The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-05

superintendent said he had sold 100 boxes
of the highest priced grades Of cigarettes.
The golfng company disposed Of something
like 2,4o0 cigarettes. But our bar trade
has been very light added the mans ger.
1.-THE players only drink with their meals
and some long drinks after the rounds
Not many years ago a common charge
against golfers, especially the professionals,
was that they reeked Of Scotch whiskey
and vile pipes. Now the pros model them
selves on the amateurs, and II they have
become somewhat finicky in their manners
tire Disguised Puttes' should blame
those whom they initiate. Let them begin
by branding Hilton as an unmanly golfer
for using ciga rettes. Ira Wis In the shad
Of the white umbrella smoked cigar rs as
long as a baseball bat and as black as q
Pittsburg stogie. The professionals have
not picked up cigarette smoking from him.
Out West last year the few who played
in coats, including Travis, E, M. Byers and
D. P. Fredericks, wers dubbed cranks. In
the East there Is no comment on the lido
syncra sizes Of golfers as expressed In their
clothing. Only the game they put up Is
rega rded; and 1t is the same way in Eng
lend, where the Earl Of Winchelsea, a
golfer and father Of golfers. always played
in a lea ther suit at the championships. a
costume of the soft deerskn our early
hunters and Indian fighters used to wear.
The members Of the Oxford and Cam
bridge Golfng Society's team thought it
odd to meet golfers who did not wear Goa ts
but some of them took up the fashion. and
it has spread in England since their return
as a comfortable idea on hot days: There
-~nn L. kha oD,,nkvx, don knfokarhNoEoru n nd
jacket or a flannel suit in the morning,
and although they golf, shoot, fish OF ride,
they do not take It of except they get a
wetting, until they dress for dinner. 1T
, seems funny. 1Ssy xss said 1d,,r one DIsT OF the assn va rs s5y
battle at the golf. clubs, or rather, il there
L no reason, 1t Is funny
This was one OF those quiet remarks tina I
the other Englishmen used to find 30 divert
ing when they were all grouped together,
aort drawled out at intervals. The habit
OF a shower bath after golf is a ruling fad,
and 30 inspiriting in midsummer that It
needs no defence. In the East, where club
houses are open all the year. many
take a shower daily-in winter as well. In
a draughty club house This is flirting with
pneumonia, but the habit Ii to be reoom-
mended when the locker or dressing room
is properly heated and there are rubbsrs
to be had.
Byers always plays IN
and at the amateur championship he was In
his shirt sleeves, which were rolled up. He
wore a leather wristband as q brace for the
tendon sprained at the Allegheny Country
Club tournament last month. The wearing
of these wristbands is sometimes o fad,
but an unconscious one A Fox Hills
golfer who wore one last season on his
right wrist used to grow eloquent on the
way IL stiffened his forearm q took Oh
all strain from the muscles. He believed
he couldn't play the iron ehots properly
the right wrist. This golfers cure was
. easy. ON the day Of an Important quality
inr round his friends bribed the valet TO
strap the bsndage on the left instead OF the
right wrist. The golfer did not NOTICE the