. II l. likely that ere
will he 4 - OlstWHrflug on New l"tl - y,
using Whatever rooms oi tire building Tat
may b" ready IN ". lCt to r"oetv" -" gu' -t-
President Gould has appointed the Following
committees.
Housc Arthur y. Clan,n chairman; George !.
Gould. Henry James Clarence ". Root and Jasper
Lyncn.
sports Frederick :. potts, cha rmdn J. $. =.
Randolph Or. Paul +. h""oai H. /. Herbert.
John q. Patterson.
tireen-Ia,prr Lynch. chairman; J. !. ODon .
ohue, Frederick T. kInbH!l, \, ". Hiac~ and
Francis III Freeman.
At the annual meeting o. the New Jersey
state Golf Assertion n st = outh II Will be
voted to hold "a" ogamIionsi ip next June
at tie Baltusrol COLI iuh, D. Tat organize ton
will tender tie use OF It's links IT," previous
championships hav" been l"ld IN turn at I. Z"
EsseA County EuglcwoOd and Mont clair
links Arc ibpld Graham OF the North
Jersey Country club Won tho first and Allan
kennaday the next two in succession
Snow and slect wcr" too much for n" golfers
Yesterday and the links wor" deserted for
the squash courts. 200, tables and bow ling
alleys with other indoor anus mcDts. one
OF the contests 20 have been bcld Is now on
for cool. ia" laatCn b'tW"cu teams from
The StrollerS and the mid-ler-"y clubs over
the BiItusrol links. X &. Watson, Jr vi o
had the match In charge. will 20 to South