New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-30
WHY GAME WAS SLOW NEWS FOR THE GOLFERS
Willie Tucker Goes to Europe 10
Look Over the Grasses.
SEEDS ARE HIS SPECIALITY
Thousands of Players Will Turn
to the South After the
First of the Year.

Among the resident golf professional,
to sail from this port the other day va.
Willie Tucker, who has been identified
with the Ardsley Club for several sea.
sons. To use his own words. Tucker IN
going to combine business with pleasure
but after listening to hurried outline
of his intended movements while on the
other side one gets the impression that
soant time will be left for amusemen,
For many years Tucker has been making
a speciality Of grasses and seeds. and hs
intends while abroad this winter to con-
tinUe the study more carefully than ever
Tucker will visit many OF the well
known golf courses. such as st. Andrews
Prestwck, Carnoustie, Troon and Sand.
wich. He contends that the reason the
turf on a majority Of the links in this
country is inferior in quality to prevail.
ing conditions abroad is that many OF
the greers keepers here 90 about their
work i'm the wrong way. A great deal
depends upon the soil. In other words,
Long Island soil usually requires differ.
ent treatment than New Jersey soil.
There are also certain fescues that are
particularly adapted for the kind OF turf
found in Westminster County.
The ideal grasses are those that have
been stunted by nature, being deep In
root, but with comparatively little growth
above ground. Tucker says that ths
creeping bent is best for fairways. For
the greens Rhode Island bent, provided
the genuine article can be secured, can
generally be depended upon to bring
about fine putting surface.
The turn of the new year will mark 4
time when thousands of golfers will turn
to the South as a place where ample pro-
vision is made for their fayorite pasti,ne.
In fact, it has become so fashionable to
80 South for a month or TWO each win
ter that there are great many courses
over which to play, all of them attrac-
tive and many of them In the charge OF
professionals who in summer have greens
in the North.
For a person who has both time and in
clination to spend several weeks on q
golf tour of principal Southern courses,
an ideal trip. perhaps, would be to frst !.
visit Pinehurst just an overnight ride
from here, whore there are four
courses to be played oyer Those who
have visited this resort declare that once
person is there it is difficult to get +
away
From Pinehurst it would be an easy
trip over to Southern Pines. after which
Camden. 5. c.. could be easily reached
Just a short distance from there is the
Ridgewood Golf club at Columbia, while
another short trip takes the tourist
golfer to Pine Forest Inn Golf Club, at
Somerville. where GIL" Nichols, former
metropolitan open champion. is the pro-
fessional.
a fine new cightcen-hole course lends m
terest to Charleston, while another links
OF similar length is to be found at Sayan-
nah. There is considerable history con-
nected with the Savannah Country club
where some Of the bunkers are said to
have been once used for Notifications in
war time and the ground itself scene OK
a number of skirmishes.
Proceeding southwark. there are pracu-
cally three courses at Augusta, Ga, where
Dave Ogilvie, his brother and Alec Gun
bingham are located. Then there 10
Hampton Terrace close at hand and the
Aiken colony not far distant, with At
lanta, Jacksonville, Bellealr. St Angus
tine and Palm Beach. places OF consider
able attraction. For those who are fort"
unate enough to visit these courses and
wish for other greens to play on they VIE
fnd Nassau, in the Bahamas, OF easy ac-
cess.
Mrs. Bernard c. Horne, formerly Ass
Bessie Anthony, Of Chicago, whose dea'o
recently occurred at her homo near hes'
wick, Va, WAS one of the most nota0's
women golfers ever known in the west
on six occasions she won the champion
ship of the Western Golf Association ana
once she was the national champion hes
death marks the first break IN the mo W
women's champions.
Mrs. Horne was i'll only Few oou'S
Three young sons survive her. she wa
born in Chicago thirty-two years ago ai'1
was married to Bernard 4. Horne u
eight years ago. II was IL
1902 that the then Miss Anthony hrst nao'
her appearance as factor in the women
national championship, held that year
Brookline, Mass. She quahfled, anu srss
Miss Il. $. Porter, of Oakley, IN tne
round, and had to go To the nlnele en-.
hole TO win. In the second sne
qujshed Mrs. n. Pendleton hogers al
BaItusrol by 4 UP and 3 to play. oul H.
before Miss Genevieve Hecker, OF Sp"s
wants. now Mrs Charles I. stout oy,
,.p. Miss Hecker ultimately won the wv
that year. -. ...,, into golf
In 1893 Miss Anthony sprang lt'o sv
fame by winning the first women's cnsln'
of the Western Golf Association.
shortly afterward the national cnanlp'.nn
shin Was held at Wheaton, ana MISS 81
thony had little trouble in disposlns
Mrs. Ronald III. Barlow, or Merton
present the holder of the Eastern AZ
Philadelphia championships; Mrs. Ca Aleu-, -
Fox. of Huntingdon Valley, former rn ~,
delphia champion, and Miss Frances e.
erett of Exmoor. In the seml-1nal siisi
Fannie c. Osgood, Of Brooklne' lo LIN
Miss Anthony to the home hole 10 W.,
and I'm the final Miss Anthony tound u 20. ."
easy matter to dispose of Miss ). ~ -"
nenter. of Westward Ilo.