The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-13
!, HAROLD, IT'S
A SAD, SAD STORY!
r8t me and Me Brother Went
y Through Learning
Govt.
NIPPON EGAN TELLS
Al HISTORY OF PAST LIFE
Vexing Trouble as They
Had in Learning the
T. Game.

" YORK, May l2-In the current is
II Golf Illustrated, II Chandler
the American amateur OF 1904 and
flls the story of his golf life as fol-
AZ not need to look very far back for
Heglnhing of nay golf career, as my
lis but seven years old and l feel
There Is still more TO learn. Golf
ssstracted my attention In the sum-
1881, when my brother and myself
et three-hole course in a small
ksture at the back of our house In
) md Park, Ill Artificial hazards
y necessary. as the uneven grounds,
Nass, trees, and tennis court fence
ned plenty OF trouble for our un-
game, The holes averaged posi-
~ OF sixty yards In length and
, were no green's or excuses for
merely small hole In the ground
deeper than the many footprints
~L1cow. Our clubs, OF, more correctly
0E, club, was crooked stick.
has been used many time FOR
m on the ice In winter time. and
lW tennis ball.
Irst Experience in Game.
cousin. Walter Egan. had been
golf since the spring of 1896, and
never forget the time he first VS.
r crude links He had with him
and O real golf ball objects or
interest to my brother and myself.
nVed him the first tee and pointed
ne the first hole was, beyond the
court In corner OF the fence.
NEas no flag In the hole. nor was
my other means of his knowing It's
Vosltion, but he played his stroke
ng the trees and We went after IL.
cEt search proved useless until one
lscovered II lying In the hole, That
n eT Introduction TO golf as 1t should
y and / visited my cousin at Lake
Wis, where there is an attrnc-
shteen-hole course. For the first
Ay q played on real golf course and
vu al clubs, and were introduced to
~ rowing troubles or sand bunkers
fches However. the game hao
z strong hold OF US, and II WASH
y Isuore the weeds grew undisturbed
y = fennis court at home My brother
with some three or four boys. laid
VI tnlne-hole course, using our pas
5isie neighbors' lawns and the stretch
rtrs up and down the road We hac
u lever so bad that we took great
isa Eicnttlng and rolling grons for eacf
n no using empty tin cans TO linC
W "a with. Then. OF course, came thu
: sent Of buying our first clubs. Aft
lur reing carefully a catalogue we eacf
h RI cleek and a mashlo. and thor
mes began
"a Went Golf Crazy.
" 'were golf crazy, so to speak, anc
<nter We had many an indoor put
. ruSs|tch, placing the tin discs In differ
2ms on small rugs, and placinj
,seI hazards TO punish inaccuracy
championship nearly ever,
ltn possibly six or seven entries
u'cI most exciting and close matches
: r door putting Is. / think, splendl
III lor the eye and for delicecy o
Is 4, fn IN putting, as carpets and rug
= Ittry fast green's
now fond We were OF the game
pper Joined the EXmoor Countr
1fs, and l became a junior mem
- gought q whole set OF clubs, an
40 OF them as could be. My frs
i ntsn was a nlne-hole course), re
"a g. vas Gl, but by dint of hard prac
W fduced that 10 43 before the yea
=, gets tho summer ] had ono shor
..ry5 t9m @ young Scotch professionc
ssT, slAiexnnder Christie. All he had I
- 4 swing over your shoulder an
''~ ItoP OF your head The only 9th
ever had was with Alcxando
who cured me of tearing u
Yelling me TO keep my shoulder
NeLt;opping as l swung down.
v" Copy Others Players.
y, ever else l have learned abou
mas como from experience. care
reF ol the gane. and the study {
ycrs. L have noticed how reac
49, eda1iee VIII mimic some player
hil It's .pecullarities. and / thin
fy 10 mimic the better players
- nelp. or course. one must abs,
Htesa style adapted TO himself
ue smooth and natural In O
ns. otherwise his muscles w
tnnst each other instead OF c,
Se nammcr of 1900 saw mo playir
Hery day on the Exmoor cours
,ss <uuced my record of C. to 39
u M my hrst prize In driving col
f~ ,5T cup about three inches hig
nd ~ - around as t%o fingers HOY
ps - ste ,nhue 10 me is far above its /
aS ~ fowlng the Hammer Good.
.et,s rt 70 spring of 1901 spent some tin
% h.ss5, 5,c INC l2-pound hammor for d
sns. suo Team, and this strengt
Ns' {his shoulders and back mu
go ',at Inlnk. together with 4
NV lncd r. was growing somewhs
~ aeu m,rdy my drive about twenty yar mr.
PnN sfnhns career opened that sprl
qos fnu team between the Rug
S"' OWN and the Universe
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