Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-14
GOLF FANS ENJOY
GREAT LINKS BOOM
Los Angeles Becoming GoIfing
Center, and Number of
DevoteeS Increasing

Golf is coming into its own in South
ern California realms of sport and the
number of enthusiasts of the brassis
and mashie are increasing daily as the
joys of the links are proclaimed to the
ignorant by the initiated. The sport
that seems dull and uninteresting to
the outsider develops into a game of
great possibilities when the outsider
takes up a set of clubs of his own.
Scarcely a season passes but an
other club is added to the list in the
south, and there are now few golf
circles that can boast of as many and
as goodly an array of courses as South
ern California. The San Gabriel Coun-
try club, the Los Angeles Country club,
the Annandale Country club, the Vir-
ginia Country club offer the tourist
golf enthusiast chances galore to en-
joy the climate opportunities of the
California golf as well as to spend
some of the most delightful hours of
his golfing experience in playing
courses the equal of any and the SUI
perior of the majority OF the golf links
of the world.
The San Gabriel club is remodeling
its course and constructing a new lawn
for the home green. The foothill
course is one of the best natural golf
links in the south and presents ample
opportunities for long driving without
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balls.
The Los Angeles Country club holds
week end sweepstake play that Is
meeting with a great deal of interest
from the gutta-percha chasers, and
number of the local golfers are regular
entrants in the event. The fact that
the local club really won the Tom
Morris memorial competition is proof
positive that the local clubs can pro-
| duce golf e. nFts of high class, and
| the showing that the local men have
made in eastern tournaments has made
the Los Angeles links the cynosure of
eastern golfing eyes. Willie Smith.
we'll known local professional golfer,
crossed the Atlantic and ran the
worlds best players the race of their
lives, finishing in the st. Andrews
championship only stroke or two
from the lead.
CITES DISQUALIFICATION
"Golf" says in regard to the dis
qualification of the Los Angeles club
in the memorial play:
1.-THE disqualification of the Los An
geles Country club team in the Tom
Morris Memorial trophy competition
is a matter of regret in western golfing
circles. Through an oversight on the
part of the secretary of the club, the
name of A. H. Braly was omitted on
the list of players forwarded to Secre-
tary Charles e. Willard of the Western
Golf association. Two lists We're sent
to Mr.. Willard, and neither on the
original nor on the supplementary list
did Mr.. Braly's name appear. 1t was
not until the day after the competition
that the officials of the Los Angeles
club realized that the omission had
been made, and President Griffith of
the Los Angeles club promptly wired
Secretary Willard, stating he expected
the mistake would disqualify the team.
Braly is so we'll known as member of
the club that it is quite possible the
omission might have been overlooked at
the Chicago end of the competition,
and the sportsmanlike action of the Los
Angeles club is to be commended. The
directors of the Western Golf associa-
ton took a mail vote on the matter,
and as the rules of the competition are
extremely rigid the Los Angeles team
was disqualified and first place awarded
| to the Oakmont Country club, which
finished Al down, seven strokes behind
| the Angels
AS the followers of the game increase
the course troubles begin, and 1t is one
of the hard points in the golfing game
to follow out accurately the lengthy
| golf etiquette code as prescribed by the
| "Royal and Ancient" etc. The fem
| mine fans are the wrongdoers as rule,
sad as it is to relate, and there was
quite a stir on the San Gabriel course
| Friday afternoon when one young miss
emphatically refused to allow a faster
! team to pass. Patience is golden, espe-
| cially in golf.