The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-15
VUNOVERE ENGLISH GOLF NOVEL
TIE HERO CALMLY IMPROVES
THE LIE or THE BALL.
Also Makes the Home Hole at ST. Andrews
in One, Although II Is a Hard -Four to
Common M~ortaIs-Opcn winter Has
nrouEht the Golfers into Trim Ea'ly'

There have been several novels OF the
,,rLs here and abroad, although the one
.+orv that will stand out preemlnent ana all
sbsorbingi is as much of a will o the wlspas
.bo aoreat American novel; The American
srthors have now turned in solid array
.~ward automobiling as the theme for pos
,ihIe best selling fiction, but they nave had
their fling at golf, and with at least tecnnlcal
accuracy. This accuracy is absent from the
100, English novel to depict golang scenes,
Nth the result that the British golfers are
having a lot Of fun over the book IL Is
a,herWise a good story and by no less a per-
image than Maxwell Gray, who wrote The
sIoncs NJ Dean Maitland" and other popu-
Although Maxwell Gray has fixed the
.aro ot classic st. Andrews on the lay OF
~. autumn meeting, at which the gold
~odsl presented by King William ~. has
hoen the first prize since 1887, the authoress
~ called to study the rules Of golf in i'm
Lth,ro local color. Especially is that most
ao,ant ~ all golfng commandments, as 1t
E,otrosctiye on the sense Of honor as well as
"~rIic,t On the law Of the links, Rule IS, IN.
,nnwn to her. 1t reads: "A player or cad
ii. shall not press down or remove any
Irregularities Of surface near a ball IN
play
ne euent STYLE Of the authoress, who thus
n;o,rres the immortal being In act to
,oLe the last drive into the last hole
record unknown in the memory OF st.
andrews on the par four homo hole. Yet
,asd. The hand Of many q gallant
pbtorrapher quivered in the anguish OF
moyerng his camera at the night mo-
met = e y the pulses OF the intense
croA throbbed with often bafhed ex-
~pectsion as the eye Of the great golfer
measured the ground between the hole
and III, hall again and again, and he grasred
his Underwent with fierce and fell energy
In bothbands, first one way, then another;
now getty and deftly patting the turf
Immediately behind the ball, now, wit
glaring eve and bristling mustache, whirl-
ing the inn-shod club with an acrobatio
twist Of hh whole body above his head and
far behind Aim, with q force and determine
ton so terrible as to strike cold fear into
the hearts Cd uninitiated b~ystanders.'
Still, again, without expressing the sur
prise Of one uninitiated to such a style OF
addressing the ball, it is to he noted that this
golfer assumed "a more reaceable attitude
I'LL, from the rank Of boomerang, cattle
axe or two handled sword, the driving iron
sank to the level Of a more pacific UNI
brella, spade or walking stick. and the
turf behind the ball was again gently,
almost caressingly, patted by 1t. Then
at last, in pity to bright eyes on the point OF
being sufused with tears OF suppressed
emotion and manly breasts ready to burst
with il, the great golfer suddenly and with.
out the slightest warning, with q quick and
complicated pirouette that threw him upon
bis other leg, whirled his club so fercely
and quickly round that he seemed to smite
caught the ball clean in the centre with q
quick crack that sent it singing in a fine arch
10 the long envisa ged hole
II was through a "lane Of silent and re-
pectful homage that the winner walked
10 the clubhouse. The homage must have
been to his audacity in daring twice to VIC
late Rule 10 in the full view OF the st. An
drews crowd, the keenest goling critics
In all Scotland. His cheek we'll deserved
to hole in one where another would have
that besides being ignorant Of Rule 10 Max
we'll Gray's' golfer was what is termed a
short counter. Tom Bendelow, in charge
ata Western tournament, would have taken
delight in calling down this ~iconoclast az
publicly as he had patted down the turf
nionsbin the United States Golf Association
committee would have written -disquahtied'
after his name, but without deignlng tc
make an explanation. Still. there Is a
license to novel writers as elastlc as any
granted To poets.
From fiction it is easy to u to iactf
and 10 chronicle that the open tournament
Of the Northern season willbegln on lnurs-
dav, Friday and Saturday at the Countr!
Club Of Lakewood. This tournament has
been held semi annually without a breal
since the fall Of 1895, when the preoedenl
that the amateur champion OF the year MAJ
not pass Lakewood without a defeat CAM
into being through the defeat OF u; o
good with The successive champions, c. i
Macdonald, H j. Whigham, Findlay Doug
las and Fl. NJ. Hartman. but both wafer .
Travis and H. Chandler Egan shattered ~
The coming tournament will be the twenty
second in ~senli-annual sequence, and, *
have held in American golf, thirteen Of thu
tournaments have been won by Travis o
drglas.
Its history gives the urs and W Q
many golfers, but the record also reveal
what Ia quite as interesting, that there ar.
many who have STAYED in the game Will
enjoyment for all these years. Dougla
came TO the tournament in the full ylgor o
his game in 1897, when fresh from the ocot
fish links, and he has won four tune
since. Travis was a climber in 1897, but h
won his spurs at Lakewood in the spring o
1898 and has won the first cup, sevee'
mes since. Travis beat out Douglas Tn
st time, he won and has beaten him, Il
Lee final rounds since, but Douglas, ma
VI only one Lakewood final from him
" two Erars have brought their lmstr
Wle Lakewood links. II. Chandler Ega
Won the spring of 1904 and Walter Egai
.asi-'Ing, beating Douglas in the tina
ppmie c. Fownes, Jr, beat George l
prSSkaSut last fall.
NeXtter Lakewood by a happy chang
~ cate II come the Atlantic City Countr,
I!un toAament, the first or second wee
Va Nav. hitherto this has been held il
hpnl orldrch, treading on the heels o
Al the toulrnaents in the South, but the ney
cate glVeto Atlantic City a clear leld
81 mere willie a tremendous entry, for tn
III northern wa homes will feel then tn
Eol sap Sfing in their veins and viii
me to Atlsfc City, while the droppers
~ rom theouthern resorts will also b
there ia. stinp things. A third elemen
MI be rlavettrom New York, New Jersey
Philadelphia al Boston who have hope
o. winning dinction in he local chan
piohshlp latern Nav and will want I
FL get on edgeiThrough these diferer
causes there s,4l be 200 players at tn
tournament, nd by a continuance OF
Nay date tn AAntio City tournamen
M NAV soon be 40 the natiOni