The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-12

<srtr'o o.ss,.bv. Just TO be sociablC
,tsserby said Wen, how !;
y ] Soing these daysT 'Tenms!
'5f kEnothing. Look al me coort
|anlss,.n't had a game for minny a
y prS TiIs new Scotch cro9uet has put
z Is; out av business, - And he
pnp his hand toward the nclghbor.
pa rIw u links. Golf hasn't quite put
; vn;s out of business, but it has
!,mhed npd a rival kingdom of its own
h;Js fair 10 be permanent, 1t
.,nsr I in first deciding to establish
! I'm but having once begun its con
of the country If has progressed
= speed so wonderful that one
.inost play from Maine TO Cali
~ from Washington TO Florida
:oShorinp links. 1t is not a new
This country, being as old MS
.si;on itself, but the revival is
srativelv, recent Being of Dutch
aolf came to America with the
nj New Amsterdam and other
river colonies. and became so
M that as carly as December,
law was placed on the statute
If Fort Orange, now Albany,
sdding the playing of golf in the
The Riyington Royal Ga
ET n new York publication CON
a bv Tories during the revolution,
an advertisement in the number
|innl 81, 1879. wherein the virtues
's,taln man s golf balls and sticks
n forth in dignified manner.
"A other things soon came in TO
IN the attention OF early colonial
IN There were Indians to fight.
s tracts Of forest land to clear,
4. and cities to build and the
4 adverse conditions of new
( to overcome. The nation had
i time for play. SO little time
An, people eventually allow them.
e that success was supposed to be
A on much work and little play,
|lhs lives of great men written ont
|he next generation TO read inva-
Il noted the fact that this or that
/ had devoted ali his waking hours
|,l and had avoided pleasure and !
s plague Now sure of herself, !
|pndent in riches and all the ma
4 things that bring comfort. the
y has found Time to play. and
q old and new, strenuous and .
|lTise, have been levied upon for /
uuposes of amusement.
4 ISIS Charles B. Macdonald of
La went abroad and from Scot
D X brought back sci of knobby
b r,w to most Americans. To the
h inSemenf Of his neighbors and
1ltnss JOY of the hoodlums. he
pthfs occupied his time in knock.
itle balls around the field back
be University Of Chicago. This is
|fn recorded playing of golf since
/ old Dutch settlers and English
b got too busy TO. play in pre-
days. In 1887 Robert
bart and John Reid gathered a
friends around them at Yonkcrs,
u and played golf. In the fol
b year the first golf club in The
y States was orga niZed at Yonk-
|nd was called "St Andrews
|7nr later another club grew np
: Shinneeock Hills of Southsmp.
= l. and now there are between
and 1000 recorded links in the
+ States. with n membership ex-
H 100000.
! game. golf has a great MANY {
s points. some of which are ne. 5
% II alone. 1t docs not require
fYenditure Of so much nervous
y or does il demand youth as its
gl as most other games do, al
sne British have a theory that
3 must be- begun in childhood to
fHert. AT any rate it can be
A by both sexes at any age. Ii
one out of doors. always where
= good air and fair prospect.
|as play alone. with one anita gou.
with several The game can
}n IN any kind of weather.
aount of exercise taken by the
may be governed altogether
needs and desires. and the =
The play are such that there N
chance for disputes or differ
W opinion. such as constantly
-ellN baseball and tennis when
uagsnts are inclined to be con.
ID dnere arc no close decisions
y Inc ball either goes in the
|rt aces not, and when the player
I )" cannot Law the blame on an n
FH anyone but himself. II
,'nsf scarlet balls are used BY
~ VINO tramp over spow-clad
49, 1rst time women competed
sas on the Meadowbrook
A ! ,s fall of 1895, about Twelve
Nuls trudging through the
/, Ts's the apotheosis of this new
A ater tournaments women
~ - rhool girls have come over
;Es., 70 compete. In 1894 the
',ueap west of the Ale
vas won by Reginald De
soo used metal puttcr for
.f'le game, as he was left.
4 F;ua sa Inere were no left-handed
|r." game was noted, also. for
,u. d sn, eIiect made by Gen. Nelson
fs,i aux MS staff. who, in full uni.
sa0sed the game on horseback
eo'ire course.
!" p eatiy took to golf. Wellcs.
IsOi pryS ,ooo Mawr girls played it
a. ls9o. aud in 1895 Prince.
poutea putna 1t among regular college
rs acl's courses have been laid
.m' e',an cities. notably in New N
-d,o" -,;don Philadelphia, Cincinnati p
|tsd dvsse: s, on December %. 1894.
"a ,s5'es n.a'es Golf association was
lrn,n Gnu under lis auspices an
ieas ien'ents have been held that
Of , nucn TO encourage the
su .ne sport. Last year the
ri,I;ou iGu,elIr championship under
rhbu was held at Eng glewood.
|har L. n, ~. Bycrs of Allegheny
n u'o me open championship
nj nn~entsIa club, Lake
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