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Show GOLF. Handicapping for golf tournaments is a thankless thank-less undertaking. It is extremely difficult to calculate cal-culate the true relative forms of players, and thus make games between them interesting as regards close finishes at least. Yet, taken as a whole, Chairman Hale's handicapping figures for tho men's and women's handicap cup contest, just flilished, proved very true to the mark. In only one instance were they apparently off. That was in Bob Harkness's case. Harkness, judging from the finals with McGurrin, had too much handicap. handi-cap. But Bob came into his own so suddenly that it is a wonder that he was not given a larger handicap. han-dicap. If he had, well, wouldn't the rest looked like twenty-nine bum pennies? If Harkness plays more and it is to be hoped that he will he will surely rank in the first class at the club. He uses a half stroke in driving and with his irons, but gets surprising results, and his putting is excellent. On a turf course his unsteadiness un-steadiness on a lofted approach would be serious but on the homo course his running-up approach is rather amazing in its accuracy. Up to the finals in the women's cup competition, competi-tion, the finishes were all very close. But here Miss Harkness played up to her form, while Mrs. Fischer did not, the inevitable result being a lather easy victory for Miss Harkness. One thing that struck me during the women's competitions was their nervy brassy play. It takes nerve, and lots of it, to play a brassy shot from a doubtful lie on the business side of a bunker, yet several times I saw the shot tried and with success. Unquestionably the game of a number of the women golfer3 at the club has improved a great deal since last season. "I have seen most of the best women golfers in tho East," said Mr. Leonard, "but very few of them make better drives or brassys than I have seen the women make here." That's very true. A drive of 150 or 160 yards is better than lots of the men players make. Miss Harkness, Mrs. Chan-ning, Chan-ning, Mrs. Fischer and Miss Judge (who, if she would but practice would play brilliantly), would unquestionably make an excellent showing in Eastern competitions. Their main weakness lies in their short iron work. And thib would not be so pronounced on a turf course, where lies are better and the ball runs more truly. Playing nine holes Sunday, Mr. Channing drove within five yards of the second green, to the ditch guarding the fourth, over the sixth, within ten yards of the seventh and within four yards of the hedge guarding the home green. And Eome of us think we can drive some. I. GOLFSOME. |