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Show GOLF. Now doth the little busy championship bee begin be-gin to buzz in the bonnets of golfers. This afternoon after-noon the first round of match play for the men's handicap cup will take place at the Country club, and from now until the middle of October Wednesday Wednes-day and Saturday afternoon will see little but tournament tour-nament play for the various cups. The pairings and handicap allowances for this afternoon's play are as follows: McGurrin, scratch, vs. Keith, 10. Copp, scratch, vs. Officer, 12. Channing, scratch, vs. Blyth, 18. Reid, 4, vs. Steiner, 14. J Hale, 4, vs. Wicks, 8. Harkness, 6, vs. Fischer, 14. Rykert, 10, vs. Col. Park, 10. Hampton, 10, vs. Heintz, 14. . The pairing will follow the system used by the U. S. G. A. in the recent amateur championship play at Glen view; that is, the players will be divided di-vided Into two divisions. Thus, the winner of the McGurrin-Keith match will play the winner of the Hale-Wicks match in the second round; the winner of the Copp-Ofllcer match will play the winner of the Harkness-Fischer match, and thus down the list. The same system of pairing will prevail in the women's competitions. In handicap play this is not so important as in the championship contest. In that it will prevent in a certain degree the lowest low-est score men from "eating each other up" in the first round or two, and thus make more probable the bringing together of the best players in the semi-finals and finals. A good drenching rain would do more good than anything else. Can't someone fixe that up? Then, too, the course near the greens should be raked. The stones are so numerous that they are actually an incentive to crime. I thought Herbert J. Tweedie, the veteran Ex-moor Ex-moor player, who drove a ball into a duck's nest at Glenview and lost the hole rather than play the ball and smash the eggs, had the best hard luck story up to date. But the caddies tell me that Mr. Holman has him "skint" a city block. 'Twas at the seventh tee. Brer Holman drove a nice low ball, good for 180 yards. It hit the iron sign marking mark-ing the 150-yard distance squarely in the face and bounded back into the bunker. Nor would the caddies relate what Mr. Holman had to say about the matter, further than that he talked shop very rapidly for a moment or two. I. GOLFSOME. |