The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-05
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Southern Links The Journeys Ind far
Many Players.

Many Players.
! with the Palm BeuCh duties definitely liked.
| many golGng amateurs who intend to tour
I this season instead of passing the season at
I the gayest oil the resorts are preparing TO
I he gin their trips at Nassau, in tDe Bahamas.
/ and keep on up the east coast, while another
| division Will attend the inaugural golf cham
| pionship a. the City OF Mexico. Feb. IN 10 20.
and then jourHes. hy way Of Magnolia Springs
| and the Floridn west coast 10 St. Augustine or
| else begin the east coast series at Miami.
| There will be a general splitting up OF the
| goldne pilgrims after the tournaments at
st. Augustine 'vth much desultory eolhne o
be enjoyed on She way North or at the annual
open tournaments az Pinehurst. Aiken
Asheyille. Camden and the Virginia Hot
Springs with Nashville as possibility. be-
fore the Northern tournaments begin in April
at Atlantic City and Lakewood,
To make the midwinter tour IL a delight
that Nill liee long IN memory. and every
golfer lives in tho hope of being able to go
on the pilgrimage at least once. The one
thoru to the rose is that the stay -at-onc- place
golfers pretend 10 look down on the travellers
a. mug hunters Oddly enough. those
" no sheer the most are the first to swing
into line TO take IN the Tournaments north Of
their stopping place, 50 the tip-iilted noses
may he due to thcsr features being put out
by the advent OF better golfers
The east coast round will began at Nassau
win cross ~ steamer 20 Florida fo BE
yra1y for thc ,ournCMcut "a Miami March
Q, and D. e. y; Cor won the first cu9
there last year. With y. Y paut as runner up
Palm Bench IS next IN line during the we,d
OF March ~ with three important cups a.
match play for those who qualify in the re-
spectiyo siNteens. Play at OFmond is next
in order. golf driving the motorists out Of
first consideration on March 20 ?? and -
and then there will be two events at St Angus
tine in the ono week the east coast champion
Florida championship, March 300 April !.
ID. / Dana OF LenoN aud &. G. Mason OF
the Crescent \. G. were the winners. respcc-
lively, last year. Players from an parts of
Florida make the 81 Augustine tournaments
the starting point for the hegira nOrthWard
Should pending plans 20 through the iourney-
Ing along the greater part Of the ctSt Cou.t
may neat year be by automobile Work
has been started already 20 connect ST.
Augustine and Ormond by bridging Matauzas
inlet the only break IN the beach between
the two resorts. There Is good drive from
81 Augustine through the tropical woods OF
Anastasia Island 10 the beach.
:. John Moller Jr. has now, won the Lake
Worth cup tournament at Palm Reach two
years In succession The next big tuurra-
ment there viii be for the Jefferson cups.
Feb 10, u and Is; then comes the south
the women's championship. March : aud o.
and the open championship on March !.
golfers nre arriving now by every train. and. !
after emerging from the ours iu Iur wrups
and ovcrco1tS. they are next TO he met With !
transformed 10 ri1lI tIe new tOlNlt IONS the J.
In lighi nauuel- aud straw ha'- The golfers !
take = part 10 all that eue. ON between the !
tournaments. on water mud land, a special |
event Inst wceiJ being the opening for the i
season nj the Florida Gun club WA II !
stafford president OF the Carteret Gun club /
and G,rden CITY golfer shot the first bird
water carnival on IRko Worth j. on Tor tins j
week, and the golfers viii have boats in the /
dofk of tho Crescent \ e.. with his motor i
boat the trso. disguised ~ q monster ulh- I
gator Above the movable Jaw and huge /
teeth the head viii show clariug eye, Of cleo
trio lights and The tail will churn and thrash I
tho water IKE az angry whale Their" IS
Beach for the golfers
ON Jan u thcre was an interesting match
at ~ andrews hetW e"n four Of the Western
professionals who are in Scotland for the
winter rhe partners were Robcrt and
Bob simpson and Peter Robertson of Car
noUstir They vey" IA aurHrH IN tho no-n-
Ing. but the Caruou-te men won In the uftcr-
noon by -tnp and 70 play VIZ th' .rsl bah
score or TO- good ono considering the b ,h
wind In which th"y played.
old Tom Morris is SLOWLY lmproving in
health. according To the latest bulletins from
that Sir Thomas Dewar before going 10
Ormoud for tho motor races sent ont % 81 $50
cur to be PLACED for annually by The coll
clubs in tlc lrausVaal. this year = match to
he AZ johannesburg ON opening gull
course at Dnlueny lord Rosebery declared
liherntc choice OF golf as his uinu4rinout
knowing all the facts aud viewing tn. iu-
IA tuation ut his friends he is making Il choice
second only IN gravity TO the choice Of Il wife
! TAYLOR won from James Braid in tho
first prof essional match Of the season. at Rye .
England. on Jan IL, by up aud to play.
in ihrty-siN holes IN the morning TAYLOR
made II for tine : st5 yard course and led by
10 no. as Braid needed 81 TAYLOR brought
Of every shot for which he tried. while moth
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