The San Francisco call., 1904-12-03
.CLAREMONT
CLUB OPENS
ITS DOORS
Golf, Tennis, Bow
ling and Trap
Shooting.

The Claremont Country Club, the
successor of the Oakland Golf Club,
formally opens it's clubhouse and
grounds to-day from 1 to D. m. There
will be an eighteen-hole medal play
competition on the new golf course,
with prizes for the winner and runner
up. There will also be competitions,
with prizes. in Scotch bowling, lawn
tennis and trap-shoOting. Cards of Wis
itation have been sent to many of the
members of the. San Francisco Golf
and Country Club and to others inter-
ested in outdoor sports, and a good at
tendance is expected.
Visitors from San Francisco should
travel by the Key route, changing cars
at Broadway and Fortieth street for
the grounds of the Country Club. Wis
itorS from Alameda should go to Oak
land and thence proceed, as the Oak
landers will do by the Piedmont cars
to Fortieth street, then change to the
club car, which will leave at 2; %
and AZ minutes past each hour Pas
sengers from Berkeley should transfer
to the Piedmont train on the Key
route and change to the club car at
Fortieth street and Piedmont avenue
Mrs. r. Gilman Brown of the San
Francisco and San Rafael Golf Club
geles Country Club and the San Diego
Golf Club, two of the strongest golfers
OF their sex in the State have been
active in the organization Of a proposed
California Women Golfers Associa-
tion," which will begin operations in
January, 1905. The association is on
the same lines as the Women's Western
Golf Association, which has greatly in
creased the interest of ladies in golf
ffc
tary and organizers has given the ben
fit of its experience to the leading spir-
its Of the G. w. G.. A. Most of the
members of the executive committee of
the Pacific Coast Golf Association.
With many secretaries and leading
members of the golf clubs, have signi-
fed their approval of the proposed
women's association.
The dues of each club to the C.. w.
g. A. are to be $40 year. A handicap
tournament on the links of each club
is to be played about every six weeks.
and team match between north and
south is to take place at each regular
yearly championship event. The women
golfers of each club will be expected
to play in as many tournaments as
possible and to encourage others to do
so, their only expenses being lunch
cons, fares and caddie fees
There will be no regular prizes at
each tournament. but there may be an
association medal or an association
cup If medal is decided on the
player winning the largest number of
medals during year will be handicap
champion for the succeeding year II
a cup is decided on the name of the
winner will be engraved on it and her
club will hold it till it is won from her.
A standard system of handicappine
will be adopted. by which each club
can handicap its players so that they
may have their regular standing at ali
tournaments.
William Robertson, formerly a pro-
fessional of the San Francisco Golf
Club. was at the links of the Santa
Catalina Island Golf Club during the
summer. Recently he laid out q
course at East San Gabriel for the San
Gabriel Country Club. An extension
of the car line from Los Angeles en-
ables players and visitors to reach the
club in about thirty-five minutes from
that city.