Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-08-08


number Of stroA es Of handicap are Civ
en- to him in advance and he is allowed
the advantage Of an extra stroke at
certain specified holes. II he is plus
player, meaning one better than
scratch. he has to concede DOGGY
a stroke at a particular hole or
holes 1t is very simple and very ef-
fective and enables the player to carry
on golf competition against many
others without actually playing against
them at the same time. while it has an
over ordinary scoring COM
petitions in that player who does one
or two holes thoroughly badly has
merely point for each scored against
him and is not necessarily out OF the
Enter the Colonel.
This year, after refusing officially to
recognize the DOGGY system of play. the
Royal and Ancient club, of ST. An
drews, has determined to give 1t proper
recognition and to make laws for ii.
So this season DOGGY may be said to
come into its own.
But why DOGGY" 1t came about in
this way. says the London Daily Mail:
Toward the end of the last century
competitors of this sport came to be
played in some parts of Scotland,
chiefly at Ellie, but they We're then
known as connections against
scratch score" We're by no means fire.
quent and no proper name or rules
We're attached TO them The real
'bogey." or THE colonel" as the inn
agihary opponent with the fixed score
for each hole is sometimes called. came
into being about the end of 1890 and
the beginning of the following year.
IT is generally accepted that a Cow
entry gentleman WAS the first to come
by the germ of the idea. In Decaln-
Der. 1880. the scratch score of the Gov
entry course was taken, being the score
that a good scratch player would take
to each hole of the ground. making no
mistakes. but also fuking nothing nor
being fortunate with any special
flashes OF brilliant play
AT the time they called this "the
ground score" and about six months
afterward. when the members OF the
CLUB mad become properly accustomed
TO the idea. MIR. Rotterdam offered a
prize for competition according to the
system. while later In the same year
the club gave challenge cup for COM
petition on the same lines. Thus the
system was established, but not the
name. which is now universal.
The name. however. followed very
soon. and its origin was curious. A
few members OF the Coventry club paid
u visit to Great Yarmouth, where the
new kind OF competition was explained
to DIR. Thomas Browne, r. NJ. who
was honorary secretary Of the Var
mouth Golf club DR.. Browne liked
the idea exceedingly, and took 1t upon
hlmseH to write various prominent
golfers asking them their views as to
PRODUCING this ground score system
into the general routine of competition
golf. For the most part the answers
made We're favorable.
Inspired by Song.
Then one day DR.. Browne went out
to play against friend, Major Charles
A. Wellman. and they agreed instead
of playing directly against each other,
to play each against the ground score
and decide. their match according as
each fared in this way. 1t SO hap
pened that about that time the DOGGY
man song was being sung by the late
r. u. Lonnen at the Gaiety theater.
and everybody else came to sing it,
too. The words of the refrain that
gave creepy feeling to the children
of the day We're:
Hush! Hush. Hush.
Here comes the DOGGY man.
So hide you head beneath the clothes,
He'll catch you II he can.
There was the idea Of DOGGY in golf
He'll catch you If he cant" And II
flashed across the mind of Major Well
man when he was playing this game
and was getting Caught" by the
ground score. Why" said he to his
friend Browne. this player of yours
cradle piece of golfing history was
made in that chance remark. for bogey
was from that moment established fol
golf. Capital" said Dr. Browne;
we'll call it that" and he had the
name adopted by the Yarmouth club.
Some time afterward he went on 8
solfing trip TO the south coast. and Sc,
the United Service club at Alverstoke
in Hampshire. On his arrival there he
informed his hosts that he had brough,
with a friend who was a very modest
quiet fellow and steady golfer, play
ing uniformly good but never bril-
be permitted to introduce him to the
club as an honorary member. and &C
cordingly, going on with this little
pleasantly. he presented" him in the
way OF an explanation OF the DOGGY.
man game to the late Capt Seel,
Vidal. r. E.. who was honorary sec.
tary of the club. and to Dr. Walter
Reid, r. N.
He Is Given Rank.
Excellent" they exclaimed, and the,
agreed that they would certainly have
the bogeyman as a golfer among them
and there and then they worked out
score for him for that course and wen
out to play against him.
"Stay!" said Captain Vidal at tn
moment of starting. Gentlemen, w
must proceed in a proper service way
Every member of this club has
proper service rank. Our new invis
ible member. who never makes mis-
take, ought surely to be a commandinl
officer. He must be colonel" AM
then saluting the phantom that h
imagined he added: Colonel Bogey
We are delighted to find you on tn
links. sir! could not well say Sc
And that was how Colonel Boge
came to golf, and very great Office
he is today. playing invisibly agains
thousands of golfers every Saturda
and on many other days besides.
Tungsten. which only in recent year
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