The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-22

! fadiate from the officers and governors
OF a club. II may come from the. at
fractions In the clubhouse itself and
the surroundings. When the game is on
no new influences viii be felt
Leaders Attitude Important.
| II the governors OF a club do not
realize that the club morale and spirit
Is and must be guided by their per-
sonal attitude then heaven help the club
II Is pleasing to note that in the past
Ave or ten years there has been a
marked advance In the men selected for
club leadership throughout the clubs
Of the land, but unless those men
travel about making themselves ac-
| Quainted with the best in other clubs
there will be no great advance. A
golf club president who has no interest
in the game Of golf other than the
financial end of his particular club Is
not worthy the position.
1t is much easier, ! believe. to enter
into the true spirit OF the game on the
links IL the clubhouse has provided the
setting for the mood. Few golfers in
this country seem to realize that a
locker room, the grill room, the Office
or lounge can be made sospeculiarly at
tractive that there will be instilled into
the heart OF the golfer sense of the
greatness Of the game. Of his own power
to emulate. combined with the grateful
| thought that there Is such Il grand old
game as golf.
j have been In many clubhouses in
this country. perhaps "A couple OF hun
dred or more. and | have yet to find
serious attempt made to point out
the past and present glory of the game.
At many clubs in this district there have
been placed on the walls pictures or
cartoons and the like. whose Importance
seems to diminish among the members
| of the club with each succeeding week,
but whose presence is matter Of ex-
ceeding interest for visitors.
At Dunwoodie.
For example. the members of Dun
woodie have long since failed to pause
| at that picture where many Of them
are seen digging in the garden prepar-
ing for last seasons vegetable crop. But
the picture will not lose weight In flu
! ture years; | rather fancy fifty years
from now, II the club is still In exist
ence. that that particular picture will
have as much Importance attached TO II,
because of Its connection with golf and
this great war as we now attach to
those old colored 'golfng pictures where
the old worthy in the top hat has a putt
for the half, and Is evidently bothered
by half stymie. or where the giants
OF olden days were having II out.
fianked with caddies with longsh
boards.
Golfers and painters of long ago
builded better than they knew when
they gave to. posterity the fruits Of their
labors and links ideas. There are many
clubs in the United States which have
copies Of many Of these old time draw
inss and golf paintings, but very few
Of them exercise good Judgment in the
placing Of these pictures.
One club we'll known In New Eng
| land has fine collection. and they are
all hung In the writing room. where
| golfers seldom Visit and where the peo-
pie who do spend little or no time in
the considering OF the motives for the
I works of art. other clubs do very much
the same: there is no attempt to make
| the history OF the game tell as IL should
| Right Kind of setting.
! A visit to the Royal Montreal Golf
! Club week or so ago in company with
Jerome Travers revealed to both of
US what can be done in the way of
| setting. The Royal Montreal Golf Club
Is the Oldest organized club In North
America, with date of 1867 to point
out the proof. In those days there were
rev contests Of note until rival clubs
came into existence. Quebec was founded
soon after. and on the Queens birthday
there were played team matches whose
records are of much interest.
! IL you take trip to either club
tarry while in the lounge rooms
| There hang splendid pictures of the
! former captains Of the clubs men Of
national and international fame for the
most part. These stalwart looking
chaps. decked out in the official red
coat which marked the Office par
| ticularly give note OF distinction to
the game. on the walls in glass cases
are the old time clubs and feather
balls, and scattered throughout the
| clubhouse are the golfng relics OF
eminent players To a visitor these
are entertaining and to regular mem
berg they lose little In interest because
| they represent of the past what il so
! potent In a players life of to-day.
They breathe an atmosphere all their
| own.
More International Play.
! There has lately been formed In
Canada Seniors Golfng Association
modelled after our ownsfamous society
| whose activities are known the wide
world over. Soon there will be team
But why should the Seniors lead In
that respect? Why not have an in
ternational match with ten or dozen
/ on side with club from Canada
! or a district playing a club or sec
| ton in this country? There have been
curling matches for many years
between the Montreal and Boston clubs,
and the same sectional play in golf in
the summer time would add hundred
| fold Of interest to the yearly play,
From New York. Boston or Philadel-
phia it Is possible TO leave on a Fri
| day afternoon or night and be In Mon
| treal early the next morning, play
! foursomes In the first round and then
singles, and be back home on Sunday
or, at the latest, Monday in time for
business. The international golf re-
/ lations not only would be tremendously
| helped, but the true spirit OF golf would
! become more potent factor In the lives
| OF AL concerned. I am sure that after
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