The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-12
SOME FACTS ABOUT GOLF
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN

H. az on Ine stump before tbe sm;.h,
noor could never move witbomt RnnoIN
o"sent: and gave him = b;t of 80 80
% peWitched that whosoeyer sat -, ~.
oors 'u MOI be moved without bis oyyr
ben.. che Wlth his club Roger won al
wiz omgnips. s,,,;.h When Death came tn,
sfnnr '"..n MADE HIM sit on the magic
uied years more of life in which 'h ~
VIII more championships. When De.th
tanig an again and took him to uroatnr,.
SHe DeVll refused to take him beo,,,oo
"a lne trouble he might MAXI with he
s%Sme % IN that region. When he vao n,o
fnsed NO; 10 heaven, Saint Peter, too. re.
tho eu I'm nm put artfully slipping through
carpet and hoped mon if and nS o., thooa OF
ne stays until this day, candidate for
saintship in golfdom. " 'o'
wa pulch tiles show that the game
was played there long before tbe I da~e
'ne Dissentcrs or before Columbus
m%u yer neen born TO later besiepe tho
vm,. wos,a Oh SPAN for favor in his Projected
hss h voyage, For centuries the game
royal and ancient game of eoffs =, and md
tiIIost1y ny LOOK to IT early. James ~, is
me nrst recorded roval golfer. thongh
IT. Is SAID that monarchs hefore h;,n
uouptiess had much to do with tbo
S SSame' Inc unfortunate Mary. Queen of
teo,s' was SAID TO have been so devoted
Io1f ~ t''s sport that she was seen "plaring
Sot,d So ,aHd paIl'mall in the fields beside
IIeton few days after the murder of
ner husband. James r. of England ,nd
~ OF Scotland took interest enongb
~ tnc game to write in 1918 aoainsf
me importation Of so many golf halls
from Holland. and tradition hiss II tbn4
Iharles = |. was golfing on the links of
itel'n IN l642 when the news reached
! nm I'M that his Irish subjects were in re.
ue.iioh; IN l43f Scotland s parliament
lie lieu @ 9 laW prohibiting The playing Of
Go'l ON sunday, but it seemed of liftlo
use In 49l severer law with penal.
l.es attached cmanated from parliament,
ana Inc law Jntimatcd that so much
uime was spent on golf that the o,t;on
was IN danger of forgetting the use nf
me cross-bow-a fact that would wsok.
en- 1T IN time of war ''
= The first golf club was NOT that Of
St, Andrew S, Scotland. as is eenoro1I,.
supposed. but was the Blacksmith cLb
u England, formed in 1908, possibly
inder the patronage of James VI. ST.
Andrew s was formed in 1754 Until
1918 the halls were "fsather balls -
oeing of gutta pcrcha stuffed with |
ehthcrs so compactly that hat full |
vas required for each ball. The stufiug |
process was tedious, one feather being |
Inserted by hand at time. The pres,
ure against the breast of the worker
vas so great that tuberculosis often re-
uIted. and Scotland would fain turn
he manufacture back to Holland and
ave the health Of her own subjects, I
here are now innumerable kinds of
'alis with rubber cores, one that is filled
s'tb compressed air, another that has
'quld IN tho center. For while il
'as thought that a leather cover, like
hat used in baseball. was necessary.
nut 1t was soon found iimpracticable.
The game. some assert. has been n
recess of evolution that began with
ockey and SIMPLER form of The game
layed by Dutch burghers ON the ice
their canals, In olden times the
cotch players sighted the church stee-
lc of their town and then tried to see
no would bring his ball TO the church
oor with the smallest number Of
rokes.