The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-19
OclEYY TIRED OF GOLF.
UToMoBILE AND MOTOR YACHT TO TAKE ITS PLACE.
aubs arc Disbanding and Links Wiii be Used for Other Purposes-Tennis to tho Fore This summer.

 he Used for Other Purposes-gennis fo the Fore This summer.
 sSo far as fashionable society is con- |rned golf is doomed. After maintain |g strong supremacy among outdoor |orts for ten years it has been aban- bned by the swell set for the automo- |le and the motor yacht. Two of the thest men in the world, John D. ockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, are nong the enthusiastic devotees of / If, but they are unable to save it pm drifting into the hands of a very fferent class of persons from the men d women who when the golf craze bs at it's height, spent millions in pur- |asing valuable tracts of property for ks and in putting up palatial club 3uses.
 Following the example of golf clubs the fashionable winter colonies in the
  Een years one of the leading organiza- Bns in Northern New Jersey, has de- lded to disband at the end of this bnth. A similar movement is looked not only among other golf clubs in e Oranges, but in other suburban dis let's within a hundred-mile radius of sw York. Although the members of
 
 bile faverite sport they are disposed let 1t down easy. They spare it q lockout blow by announcing that their If links are required for building pur- ses. Investigation shows that so far ~ limited number of small clubs with Bsed grounds are concerned this may N true. But 1t certainly is not true of ag established clubs with extensive ounds and expensive houses that have cided to give golf the go-by this sum- tr and devote more attention to ten- . While tennis never has died out. has been kept in the background by f for a good many years. This year time popularity.
 Polo likewise will benefit by the pass- of golf, particularly at some of the W Jersey country clubs. The Essex unity Country Club, for instance, the ongest organization of it's kind in w Jersey. leased it's fine polo grounds Kew years ago to the golfers in the b. There are no finer links in the te. Polo threatened to become a rk number just at the time. Since orge Gould brought it to the fore ain at Lakewood, the best sports of Meadowbrook colony have fallen in- line, and now the Essex County Club anxious to get into the game again. Fphen Van Rensseler, Jr., Fred Van ss and few others of the old polo m who retained their ponies have sn trying to persuade the golfers .te felt their lease. For two years they pealed in vain. This year, if rumor ints for anything, the golfers will ve their ear to the ground for the neral slump in the game, and will be posed to come to terms with the polo- B.
 Since golf first became popular in the Et millions of dollars have been irl- Bted in the game. The manufacture golf balls, golf sticks and other in- pensable paraphernalia for players made the fortunes of three or four brting goods houses. It takes about million. balls each season to supply demands of players and there is put as much profit in them as in the lnufacture of patent medicines Eny of the golf club houses in New rk, New Jersey and Connecticut, pat. hized mostly by the exclusive rich ve been fitted out regardless of ex. hse. Their smoking rooms, billiard Pms, dining rooms and bed rooms fol Fmbers who may wish to remain over Fht are the embodiment of luxury ey give $2 table d'hote dinners al