Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-25

douglas International American.)
Golf has officially arrived" in
southern Arizona The debut was
duly celebrated in two "functions"-
the first a coming out party at
Douglas on Washington's birthday
and the second IAN afternoon" at he
Warren District Country club. and
now Miss Gulf is full fledged deb
utante.
The visit of the members of the Ell
Paso Country club to Douglas and
Bisbee is an occasion which will long
be remembered both in social and
sporting sections of society for it
was important in both respects and
especially so in sporting annals, mark
ing the first interclub golf tournament
ever held in this section and as di-
rect result the Saturday games will
greatly stimulate interest in one o.
the most healthful pastimes.
The Ell Paso delegation, over sixty
strong, a number of them being of the
fair sex, arrived on the .Drummer's
special on Saturday, morning at Z
O'Clock in two private coaches and
were met at the station by a reccP-
ton comittee of eighteen from the
Douglas Country club and escorted 70
the Gadsden where they breakfasted
and were left to their own resources
for a time. After breakfast some rest
ed at the hotel while others inspected
Douglas and wendell their ways by
motor or carriage to the grounds of
the Country club At quarter of ten
car was brought to the front of the
hotel and all who had noS already
gone to the club house boarded 1t and
made the journey.
But to the game The first pair
was started OF from the first tee by
Starter Sexton in the presence Or a
crowd of over two hundred who. STOOD
about the roped enclosure and APP
plauded the contestants. Cantacls
Houck and Cass were the first to adj
dress the little white globUles and
start on the journey. After that Mr..
Sexton started pair after pair on the
round with the regularity of clock
work until the professionals, Walter
Fovargue and John Adams, acconpGn-
led by ar, immense gallery, left tie
tee iat 11:35, the twenty-one teams
making their starts in one hour and
twenty-five minutes or just four min
utes apart.
AS each team came up the frfencs
of each player gave him hearty re-
ception and literally applauded each
good drive from the first tee. The
best work in this respect in the morn
ing round was by Walter Douglas,
Sterling, Speed, King, Rae, Wingo,
and Bickel, Speed especially getting
of a very long perfectly true ball.
Fovargue in the professional match
also sent away a perfect 'screamer
that went true as a rife shot far down
the course.
At 11:15 the first pair came home
with Captain Houck little to the
good and thereafter the crowd hung
about the last green and waited for
each team to report. The results
were close, each match having been
hotIy contested and four pairs report
| ing that they were all even.
When the cards were all in 10 was
seen that the morning round was y
favor OF Ell Paso 10 to 6. vastly diff
ferent showing from that at the ror-
mer meeting of the two clubs In the
Pass City.
| At / O'Clock everyone adjourned 20
| the club house where the steward. m
der the direction Of the ladies of the
club, had prepared a dainty and salts
| flying luncheon, and all had appetiies
to make even less appetizing repast
acceptable. whetted as they were by
the bealthful exercise Of the moraing
/! round. The general room was taste
fully decorated for the occasion and
the charming gowns of the ladies' with
the gay costumes of some OF the play
ers made the scene bright one.
After luncheon the play was re
sOmed, the pairs ~starting out in the
order in which they reported at the
first tee without regard to the order
OF the morning. Again was the roped
enclosure surrounded by a gay and
enthusiastic crowd frightened by TIE
presence of many ladies to give their
favored ones a hearty send-oR This
time the best drives we're made by
Pease.. Davis. Todd and Vance. JUDGE
DAVIS had the honor Of making the
longest tse shot Of the day as he came
up for the afternoon round, sending
the ball almost to the first green, .78
yards away.
AS the pairs commenced to come n
fit was seen that Douglas was doing
better than In the morning. for Judge