The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-09-13
THE swATFEsT IN cor.


Nebraska Has Evolved a New Thing on
the Links--A Kind Of Tournament
4 Play That Was Started On Natures
Own Coli Courses Beyond the Missis-
sippi.
Several Of the Nebraska home folks
% celebrate the arrival Of Bryan we're
golfers, and some had games On local
linFs. "Your New York links are too
artificial; just like good many Of your
sections here, remarked one OF the Ne
braska golfers. Now beyond the Missis
Eslppi we get natures own golf courses.
fcf the bottom lands Of the prairies are
az undulating and close iii turf is the
seashore links III the British Isles. We
don't build bunkers or dig traps for haz
aids. The land has only I'd be slnoothe,l
with a roller to form the putting greens.
and the distances marked out according
10 the lay Of the land to make good
one, two Oh three shot hole. It's IDEAL
gell, and II We didn't have To hustle so
lard for q living we surely would de-
Neiop an amateur champion III Nebraska.
There is one thing we have done that
r record. We have invented a new
sort Of golf tournament and new name
for it. We call il swatfest, and ii
Keats AL other sorts Of golf competi-
lions.
All hands may start in d swatfest,
fer we believe in sociabilitv ont our way,
lr i match i'lav, arranged on the com
tfunlty plan and on sound principles that
s.ould appeal e Old Tom Morris. Prime
Minister Baifour, Walter j. Travis,
Chandler Egan p any stickIed for ortho-
coy 10 golf: but 1t is wholly progress
s.yc and new.
The method is something Of the or
Ger Of the plavof of tie hi d medal
10y qualifying round, inasmuch as all
Aands tee off together, No matter how
nany are to play for tho cup, All hands
start IN BY playnu the first hole. They
drive oiE IL pairs, Of course, or III four
sonles, and those to hole out first form
q galley To watch the efforts If the
others and cheer them on. High man or
lnen drop out at each hole. The Others
keep on, until but two are left in. but
Ihe rule remains the same. high man tn \
ifop out. When i swatfest gets reduced 4
n one pair 1t becomes ali ordinary
match usually settled at the next hole
u two.
Suppose the first hole Is a par al.
Usually two OF three will have Is or I,
ven s., in a biz field, and out they 70. \
Z the second hole y an easy B, those
Y 5s will probably be dropped. unless
ONE one gets wfeteled Z OF s, ana 81
ayes the bacon 81 the men. Often 4
Whole bunch will be dropped al 81 or IS.
o. while player might keep them in.
7 as we say, alive. by sacrifice
troSe, we are too strict on the spirit of {
Re game 70 commit such an act In /
tead, should some one in such crisis |
ave the bunch By getting il 8, he Il
Voted at and fined the drinks.
When a swatfest il sifted down 10 +,
y or eight. it becomes as exciting a !
orin Of golf as any have seen. At our I
~ swatfest over the Omaha Field Club +
nks, there were SIX survivors out OF I
syenty starters to play the sixteenth i
Ole Of 800 yards, An had AZ when the
st pair drove of. One of them toppe,i III
Il tee shot and took > more to The Z
Ieen, htt holej ont in 4. His partner =
as on the green in 2, and it looked as if Ii;
E, too, would get a and the buncl. Ia
aep on intact To the next hole. Instead Il
IA chap played 4 long pnt hrapely TOLD
i hole and rot his q There was lIl
yell from the gang as a tri- 1