Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-14
GOLFERS GET ONTO The LINKS
Good Old summer Times Return
brings the Players Back to
the FavOFite sport.

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Golf has taken a sudden leap into favor
during the last week and a number OF local
tournaments have been arranged for at the
Field and Country clubs. The bad weather,
which had stopped play almost entirely
for more than a week, gave the players
enough Of a lest TO draw them out In large
crowds as soon as the sun and the warm
breezes were apparent and they have
locked over the links all week. On We'd
nesday the women Of the Country club
competed for the Foye cup and II fell to
Miss Dewey for the third time, giving her
permanent possession Of 1t. 1t was hardly
expected that Miss Dewey would secure It.
despite her excellent record, as she has
hardly been playing any this year and
several of the other women enthusiasts at
the club have been on the links regularly
since early spring.
The links at the Country club did not suf-
fer any because Of the wet weather and
really Improved under the soaking. The
grass was kept down and, but for a few
days when the ground was very soft. they
could be played upon readily all of the
time although few of the followers OF the
caddle bag braved the rains.
At the Field club, however, the rain proved
a great drawback. as 1t prevented keeping
the grass cut and 1t became so long that
II was almost impossible to go around the
| course without carrying a pail of balls for
the eighteen holes. Tho few players who
continued at the game during the stormy
period played in hard luck and lost balls
| and made low scores because of the high
grass. But the course has been gotten
back into good shape and the play OF
Saturday, when the handicap in the
Field club cup series was played
proved very good and some of the scores
were very good indeed. Following the in
tention Of the Field club to interest the
women in golf an attempt will be made
Tuesday afternoon to hold a ladies' handi
cap tournament and. II it proves success
full, 1t will be made the first OF a series
The Country club has planned by far the
largest number of tournaments so far
Saturday they played the second Of the
series in the Cartan cup series and mex
Saturday they will meet with the Evanston
golf club of Kansas City in a ten mer
match. Last year the Country club jour
neyed to Kansas City and won over the
Evanston club after a hard struggle. Il
is not expected that they will lose this
year, as both teams will be practically tbs
same and neither has suffered much mor'
than the other because of lack of practice
On Wednesday of this week there will alsC
be a ladies' handicap sweepstakes. Thes'
tournaments for the women in the mid
die OF the week have proven quite success
full and have brought out a fair number
Of entries. The cup that the tournamen
committee has given for a series Of hv,
tournaments to be held monthly is al
added point Of interest to the golfers o
the club and the first contest of this serie
is set for Tune q. The play In this serie
is an eighteen hole handicap.
The date of the Transmississippi tourna
ment has been changed from August t
September, as the course at Des Nome
was badly damaged by the floods and vii
} not be in good condition until then. TIL
|, public course. which is an eighteen hol
) course, will be used for the tournamen
I and will be turned over to the TRANSMITS
} slssippi Golf association during the wee
, Of play. 1t is expected that the tourna
/ ment will differ little in events and qualit
; from that held here last summer.