Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-29

"As was stroIling down the road With tired feeling and a heavy load, Hello! says l to my old friend Josh, Douglas golf club, yes by goshl"
 NThe author is anonymous, the meaning of the phraseology is nil, the music to which it is sung is far from classical; but when sung by a group of lusty-lunged Fl Pasoans Tn merri- ment over their victory and for the benefit of golfing visitors from Doug las whose hopes had been trified with shamefully, why-well, it didn't sound half bad.
 It was the victory song of the Fl Paso golfers yesterday afternoon at the union station, following a day of fine sport on the links for visitor and resident player alike. and a day of unexcelled hospitality on the part of the El Paso players for their Douglas guests.
 Incidentally, the score of the match was fifty to eight, in favor of the party of the first part, which party being Fl Paso.
 Better Than it Sounds.
 The score sounds bad and doesn't look any too good in print but it by no means should be regarded in the same light as a baseball or football score, for it would have been possi- ble for each game to have been play ed brilliantly by each pair of contest ants without the general result being other than that of yesterday. The Nassau rules were used in scoring which provides three points for a match-one for each round and one for the match. In this way Fl Paso won fifty points to Douglas eight.
 The responsibility for the defeat of Douglas has not as yet been fully es- tablished Whether it was due to the administration of a preparation called "Golfine" by Dr. James Speed on the night previous to the match while the team was enroute to Fl Paso, or to the new and peculiar conditions and ground rules encountered on the Fl Paso links, or to the splendid good fellowship of the Fl Pasoans which removed any sting from the prospects of defeat, or whether it was due sim ply to the superiority of the Fl Paso- ans as golf players, is a question which remains unsettled. Dr. Speed and others are still boring over the problem today. It is likely the con clusion will be that all the adverse conditions mentioned in the rorego- ing combined to carry the day against the locals, though Dr Speed insists that Golfiae contains nothing that would unsteady the nerves, or palsy the arms. or have any other de1eSer- ious effect upon the human system.
 Rules Worked Against Locals.
 Lack of familiarity with tn e grounds and the local rules was prop ably the greatest stumbling block Io- wards victory encountered by Doug las. And especially did they find ne greens troublesome. On the long game the Douglas players almost 70 a man were in every way the equal of their opponentsi making generally ey- en straighter and truer drives. But on the approach and put shots they were of. The Fl Paso greens are much faster than those in Douglas, being oiled and made compact by be- ing rolled. Reaching the greens on the even shot with their opponents they would fail to estimate the greens correctly and there lose out.
 The ground rules in force at Fl Paso, while they operated to equal advantage, are 70 different from those here that they imposed another disad- vantage in that regard on the Doug las players. If one did not like the position of his ball all he had to do was to place it within a radius of two feet, teeing it if he desired, without being penaliZed. In this way the truer drives of the Douglas players, accustomed to rather narrow course, counted for no more than the random drives of their opponents, since the latter could place and tee their balls to please them without penalty.
 In the parlance of the game the Fl Paso Country club has a sporty course-not so difficult as the local course. The hazards are mostly na' tural, consisting of trees. irrigation ca nals, street railway tracks and a few clumps of mesquite with now and then a house encroaching. The total distance is 29S7 yards. the longest hole being the third at 516 yards. The bogey is 3S.
 The Score.
 The train that took the Douglas players to Fl Paso was one hour and a half late so that it was well on to 10 o'clock before the mornings play began. The captains, A. W. Houck and George Cass, started of and fol lowing them in close succession came the other twenty pairs, including the professionals. Upon returning from the round of the links luncheon was served at the club house, after which the battle on the links was resumed, The score in points for the day fol lows:
 A. w. Horck oil, George ". Cass 100; Waters Davis Ill, Walter Douglas 900: W. V Sterling Ill, ]. R. Todd 900; w B. Bachtel GOO, H. T. Cuthbert oil; G. B. Chase II 1, R. T. Pelton GOO; E. E. Neff GOO s. W. French oil; J. F. Williams 1. II. c. o. Thomas 0-0-O; Stafford