The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-26
on THE ICE IN TIE SOUND.
Great sport Along shore In This Nlntriest
Of Recent winters.

Up the Sound, in this wintriest Of recent
winters, people are playing golf on the
ice. using the cleek solely among clubs.
A driver, with its wooden head. or "A hrassie.
with its shoeing Of brass, would soon be
broken. if not destroyed, by contact with
knobbv excrt SCIENCES Of ice. or with stones
and sticks frozen into the ice, but the iron
headed cleek serve- in this very well
For playing golf on the ice they use
red ball. and play. it may be- over course
marked by frozen-in buoys, to which they
play. as 10 holes. One course. for instance,
over which New Rochelle golfers play on
the ice is that following the Huckleberrv
Island Channel from lien Island TO Huckle-
berry Island, a distance Of about mile and
n half. marked 10y four such buoys. They
play out over this course and back.
In playing golf on the ice the ball bounces
and hobs and jumps around and flies Of
at tangents when it hits an ice obstacle.
but there il a chance for the exercise OF
skill in ice golf and at any rate IL gives the
PLAYER plenty Of exercise.
But golf is not by any means the only
exercise INDUCED in on the ice in these
days by people dwelling along the shores
of the frozen over Sound On Sundays
now people get out and walk on the ice
as they might along country roads or
through the fields in summer.
The Sound Is frozen over far out from its
shores and people may be seer uuies away
on IT, out in the middle ~ the Sound, mere
moving specks in the distance. The sol
diers in the garrison on DaVid's Island
have worn path over the ice from il 10
Glen Island. which they follow as they might
any well worn path on the land. and Incl
dentally these soldiers, artillerymen, with
their blue uniforms and with the red stripes
on their trousers and the red ohevrons on
the coats of commissioned officers,
add 70 the picturesqueness OF the scene
presented by the people on the ice.
Besides the golfers and the walkers and
the soldiers, there are TO be seen on the
ice skaters. and on the smoother Joe in
the bays people darting about on ice boats.
and again in the open, people driving in
se CHS, these making trips along the shore,
az. for example. driving from New Rochelle
TO Larchmont and back.
Altogether, the ice in the Sound, in the
neighborhood Of towns near New York,
presents now on fair Sundays a spectacle
that If not exactly a carnival IL at least
carnival like And back from the shores
on the snow covered land people are find
ing lots Of winter fun
There people are sliding down hills on
bobsleSls and every other kind Of sled old
people as well as young, whoopng things up
In great shape, and everywhere may be
seen people in sweaters and wearing
skating caps and gay tam o. shanters.
equipped for winter sport And people
hook a pair Of horses TO a bobsled, which
Is provided AT the front with a suitable
high fender or dashboard Of wire, TO keep
the snow thrown from the horses hoofs
from flying in the faces Of the riders, and
dozen people pile on the bobsled and 60
roaming around the country.
Everybody that owns a sleigh hooks up
the family percheron to IL and goes sleigh
ing There's a foot Of snow everywhere
and the -leighng is great
in fact everybody living long the shores
Of the Sound anywhere near New York il
just now having great time, either on the
ice OF the frozen Sound, or on the snow
covering the ground inland in this wn'riest
Of recent winters,